JULY 2016 NICOLAS WINDING REFN 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. FRENCH FILM CLUB PETE WALSH AWARD This month’s French Film Club screening – where IFI and The winner of this year's Pete Walsh Critical Writing Alliance Française members pay just €7 a ticket – on the Award is Naomi Keenan O'Shea (pictured) who wrote a evening of July 19th is Catherine Corsini’s Summertime, stimulating piece on Jafar Panahi's Taxi which screened at starring Izïa Higelin and Cécile de France as lovers who the IFI in June 2015. Naomi wins a year of free films at the meet in Paris during the women’s liberation movement IFI. This annual award is inspired by the late, esteemed IFI of the 1970s. See page 8 for film notes. Please visit programmer Pete Walsh and rewards an outstanding piece www.ifi.ie or ask at the IFI Box Office for further details. of critical writing on film. You can read her winning review at www.ifi.ie/writingaward IFI FILM CLUB FEAST YOUR EYES Join IFI Head of Cinema Programming David O’Mahony with Our monthly pairing of a new release and a specially devised a guest on July 13th for a discussion about Nicolas Winding main course menu will be Ken Wardrop’s keenly anticipated Refn’s visually striking The Neon Demon following the second documentary feature, Mom and Me, on July 26th at 18.00 screening. In this special IFI Film Club event, audience 18.30. After the film, enjoy a meal inspired by the film in the members are invited to contribute to a conversation about the IFI Café Bar. Tickets €20, free list suspended. See also page film and the director’s previous work. Complimentary glass of 6 for details of our special Feast Your Eyes event for an open wine included during the discussion. See page 7 for film notes. captioned and audio described screening of Maggie’s Plan. 2 DIRECTOR’S NOTE The IFI’s July programme sees the return of IFI Open Day and a folk horror season. JULY (see page 6) AT THE IFI Maggie’s Plan Early this month, on July 2nd, we welcome back IFI Open Day News from Home (1977) and Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai where once again the IFI is opening its doors to you with a du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975). day jam-packed with free film screenings. In addition to FREE sneak-previews, old favourites, cult classics and archive There are plenty of other great new releases on offer. films throughout the day, you will also have the chance to The Neon Demon will get a sneak preview at IFI Open Day, glimpse behind the scenes at the IFI with talks from the IFI and will then go on release from July 8th. Nicolas Winding Irish Film Archive staff on the amazing work they do and Refn’s follow-up to Drive and Only God Forgives divided the opportunity to take a rare trip to our projection booth! some at Cannes this year, but it’s a stylish, humorously This year, make sure to follow our NEW IFI Open Day disturbing tale that is also a vicious attack on the fashion ticketing instructions: film tickets will be released an hour world, and stars a mesmerising Elle Fanning. Irish before each film’s scheduled screening time. Simply queue documentary filmmaker Ken Wardrop follows the enormous at the relevant desk in the IFI foyer to pick up your tickets success of His and Hers (2009) with his hotly anticipated next (maximum two tickets per person per film) and then enjoy feature Mom and Me in which, using his signature warm your free movie. and compassionate style, he explores a series of mother/son relationships in Oklahoma. We’ll also be offering IFI Membership at a discounted rate throughout the day, allowing you to avail of free cinema Also this month, following on from the launch of our new tickets, previews and discounts throughout the year, and accessible screenings for visually impaired and hard-of- we’ll have special gifts for IFI Friends. Whether you are a hearing audiences, this month we’re pleased to present regular visitor or it’s your first time through our front door, open-captioned and audio-described screenings of both the we welcome you to enjoy a wonderful film on one of our documentary, Notes on Blindness and Rebecca Miller’s latest, three big screens, grab a delicious bite in the IFI Café Bar, Maggie’s Plan (audio description will be available on all browse leisurely through our DVD collection in the IFI Film shows of these films). Shop, or simply linger over a good coffee in busy Temple Bar. Ross Keane Also this month, the IFI Season will focus on folk horror and Director films concerned with paganism and superstition. Key titles within the season include The Wicker Man (1973), The