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AUGUST 2019 ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD
THE IRISH
FILM INSTITUTE
EXHIBIT The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s
national cultural institution for film.
PRESERVE It aims to exhibit the finest in independent,
Irish and international cinema, preserve
EDUCATE
Ireland’s moving image heritage at
the IFI Irish Film Archive, and encourage
engagement with film through its various
educational programmes.
IFI SUMMER
TERRACE BITES MYSTERY MATINEE
The summer is here, making it the perfect time to visit our Join us for Dublin’s best kept secret! This month’s
fantastic outdoor terrace. We are delighted to offer a special screening, for which tickets cost just €5.20, will take
summer tapas menu featuring tasty flatbreads and sweet place at 13.00 on Sunday 18th. The film chosen could
potato fries, plus beats from our resident Terrace DJs every be anything from throughout the history of cinema, or
Friday from 19.00. See www.ifi.ie for menu details. Proudly even a preview of a hotly-anticipated upcoming release.
presented in association with GCN. With the Mystery Matinee, you should always expect the
unexpected! A full list of previous screenings is available
from www.ifi.ie/mystery-matinee-archive.
IFI IRISH FILM
ARCHIVE TOURS
Treat the film obsessive in your life to a behind-the-scenes This month will see the IFI embark on an ambitious and
look at the IFI Irish Film Archive. This tour gives a unique much-needed refurbishment of our two largest cinema spaces
insight into the collections held in the IFI Irish Film Archive and our foyer roof. As a charity and non-profit, much of the
and talks through how we safeguard our collections that span funding is already in place, but we urgently need your support
from 1897. Attendees also have the option to lunch at the IFI to complete the works. You can donate at www.ifi.ie/donate
Café Bar. Tours will take place in August on Fridays 16th and or text IFI to 50300 to donate €4*. Alternatively, you can have
30th. See www.ifi.ie/archivetours for further details. your name on one of the seats in the soon-to-be-refurbished
Cinema 1 – see shop.ifi.ie/nameyourseat for details.
2 * IFI will receive a minimum of €3.60. Service Provider: LIKECHARITY. Helpline: 076 6805278.
DIRECTOR’S
NOTE
August sees our long-awaited
refurbishment works begin and the
return of Almodóvar and Tarantino
to our screens.
AUGUST
AT THE IFI
Gaza
Our fundraising campaign continues into August as we Quentin Tarantino is also back with his 9th feature, Once
prepare to begin the much-needed refurbishment of our Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Boasting an all-star cast led by
two biggest cinema spaces. We are hugely grateful for the Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie and Al Pacino,
fantastic support we have received up to this point the film sees a faded television actor (DiCaprio) and his stunt
– however, we still urgently need your help to complete double (Pitt) strive to achieve fame and success in the film
the works. Please consider supporting us in one of the industry in the late 1960s during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
following ways: We’re excited to be screening the film in 35mm when it opens
on Wednesday 14th.
• Making a donation online, in our donations box or at
IFI Box Office (you choose the amount!) Speaking of welcome returns, we’re delighted to be holding
• Naming a seat in our new-look cinema (€300 for 3 years) three screenings as part of this year’s GAZE Film Festival.
Although we have worked closely with the festival in recent
• Becoming an IFI Member (€35/€20 per annum) years on their international tours via IFI International, this
• Upgrading to become an IFI Friend (from €10 a month) will be the first time we have partnered with GAZE on the
• Putting your name on our walkway with our other main programme since 2011. Over the course of the Bank
IFI Luminaries (€5000) Holiday weekend, you can enjoy a centenary screening of
Richard Oswald’s seminal Weimar-era drama Different from
• Asking your company to name a corporate seat the Others, accompanied by a live score by Morgan Cooke,
(€500 for 3 years) enjoy one of Daniel Day-Lewis’s first roles in My Beautiful
• Encouraging your company to become an Laundrette, and delight in John Butler’s homegrown coming-
IFI Corporate Member (from €1,000) of-age comedy Handsome Devil.
