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West is West (15A)
So good we’re screening it twice! East is East, writer Ayub Khan-Din’s semiautobiographical story of a mixed-race family in Salford in the early 70s won a BAFTA for Outstanding British Film. West is West takes up the story eight years on with youngest son Sajid the resident teenager in trouble. He’s playing truant to avoid the bullies at school and aggravating his father with ... (click to read more)
Submarine (15A)
This coming-of-age story is set in Swansea and narrated by a teenage boy. The young hero is 15 year old Oliver a clever, smallish, lugubrious schoolboy in a duffel coat with two objectives; to lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to stop his mother from leaving his father for her dance teacher. Oliver endures life by imagining alternate realities, but it’s clear from the outset ... (click to read more)
Jig! (PG)
This intriguing and well made documentary offers insights in abundance into the ultra-competitive world of Irish Dancing. The world these people immerse themselves in from such a young age is truly Irish; like GAA, the rewards are never financial but the goal for everyone involved - to compete and excel at the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships in Glasgow. The film chronicles the ... (click to read more)
Oranges & Sunshine(15A)
Oranges and Sunshine is a deeply moving study of emotionally scarred adults who were illegally deported as children to Australia from Britain in the 1940s and 50s. A superb Emily Watson plays Margaret Humphreys, a British social worker. Margaret discovers Charlotte is one of thousands of British youngsters who were unlawfully removed from children’s homes and ‘unfit’ (i.e. ... (click to read more)
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger (12A)
Woody Allen is in a virulent mood and it suits him. This inspired piece of misanthropy is a dissection of two unhappily married couples; Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones), and their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) and husband Roy (Josh Brolin). Their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds. Alfie has taken up with call girl; his wife is ... (click to read more)
One Hundred Mornings (15A)
The setting is somewhere in the country near Dublin. Something has happened - electricity no longer exists and food and medicine are dwindling, which inevitably leads to the survivors going tribal. The story focuses around two couples Jonathan (Ciarán McMenamin) and his wife Hannah, and another younger couple Mark and Katie. Nerves begin to fray and a recent infidelity threatens to ... (click to read more)
The Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (12A)
Luc Besson has taken one of his favourite boyhood stories – a French comic graphic novel by Jacques Tardi – and turned it into a rollicking, mad, incident-filled film that delights, thrills and charms. The heroine Adele is everybody’s dream of a go-getting female: She’s a journalist, smart, adventurous, quick-witted, no-nonsense and sharp tongued and she makes Indiana ... (click to read more)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (G)
Werner Herzog has spent a lifetime fascinated by extreme individuals, inhospitable landscapes and what constitutes the essence of the human experience. All these concerns are present in Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a fascinating documentary essay in which Herzog is given unique access to the cave art discovered at Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc in France in 1994. Crystals sparkle and it feels like you ... (click to read more)
Film: Little White Lies (16)
A group gathering is hosted every year by a couple at their beautiful beach house where they kick-off their summer vacation by celebrating the birthday of one of the gang. Fun, fine wine and seafood mix with sun and sand as they all leave their city stresses and inhibitions behind. But this year is different. Over the course of the next week, all the tensions within this group erupt into full ... (click to read more)
Win Win (15A)
Win Win gives us Paul Giamatti, as Mike, a ground-down New Jersey lawyer who can’t bring himself to tell his long-suffering wife that his failing practice isn’t meeting the family’s never-ending bills. An unethical opportunity presents itself when a new client slipping into senility, the elderly, prosperous Leo, resists being placed in a retirement home. Leo has no ... (click to read more)
The Way (12A)
Emilio Estevez returns with another ambitious drama that also features his father, Martin Sheen. The Way is a touching film about the testy yet unbreakable bond between father and son. Tom (Sheen), an American ophthalmologist, is informed that his son has been killed in an accident on a pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago. Upon arriving in France to collect his son’s remains Tom ... (click to read more)
Chronicle of a Summer
Paris. The summer of 1960. While war rages in Algeria and pre-independence Congo seethes with violence, ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin send two women out into the streets of the city to interview passersby.From a simple starting question - Are you happy, sir? – Chronicle of a Summer delves deeper and deeper into the lives of its characters. They include ... (click to read more)
Snap (16)
Single mother of one Sharon has invited a documentary crew into her house to 'set the record straight'. It's obvious from the off that she doesn't want them to be there but the caustic Sharon knows that it's a necessary evil. At first it's not clear what she has to clear up, but soon it's revealed that three years ago her teenage son, the disturbed Stephen, kidnapped a toddler and kept him ... (click to read more)
Congo – An Irish Affair
