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<strong>JAMESON</strong><br />
<strong>DUBLIN</strong><br />
<strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong><br />
<strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong><br />
13-23rd<br />
February<br />
2014<br />
Book<br />
Online<br />
jdiff.com
<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> 2014<br />
CONTENTS<br />
THURSDAY 13 – SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY<br />
BOOKING INFORMATION<br />
PICK YOUR <strong>FILM</strong>S<br />
SCHEDULE<br />
DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD<br />
OPENING GALA: CALVARY<br />
<strong>FILM</strong> LISTINGS<br />
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS<br />
CLOSING GALA: THE STAG<br />
<strong>FILM</strong> INDEX<br />
3<br />
4<br />
6<br />
11<br />
16<br />
17<br />
63<br />
119<br />
129<br />
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FRIDAY 14TH<br />
FEBRUARY<br />
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<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> NATI<br />
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BOOK NOW<br />
BOOK ONLINE AT JDIFF.COM<br />
CALL US ON 01 687 7974<br />
POP INTO<br />
(A) <strong>FILM</strong>BASE<br />
(B) CINEWORLD<br />
(C) LIGHT HOUSE<br />
FRIDAY 14TH FEBRUARY<br />
DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY<br />
TO EXPERIENCE THE BEST OF<br />
CONTEMPORARY CINEMA!<br />
Box Office Details<br />
Filmbase<br />
Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2<br />
Opening Hours from 21 Jan to 23 Feb<br />
Mon to Sat (10am –6pm)<br />
Sun 9, 16 & 23 Feb (12pm–6pm)<br />
Cineworld<br />
Parnell Street, Dublin 1<br />
Opening Hours 8 to 12 Feb (2pm –6pm daily),<br />
13 - 23 Feb (12pm–8.30pm daily)<br />
Light House<br />
Market Square, Smithfield, Dublin 7<br />
Opening Hours 8 to 12 Feb (2pm–6pm daily),<br />
13 - 23 Feb (12pm–8.30pm daily)<br />
Please note the festival is for over 18s only. JDIFF<br />
operates as a members club. Membership is included<br />
in the ticket price. Please note: the Jameson Cult Film<br />
Club is by invitation only.<br />
For full details of our ticketing terms and conditions<br />
and for additional information on the festival, check<br />
our website at jdiff.com. A €1 booking fee applies<br />
to all phone and online bookings.<br />
Ticket Prices<br />
Afternoon Screenings €7*<br />
Evening and Weekend Screenings €11<br />
Special Presentations €11–15<br />
Galas €18<br />
* For screenings before 6pm Mon–Fri only<br />
Special Passes And Discounts<br />
Season Ticket €245<br />
Industry Events<br />
Industry Events €10–€50 (see individual event listing)<br />
Free industry events must be booked through the<br />
box office, in person, or by phone.<br />
Multi-Purchase Discounts*<br />
Purchase 5 tickets for €50<br />
Purchase 10 tickets for €90<br />
* Individual screenings only. Excludes galas and<br />
special presentations. Must be purchased in one<br />
transaction.<br />
A 10% discount for Students, OAPs, those in receipt<br />
of disability benefits and the unwaged is available by<br />
booking tickets in person. Proof of eligibility must be<br />
provided. Tickets can be collected up to one hour<br />
before the screening in Filmbase, or at the relevant<br />
cinema 30 minutes before the screening. You will be<br />
required to present the booking confirmation email<br />
or the card you paid with to receive your tickets.<br />
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THURSDAY 13 – SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY<br />
PICK YOUR <strong>FILM</strong>S<br />
<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> 2014<br />
GALAS & SPECIAL<br />
PRESENTATIONS<br />
OFFICIAL SELECTION:<br />
<strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong><br />
20 Feet from Stardom<br />
A Long Way from Home<br />
Borgman<br />
Calvary (Opening Gala)<br />
Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay<br />
Frost/Nixon<br />
Jaws<br />
No Limbs No Limits<br />
The Stag (Closing Gala)<br />
Surprise Film<br />
Tracks<br />
The Zero Theorem<br />
113<br />
39<br />
101<br />
16<br />
86<br />
21<br />
61<br />
29<br />
118<br />
119<br />
43<br />
97<br />
The 100 Year Old Man...<br />
A Long Way Down<br />
A Street in Palermo<br />
A Thousand Times Goodnight<br />
A Touch of Sin<br />
A World Not Ours<br />
Afternoon Delight<br />
Bad Hair<br />
Before the Winter Chill<br />
Big Sur<br />
Blue Ruin<br />
The Book Thief<br />
Cannibal<br />
Cas & Dylan<br />
Circles<br />
Club Sandwich<br />
Concrete Night<br />
Concussion<br />
The Congress<br />
The Double<br />
Dual<br />
Exhibition<br />
The Fake<br />
Finsterworld<br />
Gabrielle<br />
The Gambler<br />
Gare du Nord<br />
The Girl from the Wardrobe<br />
Goddess<br />
The Golden Dream<br />
The Grand Budapest Hotel<br />
The Grand Seduction<br />
Half of a Yellow Sun<br />
Hide Your Smiling Faces<br />
Ida<br />
International Shorts 1 & 2<br />
It’s All So Quiet<br />
The Lady Assassin<br />
La Paz<br />
Lasting<br />
Locke<br />
Lovely Louise<br />
The Lunchbox<br />
The Major<br />
The Militant<br />
Miss Violence<br />
Mood Indigo<br />
Mother of George<br />
Mystery Road<br />
New World<br />
Nordvest<br />
104<br />
48<br />
95<br />
48<br />
108<br />
31<br />
88<br />
105<br />
59<br />
25<br />
47<br />
24<br />
76<br />
78<br />
53<br />
116<br />
36<br />
93<br />
79<br />
94<br />
102<br />
34<br />
114<br />
84<br />
36<br />
106<br />
77<br />
93<br />
108<br />
95<br />
31<br />
83<br />
37<br />
46<br />
49<br />
15<br />
37<br />
85<br />
47<br />
57<br />
109<br />
72<br />
35<br />
24<br />
22<br />
41<br />
74<br />
22<br />
25<br />
30<br />
80<br />
Our Sunhi<br />
The Past<br />
Pioneer<br />
The Priest’s Children<br />
Reaching for the Moon<br />
The Reunion<br />
The Rocket<br />
Roxanne<br />
Salvo<br />
Soldate Jeanette<br />
Standing Aside, Watching<br />
Starred Up<br />
Stranger by the Lake<br />
Those Happy Years<br />
Trap Street<br />
Two Lives<br />
Under the Skin<br />
The Unspeakable Act<br />
Violette<br />
Wakolda<br />
We Are The Best!<br />
The Wonders<br />
Yozgat Blues<br />
103<br />
56<br />
110<br />
117<br />
30<br />
87<br />
117<br />
118<br />
81<br />
92<br />
49<br />
85<br />
41<br />
76<br />
92<br />
45<br />
80<br />
79<br />
105<br />
54<br />
87<br />
50<br />
40<br />
4<br />
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THURSDAY 13 – SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY<br />
OFFICIAL SELECTION:<br />
IRISH<br />
OUT OF THE PAST<br />
REAL TO REEL<br />
A Vision<br />
Come into the Gardens<br />
The Devil’s Pool<br />
The Food Guide to Love<br />
Gold<br />
The Inquiry<br />
JDIFF Shorts<br />
The Last Days on Mars<br />
Living in a Coded Land<br />
Love Eternal<br />
Out of Here<br />
Run & Jump<br />
Stay<br />
78<br />
38<br />
59<br />
55<br />
107<br />
102<br />
23<br />
57<br />
77<br />
72<br />
109<br />
107<br />
40<br />
Dawn of the Dead<br />
The Deer Hunter<br />
Fellini’s Roma<br />
Gun Crazy<br />
The Matchmaker<br />
Messiah<br />
Mode in France<br />
The Model Couple<br />
Mr Freedom<br />
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest<br />
Safety Last!<br />
The Swimmer<br />
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg<br />
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?<br />
98<br />
55<br />
44<br />
94<br />
56<br />
18<br />
19<br />
18<br />
19<br />
19<br />
115<br />
45<br />
116<br />
19<br />
A Story of Children and Film<br />
Antarctica<br />
At Berkeley<br />
Autoluminescent<br />
Bad Brains<br />
Beyond the Edge – 3D<br />
Deceptive Practice<br />
Deconstructing Dad<br />
Design is One<br />
Family Band<br />
Good Ol’ Freda<br />
Haus Tugendhat<br />
Inequality for All<br />
Lawrence of Belgravia<br />
Looking for Light<br />
Los Wild Ones<br />
The Square<br />
Visitors<br />
Wrecking Crew<br />
83<br />
44<br />
114<br />
33<br />
33<br />
46<br />
106<br />
33<br />
35<br />
33<br />
104<br />
103<br />
53<br />
32<br />
73<br />
54<br />
84<br />
34<br />
32<br />
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THURSDAY 13 – SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY<br />
<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> 2014<br />
THURSDAY<br />
13TH FEB<br />
FRIDAY<br />
14TH FEB<br />
SATURDAY<br />
15TH FEB<br />
SUNDAY<br />
16TH FEB<br />
MONDAY<br />
17TH FEB<br />
<strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong><br />
SHORTS 1<br />
Light House 1<br />
3pm<br />
<strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong><br />
SHORTS 2<br />
Light House 1<br />
5pm<br />
CALVARY<br />
Savoy 1<br />
7.30pm<br />
MESSIAH<br />
IFI 1<br />
3.30pm<br />
MOTHER OF<br />
GEORGE<br />
Light House 3<br />
4.20pm<br />
FROST/NIXON<br />
Cineworld 9<br />
6.15pm<br />
JDIFF SHORTS<br />
Light House 1<br />
6.30pm<br />
THE MILITANT<br />
Light House 3<br />
6.30pm<br />
THE BOOK THIEF<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
6.30pm<br />
BIG SUR<br />
Light House 1<br />
9pm<br />
THE MAJOR<br />
Light House 3<br />
9pm<br />
MYSTERY ROAD<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
9pm<br />
NO LIMBS NO<br />
LIMITS<br />
Odeon 2<br />
11am<br />
REACHING FOR<br />
THE MOON<br />
Light House 1<br />
12pm<br />
NEW WORLD<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
12.45pm<br />
A WORLD NOT<br />
OURS<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
1.45pm<br />
WRECKING CREW<br />
Light House 2<br />
2pm<br />
THE GRAND<br />
BUDAPEST HOTEL<br />
Cineworld 9, 2pm<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
Light House 1<br />
2.15pm<br />
VISITORS<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
3.30pm<br />
THE LUNCHBOX<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
3.45pm<br />
DESIGN IS ONE<br />
Light House 3<br />
4pm<br />
GABRIELLE<br />
Light House 1<br />
4.45pm<br />
CONCRETE NIGHT<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
5.30pm<br />
IT’S ALL SO QUIET<br />
Light House 3<br />
6pm<br />
LAWRENCE OF<br />
BELGRAVIA<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
6pm<br />
HALF OF A<br />
YELLOW SUN<br />
Cineworld 5<br />
6.30pm<br />
COME INTO THE<br />
GARDENS<br />
Light House 1<br />
7pm<br />
A LONG WAY<br />
FROM HOME<br />
Savoy 2<br />
7.30pm<br />
STAY<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
8pm<br />
YOZGAT BLUES<br />
Light House 3<br />
8.30pm<br />
MISS VIOLENCE<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
8.30pm<br />
STRANGER BY<br />
THE LAKE<br />
Light House 1<br />
9pm<br />
TRACKS<br />
Savoy 1, 11am<br />
FELLINI’S ROMA<br />
Light House 1, 1pm<br />
DECONSTRUCTING<br />
DAD<br />
Light House 2<br />
1.30pm<br />
ANTARCTICA<br />
Cineworld 8, 2pm<br />
TWO LIVES<br />
Light House 1<br />
3.30pm<br />
THE SWIMMER<br />
Light House 3<br />
4pm<br />
BEYOND THE<br />
EDGE 3D<br />
Cineworld 8, 4pm<br />
FAMILY BAND<br />
Light House 3<br />
6pm<br />
HIDE YOUR<br />
SMILING FACES<br />
Cineworld 8, 6pm<br />
BLUE RUIN<br />
Light House 1<br />
6.15pm<br />
LA PAZ<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
6.15pm<br />
A LONG WAY<br />
DOWN<br />
Cineworld 9<br />
8pm<br />
IDA<br />
Light House 1<br />
8.15pm<br />
A THOUSAND<br />
TIMES<br />
GOODNIGHT<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
8.15pm<br />
STANDING ASIDE,<br />
WATCHING<br />
Light House 3<br />
8.30pm<br />
THE WONDERS<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
8.30pm<br />
CIRCLES<br />
Light House 2<br />
4pm<br />
INEQUALITY<br />
FOR ALL<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
6pm<br />
WAKOLDA<br />
Light House 1<br />
6.15pm<br />
LOS WILD ONES<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
6.15pm<br />
THE DEER<br />
HUNTER<br />
Savoy 2<br />
6.30pm<br />
THE MODEL<br />
COUPLE<br />
IFI 1<br />
6.30pm<br />
BAD BRAINS<br />
Light House 2<br />
6.30pm<br />
THE FOOD GUIDE<br />
TO LOVE<br />
Cineworld 9<br />
8pm<br />
THE PAST<br />
Light House 1<br />
8.15pm<br />
THE<br />
MATCHMAKER<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
8.30pm<br />
LASTING<br />
Light House 2<br />
9pm<br />
THE LAST DAYS<br />
ON MARS<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
9pm<br />
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THURSDAY 13 – SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY<br />
TUESDAY<br />
18TH FEB<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
19TH FEB<br />
THURSDAY<br />
20TH FEB<br />
FRIDAY<br />
21ST FEB<br />
SATURDAY<br />
22ND FEB<br />
SUNDAY<br />
23RD FEB<br />
<strong>JAMESON</strong> CULT<br />
<strong>FILM</strong> CLUB: JAWS<br />
MR FREEDOM<br />
Light House 2<br />
4pm<br />
MODE IN FRANCE<br />
Light House 2<br />
6pm<br />
AUTOLUMINES’NT<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
6pm<br />
THE DEVIL’S POOL<br />
IFI 1<br />
6.15pm<br />
BEFORE THE<br />
WINTER CHILL<br />
Light House 1<br />
6.15pm<br />
LOVELY LOUISE<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
6.30pm<br />
LIFE FEELS GOOD<br />
Light House 1<br />
8.30pm<br />
LOVE ETERNAL<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
8.30pm<br />
LOOKING FOR<br />
LIGHT<br />
Light House 2<br />
8.45pm<br />
MOOD INDIGO<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
8.45pm<br />
MUHAMMAD ALI,<br />
THE GREATEST<br />
Light House 2<br />
4pm<br />
THOSE HAPPY<br />
YEARS<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
6pm<br />
CANNIBAL<br />
Light House 1<br />
6.15pm<br />
GARE DU NORD<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
6.15pm<br />
A VISION<br />
IFI 1<br />
6.30pm<br />
LIVING IN A<br />
CODED LAND<br />
Light House 2<br />
6.30pm<br />
CAS & DYLAN<br />
Cineworld 9<br />
6.30pm<br />
THE<br />
UNSPEAKABLE<br />
ACT<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
8.30pm<br />
THE CONGRESS<br />
Light House 1<br />
8.45pm<br />
UNDER THE SKIN<br />
Cineworld 9<br />
8.45pm<br />
NORDVEST<br />
Light House 2<br />
9pm<br />
SALVO<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
9pm<br />
A STORY OF<br />
CHILDREN<br />
AND <strong>FILM</strong><br />
Light House 3<br />
4.30pm<br />
WHO ARE YOU,<br />
POLLY MAGGOO?<br />
IFI 1<br />
6pm<br />
THE SQUARE<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
6.15pm<br />
THE GRAND<br />
SEDUCTION<br />
Light House 1<br />
6.15pm<br />
FINSTERWORLD<br />
Light House 3<br />
6.30pm<br />
THE LADY<br />
ASSASSIN<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
6.30pm<br />
ELIZA LYNCH<br />
Savoy 1<br />
8pm<br />
STARRED UP<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
8.30pm<br />
WE ARE THE<br />
BEST!<br />
Light House 1<br />
9pm<br />
THE REUNION<br />
Light House 3<br />
9pm<br />
AFTERNOON<br />
DELIGHT<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
9pm<br />
SOLDATE<br />
JEANNETTE<br />
Light House 3<br />
4pm<br />
TRAP STREET<br />
Light House 3<br />
6pm<br />
CONCUSSION<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
6.15pm<br />
THE GIRL FROM<br />
THE WARDROBE<br />
Light House 1<br />
6.30pm<br />
THE DOUBLE<br />
Cineworld 9<br />
6.30pm<br />
GUN CRAZY<br />
Light House 3<br />
8pm<br />
THE GOLDEN<br />
DREAM<br />
Light House 1<br />
8.30pm<br />
A STREET IN<br />
PALERMO<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
8.30pm<br />
THE ZERO<br />
THEOREM<br />
Cineworld 9<br />
9pm<br />
DAWN OF THE<br />
DEAD<br />
The Sugar Club<br />
10pm<br />
BORGMAN<br />
Savoy 1, 11am<br />
THE INQUIRY<br />
Light House 1<br />
12.30pm<br />
DUAL<br />
Cineworld 8, 1pm<br />
OUR SUNHI<br />
Light House 3, 2pm<br />
HAUS TUGENDHAT<br />
Light House 1<br />
2.45pm<br />
THE 100-YEAR-<br />
OLD MAN…<br />
Cineworld 8, 3.15pm<br />
GOOD OL’ FREDA<br />
Cineworld 5<br />
3.30pm<br />
BAD HAIR<br />
Light House 3. 4pm<br />
VIOLETTE<br />
Light House 1<br />
5.30pm<br />
THE GAMBLER<br />
Light House 3, 6pm<br />
DECEPTIVE<br />
PRACTICE<br />
Cineworld 8, 6pm<br />
RUN & JUMP<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
6.15pm<br />
GOLD<br />
Savoy 2, 6.30pm<br />
GODDESS<br />
Cineworld 9<br />
6.30pm<br />
A TOUCH OF SIN<br />
Light House 1<br />
8.15pm<br />
20 FEET FROM<br />
STARDOM<br />
Savoy 1<br />
11am<br />
THE FAKE<br />
Light House 1<br />
12.30pm<br />
AT BERKELEY<br />
Light House 2<br />
1pm<br />
SAFETY LAST!<br />
Savoy 1<br />
2pm<br />
THE UMBRELLAS<br />
OF CHERBOURG<br />
Light House 1<br />
3pm<br />
CLUB SANDWICH<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
3pm<br />
SURPRISE <strong>FILM</strong><br />
Savoy 1<br />
5pm<br />
THE PRIEST’S<br />
CHILDREN<br />
Light House 1<br />
5pm<br />
THE ROCKET<br />
Light House 3<br />
5pm<br />
ROXANNE<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
5pm<br />
THE STAG<br />
Savoy 1<br />
7.30pm<br />
OUT OF HERE<br />
Light House 3<br />
8.30pm<br />
LOCKE<br />
Cineworld 8<br />
8.30pm<br />
PIONEER<br />
Cineworld 12<br />
8.45pm<br />
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DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD<br />
WELCOME TO THE <strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong><br />
<strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> WHICH, THIS<br />
YEAR, CELEBRATES ITS 12TH EDITION.<br />
THURSDAY 13 – SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY<br />
After a strategic planning review, the festival embarks<br />
on an ambitious three-year plan which will establish<br />
screenwriting at the centre of our programming<br />
policy. This year’s event will explore the craft and<br />
dynamics of contemporary screenwriting and<br />
celebrate the work of both Irish and international<br />
practitioners. A new section – Write Here, Write Now –<br />
will present a series of public events and discussions<br />
for both the general public and aspiring writers. In<br />
this initial year we are delighted to welcome the<br />
acclaimed writer Peter Morgan (The Deal, The Queen,<br />
Frost/Nixon and Rush), who will discuss his career<br />
in a public interview and host a masterclass with<br />
Irish screenwriters.<br />
Another new initiative for 2014 is our Guest Curator<br />
slot: each year a different curator will be invited to<br />
join the festival director in the creation of the festival<br />
programme. The guest director will be encouraged<br />
to bring new ideas and overlooked films to Dublin.<br />
For this inaugural event we are delighted to welcome<br />
(award-winning director) Allison Anders and Tiffany<br />
Anders, who co-founded and programmed the<br />
Don’t Knock the Rock Festival in LA. They have put<br />
together a fascinating series of music films and will<br />
introduce their choices, as well as participating in<br />
a public event with their Irish counterparts. The<br />
season will form the core of a larger programme<br />
of documentary which represents the best of both<br />
Irish and international work.<br />
2014 will be an exceptional year for Irish cinema<br />
and we kick off this year’s festival with a truly<br />
special film. John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary will<br />
spearhead the 24 Irish films we will be screening<br />
over the next 11 days. On the final day the uproarious<br />
new Irish comedy The Stag brings to a close<br />
a strong line-up of Irish work showcasing the huge<br />
talent that exists in Ireland, both in front of and<br />
behind the camera.<br />
As ever, the festival will welcome an exciting list<br />
of guests from around the world, including Terry<br />
Gilliam, Jean-Marc Barr, Richard Ayoade, James<br />
Fox, Claire Simon and Jason Priestley. Oscar-winner<br />
Richard Dreyfuss will attend a special screening<br />
of Jaws which we will screen as our Jameson Cult<br />
Film Club film.<br />
Our Film-maker in Focus will be acclaimed<br />
photographer and film-maker William Klein, who<br />
presents a season of his work. Klein is best known<br />
for his spectacular photographic portraits of<br />
international cities, but this season will introduce<br />
Irish audiences to the wonderfully witty film work<br />
of this multi-talented, Paris-based artist.<br />
For a film experience guaranteed to send you<br />
out of the cinema with a smile, may I suggest the<br />
restoration of Harold Lloyd’s 1923 masterpiece Safety<br />
Last! in the Savoy Cinema, introduced by Lloyd’s<br />
granddaughter Sue, with musical accompaniment<br />
by the maestro Neil Brand. In a word, unmissable!<br />
Finally, a huge thanks to all my colleagues, our<br />
festival sponsors and supporters, the brilliant filmmakers<br />
whose work we celebrate and, of course,<br />
our wonderful audiences. I hope you find much<br />
to enjoy in this year’s programme.<br />
Gráinne Humphreys<br />
Festival Director<br />
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THURSDAY 13 – SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY<br />
CHAIRPERSON’S WELCOME<br />
IT IS MY GREAT PLEASURE TO<br />
WARMLY WELCOME YOU TO<br />
ANOTHER YEAR OF THIS<br />
WONDERFUL <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong><br />
IN OUR CAPITAL CITY.<br />
Our Director, Gráinne Humphreys, has<br />
programmed an enticing line-up of films,<br />
continuing to challenge, entertain and<br />
excite our audience. As ever, Gráinne has<br />
previewed many hundreds of films, in tens<br />
of locations, to ensure we have the best<br />
of Irish and world cinema at our festival.<br />
This festival enjoys the unique and<br />
invaluable support of our title sponsor,<br />
Jameson. Now, in its twelfth year, our<br />
remarkable partnership with Jameson<br />
sets a gold standard for business-to-arts<br />
sponsorship in Ireland, and I look forward<br />
to developing and evolving this strong<br />
and fruitful relationship into the future.<br />
I would also like to acknowledge the<br />
enduring support, since the outset of the<br />
festival, of two key State agencies: The<br />
Arts Council/An Comhairle Ealaíon and<br />
The Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán na<br />
hÉireann. Indeed, we are deeply grateful<br />
to all our sponsors and supporters.<br />
The enormous effort in making our<br />
festival an annual success is shouldered<br />
by a committed and dedicated staff<br />
and a good-humoured squadron of<br />
volunteers. Led by Jackie Ryan, this<br />
team delivers at the highest level each<br />
year and the festival is a credit to them.<br />
I would particularly like to acknowledge<br />
and thank the Board of Directors, who<br />
govern and advise with a balance of<br />
experience, wisdom and common sense.<br />
The directors give unstintingly of their<br />
time and expertise, and the festival is<br />
indebted to them for their commitment.<br />
Of course, it would all be in vain were<br />
it not for the festival audience, which<br />
turns out year upon year to attend<br />
this great event. We are enormously<br />
grateful for your loyalty and I wish you<br />
a wonderful festival.<br />
Gaby Smyth, Chairperson<br />
<strong>JAMESON</strong> INTRODUCTION<br />
IT IS A GREAT JOY TO WELCOME<br />
YOU TO THE 12TH <strong>JAMESON</strong><br />
<strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong><br />
<strong>FESTIVAL</strong><br />
2014 marks the 12th Jameson Dublin<br />
International Film Festival. We at Irish<br />
Distillers Pernod Ricard are very proud<br />
to be sponsors of this prestigious event,<br />
which contributes to showcasing Dublin<br />
as a cultural hotspot around the world. It<br />
moulds together the charming aspects<br />
of our home town Dublin – the heritage,<br />
the storytelling, the creativity and the<br />
sociability. We can think of no better time<br />
or place to share a glass of Jameson with<br />
friends, old and new! As part of this year’s<br />
festival, we are delighted that Oscarwinner<br />
Richard Dreyfuss will be joining us<br />
for a special Q&A session at the Jameson<br />
Cult Film Club screening of Jaws. It has<br />
proved to be a hugely popular event<br />
since its launch and cements Jameson’s<br />
association with film, delivering an<br />
unforgettable screening experience for<br />
all those who attend.<br />
Film as an art form has been close to the<br />
heart of the Jameson brand for a very<br />
long time. Jameson is involved with some<br />
of the most dynamic film festivals around<br />
the world, including the Jameson Empire<br />
Awards in London. Internationally, we also<br />
work with other film projects like ‘Done<br />
in 60 Seconds’ which gives movie lovers<br />
the chance to retell their favourite film in<br />
60 seconds. We are extremely proud to<br />
be supporting Jameson First Shot, a cooperation<br />
with Kevin Spacey and Trigger<br />
Street to give young, aspiring film-makers<br />
the chance to write and direct a short film<br />
for an international audience.<br />
Sometimes I get asked the question ‘why<br />
is everyone at Jameson so passionate<br />
about film?’ My answer is simple: it goes<br />
back to the heart and soul of the brand.<br />
The art of storytelling, in a pub, with<br />
friends, is still very much alive and one<br />
way for this heritage to be expressed is<br />
storytelling through film. Today, we are<br />
proud to have a globally successful brand,<br />
with Jameson nights like this happening<br />
everywhere, from Tokyo to São Paolo,<br />
but nothing beats gathering in Dublin!<br />
So I hope to see you over the festival and<br />
that you join me in raising a glass to the<br />
eternal art of storytelling. Sláinte!<br />
Anna Malmhake<br />
Chairman & CEO, Irish Distillers Pernod<br />
Ricard<br />
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<strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> SHORTS<br />
JDIFF presents two hand-picked selections of the best<br />
international shorts.<br />
PROGRAMME 1<br />
Thurs 13 Feb / Light House 1 / 3pm / 75 minutes<br />
Directors: Various 2013 International<br />
RHINO FULL THROTTLE<br />
(Germany)<br />
NASHORN IM GALOPP<br />
THE NIGHTSHIFT<br />
BELONGS TO THE STARS<br />
(Italy)<br />
SLOMO<br />
(US)<br />
L’ASSENZA<br />
(UK)<br />
Director: Erick Schmitt<br />
Writers: Stephan Muller<br />
Erik Schmitt. 15 minutes<br />
Bruno is making his way<br />
through the city, collecting<br />
patterns, spaces and surfaces.<br />
Director: Edoardo Ponti<br />
Writer: Erri De Luca<br />
24 minutes<br />
Matteo (Enrico Lo Verso), and<br />
Sonia (Nastassja Kinski) meet<br />
in a hospital on the eve of<br />
their respective open heart<br />
surgeries.<br />
Director: Josh Izenberg.<br />
16 minutes<br />
Depressed and frustrated<br />
with his life, Dr John Kitchin<br />
abandons his career as a<br />
neurologist and moves to<br />
Pacific Beach.<br />
Writer-director: Jonathan<br />
Romney. 20 minutes<br />
A man becomes obsessed<br />
with his double in an Italian<br />
film. L’Assenza (The Absence)<br />
is about the fascination<br />
cinema exerts on us.<br />
PROGRAMME 2<br />
Thurs 13 Feb / Light House 1 / 5pm / 80 minutes<br />
Directors: Various 2013 International<br />
SUMMER VACATION<br />
(Israel)<br />
SPRINGTIME<br />
(US)<br />
THE FLOGSTA ROAR<br />
(Sweden)<br />
FLOGSTAVRÅLET<br />
WALKING THE DOGS<br />
(UK)<br />
Writer-directors: Tal Granit,<br />
Sharon Maymon. 22 minutes<br />
Sea, sun, island, a family on<br />
vacation. And all Yuval wants<br />
is to get the heck out of there.<br />
Writer-director: Erica Liu<br />
13 minutes<br />
Xiao Zhu, an 86-year-old pork<br />
sung maker, quits her shop<br />
in rural Taiwan to head off to<br />
the big city in search of her<br />
‘springtime’.<br />
Writer-director: Johan<br />
Palmgren. 18 minutes<br />
The student campus Flogsta<br />
was built in Uppsala, Sweden<br />
in the 1970s. Ever since then,<br />
the Flogsta roar has happened<br />
every evening at 22.00. All<br />
year round.<br />
Director: Jeremy Brock<br />
Writer: Helen Greaves<br />
27 minutes<br />
A Buckingham Palace guard<br />
attending to Queen Elizabeth’s<br />
room takes her dogs for a<br />
walk and while he’s away an<br />
intruder breaks in for a chat.<br />
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CALVARY<br />
Thurs 13 Feb / Savoy 1 / 7.30pm / 100 minutes<br />
Writer-director: John Michael McDonagh 2013 Ireland<br />
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Dylan Moran,<br />
Aidan Gillen<br />
With special guests John Michael McDonagh, Brendan<br />
Gleeson and Kelly Reilly<br />
Set against the magnificent Mayo landscape,<br />
John Michael McDonagh’s new film shares two key<br />
elements with his hugely successful debut The<br />
Guard: a leading man and a dark sense of humour.<br />
But Calvary is a complex story with many tones and<br />
textures, by turns a Dostoyevskian morality tale;<br />
a dissection of contemporary Irish society, a murder<br />
mystery (from the point of view of the victim) and<br />
a fascinating character study with a towering, careerbest<br />
performance by Brendan Gleeson (Volta Award<br />
recipient, 2008).<br />
Father James Lavelle (Gleeson) is the priest in<br />
a small Mayo parish. One day, while hearing<br />
confession, he is told that he is going to be murdered<br />
… in one week. It’s a week in which Father James<br />
struggles to understand his death sentence,<br />
searching for hope and faith amongst his motley<br />
collection of parishioners – a community of lost<br />
souls and, it seems, potential murder suspects.<br />
A stunning turn by Gleeson leads a wealth of<br />
Irish talent including Chris O’Dowd, Dylan Moran,<br />
Kelly Reilly and Pat Shortt. Shot by award-winning<br />
cinematographer Larry Smith (Only God Forgives),<br />
and featuring a haunting score by Mayo-born<br />
composer Patrick Cassidy, Calvary is a work<br />
of savage ferocity and a wonder to behold.<br />
Gráinne Humphreys<br />
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HIGHLIGHTS<br />
FROST/NIXON WITH PETER MORGAN<br />
6.15pm<br />
Page 21<br />
MOTHER OF GEORGE<br />
4.20pm<br />
Page 22<br />
BIG SUR WITH JEAN-MARC BARR<br />
9pm<br />
Page 25<br />
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DELIRIOUS FICTIONS<br />
THE <strong>FILM</strong>S OF WILLIAM KLEIN<br />
William Klein’s career has spanned over 60 years.<br />
After studying painting with Léger in post-war Paris,<br />
he was spotted by American Vogue and returned<br />
to his birthplace, New York, where he established<br />
himself as an influential fashion photographer and<br />
street documentarian. He remains one of the giants<br />
of 20th-century photography.<br />
Klein attributes the opportunity to begin making<br />
films to his association with people like Chris Marker<br />
and Alain Resnais. Since the 1960s he has made<br />
many feature films, documentaries and commercials.<br />
Imaginative, influential, anarchic and controversial, his<br />
subjects cover areas as diverse as Algerian folklore,<br />
Eldridge Cleaver, Muhammad Ali, Little Richard,<br />
Hollywood, The French Open and the French fashion<br />
world. Through his use of critique and satire he<br />
creates an audacious mode that infuses his fictional<br />
films with an expressionistic and unorthodox style<br />
of parody and social burlesque.<br />
James Armstrong<br />
Lecturer in Visual Culture, NCAD<br />
Photos courtesy William Klein<br />
With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland<br />
There will be a public interview with William Klein on<br />
Thurs 20 February after the screening of Who Are You,<br />
Polly Maggoo?, hosted by James Armstrong.<br />
MESSIAH<br />
THE MODEL COUPLE<br />
Fri 14 Feb / IFI 1 / 3.30pm / 135 minutes<br />
Writer-director: William Klein 1999 US<br />
Klein visually interprets Handel’s Messiah – with its tale of Christ’s<br />
birth, crucifixion, and ascension – as performed by numerous<br />
international choruses including the Dallas Police Choir, the<br />
Sugarland Prison Choir, a drug rehab choir in Harlem and the<br />
Lavender Light Gay and Lesbian Interracial Choir.<br />
Klein’s impressionistic visualization takes the viewer (and listener)<br />
all over the world and includes women boxers at the Taj Mahal,<br />
Las Vegas; a Paris Christmas party for the homeless; a Danish<br />
woman in a Bastille tattoo parlour; a graphic lynching in Liberia;<br />
a Spanish production of the crucifixion play and the Ministers of<br />
Muscle preaching the gospel across America.<br />
This is a deeply poetic and disturbing portrait of the<br />
dysfunctional family of man, told through a moving montage<br />
of the sacred and the profane.<br />
Mon 17 Feb / IFI 1 / 6.30pm / 101 minutes<br />
Writer-director: William Klein 1977 US<br />
Cast: André Dussolier, Anémone, Zouc<br />
The third of William Klein’s ‘delirious fictions’ (the others being<br />
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? and Mr Freedom) prefigures the<br />
reality show. In all three films the television set is a motif through<br />
which the characters watch themselves and are watched and<br />
manipulated by others. The growing presence of celebrity<br />
culture, media surveillance and televisual hyperreality seems to<br />
dominate Klein’s fictional worlds.<br />
In The Model Couple, the French Ministry of the Future chooses<br />
two of the most average men and women to inhabit a prototype<br />
living space for the ideal ‘City of the Future’. Two psychosociologists<br />
subject the couple to various behavioural and<br />
emotional tests that are broadcast to the television audience. As<br />
the audience loses interest, the experiment descends into farce.<br />
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MODE IN FRANCE<br />
MR FREEDOM<br />
Tues 18 Feb / Light House 2 / 6pm / 84 minutes<br />
Director: William Klein 1984 US<br />
Klein returns to the fashion world after an extended hiatus with<br />
this free-form documentary. In twelve distinct tableaux, intended<br />
to showcase the work of the emerging couturiers of the 80s<br />
(including Jean-Paul Gaultier, Karl Lagerfeld and Agnès B), Klein<br />
alternates between comedy, ballet, dramatisation, and pseudodocumentary.<br />
Anticipating the advent of Fashion TV, Klein juxtaposes segments<br />
and styles, beginning with an abbreviated history of women’s<br />
fashion, then cutting to footage of French pre-schoolers playing<br />
dress-up, Grace Jones performing a play in a g-string, and peep<br />
show booths doubling as confessionals for runway models.<br />
A humorous and analytical view of the French fashion scene,<br />
Mode in France is essential viewing for those interested in<br />
fashion and cinematic form.<br />
MUHAMMAD ALI, THE GREATEST<br />
Tues 18 Feb / Light House 2 / 4pm / 97 minutes<br />
Writer-director: William Klein 1969 US<br />
Cast: John Abbey, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Pleasance<br />
Although he says that he has turned his back on America, Klein<br />
has continued to mine the American cultural cache. Mr Freedom<br />
was made in France during the heightened anti-Americanism<br />
of the 1960s. Banned by the French government and critically<br />
dismissed upon release, the film stands as a visionary popculture<br />
polemic attacking the US foreign policy of the time while<br />
deconstructing American ideology.<br />
Once again, Klein anticipates the rise of the superhero genre<br />
in film, subverting it with a pastiche of puppets, outrageous<br />
costumes, over-the-top theatrical sets, buffoonery and largerthan-life<br />
comic book representations and conventions. Excessive,<br />
kitschy and lots of fun.<br />
WHO ARE YOU, POLLY MAGGOO?<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Light House 2 / 4pm / 110 minutes<br />
Director: William Klein 1974 US<br />
Klein’s masterwork evolved from his 1964-5 documentary<br />
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee; a portrait of the young<br />
boxer Cassius Clay during his two fights with Sonny Liston.<br />
Ten years later and shot in colour, Muhammad Ali, the Greatest<br />
concludes with the legendary ‘Rumble in the Jungle’. Klein<br />
guides the camera lens through cultural and political moments<br />
that comment not only on the iconic personality of Ali, but on<br />
what that personality meant as a symbol of African American<br />
resistance in White America. The anarchic and inflammatory<br />
persona of the champ is manifested in a drama class in Harlem<br />
where the students are producing improvisations about Ali (then<br />
Cassius Clay) and in an interview with his mentor Malcolm X,<br />
filmed shortly before his assassination. The film is not merely<br />
a representation of one of the most important sports figures<br />
of the 20th century, but an entire sociopolitical landscape<br />
reflected by and mediated through the film’s auteur.<br />
Thurs 20 Feb / IFI 1 / 6pm / 97 minutes<br />
Writer-director: William Klein 1966 US<br />
Cast: Dorothy McGowan, Jean Rochefort, Sami Frey<br />
William Klein worked for Vogue for over a decade. The fashion<br />
industry is a central motif in many of his films, although he claims<br />
to despise it. In this, his first feature film, he creates an art house<br />
parody positioned somewhere between the mockumentary<br />
and the moralistic fairytale. Vogue cover girl Dorothy McGowan<br />
stars as the Brooklyn-born supermodel Polly Maggoo. The<br />
quintessential ‘It-girl’, she is being followed by a French television<br />
crew and has become the objet du désir for reporter Gregoire<br />
(Jean Rochefort). Shot in high-contrast black-and-white<br />
cinematography and edited in a frenetic style, the film holds<br />
a mirror to celebrity and fashion. A cornucopia of technical styles<br />
and hyperactive art direction, Polly Maggoo remains one of<br />
