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MARCH 2018 ISLE OF DOGS THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE

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.

MYSTERY MATINEE IFI FILM CLUB

This month’s secret screening, for which tickets Join us for an open discussion with members of the IFI cost just €5, will take place at 13.00 on Sunday team following the 18.30 screening of You Were Never Really 18th. Sometimes it will be a preview, but not always; Here on Tuesday 13th. In Lynne Ramsay’s bracing new film, sometimes, it will be a title one might expect to see stars as a traumatised ex-army private at the IFI, but not always. Join us for this month’s contractor hired to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking screening, and expect the unexpected! New York senator from a vile sex ring. ) 七十七天

EAST ASIA FILM © Seventy-Seven Days ( I GOT LIFE! (AURORE) FESTIVAL IRELAND and Wang Yun-yao

This month, IFI French Film Festival hit I Got Life! (Aurore) The IFI is delighted to welcome the return of the Chinese- is our Feast Your Eyes selection, where you can enjoy the language Film Festival Ireland to its screens from 5th–8th film and a specially devised main course menu following April. Following last year's success, the festival has expanded the 18.45 screening on Monday 26th - tickets €20, with free to the East Asia Film Festival Ireland (愛爾蘭 東亞 電影 list suspended. The film is also our IFI French Film Club 節). Showcasing the very best of new and classic cinema choice for March – IFI and Alliance Française members from East and South East Asia, the festival also features can enjoy the 18.30 screening on Thursday 29th for just an in-depth Masterclass with a legend of Asian cinema. €7.50 per ticket. See www.ifi.ie/eaffi and www.eaffi.ie for more details.

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This month the IFI unveils its plans for 2018. MARCH

AT THE IFI Woman A Fantastic Following on from the publication of IFI Strategy 2017–22, we Developments for the IFI Irish Film Archive will include are delighted to announce further details of our activities for the long-awaited opening of the new preservation facility 2018 across our core activities of exhibition, preservation at Maynooth University in March, which will significantly and education. This year, the Irish Film Institute looks to the increase the Archive’s capacity. 2018 will also see the future with the complete refurbishment of its two biggest completion of the project to acquire and preserve newsreel screens to enhance the comfort of its members and patrons, material documenting Ireland’s path to independence in the and to provide the best cinema-going experience across all period 1914–1924. This material will be curated into a single its exhibition activity. collection, the Irish Independence Film Collection, and will be made available for the first time, via the IFI Player and the Our comprehensive cinema programme this year will include IFI Player app. Other exciting Archive projects include the key seasons States of Danger and Deceit, a selection of tense cataloguing, digitising, and preservation of the complete political thrillers from the 1960s and 1970s; Killer Couples, archive of the Loopline production company, founded by a look at some of cinema’s most notorious duos; plus, in Sé Merry Doyle which comprises over 40 documentaries. this Decade of Commemoration, a season focussing on the theme of memory. 2018 will also see the inaugural Hidden IFI Education’s full-year 2018–2019 Schools’ Programme Figures programme which each year will look at the work of will launch in September, while an exciting new pilot looking oft-forgotten filmmakers, with the first edition focussing on at Film Clubs for young people across the country will be pioneering female director Ida Lupino. rolled-out this year. The IFI’s commitment to lifelong learning continues with two Evening Courses in spring and autumn, The IFI French Film Festival will return in November focusing on Nordic cinema and music on film respectively. alongside the IFI’s other flagship festivals - IFI Family Festival (August), IFI Documentary Festival (September), IFI National will continue to bring the best of local cinema to and IFI Horrorthon (October). Also scheduled to return are communities across the country through our Local Films for the East Asia Film Festival (formerly the Chinese-Language Local People initiative. IFI International will bring Irish film Film Festival) and IFI Kinopolis, our annual focus on the best programmes to 58 cities in 28 countries, and also partner of Polish cinema. with Culture Ireland’s GB18 initiative to bring a programme of screenings across the UK. As always, Irish filmmaking will remain central to the IFI’s programming activity and 2018 will see a season of film Full details of our plans can be found online. inspired by Lady Augusta Gregory in association with the Abbey Theatre (May), a series of events examining the Great Ross Keane Irish Famine on film, plus a number of dedicated Irish shorts Director programmes, Brief Encounters, throughout the year. The perennially popular day-long Spotlight and Investigations events will also return.

