The Irish Film Institute and Cinema North–West are delighted to announce Adaptation: Roddy Doyle on Screen, a festival of films based on the author’s works which will take place from Friday 12th September to Sunday 14th September in Dromahaire, Co. Leitrim.
Four years on, Adaptation has grown to become a significant event in the cultural life of the North West. This year’s programme boasts a complete retrospective of all the Roddy Doyle screen adaptations including the television commission Hell for Leather and the controversial groundbreaking RTÉ television series Family, which will be shown in its entirety. The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van are also screening as no Roddy Doyle film event would be complete without The Barrytown Trilogy. Rounding off the programme is Doyle’s own homage to cinema, When Brendan Met Trudy and two very recent film works; Steph Green’s award-winning short New Boy, and The Future is Green, a 15 second short made by Roddy Doyle and his son Jack.
We are honoured that Roddy Doyle will be present in Dromahaire for the event and will participate in a public interview for RTÉ’s The Arts Show about the script to screen process on Saturday, September 13th.
Festival tickets can be purchased through the IFI box office.
Individual film tickets can be purchased through Cinema North West (086 604 9365).
Monday 29th September, 7:30pm Standard Operating Procedure
Filmmaker Errol Morris looks at the detainee abuse photos from Abu Ghraib prison, exploring digital technology, human frailty and the Bush administration's approach to
the Geneva Convention.
Tuesday 30th September, 7:30pm Football Undercover
A wonderful exploration of the Iranian women’s football team’s first official friendly match in front of more than 1000 cheering
Wednesday 1st October, 7:30pm Please Vote for Me
A fascinating glimpse of a Chinese primary school’s first encounter with democracy as they hold an election to select a Class Monitor.
WATERFORD
Waterford film for all
Storm Cinema, Poleberry, Waterford
Tel: 051 309 í110
Booking online www.waterfordfilmforall.com
Wednesday 1st October, 8:30pm Standard Operating Procedure
Filmmaker Errol Morris looks at the detainee abuse photos from Abu Ghraib prison, exploring digital technology, human frailty and the Bush administration's approach to
the Geneva Convention.
Thursday 2nd October, 8:30pm Football Undercover
A wonderful exploration of the Iranian women’s football team’s first official friendly match in front of more than 1000 cheering
July
LIGHTS
OUT! National Film Festival for Young People - July
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access>CINEMA and the Irish Film Institute (IFI) in association with Seven Seas, present Grow Your Own as the centrepiece for this year’s countrywide film tour. The film has also been chosen to open the IFI’s Bealtaine Film Season with a different film screened at the WILD STRAWBERRIES film club every Friday in May. All the films in the season have been selected to inspire audiences to try something new and strike their own note.
Grow Your Own will open the Film Season on Friday 2nd May at the IFI with an introduction by Helen Dillon and a Q&A on gardening afterwards. access>CINEMA will then tour the film to over 35 venues across Ireland. This gentle comedy, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, who boasts A Cock and Bull Story, Hilary and Jackie, and some episodes of Coronation Street amongst his credits, is based on a true story, and concerns a group of enthusiasts who grow vegetables on a quiet plot of land. When three refugee families are given plots on the same allotment, the locals initially meet them with hostility and suspicion, but through shared experience they come to realise that they're not so different after all.
The season will continue at the IFI on Friday 9th May with O’ Donoghue’s Opera & Fleá Ceoil, a hilarious film that features Ronnie Drew and The Dubliners. This will be followed by Orchestra Seats (Fauteuils d’orchestre) onFriday 16th May, a light hearted comedy set in Paris about a young woman working as a waitress on the swish Avenue Montaigne that sees her mixing with actors, musicians and backstage hands.
Ballets Russes will be screened the following Friday 23rd May. This is an enthralling documentary that gives an intimate portrait of a group of pioneering artists - now in their 70s, 80s and 90s - who gave birth to modern ballet. A juicy tale of jealousy, rivalries and clashing egos, Ballets Russes is sure to be of interest even to those with no previous interest in ballet!
And finally there will be two screenings of Me And My Gal a classic in which Gene Kelly made his debut collaborating with director Busby Berkeley and producer Arthur Freed. Kelly plays Harry Palmer, a song-and-dance man who maims his own hand in order to dodge the World War I draft. It will be screened in the IFI on both Wednesday 28th and Friday 30th May.
Screenings at the IFI are free to anyone over 50 but tickets must be booked in advance through the IFI box office 01 679 3477.
Grow Your Own Tour Dates
May 02 Irish Film Institute Tel 01 612 9407
Conary Film Club, Avoca Tel 087 233 4714
May 06
Dunamaise Arts Centre Portlaoise Tel 057 866 3355
Tuarard Arts Centre Moate Tel 090 648 2042
May 07
Nenagh Library Tel 067 34404
Cloughjordan Cineclub Tel 087 2689419
Glór Irish Music Centre Ennis Tel 065 684 3103
Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar Tel 094 902 3733
The Picture House, Wexford Arts Centre Tel 053 912 3764
May 08 Birr Theatre & Arts Centre Tel 057 912 2911
Tipperary Excel, Arts and Cultural Centre Tel 062 80 520
May 09 Courthouse Arts Centre Tinahely Tel 0402 38 529
Birr Theatre & Arts Centre Tel 057 912 2911
May 10
Boyle Film Club Tel 071 966 3242
Galway Film Soc, Town Hall Theatre, Galway Tel 091 569 777
May 11 Boyle Film Club Tel 071 966 3242
May 12
Droichead Arts Centre Drogheda Tel 041 983 3946
axis Ballymun Tel 01 883 2100
Mermaid Arts Centre Bray Tel 01 272 4301
May 13 Old Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan Tel 058 48 944
May 14 Garter Lane Theatre, Waterford Tel 051 855 038
May 15 SGC Dungarvan Tel 086 8528614
Achill Cultural Cinema, Achill Island Tel 087 938 6281
Fermanagh Film Club, Enniskillen Tel 028 66320210
The Seamus Ennis Cultural Centre, Naul Tel 01 802 0898
May 20 Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny Tel 074 912 0777
Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick Tel 061 319 866
Town Hall Theatre, Kiltimagh Tel 094 938 1494
St John’s Arts Centre Listowel Tel 068 22 566
May 21
Town Hall Arts Centre Charlestown Tel 094 925 5812
May 22 Ramor Theatre, Virginia Tel 049 854 7074
May 23 Ballina Arts Centre Tel 096 73593
Cinemobile, Letterfrack Tel 091 751 673
Roscommon Arts Centre Tel 090 662 5824
May 27 Friars Gate Theatre Kilmallock Tel 063 98 727
Kerry Arts Office –Caherciveen Co Library Tel 066 947 2287
May 28
Kerry Arts Office –Killarney Co Library Tel 064 32 655
Source Arts Centre Thurles Tel 0504 90 204
May 29
Kerry Arts Office – Tralee Co Library Tel 066 712 1200
Monday 24 March 7:30 pm Ladrones (Thieves)
Jaime Marqués Olarreaga / Spain / Spanish
/ 2007 / 105 mins
Juan
José Ballesta, María Valverde, Patrick
Bauchau, María Ballesteros
Ballesta gives another outstanding performance in
this lyrical feature début by Olarreaga.
