JULY 2016 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 PETE WALSH AWARD

This month’s French Film Club screening – where IFI and The winner of this year's Pete Walsh Critical Writing Alliance Française members pay just €7 a ticket – on the Award is Naomi Keenan O'Shea (pictured) who wrote a evening of July 19th is Catherine Corsini’s Summertime, stimulating piece on Jafar Panahi's Taxi which screened at starring Izïa Higelin and Cécile de France as lovers who the IFI in June 2015. Naomi wins a year of free films at the meet in Paris during the women’s liberation movement IFI. This annual award is inspired by the late, esteemed IFI of the 1970s. See page 8 for film notes. Please visit programmer Pete Walsh and rewards an outstanding piece www.ifi.ie or ask at the IFI Box Office for further details. of critical writing on film. You can read her winning review at www.ifi.ie/writingaward

IFI FILM CLUB FEAST YOUR EYES

Join IFI Head of Cinema Programming David O’Mahony with Our monthly pairing of a new release and a specially devised a guest on July 13th for a discussion about Nicolas Winding main course menu will be Ken Wardrop’s keenly anticipated Refn’s visually striking The Neon Demon following the second documentary feature, Mom and Me, on July 26th at 18.00 screening. In this special IFI Film Club event, audience 18.30. After the film, enjoy a meal inspired by the film in the members are invited to contribute to a conversation about the IFI Café Bar. Tickets €20, free list suspended. See also page film and the director’s previous work. Complimentary glass of 6 for details of our special Feast Your Eyes event for an open wine included during the discussion. See page 7 for film notes. captioned and audio described screening of Maggie’s Plan.

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The IFI’s July programme sees the return of IFI Open Day and a season. JULY

AT THE IFI Maggie’s Plan (see page 6) Early this month, on July 2nd, we welcome back IFI Open Day News from Home (1977) and Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai where once again the IFI is opening its doors to you with a du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). day jam-packed with free film screenings. In addition to FREE sneak-previews, old favourites, cult classics and archive There are plenty of other great new releases on offer. films throughout the day, you will also have the chance to The Neon Demon will get a sneak preview at IFI Open Day, glimpse behind the scenes at the IFI with talks from the IFI and will then go on release from July 8th. Nicolas Winding Irish Film Archive staff on the amazing work they do and Refn’s follow-up to Drive and divided the opportunity to take a rare trip to our projection booth! some at Cannes this year, but it’s a stylish, humorously This year, make sure to follow our NEW IFI Open Day disturbing tale that is also a vicious attack on the fashion ticketing instructions: film tickets will be released an hour world, and stars a mesmerising . Irish before each film’s scheduled screening time. Simply queue documentary filmmaker Ken Wardrop follows the enormous at the relevant desk in the IFI foyer to pick up your tickets success of His and Hers (2009) with his hotly anticipated next (maximum two tickets per person per film) and then enjoy feature Mom and Me in which, using his signature warm your free movie. and compassionate style, he explores a series of mother/son relationships in Oklahoma. We’ll also be offering IFI Membership at a discounted rate throughout the day, allowing you to avail of free cinema Also this month, following on from the launch of our new tickets, previews and discounts throughout the year, and accessible screenings for visually impaired and hard-of- we’ll have special gifts for IFI Friends. Whether you are a hearing audiences, this month we’re pleased to present regular visitor or it’s your first time through our front door, open-captioned and audio-described screenings of both the we welcome you to enjoy a wonderful film on one of our documentary, Notes on Blindness and Rebecca Miller’s latest, three big screens, grab a delicious bite in the IFI Café Bar, Maggie’s Plan (audio description will be available on all browse leisurely through our DVD collection in the IFI Film shows of these films). Shop, or simply linger over a good coffee in busy Temple Bar. Ross Keane Also this month, the IFI Season will focus on folk horror and Director films concerned with paganism and superstition. Key titles within the season include The Wicker Man (1973), The Devil Rides Out (1968) and The Blair Witch Project (1999). We’re delighted to welcome journalist, film critic and fiction writer Kim Newman as our special guest for the season who will introduce three of the films in the programme.