A sell-out at Dublin Film Festival earlier this year, this is a penetrating and poignant study of the Irish-led 1961 UN peacekeeping mission to Katanga, a province that wanted to break-away from the newly independent Congo. Talking to survivors and making wonderful use of both archival footage and reconstruction, Congo – An Irish Affair pieces together the story of people asked to achieve ... (click to read more)
Mammuth (CLUB)
Serge (Gérard Depardieu) is an abattoir worker who retires only to find that he doesn't have a pension and needs to track down paperwork from his former employers. Hitting the road on his Mammuth bike, he has a series of variously humiliating and inspiring encounters. There are reunions, eerie appearances and outrageous gags but above all, the screen is filled - and then some - by ... (click to read more)
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Pina (CLUB)
Some will come to this film full of knowledge of Bausch. For others, it will be as fresh and novel as Wenders’s approach to turning dance into cinema. Both will find it entrancing and truly inspiring. This mysterious, submersive and captivating film is a tribute to German dance pioneer Pina Bausch, who died in 2009. There is a magical quality as solo dancers or pairs of dancers perform ... (click to read more)
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Life, Above All (CLUB)
A commanding performance from screen newcomer Khomotso Manyaka lights up Life, Above All, a moving adaptation of Allan Stratton’s bestselling 2004 novel Chanda’s Secrets. A classic coming of age story is given added dramatic weight by placing it in a South Africa where so many children are obliged to assume adult responsibilities as the AIDS pandemic leaves hundreds of thousands of ... (click to read more)
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Arrietty (G)
Tickets €5 Arrietty is a Studio Ghilbi adaptation of the 1950’s classic children’s book The Borrowers. A family of little people, about 10cm high, live under the floor boards and borrow all kinds of household objects from the house. One day tiny fourteen-year-old Arrietty casually meets the young Sho, a human boy who has come to get well in his old granny’s home, and it is ... (click to read more)
The Runway (PG)
Tickets €8/ 6.50 conc Time 8pm The Runway is new Irish film, inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who crash-landed his plane near Mallow in 1983. Paco Thomas and his mother live in Dromoleen, a remote country village, where the local factory has closed, inflicting misery on the town’s inhabitants. Young Paco spends his evenings learning Spanish from an ancient ... (click to read more)
Incendies (CLUB)
Tickets €8/6.50 Show 8pm A striking adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad’s stage play, this intimate epic interweaves the personal, the political and the mythical to gripping effect. Following the death of their Arabic mother, adult Canadian twins Jeanne and Simon find themselves in her homeland, searching for a father they presumed was dead. Expertly shifting between present and past, ... (click to read more)
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Inside I’m Dancing (15PG)
Tickets €5 Show 10:30am Director Damien O’Donnell (East is East) returns to his hometown of Dublin for this funny, touching, affirmative film. A stimulating addition to the Leaving Certificate Comparative Study, Inside I’m Dancing is an account of the friendship between two men in their early twenties confined to wheelchairs. Rory (James McAvoy), a young man with muscular ... (click to read more)
Potiche (15A)
Tickets €8/6.50 conc show 8pm From the director of 8 Women, Potiche is another great French comedy with an all-star cast including Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. Sainte-Gudule, northern France, 1977: Suzanne is the submissive, housebound wife of wealthy industrialist Robert Pujol, who oversees his umbrella factory with an iron fist and is equally tyrannical with his children and ... (click to read more)
Beginners (15A)
Drawing upon autobiographical events, Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the two intertwined storylines of Oliver and his father, Hal. As Oliver starts a new relationship he finds himself constantly dwelling upon his recently deceased father’s last years. At the age of 75, shortly after the death of his wife, Oliver’s father Hal ... (click to read more)
The Tree of Life (12A)
A quiet suburb in 1950s America, a family of five and a telegram announcing the death of one of the young couple’s three sons. The Tree of Life is an epic poem capturing the cycle of life and the minutiae which influence the kind of people we become. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to ... (click to read more)
Neukölln Unlimited (15+)
Lial, Hassan and Maradona Akkouch are talented street dancers and musicians who live in Berlin’s Neukölln district. Becoming increasingly well known, they also live in fear of deportation to Lebanon as their residency status is still unresolved, although they have lived in Germany for 18 years. Lial and Hassan decide to use their talents to support the family but Maradona gets ... (click to read more)
The Big Picture
Liberating fantasy, cautionary tale and suspense thriller combine in this attractive French adaptation of Douglas Kennedy’s 1997 novel. Paul Exben is a success story. He has a great job, a glamorous wife and two wonderful sons, except that this is not the life he has been dreaming of. A moment of madness changes his life, forcing him to assume a new identity that enables him to live his ... (click to read more)
The First Grader (12A)
