JULY 2014

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The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s EXHIBIT national cultural institution for film. 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.

FAMILY House of Magic The BBQ!

Join us for cinematic adventures in music, family, friendship Join us on the terrace every Friday throughout July from and 'foosball' in this year’s IFI Family Festival (July 17th – 20th). 18.00 to 20.30 for mouth-watering barbequed burgers for Our specially selected films from around the world include just €5! You can also enjoy a burger with a pint of Bavaria animation, live action, Irish premieres, special guests, puzzling for just €9 in our special deal, or why not indulge in a quests, Wildernuts and sheep! Learn lots of new skills in our refreshing jug of Pimm’s for €15? Perfect for al fresco dining workshops, and meet our Young Media Explorers and RTÉ before or after your film! Don’t forget you can reserve your Young People’s Diana Bunici on opening night. For more table by calling 01 679 8712 or asking at the Café Bar. information and booking, see www.ifi.ie/familyfest

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Screenings of Finding Vivian Maier (see page 8 for notes) IFI National, which curates programmes from the IFI Irish will be preceded by the IFB-funded short animation, Coda, Film Archive to make cultural cinema available throughout by Alan Holly. Coda won Best Animated Short Film at the Ireland, returns to the Galway Film Fleadh (July 8th – 13th) prestigious South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival this with a programme of sound and silent films made in and about year. A lost soul stumbles drunkenly through the city. Galway from the 1920s to the ‘70s. Part of the IFI Local Films In a park, Death finds him and shows him many things. for Local People Project, these films document life, leisure and (9 minutes, Ireland, 2013.) livelihoods, and will appeal to all interested in the heritage and history of Galway.

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The IFI’s July programme has, at its centre, a focus on women in (and on) film.

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AT THE IFI All About Eve One of the key strategic priorities of the IFI’s exhibition This July we are delighted to welcome back our annual IFI programme is to develop a space for critical engagement Family Festival, offering four days of films and workshops and discussion. Over the past few months, we have seen for young people. With a programme representing a broad focuses on Irish film and television (IFI Spotlight in April) and geographic spread from countries far and wide, including the ethics involved in documentary and factual programme Japan, Belgium, Canada and Ireland, this year’s themes making (States of Fear – 15 Years On in May). Following range from music to ‘foosball’, and from family to friendship. on from these highly relevant and important seminars, this Our opening night will feature magic tricks for everyone, month we present a focus on the work of women in film and while other special events will include penalty shoot-outs, the representation of women on film. a nature trail and a mobile farm! Our workshops programme has a variety of offerings for those aged 8 to 13 and, tying in This month’s season takes the Bechdel Test as its starting with Beyond the Bechdel Test, The Irish Times film critic Tara point – the examination of a film to see if it passes by having Brady will explore some of film’s coolest female characters. two women talk to each other about a subject other than So bring your young film fans in for this truly unique festival, a man. In Beyond the Bechdel Test we present a selection as this will be your only opportunity to ever see many of these of films by both male and female directors which explore remarkable films on the big screen in Ireland. complex portrayals of women, and the relationships between women, on screen. The entire season aims to encourage All of this alongside our regular programme of new releases conversation and debate and, with this in mind, the topic (including Richard Linklater’s Boyhood and winner of Best Irish permeates throughout the rest of the programme this July. Feature at JDIFF, Love Eternal) and IFI Classics (including Billy A number of the screenings will be introduced by special Wilder’s Some Like it Hot and Orson Welles’ The Lady from guests, while many of our ongoing programming strands will Shanghai). So July at the IFI has plenty on offer to lure you also further explore the theme including From the Vaults away from the summer sun! (with a screening of Pat Murphy’s Maeve), Wild Strawberries (with female friendship explored in Fried Green Tomatoes), Ross Keane Archive at Lunchtime (which looks at the changing role Director of women in Irish society) and The Critical Take (looking at representations of gender). In addition, this month’s Afternoon Talk will be presented by Professor Diane Negra addressing A History of the ‘Chick Flick’, while a special panel discussion, Presence and Absence: Women in Contemporary Cinema, will be chaired by Sinéad Gleeson alongside critic Roe McDermott, filmmaker Pat Murphy, producer Rachel Lysaght, and Trinity lecturer Ruth Barton.

