Woody Allen the Irish Film Institute

SEPTEMBER 2016 WOODY ALLEN 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.

FRENCH FILM CLUB FEAST YOUR EYES

This month’s French Film Club screening – where IFI and Our monthly pairing of a new release and a specially Alliance Française members pay just €7 a ticket – on the devised main course menu is Woody Allen’s Café Society evening of September 7th at 18.20, is Mia Hansen-Løve’s on September 14th at 18.30, followed by a meal inspired Things to Come starring Isabelle Huppert as a Nathalie, a by the film in the IFI Café Bar. This gorgeously realised poised, confident philosophy teacher whose sense of self representation of 1930s Hollywood glamour starring is challenged by events beyond her control. See page 6 for Jessie Eisenberg and Steve Carell is Allen’s love letter film notes. Please visit www.ifi.ie or ask at the IFI Box Office to Los Angeles. See page 5 for film notes. for further details.

FILM CLUB IFI DOC FEST Men Mattress

Join us for an open discussion following a screening of The IFI Documentary Festival is back once again with our Captain Fantastic on September 13th at 18.10. Written selection of the world’s best factual films with thirteen and directed by Matt Ross and starring Viggo Mortensen, feature-length documentaries from September 22nd – 25th. this off-beat dramedy centres on a family who are forced This year’s highlights include Werner Herzog’s latest feature, by circumstance to reintegrate into society after living in Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World; isolation for a decade. See page 6 for film notes. Cameraperson, the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sheffield Doc/Fest; and the Irish premiere of Mattress Men, the intriguing story of Ireland’s most famous salesman, 'Mattress Mick'. More info www.ifi.ie/docfest. 2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE

This September sees the launch of the new IFI Education Schools Programme and the 2016 edition of the IFI Documentary Festival SEPTEMBER

AT THE IFI Enlightened the of Land The This month is all about documentary at the IFI. Not only is Des Henderson and producer Ed Stobart will discuss the the IFI Documentary Festival making its annual return (from feature; and after our Closing Film, The Lovers and the Despot, September 22nd to 25th) but we’re also pleased to announce directors Ross Adam and Robert Cannan will talk about details of our next Evening Course, starting in October, the bizarre tale of a famed director and actress who were Keeping it Real, which also focuses on this key genre. kidnapped by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and forced to make films, including a North Korean remake of Titanic! The IFI Documentary Festival is back once again with our selection of the world’s best factual films. One of the IFI’s four Also, this month, as students go back to school around the flagship festivals, the IFI Documentary Festival (rebranded in country, things get even busier for IFI Education, which has 2015 from IFI Stranger than Fiction) will screen 13 feature- the national remit for film education in Ireland. We work length documentaries, with 9 Irish premieres, 1 Dublin with teachers and students, contribute to education policy premiere and 1 world premiere. This year’s highlights include and development, and promote the case for media literacy Werner Herzog’s latest feature, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the in national and international education debate. This month, Connected World, where he turns his attention to the world we’re pleased to present our new Schools Programme for the wide web and proves why he is one of the most important full academic year, which offers a range of film screenings, documentary filmmakers working today; Who’s Gonna Love workshops, resources, teacher-training and related events Me Now, the winner of the Audience Award at the 2016 Berlin for children and young people around the country during the International Film Festival, tells the moving story of a gay forthcoming school terms. Tying in with the Curriculum, this man returning home to face the prejudice of his conservative season we have many new titles and some regulars across a family and tell them that he is HIV+; while Life, Animated tells broad range of school subjects including touring English titles the fascinating story of a profoundly autistic boy who can such as The King’s Speech; for Transition Year students, only communicate through lines from Disney films. Sing Street; for French language we’ll be presenting My Revolution; and for German language we will screen We are delighted to welcome numerous special guests to the About a Girl. To see the full programme when its released Festival this year. Colm Quinn, director of our Opening Film, at the end of September, download the brochure for your Mattress Men (about the personality ‘Mattress Mick’), will students or class at www.ifi.ie/learn participate in a Q&A along with the film’s two protagonists Michael Flynn and Paul Kelly; producer Morgan Bushe will If you’re no longer of school-going age but still want to take part in a Q&A after The Land of the Enlightened, a brush up on your film knowledge, and the IFI Documentary drama-documentary shot over seven years and set in the Festival has only whetted your appetite for more, this term’s heart of war-torn Afghanistan; cinematographer and director IFI Evening Course looks at the genre of documentaries and Kirsten Johnson will join us for a Skype interview following how it has transformed film making. The course starts in early her new feature Cameraperson which won the Grand Jury October but booking is now open. Prize at Sheffield Doc/Fest; after the world premiere of How to Defuse a Bomb: Project Children – which tells the It’s going to be a busy month at the IFI! story of Catholic and Protestant children in Northern Ireland who were taken to suburban America in 1975 to discover Ross Keane what they had in common with each other – director Director 3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR

A DATE FOR MAD MARY OPENS SEPT 2ND DATE SCREENING TIME CAFÉ SOCIETY OPENS SEPT 2ND 6TH IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21:30 THINGS TO COME OPENS SEPT 2ND TUE IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: SPECTRES 18.15 7TH FRENCH FILM CLUB: THINGS TO COME 18.20 CAPTAIN FANTASTIC OPENS SEPT 9TH WED THE BLUE ROOM OPENS SEPT 9TH 8TH ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING: 21.00 THU NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH OPENS SEPT 9TH 9TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: CAFÉ SOCIETY** 13.45 EL SUR OPENS SEPT 16TH FRI 12TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: CAPTAIN FANTASTIC** 13.10 HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE OPENS SEPT 16TH MON THE CLAN OPENS SEPT 23RD 13TH IFI FILM CLUB: CAPTAIN FANTASTIC 18.10 LITTLE MEN OPENS SEPT 23RD TUE ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: CAFÉ SOCIETY** 18.20 14TH FROM THE VAULTS: EAT THE PEACH 18.30 BADEN BADEN OPENS SEPT 30TH WED FEAST YOUR EYES: CAFÉ SOCIETY 18.30 THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT OPENS SEPT 30TH 15TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: CAPTAIN FANTASTIC** 18.10 THU GARY NUMAN: ANDROID IN LA LA LAND + Q&A 20.30 16TH CULTURE NIGHT: SHORT & SWEET 18.15 FRI CULTURE NIGHT: SHORT & SWEET 19.00 CULTURE NIGHT: SHORT & SWEET 19.45 GET SOCIAL! 20TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: 18.30 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! TUE HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE** 21ST ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: 16.00 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, WED HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE** share your movie reviews and show us your best pics on 22ND MATTRESS MEN* 20.00 Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! THU Join the IFI Community online: 23RD CAMERAPERSON* 18.20 FRI LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF A CONNECTED WORLD* 20.45 @IrishFilmInstitute 24TH SHORTS PROGRAMME* 12.00 SAT THE LAND OF THE ENLIGHTENED* 14.00 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: 16.30 YO YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE* WHO’S GONNA LOVE ME NOW?* 18.40 THE ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN* 20.30 25TH IFI FAMILY: AKEELAH AND THE BEE 11.00 SUN HOW TO DEFUSE A BOMB: PROJECT CHILDREN* 13.30 Open Captioned screening THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: ANNIE HALL 14.00 LIFE, ANIMATED* 15.50 Audio Described screening TOWER* 16.10 A FAMILY AFFAIR* 18.00 THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT* 20.20 26TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS 18.30 MON 28TH IRISH FOCUS: THE RANDOMER 18.30 WED WILD STRAWBERRIES: QUEEN AND COUNTRY 11.00 30TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: QUEEN AND COUNTRY 11.00 FRI

*Part of the IFI Documentary Festival Sept 22nd – 25th. See pages 16 – 17, separate flyer or visit www.ifi.ie/docfest for details. ** Denotes screenings which are open captioned. For more information on TIMES our Accessible Screenings, please visit www.ifi.ie/accessible 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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A DATE FOR RELEASE NEW MAD MARY

