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April 2017 Raw the Irish Film Institute APRIL 2017 RAW 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. Raw IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB IFI EXPLORERS Handsome Devil This month’s French Film Club screening – where IFI and Are you between 15–18? You can avail of IFI Explorer €3 Alliance Française members pay just €7.50 per ticket – tickets to a range of films each month. For our IFI Explorers takes place on April 10th at 18.30. This month’s film is Julia screening this April we’ve chosen the coming-of-age Irish Ducournau's multi-award winning Raw, a horror film about a drama Handsome Devil. Set in a Dublin school and focussing college ritual in which vegetarian student Justine is forced to on an unlikely friendship, this is a wonderful story about eat raw meat. See www.ifi.ie or ask at the IFI Box Office for growing-up and being brave. Buy three IFI Explorers tickets further details. and get your fourth ticket FREE! Tickets from IFI Box Office only. See www.ifi.ie/explorers for more details. NT LIVE: TWELFTH NIGHT GOETHE INSTITUT Who Am I - No System Is Safe Following a violent shipwreck, Viola is washed ashore, her The IFI teams up with Goethe Institut Irland for two twin brother Sebastian lost. Determined to survive on her screenings as part of their Fading Memories: Privacy own, she steps out to explore a new land, and so begins a and Data Ownership in the Digital Age global initiative. whirlwind of mistaken identity and unrequited love. Simon On April 1st, we will screen Francis Ford Coppola’s classic Godwin’s joyous new production of Shakespeare’s epic The Conversation, starring Gene Hackman and John Cazale. screens at the IFI on April 6th at 19.00, and stars Tamsin On April 5th, we will present Baran bo Odar’s Who Am I Greig (Black Books, Episodes) as Malvolia. See page 16 for – No System Is Safe, a German crime drama about a young more details. computer hacker. See page 15 for more details. 2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE Welcome to the IFI’s April programme with a special focus on Irish film. APRIL AT THE IFI Living the Heal During the month of April, the IFI will, for the fifth time, To coincide with the One City One Book initiative and this present IFI Spotlight, our dedicated focus on Irish film. year’s selection of Joe Joyce’s novel Echoland, our free Throughout the year the IFI is committed to showing Archive at Lunchtime programme throughout the month a range of Irish work through a combination of new will present Irish films from our collections relating to releases, programming strands and free lunchtime archive World War II. screenings. A returning component of IFI Spotlight this year will be its emphasis on discussion and debate, considering Another programme of archival films will be presented the production of film and television made in or about in our monthly From the Vaults strand. This fascinating Ireland during 2016. The day will comprise of panels and collection of silent films is presented as part of MusicTown guest speakers, including an opening address by Dr. Roddy 2017 and will see a combination of Irish and German Flynn (DCU) and Dr. Tony Tracy (NUIG) looking at the past musicians provide a live and improvised score to the year of Irish film production. This year, following on from material. Keeping a historical theme, our Irish Focus a broader discussion in 2016, there will be an update on this month is Revolution in Colour, which, presented on gender equity in the Irish film and television industry to see Easter Monday, reclaims the story of the struggle for what improvements, if any, there have been. In a returning Irish Independence. strand, In the Pipeline, we welcome Pat Collins to share his production experiences on his upcoming We hope you’ll join us for this celebration of Irish film title Song of Granite. throughout the month of April! Two special panels throughout the day will focus on Ross Keane two key areas – the parallels between the filmmaking Director and advertising worlds, and the threat of piracy and illegal downloading to the film and home entertainment industries in Ireland. It promises to be a very valuable and informative day. This month, as part of our dedicated focus, we’re also delighted to present John Butler’s Handsome Devil, the closing film of the recent ADIFF, a classic coming-of-age story set in an Irish boarding school. 