WHAT'S ON - 26/05/2013

• A HIJACKING

  On May 17th (18.30 screening) we are delighted to welcome John Toner (President of Irish Chamber of Shipping), Anthony Gurnee (Ardmore Shipping), Gary Porter, one of the film’s cast and a security expert; and Chirag Bahri, an Indian seafarer who was held hostage... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18.40

  

• EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN

  Viggo Mortensen stars in Ana Piterbarg’s directorial debut as twin brothers Agustín and Pedro. Agustín is a successful doctor, married to the attractive Claudia (Soledad Villamil, The Secret in their Eyes), and ultimately frustrated with his life. Pedro, on the... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 16.10|20.50

  

• GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES

  Originally released as part of a double bill with My Neighbour Totoro, Grave of the Fireflies is a more mature film, set in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. It begins with the death of 14-year-old Seita, whose... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 16.20

  

• IFI & DUBLIN DANCE FESTIVAL: LIFE IN MOVEMENT

  In 2007 Sydney Dance Company appointed 29-year-old Tanja Liedtke as their new artistic director. Shortly afterwards she was killed in a road accident. Eighteen months after her death her collaborators embark on a world tour of her work and together... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 14.00

  

• IFI FAMILY: THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

  Take a swashbuckling, handsome hero, a beautiful maid and a dastardly villain terrorising the people. . . It can only be The Adventures of Robin Hood, the classic adventure from Warner Bros., which is showing for IFI Family to mark... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 11.00

  

• MUD

  In this backwoods Arkansas rites-of-passage story, Matthew McConaughey continues his transformation from fading heart-throb to compelling character actor, as a fugitive ne’er-do-well (his name is indeed ‘Mud’) who promises two local lads his wreck of a boat if they help... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 20.30

  

• MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO

  Hayao Miyazaki’s second film for Studio Ghibli, My Neighbour Totoro was one of the first to draw international attention to Japanese animation, and is now generally considered one of the best in the genre. Its appeal is not hard to... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  

• SOMETHING IN THE AIR

  The brilliant Olivier Assayas surveyed the ‘70s radical terrorist landscape in his epic Carlos and now he revisits his own back pages in 1971 Paris, reconciling raging hormones, post-‘68 ideological ferment and the nascent stirrings of creativity. It’s a fascinating... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 15.50|18.20|20.50

  

• THE BRAVE ONE

  Working for Lethal Weapon producer Joel Silver as director-for-hire, Jordan turned this revenge thriller to his own uncompromising ends, following NYC radio personality Jodie Foster’s unsettling journey from battered and bruised crime victim to gun-toting urban vigilante.

  An obvious companion... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.30

  

• THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS

  IFI CLASSIC

  Director Bob Rafelson and his leading man Jack Nicholson created a sensation together with 1970’s Five Easy Pieces, but their moody and melancholy second collaboration has never quite had the attention it deserves. Both are films about the... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18.20