3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR

A FANTASTIC WOMAN OPENS MAR 2ND DATE SCREENING TIME THE ICE KING OPENS MAR 2ND 1ST IFI & ADIFF: CAREERS IN FILM DAY 10.30 SWEET COUNTRY OPENS MAR 9TH THUR WONDER WHEEL OPENS MAR 9TH 2ND IFI & ADIFF: CEDRIC GIBBONS: 13.30 FRI AN AMERCIAN IN PARIS YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE OPENS MAR 9TH IFI & ADIFF: THE CAMINO VOYAGE 18.15 THE SQUARE OPENS MAR 16TH + PANEL DISCUSSION UNLESS OPENS MAR 16TH 3RD IDA LUPINO: OUTRAGE 14.00 SAT DARK RIVER OPENS MAR 23RD 6TH IFI EVENING COURSE: PERSONA 18.30 I GOT LIFE! (AURORE) OPENS MAR 23RD TUE THE THIRD MURDER OPENS MAR 23RD 7TH BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: GEARRSCANNÁIN NUA 18.30 ISLE OF DOGS OPENS MAR 30TH WED IDA LUPINO: THE BIGAMIST 18.30 JOURNEYMAN OPENS MAR 30TH 8TH BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY 18.30 THUR + SATELLITE Q&A 10TH IDA LUPINO: 13.15 SAT 11TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: WONDER WHEEL 15.30 SUN 13TH IFI EVENING COURSE: TOGETHER 18.30 TUE IFI FILM CLUB: YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE 18.30 14TH MY GENERATION + SATELLITE Q&A 18.30 WED GET SOCIAL! 15TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: WONDER WHEEL 18.20 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! THUR Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, 18TH MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics SUN IDA LUPINO: HARD, FAST AND BEAUTIFUL 14.00 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! 19TH FROM THE VAULTS: IFI & ST PATRICK’S FESTIVAL 15.00 Join the IFI Community online: MON 20TH IFI EVENING COURSE: 18.30 linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute TUE 22ND THE BIGGER PICTURE: MORVERN CALLAR 18.30 @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub THUR @IrishFilmInstitute 24TH IDA LUPINO: THE HITCH-HIKER 14.00 SAT 25TH IFI FAMILY: THE LEGEND OF LONGWOOD 11.00 SUN For bookings and film information, please see our IDA LUPINO: THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS 13.20 website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office 26TH FEAST YOUR EYES: I GOT LIFE! (AURORE) 18.45 MON on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). 27TH IFI EVENING COURSE: THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST 18.30 TUES Open Captioned screening 28TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: LAST FLAG FLYING 11.00 WED IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: 18.30 SOFT FICTION + AND UNDER THAT Audio Described screening 29TH IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: I GOT LIFE! (AURORE) 18.30 THUR IRISH FOCUS: KÍLA: POTA ÓIR + Q&A 21.00

The F-rating is a classification for any 30TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: LAST FLAG FLYING 11.00 film which is directed by a woman, FRI is written by a woman, or features significant women on screen in their † The exclusivity of films is correct at time of print. own right.

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A FANTASTIC RELEASE NEW WOMAN

OPENS MAR 2ND A young Chilean transgender woman that the authorities immediately suspect struggles with grief and societal her, a trans-woman living with an older UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA prejudice in Sebastián Lelio’s (Glory) man, of foul play. Further indignities are compassionate, beautifully performed incurred as she attempts to assert her EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† character study. The striking, enigmatic position with Orlando’s bigoted ex-wife Marina (trans-actress Daniela Vega in and adult son, the funeral arrangements FILM INFO: 104 mins, Chile-Germany-Spain, her remarkable screen debut) works becoming a battleground. Undaunted, 2017, Digital, Subtitled as a waitress in a Santiago café whilst Marina registers the constant Notes by David O'Mahony training to be a professional singer, humiliations meted out by family, a pursuit supported by her partner, police and doctors, bravely fighting 57-year-old divorcé Orlando (Francisco for the respect she deserves. Reyes). When Orlando dies suddenly following an aneurysm, Marina finds THE ICE KING DOC IFI

