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MAY 2016 KNIGHT OF CUPS THE IRISH 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.

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Welcome to the IFI May programme which is packed with new releases and special events.

MAY (see page 14)

AT THE IFI StalkerTarkovsky’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 ’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 ’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 – . 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 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 , 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 . 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 ’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: 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: 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, 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 RELEASE NEW 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 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 RELEASE NEW

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. (ÉVOLUTION) haunting debut feature, Innocence (2004), which focused on a group of The visually beautiful Evolution, EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† girls in an isolated boarding school. enigmatic and poetic, does not give In her second film, Evolution, a kind up its mysteries easily – in this, FILM INFO: 82 mins, -Spain-Belgium, of companion piece, a colony of young it bears comparison to films such as 2015, Digital, Subtitled boys are cared for by women on a Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013) Notes by Kevin Coyne remote island devoid of adult men. and Upstream Colour (Shane Carruth, The boys live a life of strict routine, 2013) – but it is a richly rewarding existing on a limited diet and are experience, and surely one of the subject to bizarre medical treatments. year’s best films. After ten-year-old Nicolas sneaks

5 MAY 2016 JOHNNY GUITAR IFI CLASSIC

OPENS MAY 6TH Tavern owner Vienna (Joan Crawford) has one of Nicholas Ray’s (Rebel Without all but given up on old flame Johnny Logan a Cause; Bigger Than Life) strangest, FILM INFO: (Sterling Hayden) when he reappears most psychologically complex films. 110 mins, USA, 1954, Digital under the guise of Johnny Guitar. Her arch Film notes by David O’Mahony enemy Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), Vienna’s saloon is on the outskirts of a cattle baron, is with the ‘Dancin’ Kid’, town, and with the railroad being laid, and is jealous of his apparent affections the townsfolk fear it will go right past for Vienna. her door and soak up all their potential business. Needless to say gunfights ensue, The real sexual tension however exists but it is the high-camp dialogue and THE HANGOVER LOUNGE between Vienna and Emma, and themes astonishing costume changes that makes Our Hangover Lounge feature of bisexual desire crackle throughout this Johnny Guitar a one of a kind. this month is Ray’s Bigger Than heightened, florid pseudo-western, Life (see page 20 for notes). KNIGHT OF CUPS NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAY 6TH Rick (Christian Bale), a disillusioned exploring since he returned from screenwriter, reflects upon his extended hiatus with Tree of Life (2011) EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† privileged life and complex relationships and To the Wonder (2012) – it is cinema with brother (Wes Bentley), father as a stream of consciousness and its FILM INFO: (Brian Dennehy) and ex-wife success is somewhat dependant on 118 mins, USA, 2015, Digital (Cate Blanchett) in a Hollywood devoid how the viewer approaches it. Notes by David O'Mahony of meaning. “Where did I go wrong?” Malick is uninterested in the familiar he rhetorically asks in voiceover; tropes of narrative cinema and is “I am pieces, fragments of a man.” working towards a visual poeticism, driven by associative editing and Knight of Cups represents a a layered sound design. The result development of the impressionistic is never less than distinctive, aesthetic has been and at times quite profound.

6 GREEN ROOM RELEASE NEW

OPENS MAY 13TH In this taut and violent thriller, writer- immediate aftermath of a murder. With director Jeremy Saulnier’s follow-up to the neo-Nazis determined to eliminate all FILM INFO: Blue Ruin (2013), touring punk band witnesses, the band and the victim’s best 95 mins, USA, 2015, Digital The Ain’t Rights are having difficulty friend barricade themselves backstage, Notes by Kevin Coyne getting well-paying gigs. After one and try to find a way out of their particularly disastrous show, the promoter increasingly dangerous predicament. tries to make amends by getting them on the bill at his cousin’s roadhouse in rural With a cast including Anton Yelchin, Oregon. Alienating the skinhead, white Imogen Poots, and Patrick Stewart, supremacist crowd with a lively cover playing very much against type as of the Dead Kennedys’ Nazi Punks Fuck the supremacists’ sinister leader, Off, their planned retreat is made more it’s a gripping and unnerving film. complicated by stumbling across the

