FEBRUARY 2017 MOONLIGHT THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s national cultural institution for film. EXHIBIT It aims to exhibit the finest in independent, Irish and international cinema, preserve PRESERVE Ireland’s moving image heritage at the IFI Irish Film Archive, and encourage EDUCATE engagement with film through its various educational programmes. PETE WALSH AWARD WINE & TAPAS EVENING Don’t forget that the closing date for entries for our Join us for a very special Spanish-themed wine and Annual Pete Walsh Writing Award is February 28th! tapas evening in the IFI Café Bar at 19.30 on Tuesday, The prize will be given for an exceptional piece of critical February 28th. With a selection of exclusive wines writing on any one film theatrically screened in Ireland from Rioja, Ribera del Duero, and Galicia, and delicious during 2016. The winner receives a year’s free entry to tapas, this event is a must for all gourmands. Places are films at the IFI and their piece will be published on the very limited. Tickets are priced €25 and are available IFI website. See www.ifi.ie/writingaward for more details. from the IFI Box Office on 01-6793477. IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB FEAST YOUR EYES This month’s French Film Club screening – where IFI Every month we pair a new release with a specially devised and Alliance Française members pay just €7.50 per ticket – main course from the IFI kitchen. This month’s film choice is Philippe Claudel's I've Loved You So Long starring Kristin is John Lee Hancock’s The Founder, in which Michael Scott Thomas as Juliette, who goes to stay with her sister Keaton plays Ray Kroc, a catering salesman who discovers Léa (Elsa Zylberstein) and her family after her release from a Californian restaurant named McDonald’s who have prison. This screening will take place on Feb 4th at 14.00. originated a revolutionary service model for genuinely fast Director Philippe Claudel will take part in a post-screening food. Tickets for the Feast Your Eyes screening on Monday, Q&A. See page 13 for film notes. Please visit www.ifi.ie or February 27th at 18.30 cost €20. See page 8 for film notes. ask at the IFI Box Office for further details. 2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE This month the IFI unveils its plans for 2017. FEBRUARY Learning to Drive AT THE IFI Wild Strawberries: In 2017, the IFI is pleased to be celebrating the 25th the audiences who have supported us over the years; anniversary of its home here in Temple Bar. 2017 looks set further details will be announced later in the year. to be another big year in the history of the organisation as we have just unveiled some of our plans for 2017 across our IFI National will continue to present programmes three core areas of exhibition, preservation and education. nationwide including our new weekly partnership with the Belltable in Limerick. IFI Local Films for Local People IFI Exhibition sees many new initiatives alongside some brings curated programmes from the IFI Irish Film Archive old favourites. Highlights include a retrospective of French to venues around the country. This year we will be filmmaker Robert Bresson, a season exploring films from presenting editions in Kerry, Cavan, Wexford, Carlow, the Weimar Republic, a focus on the Czech New Wave, Galway and Limerick. Working with Culture Ireland, and the inaugural IFI Science Fiction Festival. Old festival IFI International will work with partners internationally favourites will return like the IFI Family Festival, to promote Irish film in festivals worldwide. IFI Documentary Festival, IFI Horrorthon and IFI French Film Programmes will feature in Canada, Argentina, Australia, Festival. Collaborations will be key with events including Hong Kong, China, Ethiopia and many more. the Plastik Festival, screenings to coincide with IMMA’s exhibition As Above, So Below, and IFI Kinopolis. For our preservation remit, this year we will open a new Many of our regular programming strands will remain Research and Preservation Centre on campus at Maynooth including The Bigger Picture, Wild Strawberries and free University. This will result in the IFI Irish Film Archive Archive at Lunchtime screenings. From March we’ll also being bi-located in the future, with collections stored in be introducing a new monthly strand presenting a mystery our climate-controlled vaults here at our main home in film for our audiences… Temple Bar, and also at the University. This year the IFI Player will also feature numerous new collections, The month of April will once again have a focus on Irish particularly the BAI Advertising Collection (advertisements film, culminating in a fifth IFI Spotlight seminar. from the 1960s, ‘70s & ‘80s) and the Irish Independence There will also be a season exploring rarely-seen Northern Film Collection (newsreel footage relating to the Decade Irish documentaries and dramas. We’re pleased to present of Commemoration). focuses on Irish filmmakers: a programme of the