DECEMBER 2016

SPIKE LEE THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s national cultural institution for film. EXHIBIT It aims to exhibit the finest in independent, Irish and international cinema, preserve PRESERVE Ireland’s moving image heritage at the IFI Irish Film Archive, and encourage EDUCATE engagement with film through its various educational programmes.

IFI MEMBERSHIP FEAST YOUR EYES

Why not give the gift of IFI Membership this Christmas? Our monthly pairing of a film and a specially devised For just €35 (€20 concession), IFI Members get cheaper main course menu will be the seminal Christmas classic, tickets, discounts, double loyalty points, and lots more! It’s a Wonderful Life, followed by a festive feast in the Moreover, you also directly help support the IFI’s vital IFI Café Bar on December 14th at 6.30pm. Frank Capra’s work in preserving and restoring Ireland’s moving image classic depicts a terrible alternate future without the heritage, via the IFI Irish Film Archive, as well as engaging benevolent interventions of beleaguered businessman young people through our national education programme. George – James Stewart, in one of his most endearing performances. Tickets €20; free list suspended.

IFI FILM SHOP GIFT CARD

From the best in Irish film and TV to the top Looking for a great Christmas stocking filler? Why not give DVDs of 2016, including Sing Street, Brooklyn, Viva, an IFI Gift Card? Credit can be added to cards and spent in and 1916: The Rebellion, look no further than the the IFI Film Shop, IFI Café Bar and IFI Cinemas throughout IFI Film Shop for the best Christmas gifts! Don’t forget, the year – the perfect present for the film fan in your life! if you’re an IFI Member, you’ll automatically get 10% Just ask at the IFI Box Office. off (excludes gift cards) and the IFI Film Shop will be open on Christmas Eve for those last-minute purchases!

2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE

This December, the programme brings to a close a very busy year for the IFI with some fantastic new releases and Christmas classics. DECEMBER AT THE IFI As we draw towards the end of another busy year at the IFI, This month we also welcome the eleventh edition of I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers IFI & Kinopolis, our annual celebration of the finest new and members for their support over the last twelve months. Polish cinema. This year’s programme sees one of the We’ve had a momentous year with highlights including the strongest selections yet. We’re delighted to present a festival launch of the IFI Player, the publication of our first schools with work from emerging artists (Jan P. Matuszyński), programme covering the full academic year, our fourth annual prominent filmmakers (Tomacz Wasilewski) and cinematic IFI Spotlight on Irish film, a host of exclusive screenings, greats (the late Andrzej Wajda). and some very special guests including Whit Stillman and Michael Moore to name but a few. I’m also pleased to announce the presentation of an important Ciné-Concert of Little Old New York, which we The IFI is a not-for-profit organisation, constantly investing recently acquired for the Archive from the Library of Congress in our film preservation and education initiatives. in Washington. The screening will be accompanied by pianist It is through our Box Office, Café Bar, Film Shop, fundraising Morgan Cooke and promises to be a very special evening. and membership that we generate our income in order to We would like to thank the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation continue to preserve over 30,000 cans of film (representing for their generous support of this project. Ireland’s moving image heritage) in the vaults at the IFI Irish Film Archive, and to develop new and ongoing learning And finally, I would like to thank the board and staff of the opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds. IFI for all of their hard work during 2016, and on behalf of It is your support of our programme (and every cup of coffee everyone at the IFI, I’d like to wish all of our patrons and that you purchase!) that helps us to continue the work that supporters a very merry Christmas. we do. So, this December, I would like to thank you for all of your support throughout 2016, and would encourage you Ross Keane to look to IFI Membership and IFI Gift Cards as you do your Director Christmas shopping this year.

Before we move into 2017 however, we have one last exciting month of events for your enjoyment. It wouldn’t be December without a selection of Christmas classics, and this year we’re bringing back the old favourites It’s a Wonderful Life and Scrooge.

