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.
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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 on Pete Lean 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 DOC IFI
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 RELEASE NEW PETE DOC IFI
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. thumb of an abusive father in a glum Portland suburb. Charley happens upon a racetrack one day and falls in with travelling horse trainers Del and
5 MAY 2018 TULLY NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 4TH Charlize Theron stars as Marlo, a identity can be subsumed by family, woman overwhelmed by the arrival of anchored by Theron’s best performance FILM INFO: an unplanned third child. Receiving little in years. 96 mins, USA, 2018, Digital in the way of actual help from her well- Notes by Kevin Coyne meaning though ineffectual husband There will be Open Captioned (OC) (Ron Livingston), Marlo begrudgingly screenings at 18.20 on Monday 7th accepts her brother’s offer of a night and 16.00 on Tuesday 8th. nanny, Tully (Mackenzie Davis), to ease the pressure. Writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman present an IFI FILM CLUB acerbic and unsentimental look at the Join us for an open discussion difficulties of motherhood and the ease following the 18.15 screening with which a woman’s own past and on Wednesday 9th. LOOK BACK IN ANGER IFI CLASSIC
OPENS FRI 11TH Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton), a what became known as the British disillusioned university graduate, rejects New Wave of cinema that emerged in EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† his wife’s middle-class aspirations and the late 1950s and early 1960s. Often instead chooses to earn a living as referred to as ‘kitchen sink dramas’, FILM INFO: a jazz musician and a trader at the these films represented working class 98 mins, UK, 1959, local market. life in a refreshingly forthright and Digital, Black & White Notes by David O’Mahony realistic manner. Their already troubled marriage reaches a crisis point when another woman becomes the object of his aggression and attention. Adapted from John Osborne’s play, Tony Richardson’s Look Back in Anger is a landmark entry into
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OPENS FRI 11TH Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) tackles Redoubtable pokes affectionate fun at a key moment in the life of iconic French Godard’s foibles, using pastiches of LE REDOUTABLE New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, cinematic devices he popularised to droll played by Louis Garrel. The year is effect, with certain famous shots being EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† 1967; Godard’s latest film, La Chinoise, reproduced as Hazanavicius introduces FILM INFO: has been a disaster. His marriage his actors. In the lead role, Garrel nimbly 107 mins, France, 2017, to second wife, 20-year-old actress avoids caricature and essays Godard’s Digital, Subtitled Anne Wiazemsky (Stacy Martin), is combination of effortless cool and Notes by David O’Mahony stagnating. Disillusioned, the director brittle insecurity with great aplomb. becomes increasingly radicalised by IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB Tickets for IFI and Alliance the student revolt of 1968 and rejects Française members for the his past life and work to embark on a 18.30 screening on Friday 11th new creative and ideological path. cost just €7.50.
THE YOUNG RELEASE NEW KARL DOC IFI MARX
OPENS FRI 11TH Raoul Peck, a keenly political filmmaker behest of his patron. Meanwhile, in and director of I Am Not Your Negro, Manchester, Engels witnesses firsthand LE JEUNE KARL MARX one of last year’s outstanding the cruelty with which workers in his documentaries, returns with a more father’s factories are treated, and FILM INFO: conventional biopic of Karl Marx begins a relationship with working class 118 mins, France-Belgium- (August Diehl) that focuses on his Irishwoman Mary Burns. Just as the Germany, 2017, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne relationship with Friedrich Engels two men travel around Europe refining (Stefan Konarske), his lifelong friend their political doctrine, arguing against and collaborator. Following his arrest prevailing thought and attracting a in Germany, Marx moves to Paris with growing band of eager revolutionaries, his wife Jenny (Phantom Thread’s Vicky the film will similarly prove of interest to Krieps), scion of one of Prussia’s most devotees and neophytes alike. prominent aristocratic families, at the
