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MAY 2018 ON CHESIL BEACH THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s EXHIBIT national cultural institution for film. 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. MYSTERY MATINEE IFI FILM CLUB This month’s secret screening, for which tickets cost just Join us for an open discussion with members of the IFI team €5, will take place at 13.00 on Sunday 20th. Sometimes following the 18.15 screening of Tully on Wednesday 9th. it will be a preview, but not always; sometimes it will be Directed by Jason Reitman and written by Oscar winner a title one might expect to see at the IFI, but not always. Diablo Cody (Juno), the film features Charlize Theron as Previous titles have included Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, Marlo, a woman overwhelmed by the arrival of an unplanned John Carpenter’s Star Man, and John Huston’s Beat the third child. Devil. Join us for this month’s screening, and expect the unexpected! FRENCH FILM CLUB FEAST YOUR EYES This month’s French Film Club screening, which takes Our monthly Feast Your Eyes strand of a film and main course place on Friday 11th at 18.30 and where IFI and Alliance for €20 will be Nora Twomey’s Oscar nominated animation Française members pay just €7.50 per ticket, is Michel The Breadwinner. This month’s screening will take place Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable. Louis Garrel plays iconic on Tuesday 29th at 18.45 - see page 9 for film notes and director Jean-Luc Godard in the aftermath of the May 1968 www.ifi.ie for details of the evening’s menu. student revolts, as the auteur embarks on a new creative and ideological path. 2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE A look at the cultural legacy of Lady Augusta Gregory, a season of iconic thrillers, and a fantastic selection of new releases from across the globe headline a packed May at the IFI. MAY AT THE IFI Lean on Pete May at the IFI sees a wide range of events throughout May also sees the IFI join forces with the International the month, with something for old and young alike. Literary Festival Dublin for two very special events, including Those with a taste for nostalgia can immerse themselves a screening of Jan Švankmeyer’s Alice, presented by in Trust No One, our season of international thrillers bestselling author Neil Gaiman. Regular IFI collaborator from the 1960s and 1970s. Student uprisings in France, Matthew Nolan (of post-rock band 3epkano) returns to domestic terrorism in Italy and Germany, and the Watergate the IFI with a special event with musician Chris Brokaw, scandal on the other side of the Atlantic contributed to an former guitarist with iconic band Codeine. The pair have atmosphere of fear and paranoia that produced classics collaborated on new music to accompany the film work of such as Costa-Gavras’s Z, Fred Zinnemann’s The Day the late artist Peter Hutton. of the Jackal, and Alan J. Pakula’s The Parallax View. The nine-film season opens on Saturday 12th. On Sunday 6th, we’re excited to host the Irish judging panel for the European Film Academy’s Young Audience Award. The IFI prides itself on working closely with other leading An annual event that sees young juries from across the cultural institutions, and our programme in May is a fine continent pick the Best European Film for Young People, this testament to these strong relationships. On Saturday 12th, year will see one of the screenings, Finnish film Hobbyhorse the IFI teams up with the Abbey Theatre to examine the Revolution, open to the public for the first time. Always a legacy of Lady Augusta Gregory, a prolific and experimental wonderful occasion, the day allows young people to critically dramatist and close collaborator with W.B. Yeats, engage with their peers and further encourage their love of who continues to tower over Ireland’s cultural history. cinema. The day-long event will include a shorts programme, a screening of John Ford’s The Rising of the Moon, alongside Finally, as always, we have a strong slate of new releases a panel discussion featuring a number of renowned Gregory including films from Jason Reitman and Lucrecia Martel, scholars – it promises to be a lively and enlightening day. the return of IFI French Film Festival favourites Redoubtable and Jeune Femme, and a stunning re-release of Tony We’re also delighted to once again team up with the Science Richardson’s 1959 classic Look Back in Anger. Gallery at Trinity College Dublin for a series of screenings responding to their latest exhibition, FAKE. The films in this Ross Keane season explore how filmmakers have explored the topics of Director fakery or imitation and how, often, it can often prove to be a path to success. Films on screen include Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy and the critically-acclaimed Tim’s Vermeer. 