JUNE 2016
TALE OF TALES
THE IRISH FILM INSTITUTE
FRENCH FILM CLUB
IFI OPEN DAY
This month’s French Film Club screening – where IFI and Alliance Française members pay just €7 a ticket – on the evening of June 8th is The Measure of a Man, Stéphane Brizé’s most overtly political film, and his third with Vincent Lindon, winner of the Best Actor award at Cannes for his performance. See page 5 for film notes. Please visit www.ifi.ie or ask at the IFI Box Office for further details.
Mark Saturday, July 2nd in your calendars! IFI Open Day returns for a full day of FREE screenings, including previews, classics and cult favourites, as well as a glimpse behind the scenes at the IFI, and more. Check out www.ifi.ie, facebook.com/irishfilminstitute and @IFI_Dub on Twitter for details of what we’re showing and doing and, more importantly, how to get your FREE tickets!
IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL
Jonas and the Sea
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The IFI Family Festival returns a little earlier this year – from June 24th to 26th – with amazing cinematic adventures from Austria, India, Germany and beyond, before school holidays even begin! Soar with the eagles or roar with the lions, learn to write like Shakespeare or dance with a little grey tractor. There are premieres and animations, Zig and Zag and mad creations, something for all film fans aged 4 to 12. For more information and to book your tickets, see www.ifi.ie/familyfest 2
FEAST YOUR EYES Our movie and main course pairing this month will be Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales, a baroque fantasy based on fables from a 17th century book of Neapolitan folk tales and starring Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones and Vincent Cassel (see page 8 for more). Join us on June 21st at 18.15 for this delightfully inventive film followed by a specially devised main course in the IFI Café Bar. Tickets €20 (free list suspended).
DIRECTOR’S NOTE
JUNE AT THE IFI This June the IFI is all about families and Shakespeare! Moving from its regular slot in July, this year the IFI Family Festival runs from June 24th to 26th, right at the end of the school year and before many families head off on their summer holidays. We have another wonderful programme lined up for our younger films fans, with stories from Austria, The Netherlands, Germany, India and others, all being told through animation and live action. Zig and Zag are on the list, as is the modern Disney classic The Lion King with associated workshop. The IFI Family Festival is a great opportunity to introduce young film enthusiasts to cinema from all around the world, most of which would not be otherwise seen, and many complemented by hands-on workshops. Check out the full programme online or in the separate flyer.
To mark the global celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, this month’s IFI Season focuses on the playwright, poet and actor. With too-manyto-mention adaptations of his work for the big screen, some adhering strictly to the original text and with others using the subject matter as inspiration, Shakespeare appears as relevant today as he was four centuries ago. Our season includes many classics, from Franco Zeffirelli’s The Taming of the Shrew and Derek Jarman’s The Tempest to Gus Van Sant’s Shakespeare-inspired My Own Private Idaho.
Much Ado About Nothing (p12)
Welcome to the IFI June programme which is packed with the first of the year’s IFI Festivals and a major 400th anniversary celebration.
A jewel in the crown of this special season will be the 70mm presentation of Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet, a must for all cineastes and the only opportunity to see this rare version in Ireland. Another highlight of the season will take place on Friday, June 17th with a special outdoor event on Meeting House Square in Temple Bar. Occurring just a few nights prior to Midsummer, this event will combine music, food (a pig on a spit!) and theatre performances, all leading up to an outdoor screening of Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing in which he also stars alongside Emma Thompson. This is sure to be a magical evening. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the British Council for their support of this season throughout the month of June. And keep an eye out for the annual IFI Open Day which takes place early next month – Saturday July 2nd. Once again we’ll be throwing the doors of the IFI open for a day of free film screenings for audiences old and new. Ross Keane Director
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NEW RELEASES, IFI DOCS & IFI CLASSICS RACE THE MEASURE OF A MAN EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT FIRE AT SEA WHERE TO INVADE NEXT BANG GANG (A MODERN LOVE STORY) CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR TALE OF TALES MA MA REMAINDER
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IFI & CAPSTONES SHIFT: GERMANY YEAR ZERO
19.00
VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH
18.30
VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH
14.00
VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH IFI CAFÉ BAR PUB QUIZ (FREE EVENT) IFI EXPLORERS: RACE SHAKESPEARE LIVES: CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT WHERE TO INVADE NEXT + LIVE SATELLITE Q&A WITH MICHAEL MOORE
18.30 21.30 15.45 18.30 18.30
SHAKESPEARE LIVES: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
15.00
THE BIGGER PICTURE: DESERT HEARTS (WITH UNA MULLALLY)
18.30
FIRE AT SEA + PANEL DISCUSSION
18.00
IFI FILM CLUB: WHERE TO INVADE NEXT SHAKESPEARE LIVES: HAMLET (70MM) IRISH FOCUS: SHEM THE PENMAN SINGS AGAIN + Q&A IRISH FOCUS: MEDICATED MILK + Q&A SHAKESPEARE LIVES: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (OUTDOOR PRE-FILM EVENT) SHAKESPEARE LIVES: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (OUTDOOR SCREENING)
18.00 18.30 16.30
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IFI & CAPSTONES SHIFT: DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF (TOUR GROUP 1) IFI & CAPSTONES SHIFT: DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF (TOUR GROUP 2) SHAKESPEARE LIVES: MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO
11.00
19TH SUN 21ST TUE 22ND WED 24TH FRI 25TH SAT
SHAKESPEARE LIVES : THE TEMPEST
15.00
FEAST YOUR EYES: TALE OF TALES
18.15
SHAKESPEARE LIVES: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
18.30
IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL* ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME (FREE EVENT) + INTRODUCTION BY DR. SAM SLOTE SHAKESPEARE LIVES: ROMEO AND JULIET
13.00
26TH SUN 28TH TUE 29TH WED 30TH THU
IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL* THE HANGOVER LOUNGE: PAN’S LABYRINTH IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: SIXTY SIX + CONVERSATION WITH LEWIS KLAHR
14.00 18.30
WILD STRAWBERRIES: WILD
11.00
SHAKESPEARE LIVES: MACBETH + PANEL DISCUSSION
18.15
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18.40 20.30 22.00
14.30 20.30
IFI FAMILY FESTIVAL*
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JUNE 2016
OPENS JUNE 3RD FILM INFO:
135 mins, France-GermanyCanada, 2016, Digital Notes by Kevin Coyne
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The legendary Jesse Owens, one of the all-time great athletes, famed for the still unequalled feat of setting three world records and tying another in 45 minutes at a 1935 event, and for winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, to the horror of the watching Hitler, is the subject of this fine biopic from director Stephen Hopkins. Beginning with Owens (Stephan James) arriving at Ohio State University, where he comes under the care of coach Larry Snyder
(an impressive turn from Jason Sudeikis), the film follows his ascent to Olympic greatness, all the while struggling with family life, the racism he encountered from the white community, and the pressures placed on him by the black community. With a supporting cast including Jeremy Irons, William Hurt, and Carice van Houten as Leni Riefenstahl, it’s a fascinating account.
OPENS JUNE 3RD EXCLUSIVELY AT IFI† FILM INFO:
93 mins, France, 2015, Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O'Mahony
FRENCH FILM CLUB
Our French Film Club screening – where IFI and Alliance Française members pay just € €7 a ticket – will be on June 8th. See page 2 for details.
A victim of factory downsizing, Thierry (Vincent Lindon) has been out of work for over a year; with special needs schooling for his teenage son on the horizon and sundry other demands on his meagre unemployment benefit, something must give in order to make ends meet. Being on the wrong side of 50 proves an added obstacle, a fact made abundantly clear to him in humiliating job centre training exercises. Landing security guard work for a company trying to weed out
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THE MEASURE OF A MAN petty theft, Thierry finds himself in a compromised position, spying on those even less fortunate than himself. This is Stéphane Brizé’s most overtly political film, his third with Vincent Lindon (winner of Best Actor at Cannes), which takes a leaf from the Dardennes‘ book in its low-key social realist aesthetic and humanist, quietly angry concern for the marginalised everyman. 5
NEW RELEASE
JUNE 2016
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT OPENS JUNE 10TH (EL ABRAZO DE LA SERPIENTE) FILM INFO:
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122 mins, Columbia-VenezualaArgentina, 2015, Digital, Subtitled, Black & White Notes by David O’Mahony
The year is 1909; gravely ill German scientist Theodore Koch-Grunberg ventures deep into the Amazon in search of the sacred yakruna plant he believes will cure him. His guide is Karamakate, an imposing, swaggeringly confident young shaman. Many years later another adventurer, Richard Evans seeks Karamakate, who is now a broken, despondent figure, to retrace Theodore’s steps into the heart of the jungle. Inspired by diary accounts of Amazonian fieldwork, Ciro Guerra’s bracingly original
film presents the two quests in parallel, shifting between time periods. A satisfying device in its own right, the dual narrative also affords a critique of colonialism and the destruction of indigenous peoples at the hands of white traders.