After leaving the institution where he’s been
raised, Alex finds work in a hairdresser’s.
Due to his criminal past, his colleagues are suspicious
of him until Alex is finally pushed into confirming
their prejudices. After leaving, through constant
practice, he hones his pick-pocketing skills to
profitable effect. Then one day he falls for middle-class
shoplifter Sara (Valverde) and decides to take on
an apprentice and partner. Beautifully crafted,
LADRONES eschews the usual gritty realism for a
poetic, almost dreamlike depiction of marginalised
youth.
Tuesday
25 March 7:30 pm Déficit (Déficit)
Gael García Bernal / Mexico / Spanish / 2007
/ 79 mins
García Bernal explores some of the issues
of race, class and privilege addressed in Y TU MAMA
TAMBIéN, but this time the acclaimed actor
is also behind the camera for his first role as
director. Cristobal (García Bernal) is the
spoiled son of wealthy parents who've fled corruption
charges. Their country home is perfect for a hedonistic
weekend party with all his mates. But he begins
to lose control of the situation as drug problems,
interrupted seductions, an ‘uppity' young
gardener and the imminent arrival of his girlfriend
threaten to wreck his paradise.
Wednesday 26 March 7:30 pm azuloscurocasinegro (Darkbluealmostblack)
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo / Spain / Spanish
/ 2006 / 105 mins
This prize-winning début dramedy is back
following sold-out screenings last year. Jorge (Gutiérrez)
is a young man with a recently acquired degree and
big plans that don’t include taking over his
father’s janitorial position. But when dad
falls ill, Jorge becomes trapped in a job and life
that he’d hoped to escape.
This new initiative sees Cinemobile
celebrate film in the region of County Mayo.
Commemorating
the release of the film 25 years ago, Cinemobile
will host a special location screening of The Ballroom
of Romance on Friday night, November 23rd in Ballycroy,
Co Mayo.
Also on Sunday, November 25th Cinemobile
will continue its archival screenings with a showing
of Cathal Black’s Love and Rage in Keel, Achill
Island, where the film was shot.
During the month of November Cinemobile
will travel to Belmullet, Achill Sound and Gaoth
Saile (Gweesala) in County Mayo.
Cinemobile
is a non-profit organization and a registered charity.
For details of movie listings and times free phone
1800 924 949 or log on to www.cinemobile.net
for further information. School and group bookings
can be made by calling 091-751629
Location Visits
Castlewellan, Co Down
Ardglass, Co Down
Letterfrack, Co Galway
Ballycroy, Co Mayo,
Achill Keel, Co Mayo
Achill Sound, Co Mayo
Belmullet, Co Mayo
November Films:
Atonement
Run Fat Boy Run
Ratatouille
Surf’s Up
Bratz
National Science Week 12th
– 16th 2007
November sees Cinemobile again participate in National
Science Week. This year’s theme is ‘Surrounded
by Science’ and it sees Cinemobile travel
with its film and workshop to Newcastle West, Birr,
Moate, Tuam and Kilkee.
North
Limerick Regeneration Project
Cinemobile will be screening films for the North
Limerick Regeneration Project on 10th and 11th November.
French
Film Festival
ENSEMBLE, C’EST TOUT
Monday, November 19th 7:30 pm
Scrawny
Camille has a talent for drawing, but works as a
cleaner and lives in a Parisian attic. One night,
she meets a fellow tenant, courtly and erudite Philibert,
who has a stutter and an aristocratic surname a
mile long. Philibert lives in a vast bourgeois apartment
that could be sold by his late grandmother's estate
at any moment. His roommate Franck works long hours
as a cook six days a week. He drinks, smokes and
beds brainless babes, but is antsy and dissatisfied.
Franck loves his grandmother Paulette (Alain Resnais’
regular Françoise Bertin), who raised him,
but resents having to spend precious days off visiting
her after she breaks her leg. Then circumstances
force all four of them to live under the one roof
for a year, and to learn each other’s ways.
The cast are pitch-perfect in this adaptation of
the best-selling novel by Anna Galvada, which veteran
director Berri has infused with a light touch.
CE QUE JE SAIS DE LOLA
Tuesday, November 20th 7:30 pm
Director
Javier Rebollo's first feature, shot in French and
in Spanish, is a visually provocative tale of a
conventional loner who becomes a silent voyeur obsessed
by desire and an impossible love.
Leon is a youngish man who lives in an apartment
in an unexciting part of Paris, where he seems to
do no work but look after his bed-ridden mother.