The works are currently scheduled to begin during the second Other highlights this month include Garry Keane and Andrew
half of the month and will, inevitably, have a knock-on effect on McConnell’s incredible new documentary Gaza, which won
our regular schedules, resulting in a reduced number of daily Best Documentary at this year’s Dublin Film Critics’ Circle
screenings. However, the IFI will remain open throughout this Awards, Christian Petzold’s acclaimed drama Transit, and
time to showcase the best of Irish and international cinema, Joanna Hogg’s much-admired The Souvenir, which features a
plus you’ll still be able to enjoy a drink and a bite to eat at the stunning performance from Honor Swinton-Byrne alongside
IFI Café Bar or soak up the sun on our outdoor terrace. her real-life mother, Tilda Swinton.
And what a programme we have for you this August! Two of We very much hope to see you at the IFI before, during and
the masters of modern cinema return to our screens with after our refurbishment!
films that debuted to ecstatic receptions at this year’s Cannes
Film Festival. The incomparable Pedro Almodóvar is back Ross Keane
with Pain and Glory, an elegiac drama centred on a creatively Director
blocked, once-feted film director consumed by memories of
an impoverished yet idyllic childhood spent with his mother;
Antonio Banderas, who won Best Actor at Cannes for his
performance, and Penélope Cruz star.
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NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS &
DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR
DO THE RIGHT THING OPENS FRI 2ND DATE SCREENING TIME
OLDBOY OPENS FRI 2ND 2ND IFI & GAZE 2019: HANDSOME DEVIL 13.00
ONLY YOU OPENS FRI 2ND FRI
IFI & GAZE 2019: DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS 13.15
PHOTOGRAPH OPENS FRI 2ND 4TH
SUN
GAZA OPENS FRI 9TH 5TH IFI & GAZE 2019: MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 13.15
HOLIDAY OPENS FRI 9TH MON
NOTORIOUS OPENS FRI 9TH 7TH FEAST YOUR EYES: PHOTOGRAPH 18.30
WED FROM THE VAULTS: THIS OTHER EDEN 18.30
APOCALYPSE NOW TUES 13TH
9TH GAZA + Q&A 18.30
ONCE UPON A TIME… FRI
IN HOLLYWOOD OPENS WED 14TH 13TH APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT 19.30
TRANSIT OPENS FRI 16TH TUES
PAIN AND GLORY OPENS FRI 23RD 14TH
WED
WILD STRAWBERRIES: HEAT AND DUST 11.00
THE SOUVENIR OPENS FRI 30TH 16TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: HEAT AND DUST 11.00
FRI
18TH MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00
SUN
25TH IFI FAMILY: ODDBALL AND THE PENGUINS 11.00
SUN
26TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: PAIN AND GLORY 13.00
MON
28TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: PAIN AND GLORY 20.50
WED
Films not classified by IFCO, including festival, one-off, and special
screenings, are exhibited under Club rules and are restricted to persons 18
years and over. If you are not an IFI member, a daily membership (€1.50) is
required for unclassified films, and this will be added to your transaction.
† The exclusivity of films is correct at the time of print. All films exclusive
to the IFI are kindly supported by the Arts Council.
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Audio Described screening
The F-rating is a classification
reserved for any film which is
directed and/or written by a woman.