3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR

CHI-RAQ OPENS DEC 2ND DATE SCREENING TIME CRASH AND BURN OPENS DEC 2ND 1ST COMMAND AND CONTROL 18.30 SULLY OPENS DEC 2ND THU 2ND CRASH AND BURN + Q&A 18.30 THE BIRTH OF A NATION OPENS DEC 9TH FRI LIFE, ANIMATED OPENS DEC 9TH 5TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: A UNITED KINGDOM* 15.50 MON UNITED STATES OF LOVE OPENS DEC 9TH 6TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: A UNITED KINGDOM* 20.50 THE BLACK HEN OPENS DEC 16TH TUE IRISH FOCUS: THE WAITING GAME 18.30 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE OPENS DEC 16TH IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 7TH FROM THE VAULTS: 18.30 SCROOGE OPENS DEC 16TH WED CINÉ CONCERT: LITTLE OLD NEW YORK UNCLE HOWARD OPENS DEC 16TH 8TH IFI & KINOPOLIS: UNITED STATES OF LOVE 18.30 DONNIE DARKO OPENS DEC 23RD THU 9TH IFI & KINOPOLIS: KAMPER 18.30 THE EAGLE HUNTRESS OPENS DEC 23RD FRI IFI & KINOPOLIS: AFTERIMAGE 20.30 10TH IFI & KINOPOLIS: THE RED SPIDER 16.00 SAT IFI & KINOPOLIS: PLANET SINGLE 18.00 11TH IFI & KINOPOLIS: ANIMATION PROGRAMME 12.00 SUN IFI & KINOPOLIS: THE LAST FAMILY + Q&A 18.00 GET SOCIAL! 14TH FEAST YOUR EYES: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE 18.30 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! WED Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, 15TH NT LIVE: NO MANS LAND 19.00 THU share your movie reviews and show us your best pics 18TH IFI FAMILY: THE SECRET OF NIMH 11.00 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! SUN Join the IFI Community online: 19TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: THE BIRTH OF A NATION* 18.10 MON @IrishFilmInstitute 20TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: THE BIRTH OF A NATION* 13.00 TUE @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 24TH CINEMAS CLOSED (BOX OFFICE OPEN — SAT FOR MEMBERSHIP/GIFT CARD SALES) 25TH CINEMAS CLOSED — SUN 26TH CINEMAS CLOSED — Open Captioned screening MON 28TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE MEDDLER 11.00 WED Audio Described screening 30TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE MEDDLER 11.00 FRI

* Denotes screenings which are open captioned. For more information on our Accessible Screenings, please visit www.ifi.ie/accessible †The exclusivity status of films is correct at time of going to print

TIMES For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays and Saturdays. You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup.

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CHI-RAQ RELEASE NEW

OPENS DEC 2ND When an eleven-year-old girl is killed Taking the bones of Aristophanes’ in the crossfire of a shootout between comedy Lysistrata, and its anti-war FILM INFO: rival gangs the Trojans and Spartans, female-led sex strike, Lee fashions a 127 mins, 2015, USA, Digital Lysistrata (Teyonah Parris), girlfriend to bracingly current cri de coeur against Notes by David O’Mahony Spartan leader Chi-Raq (Nick Cannon), black-on-black violence in Southside decides enough is enough, and rallies Chicago, an area that has seen more her sisters to withhold all sexual favours Americans killed in the past fifteen until a cessation of hostilities is observed. years than the Afghan and Iraq wars Spike Lee’s unlikely reimagining of combined. The film also playfully honours an ancient Greek drama is the prolific its theatrical roots with one-man Greek director’s most cinematically exuberant, Chorus Dolmedes (Samuel L. Jackson) politically engaged and vital film punctuating the action with delightfully in many years. effusive commentary. CRASH AND BURN DOC IFI

OPENS DEC 2ND For a fleeting moment in the early ‘80s, including a series of drink and drug- Tommy Byrne was the world’s greatest fuelled escapades and an altercation FILM INFO: Formula 1 driver, a man who looked set with Ayrton Senna – ultimately led 81 mins, 2016, Ireland-UK, Digital to rival Senna and Schumacher with his to his exclusion from the club. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn fearless style and his record-breaking speeds. Coming from humble Dundalk Director Seán Ó Cualáin roots and starting out as stock-car (Men at Lunch) finds Byrne in Florida, driver in rural Ireland, he quickly rose now a driving coach, content with We are delighted to welcome to win a host of championships and set his lot, but bitter about a career that director Seán O Cualáin and new records in time trials in the UK. was doomed before it even began. Tommy Byrne to participate in a Never at home or fully welcome in Q&A after the 18.30 screening the privileged world of Formula 1 on Friday, December 2nd. drivers, Byrne’s wild behaviour –