For fun, he prises his neighbours' letters out of
the apartment block's letterboxes or goes to insignificant
train stations to watch unknown passengers come
and go. This quietly pursued activity is kept at
a low level until a noisy Spanish woman, Dolores
(Spanish actress Lola Duenas, last seen in Volver)
also known as Lola, moves into the flat next door.
Lola is bold and irresistible to the lacid Leon.
He starts writing a diary of the minute details
of her life, her daily activities, her ups and downs.
Quietly, and for years, their separate lives run
in a shadowy and eventually dangerous parallel.
UN HOMME PERDU
Wednesday, November 21st 7:30pm
Melvil
Poupaud stars as Thomas Koré, a French photographer
who travels around the world for his research about
extreme experiences. For him, an experience does
not exist unless it is photographed, women are objects
to be used and discarded, and a mystery is not solved
unless it is demystified. During his travels, he
crosses paths with Fouad Saleh played by British-Sudanese
actor Alexander Siddig a solitary and amnesic man
who disappeared from Beirut 17 years ago and never
returned. Intrigued, Koré sets out to Chronicle
the history of his man, and this journey into the
heart of a forbidden world changes both their lives
forever.
Bookings can be made at www.eyecinema.ie
or by phoning 091 780 0000
As
part of its commitment to making film culture accessible
nationwide to all nationalities, the Irish Film
Institute is delighted to be associated with the
KINO Cinema and the EYE Cinema in bringing highlights
from the Polish Film Festival to Cork and Galway.
Monday 22 October
at 7:30 pm
We Are All Christs / Wszyscy Jestesmy Chrystusami
Adas is a middle-aged schoolteacher and recovering
alcoholic who embarks on re-establishing a relationship
with his son. Shocked to hear his son’s recollections
of the devastating effects of his alcoholism, Adas
is forced to remember his own disturbing childhood
memories.
We are delighted that actor Andrezej
Chrya will be in Galway to introduce this screening.
Tuesday 23 October
at 7:30 pm
Extras / Statysci
A Chinese film crew are making some
kind of epic tragedy in a small Polish town and
their eccentric director is looking for sad faces
to lend a sense of reality to his fiction. This
amusing premise is just the starting point of Michal
Kwiecinski’s touching comedy. Although the
director has a lot of fun with the clash of cultures
and the banalities of film-making, his real concern
is with the personal lives of the large cast of
local characters who sign up as extras, most of
whom are emotionally unfulfilled.
Wednesday 24 October
at 7:30 pm
Jasminum
Jasminum (the title is the Latin
word for jasmine) is set in a monastery in which
some of the monks emit body scents that match their
names. A young female art restorer with a small
daughter arrives at the monastery to restore some
sacred paintings.
Thursday 24 October
at 7:30 pm
Retrieval / Z Odzysku
A selection at the Cannes Film Festival,
director Slawomir Fabicki’s debut feature
is a hard-hitting tale about a young boxer who tries
to do right but gets ever further caught up in a
criminal underworld.
Kino Cinema
Washington Street, Cork
www.kinocinema.net
Tel: 021 427 1571
Saturday
28 October at 12:00 pm
We Are All Christs / Wszyscy Jestesmy Chrystusami
Adas
is a middle-aged schoolteacher and recovering alcoholic
who embarks on re-establishing a relationship with
his son. Shocked to hear his son’s recollections
of the devastating effects of his alcoholism, Adas
is forced to remember his own disturbing childhood
memories.
Sunday
29 October at 12:00 pm
Sex-mission/ Seksmisja
Juliusz
Machulski’s sex comedy-cum-sci-fi fable is
one of the biggest Polish cult films of all time.
The two main characters, Max and Albert, played
by Jerzy Stuhr and Olgierd Lukaszewicz, submit themselves
to the first human hibernation experiment. Instead
of being awakened after three years, they re-emerge
in the 21st century, in a post-nuclear world where
males have been eradicated and women rule a totalitarian
society located underground. Beyond the comedy and
sexual high jinks lies a scathing satire on totalitarianism.
Saturday
03 November at 12:00 pm
Jasminum
Jasminum
(the title is the Latin word for jasmine) is set
in a monastery in which some of the monks emit body
scents that match their names. A young female art
restorer with a small daughter arrives at the monastery
to restore some sacred paintings.
Sunday
04 November at 12:00 pm
Retrieval / Z Odzysku
A
selection at the Cannes Film Festival, director
Slawomir Fabicki’s debut feature is a hard-hitting
tale about a young boxer who tries to do right but
gets ever further caught up in a criminal underworld.
For further information, contact Alice Black on
01 612 9407 or ablack@irishfilm.ie
Saturday 22 September [5:30 pm]
- Losers and Winners Sunday 23 September [5:00 pm] -
Helvetica Sunday 23 September [7:00 pm] -
Protagonist
Adaptations
Film Festival
A Festival of films from
the works of Edna O’Brien
Dromahaire, County Leitrim
Fri 28 – Sun 30 September
2007
Cinema
North–West and the Irish Film Institute are
delighted to announce Adaptation: Edna O’Brien
on Screen, a festival of films based on the author’s
writing . The festival will take place from Friday,
28 September to Sunday, 30 September in County Leitrim
and will provide a rare opportunity to see these
screen adaptations of O’Brien’s work
in a unique, rural setting.
O’Brien’s
frank examination of femininity, marriage, sexual
politics and Irish society are all reflected in
this collection of screen adaptations, which will
include the early television production of The Wedding
Dress, starring Cyril Cusack; the 1970s oddity Zee
& Co, staring Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Caine;
the coming of age narratives, The Girl with Green
Eyes and The Country Girls; and The Dazzle, an animated
film for children narrated by Edna O’Brien
herself. Several of the films have not been screened
since their original release.
We
are honoured that Edna O’Brien will be present
to introduce the screenings in Leitrim.