This month we’re pleased to be presenting the final film made by Chantal Akerman before her death last year, No Home Movie, and to mark her work and passing, we’ll also be offering screenings of two of her earlier pieces,

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NO HOME MOVIE OPENS JUL 1ST DATE SCREENING TIME NOTES ON BLINDNESS OPENS JUL 1ST 1ST WILD STRAWBERRIES: WILD 11.00 FRI QUEEN OF EARTH OPENS JUL 1ST 2ND IFI OPEN DAY* MAGGIE’S PLAN OPENS JUL 8TH SAT 4TH NOTES ON BLINDNESS (ACCESSIBLE SCREENING)** 18.30 THE NEON DEMON OPENS JUL 8TH MON MEN AND CHICKEN OPENS JUL 15TH 5TH IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 TUE MOM AND ME OPENS JUL 15TH 7TH NOTES ON BLINDNESS (ACCESSIBLE SCREENING)** 14.00 SUMMERTIME OPENS JUL 15TH THU 9TH CHANTAL AKERMAN: NEWS FROM HOME 15.00 CHEVALIER OPENS JUL 22ND SAT AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY OPENS JUL 29TH 10TH CHANTAL AKERMAN: JEANNE DIELMAN, 15.00 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES THE COMMUNE OPENS JUL 29TH SUN 11TH ACCESSIBLE FEAST YOUR EYES: MAGGIE'S PLAN** 18.30 MON 12TH MAGGIE’S PLAN (ACCESSIBLE SCREENING)** 18.20 TUE GET SOCIAL! 13TH IFI FILM CLUB: THE NEON DEMON 18.00 WED FROM THE VAULTS: WARDROP'S SHORTS 18.30 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! 14TH MAGGIE’S PLAN (ACCESSIBLE SCREENING)** 16.10 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, THU share your movie reviews and show us your best pics on 15TH MOM AND ME + DIRECTOR Q&A 18.30 Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! FRI Join the IFI Community online: 16TH HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: WITCHFINDER GENERAL 18.30 SAT HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: THE WICKER MAN 20.45 @IrishFilmInstitute 17TH HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: QUATERMASS AND THE PIT 14.00 SUN @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 18TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: TOKYO STORY 18.30 MON 19TH IRISH FOCUS: BORN AND REARED + Q&A 18.30 TUE 20TH HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: VALERIE AND HER WEEK 18.30 Open Captioned screening WED OF WONDERS 23RD HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW 20.30 Audio Described screening SAT 24TH IFI FAMILY: SONG OF THE SEA 11.00 SUN HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: THE DEVIL RIDES OUT 14.00 26TH FEAST YOUR EYES: MOM AND ME 18.30 TUE IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS 18.30 27TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 11.00 WED HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: NIGHT OF THE DEMON 18.30 29TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 11.00 FRI 30TH HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 20.30 SAT 31ST THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: THE FRENCH 14.00 TIMES SUN LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New *See separate flyer or visit www.ifi.ie/openday for details Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our **Denotes screenings which are either open captioned or audio described. weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule For more information on our Accessible Screenings, please visit or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays and www.ifi.ie/accessible Saturdays. You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup.

4 JULY 2016 NO HOME MOVIE DOC IFI

OPENS JULY 1ST The final film Chantal Akerman made documentary is made up of before her death last year, No Home conversations between the pair both FILM INFO: Movie is as radical and moving as in Natalia’s Brussels apartment where 115 mins, France-Belgium, the seminal Belgian director’s very Akerman regularly comes to visit 2015, Digital best work and as characteristically and via Skype while the filmmaker Notes by Alice Butler defiant as its powerful title suggests. is on the road. Desperate to glean details of a life before it’s too late, Scrutinising the filmmaker’s Akerman quizzes her mother about relationship with her ailing mother her traumatic past but as she does the Natalia, a Polish Jew and Auschwitz intense kinship and affection between CHANTAL AKERMAN FOCUS survivor whose experiences have them gets in the way, shedding See page 17 for details of more had a major influence on Akerman’s light on a deeply prized bond that is Chantal Akerman films showing life and art, this raw and intimate slowly and tragically being undone. at the IFI this month. NOTES ON BLINDNESS DOC IFI

OPENS JULY 1ST In 1983, at the age of 45, writer and manner, with its richly textured visual academic John Hull went totally blind. palette of sepia tones making the FILM INFO: Initial years of sightlessness were images seem like a collage of old 87 mins, UK, 2015, Digital dominated by a struggle to adapt to photographs and cherished memories. Notes by David O’Mahony his new reality; “I knew that if I didn’t understand it”, he says, “blindness would destroy me.” He began to record his thoughts on tape, building There will be Open Captioned (OC) up an archive of aural diaries that were screenings on July 4th (18.30) published to great acclaim in 1991. and 7th (14.00). Audio Description This film is a response to those tapes, (AD) will be available on all screenings. a quasi-documentary that engages See www.ifi.ie/accessible for more. with disability in a frank, immersive