7 MAY 2018 THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES IFI CLASSIC
OPENS FRI 18TH One of the great films of the Soviet A film that exists almost entirely outside era, The Colour of Pomegranates is an of the standard grammar of cinema, The SAYAT NOVA unconventional biopic of 18th century Colour of Pomegranates is presented here Armenian ashug (a kind of folk poet or in a beautiful new digital restoration that FILM INFO: musician) Sayat-Nova. Taking a lyrical enhances the immersive experience of 80 mins, Soviet Union, and mystical approach to its subject the imagery and soundtrack, affording 1969, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne that is somewhat similar to the work of audiences the rare and welcomed Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy opportunity of experiencing its wonders Mountain), the film explores the man’s and mysteries on the big screen. life in chapters using a series of visually stunning tableaux that emphasise the effect of his surroundings and culture on his art. FILMWORKER IFI DOC
OPENS FRI 18TH In 1975, Leon Vitali was on the crest which delves into the true passion for of a wave, moving from TV fame to a film behind Kubrick’s tyrannical public EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† high profile part in Barry Lyndon, the persona. Through photos, behind sumptuously-shot period drama partly the scenes video and more, we get a FILM INFO: made in Ireland by master filmmaker glimpse at the mania required to keep 94 mins, USA, 2017, Digital Stanley Kubrick. He then abandoned it Kubrick’s life in order, and the toll it Notes by Daniel Anderson all to become Kubrick’s right-hand man, takes on a filmworker. a tireless cog in the movie-making- machine and painstaking caretaker of the celluloid left behind.
Vitali makes for an absorbing subject in Tony Zierra’s intimate documentary,
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OPENS FRI 18TH Winner of the Camera d’Or for best helped by an ability to improvise that first feature at the 2017 Cannes Film occasionally strays into outright lies, FILM INFO: Festival, and the closing film of last but equally hindered by an abrasive 97 mins, France, 2017, November’s IFI French Film Festival, edge to her personality that sometimes Digital, Subtitled Jeune Femme is the story of Paula and unintentionally exacerbates her Notes by Kevin Coyne (Laetitia Dosch), a woman struggling to situation. Dosch’s startling, kinetic reassert her individuality following the performance gives vivid life to a break-up of a decade-long relationship character that, though her initial in which she felt very much the junior inability to adjust to being responsible partner. With no money, no job, and for her own life is often frustrating, no fixed address, she drifts from one is never less than sympathetic. encounter to another, taking advantage of any opportunity that presents itself,
THE RELEASE NEW BREADWINNER DOC IFI
OPENS FRI 25TH The Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon In this restrictive régime women are animation studio (The Secret of Kells, not permitted to leave the house FILM INFO: Song of the Sea) returns with another unescorted, to earn money or shop 94 mins, Ireland-Canada- Oscar-nominated triumph; directed by in the market. When Parvana’s father Luxembourg, 2017, Digital Nora Twomey – co-director of Kells – is imprisoned under suspicious Notes by David O’Mahony The Breadwinner is a beautifully realised circumstances, she is forced to ode to resilience under oppression and disguise herself as a boy to become the the imaginative power of storytelling. family’s sole breadwinner, whilst trying Adapted from Deborah Ellis’s bestselling desperately to free her beloved father. novel, the film tells the story of Parvana, FEAST YOUR EYES Enjoy the film with a specially a young girl living in Kabul, Afghanistan, devised main course following under the control of the Taliban. the 18.45 screening on Tuesday 29th. 9 MAY 2018 ON CHESIL BEACH NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 25TH Ian McEwan’s celebrated novella of and frustration. With the impending newlyweds Florence (Saoirse Ronan) consummation as a framing device, FILM INFO: and Edward (Billy Howle) is sensitively the film flashes back to flesh out who 110 mins, UK, 2017, Digital brought to the screen by director they are and how they met, McEwan’s Notes by David O’Mahony Dominic Cooke. screenplay adding satisfying layers of complexity. The film opens in 1962 on the day of their wedding; staying in a Dorset hotel There will be Open Captioned (OC) on the titular beach, they nervously screenings at 16.00 on Friday 