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JANUARY 2019 THE FAVOURITE
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.
MYSTERY MATINEE IFI CAFÉ BAR
A brand new year means a brave new world of cinema’s best We are delighted to announce the return of our hugely
kept secret. This month’s screening, for which tickets cost just popular IFI Café Bar Meal Deal on Sundays, Mondays
€5.20, will take place at 13.00 on Sunday 20th. Sometimes it and Tuesdays throughout January. Enjoy any IFI standard
will be a preview, but not always; sometimes, it will be a title screening and a main course for just €19.
one might expect to see at the IFI, but not always. Join us for See full details of our menus at www.ifi.ie/cafebar.
this month’s screening, and expect the unexpected! Reservations on 01-679 8712 or cafebar@irishfilm.ie.
Previous surprise screenings have included Robert Altman’s
The Long Goodbye and a preview of Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird.
NIGHT OF IDEAS 2019 FIRST FORTNIGHT 2019
The Night of Ideas is a worldwide initiative, spearheaded The IFI is proud to partner once again with First Fortnight to
by Institut Français, that celebrates the constant stream present our biggest ever selection of screenings that examine
of ideas between countries, cultures, and generations. themes around mental health. Our main First Fortnight
The IFI and the French Embassy in Ireland are proud screenings (see pages 10 and 11) will include the Irish premiere
to present this second edition in Ireland, the theme of of Felix van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy starring Timothée
which is ‘Facing Our Time’. For more details on the event, Chalamet and Steve Carell, and our first ever programme for
please see page 16. younger viewers.
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DIRECTOR’S
NOTE
As we look ahead into 2019, the IFI, as
always, has some exciting and ambitious
plans for the New Year, with initiatives
planned across our three core activities of
exhibition, preservation and education.
JANUARY
AT THE IFI
Colette
In the coming weeks, we will be announcing more details Recent visitors to the IFI French Film Festival may have
around these plans with information on your favourite events caught one of the three sold-out screenings of Gilles
and festivals, alongside brand new programming initiatives Lellouche’s Sink or Swim starring Mathieu Amalric as a lost
and strands. We’re sure you’ll be as excited about our plans family man who joins an all-male synchronised swimming
as we are! team in this touching comedy. It’s now coming back to IFI
for a limited release, giving those who missed this silent hit
January brings with it all the glamour of awards season, another opportunity to cross it off their lists!
and this month sees the first of the main contenders
hitting our screens. The latest offering from Yorgos We are delighted to once again partner with mental health
Lanthimos The Favourite opens on January 1st and picked organisation First Fortnight in January. Screenings over
up five nominations at the recent Golden Globes shortlist the last few years were met with rapturous response, and
announcements including Best Picture, Best Actress this year’s selection is equally fascinating. The programme
(Olivia Colman) and two nods for Best Supporting Actress includes the Irish Premiere of the aforementioned Beautiful
(both Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone). Leading the pack at Boy with Q&A; a screening of Labyrinthine (which explores
the Golden Globes with 6 nominations was Vice from director how art and creativity can be used as a way to cope with
Adam McKay (with himself nominated for both Best Director psychosis) with the directors Marie de Hert and Ellen
and Best Screenplay), including three in acting categories Pollard in attendance for a discussion; and Island of the
- Best Actor for Christian Bale, Best Supporting Actress for Hungry Ghosts which is the feature debut from Australian
Amy Adams, and Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell. documentarian Gabrielle Brady and examines the refugee
Green Book opens at the far end of the month (January 30th) crisis on Christmas Island, and we will be joined by both
also with five nominations including Best Picture, Best the director and one of the people featured in the film -
Director and two acting credits for both Viggo Mortensen Poh Lin, who works as a trauma counsellor for refugees.