OPENS SEPT 2ND Joint winner of Best Irish Feature at this she won’t have a date for the wedding, year’s Galway Film Fleadh, A Date for Mary joins a dating agency, embarking on Mad Mary, based on Yasmine Akram’s a series of disastrous encounters before FILM INFO: theatrical monologue, sees director Darren events take an unexpected turn. However, 82 mins, Ireland, 2016, Digital Notes by Kevin Coyne Thornton make an auspicious feature debut, this is no formulaic rom-com; the focus centred on an exceptional performance instead is on female relationships and a by lead actress Seána Kerslake. character in transition who veers from violent to vulnerable, abrasive to funny, Upon release following a six month in Kerslake’s admirably nuanced turn. prison sentence, Mary returns home to Drogheda, eager to reunite with best friend Charlene (Charleigh Bailey), for whom she is about to act as maid of honour. Annoyed by Charlene’s assumption that

CAFÉ SOCIETY RELEASE NEW

OPENS SEPT 2ND Jesse Eisenberg is the latest in a with a married man. Bathed in amber continuum of leading men who have hues by the great cinematographer FILM INFO: essayed versions of Woody Allen’s Vittorio Storaro, Café Society, with its 96 mins, USA, 2016, Digital unique persona in the director’s later gorgeously realised, if romanticised Notes by David O'Mahony years, and he fills the shoes better than recreation of 1930s Hollywood glamour most as Bobby, a typically neurotic New is that most unexpected of Woody Allen Yorker who moves to Los Angeles to films, a love letter to LA, a city he has work for his uncle Phil (Steve Carell), more often lampooned. a suave Hollywood agent to the stars. Complications arise when Phil assigns THE HANGOVER LOUNGE Our Hangover Lounge feature this his PA (Kristen Stewart) to look after the Open Captioned (OC) screenings: month is Annie Hall (see page 15 nervous Bobby, whom he swiftly falls Sept 9th (13.45) + 13th (18.20). Audio for fim notes). for, even though she is having an affair description is available on all screenings.

5 SEPTEMBER 2016 THINGS TO COME NEW RELEASE

OPENS SEPT 2ND A philosophy teacher learns to live designed philosophy text books with unexpected freedoms in Mia are given a crass makeover by her (L’AVENIR) Hansen-Løve’s (Eden, Goodbye First publisher; and her domineering mother Love) delicately observed study (the great Edith Scob), a potent force in FILM INFO: of a crisis in late middle age that her life, has not long to live. Liberated 102 mins, France, 2016, features a superbly three-dimensional from the responsibilities of being a Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O'Mahony performance from Isabelle Huppert wife and daughter, Nathalie must as Nathalie, a poised, confident learn to practice the philosophies she intellectual whose sense of self is has for so long taught to others. challenged by events beyond her control: her husband of twenty-five FRENCH FILM CLUB There will be an IFI French Film years announces he is leaving her Club screening on September 7th, for a younger woman; her classically at 18.20. See page 2 for details. CAPTAIN FANTASTIC NEW RELEASE

OPENS SEPT 9TH Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) and his journey, they begin to realise how wife have raised their six children in different they are from their peers, FILM INFO: a self-sufficient environment almost and Ben’s parenting choices 119 mins, USA, 2016, Digital completely cut off from the larger are questioned. Notes by Kevin Coyne world. When she commits suicide, the children are determined to attend their mother’s funeral in New Mexico Open Captioned (OC) screenings: despite their father’s reluctance to Sept 12th (13.10) and 15th (18.10). engage with social norms, or the Audio description is not available IFI FILM CLUB father-in-law (Frank Langella) who on this title. Join us after the 18.10 screening on September 13th for a despises him. As the children are both discussion about the film. fascinated and repelled by what they See page 2 for details. see and who they encounter on the

6 THE BLUE RELEASE NEW ROOM

OPENS SEPT 9TH Better known as one of the most distinctive married pharmacist Esther (Cléau). Deftly actors of French cinema, Mathieu Amalric employing a nonlinear structure, the film † is also an accomplished filmmaker whose jumps ahead in time, moving briskly out EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI glitzy, comedic On Tour (2010) secured of the couple's sequestered hotel room (LA CHAMBRE BLEUE) the Best Director award at Cannes. to a procedural in which Julien is being questioned about a serious, but as yet FILM INFO: In an altogether different register, unidentified crime. Withholding details 76 mins, France, 2014, The Blue Room is a compact adaptation, of what exactly has taken place allows Digital, Subtitled by Amalric and co-star Stéphanie Cléau, much of this story’s intrigue to lurk in Notes by Alice Butler of Belgian writer Georges Simenon’s the shadows, ensuring its chilling effects psychological novel. Amalric plays Julien, endure long after the credits roll. a successful business owner, discontented husband and father who, at the outset, is absorbed in an impassioned affair with

