What business does a cultural institution have screening action movies? What indeed? Dr. Harvey O’Brien, of the UCD School of English, Drama, and Film, and author of the new book Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back (Columbia University Press,... Read More
A blend of documentary and drama, this is a gentle story of father-son bonding in the stunningly beautiful setting of Blanco Chinchorro, a coral reef off the coast of Mexico. 5-year-old Natan, leaves his mother, and his home in Italy,... Read More
Director Michael Haneke explores the meaning of love in this deeply affecting character drama which deservedly won the 2012 Cannes Palme d’Or. Police break in to a central Paris apartment uncertain what awaits them, and the story behind these tragic... Read More
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This month we present a ‘Bleak Midwinter’ programme – a stark alternative to the usual Christmas fare.
PROGRAMME 1: BEFORE... 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 present a ‘Bleak Midwinter’ programme – a stark alternative to the usual Christmas fare.
PROGRAMME 1: BEFORE... 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 present a ‘Bleak Midwinter’ programme – a stark alternative to the usual Christmas fare.
PROGRAMME 2: AMHARC... Read More
IFI CLASSIC
Now we’re all more foodie-conscious than ever before, there’s never been a better time to revisit Denmark’s 1987 Oscar-winner, which enticingly suggests that even the most ascetic of palates can find sensual and spiritual affirmation in the glories... Read More
Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World) gives a unique spin to celluloid depictions of the joyful holiday season in this gleefully profane and very funny story of Willie Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton), who works as a store Santa every year just so... Read More
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Fiercely independent British filmmaker Bernard Rose and his charismatic lead Danny Huston have formed quite a double-act, and this wintry parable marks the third time they’ve modernised stories by Leo Tolstoy. After their films Ivansxtc. and The... Read More
Co-writer Rashida Jones (The Social Network) also plays Celeste in this gently bittersweet and amusing study of a modern unconventional relationship in which she and Jesse (Andy Samberg), friends since childhood, are coming to an amicable end to their marriage... Read More
There will be a Q&A with director Ian Fitzgibbon hosted by Newstalk’s Philip Molloy following the 18.20 screening of his film on November 30th.
Shown to fantastic audience response as the Closing Gala of this year’s Jameson Dublin International Film... Read More
We are delighted to welcome director Kirsten Sheridan who will take part in a Q&A following the 18.20 screening of this film on Friday, December 7th.
Kirsten Sheridan’s third feature is a loose, experimental depiction of a modern-day bacchanal as... Read More
On the occasion of the release of Sightseers, showing December 1st – 13th, we’re pleased to provide audiences with the opportunity to revisit director Ben Wheatley’s previous films.
Debut Down Terrace is a black comedy that blends gangster movies with... Read More
Although it is a belated sequel to 1996’s Jägarna, False Trail works perfectly well as a standalone film in the current booming genre of ‘Nordic noir’. When a young woman goes missing in a small village in the Norrland region,... Read More
December’s Feast Your Eyes will be a foodie festive treat as we’ll be showing this 1945 comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck as a cookery writer who can’t cook!
In her Smart Housekeeping column, Elizabeth Lane (Stanwyck) proclaims to live on a... Read More
Shot in Quebec, this is another typical ‘wrong man’ story, with a big twist. The man accused of murder is a Catholic priest who is unable to defend himself convincingly: the killer revealed his guilt to him in the confessional,... Read More
The second in a three-part programme presented by the IFI and the Experimental Film Club, Sarah Turner’s Perestroika (2009) explores further the relationship between experimental cinema and the train.
The train can serve as a “mechanical double” for the cinema,... Read More
Get into the Christmas spirit with this brand new film based on the novel by popular children’s writer, Cornelia Funke (Inkheart, The Thief Lord). It’s two weeks before Christmas and Niklas Goodfellow, the last true Santa, is out on his... Read More
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
When Ali Came to Ireland is the story of how Butty Sugrue, a circus strongman from Killorglin, Co. Kerry, pulled off a massive sporting coup in July 1972 when... Read More
On the occasion of the release of Sightseers, showing December 1st – 13th, we’re pleased to provide audiences with the opportunity to revisit director Ben Wheatley’s previous films.
Sophomore effort Kill List brought Wheatley to wider attention and acclaim with... Read More
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Premiered in this year’s Un Certain Regard strand at Cannes, where it won Suzanne Clément the Best Actress award, 23-year-old writer-director Xavier Dolan’s third film shows a confidence and ambition unrivalled among his contemporaries.