3 NEW RELEASES SEASONS & & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT OPENS JULY 4TH DATE SCREENING TIME CYCLING WITH MOLIÈRE OPENS JULY 4TH 3RD BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: BORN IN 18.30 THUR FLAMES + AGAINST THE REALM OF THE LOVE ETERNAL OPENS JULY 4TH ABSOLUTE (SHORT) THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO LOVE ETERNAL (PREVIEW + Q&A) 20:30 CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW 6TH BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: 16:05 AND DISAPPEARED OPENS JULY 4TH SUN PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK 8TH BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: 18:30 BOYHOOD OPENS JULY 11TH TUES CINEMATIC VOICES (SHORTS PROGRAMME) GOLTZIUS AND THE 10TH BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: TEN 18:30 PELICAN COMPANY OPENS JULY 11TH THUR FINDING VIVIAN MAIER OPENS JULY 18TH 12TH AFTERNOON TALK: A HISTORY OF THE 12:00 SAT ‘CHICK FLICK’ (FREE EVENT) GRAND CENTRAL OPENS JULY 18TH BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: 14:00 SOME LIKE IT HOT OPENS JULY 18TH LOVELY & AMAZING 13TH BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: 16:10 SUPERMENSCH: THE LEGEND SUN CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 OF SHEP GORDON OPENS JULY 18TH 15TH BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: ARTIST FILM 18.30 BRANDED TO KILL OPENS JULY 25TH TUES SCREENING: BETE & DEISE + SOMETHING JOE OPENS JULY 25TH FROM NOTHING 16TH FROM THE VAULTS: MAEVE 18.30 THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI OPENS JULY 25TH WED NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY OPENS JULY 25TH 17TH IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL (JULY 17TH - 20TH): THUR SEE SEPARATE PROGRAMME BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: GIRLFRIENDS 18:30 22ND FEAST YOUR EYES: ALICE DOESN’T LIVE 18.15 TUES HERE ANYMORE 23RD BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: WIVES 18:30 WED 24TH BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: OBVIOUS 18:30 THUR CHILD (PREVIEW & DUBLIN PREMIERE) 25TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: FRIED GREEN 11:00 FRI TOMATOES 26TH BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: PANEL 12:00 SAT DISCUSSION: PRESENCE AND ABSENCE: WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA (FREE EVENT) 27TH IRELAND ON SUNDAY: MAIRÉAD FARRELL: 13:00 SUN COMHRÁ NÁR CHRÍOCHNAIGH TIMES BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: ALL ABOUT EVE 16:00 28TH THE CRITICAL TAKE (FREE EVENT) 18:30 For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New MON Releases & IFI Classics, check out our weekly 29TH BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST: 18:30 schedule on www.ifi.ie or the IFI ads in The TUES YIELD TO THE NIGHT Irish Times on Fridays and Saturdays. You can 30TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: 11.00 also sign up to receive our weekly ezine by WED FRIED GREEN TOMATOES IFI & EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB: RIDDLES 18.30 emailing [email protected] OF THE SPHINX

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4 JULY 2014 NEW RELEASES & IFI CLASSICS A HARD DAY'S NIGHT

OPENS JULY 4TH Capturing the mobbing, sobbing, Day's Night follows The Beatles as they throbbing craziness of Beatlemania, the travel from Liverpool to London for a TV IFI CLASSIC first film the Fab Four made stands as appearance, and features Paul dealing a precious document of the band well with his mischievous grandfather EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI † on their way to becoming icons and as (Wilfrid Brambell), the disappearance of a landmark release which reinvented Ringo, John playing with his toys in the FILM INFO: the rock movie; the likes of Tommy bath, and George’s chiming 12-string 87 minutes, U.K., 1964, Black and White, D-Cinema Steele or Cliff Richard, for example, guitar introducing a soundtrack which Notes by Michael Hayden had never made films anywhere close includes hits such as I Should Have to appearing this uncontrived, or, for Known Better and Can't Buy Me Love. that matter, this much fun. Reissued to mark the 50th anniversary of the film’s premiere in London, the plot of A Hard CYCLING WITH MOLIÈRE

OPENS JULY 4TH Gauthier Valence (Lambert Wilson) The Misanthrope. The pair eagerly begin is a star, having become a readily rehearsals, verbally jousting about (ALCESTE À BICYCLETTE) recognised heartthrob after playing a the play, its themes and its language, brain surgeon on a hit TV show. Yet while occasionally the outside world EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI † he yearns to be taken seriously as an intrudes on their sessions. A sharp, FILM INFO: actor, and ventures out of Paris to track witty chamber piece which allows for 104 minutes, France, 2013, down his friend Serge Tanneur (Fabrice moments of slapstick comedy amid its Colour, D-Cinema Notes by Michael Hayden Luchini), a precious recluse who has literary references, Cycling with Molière edged away from the stage some years contains wonderfully contrasting There will be a French Film Club screening of this film on July 8th before. Valence finds Tanneur living performances from Wilson and Luchini, when IFI and Alliance Française frugally on Île de Ré, and proposes that while the windswept landscapes of its members pay just €7 a ticket. Please ask at the IFI Box Office. they stage a production of Molière’s island location are alluringly presented.

5 JULY 2014 NEW RELEASES & IFI CLASSICS LOVE ETERNAL

OPENS JULY 4TH Winner of the Best Irish Feature Award and gothic horror elements in tandem at this year’s JDIFF, this dark, tender with probing character study. Adapted romance introduces us to Ian (Robert de from Kei Oishi’s novel In Love with FILM INFO: 94 minutes, Ireland-Netherlands- Hoog), an isolated young man intent on the Dead, Love Eternal is a beguiling Luxemburg-Japan, 2013, Colour, taking his own life. Chance encounters fairy-tale about people rediscovering D-Cinema however, send him on a different path their zest for life. Notes by Conor Dowling and he begins to experience the world first through interactions with the dead and later through an uneasy friendship with the alive but anguished Naomi PREVIEW + Q&A We’re delighted to host a preview of this film on (Pollyanna McIntosh). Director Brendan Thursday, July 3rd (20.30) with director Brendan Muldowney creates an exciting fusion Muldowney and actor Pollyanna McIntosh taking part in a post-screening Q&A. of styles, using absurdist black comedy THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED