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AUGUST 2019
DO THE
RIGHT THING
IFI CLASSIC
OPENS FRI 2ND It’s the hottest day of the year in sons, Vito (Richard Edson) and the
a predominantly black Brooklyn unapologetically racist Pino
FILM INFO: neighbourhood, and simmering racial (John Turturro). Local character
120 mins, USA, 1989, Digital tensions are about to reach boiling point. Buggin’ Out (Giancarlo Esposito) is
Notes by David O’Mahony On the 30th anniversary of its release, incensed when he notices Sal’s Wall
Spike Lee’s incendiary third feature, a of Fame exhibits only Italian-American
potent cocktail of visual bravado and celebrities. Demanding redress, he
barely suppressed anger, has lost none stages a boycott and the pizzeria
of its relevance and power to provoke. becomes a flashpoint in a series
of confrontations which escalate
Lee plays Mookie, a pizza delivery man inexorably towards violence.
for Sal (an Oscar-nominated Danny
Aiello), who runs a restaurant with his
OLDBOY
IFI CLASSIC
OPENS FRI 2ND Often cited as one of the best films of He ultimately finds his tormentor, but
the 2000s, Oldboy is a brutal, lyrical their final encounter will yield yet more
FILM INFO: modern classic of the revenge genre. unimaginable horrors. Directed with
120 mins, South Korea, The film tells the tale of Oh Dae-su immense flair by Park Chan-wook (The
2003, Digital, Subtitled (Choi Min-sik), a businessman who is Handmaiden) as the second instalment
Notes by David O’Mahony
inexplicably kidnapped and imprisoned of his Vengeance Trilogy, Oldboy is an
in a hotel room-like cell for 15 years, irresistible concoction of filmmaking
without knowing his captor or the reason virtuosity, ingenious plotting, pathos
for his incarceration. Eventually released, and bracing violence.
he learns of his wife’s murder and
embarks on a quest for revenge whilst
also striking up a romance with a young
sushi chef, Mi-do (Kang Hye-jeong).
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AUGUST 2019
ONLY YOU
NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 2ND Glasgow on New Year’s Eve. Office couple begin to try for a baby without
worker Elena (Laia Costa) and PhD success, eventually opting for a course
EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† student, and sometime DJ, Jake (Josh of IVF treatments, a stressful procedure
O’Connor), meet cute when they argue that begins to take a toll on their once
FILM INFO: over a taxi home. Sparks fly and they blissful relationship. Buoyed along by
119 mins, UK, 2018, Digital
Notes by David O’Mahony spend the night together at her flat, and the effortless charm of its two leads,
before long Jake moves in, at which Harry Wootliff’s extraordinary
point Elena finally confesses that, at debut feature is an authentic look
35, she is nine years older than his 26. at modern love.
Her age is of no consequence to the
thoroughly smitten Jake, however, and
it only becomes an issue when the
PHOTOGRAPH
NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 2ND A gentle, adult romance, infused with Miloni (Sanya Malhotra) has just won
melancholy, Photograph sees Ritesh first place in an all-India accountancy
FILM INFO: Batra, director of The Lunchbox, return exam, and her proud middle-class
110 mins, India, 2019, to Mumbai having made a number parents are forcing the shy and reserved
Digital, Subtitled of English-language features. Rafi girl into an arranged marriage. These
Notes by David O’Mahony
(Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a struggling two social opposites meet and form
street photographer taking souvenir an unlikely yet tender bond when Rafi
pictures for tourists. Unmarried, he takes Miloni’s picture, and convinces her
refuses to look for a partner until he to pose as his girlfriend for the benefit
pays off the debts of his deceased of his revered grandmother (Farrukh
parents, in spite of the mounting Jaffar) who has come for a visit.
pressure to do so from his friends.
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GAZA
IFI DOC
OPENS FRI 9TH This portrait immerses us in the heart and a young cellist studying law and
of the Gaza Strip among an eloquent dreaming of escape.
FILM INFO: and resilient cast of characters
90 mins, Ireland-Canada, under siege. Blockaded by Israeli and Gaza is wholly cinematic in intent
2019, Digital, Subtitled Egypt, they are witness to regular and delivery, with its breathtaking
Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
confrontations between Israel security cinematography, orchestral score
forces and Hamas, and are impoverished, and masterful editing. In adding human
unemployed and have minimal access texture and narrative heft to a story that
to water and electricity. We meet a appears only as a conflict zone in news
Q&A Gaza City taxi driver who chats with media, the filmmakers have illuminated
The 18.30 screening on Friday
9th will be followed by a Q&A
his passengers with surprising humour their viewers and greatly ennobled
with directors Garry Keane and candour; a young boy struggling in their subjects.
and Andrew McConnell, school but hoping to own a fishing boat;
hosted by Deirdre O’Kane.
