| | | Happy New Year and welcome to this week's edition of the IFI Newsletter!
Opening in cinema today, Friday 9th, is Nomadland director Chlóe Zhao's beautiful adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel Hamnet, starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, in a Critics' Choice Award winning performance. Tickets for our opening weekend screenings are selling fast!
Special events this week include our opening night screening of the Golden Globe nominated The Voice of Hind Rajab, followed by a Q&A with director Kaouther Ben Hania and producer Nadim Cheikhrouha, hosted by Donald Clarke on Friday 16th.
Also screening are two titles from this year's First Fortnight Festival programme. First up is If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, starring the fantastic Rose Byrne, on Thursday 15th. Catch it before its general release next month! Meanwhile, The Low Road, a kind-hearted indie gem, screens on Saturday 17th followed by a Q&A with director Stephen Mulhearn.
We are pleased to announce our latest retrospective Truth, 24 Frames per Second: The Films of Jean-Luc Godard which opens on February 1st and continues until March 29th. Tickets to all screenings are on sale now. Multi-film passes are available at IFI Box Office in-person or by phone at 01 679 5744.
If you'd prefer a night in with a quality film, two highly acclaimed titles from last year's cinema programme make their debut on IFI@Home on Monday 12th. The disarmingly warm-hearted Pillion, and the deeply compassionate Souleymane's Story, winner of the Audience Choice award at IFI French Film Festival 2024.
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dir. Chlóe Zhao
After losing their son to the plague, Agnes (Jessie Buckley) and William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) grapple with grief.
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| | | | TRUTH, 24 TIMES PER SECOND:
THE FILMS OF JEAN-LUC GODARD |
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| | From February 1st to March 29th
The IFI is pleased to announce a new 24-film, two-month retrospective of the work of French master director, Jean-Luc Godard. Godard was a leading light in the French New Wave movement of the 1960s alongside fellow filmmakers François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Demy. He is arguably the most important French filmmaker of his generation.
Spanning his astonishingly prolific first decade, the films screening throughout February trace Godard’s path from the rule-breaking energy of his iconic debut Breathless, to the increasingly radical, self-reflexive experiments that would come to define his later work. Godard’s restless reinvention of cinema from the revolutionary fervour of the late 1960s to the radical essay-films of his final decades is explored throughout March.
Multi-film passes are available at IFI Box Office in-person or by phone at 01 679 5744.
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| | | | FIRST FORTNIGHT: IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU
Thursday 15th, 18.15
Rose Byrne gives a performance of blistering intensity as Linda, a psychoanalyst caring for her critically ill daughter who must relocate to a dingy hotel when a burst pipe causes her apartment ceiling to cave in.
Her husband (Christian Slater, appearing only as a nagging voice on her phone) is away, and she must single-handedly juggle hospital visits with treating her clients, while monitoring repairs to the gaping hole in the roof. Her own therapist (a baleful Conan O’Brien) offers little support, and, leaning into drugs and alcohol, Linda careens towards a point of crisis.
Screening as part of First Fortnight Festival.
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Friday 16th, 18.30
January 29th, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call from Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl who is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Kaouther Ben Hania and producer Nadim Cheikhrouha, hosted by Donald Clarke, Chief Film Critic at the Irish Times.
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Saturday 17th, 15.30
After the suicide of her best friend, a guilt-ridden and heartbroken young woman hikes Scotland’s West Highland Way to find salvation. Unprepared and overwhelmed she embarks on a journey from the streets of Glasgow to the breath-taking scenery of the Scottish Highlands.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Stephen Mulhearn.
Screening as part of First Fortnight Festival.
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| | | With the new year here, now is the perfect time to catch up on these three highly-acclaimed titles from the previous year now streaming on IFI@Home.
Explore the erotically charged and sweetly romantic dom-com Pillion, experience a bike courier's anxious journey to seek asylum in Souleymane's Story, and witness Paul Thomas Anderson's thundering epic One Battle After Another. |
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