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JUNE 2017 REVOLUTIONS THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

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

IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB MYSTERY MATINEE

June's French Film Club screening – where IFI The IFI once again invites audiences to take a leap of faith and Alliance Française members pay just €7.50 per ticket – on Sunday 11th at 15.30 and attend a screening of a film takes place on Wednesday 28th at 18.15. This month’s film whose title will only be revealed when it appears onscreen. is From the Land of the Moon, written and directed by Sometimes it will be a preview, but not always; sometimes, Nicole Garcia. The film stars as Gabrielle, it will be a title one might expect to see at the IFI, but not a rebellious spirit in post-WWII France. See www.ifi.ie or always. We look forward to surprising audiences and, ask at the Box Office for further details. at just €5 a ticket, we hope that you will enjoy taking a chance with us on a Sunday afternoon!

WHITNEY: FEAST YOUR EYES CAN I BE ME

Our monthly Feast Your Eyes strand of a film and dinner Whitney: Can I Be Me opens at the IFI on Friday 16th. for €20 will be the excellent screen translation of See it before anyone else on Sunday 11th at 18.15 Daphne du Maurier's literary romance, My Cousin Rachel. with our special preview screening, followed by a satellite Following the screening on Wednesday 21st at 18.30 Q&A with director Nick Broomfield and a live tribute enjoy a main course inspired by the film in the IFI Café Bar. performance from Michelle John, former contestant on See page 7 for film notes. The Voice. See page 9 for film notes.

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Welcome to the IFI June programme which is packed with great new releases and classics, including a retrospective of the work of . JUNE

AT THE IFI My Life as a Courgette To mark the 50th anniversary and re-release of We also have three superb documentaries this month The Graduate, this month we’re delighted to be celebrating tackling a varied range of topics. In Whitney: Can I the work of Oscar–winning Dustin Hoffman. Be Me, Nick Broomfield documents the rise and fall of Born in in 1937, Hoffman began acting at the the iconic through an examination Pasadena Playhouse, and landed his breakout film role of three key relationships in her troubled life; Irish director in The Graduate (1967). In 1969, Hoffman struck gold Laura McGann enters the world of women’s roller derby again with the gritty , in which he played in Revolutions, exploring the commitments and rivalries the part of ‘Ratso’ Rizzo, a con man living in City. of these remarkable amateur athletes as they prepare This performance earned him his second Oscar nomination, to compete in their World Cup; while Ceyda Turun’s Kedi before going on to win Academy Awards for his provides a unique insight into Istanbul through the eyes performances in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Rain Man of its feral cats! (1988). This retrospective takes a look at the range of work (and roles) over his long and illustrious career. Whether Finally, to keep on top of all of the IFI’s plans for the seeing some of these films for the first time, or experiencing future, keep an eye out for the IFI Strategy 2017–22 them all again on the big screen, the IFI is pleased to which publishes later this month. be presenting its first actor retrospective in many years, focussing on one of cinema’s great acting talents. Ross Keane Director The Graduate isn’t our only classic getting a re-release this month, as Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust has been beautifully restored for its 25th anniversary; Beyoncé’s bestselling visual album Lemonade drew greatly on Dash’s work. For fans of German Expressionism, Fritz Lang’s first international success, the fantasy tale Destiny, gets a new digital restoration and goes on release from June 9th.

Following on from the success of the documentary Citizen Jane: Battle for the City in last month’s programme, we’re pleased to also be taking to the streets this month! The IFI and the Irish Architecture Foundation will be presenting two walking tours, experiencing our city through a different lens with a range of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive at various stop-off points along the chosen route. Since places are very limited for these tours, we strongly advise early booking.