OPENS MAR 2ND British figure skater John Curry was just figure skating, his artistic ambitions 26 when he won the European, Olympic to elevate his craft to fantastical EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† and World titles, becoming instantly heights, and his years of struggle as a celebrated for his dazzling technique closeted homosexual who overcame the FILM INFO: which incorporated aspects of ballet repression of both family and society to 89 mins, UK, 2018, Digital and , single-handedly become the first openly gay Olympian. Notes by David O’Mahony reinvigorating what had become an Curry’s subsequent fall from grace in unfashionable sport. James Erskine’s the eyes of a homophobic media (The Battle of the Sexes) rigorously saw him move to New York, where researched film delves into three key he succumbed to increasingly aspects of Curry’s extraordinary life: self-destructive behaviour. his athletic prowess and position as a daring innovator in international

5 MARCH 2018 SWEET COUNTRY NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAR 9TH The Northern Territories of Australia, by weathered chief Sergeant Fletcher 1929. Rancher Fred Smith (Sam Neill) (Bryan Brown) to track Sam deep into FILM INFO: is a devout Christian with a paternal the Outback, a harsh and unforgiving 113 mins, Australia, 2017, Digital relationship to his Aboriginal workers; world. Warwick Thornton’s follow up Notes by David O’Mahony ‘all men are equal in the eyes of the lord’, to Samson and Delilah (2009), which he believes. When his head stockman explored present-day marginalisation Sam (Hamilton Morris) kills a sadistic of Aboriginal communities, is a lean and neighbouring rancher (Ewen Leslie) gripping Outback western that simmers in self-defence, Sam is forced to go with a quiet anger at racial prejudice on the run with his young wife Lizzie and injustice. (Natassia Gorey Furber), knowing there will be no trial because he ‘killed a white fella’. Fred reluctantly joins a posse led WONDER WHEEL NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAR 9TH ’s 48th feature takes its daughter Carolina (Juno Temple), on the inspiration from playwrights Tennessee run from her mob-connected husband. FILM INFO: Williams, Arthur Miller and Eugene Beautifully shot by Vittorio Storaro, the 101 mins, USA, 2017, Digital O’Neill. In Coney Island, waitress film’s self-consciously theatrical nature Notes by Kevin Coyne Ginny (Kate Winslet) dreams of former marks a welcome diversion for Allen. glories and an escape from her current existence in a dead-end job, coping There will be Open Captioned (OC) with her son’s pyromania and boorish screenings at 15.30 on Sunday 11th and husband Humpty’s (Jim Belushi) 18.20 on Thursday 15th. alcoholism. Release comes in the form of an affair with lifeguard Mickey (Justin Timberlake), until this is threatened by the reappearance of Humpty’s alluring

6 YOU WERE RELEASE NEW NEVER REALLY HERE

OPENS MAR 9TH Lynne Ramsay’s bracing, violent new boasts another of ’s film, her long-delayed follow up to We angular scores. Ramsay’s approach to FILM INFO: Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), stars adapting ’s 2013 source 85 mins, UK-France-USA, Joaquin Phoenix in a coiled performance novel is distinctly unconventional; she 2017, Digital as Joe, a traumatised ex-army private focuses on building an impressionistic Notes by David O’Mahony contractor hired to rescue the daughter character study of the damaged figure of a high-ranking New York senator from of Joe, through layered flashbacks that a vile sex ring. gesture towards an abusive childhood. The narrative similarly is revealed in non- Shades of Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and chronological fragments that coalesce IFI FILM CLUB Nicolas Winding-Refn’s Drive are evident into an intense, febrile and exciting work Join us for discussion in this stark, fragmented and brilliantly that bristles with menace and danger. following the 18.30 screening realised psychological thriller that on Tuesday 13th.