MUSTANG RELEASE NEW

OPENS MAY 13TH Five orphaned sisters are kept under freedoms and basic rights – strict lock and key in a remote Turkish we follow the ensuing emergency FILM INFO: town by their aunt and uncle until one by marriage preparations through the eyes 97 mins, France-Turkey, one they are married off, as long as their of the youngest of the girls, Lale 2015, Digital, Subtitled virginity can be assured to prospective (Günes Sensoy) who says in voiceover, Notes by David O'Mahony suitors. This is a conservative, traditional “our house became a wife factory.” community where parents still seek evidence of consummation from couples Lale comes to realise that escaping this SPECIAL EVENTS on their wedding night. well-furnished prison is the only course Mustang will be the subject of this month’s IFI Film Club of action left to her. Modern patriarchal (May 16th), Feast Your Eyes An entirely innocent encounter with a Turkey comes under scrutiny in (May 17th) and IFI Explorers group of local boys at the outset draws Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s remarkably (May 18th). See pages 2 and 20. increasing restrictions on the girls’ assured debut.

7 MAY 2016 TROUBLEMAKERS: THE STORY

IFI DOC OF LAND ART

OPENS MAY 13TH The movement known as land ’s devoted exponents – principally emerged in the out Michael Heizer, Walter EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† of a frustration felt by a group of artists De Maria, Nancy Holt and Robert about the constraints imposed upon them Smithson (whose piece, Spiral Jetty, FILM INFO: by the commercial gallery and art market. is probably one of the most celebrated 72 mins, USA, 2015, Digital, Inspired by a convergence of ideas earthworks) – but also its supporting Colour and Black & White Notes by Alice Butler relating in part to history and technology, players, including patron and 3M heiress they moved primarily to the unpopulated Virginia Dwan. Troublemakers also expanse of the American Southwest to tackles the disdain some of these figures produce some of the most ambitious held for photographic documentation of and breath-taking sculptural works their work which they believed needed of the 20th century. James Crump’s to be experienced to be understood. film shrewdly focuses not just on the DEPARTURE NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAY 20TH Beatrice (Juliet Stevenson) and her reservoir and is immediately besotted. 15-year-old son Elliot (Alex Lawther) Nuanced performances and FILM INFO: have come to their secluded retreat in a delicately achieved tone make Andrew 109 mins, UK, 2015, Digital the south of France not for a vacation Steggall’s debut feature an endearing Notes by David O'Mahony but to clear it out for imminent sale – portrait of unrequited young love. the house has for Beatrice become a symbol of her recently failed marriage. A typically self-absorbed teenager, Elliot prefers to wander in the There will be Open Captioned (OC) surrounding idyllic woods than assist screenings on May 23rd (15.45) his mother, and it is there that he spies and 26th (18.30). Audio Description handsome bilingual Clement (Phénix (AD) will be available on all screenings. Brossard) skinny-dipping in the local Visit www.ifi.ie/accessible for more.

8 HEART OF A DOG DOC IFI

OPENS MAY 20TH Since the 1960s, when she first gained An essay-film combining live action, recognition in New York for her 8mm home movie footage, as well EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† innovative, mostly sound or music- as Anderson’s own striking black oriented performance art, the uniquely line drawings, Heart of a Dog uses FILM INFO: talented Laurie Anderson has developed stories, related by the filmmaker in her 75 mins, USA, 2015, Digital Notes by Alice Butler a career as an artist, composer-musician, distinctively performative and tuneful filmmaker and inventor that has seen voice, about or concerning the life her reach the top of the UK charts, act as and death of her cherished pet terrier, NASA’s first artist in residence and win Lolabelle, as a trigger to consider the 2007 Gish Prize for her "outstanding a number of complex, interrelated contribution to the beauty of the world subjects, both personal and political, and to mankind's enjoyment and including love, mortality, memory and understanding of life.” the post-9/11 surveillance state.

