WHAT'S ON - 25/02/2017

• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME DOUBLE BILL (FEB 2017)

  PROGRAMME 1

  OUR COUNTRY

  Liam O Laoghaire’s film for Clann na Poblachta discredits the Fianna Fáil leadership and presents countrywide images of poverty, emigration and deprivation never before seen on Irish screens.

  FILM INFO: Liam O’Laoghaire, 8 mins, 1948, Ireland,... Read More

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  Times: 13.10

  

• FENCES

  This film was released on Friday 17th February 2017.

  ★★★★ Independent

  ★★★★ The Telegraph

  Fences, August Wilson’s play exploring race and familial relations in 1950s Pittsburgh, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987; plans for film adaptations floundered as they failed... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 17.15

  

• GEORGE BEST: ALL BY HIMSELF

  This film was released on Friday 24th February 2017.

  In 1961 George Best, a shy well-mannered Belfast teenager, was recruited by Manchester United to become what Pelé would call “the greatest player in the world”. A devilishly charismatic figure, Best... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.40 | 20.10

  

• IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD

  This film was released on Friday 24th February 2017.

  Louis (Gaspard Ulliel), a terminally ill writer returns home to his estranged family after an absence of more than a decade prompting a series of confrontations, revelations and internecine squabbling in... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 16.10 | 20.40

  

• LOVING

  This film was released on Friday 3rd February 2017.

  ★★★★★ Entertainment.ie

  ★★★★ Irish Times

  There will be Open Captioned (OC) screenings of Loving on Wednesday, February 15th  at 18.10 and Thursday, February 16th at 13.00. Audio Description (AD) will be... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 14.40

  

• MEETINGS WITH IVOR

  This film was released on Friday 10th February 2017.

  Ivor Browne has been a central figure in Irish mental health for many decades. Some people wish he wasn’t. Yet many people owe their lives to him. Browne somehow managed to... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 15.40

  

• MExINDEX: “AS WE MAY THINK”

  This event took place on Saturday 25th February 2017.

  Borrowing the title of Vannevar Bush’s 1945 essay in which he outlined a hypothetical proto-hypertext system, ‘As We May Think’ features work by Linda Quinlan, Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Eoghan Ryan, Bea McMahon,... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 12.00

  

• MOONLIGHT

  This film was released on Friday 17th February 2017.

  ★★★★★ Irish Times

  ★★★★★ Guardian

  ★★★★★ RTÉ Ten

  There will be OPEN CAPTIONED (OC) screenings of Moonlight on Thursday, February 23rd at 15.30, and Monday, February 27th at 18.00. AUDIO DESCRIPTION... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.50 | 18.20

  

• THE FOUNDER

  This film was released on Friday 17th February 2017.

  ★★★★ Irish Times

  ★★★★ Guardian

  ★★★★ entertainment.ie

  Frustrated travelling salesman Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) criss-crosses 1950s America selling a series of underwhelming products that have failed to bring him the success... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 20.45

  

• TONI ERDMANN

  This film was released on Friday 3rd February 2017.

  ★★★★★ Empire

  ★★★★★ The Times (UK)

  ★★★★ Irish Times

  This film closes on Thursday, March 16th.

  Ines (Sandra Hüller) has become estranged from her retired schoolteacher father Winfried (Peter Simonischek); unhappily... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 17.30