THE MAN CLASSIC IFI WHO FELL TO EARTH

OPENS SEPT 9TH Remastered to coincide with the film’s enlisting a lawyer to help him establish 40th anniversary, Nicolas Roeg’s The a multi-million dollar corporation, FILM INFO: Man Who Fell to Earth is an adaptation Newton builds himself a lavish, 138 mins, UK, 1976, Digital of Walter Tevis’ 1963 sci-fi novel of secluded home in New Mexico where Notes by Alice Butler the same name. In his first major film he lives with Mary-Lou, a guileless role, David Bowie plays an alien who gin drinker mostly accepting of her travels to Earth in order to transport partner’s more bizarre tendencies. water back to his own drought-ridden The kind of dark, surreal filmmaking planet. In human form, Bowie’s extra- we don’t see enough of today and terrestrial is an elegant, well-spoken featuring an otherworldly, melancholic Englishman called Newton, a pale, central role that only Bowie could slender and glassy-eyed entrepreneur embody, this is science fiction cinema with an unquenchable thirst. After that’s both poetic and alluring.

7 SEPTEMBER 2016 EL SUR IFI CLASSIC

OPENS SEPT 16TH Ten years after the success of The Estrella and Augustín have drifted Spirit Of the Beehive (1973), his debut apart somewhat, and she realises that FILM INFO: feature and one of the great films he has his own secrets, the keeping 95 mins, Spain-Italy, about childhood, director Victor Erice of which was intended to benefit her. 1983, Digital, Subtitled returned to filmmaking with El Sur, Erice considers the film unfinished, Notes by Kevin Coyne which once again places a young as financing was pulled halfway woman at its centre. Here, the focus is through the planned shoot. However, on the relationship between eight-year- the work as it exists was selected for old Estrella (Sonsoles Aranguren) and competition at Cannes, and remains her father Augustín (Omero Antonutti), a landmark of Spanish cinema. who, despite their closeness, is a mystery to her. At the age of 15, and now portrayed by Icíar Bollaín, HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE NEW RELEASE

OPENS SEPT 16TH From director Taika Waititi (What believes that Hec has abducted the We Do in the Shadows) comes this boy, and a massive manhunt begins. FILM INFO: good-natured and very funny story Filled with humour and warmth, 101 mins, New Zealand, of rebellious city kid Ricky (Julian it’s an irresistibly charming film. 2016, Digital Dennison), who is placed on an isolated Notes by Kevin Coyne farm with kind-hearted Bella and gruff Hec (Sam Neill), his new foster parents. Open Captioned (OC) screenings: September 20th (18.30) and 21st When Bella suddenly dies, Ricky (16.00). Audio description will runs into the forest rather than return be available on all screenings. to state care. When an accident strands him and the pursuing Hec in the wilderness, the outside world

8 THE RELEASE NEW CLAN

OPENS SEPT 23RD Based on actual events, and winner as a source of income. Alex becomes of the Silver Lion at Venice, the new conflicted when one of his family’s first (EL CLAN) film from Pablo Trapero (Carancho, targets, a schoolmate of his, is found 2010) is an intelligent, gripping, and dead despite his family having paid FILM INFO: complex thriller, reminiscent of Scorsese the ransom required, and attempts to 108 mins, Argentina-Spain, at his best. Following the fall of the establish his independence by opening 2015, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne Galtieri regime in 1980s Argentina, a sporting goods shop with his share. cold-eyed former intelligence operative However, his father has other plans for Arquímedes Puccio (a genuinely him, even as his own refusal to accept unsettling performance by Guillermo the social changes of the time leads to Francella) enlists the complicity of his his downfall. family, particularly son Alejandro (Peter Lanzani), in turning to kidnapping

