Irish Film Institute -MAPPLETHORPE: LOOK AT THE PICTURES

WHAT'S ON - 03/2016

  • A BIGGER SPLASH

    This film was released 12th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ The Upcoming

    Bowie-esque rock star Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is vacationing with her documentary filmmaker boyfriend Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) on the Italian island of... Read More

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  • AEMI PROJECTIONS COLLECTIVISM PART 1: X+

    This film screened 23rd March 2016.

    The first in a three-part programme that seeks to examine the possibilities of collectivism through a diverse selection of recent works, AEMI Projections presents Paris-based artist Marylène Negro’s X+, an intricate and provocative collage-work... Read More

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  • AFTER ’16

    Bord Scannán na hÉireann/The Irish Film Board Short Films

    A programme of nine short films inspired by the subject of 1916 and what it has left in its wake, commissioned by the IFB. Programme includes fiction and non-fiction, live-action and... Read More

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  • AFTER ’16

    Age Recommendation: 15+

    As part of the 1916 Centenary events at the IFI, we are showing a selection of short films from After ’16, the once-off short film initiative from Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board. Commissioned to commemorate,... Read More

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  • AFTER THE CHICK FLICK: FEMALE IDENTITIES AND HOLLYWOOD FILM HIS GIRL FRIDAY + PANEL DISCUSSION

    This film screened 5th March 2016.

    Following a screening of Howard Hawks’ 1940 screwball comedy His Girl Friday starring Cary Grant as sardonic newspaper editor Walter Burns and Rosalind Russell as his ex-wife and star reporter Hildy Johnson (originally written... Read More

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  • AMHRÁN NA MARA

    Mar chuid de Sheachtain na Gaeilge (1-17 Márta 2016), taispeánfar an leagan Gaeilge den bheochan iomráiteach seo. Tar éis dá máthair imeacht gan tásc gan tuairisc, cuirtear Ben agus Saoirse chun cónaí lena seanmháthair sa chathair. Nuair a chinneann siad ar fhilleadh... Read More

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  • ANOMALISA

    This film was released 4th March 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★★ RTÉ Ten ★★★★★ The Guardian

    Following the commercial failure of his directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York (2008), Charlie Kaufman, the brilliantly inventive writer of films such as... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROG 2 (FREE EVENT – MAR 2015)

    Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets at the IFI Box Office. Please check here regularly for updated dates and times.

    SEACHTAIN NA GAEILGE ABÚ!

    Programme 2:

    POBAL Louis... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 1 (FREE EVENT: MARCH 2016)

    FREE EVENT This event is free but ticketed. Please book in person, by emailing  boxoffice@irishfilm.ie or by calling 01 679 3477.

    Free lunchtime screenings of four programmes of short 1916-related films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    Programme 1: This... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 2 (FREE EVENT: MARCH 2016)

    FREE EVENT This event is free but ticketed. Please book in person, by emailing  boxoffice@irishfilm.ie or by calling 01 679 3477.

    Free lunchtime screenings of four programmes of short 1916-related films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    Programme 2: An... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 3 (FREE EVENT: MARCH 2016)

    FREE EVENT This event is free but ticketed. Please book in person, by emailing  boxoffice@irishfilm.ie or by calling 01 679 3477.

    Free lunchtime screenings of four programmes of short 1916-related films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    Programme 3: Eireville... Read More

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  • ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: PROGRAMME 4 (FREE EVENT: MARCH 2016)

    FREE EVENT This event is free but ticketed. Please book in person, by emailing  boxoffice@irishfilm.ie or by calling 01 679 3477.

    Free lunchtime screenings of four programmes of short 1916-related films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

    Programme 4: Irland... Read More

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  • BONE TOMAHAWK

    This film was released 19th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie

    Another month, another revisionist western starring Kurt Russell; S. Craig Zahler’s striking debut feature is a confident twist on the classic frontier yarn. When cannibal savages... Read More

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  • CINÉ CONCERT: IRISH DESTINY

    This film screened 5th March 2016.

    With a live solo performance of score by composer Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.

    We are delighted to present the premiere performance of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin’s solo piano accompaniment to Irish Destiny – re-orchestrated to launch... Read More

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  • COURT

    This film was released 25th March 2016, and is no longer screening.

