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Actor Diego Luna’s (Rudi y Cursi) accomplished debut feature is an unusual tale of family dynamics and patriarchy. Abel is a troubled nine-year-old boy who has suffered a breakdown and retreated into silence, apparently as a result of his father... Read More
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“I thought we were making a comedy” drawled Jack Nicholson when accepting his Golden Globe Award for this film as Best Actor in a Drama. About Schmidt is often very funny, particularly when Nicholson responds over-enthusiastically to an acquaintance’s sensitivity... Read More
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office.
This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment by Fr. Joe Dunn of Radharc Films, a... Read More
Ruth Stoops is a homeless, glue-sniffing pregnant single woman targeted by Pro-Life and Pro-Choice campaigners when they both see her potential as someone to be exploited in furtherance of their cause. A comedy on abortion is not exactly conventional fare... Read More
Ralph Fiennes puts Shakespeare’s saga of Roman conflict on celluloid for the first time in this striking modern-dress interpretation which brings alive one of the Bard’s lesser-known plays. Here the Roman republic is re-imagined in terms of the recent Balkan... Read More
In association with the DCNYF Chinese Film Festival (January 20th – 28th), and in celebration of The Year of the Dragon, the IFI is proud to present the first screening in Ireland of Jia Zhangke’s poetic tribute to Shanghai’s turbulent... Read More
This piercing new film by Carol Morley offers us the true story of an ill-fated modern-day Eleanor Rigby. In 2006, council officials forcibly entered a north London flat with an eviction notice, only to recoil at the decomposing body of Joyce Carol... Read More
There seems to be only one candidate for the student presidency of Carver High School, Omaha, and that is ferociously ambitious Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon). However, through the sly intervention of teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), who has personal reasons... Read More
A superb adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s semiautobiographical novel (scripted by Tom Stoppard) about an English boy in Shanghai who becomes separated from his parents in the chaos following Pearl Harbor. “It’s about a very cruel death of innocence”,... Read More
The IFI joins First Fortnight, Ireland’s first mental health arts festival, in presenting a screening of Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Saturday January 7th at 16.00) about the troubled musical genius whose talent and appeal never diminished... Read More
As the 19th century elides into the 20th, a luxurious and traditional Paris bordello is the setting for director Bertrand Bonello’s trenchant exploration of the relationship between capital, labour and sex. Opting out of the privations of working-class toil, these... Read More
Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?
Remember the line? It was first uttered by Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones way back in 1981 in Steven Spielberg’s now classic action adventure. See the blockbuster again with your family during the... Read More
From the vaults of the IFI Irish Film Archive we are pleased to present a new series of feature films made in and about Ireland. The series will showcase highlights from Irish cinema history and is sure to entertain and illuminate in equal measure.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish Film.
Gerard Hurley’s second feature film is a finely-observed, quietly uplifting tale of a returning emigrant coming to terms with his past.
After 20 years of no contact with his... Read More
Complex and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history, about an ordinary man and the biggest theft of Soviet information during the Cold War. After the 1981 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a Moscow-based French businessman, Pierre Froment, makes... 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
Produced by George Lucas, this mega matinee show is Spielberg’s homage to the classic adventure serials he loved as a child. A whip-cracking archaeologist called Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) becomes involved in a race to prevent the Ark of the Covenant from falling into the hands... Read More
Spielberg’s opening reconstruction of the storming of Omaha Beach by American soldiers on D-Day achieves a combat accuracy that makes the sequence almost unwatchable in its unrelieved slaughter. This is warfare deglamourised, red in tooth and claw.
The central plot... Read More
It would be fair to say that this film surpassed all expectations. Fearing that Thomas Keneally’s novel would prove too strong for Spielberg’s sensibility, critics and audiences alike were taken aback by the film’s monochrome grimness and documentarystyle immediacy that... Read More
The reach-out-and-touch physicality that director Steve McQueen and actor Michael Fassbender brought to their Bobby Sands saga Hunger is, if anything, even more potent in this stunning follow-up, an excoriating dramatic portrait of a New York executive in thrall to sexual addiction. Fassbender’s character is an aloof charmer... Read More
Neatly dubbed by Village Voice magazine as ‘Days of Wine and Neuroses’, this road movie set in California’s vineyards charts a critical week in the life of two ex-college buddies sharing a mid-life crisis. Miles (Paul Giamatti) is a schoolteacher... Read More
What happens if you meet the woman of your dreams actually in your dreams? That’s the poser in this latest seriocomic frolic from mad-genius Czech animator Jan Švankmajer. Ensuring that he returns to the same dream with the same alluring young woman night after night is... Read More
Tackling subject matter as varied as pet cemeteries (Gates of Heaven), miscarriages of justice (The Thin Blue Line), and U.S. military misdemeanours in Iraq (Standard Operating Procedure), Errol Morris has forged a deserved reputation as one of America’s... Read More
Author and academic Neil Sinyard will examine Steven Spielberg’s extensive career, with an emphasis on the titles showing in this programme, including his latest epic, War Horse.
The talk will be FREE and audiences intending to see
A favourite at Cannes and now a frontrunner for an Academy Award, this loving recreation of the glory days of silent cinema is an utterly captivating entertainment in its own right. Yes, it’s in black and white, shot in the old Academy 4:3 screen size,... Read More
The Critical Take, the IFI’s free film club, will next meet on Tuesday, January 31st at 18.40.
Up for discussion will be Surviving Life, The Artist and Shame. Our panellists will include Irish Times Film Critic Donald Clarke and Dr.... Read More
Seven years after the Oscar-winning Sideways, Alexander Payne cements his status as the American screen’s ruling master of finding warmth and humour in serious dramatic situations. In stark terms, his latest is essentially about coming to terms with loss, thrusting... 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
In celebration of Trad Fest 2012 we present two remarkable programmes of films about traditional Irish music.
PROGRAMME 1:THE DUBLINERS IN THE RARE OUL TIMESA programme of rarely-seen films about The Dubliners, including a 1967 pop-video, Seven Drunken Nights, made by... Read More
PROGRAMME 2:
LA RÊVE CELTIQUE(THE CELTIC DREAM)Directed for French television by Frederick Rossif, produced by Tom Hayes and scored by film composer Vangelis... Read More
The subject of war seems to bring the best from Steven Spielberg, as Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan and now this impressive venture set during 1914 –‘18 all underline. It’s based on the much-loved children’s novel by Michael Morpurgo, which recently became a phenomenon... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.
This intriguing small film that slipped under the radar of most cinemas around the country stars comic Will Ferrell, showing his much greater potential in this role of alcoholic... Read More
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 20:00
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DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 15.15
KIDNAPPED 12:00, 17:00
PERFECT DAYS 14:15, 20:30
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 13:40, 16:00, 18:30, 20:50
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