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On the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s visit, Dr. Harvey O’Brien (Film Studies lecturer, UCD) will give an illustrated talk on Thursday, June 27th looking at representations of the visit on film and how a nostalgic narrative of... Read More
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Marking the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s visit to Ireland.
THE COLUMBAN FATHERS PRESENT: PRESIDENT KENNEDY IN IRELAND
The... Read More
PROGRAMME 2:
TAOISEACH LEMASS VISITS THE U.S.A. 1963
State... Read More
PROGRAMME 3:
JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE ISLAND OF... Read More
PROGRAMME 4:
MOTHER OF THE KENNEDYS
In Radharc’s interview... Read More
PROGRAMME 1:
THE COLUMBAN FATHERS PRESENT: PRESIDENT KENNEDY IN... Read More
Following their first encounter in Vienna in 1995’s Before Sunrise, and their subsequent meeting in Paris in 2004’s Before Sunset, we join Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) in Greece as they once again spend time together discussing life... Read More
Co-written in just 11 days by Texas born director Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan, Before Sunrise traces the relationship that develops between Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) from the time they meet on a train from Budapest to... Read More
Set in Paris nine years after Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) meet in Vienna for the first time in Before Sunrise, Before Sunset is an equally if not more engrossing account of yet another brief encounter, no doubt... Read More
Following Elvis (1979), Escape from New York (1981), and The Thing (1982), director John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell collaborated once again on the massively entertaining Big Trouble in Little China, a tongue-in-cheek martial arts film that has gained a... 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
Presented at the IFI in collaboration with the National Lesbian and Gay Federation on the occasion of Dublin Pride 2013.
Olivia McEvoy the Chair of National Lesbian and Gay Federation will introduce both films in our Pride 2013 programme and... 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
We’re delighted to welcome Caroline Foran, Senior Editor with Entertainment.ie (and big When Harry Met Sally fan…) who will introduce this screening.
As the setting for When Harry Met Sally’s most memorable scene, Katz’s bustling Manhattan Delicatessen – where a... Read More
In this month’s programme two contemporary filmmakers, Julius Ziz and Louis Benassi, celebrate the films of American artist Joseph Cornell. Cornell is more widely known for his sculpture work from the 1950s, but he also made mysterious and beautiful found... Read More
The IFI and Fractal Music present a unique screening programme called Synthesis, a showcase of new and innovative audio-visual artworks from musicians and artists all currently based in Ireland. Through digital and abstract imagery, dance, animation, narration and contemporary compositions,... Read More
In partnership with the Irish Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of new exhibition Cloud Illusions I Recall, which explores the relationship between art and cinema, the IFI is pleased to present two films by the great Chris Marker,... Read More
In partnership with the Irish Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of new exhibition Cloud Illusions I Recall, which explores the relationship between art and cinema, the IFI is pleased to present two films by the great Chris Marker, chosen... Read More
In collaboration with the Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, the IFI is pleased to once again celebrate Irish animation talent with a night of short films made by some of our finest animators on Tuesday, June 11th.
Jason Tammemagi will... Read More
The IFI is pleased to once again collaborate with the SET Collective on the release of their second quarterly publication focusing on the relationship between cinema and architecture.
In this issue, Emma Dwyer writes on the Overlook’s maze in Stanley... Read More
This month, we’re delighted to screen an adaptation of the much-loved German classic about young Emil and his gang of sleuthing friends.
Emil lives with his father in former East Germany but when an accident puts his father out of... Read More
It’s that special time of year again – the IFI Open Day on Saturday, June 15th! Join us to celebrate all that the IFI has to offer with a day of FREE previews, classics, Irish and international films. A day-long cinematic feast... Read More
Director Maurice Galway will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
Ireland on Sunday is our monthly showcase for new Irish film.
