Ifi??????

Archvillain

Is there anyone out there who checks avidly the listings for the IFI, attends all the films they can and likes to talk about them after? Is there anyone interested in different cinema? Not in 'foreign films' for the sake of appearing cultured in some horrible, chic way (and dang you do see this) but just or love of good film?
I'm anxious to know if there are many out there like this. Or is it just myself and a few mates that I know of?
I seriously can't take too many UGC or Svoy films without getting struck with a kind of nausea... ike in Xtravision. THat's fine for a while, but there is a place for guttural mexican semi-porn or the Sadism in Salo? Surely?????? holler if you're out there!

projectmayhem

i'm hoping the IFI run an anime called Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. i'd love to see it there before the DVD comes out...
i know it did one or two animations before. i've never been in there (apart from going in to use the toilet) before though

ixoy

Umm UGC will often show one of the main movies on in the IFI, so don't knock it too much. "Capturing the Friedmans" being a recent example. It's also screened the likes of "Hapiness of the Karituris", "Dark Waters", "Spellbound", and so on....

No guttural Mexican porn mind you...

SweetBirdOfTruth

archvillain - if you have a look in the reviews folder above you'll see there's quite a few of us herabouts who mostly see our films in the ifi or the screen.

Trebor

ifi is good i go at least once a month. UGC have a new agenda now they want to be seen as "cultural" so they are now showing some foreign films and plans to show irish produced films as-well

RE*AC*TOR

I like the IFI in doses - but no way would I go to all the films - life's too short. Sometimes though they show amazing films that don't get shown elsewhere (Etre et Avoir?).

Pigman II

I'd go to it more if they'd fix the bloody seats! They rows are far to near together making it (literally) a pain to watch movies there. I still go for screenings of old classics and foriegn stuff I wanna see but I avoid the place if it's anything they have that's on general release elsewhere.

ronano

I just can't hack the people that seem to attend it, i swore 18 months never to watch a movie in it again and so far so good(the added bonus of the ugc picking up the same movies in part is also helping;))

Archvillain

why's that ronano? why take that vow? because of the people?
Actually the reason i posted was almost this, hardly any of my mates go and I was looking for other people who were interested in seeing films. I've nothing against the UGC deal, but the IFI does very often have interesting and cool stuff.
All the same, i can well imagine this post being an echo off in the dark...

mosadit

After my first five months in Dublin I can say that IFI is what in my hometown (Bologna, Italy) we would call not a too bad cinema!!!
I don't really understand why in this country only American and English films are released! What about the REAL cinema?
IFI at least try to show some of this as well... and UGC doesn't seem exactly the same. It just shows "good" American films or the few foreign films that have a good publicity, but that is not being cultural opened!

In Bologna we have a cinema were everyday they show three different films... French, Italians, Spanish, Scandinavian, Russian, Armenian, African and from wherever else in the world! New and old films. And with €12 you can see 8 films in a month! That is life!

ronano

Originally posted by Archvillain
why's that ronano? why take that vow? because of the people?
Actually the reason i posted was almost this, hardly any of my mates go and I was looking for other people who were interested in seeing films. I've nothing against the UGC deal, but the IFI does very often have interesting and cool stuff.
All the same, i can well imagine this post being an echo off in the dark...

They just come off as pretenious self indulgent people and then there is also the price etc. However if there was a film i wanted to see that i knew wouldn't come out on dvd/ugc then i'd suck it up and go. I'm a big guy and need my space, it always feel cramped

Trebor

Originally posted by ronano
They just come off as pretenious self indulgent people and then there is also the price etc. However if there was a film i wanted to see that i knew wouldn't come out on dvd/ugc then i'd suck it up and go. I'm a big guy and need my space, it always feel cramped

it's cheaper than any cinema i have been in. and i just ignore the rest of the people but i know what you mean about feeling cramped

SweetBirdOfTruth

i really don't get the cramped comment. yes, when the cinema is full, especially the small screen, but nine times in ten they're less than half full, and you don't have trouble keeping at least one seat beside you free to allow you spawl a bit.