Tickets
will be available from Cinema North West. To book,
please call 086 317 3075 / 086 822 1139
The
Irish Film Institute, in partnership
with access CINEMA, is pleased
to announce the Autumn tour of The Swingin’
60s, a marvellous programme of films from
the Irish Film Archive.
The Swingin’ 60s gives us
a sharp snapshot of 1960s Ireland – from the
Royal Showband (Waterford’s local boys made
good) to dancing at the crossroads, and an awful
lot in between. Featuring three films – The
One Nighters, Amharc Eireann
and The New Matchmakers –
the programme has been a hit with audiences all
across the country already this year. The nostalgic
films have left audiences humming ‘Don’t
Lose Your Hucklebuck Shoes’ and ‘I Ran
All the Way Home’.
The Swingin’ 60s will be screened at 11
locations this autumn, as part of the Irish
Film Institute’s national programme,
which works to help people across Ireland engage
with contemporary cinema and their moving image
heritage. This programme is being run in partnership
with access CINEMA, the resource organisation
for regional cultural cinema exhibition in Ireland.
The
One Nighters - 1963 | 48 minutes
Directed by Peter Collinson One
of the genuine oddities of the early 1960’s,
but one which grew out of familiar subject matter
and gave a fascinating insight into the ‘new’
Ireland, was The One-Nighters. The film
follows the adventures of the popular Royal Showband
on tour - preempting Richard Lester’s A
Hard Day’s Night - in its depiction of
its subjects as a group of happy-go-lucky ‘kids’
with hardly defined semi-comic personae. - Harvey
O’Brien, The Real Ireland: Evolution of
Ireland in Documentary Film
Amharc Eireann - 1964 | 4 minutes Amharc Eireann was a series of Irish language
films produced by Gael Linn, to be shown in Irish
cinemas from 1959 to 1964. These films were widely
seen throughout Ireland and they became the staple
for Irish audiences of the period. This issue, dating
from May 1964, is typical of the series and contains
three separate items: Leopardstown: ‘Khalkis’
Wins Gold Flake Trophy, The One Nighters Premiere
and Booze News From Kilkenny!
The
New Matchmakers - 1969 | 25 minutes
This documentary, made by Father Joe Dunn and the
prolific Radharc team, explores the role of churchmen
who have assumed the role of matchmakers in an attempt
to address the problem of low marriage rates in
rural Ireland. It features a class on courtship
etiquette for young farmers at Glenmaddy Vocational
School; street dancing at the Lisdoonvarna festival;
ballroom dancing at the Anonymous Bachelor Club
in Limerick and interviews with young country-men
and women as they find their feet in Dublin.
The Swingin’ 60s will tour to the
following locations this autumn:
Tuesday,
4 September
Listowel, Co. Kerry St John’s Arts Centre
Friday, 21 September
Tinahely, Co. Wicklow Courthouse Film Circle
Tuesday, 25 September
Waterford, Waterfordfilmforall, Waterford Institute
of Technology
Wednesday, 17 October
Navan, Co. Meath Solstice Arts Centre
Tuesday, 18 October
Achill, Co. Mayo Achill Film Club
Thursday, 1 November
Dungarvan, Co. Waterford Old Market House Arts
Centre
Sunday, 11 November
Ennis, Co. Clare Glor Irish Music Centre Thursday, 15 November
Letterfrack, Co. Galway Letterfrack Film Society
Monday, 19 November
Limerick, Co. Limerick University of Limerick
Monday, 26 November
Drogheda, Co. Louth Droichead Arts Centre
Tuesday, 17 November
Limerick, Co. Limerick Belltable Arts Centre
Programme
presented by Kilkenny Arts Festival in association
with the Irish Film Archive
Wednesday 15th August Langtons, John St, 8pm Admission: €12
All-Ireland Hurling Championship Final 1957
Kilkenny Vs Waterford
In this fascinating footage from the 1957 final,
with commentary by the legendary Micheal O Hehir,
we see how the Black and Amber, under the leadership
of team captain Mickey Kelly, had to draw on all
their resources to match their southern neighbours
in one of the most fiercely contested finals of
the 1950s. From the pre-match parade with the Artane
Boys Band and the Black Raven Pipers, to the lifting
of the McCarthy Cup, this special archive screening
will engage hurlers and historians alike.
Rooney
(1958) Dir. George Pollock
Dustman and All-Ireland hurler James Ignatius Rooney
moves into new digs in the snobbish lower-middle
class O’Flynn household, where he soon falls
for the unassuming Máire, much to the chagrin
of Mrs O’Flynn. Things take a turn for the
worse when he unwittingly gives her a necklace which
turns out to have been stolen…A comic classic,
the domestic squabbles, the misunderstandings and
the hilarious scenes with Rooney and his fellow
dustmen are all played out against the backdrop
of the build up to the All-Ireland. The film uses
authentic footage of the 1957 Kilkenny-Waterford
final for the All-Ireland scenes, with “Dublin”
playing in Black and Amber!
Saturday 18th August Watergate Theatre, Parliament Street, Kilkenny,
From 11am
Admission: €15/€13 (full day), €10/€8
(2 films)
John McGahern on Screen
One of Ireland’s greatest writers, John McGahern
was the author of six highly acclaimed novels and
four collections of short stories. He was the recipient
of many awards and honours, including the Society
of Authors, the American-Irish Award, the Prix Etrangère
Ecureuil, the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts
et des Lettres and was short-listed for the Booker
Prize. This season of John McGahern films has been
curated by Colm Toibin, as an homage to his fellow
Irish writer whose untimely death occurred last
year.
Irish Film Archive screening:
Blackpool's
Festival of the Bulls will be an exciting and incredible
event for all the family. The Festival will feature
a wide variety of community events, children’s entertainment,
cinema, street performers, markets, musicians, family
fun, circus acts and the Blackpool Carnival Bull Run.
As part of the event, Frameworks Films will be presenting
a programme of Cork related films from the Irish Film
Archive.