JOURNEY TO RELEASE NEW THE SHORE

OPENS MAY 20TH Ghosts both literal and figurative him kindness on his journey home: a abound in this delicate and unusual newspaper vendor who doesn’t realise (KISHIBE NO TABI) love story, which won the prize for Best that he is also dead; a restaurant-owning Director in the Un Certain Regard section couple, one of whom is haunted by EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† of last year’s . her own childhood loss; and a village in which Yusuke was a respected and FILM INFO: 128 mins, Japan-France, Lonely Mizuki (Eri Fukatsu) is surprised beloved teacher. 2015, Blu-ray, Subtitled one evening when her husband Yusuke Notes by Kevin Coyne (Tadanobu Asano) appears in her As they travel, the two reconnect, and in apartment and informs her that he died dealing with their regrets and sadnesses at sea three years previously. Promising about their relationship, are finally able to show her “beautiful places”, he offers to move on. to take her to meet those who showed

9 MAY 2016 MIRROR IFI CLASSIC NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAY 20TH An iconic, influential film of force and archive sequences to evoke a portrait in poetic beauty in which Tarkovsky radical form of his own psychology and EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† favours “associative linking” over of those connected to him including his “linear sequentiality”, Mirror is a semi- son, a neighbouring Spanish family, an FILM INFO: autobiographical work that collapses orphan at a military school, but perhaps 106 mins, , 1975, Colour and Black & White, the prevailing distinction between most evocatively, his ex-wife and Digital, Subtitled individual and collective history, mother, both played at various stages Notes by Alice Butler memory and experience. with inimitable depth by Margarita Fluctuating between different time Terekhova. It is difficult to recall when periods – the mid-1930s, the war-time cinema has been more expressive or period and the narrative present set in worked more effectively to contest the TARKOVSKY SEASON the early – Tarkovsky ingeniously monumental history of a state than in See pages 12 – 14 for merges dream, vision, real time and this vital, mysterious film. our Tarkovsky season. THE DAUGHTER NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAY 27TH A prodigal son’s return leads to community alive for generations, revelations of long-repressed family further alienating him from townsfolk FILM INFO: secrets in theatre director Simon that already view him as aloof. 96 mins, Australia, 2015, Digital Stone’s brooding debut feature, a One such former mill worker is Oliver Notes by David O'Mahony re-working of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck (Ewen Leslie), Christian’s childhood relocated to contemporary New South friend, whose absent-minded father Wales. Recovering alcoholic Christian Walter (Sam Neill) was once Henry’s (Paul Schneider) has been summoned business partner. Revisiting his 2011 home from America for the wedding stage adaptation, Stone brings much of his wealthy father, Henry (Geoffrey cinematic innovation to Ibsen’s text, Rush), to his considerably younger while holding fast to the core theme of former housekeeper. Henry has closed sins of the past exploding in the present. the town’s mill, which has kept the

10 LOVE & RELEASE NEW FRIENDSHIP

OPENS MAY 27TH An adaptation of Jane Austen’s Lady self-interested manipulator, comes to Susan, a posthumously published early stay with her in-laws, Catherine and FILM INFO: epistolary novella, Love & Friendship sees Charles Vernon, at their country estate, 92 mins, USA-Ireland-UK, Whit Stillman transpose his urbane, ironic primarily for the purposes of securing her 2016, Digital brand of humour to 18th-century England financial future through a match with Notes by David O'Mahony with delightful results. A director of Catherine’s eligible younger brother literary sensibility, Stillman incorporates Reginald de Courcy (Xavier Samuel), playful devices of his own into Austen’s a plan which comes unstuck with the elaborate comedy of manners, such as surprise arrival of her daughter introducing his dramatis personae with Frederica (Morfydd Clark), a potential wryly amusing character descriptions. romantic distraction for Reginald. The recently widowed Lady Susan Lady Susan must use all her wiles Vernon (Kate Beckinsale), a scheming, to thwart their possible union.