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AFTER THE STORM OPENS JUN 2ND DATE SCREENING TIME DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST OPENS JUN 2ND 6TH OPEN CAPTIONED (OC) SCREENING: TUE MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE* 14.00 MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE OPENS JUN 2ND IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 BERLIN SYNDROME OPENS JUN 9TH 7TH TRAVELLER PRIDE DAY 13.00 DESTINY OPENS JUN 9TH WED OPEN CAPTIONED (OC) SCREENING: MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE* 18.30 MY COUSIN RACHEL OPENS JUN 9TH 10TH DUSTIN HOFFMAN RETROSPECTIVE: BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK OPENS JUN 16TH SAT MIDNIGHT COWBOY 20.40 11TH MYSTERY MATINEE 15.30 CARDBOARD GANGSTERS OPENS JUN 16TH SUN WHITNEY: CAN I BE ME + SATELLITE Q&A 18.15 WHITNEY: CAN I BE ME OPENS JUN 16TH 12TH OPEN CAPTIONED (OC) SCREENING: FROM THE LAND OF THE MOON OPENS JUN 23RD MON MY COUSIN RACHEL* 18.30 15TH DUSTIN HOFFMAN RETROSPECTIVE: LENNY 18.30 THE GRADUATE OPENS JUN 23RD THU KEDI OPENS JUN 30TH 16TH FROM THE VAULTS: NORA 18.30 A MAN CALLED OVE OPENS JUN 30TH FRI 17TH IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: REVOLUTIONS OPENS JUN 30TH SAT PEGGY AHWESH & JULIE MURRAY 13.00 CARDBOARD GANGSTERS + Q&A 18.15 DUSTIN HOFFMAN RETROSPECTIVE: MARATHON MAN 20.30 18TH DUSTIN HOFFMAN RETROSPECTIVE: PAPILLON 14.00 SUN 19TH IFI FILM CLUB: WHITNEY: CAN I BE ME 18.20 MON GET SOCIAL! 20TH IRISH FOCUS: SMOLT + Q&A 18.30 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! TUE Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, 21ST OPEN CAPTIONED (OC) SCREENING: WED MY COUSIN RACHEL* 16.00 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics FEAST YOUR EYES: MY COUSIN RACHEL 18.30 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! 22ND DUSTIN HOFFMAN RETROSPECTIVE: Join the IFI Community online: THU ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN 18.20 23RD DUSTIN HOFFMAN RETROSPECTIVE: linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute FRI 20.40 24TH DUSTIN HOFFMAN RETROSPECTIVE: 18.00 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub SAT 25TH IFI FAMILY: TREASURE ISLAND 11.00 SUN DUSTIN HOFFMAN RETROSPECTIVE: @IrishFilmInstitute KRAMER VS. KRAMER 16.00 DUSTIN HOFFMAN RETROSPECTIVE: RAIN MAN 18.10 27TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: Open Captioned screening TUE THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE 18.30 28TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: 11.00 Audio Described screening WED IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: FROM THE LAND OF THE MOON 18.15 30TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: LA LA LAND 11.00 FRI REVOLUTIONS + Q&A 18.15 1ST DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF 2017 11.00 SAT 14.30 TIMES JULY For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New * Denotes screenings which are open captioned. For more information Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our on our Accessible Screenings, please visit www.ifi.ie/accessible weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule † The exclusivity status of films is correct at time of going to print or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays. You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup.

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AFTER THE RELEASE NEW STORM

OPENS JUN 2ND Hirokazu Kore-eda, the prolific and reconnect with his estranged wife remarkably consistent director of Kyôko (Yôko Maki) and young son EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† I Wish (2011), Like Father, Like Son Shingo (Taiyô Yoshizawa) with limited (2013) and Our Little Sister (2015), success. He steals from his mother UMI YORI MO returns with another finely and abuses his sister’s generosity, MADA FUKAKU calibrated drama of contemporary yet Kore-eda is too empathetic to FILM INFO: Japanese domesticity, once again paint him in an entirely unflattering 117 mins, 2016, Japan, focusing on the often fraught light, casting him as an incorrigible Digital, Subtitled relationships between parents and rogue. A turning point occurs with the Notes by David O’Mahony their children. The setting is Kiyose imminent arrival of a typhoon, forcing on the outskirts of Tokyo, where Ryôta, Kyôko and Shingo to stay at failed novelist and compulsive gambler his mother’s house, precipitating a Ryôta (Hiroshi Abe) attempts to reconciliation of sorts.