May
Italian
Film Festival
Italian
Films showing at the EYE Cinema in Galway
Monday 28 May 7:30 pm La Dolce Vita
In Federico Fellini's seminal film La Dolce Vita,
a three-hour masterpiece that shows one man's descent
into "the sweet life" of debauchery, Marcello Mastroianni
stars as eccentric journalist Marcello Rubini. On
assignment to chronicle the lives of the rich and
famous Italian aristocracy in a gossip column for
a Roman newspaper, Marcello floats from one fabulous
party to the next, meeting all varieties of beautiful,
extravagant people. While he would never protest
this seemingly ideal job, it makes him feel lonely
and empty, and he stays up drinking and dancing
night after night only to wake up each morning unbalanced
and unfocused.
The film follows Marcello's ups and downs in an
episodic pattern in which each evening is a new
story, a new adventure, a new dare, a new woman
with whom to fall helplessly in love--but only for
that night. Each
morning the slate is wiped clean, and Fellini resets
Marcello's score to zero. Sprinkled with religious
images and gestures at salvation, La Dolce Vita
is supreme in the beauty of its all-encompassing
symbolism that is expressed through lavish sets,
an alluring script, overemphasized physical movements,
roller-coaster jazz music, and helpless emotions.
Italy-France, 1960 | English subtitles | Black and
white | 175 min.
Director: Federico Fellini
Tuesday
29 May 7:30 pm La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar (The True Legend
of Tony Vilar)
Shown at the Rome and Tribeca film festivals, director
Giuseppe Gagliardi’s first feature is an amusing
yet thoughtful ‘mocumentary’ about legendary singer
Tony Vilar. Antonio Ragusa left Calabria in southern
Italy for Argentina in 1952 at the age of 14. A
chance performance in a local bar in Buenos Aires
led to a meteoric rise to fame and an undisputed
status as South America’s leading crooner. Ragusa
adopted the stage name Tony Vilar and gained worldwide
fame with the song ‘Cuando calienta el sol’ before
mysteriously vanishing from the public eye.
Gagliardi’s film stars Peppe Voltarelli, front-man
of the cult Italian band Il Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti,
who composed the film’s original music and co-wrote
the script with Gagliardi. Peppe’s character in
the film has been brought up on stories of his mythical
distant cousin and sets
out to trace Vilar and discover the reason for his
disappearance. His journey takes him to Italian
communities from Buenos Aires to New York, as he
gradually closes in on Vilar and the secret that
abruptly changed his life. The fate of the emigrant
Italian community in Germany was the subject of
Gagliardi and Voltarelli’s 2003 documentary Doichlanda.
In the new film they blend the true story of Vilar
with Peppe’s fictional investigation to explore
the Italian communities of the New World, who maintain
the values and images of the Old Country handed
down by their parents and grandparents. Gagliardi
includes elements of the road-movie, musical and
documentary genres to create a humorous and thought-provoking
exploration of Italian identity and the nature of
success.
Italy 2006 | English subtitles | Colour | 92 minutes
Director: Giuseppe Gagliardi
Wednesday
30 May 7:30 pm Tre giorni di anarchia (Three Days of Anarchy)
Sicily, July 1943: the Allied troops have just disembarked
on the island and Fascism has collapsed. A little
Sicilian village live, at last, in complete freedom
: men and women, old and young, rich and poor alike,
celebrate their liberty singing and banqueting all
together in the streets; Giuseppe, a young
student, has just come back home soon after his
graduation. His best friend, Salvatore, would like
he to assume political responsibilities since the
village is in the most complete chaos. Giuseppe
is in great confusion, as he's attracted by two
girls: the good girl formally engaged to him and
a young, passionate farmer. The only quiet place
for him is his home where his father, a great antifascist,
reminds him the long fights of his people.
Italy 2005 | 96 minutes | English subtitles | Colour
| 96 minutes
Director Vito Zagarrio
EYE Cinema, Wellpark, Galway Tel: 091 780 078
Bealtaine Film Tour
The
Bealtaine film tour is jointly organised by access
CINEMA and the Irish Film Institute is part of the
Bealtaine Festival - The National Festival Celebrating
Creativity in Older Age.