3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR A CAMBODIAN SPRING OPENS FRI 4TH DATE SCREENING TIME LEAN ON PETE OPENS FRI 4TH 2ND IFI & ADIFF: CAREERS IN FILM DAY 10.30 TULLY OPENS FRI 4TH WED IFI & AEMI & DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY: IN FOCUS: 18.30 LOOK BACK IN ANGER OPENS FRI 11TH TAMARA HENDERSON 4TH WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: SULLY 11.00 REDOUBTABLE OPENS FRI 11TH FRI THE YOUNG KARL MARX OPENS FRI 11TH 5TH ROCK'N'ROLL CINEMA: U2: DREAM OUT LOUD 18.30 THE COLOUR OF SAT 6TH EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD: 12.45 POMEGRANATES OPENS FRI 18TH SUN HOBBYHORSE REVOLUTION FILMWORKER OPENS FRI 18TH 7TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: TULLY 18.20 JEUNE FEMME OPENS FRI 18TH MON THE BREADWINNER OPENS FRI 25TH 8TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: TULLY 16.00 ON CHESIL BEACH OPENS FRI 25TH TUES IRISH FOCUS: BIAFRA (FORGOTTEN MISSION) 18.30 9TH IFI FILM CLUB: TULLY 18.15 ZAMA OPENS FRI 25TH WED 11TH IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: REDOUBTABLE 18.30 FRI 12TH FROM THE VAULTS: IFI & ABBEY THEATRE: 13.30 SAT LADY GREGORY † The exclusivity of films is correct at time of print. TRUST NO ONE: Z 16.00 13TH TRUST NO ONE: THE DAY OF THE JACKAL 16.00 SUN 15TH FAKE VIEWS: CERTIFIED COPY 18.30 GET SOCIAL! TUE Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! 16TH TRUST NO ONE: THE FLIGHT 18.15 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, WED STORIES FROM THE HALF LIGHT: THE FILMS OF 20.30 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics PETER HUTTON on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! 17TH IFI & BLIAIN NA GAEILGE 2018: CAOINEADH AIRT 18.30 THUR UÍ LAOIRE Join the IFI Community online: 19TH FAKE VIEWS: CATFISH 13.30 linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute SAT TRUST NO ONE: INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN 16.00 ABOVE SUSPICION @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 20TH MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00 SUN TRUST NO ONE: THE PARALLAX VIEW 16.00 @IrishFilmInstitute 23RD TRUST NO ONE: STATE OF SIEGE 18.30 WED 25TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: A MAN CALLED OVE 11.00 For bookings and film information, please see our FRI OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: ON CHESIL BEACH 16.00 website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office IFI & ILFD: NEIL GAIMAN PRESENTS... ALICE 20.00 on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). 26TH IFI FAMILY & ILFD: MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER 11.00 SAT FAKE VIEWS: TIM’S VERMEER 13.30 TRUST NO ONE: THE LOST HONOUR OF 16.00 Open Captioned screening KATHERINA BLUM 27TH TRUST NO ONE: THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR 16.00 Audio Described screening SUN 29TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: ON CHESIL BEACH 18.15 TUE FEAST YOUR EYES: THE BREADWINNER 18.45 The F-rating is a classification 30TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: A MAN CALLED OVE 11.00 reserved for any film which is WED TRUST NO ONE: KNIFE IN THE HEAD 18.30 directed and/or written by a woman. 31ST THE BIGGER PICTURE: WHAT’S UP, DOC? 18.30 THUR 4 MAY 2018 A CAMBODIAN SPRING IFI DOC OPENS FRI 4TH This documentary is an intimate portrait Screened at last year’s IFI Documentary of three people caught up in the chaotic Festival, and winner at Hot Docs for EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† and often violent developments shaping Best International Feature, the film is modern-day Cambodia. about the complexities, both political FILM INFO: and personal, of fighting for what you 126 mins, UK, 2017, Digital, Subtitled Shot over six years, the film charts the believe in. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn gradual politicisation of two young mothers and one Buddhist monk, the growing wave of land-rights protests PREVIEW SCREENING A special screening on that led to the ‘Cambodian Spring’, Monday, April 30th will be and the tragic events that followed. followed by a Q&A with director Chris Kelly and the Venerable Luon Sovath. LEAN ON NEW RELEASE PETE IFI DOC OPENS FRI 4TH The wide open spaces of the American his jockey partner Bonnie (played by mid-west offer a striking change Steve Buscemi and Chloë Sevigny), FILM INFO: of pace for director Andrew Haigh hitching a ride on their precarious 121 mins, UK, 2017, Digital following the interior intimacies of his tour of the small-time racing circuit. Notes by David O’Mahony previous films Weekend (2011) and Charley grows attached to a failing 45 Years (2015). Adapted from the racehorse named Lean on Pete, a bond novel by Willy Vlautin, this latest film that grows more urgent and poignant centres on Charley (Charlie Plummer), when he learns that Pete has become a lonely 15-year-old living under the superfluous to Del’s requirements.