Lampedusa has become a flashpoint in the ongoing immigration crisis; roughly half way between Libya and Sicily, African migrants are drawn to the tiny island on their hazardous crossings to make first contact with mainland Europe. Gianfranco Rosi’s (Sacro Gra) portrait of the island, a deserved winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, takes an oblique approach to its subject, choosing to focus on the everyday lives of the islanders, especially 12-year-old
Samuele, juxtaposing impressionistic observations of their lives with frequently harrowing scenes of coastguard search-and-rescue missions as grievously over-burdened migrant boats are apprehended. Samuele’s obliviousness to what is happening just beyond his limited horizon is telling. Employing a detached viewpoint, Rosi skillfully avoids didacticism, creating a portrait of a traditional community unwittingly tainted by the geopolitical realities of conflict and war.
Filmed in gleaming monochrome, Embrace of the Serpent is both a sensory and contemplative work, the cumulative effect of the visuals and thematic weight of the story creating an intoxicating experience.
FIRE AT SEA OPENS JUNE 10TH FILM INFO:
108 mins, Italy, 2016, Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O'Mahony
PANEL DISCUSSION
Join us after the 18.00 screening of this film on June 14th for a panel discussion with guests as part of a Migration Learning Lab conference (June 14th – 15th). See www.ifi.ie for details.
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OPENS JUNE 10TH FILM INFO:
119 mins, USA, 2016, Digital Notes by Kevin Coyne
MICHAEL MOORE SATELLITE Q&A
There will be a live satellite Q&A with director Michael Moore following the screening on June 10th at 18.30.
In his wryly titled new film, his first since 2009’s Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore is in unusually mellow form, though as impassioned as ever, as he travels around Europe cherry-picking those social innovations which he feels could be laid claim to for the betterment of American society. From the Finnish education systems to Norwegian prisons, French school dinners to the treatment received by those bankers responsible for Iceland’s financial
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WHERE TO INVADE NEXT crisis, it takes something of a romantic perspective, with an unashamed focus on the positive elements of the countries visited – in his own words, he is “picking flowers, not weeds.” Although the film may primarily target Moore’s domestic audience, it is difficult not to wonder why many of these ideas can’t be combined and applied for the betterment of any particular country, including our own.
OPENS JUNE 17TH (BANG GANG (UNE HISTOIRE D’AMOUR MODERNE)) FILM INFO:
98 mins, France, 2015, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne
NEW RELEASE
BANG GANG (A MODERN LOVE STORY) Where 16-year-old George (Marilyn Lima) is outgoing and sexually aware, her best friend Laetitia (Daisy Broom) is shy and virginal. Both are interested in class lothario Alex (Finnegan Oldfield). When George sleeps with Alex, she secretly hopes that it is the beginning of something serious.
his seduction of Laetita, she, seeking revenge and hoping to hurt him, initiates a game of “Truth or Dare, with only dares” amongst the others present. Over the following weeks, more and more classmates join the “Bang Gang” as the parties become mere excuses for orgies.
Alex is currently living alone in his large family home, which has become the place for his classmates to gather and party. When George walks in on
The film charts unexpected paths for its protagonists, and, refreshingly, presents their sexual explorations as an entirely natural step towards maturity. 7
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JUNE 2016
CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR
OPENS JUNE 17TH (RAK TI KHON KAEN) FILM INFO:
NEW RELEASE
122 mins, Thailand, 2015, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Alice Butler
Not unlike his other work in which dream and spirit worlds often interact with a recognisable reality, Palme-d’Or-winning filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendour opens with a situation that appears familiar but which gradually destabilises conventional notions of reason, logic and structure. Voluntary nurse Jenjira (an inspired performance from Jenjira Pongpas) arrives at a former schoolhouse now used as a hospital to care for a unit of soldiers overcome by an unrelenting sleeping
malady. There she befriends Keng, a medium who relates the hibernating patients’ thoughts to their families, and Itt, a soldier with whom she forms a unique bond. It transpires that the hospital is situated on the grounds of an ancient and contested regal cemetery disturbed by local construction work, a contrivance Weerasethakul uses to suggest ways in which a modern, increasingly western-influenced Thai culture is at variance with its past.