OPENS JULY 4TH Jonas Jonasson’s bestselling novel somewhere between Forrest Gump, retains its picaresque flavour in this film Zelig, and Harry Flashman, he has had a adaptation, which begins with Allan knack for being in the right place at the (HUNDRAÅRINGEN SOM KLEV UT GENOM FÖNSTRET Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) slipping right time, leading to encounters with OCH FÖRSVANN) away from the centenary celebrations world leaders including Stalin, Truman, being thrown in his honour, and taking and Churchill, as well as notable figures FILM INFO: to the road with a dubiously acquired such as Robert Oppenheimer. 114 minutes, Sweden, 2013, suitcase full of cash. Its original owners, Subtitled, Colour, D-Cinema a criminal gang, set off in pursuit while This highly entertaining shaggy dog Notes by Kevin Coyne themselves being chased by police. story breezes along with a fine sense of Allan meanwhile, is making friends the absurd and a pleasing undercurrent along the way, and telling them the of black humour. incredible story of his life; falling

6 BOYHOOD SHARE YOUR VIEWS AT THE CRITICAL TAKE! P20

OPENS JULY 11TH Boyhood follows Texas native Mason filmed over a 12-year period and is a (Ellar Coltrane) from the age of seven, remarkable achievement, amounting as he goes from being a carefree kid, to something more than the story of FILM INFO: 164 minutes, U.S.A., 2014, through awkward adolescence to the one boy’s life. As it traces the story Colour, D-Cinema start of his adult life. Over time, he of pop culture, from Oops! . . . I Did Notes by Michael Hayden learns to appreciate his older sister it Again to Get Lucky, and portrays Samantha (Lorelei Linklater), and the political transition of a country adapts to the whims and wants of their from the tail-end of the divisive Bush divorced parents, Mason Sr. and Olivia Jnr. years beyond the “Yes We Can!” (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette). promise of Obama’s election victory, Centred around Coltrane’s evolving Boyhood presents itself as a film of presence and organic performances, genuine substance and significance, Linklater’s ambitious project was an immediate American classic. GOLTZIUS AND THE PELICAN COMPANY

OPENS JULY 11TH Following 2007’s portrayal of publications in return for the company Rembrandt in Nightwatching, the acting out six sexual taboos recounted second entry in director Peter in the Bible, including incest (Lot and FILM INFO: 128 minutes, U.K.-Netherlands- Greenaway’s Dutch Masters series his daughters) and adultery (David France-Croatia, 2012, Colour, focuses on 16th century engraver and Bathsheba). These performances D-Cinema Hendrick Goltzius. Leader of the offer copious and explicit nudity and Notes by Kevin Coyne Pelican Company, a troupe of actors violence, and the episodic nature and artists whose activities support of the narrative provides scope for both themselves and Goltzius’ printing numerous digressions on free speech work, he strikes a deal with the and censorship, morality, art history, Margrave of Alsace (an imperious and philosophy in a film as ravishingly F. Murray Abraham) whereby funding beautiful and visually textured as one will be received for a new press and would expect from Greenaway.

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FINDING SHARE YOUR VIEWS AT THE CRITICAL VIVIAN MAIER TAKE! P20

OPENS JULY 18TH Vivian Maier was born in New York could stand comparisons to Berenice in 1926, and spent most of her Abbott or Weegee, a significant youth in France. She returned to chronicler of American life in the FILM INFO: 83 minutes, U.S.A., 2014, Black America to work as a nanny, and second half of the 20th century. and White and Colour, D-Cinema took photographs. Over the next five Notes by Michael Hayden decades, Maier would accumulate over John Maloof and Charlie Siskel’s 100,000 negatives, most of them shot involving documentary questions why in Chicago and New York City. This it was that Maier’s genius was not massive body of work would only be recognised sooner, piecing together revealed to the world when a box was a biography from fragments left IFI IRISH SHORT bought at a thrift auction in Chicago behind. It’s an intense dream of a life, These screenings will be preceded by the IFB-funded short animation, in 2007, a discovery that would lead to a provocative insight into loneliness, Coda, by Alan Holly. See page 2 Maier being celebrated as an artist who mental illness and creativity. for details. GRAND CENTRAL

OPENS JULY 18TH An unskilled labourer desperate for most valued members. As Gary gets cash, Gary Manda (Tahar Rahim, to grips with his hazardous new job, unforgettable in 2009’s A Prophet) signs and its potentially drastic effects, he FILM INFO: 95 minutes, France, 2013, up for perilous maintenance work at a embarks on a relationship with Karole, Colour, D-Cinema nuclear power plant at the beginning of but neither of them is careful enough to Notes by Alice Butler this slow-burning drama. While settling keep this concealed from the watchful into the employees’ trailer park situated eyes of those around them. Combining behind the smokestacks, Gary meets a threatening environment with illicit and quickly becomes infatuated with attraction to great effect, and benefitting Karole (Blue is the Warmest Colour’s Léa from a brilliant pulsating score, director Seydoux), a seductive co-worker who Rebecca Zlotowski evokes an unsettling is engaged to Toni (Denis Ménochet), and absorbing affair. one of the close-knit community’s

