JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

WEDNESDAY 19TH FEBRUARY
JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
CAS & DYLAN
An ailing surgeon and a young writer are thrown
together on a memorable journey across Canada in
this touching road movie directed by former Beverley
Hills 90210 star Jason Priestley. Richard Dreyfuss
is Cas Pepper, a Winnipeg surgeon who ditches his
job after receiving some very bad news. His plan
is to strike out west alone, but after crossing paths
with Dylan Morgan – a free-wheeling, chain-smoking
kleptomaniac – he finds himself fleeing the scene of
a crime in a stolen VW Beetle with Dylan resolutely in
tow and, despite his best attempts, he just can’t seem
to shake her off. But as the pair wind their way across
the Rockies , they find themselves forced to reveal
the real reasons for their flight.
Wed 19 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 6.30pm / 90 minutes
Director: Jason Priestley 2013 Canada
Writer: Jessie Gabe
Cast: Tatiana Maslany, Richard Dreyfuss, Jayne Eastwood
Winner, Audience Award & Best Actress, Whistler Film Festival
Like the best road movies, Priestley’s directorial
debut is a moving film about life and what to do
with your share, bolstered by a wise and funny
script from Jessie Gabe. Tatiana Maslany is perfect
as the irrepressible Dylan, while Dreyfuss revels in
his best role in years as the straitlaced doctor slowly
unbuttoned by his companion’s sense of fun.
Alistair Daniel
With special guests Jason Priestley and Richard
Dreyfuss
A VISION: A LIFE OF WB YEATS
Reel Art is an Arts Council scheme designed to
provide film artists with a unique opportunity to
make highly creative, imaginative and experimental
documentaries on an artistic theme.
The life and work of Nobel laureate WB Yeats holds
a particular place in hearts and imaginations across
the world. Beyond Ireland – where Yeats is a kind of
unofficial national poet – his work echoes in profound
ways. In places beyond easy comprehension. Beyond
the rational mind. In the places where poetry truly
lives and breathes.
Wed 19 Feb / IFI 1 / 6.30pm / 75 minutes
Writer-director: Alan Gilsenan 2013 Ireland
Commissioned for the Arts Council’s Reel Art scheme,
this film is a response to that vast body of work. A
visual – and avowedly experimental – ‘film-poem’, to
coin an uneasy term. Using solely the words of WB
Yeats, we attempted to take the viewer on a cinematic
journey of sorts into Yeats’ extraordinary imagination.
It is a biography of a kind, but not in any conventional
way. Yet, beyond Yeats’ popular profile and his cultural
tourist caché, little is really known of his complex
life, despite having articulated it so completely, so
creatively. In so many ways, Yeats dreamt up his life.
He fashioned his own majestic screenplay and we are
– endlessly – the beneficiaries.
Film-maker’s statement
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