(Best Actor) and Mahershala Ali (Best Supporting Actor). This year we’re also delighted to be presenting a special
family programme of shorts on Sunday 20th which is
There are plenty of other fantastic new films on release, recommended for those aged 8 and over.
with many also featuring strongly across awards season
including Jon S. Baird’s funny and heart-warming Stan & Ollie 2019 is certainly shaping up to be a particularly busy one for
which looks at the twilight years of two of cinema’s great us here at IFI. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all of
double acts; and Beautiful Boy from Felix van Groeningen, our patrons and supporters a Happy New Year, and we look
with a stunning performance from one of the biggest new forward to seeing you soon and throughout the year.
names in cinema, Timothée Chalamet.
Ross Keane
Director
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NEW RELEASES, IFI SEASONS &
DOCS & IFI CLASSICS EVENTS CALENDAR
THE FAVOURITE OPENS TUES 1ST DATE SCREENING TIME
SINK OR SWIM OPENS TUES 1ST 1ST HAVE YOU SEEN MY MOVIE? 18.15
AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE OPENS FRI 4TH TUES
OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: THE FAVOURITE 18.10
RBG OPENS FRI 4TH 3RD
THUR IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT 2019: LABYRINTHINE 18.30
COLETTE OPENS FRI 11TH + PANEL DISCUSSION
STAN & OLLIE OPENS FRI 11TH 5TH IRISH FOCUS: SHOOTING THE DARKNESS + Q&A 15.30
SAT
BEAUTIFUL BOY OPENS FRI 18TH
6TH FROM THE VAULTS: THE DEAD 18.20
MONSTER AND MEN OPENS FRI 18TH SUN
VICE OPENS FRI 25TH 8TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: THE FAVOURITE 15.40
GREEN BOOK OPENS WED 30TH TUES IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB: AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE 18.00
9TH IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT 2019: BEAUTIFUL BOY 18.15
WED + PANEL DISCUSSION
13TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: COLETTE 20.20
SUN
15TH IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT 2019: ISLAND OF THE 18.15
TUES HUNGRY GHOSTS + Q&A
16TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: STAN & OLLIE 16.00
WED FEAST YOUR EYES: COLETTE 18.30
19TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: COLETTE 13.00
Films not classified by IFCO, including festival, one-off, and special SAT
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 20TH IFI FAMILY & FIRST FORTNIGHT 2019: FEELING FINE 11.00
required for unclassified films, and this will be added to your transaction. SUN MYSTERY MATINEE 13.00
† The exclusivity of films is correct at the time of print. OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: BEAUTIFUL BOY 20.40
22ND OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: STAN & OLLIE 18.15
TUES
GET SOCIAL! 23RD
WED
IFI FILM CLUB: BEAUTIFUL BOY 18.00
Join the IFI community online: 24TH OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: BEAUTIFUL BOY 13.10
THUR
linkedin.com/company/irishfilminstitute 25TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE WIFE 11.00
FRI
@IrishFilmInstitute @IFI_Dub 26TH IFI & TRADFEST 2019: FAREWELL TO MUSIC + Q&A 13.00
SAT OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: VICE 13.00
@IrishFilmInstitute
27TH IFI & TRADFEST 2019: STARBOARD HOME + Q&A 13.00
SUN
28TH THE BIGGER PICTURE: THE MAN WHO SHOT 18.15
For bookings and film information, please see our MON LIBERTY VALANCE
website, www.ifi.ie, or contact the IFI Box Office
29TH IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: THE MEMORY-IMAGE 18.30
on 01-6793477 (open 12.30 to 21.00 daily). TUES
30TH WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE WIFE 11.00
WED OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING: VICE 18.00
Open Captioned screening
31ST IFI & NIGHT OF IDEAS 2019: 16 SUNRISES 18.00
THUR + PANEL DISCUSSION
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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JANUARY 2019
THE
NEW RELEASE
FAVOURITE
OPENS TUES 1ST Two rivals vie for the affections of Queen that Sarah’s friendship with the queen is
Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’s deliciously of an intimate nature, information which
FILM INFO: caustic black comedy. Lady Sarah proves decisive as she leverages her
119 mins, Ireland-UK-USA, Churchill (Rachel Weisz), the Duchess of position at court, much to the chagrin of
2018, Digital Marlborough, has long been the trusted the vengeful Churchill.