8 SOME LIKE SHARE YOUR VIEWS AT THE CRITICAL IT HOT TAKE! P20

OPENS JULY 18TH Billy Wilder’s cross-dressing caper Lewis baulked at the notion of wearing had a troubled gestation. Marilyn a frock. The film played badly to test Monroe was reportedly pregnant audiences and was condemned by the IFI CLASSIC during filming, and, too distracted to Catholic Church, and yet it has survived FILM INFO: remember her lines, she was indulged to be celebrated as one of Hollywood’s 120 minutes, U.S.A., 1959, with cue cards and multiple retakes. greatest comedies and a crowning Black and White, D-Cinema She got little sympathy from the achievement for all concerned. Indeed, Notes by Michael Hayden vain, spiteful Tony Curtis, who would it is a film that rewards with repeated declare that love scenes with Monroe viewing, with a sense of humour that were like “kissing Hitler”, though he is more sophisticated than initially would latterly seek to tone down that apparent and a killer pay-off that gets comment. Jack Lemmon only landed funnier every time. the role of Jerry/Daphne after Jerry SUPERMENSCH: THE LEGEND OF SHEP GORDON

OPENS JULY 18TH In the late 1960s, Shep Gordon chef and cooking for the Dalai Lama. chanced on a career in show business Supermensch is the story of a life lived after walking out on his job as a parole well, while ever conscious of karmic FILM INFO: 85 minutes, U.S.A., 2014, officer and checking into a hotel consequence. Actor and first-time Colour, D-Cinema that was home to Jimi Hendrix and director Mike Myers’ affectionate, Notes by Michael Hayden Janis Joplin. He first managed Alice fascinating documentary depicts a Cooper, with whom he would share faithful Hollywood insider inspiring the indulgent excesses of rock’n’roll. loyalty from the likes of Michael He would go on to have a guiding Douglas, Tom Arnold and Sylvester influence on the careers of Blondie, Stallone, who are among those Teddy Pendergrass and Anne Murray, appearing here to pay tribute. while also helping out Groucho Marx, creating the concept of the celebrity

9 JULY 2014 NEW RELEASES & IFI CLASSICS BRANDED TO KILL

OPENS JULY 25TH When Branded to Kill was released in The director won the case, and the film 1967, the president of Nikkatsu, the survived to be regarded as one of the production company who financed the most inspired genre movies ever made IFI CLASSIC film, branded it ‘incomprehensible’. It in Japan, an influential touchstone for FILM INFO: was withdrawn from distribution after American directors such as Scorsese, 91 minutes, Japan, 1967, Black just a few screenings and Seijun Suzuki Jarmusch and Tarantino. Branded to Kill and White, D-Cinema was sacked from the company within is mad, sexy and brilliant, a breathtaking Notes by Michael Hayden months. After the Japan Directors Guild yakuza thriller about a hitman marked and student groups lodged protests for execution having to battle beautiful about Suzuki’s treatment, a lengthy women and murderous gangsters in court battle ensued, with Suzuki claiming order to become ‘Number One Killer’ and breach of contract, wrongful dismissal possibly save his own life. and personal damages. JOE

OPENS JULY 25TH After flirting with the mainstream in to look after his mother and sister a number of stoner comedies, David financially while protecting them from Gordon Green returns here to the more his shiftless, violent, alcoholic father FILM INFO: 117 minutes, U.S.A., 2013, personal feel of his earlier films George( (the outstanding Gary Poulter, a local Colour, D-Cinema Washington, All the Real Girls). Making homeless man who had never Notes by Kevin Coyne a parallel return to form is Nicolas acted before). Cage as an ex-con who, although often good-spirited and kind-hearted, While events subsequent to the bond must also control a hair-trigger that forms between the two may seem temper, his fear of which has caused familiar, Green and his leads handle him to keep a degree of detachment the material in a deft and sensitive from others. He employs Gary (Tye way that keeps the viewer invested Sheridan, Mud), a 15-year-old trying and fully engaged.

10 THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI

OPENS JULY 25TH The biographer Peter Noble pronounced justly regarded as a classic of film noir. that The Lady from Shanghai had Featuring Hayworth as coolly seductive “cost a fortune, lost a fortune and femme fatale Elsa Bannister luring lonely IFI CLASSIC finished Welles’ career at any of the big Irishman Michael O’Hara (Welles) into a FILM INFO: Hollywood studios.” At the time of its murder plot, the basic storyline suggests 87 minutes, U.S.A., 1947, release, it was viewed as such a disaster a standard template of the genre. Black and White, D-Cinema that there was a rumour it was a Yet its narrative tricks and enthralling Notes by Michael Hayden vengeful attempt by Welles to sabotage strangeness mean The Lady from the career of Rita Hayworth, his then Shanghai is anything but typical. wife from whom he divorced soon after shooting the film. It’s been thankfully reappraised since, and this newly restored version illustrates why it is now NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY

OPENS JULY 25TH Fabian (Sid Lucero) is a jaded desperately struggling to provide for her intellectual, a law school dropout who young family. spends his time drinking with friends (NORTE, HANGGANAN NG and decrying the state of his country, of Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz has emerged KASAYSAYAN) society and of the world. Appalled by as a fearless, uncompromising auteur EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI † the betrayal and apathy he interprets of significance, and his latest film is an around him, he finds no comfort in epic exploration of guilt, justice, morality FILM INFO: ideologies and is driven to act on dark and faith alluding to Dostoevsky, which, 250 minutes, Philippines, 2013, Colour, D-Cinema impulses. This has consequences for in spite of its lengthy running time and Notes by Michael Hayden family man Joaquin (Archie Alemania), intellectual rigour, remains accessible who is blamed and sent to prison and engaging. for Fabian’s crimes. Joaquin’s wife Eliza (Angeli Bayani) is left in despair, 11 BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST

Named after American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, scene, but an integral aspect of the films’ narratives. who introduced the idea in her 1985 comic strip Dykes The season aims to encourage conversation around to Watch Out For, the Bechdel Test requires that a film films – a number of which have been neglected or include at least two female characters who talk to unfairly overlooked – that offer challenging portrayals each other about something other than a man. Since of interactions between female characters and that cinemas in Sweden started rating films against this stand out by engaging female protagonists as the test last year, debate has emerged with regard to how creators or makers of meaning within these contexts. few films of merit succeed in meeting its criteria and The selection also highlights those relationships with this, renewed concern has developed around between women defined by difference: in age, in how women are portrayed on screen, with specific race, in sexuality, in class and in perspective, thus attention devoted to the alarming shortage of films underlining the absence of a universal female identity that investigate compelling relationships between and drawing focus on the varying, often contradictory women – as friends, as rivals, as relatives or as allies. relationships and roles that women can fulfil In fact, in the nearly 40 years since the publication of on screen. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975), in which Laura Mulvey identified a pattern whereby female Introduction and film notes (unless otherwise characters were typically used as ‘the bearers of indicated) by Alice Butler. meaning’, too little has changed in this respect.

This season presents a selection of films from a range This season continues across several programming strands of directors who have explored complex, nuanced ties at the IFI in July. See pages 17 – 20 for information on all between women that are not merely a feature of one these events.

12 disagreement about how to instigate BORN IN change: Pat Murphy and Kathryn Bigelow play left-wing journalists; FLAMES lesbian no wave singer Adele Bertei calls for radical action; and African-American Honey is the temperate mouthpiece for Phoenix JULY 3RD (18.30) Radio. These groups unite when the chief of the women’s army is arrested FILM INFO: Set in a future New York, ten years and dies suspiciously in prison. An 80 minutes, U.S.A., 1983, Colour, DVD after an alternative socialist democracy exhilarating sci-fi, Born in Flames still promised to end inequality, women, makes for clamorous viewing. Showing workers and ethnic groups are still with Jesse Jones’ Against the Realm of suffering oppression. Born in Flames the Absolute (12 minutes, Ireland- We are delighted that filmmaker Pat Murphy will introduce this focuses on various feminist factions, in Scotland, 2011, Colour, Blu-ray). screening, and that Jesse Jones will introduce her short film.

release. Opening on Valentine’s Day PICNIC AT in 1900 at the fictional Appleyard Private Girls’ school in Victoria, HANGING ROCK pallid Sara looks on as everyone else excitedly prepares to go out for a picnic at an ancient geological formation called Hanging Rock. JULY 6TH (16.05) When four of the girls, led by the FILM INFO: Faithfully adapted from Joan virginal Miranda, go off to explore 115 minutes, Australia, 1975, Colour, Blu-ray Lindsay’s 1967 mystery novel of and inexplicably fail to return, Sara the same name, this female-centric becomes severely withdrawn and film was one of the key titles of the hysteria quickly spreads throughout Australian New Wave and was both the local settler community. a critical and box-office sensation on

and unexpected discoveries. CINEMATIC Featuring films from new and established practitioners, the VOICES programme presents the work of (SHORTS filmmakers who are distinct in style but who each echo a thoughtful PROGRAMME) engagement with gender as an ( ) evocative cinematic voice. JULY 8TH 18.30 London Suite

FILM INFO: A diverse cross-section of Irish shorts, The programme includes: Joy (Joe Joy: 10 minutes, 2007, Colour this programme utilises female Lawlor and Christine Molloy); The The Visit: 22 minutes, 2013, Colour Loose End: 3 minutes, 2013, Colour subjectivity as a vibrant cinematic Visit (Orla Walsh); Loose End (Louise Small Change: 17 minutes, 2010, Colour voice. Connecting a range of differing Bagnall); Small Change (Cathy Brady); London Suite: 28 minutes, 1989, Colour filmmaking disciplines are themes of and London Suite (Vivienne Dick). Notes by Michael Ryan fractured relationships, loss, renewal

13 BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST several passengers as she takes them TEN around Tehran.

Except for her young son Amin, with whom she has a combative relationship as a result of her recent divorce from his father, all of Mania’s JULY 10TH (18.30) passengers are women, some of whom she knows, some of whom she FILM INFO: Shot on two digital cameras placed appears to have picked up en route. 89 minutes, Iran, 2002, Colour, 35mm on the dashboard of a car, Ten is Consequently, as they journey through considerably more complex than its the city, the film becomes document simple set-up suggests. Driven by and testimony of the experiences of artist and writer Mania Akbari, the women who live there. film records her conversations with