DAUGHTERS CLASSIC IFI OF THE DUST

OPENS JUN 2ND Restored for its 25th anniversary in enslaved Africans – prepare to resettle 2016, Julie Dash’s seminal Daughters on the mainland. Dash refrained from FILM INFO: of the Dust was reissued to coincide what she described as ‘the typical 112 mins, USA, 1991, Digital with the release of Beyoncé’s visual male-oriented -narrative Notes by Alice Butler album Lemonade, a work which draws structure’, instead allowing the story greatly on Dash’s powerful imagery as to ‘unravel and reveal itself in a way a source of inspiration. The first feature in which an African Gullah would tell directed by an African-American the story’. As such, this evocative woman to get a theatrical release in film evenly devotes its attention to the US, the film is set in 1902 on a range of predominantly female St Simon’s Island off the coast of characters who all speak in the wholly South Carolina where an extended immersive, un-subtitled Gullah dialect. Gullah family – descendants of

5 JUNE 2017 MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE NEW RELEASE

OPENS JUN 2ND This tender Oscar-nominated loners and misfits. The combination animation defies pre-conceived of respectful characterisation and MA VIE DE COURGETTE notions of what to expect from a film distinctive style is hugely affecting, for young audiences. First-time director yielding a film of youthful angst with FILM INFO: Claude Barras uses a stop- a complete difference. 70 mins, 2016, Switzerland- motion style to create big-eyed, fragile France, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Alicia McGivern beings, thrown together in a hostile My Life As A Courgette will have OC world. Nine-year-old Icare, nicknamed screenings at 14.00 on June 6th and Courgette, arrives with a beer can 18.30 on June 7th. The OC screenings souvenir of his late, alcoholic mother will be shown in the dubbed English at a foster home, a place full of version. All other screenings will be rejected kids, each fighting for in the original French version. OPEN CAPTIONED survival among the cast of bullies, BERLIN SYNDROME NEW RELEASE

OPENS JUN 9TH Australian tourist Clare (Teresa for school, and has locked the Palmer) arrives in Berlin to photograph apartment. At first she assumes it’s FILM INFO: East German GDR architecture. Whilst a mistake but, on discovering that 117 mins, 2017, there, she meets Andi (Max Riemelt), he has also removed the SIM card Australia-Germany, Digital a handsome, if moody, schoolteacher from her phone, she realises she has Notes by David O’Mahony and they hit it off immediately. become his prisoner. Berlin Syndrome, director Cate Shortland’s third feature He shows her his neighbourhood, following Somersault (2004) and the allotment where he grows Lore (2012), marks the Australian’s strawberries, and eventually his first foray into pure genre territory, a apartment where their flirtations confident, suspenseful addition to the become physical. The next morning growing list of cautionary tales of the she awakes to find Andi has left perils of backpacking abroad alone.

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OPENS JUN 9TH This extremely rare opportunity to for himself on their arrival into town. see one of the early works of German When she pleads for his return, DER MÜDE TOD master Fritz Lang on the big screen, Death bargains with her that if she long withdrawn from circulation, can reverse the course of destiny and FILM INFO: is to be welcomed, particularly in this save the life of one of the lovers in 98 mins, 1921, Germany, new digital restoration. three exotic tales, set in Persia, Venice, Digital, Black and White with Colour tinting and China, she may have her wish. Notes by Kevin Coyne Lang’s fantasy film, a hugely influential work of German Expressionism, begins When she ultimately fails in the with a young couple on a carriage task, she seeks another way to journey picking up a hitchhiker. persuade Death to return her lover. Unbeknownst to them, their passenger is Death, who claims the young man

MY COUSIN RELEASE NEW RACHEL

OPENS JUN 9TH In this absorbing and brilliantly open- cousin has died. Determined to exact ended new adaptation of Daphne du revenge on Rachel, who he believes FILM INFO: Maurier’s 1951 novel, is responsible for Ambrose’s demise, 106 mins, 2017, USA-UK, Digital takes on the eponymous role, playing Philip instead becomes infatuated Notes by Alice Butler opposite Sam Claflin as Philip, once with her when she arrives at the a young orphan, brought up by his Cornwall estate, which, it transpires, older, beloved cousin Ambrose who her husband has bequeathed travels to Italy for respite where he to Philip instead of his wife. OPEN CAPTIONED meets and falls in love with his cousin, Rachel. Once married however, their My Cousin Rachel will have OC relationship appears to sour and screenings at 18.30 on June 12th when Philip learns Ambrose is unwell, and 16.00 on June 21st. All screenings AUDIO DESCRIBED he goes to Italy only to discover his will have Audio Description.