TALE OF TALES OPENS JUNE 17TH FILM INFO:
125 mins, Italy-France-UK, 2015, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
FEAST YOUR EYES Join us on June 21st at 18.15 for our Feast Your Eyes screening of Tale of Tales with a meal afterwards, for just €20. Free list suspended. See page 2 for details.
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An anthology of fables drawn from a 17th century book of Neapolitan folk tales compiled by the poet Giambattista Basile, Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is a baroque fantasy of three mythical lands and their distressed rulers. A childless queen (Salma Hayek) sends her husband (John C. Reilly) to battle a sea monster; a king (Toby Jones) becomes obsessed with his pet flea, which has grown to gargantuan proportions; a third philandering monarch (Vincent Cassel)
is seduced by the heavenly singing of an unseen maiden. A gloriously realised fantasia featuring a rogue’s gallery of otherworldly grotesques, Tale of Tales sees the director leave the social commentaries of Gomorrah (2008) and Reality (2012) very much behind him. Pitched somewhere between Grimm’s fairytales, Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life with smatterings of Monty Python (and even Shrek), this delightfully imaginative film defies easy categorisation.
OPENS JUNE 24TH FILM INFO:
111 mins, Spain-France, 2015, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne
The new film from director Julio Medem (Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Sex and Lucia) is something of a departure for him; while his previous work contains an abundance of sex and magical realist flourishes, Ma Ma is, by his usual standards, a relatively straightforward account of how one woman deals with her diagnosis of breast cancer.
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MA MA illness, she meets at her son’s football match Arturo (Luis Tosar), who, in the course of their conversation, receives a call informing him that his daughter has been killed in a car crash and his wife is in a coma. The two become closer, but the progression of her illness remains to the fore, and is complicated by an unexpected pregnancy.
On the day that Magda (Penélope Cruz, who gives an outstanding performance of quiet resolve) receives the news of her
OPENS JUNE 24TH FILM INFO:
103 mins, UK-Germany, 2015, Digital Notes by Alice Butler
Although Remainder is Omer Fast’s feature-length debut, as a renowned video artist who uses filmic devices such as looping and reconstruction to explore the politics of representation and the often calamitous impact trauma has on identity and memory, he is well qualified to handle the task of adapting author Tom McCarthy’s novel of the same name about a distressed and obsessive amnesiac. Set in London, the film opens as an unnamed protagonist, played by Tom Sturridge, is seen hurriedly
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REMAINDER leaving an office block just before he is struck down by an unidentified object hurling from the sky. While in recovery, he is awarded a considerable sum to keep quiet about the accident, money he then uses to meticulously re-stage the only fragments from his past that he can remember. Smart, inventive and occasionally droll, Remainder is a psychological thriller that subverts genre conventions with impressive results.
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JUNE 8TH – 30TH
In cinema, Shakespeare has provided plots for countless interpretations; from the pioneers who sought recognisable stories for a public sceptical of the medium, to filmmakers who loosely borrow for new tales of star-crossed lovers or brave Macbethtypes. It was in fact Olivier’s 1944 take on Henry V that afforded Shakespeare the first truly cinematic gaze. Other filmmakers followed suit; Zeffirelli cast real teens as young lovers of Verona. Polanski brought his own bloodied past to a ruthless Macbeth. Kenneth Branagh signalled his devotion with his blood-and-mud-soaked, battle-calling Henry V. Gus Van Sant’s Portland hustlers play Henry IV in My Own Private Idaho.
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Throughout the history of cinema, the play remains the thing – a rich source, but ripe for cinematic picking. At the IFI in June we mark the anniversary with a special Shakespeare programme in partnership with British Council. Through our selected screenings, including Branagh’s four-hour Hamlet, an open-air Much Ado About Nothing, The Lion King singalong and a panel discussion, we invite you to ‘live a little, comfort a little, cheer thyself a little’ that, in 2016, Shakespeare lives. Please see details of our IFI Family screening of The Lion King as part of the IFI Family Festival (June 24th–26th) on www.ifi.ie/familyfest Introduction by Alicia McGivern. Part of British Council’s Shakespeare Lives programme celebrating Shakespeare’s work on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of his death in 2016. Hamlet
That is not the question. This 2016, as global commemorations mark the 400th anniversary of the death of the actor, poet and playwright, the erstwhile chronicler of heroes, villains, lovers, citizens and statesmen, of seven ages of men and women, we need not ask whether Shakespeare lives, but rather how this ‘upstart crow’ just keeps on living.
