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Saidhbh Ni Dhulaing, IFI Membership Officer, talks about IFI Membership and explains its many benefits to customers . . .An IFI membership is not a hard thing to encourage people to sign up for,...
View ArticleLast Men Standing
With so many movies being shot on digital these days, is it the end for film cameras? New documentary Side by Side, produced by Keanu Reeves, investigates the history, process and workflow of both...
View ArticleDo we really need rom-coms this Valentine's Day?
The annual event that is St Valentine's Day. A day laced with cynicism as the red balloons start to blanket Dublin and every shop is adorned with teddy bears and red hearts. Valentine’s Day conjures up...
View ArticleDirector Dylan Mohan Gray on his new documentary 'Fire in the Blood'
"What drove me to spend so many years working on Fire in the Blood knowing, even in the worst, loneliest moments, that this would almost certainly be the most important thing I would ever do in my...
View ArticleFrom Ireland with love...
IFI International, with the support of Culture Ireland, is teaming up with cultural partners across the EU to mount a major programme of Irish film during Ireland’s EU Presidency, running from January...
View ArticleThe Neil Jordan Collection at the Irish Film Archive
Coinciding with the IFI’s full retrospective of Neil Jordan’s cinematic work throughout the month of May, the IFI will be displaying rarely-seen documents donated by Neil Jordan to the IFI Irish Film...
View ArticleTwo anime classics coming to the IFI this May!
A chance to see anything from Studio Ghibli on the big screen is not to be missed and Studio Canal have seized the opportunity of the 25th anniversary of two titles, My Neighbour Totoro and Grave of...
View ArticleIFI's Ross Keane at Cannes 2013: Part 1
I arrived in Cannes this year, for my second visit to the Festival, a few days after its official opening and was instantly playing catch up! With five nights already under the belt for many people,...
View ArticleCannes Film Festival 2013 blog (Part Two)
Day 3 at Cannes began with glorious sunshine and ended with a lot of rain! Would the films follow the same path and start full of cheer and end on a damp note?My first film of the day - and possibly my...
View ArticleCannes Film Festival 2013 blog: Part Three
Day Four in Cannes and it's all about queuing. Long queues. Despite being full of industry professionals who you'd imagine would be the most reverential of audiences, Cannes audiences seem to have the...
View ArticleSilent film no more!
“Not long to the tour now...” I hear my fellow musicians declare! Well, it's been an interesting journey that began over 12 years ago when I first researched ideas for a movie with a new score. Sunniva...
View ArticleCannes Film Festival 2013 blog: Part Four
Unmade films, fine performances and false advertising. It's just another day at Cannes...As the films were mounting up, I decided it was time for another doc, and playing as part of Quinzaine des...
View ArticleThe queues continue at Cannes... Cannes Film Festival 2013 blog: Part Five
After queuing for well over an hour for Yolande Moreau's Henri (are you sensing that I'm over queues yet, or do I need to be less subtle!), there was no room at the inn and the majority of the line was...
View ArticleDr. Eoin Devereux talks Moz Angeles
In advance of the release of Morrissey 25: Live exclusively at the IFI, Eoin Devereux writes an IFI Blogpost about Morrissey’s Latino/Chicano Fans:In the early 1990s a fan subculture focused on...
View Article"You can never forget you're a dedicated film fan first" - Matt Micucci on...
As the IFI reporter from the Venice Film Festival, for the last couple of weeks I have been posting news, reviews, interviews and overall gossip from the Lido – I hope you have been following my...
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Film scholar Daniel Fitzpatrick has curated the IFI and Experimental Film Club programme for September, and here he discusses its theme: Re-evaluating British documentary cinema British cinema has...
View ArticleWhen a Film Surprises You...
With the 10th IFI Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Film Festival opening next week, the festival programmer, Ross Whitaker, writes about some valuable lessons that he's learnt when picking films for...
View ArticleStories about women and by female directors at IFI Stranger Than Fiction
IFI Stranger Than Fiction returns to the IFI this week, and I was delighted to learn that more than half the films in this year’s impressive lineup have a female director. This news is particularly...
View ArticleVery extremely dangerous Jerry McGill
A year since its debut at last year's IFI Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Film Festival, Paul Duane returns with his feature film, Very Extremely Dangerous, a tragic story of Jerry McGill, an aging...
View ArticleKeeping the summit dreams alive
What is different about seeing a wide-shot Everest, the world’s highest mountain for the first time in The Epic for Everest (1923), to seeing it captured on camera today? To my untrained eye, at least,...
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