Black Gold • Ten Canoes Comme une Image • Once Warchild • Los Olvidados Rocky Road to Dublin • Babel Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium Education BABEL Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Autumn/Winter 2007 Welcome Senior Cycle IFI Education: Supporting film in school curricula and English promoting moving image culture for young audiences. We currently reach 20,000 students around Ireland at secondary and primary level with our extensive programme. This includes films in Irish, French, German and Spanish, alongside Leaving Cert English titles, new Irish films, documentaries and films for primary school audiences. Strictly Ballroom Oct 3, 10.30am Baz Luhrmann’s flamboyant and colourful debut film tells LAUNCH EVENT the story of Scott and Fran who struggle to dance their Cinema Paradiso – Original Version Sep 27, 10.30am own steps despite an authoritarian Dance Federation. We are delighted to launch this term’s events with two free screenings at the IFI: As You Like It This modern classic is showing for Leaving Cert 08 in the Told as a fairy tale, romantic comedy and dance musical original version. The story is revealed in flashback, when rolled into one, this is an excellent choice for comparative (for teachers) on September 19th at 6.30 pm, and A Mighty Heart (for students) on Salvatore (Toto) returns to the small Sicilian town of his child- study: accessible, fun and fast-paced, it also deals with September 20th at 10.30 am. hood for the funeral of his mentor, local projectionist Alfredo. more serious themes. FRANCE/ITALY • 1998 • COMEDY/DRAMA • 123 MIN AUS • 1992 • COMEDY/DRAMA • 94 MINS • DIR: BAZ LUHRMANN DIRECTOR: GUISEPPE TORNATORE ALSO SHOWING AT: Samhlaíocht Kerry Film Festival (Nov 5-9) Nov 5 Booking through Samhlaíocht on (066) 712 9934 Revision Workshops for Leaving Cert 2008 Hour-long workshop focussing on key moments for students of Leaving Cert 2008. Please note: the complete film will not be shown. Booking essential. €3 per student As You Like It Sep 19, 6.30pm A Mighty Heart Sep 20, 10.30am In Kenneth Branagh’s latest big screen Shakespeare, On January 23, 2002, Mariane Pearl’s (Angelina he shifts the action to 19th century Japan. Beauty Jolie) world changed forever. Her husband Daniel, The Truman Show Oct 24, 10.30am and peace are to be found in the forest which is South Asia Bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, Peter Weir’s film about reality TV star Truman Burbank home to the banished Duke and his followers. Bryce was researching a story on shoe bomber Richard whose media controlled life begins to show cracks when he Dallas Howard is a terrific Rosalind. Her mischievous Reid. The story drew them to Karachi where a go- starts to ask questions. cross-dressing as Ganymede provides the dynamic between had promised access to an elusive source. USA • 1998 • DRAMA • 103 MINS • DIRECTOR: PETER WEIR behind the action in this bright and breezy version of As Danny left for the meeting, he told Mariane he the romantic comedy. might be late for dinner. He never returned. This film ALSO SHOWING AT: Cavan, Ramor Theatre Sep 28 UK/USA • 2006 • COMEDY • 107 MINS • DIR: KENNETH BRANAGH is based on Mariane’s memoir A Mighty Heart: The Booking on (049) 854 7074 Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl. The 52nd Cork Film Festival (Oct 14-21) Oct 15 USA/UK • 2007 • DRAMA • 100 MINS • DIR: MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM Booking through Eoin on (021) 427 1711 Twelve Angry Men Jan 10, 10.30am Courtesy of Paramount Vantage Pictures. Samhlaíocht Kerry Film Festival (Nov 5-9) Nov 7 The Truman Show Jan 10, 11.45am Booking through Samhlaíocht on (066) 712 9934 Booking through IFI on (01) 679 5744 For booking or more information on Please note IFI Education events, contact • Book early to avoid disappointment. ALSO: Alicia or Deirdre: • No-shows of 5 students or more will be charged to your school. Strictly Ballroom Ramor Theatre, Cavan Sep 28 t (01) 679 5744, e [email protected] • Cancellations must be made 3 days in advance. Booking on (049) 854 7074 Admission to all IFI events €5 unless • Teachers must sit among students and supervise them otherwise stated. closely during screenings. 1 www.irishfilm.ie Senior Cycle Senior Cycle Gaeilge French German Spanish An Turas Feasa Oct 11, 10.30am Comme une Image/Look at Me Oct 18, 23, 10.30am Stille Sehnsucht/Warchild Nov 21, Dec 18, 10.30am Los Olvidados Nov 28 In conjunction with IMRAM, the Irish Language and The choice for our French film project for 07/08 is this This riveting film explores the connection between Germany In recent films City of God and Amores Perros, the teeming Literature Festival, we are delighted to welcome adventurer intelligent film which explores family relationships, the and nearby Bosnia, through the search of a resolute and violent neighbourhoods of Rio de Janiero and Mexico and writer, Dermot Somers, to present this film. One of a nature of celebrity and