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OPENS JULY 1ST In his follow-up to Listen Up Philip Catherine’s mental state is (2014), director Alex Ross Perry’s exacerbated when the relationship EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† psychological drama evokes the between her and Virginia is oppugned, spirit of Bergman and Polanski in seething as it does with barely FILM INFO: its depiction of the unravelling of a concealed hostility, and she bristles 90 mins, USA, 2015, Digital fragile psyche. Following the death further at the constant presence of Notes by Kevin Coyne of her father and the break-up of her Rich (Patrick Fugit), Virginia’s smirking relationship, Catherine (a mesmerising and insensitive new boyfriend. and fearlessly visceral performance Queen of Earth is an intriguingly by Elisabeth Moss), seeking respite, oblique study of depression and co- visits her best friend since childhood, dependency, and marks its director Virginia (Katherine Waterston), at as one of the more interesting voices her secluded lake house. However, in contemporary American cinema. MAGGIE’S PLAN NEW RELEASE

OPENS JULY 8TH In the New York of Allen and decides to return John to Georgette in Baumbach, Maggie (Greta Gerwig) this entertaining blend of the screwball FILM INFO: proposes to have a baby alone, aided and the sophisticated. 99 mins, USA, 2015, Digital by a jovial nincompoop. After meeting Notes by Kevin Coyne aspiring novelist John (Ethan Hawke), ACCESSIBLE FEAST YOUR EYES who is unable to focus on his work Our Feast Your Eyes event – while tending to the whims of his There will be Open Captioned pairing a new release with a brilliant, neurotic wife Georgette (OC) screenings on July 11th main course menu – will include an open-captioned (Julianne Moore), her encouragement (18.30, see left), 12th (18.20) and and audio-described screening leads to love. Soon, Maggie and 14th (16.10). Audio Description (AD) of Maggie’s Plan on July 11th John are themselves married, with a will be available on all screenings. at 18.30. Tickets €20. See young daughter, but his novel remains See www.ifi.ie/accessible for more. www.ifi.ie/accessible for more. unfinished. An unhappy Maggie

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OPENS JULY 8TH The emptiness of the fashion world is Only God Forgives (2013) with what viciously satirised in Nicolas Winding is, in essence, a in the FILM INFO: Refn’s visually striking, unclassifiable mode of Italian giallo master Dario 117 mins, USA, 2016, Digital The Neon Demon. New girl Jesse Argento, but this reductive reading Notes by David O’Mahony (Elle Fanning) is turning heads at a does a disservice to the distinctive Hollywood modelling agency; groomed mood and tone of the film. As poised for stardom by her agent Christina and over-deliberate as we might Hendricks, she has that indefinable expect from Refn, The Neon Demon star quality the other girls all crave. is an exercise in misdirection, the icily mesmeric, yet quite familiar first hour IFI FILM CLUB Join us after the 18.00 screening Refn follows up Drive (2011), giving way to something altogether on July 13th for a discussion a crossover hit, and the gloriously more outlandish in the last act. about Winding Refn’s work. operatic and hugely underrated See page 2 for details.

MEN & RELEASE NEW CHICKEN

OPENS JULY 15TH When oddball brothers Gabriel which frequently descends into (David Dencik) and Elias (Mads cartoonish bouts of slapstick violence (MÆND & HØNS) Mikkelsen) reunite to lay their father – renders their own peculiarities tame to rest, they are met with a disturbing in comparison. Exclusively AT IFI† revelation – not only is the man in the coffin not their dad, but their biological Anders Thomas Jensen’s provocative FILM INFO: 104 mins, Denmark, 2016, father is still alive and living with their comedy affords Mads Mikkelsen a Digital, Subtitled half-brothers on a remote island. rare opportunity to play against type, Notes by David O’Mahony which the actor clearly relishes; his Locating their siblings in a dilapidated twitchily eccentric Elias is one of the sanatorium, Gabriel and Elias are many pleasures of this film that has met with a trio whose outlandish, accurately been described elsewhere animalistic behaviour – as Kafka meets The Three Stooges.

