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Knight of Cups the Irish Film Institute MAY 2016 KNIGHT OF CUPS 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 FILM CLUB NEW PUB QUIZ Join us on Monday, May 16th for a discussion about Mustang The FREE monthly pub quiz in the IFI Café Bar will take following the 18.00 screening. In this special IFI Film Club place on a new date: the first Tuesday of each month, event, audience members are invited to join in and contribute so join us on May 3rd at 21.30 with your brainiest buddies to a conversation about Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s remarkably and most inventive team names! Teams must have four assured debut about patriarchal oppression. See page 7 for people and the table who wins each month will be included film notes. in a champions’ league, competing for a grand prize. More details at www.ifi.ie/cafebar FEAST YOUR EYES FRENCH FILM CLUB Our monthly Feast Your Eyes event of a film and dinner for This month’s French Film Club screening – where IFI and €20 will be Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s gripping French-Turkish Alliance Française members pay just €7 a ticket – on the debut feature, Mustang. Following this screening, on Tuesday, evening of May 9th is director Lucile Hadžihalilović’s visually May 17th at 18.30, enjoy a Turkish-influenced main course in striking and inventive Evolution, a companion piece of sorts the IFI Café Bar. Tickets €20 (free list suspended). to her outstanding 2004 film Innocence. Newstalk journalist See page 7 for film notes. and TV critic James Dempsey will introduce the screening. See page 5 for film notes. Please visit www.ifi.ie or ask at the IFI Box Office for further details. 2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE Welcome to the IFI May programme which is packed with new releases and special events. (see page 14) MAY Stalker AT THE IFI Tarkovsky’s As the only cinema in Ireland with the facilities to show In association with the International Literature Festival film on glorious 70mm prints, we’ve been delighted with Dublin, we are delighted to welcome director Grant Gee for the huge interest in our recent special screenings of a post-screening Q&A after Innocence of Memories. The Hateful Eight and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Having cut his teeth on music videos, Gee is now making This month, we’re thrilled to continue with this unique a name for himself with literal travelogues, this time taking IFI offering by presenting special 70mm screenings of him to Istanbul and the world of Nobel-prize-winning Paul Thomas Anderson’s modern classic The Master. novelist Orphan Pamuk. Also, in a new collaboration with We have been trying to get this remarkable 70mm print to Sub City, we’re pleased to present Guillermo del Toro’s Ireland since the film was originally released back in 2012, Hellboy, based on Mike Mignola’s graphic novels. and are delighted to be finally (and exclusively) bringing this special event to Irish audiences. We have a selection of wonderful new releases on offer. The astounding Son of Saul continues into May and as the This month we’re pleased to present a retrospective of winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes and Best Foreign Picture one of cinema’s greats – Andrei Tarkovsky. Following recent awards at the Oscars and Golden Globes, this is one of the audience interest when presenting Stalker as part of our most powerful and affecting films you’re likely to see this The Bigger Picture strand, appetites have been well and truly year. Whit Stillman’s adaptation, Love & Friendship whetted for a more thorough examination of the work of the (which was filmed in Ireland), of the Jane Austen novella, Russian director, screenwriter and film theorist. Alongside a Lady Susan, comes to the big screen at the end of the month run of Mirror (1975), we’re delighted to present the other six and sees a remarkable performance from Kate Beckinsale. features in his filmography. A past guest at the IFI, Emmanuelle Bercot won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her role in Maiwenn’s Wild Strawberries, our film club for over 55s, will host a Mon Roi in which she stars alongside other French favourite, series of events to tie in with Bealtaine, the annual festival Vincent Cassel, and told in flashbacks, it charts the troubled celebrating creativity as we age. In conjunction with relationship of the central pair. access>CINEMA we will be touring the Robert Redford and Nick Nolte ‘buddy movie’ A Walk in the Woods, whilst And speaking of Cannes, this month the programming team