SHAKESPEARE LIVES
CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT
and adds some scenes from Richard II and Henry V, along with some text from The Merry Wives of Windsor.
JUNE 8TH (18.30) FILM INFO:
115 mins, France-SpainSwitzerland, 1965, Black & White, Digital Notes by Kevin Coyne
Chimes at Midnight was originally a disastrously unsuccessful stage production, the Dublin performance of which marked Orson Welles’ last appearance as an actor in the theatre. The film presents an abridged compilation of both parts of Henry IV,
Welles himself plays the part of Sir John Falstaff, the “abominable misleader of youth” who is friend to Prince Hal (Keith Baxter), heir to the throne. Their troubled relationship plays out against the backdrop of a country at war in a film Welles regarded as his personal favourite.
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Bianca (Natasha Pyne), if he can find someone who is up to the task of marrying his eldest, the formidable, ill-tempered Kate (Elizabeth Taylor). Enter lusty nobleman Petruchio (Richard Burton).
JUNE 12TH (15.00)
Originally intended as a vehicle for Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, Burton and Taylor put a million of their own cash into the production to secure their roles; their undeniable chemistry adds layers to this playful adaptation.
FILM INFO:
126 mins, UK-Italy, 1967, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
The setting is Padua in Italy in the late 1500s; the rich merchant Baptista Minola (Michael Hordern) is attempting to marry off his two daughters, but he will only part with his youngest, the sweet-natured
THE TEMPEST
daughter Miranda (Toyah Willcox) were abandoned on a remote island by Antonio (Richard Warwick), the Duke’s brother.
JUNE 19TH (15.00)
Versed in the ways of sorcery, Prospero creates a tempest to shipwreck Antonio on the island in an attempt to marry his travelling companion Prince Ferdinand of Naples (David Meyer) to his daughter, in order to restore peace between Milan and Naples.
FILM INFO:
93 mins, UK, 1979, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
Derek Jarman’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s final play is an evocative depiction of colonialism, revenge, retribution and reconciliation. Prospero (Heathcote Williams), the former Duke of Milan, and his
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HAMLET (70MM) JUNE 15TH (18.30) FILM INFO:
242 mins (plus intermission), UK-USA, 1996, 70mm Notes by Kevin Coyne
Supported by
Kenneth Branagh is contemporary cinema’s most noted interpreter of Shakespeare, having now brought five of his plays to the big screen. His version of Hamlet represents perhaps his crowning achievement, the first unabridged film of the play, running to just over four hours in length, which restores text from the Second Quarto and amendments from other sources to the First Folio version. Branagh’s decision to shoot the film
entirely on 70mm adds to the epic scale of the production, and allows him to create a uniquely visual take on the material. This is a rare opportunity to experience the film as the director intended. Tickets €12 (€10 Members).
OUTDOOR SCREENING: JUNE 17TH (20.30) DIRECTOR:
Kenneth Branagh
FILM INFO:
111 mins, 1993, USA-UK, Blu-Ray Notes by David O’Mahony
Tickets: Film only €14, Food only €8, Film + Food €18 (no concessions or Members prices, free list suspended).
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Join us on June 17th for a magical midsummer’s evening in Temple Bar’s Meeting House Square, with pre-screening entertainment, including pop-up Shakespearean performances and a succulent pig on a spit from The Hogfather, to keep your Shakespearean appetites satisfied! The night kicks off at 20.30 and Much Ado About Nothing will be shown in the Square when the sun goes down, at 22.00. The sun-kissed hills of Tuscany provide the perfect backdrop for Kenneth
Branagh’s mischievous adaptation of the Bard’s comedy wherein the defiantly single Beatrice (Emma Thompson) and Benedick (Branagh) find themselves unwittingly thrust together through the machinations of a younger newly wedded couple. Boasting some of the most uproarious verbal jousting in the English language, Much Ado About Nothing remains a wise and witty delight.
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO JUNE 18TH (20.30) FILM INFO:
104 mins, USA, 1991, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
A key film in the New Queer Cinema movement of the early ‘90s, and a landmark of American independent filmmaking, My Own Private Idaho is in part based on Shakespeare’s Henry IV Parts 1 & 2.
inheritance that will come with it, a character specifically based on Shakespeare’s Prince Hal. The boys’ paths cross in the wide-open spaces of the Pacific Northwest, Italy and back again.