William Klein’s best-known films.<br />
James Armstrong<br />
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VOLTA PRESENTATION<br />
<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> 2014<br />
On 20 December 1909, with help from<br />
friends in Trieste, James Joyce opened<br />
the Cinematograph Volta Cinema<br />
on Mary Street in Dublin. Nearly a<br />
century later, in 2007, Jameson Dublin<br />
International Film Festival established the<br />
Volta Award to recognise individuals who<br />
have made a significant contribution to<br />
the world of cinema.<br />
The Volta Awards have drawn some of<br />
the biggest names in film to our shores,<br />
including actors like Al Pacino and<br />
Martin Sheen, directors such as François<br />
Ozon and Paolo Sorrentino, and a host<br />
of famous industry names. Last year’s<br />
prestigious recipients were composer<br />
Ennio Morricone, actor-director Danny<br />
DeVito, actor Tim Roth, director Costa-<br />
Gavras and writer-director Joss Whedon.<br />
We are delighted to welcome Peter<br />
Morgan to Dublin for the presentation<br />
of his 2014 Volta Award and a special<br />
screening of Frost/Nixon.<br />
receiving nominations in five categories<br />
at the 2013 Olivier Awards. His previous<br />
play, the Olivier and Tony Awardnominated<br />
Frost/Nixon, received critical<br />
acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic<br />
before being adapted into the Academy<br />
Award®-nominated film of the same name.<br />
Morgan’s many film credits include the<br />
award-winning The Last King of Scotland,<br />
which won the BAFTA Award for Best<br />
Adapted Screenplay; The Damned United;<br />
and Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, which<br />
starred Matt Damon. Morgan’s upcoming<br />
credits include the Hugh Hefner biopic<br />
Playboy, which is in development with<br />
Warner Bros. Pictures; and the television<br />
movie Christopher Jefferies, to be directed<br />
by Roger Mitchell. Morgan’s extensive<br />
television credits include the BAFTA<br />
Award-winning The Deal; The Special<br />
Relationship, which is the first part of<br />
Morgan’s Tony Blair trilogy; and the<br />
multi-award-winning Longford.<br />
Peter Morgan is an international awardwinning<br />
writer for stage, screen and film.<br />
In addition to receiving Oscar®, Golden<br />
Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for<br />
his screenplays for Stephen Frears’ The<br />
Queen, Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon and,<br />
most recently, Howard’s Rush, Morgan<br />
has won a host of international awards.<br />
His most recent play, The Audience, which<br />
starred Mirren, was a West End smash hit,<br />
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VOLTA PRESENTATION<br />
FRIDAY 14TH FEBRUARY<br />
‘a movie laced with tension, stinging wit and potent<br />
human drama’ Rolling Stone<br />
FROST/NIXON<br />
Fri 14 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 6.15pm / 104 minutes<br />
Director: Ron Howard 2008 US<br />
Writer: Peter Morgan<br />
Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon<br />
Nominated for five Academy Awards® including Best Picture<br />
and Best Adapted Screenplay<br />
Neither the title nor the subject matter prepares you<br />
for the pure fun of Frost/Nixon. Ron Howard’s movie<br />
is based on Peter Morgan’s play, which was based<br />
on the 1977 television interviews between British<br />
journalist David Frost and the disgraced former<br />
president Richard Nixon. You expect something<br />
dry, historical and probably contrived. But you<br />
get a delicious contest of wits, brilliant acting and<br />
a surprisingly gripping narrative.<br />
The premise of Morgan’s play is that Frost and Nixon<br />
desperately needed each other when they sat for a<br />
series of in-depth interviews three years after Nixon’s<br />
resignation. Frost was deemed a lightweight and bet<br />
his career (and his own money) on a blockbuster<br />
television special. Nixon wanted rehabilitation, and<br />
gambled that Frost would lob him softballs.<br />
As Nixon, Frank Langella is perfection. The character<br />
is generated from the inside out, not predicated on<br />
surface imitation or caricature. The writing is so good,<br />
the acting so powerful, that the film goes well beyond<br />
the courtroom drama into the territory of the classic<br />
history play. It is drama at a level one doesn’t often<br />
get in the movies.<br />
Philip Kennicott<br />
The Washington Post<br />
There will be a public interview with Peter Morgan<br />
after the screening<br />
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MOTHER OF GEORGE<br />
This visually sumptuous drama finds a young<br />
Nigerian-American woman struggling to reconcile a<br />
new life and marriage in New York with the traditions<br />
of her homeland.<br />
‘visually splendid’<br />
The New York Times<br />
Fri 14 Feb / Light House 3 / 4.20pm / 106 minutes<br />
Director: Andrew Dosunmu 2013 US<br />
Writer: Darci Picoult<br />
Cast: Danai Gurira, Isaach De Bankolé, Yaya Alafia<br />
THE MILITANT<br />
EL LUGAR DEL HIJO<br />
Acclaimed photographer-turned-director Andrew<br />
Dosunmu’s film opens with a heady rush of the sights<br />
and sounds of a vibrant, traditional Yoruba wedding.<br />
Ayodele (Isaach De Bankolé) and Adenike (The<br />
Walking Dead’s Danai Gurira) are being married, and<br />
only after the ceremony is it apparent that the event<br />
is taking place not in Nigeria, but in Brooklyn. A recent<br />
immigrant, Adenike soon discovers her new life is still<br />
dictated by the ways of her homeland, where wives<br />
are expected to conceive children, specifically boys,<br />
without delay. Months pass and, much to the chagrin<br />
of her domineering mother-in-law, Adenike doesn’t<br />
get pregnant. As the pressure mounts she makes a<br />
desperate decision, one that might save her marriage<br />
or tear it apart.<br />
Mother of George is a remarkable achievement for<br />
Dosunmu. Darci Picoult’s script is rich with detail<br />
and life, beautifully captured in award-winning<br />
cinematographer Bradford Young’s images. Together,<br />
the three have crafted an emotional, immersive<br />
experience that is a marvel from start to end.<br />
Philadelphia Film Festival<br />
Manuel Nieto Zas’ ironically-titled The Militant filters<br />
its reflection on political stagnation through a single,<br />
remarkable central character. The result is a powerful<br />
and thought-provoking film.<br />
The film is set in 2002, when Uruguay was<br />
undergoing strikes and the universities had effectively<br />
closed down. 25-year-old Ariel Cruz, played by<br />
non-professional Felipe Dieste, is called away from<br />
a students’ union meeting to learn that his father has<br />
died. Ariel heads for his home town of Salto for the<br />
funeral. He meets his father’s partner Selva (Rossana<br />
Cabrera), gets involved with the local students’ union,<br />
and finds a little romantic interest with Nadia<br />
(Leonor Courtoisie).<br />
Fri 14 Feb / Light House 3 / 6.30pm / 121 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Manolo Nieto 2013 Uruguay<br />
Cast: Felipe Dieste, Rossana Cabrera, Leonor Courtoisie<br />
Frustrated by the inability of the protesting students<br />
to do anything except go round in verbal circles,<br />
smoke weed and have parties, Ariel joins a hunger<br />
strike by protesting meat packers, which for the first<br />
time exposes him to the sharp end of economic<br />
hardship. It’s a comic, fish-out-of-water setup, but far<br />
more urgent themes are bubbling under the surface<br />
as Ariel ambles in apparent bafflement from one<br />
awkward situation to the next.<br />
Jonathan Holland<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
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JDIFF SHORTS<br />
Fri 14 Feb / Light House 1 / 6.30pm / 99 minutes<br />
Directors: Various 2013 Ireland<br />
JDIFF presents another hand-picked selection of the best Irish shorts.<br />
Programmers: David Mullane, Kevin<br />
O’Farrell and Liam Ryan<br />
BREAKFAST WINE<br />
ATROPHY<br />
RÚBAÍ<br />
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon<br />
Writer: Kevin Barry<br />
11 minutes<br />
They say it takes just three alcoholics to<br />
keep a small bar running in a country<br />
town, but what if you’ve only got two?<br />
MORNING<br />
Director: Mairtín de Barra<br />
Writer: Matthew Roche<br />
13 minutes<br />
Atrophy examines the sacrifices made in<br />
the name of development and the effect<br />
they have. A tale of old versus new, loss,<br />
friendship and an old farmer and his dog…<br />
UISCE BEATHA<br />
Director: Louise Ni Fhiannachta<br />
Writer: Anton Beag Ó Colla<br />
11 minutes<br />
The First Holy Communion is fast<br />
approaching but, as an atheist, eight-yearold<br />
Rúbaí refuses to be a part of it.<br />
THE LEDGE END OF PHIL<br />
(FROM ACCOUNTING)<br />
Director: Cathy Brady<br />
Writers: Cathy Brady, Sarah Woolner<br />
20 minutes<br />
Mary wakes up on the sofa with a<br />
banging headache. Her morning routine<br />
is broken by a persistent reporter.<br />
MECHANIC<br />
Writer-directors: Tom Sullivan, Feidlim<br />
Cannon<br />
15 minutes<br />
A mechanic at the end of his tether finds<br />
solace in old age…<br />
Director: Shaun O’Connor<br />
Writer: Tadhg Hickey<br />
8 minutes<br />
Set in 1912, Uisce Beatha is the true story<br />
of Tom, a young man who leaves his<br />
home in rural Ireland to cross the ocean<br />
on the ill-fated Titanic.<br />
4 BHANRÍON (4 Queens)<br />
Director: Vittoria Colonna<br />
Writers: Vittoria Colonna, Eoin Rogers<br />
15 minutes<br />
4 Bhanríon (4 Queens) is a black comedy<br />
about four elderly sisters who play a<br />
game of poker to decide who will take<br />
care of their elderly mother.<br />
Writer-director: Paul Ó Muiris<br />
6 minutes<br />
Stuck outside looking in, Phil is forced to<br />
face the world he’s been ignoring. Now<br />
he must take a leap of faith or be trapped<br />
forever.<br />
‘WHAT IS A SHORT <strong>FILM</strong>?’<br />
PANEL DISCUSSION<br />
Fri 14 Feb /Red Room Light House /<br />
5pm / €10<br />
Irish short film-makers join two of the<br />
world’s leading short film programmers,<br />
Sharon Badal (Tribeca Film Festival)<br />
and Kathleen McInnis (Palm Springs<br />
International Film Festival), to discuss<br />
short film as an art and an industry.<br />
JDIFF IRISH SHORTS RECEPTION<br />
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THE BOOK THIEF<br />
A stellar cast including Geoffrey Rush and Emily<br />
Watson brings to life the tale of a young girl who<br />
discovers that stories have extraordinary power to<br />
sustain the human spirit. Based on Markus Zusak’s<br />
best-selling novel, the film gives new talent Sophie<br />
Nélisse (Monsieur Lazhar, JDIFF 2012) the opportunity<br />
to shine in the lead role.<br />
‘If there can be such a thing as a sweet, reflective fable about<br />
death and the Holocaust, The Book Thief is it’ Rolling Stone<br />
Fri 14 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.30pm / 125 minutes<br />
Director: Brian Percival 2013 US<br />
Writer: Michael Petroni<br />
Cast: Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson<br />
In 1938, near Munich, Rosa and Hans Hubermann<br />
take in nine-year-old Liesel. Kind Hans bonds with his<br />
foster daughter through their shared love of words<br />
as he teaches her to read her first book. Into this<br />
sphere of warmth and safety, amid the turmoil of<br />
Nazi Germany, comes Max, the Jewish son of Hans’<br />
World War I comrade. Confined to the basement,<br />
Max asks Liesel each day to describe the outside<br />
world, encouraging her to make words her own as<br />
she grows into a young woman and a storyteller.<br />
This beautiful film is full of contrasts, balancing the<br />
innocent joys of childhood against the horrendous<br />
realities of a world at war.<br />
Mill Valley Film Festival<br />
Winner, Audience Favourite Award, Mill Valley Film Festival<br />
THE MAJOR<br />
MAYOR<br />
Writer-director Yuri Bykov’s The Major is a tense,<br />
handheld police thriller filled with scores of dirty cops,<br />
scenes of abrupt violence and a relentless, overriding<br />
sense of nastiness.<br />
‘electric’ Variety<br />
Fri 14 Feb / Light House 3 / 9pm / 99 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Yuri Bykov 2013 Russia<br />
Cast: Yuri Bykov, Denis Shvedov, Irina Nizina<br />
Winner, Best Feature Film & Best Director, Shanghai International<br />
Film Festival<br />
Set within a single 24-hour period, the action kicks<br />
off with commander Sergey Sobolev (Denis Shvedov)<br />
racing his SUV across icy country roads to join his<br />
wife, who’s giving birth at a clinic. Along the way, his<br />
car skids into a 7-year-old boy, killing him instantly.<br />
But rather than calling an ambulance, Sobolev takes<br />
the kid’s wailing mother Irina (Irina Nizina) hostage<br />
and phones a fellow officer, Pasha (Ilya Isaev), to clean<br />
up the mess. What follows is one very long day of<br />
unethical policing, as Sobolev and Pasha try to cover<br />
up the accident in order to save the ‘integrity’ of their<br />
department.<br />
Filmed with lots of gritty, over-the-shoulder<br />
camerawork, The Major is a well-paced and directed<br />
affair. The performances are keyed up all the way<br />
through, with Nizina particularly explosive as the<br />
tormented mum and Isaev slick and scary as the<br />
ruthless, ball-busting Pasha.<br />
Jordan Mintzer<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
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FRIDAY 14TH FEBRUARY<br />
BIG SUR<br />
Jean-Marc Barr is a middle-aged, alcoholic Jack<br />
Kerouac trying to outrun his demons in Michael<br />
Polish’s deft adaptation of the writer’s 1962 novel.<br />
Five years after On the Road made Kerouac the<br />
reluctant face of the Beat Generation, he returns<br />
to San Francisco to reunite with old friends like<br />
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Anthony Edwards), Michael<br />
McClure (Balthazar Getty) and Neal Cassady (Josh<br />
Lucas) and to attempt to get sober in an isolated<br />
Big Sur cabin.<br />
‘a fragile, gorgeous-looking flicker of a film’<br />
Screen International<br />
Fri 14 Feb / Light House 1 / 9pm / 81 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Michael Polish 2013 US<br />
Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas<br />
Barr is terrific both in performance and in voice-over<br />
and he is surrounded by exceptionally well-cast<br />
support. Lucas’ Cassady in particular is a revelation,<br />
perfectly embodying the physicality, speed-rapping<br />
charm and sexual charisma Kerouac describes.<br />
Polish’s seventh collaboration with cinematographer<br />
M David Mullen yields spectacular results both in<br />
the paradise on earth that is Big Sur and in San<br />
Francisco in only the third screen adaptation of one<br />
of Kerouac’s books and one that proves that the<br />
writer’s dense, language-driven novels can, indeed,<br />
be gloriously cinematic.<br />
Pam Grady<br />
San Francisco International Film Festival<br />
MYSTERY ROAD<br />
With special guest Jean-Marc Barr<br />
An Aboriginal police detective is caught in a web<br />
of lies and deception in this brooding thriller from<br />
acclaimed Australian director Ivan Sen. Sen – who<br />
also wrote, shot, edited, and scored Mystery Road<br />
– has crafted one of the most distinctive Australian<br />
films in recent memory.<br />
‘impressively crafted, immensely satisfying’<br />
Variety<br />
Fri 14 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 9pm / 121 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Ivan Sen 2013 Australia<br />
Cast: Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten<br />
Upon returning to his remote outback hometown,<br />
Jay Swan, played to square-jawed perfection by<br />
Aaron Pedersen, finds himself on the outside. He’s<br />
derided and dismissed by his white colleagues on<br />
the police force, as well as his Aboriginal community,<br />
which views him with suspicion. When a young girl<br />
is found dead in a drainage ditch, Swan is assigned<br />
to the case, although it’s quickly apparent that no<br />
one expects him to solve anything. Nonetheless,<br />
Swan doggedly digs for answers, gradually<br />
uncovering the dark secrets of his dusty, sunblanched<br />
town.<br />
While the visual stylings of Sen’s film recall classic<br />
Westerns, the tone is pure 1970s neo-noir, where<br />
lone men like Swan fight for answers in a morally<br />
ambiguous landscape and redemption carries<br />
a heavy price.<br />
Philadelphia Film Festival<br />
With the support of the Australian Embassy<br />
Dublin<br />
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SATURDAY<br />
15TH FEBRUARY<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
SCREEN TEST: FROM PAGE TO SCREEN<br />
2pm<br />
Page 66<br />
A LONG WAY FROM HOME WITH JAMES FOX & BRENDA FRICKER<br />
7.30pm<br />
Page 39<br />
STRANGER BY THE LAKE WITH ALAIN GUIRAUDIE<br />
9pm<br />
Page 41<br />
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SPECIAL PRESENTATION<br />
SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY<br />
NO LIMBS NO LIMITS<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Odeon 2 / 11am / 70 minutes<br />
Director: Steven O’Riordan 2013 Ireland<br />
In a challenging time for the Irish people it’s hard to<br />
think of many facing more difficulties than Joanne<br />
O’Riordan. She is one of a handful of people in the<br />
world born with no arms and no legs as a result of a<br />
rare syndrome called ‘Total Amelia’.<br />
This intimate family portrait, directed by her brother<br />
Steven, documents a life lived without limbs but,<br />
more than that, it’s a warm character study of a<br />
singular individual. As Joanne bravely faces her<br />
battles, we realise it’s not her disability that makes her<br />
unique but her spirit and heart.<br />
The film follows Joanne’s journey from her home<br />
in County Cork to address the United Nations in<br />
New York where she throws down a gauntlet to<br />
the most influential women in technology: build<br />
me a robot. The touchingly candid interviews with<br />
her parents and moving use of old home movies<br />
show the incredible things that ordinary people can<br />
achieve when motivated by love. The girl who refuses<br />
to believe anything is impossible invites us to do<br />
the same.<br />
Kate McEvoy<br />
With special guests Joanne and Steven O’Riordan<br />
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REACHING FOR THE MOON<br />
FLORES RARAS<br />
Bruno Barreto (Dona Flor and her Two Husbands)<br />
brings to life 1950s Rio in this beautifully drawn tale<br />
of poet Elizabeth Bishop and her love affair with<br />
architect Lota de Macedo Soares, the designer of<br />
Rio’s famed Flamengo Park. Based on the bestselling<br />
Brazilian novel Rare and Commonplace Flowers, the<br />
film follows Bishop as a creative block prompts her to<br />
accept the invitation of a college friend to stay with<br />
her and her partner, Lota, on a sprawling country<br />
estate. Bishop is a fish out of water in her new lush<br />
and bohemian setting, until the instant chemistry<br />
between her and Lota boils over.<br />
‘Pires is a vibrant and charismatic force of nature’<br />
Screen International<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 1 / 12pm / 118 minutes<br />
Director: Bruno Barreto 2013 Brazil<br />
Writers: Matthew Chapman, Julie Sayres, Carolina Kotscho<br />
Cast: Glória Pires, Miranda Otto, Tracy Middendorf<br />
Miranda Otto gives an elegant and nuanced<br />
performance as Bishop, while Glória Pires provides<br />
a counterbalance with the Dionysian Lota. Bishop’s<br />
closet alcoholism thickens the drama, but when she<br />
returns to New York and the military coup d’état<br />
forces change in Brazil, the relationship also faces a<br />
downswing. This engaging and classical love story is<br />
an intimate snapshot of the search for inspiration and<br />
the lives of two remarkable artists.<br />
Genna Terranova<br />
Tribeca Film Festival<br />
NEW WORLD<br />
SIN-SE-GAE<br />
Any film that opens with a snitch being force-fed a<br />
cement smoothie deserves some latitude to make<br />
its case, and the South Korean crime drama New<br />
World is no exception. Set in the scheming heart of a<br />
powerful crime syndicate, this stylish saga from Park<br />
Hoon-jung conjures a world where hardly anyone is<br />
who he seems.<br />
Our fragile anchor is Ja-sung (Lee Jung-jae), an<br />
impassive undercover cop who has spent eight<br />
years infiltrating the syndicate and rising through<br />
its ranks. Now, with the death of the chairman and a<br />
succession war looming, Ja-sung’s handler, Captain<br />
Kang (Choi Min-sik) sees an opportunity to destroy<br />
the organization from within. If only Ja-sung can<br />
remember where his loyalties lie.<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 12.45pm / 134 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Park Hoon-jung 2013 South Korea<br />
Cast: Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik, Hwang Jung-min<br />
With the support of the Embassy of Korea Dublin and<br />
the Korea Foundation<br />
Cloaked in the politesse of the boardroom and<br />
the golf course, New World is both less bloody<br />
and more thoughtful than most of its genre, the<br />
shifting-alliances plot becoming more engrossing as<br />
it progresses. When not caressing razor-sharp lapels,<br />
Chung Chung-hoon’s gleaming cinematography<br />
captures the cold threat of airports and clubhouses,<br />
his precision unfazed by an elevator jammed with<br />
bloodied bodies.<br />
Jeanette Catsoulis<br />
The New York Times<br />
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SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY<br />
A WORLD NOT OURS<br />
ALAM LAYSA LANA<br />
Director Mahdi Fleifel’s first documentary feature is<br />
a uniquely engaging and personal project. Drawing<br />
on a family history of video-taping, Fleifel offers an<br />
intimate glimpse into the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp<br />
in Lebanon – a settlement of less than a square mile<br />
that’s home to over 70,000 people and has existed<br />
for over 60 years. Dubai-born and London-based<br />
writer, director and cinematographer Fleifel spent<br />
his formative years in the camp in the 1980s, before<br />
his family settled in Denmark. For years he’s been<br />
returning and keeping a video diary, and in A World<br />
Not Ours he provides a frank yet affectionate portrait<br />
of the community.<br />
‘flips storytelling and Mideast-Arab clichés on their heads’<br />
Variety<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 1.45pm / 93 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Mahdi Fleifel 2012 Lebanon/UK/Denmark/UAE<br />
Winner, Best Film in the International Competition, Edinburgh<br />
International Film Festival<br />
Winner, Peace Film Award, Berlin Film Festival<br />
Winner, Best Documentary, Abu Dhabi Film Festival<br />
Fleifel’s conversations with the camp residents<br />
provide an unfiltered take on Palestinian grievances<br />
with Israel, Lebanon and their own political leaders.<br />
Elsewhere he explores how residents use the<br />
World Cup to articulate their own ideas of home,<br />
community, victory and hope. Engaging and<br />
accessible, with a quirky, upbeat soundtrack, Fleifel’s<br />
personal journey offers a fresh and inviting point<br />
of entry to a thorny political history.<br />
Seattle International Film Festival<br />
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL<br />
From his audacious debut Bottle Rocket to the<br />
sparkling Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson has<br />
created a singular body of work and stands aloof<br />
within the pantheon of contemporary American<br />
cinema. He creates fabulist family dramas filled with<br />
labyrinthine plots, outrageously ornate production<br />
design and casts that only Woody Allen can dream<br />
of, and his latest film The Grand Budapest Hotel is<br />
another bespoke masterpiece.<br />
Ralph Fiennes plays Gustave H, the legendary<br />
concierge of the titular hotel, and newcomer Tony<br />
Revolori plays Zero Moustafa, his young friend and<br />
sidekick. Together they become embroiled in a plot<br />
revolving around a priceless Renaissance painting<br />
and a family fortune.<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 2pm / 100 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Wes Anderson 2013 US<br />
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Ralph Fiennes, Léa Seydoux<br />
Set between the wars, against the backdrop of<br />
a dramatically changing continent, The Grand<br />
Budapest Hotel is a sumptuous Anderson<br />
extravaganza. Aided by such regulars as Bill Murray,<br />
Jason Schwartzman, designer Adam Stockhausen<br />
and composer Alexandre Desplat, his latest<br />
cinematic amuse bouche is rich in detail and epic<br />
in scale, suffused with the detached dry wit that is<br />
Anderson’s trademark.<br />
Gráinne Humphreys<br />
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GUEST CURATORS:<br />
ALLISON & TIFFANY ANDERS<br />
Another new initiative for 2014 is our<br />
Guest Curator season, in which an<br />
individual is invited by the festival director<br />
to join them in creating the festival<br />
programme. The guest director serves as<br />
a key collaborator, bringing new ideas and<br />
sometimes overlooked films to Dublin. We<br />
are delighted to welcome the acclaimed<br />
American film director Allison Anders who<br />
alongside co-programmer Tiffany Anders<br />
founded and programmed the Don’t<br />
Knock the Rock Festival in LA. They have<br />
put together a fascinating series of music<br />
films and will introduce their choices, as<br />
well as participating in a public event with<br />
their Irish counterparts. The season will<br />
form the core of a larger programme of<br />
documentary which represents the best<br />
of both Irish and international work.<br />
ALLISON ANDERS<br />
Allison Anders is an award-winning film<br />
and television writer and director and<br />
Professor of Film and Media Studies at<br />
UC Santa Barbara. Her films include Sugar<br />
Town, nominated for two Independent<br />
Spirit Awards, Gas Food Lodging and Mi<br />
Vida Loca (My Crazy Life). Throughout<br />
her career she has been recognized for<br />
her achievements and received various<br />
awards and prizes, including a New York<br />
Film Critics Circle Award, and a MacArthur<br />
Foundation Fellowship. With her daughter<br />
Tiffany Anders she co-founded the Don’t<br />
Knock the Rock Film and Music Festival<br />
in Los Angeles. Her recent TV film Ring<br />
of Fire, on the life of country singer June<br />
Carter Cash, was nominated for four<br />
Emmys including Best Director.<br />
TIFFANY ANDERS<br />
‘Tiffany Anders grew up with a lust for<br />
music, seeking out bands and attending<br />
live shows at a very early age. Her<br />
enthusiasm eventually led her to a<br />
recording career of her own, cutting her<br />
2001 solo debut album, Funny Cry Happy<br />
Gift, which was produced by PJ Harvey<br />
and released to critical acclaim. As a<br />
music supervisor she’s worked on such<br />
films as Gregg Araki’s Kaboom, James<br />
Ponsoldt’s Smashed, Ry Russo Young’s<br />
Nobody Walks and Drake Doremus’ Like<br />
Crazy and Breathe In. She is currently the<br />
host of a weekly radio show Listen Listen<br />
on Luxuriamusic.com which features an<br />
eclectic array of underground music.’<br />
Sheryl Farber<br />
WRECKING CREW<br />
LAWRENCE OF BELGRAVIA<br />
‘Arguably the greatest pop star Britain never had’<br />
The Guardian<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 2 / 2pm / 95 minutes<br />
Director: Denny Tedesco 2008 US<br />
A new documentary tells the story of the Wrecking Crew, a<br />
collective of Los Angeles musicians who played on hits by the<br />
Righteous Brothers, the Beach Boys, the Byrds and many others.<br />
Directed by Denny Tedesco, son of the late guitarist Tommy<br />
Tedesco, The Wrecking Crew features interviews with Brian<br />
Wilson, Cher, Roger McGuinn, and famed Crew members like<br />
bassist Carol Kaye and drummer Hal Blaine. “These guys were<br />
chameleons,” Tedesco says. “They went from Phil Spector to<br />
Nancy Sinatra to the Beach Boys. They always had to sound like<br />
somebody else.”<br />
Rolling Stone<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 6pm / 86 minutes<br />
Director: Paul Kelly 2011 UK<br />
For the first time, fans of dreamy ’80s UK indie pop can finally<br />
know the true story of Lawrence, the enigmatic bandleader of<br />
brilliant cult outfits Felt, Denim and Go-Kart Mozart.<br />
‘At the start, the eponymous subject looks into the camera and<br />
asks: “Are you ready, Paul?” It’s a question never truly answered,<br />
as director Paul Kelly indeed may not have been ready to<br />
embark on a film which ended up taking eight years. But Kelly<br />
chooses not to focus on Lawrence’s ups and downs. Instead,<br />
he mounts a deeply personal investigation into what makes<br />
Lawrence tick. A funny, sad, insightful and refreshingly honest<br />
meditation on the mythology of rock and pop.’<br />
Nicholas Abrahams, The Quietus<br />
With special guest Paul Kelly<br />
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DECONSTRUCTING DAD<br />
FAMILY BAND: THE COWSILLS STORY<br />
‘essential viewing’ Time Out New York<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Light House 2 / 1.30pm / 98 minutes<br />
Director: Stan Warnow 2012 US<br />
Winner, Gold Medal Award, Park City Film Music Festival<br />
Winner, Best Documentary Feature Award, Atlantic City<br />
Film Festival<br />
This personal documentary is a comprehensive exploration of<br />
the life of musician/inventor/visionary Raymond Scott. Swing<br />
music, electronica, music for films, Warner Brothers animation,<br />
records, TV and radio – Raymond Scott created all this and much<br />
more. Presented from the unique perspective of Stan Warnow,<br />
his film-maker son, the film is also a personal quest to unravel the<br />
timeless fabric of love, connection and rejection that are a part of<br />
every parent-child relationship.<br />
With special guest Stan Warnow<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Light House 3 / 6pm / 90 minutes<br />
Directors: Bill Filipiak, Louise Palanker 2011 US<br />
With their first Top 40 hit ‘The Rain, The Park and Other Things’,<br />
The Cowsills may well have been the first Sunshine Pop band.<br />
They are the real-life inspiration behind TV’s The Partridge Family,<br />
but The Cowsills’ lives were no sitcom. Darkness lurks beneath<br />
the lilting harmonies and optimistic, innocent melodies; their<br />
story is raw, honest, tragic, beautiful – and the music sublime.<br />
Amazing footage of the band, photographs and interviews with<br />
the Cowsills today all serve to create a moving portrait of the<br />
family as they share their lives, love of music and the dichotomy<br />
of their public persona versus their private struggles.<br />
With special guest Louise Palanker<br />
BAD BRAINS: A BAND IN DC<br />
AUTOLUMINESCENT<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Light House 2 / 6.30pm / 104 minutes<br />
Directors: Mandy Stein, Ben Logan 2012 US<br />
‘As Henry Rollins states early on in Bad Brains: Band in DC,<br />
a definitive documentary on the legendary hardcore band is<br />
long overdue. “Legendary” is even understating it a bit, as Bad<br />
Brains helped to invent what we know as American hardcore,<br />
taking inspiration from the Sex Pistols and The Damned, melding<br />
it with their own funk and soul-inspired musicality, a “positive<br />
attitude message”, and an electric performance style to birth a<br />
beast all their own. As a history of Bad Brains and an archive of<br />
their incredible performances in the early ’80s, this film<br />
is a treasure chest of gems.’<br />
Katie Walsh, Indiewire<br />
Tues 18 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 6pm / 110 minutes<br />
Directors: Richard Lowenstein, Lynn-Maree Milburn 2011<br />
Australia<br />
From myth to legend, Rowland Howard (member of dark rock<br />
masters The Birthday Party, Crime & The City Solution and These<br />
Immortal Souls) appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene<br />
like a phantom out of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A beautifully gaunt,<br />
gothic aristocrat, Rowland was impeccable, with obscure tastes<br />
and a unique, distinctive guitar attack that shot him directly into<br />
the imagination of a generation. Beginning in the wild days of<br />
Australian 70s pub rock with Nick Cave, the film delves into the<br />
promising beginnings, the overseas ventures, the falling out with<br />
friends and lovers, and the late career renaissance before illness<br />
claimed Howard too soon in 2009.<br />
Music blogger Nialler9 will host a discussion on music<br />
documentaries with film-makers including Allison and<br />
Tiffany Anders on Sunday 16 February. See page 63.<br />
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EXHIBITION<br />
Joanna Hogg’s Archipelago (JDIFF 2011) was about<br />
a well-to-do English family on a miserable holiday<br />
in the Scilly Isles: her new film shifts its focus to the<br />
capital. Exhibition is set almost entirely between the<br />
walls and windows of a modernist dream house in a<br />
leafy Victorian enclave. Living inside it are a couple<br />
played by two first-time actors: Viv Albertine, a former<br />
guitarist from the punk band The Slits, and the<br />
conceptual artist Liam Gillick.<br />
‘an impressively mature and crafted work’<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 1 / 2.15pm / 101 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Joanna Hogg 2013 UK<br />
Cast: Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick, Tom Hiddleston<br />
Their initials are D and H and both are artists who<br />
work from home. But something in their past has<br />
left both of them unquiet. It becomes clear that D is<br />
agoraphobic, and she stands behind the Venetian<br />
blinds in her underwear, toying with the idea of<br />
being observed at her most vulnerable. She is<br />
planning a performance art event, and Albertine<br />
deftly sketches her arc from inhibition to exhibition,<br />
leaving no sliver of her soul unbared.<br />
Hogg’s film is alive with anxiety, with scenes that<br />
rattle your nerves like stones in a tin. This is confident,<br />
uncompromising work, with a ghostliness that plays<br />
on your mind for days, and it cements Hogg’s place<br />
at the forefront of new British cinema.<br />
Robbie Collin<br />
The Telegraph<br />
VISITORS<br />
Famous for the Qatsi trilogy of Koyaanisqatsi,<br />
Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi, names taken from the<br />
Hopi language, director Godfrey Reggio has made<br />
another exquisite visual poem in Visitors, his first film<br />
in over a decade. If the Qatsi trilogy reflected on ideas<br />
of balance, transformation, and war, Visitors asks a<br />
very different question: who and what is a visitor<br />
when we look around ourselves on this planet? Using<br />
this idea as a metaphysical departure for his visual<br />
reverie, Reggio takes us on a unique voyage into the<br />
mysteries and wonders of the universe.<br />
‘another dialogue-free juxtaposition of<br />
visceral imagery, time-lapse photography<br />
and mesmerizing Philip Glass music’ Variety<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 3.30pm / 87 minutes<br />
Director: Godfrey Reggio 2013 US<br />
Shot in dazzling black and white and projected in<br />
highest-resolution 4K, the film proves once again<br />
that Reggio is a visual genius, open to the magic<br />
of experience, masterly at editing his images into<br />
a work that calls upon its audiences to find their<br />
own meaning in the piece. More akin to music<br />
than narrative storytelling, Visitors creates moods<br />
and tones, allowing each of us to explore potential<br />
connections and associations. At times we enter<br />
an almost dreamlike state – notably with Reggio’s<br />
meditation on human hands, as expressive as faces,<br />
interacting with technological tools that have been<br />
removed from the frame. The effect is mesmerizing,<br />
and Philip Glass’s score is a perfect complement.<br />
Piers Handling<br />
Toronto International Film Festival<br />
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THE LUNCHBOX<br />
Irrfan Khan (Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire) stars<br />
alongside the radiant Nimrat Kaur in Ritesh Batra’s<br />
delightful feature debut in which a mistaken lunchbox<br />
delivery paves the way for an unlikely romance. In<br />
Mumbai, more than 5,000 dabbawallas – lunchbox<br />
couriers – navigate chaotic streets to deliver lunches,<br />
lovingly prepared by housewives, to working men<br />
across the city.<br />
‘A wistful, elegant love story’<br />
Screen International<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 3.45pm / 104 minutes<br />
Director: Ritesh Batra 2013 India/Germany/France/US<br />
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui<br />