5 DECEMBER 2016 SULLY NEW RELEASE

OPENS DEC 2ND Airline pilot Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Tom Hanks take on the role of a man who Sullenberger came to international refused the label of ‘hero’ and insisted FILM INFO: attention on January 15th, 2009 when instead that he was simply doing his job. 96 mins, 2016, USA, Digital he saved the lives of the 155 passengers The film maintains a tight focus on the Notes by Kevin Coyne and crew of US Airways Flight 1549 event itself and the subsequent inquiry by making an emergency water that initially challenged Sully’s actions. landing in New York’s Hudson River following the shutdown of the plane’s With solid support from Aaron Eckhart engines as the result of a bird strike. and Laura Linney, this is a low-key salute to professionalism that saves its thrills The circumstances surrounding the for its depiction of the landing itself. ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ are recounted in Clint Eastwood’s film, which sees THE BIRTH OF A NATION NEW RELEASE

OPENS DEC 9TH Actor-director Nate Parker’s The Birth With echoes of 12 Years A Slave (2013), Of A Nation is a portrait of Nat Turner, this is a powerful, vivid, and timely FILM INFO: an enslaved African American who, depiction of a shameful practice. 120 mins, 2016, USA, Digital in 1831, led a short-lived slave rebellion Noted by Kevin Coyne in Virginia.

Given a Bible, young Nat becomes deeply There will be Open Captioned (OC) religious, and in adulthood, preaches screenings on Dec 19th (18.10) and to his fellow slaves. When Nat is Dec 20th (13.00). Audio Description loaned out to other slave-owners who will be available on all screenings. want him to use religion to quell dissent, what Nat sees leads him to believe that violent uprising is necessary.

6 LIFE, ANIMATED DOC IFI

OPENS DEC 9TH A profoundly autistic boy learns to he began to speak by way of quoting his communicate through reciting memorised beloved Disney characters, especially the FILM INFO: dialogue from Disney films in Roger Ross playful sidekicks whose uncomplicated 89 mins, 2016, USA, Digital Williams’ inspirational case history. and clearly expressed feelings gave Notes by David O’Mahony Owen a means to convey his own. By the age of three, Owen Suskind had withdrawn completely; no longer able The film charts Owen’s transition to talk, with sleep and motor functions in his early twenties towards severely disrupted, his parents Ron independent living, navigating his and Cornelia were facing a future where way through domesticity, young love Owen would be entirely dependent and responsibilities of employment on others. Hope arrived in the most under the watchful eyes of his unlikely form when at age five, equally remarkable parents.

UNITED STATES RELEASE NEW OF LOVE

OPENS DEC 9TH The new film from director Tomasz with the exception of occasional, Wasilewski (In a Bedroom, Floating anger-fuelled sex; Iza (Magdalena ZJEDNOCZONE Skyscrapers) marks a significant step Cielecka) has been engaged in a STANY MIŁOŚCI forward in his development as a long-term secret affair with a married filmmaker. Exquisitely framed, shot in man who, after the death of his wife, EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† washed-out pastels, the film’s distinctive no longer seems interested in her, and melancholic look is well suited to its despite her attempts to lure him back; FILM INFO: 104 mins, 2016, Poland-Sweden, main characters, four women (and four and lonely retiree Renata (Dorota Kolak) Digital, Subtitled exceptional performances) struggling to is fixated on the similarly lonely Marzena Notes by Kevin Coyne find and maintain intimate connections in (Marta Nieradkiewicz), whose husband the aftermath of the fall of Communism. lives in West Germany. Also screening Agata (Julia Kijowska) is in love with her as part of Kinopolis – see page 10. priest, drawing away from her husband,

7 DECEMBER 2016 THE BLACK HEN NEW RELEASE

OPENS DEC 16TH Nepal, 2001; a temporary ceasefire and end his family’s cycle of poverty are in the ongoing civil war between the thrown into disarray when the hen goes KALO POTHI government and insurgent Maoists missing, leading them to set off on a brings some welcome relief to an isolated clandestine rescue mission. EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† community where inseparable friends Kiran, the village chief’s grandson, With a premise that references the social FILM INFO: 90 mins, 2015, Nepal, and Prakash, the son of a servant, realist cinema movements of the ‘50s, Digital, Subtitled are taking care of a hen given to Prakash Nepalese filmmaker Min Bahadur Bham’s Notes by David O’Mahony by his sister with hopes of raising some assured debut is a humanist exploration money by selling eggs. of friendship threatened by both class and conflict. The boys’ fanciful plans of making enough money to pay for Prakash’s education UNCLE HOWARD IFI DOC