Notes by David O’Mahony
companion of the insecure, jealous and
physically ailing monarch (Olivia Colman), There will be Open Captioned screenings
a position which allows her to manipulate at 18.10 on Thursday 3rd and 15.40
affairs of state to her own ends. on Tuesday 8th.
Enter Abigail (Emma Stone), Sarah’s
winsome younger cousin, who has fallen
on hard times. Put to work as a scullery
maid, the outwardly naive girl soon learns
SINK
NEW RELEASE
OR SWIM
OPENS TUES 1ST Bertrand, an unemployed family all-star cast of non-sculpted bodies,
man having a midlife crisis, joins an including Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume
(LE GRAND BAIN) amateur male synchronised swimming Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues
team in this heart-warming comedy. Anglade and Marina Foïs, for this
EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† Bertrand is not the only one in crisis, energetic comedy with a feel-good
FILM INFO: and a bond forms amongst the 1980’s soundtrack.
122 mins, France, 2018, middle-aged men as they tackle their
Digital, Subtitled
Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard demons by committing to the most
unlikely of public acts. Inspired by a
documentary about a group of Swedish
synchronised swimmers, actor-director
Gilles Lellouche has assembled an
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JANUARY 2019
AN IMPOSSIBLE
NEW RELEASE
LOVE
OPENS FRI 4TH Beginning in 1958, Catherine Corsini’s family who refuses to marry her or
engrossing drama follows small town allow their daughter, Chantal, to bear
(UN AMOUR IMPOSSIBLE) girl Rachel (Virginie Efira) as she meets his family name. As the years pass and
EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† and falls for Parisien charmer Philippe Chantal becomes a teenager, Philippe’s
FILM INFO: (Niels Schneider), and then spends occasional and aloof presence in their
135 mins, France, 2018,
Digital, Subtitled
decades of her life dealing with the lives grows more unwelcome and
Notes by David O’Mahony repercussions of their tumultuous manipulative. Adapted from the novel
relationship, which has left her a by Christine Angot – who recently co-
struggling single mother. Rachel is wrote Claire Denis’s Let the Sunshine In
working as a typist in Châteauroux – Corsini’s assured film boasts a terrific
IFI FRENCH FILM CLUB when she begins a romance with lead performance from Virginie Efira.
Tickets for the 18.00
screening on Tuesday 8th Philippe, an intellectual from a wealthy
cost just €7.80 for IFI and
Alliance Française members.
RBG
IFI DOC
OPENS FRI 4TH Associate Justice of the Supreme making significant advances in equal
Court of the United States Ruth rights for women in the eyes of the law.
FILM INFO: Bader Ginsburg has over the course Now one of the more liberal voices on
98 mins, USA, 2018, Digital of her illustrious career moved from an increasingly conservative bench,
Notes by Kevin Coyne respected legal practitioner to feminist her frequent dissenting opinions are
activist to pop culture icon. Despite the closely examined for indications of
difficulties she faced entering into the possible legislative reforms. However,
legal profession after graduating at the the film is most valuable for its
top of her Columbia University class, examination of Ginsburg’s origins,
she spent the 1970s fighting gender her family life, and her extraordinary
discrimination as co-founder of the marriage, offering insight into her
Women’s Rights Project at the motivation and remarkable legacy.
American Civil Liberties Union,
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COLETTE
NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 11TH The pioneering life of the titular 19th credit for the huge success of her racy
century French literary sensation is Claudine series of novels. An illicit affair
FILM INFO: brought to the screen in handsome with American beauty Georgie offers
111 mins, UK-USA, 2018, Digital fashion by director Wash Westmoreland further creative inspiration as she strives
Notes by David O’Mahony (Still Alice, 2014). Beginning in provincial to find her voice and define her identity
Burgundy, young Sidone-Gabrielle as an artist.