Ladies
in Lavender
Director: Charles Dance / UK / 2004 / 103 minutes
/ Certificate : PG
With that title and those two grand dames in the
lead roles, you think this'll be an annoyingly quaint
British film about two old scene-chewers. But superb
characters, excellent performances and a nicely
understated filmmaking style combine to make it
thoroughly satisfying and engaging. Ursula and Janet
Widdington (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith) are aging
sisters enjoying their isolated life in 1930s Cornwall,
but their idyll is jolted when a young man (Daniel
Bruhl) is washed ashore near their home. While nursing
him back to health, the ladies discover an affinity
for young Andrea, a gifted Polish violinist on his
way to America. But the village isn't used to visitors,
and everyone's a bundle of suspicions, repressions
and jealousies. Cute without being precious, moving
without being sentimental, this delicately balanced
film really gets under our skin with characters
who are never remotely simplistic. This is such
an accomplished film that it's a surprise to find
it written and directed by a first-timer: the actor
Charles Dance. - Rich Cline, Shadows on the
Wall
04
May IRISH FILM INSTITUTE:
6 Eustace Street, Dublin 2 > Tel : 01 6795744 05 May BOYLE FILM CLUB:
King House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon > Tel : 071
9663242 06 May BOYLE FILM CLUB:
King House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon > Tel : 071
9663242 08 May TUARARD ARTS CENTRE:
Moate, Co. Westmeath > Tel : 090 648 2042 08 May DROICHEAD ARTS CENTRE:
Drogheda, Co. Louth > Tel : 041 983 3946 09 May ROSCOMMON ARTS CENTRE:
Roscommon Town, Co. Roscommon > Tel : 090 6625824 10 May OLD MARKET HOUSE ARTS CENTRE:
Dungarvan, Co. Waterford > Tel : 058 48944 11 May COURTHOUSE ARTS CENTRE:
Tinahely, Co. Wicklow > Tel : 0402 38529 12 May NENAGH ARTS OFFICE:
Tel : 067 44852/44860 13 May CLOUGHJORDAN CINE CLUB:
Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary > Tel : 0505 42991 15 May EXCEL CENTRE:
Tipperary Town, Co. Tipperary > Tel : 062 80520 May 15 Cinemobile in Ballymote,
Co. Sligo > Tel: 091 751629 15 May LINENHALL ARTS CENTRE :
Castlebar, Co. Mayo > Tel : 094 9023733 16 May CLONAKILTY LIBRARY:
Kent Street, Clonakilty, Co. Cork > Tel : 023
342 275 16 May TRALEE LIBRARY:
Tralee, Co. Kerry > Tel : 066 7121200 17 May ABBEY CENTRE:
Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal > Tel : 071 9851375 17 May KILLARNEY LIBRARY:
Killarney, Co. Kerry > Tel : 064 32655 17 May MACROOM LIBRARY:
Briery Gap Cultural Centre, Macroom, Co. Cork >
Tel : 026 424 83 18 May ST. JOHNS ARTS CENTRE:
Listowel, Co. Kerry Tel : 068 22566 18 May CAHERCIVEEN LIBRARY:
Caherciveen, Co. Kerry Tel : 066 9472287 19 May GALWAY FILM SOCIETY:
Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Co. Galway > Tel :
091 569777 May 20 Cinemobile in Castlerea,
Co Roscommon > Tel: 091 751629 22 May SLIGO FILM SOCIETY:
Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo > Tel :
071 9141405 22 May THE PICTURE HOUSE:
Wexford Arts Centre, Co. Wexford > Tel : 053
912 3764 23 May AXIS BALLYMUN:
Main Street, Ballymun, Dublin 9 > Tel : 01 883
2100 23 May LISMORE FILM CLUB:
Lismore House, Co. Waterford > Tel : 058 53740 24 May BIRR THEATRE AND ARTS CENTRE:
Birr, Co. Offaly > Tel : 05791 22911 25 May BIRR THEATRE AND ARTS CENTRE:
Birr, Co. Offaly > Tel : 05791 22911 25 May BALLINA ARTS CENTRE:
Ballina, Co. Mayo > Tel : 096 73593 25 May ST. MICHAEL’S THEATRE:
New Ross, Co. Wexford > Tel : 051 421 255 26 May GARTER LANE ARTS CENTRE:
Waterford City, Co. Waterford > Tel : 051 855038 28 May GLÓR IRISH MUSIC
CENTRE:
Ennis, Co. Clare > Tel : 065 6843103 29 May TOWN HALL THEATRE:
Kiltimagh , Co. Mayo > Tel : 094 938 1494 29 May BELLTABLE ARTS CENTRE:
Limerick, Co. Limerick > Tel : 061 319 866 30 May LETTERKENNY ARTS CENTRE:
Century Cinemas, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal > Tel
: 074 9129186 31 May RAMOR THEATRE:
Virginia, Co. Cavan > Tel : 049 854 7074 31 May CONARY FILM CLUB:
Avoca, Co. Wicklow > Tel : 0402 30802 31
May TOWN HALL ARTS CENTRE:
Charlestown, Co. Mayo > Tel : 0949 255812
The
Beatlaine Film Tour is sponsored by Seven Seas www.sevenseas.ie
Wild Strawberries - New Ross
The IFI hosts a film club for older people, Wild Strawberries,
screening a movie every month in Dublin.
In May, Bobby will be screening at the St.Michaels
Theatre in New Ross.
An ambitious labour of love from writer/director/star
Emilio Estevez, Bobby attempts to distill the hope,
anger, and confusion that gripped the U.S. in the
late 1960s.
Friday 11 May 10:00 am / Admission charge € 5.00 includes
tea / coffee / biscuits.
Please ring to reserve a place 051 421 255.
A striking new exhibition, which concentrates on the
showbands scene in the 1960s and 1970s, has opened
at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life,
Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co. Mayo.
It
features hundreds of contemporary photographs of the
showband stars and many pieces of memorabilia. Items
on display include Tom Dunphy’s bass guitar, Jim Conlon’s
Royal Showband jacket and the saxophone used by the
leader of the band, Michael Coppinger, in the now-famous
1965 recording of their smash hit, ‘The Hucklebuck’.
Saturday 14th April: 2.30-4.30pm
Talk & Film. 'The One Nighters' (1963) in Association
with the Irish Film Archive
RTÉ's Ronan Collins introduces 'The One Nighters'
with a light, informal history of the showbands. Peter
Collinson's short documentary record of life on the
road, features the legendary Royal Showband. All ages.
Our annual festival of Spanish and Latin American
cinema, has been expanded this year to provide a broader
picture of the range of work being produced in the
Spanish-speaking world.
The festival is mounted in collaboration with the
Instituto Cervantes in Dublin, and it originated at
The Cornerhouse in Manchester.
As part of its commitment to making film culture accessible
nationwide to all nationalities, the Irish Film Institute
is delighted to be associated with the KINO and EYE
Cinemas in bringing highlights from the VIVA Festival
to Cork and Galway.
The Violin [El violin]
The old saying that music can soothe the savage beast
is both celebrated and challenged in The Violin, the
finely crafted writing-directing début of Mexican
film-maker Francisco Vargas Quevedo. This stark but
absorbing drama follows an aging musician, beautifully
played by Don Ángel Tavira, who fiddles his way into
the front lines of Mexico’s peasant revolts during
the 1970s.
