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This film was released on Friday 30th June 2017 and is no longer screening.
Ove (Rolf Lassgård) is stubborn, principled and extremely short-tempered, the quintessential grumpy old man terrifying his community with arcane strictures that only he adheres to. Privately,... Read More
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This film was released on Friday 2nd June 2017 and is no longer screening.
★★★★ – Irish Times ★★★★ – Irish Independent
Exclusively atIFI.
Hirokazu Kore-eda, the prolific and remarkably consistent director of I Wish (2011), Like Father, Like Son... Read More
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Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
PROGRAMME ONE
PITCH AND PUTT WITH BECKETT AND JOYCE
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AMHARC ÉIREANN: EAGRÁN 159
Joyce Tower Opened!
FILM INFO: 3 mins, 1962, Ireland, Black and White
THREE WEEKS IN... Read More
This film was released on Friday 9th June 2017 and is no longer screening.
Australian tourist Clare (Teresa Palmer) arrives in Berlin to photograph East German GDR architecture. Whilst there, she meets Andi (Max Riemelt), a handsome, if moody, schoolteacher... Read More
This film was released on Friday 16th June 2017 and is no longer screening.
The follow up to 2009’s Mundane History, the beguiling, utterly original and shape-shifting By The Time It Gets Dark has received critical acclaim and a number... Read More
John Connors plays Jay Connolly, a part-time DJ and low-level drug dealer living in Darndale, an area rife with gangland violence, drugs and social problems. When... Read More
★★★★★ – Irish Times ★★★★★ – Guardian
Restored for its 25th anniversary in 2016, Julie Dash’s seminal Daughters of the Dust was reissued to coincide with... Read More
This extremely rare opportunity to see one of the early works of German master Fritz Lang on the big screen, long withdrawn from circulation, is to... Read More
This film screened on Thursday 22nd June 2017.
William Goldman’s Oscar-winning screenplay sees journalists Carl Bernstein (Hoffman) and Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) working together on what initially appears to be a minor story of little import, a break-in at Washington’s... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 25th June 2017.
Hoffman received his first Oscar win for the role of Ted Kramer, a workaholic who is forced to adjust and take care of his young son, Billy, when he is left by... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 17th June 2017.
Hoffman reteamed with John Schlesinger in this thriller scripted by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). He plays Babe, who is drawn into a world of duplicity, betrayal, and stolen... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 10th June 2017.
Famously the only X-rated film to win the Oscar for Best Picture, in Midnight Cowboy Hoffman plays ‘Ratso’ Rizzo, a small-time New York conman who falls in with Texan Joe Buck (Jon... Read More
This film screened on Sunday 18th June 2017.
One of the great prison films, Papillon is based on the autobiography of French convict Henri Charrière, whose titular nickname was derived from his tattoo of a butterfly. Portrayed here by Steve... Read More
Rain Man saw Dustin Hoffman win his second Oscar for his portrayal of the autistic savant Raymond Babbitt. Raymond is the elder brother of Charlie (Tom Cruise), who had no idea of... Read More
This film screened on Friday 23rd June 2017.
Straight Time, based on a novel by Edward Bunker (Reservoir Dogs’ Mr. Blue) was originally Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut before he decided to opt out of the role when shooting was underway... Read More
This film screened on Saturday 24th June 2017.
In Tootsie, Hoffman plays Michael Dorsey, an actor struggling more because of his difficult reputation than lack of talent. Desperate for work, he poses as ‘Dorothy Michaels’ in an audition for a... Read More
This event took place on Wednesday 21st June 2017.
In this absorbing and brilliantly open-ended new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1951 novel, Rachel Weisz takes on the eponymous role, playing opposite Sam Claflin as Philip, once a young orphan,... Read More
This film was released on Friday 12th May 2017 and is no longer screening.
A haunting elegy set in the aftermath of World War I, Frantz is another successful change of pace for the prolific and versatile François Ozon (Swimming... Read More
This film was released on Friday 23rd June 2017 and is no longer screening.