25th circle the inevitable intimacy that and 18.15 on Tuesday 29th. the day demands. Both are clearly inexperienced, their hesitancy undercut by revealing notes of shame ZAMA NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 25TH Argentine master Lucrecia Martel elliptical narrative sees Don Diego returns from an eight year absence de Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† to deliver what is perhaps her most an officer of the Spanish crown, distinctive work to date. Ostensibly working for the local magistrate in FILM INFO: a colonial period drama set in the the deadening heat of a remote South 115 mins, Argentina-Brazil- 18th century, Zama is revealed to be American colony, anxiously awaiting Spain-Dominican Republic- France-Netherlands-Mexico- an intoxicating and unsettling study a much desired and forever delayed Switzerland-Portugal-USA- of thwarted ambition that exhibits reassignment to Buenos Aires. Lebanon, 2017, Digital, Subtitled a fetid, pestilential air redolent of Confounded by layers of bureaucracy, Notes by David O'Mahony Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God Zama’s world descends into a and Fitzcarraldo. Based on the 1956 nightmarish fever dream. Argentine novel of the same name by Antonio De Benedetto, the sparse,
10 IRISH ARCHIVE AT FOCUS LUNCHTIME Night Flight to Uli Night Flight to
BIAFRA RADHARC IN AFRICA (FORGOTTEN MISSION) Join us for free films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office BIAFRA (MISEAN DEARMADTA) – please see www.ifi.ie for more information TUES 8TH (18.30) Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
Ireland and Nigeria: a world apart and yet intimately PROGRAMME ONE connected by traumatic events that took place NIGHT FLIGHT TO ULI 50 years ago, which would have attracted little Filmed in Biafra as the Nigerian civil war drew to a attention here but for the fact that Nigeria was close, the film shows how supplies from Irish and home to thousands of Irish people. international aid agencies were flown to Biafra to relieve the besieged Ibo people. It includes an In the midst of a tragic civil war, Irish missionaries interview with the then Biafran leader Colonel Ojuku defied a cynical international cartel to save millions and evidence of the work being done by Irish relief from starvation, and became international media volunteers in the area. celebrities. But at the end of the war, they were FILM INFO: 30 mins, Ireland, 1969, Digital expelled from Nigeria, accused of prolonging the conflict. PROGRAMME TWO
The film brings together eyewitness accounts CROSSROADS IN NIGERIA Ten years after the civil war in Nigeria, this film looks and a rich tapestry of film archive to present a at the dilemma facing Catholic foreign missionaries remarkable episode in the history of Ireland and who no longer have control of mission schools and Nigeria, now wiped from the public memory of hospitals. Missionaries must now find new avenues both countries. of approach in their work of evangelisation. Directors Irina Maldea and Brendan Culleton will FILM INFO: 26 mins, Ireland, 1982, Digital be present at this screening.
DIRECTORS: Irina Maldea, Brendan Culleton FILM INFO: 50 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn
11 FROM THE VAULTS IFI & ABBEY THEATRE PRESENTS - THE OLD LADY SAYS YES: LADY GREGORY, THE ABBEY, AND FILM
SAT 12TH
The range of Lady Augusta Gregory’s talents was considerable: co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, translator, PANEL DISCUSSION: folklorist, theatre producer and Yeats collaborator. She THE CULTURAL LEGACY was also an important, resolutely experimental dramatist in her own right. Initially showing a genius for comedy, OF LADY GREGORY she later wrote tragedies, histories, translations and an (15.00) TICKETS €5 explicitly feminist play Grania. She has been a significant presence in film also with Ria Mooney’s adaptation Exploring the life and legacy of Lady Gregory and of her comedy The Workhouse Ward (1950); with John her continuing influence on the Abbey Theatre and Ford’s adaptation of her play, The Rising of the Moon its practitioners. (1957); as represented by Dame Edith Evans in Ford’s Young Cassidy (1965); and with her translation of the poem ‘Dónall Óg’ in John Huston’s The Dead (1987). Panel moderator Melissa Sihra (TCD) will be joined by Lelia Doolan, former Artistic Director of the Abbey Introductory note by Anthony Roche. Theatre; Anthony Roche (UCD); Barry Monahan (UCC); and Mairéad Delaney, Archivist at the Abbey Theatre. Tickets for each event sold separately. A ticket for all events costing €15 is also available online and from the IFI Box Office.