Colette (Keira Knightley) is betrothed
to the roguish literary impresario Henry There will be Open Captioned screenings
Gauthier-Villars (Dominic West), who at 20.20 on Sunday 13th and 13.00
goes by the nom de plume Willy. Whisked on Saturday 19th.
away to the City of Lights at the height
of the Belle Époque, Willy initially
encourages her writing, yet takes sole
STAN
NEW RELEASE
& OLLIE
OPENS FRI 11TH This joy of a film follows Laurel and Hardy, Shirley Henderson and a scene-stealing
two of cinema’s comedy giants, in their Nina Arianda form their own double-act
FILM INFO: twilight years. On what would turn out as the pair’s wives. A funny and genuinely
98 mins, UK, 2018, Digital to be their farewell tour in 1953, a series heart-warming film, it will leave audiences
Notes by Kevin Coyne of performances in the UK and Ireland, with a smile on their faces in this perfect
though initially modest and met with tribute to a beloved partnership.
underwhelming audiences, grows to be a
success as public interest and affection is There will be Open Captioned screenings
rekindled. However, behind the scenes, old at 16.00 on Wednesday 16th and 18.15
resentments and health problems flare up. on Tuesday 22nd.
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly inhabit
rather than imitate the characters, while
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JANUARY 2019
BEAUTIFUL
NEW RELEASE
BOY
OPENS FRI 18TH A devastated father struggles to deal non-linear fashion; flashbacks to Nic’s
with his son’s debilitating addiction to happy childhood juxtaposed with his
FILM INFO: methamphetamines in Belgian director spiral into addiction. Van Groeningen
120 mins, USA, 2018, Digital Felix van Groeningen’s (The Broken Circle elicits a raw performance from Carell,
Notes by David O’Mahony Breakdown) first English-language film, with Chalamet playing an
an emotionally charged adaptation of uncomprehending addict blinded to how
separate memoirs written by the duo. perilous his situation has become.
Eighteen-year-old Nic Sheff (Timothée There will be Open Captioned screenings
Chalamet) stuns his separated parents at 20.40 on Sunday 20th and 13.10
David (Steve Carell) and Vicki (Amy Ryan) on Thursday 24th.
when his experimentation with drugs
lands him in rehab. Nic’s subsequent
recoveries and relapses are depicted in
MONSTERS
NEW RELEASE
AND MEN
OPENS FRI 18TH The shooting of an unarmed African Manny (Anthony Ramos) records the
American man in Brooklyn by a white shooting on his cell phone, and is
FILM INFO: police officer forces three men to pressed upon by police to stay quiet.
96 mins, USA, 2018, Digital interrogate their responses to the Dennis (John David Washington,
Notes by David O’Mahony incident. Deftly utilising a tripartite BlacKkKlansman) is a conflicted black
structure, and avoiding outrage and cop working the case, himself a victim
indignation in favour of nuance and of racial profiling, who must choose
subtlety, the film seamlessly shifts where his allegiances lie. High school
perspective from one protagonist to athlete Zyric (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) begins
the next, creating a cohesive image of to question his professional baseball
how a community is impacted upon by ambitions as he becomes radicalised by
racism and police brutality. the growing protest movement.
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VICE
NEW RELEASE
OPENS FRI 25TH Adam McKay follows The Big Short, his From his ne’er-do-well beginnings to his
2015 film on the recent global financial rise through Washington power circles,
FILM INFO: crisis, with this loose biopic of former it is an entertaining recounting of events,
132 mins, USA, 2018, Digital U.S. Vice-President Dick Chaney. Utilising careful not to characterise its subject as a
Notes by Kevin Coyne similar formal and stylistic tics as his villain while never erring into making him
previous film, such as frequent breaking an overly sympathetic figure.
of the fourth wall and the unconventional There will be Open Captioned screenings
use of cameo appearances, it stars at 13.00 on Saturday 26th and 18.00
Christian Bale in a typically committed on Wednesday 30th.
performance, with fine support from,
amongst others, Sam Rockwell,
Amy Adams, and Steve Carell.
GREEN
NEW RELEASE
BOOK
OPENS WED 30TH New York, 1962: when nightclub an unlikely bond as they are confronted
bouncer Tony (Viggo Mortensen) by racism in the segregated south.