Shot on location in Kenya, Justin Chadwick’s stirring drama turns the obstinate desire for an education on the part of 84-year-old Kikuyu tribesman Maruge (unforgettably played by Oliver Litondo) into a deeply affecting and emotionally uplifting tale. Taking advantage of a 2002 Kenyan law that guaranteed free education for all, Maruge—a veteran Mau Mau freedom fighter who suffered at ... (click to read more)
Project Nim (12A)
So how do you follow up the thrilling, Oscar-winning Man On Wire? Director James Marsh has found another enthralling story, this time about Nim, a chimpanzee raised and nurtured as a human child. Initiated by Columbia University’s Professor Herb Terrace, the 1970s experiment attempted to monitor to what degree the animal would take on human characteristics, but as time progressed the study ... (click to read more)
In A Better World (15)
This Oscar-winning film places family issues in a broader social context. Anton works as a doctor in an African war zone, treating the victims of a murderous militia. At home in Denmark, he has two sons and a broken marriage waiting. His son Elias is tormented at school, but new kid Christian scares the bullies off. When Anton has a brush with a stranger in town, he teaches the boys to turn the ... (click to read more)
Panique au Village (12+)
Tickets €5 Based on the Belgian animated cult TV series of the same name, this surreal and wacky animation follows three plastic toys, Cowboy, Indian and Horse, who all share a house in a rural town where nothing is ever quite normal. On the occasion of Horse’s birthday, Cowboy and Indian’s plan to gift him with a barbeque backfires spectacularly when they accidentally buy 50 ... (click to read more)
Beautiful Lies (12A)
After the success of Priceless, Pierre Salvadori reunites with Audrey Tautou in Beautiful Lies, a fresh and funny romantic comedy. Emilie (Tautou) runs a hairdressing salon where she provides an endless stream of well-meaning advice to her clients and friends, but the only person she cannot seem to help is her own mother, who is suffering from a serious case of the blues after having been left ... (click to read more)
A Christmas Carol (PG)
SAT 17 DEC @ 2PM €5 Robert Zemeckis directs this animated version of the Yuletide classic A ChristmasStory. The story centers on Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey), a penny-pinchingmiser who cares nothing for the people around him, least of all his hopelesslydowntrodden employee Bob Cratchit (Gary Oldman) and infectiously optimisticnephew, Fred (Colin Firth). On Christmas Eve, after a ... (click to read more)
Pocketful of Miracles (U)
Frank Capra’s final film, a remake of his 1933 Lady for a Day, is a pocketful of sentimental whimsy, about an apple seller (Bette Davis), who is helped by a gangster (Glenn Ford) and his small-time hoodlums to pose as a high society lady when her long lost daughter returns from abroad. Legendary director Frank Capra, whose films include It Happened One Night (1934) and It's a Wonderful ... (click to read more)
Midnight in Paris (12A)
Mon 2 Jan @ 8pm €8/€6.50 Two young Americans, who have been together since their school days and are to be married in the fall, head for a few days to Paris where Gil’s fiancée’s father has a business meeting. While Inez and her mother are overjoyed by a chance meeting with another couple, and together they discover the tourist gems of the city and its luxury ... (click to read more)
Melancholia (15A)
Mon 9 Jan @ 8pm €8 / 6.50 Conc. Always controversial, director Lars Von Trier turns his hand to science fiction drama in this apocalyptic study of how individuals respond differently to impending doom. Opening with a highly stylised vision of how the world might end, Von Trier then takes us to a lush wedding where melancholic Justine (Kirsten Dunst) clashes with her highly strung ... (click to read more)
The Salt of Life (Club)
Mon 16 Jan @ 8pm €8 / 6.50 Conc. Club Film: As this film has not been certified by the Irish Film Certification Office you will need to pay an evening membership fee of €1.50 on collection of your tickets if you are not already a film club member. This nightly membership covers you and three guests on club nights. Gianni Di Gregorio's follow-up to his surprise ... (click to read more)
Fantastic Planet
René Laloux’s mesmerising psychedelic sci-fi animated feature won theGrand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and is a landmark of Europeananimation. Laloux’s breathtaking vision immediately drew comparisons toSwift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Planet of the Apes.Widely regarded as an allegorical statement on the Soviet occupation ofCzechoslovakia, the imagination ... (click to read more)
Parked (15A)
Mon 23 Jan @ 8pm €8 / 6.50 Conc. Fred (Colm Meaney) lives a quiet, isolated life in his car, having lost all hope of improving his situation. That all changes when he forms an unlikely friendship with Cathal, a dope-smoking 21-year-old with a positive attitude, who becomes his ‘neighbour’. Cathal is determined to make Fred sort his life out, and it works. Fred modifies ... (click to read more)
Revealing the Real – A 5-week Introduction to Documentary Film
How can we begin to connect the various histories of documentary film? What is the link between Nanook of the North in 1922 for example and a film like the Oscar winning Man on Wire from 2008? How can we link the world The Lumieres first put up on screen in 1895 when they pointed their camera at workers leaving a factory and the world of reality television we now inhabit? Film scholar Daniel ... (click to read more)
Romantics Anonymous (12A)
Mon 30 Jan @ 8pm €8/€6.50 Conc. A recent surprise hit in France, this delectable comedy tells the story of Angélique Delange, an unemployed but gifted chocolate-maker with a lifelong case of uncontrollable shyness that prevents her from properly sharing her confectionary talents. Jean-René Van Den Hugde suffers from a similar case of terminal abashment and runs a ... (click to read more)
