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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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As part of this month’s Neil Jordan Retrospective, the director will be joined by his friend and frequent collaborator, novelist Pat McCabe, in a broad-ranging conversation exploring Jordan’s work in film on Saturday, May 25th (14.10). Reserve your FREE ticket... Read More
The first-time writer-director certainly laid down a marker here, casting signature actor Stephen Rea as a showband saxophonist who’s shocked by the senseless terrorist shooting of an innocent waif outside a border country dance hall. As he would throughout his... Read More
Join us for FREE screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (see calendar for dates and times). Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office.
This month: more nostalgic snapshots of Ireland (some more accurate than others…)
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This month: more nostalgic snapshots of Ireland (some more accurate than others.... Read More
Jordan turns to Pat McCabe’s boundless imagination once more and recreates Ireland’s turbulent 1970s as an odyssey of gender-bending possibility, courtesy of irrepressible cross-dressing Patrick ‘Kitten’ Braden.
Cillian Murphy triumphs in the central role with a blend of determined flounce... Read More
In collaboration with the British Council on the occasion of ‘Words On The Street: Literature Night’ (May 15th), the IFI is delighted to welcome author Daniel Clay to introduce a screening of Rufus Norris’ acclaimed adaptation of his novel, Broken,... Read More
Two hundred years old and never been kissed – growing up is hard to do when you’re one of the undead and your mother keeps moving from town to town lest the family’s dark secret be discovered. Remarkably, Neil Jordan’s... Read More
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
The inspiration for Scott Hick’s paltry No Reservations (2007) – with Catherine Zeta-Jones failing to cause a stir in the central role – Bella Martha (Mostly Martha) is the much less cheesy version of German writer-director Sandra Nettelbeck’s original story... Read More
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
This misbegotten tilt at a sort of Celtic Ghostbusters is never quite as awful as its unenviable reputation suggests. The comic set-up’s actually quite promising as a full-on Peter O’Toole hopes to save his ancestral seat by pretending it’s haunted,... Read More
Hands up who expected this! Almodóvar breaks his run of essentially serious recent melodramas to return to the frisky ribaldry characterising his ‘80s career up to Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. A Spanish airline flight is supposedly heading... Read More
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
Wim Vandekeybus, Artistic Director of Flemish dance company Ultima Vez, is renowned for his choreographic and filmmaking work. This programme (May 19th) will include dance-for-camera, documentaries and shorts, and will feature films including Blush, a dazzling voyage of contrasts between... Read More
The central work of this month’s programme, curated by Esperanza Collado, is The Room Called Heaven, the most recent film from Los Angeles-based Spanish filmmaker, Laida Lertxundi. Lertxundi’s filmmaking expresses situations of process: perceptual processes, film production processes, and the... Read More
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
Ever unpredictable, Jordan followed a creative high with a psychological thriller which found few admirers. The key image of a lost community beneath a Massachusetts reservoir suggests a lingering suppressed subconscious, as illustrator Annette Bening is assailed by visions of... Read More
Now that he was ‘Academy Award Winner Neil Jordan’, his ascendant stock brought him the long-gestating screen version of the first volume in Anne Rice’s million-selling Vampire Chronicles.
If the presence of Messrs. Cruise and Pitt hint at some Hollywood... Read More
After a paragliding accident, Philippe, a rich aristocrat, hires Driss, a young guy from the projects as his care-giver. Two worlds collide and give birth to a crazy, comical and strong friendship which makes them untouchable.
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The film screening will be followed by a Q&A with Begley, and with Steve Collins who will be appearing in advance of an imminent grudge fight with former World Champion, Roy Jones Junior.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase... Read More
We are delighted that this film will open the proceedings for the final weekend of Spotlight: New Irish Film at the IFI with a Gala Screening on April 26th (18.30) and a Q&A with Walsh and cast member Charlene McKenna, followed by a... Read More
From celebrated French animator Michel Ocelot comes his new feature Les contes de la nuit. Ocelot fans will already be familiar with his sparkling stories and jewel-like imagery from features such as Kirikou and The Princes’ Quest. Les contes de... Read More
Lightening up after her Oscar-winning moral drama In A Better World, Denmark’s Susanne Bier returns with this absolute charmer, bringing a dash of laughter, a smattering of home truths and plenty of Italian sunshine.
Brassy blonde Trine Dyrholm holds centre... Read More
The Lux Prize is the annual European Parliament Film Prize aimed at raising awareness of films that have the European public debate as their central theme. The selected films all offer an opportunity for citizens to reflect on the main... Read More
Jordan’s national creation myth was always going to be controversial, but at heart it plays out on a historic scale the personal conflict seen in Angel – once you pick up a gun, even with good reason, it’s difficult to... Read More
This underworld thriller, co-written with David Leland, brings a new level of emotional intensity to Jordan’s work and introduces a central theme – that love is never ours to control. In the employ of seedy kingpin Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins... Read More
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
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
Back in Ireland for some Celtic faerie lore, and the appearance of a ‘selkie’ in the nets of Cork fisherman Colin Farrell. When he takes sea-nymph Alicja Bachleda ashore, fortune begins smiling on him, but can the legends really co-exist... Read More
The quest for domestic bliss becomes an inescapable nightmare in this immensely powerful Belgian character study based on shocking true-life events.