Here, Brenda Blethyn plays a well-off LOVELY & single mother to irascible failed artist Michelle (Catherine Keener, who AMAZING features in all of Holofcener’s films), self-conscious actress Elizabeth (Emily Mortimer), and recently adopted ten-year-old Annie, who, as JULY 12TH (14.00) the only black member of the family, is struggling to find ways to fit in. FILM INFO: In all her films, writer and director 91 minutes, U.S.A., 2001, Colour, 35mm Nicole Holofcener has demonstrated Insightful, dark and funny, Lovely a knack for crisp, quick-witted & Amazing is, as critic Kenneth dialogue that her ensemble casts Turan described, “both marvelously clearly relish, and Lovely & Amazing observed and completely individual.” is no different in this respect.

Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras. CLÉO FROM Cléo from 5 to 7, Varda’s second feature, is a sublime study of a pop 5 TO 7 singer played by Corinne Marchand who we accompany around Paris as she restlessly awaits the results of a critical medical test. In this time, JULY 13TH (16.10) we see the city from Cléo’s unique perspective, and bear witness to FILM INFO: Under-acknowledged as a key figure her fleeting encounters, often with 90 minutes, France-Italy, 1962, of the French New Wave, masterful women who, in contrast to our Subtitled, Colour and Black and White, 35mm director Agnès Varda was more protagonist’s capricious behaviour, specifically part of its Left Bank seem characterised by composure movement, an innovative contingent and resilience. which included Chris Marker,

14 Mendes and funk singer Deise Tigrona. ARTIST FILM The film explores how these Brazilian SCREENING: women, from different backgrounds BETE & DEISE and generations, have used their voices in the public sphere. In Something from SOMETHING FROM NOTHING nothing, Browne uses a smartphone as a kind of ‘participant-observer’ JULY 15TH (18.30) filming device to portray a number Bete & Deise of women currently working in the Bete & Deise Co-curated with Maeve Connolly, Shetland Islands. DIRECTOR: Wendelien van Oldenborgh the IFI presents the Irish premiere FILM INFO: 40 minutes, screening of Bete & Deise, with Sarah Writer, researcher and lecturer Maeve Brazil, 2012, Colour, Blu-ray Browne’s Something from nothing. Connolly (IADT) will introduce the event Something from nothing DIRECTOR: Sarah Browne and take part in a Q&A with Sarah FILM INFO: 19 minutes, Bete & Deise records a conversation Browne after the screenings. Ireland, 2014, HD Video between actress and activist Bete

hair-splitting bore Martin (Bob GIRLFRIENDS Balaban). While Anne settles down, Susan ekes out a more offbeat lifestyle as a photographer and entertains brief affairs, including one with a married Rabbi. Since Lena Dunham screened Girlfriends JULY 17TH (18.30) at the BAMCinematek in 2012, resemblances have been drawn FILM INFO: Having just moved in together, between it and the candid humour in 86 minutes, U.S.A., 1978, Colour, 16mm Susan (a brilliant, self-deprecating Dunham’s own work, as well as with Melanie Mayron) is baffled when Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha, but her best friend and aspiring writer this undervalued film has an appeal Anne (Anita Skinner) announces all of its own that urgently requires she’s leaving New York to marry more widespread acclaim.

their 30s. Meeting again at a school WIVES reunion, Mie, Heidrun and heavily pregnant Kaja decide afterwards to abandon all family responsibilities and spend the next few days together, drifting around the streets and bars of Oslo and describing their JULY 23RD (18.30) differing views – as mothers, as workers, as wives. One of Norway’s (HUSTRUER) Made as a riposte to Cassavetes’ most celebrated directors, whose Husbands (1970) and adopting a award-winning work has screened at FILM INFO: Cannes, Berlin and Venice, Breien is 83 minutes, Norway, 1975, similarly improvisational approach, Subtitled, Colour, 35mm Wives is both riotously funny and a significant voice and Wives is her tender in its depiction of an unruly most brilliant film. friendship between three women in

15 BEYOND THE BECHDEL TEST sleeping with a chap she meets at the OBVIOUS bar. When she realises she’s pregnant CHILD and not ready to be a mother, her friend (Gaby Hoffman) supports her decision to get an abortion but insists it’s unnecessary to tell the unwitting father, something about which Donna JULY 24TH (18.30) is less convinced. A refreshing take on a difficult subject matter and FILM INFO: Understandably aggrieved when she subverting a genre that’s long been 83 minutes, U.S.A., 2014, Colour, D-Cinema gets ‘dumped up with’ and then fired in need of an overhaul, Obvious Child in quick succession, comedian Donna is a superb romantic comedy that has (the hilarious Jenny Slate) divulges all been lauded since its premiere at this PREVIEW AND in a fairly solemn stand-up routine and year’s Sundance. DUBLIN PREMIERE then ends up drinking, followed by

a ceremony where Anne Baxter’s ALL scheming Eve Harrington is being ABOUT EVE honoured for achievement in the theatre, Bette Davis’ venerable broadway star Margot Channing looks on with disdain. As we learn in the subsequent flashback, JULY 27TH (16.00) Eve has only triumphed by making every effort to destroy Margot’s FILM INFO: Released the same year as Sunset career. Still the only film to receive 138 minutes, U.S.A., 1950, Black and White, D-Cinema Boulevard, the plot of which also four female acting nominations at hinged on the ordeals of an aging the Oscars, All About Eve is, as actress, All About Eve is based Time Magazine described, “a needle on Mary Orr’s 1946 short story, sharp study of bitchery”, and an This screening will be introduced The Wisdom of Eve. Opening at enduring classic. by Alicia McGivern, IFI Head of Education.