OPENS DEC 16TH Started as a thesis project, nephew of his uncle’s archive, Burroughs: The Movie (1983) was the an invaluable stash of material including EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† only documentary made about the the original print of the Burroughs film legendary William S. Burroughs with his and outtakes from the extended shoot FILM INFO: approval and participation. Still in his featuring, among others, Allen Ginsberg, 96 mins, 2016, USA-UK, Digital 20s when he shot the film over a five-year Patti Smith and Andy Warhol. Notes by Alice Butler period with Jim Jarmusch on sound, Howard Brookner was widely praised for In unearthing this footage, Aaron his handling of the unparalleled access he Brookner assembles a portrait of an had to his subject and the famous incredible, vibrant career tragically New York bunker where Burroughs lived cut short when his uncle was diagnosed and worked. This new documentary with AIDS in 1989, midway through the charts the discovery made by Brookner’s edit of his final film.

8 DONNIE CLASSIC IFI DARKO

OPENS DEC 23RD Released a month after the September music from Tears For Fears, Echo 11th attacks, the initial response to & The Bunnymen and Duran Duran. FILM INFO: Donnie Darko – an enigmatic film from 113 mins, 2001, USA, Digital an unknown director that was difficult The unique atmosphere created Notes by Alice Butler to classify and which opened with a jet by director Richard Kelly was engine crashing into a suburban home achieved through more than astute – was subdued. Six months later, song choices; his attention to minute a devoted cult following had emerged detail in every frame, captured at times and the Pioneer Theatre in New York in fast and slow motion, and the started midnight screenings that would performances he elicited from a motley eventually run for 28 months. The film cast means this film remains an absorbing boasts many signature features, not least and multi-layered experience. of which is its 1980s soundtrack including

THE EAGLE RELEASE NEW HUNTRESS

OPENS DEC 23RD A stunning blend of ethnography and filmmaker Otto Bell achieves epic coming-of-age drama shot on location landscapes along with a highly watchable FILM INFO: among Kazakh nomads in the Altai female lead, whose ambitions, courage 87 mins, 2016, Mongolia-UK-USA, Mountains of Mongolia. and sheer determination soar high with Digital, Subtitled her eaglet in the face of all detractors. Notes by Alicia McGivern Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley narrates the account of thirteen-year-old Aisholpan, The Eagle Huntress is recommended a rosy-cheeked smart student who for audiences of 10 years and older. refuses to accept that only men can maintain her tribe’s eagle hunting tradition, and sets out to train her own eaglet. Using drone technology, first time feature documentary

9 IFI & KINOPOLIS

DECEMBER 8TH – 11TH United States of Love

It is with great pleasure that the IFI once again plays host to Kinopolis, Dublin’s Polish Film Festival, and presents a programme that intends to reflect the great strength and variety of films emerging from Poland. This year’s key films come from a first-time feature director (Jan P. Matuszyński’s The Last Family), a filmmaker building a strong body of work (Tomasz Wasilewski’s United States Of Love), and one of the greats of Polish and world cinema, Andrzej Wajda, who sadly passed away this year, and to whom we pay tribute with a screening of his final film, Afterimage. In addition, we present Irish audiences with the opportunity of enjoying comedy hits Kamper and Planet Single, and of course, the ever-popular animation programme returns. As always, we hope you will find much to enjoy in this year’s programme. Introduction and film notes by Kevin Coyne. Normal IFI ticket prices apply. A multi-film pass is also available from IFI Box Office in person or over the phone – four festival films for €35.

priest, causing her to draw away UNITED STATES from her husband, with the occasional exception of sex fuelled by anger OF LOVE and despair; Iza (Magdalena Cielecka) has been engaged in a long-term secret affair with a married man who, after the death of his wife, no longer ( ) seems interested in her, driving her DEC 8TH 18.30 to irrational behaviour in her attempts to lure him back; and lonely retiree ZJEDNOCZONE STANY In 1990, as the Soviet bloc Renata (Dorota Kolak) is fixated MIŁOŚCI crumbles and the Iron Curtain falls, on Iza’s sister Marzena (Marta four women struggle with their Nierakiewicz), whose husband lives FILM INFO: tangled and unhappy relationships. in West Germany. 104 mins, 2016, Poland-Sweden, Agata (Julia Kijowska) has developed Digital, Subtitled an obsessive, impossible love for her

