WHAT'S ON - 18/08/2024

• AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: BOOGIE NIGHTS

  Probably no other director to have emerged in American cinema during this decade has attained the elevated status of Paul Thomas Anderson, now generally considered one of the greatest living filmmakers and an exceptional director of actors, a reputation gained... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 15.00

  

• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: HOME TRUTHS (PROGRAMME 2)

  Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive daily in July. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.

  PROGRAMME TWO

  ESSIE’S LAST STAND

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.20

  

• HOLLYWOODGATE

  When the United States withdrew in 2021 from its twenty-year ‘forever war’ in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base in Kandahar, which they rebrand as Hollywoodgate, loaded with weaponry – a... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 16.30, 20.50

  

• I SAW THE TV GLOW

  A hypnotic, surreal fever dream of a film, writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s (We’re All Going to The World’s Fair) I Saw The TV Glow has future cult classic written all over it in bright pink neon. The setting is the late 1990s, where teenager Owen (Justice Smith) and fellow misfit Maddy (Brigette Lundy-Paine) bond over their shared... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 18.40

  

• KINDS OF KINDNESS

  Kinds of Kindness is Yorgos Lanthimos’s second film to be released this year, coming hot on the heels of the all-conquering Poor Things; it represents, however, a shift away from the crossover appeal of that baroque, multi-Oscar-winning extravaganza, and a... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 11:30

  

• LONE STAR 4K RESTORATION

  Following the discovery of human remains in the desert surrounding a windswept Texas town near the Mexican border, Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) is drawn into investigating a forty-year-old disappearance, that of Charlie Wade, the town’s corrupt and brutal former... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 17:45

  

• MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO

  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

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  BOOK NOW Times: 11:00

  

• MYSTERY MATINEE AUGUST 2024

  Join us for this month’s screening at 13.00 on Sunday, August 18th. The film chosen could be anything from throughout the history of cinema, from a silent classic to a preview of a hotly anticipated upcoming release.

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  BOOK NOW Times: 13.00

  

• ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS

  Adapted from Yu Hua’s novel Mistakes by the River, the third feature from Chinese writer-director Wei Shujun is set in the 1990s in the rural town of Banpo, Southern China. Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong), chief of police (and father-to-be) investigates the... Read More

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  BOOK NOW Times: 14:10, 20:30