7 JULY 2016 MOM AND ME IFI DOC

OPENS JULY 15TH In this keenly anticipated second range of sons – war veterans,attorneys, feature documentary, Ken Wardrop prisoners and preachers – are vulnerable FILM INFO: explores a series of mother/ and honest and filled with as much 76 mins, Ireland, 2016, Digital son relationships to reveal the frustration as fondness, and we Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn universality of their experience. meet mothers who are demanding, iconoclastic, resilient and boundlessly DIRECTOR Q&A Zooming in on the state of Oklahoma, loving. Infused with Wardrop’s signature We’re delighted to welcome recently voted the manliest state in the warmth and an unerring instinct for the director Ken Wardrop to the USA, Wardrop finds his subjects with affectionate humour in the everyday, IFI for a Q&A following the the help of popular radio talk show Mom and Me is a compassionate 18.30 screening of Mom and Me on July 15th. See also Ken host Joe Cristiano, who invites male and entertaining observation of Wardrop's short films in our listeners to phone in and discuss their masculinity and motherhood. From the Vaults strand on mothers. The responses from a broad Page 18. SUMMERTIME NEW RELEASE

OPENS JULY 15TH Delphine (Izïa Higelin) works on the rebellious Carole (Cécile de France). family farm in a conservative rural Although Carole has a live-in boyfriend, (LA BELLE SAISON) community in early-1970s’ France. the two become closer, and begin a She keeps her sexuality hidden, brushing romantic relationship. When Delphine’s FILM INFO: off both her parents’ encouragement father has a stroke, she must return 105 mins, France–Belgium, to find a man, and the attentions of a home to manage the farm. 2015, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne local boy. Missing her desperately, Carole follows, When her secret girlfriend announces but is unprepared for Delphine’s that she is to wed, the heartbroken reluctance to be honest about their Delphine moves to Paris, where she relationship now that she is at home and meets and joins with a group of no longer in Paris, leading to strife in women’s rights activists, including the this warm and credible love story.

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OPENS JULY 22ND A group of fishermen find their rivalry they devise an elaborate game competitive natures amplified to absurd to determine who is ‘the best in FILM INFO: degrees in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s general‘, as opposed to being a 99 mins, Greece, 2015, Chevalier, the latest entry in the Greek master of just one thing. All manner of Digital, Subtitled New Wave, a movement which has abilities and attributes are evaluated, Notes by David O'Mahony already gifted the world such modern with points awarded or deducted classics as Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth based on criteria such as sleeping (2009) and last year’s The Lobster. positions, baldness, and the speed with which one assembles Ikea furniture. On their way back to harbour at Naturally it doesn’t take long before Athens, the six men kill time ribbing this testosterone-fuelled assessment of and quizzing one another; one night, manhood reaches its logical conclusion. buoyed up by the spirit of friendly AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY DOC IFI STORY

OPENS JULY 29TH Novelist JT LeRoy burst onto the literary But who exactly was JT LeRoy? Why scene in the mid-1990s, a bracingly was he so guarded in interview, so FILM INFO: honest new voice whose lurid tales of wilfully obscure? And who were the 110 mins, USA, 2016, Digital street hustlers and child abuse were coterie of handlers filtering all media Notes by David O’Mahony drawn from his own grim experiences interactions? at the hands of neglectful carers and institutions. The A-list scrambled to As his fame grew in proportion to his be associated with this new ‘It Boy’; bizarre public persona, sources close to Bono, Tom Waits, Courtney Love et al JT began to dig a little deeper and what name checking his influence. A film they found led to one of the greatest adaptation of his short stories – literary scandals of recent times. The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) – was directed by Asia Argento.

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OPENS JULY 29TH Copenhagen in the ‘70s; TV newsreader of sharing to his own philandering ends. Anna (Trine Dyrholm) is married to Vinterberg has reunited with Tobias (KOLLEKTIVET) university lecturer Erik (Ulrich Thomsen), Lindholm, his co-writer on Submarino who has just inherited his late father’s (2010) and the Oscar-nominated FILM INFO: gigantic house. The Hunt (2012), for this adaptation of 111 mins, Denmark, 2016, his stage play Kollektivet which drew Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O’Mahony In an attempt to inject some excitement from first-hand experiences of being into their lives and stave off middle- raised in a middle-class commune in the class ennui, they invite their friends to late ‘70s. Featuring a large ensemble move in with them to experiment with cast with multiple narrative strands, collective living and group creativity, but The Commune is at its core a poignant Anna is unsure how to react when Erik love-triangle. begins to interpret their new philosophy AUGUST HIGHLIGHTS Julieta

Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta takes as its various dysfunctional suburbanites, basis three short stories by Canadian including a fearsome Ellen Burstyn, Nobel laureate Alice Munro, spanning a bitter Danny DeVito, and Greta 30 years in the life of its titular Gerwig as the adult Dawn Wiener, character. We first meet Julieta as a the central character of his debut middle-aged woman (Emma Suárez, film, Welcome to the Dollhouse. once the muse of Julio Medem) whose Actor Brady Corbet makes his feature plans to leave Madrid for Portugal directorial debut with The Childhood with her boyfriend are dismissed of a Leader, starring Bérénice Bejo, when a chance encounter brings back Stacy Martin, Liam Cunningham, and memories of sadness and pain. Robert Pattinson in an examination of In Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog, the background to its central character a wandering Dachshund encounters becoming a fascist dictator.

10 haunted landscapes A SEASON OF FOLK HORROR

JULY 16TH–30TH The Wicker Man

Gaining traction in recent years, the term folk horror More recently, The Blair Witch Project (1999) has been used to yoke together disparate cultural employed a folk horror mythology to popularise artefacts that exhibit common traits: an interest in the emerging found-footage film. paganism; traditional, rural communities with a connection to the land and its regenerative cycles; The films collected in this season hope to argue the importance of ritual and superstition over for the continued relevance of folk horror, not just scientific rigour. as an intriguing footnote to the horror genre, but as an uncanny seam of energy that reverberates and Three UK films are held as exemplars of the genre: echoes through the earthier corners of popular culture; Witchfinder General (1968), The Wicker Man (1973) one need only look at recent cinematic examples and Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971), and while they such as Robert Eggers' The Witch (2015), and Ben are central to this season it is our intention to Wheatley’s A Field in England (2013) – and even the broaden the parameters of the definition to include accompanying film to Radiohead’s recent single, earlier films that exhibit discernible folk horror traits; Burn the Witch – to witness the continuing influence the ancient curse of Night of the Demon (1957) and of folk horror tropes in contemporary image making. the dreamscapes of Valerie and her Week of Wonders (1970) are antecedents of more readily classifiable Introduction and film notes by David O'Mahony folk horror cinema.

11 HAUNTED LANDSCAPES those poor souls he deems to be WITCHFINDER in league with the devil.

GENERAL A scandal on release in ’68 due to director Michael Reeve’s graphic realisation of Hopkins' sadistic torture methods, Witchfinder General’s ( ) reputation has grown considerably JULY 16TH 18.30 over the years; it is a key folk horror work that artfully links its historical FILM INFO: The year is 1645; as the English Civil setting to the land and pagan custom. 86 mins, UK, 1968, Digital War rages on, Matthew Hopkins (Vincent Price), appointed Witchfinder Novelist and critic Kim Newman by the puritans under Cromwell, scours will present an introduction before the land for witchcraft and sorcery, the screening. meting out brutal punishments to

archaic rituals, sexual liberation THE and pagan belief system. Community leader Lord Summerisle (an imperious WICKER MAN Christopher Lee) explains to Howie how the islanders have adopted the ways of the ‘old Gods’ to bring prosperity to their people. But these ( ) gods must be appeased if next year’s JULY 16TH 20.45 crops are to yield a bountiful harvest. Steeped in a singular atmosphere, FILM INFO: When a girl goes missing on the film builds inexorably to a 88 mins, UK, 1973, Digital the remote Hebridean island of terrifying climax. Summerisle, Sgt. Howie is dispatched from the mainland to assist in the Novelist and critic Kim Newman search; a devout Catholic, Howie is will present an introduction before appalled at the island community’s the screening.

discovers disturbing associations QUATERMASS between the craft and the mythology of the city of London relating to pagan AND THE PIT beliefs in the devil. This third cinematic outing for Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass character, popular from the ‘50s BBC serial, is the most successful iteration; ( ) a sci-fi horror hybrid that posits JULY 17TH 14.00 some extraordinary alternatives to Darwinian theories of evolution, the FILM INFO: A craft of possibly alien origin is film is astonishingly imaginative and 97 mins, UK, 1967, Digital unearthed during works to extend enduringly influential. the London Underground at Hobbs End; Professor Bernard Quatermass Novelist and critic Kim Newman (Andrew Keir), expert in the uncanny, will present an introduction before is called upon to investigate and the screening.