LITTLE RELEASE NEW MEN

OPENS SEPT 23RD Ira Sachs follows up Love is Strange (2014) (Theo Taplitz), though an escalating with another exploration of male love, dispute over the meagre rent Leonor has though this time it is the intense bond been paying for years puts pressure on FILM INFO: of friendship between two teenage boys 85 mins, USA, 2016, Digital their relationship. Grounded by Sach’s Notes by David O'Mahony that forms the emotional core of a film humane approach to his material, and the ostensibly about their parents’ economic naturalism of the performances, Little Men and social conflicts. When his father is a deceptively subtle film that tackles dies, Brian (Greg Kinnear) inherits not weighty themes with a light touch. only his Brooklyn brownstone but also its tenant, Leonor (Paulina García) and her ailing storefront dress-making shop. Her brashly confident son Tony (Michael Barbieri) forms an immediate and unlikely bond with Brian’s introspective boy Jake

SEPTEMBER 2016 BADEN BADEN NEW RELEASE

OPENS SEPT 30TH Ana, an aimless twenty-six-year-old lands her in hospital, a DIY endeavour returns to her hometown of Strasbourg that forms the backbone of a film that EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† in an effort to shake up her somewhat is otherwise content to drift pleasingly rudderless life in Rachel Lang’s wryly between incidents and anecdotes as FILM INFO: amusing debut feature. That the Ana, wonderfully played by Salomé 95 mins, 2016, France-Belgium, titular German spa town makes no Richard, reconnects with less than Digital, Subtitled Film notes by David O’Mahony appearance in the film is perhaps desirable old flames and tries to avoid apposite given the protagonist's lack the same ruts that caused her to leave of certainty about her place in the Strasbourg in the first place. world. Initially fetching up at her grandmother’s apartment, Ana takes it upon herself to upgrade the woman’s bathroom fittings when a nasty fall THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT IFI DOC

OPENS SEPT 30TH The history of Hollywood is replete his films - hoping their star wattage with bizarre tales, but for sheer would invigorate his burgeoning EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† strangeness few can match the moviemaking empire. As prisoners one recounted in this gripping the couple made eight films together FILM INFO: documentary that illuminates a dark under Kim’s strict supervision before 94 mins, UK, 2016, chapter of Korean cinema lore. In 1978 attempting a daring cloak-and-dagger Digital, Subtitled North Korean dictator (and movie escape to the west. A seamless blend buff) Kim Jong-il kidnapped a famed of interview, recreation and archival South Korean celebrity couple - Shin footage, The Lovers and The Despot Sang-ok, South Korea’s most prolific features rare recordings of the dictator, and esteemed film director and the secretly taped by the captive lovers. head of a busy studio, and actress Choi Eun-hee, the lead in many of

IFI EVENTS IRISH FOCUS WILD STRAWBERRIES ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME IFI FAMILY FROM THE VAULTS IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING: NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS GARY NUMAN: ANDROID IN LA LA LAND CULTURE NIGHT THE HANGOVER LOUNGE THE BIGGER PICTURE

she finds herself needing the one IRISH thing that she least expected – a baby. FOCUS With the clock running out before she hits 40, it’s a race against time to THE find an uncomplicated man to make a RANDOMER perfect baby. With the help of lesbian neighbours and an ever-pregnant sister, Meg sifts through Dublin’s most eligible SEPT 28TH (18.30) baby-daddies, determined to find the perfect ‘Randomer’ to fulfil her quest. DIRECTORS: Join us for our focus on new Irish Based on a script by Gerry Stembridge, Naji Bechara, Caoimhe Clancy, film and filmmakers. this is a refreshing, modern Irish comedy Iseult Imbert about women, sex, love and procreation. FILM INFO: Free-spirited Meg thinks she has 82 mins, Ireland, 2016, Digital everything she wants, a great job and A production of the Filmbase Masters in This screening will be followed by an exciting social life. But things are Digital Feature Film Making Course 2016. a Q&A with the directors. suddenly turned upside-down when

into the army in post-war Britain. WILD Where the much earlier film centred STRAWBERRIES on life during the Blitz, this is a quieter affair, in which rationing and the draft QUEEN AND were realities. But rather than willing COUNTRY acceptance, these young men were starting to question their military SEPT 28TH & 30TH officers, while seeking out a good time (11.00) and developing a fascination for cinema.

