WHAT'S ON - 12/07/2025

• 28 YEARS LATER

  It has been nearly three decades since the outbreak of the rage virus; Britain is under quarantine, where isolated communities cling to life amidst the ever-present threat of infection. One such group lives on an island connected to the mainland... Read More

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• APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT

  Despite one of the most chaotic productions in film history, as depicted in Eleanor Coppola’s sterling documentary Hearts Of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola’s monomaniacal excesses nevertheless gave audiences one of the towering achievements of American cinema. The film underwent numerous... Read More

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• ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: AGAINST THE ODDS (DOUBLE BILL)

  Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive. Simply collect your tickets online (with a small booking fee) or at IFI Box Office.

  PROGRAMME ONE TOP OF THE MORNING This tourist-style film promoted sale... Read More

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• ARMAND

  Elisabeth (Renate Reinsve, in perhaps her finest performance yet) has been summoned to an emergency meeting after her 6-year-old son Armand is accused of inappropriate behaviour toward a classmate; at the school she is subjected to an intense and troubling... Read More

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• AUSTRALIAN DREAMS: THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH

  Yet another Australian director who would go on to Hollywood success with films including, appropriately enough, Meryl Streep-starrer A Cry In The Dark (1988), Fred Schepisi’s The Chant Of Jimmie Blacksmith is based on the true story of Jimmy Governor, an Indigenous Australian who... Read More

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• BEAT THE LOTTO

  When downtrodden 1980s Ireland inaugurated a National Lottery the people began to dream. For Cork-based mathematician Stefan Klincewicz, it was an obsession. Spotting a flaw in the system, he recruited a ragtag team of chancers, and masterminded an audacious... Read More

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• HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER’S APOCALYPSE 4K RE-RELEASE

  A revealing portrait of the making of Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam War epic, compiled from footage shot by his wife Eleanor during the legendarily troubled shoot, with contemporary interviews with members of the cast and crew, Hearts of Darkness offers an unflinching... Read More

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• HOT MILK

  Sofia (Emma Mackey) has acted as caregiver to her wheelchair-bound mother Rose (Fiona Shaw) for most of her life; the cause of Rose’s chronic pain is unknown, and they have come to a private clinic in Spain, presided over by... Read More

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• NINE QUEENS 25TH ANNIVERSARY

  (NUEVE REINAS)

  Production of Fabián Bielinsky’s debut feature, receiving a welcome rerelease in a 4K digital restoration, came to life when his screenplay won a contest organised by a company who had previously passed on it – a suitably convoluted... Read More

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• RAN (40TH ANNIVERSARY)

  Ran, Akira Kurosawa’s majestic late masterpiece, reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. At the age of seventy, after years of consolidating his empire, the Great Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) decides to abdicate and... Read More

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• THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND

  Eccentric millionaire Charles (Tim Key) dreams of reuniting his favourite folk-rock duo, McGwyer and Mortimer, so he invites the estranged bandmates and former lovers, Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) and Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan), unbeknownst to each other, to perform a... Read More

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• THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME

  Wes Anderson returns to his regular theme of the relationship dynamics between flawed fathers (or father figures) and their offspring in The Phoenician Scheme. Zsa-zsa Korda (Benicio Del Toro), arms dealer and one of Europe’s richest men, finds his life... Read More

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