| | | Hello and welcome to this week's edition of the IFI Newsletter!
Opening in cinema today, Friday 30th is Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater's heartfelt homage to the making of Jean-Luc Godard's debut feature Breathless, which also screens this weekend as part of our latest two month long retrospective Truth, 24 Frames per Second: The Films of Jean-Luc Godard.
Also screening as part of this season are A Woman is a Woman on Tuesday 3rd, Vivre sa Vie on Saturday 7th, and The Little Soldier on Sunday 8th. Enjoy all these titles with our multi-film passes for IFI Members, available in-person at IFI Box Office or by phone at 01 679 5744.
Other special events this week include One Battle After Another on Saturday 31st, Iphigenia on Sunday 1st as part of ClassicsNow, and Khartoum on Thursday 5th as part of Bohemian Environmental Justice Film Festival.
Meanwhile on Saturday 7th, our latest IFI Talks event "I Am Your Way Out": Sinners and the Promise of Vampiric Escape takes place before a screening of Sinners. Tickets to both events are sold separately.
Tickets are now on sale for the first week of screenings of The Testament of Ann Lee, showing exclusively at the IFI on 70mm from February 20th. From the filmmaking team behind The Brutalist, director Mona Fastvold's highly cinematic and defiantly idiosyncratic film demands the big screen experience. |
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| | | THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (70MM)
From Fri 20th
Showing exclusively at the IFI on 70mm, Mona Fastvold’s third film is a highly cinematic and defiantly idiosyncratic interpretation of the life of the titular Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried), charismatic leader of the Shakers, a celibate Christian sect founded in England in 1747 before becoming established in the 1780s.
Lee’s followers worshipped through ecstatic song and movement, and Fastvold’s exhilarating film is closer to a quasi-musical/experimental dance piece than a conventional biopic.
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dir. Richard Linklater
A young Jean-Luc Godard battles financiers, convention, and improvisational chaos to realise his vision.
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Thu 5th, 18.30
Opening the Bohemian Environmental Justice Film Festival 2026, this award-winning documentary is a reflection on the intersections between uprising, displacement, and solidarity. Featuring six very different Sudanese individuals, these displaced subjects each reflect back on their lives before the war, with green screen reenactments of the moments their country changed, contrasting with footage of pre-war locations. As a celebration of homeland, the film retains an optimism, reminding the viewer of a possible future for Sudan.
A short discussion will follow the film.
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| | ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Sat 31st, 16.30
Catching up on the Oscar nominations? See Paul Thomas Anderson's epic one last time before the Academy Awards. | |
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| | CLASSICSNOW: IPHIGENIA
Sun 1st, 15.00
Before sailing to Troy, King Agamemnon is ordered to sacrifice his titular daughter in atonement for offending the goddess Artemis. | |
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| | IFI TALKS – “I AM YOUR WAY OUT”: SINNERS AND THE PROMISE OF VAMPIRIC ESCAPE
Sat 7th, 13.30
Vampire films allow us to confront social issues surrounding gender, class and race directly. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025) is one of the best recent examples of this. The film’s Irish vampire gives a complicated offer of liberation to an African American community, embodying often ambivalent even vampiric visions of solidarity offered by present-day Irish communities. This discussion looks at key moments that depict oppressive systems for Irish and Black communities, offering a new way to understand the film.
This IFI Talk will be presented by Dr Sean Aldrich O’Rourke, an early-career researcher at the University of Limerick working in Gothic and Irish studies, and Dr Sandrine Uwase Ndahiro, an early-career researcher at Maynooth University working in Postcolonial literature and Black Irish culture.
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Sat 7th, 15.00
Nominated for a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations, Ryan Coogler’s superb slice of Southern Gothic, set in the 1930s, sees Michael B. Jordan play twin brothers Smoke and Stack, who return from Chicago to their Mississippi hometown to open a juke joint where the local African American community can socialise safely. However, the venue’s entertainment, an ad hoc group of blues musicians, draws the dangerous attentions of local vampires, led by music-loving Irish immigrant Remmick (Jack O’Connell). A stand-off ensues in this bravura mix of music and horror.
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THE FILMS OF JEAN-LUC GODARD |
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| | | BREATHLESS
Sun 1st, 16.30
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Tue 3rd, 18.30 | |
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| | VIVRE SA VIE
Sat 7th, 18.00 | |
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| | THE LITTLE SOLDIER
Sun 8th, 16.30 | |
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| | | | Explore new releases, classics and ground-breaking documentaries all from the comfort of your couch with IFI@Home!
Highlights this week include Breathless, streaming from Sunday 1st as part of our Jean-Luc Godard retrospective, and the IFI Irish Film Archive's restoration of The Dead is streaming from Monday 2nd. Both titles are available to pre-order now. |
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