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OPENS JUN 16TH The follow up to 2009’s Mundane of conscience that Ann experiences History, the beguiling, utterly original while walking in a forest however, DAO KHANONG and shape-shifting By The Time It the film departs, and not for the Gets Dark has received critical acclaim only time, for pastures new, turning FILM INFO: and a number of international its attention to a different but not 105 mins, 2016, Thailand, awards since its premiere at Locarno. entirely unrelated set of characters Digital, Subtitled Notes by Alice Butler Initially the film follows two and concerns. A meaningful constant characters, a writer-director called throughout is Achtara Suwan who Ann (Visra Vichit-Vadakan) and Taew turns up in a number of roles, (Rassami Paoluengton), a survivor embodying a character who carries of the devastating Thammasat student out menial work but who possesses massacre of 1976 and the subject of a kind of dignity and wisdom that Ann’s new film. Following a crisis pervades this film as a whole. CARDBOARD GANGSTERS NEW RELEASE

OPENS JUN 16TH John Connors plays Jay Connolly, a pregnant girlfriend, while avoiding the part-time DJ and low-level drug dealer attention of ruthless drug baron Derra FILM INFO: living in Darndale, an area rife with Murphy who rules the neighbourhood 90 mins, 2016, Ireland, Digital gangland violence, drugs and social with an iron fist. This highly-charged Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn problems. When his welfare payments drama reflects the reality of Dublin’s are cut off, he decides it’s time to start violent drug feuds which make dealing more serious drugs, where the headlines daily. Mark O’Connor money may be better but the stakes (King of the Travellers, Between the Q&A Stuart Carolan will host are much higher. Canals) paints a vivid picture in big, a Q&A with director bold strokes capturing the heightened Mark O’Connor and actor Jay knows he’s playing a dangerous drama of gangland life, punctuated John Connors after the 18.15 game and struggles to balance his with welcome moments of dark comic screening on Saturday 17th. family’s debts and the demands of his relief from his punchy young cast.

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OPENS JUN 16TH British filmmaker Nick Broomfield Broomfield structures the film around has popularised a particular strain of three key relationships in Houston's FILM INFO: investigative journalism, shining a light life: the controlling figure of her 105 mins, 2017, USA-UK, Digital into the murkier corners of celebrated gospel singing mother, Cissy, her close Notes by David O’Mahony lives in films such as Kurt & Courtney bond with personal assistant Robyn (1998), Biggie and Tupac (2002) and Crawford, which was widely rumoured Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer to be more than a friendship, and (2003). In Whitney: Can I Be Me, the toxic, drug-fuelled marriage to he takes his cue from Asif Kapadia’s bad-boy rapper Bobby Brown. Amy (2015) in documenting the tragic IFI FILM CLUB rise and fall of the gifted New Jersey For details of our special preview Join us for a discussion singer through choice archive footage screening on June 11th at 18.15, after the 18.20 screening and to-camera interviews. see page 2. on Monday 19th.

FROM THE LAND RELEASE NEW OF THE MOON

OPENS JUN 23RD Actress/director Nicole Garcia’s José (Alex Brendemühl) whom adaptation of Milena Agus’s novella they will set up in business if he MAL DE PIERRES features another wholly immersed agrees to take her off their hands. performance from Marion Cotillard FILM INFO: as Gabrielle, a rebellious spirit in Despite his clear affections, Gabrielle 120 mins, 2016, France-Belgium, post-WWII France. Beginning in the vows to never return his love and Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O’Mahony 1950s, Garcia presents an extended makes it known from the outset that flashback to 1940s Provence where she will seek satisfaction elsewhere. Gabrielle’s flagrant disregard for Ill with kidney stones, she is sent to social norms leads her harried parents a Swiss spa where she meets André to give her an ultimatum: choose Sauvage (), a veteran of marriage or the madhouse. The family the Indochina war, with whom she strikes a deal with Spanish farmer forms a dangerous attachment.