FILM INFO: finds himself out of work, he answers With genuine chemistry, Mortensen
130 mins, USA, 2018, Digital an advert to chauffeur renowned and Ali essay their classic odd couple
Notes by David O'Mahony African American classical pianist roles with aplomb, both actors relishing
Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) through the opportunity to play against type.
a tour of the Deep South where the Irresistibly entertaining, Green Book
refined musician will need a measure offers a well-timed plea for tolerance
of protection. Using the Green Book and empathy.
as their guide on the road, which lists
establishments that welcome African
Americans, the mismatched duo form
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FIRST FORTNIGHT
The IFI is proud to again partner with mental health charity First Fortnight throughout January.
LABYRINTHINE BEAUTIFUL BOY
THUR 3RD (18.30) WED 9TH (18.15)
Labyrinthine tells the story of a man who, after battling A devastated father struggles to deal with his son’s
for years, developed ways to cope with his psychiatric debilitating addiction to methamphetamines in
disorder by means of art, imagination and innovation. Belgian director Felix van Groeningen’s (The Broken
Sven is a husband, a father and an artist. He suffers Circle Breakdown, 2012) first English language film,
from a bipolar and schizo-affective disorder that an emotionally charged adaptation of separate
caused years of psychotic episodes. This Belgian memoirs written by the duo. Eighteen-year-old
documentary is an ode to Sven and a reflection on his Nic Sheff (Timothée Chalamet) stuns his parents
troubled past and hopeful future. At the same time, David (Steve Carell) and Vicki (Amy Ryan) when his
it expresses a universal story about living and dealing experimentation with drugs lands him in rehab. The
with psychosis. peaks and troughs of Nic’s subsequent recoveries and
relapses are depicted in non-linear fashion; flashbacks
DIRECTORS: Marie de Hert and Ellen Pollard to Nic’s happy childhood are poignantly juxtaposed
FILM INFO: 53 mins, The Netherlands, 2016, Digital, Subtitled with his spiral into addiction. Van Groeningen elicits
raw performances from Carell as a father who cannot
The screening will be followed by a Q&A shed crippling feelings of guilt and Chalamet as an
with Marie de Hert and Ellen Pollard. uncomprehending addict blinded to how perilous his
situation has become.
DIRECTOR: Felix van Groeningen
FILM INFO: 120 mins, USA, 2018, Digital
The screening will be followed by a discussion.
10FIRST FORTNIGHT
ISLAND OF THE IFI FAMILY & FIRST
HUNGRY GHOSTS FORTNIGHT: FEELING FINE
TUES 15TH (18.15) SUN 20TH (11.00)
Island of the Hungry Ghosts is a feature-length How does a tadpole in a spring pond deal with
documentary film directed by Gabrielle Brady set disappointment? What can a young girl in India do
on the remote Christmas Island. Poh Lin is a trauma to replace her father’s broken watch? Find out in our
counsellor living on the Island with her young family. programme of short films, selected for the first IFI
She works with people trying to seek asylum in Family collaboration with First Fortnight. From a girl’s
Australia who have been housed in a high security relationship with her mum to a boy coping with loss,
detention facility deep within the island’s jungle. or a weed that’s struggling to bloom, these animations
It is one of the last discovered places on earth, with and live actions are about growing up, being different,
humans having migrated to its shores less than a forgiveness and the closeness of family ties. Coming
century ago. from Switzerland, USA, Ireland, Norway and India, the
films show us that sometimes it’s ok to be sad and that
DIRECTOR: Gabrielle Brady very often humour can make things a whole lot better.
FILM INFO: 98 mins, Germany-UK-Australia, 2018, Digital
FILM INFO: 60 mins, Various, 2018, Digital
The screening will be followed by a Q&A
with Poh Lin and director Gabrielle Brady. Recommended for ages 8+. Tickets cost €5 per person
with a family ticket (2 adults + 2 children, 1 adult +
3 children) available for €15.
11IFI & TRADFEST 2019
We are delighted to present premieres of two powerful new documentaries about traditional Irish
musicians, a compelling supplement to the live music offerings at Tradfest 2019.