10 IFI & KINOPOLIS However, his refusal to grow up has, KAMPER without his noticing, put distance between him and his wife, to the extent that she has had an affair with an alpha-male television chef (a scene-stealing cameo from Jacek Braciak). ( ) DEC 9TH 18.30 His first response is to take revenge by having an affair of his own with a FILM INFO: Thirty-something hipster Kamper Spanish teacher, before realising that 89 mins, 2016, Poland, (Piotr Żurawski) seems to have it all; there are better choices to be made Digital, Subtitled a happy marriage to the beautiful in this thoughtful, low-key comedy. Mania (Marta Nieradkiewicz), a luxurious apartment, and a job developing and testing videogames.

can be seen as a tribute from one AFTERIMAGE dissident artist to another. However, while Wajda became a figure of international renown, Strzemiński’s life was ruined by the Communist Party, who disapproved of his work and stripped him of all he held dear. ( ) DEC 9TH 20.30 Afterimage makes for a suitable end to the career of a filmmaker who never POWIDOKI Poland’s nomination for the 2017 feared using his art to examine the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, darker chapters of Polish history. FILM INFO: and the final film by the great 98 mins, 2016, Poland, Digital, Andrzej Wajda, Afterimage, a portrait Subtitled of the final years of noted avant-garde painter Władysław Strzemiński (a spellbinding Bogusław Linda),

Kraków’, Marcin Koszałka’s debut THE RED feature begins with teenager Karol Kremer (Filip Pławiak) stumbling SPIDER across the body of a child.

Recognising the killer (Adam Woronowicz), and deciding ( ) to follow him rather than raising DEC 10TH 16.00 the alarm, Karol develops a dark fascination for the older man, who CZERWONY PAJĄK calmly accepts the boy’s knowledge Taking inspiration from the urban of his crimes, and the two forge a FILM INFO: legend of Lucjan Staniak, a serial strange relationship. Opaque and 90 mins, 2015, Poland- killer nicknamed ‘the Red Spider’, ambiguous, it’s a film that lingers Czech Republic-Slovakia, and the true case of another serial in the viewer’s mind. Digital, Subtitled killer, Karol Kot, ’the Vampire of

11 IFI & KINOPOLIS Ania (Agnieszka Więdłocha), a shy PLANET music teacher who has been stood SINGLE up by her internet date. Sensing an opportunity, she is enlisted to go on a series of further dates which will provide material ( ) for sketches on Tomek’s show. DEC 10TH 18.00 This funny and sweet rom-com shows the lighter side of current PLANETA SINGLI One of the biggest domestic box office Polish cinema. hits of the year (so successful that it FILM INFO: made Poland the only country in which 135 mins, 2016, Poland, Deadpool did not open at number 1), Digital, Subtitled Planet Single stars Maciej Stuhr as Tomek, host of a late-night television show, who by chance encounters

up and moved away go about his ANIMATION daily routine; in Bartosz Kędzierski’s Woolen Cogwheels, an elderly woman PROGRAMME focuses on her knitting while her husband works on a strange invention; a couple of astronauts are stranded on a space station while nuclear ( ) war breaks out on Earth in Tomasz DEC 11TH 12.00 Popakul’s Black; and Tessa Moult- Milewska’s Creatures is a love story FILM INFO: A consistently popular slot in Kinopolis about two caricatures seeking 62 mins, 2014-16, Poland, this year contains: Jerzy Kucia’s Fugue social acceptance. Digital, Black & White and Colour, Subtitled For Cello, Trumpet and Landscape, a poetic journey through the Polish seasons; Marcin Podolec’s A Documentary Film, which sees a father whose children have grown

researched debut feature. THE LAST Taking place over 28 years, the film centres on the relationships between FAMILY Beksiński (Andrzej Seweryn), wife Zofia (Aleksandra Konieczna), and permanently agitated son Tomek (Dawid Ogrodnik), himself something ( ) of a cult hero due to his work as film DEC 11TH 18.00 translator and DJ. The excellence of the three leads ensures that a film of OSTATNIA RODZINA The dysfunctional family life of seemingly narrow scope is instead surrealist artist Zdzisław Beksiński deeply affecting. FILM INFO: (1929–2005), whose work is 123 mins, 2016, Poland, sometimes compared to that of Aleksandra Konieczna will take part Digital, Subtitled H.R. Giger, is vividly depicted in in a post-screening Q&A. Jan P. Matuszyński’s meticulously