3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR A QUIET PASSION OPENS APR 7TH DATE SCREENING TIME I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO OPENS APR 7TH 1ST IFI & GOETHE INSTITUT: THE CONVERSATION 16.00 SAT NERUDA OPENS APR 7TH 2ND WHO’S GONNA LOVE ME NOW? 16.00 RAW OPENS APR 7TH SUN + SATELLITE PERFORMANCE THE HANDMAIDEN OPENS APR 14TH 4TH EVENING COURSE: THE COMMISSAR 18.30 TUES IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 MULHOLLAND DRIVE OPENS APR 14TH 5TH IFI & GOETHE INSTITUT: WHO AM I – NO SYSTEM IS 18.20 ONE FLEW OVER THE WED SAFE + PANEL DISCUSSION 6TH NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: TWELFTH NIGHT 19.00 CUCKOO’S NEST OPENS APR 14TH THU THE SENSE OF AN ENDING OPENS APR 14TH 7TH SPOTLIGHT 2017 10.30 CLASH OPENS APR 21ST FRI 8TH INTIMATE LIGHTING: MORAVIAN HELLAS + 14.00 HANDSOME DEVIL OPENS APR 21ST SAT DIAMONDS OF THE NIGHT FROM THE VAULTS: MUSICTOWN 14.00 THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE - SOUND OF SILENTS 20.30 LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI OPENS APR 21ST 9TH INTIMATE LIGHTING: THE LOVES OF A BLONDE 14.00 THE TRANSFIGURATION OPENS APR 21ST SUN 10TH IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: RAW 18.30 HEAL THE LIVING OPENS APR 28TH MON LADY MACBETH OPENS APR 28TH 11TH EVENING COURSE: NIGHT WATCH 18.30 SUNTAN OPENS APR 28TH TUES 12TH INTIMATE LIGHTING: INTIMATE LIGHTING 18.30 WED 17TH IRISH FOCUS: REVOLUTION IN COLOUR 14.00 MON GET SOCIAL! 18TH IFI FILM CLUB: RAW 18.15 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! TUES EVENING COURSE: LEVIATHAN 18:15 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, 19TH INTIMATE LIGHTING: NOBODY WILL LAUGH 18.30 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics WED FEAST YOUR EYES: NERUDA 18.40 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! 20TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA 18.30 THUR VON KANT Join the IFI Community online: 22ND INTIMATE LIGHTING: A REPORT ON THE PARTY AND 14.00 SAT THE GUESTS @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 23RD INTIMATE LIGHTING: CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS 20.00 SUN + Q&A @IrishFilmInstitute 24TH INTIMATE LIGHTING: JAROMÍR ŠOFR MASTERCLASS 18.30 MON linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute 25TH EVENING COURSE: HIPSTERS 18.30 TUES 26TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: BRIDGE OF SPIES 11.00 WED INTIMATE LIGHTING: THE SEVENTH DAY, 18.15 Open Captioned screening THE EIGHTH NIGHT IFI EXPLORERS: HANDSOME DEVIL 16.00 Audio Described screening 28TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: BRIDGE OF SPIES 11.00 FRI 29TH INTIMATE LIGHTING: THE FIREMEN'S BALL 14.00 SAT ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: LADY MACBETH* 16:00 30TH IFI FAMILY: THE BIG KNIGHTS 11.00 SUN INTIMATE LIGHTING: THE CREMATOR 14.00 TIMES MYSTERY MATINEE 14.00 For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our * Denotes screenings which are open captioned and audio described. For more information on our Accessible Screenings, please visit weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule www.ifi.ie/accessible or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays and † The exclusivity status of films is correct at time of going to print Saturdays. You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup. 4 APRIL 2017 CONTINUING FROM MARCH Graduation Continuing into April from our March lengths to ensure his daughter’s academic programme is The Age of Shadows, success outside Romania after she is a stylish spy thriller set against the assaulted just before her final exam. backdrop of the Japanese occupation of Korea in the 1920s. The tension builds Finally, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s as characters’ motivations and agendas Ali: Fear Eats the Soul depicts the are constantly called into question in this relationship that develops between tense, gripping thriller that also contains an elderly German cleaning lady and a some bravura action set-pieces. considerably younger Moroccan ‘guest worker’ whom she meets at a rundown Graduation, the new film from 4 Months, Munich bar one rainy night. 3 Weeks, and 2 Days director Cristian Mungiu, sees a father go to extreme A QUIET NEW RELEASE PASSION OPENS APR 7TH Cynthia Nixon gives a revelatory wry discussions of social etiquette. performance in Terence Davies’ A familiar melancholy soon descends FILM INFO: delicate portrait of the great American however as the poet’s life becomes 125 mins, 2016, poet Emily Dickinson. Davies charts increasingly interiorised and hermetic, UK-Belgium, Digital Dickinson’s life from her college days her interactions entirely restricted to Notes by David O'Mahony to her final reclusive years in Amherst, her home where she fights with her Massachusetts; the early sections of the authoritarian father (Keith Carradine) film are distinguished by a surprisingly and condescending brother (Duncan breezy tone as Dickinson trades tart Duff), her furtive and ultimately futile aphorisms with her doting younger sister attempts to connect with a local married Lavinia (Jennifer Ehle) and her irreverent clergyman proving especially poignant.
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