SHORTS PROGRAMME THE RISING OF THE MOON (13.30) TICKETS €5 (16.45) REGULAR IFI PRICING THE WORKHOUSE WARD The Rising of the Moon is one of John Ford’s This recently acquired adaptation of Lady most personal films. Shot entirely on location Gregory’s one-act comedy centres on two in Ireland with actors recruited mainly from the bickering paupers confined to adjacent hospital Abbey Theatre, the film served as a fine showcase beds until the arrival of the Widow Donohue for Irish acting talent of the day, capturing the (Eileen Crowe). An excellent record of the Abbey actors at the peak of their careers, and Abbey’s writing, directing and acting skills. bringing the work of three important Irish writers DIRECTOR: Ria Mooney, to the world’s stage. The triptych style, which FILM INFO: 25 mins, Ireland, 1950, Digital, Black and White is by turns contemplative, comic and political includes work by Frank O'Connor, Martin J. CRADLE OF GENIUS McHugh, and a powerful updating to 1921 of the This Academy Award-nominated film, written play by Lady Gregory that gives the film its title. by Frank O’Connor, presents a history of the Abbey as fondly remembered by Abbey stalwarts DIRECTOR: John Ford Siobhán McKenna, Maureen Delaney, Harry EVENT INFO: 81 mins, Ireland-USA, 1957, Digital, Black and White Brogan, Barry Fitzgerald and Seán O’Casey. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn DIRECTOR: Paul Rotha FILM INFO: 42 mins, Ireland, 1959, Digital, Black and White
12 IFI & BLIAIN NA GAEILGE 2018 CAOINEADH AIRT UÍ LAOIRE THUR 17TH (18.30)
LAMENT FOR ART O’LEARY Continuing our 2018 focus on Irish film skilfully interweaves the twin DIRECTOR: language productions, Caoineadh narratives of the actors’ rebellion with Bob Quinn Airt Uí Laoire, Bob Quinn’s first Irish the O'Leary story to create a potent FILM INFO: language feature, uses the story of the political statement within a subversive 56 mins, Ireland, 1975, 18th century Irish rebel Art O’Leary to drama that was quite unprecedented in Digital, Subtitled examine questions of national identity, Irish cinema at the time. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn Irish culture and the nature of history itself. A group of unruly players refuse This screening will be introduced by the orders of their British director (John director Bob Quinn. Arden) as he orchestrates a dramatic retelling of the life of Irish rebel Art O’Leary (Seán Bán Breathnach). The
IFI & AEMI & DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY: IN FOCUS TAMARA HENDERSON
WED 2ND (18.30) End: Out of Body Seasons
FILM INFO: To coincide with Seasons End: More Müller’s dreamlike opus Alpsee to the 67 mins, 1994-2018, Various, 16mm Than Suitcases, her current exhibition playful interaction of colourful fabric at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, aemi have with the natural environment in Ute curated a screening of works featuring and Detel Aurand’s Thread Games II and three recent 16mm films by Canadian the costumed performances in Tamara artist Tamara Henderson. Alongside Henderson's most recent film, Seasons those films are two additional 16mm End: Out of Body. films by Matthias Müller and sisters Ute and Detel Aurand. All of these films This screening will be followed by a Q&A challenge our assumptions about how with aemi and artist Tamara Henderson. materiality operates in cinema, from the repurposed footage in Matthias
13 THE BIGGER PICTURE WHAT’S UP, DOC?
THUR 31ST (18.30)
DIRECTOR: Fresh from the success of The Last another belongs to freeloader Judy Peter Bogdanovich Picture Show, Warner Bros asked Peter Maxwell (Streisand), and the fourth to FILM INFO: Bogdanovich to direct something with Prof. Bannister (Ryan O’Neal) with whom 94 mins, USA, 1972, Digital Barbra Streisand, so he took his idea of Judy falls in love. Doors are banged, a Notes by Alicia McGivern ‘a professor and a dizzy dame’ to some theft takes place, a fiancé is kidnapped, high-calibre writers. The result is this and a San Francisco chase ensues in gag-filled, whirlwind of a comedy, filled this homage to Bringing up Baby. with chaos and one-liners. This screening will be introduced by Four identical plaid bags are checked Festival Director of the Audi Dublin in to a hotel: one contains top-secret International Film Festival Gráinne documents, another precious jewels, Humphreys.