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    India’s legal system comes under scrutiny in Chaitanya Tamhane’s remarkably assured and quietly angry debut feature. Narayan Kamble (Vira Sathidar) is a 65-year-old part-time educator... Read More

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  • DISORDER (OPENS MARCH 25TH)

    This film was released 25th March 2016, and is no longer screening.

    Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a young soldier recently returned from combat in Afghanistan. Aimless and suffering from acute post-traumatic stress disorder, he takes a job as a security... Read More

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  • DOWN THE CORNER (IFI EVENING COURSE)

    This film screened 8th March 2016.

    One of the ‘first wave films’, set in 1970s Ballyfermot in the then new suburb of Dublin. A gang of boys plan a raid on an orchard in neighbouring territory. The Irish People called... Read More

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  • EASTER SUNDAY: NEWSREEL CINÉ-CONCERT

    This film screened 27th March 2016.

    Easter Sunday presentation of a ciné-concert featuring a programme of newsreels documenting events immediately preceding and following the Uprising in Dublin in 1916. This British, German, American and Irish newsreels in this short programme... Read More

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  • FEAST YOUR EYES: SING STREET

    This film screened 31st March 2016.

    With money tight in a boozy, middle-class 1980s Dublin household, youngest son Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is forced to transfer from his private school to the Brothers in Synge Street where posh new boys are... Read More

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  • GIRLHOOD

    Bande de filles

    We continue our tour of this insightful coming-of-age story about 16-year-old Marieme who lives in the banlieues of Paris. With troubles at home, limited job prospects and intimidation by the boys in her neighbourhood, she is drawn... Read More

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  • GOODNIGHT MOMMY

    This film was released 4th March 2016, and is no longer screening.

    Produced by Ulrich Seidl, and Austria’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars, Goodnight Mommy is a stylish, tense, and thoroughly unnerving entry in... Read More

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  • HAIL, CAESAR!

    This film was released 4th March 2016, and is no longer screening.

    Following a brace of films which saw the Coen Brothers adopt a more sombre perspective on life’s shortcomings, Hail, Caesar! sees them return to the brasher comedy of... Read More

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  • HIGH-RISE

    This film was released 18th March 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ The Independent

    Audio Description (AD) will be available on all screenings.

    Moving into an imposing brutalist skyscraper on the edge of an unnamed English metropolis, suave... Read More

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  • HIGH-RISE (OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENINGS)

    This film screened 21st & 29th March 2016.

    Moving into an imposing brutalist skyscraper on the edge of an unnamed English metropolis, suave neurologist Laing (Tom Hiddleston) becomes enraptured by neighbouring occupants, particularly the building’s supercilious architect Anthony Royal (Jeremy... Read More

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  • HITCHCOCK/ TRUFFAUT

    This film was released 4th March 2016, and is no longer screening.

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Fifty years ago French New Wave luminary François Truffaut published a monograph on director Alfred Hitchcock, the result of a week-long series of probing interviews... Read More

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  • IFI FAMILY: SONG OF THE SEA (AMHRÁN NA MARA)

    This film screened 20th March 2016.

    This beautiful, award-winning animation from Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon is showing in conjunction with St. Patrick’s Festival.

    After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with their Granny in the city. When they... Read More

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  • IN AMERICA

    Director Jim Sheridan will introduce this film.

    One of the prescribed titles for Junior Cycle English is this magical, semi-autobiographical tale of loss and redemption by Jim Sheridan. After the death of their brother, ten-year-old aspiring filmmaker Christy and her... Read More

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  • INSURRECTION (PROGRAMME 1)

    This film screened 28th March 2016.

    On the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Telefís Éireann produced Insurrection, an eight-part drama that depicted the events of Easter Week 1916 as they might have been covered if television had existed. Insurrection... Read More

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  • INSURRECTION (PROGRAMME 2)

    This film screened 28th March 2016.

    On the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Telefís Éireann produced Insurrection, an eight-part drama that depicted the events of Easter Week 1916 as they might have been covered if television had existed. Insurrection... Read More

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  • IRISH FOCUS: SPLANC!