Actress/director Nicole Garcia’s adaptation of Milena Agus’s novella features another wholly immersed performance from Marion Cotillard as Gabrielle, a rebellious spirit in post-WWII France. Beginning in... Read More
This film was released on Friday 26th May 2017 and is no longer screening.
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★★★★ – Time Out
Provincial café proprietor Li (Fan Bingbing) is striving for legal representation in her complicated case against her husband –... Read More
This film screened on Wednesday 28th & Friday 30th June 2017.
This feelgood, candy-coloured musical romance swept the boards at awards season this year, reminding us that films can provide popular superhero-free escapism. Where director Chazelle’s previous film, Whiplash (2014),... Read More
This film was released on Friday 28th April 2017 and is no longer screening.
Audio Description (AD) will be available on all screenings.
Beautifully directed by William Oldroyd from a screenplay by noted playwright Alice Birch, Lady Macbeth sees teenage... Read More
Woody Allen was famously so unhappy with Manhattan that he wanted to offer United Artists a new project for free if they would agree not to... Read More
In this absorbing and brilliantly open-ended new adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s 1951 novel, Rachel Weisz takes on the eponymous role, playing opposite Sam Claflin as... Read More
★★★★★ – Irish Times ★★★★ – Guardian
This tender Oscar-nominated animation defies pre-conceived notions of what to expect from a film for young audiences. First-time director... Read More
This film screened on Friday 16th June 2017.
As with her earlier feature Anne Devlin (1994), Pat Murphy again reclaims an important Irish woman from relative obscurity as she tells the tale of Nora (Susan Lynch), a spirited young housemaid from Galway, and her... Read More
Revolutions introduces the exciting, sometimes brutal, world of women’s roller derby, a non-traditional sport that is gaining popularity but still operates well outside the sporting mainstream.... Read More
Laura Poitras follows up Citizenfour (2014), her Oscar-winning portrait of Edward Snowden, with an equally candid study of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Poitras was granted extraordinary... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 20th June 2017.
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‘Smolt (n.) Young salmon migrating to sea for first time.’
While trying to offload secondhand cigarettes, two 12-year-olds, Darren... Read More
Director Mike Nichols’s timeless classic is reissued on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary in a new digital restoration. Following his graduation from college, 21-year-old Benjamin... Read More
This film was released on Friday 14th April 2017 and is no longer screening.
★★★★ – The Irish Times ★★★★ – The Guardian
Opulent, erotic and replete with exquisite period detail and sly narrative trickery, The Handmaiden is everything we... Read More
★★★★★ – Telegraph ★★★★ – Irish Times
Aki Kaurismäki, the Finnish master of deadpan humour, tackles the immigration crisis in his inimitable fashion. In the years... Read More
This film screened on Tuesday 27th June 2017.
The inspirational teacher is a familiar screen character, setting out to rescue pupils from ignorance, mediocrity or abuse, invariably winning audience respect. Jean Brodie, however, is the 1930s Edinburgh school teacher of... Read More
★★★★ – Irish Times ★★★★ – Guardian
The first international co-production for Studio Ghibli, the world-renowned Japanese animation studio responsible for modern classics such as Princess... Read More
This event took place on Wednesday 7th June 2017.
Tickets for this free event should be booked in advance in person or over the phone with the IFI Box Office on 01-6793477.
Co-curated by IFI and Minceirs Whiden, Ireland’s only... Read More
There may be pirates all over the cinemas in June, but they’ll be no match for this 1950 adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson story. As the first live action film... Read More
This event took place on on Wednesday 11th June 2017.
British filmmaker Nick Broomfield has popularised a particular strain of investigative journalism, shining light into the murkier corners of celebrated lives in films such as Kurt & Courtney (1998), Biggie... Read More
British filmmaker Nick Broomfield has popularised a particular strain of investigative journalism, shining a light into the murkier corners of celebrated lives in films such as... Read More
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