SLÁN LEIS AN gCEOL STARBOARD HOME
(FAREWELL TO MUSIC)
SAT 26TH (13.00) SUN 27TH (13.00)
This lyrical portrait of a brilliant yet tormented artist Featuring the highly successful Starboard Home
follows accordionist Tony MacMahon, one of Ireland’s album and showcase gigs at the National Concert
most remarkable traditional musicians, who was Hall, this documentary celebrates the formative
recently diagnosed with Parkinson's and is rapidly bond between Dublin’s port, city and river through
losing his ability to play. His former skill is revealed music, song and spoken word. The film illustrates
through lively archival sequences which demonstrate the songs, airs and words from Starboard Home in an
his immense talent and the great pleasure he derived impressionistic journey from the source of the River
from performance. Now the loss of his creative voice Liffey, deep into the heart of the docks. The music,
is slowly killing his spirit and has led him to prepare which ranges from electronic minimalism to folk and
for his own death through assisted suicide. Cathal Ó rock, is performed by key artists in contemporary
Cuaig follows MacMahon to India where he has spent Irish music, including Bell X1’s Paul Noonan (who
recent winters working on his memoirs and reveals a curated and produced the album with Gary Sheehan
difficult story of euphoric highs and devastating lows of the NCH), John Sheahan, Lisa O’Neill, Cathy Davey,
and a long battle with bipolar disorder through which Colm Mac Con Iomaire, Paul Cleary, Duke Special and
MacMahon tried to use his passion and creativity to Gemma Hayes. Director Moira Sweeney has created
turn his darkness into light. an aural and visual delight, capturing the often hidden
mysteries, stories and histories of the city’s port.
DIRECTOR: Cathal Ó Cuaig
FILM INFO: 52 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital, Subtitled DIRECTOR: Moira Sweeney
FILM INFO: 65 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital
This screening will be followed by a Q&A
with Cathal Ó Cuaig and guests. Filmmakers Moira Sweeney, Rob Davis and Elton Mullally
will attend along with participants in the film.
12ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
Join us for free films from the IFI Irish Film AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...
Archive. Simply collect tickets at IFI Box Office As Oscar frenzy mounts we present a selection of
Irish shorts: nominees and winners of Academy
– please see www.ifi.ie for more information. Awards®. With more to come in February…
PáistÍ ag Obair
New Boy
PROGRAMME 1 PROGRAMME 2
THREE KISSES CONQUEST OF LIGHT
Justin Herman’s charming drama focuses on the Louis Marcus’s second Academy Award®
sporting and romantic life of a young Cork hurler. nomination for Best Short Film (Live Action) was
Nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Short in 1975 for this beautifully-crafted film about
Subject, One-reel in 1955. Waterford Glass.
FILM INFO: 9 mins, Ireland, 1955, Black and White FILM INFO: 10 mins, Ireland, 1975
PÁISTÍ AG OBAIR NEW BOY
Louis Marcus’s joyful, observational documentary Steph Green’s film, based on a Roddy Doyle story,
shows children at work in Dublin Montessori schools. follows a young African boy on his first day in school
Nominated for the Academy Award® for Best in Ireland. Nominated for the Academy Award®
Documentary Short Subject in 1973. for Best Short Film (Live Action) in 2008.
FILM INFO: 10 mins, Ireland, 1973 FILM INFO: 11 mins, Ireland, 2007
THE CRUSH STUTTERER
Michael Creagh’s quirky drama about an 8 year-old boy Benjamin Cleary’s film about a lonely young man
and his infatuation with his teacher. Nominated for the with a speech impediment who faces his greatest fear.
Academy Award® for Best Live Action Short in 2011. Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Live Action
Short in 2016.