THE SQUARE RELEASE NEW IFI DOC IFI

OPENS MAR 16TH An exuberant takedown of the – whilst accommodating celebrity contemporary art world, Ruben artist Julian (Dominic West) and FILM INFO: Östlund’s follow up to the much-admired becoming entangled with journalist 151 mins, Sweden-Germany- Force Majeure (2014) is a similarly Anne (Elisabeth Moss). A popular France-Denmark, 2017, provocative work. When Swedish gallery winner of the Palme d’Or at last year’s Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O’Mahony director Christian (Claes Bang) has , The Square is his phone stolen, he attempts to find an intoxicating mélange of pungent the culprit via a phone-tracking app, satire and surreal comedy, boasting a seemingly smart move that backfires an extended bravura sequence which with unforeseen and often hilarious must be seen to be believed wherein the consequences. His life unravelling, after-dinner entertainment for a launch Christian must oversee the opening of party gets alarmingly out of control. a new exhibition – the titular ‘Square’

7 MARCH 2018 UNLESS NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAR 16TH Reta Winters (Catherine Keener) has The film follows Reta and her family as many reasons to be happy: her three they struggle first to 'rescue' Norah, then FILM INFO: teenage daughters, her twenty‐year to understand her incomprehensible 90 mins, Canada-Ireland, relationship with her husband, and her decision, and finally to accept her 2016, Digital work as a successful translator and strange path and include her as she Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn novelist. But suddenly, all the quiet is as best they can. satisfactions of her life disappear when her eldest daughter, Norah (Hannah Adapted by Alan Gilsenan from the last Gross), drops out of college and leaves novel of the late, great Carol Shields, home for a Toronto street corner, this haunting film weaves big concepts refusing to speak and holding of family, faith and humanity into an a sign that says simply ‘Goodness’. enigmatic and deeply memorable drama. DARK RIVER NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAR 23RD Clio Barnard follows up The Selfish of Richard’s death, she returns to the Giant (2013), her austere, much- family farm in Yorkshire to reclaim the FILM INFO: celebrated take on Oscar Wilde, with lease on the land, determined to take 89 mins, UK, 2017, Digital another literary adaptation, this time what he once promised her, much to the Notes by David O’Mahony Rose Tremain’s acclaimed 2010 novel displeasure of elder brother Joe (Mark Trespass, changing the locale from rural Stanley), who is currently running the France to Barnard’s native Yorkshire. place into the ground. Defensive and bitter, Joe bristles at her every move Alice Bell (Ruth Wilson) lives a nomadic and years of repressed resentment life, moving from farm to farm to shear begin to resurface. sheep on temporary contracts, trying to outrun troubling memories of her father Richard (Sean Bean). When she learns

8 I GOT LIFE! RELEASE NEW (AURORE)

OPENS MAR 23RD One of the hits of last November’s IFI age when she by chance reconnects French Film Festival (where it screened with her first love, Totoche (Thibault FILM INFO: under the name Aurora with lead actress de Montalembert). Reinvigorated 90 mins, France, 2017, Agnès Jaoui in attendance), Blandine by the encounter, she refuses to Digital, Subtitled Lenoir’s film strikes a balance between be marginalised by society simply Notes by Kevin Coyne comedy and poignancy in its depiction because she is getting older, instead of a situation rarely examined renegotiating the key relationships in on film, that of a woman going her life and drawing greater comfort through menopause. from her circle of women friends. Skilfully crafted, often very funny, and FEAST YOUR EYES Enjoy the film with a specially At fifty, Aurore (Jaoui) is unemployed, frequently moving, this is a warm and devised main course following separated, about to become a timely portrait of a usually overlooked the 18.45 screening on grandmother, and facing a lonely old section of society. Monday 26th.

THE THIRD RELEASE NEW MURDER DOC IFI

OPENS MAR 23RD Kore-eda, the prolific director of and appears certain to receive the gentle family dramas (Like Father, Like death penalty (the titular third murder, SANDOME NO SATSUJIN Son, Our Little Sister, After the Storm) perhaps). His state defender, Shigemori successfully changes pace for The (Masaharu Fukuyama) is the son of EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† Third Murder, a courtroom drama- the retired judge who presided over cum-police procedural, which is as Misumi’s earlier crime. An open- FILM INFO: 124 mins, Japan, 2017, close to a genre offering as we have and-shut case becomes ever more Digital, Subtitled seen from this director. The film opens complex as the motives of the slippery Notes by David O’Mahony with Misumi (Kôji Yakusho) killing the Misumi become blurred as disturbing manager of the factory where he was new evidence comes to light. employed. Misumi, who has just been released from prison for a murder committed in the 1980s, has confessed