in by far her most nuanced role as YIELD TO a convicted murderer, the film, THE NIGHT a powerful anti-death penalty statement, chronicles her time in prison, awaiting the final verdict on her execution. In this time, extraordinary relationships develop JULY 29TH (18.30) between Mary and her all-female prison wardens, particularly with FILM INFO: Nominated for the Palme d’Or in 1956 Yvonne Mitchell’s Hilda MacFarlane, a 99 minutes, U.K., 1956, and considered significant enough woman who has no frame of reference Black and White, 35mm Notes by Alice Butler upon release as to merit a screening for understanding Mary’s experiences for the members of the House of Lords, but who devotes everything in an We are pleased to have journalist and broadcaster Una Mullally at the Yield to the Night has been unfairly effort to contest that limitation. IFI to introduce this screening. neglected since. Featuring Diana Dors

16 IRELAND ON SUNDAY WILD STRAWBERRIES ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME FROM THE VAULTS IFI EVENTS FEAST YOUR EYES IFI & EXPERIMENTAL FILM CLUB Our season, Beyond the Bechdel Test, AFTERNOON TALK (FREE EVENT) continues across the IFI's regular PANEL DISCUSSION (FREE EVENT) programming strands this month. THE CRITICAL TAKE (FREE EVENT)

IRA. Due to her youth, her gender and IRELAND her stature within the IRA, Farrell was ON SUNDAY quickly subsumed into the pantheon MAIRÉAD FARRELL: of Irish republican martyrs. But behind the mythologising and demonisation of COMHRÁ NÁR the time, there was also a real person who was prepared to kill and die for CHRÍOCHNAIGH her beliefs. Directed by Martina Durac and produced by Vanessa Gildea, JULY 27TH (13.00)

Image: Derek Speirs Image: this documentary is a conscious act of memory as historian Bríona Nic (MAIRÉAD FARRELL: AN Ireland on Sunday is our monthly Dhiarmada (co-producer) revisits her UNFINISHED CONVERSATION) showcase for new Irish film. memories in an attempt to make sense of DIRECTOR: her life and death. Martina Durac This new documentary from Loopline FILM INFO: Film investigates the life and death of Martina Durac, Vanessa Gildea and 52 minutes, Ireland, 2014, Digi-beta Mairéad Farrell who in 1988 was shot Bríona Nic Dhiarmada will participate in dead by the SAS in Gibraltar along with a post-screening Q&A. two other unarmed members of the

story that focuses on women and WILD their friendship during a time of social STRAWBERRIES challenge. With brilliant performances, the film uses a flashback structure FRIED GREEN and the storytelling of nursing home TOMATOES resident Jessica Tandy, whose visitor (Kathy Bates) becomes empowered by JULY 25TH the friendship to change her life. & 30TH (11.00) There are tear-jerking moments but it's not all soft, as the women past and DIRECTOR: Wild Strawberries is our present talk life, love and friendship. Jon Avnet bi-monthly film club for over 55s. FILM INFO: €3.85 including regular tea/coffee 130 minutes, U.S.A., 1991, This month's IFI season, featuring before the screening. Wild Strawberries Drama/Comedy films in the context of the Bechdel is our film club for over 55s. If you are Test (see page 12), gives us a chance lucky enough to look younger, please to revisit this consistently popular don’t take offence if we ask your age.

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Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. MAEVE JULY 16TH (18.30) This month’s series, which looks at the changing role of women in Irish society, provides a rich Pat Murphy’s first and most experimental factual counterpoint to the feature films in our feature film was informed by feminist debates Beyond the Bechdel Test season (see page 12). on the objectification of women and by the unresolved questions of the relationship between feminism and nationalism, and HOODWINKED between history and myth. Hoodwinked is Trish McAdam’s three-part Set during the Troubles, Maeve (Mary Jackson) documentary which appeared originally on returns to Belfast after a long absence in RTÉ in 1998. London. She spends time with her sister Roisín (Bríd Brennan) who still lives with their father Through extensive use of archive footage (much Martin (Mark Mulholland), and with her old of it from the IFI Irish Film Archive collection) and boyfriend Liam (John Keegan). interviews with over 30 Irish women, including Garry Hynes, Sinead O'Connor, Louie O'Brien, Much of the film is structured around Catriona Crowe, Ruth Riddick and Mary O'Rourke, conversations between Maeve and these the series presents a coherent and enlightening characters, who in turn represent varying picture of a complex, sometimes humorous and political viewpoints, interspersed with often hidden story. flashbacks to Maeve’s time in London. The film is careful to avoid the conventions of FILM INFO: 40 minutes (each part), 1998, Black and White, mainstream filmmaking. Digi-beta

The three parts will screen at consecutive DIRECTOR: Pat Murphy lunchtimes throughout July. Please check FILM INFO: 115 minutes, U.K.-Ireland, 1982, Colour, 16mm www.ifi.ie or the IFI Box Office for dates Notes by Ruth Barton and times.