FILM INFO: 15 mins, Ireland, 2010
FILM INFO: 12 mins, Ireland, 2015
13IRISH FOCUS
SHOOTING
THE DARKNESS
SAT 5TH (15.30)
DIRECTOR: A powerful new documentary about story, character and context into a
Tom Burke the men who unwittingly became single frame which is often more
FILM INFO: war photographers on the streets of impactful than moving images of the
52 mins, Ireland, 2018, Digital their own Northern Irish towns. They same event. What did it cost these men
Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn did not leave home in search of war to take those pictures? What was the
and adventure: the violence erupted value of those images as the conflict
around them. They expected a career raged on for 25 years? These moral and
of wedding photography and celebrity ethical questions are at the heart of this
Q&A
Trish Lambe (Gallery of
photo-calls and instead the images illuminating documentary by Tom Burke
Photography) will host they produced during the worst years (Losing Alaska, The Liberties).
a Q&A with Tom Burke, of the Troubles would come to define
producer Thomas Kelly and
photographer Alan Lewis.
that conflict. The press photographer
deals in single images that must distill
IFI & AEMI
PROJECTIONS:
THE
MEMORY-IMAGE
TUES 29TH (18.30)
EVENT INFO: The moving image comes closer than internet. Also including internationally
Various, 51 mins, 1956-2015, any other medium to conveying and acclaimed shorts by Lucy Raven,
Digital and 16mm
Curated by aemi & Sarah Durcan informing our experience of time and Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer,
memory. The Memory-Image presents this programme highlights the
four films ranging from Alain Resnais’s peculiar nature of the relationship
famous tracking shots exploring the between memory and media by
collective memory housed in France’s fixing our attention on moments and
Bibliothèque Nationale to the Irish institutions of shared history and
premiere of Turner Prize-winning experience. Curated by Sarah Durcan in
artist Mark Leckey’s extraordinary collaboration with aemi, this programme
MORE INFO
Dream English Kid 1964-1999, a film is supported by the Arts Council
For further details see that acts as a journey into the artist's and NCAD.
www.ifi.ie and www.aemi.ie own past via found footage on the
14FROM
THE VAULTS
THE DEAD
SUN 6TH (18.20)
DIRECTOR: Join us for our now annual visit on the a wholly distinguished ensemble of
John Huston Feast of the Epiphany to the household Irish actors, and Anjelica Huston and
FILM INFO: of Misses Morkan as they host New Donal McCann’s delicately wrought
83 mins, UK-USA-Ireland, Year’s dinner in John Huston’s pitch- performances perfectly capture the
1987, 35mm perfect adaptation of James Joyce’s social atmosphere and emotional
Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
The Dead. nuances of Joyce’s original text.
Set in Dublin in 1904, the mood of the This screening is dedicated to film
evening is anguished as Gretta (Anjelica distributor Arthur McGuinness who
Huston) remembers a long-lost love, passed in 2018.
much to the incomprehension of her
husband Gabriel (Donal McCann). Scriptwriter/actor Mark O’Halloran will
John Huston’s subtle direction, introduce this screening.
WILD
STRAWBERRIES
THE WIFE
FRI 25TH &
WED 30TH (11.00)
DIRECTOR: With her performance as the much early ambivalence to her own career,
Björn Runge put-upon wife Joan, behind a pompous to rage when she realises the truth.
FILM INFO: Nobel prize-winning author, the Golden
100 mins, UK-Sweden-USA, Globe nominated Glenn Close is Wild Strawberries is our film club for over
2018, Digital deservedly back in the awards race. 55s. Tickets: €4.45 including regular tea/
Notes by Alicia McGivern
Travelling with her strutting husband coffee before the event. If you happen to
(Jonathan Pryce) to become the look younger, please don’t take offence if
Laureate, Joan is ever supportive, we ask your age.
while secretly beginning to question
the choices she has made to enable his
success. Close is marvellous, stoic and
measured, we see her transform from
15NIGHT
OF IDEAS
16 SUNRISES
THUR 31ST (18.00)
(16 LEVERS DE SOLEIL) On November 17th 2016, French ESA This Irish premiere will be followed by
DIRECTOR: astronaut Thomas Pesquet took off a panel discussion on the objectives
Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff for his first mission in space. For six of space exploration featuring the film
months, 450 kilometres from Earth, director Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff,
FILM INFO: where the world seems to fade into the Science and Space communicator
117 mins, France, 2018, Digital,
Subtitled unknown, a dialogue is established Dr Niamh Shaw & Prof Lorraine Hanlon
between the astronaut and Antoine de of UCD, moderated by Elaine Burke from
Saint-Exupéry’s visionary classic Silicon Republic.