MON ROI RELEASE NEW

OPENS MAY 27TH Tony (Emmanuelle Bercot) is admitted repeated breakups and constant to a rehabilitation centre following a internecine squabbling. From her (MY KING) serious skiing accident; bedridden and convalescent bed, Tony ponders her under constant supervision she reflects connection to Giorgio, an undeniable EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† on her tumultuous ten years with Giorgio bond that held them together no matter (Vincent Cassel), an obsessional, mutually how much harm they caused each other. FILM INFO: 128 mins, France, destructive relationship that has left her 2015, Digital, Subtitled in an emotionally brittle condition. With a pair of astonishingly committed Notes by David O'Mahony Through extended flashbacks we performances from Bercot and Cassel, observe key moments in their shared Mon Roi, the fourth feature from French history, from the first blush of romance actress turned director Maïwenn (Polisse), and lust to marriage and children, and is a rigorous, emotionally draining the eventual toxic fallout of infidelity, delineation of an explosive relationship.

11 MAY 14TH—28TH Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) is one of the true greats Stylistically, his films are predominantly constructed of world cinema. Despite having sole responsibility in long takes which are intended to impress for just seven features and a handful of shorts, upon the viewer the experience of the passage his work has proven hugely influential; admired by of time, and the relationship of one moment to another. contemporaries such as and Ingmar He believed, “my function is to make whoever Bergman, who said of him, “Tarkovsky for me is sees my films aware of his need to love and to give the greatest (director), the one who invented a new his love, and aware that beauty is summoning him.” language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.” He has also had Introduction and notes on individual films an enduring impact on Russian filmmakers such as by Kevin Coyne. Aleksandr Sokurov and Andrei Zvyagintsev, and others such as Béla Tarr and Terrence Malick. Mirror opens at the IFI on May 20th (please see page 10 for notes). A humanist intrigued by notions of faith and spirituality, Tarkovsky’s work also frequently addresses the reciprocal relationship between the artist and society, how the past informs the present, and the individual’s place in and relationship with nature. Stalker

1212 ANDREI TARKOVSKY Twelve-year-old Ivan ( Burlyaev) IVAN’S has attached himself to a Russian regiment fighting the Nazis, where his CHILDHOOD size makes him invaluable for increasingly dangerous reconnaissance missions. The boy is determined to avenge the death of his parents at the hands of MAY 14TH (15.00) German soldiers. Ivan’s Childhood blurs the boundaries (Иваново детство) Tarkovsky’s first feature won him between dream and reality as a means immediate international acclaim as of examining the tension between past FILM INFO: he received the at the and present. What Tarkovsky called 95 mins, Soviet Union, 1962, , and the respect his “qualifying examination”, Subtitled, Black & White, Digital of individuals such as Bergman Bergman believed “like a miracle.” and Sartre.

Broken into eight chapters which ANDREI recount incidents from the artist’s life, its backdrop of medieval is a time RUBLEV of conflict and cruelty in which Andrei, a humanist who only wishes to inspire with his art, faces his own struggle between the physical and the spiritual. ( ) MAY 15TH 15.00 The film led to controversy and censorship in the USSR, an ironic fate (Андрей Рублёв) Andrei Rublev, what Tarkovsky called for a film that examines Tarkovsky’s a “film of the earth”, is an epic, personal fascination with the connection FILM INFO: largely fictionalised biography of the between an artist and the time in which 183 mins, Soviet Union, 1966, great 15th-century Russian iconographer. the artist lives. Subtitled, Black & White and Colour, Digital

led to its status as one of cinema’s truly SOLARIS great science-fiction films. The crew of a scientific research station above the titular planet are troubled by apparitions of those they have lost, particularly new arrival Kelvin, to whom ( ) appears his late wife. The crew come to MAY 18TH 20.00 believe that these simulacra have been created from their memories by the (Солярис) Stanisław Lem’s science-fiction novel planet, which is in some way sentient. had previously been adapted for Russian FILM INFO: television in 1968, but Tarkovsky brought 166 minutes, Soviet Union, his own sensibility to the genre, imbuing 1972, Subtitled, Colour and Black & White, Digital his moving and unsettling Solaris with an emotional and intellectual depth that has

13 ANDREI TARKOVSKY SCULPTING IN TIME A Writer (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) and a STALKER Professor (Nikolay Grinko) seeking the room entrust themselves to a Stalker (Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy), who is able to navigate the Zone and locate the Room.