DIRECTOR: Wild Strawberries is our Tickets: €4.25 including regular John Boorman bi-monthly film club for over 55s. tea/coffee before the event. FILM INFO: Wild Strawberries is our film club for 114 mins, Ireland-France-UK- John Boorman’s sequel to his semi- over 55s. If you are lucky enough Romania, 2014, Digital autobiographical tale, Hope and Glory, to look younger please don’t take is this poignant drama in which a offence if we ask your age. grown up Bill Rohan has been drafted

ARCHIVE AT IFI FAMILY LUNCHTIME The Master BACK TO SCHOOL AKEELAH AND THE BEE

Join us for free screenings of films from the SEPT 25TH (11.00) IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for In back-to-school month, the weekly spelling test dates and times. doesn’t have many positive connotations. Yet this film, featuring a young black girl in a disadvantaged PROGRAMME 1: South Los Angeles school, places the National THE MASTER Spelling Bee as something that will help her Radharc’s insightful film profiles national school rise up from the negativity that’s around her. teachers in the small village of Cloghan Hill near Angela Bassett is the unsupportive mother who the Mayo/Galway border. Liam O'Connell (former has plenty of other stuff on her plate. Help comes teacher) and his son Morgan discuss teaching from the school principal who links Akeelah up practice, memorable pupils, and the changing role with haughty professor Laurence Fishburne. of the Master in Irish society. Together they make a formidable team and FILM INFO: 27 mins, 1974, Colour prepare for victory. Undoubtedly clichéd in places, nevertheless, there are enough heart-warming PROGRAMME 2: moments to make this worth a look. PÁISTÍ AG OBAIR DIRECTORS: Doug Atchison Louis Marcus’ excellent observational documentary FILM INFO: 112 mins, USA, 2006, Digital (nominated for an Academy Award) was shot in several Montessori schools in Dublin and shows Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 family ticket the persistence and innate intelligence of young (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult + 3 children). children at work and at play. FILM INFO: 10 mins, 1973, Colour THE BREAKFAST Peter Sheridan’s quirky drama about a battle of wills between Curly Mulligan, a pupil on breakfast duty in a grim Christian Brothers school, and the disciplinarian Brother Ledwidge who one day finds a hair on his plate. FILM INFO: 18 mins, 1998, Colour

FROM THE VAULTS EAT THE PEACH 30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

SEPT 14TH (18.30) In 1984, inspired by Elvis Presley’s determination set in an Ireland of motorcycle antics in Roustabout and high unemployment and emigration. DIRECTOR: a visit to Dublin’s Funderland, two It is populated by entirely likeable Peter Ormrod unemployed midlands brothers-in-law and variously textured characters: FILM INFO: built a 40-foot cylindrical Wall of Death the dreamers, Vinny (Stephen Brennan) 93 mins, Ireland, 1986, 35mm in their backyard. and Arthur (Eamon Morrissey); long- Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn suffering wife, Nora (Catherine Byrne); RTÉ News reporter Peter Ormrod and faux-American, Boots (Niall Toibin). covered their story and was so enthralled that he decided to make a This screening will be introduced feature film about it. Eat the Peach is by producer John Kelleher a wryly comic tale of eccentricity and

IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS SPECTRES

SEPT 6TH (18.15) Sven Augustijnen’s widely acclaimed This event is part of Sven Augustijnen’s essay film follows a Belgian civil servant exhibition The Metronome Bursts DIRECTOR: as he attempts to piece together of Automatic Fire Seep Through the Sven Augustijnen the events of January 1961, the day Dawn Mist Like Muffled Drums and FILM INFO: of the assassination of the Congo's We Know It for What It Is at Dublin City 104 mins, Belgium, 2011, first elected Prime Minister, Patrice Gallery the Hugh Lane which opens on Digital, Subtitled Notes by Alice Butler Lumumba. Echoing Derrida's Specters of September 8th. Marx the work asks pertinent questions about ‘how a country or an individual AEMI - Supporting and Exhibiting We are delighted to welcome artist Sven Augustijnen to deals with a colonial past and how Artists’ and Experimental Moving introduce this screening and take does a nation process the suffering Image. See www.aemi.ie for part in a discussion afterwards. it has inflicted?’ more details.