Ferpect Crime [Crimen ferpecto]
A rollicking, unpretentious and often hilarious black
comedy that looks terrific from first frame to last,
Álex de la Iglesia’s Ferpect Crime doubles as a cheerily
complicit attack on our obsession with image. Department
store employee Rafael (Guillermo Toledo), a Don Juan
and terrific salesman who feels most at home in the
ruthless environment of the women’s department, spends
his days persuading women to buy things they didn’t
know they wanted and his nights making love to colleague
Roxanne (Kira Miro). Rafael is missing only one thing:
promotion to floor manager.
Crossing Borders[Un franco, 14 pesetas]
Combining gentle comedy and social criticism into
an enjoyable and surprisingly spiky whole, Carlos
Iglesias’s début as a director is a traditional heart-warmer
with enough contemporary edge to keep it from looking
old-fashioned. It’s built around the fascinating true-life
journey of two luckless Spaniards to Switzerland in
search of work.
The Aura [El aura]
An engrossing thriller from the late Fabián Bielinsky,
director of 2001’s Nine Queens, The Aura is film noir
with a heart as dark as its forest setting. It follows
forty-something taxidermist Espinosa (a career-best
performance from Ricardo Darín) who dreams of heists
and perfect crimes and then gets pulled into the real
thing.
Mon 26th March - 7:30pm
El Aura (The Aura) Tues 27th March -7:30pm
Un Franco, 14 Pesetas (Crossing Borders) Wed 28th March - 7:30pm
Crimen Ferpeto (Ferpect Crime) Thurs 29th March - 7:30pm
El Violin (The Violin)
KINO Cinema, Washington Street, Cork
www.kinocinema.net
Contact: 021 4271571
Sat 24th March - 11:30 am
El Violin (The Violin) Sun 25th March - 11:30 am
Crimen Ferpecto (Ferpect Crime) Sat 31th March - 11:30 am
Un Franco, 14 Pesetas (Crossing Borders) Sun 1st April - 11:30 am
El Aura (The Aura)
If you are a cinema exhibitor, local arts organisation
or community group who would like to get involved
in hosting a festival screening, please contact Alice
Black (ablack@irishfilm.ie or 01 612 9407).
The
IFI hosts a film club for older people, Wild Strawberries,
screening a movie every month. November's film
is Driving Lessons, the story of an unusual friendship
which springs up between a 17-year-old trying
to escape from his domineering mother's influence
and an eccentric older woman looking for companionship.
This heartwarming comedy stars the wonderful Julie
Waters and likable Rupert Grint. Contact the Excel
Centre to reserve a ticket (€5) on 062 805
20 or www.tipperary-excel.com
French
Film Festival on Tour
Galway
Nov
27th - 29th
Monday,
Nov 27th 7:30 pm Le Couperet (The Axe) by Costa-Gavras,
sees this veteran director deliver one of the
sharpest black comedies in years.
Tuesday,
Nov 28th 7:30 pm Kirkiou et les betes sauvages (Kirkiou
and the Wild Beast) brings four African folk
tales to life thorugh strikingly animation in
a film which will entertain audiences of all
ages. Memorable characters and the beautiful
music of Manu Dibango combine in a film for
the whole family.
Wednesday,
Nov 29th 7:30 pm A romance with a twist, Oublier Cheyenne
is a contemporary fable about the precarious
states created by modern society, the need for
change, and the power of love.
Horrothon
on Tour
Belfast
Nov
3 - 5th
For
the first time ever, Horrorthon will be touring outside
Dublin to the Queen's Film Theatre in Belfast. Three-days
of back-to-back glut of scare movies, including new
releases, anniversary screenings, and UK premieres.
Missed something in the Dublin programme? Head up
North and continue the Horrorthon experience. Running
from Friday Nov 3th to Sunday Nov 5th, the QFT will
be screening 10 films, showcasing the best of the
festival. Full programme information and booking details
available from: www.queensfilmtheatre.com
Polish
Film Festival on Tour
Nationwide
Nov
4 - 16th
Abbey
Centre, Ballyshannon
Tues Nov 7 - 8pm - Squint Your Eyes
Tues Nov 13 - 8pm - The Welts
Briery
Gap Cultural Centre, Macroom Tues Nov 7 - 8:30pm - The Welts
Mon Nov 13 - 8:30pm - Warsaw
Dunamaise
Theatre, Porltaoise Sat Nov 4 - 8:00pm - Tulips
EYE
Cinema, Galway Tues Nov 7 - 7:30pm - Tulips
Wed Nov 8 - 7:30pm - My Nikifor
Kino
Cinema, Cork Sat Nov 4 - 12:00pm - Squint Your Eyes
Sun Nov 5 - 12:00pm - The Welts
Sat Nov 11 - 12:00pm - My Nikifor
Sun Nov 12 - 12:00pm - Warsaw
St. Michaels Theatre, New Ross Sat Nov 4 - 8:00pm - My Nikifor
Sun Nov 5 - 8:00pm - Warsaw
Sat Nov 10 - 8:00pm - Squint Your Eyes
Sun Nov 11 - 8:00pm - The Welts
SGC
Dungarven Thurs Nov 9 - Warsaw
Wed Nov 15 - Squint Your Eyes
Storm
Cinema, Castletory, Co. Limerick Wed Nov 14 - 6.30pm - My Nikifor
Thur Nov 15 - 6.30pm - Tulips
Wild
Strawberries on Tour
New
Ross
Oct
27th
The
IFI hosts a film club for older people, Wild Strawberries,
screening a movie every month in Dublin and across
the country. In October, Captain Blood will be screening
at the St.Michaels Theatre in New Ross. Errol Flynn
plays Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician unjustly
convicted of treason and sentenced to slavery in the
West Indies. Friday 27 October 10:00 am / Admission
charge € 5.00 includes tea / coffee / biscuits.
Please ring to reserve a place 051 421 255.
Stranger
Than Fiction On Tour
Galway,
Belfast&Waterford
Sept
28th - Oct 4th
Galway,
EYE Cinema, Wellpark.
www.eyecinema.ie (091 78 00 03) Sep 28 - 7:30
pm - Maria Bethania - Music Is Perfume Oct 02 - 7:30
pm - Black Sun Oct 03 - 7:30
pm - The Connemara Monster Oct 04 - 7:30
pm - Congo River
Belfast
Queens Film Theatre 20 University Square Belfast.