A film that had to be shot twice after ( ) the original stock was ruined during MAY 21ST 15.30 development, it stands as a testament to the director’s perfectionism and precision. (Сталкер) Tarkovsky’s second foray into science- fiction is no less of a masterpiece than FILM INFO: Solaris. In the Zone, an area in which the 162 mins, Soviet Union, normal laws of reality no longer apply, 1979, Subtitled, Colour is said to exist the Room, entry to which and Black & White, Digital is believed to lead to the fulfilment of one’s deepest desires.

Tarkovsky moved production of Nostalgia NOSTALGIA to Italy, where he enjoyed greater artistic and financial freedom.

Suitably, the film follows an expatriate Russian writer who yearns for the homeland of his memory, filled with ( ) an ennui that causes him to ignore MAY 25TH 20.30 the attentions of his beautiful translator (), and only roused () Tired of state interference in his from his torpor after an encounter work, particularly after his experience with a local mystic, who sets him FILM INFO: in 1979 when attempting to make a challenging task. 120 mins, Italy, 1983, The First Day (a project for which filming Subtitled, Digital had already begun before the frustrated director destroyed the existing footage),

The Sacrifice was to be his final film – THE SACRIFICE Tarkovsky died shortly after completion from lung cancer, possibly as a result of exposure to toxic materials while shooting Stalker.

In a world facing imminent disaster, ( ) Alexander () vows MAY 28TH 15.20 to walk away from all that he loves if God will spare his family from this fate. (OFFRET) After the head of the Soviet delegation A film that affirms the power of love, actively (and successfully) campaigned humanity, and faith, it makes for a fitting FILM INFO: against the awarding of Cannes’ Palme conclusion to a remarkable body of work. 149 mins, Sweden-U.K.-France, d’Or to Nostalgia, Tarkovsky resolved 1986, Subtitled, Digital to stay in the West.

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IFI EVENTS IRISH FOCUS FROM THE VAULTS ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME IFI FAMILY HELLBOY THE MASTER (70MM) AEMI PROJECTIONS 3 WOMEN ARABIAN NIGHTS INNOCENCE OF MEMORIES THE BIGGER PICTURE IFI EXPLORERS THE HANGOVER LOUNGE WILD STRAWBERRIES & BEALTAINE

narrative, Le Cain’s first feature is an IRISH immersive and dreamlike exploration FOCUS of memory and vision. Shot in a series of time-warped Irish locations, CLOUD the otherworldly atmosphere is OF SKIN intensified by composer Karen Power’s compelling soundscapes. Though formally unconventional, this work is MAY 25TH (18.30) as accessible as it is beguiling. It is the work of a filmmaker who for years has DIRECTOR: Join us for our focus on new tirelessly pushed an Irish underground Maximilian Le Cain Irish film and filmmakers. cinema to the surface and is here at FILM INFO: the peak of his powers. 84 mins, Ireland, 2015, Digital Haunted by the memory of a blind Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn woman with visionary powers, a man Please see page 18 where Maximilian revisits the sites of their love affair. Le Cain’s work also features as part Rather than unfolding as a traditional of this month’s AEMI programme.

(Hugh O’Conor) prompts him to take FROM THE dramatic action; cash in his inheritance VAULTS and flee with the boy to England. With this unconventional relationship LAMB between a naïve young cleric and a troubled child at its core, the film is vivid and unsettling – and unlikely to have been made at a later stage when scandals of MAY 31ST (18.30) clerical abuse were rife – with Neeson in his first lead film role and a remarkable DIRECTOR: Michael Lamb (Liam Neeson) is an debut for Hugh O’Conor (four years before Colin Gregg idealistic young Brother in a west of his Oscar nomination for ). FILM INFO: Ireland reformatory, ill at ease with the 110 mins, Ireland–UK, brutal regime under which the young We’re delighted to welcome Hugh O’Conor 1985, Digibeta inmates live. The recent death of his to the IFI for a post-screening Q&A. Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn father and his growing anger at the mistreatment of one of the boys

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ARCHIVE AT IFI FAMILY LUNCHTIME Water Wisdom BE WISE, MODERNISE! ZARAFA