9 JUNE 2017 THE GRADUATE IFI CLASSIC

OPENS JUN 23RD Director ’s timeless Ross), who is his age and with whom classic is reissued on the occasion he feels genuinely comfortable. Over FILM INFO: of its fiftieth anniversary in a new her mother’s strenuous objections, 106 mins, 1967, USA, Digital digital restoration. Following his he begins a relationship with Elaine Notes by Kevin Coyne graduation from college, 21-year-old that is derailed when the truth comes Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) evades out, leading Benjamin to make a mad making plans for his future while dash to salvage his future with her. he begins an affair with seductive Along with its Simon and Garfunkel older woman Mrs. Robinson (Anne soundtrack, The Graduate’s appeal Bancroft). Benjamin soon suspects has remained over the decades. that he and his lover have little in common, a feeling magnified when he Please see page 15 for details of meets her daughter Elaine (Katharine our Dustin Hoffman retrospective. KEDI IFI DOC

OPENS JUN 30TH Istanbul’s abundant feral cat The word ‘Kedi’ literally translates population is the star of Ceyda Torun’s as ‘cats’, and in Turkish culture it’s FILM INFO: quietly magical documentary that understood that respecting and 80 mins, 2016, Turkey-USA, affords a unique perspective on one caring for these animals is a social Digital, Subtitled of the world’s great cities. and religious obligation. Focusing Notes by David O’Mahony on seven particularly memorable Occupants since the days of the characters – Bengü, Deniz, Duman, Ottoman Empire, the cats of Istanbul Gamsiz, Sari, Psikopat, Aslan Parçasi – are neither strays nor pets, wandering and employing sinewy cat’s-eye-view spontaneously in and out of the photography to winning effect, Kedi resident’s lives, enjoying the seemingly is a surprisingly moving, insightful unfettered access to cafés, homes, and philosophical portrait of the feline markets and open spaces. ‘keepers of the city’ of Istanbul.

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OPENS JUN 30TH Ove (Rolf Lassgård) is stubborn, the Academy Awards, Hannes Holm’s principled and extremely short- delightful adaptation of Fredrik EN MAN SOM HETER OVE tempered, the quintessential grumpy Backman’s bestselling novel swiftly old man terrifying his community with establishes an economical conceit FILM INFO: arcane strictures that only he adheres whereby Ove’s frequent thwarted 116 mins, 2016, Sweden, to. Privately, he is mourning the suicide attempts – “killing oneself Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O’Mahony death of his wife and contemplating isn’t all that easy” he drolly intones in suicide, his first attempt at which is voiceover – trigger detailed flashback confounded by the arrival of another sequences that fill in the blanks in a set of awful new neighbours moving in life that has known happiness but also next door, knocking over his mailbox deep tragedy, softening our perception in the process. Recently nominated of him in the process. for Best Foreign Language Film at REVOLUTIONS IFI DOC IFI

OPENS JUN 30TH The cleverly-named Revolutions for supremacy, and the first-ever Irish introduces the exciting, sometimes national team travels to compete at FILM INFO: brutal, world of women’s roller derby, the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup. 87 mins, 2016, Ireland, Digital a non-traditional sport that is gaining But rivalries emerge within the team, Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn popularity but still operates well the coach’s rule is subverted and outside the sporting mainstream. off-rink demands of work and family Director Laura McGann followed a increasingly challenge the women’s number of women over four years as commitment. McGann’s documentary they commit to this gruelling sport demystifies this rule-laden, jargon- and determine to meet the physical rich world and celebrates the fearless Q&A and mental challenges they encounter. warrior women who have found new A Q&A will follow the 18.15 Firm friendships are struck, clubs are channels for self-expression within it. screening on Friday June 30th. formed, national teams meet and vie

11 ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME Join us for free daily lunchtime screenings from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office – please see www.ifi.ie for more information.

RE-JOYCE! Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn. PROGRAMME ONE PROGRAMME TWO PITCH AND PUTT WITH BECKETT AND JOYCE AMHARC ÉIREANN: EAGRÁN 159 FILM INFO: 3 mins, 2001, Ireland Joyce Tower Opened! DIRECTOR: Donald Clark FILM INFO: 3 mins, 1962, Ireland, Black and White FAITHFUL DEPARTED THREE WEEKS IN A TOWER Kieran Hickey’s portrait of Dublin on June 16th 1904. Joyceans and others will be intrigued by this FILM INFO: 10 mins, 1968, Ireland, Black and White curiosity: a dramatised account, directed by Maurice A SENSE OF POETRY: O’Kelly, of the time in September 1904 when James THE POEM AS IRONY (1975) Joyce (Chris Curran), Oliver St. John Gogarty (Pat Daly), An illustration of a poem by Canadian poet, and Samuel Trench (John O’Neill) lived in the Alden Nowlan, following a visitor to Dublin as Martello Tower in Sandycove. he encounters characters on the city streets. FILM INFO: 25 mins, 1972, Ireland FILM INFO: 12 mins, 1975, Ireland