Ila (Kaur) is a housewife living in a middle-class<br />
neighbourhood with a husband who ignores her.<br />
Saajan (Khan) is a beaten-down widower about to<br />
retire from his number-crunching job. After Ila realizes<br />
that Saajan is receiving the meals meant for her<br />
husband, the two begin sending each other letters<br />
through the lunchbox. What starts as an innocent<br />
exchange about Ila’s cooking gently develops into<br />
something more.<br />
The Lunchbox paints a nuanced portrait of life in<br />
contemporary Mumbai, effortlessly weaving themes<br />
of gender values, social class and generational<br />
differences into its love story. Batra’s beautifully<br />
penned characters and gentle, precise direction<br />
simply envelope you.<br />
Toronto International Film Festival<br />
DESIGN IS ONE: LELLA AND MASSIMO VIGNELLI<br />
One of the first and most dominant power couples<br />
of the design world is Lella and Massimo Vignelli, the<br />
influential creators of graphics, products, furniture,<br />
interiors, and jewellery for more than six decades.<br />
Lella and Massimo each have distinct creative voices<br />
and mediums, yet together both represent the same<br />
name and brand: Vignelli. Today in their 80s, the<br />
two’s CV includes a long list of iconic clients – Ford,<br />
Bloomingdale’s, the New York City subway. Now<br />
comes a career-capping documentary by Kathy Brew<br />
and Roberto Guerra, Design Is One.<br />
‘For a design fan of any pedigree, Design is One<br />
is not to be missed’ Dwell<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 3 / 4pm / 86 minutes<br />
Directors: Roberto Guerra, Courtney Harmel 2012 US<br />
Photo: John Madere<br />
Design Is One, a title that pinpoints where the<br />
Vignelli’s individual lives converge, is an illuminating<br />
tribute and biography. There are the requisite<br />
testaments with analysis by a cast that includes<br />
Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Milton Glaser, Paola<br />
Antonelli and others. Yet the most interesting talking<br />
heads are the Vignellis themselves, who reveal the<br />
temperaments and tension that have kept their<br />
partnership operating for so long. But despite their<br />
dogmas, their humanity is on display here as well.<br />
So are some juicy anecdotes.<br />
Steven Heller<br />
The Atlantic<br />
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GABRIELLE<br />
Louise Archambault’s smart and refreshing debut<br />
feature Familia marked the arrival of an extraordinary<br />
new talent in Canadian film. Gabrielle is a stunning,<br />
tender film about a developmentally challenged<br />
young woman’s quest for independence and sexual<br />
freedom.<br />
‘Delightful newcomer Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, who actually<br />
has Williams syndrome and plays a semi-autobiographical<br />
role, is a natural’ The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 1 / 4.45pm / 104 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Louise Archambault 2013 Canada<br />
Cast: Gabrielle Marion-Rivard, Alexandre Landry, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin<br />
Winner, Audience Award, Locarno Film Festival<br />
Living in a group home, musically talented Gabrielle<br />
(Gabrielle Marion-Rivard) has found love in Martin<br />
(Alexandre Landry), a fellow member in a choir<br />
for developmentally disabled adults. Gabrielle and<br />
Martin want to explore their feelings for one another<br />
physically, but are not allowed. Convinced that living<br />
alone will allow her to have the intimate relationship<br />
she so desperately craves, Gabrielle tries valiantly to<br />
prove she can be independent.<br />
As she did with Familia, Archambault displays her<br />
ability to distil the emotional currents of families at<br />
a crossroads. At the core of this film is the heartfelt<br />
performance by Marion-Rivard (who has Williams<br />
Syndrome in real life). Produced by the team<br />
behind Incendies and Monsieur Lazhar, Gabrielle<br />
is a captivating film about tolerance and finding<br />
happiness, but, above all, it is a story of love.<br />
Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo<br />
Toronto International Film festival<br />
CONCRETE NIGHT<br />
BETONIYÖ<br />
Stunning to look at and chilling at its core, Concrete<br />
Night is a tale of innocence lost. Made by a Finnish<br />
director, Pirjo Honkasalo, at work since the 60s, it<br />
could easily be mistaken for the debut of an edgy but<br />
emotionally restrained new talent.<br />
Johannes Brotherus plays Simo, a fresh-faced teen<br />
whose eyes haven’t yet been hardened by the tough<br />
environment he inhabits. Raised by a single and<br />
unreliable-seeming mother (Anneli Karppinen), he<br />
and brother Ilkka (Jari Virman) are hiding out in their<br />
Helsinki flat. Ilkka’s going to jail on Monday and mum<br />
wants Simo to keep him company while she goes out<br />
on the town. Over the course of the evening the two<br />
go out for drinks, split up, and have encounters with<br />
half-strangers that go badly for both young men.<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 5.30pm / 96 minutes<br />
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo 2013 Denmark/Finland/Sweden<br />
Writers: Pirjo Honkasalo, Pirkko Saisio<br />
Cast: Johannes Brotherus, Jari Virman, Juhan Ulfsak<br />
Peter Flinckenberg’s black-and-white photography is<br />
as dramatic as the script is restrained, full of creeping<br />
shadows and cracked glass. When the story finally<br />
enters daylight hours, after a night of impulsive bad<br />
decisions, Helsinki is so thick with hazy steam it might<br />
as well be underwater.<br />
John DeFore<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
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IT’S ALL SO QUIET<br />
BOVEN IS HET STIL<br />
Bachelor dairy farmer, Henk (Jeroen Willems) divides<br />
his time between working with his cows and caring<br />
for his bedridden father, whom he treats with far less<br />
affection than the sheep he keeps as pets. When we<br />
first meet him, he’s roughly relocating his dad from<br />
a room downstairs to a bedroom at the top of the<br />
house, with a view to redecorating and cleaning away<br />
the past. But slowly we come to realise that Henk<br />
is a man utterly trapped in isolation by a past that<br />
constantly hovers on the tip of his tongue, the words<br />
bitten back and silently swallowed.<br />
‘a poignant reflection on solitude, homosexual repression<br />
and aging’ The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 3 / 6pm / 93 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Nanouk Leopold 2013 Netherlands<br />
Cast: Jeroen Willems, Henri Garcin, Wim Opbrouck<br />
With meticulous attention to detail, Dutch director,<br />
Nanouk Leopold takes her time to tell Henk’s story,<br />
presenting a life and a cinematic landscape that<br />
are as bleak as they are lyrical. Her ability to keep<br />
the viewer riveted as she slowly drip-feeds nuggets<br />
of information to reveal the crux of Henk’s stunted<br />
sexuality, shows an artist in complete control of her<br />
material. Men come and go, offering love to the<br />
inaccessible farmer, but it is only the dying old man<br />
upstairs who can ultimately set him free.<br />
Brian Finnegan<br />
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN<br />
An epic and striking adaptation of Nigerian writer<br />
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Orange Prize-winning<br />
novel, the beautifully staged Half Of A Yellow Sun is<br />
an often gripping tale that follows two women during<br />
the dramas of Nigeria’s independence.<br />
‘Newton [is] at the top of her game’<br />
Variety<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 5 / 6.30pm / 106 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Biyi Bandele 2013 Nigeria/UK<br />
Cast: Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anika Noni Rose<br />
Driven by powerful and moving performances<br />
from Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years A Slave), Thandie<br />
Newton (The Pursuit of Happyness) and Anika Noni<br />
Rose (Dreamgirls), the film, directed and adapted<br />
by Nigerian playwright Biyi Bandele, follows sisters<br />
Olanna (Newton) and Kainene (Rose), daughters of<br />
a well-to-do businessman who follow very different<br />
paths. Olanna falls in love with Odenigbo (Ejiofor), a<br />
revolutionary, while Kainene enters into a romance<br />
with a white British writer (Joseph Mawle). As civil<br />
war spreads, the sisters flee to Nigeria’s southeastern<br />
region where the short-lived Republic of Biafra<br />
is formed.<br />
Thandie Newton has the showier role as the<br />
passionate and elegant Olanna, and her vibrancy<br />
adds much to the part, while Anika Noni Rose is<br />
wonderfully sarcastic and stylish as Kainene,<br />
a driven woman who has to deal with her own<br />
bout of heartache.<br />
Mark Adams<br />
Screen International<br />
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COME INTO THE GARDENS<br />
There is one way in and one way out of St Teresa’s<br />
Gardens, a flat complex in Dublin’s south inner city,<br />
a community that missed out on the large-scale<br />
regeneration it was promised, being left instead<br />
with a ghost town.<br />
Maud Hendricks, working as a collaborative artist<br />
within the community, creates a series of film<br />
portraits of local people against the background<br />
of an estate on the brink of demolition. This is no<br />
ordinary documentary film but rather a piece of<br />
work where the boundaries of the theatrical and<br />
the real are tested.<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 1 / 7pm / 35 minutes<br />
Director: Maud Hendricks 2013 Ireland<br />
We hear the voices of the residents, although their<br />
identity is never revealed. Orchards, picnics, foxes,<br />
names of children who played there, lawnmowers<br />
in motion, wall painters, a beauty contest, a game<br />
called ‘love hate’, stories of recovery, finches and<br />
other feathered friends, boxing, balconies, front doors,<br />
friendly faces old and young and much more grace<br />
the screen, revealing a closely knit community that<br />
will soon be scattered across Dublin.<br />
Barrie Dowdall<br />
Documentary film-maker<br />
With special guests Morgan Cooke and Maud<br />
Hendricks<br />
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‘BAFTA-laureate Fox and Oscar-winner Fricker<br />
provide a delightful study in chalk-cheese<br />
companionship’ The Hollywood Reporter<br />
A LONG WAY FROM HOME<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Savoy 2 / 7.30pm / 80 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Virginia Gilbert 2013 UK/France<br />
Cast: James Fox, Natalie Dormer, Brenda Fricker<br />
If the central couple in Rossellini’s Voyage to Italy<br />
had grown old together they might have wound up<br />
as Joseph and Brenda in A Long Way From Home.<br />
Writer-director Virginia Gilbert has adapted her own<br />
short story into a film that gives James Fox his most<br />
substantial role in years.<br />
After fifty years together, Joseph (Fox) and Brenda<br />
(Brenda Fricker) have retired to southern France.<br />
They have become the old couple in a restaurant<br />
who have nothing left to say to one another. Brenda<br />
seems frail and increasingly forgetful but Joseph is<br />
still full of vitality. When they meet young holiday<br />
couple Suzanne (Natalie Dormer) and Mark (Paul<br />
Nicholls), Joseph is instantly smitten and pursues her<br />
to the point of foolishness.<br />
Fox is very adept at conveying the subtle shift of<br />
moods in a man wearily resigned to the unvarying<br />
routine of his life but briefly persuaded that things<br />
could be very different. A radiant Natalie Dormer<br />
is equally convincing as a woman not entirely<br />
convinced that her future lies with her boyfriend.<br />
Allan Hunter<br />
Screen International<br />
With special guests James Fox, Brenda Fricker and<br />
Virginia Gilbert<br />
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STAY<br />
Archaeologist Dermot (Aidan Quinn) lives on Ireland’s<br />
west coast trying to bury his past. His young lover<br />
Abby (Taylor Schilling) is beginning to reconsider<br />
her future with him ‘at the end of the world’. When<br />
she finds he has no interest in having children, she<br />
returns to her native Montreal to reflect on her<br />
situation. Meanwhile, the local community trundles its<br />
way through death and birth, economic collapse and<br />
survival – its intimacy at times a comfort, at others an<br />
intrusion.<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8pm / 99 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld 2013 Canada/Ireland<br />
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Taylor Schilling, Barry Keoghan<br />
While Dermot’s professional and human engagement<br />
is renewed by a bogland find, Abby’s confusion grows<br />
as she excavates her own history. The film, based on<br />
Aislinn Hunter’s acclaimed debut novel Stay, shuttles<br />
between the Galway locale and cosmopolitan<br />
Montreal. The west of Ireland’s rugged, sparse<br />
landscape and rough roads stress the struggle to be<br />
close despite global connectivity and the story poses<br />
questions about language, identity, family, distance<br />
and home. The cast also includes Barry Keoghan and<br />
Brian Gleeson (both of Love/Hate), Nika McGuigan,<br />
Michael Ironside, Gina Moxley and Ann Marie Horan.<br />
Stephanie McBride<br />
DCU<br />
YOZGAT BLUES<br />
The story of a city slicker forced to relocate to the<br />
provinces has been retold in many different countries.<br />
Yozgat Blues discovers a tasty variation on this wellworn<br />
theme. Yuvaz (Ercan Kesal – Once Upon a Time<br />
in Anatolia, JDIFF 2012) is a music teacher in Istanbul<br />
who also performs occasionally as a musician. When<br />
a performing gig is offered to him in the middle of<br />
the country, he decides to seize the opportunity, even<br />
though he is reluctant to trade the big city for life in a<br />
more remote outpost.<br />
‘succeeds in capturing a bittersweet mood that<br />
will haunt viewers’ The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 3 / 8.30pm / 92 minutes<br />
Director: Mahmut Fazil Coşkun 2013 Turkey/Germany<br />
Writers: Tarik Tufan, Mahmut Fazil Coşkun<br />
Cast: Ercan Kesal, Ayça Damgaci, Tansu Biçer<br />
Winner, FIPRESCI Award, Warsaw Film Festival<br />
Although Yuvaz is the protagonist, the film turns out<br />
to be a group portrait of half a dozen people whose<br />
lives intersect with his. Nese (Ayça Damgaci), his<br />
singing partner, develops an attachment to Sabri<br />
(Tansu Biçer), the barber who helps the balding<br />
Yuvaz with the toupee he wears while performing.<br />
The characters and relationships are incisively drawn,<br />
and the film’s deadpan sense of humour tickles. Kesal<br />
gives a sympathetic performance as Yuvaz, and Biçer<br />
is equally engaging as the sheltered barber. Yozgat<br />
Blues succeeds in capturing a bittersweet mood that<br />
will haunt viewers.<br />
Stephen Farber<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
With the support of the European Commission’s programme on<br />
enlargement of the European Union<br />
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SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY<br />
MISS VIOLENCE<br />
Opening with the inexplicable suicide of eleven-yearold<br />
Angeliki in the middle of her own birthday party,<br />
it’s plain to see that Miss Violence demands of its<br />
viewers a certain threshold of pain. Yet if Angeliki’s<br />
seemingly typical middle-class Greek family bears<br />
any emotional wounds from this harrowing loss,<br />
these are certainly not on public display. On the<br />
contrary, her single mother, grandparents and<br />
siblings present a perfectly composed front. And<br />
Child Protective Services are beginning to wonder…<br />
With his second feature, Alexandros Avranas creates<br />
a tastefully austere, colour-co-ordinated universe,<br />
where everything is ordered and nothing is what it<br />
seems. Upon closer inspection, the film’s subdued<br />
palette can be interpreted as a visual metaphor for<br />
submission, as the deceptively placid paterfamilias<br />
can slip from gentle protector to tormentor, causing<br />
all colour to drain from his household.<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 8.30pm / 99 minutes<br />
Director: Alexandros Avranas 2013 Greece<br />
Writers: Alexandros Avranas, Kostas Peroulis<br />
Cast: Kostas Antalopoulos, Constantinos Athanasiades, Chloe Bolota<br />
Winner, Best Director & Best Actor, Venice International Film Festival<br />
Set up as a carefully constructed series of episodes in<br />
which the family’s history is gradually revealed, Miss<br />
Violence is a domestic coup d’état waiting to happen.<br />
From the script to the acting, Miss Violence<br />
is precision film-making at its best.<br />
Dimitri Epides<br />
Toronto International Film Festival<br />
STRANGER BY THE LAKE<br />
L’INCONNU DU LAC<br />
One of the most talked about and lauded films at<br />
Cannes 2013, Stranger by the Lake is an intoxicating<br />
account of one heathen summer by a French lake,<br />
populated by men, gay and straight, dressed and<br />
undressed, hunter and prey.<br />
Franck is a gay man who frequents the lake,<br />
popular with nudists and men cruising for sex in<br />
the surrounding forests, and comes to know Michel,<br />
to whom he is dangerously and foolishly attracted.<br />
When given good reason to stay away from him,<br />
Franck chooses not to and walks into a deadly game<br />
of cat and mouse.<br />
‘an absorbing and intelligent exploration of queer desire’<br />
Variety<br />
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 1 / 9pm / 92 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Alain Guiraudie 2013 France<br />
Cast: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d’Assumçao<br />
Winner, Best Director, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival<br />
With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland<br />
The film presents us with a tight examination of<br />
masculinity and homosexuality, where the nebulous<br />
urges in men sometimes manifest themselves as<br />
sexual passion and other times as murderous rage.<br />
A masterpiece of carefully constructed narrative and<br />
concentrated visual storytelling, electric with tension,<br />
desire and danger and featuring graphic unsimulated<br />
gay sex, Stranger by the Lake is a fine example of<br />
both new French cinema and queer cinema.<br />
David Mullane<br />
With special guest Alain Guiraudie<br />
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SUNDAY<br />
16TH FEBRUARY<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
THE STORY OF MUSIC WITH ALLISON & TIFFANY ANDERS<br />
4pm<br />
Page 63<br />
IDA WITH DAVID OGRODNIK<br />
8.15pm<br />
Page 49<br />
THE WONDERS WITH AVI NESHER<br />
8.30pm<br />
Page 50<br />
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SUNDAY 16TH FEBRUARY<br />
‘achingly beautiful’ The Telegraph<br />
TRACKS<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Savoy 1 / 11am / 110 minutes<br />
Director: John Curran 2013 Australia/UK<br />
Writer: Marion Nelson<br />
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver<br />
With the support of the Australian Embassy Dublin<br />
Robyn Davidson’s remarkable journey in 1977 across<br />
1,700 miles of Australian desert with four camels and<br />
a dog is given a richly sensorial screen treatment in<br />
John Curran’s Tracks. Alternately haunting, inspiring<br />
and dreamily meditative, this is a visually majestic<br />
film of transfixing moods and textures. Its stealth-like<br />
emotional charge is fuelled by unerring work from<br />
Mia Wasikowska. Required here to carry the film more<br />
single-handedly than in any role since Jane Eyre, she<br />
does arguably her most riveting screen work to date.<br />
The screenplay expands upon the presence of<br />
Rick Smolan (played by Adam Driver), an American<br />
photographer who documented the journey for<br />
National Geographic magazine. The threat of an<br />
imposed ‘love interest’ twisting the story is averted<br />
thanks to the sly humour, bumbling nerdiness and<br />
slow-release reserves of sensitivity that Driver injects<br />
into his deft characterization. But the dual heart of the<br />
drama is Robyn and the landscape across which she<br />
travels. Tracks is a stirring depiction of the clarity and<br />
self-discovery that can come with isolation in nature,<br />
and probably the best film of its kind since Sean<br />
Penn’s Into the Wild.<br />
David Rooney<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
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FELLINI’S ROMA<br />
Rome exerted a powerful influence over Fellini<br />
throughout his life but rarely did he express his love<br />
for it more clearly than here. Mixing documentarystyle<br />
reportage, self-contained dramatic set pieces<br />
and strange, impressionistic sequences, Fellini’s Roma<br />
explores the director’s youth, the process of filmmaking<br />
and the mysterious allure of The Eternal City.<br />
‘one of his best works of this period’<br />
Chicago Reader<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Light House 1 / 1pm / 119 minutes<br />
Director: Federico Fellini 1972 Italy<br />
Writers: Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi<br />
Cast: Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence<br />
Presented in association with the Italian Institute of Culture - Dublin<br />
Essentially a series of loosely-connected vignettes,<br />
the first section sees the young Fellini (Peter Gonzales<br />
Falcon) arriving in Rome. We visit a brothel, witness<br />
Fellini fall in love with a prostitute and listen to Gore<br />
Vidal’s bleak assessment of the city’s future. As<br />
with much of Fellini’s work it’s a free-form approach<br />
that values images for their own sake. Yet amid<br />
the purposefully imprecise sequences are some<br />
startling moments. The best of these sees a film crew<br />
uncovering a set of 2000-year-old frescos. Elsewhere<br />
is an extraordinary, fantastical fashion show in<br />
which solemn clergy model the latest Catholic<br />
vestments. Throughout, Fellini is acutely aware of the<br />
contradictions that make up his beloved Rome and<br />
though, in the strictest sense, the film goes nowhere,<br />
somehow it’s a fabulous journey.<br />
Jon Fortgang<br />
Film Four<br />
ANTARCTICA: A YEAR ON ICE<br />
Antarctica is the world’s toughest environment –<br />
colder, higher and drier than anywhere else<br />
on earth – and less than 1000 souls are hardy<br />
enough to endure the winter there and spend<br />
a full year on the continent.<br />
‘an extraordinary achievement that reinvigorates our sense<br />
of wonder about the natural world. Make a point of seeing it.’<br />
New Zealand Herald<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 2pm / 92 minutes<br />
Director: Anthony Powell 2013 New Zealand<br />
Among them is Anthony Powell, a New Zealand<br />
dairy farmer turned time-lapse photographer who<br />
for over ten years has documented life in Antarctica<br />
to create this portrait of life lived in the most isolated<br />
of environments. Powell interviews the ordinary<br />
workers of Antarctica who voluntarily remain trapped<br />
throughout the winter after the last plane leaves<br />
the continent. During these coldest months they<br />
somehow maintain good spirits as they deal with<br />
unimaginably extreme weather, living far from their<br />
loved ones and without sunshine for four months.<br />
The real stars of this unique film, however, are the<br />
breathtaking and incredibly moving time-lapse<br />
images that must be among the most stunning<br />
to ever appear in a documentary film, and Powell<br />
himself, whose enduring wonder at the beauty of his<br />
harsh surroundings is charming in the extreme.<br />
Ross Whitaker<br />
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SUNDAY 16TH FEBRUARY<br />
TWO LIVES<br />
ZWEI LEBEN<br />
Juliane Köhler (Downfall) stars in this heartrending<br />
thriller about a Norwegian woman leading a<br />
dangerous double life in the chaotic final days of the<br />
Cold War. She plays Katrine, a Norwegian woman<br />
raised in an East German orphanage after the Nazis<br />
stole her from her mother. Years later, so it seems, she<br />
managed to escape and track down her mother and<br />
now, in 1990, Katrine finds herself at the heart of a<br />
happy, bustling Norwegian family. But when a young<br />
lawyer calls, determined to recruit her in a claim for<br />
compensation from the new German state, Katrine is<br />
forced into a desperate struggle to conceal the lies on<br />
which her whole life is based.<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Light House 1 / 3.30pm / 97 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Georg Maas 2012 Germany/Norway<br />
Cast: Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin<br />
Official German submission for Best Foreign Film, 2014 Academy Awards®<br />
Presented in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Irland<br />
Two Lives is a gripping story of deception based<br />
on a real unsolved case. Köhler delivers a moving<br />
performance as Katrine, a woman torn between<br />
conflicting loyalties, while screen legend Liv<br />
Ullmann makes a rare appearance as Åse, the proud<br />
grandmother whose daughter is not what she seems.<br />
Shot through with nerve-jangling suspense, Two Lives<br />
shines a light on a forgotten corner of the Cold War<br />
and asks how much is real when a life is built on lies.<br />
Alistair Daniel<br />
With special guest Juliane Köhler<br />
THE SWIMMER<br />
The Swimmer is the story of a man (Burt Lancaster)<br />
who begins at the dawn of a new day to swim in the<br />
backyard pool of some friends. It occurs to him that<br />
a string of other backyard pools reaches to his own<br />
home. Why not swim all the way? Some of the pool<br />
owners are happy to see him. Others hate him. One is<br />
a bitter young woman who loved him once. We learn<br />
something about this man’s life at every poolside,<br />
until finally we are able to piece together a story of<br />
his disgrace and failure.<br />
‘enigmatic, poetic, disturbing’<br />
Empire Magazine<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Light House 3 / 4pm / 95 minutes<br />
Directors: Frank Perry, Sydney Pollack 1968 US<br />
Writer: Eleanor Perry<br />
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule<br />
The Swimmer begins as a perfectly realistic film.<br />
But somewhere along the way we realize it is an<br />
allegory. At every moment, we have the feeling that<br />
something tragic has already happened to these<br />
people. And, of course, something has.<br />
Burt Lancaster is superb in his finest performance.<br />
There are also fine performances by Janice Rule as<br />
the mistress, by Janet Landgard as the young girl,<br />
and by a host of character actors. The Swimmer is a<br />
strange, stylized work, a brilliant and disturbing one.<br />
Roger Ebert<br />
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BEYOND THE EDGE - 3D<br />
At Everest base camp at night, if you try and sleep,<br />
you will awake breathless every few minutes. You<br />
feel as if you are drowning, which in a sense, you are.<br />
Base camp is at a modest 18,000 feet. The summit of<br />
the highest mountain on the planet lies 11,000 more<br />
feet above you.<br />
In 1953 no one knew whether a human being could<br />
reach the roof of the world and survive. Thirteen<br />
men had already died in unsuccessful expeditions.<br />
Enter a British team which included a humble<br />
New Zealand beekeeper, Edmund Hillary, and a<br />
member of the Nepalese Sherpa people, Tensing<br />
Norgay, a veteran of five attempts on Everest. It<br />
was probably the last ‘British’ chance to be the<br />
first to make it to the top. A Swiss team had almost<br />
succeeded in 1952 and a number of resourceful and<br />
resource-rich American climbers were ready to take<br />
on the awe-inspiring Chomolungma.<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 4pm / 93 minutes<br />
Director: Leanne Pooley 2013 Argentina<br />
Cast: Chad Moffit, Sonam Sherpa<br />
Beyond the Edge, in its clever mix of actuality and<br />
dramatization, captures both the extraordinary<br />
beauty of the high Himalayas and the peerless<br />
achievement of Hillary, Tenzing and the team led<br />
by John Hunt.<br />
Myles Dungan<br />
HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES<br />
Daniel Patrick Carbone’s atmospheric, elliptical, and<br />
even dreamlike first feature announces a substantial<br />
new talent. Hide Your Smiling Faces focuses on a<br />
pair of brothers, 9-year-old Tommy (Ryan Jones)<br />
and 14-year-old Eric (Nathan Varnson), and their<br />
extended all-male social circle. Amid one of their<br />
leisurely afternoon idylls, Eric and close friend<br />
Tristan (Thomas Cruz) discover the dead body of<br />
one of Tommy’s pals. With the incomprehensible<br />
tragedy reverberating throughout the community,<br />
the unnerved brothers respond with searching<br />
conversation, conspicuous acts of violence, and<br />
a retreat from the comforts of home.<br />
‘oblique yet emotionally acute … a bold, melancholy statement’<br />
Variety<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6pm / 80 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Daniel Patrick Carbone 2013 US<br />
Cast: Ryan Jones, Nathan Varnson, Colm O’Leary<br />
The richly naturalistic Hide Your Smiling Faces<br />
is perhaps most remarkable for its effortlessly<br />
vivid, plausibly real portrait of adolescent male<br />
life. Constantly engaging in impromptu wrestling<br />
matches, games of ‘mercy’ and empty threats of<br />
greater violence, the experiences that the writerdirector<br />
brings to the screen are about as authentic<br />
as American indie cinema gets. Nearly as noteworthy<br />
is the almost complete absence of adolescent<br />
female actors; this is the rare story of male<br />
maturation that does not prominently include sex<br />
in the equation. The young male mind is otherwise<br />
occupied in Carbone’s truly thoughtful debut.<br />
Denver Film Society<br />
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BLUE RUIN<br />
As tough as it is smart as it is suspenseful, Blue Ruin<br />
proves that action cinema isn’t just the preserve<br />
of the big Hollywood studios. It’s been a few years<br />
since Jeremy Saulnier’s horror-comedy mash-up<br />
Murder Party hit the festival circuit and won a lot of<br />
fans. Now he’s back with a riff on the revenge movie,<br />
immediately selected for the prestigious Directors’<br />
Fortnight at Cannes.<br />
‘Distinguished by the way it allies solid storytelling<br />
to fine craftsmanship’ Screen International<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Light House 1 / 6.15pm / 92 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Jeremy Saulnier 2013 US<br />
Cast: Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves<br />
Winner, FIPRESCI Prize, Cannes Film Festival<br />
In the film’s solemn and quiet opening we meet<br />
Dwight (Macon Blair), a homeless man who collects<br />
trash for money. After reading about the release<br />
of a double murderer he visibly transforms from<br />
dishevelled bearded bum into determined member<br />
of society. What follows is a deeply comic narrative<br />
of family retribution, white-trash psychosis and<br />
home invasion, set to the unsettling rhythms of a<br />
weapons-obsessed world. Deftly shot, with thoughtful<br />
widescreen compositions, this terrifically directed film<br />
combines the classic feuding families set-up with the<br />
meditative veneer of a very clever contemporary<br />
arthouse thriller.<br />
Ant Timpson<br />
New Zealand International Film Festival<br />
LA PAZ<br />
When Liso, a handsome young man from a wealthy<br />
Argentinian family, emerges from a spell in psychiatric<br />
care, he finds himself struggling to recover the pieces<br />
of his shattered life in this delicate and affecting<br />
drama from Santiago Loza (Extraño).<br />
Returning home, Liso finds his mother indulgent and<br />
doting, his father somewhat more impatient with<br />
his son’s apparent listlessness, while a succession of<br />
encounters with ex-girlfriends provide glimpses of the<br />
chaos his illness has caused. Only in the company<br />
of his genial grandmother and Sonia, the family’s<br />
Bolivian maid, does he find moments of respite from<br />
his struggle, but when these comforts are taken away,<br />
Liso’s hard-won equilibrium threatens to unravel.<br />
‘oddly affecting’ The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 6.15pm / 73 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Santiago Loza 2013 Argentina<br />
Cast: Lisandro Rodríguez, Andrea Strenitz, Fidelia Batallanos Michel<br />
Anchored by a sophisticated performance from<br />
Lisandro Rodríguez as Liso, Loza’s film is gentle,<br />
undemonstrative work, unafraid to draw comedy<br />
from Liso’s condition but generous enough to<br />
treat every character with the same clear-eyed<br />
compassion. Beautifully shot in a palette of washedout<br />
colours, La Paz is both a touching study of one<br />
man’s journey towards recovery and a subtle parable<br />
about Argentinian society.<br />
Alistair Daniel<br />
With special guest Lisandro Rodríguez<br />
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A LONG WAY DOWN<br />
Disgraced chat show host Martin Sharp (Pierce<br />
Brosnan) knows he’s reached rock bottom one New<br />
Year’s Eve when he finds himself standing on the roof<br />
of London’s premier suicide spot. But his efforts to<br />
end it all are thwarted by the arrival of a motley crew<br />
of fellow suicides, including JJ (Aaron Paul), a failed<br />
rock star with terminal cancer; Jess (Imogen Poots),<br />
an MP’s neglected daughter; and single mother<br />
Maureen (Toni Collette), struggling to care for her<br />
severely disabled son. The foursome make a pact not<br />
to kill themselves before Valentine’s Day, but when<br />
the media get wind of the story, they find themselves<br />
forming the unlikeliest of support groups.<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 8pm / 96 minutes<br />
Director: Pascal Chaumeil 2013 UK<br />
Writer: Jack Thorne<br />
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots<br />
Director Pascal Chaumeil (Heartbreaker) brings a<br />
delightful vein of gallows humour to this unflinching<br />
– and ultimately uplifting – tale about finding reasons<br />
to live, adapted from Nick Hornby’s best-selling novel.<br />
Toni Collette is touching as downtrodden Maureen<br />
and Imogen Poots is on scene-stealing form as<br />
the sharp-tongued Jess, but it’s Brosnan’s turn as<br />
the washed-up Sharp, whose desperation is thinly<br />
concealed beneath a layer of urbanity and charm,<br />
that lends the film its smart and steely edge.<br />
Alistair Daniel<br />
A THOUSAND TIMES GOOD NIGHT<br />
The peerless Juliette Binoche heads an international<br />
cast in this sophisticated, gripping drama about a war<br />
photographer forced to choose between her work<br />
and her family.<br />
‘Poppe imbues the film with enormous emotional resonance,<br />
brilliantly grounded by his leading lady’ Variety<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.15pm / 111 minutes<br />
Director: Erik Poppe 2013 Norway<br />
Writers: Erik Poppe, Harald Rosenløw-Eeg<br />
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maria Doyle Kennedy<br />
Winner, Special Grand Prix, Montreal World Film Festival<br />
We meet photojournalist Rebecca (Binoche) in a<br />
beguiling opening sequence set in Afghanistan,<br />
where she crosses the line from witnessing atrocity<br />
to being involved. On her return home to Ireland she<br />
struggles to adjust to family life with her husband<br />
Marcus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and her two<br />
daughters. Rebecca attempts to reconnect with her<br />
eldest daughter Steph through the very work which<br />
drove them apart but, when the photojournalist<br />
makes another controversial choice, their fragile<br />
détente is shattered.<br />
Binoche inhabits the role of this complex and<br />
challenging protagonist with characteristic grace<br />
and commitment, while Steph is a breakout turn for<br />
young Irish actress Lauryn Canny. A Thousand Times<br />
Good Night is at its heart a touching story about<br />
family, the ties that bind us, and what you are willing<br />
to lose in the search to be true to yourself.<br />
Kate McEvoy<br />
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IDA (POLISH GALA)<br />
The Polish-born director Pawel Pawlikowski grabbed<br />
attention at the beginning of the last decade<br />
with two brilliant and intensely English pictures:<br />
Last Resort and My Summer of Love. Now he has<br />
returned with an arresting period movie from the<br />
heart of post-war Poland – and from his own heart,<br />
too. Every moment of Ida feels intensely personal.<br />
It is a small gem, tender and bleak, funny and sad,<br />
superbly photographed in luminous monochrome.<br />