HOLIDAY
NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 9TH Danish gangster Michael (Lai Yde) has who has romantic designs on her, Sasha
taken his girlfriend Sascha (Victoria begins to toy with Michael’s authority
EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† Carmen Sonne) on a luxury vacation and flirts with the possibility of leaving
to the sun-kissed port town of Bodrum this glamorous life of excess behind.
FILM INFO: on the Turkish Riviera. Young, beautiful Isabella Eklöf’s provocative, and at
93 mins, Sweden-Denmark-
Netherlands, 2018, Digital, and carefree, Sascha discovers that times shocking, debut feature boasts
Subtitled her dream life of recklessness and fun a breakthrough performance from
Notes by David O’Mahony comes at a price when she is welcomed Sonne as the seeming innocent who
into Michael’s extended ‘family’ of confounds expectations.
crooks at his exclusive villa. Physical
and psychological violence are a way
of life in this volatile community. When
she befriends a holidaying Dutchman
7
AUGUST 2019
NOTORIOUS
IFI CLASSIC
OPENS FRI 9TH Presented in a new 4K digital Alicia (Bergman), the daughter of a
restoration, Notorious marked Alfred convicted Nazi spy, is enlisted by Devlin
FILM INFO: Hitchcock’s second collaboration with (Grant) to use her father’s bona fides to
102 mins, USA, 1946, both Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, infiltrate and surveil a Nazi organisation
Digital, Black and White and reunited the latter with Casablanca in post-war South America. Although
Notes by Kevin Coyne
co-star Claude Rains. From a script she and Devlin have fallen in love,
by prolific author Ben Hecht, another the mission requires her to become
frequent Hitchcock collaborator, the romantically involved with the
psychological complexity of its central group’s leader (Rains), confounding
characters’ interactions and motivations their relationship in a film whose
have led to ongoing critical assessment dark undercurrents of obsession
of the film raising it to the uppermost never distract from its success
tier of the director’s work. as entertainment.
APOCALYPSE
NOW: FINAL CUT
IFI CLASSIC
TUES 13TH (19.30) Forty years after its original release, Winner of two Oscars, for Best Sound
audiences get the chance to experience and Vittorio Storaro’s cinematography,
FILM INFO: a never-before-seen cut of Coppola’s the film follows Army Captain Willard
183 mins, USA, 1979, Digital spectacular cinematic masterpiece. (Martin Sheen), a troubled man sent
on a dangerous and mesmerising
Restored from the original negative odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate
for the first time, Apocalypse Now: a renegade American colonel named
Final Cut is Coppola’s most realised Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has
version of his multi-awarded classic, a succumbed to the horrors of
haunting journey into madness that has war and barricaded himself in
fascinated generations of movie lovers. a remote outpost.
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ONCE UPON
A TIME…
NEW RELEASE
IN HOLLYWOOD
OPENS WED 14TH Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film sees buddy. Rick’s neighbours include
him once again take inspiration from Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate
FILM INFO: historical events, this time riffing on Los (Margot Robbie, in an affecting, nearly
161 mins, USA-UK, 2019, Angeles of 1969, when both the golden wordless performance), whom he envies
35mm/Digital age of studio films and the hippie dream as their careers are in the ascendant.