Emilie Dequenne, already an indie icon as the Dardennes’ Rosetta, is arguably even more affecting here as a young... Read More
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Gene Hackman’s favourite among his own films, and the Palme D’Or winner at Cannes in 1973, this picaresque character study remains one of the least-known gems from the golden age of early ‘70s American cinema.
Frame after beautifully-composed... Read More
Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance last year, Antonio Campos’ second feature sees lovelorn American Simon (Brady Corbett, Martha Marcy May Marlene) licking his wounds in Paris following the breakup of a long-term relationship.
Wandering into a sex... Read More
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
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
We’re delighted to welcome Eamonn Owens to the May 15th (18.30) screening of The Butcher Boy. Eamonn will also introduce the film.
It says a lot about Jordan’s phantasmagorical adaptation of Pat McCabe’s novel that by the time Sinéad O’Connor turns... Read More
The start of an ongoing partnership with producer Stephen Woolley showcases Jordan’s evident affection for Gothic fantasy. Adapting Angela Carter’s oneiric short stories in collaboration with the author, this imaginative combination of classic fairy tale and Hammer horror surveys the... Read More
The Critical Take, the IFI’s FREE monthly forum on film, will meet on May 29th (18.30) to discuss the re-issue of Jerry Schatzberg’s Scarecrow (1973) starring Gene Hackman, Olivier Assayas’ new film Something in the Air and Tobias Lindholm’s A... Read More
Shot in parlous circumstances as its British producers neared bankruptcy, Jordan’s portrait of an IRA gunman embracing his humanity in unexpected circumstances proved the pivotal moment in his career, after an ingenious U.S. marketing campaign swept the film all the... Read More
Not perhaps the most obvious filmmaker to tackle the tortured Catholicism of Graham Greene’s autobiographical 1951 novel, yet Jordan proves utterly invested in its writer protagonist Bendrix – a man seething with anger at the very heavens after the break-up... Read More
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Director Fred Schepisi (Last Orders) returns to Australian filmmaking for the first time since 1988’s A Cry in the Dark with this ambitious adaptation of a novel by fellow countryman and Nobel laureate Patrick White.
On her... Read More
The personnel of the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, work in secrecy, with only the identity of the head of the organisation known to the public. In a striking coup, documentarist Dror Moreh here interviews no less than six... Read More
An essay in the art of thievery as Nick Nolte’s grizzled American expat plans a daring heist on the Monte Carlo casino, and Jordan remakes Jean-Paul Melville’s 1956 classic of Gallic cool, Bob Le Flambeur. It’s hardly a direct copy,... Read More
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
As part of our Neil Jordan Retrospective in May, we’re pleased to screen the first feature ever directed by Jordan, The Making of Excalibur: Myth into Movie, which he filmed on the set of John Boorman’s 1981 epic, and which... Read More
Two consecutive box-office clunkers sent Jordan back home to regroup, and this intimate drama unfolding on the Bray seafront is the closest his films have come to the world of his short stories. Teens Niall Byrne and Lorraine Pilkington are... Read More
After the visceral love story that was Blue Valentine, writer-director Derek Cianfrance shows no lack of ambition in this expansive contemporary saga, engrossingly tracing the longterm ripple-effect of questionable moral decisions.
Cianfrance’s work obviously thrives on moments of heightened emotional... Read More
A big-time Hollywood budget, a David Mamet screenplay, Robert De Niro and Sean Penn – what could go wrong? In retrospect, the critical thumping for this religious-themed frolic seems somewhat unjustified, since it works pretty well on its own (admittedly... Read More
The challenge of retaining your faith in the face of everyday poverty, suffering and injustice provides a compelling core to this latest from brilliant Argentinian director Pablo Trapero. Lion’s Den and Carancho displayed his skill at fusing social issues with... Read More
During Bealtaine each year we are delighted to collaborate with CoisCéim Broadreach and Dublin City Council, and host a dance theatre performance in the IFI Foyer.
This year’s performance, Dance Across Dublin, draws inspiration from different Dublin communities and the... Read More
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, the story of Nick Carraway and his fascination with the lavish lifestyle of his Long Island neighbour J. Gatsby gets the full period treatment in this version by British director, Jack Clayton. The... Read More
BALTIMORE 15.15, 20.45
JEAN EUSTACHE: THE VIRGIN OF PESSAC ‘79 18.30
MONSTER 15.35
PERFECT DAYS 13.00
ROBOT DREAMS 13.00, 18.15 (OC)
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS 20.30
THE DELINQUENTS 12.45, 17.15
THE TASTE OF THINGS 20.20
THE ZONE OF INTEREST 16.15
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