Join us for free screenings of films from the MAY 29TH (11.00) IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office. Please see www.ifi.ie for This beautiful animation starts with the colours dates and times. and sounds of Africa and tells the story of brave young Maki and his escape from slave traders. PROGRAMME 1 AMHARC ÉIREANN – LEICTRIÚ CHONAMARA Making a long journey across the fiercely hot desert The Rural Electrification Scheme rolls out in he befriends a baby giraffe, Zarafa, and a kindly the west of Ireland in this short magazine-style Bedouin called Hassan. Together they travel to the newsreel by Colm O Laoghaire for Gael Linn. ancient city of Alexandria, before climbing aboard a FILM INFO: 3 mins, 1957, Black & White, Digital magic air balloon which flies them to 19th-century where they present Zarafa to the King. MORE POWER TO THE FARMER Made by Gerard Healy for the ESB, the film Using a range of colours and a classic drawing style, celebrates the Rural Electrification Scheme and the this moving and engaging film will appeal to adults inestimable benefits to farm-life – with scenes of and children alike. cable-laying, pole-raising, a switch-on ceremony and new appliances in the home. DIRECTORS: Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie FILM INFO: 15 mins, 1957, Digital, Black & White FILM INFO: 78 mins, France-Belgium, 2012, Digital

Recommended Age 6+ PROGRAMME 2: WATER WISDOM Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 family ticket (2 Colm O Laoghaire’s dramatised tale of a rural adults + 2 children, 1 adult + 3 children). housewife’s embarrassment at her lack of piped water when city visitors drop by. The film encourages small farmers to introduce piped water, to maximise farm efficiency and minimise domestic disgrace. FILM INFO: 22 mins, 1962, Digital

For more gems from the IFI Irish Film Archive, see From the Vaults on page 15.

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IFI & SUB CITY HELLBOY

MAY 5TH (18.30) Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman Resurrected by his disciples, Rasputin bring the hero of Mike Mignola’s graphic unleashes a hellhound which is hunted DIRECTOR: novels to life in Hellboy, a thoroughly down by Hellboy and his colleagues Guillermo del Toro entertaining, intelligent, and witty take at the Bureau of Paranormal Research FILM INFO: on the superhero genre. and Defence, leading to a potentially 122 mins, USA, 2004, Blu-ray apocalyptic showdown which reveals Notes by Kevin Coyne When Nazis enlist Rasputin to summon clues as to Hellboy’s ultimate destiny. ancient entities to assist their war efforts, what arrives instead is an infant In association with Sub-City Comics. demon who is rescued by the Allies and raised by an occult expert (John Hurt).

THE MASTER (70MM)

MAY 7TH (17.30) MAY 8TH (17.30) MAY 10TH (20.20) On its release, it was always the IFI’s drifts from job to job, unable to adjust intention that The Master receive to life in peacetime, seeking comfort DIRECTOR: screenings on 70mm. For reasons in alcohol, before connecting with Paul Thomas Anderson entirely beyond our control, it has taken Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour FILM INFO: until now for this to happen, but we are Hoffman), leader of quasi-religious 144 mins, USA, 2012, 70mm delighted to finally be able to keep the movement ‘The Cause’. Notes by Kevin Coyne promise made to audiences in 2012. Tickets: €12 (€10 Members) WWII veteran Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix, in a remarkable performance as a man floundering and Supported by visibly uncomfortable in his own skin)

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IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS COLLECTIVISM PART 3: EXPERIMENTAL FILM SOCIETY

MAY 4TH (18.30) For the final edition of our three-part a regular presence in many of the works programme on Collectivism as it relates screening here, cinema is re-articulated DIRECTORS: to contemporary film practices, AEMI as a heterogeneous space which Various is proud to present a selection of works “can contain all galaxies and forms FILM INFO: by members of the Experimental Film of life, even ones we can sense but Approx duration: 87 mins, Digital Society. The programme develops can’t fully comprehend.” out of a series of conversations with core members of EFS addressing the Curated by Alice Butler and Daniel GUESTS role of the collective in constructing Fitzpatrick. Please see page 15 where We are pleased to welcome core members of the Experimental a productive understanding of what EFS filmmaker Maximilian Le Cain’s Film Society to take part in a cinema can say and do. Drawing upon work also features as part of this discussion after the screening. the speculative logic of science fiction, month’s Irish Focus strand.