IFI & INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL DUBLIN NEIL GAIMAN SELECTS… ALICE FRI 25TH (20.00)
NECO Z ALENKY Neil Gaiman joins us to introduce and audio theatre, and movies. From the DIRECTOR: discuss Alice, a dark fantasy film by BBC dark fantasy TV series Neverwhere Jan Švankmajer Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer. A and Doctor Who to film work including FILM INFO: surreal adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Stardust, Coraline and Beowolf, he’s as 86 mins, 1988, Czechoslovakia- classic children’s book Alice in at home writing for the screen as he is Switzerland-UK-West Germany, Wonderland, this 1988 fantasy thriller in print. Join Neil Gaiman and ILFDublin Digital, Subtitled looks into the darkest, wildest recesses at the IFI for a very special evening! of a child’s mind. Tickets: €16/€14. One of the greatest living storytellers, Neil Gaiman has written short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels,
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SULLY A MAN CALLED OVE EN MAN SOM HETER OVE FRI 4TH (11.00) FRI 25TH & WED 30TH (11.00)
Join us for the launch of the 2018 access>Cinema There are grumpy old men, and then there’s Ove. film tour, which features this grand biopic starring Though not that old, he’s certainly grumpy. Based on Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger, the aircraft pilot the bestselling Swedish novel by Fredrik Backman, who dramatically landed his damaged plane on the Ove feels that life is no longer worthwhile since losing Hudson river, saving the lives of his passengers and his job and his wife’s death. However, interuptions by crew. Tying in with the Bealtaine theme of hosting and unruly neighbours keep disrupting his suicide attempts. generosity, Sully demonstrates his hugely generous spirit, risking all to bring everyone to safety. Clint As flashbacks reveal his sad life, there are contrasting Eastwood’s direction brings his quiet heroism to darkly funny scenes, and warm interventions by new the fore. neighbor Parvaneh and her family, who give him reasons to live again. DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood FILM INFO: 96 mins, USA, 2016, Digital DIRECTOR: Hannes Holm FILM INFO: 116 mins, Sweden, 2016, Digital, Subtitled Screening as part of Bealtaine @ Temple Bar. Bealtaine, the annual celebration of creativity in older Notes by Alicia McGivern age, takes place at venues throughout the country in May 2018. See www.bealtaine.ie for more details.
Wild Strawberries is our film club for over 55s. Tickets: €4.25 including regular tea/coffee before the event. If you happen to look younger, please don’t take offence if we ask your age.
15 ROCK’N’ROLL CINEMA U2: DREAM OUT LOUD
SAT 5TH (18.30)
DIRECTOR: U2: Dream Out Loud illuminates the shared experiences of joy, loss, David Barry extraordinary connection U2 fans strength and empowerment. Where FILM INFO: share with their music, the band and they have been and where they will go 111 mins, USA, 2018, Digital each other for four decades. as they Dream Out Loud.
