IFI - "Stranger than Fiction" festival

Victor

I got this today if anyone is interested. I imagine usual membership / certification rules apply.

To Book: Phone: (01) 679 5744

Our documentary film festival, 'Stranger than Fiction, takes place next weekend. We have 30 feature films, most of them international documentaries, and a number of premieres of Irish docs too. This e-zine is intended to give you a one-liner on each, and let you know which ones are likely to be sold out.

Saturday 24 September
Advance screening 11.00 Welfare (Frederick Wiseman Retrospective)

Sunday 25 September
Advance screening 12.30 Domestic Violence (Frederick Wiseman Retrospective)


Thursday 29 September
8.30 Jack Charlton- The Irish Years
Actor Colm Meaney takes a look at Jacks reign, interview the likes of Paul McGrath, John Giles, Ardal O'Hanlon, and the big man himself. OPENING FILM / Advance booking is advised


Friday 30 September
12.00 The Drama and The Joy
Mountjoy inmates' drama project is to stage a violent black comedy

2.00 The Bigamists
Perpetrators try and explain their deceitful multi-marriages.

4.00 The Lost Gods
Religions that once lorded it over vast empires and then suddenly became extinct.

5.00 Strongbow and Diarmuid
The Normans arrive at the shores of Ireland.

6.30 The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
Probably the best documentary in the festival, this film documents Children living in Chechnya. RECOMMENDED, but tough!

8.15 Fight or Flight
Director by Peter McCarthy and Shane Sutton, this is the best of the Irish Feature Films. BOOK NOW! THIS WILL BE FULL!

11.00 The Kids are Alright
Keith Moon's unusual behaviour, Townsend's windmills, and the usual trashing of equipment, meet The Who.

Saturday 1st October

11.00 Gunner Palace
A business junket to the Iraq War? Stationed in a bombed our palace belonging to Saddam. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

11.00 The Day the Music Died followed by Belfast to Dachau
The Miami Showband is destroyed by terrorists; And Belfast war veteran who was the first through the Dachau concentration camp gates 60 years ago.

12.3012.30 Stalin's Last Purge
The execution of the Jewish cultural elite from the Soviet Union. BOOK FOR THIS.

12.45 Return to Tsunami followed by Saighdiuiri Beaga Gaelach
Bill Malone is drawn back to the place he nearly died last St Stephen's Day; And the repopulation of remote Gaeltacht schools

2.00 Born into Brothels
This year's Oscar winner, about kids who live in the Calcutta Red Light District. BOOK FOR THIS.

5.00 Tudo Azul [Everything Blue]
The Buena Vista Social Club of Brazil. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, AND BOOKING ADVISED.

6.15 Still: Here / Now
Sian Phillips, Ian Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys, Rhys Ifans, Cerys Matthews and John Cale explore Welsh poetry and song.

6.30 Unknown White Male
An Englishman in New York suddenly looses his entire memory on a subway train. EXTRAORDINARY TALE.

8.15. Mad Hot Ballroom
New York City school kids try Ballroom Foxtrot. BOOK IN ADVANCE; THIS WILL SELL OUT.

11.00 The Aristocrats
The one about 100 of world's comics telling the same jokes. FUNNIEST AND ONE OF THE BEST IN THE FESTIVAL.


Sunday 2nd October

11.00 Genesis
From the makers of Microcosmos. Good for all ages. Definitely a big screen event.

11.00 Titicutt Follies
Frederick Wiseman's take on the Bridgewater State Hospital.

12.30 A Social Genocide [Memoria del Saqueo]
Argentina sells its soul; an angry film about a corrupt government that leave this country in ruins. RECOMMENDED

12.15 Short Documentary Competition

3.30 High School
Frederick Wiseman's documentary on School, followed by Public Interview with maestro

5.30 The Asylum
Portrane Mental Asylum goes under the microscope.

6.50 Delamu (Cha Ma Gudao: Delamu)
The beautiful and treacherous tea horse route from China to Tibet. BOOK IN ADVANCE FOR THIS.

9.00 Devil and Daniel Johnston
A winner at Sundance 2005. A musical genius with delusions of grandeur and manic depression.. The demons begin to surface.

The full 24-page programme is available in the IFI if you want more information.
To Book: Phone: (01) 679 5744

ObeyGiant

No Murderball?

callmescratch

glad to see the aristocrats here, even though its only for one night, and i probablywon't get to go.

hopefully it'll be in cineworld soon, although it's still not in their "coming soon" section