Van Sant fuses the story of disaffected young gay hustler Mike (River Phoenix), who suffers from narcolepsy, with that of rich kid Scott (Keanu Reeves), who is idling away the time until his 21st birthday and the sizeable
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD JUNE 22ND (18.30) FILM INFO:
118 mins, UK-USA, 1990, 35mm Notes by Kevin Coyne
Sir Tom Stoppard has often exhibited a playful, subversive approach to the Bard; he co-wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998), and has written for the stage Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, this adaptation of which represents his sole credit as film director.
wander in and out of events at Elsinore, seemingly unaware of their roles in the larger drama as they muse on their own concerns. Irreverent and witty, it’s an ingenious take on the original play.
Minor characters in Hamlet, the film places the two at its centre as they 13
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ROMEO AND JULIET JUNE 25TH (13.20) FILM INFO:
138 mins, UK-Italy, 1968, Digital Notes by Kevin Coyne
Adapted for the screen over 50 times, whether serving as the inspiration for a film such as West Side Story (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961), or in versions more faithful to the original text, Romeo and Juliet has always been one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays with cinema audiences.
protagonists, 17-year-old Leonard Whiting and 15-year-old Olivia Hussey. Enormously successful on release, it is currently the last Shakespeare adaptation to have been Oscar-nominated for Best Picture.
Zeffirelli’s remains one of the most acclaimed, and was the first film to cast as leads actors close to the (speculative, in Romeo’s case) ages of the play’s
MACBETH
JUNE 30TH (18.15) DIRECTOR:
Roman Polanski
EVENT INFO:
140 mins (film) + 60 mins (discussion), UK-USA, 1971, Digital. Notes by Kevin Coyne
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As the first film Roman Polanski directed following the horrific murder of Sharon Tate, his pregnant wife, at the hands of the Manson Family, it is not surprising that his treatment of Macbeth is particularly dark and brutal. It is also powerful and undeniably cinematic, full of sound and fury, all of which is significant in one of the most singular of Shakespeare adaptations.
PANEL DISCUSSION In deciding to adapt a Shakespeare play for either screen or stage, one of the first decisions concerns the use of language – to use or not to use the original dialogue – and the context. Our panel discussion will focus on Shakespeare adaptations for both stage and screen, and the panellists will include: theatre director Selina Cartmell; Abbey Theatre Education Manager, Phil Kingston; actress Karen Ardiff; and lecturer Dr. Jane Grogan.
IFI EVENTS THE BIGGER PICTURE WILD STRAWBERRIES ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME IFI EXPLORERS VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH THE HANGOVER LOUNGE IFI & CAPSTONES SHIFT IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS IRISH FOCUS IFI FILM CLUB
THE BIGGER PICTURE DESERT HEARTS JUNE 13TH (18.30) DIRECTOR: Donna Deitch
FILM INFO:
96 mins, USA, 1985, 35mm Notes by Alicia McGivern
Our monthly strand in which a key film is presented in the context of a notional film canon.
Marking this year’s Pride Festival, journalist and broadcaster Una Mullally will present Desert Hearts
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on a solo, three-month, 1,100-mile trek across America, after her mother’s death from lung cancer. Sometimes short on dialogue but big on introspection, the film offers a counterpoint to the buddy-talkie A Walk in the Woods and the stunning landscapes will make you want to pack up and head for the hills.
JUNE 29TH & JULY 1ST (11.00) DIRECTOR:
Jean-Marc Vallée
FILM INFO:
115 mins, USA, 2014, Digital Notes by Alicia McGivern
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for The Bigger Picture. Todd Haynes’ exquisite Carol may have encapsulated the torments, uncertainties and infatuations of a 1950s lesbian love affair but this earlier film, based on Jane Rule’s classic novel, offered a rawer, less effortful portrait. Cut-off denim meets academic suit in a sun-kissed 1950s Reno of quickie divorces and ranch life where uptight East Coast Viv falls for free-spirited sculptor and casino worker, Cay. Regarded as the first mainstream lesbian film, it depicts a passionate relationship with positive outcomes for both women – neither of which involves returning to a man.
Wild Strawberries is our bi-monthly film club for over 55s.