work of pioneering documentarian John T. Davis, and to coincide For IFI Education, there will be a new schools programme with the release of Maudie, an exploration of the work of for the 2017-18 academic year. There will also be two Aisling Walsh. Partnerships will be seen here with events adult evening courses (one focussing on Russian cinema, including the presentation of Guests of the Nation at the the second on comedy), and we will be embarking on a National Concert Hall, Dublin Plays Itself Walking Tours body of research and a pilot programme for after-school with the Irish Architecture Foundation, and screenings for film activities right across the country. Culture Night. Full details of our plans can be found online. To celebrate the 25th anniversary in September, we’ll be throwing open our doors for a day of free films to thank Ross Keane Director 3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR LOVING OPENS FEB 3RD DATE SCREENING TIME TONI ERDMANN OPENS FEB 3RD 4TH I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG + Q&A 14.00 MEETINGS WITH IVOR OPENS FEB 10TH SAT 7TH IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 PREVENGE OPENS FEB 10TH TUE TAXI DRIVER OPENS FEB 10TH 14TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION 18.30 TUE FENCES OPENS FEB 17TH 15TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: LOVING 18.10 THE FOUNDER OPENS FEB 17TH WED 16TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: LOVING 13.00 MOONLIGHT OPENS FEB 17TH THU GEORGE BEST: ALL BY MYSELF OPENS FEB 24TH 18TH IFI & ADIFF: AMANDA COOGAN: LONG NOW 12.00 IT’S ONLY THE END OPENS FEB 24TH SAT IFI & ADIFF: PICKUPS + Q&A 20.15 20TH IFI & ADIFF: THE PIANO LESSON 18.30 OF THE WORLD MON 21ST IFI & ADIFF: PHOTO CITY 18.00 TUE ROCK 'N' ROLL CINEMA: LOST IN FRANCE 20.15 + CONCERT PERFORMANCE 22ND WILD STRAWBERRIES: LEARNING TO DRIVE 11.00 GET SOCIAL! WED Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! 23RD ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: MOONLIGHT 15.30 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, THU IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: INDEPENDENT FRAMES 18.30 share your movie reviews and show us your best pics 24TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: LEARNING TO DRIVE 11.00 on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! FRI Join the IFI Community online: 25TH MExINDEX: AS WE MAY THINK 12.00 SAT @IrishFilmInstitute 26TH IFI FAMILY: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 11.00 SUN @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 27TH ACCESSIBLE SCREENING: MOONLIGHT 18.00 MON IRISH FOCUS: IFI & IMMA: THE WELFARE 18.30 OF TOMÁS Ó HALLISSY FEAST YOUR EYES: THE FOUNDER 18.30 28TH IFI FILM CLUB: MOONLIGHT + DISCUSSION 18.00 Open Captioned screening TUE FROM THE VAULTS: THE VILLAGE 18.30 WINE AND TAPAS EVENING IN THE IFI CAFÉ BAR 19.30 Audio Described screening * Denotes screenings which are open captioned and audio described. For more information on our Accessible Screenings, please visit www.ifi.ie/accessible †The exclusivity status of films is correct at time of going to print TIMES For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule or the IFI ads in The Irish Times on Fridays and Saturdays. You can also sign up to receive our weekly ezine by joining at www.ifi.ie/signup. 4 FEBRUARY 2017 LOVING NEW RELEASE OPENS FEB 3RD 1958, Virginia: Richard Loving (Joel Richard hires a lawyer and prepares to Edgerton) proposes marriage to Mildred fight. Eschewing courtroom theatrics FILM INFO: (Ruth Negga), his mixed-race partner and emotional manipulation, director 123 mins, 2016, USA, Digital on the patch of land where he plans to Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Notes by David O'Mahony build their home. Eloping to Washington Special) adopts a sober approach for to tie the knot, they are confronted what is a discreet, nuanced and quietly with harsh anti-miscegenation laws on powerful exploration of an ordinary OPEN CAPTIONED their return; initially thrown into jail, couple’s steadfast quest for equality. the couple are given a choice to either leave the state for twenty-five years or There will be Open Captioned (OC) face extended prison sentences. screenings on Feb 15th (18.10) AUDIO DESCRIBED Furious at what he views to be an and Feb 16th (13.00). Audio Description infringement of his human rights, (AD) will be available on all screenings. TONI NEW RELEASE ERDMANN OPENS FEB 3RD Ines (Sandra Hüller) has become bring her wildcard dad – now appearing estranged from her retired schoolteacher in character as Toni Erdmann – to a FILM INFO: father Winfried (Peter Simonischek); series of professional engagements, the 162 mins, 2016, Germany- unhappily scaling the bottom rungs awkward comedy gradually escalating to Romania, Digital, Subtitled of the corporate consultancy ladder in a remarkably sustained high-wire act of Notes by David O'Mahony Bucharest, her career-centric life can no full blown hilarity in the latter stages.