contemporary society’s obsession Bosnian woman for her daughter who was fostered during City were powerfully depicted. But they both hearken back seven-part series on walking journeys through some of the with image. Lolita is a talented but insecure teenager who is the war a decade earlier. Senada travels illegally from to this 1950’s classic from great Spanish director, Luis remoter landscapes of Ireland, Somers narrates as he trying to develop a classical singing career and a more Sarajevo to Ulm in Germany, where she finds her daughter Buñuel. The story concerns a gang of violent teens in Mexico goes, tracing mythology and discussing history at every positive sense of herself, despite being almost completely Kristina, being raised by a well-to-do German family. The City who go around terrorising people. What Buñuel does so opportunity. ignored by her self-obsessed and famous father. heart-breaking dilemma faced by Senada illustrates how vividly is explore the characters’ inner motivations for their For this episode, he is on the Táin trail, walking east and The studyguide, which will be available to download free lives have been affected by the conflict. Accompanying actions, rather than merely allowing the blame to fall easily deep into the Cooley Mountains following Queen Maeve and from our website, will focus on themes of self-image, family, studyguide will focus on themes of family, conflict and deci- on a neglectful society. her obsession with the Great Brown Bull of Cooley. Here he talent and celebrity. sion-making. MEXICO • 1950 • DRAMA • 85 MINS • ENGLISH SUBTITLES finds the modern landscape still peppered with names and FRANCE/ITALY • 2004 • DRAMA • 112 MINS • ENGLISH SUBTITLES GERMANY/SLOVENIA • 2006 • DRAMA • 103 MIN • ENGLISH BLACK & WHITE • DIRECTOR: LUIS BUÑUEL places that feature in the bloody pages of this Iron Age epic. DIRECTOR: AGNES JAOUI SUBTITLES • DIRECTOR: CHRISTIAN WAGNER Ideal for students interested in outdoor pursuits or the venture section of Gaisce—The President’s Award at any ALSO SHOWING AT: ALSO SHOWING AT: History level. The film is subtitled and the presentation will be made Clones Film Festival (Oct 24-28) Oct 26 Clones Film Festival (Oct 24-28) Oct 26 in Irish and English. Booking through Geraldine Zechner on (047) 20898 Booking through Geraldine Zechner on (047) 20898 IRELAND • 2006 • DOCUMENTARY • 52 MINS • DIR: ART O’BRIAIN Samhlaíocht Kerry Film Festival (Nov 5-9) Nov 8 13th Junior Film Fleadh, Galway (Nov 6-10) Nov 6, 8 Booking through Samhlaíocht on (066) 712 9934 Booking through Fleadh on (091) 771 726 13th Junior Film Fleadh, Galway (Nov 6-10) Nov 6, 7 Samhlaíocht Kerry Film Festival (Nov 5-9) Nov 5 Booking through Fleadh on (091) 771 726 Booking through Samhlaíocht on (066) 712 9934 Tipperary, Excel Centre Nov 14, 15 Sligo Model Art: Niland Gallery Nov 27 Booking through Excel on (062) 80520 Booking through reception on (071) 914 1405 Sligo Model Art: Niland Gallery Nov 20 Belmullet, Co Mayo Nov 29 Booking through reception on (071) 914 1405 Booking through Cinemobile on (091) 751 629 Belmullet, Co Mayo Nov 29 Dundalk IMC Dec 5 Booking through Cinemobile on (091) 751 629 Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 Clifden, Co Galway Dec 7 Letterkenny Cineplex Dec 10 Booking through Cinemobile on (091) 751 629 Booking through IFI Education on (01) 6795744 Studyguide Carrick Cineplex, Carrick-on-Shannon Dec 12 Carrick Cineplex, Carrick-on-Shannon Jan 14 The Rocky Road to Dublin Nov 13, 10.30am Studyguide for Clare sa Spéir Booking through Andrea at 071 9672000 Booking through Andrea at (071) 967 2000 Modern Irish history students will find much of interest in and other gearrscannáin SGC Dungarvan Dec 18 Macroom, Briery Gap Jan 17 this recently re-released 1966 documentary. Directed by ghaeilge is available to down- Booking through IFI Education on (01) 679 5744 Booking through Anne Dunne on (026) 41793 then Paris-based Guardian journalist, Peter Lennon, it load FREE from our website Macroom, Briery Gap Jan 15 Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford Jan 23 reveals Dublin society to be straining under the pressure of (www.irishfilm.ie). Booking through Briery Gap on (026) 41793 Booking through Sile on (051) 855 038 social and religious traditions. Comprising interviews with Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford Jan 24 Tipperary, Excel Centre Jan 29 priests, students, politicians, schoolchildren and artists, the Booking through Sile on (051) 855 038 Booking through Excel on (062) 80520 resulting film offers an insight into Irish life during the Cahirciveen, Co Kerry Feb 1 Cahirciveen, Co Kerry Feb 1 1960s which, as the film shows, was anything but swinging. Booking through Cinemobile on (091) 751 629 Booking through Cinemobile on (091) 751 629 IRELAND • 1968 • DOCUMENTARY • 99 MIN • DIR: PETER LENNON Showing with: The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin, In partnership with the French Cultural Service.