In Pauline Bewick: Yellow Man, Grey Man, artist Maurice Galway examines the hugely successful series of work by Pauline known... Read More
After the teasing conundrums of the Tuscan-set Certified Copy, Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami confounds expectations again with this Japanese drama of mistaken identity – which nods towards Ozu’s classic Tokyo Story but takes its title from an American jazz standard.
Marking this year’s Bloomsday festivities, our Monthly Must-See Cinema in June is American director Joseph Strick’s Academy-Award-nominated take on James Joyce’s Ulysses, unquestionably the most faithful screen adaptation of the revered and illustrious novel. Shot on location in Dublin and... Read More
✔Programmer’s Pick
During a production break on Avengers Assemble, Joss Whedon gathered his favourite actors and shot this Shakespeare adaptation inside a fortnight in his own Hollywood home. What sounds like a vanity project however, has turned out to be... Read More
Peter Morgan’s The Audience is this month’s presentation in National Theatre Live, a series of enthralling live performances from London’s most prestigious theatres, broadcast onto cinema screens globally.
In this revealing and witty new play from acclaimed theatre and film... Read More
EXCLUSIVELY AT THE IFI
As 2007’s ferocious Import/Export demonstrated, Austrian maverick Ulrich Seidl has no fear of making the viewer uncomfortable in the course of exposing a wider truth. This first entry in a completed trilogy (Faith and Hope will... Read More
The twilight years of one grand master and the dawning of a new generation’s creativity sustain Gilles Bourdos’ engrossing biographical portrait of impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his son Jean. It’s 1915, and the 70-something-year-old widower is battling arthritis to... Read More
Shot on 65mm by renowned cinematographer Freddie Young, who also worked with David Lean on Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, Ryan’s Daughter is arguably the most visually impressive film ever made in Ireland.
In keeping with his distinctive epic... Read More
A sense of belonging is at stake for the two different exiles at the heart of this immersive first dramatic feature from noted Italian documentarist Andrea Segre. Illegal Chinese immigrant Shun Li (Zhao Tao, the muse of Chinese auteur Jia... 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
Actress-turned-director Sarah Polley (Away From Her, Take This Waltz) picks her way through a potential minefield in this deftly mounted documentary, exploring her family’s tangled history via personal emotional catharsis and an intelligent examination of just who owns the past.
Join us for this month’s lively film debate when we’ll be discussing Paradise: Love, Much Ado About Nothing and Like Someone in Love on Wednesday, June 26th.
Our panellists will include lecturer and writer Dr. Eric Egan; filmmaker and lecturer... Read More
Oscar-nominated as the troubled soul whose bitter truths rocked Revolutionary Road, powerhouse actor Michael Shannon enhanced his reputation in the ominous fable Take Shelter, and is surely bound for iconic status providing he gets the right roles. His wide-eyed intensity... Read More
Audrey Tautou shows what a great actress she’s become with a quite mesmerising take on novelist François Mauriac’s confounding anti-heroine in this atmospheric adaptation, the final film from much-admired director Claude Miller (The Little Thief, A Secret).
Born into old... Read More
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for the over 55s.
Who would have thought that pairing the much-loved and gorgeous Meryl Streep with the equally-admired but invariably curmudgeonly-character-playing Tommy Lee Jones could yield this amusing yet thoughtful comedy about... Read More
Willy Reilly and his Colleen Bawn is a remarkable historical epic and one of few surviving features from the silent era. Set in 18th-century Ireland, it tells the story of Willy Reilly, a Catholic gentleman in love with the daughter... Read More
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:00, 20:45
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SPRING FORWARD (PROGRAMME 1) 13.20
BALTIMORE 13:30
DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 19.40
FROM THE VAULTS: ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: THE ART OF LIVING 18.30
IO CAPITANO 15:50
JEANNE DU BARRY 14:30, 18:10
ON THE WATERFRONT 70TH ANNIVERSARY 13:40
PERFECT DAYS 20:30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 17:15
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11.00 (OC)
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