The end of September will see some of the best films of the New Hollywood era screened at the Light House Cinema. From Sat 21 – Thur 26 September, the Smithfield cinema will host Out Of Their Depth: Corruption, Scandal and Lies in the New Hollywood, a season of 70s cinema sensations. Four of the…
The Dublin International Film Festival are winding it back next month, looking back at some classics and deep cuts with Be Kind Rewind. From 27 – 29th September, the Light House Cinema will screen a selection of previously-seen cinema courtesy of the Irish Film Curators. From the aggresive aesthetic of Gregg Araki to the oddities…
Every month the Irish Film Institute presents its latest entry to the Bigger Picture, their programme strand in which a key film is screened with an introduction from a special guest, the Dublin cinema centre establishing its own film canon, as built by the people of the fair city of film. Over the years guests…
A new strand at the Irish Film Institute will bring back the fun of film serials this summer. It’s a bowl of blockbuster breakfasts on offer this June and July with the IFI’s Saturday Serial. In the first decades of cinema, serial series would keep audiences coming back to the cinema week after week, eager…
In the time it takes you to read this sentence it will have rained the heaviest amount in recorded history and hit temperatures so high as to dry everything off again. Irish seasons are becoming even more unpredictable than ever, and August, a bewildering holiday limbo of summer/autumn indecisiveness remains a seasonal uncertainty, but at…
BY HOW WEIRD IRELAND WOULD BE ABOUT THEM VISITING Folks, we love a US President visiting don’t we? From Ryan Tubridy’s unsettling JFK fixation to the unwaking fever dream of Barack Obama Plaza, Ireland has a long and proud history of not being normal when it comes to previous POTUSes. President of the United States…
The IFI Open Day was a long praised date in the Irish film fan’s calendar; an opportunity for the Irish Film Institute to highlight their hard work and share great films from their back cataglogue in the process. It’s been on a break for the last five years, but the Open Day returns this Saturday…