9 MARCH 2018 ISLE OF DOGS NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAR 30TH Wes Anderson’s second stop-motion allows Anderson to make a number animated film (following the Roald Dahl of playful references to the country’s FILM INFO: adaptation Fantastic Mr. Fox in 2009) is cinematic history, while the eclectic 101 mins, USA-Germany, a typically charming and meticulously cast includes Yoko Ono, Scarlett 2017, Digital detailed outing. Johansson, Jeff Goldblum, and, Notes by Kevin Coyne of course, Bill Murray. After an outbreak of canine flu leads to all dogs being exiled to Trash Island, There will be Open Captioned (OC) defiant 12-year-old Atari sets out alone screenings at 13.10 on Wednesday, to rescue his dog. Chased by authority April 4th and 18.20 on Monday, figures intent on retrieving the boy, the April 9th. community of dogs comes together to protect him. The film’s Japanese setting JOURNEYMAN NEW RELEASE

OPENS MAR 30TH Paddy Considine’s second feature as both A fierce match ensues with arrogant writer and director following Tyrannosaur challenger Andre Bryte (Anthony Welsh), FILM INFO: (2011) is a heartfelt and moving story yet Matty goes the distance and wins the 92 mins, UK, 2017, Digital of crisis and redemption in the world of judges’ decision. Notes by David O’Mahony championship boxing. Considine plays Matty Burton, a middleweight nearing The real struggle, however, begins after the end of his career; rather than settling the fight when Matty collapses back at for retirement with his wife Emma (Jodie home, succumbing to repeated head Whittaker) and baby daughter, Matty is traumas at the hands of Bryte which, preparing to defend his title one more following surgery, reduce him to time, largely to silence the naysayers who a childlike state. point out that his most recent victory was won on a technicality.

10 IRISH ARCHIVE AT FOCUS LUNCHTIME An Ranger

KÍLA: POTA ÓIR FAMINE ON FILM MAR 29TH (21.00) Join us for free films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office Kíla: Pota Óir is a portrait of one of Ireland’s most – please see www.ifi.ie for more information. respected cult bands who merge folk and world music traditions into a euphoric live experience. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn Now in their 30th year, Kíla, formed by a bunch PROGRAMME ONE of musical youths from Dublin’s Coláiste Eoin, POORHOUSE DIRECTOR: Frank Stapleton has come to be considered one of Ireland’s most An ailing woman works in the Cavan poorhouse. exciting and innovative bands. Their unique and ever-evolving sound, while rooted in tradition, is PROGRAMME TWO inspired by a myriad of influences from musical OCRAS DIRECTOR: Sean McGuire traditions around the globe. A starving pair encounter a mysterious stranger by the roadside. Director Anthony White followed the band on tour, capturing the infectious vitality of their CORANNA DIRECTOR: Steve Woods performances in Wicklow, Dublin and the A young boy and his horse race to save their Cambridge Folk Festival. The film combines parish from the scourge of famine. generous swathes of concert footage, candid interviews, and intimate backstage moments AN RANGER DIRECTOR: PJ Dillon to create a lively record of one of Ireland’s most A British Army soldier returns home to Conamara acclaimed live acts. in 1854 to find his family have all perished. This screening will be followed by a Q&A and PROGRAMME THREE music with Kíla and director Anthony White. IRELAND 1848 DIRECTOR: Steve Woods The tragedy of the Famine told in a haunting DIRECTOR: Anthony White pre-cinema style short. EVENT INFO: 90 mins approx, Ireland, 2018, Digital, Black and White STROKESTOWN : Pat Murphy Notes by Sunniva O'Flynn A deeply affecting film installation for the Strokestown Famine Museum. On Saturday 24th, Dr Tony Tracy NUIG will introduce a selection of films from the programme. This programme of short films coincides with the Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger exhibition at Dublin Castle from March 8th.