The documentary is a conversation between 200 people, and is a heartfelt collection of experiences from fans representing 25 countries ranging in age from 12 to 72. Their stories bring to life the incredible journey that U2 fans have been on since 1980 through
STORIES FROM THE HALF LIGHT: THE FILMS OF PETER HUTTON
WED 16TH (20.30)
EVENT INFO: Boston guitarist/composer Chris information overload even in the 1970s 100 mins, USA, 1979–1997, 16mm Notes by Chris Brokaw Brokaw and Dublin guitarist/ were uniquely prescient. Brokaw and composer Matthew Nolan present an Nolan seek to explore the questions evening exploring the silent films of raised by these films about how we experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton take in information with an evening (1944-2016). Over a period of 50 years, alternating films, includingBoston Fire, Hutton made a series of short silent New York Portrait #1, Study of a River, films, often in black and white, and Landscape (for Manon), and In Titan’s Q&A primarily of landscapes and cities. Goblet, in their original/silent state with The screening will be followed He likened the films to paintings, and ones featuring new live scores by a Q&A with Chris Brokaw and Matthew Nolan. described watching them as 'a little for electric guitars and electronics. like daydreaming'. His concerns about
16 EFA YOUNG AUDIENCE AWARD 2018 HOBBYHORSE REVOLUTION SUN 6TH (12.45)
RECOMMENDED AGE: 10+ The Young Audience Award (YAA) is an documentary from Finland depicts the DIRECTOR: initiative of the European Film Academy weird and somehow wonderful sport of Selma Vilhunen (EFA), and is awarded annually by hobbyhorse riding, which encourages EVENT INFO: young juries from all across Europe. teenagers in Finland to stand up for 88 mins, Finland, 2017, On Sunday 6th, IFI will host these themselves through their shared passion. Digital, Subtitled awards with our YAA panel, who will Notes by Alicia McGivern watch the three nominated films and vote on their favourite. TICKETS Tickets: €4.80 per person, The jury screening of nominated film €14.40 family ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult + 3 children). Hobbyhorse Revolution will be open to the public. This warm and funny
IFI FAMILY & ILFD MARY AND THE WITCH’S FLOWER SAT 26TH (11.00)
MEARI TO MAJO NO HANA Presented in association with the one day, wandering in the woods, she DIRECTOR: International Literature Festival Dublin finds a bright blue flower which gives Hiromasa Yonebayashi 2018, this gorgeous anime features her magic powers. Transported by EVENT INFO: flame-haired Mary, a brave, bold girl broomstick to a magic school, Endor 102 mins, Japan, 2017, who gets the gift of magic. Based on College, she has to deal with monsters, Digital, Subtitled the book The Little Broomstick, it’s the mayhem and mystery and find a way Notes by Alicia McGivern first film from Studio Ponoc, home to back home. many former Ghibli animators, including TICKETS director Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Writer and illustrator ER Murray will Tickets: €5 per person, €15 introduce the film and talk about her own family ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult + 3 children). Mary is bored spending the summer at love of witches in books and films. her Great Aunt Charlotte’s home until
17 TRUST NO ONE A season of international political thrillers MAY 12TH - 30TH
As the 1960s drew to a close, the idealism and Responding to these seismic cultural and political optimism that typified the decade soured and was shifts, filmmakers turned to the thriller, a genre replaced by an air of uncertainty and an anxious that readily offered the opportunity to explore strain of political activism. The student uprisings conspiracies, authoritarian régimes, state corruption in Paris in 1968, terrorism in Italy and Germany, and the violence both the left and right factions President Kennedy’s assassination, and the were using to effect the changes they sought for shockwaves from the Watergate scandal in the society. The films in this season are reflective of the US all contributed to the volatile mood of the era creativity and urgency this new age of high anxiety – old norms were being challenged and the future engendered in the filmmakers of the era. was unstable. Introduction and film notes by David O’Mahony.
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Operating both as a gripping thriller and Z a political expose, Z won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1970. The film’s crusading nature is immediately evident from the on-screen statement at the beginning: ‘Any similarity to actual events or persons SAT 12TH (16.00) living or dead is not coincidental. It is intentional.' FILM INFO: Inspired by the killing of Greek politician 127 mins, France, 1969, Digital, Subtitled Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Costa- Gavras's exhilarating, brilliantly directed third feature focuses on the aftermath of a similar assassination of a politician leading the opposition to a right-wing government.