IFI & DUBLIN CITY GALLERY THE HUGH LANE 3 WOMEN

MAY 11TH (18.15) A key reference point for Jesse Jones in Pinky starts to idolise Millie, the development of her exhibition, an incessantly talkative fellow Texan DIRECTOR: ‘NO MORE FUN AND GAMES’, which who everyone else seems to ignore. Robert Altman runs at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Soon after Pinky moves in with Millie FILM INFO: Lane until June 26th, Robert Altman’s however, their identities begin to 124 mins, USA, 1977, Digital masterpiece portrays the elusive interchange, with Pinky becoming Notes by Alice Butler bond that evolves between Millie intractable and Millie more subservient. GUESTS (Shelley Duvall), her obsequious We are pleased to welcome artist co-worker Pinky (Sissy Spacek) and Jesse Jones, Director of the Feminist Film Festival Karla Healion and a more peripheral artist figure called IFI’s Alice Butler to take part in a Willie Hart (Janice Rule). While settling discussion after the screening. into a job at a Californian health spa,

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ARABIAN NIGHTS MIGUEL GOMES

MAY 28TH (13.00/15.40/18.30) One of the year’s most ambitious and complex, but by no means a dour projects, Miguel Gomes’ (Tabu) triptych exercise in miserabilism; the volumes FILM/EVENT DURATION: takes its structure from One Thousand are shot through with eccentric humour Volume 1 - 125 mins; Volume 2 - 131 mins; Volume 3 - 126 mins; and One Nights, placing Scheherazade throughout their many digressions in an Portugal-France-Germany-Switzerland, (Crista Alfaiate) in a contemporary absorbing and engaging work. 2015, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne setting as the tales she tells relate to the director’s perspective on Portugal Film times: as a country suffering a psychological Volume 1: The Restless One – 13.00; TICKETS Tickets: €25. Tickets to individual crisis as a result of its financial crisis, Volume 2: The Desolate One – 15.40; volumes will not be available. There and the use of stringent austerity as a Volume 3: The Enchanted One – 18.30. will be an interval of approximately means by which to counter the latter. 30 minutes between each volume. The sprawling storytelling is dense

IFI & INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL DUBLIN: INNOCENCE OF MEMORIES

MAY 29TH (16.30) In the 1990s Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel Directed by Grant Gee, the Prize-winning author of My Name is award-winning filmmaker whose DIRECTOR: Red, bought a rundown building in Patience: After Sebald was screened Grant Gee Beyoğlu, an unfashionable suburb of at the IFI as part of the festival in 2012, FILM INFO: Istanbul. Over the next two decades Innocence of Memories offers 97 mins, UK, Digital he slowly turned it into a museum: a dreamlike mediation on the novel, a monument to the obsessive the museum, and Istanbul itself. personality of Kemal, the fictional GUEST protagonist of his 2008 bestseller Presented in association with We’re delighted to welcome The Museum of Innocence, who hoards International Literature Festival Dublin. director Grant Gee for a every object relating to his secret affair post-screening discussion. with Füsun.

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evolution of the documentary form THE BIGGER through his scabrous attacks on PICTURE various cornerstones of American life such as health, foreign policy, ROGER and gun control, and has changed AND ME the way the documentary is perceived, from old-style TV fodder to mainstream cinema fare. In this his MAY 9TH (18.30) first film, he takes on General Motors, the backbone-of-America company DIRECTOR: Our monthly programme strand in which deserted his hometown of Michael Moore which a key film is presented in the Flint and 35,000 workers, for cheaper FILM INFO: context of a notional film canon. conditions south of the border. 99 mins, U.S., 1989, Digital Film notes by Alicia McGivern Oscar winner, left-wing activist, Donald Taylor Black, filmmaker and writer and filmmaker Michael Creative Director of The National Film Moore has contributed to the School will present the film.