12 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. VALERIE AND Based on the avant-garde novel by Vítězslav Nezval, a key figure in Czech HER WEEK surrealism, Valerie is a cornerstone OF WONDERS of the explosion of creativity in the ‘60s that came to be known as the Czech New Wave. ( ) JULY 20TH 18.30 Associative editing techniques create a hallucinatory collage of images that (VALERIE A TÝDEN DIVU) A pubescent girl explores her is at once unsettling and intoxicating. burgeoning sexuality with a number FILM INFO: of taboo figures: father, priest, brother, Print provided by the National Film 77 mins, Czechoslovakia, other women, and a menagerie of Archive/Národní Filmový archiv of 1970, 35mm nightmarish vampire creatures. the Czech Republic. Eroticism and dread combine in the heady fever-dream that is

in the town’s young people. BLOOD ON Piers Haggard’s unnerving story of a traditional community being led SATAN’S CLAW astray foregrounds the association of evil with nature and landscape, the camera often positioned at the level of the dank, claggy soil from ( ) which the demonic eye peers. JULY 23RD 20.30 A potent, unsettling work whose fetid atmosphere and maddeningly catchy FILM INFO: The unearthing of an object with music prove impossible to shake off 97 mins, UK, 1971, Digital malign influence is a recurring trope after the credits roll. in folk horror cinema (see Quatermass and the Pit); in this instance it is a The Irish Times‘ film writer Donald hideous skull, found in the furrows Clarke will present an introduction of a farmer’s field that precipitates before the screening. an outbreak of demonic possession

his coven, who are known as The Left THE DEVIL Hand Path.

RIDES OUT Richleau must draw on all of his knowledge of white magic to defeat the resourceful Satanists. Boasting a screenplay by Richard Matheson ( ) (I Am Legend; numerous Twilight JULY 24TH 14.00 Zone episodes), who adapted Dennis Wheatley’s celebrated source novel, FILM INFO: England in the 1920s; Duc de Richleau The Devil Rides Out was a passion 96 mins, USA, 1968, Digital (Christopher Lee) wrestles with the project for Christopher Lee and charming but deadly Satanist Mocata remains one of Hammer Studios' (Charles Grey) for the soul of his friend most sophisticated productions. Simon Aron (Patrick Mower) who has been seduced by Mocata and

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JULY 27TH (18.30) Dr. John Holden () for the great arrives in England to discredit (Cat People; ); FILM INFO: occult leader Julian Karswell (Niall with the exception of a studio- 95 mins, UK, 1957, Digital MacGinnis); but when Holden sanctioned SFX monster, the use discovers he has been secretly slipped of which all concerned objected to, a parchment inscribed with an Night of the Demon is a sober, ancient curse he begins to suspect chillingly effective exercise in phenomena that his rational approach atmosphere and tension building. cannot explain.

An adaptation of the M.R. James story Casting the Ruins (1911), Night of the Demon was a late career triumph THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

JULY 30TH (20.30) An opening preamble tells us that phenomenal commercial success of the footage we are about to watch The Blair Witch Project popularised FILM INFO: was recovered from the recording the sub-genre, harnessing the viral 81 mins, USA, 1999, Blu-ray equipment of three students who went potential of the Internet as no other missing in Burkittsville, Maryland in film had at that point, leading viewers 1994 while shooting a documentary to genuinely question the provenance based on a local folk legend known as of the footage. the Blair Witch. Save for their camera, no trace of the amateur filmmakers was ever found. Although strictly speaking not the first found-footage horror film, the cinematic brio and

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IFI EVENTS IRISH FOCUS WILD STRAWBERRIES ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME IFI FAMILY CHANTAL AKERMAN FOCUS IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS FROM THE VAULTS THE BIGGER PICTURE THE HANGOVER LOUNGE

today communities struggle to come to IRISH terms with the horrors and sacrifices FOCUS of the past. Four men, of different ages and political persuasions, face a future BORN AND defined by hope rather than regret. REARED For their first feature documentary, filmmakers Henrietta Norton and Dan Dennison spent over a year with JULY 19TH (18.30) the men in and around their homes and explored what happened to the DIRECTORS: Join us for our focus on new Irish identities of those men, whose lives had Henrietta Norton, Dan Dennison film and filmmakers. been so defined by conflict, when the FILM INFO: Troubles ceased. 66 mins, UK, 2016, Blu-Ray Born and Reared explores contemporary Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn Northern Ireland through the lives of Directors Henrietta Norton and four men living in the aftermath of Dan Dennison will participate in violent conflict. In Northern Ireland a post-screening Q&A.

new text, in particular the character WILD of Atticus Finch, the Alabama lawyer STRAWBERRIES who had defended his black neighbour, Tom Robinson, in 1960s Alabama. TO KILL A Atticus had become firmly fixed in the MOCKINGBIRD public’s mind as the gentle, wise and, for the time, progressive justice-seeker JULY 27TH & through Gregory Peck’s unforgettable 29TH (11.00) portrayal in this classic film.