‘richly sympathetic and deeply moving’<br />
Time Out<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.15pm / 80 minutes<br />
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski 2013 Poland<br />
Writers: Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Pawel Pawlikowski<br />
Cast: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, David Ogrodnik<br />
Winner, Best Film, BFI London Film Festival<br />
With the support of the Embassy of Poland<br />
Newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska plays Anna, a<br />
novice nun about to take her final vows in a convent<br />
where she was left on the doorstep as a baby in 1945.<br />
But Anna has one surviving relative with whom she<br />
is encouraged to make contact. This turns out to be<br />
her aunt, Wanda Gruz, tremendously played by Agata<br />
Kulesza: a worldly, hard-drinking woman who lives<br />
on her own. Wanda reveals the truth to her niece:<br />
Anna’s first name is Ida and she is Jewish. Now Ida<br />
and Wanda must set out to discover what happened<br />
to Ida’s parents during the war. Pawlikowski’s film tells<br />
us a powerful, poignant story with fine, intelligent<br />
performances from Kulesza and Trzebuchowska.<br />
Peter Bradshaw<br />
The Guardian<br />
With special guest David Ogrodnik<br />
STANDING ASIDE, WATCHING<br />
NA KATHESAI KAI NA KOITAS<br />
‘It’s easy for someone to turn into a jerk,’ the heroine’s<br />
father wisely observes. ‘To just stand aside, watching.’<br />
The gulf between passive acceptance and active<br />
resistance is at the heart of Standing Aside, Watching,<br />
a compelling thriller from Greek director Yorgos<br />
Servetas.<br />
‘draw[s] not only on classical Greek tragedy but also, grippingly,<br />
on the codes of the Western’ The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Light House 3 / 8.30pm / 90 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Yorgos Servetas 2013 Greece<br />
Cast: Marina Symeou, Nikos Yorgakis, Yorgos Kafetzopoulos<br />
When Antigone (played with steely determination by<br />
Marina Symeou), returns home after years in Athens,<br />
she finds her small coastal town, and the townsfolk<br />
themselves, in an advanced state of moral decay.<br />
Undaunted, Antigone sets about making the best.<br />
She gets a job in the local school and rekindles her<br />
friendship with fellow teacher Eleni. She dates Nikos,<br />
a handsome and naïve local youth, and even adopts<br />
a stray dog. But, like her mythological namesake,<br />
Antigone is a strong-willed heroine who takes<br />
exception to the status quo, and it’s not long before<br />
the activities of a local thug compel her to speak out,<br />
with dire consequences for everyone involved.<br />
Shot with taut economy and a poetic eye, Yorgos<br />
Servetas’ second feature is at once a thriller filled<br />
with simmering tension, a coruscating portrait of<br />
small-town corruption and a penetrating study of the<br />
corrosive effects of poverty on the soul of Greece.<br />
Alistair Daniel<br />
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THE WONDERS<br />
PLAOT<br />
Lewis Carroll meets Carol Reed in this dizzyingly<br />
funny and fantastical farce from Israeli director Avi<br />
Nesher, about a good-natured slacker who becomes<br />
embroiled in a labyrinthine conspiracy.<br />
Anything can happen in Jerusalem. Just ask Ariel<br />
Navon (Ori Hizkiah), a bartender, art-school dropout<br />
and compulsive cartoonist whose pleasantly<br />
mundane existence is turned upside down late one<br />
night after he spots a strange flash of blue light<br />
emanating from an apparently vacant building.<br />
His investigation yields an encounter with famed<br />
modern-day prophet Rabbi Knafo (Yehuda Levi). Is<br />
Knafo being held against his will? And who would<br />
do such a thing?<br />
‘a brilliant mix of genres’ The Jerusalem Post<br />
Sun 16 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 8.30pm / 112 minutes<br />
Director: Avi Nesher 2013 Israel<br />
Writers: Avi Nesher, Shaanan Street<br />
Cast: Adir Miller, Ori Hizkiah, Yehuda Levi<br />
Veteran director Avi Nesher’s latest is a hoot. There<br />
are red herrings, unlikely alliances, and cartoons that<br />
come to life when no one is looking. The Wonders<br />
shows a kinship with the films of the Coen brothers<br />
and Woody Allen and the novels of Michael Chabon.<br />
Both Hizkiah and Miller are stand-up comics with<br />
impeccable timing, and they fully commit to creating<br />
complex, compelling characters with much at stake.<br />
Jane Schoettle<br />
Toronto International Film Festival<br />
With special guest Avi Nesher<br />
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MONDAY<br />
17TH FEBRUARY<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
SCREEN TEST: FREELANCING FOR BEGINNERS<br />
1pm<br />
Page 64<br />
INEQUALITY FOR ALL<br />
6pm<br />
Page 53<br />
THE FOOD GUIDE TO LOVE<br />
8pm<br />
Page 55<br />
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MONDAY 17TH FEBRUARY<br />
CIRCLES<br />
KRUGOVI<br />
Serbian director Srdan Golubović tackles the scars of<br />
war in Circles, a moving film about the damage done<br />
to people’s souls from the hostilities that racked the<br />
region for years.<br />
Based on a true story, the film opens with a horrific<br />
event in 1993. Marko (Vuk Kostic), a young Serbian<br />
soldier, returns on leave to his Bosnian town. He<br />
intervenes as a gang of soldiers are mercilessly<br />
beating a Muslim shopkeeper (Leon Lucev), but<br />
before we can see what happens, the film jumps<br />
ahead 12 years to examine the consequences<br />
of the act.<br />
‘Golubović keeps the viewer so off-balance and hungry<br />
for story that the upshot is exhilaration’ Variety<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Light House 2 / 4pm / 112 minutes<br />
Director: Srdan Golubović 2012 France/Serbia/Germany/Slovenia/Croatia<br />
Writers: Melina Pota Koljevic, Srdjan Koljevic<br />
Cast: Aleksandar Bercek, Nebosja Glogovac, Vuk Kostic<br />
Winner, World Cinema Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival<br />
With the support of the European Commission’s programme on<br />
enlargement of the European Union<br />
What makes it all work is Golubović’s obvious skill<br />
with actors and the quality of the performances.<br />
Lucev is appropriately resolute as the shopkeeper,<br />
while Rakocevic as the tortured doctor Bogdan and<br />
Bercek as Marko’s embittered father are pitch perfect.<br />
Golubović and his cinematographer Aleksandar Ilic<br />
have an eye for the sparseness of this terrain, yet<br />
find the beauty in it. The camera remains still, so as<br />
not to disturb or overly embellish the fabric of these<br />
lives. When it finally comes, their redemption and<br />
forgiveness is like a breath of fresh air.<br />
James Greenberg<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
INEQUALITY FOR ALL<br />
‘a revolutionary film’<br />
The Guardian<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6pm / 90 minutes<br />
Director: Jacob Kornbluth 2012 US<br />
Winner, Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival<br />
Fresh from Sundance, where it won the Special Jury<br />
Prize, Inequality for All examines widening income<br />
inequality in the United States of America. Presented<br />
by Robert Reich, Secretary of Labour in the Clinton<br />
Administration, and now a professor of public policy<br />
at the University of California at Berkeley, the film<br />
investigates how the rich have gotten richer and<br />
the rest of us haven’t. Director Jacob Kornbluth<br />
takes complex economic ideas and deftly explains<br />
how they relate to the quality of everyday life as<br />
lived by most ordinary people. One of the film’s<br />
great strengths is its interview subjects, who range<br />
from Erika Vaclav, a Costco check-out clerk, to Nick<br />
Hanauer, a Seattle billionaire who believes that his<br />
taxes should go up. Incisive, accessible and funny<br />
(who knew Reich had such a sense of comic timing?),<br />
Inequality for All is a landmark documentary on the<br />
defining issue of our time.<br />
Seattle International Film Festival<br />
There will be a post-screening panel discussion,<br />
presented in association with TASC, featuring<br />
Sally Anne Kinihan, Nat O’Connor and Margaret<br />
Ward, moderated by Seán Whelan, RTÉ’s<br />
Economics Correspondent.<br />
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WAKOLDA: THE GERMAN DOCTOR<br />
‘A gently striking and achingly tense drama’<br />
Screen International<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Light House 1 / 6.15pm / 93 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Lucia Puenzo 2013 Argentina/France/Spain/Norway<br />
Cast: Florencia Bado, Àlex Brendemühl, Alan Daicz<br />
After exploding onto the international arthouse<br />
scene with XXY (JDIFF 2008), Lucía Puenzo<br />
returns with the chilling story of Josef Mengele: the<br />
doctor who performed unthinkable experiments at<br />
Auschwitz before fleeing to Argentina. In Wakolda<br />
Mengele – posing under a pseudonym – befriends<br />
the family of young Lilith, a pretty but abnormally<br />
short girl with whom the doctor develops an<br />
obsession. Seduced by his attention and promises<br />
of injections that will make her grow, Lilith warms<br />
to Mengele, who moves into the hotel where she<br />
lives with her pregnant mother. Mengele’s exploits<br />
provide ample ammunition for dramatic tension,<br />
with Àlex Brendemühl (so memorable as the<br />
deadpan serial killer in The Hours of the Day)<br />
perfectly sinister as the doctor himself. But alongside<br />
the thriller narrative, Puenzo also allows room for<br />
a broader contextual sweep that reflects candidly<br />
on Argentina’s history as a Nazi retreat.<br />
Cambridge Film Festival<br />
LOS WILD ONES<br />
Reb Kennedy stood at the corner of Advance<br />
Records on South King Street throughout the<br />
summer of punk, 1977, and glared at people like a selfappointed<br />
guardian of music taste. Diminutive and<br />
intense, Reb was real, particularly in the post-punk<br />
universe when men wore badgers on their heads and<br />
guitars sounded like geese being electrocuted. He<br />
was chasing a dream of passion for real music and of<br />
his place within it. He emigrated to California, found<br />
his dream and helped to fashion a genuine, vibrant<br />
and exciting roots/rock and roll/rockabilly vision.<br />
‘The multi-dimensional look at these musicians is so<br />
heart-warming, heartbreaking, and humanizing that<br />
you feel like you know them’ Phoenix New Times<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 6.15pm / 77 minutes<br />
Director: Elise Salomon 2013 US/Ireland/Spain/UK<br />
Winner, Best Documentary, Michigan Film Awards<br />
Winner, Best Documentary, Phoenix Film Festival<br />
Winner, Best Feature, Reel Indie Film Fest<br />
Elise Salomon’s compelling documentary about<br />
Reb and his rockabilly ‘family’ is an edgy, passionate,<br />
beautiful and funny – as well as a deeply moving<br />
– story. Los Wild Ones is not just a film about a<br />
disgruntled Dublin punk who followed his dream and<br />
found a musical crusade, it’s a film about the most<br />
important commodity that human beings possess –<br />
love. It’s also the greatest film about Dublin ever to be<br />
set in Los Angeles. A total delight, and a movie that is<br />
guaranteed to put the dip in anyone’s hip.<br />
Ferdia Mac Anna<br />
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MONDAY 17TH FEBRUARY<br />
THE DEER HUNTER<br />
The Deer Hunter, Cimino’s second movie, can, and<br />
should, be read as an epic treatise on endurance and,<br />
in particular, the indomitable spirit of the American<br />
male, tracing the classic human parabola from<br />
wedding bliss to funeral blues.<br />
‘One of the few great films of the decade’<br />
Time Out<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Savoy 2 / 6.30pm / 182 minutes<br />
Director: Michael Cimino 1978 US<br />
Writer: Deric Washburn<br />
Cast: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale<br />
Winner, Best Film & Best Director, Academy Awards®<br />
The Deer Hunter is distinguished by quite audacious<br />
transitions from light to dark. The notorious Russian<br />
Roulette sequence – where POWs Michael (Robert<br />
De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken) and Steven (John<br />
Savage) must face off against each other for the<br />
amusement of their Viet-Cong captors – was one<br />
of the most terrifying scenes in celluloid history. In<br />
a movie spoilt for stand-out performances – Meryl<br />
Streep’s luminous debut, John Cazale’s last screen<br />
appearance, Christopher Walken’s Oscar-winning<br />
breakthrough – De Niro is always central.<br />
From the justly ubiquitous theme music to Vilmos<br />
Zsigmond’s rich and lyrical cinematography, The Deer<br />
Hunter is a film of enormous, if mostly melancholy,<br />
beauty. 35 years on, The Deer Hunter deserves to<br />
be reclaimed as one of the most powerful humanist<br />
tracts ever committed to celluloid.<br />
Colin Kennedy<br />
Empire Magazine<br />
THE FOOD GUIDE TO LOVE<br />
Precocious culinary celebrity Oliver (Richard Coyle)<br />
lives his life in a succession of relationships that last<br />
precisely six months. When his latest girlfriend kicks<br />
him out (naked) onto the street he meets beautiful<br />
and fiery Spaniard Bibiana (Leonor Watling), whose<br />
own relationship is in the process of imploding.<br />
Despite having little in common their relationship<br />
starts well; he teaches her about his passion for<br />
food and she opens his eyes to a world beyond the<br />
kitchen. But as the six-month deadline approaches<br />
Oliver gets cold feet and a bumpy ride begins.<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 8pm / 90 minutes<br />
Directors: Dominic Harari, Teresa Pelegri 2012 Ireland<br />
Writers: Dominic Harari, Teresa Pelegri, Eugene O’Brien<br />
Cast: Richard Coyle, Leonor Watling<br />
The Food Guide to Love is set in a colourful<br />
contemporary Dublin with an excellent supporting<br />
cast of home-grown talent including Simon Delaney<br />
and Bronagh Gallagher. Written and directed by<br />
husband and wife team Teresa Pelegri and Dominic<br />
Harari (Only Human), with an additional writing<br />
credit for Irish playwright Eugene O’Brien, this bright<br />
and light romantic comedy is about learning the<br />
true nature of love, the love that happens after<br />
the fireworks.<br />
Barry Dignam<br />
Film-maker<br />
With special guests Dominic Harari and<br />
Teresa Pelegri<br />
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THE PAST<br />
LE PASSÉ<br />
Following the taut Oscar-winning divorce drama<br />
A Separation, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi returns<br />
with another stunning study of modern family life,<br />
this time set on the outskirts of Paris where Ahmad<br />
(Ali Mosaffa) arrives from Tehran to finalise the end<br />
of his tempestuous marriage to estranged wife<br />
Marie (Bérénice Bejo). The Past, however, is not<br />
simply a variation on a theme; it is a gripping,<br />
emotional detective story, as curious Ahmad<br />
investigates the events of the previous four years,<br />
his interest piqued by Marie’s sulky teenage daughter<br />
Lucie (Pauline Burlet), whose strange contempt for<br />
her mother’s new boyfriend Samir (Tahar Rahim)<br />
sets the story in motion.<br />
‘An intricate and often brilliant drama, with restrained and<br />
intelligent performances’ The Guardian<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.15pm / 130 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Asghar Farhadi 2013 France/Iran<br />
Cast: Ali Mosaffa, Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim<br />
Farhadi’s cast is note-perfect, especially The Artist’s<br />
Bejo, playing beautifully against type as a flaky<br />
suburban mother of three. But the real star is the<br />
script, a masterwork of restraint that drip-feeds one<br />
explosive revelation after another.<br />
Damon Wise<br />
BFI London Film Festival<br />
Winner, Best Actress, Cannes Film Festival<br />
With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland<br />
THE MATCHMAKER<br />
Set in Haifa in the summer of 1968, The<br />
Matchmaker is a tender story of love, loss and<br />
survival in the aftermath of the Second World War.<br />
Director Avi Nesher explores a fascinating juncture in<br />
Israeli history, where an embryonic society still reeling<br />
from the Holocaust is beset by the cultural-sexual<br />
upheaval of the sixties.<br />
‘gripping’<br />
The New York Times<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 8.30pm / 112 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Avi Nesher 2010 Israel<br />
Cast: Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Tuval Shafir<br />
Winner, Best Actor & Best Actress, Israeli Academy Awards<br />
Winner, Best Director, Chicago International Film Festival<br />
Sixteen-year-old Arik is at loose ends one summer<br />
when he gets a job offer from a mysterious old friend<br />
of his father’s named Yankele Bride. A Holocaust<br />
survivor, Bride makes his living as a matchmaker and<br />
hires Arik to scout potential clients throughout the<br />
bustling port city. The diverse characters he meets on<br />
the job open Arik’s eyes to a world of wonder,<br />
pain and longing, offering him glimpses into<br />
unspeakable darkness and the depths of human<br />
love. There is Clara, a beautiful, fragile woman whom<br />
Bride loves from afar; Sylvia, a survivor of Josef<br />
Mengele’s Nazi experiments who yearns for a partner;<br />
and Meir, a librarian whose search for love leads him<br />
to commit an extraordinary act of malice. Then Arik<br />
falls in love for the first time, a development that<br />
brings surprising consequences.<br />
AICE Israeli Film Festival<br />
With special guest Avi Nesher<br />
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LASTING<br />
NIEULOTNE<br />
Michał and Karina fall head over heels in love during<br />
their summer holiday in Spain. Under the warm<br />
sun-soaked vineyards in the ecstasy of their thrilling<br />
new romance, everything feels carefree and innocent.<br />
But when Michał (Jakub Gierszał) has a threatening<br />
encounter with an unsavoury property owner<br />
while scuba diving, an impulsive act leads to a<br />
devastating turn.<br />
Michał covers up what happened and suddenly<br />
returns to Poland without telling Karina (Magdalena<br />
Berus) the truth. Soon Karina also has something<br />
she keeps from Michał. With their secrets looming<br />
over them, their once-unbridled affection begins<br />
slipping through their hands, and their bright,<br />
innocent faces turn dark with worry.<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Light House 2 / 9pm / 93 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Jacek Borcuch 2012 Poland/Spain<br />
Cast: Jakub Gierszał, Magdalena Berus, Ángela Molina<br />
Winner, Cinematography Award, Sundance Film Festival<br />
With the support of the Embassy of Poland<br />
With an immersive touch, Jacek Borcuch (All That<br />
I Love, JDIFF 2010) effortlessly captures the couple’s<br />
youthful spirit and rapture, amplifying the weight of<br />
the emotionally sobering drama that ensues. Lasting<br />
is an exploration of that rare species of love that can<br />
endure life’s pitfalls, and a terrifying reminder that one<br />
fateful minute can upend everything.<br />
Sundance Film Festival<br />
With special guest Jacek Borcuch<br />
THE LAST DAYS ON MARS<br />
The Last Days on Mars is a new science fiction thriller<br />
and the debut feature film of Irish director Ruairí<br />
Robinson, whose animated short Fifty Percent Grey<br />
was nominated for an Academy Award® in 2002.<br />
Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai and Olivia Williams, in a<br />
scene-stealing supporting role, are crewmembers on<br />
the first manned mission to Mars, which was all going<br />
according to plan until the final day, when an exciting<br />
discovery is made a few miles from the base camp.<br />
A science officer goes missing while attempting to<br />
collect what appears to be evidence of Martian life<br />
and the crew’s hopes of a safe home journey to Earth<br />
are dashed.<br />
‘an atmospheric chiller’ The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 9pm / 98 minutes<br />
Director: Ruairí Robinson 2013 Ireland/UK<br />
Writer: Clive Dawson<br />
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Romola Garai, Olivia Williams<br />
Reminiscent of Duncan Jones’ recent contribution<br />
Moon and bowing its head to seminal works of the<br />
genre, Alien and 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Last<br />
Days on Mars is both a moody and stylish exploration<br />
of group psychology in space, and a tense and<br />
poundingly violent account of the battle to remain<br />
alive on our mysterious neighbouring planet.<br />
David Mullane<br />
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TUESDAY<br />
18TH FEBRUARY<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
<strong>JAMESON</strong> CULT <strong>FILM</strong> CLUB - JAWS WITH RICHARD DREYFUSS<br />
Page 61<br />
LOVELY LOUISE WITH BETTINA OBERLI<br />
6.30pm<br />
Page 72<br />
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TUESDAY 18TH FEBRUARY<br />
BEFORE THE WINTER CHILL<br />
AVANT L’HIVER<br />
They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple.<br />
Paul (Daniel Auteuil) is a respected surgeon; Lucie<br />
(Kristin Scott Thomas) cooks and gardens exquisitely.<br />
Together, they bring joy and a sense of stability to<br />
their extended family and community of friends. But<br />
the passion for Paul of a stranger (Leïla Bekhti) brings<br />
chaos into their well-manicured existence.<br />
‘elegantly cool’ The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Tues 18 Feb / Light House 1 / 6.15pm / 103 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Philippe Claudel 2013 France/Luxembourg<br />
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Daniel Auteuil, Leila Bekhti<br />
Novelist/film-maker Philippe Claudel’s second<br />
film opens as a skilful, unnerving Gallic take on<br />
Fatal Attraction, with a nod to the great Claude<br />
Chabrol’s thrillers, but it is far too smart to follow<br />
those well-worn tracks, gradually morphing into<br />
something more disconcertingly original and<br />
passionate. Claudel extends the strong creative<br />
partnership he began with Scott Thomas in I’ve<br />
Loved You So Long (JDIFF 2010) and extracts a<br />
superb, poignant performance from Auteuil, as<br />
he offers an unforgettable glimpse at the skeleton<br />
beneath the elegant skin of suburban gentility.<br />
Telluride Film Festival<br />
With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland<br />
THE DEVIL’S POOL:<br />
MADNESS, MELANCHOLIA AND THE ARTIST<br />
Reel Art is an Arts Council scheme designed to<br />
provide film artists with a unique opportunity to<br />
make highly creative, imaginative and experimental<br />
documentaries on an artistic theme.<br />
Is there a connection between creativity and<br />
madness? Does being creative involve a risk of<br />
madness or is madness a prerequisite for creativity?<br />
This unusual documentary addresses the long-held<br />
public belief in a connection between madness<br />
and artistic creativity. The documentary combines<br />
a dramatised section with interviews with artists,<br />
researchers and academics. These interwoven<br />
strands contrast the chaos and torment of mental<br />
collapse with the careful rationality of psychiatric<br />
research and the views of working artists.<br />
Tues 18 Feb / IFI 1 / 6.15pm / 35 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Cecily Brennan 2013 Ireland<br />
Over the course of the documentary the film-maker<br />
compares the intellectual and measured observations<br />
of the experts, their words controlled and thought<br />
through, with a description of a descent into chaos<br />
and madness, overwhelming depression and stasis.<br />
Interviewees include Dr Simon Kyaga from the<br />
Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Professor Patricia<br />
Waugh of Durham University, the playwright Frank<br />
McGuinness and the poet Paul Muldoon.<br />
Film-maker’s statement<br />
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VOLTA PRESENTATION<br />
<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> 2014<br />
On 20 December 1909, with help from friends in<br />
Trieste, James Joyce opened the Cinematograph<br />
Volta Cinema on Mary Street in Dublin. Nearly a<br />
century later, in 2007, Jameson Dublin International<br />
Film Festival established the Volta Award to recognise<br />
individuals who have made a significant contribution<br />
to the world of cinema.<br />
The Volta Awards have drawn some of the biggest<br />
names in film to our shores, including actors like<br />
Al Pacino and Martin Sheen, directors such as<br />
François Ozon and Paolo Sorrentino, and a host<br />
of famous industry names. Last year’s prestigious<br />
recipients were composer Ennio Morricone, actordirector<br />
Danny DeVito, actor Tim Roth, director<br />
Costa-Gavras and writer-director Joss Whedon.<br />
We are delighted to welcome Richard Dreyfuss to<br />
Dublin for the presentation of his 2014 Volta Award<br />
and a special Jameson Cult Film Club screening<br />
of Jaws.<br />
Richard Dreyfuss was born Richard Stephen Dreyfus<br />
in Brooklyn, New York on October 29, 1947 and spent<br />
his early childhood in Bayside, Queens before moving<br />
to Los Angeles. He attended Beverly Hills High School<br />
with fellow actors Rob Reiner and Albert Brooks, and<br />
acted in community plays as a teenager. He briefly<br />
attended San Fernando Valley State College but was<br />
booted out after starting a contentious argument with<br />
a teacher. Because he registered as a conscientious<br />
objector during the Vietnam War, he spent two years<br />
fulfilling an alternate term of service as a hospital clerk.<br />
Dreyfuss’ first film role was an uncredited part in Valley<br />
of the Dolls, followed by a single line in The Graduate<br />
in 1967. But it was the smash hit American Graffiti<br />
which provided him with his breakout role and he was<br />
nominated for a Golden Globe for best actor. Over the<br />
next four years, with shrewd film choices and robust<br />
performances, Dreyfuss became one of American<br />
cinema’s leading men and had a spectacular string<br />
of successes both critical and commercial. Firstly,<br />
the wonderful Canadian film The Apprenticeship<br />
of Duddy Kravitz, which was followed by the two<br />
signature films he made with Steven Spielberg; as the<br />
shark expert in the blockbuster Jaws and then as an<br />
engineer who sees a UFO in Close Encounters of the<br />
Third Kind. Then in 1978, Dreyfuss won an Oscar for<br />
best actor for the romantic comedy The Goodbye Girl.<br />
He was just 29, and, at the time, the youngest actor<br />
to ever receive the honour. For the next few years,<br />
Richard Dreyfuss’ career somewhat declined, but in<br />
1986 he rebounded with the comedy Down and Out<br />
in Beverly Hills which he followed with Stakeout and<br />
What About Bob? In 1995 Dreyfuss was nominated for<br />
both an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe for his<br />
performance in the musical drama Mr Holland’s Opus.<br />
More recently, Dreyfuss portrayed Vice President Dick<br />
Cheney in Oliver Stone’s film W and Jason Priestley’s<br />
debut feature Cas & Dylan (screened at JDIFF – see<br />
page 78). In addition to acting, he is a vocal advocate<br />
for individual civic rights.<br />
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<strong>JAMESON</strong> CULT <strong>FILM</strong> CLUB<br />
TUESDAY 18TH FEBRUARY<br />
‘it could be Spielberg’s finest moment’<br />
Empire<br />
JAWS<br />
Tues 18 Feb / 124 minutes<br />
Director: Steven Spielberg 1975 US<br />
Writers: Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb<br />
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss<br />
Winner, Best Motion Picture, 1976 Golden Globes<br />
Winner, Best Sound, Best Film Editing & Best Music,<br />
1976 Academy Awards®<br />
THIS YEAR, <strong>JAMESON</strong> IRISH WHISKEY PRESENTS<br />
THE <strong>JAMESON</strong> CULT <strong>FILM</strong> CLUB. A YEAR-LONG<br />
PROGRAMME OF SPECIAL SCREENINGS WILL<br />
TAKE PLACE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, CULT<br />
<strong>FILM</strong>S WILL BE PRESENTED IN KEY NON-CINEMA<br />
LOCATIONS, WITH KEY GUESTS INVITED TO TALK<br />
ABOUT THE <strong>FILM</strong> WITH THE INVITED AUDIENCES.<br />
For JDIFF, Jameson presents one of the most suspenseful<br />
films of all time: Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Just as the pursuit<br />
of its colossal predator cries out for a bigger boat, the muchtelevised<br />
Jaws demands to be seen on a bigger screen.<br />
Restored and digitally remastered to mark Universal Pictures’<br />
100th anniversary, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 thriller remains<br />
exceptional entertainment. Based on Peter Benchley’s<br />
bestseller, it’s part affable adventure, part hydrodynamic horror.<br />
The high-concept story sees the residents of Amity Island<br />
terrorised by a rogue great white shark as they prepare for<br />
their 4th July celebrations. With Mayor Vaughn (Murray<br />
Hamilton) determined to keep the beaches open despite<br />
fatalities, conscientious police chief Martin Brody (Roy<br />
Scheider) is tasked with disposing of the slippery fish.<br />
He’s an aquaphobic New Yorker who’s recently moved to<br />
the island with his devoted wife Ellen (Lorraine Gary) and<br />
two button-cute kids. Brody is accompanied on the hunt by<br />
maverick seaman Quint (Robert Shaw) and oceanographer<br />
Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss).<br />
The trio’s cracking camaraderie has seldom been bettered<br />
and the aquatic terror is deftly balanced with lively, likeable<br />
characterisations. Unlike Spielberg’s subsequent films, Jaws<br />
avoids sentimentality. More out of necessity than design, the<br />
shark features fleetingly; instead its presence is ingeniously<br />
felt in John Williams’ iconic ‘da-dums’, in a section of broken<br />
pier returning to pursue a fisherman, in the ordeal of a skinny<br />
dipper and in the ominous appearance of barrels. It may<br />
indeed be the shark that ate Hollywood but alongside this<br />
buoyant beast all those it inspired sink like stones.<br />
Please note: this screening is only available to Jameson Cult Film<br />
Club members. For details go to www.jamesoncultfilmclub.ie<br />
Emma Simmonds<br />
The List<br />
Richard Dreyfuss will take part in a post-screening<br />
Q&A with Rick O’Shea<br />
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PYROTECHNICS AND PISTOLS<br />
FRIDAY 14 FEB / SMITHFIELD SQUARE / 2PM<br />
FREE AND UNTICKETED<br />
The 12th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival<br />
is delighted to present a demonstration of practical<br />
special effects. In partnership with F/X Ireland and<br />
the Stunt Actors Guild, Ireland, there will be a live<br />
demonstration on Friday 14 February at 2pm.<br />
Special effects form a broad range of resources at a<br />
film-maker’s disposal, from something as simple as<br />
smoke or rain to fire and explosions. In a digital age<br />
practical special effects still have a major role to play.<br />
JDIFF invites you to come along and see Hollywoodstyle<br />
effects scenarios unfold on the streets of Dublin.<br />
Post-demonstration, the F/X and stunt teams will<br />
field questions from the audience about how they<br />
coordinate and organise realistic action sequences<br />
in a safe and secure environment. This is an exciting<br />
and unique opportunity not to be missed!<br />
THE STORY OF MUSIC<br />
SUN 16 FEB / THE CHURCH / 4PM<br />
FREE BUT TICKETED<br />
As part of our inaugural Guest Curator season, this<br />
year curated by Allison and Tiffany Anders, this panel<br />
discussion will gather a number of the film-makers<br />
programmed in the season, joined by Allison and<br />
Tiffany, to discuss music documentary as a genre.<br />
Allison Anders is an award-winning film and television<br />
writer and director and Professor of Film and Media<br />
Studies at UC Santa Barbara. With her daughter<br />
Tiffany Anders she co-founded the Don’t Knock the<br />
Rock Film and Music Festival in Los Angeles. Tiffany<br />
Anders is a recording artist, working with PJ Harvey<br />
amongst others. She is also a music supervisor and a<br />
radio broadcaster.<br />
Featuring Paul Kelly (Lawrence of Belgravia), Louise<br />
Palanker (Family Band: The Cowsills Story) and<br />
Stan Warnow (Deconstructing Dad), and hosted by<br />
acclaimed Irish music blogger Nialler9, join us for an<br />
exploration of how the story of music and musicians<br />
is told through the medium of documentary film.<br />
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SCREEN TEST<br />
In partnership with the Broadcasting<br />
Authority of Ireland, Screen Test has<br />
become a mainstay at JDIFF, at which<br />
various industry experts kindly donate<br />
their time to come and discuss their fields<br />
of proficiency. These events are geared<br />
towards entry-level professionals and<br />
graduates but there is also plenty for<br />
more experienced industry members to<br />
absorb. With daily events at the Festival<br />
Hub in Filmbase, Screen Test promises to<br />
be both enlightening and engaging.<br />
David Mullane and Liam Ryan<br />
Tickets (€10) can be purchased online<br />
(jdiff.com), in person at our box office<br />
in the Festival Hub at Filmbase, or by<br />
phone (01 687 7974) . Pre-booking is<br />
recommended, as spaces can be limited.<br />
Ticket holders for other Screen Test<br />
events can attend the Making Your First<br />
Feature event for free (on a first come,<br />
first served basis).<br />
FREELANCING FOR BEGINNERS<br />
Mon 17 Feb / Filmbase / 1pm<br />
A panel of experts will explore the skills<br />
needed to make your start as a freelancer<br />
in the Irish broadcasting industry. Leading<br />
communications expert Terry Prone<br />
will talk through the networking and<br />
interpersonal skills crucial in helping<br />
you make connections in the industry.<br />
Managing director of Samson Films David<br />
Collins will share his knowledge and<br />
experience in Irish broadcasting. Gaby<br />
Smyth, accountant, chairperson of the<br />
festival’s board of directors and expert<br />
in business for freelancers in film and<br />
culture, will discuss the smooth running<br />
of your new enterprise.<br />
CINEMATOGRAPHY<br />
Tues 18 Feb / Filmbase / 1pm<br />
In this increasingly popular annual event,<br />
the Irish Society of Cinematographers<br />
returns to discuss the relationship<br />
between the director and their DOP, as<br />
well as the right tools to create amazing<br />
images. Chaired by John Leahy (ISC<br />
Admin).<br />
THE FUTURE OF BROADCASTING<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Filmbase / 1pm<br />
With the advent of online media such<br />
as video-on-demand, podcasting and<br />
TV playback services, the landscape of<br />
broadcasting has changed significantly.<br />
A panel of industry experts will discuss<br />
how broadcasters are adapting to meet<br />
audiences’ evolving demands. The panel<br />
includes Philippe Brodeur, Director of<br />
Aertv; Jill O’Brien, Head of Digital, TV3;<br />
Jarlath Regan, comedian and podcaster;<br />
and Alan Swan, award-winning RTÉ<br />
radio producer.<br />
THE FOUNDATIONS OF FUNDING<br />
Thurs 20 Feb / Filmbase / 1pm<br />
Hosted by John Kelleher, awardwinning<br />
producer, former Controller<br />
of Programmes, RTÉ 1 Television, and<br />
former Director of Film Classification,<br />
this panel will explore the sources of<br />
financing available to media professionals<br />
in Ireland. The panel includes Jane Gogan,<br />
RTÉ Commissioning Editor Drama;<br />
Aaron Farrell, Production Executive and<br />
Project Manager, Octagon Films; Andrew<br />
Hetherington, Project Director, Business to<br />
Arts and Fundit.ie; Ciarán Kissane, Head of<br />
Contract Awards, Broadcasting Authority<br />
of Ireland; and project managers from the<br />
Irish Film Board.<br />
FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN:<br />
A CASE STUDY OF ‘AMBER’<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Filmbase / 1pm<br />
This panel takes an in-depth look at the<br />
creation, development and delivery of<br />
new RTÉ drama Amber. Join creators and<br />
producers Paul Duane and Rob Cawley<br />
alongside director Thaddeus O’Sullivan<br />
and writer Gary Duggan as they discuss<br />
the factors involved in bringing this show<br />
to life.<br />
MAKING YOUR FIRST FEATURE<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Filmbase / 3pm<br />
After the success of last year’s event, we<br />
are delighted to once again invite the<br />
students of Filmbase’s MA in Film-making<br />
to screen their latest feature film, which<br />
will be followed by a Q&A. Screen Test<br />
ticket holders for other events can attend<br />
this event for free on a first-come, firstserved<br />
basis.<br />