    This film screened 14th March 2016.

    Join us for our focus on new Irish film and filmmakers.

    We’re delighted to welcome the filmmakers to this event.

    We are delighted to premiere seven of the short films commissioned by the Arts... Read More

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  • KING JACK

    This film was released 26th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ The Irish Times

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Fifteen-year-old Jack (Charlie Plummer) doesn’t have many friends, lives in a rough part of town and is also in the middle... Read More

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  • LOVELESS

    This film was released 9th February 2018, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★★ Irish Times

    Andrey Zvyagintsev’s (The Return, Elena, Leviathan) bracing new film is ostensibly a missing person police procedural, yet similar to Leviathan it bears... Read More

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  • MARGUERITE

    This film was released 18th March 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Wealthy socialite Marguerite Dumont (Catherine Frot) lives for music; an amateur soprano, she loves nothing more than to... Read More

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  • MICHAEL COLLINS

    This film screened 19th March 2016.

    The IFI presents, in collaboration with St. Patricks Festival, a 20th-anniversary screening of Neil Jordan’s historical epic, Michael Collins in which Liam Neeson’s intelligently calibrated performance captures Collins’ seductive charisma and complexity, and Jordan’s... Read More

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  • MICHAEL COLLINS – SCHOOL PROCLAMATION DAY

    Irish revolutionary leader, politician, Minister for Finance and Director of Information are just a few of the many titles owned by the Irish patriot and revolutionary Michael Collins. Liam Neeson stars as the charismatic leader alongside Julia Roberts as Kittie... Read More

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  • NOTES ON BLINDNESS

    This film was released 1st July 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ RTÉ.ie ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian

    In 1983, at the age of 45, writer and academic John Hull went totally blind. Initial years of sightlessness... Read More

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  • OUT OF HERE (IFI EVENING COURSE)

    This film screened 29th March 2016.

    Donal Foreman’s acclaimed first feature proposes what recessionary Dublin might look like to a returned émigré. Twenty-something-year-old Fionn returns home and tries to reconnect with his friends, the city and the social scene.

    The... Read More

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  • PAN’S LABYRINTH

    This film screened 2nd March & 14th April 2016.

    El laberinto del fauno

    One of the most popular Spanish language films of recent years, this acclaimed combination of history and fantasy tells of Ofelia, a young girl living in... Read More

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  • PANEL DISCUSSION: APPRAISING THE UPRISING

    Tickets €5

    Film practitioners and historians will reflect on the Appraising the Uprising programme, exploring the value and veracity of representations of Irish history on film; the impact and purpose of different genres; the exhibition history and reception of historical... Read More

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  • QUEEN OF EARTH

    This film was released 1st July 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ – The Irish Times

    ★★★★ – Entertainment.ie

    In his follow-up to Listen Up Philip (2014), director Alex Ross Perry’s psychological drama evokes the
 spirit of Bergman and... Read More

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  • RAMS

    This film was released 5th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

    Brothers Gummi (Sigurður Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson) haven’t spoken in 40 years. Both men are sheep farmers in the starkly beautiful Icelandic countryside; neighbours in a small... Read More

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  • ROOM

    ★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie

    Adapted by Emma Donoghue from her own novel, Room tells the story of Ma (Brie Larson) and her five-year-old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who are being held captive by a man known only as Old... Read More

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  • RYAN’S DAUGHTER

    This film screened 24th March 2016.

    David Lean’s sumptuous Academy-Award-nominated film presents a tale of passion and small-town intrigue against a backdrop of the 1916 Rising in faraway Dublin. In the village of Kirrary, Co. Kerry, newly-wed Rosy (Sarah Miles)... Read More

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  • SING STREET

    ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ RTÉ TEN

    Audio Description (AD) will be available on all screenings.

    With money tight in a boozy, middle-class 1980s Dublin household, youngest son Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is forced to transfer from his private school to... Read More

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  • SING STREET (OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENINGS)

    This film screened 23rd and 30th March 2016. 

    ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ Movies.ie ★★★★ RTÉ TEN

    With money tight in a boozy, middle-class 1980s Dublin household, youngest son Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is forced to transfer from his private school to the Brothers... Read More

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  • SNAP (IFI EVENING COURSE)

    This film screened 22nd March 2016.