12 IFI FESTIVE FAVOURITES IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

OPENS DEC 16TH Frank Capra’s classic depicts an and selfishness as well as the power alternate future which might occur of love, belief and kindness to overcome FILM INFO: without the benevolent interventions life’s trials. 130 mins, 1946, USA, Digital, of beleaguered businessman George Black & White Notes by Alicia McGivern – James Stewart, in one of his most Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed as his endearing performances. wife, and Henry Travers as Clarence the guardian angel, bring humanity, humour Far from being simply a saccharine- and hope to this irresistible drama. FEAST YOUR EYES coated holiday fable, Capra worked Our monthly food and film the original idea into this post-war screening will take place on affirmation of the American Dream, December 14th at 18.30. pointing out the dangers of greed SCROOGE

OPENS DEC 16TH An excellent companion piece to It's a partner, Jacob Marley. Old style trick Wonderful Life, there’s always a place photography adds to the effect as the FILM INFO: for what is regarded as the definitive film moves between a picturesque 86 mins, 1951, UK, Digital, adaptation of Charles Dickens’ white Christmas to an impoverished Black & White Notes by Alicia McGivern A Christmas Carol. The film marked a Victorian London. high-point in the career of Belfast-born director Brian Desmond Hurst. By the time we reach Bob Cratchit’s dinner table even the most Alastair Sim’s Scrooge is a wild-haired, curmudgeonly viewer will be ready huge-eyed creation, forced to look to join the chorus of ‘God Bless upon his better past, his miserable Us, Everyone’. present and terrifying future by a visitation from the ghost of his old 13 IFI EVENTS IRISH FOCUS WILD STRAWBERRIES ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME IFI FAMILY COMMAND AND CONTROL NT LIVE FROM THE VAULTS

and Johnny Murphy had first performed IRISH FOCUS Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot at THE WAITING the Gate Theatre in 1988 and reprised their roles many times since. For this GAME 20th anniversary tour the play would be performed in 40 venues in 32 counties across Ireland. David Blake Knox’s film for RTÉ reveals the physical demands, DEC 6TH (18.30) the boredom, the laughter and the friendship that sustains the players DIRECTOR: Join us for our focus on new Irish across the thousands of miles and many David Blake Knox film and filmmakers. weeks on the road. The tour was to be FILM INFO: Johnny Murphy’s swansong. 53 mins, 2016, Ireland, Digital In 2008 a troupe of seasoned players Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn set off on the most ambitious theatrical Members of the cast and tour of Ireland ever undertaken. Stephen production team will participate Brennan, Alan Stanford, Barry McGovern in a post-screening Q&A.

there’s even more reason to cheer. WILD As Marnie, she moves to LA to be close STRAWBERRIES to her daughter, Lori, in whose life she tries to get involved. Resisting the THE MEDDLER advances of cop Zipper (a Harley driving J.K. Simmons), the extent of her own loneliness becomes more apparent as DEC 28TH she must learn again to live, love and & 30TH (11.00) let live in this tender comedy/drama.

DIRECTOR: Wild Strawberries is our Tickets: €4.25 including regular Lorene Scafaria bi-monthly film club for over 55s. tea/coffee before the event. FILM INFO: Wild Strawberries is our film club for 100 mins, 2015, USA, Digital The paucity of decent roles for older over 55s. If you are lucky enough Notes by Alicia McGivern female actors is oft lamented, so when to look younger please don’t take one comes along that is played with offence if we ask your age. such verve by Susan Sarandon,

