IFI 20 Screenings

johnny_ultimate

Stumbled across this last night, and they've lined up a pretty solid selection of screenings and films to celebrate their 20th Temple Bar anniversary in September. Highlights include:

Vertigo 70mm
Spirited Away 35mm
Persona 35mm
Mullholland Drive 35mm
Ugetsu Monogatari (only Blu-Ray, but still a great opportunity to see it big screen)

Plus plenty of contemporary & classic screenings from Diving Bell and the Butterfly to the Crying Game. Looking like a very nice line-up indeed. Trying to reflect the most popular films they've had over their run (curiously, Diving Bell is apparently the most successful films they've yet shown in the IFI) but plenty of gems in there.

Sad Professor

They are also showing Pan's Labyrinth and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (full list). Looking forward to seeing Vertigo and hopefully a few others on the big screen. I see the Lighthouse has a Hitchcock season coming up as well - with most of the films showing twice: once early in the week and again at the weekend.

As an aside, I wish the IFI would stop assuming that everyone is free on weekends. A few afternoon or evening screenings early in the week would be nice for those studenty-types like myself who have to work Friday to Sunday so all the 9-5ers can go shopping. :mad:

e_e

Spirited Away on 35MM will be too beautiful to pass by.

johnny_ultimate

e_e wrote: »

Spirited Away on 35MM will be too beautiful to pass by.

Cheep too!

They've also announced they're extending their annual open day to a two day event on the 15th and 16th. Tends to be manic. Got there pretty early last year and there were lengthy queues of people both in front and behind well before the doors opened. Nothing brings out the queues like free films :pac:

krudler

Wouldn't mind seeing Pans Labyrinth on a big screen, missed its limited run when it was first released here only saw it on dvd.

johnny_ultimate

Diving Bell and the Butterfly is another that really benefits from a cinema atmosphere. It would have been one of the first films I saw in the IFI when I was really getting into world cinema in college, and it was just a beautiful, overwhelming experience.

e_e

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

It would have been one of the first films I saw in the IFI when I was really getting into world cinema in college, and it was just a beautiful, overwhelming experience.

Interesting, Control was the first time I was in the IFI and while I liked the movie and the experience of seeing it I didn't become a regular until alter on. Waltz With Bashir and Thirst were the next ones I saw there and were a real stepping stone in my getting into cinema.

Sad Professor

Diving Bell needs a Blu-ray release badly. Such a gorgeous, sensual film. As is Persona, Mulholland Drive and Vertigo. Strangely similar line-up of films.

bnt

This Saturday (1/9) is "1992 Day" - so they're showing Wayne's World (6PM) and Waterland (8PM). There's also a film pub quiz at 8:30 too, which I might enjoy. (PM me if you need someone to fill the last seat at a table :cool:)

Catcher7791

Sad Professor wrote: »

Diving Bell needs a Blu-ray release badly. Such a gorgeous, sensual film. As is Persona, Mulholland Drive and Vertigo. Strangely similar line-up of films.

My guess is that that was unintentional, given the job at hand, but brilliant spot!

Liam McPoyle

Natural Born Killers and Pans Labyrinth are the two I really want to try and catch.

Renn

Great to see Vertigo in that format, looked great. Though it was a strange audience at times. Granted there are a few humourous moments throughout the film but some people decided to laugh at the 'wrong' scenes. I even had a girl sitting beside me having a bit of a chuckle at the very last scene. Wtf

Ant

Renn wrote: »

Great to see Vertigo in that format, looked great. Though it was a strange audience at times. Granted there are a few humourous moments throughout the film but some people decided to laugh at the 'wrong' scenes. I even had a girl sitting beside me having a bit of a chuckle at the very last scene. Wtf

Bizarre reaction to a tense and tragic climax! The audience was fairly serious around where I was sitting though nearly everyone laughed when Scottie pleaded, "Judy, please, it can't matter to you" as he coaxed her into dying her hair blonde and drastically altering her appearance.

Renn

Yeah I found it pretty weird. I genuinely think people thought it was bordering on comedy for the most part. Obviously people are allowed laugh whenever they want but that sort of reaction always makes me appreciate watching films like this in my own home. Mulholland Dr. had some strange audience moments too unfortunately.

duckworth

Renn wrote: »

Yeah I found it pretty weird. I genuinely think people thought it was bordering on comedy for the most part. Obviously people are allowed laugh whenever they want but that sort of reaction always makes me appreciate watching films like this in my own home. Mulholland Dr. had some strange audience moments too unfortunately.

In fairness, the end of Vertigo is bizarre - I think laughing at it is a perfectly reasonable response. It really is a shock when you see it for the first time.

Renn

Yeah it's not your 'normal' ending, that's for sure, but it's definitely not intended to be a comedic moment. I've seen the film numerous times but never thought of it like that. Same thing happened during Psycho at the NCH.