DIRECTOR: Wild Strawberries is our Tickets: €4.25 including regular Robert Mulligan bi-monthly film club for over 55s. tea/coffee before the event. Wild FILM INFO: Strawberries is our film club for 129 mins, USA, The publishing sensation of Harper Lee’s over 55s. If you are lucky enough 1962, Digital, B&W Go Set a Watchman in 2015 brought the to look younger please don’t take American writer of To Kill a Mockingbird offence if we ask your age. back to the fore. Critics assessed the

15 ARCHIVE AT IFI FAMILY LUNCHTIME Amharc Éireann Amharc MESSING ABOUT IN BOATS SONG OF THE SEA (AMHRÁN NA MARA) Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for JULY 24TH (11.00) dates and times. Beautiful, award-winning animation from PROGRAMME 1: Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon, the makers of The Secret of Kells. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben AMHARC ÉIREANN – COMPILATION and Saoirse are sent to live with their Granny in the Canoeing and other watersports around city. When they resolve to return to their home by the country. the sea, their journey becomes a race against time. FILM INFO: 6 mins, 1959–1961, Digital, B&W and Colour Tar éis dá máthair imeacht gan tásc gan tuairisc, BLACKWATER HOLIDAY cuirtear Ben agus Saoirse chun cónaí lena Fresh from their collaboration on the Royal seanmháthair sa chathair. Nuair a chinneann siad ar Showband film, The One Nighters, Bob Monks and fhilleadh ar a mbaile cois farraige, tá baol ann nach Peter Collinson (The Italian Job) came together n-éireoidh leo a n-aistear a chur i gcrích. to make this fine film promoting canoe-camping holidays run by the Murphy family of Rathcoole In Irish language with English subtitles. in Co. Cork on the Blackwater River. FILM INFO: 18 mins, 1964, Colour, Digital DIRECTORS: Thom Moore, Nora Twomey FILM INFO: 80 mins, Ireland, 2014, Blu-Ray PROGRAMME 2: AMHARC ÉIREANN – SAOIRE AR SIONAINN Following the screening, there will be an animation A short cruise for senior citizens on the Shannon. workshop through Irish at The Ark. Workshop tickets FILM INFO: 3 mins, 1957, B&W only available at www.ark.ie. Film only tickets available at IFI Box Office. EMERALD SHANNON In this film directed by Mike Lawlor, The Bakers, Film tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 family an English family, arrive in the West of Ireland for ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult + 3 children). a delightful cruising holiday along the Shannon Workshop times: 13.30 (ages 7–9 ) visiting Banagher, Clonmacnoise and Athlone & 15.30 (ages 10–12). along the way. FILM INFO: 27 mins, 1971, Colour

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NEWS FROM HOME JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 NEWS FROM HOME JULY 9TH (15.00) QUAI DU COMMERCE, FILM INFO: 1080 BRUXELLES 85 mins, France-Belgium, 1977, Digital, Subtitled In 1971, Akerman left Brussels for New Hailed as a revelatory masterpiece Notes by Alice Butler York where she drifted about and took on after its premiere at Cannes in a slew of low-paid jobs for about a year. 1975, Jeanne Dielman is a rigorous, JEANNE DIELMAN, A deeply formative period, it was there unflinching portrayal of a Belgian 23 QUAI DU that she met Jonas Mekas and Babette widow and mother to a worrisome, COMMERCE, Mangolte and was introduced to the work bookish teenage son. Using extended 1080 BRUXELLES of Michael Snow, Yvonne Rainer and Stan static shots to chronicle three days of JULY 10TH (15.00) Brakhage at Anthology Film Archives. Jeanne’s regimented existence as she In 1977, after the critical success of Jeanne cooks, cleans, shops, and has sex for FILM INFO: Dielman, Akerman returned to New York money, Akerman was lauded by critic 201 mins, Belgium-France, to make News from Home, an essayistic 1975, Digital, Subtitled Gary Indiana for her “ability to keep Notes by Alice Butler visual record of a dispassionate city at the viewer fascinated by everything a pivotal time set against impassive normally left out of movies.” Made by Both screening materials readings by Akerman of intimate, often provided by the Cinémathèque an almost all-female crew, including Royale de Belgique/Koninklijk uneasy letters to her from her mother distinguished cinematographer Babette Belgisch Filmarchief. from the time she lived in New York. Mangolte, and featuring an astonishing performance from Delphine Seyrig, Akerman later called it “a love film See page 5 for details of her for my mother”, saying, “it gives last film No Home Movie which opens at the IFI on July 1st. recognition to that kind of woman.”

