Director: Aki Kaurismäki Starring: Alma Pöysti, Jussi Vatanen Running Time: 81 minutes Romance on the big screen, really any feeling, is defined by heavy flourishes, bold gestures, soaring, sweeping expressions that burst through the film, so heavy they are with feeling. It reflects how we feel, but it tends not to come out that way…
6 films across 3 days will showcase Hong Kong cinema in the fair city of film this December. DIFF and the Hong Kong International Film Festival are collab’ing to curate contemporary Hong Kong films. Covering a wide breadth of themes from youth culture and censorship to action-packed futurism, these films are both a meditation and…
The Light House Cinema’s Christmas selection of cinema is here. Their Naughty or Nice Season is always one of the highlights of the year for Dublin film fans, allowing the opportunity to meet up with friends and family and revisit classics in between getting sorted for the Christmas. This November 25th to December 31st, you…
One of the most recent and well-received additions to the festival calendar in the fair city of film is returning this winter and it’s getting bigger and better. Going into its 3rd year and its 4th festival, the Dublin International Comedy Film Festival promises some much needed winter levity with a packed programme of films,…
The 1970s saw the arrival in cinemas of some of the greatest horror films of all time, resonant evils that still linger in the minds of viewers a half century later. This spooky season, these scares will return to the screen in Smithfield, as the Light House Cinema’s Waking Nightmares programme offers homage to some…
The red umbrella has been a global symbol of sex workers’ solidarity since being used for the first time in 2001 in Venice during the 49th Art Biennale. This autumn, the fair city of film will host its own platform for sex worker solidarity, drawing from that same symbol. Across Dublin, a series of features, shorts, workshops and…
The September season at the Light House Cinema offers a real celebration of artists and artistry, quite unlike the modern concept of AI and its data scraping plagiarism. During their More Human Than Human season, the Smithfield spot will be screening a succession of science fiction films that explore our relationship to technology, innovation and…
National Cinema Day is back again, to the delight of cinema’s accountants everywhere and the resignation of their floor staff (please be kind this weekend). This Saturday 2nd September, cinemas across Ireland will have tickets reduced to just €4 (RSP) including Premium seats, screens and 3D screenings. This includes hits currently in cinemas like Barbie…
Oscar Harding, director of upcoming doc A Life on the Farm, will be in attendance in the fair city of film early this September for a screening and Q&A for his new film at the Light House Cinema. On Saturday 9th September, fellow filmmaker Luke McManus, director of North Circular, will host a post-screening conversation…
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…