Notes by Kevin Coyne
were about to come crashing to a halt. As Cliff encounters members of
The typically sprawling narrative offers Manson’s Family, and with our
Tarantino the chance to assemble knowledge of actual events, Tarantino’s
another dream cast. At its centre are film is perhaps more poignant and
Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, TV evocative than audiences might expect
cowboy star whose career is beginning – until its conclusion.
to wane, and Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth,
Dalton’s stunt double and drinking
TRANSIT
NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 16TH Georg (Franz Rogowski), a German the same Weidel. As Georg falls in love,
refugee in Nazi-occupied Paris, comes he must somehow rescue Maria without
FILM INFO: into possession of the papers of Weidel, revealing his secret. Writer-director
102 mins, Germany-France, a dead writer, which includes a visa Petzold strips his unconventional
2018, Digital, Subtitled from the Mexican consulate. Georg adaptation of Anna Seghers's 1942 novel
Notes by David O’Mahony
assumes the dead man’s identity of any period detail, locating the story
and flees to Marseilles in the hope of in present-day Marseilles, a formally
securing passage. Whilst waiting for daring conceit that invests this tale
his ship, he encounters other refugees of immigration and the rise of the
desperately waiting for transit visas, far right in Europe with bracing
including the mysterious Maria (Paula contemporary resonance.
Beer), who is trying to find her husband,
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AUGUST 2019
PAIN AND
NEW RELEASE
GLORY
OPENS FRI 23RD Pedro Almodóvar’s elegiac drama boasts awakening, loves lost and found, and his
a career-best performance from Antonio life-long love affair with Madrid. Salvador
(DOLOR Y GLORIA) Banderas as Salvador Mallo, a creatively is prompted to reconnect with the
blocked film director consumed by estranged star of one of his lauded early
FILM INFO:
113 mins, Spain, 2019, memories of an impoverished yet films, which has been restored for an
Digital, Subtitled idyllic childhood spent with his mother anniversary screening, a meeting which
Notes by David O’Mahony Jacinta (played by Penélope Cruz). proves to be the catalyst for a series of
Salvador is a thinly-veiled portrait of interconnected reveries into his past.
Almodóvar, and Pain and Glory is a
transparently self-reflexive film which Screenings with Hard of Hearing subtitles
finds the director dwelling upon themes will take place at 13.00 on Monday 26th
that have resonated throughout his and 20.50 on Wednesday 28th.
work: motherhood, childhood sexual
THE
NEW RELEASE
SOUVENIR
OPENS FRI 30TH For her autobiographical fourth feature, a working-class milieu far removed
British director Joanna Hogg marries from her own privileged upbringing. At
FILM INFO: the exacting nature of her brilliant early a dinner party she meets Anthony (Tom
114 mins, UK, 2019, Digital films – Unrelated, Archipelago – with Burke), an urbane, pinstripe-clad Foreign
Notes by David O’Mahony the formal experimentation of Exhibition Office worker, who exerts a compelling
(2015), to winning effect. The Souvenir air of worldly-wise sophistication.
is an entirely convincing, emotionally Blinded to warning signs that are
honest examination of a toxic clear to her mother (played by Tilda
relationship which ultimately proved Swinton, Swinton-Byrne’s own mother),
formative to the director’s oeuvre. Julie enters into a turbulent romance
Honor Swinton-Byrne plays Julie, a film with Anthony, who is revealed to be a
school student prepping a graduation complex and damaged individual.
film about the shipyards of Sunderland,
10ARCHIVE AT FROM THE
LUNCHTIME VAULTS
Amharc Éireann: Eagrán 112
RIVERRUN THIS OTHER EDEN
Join us for daily free films from the IFI Irish Film WED 7TH (18.30)
Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office
– please see www.ifi.ie for more information. Twenty years after the shooting of IRA
Commandant Jack Carberry by the Black and
PROGRAMME ONE Tans, the villagers of Ballymorgan plan to erect a
AMHARC ÉIREANN statue in his honour. However, the arrival of hapless
Assorted Liffey stories from Gael Linn’s newsreel. English hibernophile Crispin Brown (Leslie Phillips),
and the returns of sophisticated emigré Maire
FILM INFO: 3 mins, Ireland, 1959-1964
McRoarty (Audrey Dalton) and student priest
DUBLIN’S FAIR CITY Conor Heaphy (Norman Rodway) trigger the
unravelling of the mythology surrounding
This travelogue entices visitors to Dublin’s coast Carberry and Ireland’s past.
