IFI Open Weekend

Catcher7791

The IFI are having two Open days this year as part of their twentieth anniversary, on September 15th and 16th. The lineup is:

Saturday
13.00 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
13.20 - Boudu Saved From Drowning
13.40 - Liberal Arts
15.00 - The Dirty Dozen
15.30 - Diary Of A Lost Girl
16.00 - Shamus
17.45 - Alps
18.00 - True Romance
18.20 - Freaks
20.10 - The Hunt
20.20 - Bicycle Thieves
20.40 - Audience Choice

Sunday
13.00 - The Ladykillers
13.15 - Pandora And The Flying Dutchman
13.30 - The Arrival Of Wang
15.10 - Singin' In The Rain
15.30 - Fantastic Planet
16.00 - Circle Of Friends
17.30 - Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
17.30 - The Godfather
18.15 - Rat
19.30 - To Die For
20.15 - Sullivan's Travels
21.00 - When Harry Met Sally

More details here:

http://www.ifi.ie/openweekend

johnny_ultimate

Decent enough selection, although lacking on the preview front (except Alps, of course - the only one that jumped out as a must see). Few films I've never gotten around to that I'd like to see though, like Fantastic Planet and Sullivan's Travels.

That_Guy

True Romance will be definitely on my list. One of those films I've never gotten around to seeing. I have it on DVD at home but I'll wait to catch it on the big screen.

e_e

Alps! Hell yeah.

I'd love to see Bicycle Thieves too. Can't see what's in the audience poll though.

kingtiger

is True Romance going to be the full version or the censored version?

Galvasean

How does this work? Do you prebook tickets or do you pop into the box office on the day first come first served?

johnny_ultimate

You get in as early as reasonable and queue for up to four tickets. Queues usually start getting big an hour beforehand.

adamski8

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

You get in as early as reasonable and queue for up to four tickets. Queues usually start getting big an hour beforehand.

an hour before the cinema opens or before the screening?

ah i see, sales open at 11

and the audience choice screening is "The tree of life"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/

is it not strange that the audiences choice was picked by their staff?

Sad Professor

It wasn't picked by their staff. There was a poll on the IFI website.

e_e

I couldn't even view the poll during the week, anyone else?

Galvasean

I voted in it. I believe the Tree of Life won.

Sad Professor

It was okay for me. I voted in it. I think it was the week before last though. Maybe the closed it early.

e_e

Started queuing at 10 and just barely got my tickets for the movies playing in screen 3 later. Should be a good evening of movies.

johnny_ultimate

Surprised they put Alps in Screen 3. Looking forward to it though.

Liberal Arts has a handful of funny bits, but was surprisingly pretentious for a relatively generic romantic comedy.

Sad Professor

Are Liberal Arts and Alps due a proper release? Would have really liked to have seen them today.

EDIT: nevermind, it seems they should be out in October and November respectively.

johnny_ultimate

Well Alps was brilliantly frustrating. The first half hour is vague and ambiguous perhaps to a fault, but when you adjust its as mad, disturbing and funny as Dogtooth. A film that rewards the committed, even if it inevitably doesnt feel as fresh or unexpected as its predecessor.

Diary of a Lost Girl was great to see in the cinema, even if it was just the Masters of Cinema version being projected with some distracting audio glitching. Gotta love all those terrifying German villains.

Probably wont head in tomorow, a lot of effort and waiting around. Shame to miss Fantastic
Planet, though.

403 Forbidden

I presume you have to queue for tickets tomorrow for tomorrow shows. Could you buy tickets for tomorrow shows today?

johnny_ultimate

flowrider04 wrote: »

I presume you have to queue for tickets tomorrow for tomorrow shows. Could you buy tickets for tomorrow shows today?

Yep, you have to queue tomorrow for tomorrow's tickets. As said, try and get there between 9.30-10.00 if at all possible. The queue was massive at opening time.

403 Forbidden

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Yep, you have to queue tomorrow for tomorrow's tickets. As said, try and get there between 9.30-10.00 if at all possible. The queue was massive at opening time.

Will be there nice and early for tickets to Singin in the rain, and The Godfather

johnny_ultimate

flowrider04 wrote: »

Will be there nice and early for tickets to Singin in the rain, and The Godfather

Enjoy! I only watched Singin' in the Rain for the first time a day or two before the programme for this was announced, would have loved to experience it on the big screen

e_e

Bicycle Thieves was a really amazing film, hope my first viewings of The Ladykillers and Singin' in the Rain tomorrow are on that level of quality. Good opportunity to see The Godfather on the big screen too.

Ant

The variety of films and genres on offer over the weekend was impressive and I thought the IFI did an excellent job organising ticket allocation so that everyone got a fair chance to see the films they wanted. Kudos to all the staff and volunteers who made it happen.

The other half and I went to see The Dirty Dozen, Freaks, The Bicycle Thieves and The Ladykillers. We enjoyed them all but Freaks was my personal highlight.

e_e

I enjoyed all of 'em but I'm wondering what somebody near the back exclaiming "Could you stop making that noise please!!!!" during Ladykillers was about.

Ant

e_e wrote: »

I enjoyed all of 'em but I'm wondering what somebody near the back exclaiming "Could you stop making that noise please!!!!" during Ladykillers was about.

I was about 5 rows in front of that person and slightly to the left of them. I couldn't hear anything aside from the rustling someone eating crisps or popcorn. Maybe there was some other source of noise that only bothered those in the immediate vicinity.

Personally, I found the cinema etiquette over the weekend to be excellent. One person politely asked me to keep my head down during The Bicycle Thieves as he couldn't read the sub-titles. I had a slightly stiff neck afterwards but was willing to comply as I could understand how frustrating it would be not to be able to read the sub-titles.

e_e

Yeah I really liked how enthusiastically people responded to the movies, The Godfather most of all where you could hear the people who hadn't seen it before gasping at points.

The only problem I had was somebody beside me texting throughout the first half of Singin' in the Rain, they left thankfully but I was really distracted and irritated about it.

That_Guy

Saw Singin' In The Rain on Sunday. Got in a bit late and were sitting in the very back. Super fllm and hadn't seen it before but I got distracted throughout given the amount of people walking around the place. Very annoying.