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FROM THE BRIEF VAULTS ENCOUNTERS An Béal Bocht Shamus IFI & ST PATRICK’S FESTIVAL GEARRSCANNÁIN NUA MAR 19TH (15.00) MAR 7TH (18.30) AMHARC ÉIREANN: EAGRÁN 42 In the first of an occasional series of St Patrick’s Day 1960. See the Industrial Parades dedicated shorts programmes, we celebrate and visit the Kennel Club Dog Show, the only place Seachtain na Gaeilge with a colourful slate in Dublin where a drink could be got. of Irish language shorts. FILM INFO: 4 mins, Ireland, 1960, Black and White IDIR NEAMH AGUS TALAMH:

SONGS OF THE IRISH SAOTHAR WILLIAM MCKEOWN Songs of the Irish is a musical tableau of This film journeys through the immersive Irish-American entertainers intercut with paintings of Co. Tyrone’s William McKeown. footage of a New York St Patrick’s Day Parade. FILM INFO: Pat Collins, 5 mins, Ireland, 2016 FILM INFO: 8 mins, Ireland, 1946, Black and White IMOGEN STUART DEALBHÓIR

SHAMUS This short explores the powerful work This quirky little film tells the tale of an orphan of German-Irish sculptor Imogen Stuart. boy Shamus (John Francis Rooney), who grows a monkey’s tail when he steals a pot of gold FILM INFO: Sharon Whooley, 5 mins, Ireland, 2016 belonging to an evil leprechaun (Tiny Littler). CORANNA Shamus wanders woefully around the streets of A young boy and his horse, Coranna, race to save Belfast before stowing away on a ship to Liverpool their parish from approaching catastrophe in this where he finds adventure and happiness. animated film. DIRECTOR: Eric Marquis FILM INFO: Steve Woods, 9 mins, Ireland, 2017 FILM INFO: 54 mins, Northern Ireland, 1958 BUNGALÓ BLISS Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 family ticket A radical reappraisal of the humble bungalow and (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult + 3 children). its importance in Ireland’s architectural heritage. FILM INFO: Fergal Ward & Adrian Duncan, 5 mins, Ireland, 2016 AN BÉAL BOCHT In this animated adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s satirical Irish novel, an impoverished Irish peasant contemplates his life from Sligo Gaol. FILM INFO: Tom Collins, 33 mins, Ireland, 2017

12 IFI FAMILY THE LEGEND OF LONGWOOD

MAR 25TH (11.00)

DIRECTOR: 12-year-old horse-loving Mickey and bravery to save the horses, with Lisa Mulcahy Miller is none too happy moving to unexpected help from the mysterious FILM INFO: small-town Ireland from New York. Black Knight. 99 mins, Netherlands-Ireland- Wandering near her new home she Germany, 2017, Digital Notes by Alicia McGivern finds a wild stallion, Silver, while local Tickets: €4.80 per person, €14.40 family boy Sean tells her the myth of the ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult legendary Black Knight, who can be + 3 children). seen roaming the land on horseback. When they uncover a local woman’s wicked plot to steal land, the grazing ground of a herd of wild horses, Mickey and Sean must use all of their wits

WILD STRAWBERRIES LAST FLAG FLYING

MAR 28TH & 30TH (11.00)

DIRECTOR: Hal Ashby’s 1973 film adaptation of their characters depth and humanity as Darryl Ponicsan’s novel The Last Detail they interact on their painful road trip to FILM INFO: concerns two Navy men who take a Arlington Cemetery. 125 mins, USA, 2017, Digital young offender on the town before he Notes by Alicia McGivern goes to prison. In this loose sequel, Wild Strawberries is our film club for three military vets reconvene in order the over 55s. Tickets: €4.25 including to escort the body of one of their sons, regular tea/coffee before the event. If killed in Iraq. you happen to look younger, please don’t take offence if we ask your age. Linklater’s three leads, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne and Steve Carell, each fully inhabit their roles, lending

13 THE BIGGER PICTURE MORVERN CALLAR

MAR 22ND (18.30)

DIRECTOR: plays Morvern distinctive voices in UK cinema with Lynne Ramsay Callar, a supermarket assistant in a this visually striking adaptation of FILM INFO: small Scottish port town who wakes ’s novel. 97 mins, UK, 2002, 35mm up on Christmas morning to find her Notes by David O’Mahony boyfriend has committed suicide, The screening will be introduced by leaving her the manuscript of his Willie White, Artistic Director of the unpublished novel. Inscrutably, she Dublin Theatre Festival. disposes of the body, claims the novel Lynne Ramsay’s You Were as her own, and sends it to a publishing Please note that this rare 35mm print Never Really Here opens at the house before leaving for Spain of Morvern Callar has been sourced IFI on Friday 9th. See page 7 for film notes. with her best friend. Lynne Ramsay from Norway and will screen with proved herself to be one of the most Norwegian subtitles.