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PRODUCING WITH<br />
PAULO BRANCO<br />
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS<br />
TUES 18 FEB / BROOKS HOTEL / 4PM<br />
Paulo Branco started his career as<br />
a producer in 1979. Nowadays he is<br />
one of the most important figures<br />
of independent production in the<br />
world. A key player in auteur cinema,<br />
he is recognized for having given<br />
opportunities to numerous aspiring<br />
film-makers who later became significant<br />
cinematographers, offering them the<br />
opportunity to make their screen debut.<br />
To date he has produced over 270 films,<br />
working with the most renowned film<br />
directors in the world, such as David<br />
Cronenberg, Wim Wenders, Chantal<br />
Akerman, Werner Schroeter, André<br />
Téchiné, Andrzej Zulawski, Christophe<br />
Honoré, Olivier Assayas, Cédric Kahn,<br />
Lucas Belvaux, Paul Auster and Mathieu<br />
Amalric, among many others. His career<br />
has been particularly notable for longrunning<br />
collaborations with Raúl Ruiz<br />
(Time Regained, Three Lives and Only<br />
CASTING WITH<br />
MARGERY SIMKIN<br />
FOR DATE, VENUE AND TICKET DETAILS SEE<br />
JDIFF.COM<br />
€15<br />
One Death) and with Manoel de Oliveira<br />
(Francisca, Abraham’s Valley). Paulo<br />
Branco is also well known as the producer<br />
who has had the greatest number of films<br />
selected at the Cannes Film Festival and<br />
the greatest number of films competing<br />
for the Palme d’Or. He is president of the<br />
Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival, an event he<br />
founded in 2007.<br />
For application details, see jdiff,.com<br />
Back by popular demand!<br />
Margery Simkin has cast such films as Beverley<br />
Hills Cop, Top Gun, Brazil, Field of Dreams, Twelve<br />
Monkeys, Erin Brockovich, Marley & Me, Avatar, Pacific<br />
Rim and Beautiful Creatures.<br />
In the course of her career she has given early<br />
opportunities/starts to such actors as Tom Cruise,<br />
Laura Dern, Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey Jr, Johnny<br />
Depp, Christina Ricci, Queen Latifah, Natalie Portman<br />
and Sam Worthington.<br />
Based in Los Angeles, Ms Simkin has had the<br />
privilege of working with many great directors<br />
including Terry Gilliam, Frank Oz, Danny DeVito, David<br />
Frankel, James Cameron and Richard LaGravenese.<br />
‘The casting event was definitely one of the highlights<br />
of the 2013 festival for me. Very interesting and a<br />
great insight into the world of casting.’ Trish Ryan<br />
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WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW<br />
FROM PAGE TO SCREEN<br />
Toby Jones in Frost/Nixon.<br />
© Universal Pictures.<br />
SAT 15 FEB /<br />
PEARSE ST LIBRARY / 2PM<br />
FREE BUT TICKETED<br />
In recent years, some of the most<br />
successful films at the box office<br />
have been adaptations from popular<br />
novels. This event will explore how this<br />
adaptation process occurs. How does a<br />
book get optioned for screen? Do you<br />
need an agent and how do you approach<br />
one? What do agents do and how do they<br />
find books to bring to the screen? Writing.<br />
ie’s Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin will quiz<br />
industry insiders Camilla Young<br />
and Conor Barry to find the answers<br />
to these questions.<br />
Having worked in the actors department<br />
of Independent Talent for over two years,<br />
Camilla Young joined Curtis Brown in<br />
2010 and since then has worked with<br />
Nick Martson, representing an amazing<br />
list of both new and established writing<br />
and directing talent across television, film<br />
and theatre.<br />
Conor Barry, founder of SP Films with<br />
Brendan Muldowney, has produced<br />
a number of award-winning features,<br />
documentaries and short films. His<br />
most recent production, Love Eternal,<br />
which screens at this year’s festival, is an<br />
adaptation of Kei Oishi’s novel In Love<br />
with the Dead.<br />
Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin is a publishing<br />
consultant and literary scout, founder of<br />
The Inkwell Group and Writing.ie, Vice<br />
Chair of Irish PEN and the Irish adviser<br />
to the Alliance of Independent Authors.<br />
This event is held in association with<br />
Dublin City of Literature and the national<br />
online writing magazine, Writing.ie.<br />
WRITERS IN CONVERSATION<br />
FRI 21 FEB / IRISH WRITERS’ CENTRE / 4:30PM<br />
FREE BUT TICKETED<br />
Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird<br />
Hosted by Laurence Mackin, Arts Editor<br />
of The Irish Times, this panel gathers<br />
together some of the most celebrated<br />
writers and film-makers working in Ireland<br />
to discuss the relationship between<br />
books and film and how a literary voice<br />
translates to the screen. They will also pick<br />
out their own personal favourite scenes<br />
of dialogue from film in a celebration of<br />
screenwriting as fans and not just<br />
as professionals.<br />
The panel will include acclaimed Irish<br />
author (and film festival regular) John<br />
Connolly; British screenwriter Malcolm<br />
Campbell, who has written for Skins and<br />
Shameless, and who wrote the screenplay<br />
for What Richard Did, loosely based<br />
on Kevin Power’s novel A Bad Day in<br />
Blackrock; Irish film-maker and lecturer<br />
Pat Murphy, celebrated for her films<br />
Maeve, Anne Devlin and Nora; Irish writerdirector<br />
Michael Kinirons, well known for<br />
his short film Lowland Fell, among many<br />
others; and Darren Thornton, another<br />
successful Irish writer-director who<br />
received critical acclaim for his short films<br />
Frankie and Two Hearts and the TV series<br />
Love is the Drug.<br />
This event is held in association with the<br />
Irish Writers’ Centre.<br />
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SCREENWRITING WITH PETER MORGAN<br />
SAT 15 FEB / LIGHT HOUSE 3 / 11AM<br />
Peter Morgan is an international awardwinning<br />
writer for stage, screen and film.<br />
In addition to receiving Oscar®, Golden<br />
Globe and BAFTA Award nominations<br />
for his screenplays for Stephen Frears’<br />
The Queen, Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon<br />
and, most recently, Howard’s Rush,<br />
Morgan has won a host of international<br />
awards. Morgan has won a host of<br />
international awards. His most recent<br />
play, The Audience, which starred Mirren,<br />
was a West End smash hit, receiving<br />
nominations in five categories at the<br />
2013 Olivier Awards. His previous play,<br />
the Olivier and Tony Award-nominated<br />
Frost/Nixon, received critical acclaim on<br />
both sides of the Atlantic before being<br />
adapted into the Academy Award®nominated<br />
film of the same name.<br />
Morgan’s many film credits include the<br />
award-winning The Last King of Scotland,<br />
which won the BAFTA Award for Best<br />
Adapted Screenplay; The Damned United;<br />
and Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, which<br />
starred Matt Damon. Morgan’s upcoming<br />
credits include the Hugh Hefner biopic<br />
Playboy, which is in development with<br />
Warner Bros. Pictures; and the television<br />
movie Christopher Jefferies, to be directed<br />
by Roger Mitchell. Morgan’s extensive<br />
television credits include the BAFTA<br />
Award-winning The Deal; The Special<br />
Relationship, which is the first part of<br />
Morgan’s Tony Blair trilogy; and the<br />
multi-award-winning Longford.<br />
For application details for this masterclass,<br />
see jdiff.com<br />
DO CRITICS MATTER?<br />
TUES 18 FEB / THE CHURCH / 5PM<br />
FREE BUT TICKETED<br />
Film distributors eagerly quote<br />
professional critics when marketing<br />
their slate, yet poor reviews don’t seem<br />
to hamper the commercial success of<br />
large films. Conversely, certain films have<br />
suffered at the box office after negative<br />
advance word from critics. It can be<br />
argued that, whereas reviewers have no<br />
effect on blockbusters, their opinions are<br />
crucial to the success or failure of films<br />
outside the mainstream. But, in the age<br />
of social media, what do we mean by<br />
a critic? These issues and more will be<br />
thrashed out in a debate, which the critics<br />
are already calling ‘a compelling triumph’.<br />
The panel will include members of the<br />
Dublin Film Critics Circle and international<br />
film critics such as Screen International’s<br />
Mark Adams.<br />
Buster Keaton in Speak Easily (1932)<br />
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SCRIPTWRITING FOR ANIMATION WITH RICHELLE WILDER<br />
SAT 22 FEB / IRISH TIMES BUILDING / 2PM<br />
€15<br />
As part of this year’s focus on screenwriting, we are<br />
delighted to welcome Richelle Wilder to the festival to<br />
present a talk on scriptwriting for animation. Working<br />
in screenplay development for twenty years, Richelle<br />
has been Head of Film Development at Aardman<br />
(Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit),<br />
Head of Development for Pathé UK (An Ideal<br />
Husband) and creative producer on the UK/Irish/<br />
French-animated series Freefonix. Among many other<br />
projects, she developed and polished the screenplay<br />
for Khumba, wrote and script edited Dennis and<br />
Gnasher (CBBC), and worked with the Irish Film Board<br />
and MEDIA on project funding assessments. In 2010<br />
she founded Script Matters, a story and script agency<br />
which works with producers, writers, studios and<br />
broadcasters to develop scripts for both animation<br />
and live action movies and series. Following Richelle’s<br />
presentation, there will be a Q&A hosted by Gareth<br />
Lee, Network Manager of Animation Skillnet.<br />
Still from Wallace and Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit<br />
This event is presented in association with<br />
Animation Skillnet.<br />
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM<br />
SUN 23 FEB / THE CHURCH / 3PM<br />
FREE BUT TICKETED<br />
An examination of the relationship between Irish<br />
audiences and Irish cinema, this panel discussion<br />
with explore how our national cinema is received<br />
by the nation. Are Irish film-makers making films for<br />
their fellow countrymen, their foreign neighbours or<br />
both? What do audiences expect from their national<br />
cinema? How do Irish films represent Ireland in the<br />
twenty-first century?<br />
Discussing these questions will be arts journalist and<br />
broadcaster Sinead Gleeson; managing director of<br />
Samson Films David Collins; director of our Closing<br />
Night Gala, The Stag, John Butler; Head of Distribution<br />
for Element Pictures Audrey Sheils, and awardwinning<br />
film-maker Neasa Hardiman, who will chair<br />
the discussion.<br />
John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara in The Quiet Man<br />
This panel discussion is presented in association with<br />
the Writers Guild of Ireland.<br />
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INDUSTRY NETWORKING<br />
EVENTS<br />
AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT<br />
OF ANY <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> IS THE<br />
OPPORTUNITY FOR INDUSTRY<br />
PROFESSIONALS TO MEET AND<br />
EXCHANGE IDEAS. TO THIS END,<br />
WE HAVE PROGRAMMED TWO<br />
NETWORKING EVENTS, ONE FOR<br />
IRISH <strong>FILM</strong>-MAKERS AND ONE<br />
TO WELCOME OUR EUROPEAN<br />
GUESTS.<br />
JDIFF IRISH SHORTS<br />
RECEPTION<br />
FRI 14 FEB / THE CHURCH / 8.30PM<br />
Following the screening of this year’s<br />
JDIFF Shorts, we invite you to meet our<br />
featured Irish short filmmakers and short<br />
film experts Sharon Badal (Tribeca Film<br />
Festival) and Kathleen McInnis (Palm<br />
Springs International Film Festival) to<br />
discuss and celebrate short film-making<br />
in Ireland.<br />
To register your interest in attending<br />
these events, please email<br />
workshoprsvp@jdiff.com<br />
WORKSHOPS & EVENTS<br />
EUROPEAN <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> NETWORKING<br />
EVENING<br />
WED 19 FEB / THE CHURCH / 5PM<br />
We are honoured to welcome a number<br />
of leading European film professionals to<br />
Dublin to enjoy this year’s programme of<br />
films and events. On Wednesday evening,<br />
we invite local Irish film-makers to meet<br />
these European leaders, who will include<br />
Ania Trzebiatowska (Off Plus Camera,<br />
Poland), Hrönn Marinósdóttir (Reykjavik<br />
International Film Festival), Lars Hermann<br />
(CPH:PIX, Copenhagen), Mihai Chirilov<br />
(Transylvania International Film Festival),<br />
Jean-François Rauger (Cinémathèque<br />
Française), and Paulo Branco (acclaimed<br />
Portuguese producer).<br />
<strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> CRITICS CIRCLE<br />
Established in 2006, The Dublin Film Critics<br />
Circle offers the city’s full-time professional<br />
movie reviewers an opportunity to pool<br />
opinions on recent releases, consider<br />
movie heritage and whinge about each<br />
other’s shortcomings.<br />
Join these irrascible folk as they ponder<br />
JDIFF 2014 and name their final selections<br />
for Best Film, Best Director, Best Irish Film,<br />
Best Documentary and Best Performances<br />
from the festival programme.<br />
SAT 22 FEB / THE CHURCH / 4PM<br />
This year, a jury that includes Daniel<br />
Anderson (Click), Brogen Hayes (Spin FM),<br />
Paul Whittington (Sunday Business Post),<br />
Nicola Timmins (Average Film Reviews),<br />
Dave O’Mahony (Access Cinema), Rory<br />
Cashin (entertainment.ie), Donald Clarke<br />
(The Irish Times) and DFCC president Tara<br />
Brady (The Irish Times) will, additionally,<br />
announce the recipient of the fifth Michael<br />
Dwyer Discovery Award, named for our<br />
late friend and colleague.<br />
Presentable DFCC member Gavin Burke<br />
(Phantom FM) will be on hand to introduce<br />
the final deliberations of the 2014 jury at<br />
the Film-makers Lounge at The Church<br />
Café Bar.<br />
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ICONIC <strong>FILM</strong> IMAGES<br />
FROM SUSAN WOOD<br />
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CITY ASSEMBLY HOUSE,<br />
SOUTH WILLIAM STREET<br />
FRIDAY 7–SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY<br />
OPENING HOURS:<br />
10AM–5PM,<br />
MONDAY–SATURDAY<br />
A collection of Susan Wood’s work, on<br />
exhibition in association with the Irish<br />
Georgian Society and curated by Deirdre<br />
Brennan, represents a number of<br />
milestones in American photography<br />
over a period of more than 30 years. Her<br />
pictures have appeared worldwide, from<br />
galleries and museums to publications<br />
and websites. She was involved with the<br />
original ‘Mad Men’ of Madison Avenue<br />
and during that time won several Clios,<br />
the most sought-after awards<br />
in advertising.<br />
BRAINBELT<br />
Mademoiselle chose her as one of their<br />
top Ten Women of the Year and her<br />
work appeared in many other periodicals<br />
including People and Vogue.<br />
Although her most famous magazine<br />
cover is an iconic photograph of John<br />
Lennon and Yoko Ono, she is best known<br />
for her movie stills. Under contract to<br />
Paramount Pictures, United Artists and<br />
20th Century Fox, Ms Wood was on set<br />
and on location during the filming of<br />
movies which defined the 1960s,<br />
like Leo the Last, Easy Rider and Modesty<br />
Blaise (pictured above). Her assignments<br />
allowed her to capture remarkable,<br />
unrehearsed shots of some of that era’s<br />
most unforgettable actors like Peter<br />
Fonda, Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn<br />
– on display as a group, here for the first<br />
time ever.<br />
<strong>FILM</strong>BASE<br />
13 - 23 FEBRUARY<br />
MON - SAT, 10AM - 5PM<br />
Following the success of the Brainbelt<br />
Illustration Collective Exhibition at<br />
JDIFF 2013, we have teamed up with<br />
Brainbelt again so the artists can respond<br />
to this year’s line-up of films. Artists<br />
Shane Cluskey, John Corrigan, Michelle<br />
Cunningham, Peter Dawson, Alan Dunne,<br />
Séamus McArdle, Edel McMahon, Duffy<br />
Mooney Sheppard, Tom Moore, Jamie<br />
Murphy, Eileen O’Neill, Lauren O’Neill,<br />
Emma Rowe, Gareth Teggin and Stephen<br />
McNally bring you limited edition images<br />
from over 30 festival films.<br />
Photo: Ultan Courtney<br />
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TUESDAY 18TH FEBRUARY<br />
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LOVELY LOUISE<br />
Middle-aged André is the quintessential mother’s boy;<br />
his life is so inseparable from his elderly mother’s<br />
that they share an apartment, a bank account and a<br />
stultifying routine. His mother – the pointedly named<br />
Louise Dubois – spurned her chance of Hollywood<br />
stardom to raise him, and André’s guilt over her<br />
dashed hopes has ruined his life. Now he works as a<br />
taxi driver, ferrying his mother to lunch appointments<br />
at a restaurant she can little afford. But when a<br />
gregarious American suddenly turns up claiming to<br />
be Louise’s long-lost second son, the pair are thrown<br />
into a turmoil that will drive them right to the edge.<br />
Tues 18 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.30pm / 91 minutes<br />
Director: Bettina Oberli 2013 Switzerland/Germany<br />
Writers: Bettina Oberli, Petra Biondina Volpe<br />
Cast: Stefan Kurt, Annemarie Duringer, Stanley Townsend<br />
Presented in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Irland and with the<br />
support of the Embassy of Switzerland<br />
Lovely Louise is a touching drama about finding the<br />
courage to move on with your life. Director Bettina<br />
Oberli never lets the deadpan comedy get in the<br />
way of real emotion, and the film is blessed with<br />
strong performances throughout, from Annemarie<br />
Duringer, note perfect as the duplicitous Louise, living<br />
off the vapours of her dreams; to Irish actor Stanley<br />
Townsend as Bill, a man-child sweating fury, self-pity<br />
and charm.<br />
Alistair Daniel<br />
With special guests Bettina Oberli and Stanley<br />
Townsend<br />
LOVE ETERNAL<br />
Based on the Japanese novel In Love with the Dead,<br />
from acclaimed author Kei Oishi (Apartment 1303,<br />
The Last Supper), Love Eternal centres on an isolated<br />
and death-fixated young man who tries to make<br />
sense of the world, and his existence, in the only way<br />
he knows how… by getting closer to death.<br />
‘ a beguiling and deftly enigmatic tale of dark and haunted love’<br />
Screen International<br />
Brendan Muldowney’s second feature, following the<br />
award-winning Savages, is a dark and elegiac yet<br />
inspiring portrayal of a damaged young man trying<br />
to find his way in a world he no longer understands.<br />
Featuring note-perfect performances from Robert<br />
de Hoog and Pollyanna McIntosh, Love Eternal is<br />
a rich cinematic experience, and, in his exploration<br />
of notions of life, death and the universe as a whole,<br />
Muldowney has created a bold cinematic landscape<br />
all his own.<br />
Galway Film Fleadh<br />
Tues 18 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 8.30pm / 93 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Brendan Muldowney 2013 Ireland/Luxembourg/<br />
Netherlands/Japan<br />
Cast: Pollyanna McIntosh, Amanda Ryan, Robert de Hoog<br />
With special guests Brendan Muldowney,<br />
Pollyanna McIntosh and Conor Barry<br />
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TUESDAY 18TH FEBRUARY<br />
LIFE FEELS GOOD<br />
CHCE SIE ZYC<br />
Neither tearfully sentimental nor coldly scientific,<br />
Life Feels Good, Maciej Pieprzyca’s film, about a man<br />
with cerebral palsy, instead proves oddly entertaining.<br />
The protagonist, diagnosed as mentally ‘retarded’<br />
since childhood, delivers interior monologues<br />
that supply ironically ‘normal’ counterpoint to the<br />
contorted sounds and movements he makes.<br />
Brilliantly thesped by non-disabled actors, the film<br />
is filled with fully fleshed-out characters that defy<br />
simple categorization.<br />
Pieprzyca places the character of Mateusz squarely at<br />
his story’s centre. While his mother showers him with<br />
kisses and laughter, his father fires his imagination.<br />
As he grows up, Mateusz (Dawid Ogrodnik) even<br />
wins a loving girlfriend. But, as with all his attempts to<br />
influence the world, his efforts to help her backfire.<br />
Tues 18 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.30pm / 101 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Maciej Pieprzyca 2013 Poland<br />
Cast: Dawid Ogrodnik, Kamil Tkacz, Katarzyna Zawadzka<br />
Winner, Grand Prix & Audience Award, Montreal World Film Festival<br />
Winner, Silver Lion, Gdynia Film Festival<br />
With the support of the Embassy of Poland<br />
LOOKING FOR LIGHT: JANE BOWN<br />
Pieprzyca situates his film in that gap between the<br />
Mateusz seen by even the kindliest, and the smart,<br />
sardonic, inner Mateusz. His erratic movements<br />
and unintelligible sounds register less as symptoms<br />
of disease than as a language that others are too<br />
unimaginative to interpret.<br />
Ronnie Scheib<br />
Variety<br />
With special guest Dawid Ogrodnik<br />
A revealing portrait of Jane Bown, the self-effacing but<br />
acclaimed portrait photographer, emerges through<br />
conversation, anecdote and candid reflection in this<br />
new documentary from Michael Whyte and Irish filmmaker<br />
Luke Dodd.<br />
In the almost six decades that Bown worked for The<br />
Observer, she became renowned for insightful, highly<br />
individualistic portraits of the famous. Some of these<br />
portraits are now regarded as classics of the genre<br />
- Samuel Beckett, Queen Elizabeth II, The Beatles,<br />
Bertrand Russell, Mick Jagger and Margaret Thatcher.<br />
Tues 18 Feb / Light House 2 / 8.45pm / 83 minutes<br />
Directors: Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte 2014 UK<br />
The film grew out of a 2005 interview conducted<br />
with Bown as she was coming to the end of her<br />
working life and beginning to contemplate what it<br />
would be like when she was no longer able to take<br />
photographs. For the first time, she spoke candidly<br />
about her career and revealed how her very personal<br />
approach to the taking of portraits is informed<br />
by a deep sense of loss and abandonment. This<br />
private portrait is enhanced by a series of insightful<br />
interviews with Jane’s peers, family, colleagues,<br />
friends, and of course some of her subjects.<br />
David Mullane<br />
With special guests Luke Dodd and Michael Whyte<br />
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MOOD INDIGO<br />
L’ÉCUME DES JOURS<br />
‘Gondry builds a beautifully busy alternate universe<br />
full of surprises’ Screen International<br />
Tues 18 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.45pm / 125 minutes<br />
Director: Michel Gondry 2013 France/Belgium<br />
Writers: Michel Gondry, Luc Bossi<br />
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Romain Duris, Gad Elmaleh<br />
With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland<br />
It’s a match made in heaven: director Michel Gondry,<br />
master of cinematic bricolage, meets Boris Vian’s<br />
cult novel Froth on the Daydream, and the result is<br />
Mood Indigo. Romain Duris plays handsome, wealthy<br />
Colin, who lives in a lovely apartment with a factotum<br />
(Omar Sy from The Untouchables) so brilliant and<br />
accomplished he leaves Jeeves at the starting post.<br />
Colin’s friend Chick, avid collector of the books of<br />
celebrity philosopher Jean Sol Patre, falls in love, so<br />
Colin decides that he too wants a girlfriend, which is<br />
when he meets Chloe (Audrey Tautou). So far, so cute.<br />
But there’s heartbreak ahead.<br />
Froth on the Daydream, first published in 1947, was<br />
described by Raymond Queneau as ‘the most<br />
heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever<br />
written’. Gondry’s brand of dark romantic whimsy<br />
and penchant for lo-tech effects nail the writer’s jazzy<br />
invention, surreal flights of fancy, streaks of satire and<br />
wall-to-wall puns. Like the novel, the film starts off<br />
light-hearted, but there are signs all is not rosy in this<br />
world. As the characters are confronted by worsening<br />
health and financial crises, the film becomes darker<br />
and more melancholy. Mood Indigo is a rom-com<br />
haunted by death.<br />
Anne Billson<br />
The Telegraph<br />
THE CINE TALENT AWARD<br />
CREATE. INSPIRE.<br />
NETWORK. ENGAGE.<br />
JDIFF, in partnership with Universal<br />
Pictures International Ireland, Screen<br />
International and Bord Scannán na<br />
hÉireann/Irish Film Board is delighted to<br />
announce the return of the CINE Talent<br />
award. CINE Talent aims to celebrate<br />
emerging Irish talent and 2014 sees a<br />
slight change to the award’s structure.<br />
To emphasise the collaborative nature<br />
of the film-making process, nominations<br />
for this year’s award will come directly<br />
from the production companies and/or<br />
distributors of the feature titles within the<br />
Irish season.<br />
• Nominees must be members of the<br />
cast or key creative team (writer, director,<br />
producer, DoP, editor, production designer<br />
etc.)<br />
• Nominees must have a tangible track<br />
record and have made noteworthy<br />
contributions within their discipline<br />
• Nominees must be of Irish citizenship/<br />
resident in Ireland<br />
• A maximum of FOUR nominees may be<br />
submitted per title in the Irish Film Season<br />
of JDIFF 2014<br />
CINE Talent will be open for nominations<br />
after the festival launch. The closing<br />
date for nominations and publication of<br />
candidates will be end of business on 30<br />
January.<br />
A public vote will go live on jdiff.com from<br />
13 February, so the audiences can engage<br />
and vote for the nominees they feel are<br />
most deserving of this award. Updates will<br />
be available throughout the festival with<br />
shortlists being announced by closing<br />
weekend.<br />
The winner will be announced on<br />
Tuesday 25 February, with their prize<br />
including a promotional editorial from<br />
Screen International as well as networking<br />
support and opportunities to both<br />
domestic and international industry<br />
contacts.<br />
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FRIDAY 14TH FEBRUARY<br />
WEDNESDAY<br />
19TH FEBRUARY<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
SCREEN TEST: THE FUTURE OF BROADCASTING<br />
1pm<br />
Page 64<br />
CAS & DYLAN WITH RICHARD DREYFUSS & JASON PRIESTLEY<br />
6.30pm<br />
Page 78<br />
UNDER THE SKIN WITH JONATHAN GLAZER<br />
8.45pm<br />
Page 80<br />
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THOSE HAPPY YEARS<br />
ANNI FELICI<br />
A delicate, nuanced film that is unexpectedly moving<br />
in its portrait of a young Italian family living through<br />
the turbulent, freedom-loving 70s, Those Happy<br />
Years uses ironic distance to talk about very intimate<br />
things. Director Daniele Luchetti (My Brother is an<br />
Only Child) brings a personal, even autobiographical<br />
urgency to the story, coolly told in hindsight by a<br />
narrator who watched his parents’ marriage unravel<br />
when he was a child.<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 6pm / 101 minutes<br />
Director: Daniele Luchetti 2013 Italy<br />
Writers: Sandro Petraglia, Daniele Luchetti, Stefano Rulli, Caterina Venturini<br />
Cast: Micaela Ramazzotti, Martina Gedeck, Kim Rossi Stuart<br />
Presented in association with the Italian Institute of Culture - Dublin<br />
CANNIBAL<br />
CANÍBAL<br />
Guido Marchetti (Kim Rossi Stuart) is an ambitious<br />
but still unknown avant-garde artist. He sculpts<br />
female nudes in his Roman studio by pouring<br />
plaster over models’ naked bodies. Serena (Micaela<br />
Ramazzotti) is a pretty, curly-haired housewife who<br />
understands all too well what her good-looking<br />
spouse is up to. Serena has always accepted Guido’s<br />
attitude that a wife should stay home, but now<br />
something changes inside her. Serena puts aside her<br />
doubts and heads off to a feminist retreat. There, as<br />
the expression goes, she learns a lot about herself.<br />
Rossi Stuart is wholly believable as the angry, selfabsorbed<br />
artist, but Ramazzotti steals the spotlight<br />
with her engaging pout and sudden courage to<br />
follow her own path.<br />
Deborah Young<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
When a film-maker is capable of exploring a series<br />
of frankly outlandish filmic, thematic and moral<br />
propositions with absolute conviction and sureness<br />
of touch, the results are usually memorable. Such is<br />
the case with Manuel Martin Cuenca’s Cannibal, a<br />
carefully crafted study of a psychopath that brings a<br />
whole new meaning to the phrase Eat, Pray, Love.<br />
Carlos (de la Torre in a career-best performance) is a<br />
tailor with a snobbish disdain for prêt à porter. Quietly<br />
spoken, fastidious and dapper, he’s a fascinating<br />
figure, but imperfection threatens in the form of a<br />
Romanian immigrant (Olimpia Melinte) who comes<br />
to live in the house opposite. One night, following an<br />
argument over money, she seeks shelter at Carlos’<br />
house: an ellipsis suggests that she does not survive<br />
the visit. Matters are complicated further when the<br />
girl’s twin sister comes looking for her.<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Light House 1 / 6.15pm / 90 minutes<br />
Director: Manuel Martín Cuenca 2013 Spain/Romania/Russia/France<br />
Writers: Manuel Martín Cuenca, Alejandro Hernández<br />
Cast: Antonio de la Torre, Olimpia Melinte<br />
Cannibal pulses from first scene to last with tension.<br />
But it is not the tension raised by the cheap question<br />
of how and when Carlos’s next victim will meet her<br />
end. Audiences will emerge from Cannibal with their<br />
perspectives slightly rearranged, something which<br />
few films can claim to do.<br />
Jonathan Holland<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
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WEDNESDAY 19TH FEBRUARY<br />
GARE DU NORD<br />
An unclassifiable hybrid of fiction and documentary,<br />
imagination and sociology, Gare du Nord is above all<br />
a complex portrait of a familiar city space. Mapping<br />
the Parisian railway station and its many layers above<br />
and below ground, Claire Simon depicts a restless<br />
crossroads of stories, encounters and fantasies.<br />
‘Compelling viewing … understated yet moving’<br />
Time Out London<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.15pm / 119 minutes<br />
Director: Claire Simon 2013 France/Canada<br />
Writers: Claire Simon, Shirel Amitay, Olivier Lorelle<br />
Cast: Nicole Garcia, Reda Kateb, François Damiens<br />
Reda Kateb (Zero Dark Thirty) is Ismaël, a doctoral<br />
student researching the station and its various<br />
populations, while Nicole Garcia is Mathilde, an<br />
academic on the eve of a major operation. As they<br />
tentatively fall for each other, they cross paths with<br />
the multitudes who make up the station’s daily<br />
life: guards, railway workers, shop assistants, street<br />
people, a harassed estate agent (Monia Chokri) and<br />
a TV presenter (François Damiens) in search of his<br />
missing daughter. Simon’s ever-shifting perspective<br />
builds up a detailed mosaic of the station as global<br />
village, souk and microcosm of Paris itself, in a film<br />
at once poetic, political, realist and romantic.<br />
Jonathan Romney<br />
BFI London Film Festival<br />
With special guest Claire Simon<br />
LIVING IN A CODED LAND<br />
As we grapple with the post Celtic Tiger, post bail-out<br />
landscape, along comes film-maker Pat Collins with<br />
a documentary which not only offers us a context –<br />
historical, social and philosophical – but also prompts<br />
us to think.<br />
This filmic essay is centred in the Midlands, in<br />
County Westmeath, Ireland’s historical ‘umbilicus’,<br />
and from here the legacy of colonialism, patronage<br />
and privilege are explored, as well as our relationship<br />
with the land and the past. The real strength of this<br />
documentary is Collins’ judicious use of archive<br />
material, both sound and image, which he intercuts<br />
with present-day footage and contributions from<br />
commentators, geographers and historians. The<br />
effect is both lyrical and remarkable.<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Light House 2 / 6.30pm / 80 minutes<br />
Director: Pat Collins 2013 Ireland<br />
We are also given a fascinating insight into how the<br />
so-called ‘middle man’ rose to a position of power<br />
in Ireland, from the cattle ranchers of the 1600s<br />
to the new middle men of the financial sector,<br />
much beloved of modern governments. This is an<br />
important piece of work, a forward-looking social<br />
commentary of our time.<br />
Róisín Duffy<br />
RTÉ<br />
With special guest Pat Collins<br />
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CAS & DYLAN<br />
An ailing surgeon and a young writer are thrown<br />
together on a memorable journey across Canada in<br />
this touching road movie directed by former Beverley<br />
Hills 90210 star Jason Priestley. Richard Dreyfuss<br />
is Cas Pepper, a Winnipeg surgeon who ditches his<br />
job after receiving some very bad news. His plan<br />
is to strike out west alone, but after crossing paths<br />
with Dylan Morgan – a free-wheeling, chain-smoking<br />
kleptomaniac – he finds himself fleeing the scene of<br />
a crime in a stolen VW Beetle with Dylan resolutely in<br />
tow and, despite his best attempts, he just can’t seem<br />
to shake her off. But as the pair wind their way across<br />
the Rockies , they find themselves forced to reveal<br />
the real reasons for their flight.<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 6.30pm / 90 minutes<br />
Director: Jason Priestley 2013 Canada<br />
Writer: Jessie Gabe<br />
Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Richard Dreyfuss, Jayne Eastwood<br />
Winner, Audience Award & Best Actress, Whistler Film Festival<br />
Like the best road movies, Priestley’s directorial<br />
debut is a moving film about life and what to do<br />
with your share, bolstered by a wise and funny<br />
script from Jessie Gabe. Tatiana Maslany is perfect<br />
as the irrepressible Dylan, while Dreyfuss revels in<br />
his best role in years as the straitlaced doctor slowly<br />
unbuttoned by his companion’s sense of fun.<br />
Alistair Daniel<br />
With special guests Jason Priestley and Richard<br />
Dreyfuss<br />
A VISION: A LIFE OF WB YEATS<br />
Reel Art is an Arts Council scheme designed to<br />
provide film artists with a unique opportunity to<br />
make highly creative, imaginative and experimental<br />
documentaries on an artistic theme.<br />
The life and work of Nobel laureate WB Yeats holds<br />
a particular place in hearts and imaginations across<br />
the world. Beyond Ireland – where Yeats is a kind of<br />
unofficial national poet – his work echoes in profound<br />
ways. In places beyond easy comprehension. Beyond<br />
the rational mind. In the places where poetry truly<br />
lives and breathes.<br />
Wed 19 Feb / IFI 1 / 6.30pm / 75 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Alan Gilsenan 2013 Ireland<br />
Commissioned for the Arts Council’s Reel Art scheme,<br />
this film is a response to that vast body of work. A<br />
visual – and avowedly experimental – ‘film-poem’, to<br />
coin an uneasy term. Using solely the words of WB<br />
Yeats, we attempted to take the viewer on a cinematic<br />
journey of sorts into Yeats’ extraordinary imagination.<br />
It is a biography of a kind, but not in any conventional<br />
way. Yet, beyond Yeats’ popular profile and his cultural<br />
tourist caché, little is really known of his complex<br />
life, despite having articulated it so completely, so<br />
creatively. In so many ways, Yeats dreamt up his life.<br />
He fashioned his own majestic screenplay and we are<br />
– endlessly – the beneficiaries.<br />
Film-maker’s statement<br />
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WEDNESDAY 19TH FEBRUARY<br />
THE UNSPEAKABLE ACT<br />
Directed by former Los Angeles Reader film critic<br />
Dan Sallitt, The Unspeakable Act takes one of the few<br />
remaining social taboos in the western world and<br />
presents it in an earnest and incredibly charming<br />
way. Dealing with the controversial theme of incest<br />
within a close-knit yet strangely detached family<br />
dynamic, Sallitt’s film relies far more on the strength<br />
of its character development than it does on gaudy<br />
sensationalism.<br />
‘Dan Sallitt is America’s indie answer to Rohmer’<br />
IndieWire<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 8.30pm / 91 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Dan Sallitt 2012 US<br />
Cast: Tallie Medel, Sky Hirschkron, Aundrea Fares<br />
THE CONGRESS<br />
Intelligent 17-year-old New Yorker Jackie (Tallie Medel)<br />
has long held a fondness for her brother Matthew.<br />