The Little Prince, which he brought
with him on the space station. Presented in collaboration with:
HAVE
YOU SEEN
MY MOVIE?
TUES 1ST (18.15)
DIRECTOR: As the new cinema going year begins, constructed the film so that characters
Paul Anton Smith we present director Paul Anton Smith’s from different films in different decades
FILM INFO: filmic love letter to the experience. are seen to interact, often to humorous
124 mins, UK, 2016, Digital, A supercut of over a thousand scenes effect, or, in one wonderful sequence
Colour and Black and White from films in which characters go share the experience of watching Fred
Notes by Kevin Coyne
to the cinema, it follows a roughly and Ginger dance. Featuring clips from
chronological path, from the ticket every genre, it serves as a welcome
queue to the experience of sitting reminder of just how magical seeing
in a darkened cinema to the exodus a great film on the big screen with an
of patrons following the feature audience can be.
presentation. Smith, who worked as
assistant editor on Christian Marclay’s
The Clock (2010), has brilliantly
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YOUR EYES
COLETTE
WED 16TH (18.20)
DIRECTOR: January’s pairing of a new release and (Keira Knightley) is betrothed to the
Wash Westmoreland a specially devised menu will be roguish literary impresario Henry
FILM INFO: Wash Westmoreland’s Colette, Gauthier-Villars (Dominic West).
111 mins, UK-USA, 2018, Digital followed by a specially created main Whisked away to the City of Lights
course in the IFI Café Bar. at the height of the Belle Époque,
Henry initially encourages her writing,
The pioneering life of the titular 19th yet takes sole credit for the huge
century French literary sensation is and unexpected success of her racy
brought to the screen in handsome Claudine series of novels.
fashion by director Wash Westmoreland.
Beginning far away from the salons Tickets €21.00, free list suspended.
of Paris in provincial Burgundy,
young Sidone-Gabrielle Colette
IFI FILM
CLUB
BEAUTIFUL
BOY
WED 23RD (18.00)
DIRECTOR: Every month, the IFI team invites you stuns his separated parents David
Felix Van Groeningen to take part in a discussion following (Carell) and Vicki (Amy Ryan) when his
FILM INFO: a screening of a new release. experimentation with drugs lands him
120 mins, USA, 2018, Digital This month’s choice is the critically in rehab. The peaks and troughs of Nic’s
acclaimed Beautiful Boy from director subsequent recoveries and relapses
Felix Van Groeningen. are depicted in non-linear fashion;
flashbacks to Nic’s happy childhood are
A devastated father struggles to deal poignantly juxtaposed with his spiral
with his son’s debilitating addiction to into addiction.
methamphetamines in this emotionally
charged adaptation of separate
memoirs written Nic and David Sheff.
Eighteen-year-old Nic (Chalamet)
17THE BIGGER
PICTURE
THE MAN WHO
SHOT LIBERTY
VALANCE
MON 28TH (18.15)
DIRECTOR: This month’s selection sees John townspeople to stand up to the ruthless
John Ford Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin and sadistic outlaw Liberty Valance
FILM INFO: and Vera Miles star in one of John (Marvin). Set in an era when the Wild
123 mins, USA, 1962, Digital, Ford’s greatest Westerns. As the film West was on the cusp of being tamed,
Black and White opens, Senator Ransom Stoddard and when the role of the free press and
Notes by Kevin Coyne
(Stewart) and his wife (Miles) arrive in a democratic processes were becoming
small frontier town to attend the funeral an integral part of broader American
of local rancher Tom Doniphon (Wayne). society, it has been described by
Their connection is revealed through The New Yorker’s Richard Brody as
SPECIAL GUEST flashback to a time when Stoddard, “the greatest American political movie."
The screening will be then a young and idealistic attorney,
introduced by broadcaster began his political career after he and
Dave Fanning.
Doniphon encouraged a beleaguered
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