(028) 9097 1097 www.queensfilmtheatre.com
Oct 01 - 6:45 pm
- Love Letter's From A Children's Prison Oct 02 - 6:45
pm - Black Gold Oct 03 - 9:15
pm - Celtic: The Irish Connection
Waterford
Waterfordfilmforall / Waterford Institute of Technology
(WIT)
087 414 5828 www.waterfordfilmforall.com
Oct 04 - 3:00 pm
&
7:30pm - LoudQuietLoud
- The Pixies
Adaptations:
William Trevor on Screen
Leitrim
Sept
22nd-24th
The
Leitrim Cinemobile will play host to a weekend of
film adaptations of William Trevor's works. In partnership
with the Irish Film Archive, the festival will open
with The Ballroom of Romance, and feature
films such as Felicia’s Journey, Fools
of Fortune, Events at Drimgahleen, and
Attracta. Tel: 086 317 3075 www.leitrimcinema.ie
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Download William Trevor programme
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Wild
Strawberries On Tour
Tipperary
Sept
21st 2pm
The
IFI hosts a film club for older people, Wild Strawberries,
screening a movie every month. September's film is
Whale Rider, a gorgeous fable from New Zealand
about the balance between the old and new worlds,
superstition and faith. Contact the Excel Centre to
reserve a ticket (€5) on 062 805 20orwww.tipperary-excel.com
Lesbian
and Gay Film Festival
Galway
& Dundalk
August
19th - 24th
Galway
The EYE Cinema in Galway had three nights of screenings,
including the films Fabulous, Go West and
Saving Face.
Dundalk
Hosted by the Dundalk Outcomers, a night of Cuban
documentaries were shown in the Dundalk County Museum.
Commemorating
the release of the film 25 years ago, Cinemobile
will host a special location screening of The Ballroom
of Romance on Friday night, November 23rd in Ballycroy,
Co Mayo.
Cinemobile
is a non-profit organization and a registered charity.
For details of movie listings and times free phone
1800 924 949 or log on to 
Scrawny
Camille has a talent for drawing, but works as a
cleaner and lives in a Parisian attic. One night,
she meets a fellow tenant, courtly and erudite Philibert,
who has a stutter and an aristocratic surname a
mile long. Philibert lives in a vast bourgeois apartment
that could be sold by his late grandmother's estate
at any moment. His roommate Franck works long hours
as a cook six days a week. He drinks, smokes and
beds brainless babes, but is antsy and dissatisfied.
Franck loves his grandmother Paulette (Alain Resnais’
regular Françoise Bertin), who raised him,
but resents having to spend precious days off visiting
her after she breaks her leg. Then circumstances
force all four of them to live under the one roof
for a year, and to learn each other’s ways.
The cast are pitch-perfect in this adaptation of
the best-selling novel by Anna Galvada, which veteran
director Berri has infused with a light touch.
Director
Javier Rebollo's first feature, shot in French and
in Spanish, is a visually provocative tale of a
conventional loner who becomes a silent voyeur obsessed
by desire and an impossible love.
Melvil
Poupaud stars as Thomas Koré, a French photographer
who travels around the world for his research about
extreme experiences. For him, an experience does
not exist unless it is photographed, women are objects
to be used and discarded, and a mystery is not solved
unless it is demystified. During his travels, he
crosses paths with Fouad Saleh played by British-Sudanese
actor Alexander Siddig a solitary and amnesic man
who disappeared from Beirut 17 years ago and never
returned. Intrigued, Koré sets out to Chronicle
the history of his man, and this journey into the
heart of a forbidden world changes both their lives
forever. 
As
part of its commitment to making film culture accessible
nationwide to all nationalities, the Irish Film
Institute is delighted to be associated with the
KINO Cinema and the EYE Cinema in bringing highlights
from the Polish Film Festival to Cork and Galway.
One
of the genuine oddities of the early 1960’s,
but one which grew out of familiar subject matter
and gave a fascinating insight into the ‘new’
Ireland, was The One-Nighters. The film
follows the adventures of the popular Royal Showband
on tour - preempting Richard Lester’s A
Hard Day’s Night - in its depiction of
its subjects as a group of happy-go-lucky ‘kids’
with hardly defined semi-comic personae. - Harvey
O’Brien, The Real Ireland: Evolution of
Ireland in Documentary Film
Each
morning the slate is wiped clean, and Fellini resets
Marcello's score to zero. Sprinkled with religious
images and gestures at salvation, La Dolce Vita
is supreme in the beauty of its all-encompassing
symbolism that is expressed through lavish sets,
an alluring script, overemphasized physical movements,
roller-coaster jazz music, and helpless emotions.
sets
out to trace Vilar and discover the reason for his
disappearance. His journey takes him to Italian
communities from Buenos Aires to New York, as he
gradually closes in on Vilar and the secret that
abruptly changed his life. The fate of the emigrant
Italian community in Germany was the subject of
Gagliardi and Voltarelli’s 2003 documentary Doichlanda.
In the new film they blend the true story of Vilar
with Peppe’s fictional investigation to explore
the Italian communities of the New World, who maintain
the values and images of the Old Country handed
down by their parents and grandparents. Gagliardi
includes elements of the road-movie, musical and
documentary genres to create a humorous and thought-provoking
exploration of Italian identity and the nature of
success. 
young
student, has just come back home soon after his
graduation. His best friend, Salvatore, would like
he to assume political responsibilities since the
village is in the most complete chaos. Giuseppe
is in great confusion, as he's attracted by two
girls: the good girl formally engaged to him and
a young, passionate farmer. The only quiet place
for him is his home where his father, a great antifascist,
reminds him the long fights of his people. 