Set in a remote Turkish village, IFI EXPLORERS the film depicts the lives of five MUSTANG orphaned sisters and the challenges they face growing up as girls in a conservative community. They long to have their own freedom but are forbidden by their elders to have any contact with the outside world, MAY 18TH (16.00) or with boys.

DIRECTOR: IFI Explorers is our monthly film Turkish-born French director Deniz Deniz Gamze Ergüven club for 15-18 year olds. Gamze Ergüven balances out the FILM INFO: film’s bleakness with unexpected 97 mins, France-Turkey, IFI Explorers' special €3 offer for humour and warmth to create this 2015, Digital, Subtitled May is the highly anticipated, tender and fresh coming-of-age film. Notes by Dee Quinlan Oscar-nominated drama, Mustang.

experimental drugs, Nicholas Ray’s THE HANGOVER film seizes on the idea of drug-fuelled LOUNGE insanity behind the white picket fences as a critique of middle class BIGGER THAN American values. Schoolteacher Ed LIFE Avery (James Mason) is diagnosed with an arterial condition for which hormone cortisone is prescribed. MAY 22ND (14.00) The new drug has an astonishing curative effect on Avery, but its DIRECTOR: Our monthly indulgent unforeseen effects on his psyche Nicholas Ray Sunday afternoon of brunch are more alarming still. FILM INFO: and a classic film. 95 mins, USA, 1956, 35mm Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar Notes by David O'Mahony Inspired by a New Yorker article is on re-release from May 6th. Film + Brunch €16 about a man driven to See page 6 for film notes. megalomaniacal extremes by

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A WALK WILD IN THE WOODS KEN STRAWBERRIES KWAPIS & BEALTAINE MAY 4TH (11.00)

This month’s Wild Strawberries events tie in with The access>CINEMA film tour choice for 2016 is based Bealtaine, the annual Festival which celebrates on the Bill Bryson memoir of walking the Appalachian creativity as we age. For 2016, Bealtaine takes a Trail. This amusing drama follows Robert Redford look at some iconic citizens, and at the cultural life as a late-in-life hiker who takes to the trail with his of the nation across various genres and events. decidedly ill-prepared pal, played by Nick Nolte. There’s something completely watchable about this As we like to connect with the land, it’s also the affable pair, hauling their new kit across beautiful focus of this year’s touring film, in conjunction terrain, encountering various slices of American life. with access>CINEMA, in which Robert Redford FILM INFO: and Nick Nolte rekindle their friendship through 107 mins, USA, 2015 an Appalachian trek. Our second item is a moving profile of artist Jimmy Murakami, a late citizen of GUEST SPEAKER: Ireland. To complete the month we are showing Presenter Anne Cassin from RTÉ’s Nationwide will launch the film tour. Noble, about the indefatigable Christina Noble.

JIMMY MURAKAMI: NOBLE NON ALIEN STEPHEN SÉ MERRY DOYLE BRADLEY MAY 25TH & 27TH MAY 20TH (11.00) (11.00)

The subject of this affecting and intriguing Christina Noble has dedicated her life to working documentary is the late filmmaker, artist and with street children in Vietnam, following her own animator Jimmy Murakami, who made Ireland appalling upbringing in 1940s Dublin. From building his home. The Oscar-nominated animator of a shelter after a visit in 1989, thus began a lifetime’s When the Wind Blows and The Snowman uses commitment. The film is not short on melodrama, drawings to revisit his American childhood, in but the performances by Gloria Cramer Curtis, particular the camp in which he, his Japanese- Sarah Greene and Deirdre O'Kane of different stages in American parents and siblings were interned, Christina’s life offer a glimpse of a remarkable woman. stripped of their citizenship and deemed ‘non- FILM INFO: 100 mins, UK-Vietnam, 2014 aliens’ during WW2. FILM INFO: 90 mins, Ireland, 2010 GUEST SPEAKER: Director Sé Merry Doyle will present his film.

All film tickets: €4.25 including regular tea/coffee before the event. Wild Strawberries is our film club for over 55s. If you are lucky enough to look younger please don’t take offence if we ask your age.

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