    The shocking revelations of clerical and institutional abuse of children have become a much-referenced theme in Irish film. This debut film feature casts the theme differently, avoiding sensation and challenging the viewer to accept... Read More

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  • SPOTLIGHT

    This film was released 29th January 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ The Independent ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie ★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★ The Guardian

    Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo, amongst others, excel in this gripping slow-burn procedural which observes the... Read More

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  • STEVE JOBS

    What drives an entrepreneur? Is ruthlessness a necessary ingredient of being a top CEO? With a fast-paced script by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), this gripping drama centres on three formative products in Jobs’... Read More

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  • THE BIGGER PICTURE: KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS

    This film screened 12th March 2016.

    Our monthly programme strand in which a key film is presented in the context of a notional film canon.

    This month, The Bigger Picture turns to comedy, one of the most difficult and unfairly... Read More

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  • THE CLUB (OPENS MARCH 25TH)

    This film was released 25th March 2016, and is no longer screening.

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Four older men share an unassuming house in an isolated Chilean fishing village; cared for by a housekeeper, they live discrete, secluded lives, using their... Read More

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  • THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: SHIVERS

    This film screened 27th March 2016.

    Our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic film.

    This month’s Hangover Lounge complements the release of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise (see page 9) with the thematically similar Shivers. Believing that humanity needs... Read More

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  • THE HATEFUL EIGHT: 70mm ROADSHOW RELEASE

    This film was released 11th March 2016, and is no longer screening.

    FRIDAY & SATURDAY SOLD OUT. TICKETS SELLING FAST FOR MON-THURS!

    The much-anticipated Roadshow Release of Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, exclusive to the IFI, pays homage to and recreates... Read More

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  • THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS

    This film screened 12th March 2016.

    In the spring of 1916, hostility towards the British is brewing on the streets of Dublin. Nora Clitheroe (Barbara Stanwyk) tries in vain to keep her husband Jack (Preston Foster) from joining the rebel... Read More

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  • THE PROPAGANDA GAME

    This film was released 26th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

    EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI

    Spanish director Álvaro Longoria is granted exclusive access to North Korea to film in any location he wants, provided it is on a controlled, government-sanctioned... Read More

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  • THE TIGER’S TAIL (IFI EVENING COURSE)

    This film screened 15th March 2016.

    Eminent filmmaker John Boorman will present his doppelgänger drama, which stars Brendan Gleeson as property tycoon Liam O’Leary. At the top of his game in prosperous Ireland, O’Leary is propelled into a downward spiral... Read More

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  • THE TRUTH COMMISSIONER

    This film was released 26th February 2016, and is no longer screening.

    In this provocative political thriller which deals with the complexities of post-Troubles Northern Ireland, diplomat Henry Stanfield (Roger Allam) has been appointed by the PM to lead the... Read More

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  • THE WITCH

    This film was released 11th March 2016, and is no longer screening.

    ★★★★★ Irish Examiner ★★★★ The Irish Times

    A family of settlers in 17th century New England are exiled from their village and forced to live in the outskirts of... Read More

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  • THIS OTHER EDEN (IFI EVENING COURSE)

    This film screened 1st March 2016.

    This witty and satirical look at 1950s Ireland, adapted from Louis D’Alton’s stage play, begins with a Black and Tans’ shooting. Years later, plans to erect a statue in honour of the dead soldier... Read More

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  • WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

    This film screened 30th March & 1st April 2016.

    Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.

    Wes Anderson’s award-winning film recounts the adventures of M. Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes) the owner of the Grand Budapest Hotel, and... Read More

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  • WINDSTORM

    Ostwind – Zusammen sind wir frei

    Junior Cycle students of German will enjoy this classic teen story concerning rebellious Mika who fails her school exams and is sent to spend summer holidays with her strict grandmother in the country. With... Read More

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  • ZOOTROPOLIS

    Our Surprise Screening has been announced! We’re delighted to be able to show a preview of Disney’s Zootropolis.

    The modern mammal metropolis of Zootropolis is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid... Read More

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