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JULY 22ND (18.15) Our monthly gastronomic abruptly because of a misjudged fling feature followed by a meal in with a volatile Harvey Keitel, Alice DIRECTOR: the IFI Café Bar. and Tommy move to Tucson where Martin Scorsese the only job going involves serving Leaving town with her precocious cheeseburgers at Mel and Ruby’s FILM INFO: 11-year-old son Tommy after her rowdy diner. Working alongside Alice 112 minutes, U.S.A., 1974, Colour, DVD husband dies suddenly in a road is brazen Flo (Diane Ladd), who Alice Notes by Alice Butler accident, Alice (Ellen Burstyn) hopes initially loathes and Vera (Valerie to trade in her old domestic life to Curtin), a strange, wan character finally make it as a singer. After a who also happens to be a short stint performing at a dingy disastrous waitress. Tickets €20. Free list suspended. lounge bar in Phoenix, which ends

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JULY 30TH (18.30) In conjunction with this month’s and adopting techniques like the season exploring representations of 360-degree pan to undermine the DIRECTORS: women on screen, the IFI and EFC notion of a single point of view, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen present Riddles of the Sphinx (1977). Riddles of the Sphinx is key to the Made two years after the publication British avant-garde film FILM INFO: 92 minutes, U.K., 1977, of Laura Mulvey’s Visual Pleasure movement of the ‘70s and remains Colour, Blu-ray and Narrative Cinema, the film a mesmerising, intellectually Notes by Alice Butler represents what she describes as a stimulating piece of work. ‘transfer’ of both her own and Peter Wollen’s theoretical ideas ‘into a This screening will be introduced visual form’. With spellbinding music by writer, lecturer and researcher from Soft Machine’s Mike Ratledge Maeve Connolly (IADT).

19 comedy or the melodrama, and always AFTERNOON operate within a broader framework of TALK gender politics. A HISTORY This talk, presented by Professor Diane OF THE Negra, Head of Film Studies at UCD, will 'CHICK FLICK' survey the wide range of films made for and marketed to women and will look JULY 12TH (12.00) at some of the ways that Hollywood has conceptualised the interests and desires Although the term 'chick flick' (nearly of its female audience. always with a pejorative connotation) is a contemporary one, it can be seen This event is FREE but ticketed. Please FREE to have many historical derivations. book your seat with the IFI Box Office. EVENT The films called up by the term often fall into well-recognised generic categories such as the romantic

Critic and writer Roe McDermott will PANEL present on the female voice in film DISCUSSION criticism; Pat Murphy will relate her experiences as a feminist filmmaker; PRESENCE AND film producer Rachel Lysaght will ABSENCE: WOMEN IN provide insight on the representation CONTEMPORARY CINEMA of professional women working within the film industry; and Ruth Barton, JULY 26TH (12.00) Head of Film Studies at TCD, will explore roles for older women in film, This panel-led event focusing on both in Ireland and further afield. women in film will comprise of four short presentations followed by an This event is FREE but ticketed. Please FREE open discussion, chaired by arts book your seat with the IFI Box Office. EVENT journalist, broadcaster for RTÉ and co-founder of The Anti Room, Sinéad Gleeson.

Join our panel, which includes THE CRITICAL Eithne Shortall (chief arts writer for TAKE The Sunday Times Ireland) and Kate McCullough (director of photography), to discuss representations of gender in Richard Linklater’s astonishing new filmBoyhood (opens July 11th); the ( ) riveting photo documentary Finding JULY 28TH 18.30 It Hot Some Like Vivian Maier (opens July 18th); and Billy Wilder’s most celebrated film, The Critical Take is a free event Some Like it Hot (opens July 18th) that takes place at the end of starring Marilyn Monroe. every month when a panel of FREE three invited speakers initiate This event is FREE but ticketed. Please EVENT an open discussion about three book your seat with the IFI Box Office. films from the IFI programme.

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4 Days of Films and Workshops for Children For full details and bookings, see www.ifi.ie/familyfest 21 IFI MEMBERSHIP SCHEME Free tickets, discounts on tickets, BEST MEMBERS (€99) free screenings and much more. As an IFI Member, you not only save money on All the member benefits plus greater access to the IFI: tickets, but you directly help support the IFI’s — Special invitation to the Annual Members’ Evening vital work in preserving and restoring Ireland's with an exclusive free screening, private programme review by the IFI Director and drinks reception unique and precious moving image heritage, — Invitation for you and a guest to one Festival and in engaging young people through our Opening Night per annum, which includes cinema national education programme. tickets plus access to the drinks reception Thank you for your support. — Free membership of the Tiernan MacBride Library at the IFI (worth €20) To join the IFI Membership Scheme, visit — Annual tours to the IFI Irish Film Archive www.ifi.ie/membership, call the membership — Listing on the IFI website as a Best Member office on 01 679 5744, or sign up in person at — Listing in one monthly programme per annum as a the IFI Box Office. Best Member

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