is given emergency powers to conduct THE DAY OF his investigation and a game of cat THE JACKAL and mouse ensues. Fred Zinnemann’s adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel, itself inspired by an actual 1962 attempt on De Gaulle’s life, is a classic of suspense cinema with a career-defining SUN 13TH (16.00) performance from Edward Fox as the elusive Jackal. FILM INFO: A right-wing paramilitary group plotting 143 mins, UK-France, 1973, Digital to kill French President General De Gaulle in response to his granting of Algerian independence in 1963 contracts a professional assassin code-named ‘The Jackal’. Learning of the conspiracy, police inspector Lebel (Michael Lonsdale)
makes Roland Gräf’s film all the more THE FLIGHT remarkable for addressing the topic head-on whilst being financed under the auspices of the state owned DEFA studios. Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1978 Karlovy Vary Film Festival, it was the last film Mueller-Stahl made in the ( ) East before moving to West Germany in WED 16TH 18.15 Flucht©DEFA-Stiftung/ Die GoldmannKlaus 1980 and later to the US. DIE FLUCHT Dismayed by East German state FILM INFO: bureaucracy, Dr Schmidt (Armin Mueller- 94 mins, East Germany, 1977, Stahl) seeks the help of an underground Digital, Subtitled faction to assist in his escape to the west. Defection to the west was a taboo subject for GDR filmmakers, which
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1971 Academy Awards. Volontè plays a INVESTIGATION respected police inspector who, at the OF A CITIZEN outset, brutally murders his mistress then investigates the scene of the ABOVE SUSPICION crime himself. Exonerating all potential suspects, he SAT 19TH (16.00) begins to plant ever-more obvious clues to his guilt - all of which are wilfully INDAGINE SU UN ignored by his fearful subordinates Director Elio Petri’s supremely stylish, - to prove his untouchable status. CITTADINO AL DI SOPRA blackly humorous exposé of endemic DI OGNI SOSPETTO police corruption in Italian society boasts FILM INFO: a magnetic performance from his regular 115 mins, Italy, 1970, lead Gian Maria Volontè, and was named Digital, Subtitled Best Foreign Language Film at the
professional hit men. Memorably shot by THE PARALLAX the great Gordon Willis, Alan J. Pakula’s (All The President’s Men) post-Watergate VIEW conspiracy thriller brilliantly caught the prevailing mood of cynicism and paranoia. The bravura sequence where Parallax operatives subject Frady to a montage of SUN 20TH (16.00) confrontational imagery to evaluate his responses is unforgettable. FILM INFO: When witnesses to the assassination 102 mins, USA, 1974, 35mm of a presidential candidate begin to mysteriously disappear, journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) goes undercover in an investigation that leads him to the Parallax Corporation, a shadowy entity involved in the recruitment and training of
pro-US Latin American country on STATE torture techniques. OF SIEGE He is targeted by a militant guerrilla group and kidnapped to bargain for the release of political prisoners; the press seize on his abduction and it becomes WED 23RD (18.30) a media sensation, leading inevitably to violence. The film acts as a critique ÉTAT DE SIEGE of US sanctions for corrupt foreign A landmark political thriller, Costa- dictatorships while questioning the use FILM INFO: Gavras’s State of Siege reflected growing of violence to oppose such régimes. 120 mins, France-Italy, 1972, mistrust at US interventions overseas. Digital, Subtitled Yves Montand plays Philip Michael Santore, a CIA operative covertly advising the government of an unnamed
20 THE LOST HONOUR The tabloid press, working in cahoots with the corrupt police force, are led OF KATHERINA BLUM to her door and subject her to a brutal character assassination that tests the limits of her dignity and sanity.