Laurence (Melvil Poupaud)... Read More
In celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary, this new digital print from the original 70mm negative allows us a fresh look at the most intelligent epic ever to grace the screen. You can’t help but marvel that a 227-minute film... Read More
Continuing screenings of our 2012 French Film Project title, this film was a deserving winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival 2011. From the Dardenne brothers, it is a portrait of life in their Belgian home town of... Read More
Since playing pixie-ish Ludivine Sagnier against a domineering Charlotte Rampling worked well for François Ozon in Swimming Pool, veteran director Alain Corneau conjures up some of the same frissons by casting Gallic glamour girl Sagnier opposite Anglo ice-queen Kristin Scott... Read More
Translation of silent intertitles had been simple, making it easy for films by Hitchcock and others to cross national boundaries; spoken dialogue made it more complicated and one early response was to produce a film in multiple language versions. After... Read More
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From Deepa Mehta, director of the ‘Elements Trilogy’ (Fire (1996), Earth (1998), and Water (2005)) comes this adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s much-loved 1980 masterpiece of post-colonial literature and magical realism, and winner of the ‘Booker of Bookers’... Read More
Celebrating the bicentennial of Charles Dickens’ birth and the remarkable career of Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst, one of Ireland’s most prolific and overlooked film directors, we are pleased to present Scrooge, the film that is widely believed to be the... Read More
New animation feature from Schesch Filmkreation and Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon (The Secret of Kells) and adapted from the worldwide best-seller by Tomi Ungerer. If only Moon Man knew just how much children loved him! He’s not even remotely aware, he’s... Read More
This was Hitchcock’s 12th film but only the third – after The Lodger and Blackmail – to deal with crime and its unravelling; he had not yet begun to be identified with the genre. While the ‘whodunnit’ structure is untypical, Murder!... Read More
Quirky, touching, and highly entertaining, Safety Not Guaranteed takes its title from the text of a mysterious personal ad seeking a companion for time travel (applicants are further warned, “Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once... Read More
While any adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is bound to end on a sentimental and uplifting note, the real pleasure of Scrooged lies in watching Bill Murray at his malevolent best.
He plays the utterly amoral Frank Cross,... Read More
If the confrontational Kill List placed Ben Wheatley among British cinema’s most incendiary new talents, this latest exercise in ultra-black comedy and squirm-inducing social observation certainly confirms it. If the idea of blending, say, Mike Leigh’s Nuts in May with... Read More
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An affecting drama about the pitfalls faced on the road from addiction to recovery, Smashed centres on Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Death Proof) as Kate, a smart and attractive schoolteacher happily married to Charlie (Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad),... Read More
Throughout 2012 at the IFI, our focus on animation included an evening course, an Irish Animation Day and an IFI Family Festival Irish Animation Trail. To finish off the year, and in conjunction with the Dublin City of Science, we have... Read More
Hitchcock’s departure for Hollywood in 1939, seen at first as temporary, soon turned out to be permanent. Stage Fright is the only subsequent feature that he both set and shot in England, apart from Frenzy in 1972.
Yet another ‘wrong... Read More
He’s played a Viking warrior in Valhalla Rising, a revolutionary physician in A Royal Affair and even set about 007’s gentlemanly parts in Casino Royale; clearly, there are few limits to Mads Mikkelsen’s abilities, and winning the Best Actor Award... Read More
The mysterious lodger, under suspicion as a serial killer, becomes the first in a long line of heroes who struggle to prove their innocence, while the landlady’s daughter Daisy is the first of the ‘Hitchcock blondes’.
The film, his third... Read More
Following the elemental There Will be Blood was always going to be a challenge for writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, so this latest drama operates on a more intimate scale, yet with hardly less expressive intensity.
America, post-WWII, and traumatised ex-sailor... Read More
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This absorbing story of India’s social divide takes the opposite tonal approach to Slumdog Millionaire – quiet and observant where Danny Boyle’s film was all button-pushing brashness. Director Chris Smith comes from a documentary background (he made... Read More
To mark the release of Boxing Day, December 21st – 27th, there will be screenings of the previous instalments of director Bernard Rose’s ‘Tolstoy Trilogy’.
In the superb Ivansxtc., an adaptation of The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ivan (Danny Huston)... Read More
To mark the release of Boxing Day, December 21st – 27th, there will be screenings of the previous instalments of director Bernard Rose’s ‘Tolstoy Trilogy’.
Adapted from the novella of the same name, The Kreutzer Sonata is a story of... Read More
As the title suggests, this is an unusually direct version of a familiar Hitchcock theme. He famously told interviewers that a film should not be a slice of life but a slice of cake; The Wrong Man is more like... Read More
A moving and inspirational story about youth, art and freedom of expression, this documentary follows six teenagers from Leeds who have been chosen to represent the UK at Brave New Voices, the most prestigious slam poetry competition in the world.... Read More
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After Hitchcock upped the ante on screen sensation in 1960’s Psycho, the challenge was for Hollywood to try and match it, prompting director Robert Aldrich to conjure up this novel shocker featuring genuine old-school movie stars. Taking... Read More
This film was released on Friday 11th December 2015 and is no longer screening.
Sally’s (Meg Ryan) initial encounter with Harry (Billy Crystal) sees the two parting on unfriendly terms due to their disagreement on the issue of whether men... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.
This adaptation of a Michael Morpurgo novel is directed by Pat O’Connor (Dancing at Lughnasa, The Ballroom of Romance). A companion piece to War Horse, recently adapted by Steven... Read More
We continue our tour of this tender story of 11-year-old Kattaka, who lives in Berlin with her father and pregnant mother. A keen speed swimmer, Kattaka is friends with neighbours, Knäcke and an older woman, Lena. One day, Kattaka learns... Read More
A traditional Bordeaux winery makes a fascinating context for a dynastic drama as conflict rages between fearsome father Niels Arestrup and his hard-working but wimpy son Lorànt Deutsch. When their experienced estate manager (favourite crinkly character type Patrick Chesnais) is... Read More
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