AEMI PROJECTIONS SOFT FICTION + AND UNDER THAT MAR 28TH (18.30)

CURATED BY: Chick Strand's 1979 masterpiece Screening with Soft Fiction is Glasgow- BENJAMIN COOK Soft Fiction is a remarkable work of based artist Anne-Marie Copestake’s SOFT FICTION collective representation. Each of the And Under That, a portrait of two women Dir: Chick Strand five women in the film collaborated which examines legacies and patterns FILM INFO: with Strand to build the film’s rich and of so-called emancipation. 54 mins, USA, 1979, Digital, complex picture of female subjectivity Black and White blending poetic documentary with This screening will be introduced by lyrical abstraction. Its rare and open Director of LUX Benjamin Cook & artist AND UNDER THAT depiction of female sensuality was Anne-Marie Copestake. A post-screening Dir: Anne-Marie Copestake controversial when first shown but Soft discussion will take place FILM INFO: Fiction is now celebrated as one of the at Temple Bar Gallery+Studios. 32 mins, UK, 2012, Digital defining feminist films of the 1970s.

14 MY GENERATION + SATELLITE Q&A

MAR 14TH (18.30)

DIRECTOR: This engaging and playful McCartney, Twiggy and Mary Quant, David Batty documentary, narrated by and featuring My Generation is an insider tour of a EVENT INFO: the inimitable Michael Caine, chronicles defining era. 130 mins, UK, 2018, Digital the cultural revolution of the Swinging Sixties and the societal upheaval it This special screening will include caused that still resonates today. a satellite Q&A with Michael Caine and director David Batty live from BFI Sourced from over 1,600 hours of Southbank, hosted by Edith Bowman. footage, extensive research and over 50 interviews with key players including David Bailey, Marianne Faithfull, Joan Collins, Roger Daltrey, Lulu, Paul

BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY + SATELLITE Q&A MAR 8TH (18.30)

DIRECTOR: Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr was Mislabeled as ‘just another pretty Alexandra Dean known as the world’s most beautiful face’, Lamarr’s true legacy is that EVENT INFO: woman; Snow White and Cat Woman of a technological trailblazer. 150 mins, USA, 2018, Digital were both based on her iconic look. However, her arresting looks and To coincide with International glamorous life stood in the way of her Women’s Day, this special screening of being given the credit she deserved Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story as an ingenious inventor whose will be followed by a satellite Q&A with pioneering work helped revolutionise executive producer Susan Sarandon modern communication. and director Alexandra Dean, live from BFI Southbank.

15 IDA LUPINO: FILMMAKER

Ida Lupino (1918-1995) began her career in film those affecting women, believing that for Hollywood in acting. Discovered by Paramount, the studio to continue its success, 'there must be experimentation described her as 'the English ', though with out-of-the-way film subjects'. she self-deprecatingly referred to herself as 'the poor man’s '. The quality of her work led to Lupino being only the second woman (after Dorothy Arzner) admitted to the Despite highs such as starring with Directors Guild of America. Lupino was a trailblazer, in ’s High Sierra (1941), the fiercely described by as 'a woman of independent-minded Lupino never fully fit into extraordinary talents', whose films 'represent the studio system. Instead, she co-established The a singular achievement in American cinema'. Filmmakers, an independent production company that afforded her the opportunity to write, produce, and Introduction and film notes by Kevin Coyne. direct films that focused on social issues, primarily

the subject of rape and its aftermath. OUTRAGE Happy, successful Ann (Mala Powers) is assaulted following work. In the days that follow, she comes to feel increasingly alienated, despite the support of her family and friends. Convinced she is the subject of MAR 3RD (14.00) gossip and judgement, a particularly ham-fisted police investigation causes FILM INFO: With the weakening of the Hays her to flee to , where 75 mins, USA, 1950, Code in the late , Hollywood another attempted assault brings 35mm, Black and White was once again able to tackle more consequences for Ann. In many ways a taboo topics. Outrage was, along film of its time, there are nevertheless with Johnny Belinda (Jean Negulesco, elements of the film that remain 1948), one of the first films to tackle distressingly pertinent.