However, when he brings home a girlfriend, Jackie<br />
struggles to deal with her deep-rooted heartbreak.<br />
Successfully immersing us into Jackie’s curious<br />
attitude towards romance and family, Sallitt allows<br />
us to detach ourselves from the stigmas of society<br />
and study this tale of incest in almost an entirely<br />
clinical way.<br />
Like Rohmer, Sallitt has created a remarkable<br />
honest portrait of adolescent romantic confusion.<br />
The Unspeakable Act is an intimate, yet thoroughly<br />
enjoyable film with a far more universal theme of<br />
sexual confusion and teenage angst than its eyecatching<br />
synopsis suggests.<br />
Patrick Gamble<br />
Cine Vue<br />
Ari Folman follows his groundbreaking animated<br />
documentary Waltz with Bashir with an equally bold<br />
and brilliant movie. A meta-textual Hollywood satire<br />
starring Robin Wright as herself, it morphs midway<br />
into a full-blown sci-fi cartoon, but only to cut even<br />
closer to the philosophical bone in its investigation<br />
of femininity, fantasy and virtual reality.<br />
‘contains tricks aplenty and ideas in abundance’<br />
The Guardian<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.45pm / 120 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Ari Folman 2013 Israel/Germany/Poland/Luxembourg/<br />
France/Belgium<br />
Cast: Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Jon Hamm<br />
Winner, Best Picture, Best Screenplay & Best Actress, Fantastic Fest<br />
Inspired by Stanislav Lem’s novel The Futurological<br />
Congress, Folman delves into a make-believe world<br />
where a beautiful, talented actress like Robin Wright<br />
(The Princess Bride) is considered all but washed<br />
up. Miramount studio head Danny Huston does<br />
have one last proposition for her though, a deal<br />
that will guarantee her riches for life and fame well<br />
beyond that. He wants to scan her, sample her, and<br />
take full rights to the virtual Robin Wright. Only one<br />
condition: the actual Robin must never act again.<br />
It’s a Faustian bargain too good to turn down. But<br />
that’s only the beginning.<br />
A visionary film that takes its place alongside Brazil,<br />
Blade Runner and Solaris, The Congress is a savagely<br />
funny and surprisingly moving commentary on our<br />
increasing reliance on screens – not just to watch,<br />
but to hide behind.<br />
Vancouver International Film Festival<br />
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UNDER THE SKIN<br />
Bones, nerves, blood and meat: we are all made of<br />
the same stuff underneath. Jonathan Glazer’s Under<br />
the Skin presents us with a person who isn’t. The film<br />
is certainly divisive: but would you expect anything<br />
else from an almost wordless science-fiction thriller<br />
in which Scarlett Johansson plays an alien who lures<br />
lonely and/or horny Glaswegians into her van and<br />
turns them into Scotch broth?<br />
‘a tour de force of sensual and sensory film-making’<br />
Variety<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 8.45pm / 107 minutes<br />
Director: Jonathan Glazer 2013 UK<br />
Writer: Walter Campbell<br />
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan<br />
Johansson is nothing short of iconic here; her<br />
character is a classic femme fatale in the film noir<br />
tradition, down to the plump red lips and deep fur<br />
coat, but with a refrigerated nothingness at her core.<br />
She looks at her fellow cast members as if they are<br />
from another planet – which is, of course, exactly as<br />
it should be. Even the Scottish landscape looks alien:<br />
dawn mist rolls across lochs like curls of space dust.<br />
Glazer’s astonishing film takes you to a place where<br />
the everyday becomes suddenly strange, and fear<br />
and seduction become one and the same. You stare<br />
at the screen, at once entranced and terrified, and<br />
step forward into the slick.<br />
Robbie Collin<br />
The Telegraph<br />
With special guest Jonathan Glazer<br />
NORDVEST<br />
Michael Noer’s first film was the acclaimed 2010<br />
prison drama R (co-directed with Tobias Lindholm,<br />
who appeared at JDIFF 2013), and while Nordvest<br />
shares some of that film’s fascination with young men<br />
and violence, it is also a convincing crime drama.<br />
‘a compelling portrait of a young man whose moral<br />
compass is skewed but not broken’ Variety<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Light House 2 / 9pm / 100 minutes<br />
Director: Michael Noer 2013 Denmark<br />
Writers: Michael Noer, Rasmus Heisterberg<br />
Cast: Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Oscar Dyekjær Giese, Nicholas Westwood Kidd<br />
Eighteen-year-old Caspar (Gustav Dyekjær Giese)<br />
is a burglar whose stolen items are sold by tough<br />
immigrant traders. Caspar sees the chance of a<br />
bigger pay day when he is approached by tough<br />
older gangster Björn (the impressive Roland Møller)<br />
to steal a few specific items. Making big money for<br />
the first time Caspar pampers his family, but makes<br />
the mistake of annoying the immigrant gang who<br />
assume he is ‘their’ man. With his life spiralling out of<br />
control, Caspar is faced with some tough decisions.<br />
Noer co-wrote the script with Rasmus Heisterberg,<br />
who wrote the Oscar-nominated A Royal Affair (JDIFF<br />
2013), and turned to two real-life brothers in the leads,<br />
Gustav Dyekjær Giese and Oscar Dyekjær Giese.<br />
Noer films in an appropriately gritty and intense style,<br />
drawing out the sense of community in Nordvest and<br />
layering in moments of humour.<br />
Mark Adams<br />
Screen International<br />
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WEDNESDAY 19TH FEBRUARY<br />
SALVO<br />
A henchman for the Sicilian Mafia, Salvo is solitary,<br />
cold and ruthless in this Italian film noir, which won<br />
the Critics’ Week Grand Prix at the 2013 Cannes<br />
Film Festival.<br />
‘an impressive feature debut’<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Wed 19 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 9pm / 105 minutes<br />
Writer-directors: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza 2013 Italy<br />
Cast: Saleh Bakri, Sara Serraiocco, Luigi Lo Cascio<br />
Winner, Critics’ Week Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival<br />
Presented in association with the Italian Institute of Culture - Dublin<br />
After being ambushed by a rival Mafia clan and<br />
winning the shootout, Salvo sneaks into the house<br />
of one of the last members to finish the job. Upon<br />
entry he discovers Rita (Sara Serraiocco), a beautiful<br />
young blind girl who powerlessly stands by while<br />
he assassinates her brother. After sparing Rita’s life,<br />
Salvo escorts her to an abandoned factory where<br />
she is held captive. He battles with his duty to<br />
dispose of this witness while his fascination with<br />
her grows. An intense part-miracle results in an<br />
unbreakable bond between the two.<br />
Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri (The Time That Remains,<br />
The Band’s Visit) offers a captivating performance<br />
as the supposedly steely mafia assassin in Sicilian<br />
film-makers Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s<br />
astonishing part-action, part-thriller.<br />
Lavazzo Italian Film Festival<br />
With special guests Fabio Grassadonia and<br />
Antonio Piazza<br />
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20TH FEBRUARY<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
PUBLIC INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM KLEIN<br />
6pm<br />
Page 19<br />
ELIZA LYNCH: QUEEN OF PARAGUAY<br />
8pm<br />
Page 86<br />
THE REUNION WITH ANNA ODELL<br />
9pm<br />
Page 87<br />
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A STORY OF CHILDREN AND <strong>FILM</strong><br />
Debuting at Cannes to impressive acclaim, Mark<br />
Cousins’ latest cinematic odyssey gathers a mosaic<br />
of remarkable clips from 53 films to create a unique<br />
portrait of childhood in cinema.<br />
Using simple contemporary footage of his nephew<br />
and niece, Cousins explores elements of childhood<br />
personality and experience in films from almost<br />
eighty years of cinema. He notes the initial wariness,<br />
for example, of his niece Laura towards the camera,<br />
and uses her facial expression as a starting point to<br />
study that same look as it appears in films as diverse<br />
as Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Ozu’s<br />
An Inn in Tokyo.<br />
‘entirely distinctive, sometimes eccentric, always brilliant …<br />
this film is a treat’ The Guardian<br />
Thurs 20 Feb / Light House 3 / 4.30pm / 101 minutes<br />
Director: Mark Cousins 2013 UK<br />
And while Cousins’ reflections are endlessly<br />
fascinating as he dances from class and the<br />
changing social politics of the Soviet Union to the<br />
volcanic temperaments of children in Iranian film,<br />
what is perhaps most impressive is that he manages<br />
to remain eye to eye with the children he features,<br />
bringing us into their world. What results is perhaps<br />
Cousins’ most beguiling film to date and a fitting<br />
follow up to the epic The Story of Film.<br />
Ross Whitaker<br />
THE GRAND SEDUCTION<br />
In order to secure a vital factory contract, the<br />
residents of a small Newfoundland fishing village<br />
conspire to charm a big-city doctor into becoming<br />
the town’s full-time physician in this sparkling comedy<br />
from director Don McKellar (Last Night).<br />
Like many affected by the collapse of the fishing<br />
industry, residents of this once-thriving settlement<br />
are driven to seek employment in the city, or, worse,<br />
queue for government assistance. Their future<br />
begins to look brighter when a plastics manufacturer<br />
proposes to set up shop – until they learn that the<br />
contract calls for a resident doctor. Enter Dr Lewis<br />
(Taylor Kitsch), an ethically suspect cosmetic surgeon.<br />
In a riotous attempt to charm him, the villagers<br />
fall over themselves trying to persuade him that<br />
their seemingly sleepy hamlet is a hotbed of<br />
cosmopolitan sophistication.<br />
Thurs 20 Feb / Light House 1 / 6.15pm / 115 minutes<br />
Director: Don McKellar 2013 Canada<br />
Writers: Michael Dowse, Ken Scott<br />
Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch, Gordon Pinsent<br />
The Grand Seduction’s gentle, whimsical reflections<br />
are poignant and uproarious by turns, and brought<br />
to life through superb performances from Brendan<br />
Gleeson and Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent. Shot<br />
on location in Trinity Bay, the film is certain to delight<br />
even the saltiest cynic.<br />
Toronto International Film Festival<br />
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THE SQUARE<br />
AL MIDAN<br />
The Square follows a variety of revolutionaries as<br />
they take to Cairo’s Tahrir Square from 2011 to 2013<br />
to protest the rule of Egyptian president Hosni<br />
Mubarak, then the military, and finally the newly<br />
elected president Mohamed Morsi. Jehane Noujaim’s<br />
documentary charts the rebellious efforts of three<br />
friends: twentysomething Ahmed Hassan, who<br />
preaches social unity and freedom; Kite Runner<br />
actor Khalid Abdalla, who advocates reshaping<br />
the government apparatus; and Magdy Ashour,<br />
whose allegiance to the Muslim Brotherhood is<br />
complicated by his support for rule of law.<br />
‘[a] stunning new documentary’ The New York Times<br />
Thur 20 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.15pm / 90 minutes<br />
Director: Jehane Noujaim 2012 Egypt<br />
Winner, Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary,<br />
Sundance Film Festival<br />
Winner, Audience Award, Toronto International Film Festival<br />
FINSTERWORLD<br />
Gaining power from its proximity to the chaotic<br />
events in and around its central location, The Square<br />
evokes the vital role that such centres play in bringing<br />
citizens together. Noujaim’s handheld footage has a<br />
visceral intensity that captures the lethal brutality that<br />
its subjects, and millions of others, faced.<br />
The Square refuses to sugarcoat its material,<br />
conveying the anarchic and terrifying experience<br />
of being in the centre of Cairo over the course<br />
of these two turbulent years. What emerges is a<br />
blistering portrait of rebellion against social discord,<br />
marginalization and oppression, and a call to arms<br />
for true democratic ideals.<br />
Nick Schager<br />
Slant Magazine<br />
A chiropodist with disturbing baking ingredients, a<br />
policeman who likes to dress as a teddy bear, a silverbearded<br />
old man who lives in harmony with nature<br />
in the woods and a film-maker without a muse: these<br />
are just some of the strange characters that coexist<br />
in Frauke Finsterwalder’s debut fiction feature.<br />
Jonas (Max Pellny), a shy teenager, spends his days<br />
lost in comic books. He is surrounded by a motley<br />
array of flawed and unbalanced individuals, like his<br />
classmate Maximilian, whose silver-spoon upbringing<br />
has made him obnoxious and self-centred. On a<br />
school tour to a former Nazi concentration camp the<br />
teenagers’ fates become entangled.<br />
‘A dark, multi-stranded fairytale’<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Thurs 20 Feb / Light House 3 / 6.30pm / 91 minutes<br />
Director: Frauke Finsterwalder 2013 Germany<br />
Writers: Frauke Finsterwalder, Christian Kracht<br />
Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Sandra Hüller, Ronald Zehrfeld<br />
Presented by the Goethe-Institut Irland and Trinity College Dublin.<br />
Christian Kracht will read from his novel Imperium on Friday 21<br />
February at 6pm in the Long Room Hub in Trinity College Dublin.<br />
Admission free<br />
With an ensemble cast featuring some of Germany’s<br />
finest talents (including Corinna Harfouch from<br />
Downfall), Finsterworld is a quirky drama that<br />
explores complex and sometimes sinister aspects<br />
of human relationships. Newcomer Max Pellny<br />
is illuminating as the young Jonas, while Michael<br />
Maertens really steals the show as Claude, the<br />
creepy chiropodist.<br />
David Desmond<br />
With special guests Frauke Finsterwalder and<br />
Christian Kracht<br />
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THE LADY ASSASSIN<br />
MY NHAN KE<br />
This colourful Vietnamese action spectacular catches<br />
the spirit of the Hong Kong wuxia tradition. Set in an<br />
indefinite past, the plot centres on a glamorous band<br />
of prostitutes who live together in a remote riverside<br />
tavern, robbing and killing the hapless travellers who<br />
stop by. When Linh (Tang Thanh Ha), a seemingly<br />
innocent noblewoman, becomes their prisoner, they<br />
decide to train her as an assassin in a plot for revenge<br />
against a local warlord (Le Thai Hoa). Gradually she<br />
grows accustomed to her new life, while harbouring<br />
a secret of her own.<br />
Thurs 20 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 6.30pm / 89 minutes<br />
Director: Quang Dung Nguyen 2013 Vietnam<br />
Writer: Ngo Quan Dung<br />
Cast: Kim Dzung, Tang Thanh Ha, Thanh Hang<br />
There are plenty of sword fights and impossible<br />
leaps, although the fight scenes are more decorative<br />
than intensely physical. The director, Nguyen Quang<br />
Dung, incorporates as much slapstick humour as<br />
possible, as well as a brief musical number. The<br />
camera peers through nets or between bamboo<br />
poles, while objects and bodies fly. Linh participates<br />
in games of kick volleyball as part of her training,<br />
as well as learning an acrobatic new method of<br />
scrubbing floors.<br />
Jake Wilson<br />
Sydney Morning Herald<br />
STARRED UP<br />
A complex father/son relationship is viewed through<br />
a raw depiction of prison life in the riveting Starred<br />
Up. Pitched somewhere between Scum and a British<br />
version of A Prophet, this is the most powerful and<br />
assured film of David Mackenzie’s career.<br />
‘Some years from now, Starred Up... will be remembered as the film<br />
that announced a new star, Jack O’Connell’ The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Thurs 20 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.30pm / 100 minutes<br />
Director: David Mackenzie 2013 UK<br />
Writer: Jonathan Asser<br />
Cast: Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend<br />
Jack O’Connell has some of the arrogant swagger<br />
and tightly coiled menace of a young James Cagney<br />
as Eric, a teenage young offender who is prematurely<br />
moved to an adult jail or ‘starred up’. Aggressive and<br />
unpredictable, he is soon armed and dangerous. The<br />
other prisoners include Neville (Ben Mendelsohn),<br />
the father he has not seen since he was five. A weary,<br />
inarticulate veteran of the system, Neville seems<br />
uncertain whether to protect his offspring or join in<br />
punishing him.<br />
Shot on location at Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast<br />
and Maze Long Kesh, Lisburn and working from a<br />
first screenplay by prison system therapist Jonathan<br />
Asser, Starred Up feels totally authentic. Tightly edited<br />
but with the space to embrace the lives of other<br />
inmates, Starred Up is a raw, compelling drama that<br />
only grows more compelling as it unfolds.<br />
Allan Hunter<br />
Screen International<br />
With special guest David Mackenzie<br />
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ELIZA LYNCH:<br />
QUEEN OF PARAGUAY<br />
Thurs 20 Feb / Savoy 1 / 8pm / 80 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Alan Gilsenan 2013 Ireland<br />
Cast: Leryn Franco, Maria Doyle Kennedy<br />
This absorbing Irish documentary recounts the<br />
life of Eliza Lynch, the Cork-born beauty who is<br />
revered in Paraguay as a national heroine. Guided by<br />
Michael Lillis and Ronan Fanning – the authors of her<br />
meticulously researched biography – director Alan<br />
Gilsenan (whose A Vision also screens at JDIFF this<br />
year – see page 78) takes us on an epic journey from<br />
famine-stricken Ireland to the battlefields of South<br />
America’s bloodiest war.<br />
The film’s emotional heart is provided by Maria<br />
Doyle Kennedy’s hypnotic interpretation of Lynch,<br />
looking back on her life from beyond the grave<br />
and confronting her many enemies who branded<br />
her an avaricious whore. These dramatized scenes<br />
are juxtaposed with a series of beautiful, often<br />
melancholy images shot in contemporary Paraguay.<br />
In interviews with the country’s elite, the hunt for the<br />
historical Lynch evolves into an exploration of the<br />
disastrous war her lover, the dictator Francisco Solano<br />
López, launched against Brazil and Argentina.<br />
Gilsenan has delivered a film that helps rescue one of<br />
the great Irish lives of the 19th century from obscurity<br />
while opening a fascinating window onto what is<br />
perhaps South America’s least-known country and<br />
the apocalyptic conflagration that still haunts its<br />
society.<br />
Tom Hennigan<br />
The Irish Times South America Correspondent<br />
With special guests Alan Gilsenan and<br />
Maria Doyle Kennedy<br />
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WE ARE THE BEST!<br />
VI ÄR BÄST!<br />
A bright, breezy and thoroughly enjoyable story of<br />
three teenage punkettes who strain and struggle to<br />
life, love and music in Stockholm in the early 1980s,<br />
Lukas Moodysson’s We Are The Best! is a real feelgood<br />
delight. Based on the semi-autobiographical<br />
graphic novel Never Goodnight by his wife Coco<br />
Moodysson, the film is familiar territory, but handled<br />
with a great sense of warmth and will remind<br />
Moodysson fans of his earlier films such as Together<br />
and Show Me Love.<br />
‘Audiences who responded to the light touch<br />
and warm communality of … Show Me Love and<br />
Together will thrill to this sweet, spirited return<br />
to form’ Variety<br />
Thurs 20 Feb / Light House 1 / 9pm / 102 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Lukas Moodysson 2013 Sweden<br />
Cast: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne<br />
Winner, Sakura Grand Prix, Tokyo International Film Festival<br />
There will be a second screening of We Are the Best! on Friday 21<br />
February at 6pm in UCD Cinema. For tickets see ucd.ie/cinema<br />
The early part of the film details the deep and warm<br />
friendship between Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) and<br />
the ever-smiling Klara (Mira Grosin). They manage<br />
to snag some time in the youth club music room.<br />
Neither can actually play an instrument and so they<br />
recruit classmate Hedvig (Liv LeMoyne), a trained<br />
guitarist whose strict Christian upbringing also<br />
makes her something of an outcast at school. The<br />
three young actresses are all excellent, though the<br />
relationship between Bobo and Klara is the heart<br />
of this charming film. Liv LeMoyne is striking as the<br />
most mature of the girls, while amongst the adults<br />
Anna Rydgren as Bobo’s mother is terrific.<br />
Mark Adams<br />
Screen International<br />
THE REUNION<br />
ÅTERTRÄFFEN<br />
Anna Odell is a controversial Swedish artist, infamous<br />
for an art installation in which she faked a suicide<br />
attempt on a Stockholm bridge. In her first feature<br />
film, the audacious Odell presents us with a curious<br />
premise: she has filmed an imaginary class reunion,<br />
in which she confronts her former classmates and<br />
charges them with bullying her during their school<br />
years, and then invites those same people to watch<br />
this fictional enactment with her and discuss both the<br />
film and their shared history.<br />
‘[a] brave and quite timely film about human behaviour’<br />
The Guardian<br />
Thurs 20 Feb / Light House 3 / 9pm / 88 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Anna Odell 2013 Sweden<br />
Cast: Anna Odell, Anders Berg, Kamila Benhamza<br />
Winner, FIPRESCI Award, Venice Film Festival<br />
Taking the taut discomfort of her fellow Scandinavian<br />
Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen and mixing it,<br />
unexpectedly, with the almost naïve boldness of<br />
Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Odell has<br />
crafted a wholly unique film, one which challenges<br />
both its subjects with the complicity and crimes of<br />
youth but also challenges the viewer with its complex<br />
layering of reality and fiction, documentary and<br />
narrative, the past and an imagined present.<br />
Ruthless and uncompromising, Odell is an altogether<br />
strange new voice in Scandinavian film and The<br />
Reunion will stand apart as a provocative debut that<br />
thrills and surprises audiences.<br />
David Mullane<br />
With special guest Anna Odell<br />
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AFTERNOON DELIGHT<br />
This sparklingly raunchy mixture of comedy and<br />
drama follows the midlife crisis of thirtysomething<br />
mum Rachel (Kathryn Hahn). In an effort to spice up<br />
her bland sex life with her husband (Josh Radnor),<br />
she arranges a saucy evening at a Los Angeles strip<br />
club, only to develop an unhealthy fixation on young<br />
exotic dancer McKenna (Juno Temple). Desperate<br />
to escape the numbingly dull preschool parents in<br />
her neighbourhood, Rachel arranges an ‘accidental’<br />
coffee date with the blonde stripper and, in the first<br />
in a series of bad decisions, offers McKenna a gig<br />
as a live-in nanny. Soon Rachel is on a rebellious<br />
downward spiral.<br />
‘sly, hip, and rewarding comedy of manners’<br />
Chicago Reader<br />
Thurs 20 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 9pm / 102 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Jill Soloway 2012 US<br />
Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor<br />
Winner, Best Director, Sundance Film Festival<br />
Kathryn Hahn moves from long-time supporting<br />
character (Step Brothers, Parks & Recreation, Girls) to<br />
leading lady in a bold and quick-witted performance,<br />
supported by a cast of comic talents that include<br />
Jane Lynch and Bridesmaids alumni Jessica St Clair<br />
and Annie Mumolo. Writer-director Jill Soloway (Six<br />
Feet Under, United States of Tara), makes her feature<br />
film debut with this smart burlesque about the<br />
frustrations and imperfections of a so-called<br />
perfect life.<br />
Seattle International Film Festival<br />
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FRIDAY<br />
21ST FEBRUARY<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
WRITERS IN CONVERSATION<br />
4.30pm<br />
Page 66<br />
THE ZERO THEOREM WITH TERRY GILLIAM<br />
9pm<br />
Page 97<br />
DAWN OF THE DEAD WITH LIVE SCORE BY GOBLIN<br />
10pm<br />
Page 98<br />
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SOLDATE JEANNETTE<br />
Daniel Hoesl’s striking but inscrutable debut feature is<br />
an absurdist redesign of Chantal Akerman’s feminist<br />
still life, down to the unexplained title. Dreyer and<br />
Godard are also explicitly name-checked in this<br />
deadpan study of a bourgeois Viennese housewife<br />
abandoning material living in the face of economic<br />
recession, though Ulrich Seidl, on whose Paradise<br />
trilogy Hoesl was an assistant director, is a clearer<br />
aesthetic influence.<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Light House 3 / 4pm / 82 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Daniel Hoesl 2013 Austria<br />
Cast: Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg, Christina Reichsthaler, Josef Kleindienst<br />
Winner, Best Feature, International Film Festival Rotterdam<br />
Special Mention, Krakow Independent Film Festival Off Camera<br />
A dryly funny pre-credits sequence follows<br />
unflappable fortysomething Fanni (a committed<br />
Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg) as she buys a designer<br />
dress at great expense, only to toss it straight into<br />
the nearest recycling bin. That sets the pace, tonally<br />
and thematically, for her ensuing adventures, as she<br />
is evicted from her plush, rent-overdue apartment,<br />
literally burns her remaining assets and takes a job<br />
on a rural piggery, where she finds a kindred spirit<br />
in rebellious farmhand Anna (Christina Reichsthaler).<br />
Any allegorical interpretations are as open-ended<br />
as Bettina Koester’s slamming techno-pop score<br />
is emphatic.<br />
Guy Lodge<br />
Variety<br />
TRAP STREET<br />
SHUIYIN JIE<br />
A poignant and engaging thriller, Vivian Qu’s<br />
feature debut plunges us into the fascinating world<br />
of state surveillance in China as it follows a digital<br />
mapping surveyor’s investigation of an ‘off-the-grid’<br />
hidden alley.<br />
‘pulses with a sweet, youthful energy’<br />
Variety<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Light House 3 / 6pm / 93 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Vivian Qu 2013 China<br />
Cast: Lu Yulai, He Wenchao<br />
Li Qiuming (Lu Yulai) works at a digital mapping<br />
company, photographing the streets that comprise<br />
the maze of China’s cities. One day while out<br />
surveying, he sees an attractive woman disappearing<br />
into a secluded alley. Unable to forget the mysterious<br />
lady who has triggered his romantic imagination,<br />
Qiuming returns to where he saw her first, only to<br />
discover that the data he had collected there was<br />
never registered. Even though he stands right there<br />
in front of the street sign, Forest Lane has fallen off<br />
the map of the city, as if it never existed.<br />
Trap Street is one of the most interesting Chinese<br />
films of the year. Contextualized in the uniqueness<br />
of China’s recent history, the universal paradoxes<br />
of societies in which individual freedom constantly<br />
clashes with new forms of control are themselves<br />
under surveillance here, trapped between modernity<br />
and socialism.<br />
Giovanna Fulvi<br />
Toronto International Film Festival<br />
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CONCUSSION<br />
Abby is a fortysomething, wealthy, married, lesbian<br />
housewife who – after getting smacked in the head<br />
by her son’s baseball – walks around every corner<br />
of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire<br />
for something else. She takes on a new project and<br />
purchases a pied-à-terre in Manhattan. Walking<br />
around the city streets reminds Abby what it feels<br />
like to be sexy, and her pent-up libido shakes off its<br />
inhibitions. Her desire is not a take-home item for<br />
the minivan ride back home, so Abby inaugurates<br />
a double life that draws her deeply into a world of<br />
prostitution for women.<br />
‘With strong acting, plenty of piquant black-comic dialogue,<br />
and an assured look, [Concussion] has all the right<br />
elements’ Screen International<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.15pm / 97 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Stacie Passon 2012 US<br />
Cast: Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff, Johnny Tchaikovsky<br />
In an auspicious debut, director Stacie Passon<br />
draws a pitch-perfect performance from her lead<br />
actor, Robin Weigert, as a sexy, shut-down family<br />
woman stretching to bloom again. Palpably sensual<br />
and deliciously contained, Concussion is a keen<br />
observation of the complicated contours of<br />
midlife crisis.<br />
Shari Frilot<br />
Sundance Film Festival<br />
THE GIRL FROM THE WARDROBE<br />
DZIEWCZYNA Z SZAFY<br />
The debut film from Polish director Bodo Kox is a<br />
tender and often very funny story about people who<br />
are lost within themselves.<br />
Jacek (Piotr Glowacki) lives with his brother in a<br />
typical apartment block in Warsaw. He takes care of<br />
Tomek (a tour de force from Wojciech Mecwaldowski)<br />
who suffers from a neurological condition that leaves<br />
him chronically isolated. Living and caring for his<br />
brother takes its toll on Jacek and he takes refuge in<br />
a string of romantic liaisons. Enter their mysterious<br />
neighbour Magda (Magdalena Rózanska) – the titular<br />
girl from the wardrobe. She, too, lives an insular life,<br />
shielded from the stresses of the outside world, but a<br />
connection slowly develops between the characters,<br />
leading them to realise that they’re not alone.<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Light House 1 / 6.30pm / 89 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Bodo Kox 2013 Poland<br />
Cast: Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Piotr Glowacki, Magdalena Rózanska<br />
With the support of the Embassy of Poland<br />
The film’s breakout star is Mecwaldowski, whose<br />
performance as Tomek has invited comparisons with<br />
Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. A touching film about<br />
longing and our need for safety, The Girl from the<br />
Wardrobe is a must-see.<br />
Zbyszek Zalinski<br />
RTÉ Radio 1<br />
With special guest Bodo Kox<br />
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THE DOUBLE<br />
Submarine director Richard Ayoade’s second<br />
film lays Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novella out in a<br />
nowhereland of office bureaucracy. Jesse Eisenberg<br />
plays Simon James, a skivvying worker bee who’s<br />
belittled by his colleagues and shunned by Hannah<br />
(Mia Wasikowska), the elfin girl who works the<br />
office’s giant, clanking photocopier. Eisenberg also<br />
plays James Simon, Simon James’ doppelgänger,<br />
who arrives unannounced, wins over the boss and<br />
immediately starts dating Hannah. No one reacts to<br />
the duplication, because Simon’s such a nobody.<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 6.30pm / 93 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Richard Ayoade 2013 UK<br />
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn<br />
Ayoade builds farce and tragedy out of the simplest<br />
devices. Everything, inside and out of the fiction, is<br />
against Simon. A blender roars to life as he tries to<br />
listen in on a conversation. A draft whips up and<br />
drowns him out when he thinks of something clever<br />
to say. Ayoade’s killer script takes evil pleasure in<br />
having Simon swallow his words and stutter<br />
through life.<br />
The Double isn’t an original idea. It wasn’t even in<br />
Dostoyevsky’s time. But it’s a great story. And Ayoade<br />
has produced a brilliant copy.<br />
Henry Barnes<br />
The Guardian<br />
GUN CRAZY<br />
With special guest Richard Ayoade<br />
Joseph H Lewis’s noir classic Gun Crazy is a small<br />
but perfectly formed black-and-white masterpiece of<br />
flash and trash, unwholesome obsession and criminal<br />
daring. The masters of the nouvelle vague adored it,<br />
not least for the bold and brilliant camerawork: there’s<br />
a tremendous continuous take of a bank job, filmed<br />
from one camera position in the back seat of the<br />
getaway car. Present and future cinephiles may be<br />
tempted to compare it to coups from Touch of Evil<br />
and I Am Cuba.<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Light House 3 / 8pm / 86 minutes<br />
Director: Joseph H Lewis 1950 US<br />
Writers: MacKinlay Cantor, Dalton Trumbo<br />
Cast: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger<br />
John Dall plays Bart, a guy with a deep and abiding<br />
love of guns, but a paradoxical detestation of<br />
violence. Peggy Cummins is Annie Laurie Starr, a<br />
carnival cowgirl with a burning need for more money<br />
than can be obtained through strictly legal means.<br />
Psyched up and tooled up, Bart and Annie join forces<br />
for a Bonnie-and-Clyde robbery spree across the<br />
country, and their episodic adventures<br />
are dramatised with flair.<br />
Peter Bradshaw<br />
The Guardian<br />
With special guest Peggy Cummins<br />
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THE GOLDEN DREAM<br />
LA JAULA DE ORO<br />
Spanish director Diego Quemada-Diez was a<br />
camera assistant on Ken Loach’s Carla’s Song,<br />
Land and Freedom and Bread and Roses, and there<br />
is something very Loachian in this tough, absorbing,<br />
suspenseful drama about three Guatemalan kids<br />
trying illegally to cross the Mexican border into<br />
the US.<br />
‘demonstrates a great sense of humanity’<br />
Screen International<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.30pm / 102 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Diego Quemada-Diez 2013 Mexico/Spain<br />
Cast: Brandon López, Rodolfo Domínguez, Karen Martínez<br />
Winner, Best International Film & Audience Award,<br />
Mar del Plata Film Festival<br />
Winner, Golden Alexander, Best Director & Audience Award,<br />
Thessaloniki International Film Festival<br />
Quemada-Diez has found three excellent nonprofessional<br />
actors for his lead roles. Brandon López<br />
and Karen Martínez play Juan and Sara, two kids<br />
who are desperate to get out of Guatemala, along<br />
with a young Indian boy they meet, Chauk (Rodolfo<br />
Domínguez). With some US dollar bills sewn secretly<br />
into their jeans, they plan on hopping boxcars and<br />
riding the rails up through Mexico and then over the<br />
border into California, this last part requiring them<br />
to work their passage by volunteering as drug mules<br />
for the gangs running heroin through secret crossing<br />
points. At every stage, these vulnerable teenagers<br />
face danger and almost certain death from predatory<br />
criminals to whom their young lives are worth less<br />
than zero. It is a very substantial movie, with great<br />
compassion and urgency.<br />
Peter Bradshaw<br />
The Guardian<br />
A STREET IN PALERMO<br />
VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA<br />
Don’t mess with Sicilian women. That’s perhaps a<br />
reductive summary of the cinematic debut of Italian<br />
theatre director Emma Dante, which revolves entirely<br />
around a stand-off between two cars in a narrow lane<br />
in the jerry-built outskirts of Palermo.<br />
Two women, Rosa (Emma Dante) and Clara (Alba<br />
Rohrwacher), bicker as they drive through Palermo<br />
backstreets; we soon realise they are lovers on the<br />
verge of a break-up. A proletarian family return from<br />
a fractious day at the beach, driven by Samira, the<br />
resented mother-in-law of a sweaty, crass, bolshy<br />
family patriarch. Finally, the two cars grind to a halt<br />
facing each other, with neither driver prepared to<br />
reverse. It’s a stand-off that begins in the realm of<br />
the possible but soon drifts into more dreamlike,<br />
allegorical territory.<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.30pm / 90 minutes<br />
Director: Emma Dante 2013 Italy/Switzerland/France<br />
Writers: Emma Dante, Giorgio Vasta<br />
Cast: Emma Dante, Alba Rohrwacher, Elena Cotta<br />
Winner, Best Actress, Venice Film Festival<br />
In Italy, the expression ‘Far West’ is used to mean a<br />
place or situation where no rules apply, and A Street<br />
in Palermo depicts a Sicilian Far West which is also<br />
a Far West of the soul: a place forsaken by God and<br />
man, where obstinacy is the only virtue left.<br />
Lee Marshall<br />
Screen International<br />
With the support of the Italian Institute of Culture Dublin<br />
