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Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s wonderfully quirky and irresistibly enchanting Amélie makes a welcome return to the big screen in a new digital restoration to celebrate its 10th anniversary. After a lonely childhood with a father who showed her little physical... Read More
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Now digitally restored 60 years after it swept the Oscars, Vincente Minnelli’s George Gershwin-based musical remains one of the creative pinnacles of the genre. Gene Kelly is at his dazzling best as Jerry Mulligan, a former GI whose... Read More
Mike Cahill’s high-concept Indie movie fuses intimate emotion and cosmic sci-fi, its thought-provoking ideas refracted through an intense drama about regret and redemption. Rhoda Williams’ childhood dreams of becoming an astrophysicist are shattered when she causes a car... Read More
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at IFI Box Office (see calendar for programme times).
DEBUT: Early works by established practitoners.
PROGRAMME 1: WHEELS
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PROGRAMME 2: NACH AOIBHEANN BHEITH BHEO
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The latest gem from Japan’s famous Studio Ghibli (Ponyo, Spirited Away) is this beautifully rendered adaptation of the first of Mary Norton’s famed English fantasy novels, The Borrowers. The miniature Clock family lives peacefully under the floorboards of a suburban... Read More
Observing the lead-up to the release of the home-grown EP ‘Ballymun Lullaby’, Frank Berry’s documentary is as inspired as the musical undertaking that it tracks. Opening with a prelude of archive material tracing Ballymun’s turbulent yet largely misrepresented... Read More
If Martin Scorsese seemed an unlikely choice to direct a 3D adaptation of the bestselling children’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the results serve as a reminder never to judge a world-class auteur by his cover. Indeed,... Read More
Round off your family Christmas festivities with a New Year’s Eve screening of one of the best of the season’s films. The star vehicle for Macaulay Culkin who plays eight-year-old Kevin McAllister, accidentally left behind when his family flies off... Read More
A RETROSPECTIVE OF LITHUANIAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA Tinklai International Short Film Festival, in collaboration with Solus Film Collective and the Irish Film Institute, presents a selection of short documentaries and experimental films from Lithuania. It will be presented by... Read More
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish Film.
Set in Limerick, a place best-known in the media for its array of social problems, Hammer to Bell is a patiently-observed documentary which travels into the core of the... Read More
Erotically charged and psychologically astute, Jacques Deray’s meticulously crafted 1969 crime drama (restored and re-released) deserves to be far better known than it currently is. Holidaying in their villa above San Tropez, Marianne (Romy Schneider) and Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) would... Read More
However you describe it, this Argentinian offering sounds pretty simple fare. That, however, turns out to be the genius of a very special film which deservedly won a major prize at Cannes. The ingredients are a grumpy old... Read More
Often featured on all-time-best lists, Carné and writer Jacques Prévert’s portrait of the Boulevard du Crime in the early 19th century is a sublime romance, miraculously made during the Nazi Occupation. Charting the fortunes of various actors, aristocrats,... Read More
‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas . . .’ So sings Esther Smith (Judy Garland) to her sister Tootie as they ponder the prospect of the family leaving behind their loved ones in St. Louis and relocating to... Read More
The IFI is delighted to welcome director Gerald Fox and cast members Adrian Dunbar and Flora Montgomery to present a screening of Mother’s Milk on December 10th (18.30) and take part in a post-screening Q&A.
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The IFI joins a host of film industry partners to present a sneak preview of Cathal Watters’ fascinating new documentary Muide Éire on December 8th at 18.30. Drawing heavily on films preserved within the IFI Irish Film Archive, the series... Read More
Michelle Williams is simply a revelation as Marilyn Monroe in Cranford director Simon Curtis’ My Week with Marilyn, embodying the iconic Hollywood sex symbol with such emotional and psychological acuity that she instantly erases the memory of decades... Read More
Having availed us with a magnificent Marcel Proust adaptation in 1999’s Time Regained, prolific Chilean surrealist Raúl Ruiz now caps his cinematic career with this head-swirling and intoxicating 19th-century drama from the three-volume novel by Camilo Castelo Branco,... Read More
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We continue our tour of this surreal and wacky animated film that follows three plastic toys, Cowboy, Indian and Horse, who all share a house in a rural town where nothing is ever quite normal. Cowboy and Indian’s plan to... Read More
Following the misadventures of two social maladroits eventually finding their way to each other, this charming slice of Gallic romanticism is the perfect film to leave audiences with a warm glow on a winter’s night. Pathologically shy Angélique... Read More
Previous knowledge of Formula One is not required to become immersed in this gripping and aff ecting portrait of Ayrton Senna, arguably the most talented motor racing driver of all time. Th e gifted Brazilian announced his arrival in Formula... Read More
Tadas Blinda, the legendary 19th century Lithuanian outlaw and folk hero, is usually portrayed as a character comparable to Robin Hood. His place in his homeland’s imagination has persisted, and his story told many times, in literature, on stage, and... Read More
Michael Shannon is a husband, father, hard worker and worried man in this marvellously evocative psychological drama from writer-director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories), who’s clearly a talent to watch. It’s literally raining oil, there are crazy people on the roads,... Read More
The same high street shops everywhere, TV talent shows clogging the airwaves ever feel the world’s surrendered to crass commercial conformity? Artist and cultural provocateur Andrew Logan certainly does, and that’s why his proudest creation The Alternative... Read More
The next meeting of The Critical Take, the IFI’s free film club meeting, will be at 18.50 on Monday December 12th, when the films The Future, Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey and My Week with Marilyn will be up... Read More
A mesmerising chronicler of his own troubled personal biography, director Terence Davies finds his sensibility a surprisingly complementary match for this late Terence Rattigan play, which traces the arid emotional landscape of a post-war Britain still scarred by... Read More
This film was released 12th March 2010 and is no longer screening.
One of the most eagerly-awaited films of the year, director David Fincher’s follow-up to The Social Network is a new version of the first book in... Read More
After 19 years out of the director’s chair, Bruce Robinson returns with this adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s early novel, chronicling the corrupt machinations of sun-splashed late 1950s Puerto Rico. Johnny Depp is at his least mannered and most assured... Read More
After his demolition job on Berlusconi in The Caiman, Italian humourist Nanni Moretti’s take on the papal succession is perhaps surprisingly gentle and affectionate, yet what it has to say about the church is trenchant indeed. As we... Read More
Restored and re-released in digital format to celebrate its 50th anniversary, West Side Story was one of the biggest musicals of the 1960s. Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, the original stage version was conceived by Jerome Robbins, who went on... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.
Just when you want to put your stocking away for another year, we bring you this Christmas story starring the indomitable Catherine Deneuve, seen most... Read More
As you’d expect from the director of Red Road and Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold’s take on Emily Brontë’s famous 1847 novel has little truck with the usual heritage-cinema respectability. After all, this is 19th-century Yorkshire, up on the wild and... Read More
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: CERTIFIED COPY 18.30
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:15, 20:50
DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 19.40
IO CAPITANO 13:30
JEANNE DU BARRY 14:30, 20:30
PERFECT DAYS 17:00
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 15:40, 18:15
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 13:15
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