also presenting screenings of Sé Merry Doyle’s Jimmy will once again be in attendance at the prestigious festival Murakami: Non Alien and Stephen Bradley’s Christina selecting the titles that are sure to captivate IFI audiences Noble biopic, Noble. over the next 12 months. Keep an eye on the IFI’s social media for all the latest news and updates from the Festival. Partnerships and collaborations are key this May. Together with The Hugh Lane Gallery, and as a key reference Ross Keane for Jesse Jones’ new exhibition No More Fun and Games, Director we’re pleased to present Robert Altman’s 3 Women, and are delighted that Jones will be joining us for a post-screening Q&A. 3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR SON OF SAUL CONTINUING FROM APRIL DATE SCREENING TIME 3RD IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 EVOLUTION OPENS MAY 6TH TUE JOHNNY GUITAR OPENS MAY 6TH 4TH WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: 11.00 WED A WALK IN THE WOODS KNIGHT OF CUPS OPENS MAY 6TH IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: COLLECTIVISM PART 3 18.30 5TH IFI & SUB CITY: HELLBOY 18.30 GREEN ROOM OPENS MAY 13TH THU MUSTANG OPENS MAY 13TH 7TH THE MASTER (70MM) 17.30 SAT TROUBLEMAKERS: 8TH THE MASTER (70MM) 17.30 THE STORY OF LAND ART OPENS MAY 13TH SUN 9TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: ROGER & ME 18.30 DEPARTURE OPENS MAY 20TH MON HEART OF A DOG OPENS MAY 20TH 10TH THE MASTER (70MM) 20.20 TUE JOURNEY TO THE SHORE OPENS MAY 20TH 11TH IFI & THE HUGH LANE GALLERY: 18.15 MIRROR OPENS MAY 20TH WED 3 WOMEN + DISCUSSION 14TH TARKOVSKY SEASON: IVAN'S CHILDHOOD 15.00 THE DAUGHTER OPENS MAY 27TH SAT LOVE & FRIENDSHIP OPENS MAY 27TH 15TH TARKOVSKY SEASON: ANDREI RUBLEV 15.00 MON ROI OPENS MAY 27TH SUN 16TH IFI FILM CLUB: MUSTANG 18.00 MON 17TH FEAST YOUR EYES: MUSTANG 18.30 TUE 18TH IFI EXPLORERS: MUSTANG 16.00 WED TARKOVSKY SEASON: SOLARIS 20.00 GET SOCIAL! 20TH WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: JIMMY 11.00 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! FRI MURAKAMI: NON-ALIEN Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, 21ST TARKOVSKY SEASON: STALKER 15.30 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics on SAT Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! 22ND THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: BIGGER THAN LIFE 14.00 SUN Join the IFI Community online: 23RD DEPARTURE (ACCESSIBLE SCREENING*) 15.45 @IrishFilmInstitute MON 25TH WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: NOBLE 11.00 WED IRISH FOCUS: CLOUD OF SKIN 18.30 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub TARKOVSKY SEASON: NOSTALGIA 20.30 26TH DEPARTURE (ACCESSIBLE SCREENING*) 18.30 THU 27TH WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE: NOBLE 11.00 Open Captioned screening FRI 28TH ARABIAN NIGHTS: VOL 1 13.00 SAT TARKOVSKY SEASON: THE SACRIFICE 15.20 Audio Described screening ARABIAN NIGHTS: VOL 2 15.40 ARABIAN NIGHTS: VOL 3 18.30 29TH IFI FAMILY: ZARAFA 11.00 SUN IFI & INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL DUBLIN: 16.30 INNOCENCE OF MEMORIES + DIRECTOR Q&A TIMES 31ST FROM THE VAULTS: LAMB 18.30 For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New TUE Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule *Denotes screenings which are either open captioned or audio described. 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 MAY 2016 SON OF NEW RELEASE SAUL CONTINUING FROM APRIL Set in Auschwitz in 1944 and depicting on Géza Röhrig’s agonised Saul, a day in the life of a Jewish-Hungarian a man who in a heap of corpses finds FILM INFO: member of the Sonderkommando a young boy who, we infer, he believes 107 mins, Hungary, – a unit of prisoners charged with is his son. From there, we shadow 2015, Digital disposing of bodies amassed in the Saul as he endeavours to effect a plan Notes by Alice Butler gas chambers – first-time director to honour the tragedy of this single László Nemes’ exacting Son of Saul death, regardless of the danger it is a scrupulous drama that is both presents. Winner of the Grand Prix at laudable and intensely harrowing. Cannes and the Best Foreign Language Against a hazy backdrop of intrepid Oscar, Son of Saul foregrounds a revolt and unspeakable violence, singular expression of compassion in a Nemes uses the claustrophobic space nightmarish reality. provided by Academy ratio to focus EVOLUTION NEW RELEASE OPENS MAY 6TH Over a decade has passed since the out one night and sees something he release of Lucile Hadžihalilović’s shouldn’t, he begins to plan his escape.
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