16 IDA LUPINO: FILMMAKER THE BIGAMIST

MAR 7TH (18.30) Harry (Edmond O’Brien) and wife Eve what was for the time a controversial (), unable to have their subject, especially given its relatively FILM INFO: own children, seek to adopt, and so sympathetic attitude to Harry, 80 mins, USA, 1953, 35mm, must be assessed for suitability by Mr. portraying him as a man motivated by Black and White Jordan (Edmund Gwenn). Jordan’s loneliness and weakness rather than a investigation into Harry’s frequent callous philanderer. out-of-town business trips leads to the discovery of a second marriage, to Thanks to UCLA. 35mm preservation Phyllis (Lupino, cited here as the first print courtesy of the UCLA Film & woman star to direct herself), with Television Archive. Preservation funding whom he has a daughter. The film is provided by The Film Foundation and the notable for its bravery in exploring Hollywood Foreign Press Association. NEVER FEAR

MAR 10TH (13.15) Lupino’s first official film as director, with polio. Facing a long period of following uncredited work on 1949’s rehabilitation, she pushes Guy away, FILM INFO: when original director preferring to face what may come 82 mins, USA, 1949, 35mm, Elmer Clifton suffered a heart attack, alone and make her own decisions Black and White also saw her receive credits for writing about her future. Informed by Lupino’s and producing, an extremely rare own experience of contracting the feat for a woman in Hollywood at the disease, from which she almost time (and indeed, since). Carol (Sally completely recovered, this Forrest) has just become engaged to is a sensitive look at issues Guy (Keefe Brasselle), with whom she surrounding disability. performs as a professional dancer, when she is suddenly struck down

17 IDA LUPINO: FILMMAKER wealth and fame. As these pressures HARD, cause Florence to become increasingly disillusioned with the sport, she finds FAST AND romance with Gordon (Robert Clarke), a distraction that causes her mother BEAUTIFUL much dismay. MAR 18TH (14.00) At the heart of the film is Florence’s struggle for autonomy, not just from FILM INFO: Teenage tennis prodigy Florence the mother who lives through her 78 mins, USA, 1951, DVD, vicariously, but from the established Black and White () is forced to strive ever harder for success in order to satisfy social order of the time. the ambitions of her middle-class mother Millie (Claire Trevor), who sees her daughter as her ticket to greater social standing, and the attendant

as two men whose act of kindness THE is punished when they are forced to aid a sadistic psychopath attempting HITCH-HIKER to elude authorities following a killing spree. As the murderer pushes to its limits a friendship he cannot understand, Lupino creates a bleak, MAR 24TH (14.00) tense atmosphere, expanding on the genre’s claustrophobic nature FILM INFO: Marking yet another occasion when by shooting largely on location in 71 mins, USA, 1953, 35mm, the open desert. Black and White Lupino’s career broke new ground, The Hitch-Hiker is widely regarded as the firstfilm noir directed by a woman. Inspired by the facts around the real- life case of killer Billy Cook, it stars Edmond O’Brien and

her previous work, The Trouble With THE TROUBLE Angels is a charming and amusing comedy in the vein of the English WITH series of films set in St. Trinian’s. Here, plays a rebellious teenager ANGELS in an all-girls Catholic boarding school who comes into frequent conflict with MAR 25TH (13.20) Mother Superior () before eventually coming to appreciate FILM INFO: Thirteen years after the closure of her selflessness. 112 mins, USA, 1966, Format TBC, Black and White The Filmmakers, Lupino was finally afforded the chance to direct again, for what would turn out to be her final film in the position. Marking a break in both style and content from

18 EVENING COURSE: NORDIC NIGHTS Our spring Evening Course, which runs across six consecutive Tuesdays from March 6th, will this year focus on Nordic cinema.

Influence from the Nordic countries can be seen across a wide range of cultural and lifestyle spheres. In cinema, while the shadows of Bergman and Dreyer may loom large, filmmakers from the region have developed their own distinctive styles.

Film screenings will include ’s Persona, Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen, and Aki Kaurismäki’s The Man Without a Past, and each will be followed by a talk from a specially invited guest.

Places on the course cost €80 (€75 conc.) and can be booked via www.ifi.ie. Film tickets not sold individually. Festen

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