line – Killiney, Dalkey and Sandycove – and the city
itself with its fine universities, Georgian squares, This caustic comedy, adapted from Louis D’Alton’s
grand hotels, theatres, and the River Liffey running popular stage play, is the first Irish feature film
majestically through its heart. to be directed by a woman, English filmmaker
FILM INFO: Rex Roberts, 25 mins, Ireland, 1956
Muriel Box. It is not just a critique of the past but a
complex comment on an emergent modern Ireland.
PROGRAMME TWO The film boasts a fine supporting cast of
AMHARC ÉIREANN Abbey Players (Milo O’Shea, Harry Brogan
A further selection of Liffey stories from and Hilton Edwards) and features locations
Gael Linn’s newsreel. in Chapelizod, Wicklow Town and Ardmore.
FILM INFO: 3 mins, Ireland, 1959–1964
DIRECTOR: Muriel Box
LIFFEY FACES FILM INFO: 77 mins, Ireland-UK, 1959, Digital, Black and White
This film, made by members of the Guinness Film
Society (with product placement visible only to Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
the eagle-eyed), follows a toy boat as it sails from
Kippure to the sea past a host of rural and urban
delights including the Liffey Descent, the Dublin
quays, and the Ringsend Regatta.
FILM INFO: 26 mins, Ireland, 1970
Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
The Archive at Lunchtime programmes will not
screen from Monday 26th to Friday 30th.
11IFI AND GAZE
FILM FESTIVAL
2019
Following on from a hugely successful partnership This year’s selection of films at the IFI includes 2019’s
with IFI's International Department in 2018, which Gaze Youth Screening and Gaze Festival Friends
saw screenings of Irish queer cinema in places as events. Also screening is a landmark of queer cinema,
diverse as Australia, Bulgaria, Romania and Thailand, Richard Oswald’s Weimar-era Different from the Others,
the Irish Film Institute is delighted to welcome the which this year celebrates its 100th anniversary.
main programme of the Gaze Film Festival back to Tickets for each of the screenings are available
the IFI in Temple Bar. from www.ifi.ie.
GAZE YOUTH
SCREENING:
HANDSOME
DEVIL
FRI 2ND (13.00) IFI's Education Department and GAZE between the pair, until English teacher
Film Festival are delighted to partner Mr Sherry (Andrew Scott) insists they
FILM INFO: with BeLonG To Youth Services for a work together on a variety show duet.
95 mins, Ireland, 2017, Digital special 15–18 year-olds screening of
Handsome Devil, followed by a Q&A An unlikely friendship develops in
with writer/director John Butler. John Butler’s tender coming-of-age tale.
Featuring a 1980s indie soundtrack,
Returning to boarding school after the a top-notch cast and some damn fine
holidays, Ned (Fionn O’Shea), a bullied rugby, the film is an absolute gem.
but resilient outsider, is dismayed to find
he has been assigned a new roommate, Tickets €6.
Conor (Nicholas Galitzine), a rugby-
playing Adonis. Animosity develops
12IFI AND GAZE FILM FESTIVAL 2019
DIFFERENT
FROM THE
OTHERS
SUN 4TH (13.15) The first known depiction of gay Germany’s Paragraph 175 law, which
characters on screen, Richard Oswald’s made homosexuality a criminal offence.
FILM INFO: Different from the Others this year Its subversive and clandestine depiction
50 mins, Germany, 1919, Digital, celebrates its 100th anniversary. of homosexual love was thought lost
Subtitled, Black and White for decades, before its eventual
An early film of the Weimar era, it is an re-discovery in post-Nazi Germany.
earnest and surprisingly progressive
portrayal of two gay musicians falling The film will be accompanied by a live
in love, who find themselves embroiled improvised score from pianist and
in a malicious blackmail scandal. composer Morgan Cooke.