13 ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING: NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS

SEPT 8TH (21.00) A unique one-night-only cinema significant as Dominik delved into the event directed by Andrew Dominik tragic backdrop of the writing and DIRECTOR: (Chopper, The Assassination of recording of the album. Interwoven Andrew Dominik Jesse James by the Coward Robert throughout the Bad Seeds’ filmed Ford, Killing Them Softly), One More performance of the new album are FILM INFO: 112 mins, USA, 2016, Digital Time With Feeling will be the first interviews and footage shot by opportunity anyone will have to hear Dominik, accompanied by Cave’s Skeleton Tree, the sixteenth studio narration and improvised rumination. album from Nick Cave & the Bad Filmed in black-and-white and colour, Seeds. Originally a performance-based the result is fragile, raw and a true concept, One More Time with Feeling testament to an artist trying to find evolved into something much more his way through the darkness.

GARY NUMAN: ANDROID IN LA LA LAND

SEPT 15TH (20.30) Android in La La Land is a celebration image, but it brought problems. of a British music-making pioneer and At a time when the public knew little DIRECTORS: the love story that helped him turn his about the condition, the press labelled Steve Read, life around. At the end of the 1970s, him a freak, one paper suggested his Rob Alexander Gary Numan found himself to be one parents should have been doctored FILM INFO: of the world’s biggest-selling artists, for giving birth to him. Depression, 85 mins, UK, 1976, Digital Are ‘Friends’ Electric? and Cars were near bankruptcy and a period in the huge hits, nobody had heard, or seen, wilderness followed. Then Numan anyone like him. fell in love with his biggest fan, and married her… There will be a post-screening Asperger’s syndrome helped forge director Q&A Numan’s ambition, his music and

14 drawn from collections at the IFI Irish CULTURE Film Archive. It is sure to entertain young NIGHT and old as it traces a history of short film production and indeed the history of SHORT AND modern Ireland through live-action and SWEET animation, newsreels, dramas and public information films. SEPT 16TH (18.15/19.00/19.45) Part of Culture Night 2016. This programme is broken into three parts. DIRECTOR: The IFI celebrates Culture Night with Come for one or all. The event is FREE but Various a free screening of family-friendly ticketed. Simply collect your ticket at the FILM INFO: Irish shorts. IFI Box Office on the night. Suitable for Approx. 30 mins each, Various, families / children age 7+. Ireland, Digital, Colour + B&W, The three short programmes, which will Part-subtitled. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn be introduced by our programming team, will include brand new work and films

from the broad farce of some of his earlier THE HANGOVER work into a more reflective mode that LOUNGE nevertheless employed his unique brand of neurotic humour. Allen plays Alvy ANNIE HALL Singer, a comedian who meets and falls in love with Annie Hall, a character written especially for Diane Keaton who has ever since been associated with the iconic SEPT 25TH (14.00) role. A film that romanticises New York as much as it satirises LA culture; it’s a DIRECTOR: Our monthly indulgent Sunday perfect choice to revisit alongside Allen’s Woody Allen afternoon of brunch and a new film Café Society (see page 5) which FILM INFO: classic film. screens at IFI from September 2nd. 93 mins, USA, 1977, 35mm Notes by Alice Butler Often cited as one of cinema’s greatest Brunch + film deal: €16. Film only is comedies, Annie Hall marked a turning normal IFI pricing. Sunday brunch is point for Allen, seeing him move away served 12pm – 4pm.

James Foley’s film depicts two days THE BIGGER in the life of four real estate salesmen PICTURE driven to extremes when a terrifying motivational speaker from head office GLENGARRY announces that all but the top two GLEN ROSS salesmen will be fired in a week. With a brilliant cast (Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey) clearly SEPT 26TH (18.30) relishing Mamet’s chewy dialogue and verbal jousting matches, Glengarry DIRECTOR: Our monthly programme strand in Glen Ross remains a sobering account James Foley which a key film is presented in the of the desperation of those at the FILM INFO: context of a notional film canon. bottom of the food chain. 100 mins, USA, 1992, 35mm Notes by David O'Mahony Adapted by David Mamet from his This month’s Bigger Picture will be 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning play (a presented by IFI’s Deputy Director and riff on Miller’s Death of a Salesman), Director of Finance Annmarie Gray.