Based on US writer Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, this beautiful looking film follows Reese Witherspoon in the title role as the woman who embarks
Tickets: €4.25 including regular tea/coffee before the event. Wild Strawberries is our film club for over 55s. If you are lucky enough to look younger please don’t take offence if we ask your age.
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IFI EXPLORERS
Ulys
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
RACE
Free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive (collect tickets at IFI Box Office). Please see www.ifi.ie for dates and times. This month we celebrate Bloomsday and the quatercentenary of Shakespeare’s death.
JUNE 8TH (15.45)
PROGRAMME 1: SHAKESPEARE
Amharc Éireann Newsreel: Abbey players at RSC. (3 mins, B&W, 1964, Digital.)
Hamlet at Elsinore: The Gate Theatre takes Hamlet to Denmark. (17 mins, B&W, 1952, Digital.)
PROGRAMME 2: JOYCE
Amharc Éireann: Opening of the Joyce Tower with Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company, publisher of Ulysses. (2 mins, B&W, 1962, Digital.) Ulys: Tim Booth’s animated, potted Ulysses. (3 mins, 1998, Digital.)
Eamon Morrissey’s Joycemen: Passages from Ulysses. (5 mins, ca1980, Digital.) Faithful Departed: Kieran Hickey’s portrait of Dublin on June 16th 1904. (10 mins, B&W, 1968, Digital.) Dr. Sam Slote, Joycean Scholar and Associate Professor of English in Trinity College, Dublin, will explore James Joyce’s relationship with the work of William Shakespeare in an introduction to the Archive at Lunchtime Double Bill at 13.00 on June 25th. See also Shakespeare Lives, p10.
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IFI Explorers is our discounted ticket offering for 15–18 year olds. This month’s film selection on special offer for IFI Explorers is Race, based on the incredible true story of legendary athlete Jesse Owens. His quest to become the greatest track-and-field sportsperson in history puts him on the world stage of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he crosses racial barriers to defy Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy and shows the world that he’s the fastest man alive. A fascinating film about courage, determination, tolerance and friendship. Tickets: €3 for 15–18 year olds. DIRECTOR: Stephen Hopkins FILM INFO: 135 mins, France-Germany-Canada, 2016, Digital Notes by Dee Quinlan
VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH JUNE 3RD (18.30), 5TH (14.00) & 7TH (18.30) In 2014 Ken Loach announced his DIRECTOR:
Louise Osmond
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92 mins, UK, 2016, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
retirement after 50 years of filmmaking. The following year the Conservative Party came back into power, reason enough for him to come out of retirement to begin work on his new film, I, Daniel Blake. Versus chronicles the crusading director’s preparations for this film, while reflecting on his career – from the controversies surrounding the TV film Cathy Come Home (1966), to international recognition culminating
in the Palme d’Or at Cannes for The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006). The screening on June 5th will be operated on a ‘pay what you can’ model to reflect Ken Loach’s ethos. There will be a collection box by the Box Office on that day and tickets will be available on a first-come-first-served basis. No advance bookings can be made online or in person. Supported by Dogwoof with the backing of the BFI Distribution Fund.
THE HANGOVER LOUNGE PAN’S LABYRINTH
JUNE 26TH (14.00) (EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO) DIRECTOR:
Guillermo del Toro
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119 minutes, Spain-Mexico, 2006, Subtitled, Digital Notes by Kevin Coyne
Our monthly indulgent Sunday afternoon of brunch and a classic. The release this month of adult fantasy Tale of Tales (see page 8) provides the Hangover Lounge with a welcome opportunity to revisit Guillermo del Toro’s dark fairytale. Arguably the director’s best work to date, and certainly his most popular, it tells the story of young Ofelia, the unhappy stepdaughter of a captain
in Franco’s army. Relief from her difficult family situation appears in the form of a fairy who leads her to a magical labyrinth where she is believed to be the reincarnation of a princess. Filled with genuinely astonishing imagery, it may well prove to be del Toro’s most durable film. Brunch + film €16; film only is normal IFI pricing. Sunday brunch is served 12pm – 4pm.
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GERMANY YEAR ZERO JUNE 1ST (19.00) DIRECTOR:
Roberto Rossellini
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75 mins, Germany, 1948, 35mm
DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF JUNE 18TH (11.00 & 14.30) FILM INFO:
11.00 – 13.45 Group 1 — Sunniva O’Flynn & Dr. Ellen Rowley; 14.30 – 17.15 Group 2 — Sunniva O’Flynn & Merlo Kelly Presented with the Capstones Shift conference organised by Dublin City Council and UCD Decade of Centenaries, which seeks to explore the impact of conflict on the built environment.
