Brief Encounter, In Which We Serve, Great Expectations are among the 8 classic titles to be screened at the Irish Film Institute starting from this April, all in 35mm, as part of their latest series. A screening Kicks off a 2-month, 16-film extended encounter with David Lean, one of the most influential filmmakers in Western cinema…
The latest edition of GALPAL Collective‘s short film showcase Directed By Her takes place next week. See 12 films created and curated by FLINTA creatives on Wednesday 26th March at the Irish Film Institute. FLINTA brings together the Female, Lesbian, Intersex/Intergender, Non-Binary, Trans and Agender, and the Directed By Her programme brings together shorts as…
Director: Gints Zilbalodis Starring: Menagerie Running Time: 85 minutes With its stunning landscapes, thoughtful sound design and memorable characters it’s unsurprising that Flow has become the most viewed film in Latvian cinema history. Flow tells its story almost as a collection of vignettes, we follow a cat as he meanders through his life in a forest punctuated with statues…
Director: Mark Anthony Green Starring: Ayo Edebiri, John Malkovich, Juliette Lewis, Amber Midthunder, Murray Bartlett Running Time: 104 minutes The latest cinematic offering from A24, Opus, teeters between horror, satire and a bizarre love letter to the most eccentric corners of celebrity culture. It stars Ayo Edebiri (The Bear, Bottoms) as Ariel Ecton, a journalist…
Director: Bong Joon-Ho Starring: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo Running Time: 137 minutes After a troubled road to release, being ping ponged from month to month and year to year on the release calendar by WB, Bong Joon-Ho’s follow-up to his world-beating awards hit Parasite has fortuitously made its way…
Where the Road Meets the Sky The night of the inaugural screening of Where the Road Meets the Sky was deeply chaotic. I had been introduced to the works of John Connors by a coworker and while familiar with the name of the documentary, its subject matter was still a mystery to me. Determined not…
The Academy Awards, cinema’s biggest night of celebration, had its 97th annual ceremony last night, and it was Sean Baker’s Anora, an urban-fairytale romcom about a Brighton Beach stripper who runs off with and marries the son of a Russian oligarch, took away many of the top prizes. Baker’s superb film, which won five out…
Forever a hotbed for global cinema fans, a weekend of new and exciting films from East Asia will be making their way to the Temple Bar screens of the IFI at the end of the month thanks to the East Asia Film Festival’s 9th edition. With films that premiered in big festivals like Berlin, Cannes,…
Happyend Director: Neo Sora Starring: Kurihara Hayato, Hidaka Yukito, Ayumu Nakajima, Makiko Watanabe, Shirō Sano. Running Time: 113 minutes The senior prank, one of the great fascinations of American cinema. It feels rare to see these burning displays of late adolescence in other realms of global cinema, but Neo Sora’s (Ryuichi Sakamoto:Opus) debut retools those well worn senioritis japes for…
Director: Alex Ross Perry Starring: Pavement, Zoe Lister-Jones, Michael Esper, Kathryn Gallagher, Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Griffin Newman, Tim Heidecker, Logan Miller Running Time: 128 minutes Alex Ross Perry’s affinity for a chaotic and self-destructive artist is well-established in his filmography. His 2014 feature, Listen Up Philip, is an examination of…