Devil Rides Out (1968) and The Blair Witch Project (1999). We’re delighted to welcome journalist, film critic and fiction writer Kim Newman as our special guest for the season who will introduce three of the films in the programme. This month we’re pleased to be presenting the final film made by Chantal Akerman before her death last year, No Home Movie, and to mark her work and passing, we’ll also be offering screenings of two of her earlier pieces, 3 NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS & DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR NO HOME MOVIE OPENS JUL 1ST DATE SCREENING TIME NOTES ON BLINDNESS OPENS JUL 1ST 1ST WILD STRAWBERRIES: WILD 11.00 FRI QUEEN OF EARTH OPENS JUL 1ST 2ND IFI OPEN DAY* MAGGIE’S PLAN OPENS JUL 8TH SAT 4TH NOTES ON BLINDNESS (ACCESSIBLE SCREENING)** 18.30 THE NEON DEMON OPENS JUL 8TH MON MEN AND CHICKEN OPENS JUL 15TH 5TH IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) 21.30 TUE MOM AND ME OPENS JUL 15TH 7TH NOTES ON BLINDNESS (ACCESSIBLE SCREENING)** 14.00 SUMMERTIME OPENS JUL 15TH THU 9TH CHANTAL AKERMAN: NEWS FROM HOME 15.00 CHEVALIER OPENS JUL 22ND SAT AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY OPENS JUL 29TH 10TH CHANTAL AKERMAN: JEANNE DIELMAN, 15.00 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES THE COMMUNE OPENS JUL 29TH SUN 11TH ACCESSIBLE FEAST YOUR EYES: MAGGIE'S PLAN** 18.30 MON 12TH MAGGIE’S PLAN (ACCESSIBLE SCREENING)** 18.20 TUE GET SOCIAL! 13TH IFI FILM CLUB: THE NEON DEMON 18.00 WED FROM THE VAULTS: WARDROP'S SHORTS 18.30 Excited about this month’s programme? So are we! 14TH MAGGIE’S PLAN (ACCESSIBLE SCREENING)** 16.10 Tell your friends which film you’re planning to watch, THU share your movie reviews and show us your best pics on 15TH MOM AND ME + DIRECTOR Q&A 18.30 Instagram, Twitter and Facebook! FRI Join the IFI Community online: 16TH HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: WITCHFINDER GENERAL 18.30 SAT HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: THE WICKER MAN 20.45 @IrishFilmInstitute 17TH HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: QUATERMASS AND THE PIT 14.00 SUN @IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 18TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: TOKYO STORY 18.30 MON 19TH IRISH FOCUS: BORN AND REARED + Q&A 18.30 TUE 20TH HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: VALERIE AND HER WEEK 18.30 Open Captioned screening WED OF WONDERS 23RD HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW 20.30 Audio Described screening SAT 24TH IFI FAMILY: SONG OF THE SEA 11.00 SUN HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: THE DEVIL RIDES OUT 14.00 26TH FEAST YOUR EYES: MOM AND ME 18.30 TUE IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS 18.30 27TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 11.00 WED HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: NIGHT OF THE DEMON 18.30 29TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 11.00 FRI 30TH HAUNTED LANDSCAPES: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 20.30 SAT 31ST THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: THE FRENCH 14.00 TIMES SUN LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN For a breakdown of times and dates of IFI New *See separate flyer or visit www.ifi.ie/openday for details Releases, IFI Docs & IFI Classics, check out our **Denotes screenings which are either open captioned or audio described. weekly schedule on www.ifi.ie/weekly-schedule 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 JULY 2016 NO HOME MOVIE IFI DOC OPENS JULY 1ST The final film Chantal Akerman made documentary is made up of before her death last year, No Home conversations between the pair both FILM INFO: Movie is as radical and moving as in Natalia’s Brussels apartment where 115 mins, France-Belgium, the seminal Belgian director’s very Akerman regularly comes to visit 2015, Digital best work and as characteristically and via Skype while the filmmaker Notes by Alice Butler defiant as its powerful title suggests. is on the road. Desperate to glean details of a life before it’s too late, Scrutinising the filmmaker’s Akerman quizzes her mother about relationship with her ailing mother her traumatic past but as she does the Natalia, a Polish Jew and Auschwitz intense kinship and affection between CHANTAL AKERMAN FOCUS survivor whose experiences have them gets in the way, shedding See page 17 for details of more had a major influence on Akerman’s light on a deeply prized bond that is Chantal Akerman films showing life and art, this raw and intimate slowly and tragically being undone.