PROGRAMME 1:
FROM THE VAULTS:
Following Rome, Open City (1945) and Paisan (1946), Roberto Rossellini turned to the ruined city of Berlin to complete his trilogy of films exploring the destruction wreaked by World War II. A devastating portrait of an obliterated post-war Europe, Germany, Year Zero is also one of the most affecting films about childhood in the history of cinema.
The Irish Architecture Foundation and IFI present two walking tours, complemented by film and architectural analysis, exploring the impact of the 1916 Rising on the fabric of Dublin and the post-conflict evolution of the city. Both walks begin at the IFI, taking in the IAF on Bachelor’s Walk and the Hugh Lane Gallery, Parnell Square for screenings from the IFI Irish Film Archive.
GERMANY YEAR ZERO DUBLIN PLAYS ITSELF
The screening will be introduced by Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy.
IFI & AEMI PROJECTIONS: SIXTY SIX + CONVERSATION WITH LEWIS KLAHR JUNE 28TH (18.30) DIRECTOR: Lewis Klahr
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90 mins, USA, 2002-15, Digital Notes by Daniel Fitzpatrick
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In the vein of Peter Horvath, Winston Smith, or William Burroughs, Lewis Klahr can be considered among the great cut-up/collage artists of his generation. His latest work, Sixty Six, which premiered at MoMA last year, has been celebrated as a “milestone
The walking tours will be conducted by Sunniva O’Flynn, IFI Head of Irish Film Programming, Dr. Ellen Rowley, Irish Research Council EPS Fellow, DCC Heritage + UCD Architecture, and Merlo Kelly, Architect and Architectural Historian. achievement”, the culmination of several decades of productive engagement with what NY Times calls a “cinematic archaeology of the American unconscious.” We are delighted to welcome Lewis Klahr to introduce the film and to take part in a discussion about his work at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios after the screening. AEMI – Supporting and Exhibiting Artists’ and Experimental Moving Image. See www.aemi.ie for more details.
IRISH FOCUS BLOOMSDAY
SHEM THE PENMAN SINGS AGAIN JUNE 16TH (16.30) DIRECTOR: Padraig Trehy
FILM INFO:
80 mins, Ireland, 2015, Digital, Black & White and Colour
MEDICATED MILK JUNE 16TH (18.40) DIRECTOR:
Áine Stapleton, made in collaboration with José Miguel Jiménez
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50 mins, Ireland, 2015, Digital See page 16 for our Archive at Lunchtime series of free Joycean short films during June.
PROGRAMME 1:
SHEM THE PENMAN SINGS AGAIN A new exploration of the actual and much-fabled friendship between Joyce and Irish tenor, John McCormack. McCormack inspires the character of Shaun the Post in Joyce’s famously ‘unreadable’ final novel Finnegans Wake, in which Joyce portrayed himself as Shaun’s lowly twin brother, Shem. Joyce’s twin obsessions, singing and literary experimentation, flow through the film as the friends’ encounters are reimagined in a variety of early cinematic styles and real and imaginary audio recordings. Director Padraig Trehy will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
PROGRAMME 2:
MEDICATED MILK Lucia Joyce was a talented dancer, writer and musician. She spent her life under the control of her father James, her family and multiple doctors. Her time in Ireland during the 1930s – particularly in Bray, Co. Wicklow – was one of her few moments of freedom. This film deftly interweaves Lucia's story with the filmmaker’s own to explore accounts of loss and trauma spanning over 100 years. With a haunting electronic score by Somadrone, fine dance sequences, vivid underwater cinematography and graphic scenes of animal butchery. Áine Stapleton and José Miguel Jiménez will participate in a post-screening Q&A.
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and the audience is welcome to contribute their thoughts. The talk is open to anyone who has seen the film or is interested in contributing (attendance at the film screened just before is not mandatory). For full film notes, see page 7.
JUNE 15TH (18.00)
Normal film ticket prices apply for the film and discussion. Attendance at the discussion only is free.
DISCUSSION AT 20.00 DIRECTOR:
Michael Moore
FILM INFO:
119 mins, USA, 2016, Digital
Join us for a discussion following a screening of Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Where to Invade Next. The IFI Film Club strand takes one film each month as a starting point for discussion about the filmmaker, the work itself and relevant themes,
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