into more mythical and hallucinatory IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS territory. Opening in Morocco’s Atlas THE SKY TREMBLES AND Mountains on the fraught set of Spanish THE EARTH IS AFRAID filmmaker Oliver Laxe’s forthcoming AND THE TWO EYES ARE Las Mimosas, The Sky Trembles moves NOT BROTHERS in a radically different direction when Laxe himself wanders off into the desert, presumably out of frustration, only JULY 26TH (18.30) to be seized upon by a group of Reguibat nomads. DIRECTOR: Partly adapted from a 1947 Paul Bowles Ben Rivers short story called A Distant Episode and This film is one part of a larger commission FILM INFO: shot on a 16mm Bolex camera, the new by Artangel. To read more about the 96 mins, UK, 2015, Digital film from English artist and experimental project, visit www.artangel.org.uk/project/ Notes by Alice Butler filmmaker Ben Rivers Two( Years at Sea, the-sky-trembles. AEMI – Supporting A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness) begins and Exhibiting Artists’ and Experimental in documentary form before veering off Moving Image. www.aemi.ie

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which shaped His and Hers (2010) and FROM THE Mom and Me (2016). Their films are VAULTS distinguished by a distinctive aesthetic (created by cinematographers Michael WARDROP’S Lavelle and Kate McCullough) and a SHORTS confident mastery of the short film form which celebrates the ordinary with an extraordinary freshness and intelligence. ( ) JULY 13TH 18.30 Useless Dog The programme will include: Undressing My Mother (2004); Useless DIRECTOR: This compendium of short films invites Dog (2004); Farewell Packets of Ten Ken Wardrop us into the quirkily observed world of (2007); Ouch! (2004); The Herd (2009); FILM INFO: director Ken Wardrop and producer Bongo Bong (2008). 60 mins approx., Andrew Freedman. Their early work 2004–2009, Ireland, Digital as classmates at the National Film See page 8 for Ken Wardrop’s new film, Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn School in Dun Laoghaire reveals the Mom and Me which opens at the IFI roots of the documentary sensibility on July 15th.

In 2012, directors polled by Sight & THE BIGGER Sound voted Tokyo Story the greatest film PICTURE ever made. Inspired by Leo McCarey’s heartbreaking Make Way for Tomorrow TOKYO (1937), this family drama sees an elderly STORY couple all but shunned by their petulant children, who bloviate about their own concerns even as tragedy strikes. JULY 18TH (18.30) Ozu’s discreet visual style places the DIRECTOR: Our monthly strand in which a key emphasis on the dialogue and the Yasujirô Ozu film is presented in the context of nuanced performances of the performers, FILM INFO: a notional film canon. particularly Chishû Ryû and Chieko 135 mins, Japan, 1953, Higashiyama as the aged parents whose 35mm, B&W, Subtitled This month’s selection will be dignity stands in marked contrast to the Notes by Kevin Coyne presented by former film critic turned younger generation’s insensitivity. award-winning-novelist, Paul Lynch.

director Karel Reisz, one of the key figures THE HANGOVER of the Free Cinema movement and the LOUNGE British New Wave, which falls on July 21st. Adapted by Harold Pinter from John THE FRENCH Fowles’ novel, The French Lieutenant’s LIEUTENANT’S Woman presents a dual narrative where WOMAN life begins to imitate art as Reisz artfully cross-cuts between a doomed love affair JULY 31ST (14.00) in 19th century England, and the actors – Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons – who are DIRECTOR: Our monthly indulgent Sunday portraying them for a contemporary film. Karel Reisz afternoon of brunch and a FILM INFO: classic film. Brunch + film €16; film only is normal 124 mins, UK, 1981, 35mm IFI pricing. Sunday brunch is served Notes by David O’Mahony This month’s Hangover Lounge feature 12pm – 4pm. has been selected to mark the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Czech

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