Schlöndorff and von Trotta’s gripping SAT 26TH (16.00) adaptation of Heinrich Böll’s novel explores state power, individual freedom DIE VERLORENE EHRE DER and the means by which a vindictive Life begins to unravel for young media can ruin an innocent reputation. KATHERINA BLUM Katherina Blum (Angela Winkler) after FILM INFO: she spends the night with an alleged 106 mins, West Germany, 1975, terrorist, immediately becoming the Blu-ray victim of an unremitting campaign of police surveillance and harassment.
his department has been shot and killed. THREE DAYS Kidnapping a stranger (Faye Dunaway) OF THE CONDOR at gunpoint, Turner hides out at her apartment, warding off threats to his life from assassin Max Von Sydow whilst trying to uncover what it was he was working on that has made him a target, SUN 27TH (16.00) ultimately uncovering a plot with global implications. FILM INFO: Robert Redford’s fourth collaboration 117 mins, USA, 1975, Blu-ray with director Sydney Pollack is a classic example of the paranoid conspiracy thrillers that proliferated in the wake of Watergate. Redford plays unassuming CIA researcher Joe Turner who returns from lunch one day to find everyone in
Hoffman’s journey of rehabilitation KNIFE IN and investigation into the truth of what THE HEAD happened to him leads to a fateful confrontation with the authorities.
Confused, brittle and full of self-doubt, the character of Hoffman serves as a metaphor WED 30TH (18.30) for West Germany as a traumatised country learning to slowly rethink its political beliefs. MESSER IM KOPF Caught in the crossfire at a raid on a FILM INFO: left-wing rally, apolitical scientist Hoffman 108 mins, West Germany, 1978, (Bruno Ganz) is critically injured with 35mm lingering memory loss. Smeared as a terrorist by the police who almost killed him and hailed as a hero by other groups,
21 FAKE VIEWS IRISH FILM INSTITUTE & SCIENCE GALLERY AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CERTIFIED COPY
TUES 15TH (18.30) COPIE CONFORME Juliette Binoche plays an antiques dealer in Tuscany; she attends a talk by a British writer (played by Opera singer William Shimell) which addresses Tim's Vermer Tim's issues of authenticity in the art world – why do we ascribe such value to original works when they are We may be obsessed with authenticity, but in indistinguishable from counterfeits – a question that the natural world and human society, faking and underpins much of what is to follow in Kiarostami’s mimicking can be highly effective strategies for intriguing puzzle. The two later meet and she drives success. Curated in response to the Science Gallery at him to a nearby village; along the way they begin Trinity College Dublin’s current free exhibition FAKE, to playfully assume the roles of a long-married which runs throughout May, the films in this season couple to an extent that forces the audience to explore how filmmakers have engaged with issues reconsider the nature of what has come before. around copying and fakery. From the fascinating Tim’s Vermeer, which ponders the value of replicating the Introduction to the film and the season old masters, to Catfish, the shocking documentary from Ian Brunswick, Head of Programming that coined the term, the films in the season shed at Science Gallery Dublin. light on our preconceptions of authenticity. FILM INFO: 106 mins, Italy-France-Iran, 2010, 35mm, Subtitled
CATFISH TIM’S VERMEER
SAT 26TH (13.30) SAT 19TH (13.30) 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer created astonishingly beautiful paintings that Directors Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sense foreground the minutiae of everyday lives, capturing a story unfolding as they begin to film the life of the play of light with a degree of photorealism that Ariel’s brother Nev, a photographer and avid social has led art historians to speculate that Vermeer networker. Their project begins when Nev receives sought the assistance of a camera obscura – an a mysterious package from an eight-year-old girl optical device that projects a reflected image onto called Abby; Nev is charmed and immediately begins a wall – in the creation of his scenes. Entrepreneur a Facebook correspondence. The reality thriller that and inventor Tim Jenison puts his insatiable then unfolds is an alarming product of our times. The curiosity and considerable financial largesse to film is credited with originating the term ‘catfishing’, the task of physically recreating the conditions which has seeped into the cultural vernacular, to under which Vermeer worked to create an exact denote fake social networking presences created replica of the artist’s painting ‘The Music Lesson’. for deceptive and mischievous purposes. The film will be accompanied by an introduction The film will be introduced by from the National Gallery of Ireland. cyberpsychologist Nicola Fox Hamilton. FILM INFO: 80 mins, USA, 2013, Digital FILM INFO: 88 mins, USA, 2010, Blu-ray
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