IRISH FOCUS FROM THE SMOLT VAULTS NORA

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Two 12 year olds become embroiled in a saga Following 1994’s Anne Devlin, director Pat Murphy, involving counterfeit football jerseys. who will introduce this special screening, again Conceived in the style of a bootleg VHS, Michael reclaims an important Irish woman from relative Higgins plunges viewers into an inner-city Dublin obscurity. Nora chronicles Nora Barnacle’s where kids encounter girls, guns, drugs and (Susan Lynch) passionate, tempestuous relationship disorganised crime. A playfully with James Joyce (Ewan McGregor). Travelling from that utilises retrograde technologies, Smolt feels Dublin to Trieste, Joyce becomes tormented not only genuine and at times lingers on the question: by the fear that his work will never be published, but are we seeing something we shouldn’t? by his suspicions of Nora's infidelity. Throughout, the couple's relationship is marked by a deep, sexual love and by Nora's wisdom and common sense.

Presented by the IFI Irish Film Archive.

DIRECTOR: Michael Higgins DIRECTOR: Pat Murphy FILM INFO: 65 mins, 2013, Ireland, Digital FILM INFO: 106 mins, 2000, Ireland, 35mm Notes by Dean Kavanagh Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

12 the IFI Irish Film Archive which are DUBLIN screened at stop-off points in the IFI, PLAYS Temple Bar, in the IAF on Bachelor’s Walk, and finally at the new premises ITSELF of Poetry Ireland on Parnell Square.

2017 The screenings and walking tours will be conducted by Sunniva O’Flynn, JULY 1ST IFI Head of Irish Film Programming, and Merlo Kelly, Architect and Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn The Irish Architecture Foundation Architectural Historian. MORNING TOUR: Meet at IFI, (IAF) and the IFI take to the streets Temple Bar at 11.00. Tour ends at again with two walking tours Please note that both tours include 13.30, Poetry Ireland, Parnell Square exploring Dublin’s architecture. the same content. Places strictly limited AFTERNOON TOUR: Meet at to 20 people per walk. All tickets €10, IFI, Temple Bar at 14.30. Tour ends at The city is experienced at first hand, available through www.ifi.ie. 17.00, Poetry Ireland, Parnell Square. and also through a range of films from

will present Traveller heritage as it TRAVELLER was recorded over the decades, and PRIDE DAY will explore how that heritage was represented in fiction and non-fiction MINCEIRS WHIDEN: film. It will include amateur films TRAVELLER PRIDE from the 1940s showing a well- 2017 attended Traveller memorial in Galway, ethnographic films from the 1950s JUN 7TH (13.00) recording bygone Traveller crafts, tourist films from the celebrating the FILM INFO: Co-curated by IFI and Minceirs Whiden, nomadic Traveller lifestyle, films about 120 mins, 1940-1970, Ireland, Digital Ireland's only all-Traveller forum, this Travellers’ rights, and recent films Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn presentation includes screenings and about contemporary Traveller culture. discussions of Traveller-related films The programme will also include from the 1940s to the present day. fictional representations of Travellers Drawing from the collections of the from the 1950s to the present day. IFI Irish Film Archive, the programme

in Super8 to recent forays into digital IFI & AEMI animation, Ahwesh’s films powerfully PROJECTIONS address questions of feminism, cultural identity and performance. FILMS BY Drawing upon her background in PEGGY AHWESH Fine Art, Julie Murray has produced AND JULIE MURRAY a significant body of work which has shown at and/or is included in the JUN 17TH (13.00) collections of MOMA, the Whitney and the Pompidou. Born in Ireland, FILM INFO: This programme examines the Murray has been based in the U.S FILMS BY PEGGY AHWESH distinct and overlapping interests since the 1980s and aemi is delighted 64 mins, 1985-2014, USA, Digital of two acclaimed filmmakers. to present a screening including work FILMS BY JULIE MURRAY Over several decades Peggy Ahwesh from several stages of her career. 63 mins, 1997-2017, has created one of the more USA-Ireland, Digital heterogeneous bodies of work in Followed by a discussion with Peggy www.aemi.ie experimental cinema. From early films Ahwesh and Julie Murray at TBG+S.