14 ARCHIVE AT IFI FAMILY LUNCHTIME Before I Sleep YULETIDE YARNS THE SECRET OF NIMH

Join us for free screenings of films from the DECEMBER 18TH (11.00) IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for One of the most important figures in early Irish dates and times. animation, Don Bluth quit Walt Disney Studios in 1979 with several others. This was their PROGRAMME 1 first film outside, a beautiful old-style hand drawn BEFORE I SLEEP animation, but with detailed backgrounds and Reuniting theatre allies Brendan Gleeson and director characters infused with motion. Adapted from Paul Mercier, this short film follows an unemployed Robert C. O'Brien’s children's novel, humble field businessman (Gleeson) on his bleak odyssey through mouse Mrs. Brisby and her family have to move the snowy streets of Dublin. home, and they turn to the clever rats of FILM INFO: 30 mins, 1997, Ireland, Digital. Nimh for help. With gorgeous settings, action sequences, a sword fight and a cat-fearing crow, PROGRAMME 2 this is a highly watchable and historic animation. INTO THE ABYSS In this haunting drama from Geraldine Creed, DIRECTOR: Don Bluth a young woman arrives home to spend Christmas FILM INFO: 82 mins, 1982, USA, Blu-Ray with her family, revealing nothing of her struggle to survive in London. Notes by Alicia McGivern. FILM INFO: 15 mins, 1992, Ireland, Digital. Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 family ticket PROGRAMME 3 (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult + 3 children). RED AND GREEN Sparkling lights on Grafton Street, pints in the Stag’s Head – a young couple enjoy an intimate reunion on Christmas Eve in this evocative short drama by Hugh Linehan. FILM INFO: 15 mins, 1992, Ireland, Digital.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn.

15 COMMAND AND CONTROL ROBERT KENNER

DEC 1ST (18.30) September 18th, 1980: the Titan II key participants. With its mounting missile base at Damascus, Arkansas. sense of dread and panic as the DIRECTOR: Human error during routine magnitude of the accident becomes Robert Kenner maintenance of fuel tanks precipitates clear, Command and Control is as much FILM INFO: an accident of potentially catastrophic an edge-of-the-seat thriller as it is a 91 mins, 2016, USA, Digital proportions in this riveting documentary. sobering cautionary tale. Notes by David O’Mahony Investigating the accident with a This special screening is sponsored by forensic eye for detail, director Robert the Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Kenner explores the astonishing events Unit of the Department of Foreign with deft use of recreation, archival Affairs and Trade. footage and to-camera interviews with

NT LIVE NO MAN’S LAND

DEC 15TH (19.00) Following their hit run on Broadway, increasingly unbelievable, the lively Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return conversation soon turns into a revealing DIRECTOR: to the West End stage in Harold Pinter’s power game, further complicated by Sean Mathias No Man's Land, broadcast live to the the return home of two sinister younger FILM INFO: IFI from Wyndham’s Theatre, London. men. Also starring Owen Teale and 150 mins, UK, 2016, Digital Damien Molony, don’t miss this glorious One summer's evening, two ageing revival of Pinter’s comic classic. writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their The broadcast will be followed by an drinking into the night at Hirst's stately exclusive Q&A with the cast and director house nearby. As the pair become Sean Mathias. Tickets €15/€13 increasingly inebriated, and their stories

16 FROM THE VAULTS CINÉ CONCERT: LITTLE OLD NEW YORK

DEC 7TH (18.30) A delightful emigrant comedy about a (formerly of Kalem Films 1910 – 1915), young Irish girl who comes to America who was no stranger to Irish emigrant DIRECTOR: disguised as a boy in order to claim a drama, and lavishly produced by Sidney Olcott fortune left to her late brother. newspaper magnate William Randolph FILM INFO: Hearst (with whom Davies was 110 mins, 1923, USA, Digital, Marion Davies shines as Patricia O’Day romantically involved) the film was a Black & White, Silent with inter-titles masquerading impishly as a boy and huge box office success. cleverly negotiating the world of high finance, steam ships and bare-knuckle The film was recently acquired from boxing while falling in love with her the Library of Congress in Washington With accompaniment by cousin Larry Delavan (Harrison Ford). with the support of The Gladys Krieble pianist Morgan Cooke. Directed by Sidney Olcott Delmas Foundation.

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AVANT-GARDE FRIENDS SILENT FRIENDS The IFI exists to foster a love of Rob Byrne Mary Alleguen film in all its forms. IFI Members, John Daly Farrel Corcoran Friends, Corporate Members, Margaret Kelleher Niamh Hynes and Luminaries are vital to the IFI’s Ann Lavan Margaret Kelleher continued success in developing Trish Long our unique work – from screening CLASSIC FRIENDS Carol McGuire nearly 400 films a year, to preserving Maeve Ní Liatháin Ireland’s moving image heritage in IFI FOUNDING LUMINARIES our national archive, to introducing young people to the fantastic world IFI CORPORATE MEMBER Anonymous Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos of film. Airbus & Marcelo Faria de Lima in honour of John T. Davis For information on more Michael Collins ways to support the IFI Jane Collins please go to www.ifi.ie/support Jim Sheridan or call (01) 679 5744.

17 PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR CINEMA FANS IN THE IFI FILM SHOP!

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