A priceless gem of LGBT visual history,
This event is presented the film was made as a reaction to
in association with the
Goethe-Institut Irland.
MY BEAUTIFUL
LAUNDRETTE
MON 5TH (13.15) My Beautiful Laundrette launched the Saeed Jaffrey as the boy’s businessman
screen career of actor Daniel Day-Lewis, uncle, and Shirley Anne Field as his
FILM INFO: and established a new way of portraying mistress; these two truly embody all
97 mins, UK, 1985, Digital gay and Asian characters in British the contradictions which the film sets
drama. Also starring Gordon Warnecke, out to explore.
the film is ostensibly a rites-of-passage
story about a young Asian man’s entry My Beautiful Laundrette is the inaugural
into the hard world of Thatcherite GAZE Festival Friends screening.
enterprise. The Oscar-nominated script
by Hanif Kureishi has never been equalled
for its complex portrayal of characters
who are usually represented in polarised
form. Best of all are the performances of
13situated on Middle Island off the coast of
IFI FAMILY Warrnambool in south eastern Australia.
ODDBALL Severely diminished in numbers and
AND THE under threat from marauding foxes, the
townspeople come up with the idea of
PENGUINS shipping over some sheepdogs to protect
the birds and the sanctuary. Mischievous
dog Oddball, owned by chicken farmer
SUN 25TH (11.00) Swampy, is the first to apply for the job.
Granddaughter Olivia is determined to
DIRECTOR: From dogs to pelicans and penguins, train the sleepy pet to do his duty in this
Stuart McDonald
several Australian films have successfully witty and enchanting film.
FILM INFO: showcased the natural environment
95 mins, Australia, 2015, Digital and the small-town communities who Tickets: €5.00 per person, €15.00 family
Notes by Alicia McGivern
rally to its protection. In this gem of a ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult
film, director Stuart McDonald chooses + 3 children).
AGE RECOMMENDATION: 5+
the real-life colony of Fairy Penguins,
Greta Scacchi is glorious as Olivia, the
WILD wife of conservative ‘district collector’
STRAWBERRIES Douglas (Christopher Cazenove) in
HEAT AND 1920s colonial India. Tracing her story
from letters, her great niece Anne (Julie
DUST Christie) sets out to learn the secrets
of her predecessor’s scandalous life by
WED 14TH & visiting India and retracing her steps.
FRI 16TH (11.00)
Wild Strawberries is our film club for over
DIRECTOR: Reissued in digital format, this early 55s. Tickets: €4.45 including regular tea/
James Ivory
Merchant Ivory adaptation of Ruth coffee before the event. If you happen to
FILM INFO: Prawer Jhabvala’s novel reminds us of look younger, please don’t take offence if
134 mins, UK, 1983, Digital the sumptuous nature of their work, and we ask your age.
Notes by Alicia McGivern
why their stylish Anglo-Indian romantic
dramas were so eagerly anticipated.
A gentle, adult romance, infused
FEAST with melancholy, Photograph sees
YOUR EYES Nawazuddin Siddiqui play Rafi, a
PHOTOGRAPH struggling street photographer taking
souvenir pictures for tourists. When
he meets Miloni, a shy and reserved
graduate whose parents are forcing
into an arranged marriage, they form
WED 7TH (18.30) an unlikely yet tender bond. Rafi
then convinces Miloni to pose as his
DIRECTOR: August’s pairing of a new release and a girlfriend for the benefit of his revered
Ritesh Batra
specially devised main course menu will grandmother who has come for a visit.
FILM INFO: be Ritesh Batra’s Photograph, followed
110 mins, India, 2019, by a specially created main course in Tickets €21, free list suspended.
Digital, Subtitled
the IFI Café Bar.
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