13 on the high seas with unforgettable IFI FAMILY characters, in particular Long John TREASURE Silver and his shoulder-balancing parrot, Captain Flint. Guided by young ISLAND Jim’s treasure map, and a motley crew aboard the good ship Hispaniola, they set out for the West Indies in search of buried treasure. Avast me JUN 25TH (11.00) hearties and join us for some buccaneer cinema gold! DIRECTOR: There may be pirates all over the Byron Haskin cinemas in June, but they’ll be no match Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 FILM INFO: for this 1950 adaptation of the classic family ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 96 mins, 1950, UK-USA, Blu-Ray Robert Louis Stevenson story. As the 1 adult + 3 children). Notes by Alicia McGivern first live action film from Walt Disney, the studio went all out to create a swashbuckling, rip-roaring adventure

empathy and presents her case as THE BIGGER one of self-interest and ultimately PICTURE exploitation. As the larger than life iconoclast, unafraid of being judged, THE PRIME OF Maggie Smith, in an Oscar-winning MISS JEAN BRODIE performance, excels, urging her female students – the crème de la crème – to embrace art, politics and most of all, JUN 27TH (18.30) sexual love.

DIRECTOR: The inspirational teacher is a familiar Rory O'Neill, aka Panti Bliss, will present screen character, setting out to rescue the film and talk about how his famed, FILM INFO: pupils from ignorance, mediocrity or full-on, fun alter ego was inspired by 116 mins, 1969, UK-USA, Digital abuse, invariably winning audience Maggie Smith’s performance. Notes by Alicia McGivern respect. Jean Brodie, however, is the 1930s Edinburgh school teacher of Muriel Spark’s novel who defies our

Where director Chazelle’s previous film, WILD Whiplash, had shown the struggle and STRAWBERRIES pain tied up in the pursuit of success, here the two leads follow their dream LA LA LAND along a much more yellow brick road, with a dash of reality too. and Emma Stone have real chemistry as JUN 28TH & Sebastian and Mia – neither character 30TH (11.00) is brilliant, but they will make it through with graft and sacrifice. DIRECTOR: Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly Damien Chazelle film club for over 55s. Tickets: €4.25 including regular tea/ FILM INFO: coffee before the event. If you happen 128 mins, 2016, USA, Digital This candy-coloured musical romance to look younger, please don’t take Notes by Alicia McGivern swept the boards at awards season offence if we ask your age. this year, reminding us that films can provide superhero-free escapism.

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On the occasion of the re-release of Mike Nichols’s a number of contemporary American classics, The Graduate (see page 10), the IFI takes the opportunity displaying a remarkable range and versatility as an actor. to celebrate the work of Dustin Hoffman, who turns 80 later this year. A native of Los Angeles, Hoffman took to The 1980s saw Hoffman becoming more selective in acting while in college, moving to New York to pursue his choices, which ranged from a notorious box office his career, where he formed enduring friendships with flop, ’s underrated Ishtar (1987), to the fellow aspirants and . Oscar-winning Rain Man (1988). His career since has been similarly unpredictable, but Hoffman remains Following his film début, a brief appearance in Arthur an eminently watchable and incredibly talented artist, Hiller’s The Tiger Makes Out (1967), his next role was one of the finest American to have appeared on in The Graduate, for which he gained the first of seven the big screen. Oscar nominations, and in which he redefined Hollywood’s expectations of the traditional leading man. This led to his Introduction and notes on individual films by Kevin Coyne. most fertile period, the 1970s, when he appeared in

Joe has come to the city with misguided MIDNIGHT dreams of becoming a high-end prostitute. After a disastrous start, COWBOY he reluctantly allows Ratso to become his manager, although he proves no better in the industry than Joe. Despite this, a genuine friendship develops. ( ) JUN 10TH 20.40 Mike Nichols was horrified that Hoffman chose to follow The Graduate with this FILM INFO: Famously the only X-rated film to win role, but the actor received his second 113 mins, 1969, USA, Digital the Oscar for Best Picture, in Midnight Oscar nomination for his performance. Cowboy Hoffman plays ‘Ratso’ Rizzo, a small-time New York conman who falls in with Texan Joe Buck ().