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Following September’s Documentary of themes, documentary is now A six-week evening Festival at IFI, this Autumn’s Evening a complex film form with its own course on the study Course will focus on documentary, aesthetic and history. Our Evening of documentary film. and feature a selection of key films in Course will consider some of these Open to all. the genre. From humble origins, when aspects, in the context of the the Lumière camera documented films screened. events as they were happening, the documentary genre has transformed. Please note: The course will run on TICKETS consecutive Tuesdays, commencing €75 (including tea/coffee) for complete course (concessions Filmmakers still set out to depict at 6.30pm unless otherwise stated. €70). Please book your place reality, but they add their own eye Order of screenings may vary slightly. by calling Sharon Corrigan on 01 679 5744 or email and their distinct motivation for [email protected]. Film telling a story. Covering a vast range tickets not individually sold.

THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS/ THIS IS NOT A FILM LES PLAGES D’AGNÈS OCT 4TH (18.30) OCT 11TH (18.30) Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi remains banned from How to document a single life when it is your own? filmmaking. Sitting in his apartment awaiting the French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda offers judge’s ruling on an appeal, alone except for a pet her memories, prompted by footage from her films. iguana, he invites his friend to come over, and starts Dr Abigail Keating, who lectures on women in film, to reflect on his films. While nothing appears to documentary and European cinemas, will discuss happen, what unfolds serves to question the nature how Varda’s genial approach to telling her own story of documentary itself, and the role of a filmmaker contrasts with other approaches to biographical film. within a closed society. Donald Taylor Black, lecturer She will consider Varda’s body of work as evidence of and filmmaker will consider documentary filmmaking the filmmaker’s rich and enduring life. and the challenges it brings. (108 mins, France, 2008, Digital, Subtitled, Director: Agnès Varda) (75 mins, Iran, 2011, Digital, Subtitled, Directors: Mojtaba Mirtahmasb & Jafar Panahi)

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NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT/ NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ RIDING GIANTS OCT 18TH (18.30) OCT 25TH (18.30) In dealing with his country’s past, Chilean filmmaker Documentary filmmaker Stacy Peralta shows how Patricio Guzmán creates this exquisite cerebral film you can make a sports story appeal through his that contrasts the magnificent unpolluted skies combination of interviews, footage and thrilling above the desert as a place where astronomers scenes communicated with his own passion. In this gather to ponder the cosmos, with the local women history of surfing, the wow factor runs high as we searching for their missing men disappeared under watch legendary surfers haunt shorelines, waiting for Pinochet. Dr Cara Levey, who specialises in Latin the next big wave. Lecturer and surfer Stephen Boyd American Studies, will examine how Guzmán’s who is researching Irish surf culture will discuss how approach to memory, combining sumptuous images Peralta’s truly cinematic film may have you reaching with taut interviews, prompts consideration of how for a board. we deal with the past. (97 mins, USA-France, 2004, 35mm, Director: Stacy Peralta) (94 mins, Chile-France-Germany-Spain-USA, 2010, Digital, Subtitled, Director: Patricio Guzmán)

CONCERNING VIOLENCE GREY GARDENS NOV 1ST (18.30) NOV 8TH (18.30) Structuring his film around singer Ms Lauryn Hill’s The direct cinema style pioneered by David and reading of Franz Fanon’s text, and original footage Albert Maysles yielded landmark films such as captured during the final years of colonialism in Gimme Shelter, Salesman and this one, about the African countries, Swedish filmmaker Göran Olsson legendary aunt and cousin of Jackie Kennedy, the creates a fertile ground from which to expose co-dependent Beales of Grey Gardens, who eked out ongoing issues in the struggles for independence. their lives in the gothic filth and disarray of their East In his presentation, Dr Stephen Baker will question Hampton mansion. Filmmaker and teacher Vanessa the effectiveness of the film’s didactic and consider Gildea, who met and interviewed Albert Maysles, Fanon’s critique of European capitalism, particularly will talk about their observational approach to their in the light of the recent referendum. subjects, a style which has influenced many films, (89 mins, Sweden-Finland-Denmark-USA, 2014, Digital, Subtitled. including her own. Director: Göran Olsson) (94 mins, USA, 1975, Blu-ray, Directors: Ellen Hoyde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer)

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