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VOLTA PRESENTATION<br />
<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> 2014<br />
On 20 December 1909, with help from friends in<br />
Trieste, James Joyce opened the Cinematograph<br />
Volta Cinema on Mary Street in Dublin. Nearly a<br />
century later, in 2007, Jameson Dublin International<br />
Film Festival established the Volta Award to recognise<br />
individuals who have made a significant contribution<br />
to the world of cinema.<br />
The Volta Awards have drawn some of the biggest<br />
names in film to our shores, including actors like Al<br />
Pacino and Martin Sheen, directors such as François<br />
Ozon and Paolo Sorrentino, and a host of famous<br />
industry names. Last year’s prestigious recipients<br />
were composer Ennio Morricone, actor-director<br />
Danny DeVito, actor Tim Roth, director Costa-Gavras<br />
and writer-director Joss Whedon.<br />
We are delighted to welcome Terry Gilliam to Dublin<br />
for the presentation of his 2014 Volta Award and a<br />
screening of The Zero Theorem.<br />
Terry Gilliam, over a forty-year film-making career, has<br />
directed a number of visually stunning pictures which<br />
have championed the power of imagination and<br />
dared cinemagoers to view the world differently.<br />
Born near Minneapolis, Minnesota, Gilliam settled in<br />
London in the 1960s where he became a member of<br />
the Monty Python team, contributing the animations.<br />
He co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail<br />
(1975) with Terry Jones. He was production designer<br />
for Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979), for which<br />
he was also actor, writer, and animator. Gilliam’s<br />
first outing as sole director was Jabberwocky in<br />
1977, which he then followed with Time Bandits<br />
(1981), an anarchic time travel romp featuring Sean<br />
Connery and John Cleese. In 1985, Gilliam released<br />
his ambitious Brazil, a satirical take on both Britain<br />
and America, which was given two Academy Award®<br />
nominations (Original Screenplay and Art Direction).<br />
This was followed by the sumptuous The Adventures<br />
of Baron Munchausen (1988) with John Neville, Robin<br />
Williams and Oliver Reed. It gained four Academy<br />
Award® nominations.<br />
Gilliam made his next three feature films in the United<br />
States. The Fisher King (1991), starring Jeff Bridges<br />
and Robin Williams, was nominated for five Academy<br />
Awards®, and won one for Best Supporting Actress<br />
Mercedes Ruehl. Twelve Monkeys (1995) followed, a<br />
critically-acclaimed time travel story featuring Bruce<br />
Willis and Brad Pitt. In 2011 he wrote and directed a<br />
20-minute short film, The Wholly Family, which was<br />
awarded The Best Short Film by the European Film<br />
Academy. Gilliam made his opera debut the same<br />
year at London’s English National Opera, directing<br />
The Damnation of Faust by Hector Berlioz. His latest<br />
film, The Zero Theorem, screens at JDIFF 2014<br />
(see opposite).<br />
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‘Frank Kafka is alive and well and making films under<br />
the name of Terry Gilliam’ Screen International<br />
THE ZERO THEOREM<br />
Fri 21 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 9pm / 107 minutes<br />
Director: Terry Gilliam 2013 UK/Romania/France<br />
Writer: Pat Rushin<br />
Cast: Christoph Waltz, David Thewlis, Mélanie Thierry<br />
After modern classics Brazil and 12 Monkeys, Terry<br />
Gilliam returns with the final part of his dystopian<br />
trilogy The Zero Theorem, a colourful, ambitious<br />
and intelligent film about an angst-ridden computer<br />
programmer tasked with proving the titular theorem,<br />
and thereby revealing the meaning of life.<br />
Christoph Waltz stars as the put-upon protagonist<br />
Qohen Leth, whose quest is supported by charming<br />
love interest Mélanie Thierry and hampered by David<br />
Thewlis (in a hilarious turn as his supervisor) and Matt<br />
Damon as Management, owner of the mysterious<br />
Mancom Corporation. Tilda Swinton also pops up as<br />
the ebullient and scene-stealing Dr Shrink-Rom, an<br />
artificial-intelligence psychiatrist who counsels Waltz<br />
from within his computer.<br />
Gilliam’s inimitable visual style and unique voice are<br />
on full display here, creating a world filled with his<br />
trademark Orwellian technology and loud, garish<br />
colours. But while The Zero Theorem delivers a biting<br />
critique of corporate culture, the satire is tempered<br />
by a surprisingly warm and humane core. By turns<br />
hilarious and pleasingly bizarre, The Zero Theorem<br />
is the work of a unique film-maker and a worthy<br />
conclusion to a masterful trilogy.<br />
David Mullane<br />
With special guest Terry Gilliam<br />
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DAWN OF THE DEAD<br />
WITH LIVE SCORE BY GOBLIN<br />
Forza Italo presents the world premiere of Claudio<br />
Simonetti’s Goblin performing the live score to their<br />
soundtrack of George A Romero’s famed zombie film<br />
Dawn of the Dead (aka Zombi). Goblin composed<br />
the soundtrack for this horrifying movie in 1978,<br />
having already made their mark with their musical<br />
collaborations with Dario Argento on both Suspiria<br />
(1975) and Profondo Rosso (1978). This audio-visual<br />
premiere promises to be a thrilling and intense ride<br />
through one of the most important and apocalyptic<br />
horror films ever put to celluloid.<br />
‘One of the best horror films ever made’<br />
Roger Ebert<br />
Fri 21 Feb / The Sugar Club / 10pm / 127 minutes<br />
Writer-director: George A Romero 1978 US<br />
Cast: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H Reiniger<br />
Following the performance, Forza Italo DJs Sebastian<br />
Simonetti & Stefano Crosserini will throw down the<br />
hottest dischi d’oro from the golden age of italodisco,<br />
giallo soundtracks and synth music of the<br />
late 70s and early 80s. Forza Italo auxiliary member<br />
Stefano Galvino of Film Ireland will debut a unique<br />
new zombie-horror audio-visual piece to give us our<br />
second premiere of the night. Bravo!<br />
Simon Conway<br />
With the support of the Italian Institute of Culture Dublin<br />
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22ND FEBRUARY<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
SCRIPTWRITING FOR ANIMATION<br />
2pm<br />
Page 68<br />
DECEPTIVE PRACTICE WITH RICKY JAY<br />
6pm<br />
Page 106<br />
OUT OF HERE<br />
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SATURDAY 22ND FEBRUARY<br />
‘an engrossing and original work’<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
BORGMAN<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Savoy 1 / 11am / 113 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Alex van Warmerdam 2013 Netherlands/<br />
Belgium/Denmark<br />
Cast: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval<br />
With the support of the Embassy of The Netherlands<br />
in Ireland<br />
Stitch together a Buñuelian satire of the bourgeoisie<br />
with the enigmatic unease of a Michael Haneke<br />
drama and the absurdist humour of Roy Andersson<br />
and you begin to have the measure of Borgman,<br />
an unsettling, blackly comic fable from veteran Dutch<br />
director Alex van Warmerdam (Grimm, The Last Days<br />
of Emma Blank).<br />
A priest leads a hunting party in search of the title<br />
character and his followers, who are hiding out in<br />
an underground warren. Is Borgman (Jan Bijvoet)<br />
a cult leader or the devil in disguise? He escapes<br />
and makes his way to suburbia, knocking on doors<br />
and politely asking if he might take a bath. Arrogant<br />
television producer Richard (Jeroen Perceval) is so<br />
incensed by his request and his manner that he<br />
punches and kicks him to the ground. Later, his wife<br />
Marina (Hadewych Minis) offers Borgman a bath,<br />
food and a bed in their guest house. It is her good<br />
intentions and complicity with their clandestine guest<br />
that paves the way to a kind of hell.<br />
Jan Bijvoet has some of the velvety-voiced<br />
confidence of a Christoph Waltz. His ability to bring<br />
out the malice lying dormant in the good citizens of<br />
suburbia seems effortless. Jeroen Perceval is equally<br />
impressive as a husband with a trigger-hair temper<br />
and pressing anger management issues.<br />
Allan Hunter<br />
Screen International<br />
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THE INQUIRY<br />
On 29 September 1913 trade unionist Jim Larkin and<br />
industrial magnate William Martin Murphy came<br />
face to face for the first time in an attempt to bring<br />
an end to the Dublin Lockout. The Lockout, in which<br />
employees locked out workers belonging to (or<br />
refusing to pledge not to join) the Irish Transport and<br />
General Workers Union, had already been in effect for<br />
several weeks, sparking a series of demonstrations<br />
brutally suppressed by police and leaving thousands<br />
of families around the capital in desperate poverty<br />
and close to starvation.<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Light House 1 / 12.30pm / 60 minutes<br />
Director: Brian Gray 2013 Ireland<br />
Writer: Turlough Kelly<br />
Cast: Stephen Murray, Bosco Hogan, Gerry O’Brien<br />
Bosco Hogan (In the Name of the Father) is Murphy<br />
and Stephen Murray plays the impassioned firebrand<br />
Larkin in The Inquiry, a docu-drama that brings to<br />
life the dramatic events of that encounter, when<br />
the two most notorious figures in Irish public life<br />
hurled accusations at one another in front of the<br />
international press. Turlough Kelly’s script draws on<br />
British Parliamentary reports and contemporary<br />
newspapers to provide a gripping account of events,<br />
going behind the scenes at the meeting to explore<br />
the tensions within both camps.<br />
Alistair Daniel<br />
DUAL<br />
DVOJINA<br />
A delicately crafted charmer of a film, for a while<br />
Nejc Gazvoda’s colourful, funny and insightful film<br />
feels like a lesbian equivalent of Before Sunset as two<br />
young women wander the warm night-time streets<br />
of Ljubljana, talking, having fun and gradually coming<br />
under each other’s spell.<br />
Due to a technical problem, a plane from Denmark<br />
heading to Greece lands at a Slovene airport, with<br />
the passengers eventually taken to a Ljubljana hotel<br />
for the night. Quiet young Dane Iben (Mia Jexen)<br />
can’t face waiting in the hotel and asks Tina (Nina<br />
Rakovec), who drove the minibus from the airport,<br />
to drive her around the city. Tina starts to fall for the<br />
fresh-faced Dane, but despite the fact that they seem<br />
very similar, one is hiding a terrible secret and the<br />
other is simply trying to find her place in the world.<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 1pm / 102 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Nejc Gazvoda 2013 Slovenia/Denmark/Croatia<br />
Cast: Nina Rakovec, Mia Jexen, Jure Henigman<br />
Winner, Best Actress, Slovenian Film Festival<br />
While on the surface a love story, Dual is also a<br />
delicate drama about trying to adjust to where you<br />
want to go in life. The two leads are perfect, with Mia<br />
Jexen’s doe-eyed warmth and compassion a fine<br />
balance to Nina Rakovec’s nervy enthusiasm.<br />
Mark Adams<br />
Screen International<br />
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SATURDAY 22ND FEBRUARY<br />
OUR SUNHI<br />
U RI SUNHI<br />
Korea’s poet laureate of infantile male intellectuals<br />
and the women who bewitch them delivers one<br />
of his most appealing recent efforts in Our Sunhi.<br />
Winner of the director prize in Locarno, Hong’s 15th<br />
feature delights as it orchestrates the seriocomic<br />
ping-ponging of a canny young woman and her<br />
three equally hapless suitors.<br />
Wonderfully played by the gamine Jung Yu-mi (in her<br />
fifth collaboration with Hong), Sunhi is a recent film<br />
school grad first seen returning to her alma mater<br />
to solicit a recommendation letter from her former<br />
teacher, Professor Choi (Kim Sang-joong). There’s just<br />
one caveat: he can only write an ‘honest’ letter.<br />
‘another pleasurable, loquacious and low-key film’<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Light House 3 / 2pm / 88 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Hong Sang-soo 2013 Italy/Switzerland/France<br />
Cast: Jung Yu-mi, Lee Sun-kyun, Kim Sang-joong<br />
Winner, Silver Leopard, Locarno Film Festival<br />
While grabbing a beer at a nearby chicken restaurant,<br />
Sunhi encounters her ex-boyfriend Mun-su (Hong<br />
regular Lee Sun-kyun). As the beer flows, it becomes<br />
all too clear that Munsu still hankers for his ex. The<br />
plot thickens with the introduction of curmudgeonly<br />
fellow film-maker Jae-hak (Jung Jae-young). Hong<br />
has a lot of fun orchestrating these various comings<br />
and goings which, as in a classic farce, revolve around<br />
the idea of all three men pursuing the same woman<br />
without realizing it.<br />
Scott Foundas<br />
Variety<br />
HAUS TUGENDHAT<br />
‘Tugendhat’ is a legendary word in modern design;<br />
the name refers to the seminal house created by<br />
the German architect Mies van der Rohe for the<br />
Tugendhat family outside Brno in the Czech Republic<br />
in 1930. This beautiful and reflective documentary<br />
acknowledges the house as a modernist monument<br />
but is more absorbed by its role as catalyst for<br />
human events in the years after its construction –<br />
interactions which reflect on the wider travails of<br />
20th-century European history.<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Light House 1 / 2.45pm / 116 minutes<br />
Director: Dieter Reifarth 2013 Germany<br />
Presented in co-operation with the Goethe-Institut Irland<br />
Intelligently interweaving the restoration of the house<br />
and searing interviews with surviving Tugendhat<br />
siblings, it slowly unpicks family truths, from the<br />
Shangri-La of childhood, through exile (for being<br />
Jewish in the wrong place and time) to uncertain<br />
attempts at remaking the dream elsewhere. The<br />
most beautiful words are left to the ordinary Czechs<br />
with spinal injuries who lived there as children under<br />
Communism, and who simply revered its light, space<br />
and architecture – underscoring the film’s theme<br />
about the relationship between people and the hard<br />
and complex nature of brilliant things.<br />
Niall McCullough<br />
McCullough Mulvin Architects<br />
With special guest Michael Guggenheim<br />
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THE 100 YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED<br />
HUNDRAÅRINGEN SOM KLEV UT GENOM FÖNSTRET OCH FÖRSVANN<br />
Jonas Jonasson’s witty, feel-good international<br />
best-seller gave pleasure to millions and proved<br />
that it is never too late to let a little adventure in<br />
your life. The eagerly awaited screen version stars<br />
Robert Gustafson as the Zelig-like Allan Karlsson<br />
who quietly escapes from the celebrations for his<br />
one-hundredth birthday and takes to the road. Little<br />
misunderstandings and unfortunate coincidences<br />
soon find him in possession of a suitcase of cash<br />
and being hotly pursued by crooks and criminals.<br />
It’s hardly going to trouble a man who played a vital<br />
role in making the atomic bomb, has known several<br />
world leaders and participated in some of the key<br />
events of the last century. An outrageous delight.<br />
Glasgow Film Festival<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 3.15pm / 114 minutes<br />
Director: Felix Herngren 2013 Sweden<br />
Writers: Felix Herngren, Hans Ingemansson<br />
Cast: Robert Gustafson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg<br />
GOOD OL’ FREDA<br />
Pure joy for Beatles fans, Ryan White’s Good Ol’ Freda<br />
introduces us to a woman who had a ringside seat<br />
for Beatlemania and, until now, has never spoken<br />
about it.<br />
Freda Kelly was a teenage typist in Liverpool when<br />
co-workers took her to the Cavern Club. She went<br />
on to see the nascent Beatles, by her count, around<br />
190 times. So it was no surprise that Brian Epstein<br />
hired this plain-faced girl with the lovely smile to be<br />
their secretary. In hounding the four men to sign<br />
autographs and answer fans’ questions, she became<br />
almost literally part of the family.<br />
‘a new insight into one of the great creative<br />
explosions of our times’ Time Out London<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Cineworld 5 / 3.30pm / 86 minutes<br />
2013 / US / 86 minutes<br />
Director: Ryan White<br />
Backstage rock stories are a dime a dozen, but they’re<br />
usually well-rehearsed anecdotes told by hangers-on.<br />
Kelly, on the other hand, hasn’t told these stories even<br />
to her family. Many of the stories are clearly coming<br />
to her as the camera rolls.<br />
White has parlayed Kelly’s involvement into a very<br />
rare license to use a few Beatles songs in the film.<br />
But audio cues are unnecessary given the spark in<br />
Freda’s eyes as she conjures the personalities of four<br />
young men whose stardom she enabled.<br />
John DeFore<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
With special guest Freda Kelly<br />
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BAD HAIR<br />
PELO MALO<br />
‘Mariana Rondón’s impressively multilayered drama brings a powerful<br />
specificity to the story of a boy and his embittered single mother’<br />
Variety<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Light House 3 / 4pm / 93 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Mariana Rondón 2013 Venezuela<br />
Cast: Samantha Castillo, Samuel Lange<br />
Winner, Best Film, San Sebastián Film Festival<br />
Nine-year-old Junior has bad hair, or so he believes.<br />
He would much rather have straight hair like his<br />
mother, Marta. Living in a run-down tenement flat in<br />
a Venezuelan city, he finds inspiration in the televised<br />
beauty pageants that he watches with his friend.<br />
Together they plan to have their school photos<br />
taken in costume: he as a straight-haired singer and<br />
she as a beauty queen. Unfortunately for Junior,<br />
his mother doesn’t share his interest in pageantry<br />
and hair relaxers. On the contrary, she is terrified<br />
that these are early signs of her son’s dormant<br />
sexuality and responds with homophobic hostility,<br />
threatening to cut his hair or ship him off to live with<br />
his grandmother.<br />
With a startlingly raw performance from Samantha<br />
Castillo as the hard-headed Marta and an endearing<br />
introduction to the young Samuel Lange Zambrano<br />
as Junior, this low budget, guerrilla-style feature<br />
outlines the complexities of mother-son relationships<br />
as Junior struggles to gain acceptance in his mother’s<br />
eyes and Marta is simultaneously forced to confront<br />
her own fears and prejudices.<br />
David Desmond<br />
VIOLETTE<br />
The trailblazing feminist writer Violette Leduc<br />
gets a biopic worthy of her complex life with<br />
Violette. Director Martin Provost (Seraphine) once<br />
again casts his sharp yet sympathetic gaze on an<br />
uncompromising woman artist, and he has crafted<br />
a plum role that allows a gifted actress (Emmanuelle<br />
Devos) to show the full range of her abilities.<br />
‘a beautifully crafted and performed period drama’<br />
The Hollywood Reporter<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Light House 1 / 5.30pm / 139 minutes<br />
Director: Martin Provost 2013 France/Belgium<br />
Writers: Martin Provost, René de Ceccatty, Marc Abdelnour<br />
Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Catherine Hiegel<br />
With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland<br />
Provost hones in on the events in Leduc’s life that<br />
most affected her writing – and vice-versa – in six<br />
elegant chapters. A chance reading of Simone de<br />
Beauvoir’s She Came to Stay compels Violette to<br />
embark on her own roman à clef, L’Asphyxie. And<br />
Violette doesn’t think twice about handing the<br />
completed manuscript to de Beauvoir. It’s the start<br />
of a friendship that spans the rest of Leduc’s life,<br />
and it becomes the nexus of Provost’s film, with<br />
Sandrine Kiberlain making for a wonderfully severe,<br />
unflappable de Beauvoir.<br />
Provost is a small master of tact and restraint, and<br />
even when Leduc turns her own life into high theatre,<br />
the movie never overplays its hand. These may be<br />
the finest screen hours yet for Devos, who gives<br />
Leduc a caged-animal intensity.<br />
Scott Foundas<br />
Variety<br />
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THE GAMBLER<br />
LOSEJAS<br />
Vincentas is a paramedic in a bleak industrial port on<br />
Lithuania’s Baltic coast. An award-winning employee,<br />
he is good at his job but years of struggle have left<br />
him inured to life, death and the suffering of others.<br />
Hounded by loan sharks as his gambling debts<br />
mount, Vincentas hits on a desperate and macabre<br />
scheme: a secret betting syndicate that gambles on<br />
the survival of patients. Soon the whole unit is on<br />
board, all but Ieva, the principled co-worker struggling<br />
to make ends meet for herself and her son. But as the<br />
syndicate starts to make serious money, and he falls<br />
for Ieva, Vincentas begins to lose his grip on<br />
the game.<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Light House 3 / 6pm / 109 minutes<br />
Director: Ignas Jonynas 2013 Lithuania<br />
Writers: Ignas Jonynas, Kristupas Sabolius<br />
Cast: Vytautas Kaniusonis, Oona Mekas<br />
Winner, Special Jury Prize, Warsaw Film Festival<br />
Stylishly shot by Ignas Jonynas, and animated<br />
by a pulsing electronic score, The Gambler is an<br />
unflinching portrait of a world in which everyone<br />
gambles with their own – and each other’s – lives.<br />
As Vincentas, Vytautas Kaniusonis (Vanishing Waves<br />
– JDIFF 2013) impresses in a uniformly strong cast,<br />
while Oona Mekas (daughter of film-maker Jonas<br />
Mekas) is equally good as a desperate young mother<br />
struggling with her conscience.<br />
Alistair Daniel<br />
DECEPTIVE PRACTICE: THE MYSTERIES<br />
AND MENTORS OF RICKY JAY<br />
Few lives seem to have been as preordained as<br />
that of Ricky Jay. At the tender age of four he was<br />
already learning sleight-of-hand from his beloved<br />
grandfather, Max, an amateur magician. By seven,<br />
he was performing before audiences, and as he grew<br />
up he received lessons, advice and encouragement<br />
from many of the true giants of magic: Al Flosso,<br />
Slydini, Cardini, Francis Carlyle and Roy Benson.<br />
So it’s little wonder that, now in his sixties, Ricky Jay<br />
is widely considered the world’s greatest magician,<br />
a performer whose one-man shows draw rave<br />
reviews and sold-out houses.<br />
‘a wonderful movie about a great artist’<br />
Woody Allen<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6pm / 88 minutes<br />
Directors: Molly Bernstein, Alan Edelstein 2012 US<br />
Molly Bernstein and Alan Edelstein’s warm and<br />
fascinating portrait of Jay offers a rare glimpse into<br />
the very private world of professional magicians, an<br />
entertainment tradition that stretches back hundreds<br />
of years and yet continues to delight and astonish<br />
contemporary audiences around the world.<br />
New York Film Festival<br />
With special guests Ricky Jay and Molly Bernstein<br />
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SATURDAY 22ND FEBRUARY<br />
RUN & JUMP<br />
Born in the US, but now dividing her time between<br />
Los Angeles and Dublin, director Steph Green was<br />
nominated for an Oscar in 2009 for her short film<br />
New Boy, a sensitive portrait of a young African lad<br />
struggling to settle into a new school in Ireland. The<br />
theme of coming to terms with a dramatic life change<br />
is once again central in her confident, boldly stylized<br />
feature debut Run & Jump.<br />
‘captures the beauty of an obviously flawed family<br />
with remarkable warmth and immediacy’ Variety<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 6.15pm / 99 minutes<br />
Director: Steph Green 2013 Germany/Ireland<br />
Writers: Ailbhe Keogan, Steph Green<br />
Cast: Maxine Peake, Edward MacLiam, Will Forte<br />
Winner, Best Irish Feature, Galway Film Fleadh<br />
Set in a picturesque Irish town, the film begins with<br />
the return to the family of Conor (Edward MacLiam),<br />
a 38-year-old carpenter who’s suffered a damaging<br />
stroke, leaving him severely mentally restricted. In<br />
response, his spirited wife, Vanetia (Maxine Peake),<br />
has brought an American neurophysiologist, Ted<br />
Fielding (Will Forte), into the household to observe<br />
Conor’s condition. Ted soon finds himself becoming<br />
inextricably woven into the family in ways he<br />
hadn’t imagined.<br />
Undoubtedly a name to watch, Green has crafted a<br />
debut as fresh, intimate, and compassionate as Lynne<br />
Ramsay’s Ratcatcher.<br />
Ashley Clark<br />
Slant Magazine<br />
GOLD<br />
‘Gold is beautifully served by its actors. David Wilmot as the<br />
drifter Ray is understated and brilliant; Maisie Williams is driven<br />
and faultless. Kerry Condon and James Nesbitt are spot on in<br />
everything they do.’ Peter Sheridan<br />
Twelve years ago, Ray (David Wilmot) left town after<br />
his childhood sweetheart, Alice (Kerry Condon),<br />
dumped him, taking their daughter away from him.<br />
Now he must return home at the request of his ailing<br />
father, who wishes to see his granddaughter before<br />
it’s too late. But things take a turn for the absurd when<br />
Ray realises his daughter and her mother have built a<br />
new life with his former PE teacher, a controlling and<br />
regimented figure who is the direct opposite of Ray.<br />
After Ray is found sleeping in his beat-up car, Alice<br />
feels guilty enough to invite him to stay. But from his<br />
first bumbling efforts to get close to his daughter to<br />
the catastrophic effect his presence has on Frank –<br />
Ray manages to create chaos all around him.<br />
Set in an affluent suburb in north County Dublin,<br />
this offbeat comedy and unconventional love story<br />
delights in the hilarity of everyday life.<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Savoy 2 / 6.30pm / 84 minutes<br />
Director: Niall Heery 2013 Ireland<br />
Writers: Brendan Heery, Niall Heery<br />
Cast: David Wilmot, Maisie Williams, James Nesbitt<br />
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GODDESS<br />
Talented singer-songwriter Elspeth Dickens thinks<br />
her chance of stardom has come and gone. Now<br />
married to James, whose work as a whale-saving<br />
activist takes him to sea for weeks at a time, she<br />
finds her days more than filled looking after threeyear-old<br />
twins. But Elspeth hasn’t quite given up on<br />
her dreams, and when she sets up a webcam in<br />
her kitchen to keep her husband entertained with<br />
performances of her own, self-penned show-stoppers,<br />
she becomes an internet sensation overnight.<br />
‘Keating … makes an impressive acting debut’<br />
Screen International<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 6.30pm / 104 minutes<br />
Director: Mark Lamprell 2013 Australia<br />
Writers: Mark Lamprell, Joanna Weinberg<br />
Cast: Laura Michelle Kelly, Ronan Keating, Magda Szubanski<br />
Mark Lamprell’s delightful musical – based on<br />
Joanna Weinberg’s one-woman stage show – is an<br />
uproariously entertaining picture full of glorious<br />
tunes and big laughs. In his feature film debut,<br />
Ronan Keating impresses as James (he’s in fine<br />
voice too), but the show belongs to West End<br />
and Broadway star Laura Michelle Kelly as the<br />
irrepressible Elspeth. By turns witty and charming,<br />
Goddess is an infectious delight.<br />
Alistair Daniel<br />
A TOUCH OF SIN<br />
TIAN ZHUDING<br />
Chinese master Jia Zhang-ke makes a bold play for<br />
greater accessibility and up-to-the-minute social<br />
relevance with his brilliant new film, a Cannes Film<br />
Festival prizewinner (for best screenplay) this year.<br />
‘a stunning slap in the face’<br />
The Guardian<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Light House 1 / 8.15pm / 133 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Jia Zhang-ke 2013 China<br />
Cast: Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang, Zhao Tao<br />
Winner, Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival<br />
Winner, Best Foreign Feature Film, Denver Starz Film Festival<br />
Winner, Best Narrative Film, Abu Dhabi Film Festival<br />
The film is made up of four interconnected stories.<br />
Jiang Wu plays Dahai, a coalminer in Shanxi who<br />
discovers his corrupt village chief is in cahoots with<br />
a rich mining mogul to swindle the villagers’ money.<br />
Chinese comedy star Wang Baoqiang visits his<br />
home village near Chongqing to care for his family.<br />
Jia’s regular muse (and wife) Zhao Tao plays<br />
a martial arts heroine, a switchblade-wielding<br />
receptionist whom local goons unfortunately mistake<br />
for a prostitute. Finally, Luo Lanshan and Li Meng are<br />
a worker and prostitute in the industrialized south,<br />
seeking romance.<br />
Jia has never made anything quite like this, with<br />
its references to classic and modern Hong Kong<br />
action cinema and its dark vision of a violent society<br />
pushed over the edge into frightening bloodshed. Jia<br />
sacrifices none of his formal control or his artfulness,<br />
though, in this thrillingly shot drama of China today,<br />
ripped fresh from the headlines.<br />
Shelly Kraicer<br />
Vancouver International Film Festival<br />
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OUT OF HERE<br />
Rising Irish star Fionn Walton (What Richard Did)<br />
plays Ciaran, a passionate yet restless college dropout<br />
who has returned home to recession-struck Dublin<br />
after a year of travelling.<br />
Broke and living with his parents, struggling to<br />
re-connect with the ex-girlfriend that he left behind<br />
and the friends and social scene that have moved<br />
on without him, Ciaran questions whether he should<br />
stay or go – and comes to realise the difference<br />
between being stuck and being present.<br />
‘enormously successful … the picture features hypnotically<br />
beautiful images and employs very sly, sideways humour<br />
throughout’ The Irish Times<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Light House 3 / 8.30pm / 80 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Donal Foreman 2013 Ireland<br />
Cast: Fionn Walton, Aoife Duffin, Annabell Rickerby<br />
Out of Here is a contemporary coming-of-age story<br />
showing Ireland and its youth culture in a light not<br />
previously seen or explored. Timely and expertly<br />
realised, Donal Foreman’s debut feature is a pitchperfect<br />
and resonant depiction of contemporary<br />
Ireland and its young people.<br />
Galway Film Fleadh<br />
With special guest Donal Foreman<br />
Second Place, Best First Irish Feature, Galway Film Fleadh<br />
LOCKE<br />
Charged with the responsibility of ensuring the sound<br />
foundations of huge architectural constructions,<br />
structural engineer Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is as<br />
solid as the concrete that he pours for a living.<br />
For ten years he has built a reputation as a highly<br />
respected professional and as a fiercely loved father<br />
and husband. On the eve of a career-crowning<br />
moment, we follow Ivan’s journey driving from Wales<br />
to London, and see how one mistake has caused his<br />
hitherto firmly focused and controlled life to slowly<br />
and completely fall apart.<br />
‘One of the most nail-biting thrillers of the year …<br />
minute-by-minute, Hardy has you spellbound’<br />
The Daily Telegraph<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.30pm / 85 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Steven Knight 2012 UK<br />
Cast: Tom Hardy<br />
Both Ivan’s brute determination to regain control<br />
over his life and his stubborn refusal to engage fully<br />
with the emotional reality, are combined perfectly in<br />
Hardy’s taut performance. Steven Knight’s direction,<br />
too, is as resolutely spartan as his central character.<br />
Shot in its entirety over eight days, and never leaving<br />
the interior of the car, Knight’s film nevertheless<br />
succeeds in creating a gripping atmosphere of tightly<br />
wound tension.<br />
Jemma Desai<br />
BFI London Film Festival<br />
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PIONEER<br />
PIONÉR<br />
Director Erik Skjoldbjaerg’s suspenseful thriller begins<br />
as Petter and Knut, brothers and two of Norway’s<br />
best professional divers, are training to dive a deathdefying<br />
500 metres below the surface of the Black<br />
Sea. It’s the early 80s, and oil and natural gas reserves<br />
worth millions have been discovered off the shores<br />
of Norway. Working as part of a joint Norwegian-US<br />
effort for a multinational corporation, the two men<br />
risk everything to reach the ocean floor and the<br />
untapped natural resources. When their first mission<br />
ends in tragedy, Petter must uncover what really<br />
happened and why.<br />
Sat 22 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 8.45pm / 100 minutes<br />
Director: Erik Skjoldbjaerg 2013 Norway<br />
Writers: Hans Gunnarsson, Nikolaj Frobenius, Erik Skjoldbjærg<br />
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Wes Bentley, Stephanie Sigman<br />
Sixteen years ago, Skjoldbjaerg made his directorial<br />
debut with the contemporary thriller classic Insomnia<br />
(later remade by Christopher Nolan), and his return to<br />
the genre is a wonderfully tense work with ever-rising<br />
stakes. Boasting an atmospheric soundtrack by AIR<br />
and a superb lead performance by Aksel Hennie, one<br />
of Norway’s biggest stars, Pioneer is a gripping tale of<br />
determination, avarice and paranoia in the deep sea.<br />
Philadelphia Film Festival<br />
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RY<br />
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SUNDAY<br />
23RD FEBRUARY<br />
HIGHLIGHTS<br />
SAFETY LAST! WITH SUZANNE LLOYD & NEIL BRAND<br />
2pm<br />
Page 115<br />
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM<br />
3pm<br />
Page 68<br />
THE STAG (CLOSING GALA)<br />
7.30pm<br />
Page 119<br />
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SPECIAL PRESENTATION<br />
SUNDAY 23RD FEBRUARY<br />
‘It’s hard to imagine another documentary this year that will be as<br />
uplifting, entertaining and moving as Morgan Neville’s 20 Feet From<br />
Stardom’ Huffington Post<br />
20 FEET FROM STARDOM<br />
Sun 23 Feb / Savoy 1 / 11am / 90 minutes<br />
Director: Morgan Neville US 2012<br />
Their voices are powerful enough to tear you apart<br />
and put you back together again, and their stories will<br />
do the same. But when you call them backup singers,<br />
you better smile. That’s because the performers in<br />
the infectious and irresistible 20 Feet From Stardom<br />
are willing and able to outsing any solo act in sight<br />
and are not shy about letting you know it.<br />
Veteran director Morgan Neville (Troubadours)<br />
has made a moving and joyous behind-the-scenes<br />
documentary about a world filled with big, bold<br />
personalities and the music they make. Neville<br />
interviewed more than 50 people for this film,<br />
including major stars like Mick Jagger, Stevie Wonder,<br />
Bruce Springsteen and Sting, but the people you<br />
remember turn out to be the handful of women who<br />
made and remade the backup world in their image.<br />
Though 20 Feet talks to singers whose solo careers<br />
faltered, in some ways the film’s most memorable<br />
singer is a woman who made the break and then<br />
went back. That would be the prodigiously gifted<br />
Lisa Fischer, who won a Grammy for one of the<br />
songs on her debut album but decided she didn’t<br />
have the kind of ego necessary for a solo career.<br />
For her, background singing seems to function as a<br />
kind of higher calling, and the grace of 20 Feet From<br />
Stardom is that it allows you to see why.<br />
Kenneth Turan<br />
LA Times<br />
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THE FAKE<br />
SAIBI<br />
If Yeon Sang-ho’s The King of Pigs (JDIFF 2012)<br />
served as a brutal reminder that feature-length<br />
animation can be an ideal medium for social critique,<br />
the Korean helmer is at it again with The Fake, a<br />
ferocious indictment of organized religion.<br />
Sun 23 Feb / Light House 1 / 12.30pm / 101 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Yeon Sang-ho 2013 South Korea<br />
Cast: Yang Ik-june, Oh Jung-se, Kwon Haeh-yo<br />
With the support of the Korean Embassy Dublin and<br />
Korea Foundation<br />
Yeon’s sophomore feature unfolds in a small Korean<br />
village about to be flooded in preparation for the<br />
construction of a hydroelectric dam. Preparing to<br />
vacate their houses, the townspeople have fallen<br />
under the spell of a charismatic church pastor, Choi<br />
Kyung-suk, who has promised them a new home in<br />