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LENNY MARATHON MAN JUN 15TH (18.30) JUN 17TH (20.30) Lenny Bruce was a stand-up comedian whose focus on Hoffman reteamed with John Schlesinger for this social satire made him the forerunner of greats such thriller in which he plays Babe, who is drawn into a as George Carlin and Bill Hicks. However, Bruce was world of duplicity, betrayal, and stolen diamonds dogged by legal issues throughout his career, frequently when his brother Doc (Roy Scheider) incurs the wrath prosecuted for obscenity, eventually dying of a drug of fugitive Nazi war criminal Dr. Christian Szell overdose while appealing a jail sentence. In ’s (). Marathon Man is also the source biopic, Hoffman is electrifying as Bruce the performer, of an amusing story about Hoffman: after describing and convincing as the man who becomes increasingly his detailed preparation for a particular scene, unravelled and bitter at his persecution. Olivier asked him, “Why don’t you just try acting?”

DIRECTOR: Bob Fosse DIRECTOR: John Schlesinger FILM INFO: 112 mins, 1974, USA, DVD, FILM INFO: 125 mins, 1976, USA, Digital Black and White

ALL THE PAPILLON PRESIDENT’S MEN JUN 18TH (14.00) JUN 22ND (18.20) Papillon is based on the autobiography of French convict William Goldman’s Oscar-winning script sees journalists Henri Charrière. Portrayed here by Steve McQueen, Carl Bernstein (Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Robert Charrière is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to a Redford) working together on what initially appears to penal colony in French Guiana, where he meets fellow be a story of little import, a break-in at Washington’s inmate Louis Dega (Hoffman). The two form an alliance Watergate Hotel. As events progress, the two uncover of convenience before eventually becoming friends, a clandestine government operation that ultimately led and make a number of attempts to escape. Although to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. McQueen is the film’s star, Hoffman shines as the gentle Director Alan J. Pakula was the perfect choice following intellectual who dreams of freedom. his earlier works centring on paranoia and politics, Klute (1971) and The Parallax View (1974). DIRECTOR: Franklin J. Schaffner DIRECTOR: Alan J. Pakula FILM INFO: 150 mins, 1973, USA, 35mm FILM INFO: 138 mins, 1976, USA, Digital

16 STRAIGHT TIME TOOTSIE JUN 23RD (20.40) JUN 24TH (18.00) Straight Time was originally intended as Hoffman’s Desperate for work, struggling actor Michael Dorsey directorial début before he dropped out of the role (Hoffman) poses as ‘Dorothy Michaels’ in an audition for (eventually making his debut with 2012’s Quartet). a daytime soap opera. Having won the part, the feisty He plays Max Dembo, an ex-con whose attempts at ‘Dorothy’ becomes a sensation, but matters are made going straight, including a budding romance with more complicated when he falls in love with co-star waitress Jenny (), are confounded by Julie () while also fending off unwanted the bullying, malicious behaviour of his parole officer, male attention. The film remains an absolute pleasure, Earl (M. Emmet Walsh). Frustrated, Max returns to a the perfect balance of humour and heart, featuring a life of crime with associates Willy () and wonderful comic turn from Hoffman. Jerry ().

DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR: Sydney Pollack FILM INFO: 114 mins, 1978, USA, 35mm FILM INFO: 116 mins, 1982, USA, Digital

KRAMER VS. KRAMER RAIN MAN JUN 25TH (16.00) JUN 25TH (18.10) Hoffman won his first Oscar as Ted Kramer, a Rain Man saw Hoffman win his second Oscar for his workaholic forced to prioritise his son when he is left portrayal of the autistic savant Raymond Babbitt. by his wife Joanna (). Just as the two have Raymond is the elder brother of Charlie (), established a warm, loving relationship, Joanna returns who had no idea of his existence until trying to trace the to claim custody of their child, leading to a painful main beneficiary of their father’s will. Although Charlie courtroom battle. The film’s strength lies in its refusal initially tries to merely use Raymond to gain his share of to judge or take sides; each character’s perspective is the estate, a cross-country journey causes his attitude entirely understandable, making for a complex and to change and soften in this affecting film. touching film.

DIRECTOR: Robert Benton DIRECTOR: Barry Levinson FILM INFO: 105 mins, 1979, USA, Blu-ray FILM INFO: 133 mins, 1988, USA, Digital

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