exchange for their savings. Into this cesspool of smalltown<br />
corruption steps Min-chul. Ugly, violent, and<br />
with a vocabulary that seems to encompass every<br />
expletive in the Korean language, Min-chul is a figure<br />
of unrepentant savagery. But, in Yeon’s most perverse<br />
stroke, this sceptic also becomes the story’s moral<br />
centre, the lone truth-teller who becomes obsessed<br />
with exposing the powerful church elder as a con<br />
artist. Soon the knives come out and the bodies start<br />
to pile up and yet, even as it veers toward moral and<br />
physical chaos, The Fake doesn’t loosen its grip.<br />
Justin Chang<br />
Variety<br />
AT BERKELEY<br />
At Berkeley is a timely film for Irish audiences, as<br />
education in Ireland faces severe cuts in public<br />
funding and the resetting of assumptions about<br />
what and who education is for. Inherited institutional<br />
models are being tested and re-formed but,<br />
worryingly, the process appears underpinned by an<br />
ideological momentum which is mostly unspoken.<br />
‘one of Wiseman’s best’ Variety<br />
Sun 23 Feb / Light House 2 / 1pm / 244 minutes<br />
Director: Frederick Wiseman 2013 US<br />
The director of At Berkeley, eighty-four-year-old<br />
Frederick Wiseman, has focused, over almost fifty<br />
years of film-making, on documentary features which<br />
reveal the often unspoken ideologies that underpin<br />
a range of institutions. The University of California at<br />
Berkeley is one of the United States’ most respected<br />
public institutions, founded on the principle that<br />
‘you don’t have to be a member of an elite to have<br />
an education’. The central concern of At Berkeley is<br />
the implications for society if education becomes<br />
a quantitative rather than a qualitative exercise, its<br />
value privatised as part of a neo-liberal economic<br />
agenda. It makes the point that the stakes are very<br />
high for the US but just as high for Ireland. Wiseman,<br />
typically, has delivered a film which is a demanding<br />
but also a salutary experience.<br />
Declan McGonagle<br />
Director, NCAD<br />
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SPECIAL PRESENTATION<br />
SUNDAY 23RD FEBRUARY<br />
‘one of the best of this era’<br />
Empire Magazine<br />
SAFETY LAST!<br />
Sun 23 Feb / Savoy 1 / 2pm / 73 minutes<br />
Directors: Fred C Newmeyer, Sam Taylor 1923 US<br />
Writers: Hal Roach, Sam Taylor<br />
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother<br />
There may be no film image more iconic: Harold<br />
Lloyd, high above the street, dangling from the<br />
minute hand of a giant department store clock.<br />
The face of the clock swings down; the minute<br />
hand bends. It’s been 90 years since the silent era’s<br />
greatest daredevil shot that sequence, and it still has<br />
the power to prompt shrieks and laughter.<br />
Lloyd’s character was the All-American Boy, innocent<br />
in his horn-rimmed glasses, eager to climb the ladder<br />
of success – and like many a social striver before him,<br />
he was plagued by anxiety that he’d fall before he<br />
got to the top. Safety Last! made that metaphor literal:<br />
to earn the money to get the girl he braves harrowing<br />
heights, flocks of pigeons, a mouse up his pant leg<br />
and, near the top of his climb, a photo-studio<br />
explosion a bit like one that had happened to Lloyd<br />
in real life four years earlier. For a publicity shot,<br />
he’d lit a cigarette from what he thought was a prop<br />
bomb in his right hand – only it wasn’t a prop, and<br />
his hand was badly mangled.<br />
Having trained originally as an actor, Neil Brand<br />
has been accompanying silent films for over 25<br />
films, performing regularly at the NFT on London’s<br />
South Bank, and at film festivals and special events<br />
throughout the world. He is considered one of<br />
the finest exponents of improvised silent film<br />
accompaniment in the world.<br />
All of Lloyd’s greatest thrill comedies were filmed<br />
after that accident. Think about that as he’s dangling<br />
from a ledge by one hand. That was Harold Lloyd –<br />
always trying to top himself, and reaching a comedy<br />
summit in Safety Last!<br />
Bob Mondello<br />
NPR<br />
With special guest Suzanne Lloyd and<br />
accompaniment from writer, composer and<br />
accompanist Neil Brand<br />
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THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG<br />
LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG<br />
A Palme d’Or winner at Cannes in 1964, The<br />
Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a masterpiece of French<br />
cinema and the peak of writer-director Jacques<br />
Demy’s career. Inspired by Hollywood musicals, Demy<br />
created a poignant fairytale, in colour and song.<br />
‘A glorious romantic confection unlike any<br />
other in movie history’ The Washington Post<br />
Sun 23 Feb / Light House 1 / 3pm / 91 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Jacques Demy 1964 France<br />
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon<br />
With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland<br />
Catherine Deneuve, the grand dame of French<br />
cinema, stars in her breakout role as fresh-faced<br />
teenager in love Geneviève Emery. The object of<br />
her affections is a young car mechanic Guy (Nino<br />
Castelnuovo), but Geneviève’s mother disapproves<br />
of the match, and when Guy is drafted to fight in<br />
the Algerian war and Geneviève discovers she is<br />
pregnant, the lovers seem doomed never to meet<br />
again.<br />
Demy transforms this bittersweet tale into a soaring<br />
operatic masterpiece. The beautiful choreography<br />
and fluid camera work create a feel of constant<br />
motion, while vivid colours enliven the small town<br />
setting. The film’s expressive score, by turns haunting<br />
and uplifting, earned composer Michel Legrand his<br />
first Academy Award® nomination (he went on to win<br />
three). Brimming with playful charm and anchored by<br />
Deneuve’s timeless performance, The Umbrellas of<br />
Cherbourg still enchants fifty years after its release.<br />
Kate McEvoy<br />
CLUB SANDWICH<br />
CLUB SÁNDWICH<br />
A delightfully mannered and offbeat take on the<br />
oft-told ‘coming of age’ story, Fernando Eimbcke’s<br />
charming film is both poignant and laugh-out-loud<br />
funny as the relationship between a boy and his<br />
loving mother is tested by the arrival on the scene<br />
of a girl his own age.<br />
‘a delightful twist on the adolescent coming-of-age story’<br />
Screen International<br />
Sun 23 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 3pm / 82 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Fernando Eimbcke 2013 Mexico<br />
Cast: María Renée Prudencio, Lucio Giménez Cacho Goded,<br />
Danae Reynaud<br />
Winner, Best Film, Turin Film Festival<br />
35-year-old single mother Paloma (María Renée<br />
Prudencio) and her fifteen-year-old son Hector<br />
(Lucio Giménez Cacho Goded) are the very best<br />
of friends. But while their relationship is wonderfully<br />
close, Hector is also changing. The arrival of Jazmin<br />
(Danae Reynaud) at the resort complicates matters<br />
further. The teens start to spend time together<br />
with the sexual chemistry becoming more and<br />
more palpable.<br />
The joy of the film is Paloma’s reaction to the<br />
prospect of her son/best friend being entranced by<br />
Jazmin. Reacting almost like a jealous lover, she seeks<br />
to gently sabotage their time together. Mexican filmmaker<br />
Eimbcke’s third feature film is brimming with<br />
subtle but extremely funny sequences and directed<br />
with compassion and delicacy.<br />
Mark Adams<br />
Screen International<br />
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SUNDAY 23RD FEBRUARY<br />
THE PRIEST’S CHILDREN<br />
SVEÐENIKOVA DJECA<br />
A condom-piercing Catholic priest takes God’s will<br />
into his own hands in this contraception comedy<br />
from Croatia.<br />
‘An engagingly broad and breezy comedy, The Priest’s Children<br />
is a genuine easy-going filmic pleasure, delightfully performed,<br />
beautifully shot and relishing its sense of playful irony.’<br />
Screen International<br />
Sun 23 Feb / Light House 1 / 5pm / 93 minutes<br />
Director: Vinko Brešan 2013 Croatia/Serbia<br />
Writer: Mate Matišić<br />
Cast: Krešimir Mikić, Nikša Butijer, Marija Škaričić<br />
Fabian, an ambitious young Catholic priest, is sent<br />
to take over from a popular predecessor in a small<br />
Dalmatian island village. On arrival he is shocked<br />
to discover birth rates are surprisingly low. And<br />
the cause? A rampant culture of contraception<br />
amongst the congregation. Soliciting the support of<br />
some key local vendors, Fabian takes to puncturing<br />
prophylactics and switching contraception pills<br />
to put a stop to all this sinful wasting of seed. An<br />
hilarious, madcap comedy ensues as the tiny island<br />
experiences a pregnancy boom.<br />
Set to become Croatia’s highest grossing film ever,<br />
The Priest’s Children is directed by the undisputed<br />
darling of new Croatian cinema, Vinko Brešan. While<br />
the film revels in its own sardonic absurdity and<br />
delightfully executed screwball and slapstick, it is<br />
not without its more cutting critiques, in particular<br />
the church’s opposition to sex education in Croatian<br />
schools. In a year in which we have seen some very<br />
serious cinema around religious themes, this is a<br />
witty, welcome dose of blithe satire.<br />
Canberra International Film Festival<br />
THE ROCKET<br />
BANG FAI<br />
Winner of both the Best First Feature Award at the<br />
Berlinale and Best Narrative Feature at Tribeca,<br />
The Rocket is a heart-warming coming-of-age tale<br />
set entirely in Laos. Kim Mordaunt, who made the<br />
excellent documentary Bomb Harvest, which was<br />
also set in Laos, tells this story with great empathy<br />
and authenticity.<br />
‘An intriguingly subversive drama’<br />
Screen International<br />
Sun 23 Feb / Light House 3 / 5pm / 96 minutes<br />
Writer-director: Kim Mordaunt 2013 Laos/Thailand/Australia<br />
Cast: Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam, Thep Phongam<br />
Winner, Best First Feature, Berlin Film Festival<br />
Winner, Best Narrative Feature, Tribeca Film Festival<br />
Winner, Audience Choice Award, Sydney Film Festival<br />
Ahlo is the surviving twin of a difficult birth and<br />
believed by some to be a source of bad luck. When<br />
the 10-year-old and his family are displaced by<br />
the construction of a dam, further tragedy strikes.<br />
Upon reaching the relocation village, Ahlo befriends<br />
young Kia and her eccentric uncle Purple, but is<br />
still ostracised by the superstitious community, and<br />
even treated with suspicion by his own family. Ahlo<br />
decides that his only hope of redemption is the<br />
Rocket Festival: a riotous, and dangerous, annual<br />
competition where huge bamboo rockets are set off<br />
to provoke the rain gods. Despite being too young to<br />
enter the competition, Ahlo is determined to succeed.<br />
Set amidst a beautiful landscape, and with lovely<br />
performances by the young actors, The Rocket<br />
is a sensitive and uplifting film.<br />
Sydney Film Festival<br />
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ROXANNE<br />
Tavi Ionescu (Șerban Pavlu), the protagonist of<br />
Roxanne, discovers during a meeting with a member<br />
of the Romanian secret police that he might be the<br />
father of the son of his ex-girlfriend. Tavi’s discovery<br />
leads him on a self-defeating investigation that<br />
echoes the very issues Romania had to deal with<br />
under the dictatorship of Ceauşescu. Tavi should<br />
know better, but for some reason he can’t help<br />
himself, and this says something poignant about the<br />
situations that Romanians of a certain generation<br />
find themselves in.<br />
A story of friendship, betrayal and courage, Roxanne<br />
is filmed by Hotea in a matter-of-fact, almost invisible<br />
style. It’s set in a present which has not yet escaped<br />
its past, a past whose traces might be under the<br />
surface, but threaten to bubble to the surface<br />
at any point.<br />
Sun 23 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 5pm / 98 minutes<br />
Director: Valentin Hotea 2013 Romania/Hungary<br />
Writers: Valentin Hotea, Ileana Muntean<br />
Cast: Șerban Pavlu, Diana Dumbravă, Mihai Călin<br />
Mark Peranson<br />
Locarno International Film Festival<br />
With the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute UK<br />
SURPRISE <strong>FILM</strong><br />
This year I have been tracking three or four films for<br />
the 2014 Surprise Film but, in keeping with JDIFF<br />
tradition, it has not been confirmed as we go to print<br />
with the festival catalogue. Described by one of its<br />
most devoted fans as ‘the festival’s most sacred and<br />
respected tradition’, the Surprise Film screening is<br />
always one of the first to sell out and the source of<br />
constant speculation in the run up to the festival and<br />
for the duration of the event itself. So be brave and<br />
take a risk on one of the festival’s hottest and most<br />
surprising films!<br />
Sunday 23 February / Savoy 1 / 5pm / ??? minutes<br />
Director: ??? / Year ??? / Country ???<br />
Cast: ???<br />
For many years I was one of many filmgoers addicted<br />
to the annual pleasure of booking a ticket for a film<br />
about which I knew absolutely nothing. The ritual<br />
starts with the growing sense of excitement as the<br />
Savoy auditorium fills, the last minute suggestions<br />
placed in the competition boxes, followed by the<br />
gasps which accompany the trailers that kick off<br />
proceedings. Then the lights dim and the opening<br />
credits are revealed…<br />
Gráinne Humphreys<br />
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CLOSING GALA<br />
SUNDAY 23RD FEBRUARY<br />
‘takes a refreshingly different look at this pre-marital rite of passage’<br />
Screen International<br />
THE STAG<br />
Sun 23 Feb / Savoy 1 / 7.30pm / 94 minutes<br />
Director: John Butler 2013 Ireland<br />
Writers: John Butler, Peter McDonald<br />
Cast: Hugh O’Conor, Andrew Scott, Brian Gleeson, Peter<br />
McDonald, Amy Huberman, Andrew Bennett, Michael Legge<br />
With special guests John Butler, Andrew Scott, Hugh<br />
O’Conor, Peter McDonald, Brian Gleeson, Michael Legge,<br />
Andrew Bennett, Amy Huberman, Rebecca O’Flanagan and<br />
Rob Walpole<br />
Not your average groom, Fionán (Hugh O’Conor)<br />
has little interest in a bachelor party: he would much<br />
rather stay at home and make seating plans with<br />
his fiancée Ruth (Amy Huberman), but when his<br />
micromanagement of the wedding begins to get out<br />
of hand, Ruth decides that he needs a nudge in the<br />
right direction.<br />
Enlisting the help of best man Davin, a stag weekend<br />
is planned: nothing crazy, just five friends on a<br />
simple camping trip in the Irish countryside. That is,<br />
until Ruth insists that her brother (nicknamed ‘The<br />
Machine’) is invited along too. While Davin tries his<br />
utmost to dissuade the notorious sibling, there’s<br />
simply no way The Machine is going to miss out on a<br />
stag party and, what’s more, he’s determined to make<br />
this a trip to remember!<br />
Unlike some recent American films loosely based<br />
on the same premise, John Butler’s hilarious debut<br />
feature draws from a deeper well, sprinkling moments<br />
of glorious slapstick over a well-constructed<br />
foundation of real-life drama. The characters here all<br />
have hidden depths and this is as much a voyage<br />
of self discovery as a madcap comedy caper. The<br />
Stag boasts splendid performances all round from an<br />
ensemble cast of home-grown talent and, while The<br />
Machine (played by Moone Boy’s Peter McDonald)<br />
provides most of the intense belly laughs, Andrew<br />
Scott’s performance as Davin yields some of the film’s<br />
more tender and emotional moments.<br />
David Desmond<br />
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PICTURE HOUSE<br />
4 – 9 FEBRUARY<br />
THURSDAY 13 – SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY<br />
VENUES & DATES<br />
TUE 4 FEB<br />
CAIRDEAS DAY CARE CENTRE,<br />
CORK ST,<br />
<strong>DUBLIN</strong> 8 (THE UMBRELLAS<br />
OF CHERBOURG)<br />
TUE 4 FEB<br />
THE MARLAY, RATHFARNHAM (SAFETY<br />
LAST! WITH DANNY FORDE)<br />
WED 5 FEB<br />
ORWELL HOUSE, RATHGAR (THE<br />
UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG)<br />
THU 6 FEB<br />
DALKEY COMMUNITY UNIT, DALKEY<br />
(SAFETY LAST! WITH DANNY FORDE)<br />
FRI 7 FEB<br />
ASHFORD HOUSE, DUN LAOGHAIRE<br />
(THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG)<br />
SUN 9 FEB<br />
ST MARY’S, PHOENIX PARK<br />
(SAFETY LAST! WITH MORGAN COOKE)<br />
<strong>FILM</strong> TOUR<br />
JDIFF’s Outreach Programme has long<br />
been an integral part of the festival,<br />
bringing the magic of cinema to people<br />
who would otherwise be unable to take<br />
part. Over the years we’ve organised<br />
screenings in everything from hospitals to<br />
prisons, and in 2012 we took the festival to<br />
selected care centres throughout Dublin.<br />
We called the initiative ‘Picture House’.<br />
This year, three care centres will enjoy<br />
a screening of Safety Last! with musical<br />
accompaniment from Danny Forde and<br />
Morgan Cooke. We will also screen The<br />
Umbrellas of Cherbourg in three of the<br />
centres. We are delighted to announce<br />
that Academy Award®-winning actress<br />
Brenda Fricker is the patron of Picture<br />
House for the third year running.<br />
Thanks to all the participating venues and<br />
to Age & Opportunity.<br />
REGIONAL TOUR:<br />
MULTI-COUNTY PREMIERE<br />
Presented with the support of the<br />
Goethe-Institut Irland and the Embassy<br />
of Switzerland, Ireland<br />
The festival is delighted to celebrate the<br />
growth of audiences for cultural cinema<br />
in arts centres throughout Ireland. We<br />
are also celebrating the Arts Council’s<br />
investment in projection equipment<br />
with the premiere of Lovely Louise in<br />
Cineworld on 18 February, followed by<br />
its premiere in the Model & Niland Arts<br />
Centre, Sligo, Co. Sligo on Wednesday<br />
19 February, and Riverbank Arts Centre,<br />
Newbridge, Co. Kildare on Thursday 20<br />
February, where actor Stanley Townsend<br />
and director Bettina Oberli will be<br />
in attendance.<br />
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THE AUDIENCE AWARD<br />
AT YOUR <strong>FESTIVAL</strong><br />
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One of the most hotly contested aspects<br />
of the festival is the Audience Award. The<br />
award is bestowed on a film, based on the<br />
results of ballots cast by festival-goers at<br />
cinemas after screenings. So don’t forget<br />
to cast your vote!<br />
STORY CAMPUS:<br />
SCREENWRITERS LAB<br />
Photo: Simon Lazewski<br />
15 & 16 FEBRUARY<br />
<strong>FILM</strong>BASE<br />
Story Campus returns this year with<br />
Screenwriters Lab; an intensive, two-day,<br />
project-centred development lab for<br />
narrative feature film screenwriters led<br />
by film-maker David Pope and directorscreenwriter<br />
David Keating.<br />
The lab will draw on the experience of<br />
ten international film industry advisors,<br />
including feature film creative producers,<br />
screenwriters and development<br />
executives. Over the two days each<br />
participant will have the opportunity to:<br />
1. Have three one-to-one project<br />
development meetings, each meeting<br />
with a different advisor. These meetings<br />
will be aimed at advancing the project<br />
and refining its essence<br />
2. Attend masterclass sessions on specific<br />
screenplay development topics<br />
3. Network with participants and advisors<br />
Please note: participation is by selection.<br />
The selection process has been<br />
completed and successful candidates will<br />
be informed by 18.00 GMT on Friday<br />
24 January.<br />
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<strong>FESTIVAL</strong> HUB<br />
<strong>FILM</strong>BASE, CURVED STREET, TEMPLE BAR, <strong>DUBLIN</strong> 2<br />
PHONE: (01) 679 6716<br />
THURSDAY 13 – SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY<br />
The Jameson Dublin International Film<br />
Festival is delighted to continue its<br />
partnership with Filmbase, on Curved<br />
St to bring you the 2014 Festival Hub.<br />
The Hub will be home to the Brainbelt<br />
exhibition, as well as being the base of<br />
operations for the Volunteers department<br />
and festival box office, alongside a<br />
significant portion of our industry<br />
programme: Screen Test.<br />
Each day, throughout JDIFF, this venue<br />
will be a hive of activity. Our friendly box<br />
office team will be dispensing tickets and<br />
recommendations together with industry<br />
professionals who will be participating in<br />
lively and engaging panel events. There<br />
will be also be the opportunity to have<br />
your photo taken in front of our own<br />
‘wall of fame’! The Festival Hub is also<br />
home to Roasted Brown Café, arguably<br />
the best coffee in Dublin. Keep an eye on<br />
our social media and website for details<br />
of daily special offers. Also check out the<br />
Irishtimes.com corner where they will be<br />
interacting with film fans throughout the<br />
festival. We very much look forward to<br />
welcoming you to the Festival Hub.<br />
<strong>FILM</strong>-MAKERS LOUNGE<br />
THE CHURCH, JUNCTION OF MARY ST & JERVIS ST, <strong>DUBLIN</strong> 1,<br />
PHONE: (01) 828 0102<br />
You might think that once the credits<br />
roll and the lights come up after our last<br />
screening of the day that it’s time to head<br />
on home. Not so! We warmly invite you<br />
to come and join us at the JDIFF Filmmakers<br />
Lounge. Here, festival staff, special<br />
guests and spirited volunteers will share<br />
their daily highlights and look forward to<br />
upcoming festival screenings and other<br />
events. There may even be opportunities<br />
for a post Q&A follow-up with some of our<br />
visiting film-makers.<br />
Each evening will have its own festivalrelated<br />
DJ set to keep your toes tapping<br />
while conversation is flowing in the<br />
friendly and relaxed atmosphere of The<br />
Church Café Bar. So please, come join us<br />
to celebrate cinema and all the festival’s<br />
films. You never know who you might<br />
bump into!<br />
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BOARD AND STAFF<br />
BOARD OF DIRECTORS<br />
Paddy Breathnach<br />
Sue Bruce-Smith<br />
Clare Duignan<br />
Jonathan Kelly<br />
Hugh Linehan<br />
David McLoughlin<br />
James Morris<br />
Margery Simkin<br />
Gaby Smyth Chairperson<br />
STAFF<br />
Festival Director<br />
Gráinne Humphreys<br />
General Manager<br />
Jackie Ryan<br />
Marketing Manager<br />
Colm Ó Riagáin<br />
Festival Administrator<br />
Kevin O’Farrell<br />
Accounts Officer<br />
Bairbre Quinn<br />
Print Transport & Exhibition<br />
Co-ordinator<br />
Andy Beecroft<br />
Catalogue Editor<br />
Alistair Daniel<br />
Industry/Programme<br />
Assistant<br />
David Mullane<br />
Production Manager<br />
Liam Ryan<br />
Production Assistant<br />
Seán Kingston<br />
Audience Development<br />
Julia O’Mahony<br />
Festival Publicist<br />
Glenn Hogarty<br />
Festival Publicist<br />
Nicola Costello<br />
Festival Publicity UK<br />
Laura Pettitt & Katy Towse<br />
Press Assistant<br />
Kate O’Leary<br />
Marketing Assistant<br />
Gráinne Curtin<br />
Hospitality Manager<br />
Sarah Smyth<br />
Hospitality Manager<br />
Ruth Phelan<br />
Volunteers Manager<br />
Paul Donnelly<br />
Volunteers Assistant<br />
Aisling O’Farrell<br />
Volunteers Assistant<br />
Caroline Duff<br />
Box Office Manager<br />
Alison Reilly<br />
Assistant Box Office<br />
Manager<br />
Claire Tait-Doak<br />
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Venue Manager<br />
Philip Kelly<br />
Venue Manager<br />
Orla Basquille<br />
Venue Manager<br />
Sarah Ahern<br />
Venue Manager<br />
Claire-Louise Brennan<br />
Marketing & Tourism Intern<br />
Hélène Martin-Vallet<br />
VOLUNTEERS<br />
A VITAL ELEMENT OF THE<br />
SMOOTH RUNNING AND<br />
CONTINUED SUCCESS<br />
OF <strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong><br />
<strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong><br />
IS OUR VOLUNTEER PROGRAMME<br />
Every year the festival attracts film<br />
aficionados from around the globe, both<br />
on screen and off screen. The festival’s<br />
volunteers are a vital bridge between the<br />
festival and her audience, and can be<br />
spotted all over town; from our venues<br />
doing everything from pointing you in the<br />
JDIFF direction to wishing you a happy<br />
cinema experience.<br />
The volunteer community within the<br />
festival is a special one, and despite<br />
the festival occurring in February, the<br />
volunteer’s enthusiasm remains in place<br />
throughout the year. Their enthusiasm<br />
for cinema, both Irish and international,<br />
enriches the festival experience as a<br />
whole and creates that warm fuzzy<br />
feeling you get when you realize you’re<br />
a part of something special in the Irish<br />
film calendar.<br />
For your generosity, enthusiasm and<br />
goodwill we here at the festival are<br />
extremely grateful to each and every<br />
one of you. Thank you.<br />
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THANK YOU<br />
<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong> <strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong> 2014<br />
Aaron Farrell<br />
Access Cinema<br />
Age & Opportunity<br />
Alan Fitzpatrick<br />
Alan Swan<br />
Alliance Française<br />
Altitude Films<br />
American Airlines<br />
Andrew Hetherington<br />
Ania Trzebiatowska<br />
Arrow Films<br />
Arthur Lappin<br />
Artificial Eye<br />
The Arts Council<br />
Audrey Sheils<br />
AVC<br />
Axiom<br />
BAI<br />
Barry Dignam<br />
Barrie Dowdall<br />
Beta Cinema<br />
Bettina Seitz<br />
Brainbelt<br />
Breakthrough Entertainment<br />
Brian Finnegan<br />
The British Council<br />
Burrell PR<br />
Byrne, Moreau, Connell<br />
Accountants<br />
Camilla Young<br />
Carlton Screen Advertising<br />
Cashmere Media<br />
Celluloid Dreams<br />
Charlotte Kelly<br />
The Church<br />
Cinetamaris<br />
Cineworld<br />
Coco TV<br />
Conn’s Cameras<br />
Conor Barry<br />
Culture Ireland<br />
Curzon World<br />
The Danish Embassy<br />
Darren Thornton<br />
Dave King<br />
David Collins<br />
Declan McGonagle<br />
Design Factory<br />
DHR Communications<br />
DLIADT<br />
Donald Clarke<br />
Donald Taylor Black<br />
Dogwoof<br />
Dublin Bus<br />
Dublin City Council<br />
Dublin Film Critics Circle<br />
Eclipse Pictures<br />
Element Pictures<br />
Embassy of Australia<br />
Embassy of the Netherlands<br />
Embassy of the Republic of<br />
Poland<br />
EMC Post Production<br />
Emotion Pictures<br />
Entertainment.ie<br />
Eone Films<br />
Eureka Entertainment Ltd<br />
Eureka Films<br />
The Eye Cinema<br />
Fáilte Ireland<br />
Fastnet Films<br />
Ferdia Mac Anna<br />
Figa Films<br />
Filmbase<br />
Film Factory<br />
Film Ireland<br />
Films Distribution<br />
Films Transit<br />
Fortissimo Films<br />
The French Embassy<br />
Funny Balloons<br />
Fusion Media<br />
Gareth Lee<br />
Gary Duggan<br />
GCN<br />
GFD<br />
Glasgow Film Festival<br />
Glass Machine Productions<br />
GMS Security<br />
Goethe Institut<br />
Hrönn Marinósdóttir<br />
Hugo Films<br />
IMC Group<br />
Instituto Italiano di Cultura<br />
Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard<br />
The Irish Film Board<br />
The Irish Film Institute<br />
Irish Rail<br />
The Irish Society of<br />
Cinematographers<br />
The Irish Times<br />
Irish Writers’ Centre<br />
Israeli Films<br />
Jean-François Rauger<br />
James Armstrong<br />
Jane Gogan<br />
Jarlath Regan<br />
Jill O’Brien<br />
John Connolly<br />
John Leahy<br />
John Kelleher<br />
Kathleen McInnis<br />
The Korean Embassy<br />
Lars Hermann<br />
Laura Lee Conboy<br />
Laurence Mackin<br />
Lighthouse Cinema<br />
Lionsgate<br />
Lisa Richards Agency<br />
Malcolm Campbell<br />
Mañana<br />
Margaret Ward<br />
Mark O’Halloran<br />
M-Appeal<br />
Media-Consulta<br />
The Merrion Hotel<br />
Metrodome Group -<br />
Michael Kinirons<br />
Mihai Chirilov<br />
Mobile Radio Links<br />
The Model and Niland Arts<br />
Centre<br />
Momentum Pictures<br />
Myles Dungan<br />
Natalie Colville<br />
National Concert Hall<br />
Neasa Hardiman<br />
Neil O’Gorman<br />
Newgrange Pictures<br />
Niall McCullough<br />
Nialler9<br />
Nina Lidder<br />
Norwegian Film Institute<br />
Off Plus Camera<br />
Parallel Films<br />
Paramount Pictures<br />
Park Circus<br />
Park Films<br />
Patrick Redmond<br />
Photography<br />
Pat Murphy<br />
Paul Duane<br />
Paulo Branco<br />
Pearse Street Library<br />
Peccadillo Pictures<br />
Peter Morgan<br />
Peter Sheridan<br />
Philippe Brodeur<br />
Premium Films<br />
Richelle Wilder<br />
Rick O’Shea<br />
Riverbank Arts Centre<br />
Rob Cawley<br />
Robot Display<br />
Róisín Duffy<br />
JJ Rolfe<br />
Romanian Cultural Institute<br />
Ross Whitaker<br />
Still Films<br />
RTÉ Radio One<br />
Samson Films<br />
Screen Producers Ireland<br />
Screen Training Ireland<br />
Sean Whelan<br />
Session Hire<br />
Sharon Badal<br />
Sinéad Gleeson<br />
Soda Pictures<br />
Sony Pictures<br />
Stephanie McBride<br />
Studio Canal<br />
Swedish Film Institute<br />
Tamasa Distribution<br />
Tara Brady<br />
TASC<br />
Teach Solais<br />
Telwell Productions<br />
Terry Prone<br />
Thaddeus O’Sullivan<br />
Ticketsolve<br />
Tom Hennigan<br />
Toyota<br />
Twentieth Century Fox<br />
24/7 Drama<br />
UCD<br />
UCD Cinema<br />
UCD Film Society<br />
Universal Picture<br />
Urban Distribution<br />
International<br />
US Embassy<br />
Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin<br />
Verve Pictures<br />
Visit Films<br />
Walt Disney Motion Pictures,<br />
Ireland<br />
Warner Bros<br />
Warrior Films<br />
The Weinstein Company<br />
Wells Cargo<br />
WFDiF<br />
Wide Management<br />
Wilder Films<br />
Windmill Lane<br />
Writers Guild of Ireland<br />
Zbyszek Zalinski<br />
Zipporah Films<br />
and all staff in our festival<br />
venues and care centres<br />
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INDEX<br />
20 Feet from Stardom<br />
The 100 Year Old Man...<br />
A Long Way Down<br />
A Long Way From Home<br />
A Story of Children and Film<br />
A Street in Palermo<br />
A Thousand Times Goodnight<br />
A Touch of Sin<br />
A Vision<br />
A World Not Ours<br />
Afternoon Delight<br />
Antarctica<br />
At Berkeley<br />
Autoluminescent<br />
Bad Brains<br />
Bad Hair<br />
Before the Winter Chill<br />
Beyond the Edge 3D<br />
Big Sur<br />
Blue Ruin<br />
The Book Thief<br />
Borgman<br />
Calvary<br />
Cannibal<br />
Cas & Dylan<br />
Circles<br />
Club Sandwich<br />
Come into the Gardens<br />
Concrete Night<br />
Concussion<br />
The Congress<br />
Dawn of the Dead<br />
Deceptive Practice<br />
Deconstructing Dad<br />
The Deer Hunter<br />
Design is One<br />
The Devil’s Pool<br />
The Double<br />
Dual<br />
113<br />
104<br />
48<br />
39<br />
83<br />
95<br />
48<br />
108<br />
78<br />
31<br />
88<br />
44<br />
114<br />
33<br />
33<br />
105<br />
59<br />
46<br />
25<br />
47<br />
24<br />
101<br />
16<br />
76<br />
78<br />
53<br />
116<br />
38<br />
36<br />
93<br />
79<br />
98<br />
106<br />
33<br />
55<br />
35<br />
59<br />
94<br />
102<br />
The Grand Seduction<br />
Gun Crazy<br />
Half of a Yellow Sun<br />
Haus Tugendhat<br />
Hide Your Smiling Faces<br />
Ida<br />
Inequality for All<br />
The Inquiry<br />
International Shorts 1 & 2<br />
It’s All So Quiet<br />
Jaws<br />
JDIFF Shorts<br />
La Paz<br />
The Lady Assassin<br />
The Last Days on Mars<br />
Lasting<br />
Lawrence of Belgravia<br />
Life Feels Good<br />
Living in a Coded Land<br />
Locke<br />
Los Wild Ones<br />
Looking for Light<br />
Love Eternal<br />
Lovely Louise<br />
The Lunchbox<br />
The Major<br />
The Matchmaker<br />
Messiah<br />
The Militant<br />
Miss Violence<br />
Mode in France<br />
The Model Couple<br />
Mood Indigo<br />
Mother of George<br />
Mr Freedom<br />
Muhammad Ali<br />
Mystery Road<br />
83<br />
94<br />
37<br />
103<br />
46<br />
49<br />
53<br />
102<br />
15<br />
37<br />
61<br />
23<br />
47<br />
85<br />
57<br />
57<br />
32<br />
73<br />
77<br />
109<br />
54<br />
73<br />
72<br />
72<br />
35<br />
24<br />
56<br />
18<br />
22<br />
41<br />
19<br />
18<br />
74<br />
22<br />
19<br />
19<br />
25<br />
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Soldate Jeannette<br />
The Square<br />
The Stag<br />
Standing Aside, Watching<br />
Starred Up<br />
Stay<br />
Stranger by the Lake<br />
Surprise Film<br />
The Swimmer<br />
Those Happy Years<br />
Tracks<br />
Trap Street<br />
Two Lives<br />
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg<br />
Under the Skin<br />
The Unspeakable Act<br />
Violette<br />
Visitors<br />
Wakolda<br />
We Are the Best!<br />
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?<br />
The Wonders<br />
Wrecking Crew<br />
Yozgat Blues<br />
The Zero Theorem<br />
92<br />
84<br />
119<br />
49<br />
85<br />
40<br />
41<br />
118<br />
45<br />
76<br />
43<br />
92<br />
45<br />
116<br />
80<br />
79<br />
105<br />
34<br />
54<br />
87<br />
19<br />
50<br />
32<br />
40<br />
97<br />
Eliza Lynch<br />
Exhibition<br />
The Fake<br />
Family Band<br />
Fellini’s Roma<br />
Finsterworld<br />
The Food Guide to Love<br />
Frost/Nixon<br />
Gabrielle<br />
Gare du Nord<br />
The Gambler<br />
The Girl from the Wardrobe<br />
Goddess<br />
Gold<br />
The Golden Dream<br />
Good Ol’ Freda<br />
The Grand Budapest Hotel<br />
86<br />
34<br />
114<br />
33<br />
44<br />
84<br />
55<br />
21<br />
36<br />
77<br />
106<br />
93<br />
108<br />
107<br />
95<br />
104<br />
31<br />
New World<br />
No Limbs No Limits<br />
Nordvest<br />
Our Sunhi<br />
Out of Here<br />
The Past<br />
Pioneer<br />
The Priest’s Children<br />
Reaching for the Moon<br />
Looking for the Light<br />
The Reunion<br />
The Rocket<br />
Roxanne<br />
Run & Jump<br />
Safety Last!<br />
Salvo<br />
30<br />
29<br />
80<br />
103<br />
109<br />
56<br />
110<br />
117<br />
30<br />
73<br />
87<br />
117<br />
118<br />
107<br />
115<br />
81<br />
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MAKE THE MOST<br />
OF YOUR <strong>FESTIVAL</strong><br />
MAP<br />
O’CONNELL ST<br />
NORTH<br />
PARNELL ST<br />
SAVOY<br />
CINEWORLD<br />
THE CHURCH<br />
HENRY ST<br />
THE SPIRE<br />
LIGHTHOUSE<br />
SMITHFIELD<br />
JERVIS ST<br />
CAPEL ST<br />
D’OLIER ST<br />
IFI<br />
<strong>FILM</strong>BASE<br />
DAME ST<br />
THOMAS ST<br />
TRINTITY<br />
GEORGE’S ST<br />
GRAFTON ST<br />
<strong>JAMESON</strong> <strong>DUBLIN</strong><br />
<strong>INTERNATIONAL</strong> <strong>FILM</strong> <strong>FESTIVAL</strong><br />
IS ALL ABOUT DISCOVERING<br />
NEW <strong>FILM</strong>S, SO BE SURE<br />
TO IMMERSE YOURSELF IN<br />
THE ELEVEN-DAY <strong>FESTIVAL</strong><br />
AND MAKE THE MOST OF IT<br />
BY FOLLOWING THESE<br />
HANDY TIPS...<br />
Get to the cinema on time – All seating<br />
is unreserved and is allocated on a first<br />
come, first served basis.<br />
Q&As – Each year, we invite over 80 filmmakers<br />
from around the world to attend<br />
the festival so check jdiff.com for details of<br />
Q&As that might be on after a screening.<br />
Share your festival moments with us –<br />
Whether it is a photograph, a comment<br />
or a review, we want to see it! So join in<br />
the conversation online. You can find us<br />
on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other<br />
social platforms. Just to be sure to tag us!<br />
#jdiff<br />
Daily Deals – Every day during the<br />
festival, between 1pm and 3pm, we’ll be<br />
posting special discounts and offers on<br />
our website and social media channels.<br />
Explore the city – Check out our festival<br />
map above and you’ll see how centrally<br />
located our venues are and all within<br />
walking distance of each other. Make<br />
your way in and around the city by using<br />
Dublin Bus, DART or even hop on one of<br />
the Dublin Bikes.<br />
Have a question? – Then talk to our<br />
army of volunteers who will be located<br />
at every venue and can tell you what is<br />
on each night.<br />
Buying tickets – You can buy tickets<br />
online at jdiff.com (on a desktop or<br />
mobile), by calling (01) 687 7974 or<br />
dropping into any of our ticket offices.<br />
You can then collect your pre-booked<br />
tickets at the JDIFF ticket office in the<br />
venue from half an hour before the film<br />
starts. It couldn’t be easier!<br />
The Film-makers Lounge – Come join us<br />
in The Church (junction of Mary Street &<br />
Jervis Street) each evening of the festival<br />
from 9.00pm where you will meet other<br />
film fans and enjoy a refreshing drink with<br />
some excellent background tunes. You<br />
never know who might pop in so be sure<br />
to make it part of your festival experience.<br />
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@dublinfilmfest<br />
Jameson Dublin International Film Festival<br />
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