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20 Years of the Irish Film Institute

  • 13-09-2012 12:33am
    #1
    JupiterKid
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    20 years ago the Irish Film Institute (then called the Irish Film Centre) opened its doors to the Irish public for the first time.

    There was nothing like it in Ireland at the time and indeed it formed a key flagship development within the Temple Bar Cultural Quarter Regeneration Project, then just getting underway.:cool:

    The purpose of the IFI was to act as a venue for independent emerging Irish film and the best of international film with a distinctly art-house slant. Also the IFI contains the important Irish Film Archive.

    The Irish Film Centre was launched at the perfect time - just as Ireland was beginning to become a more secular, sophisticated and cosmopolitan society and indeed the IFI has been a great success.

    What are Boardsies' impressions of the IFI? Loyal afficionado? Occasional visitor for the cafe and the odd art house film or in your view is it a pretentious and culturally snobbish ivory tower? :pac:

    Hard to believe it's 20 years sice the place first opened its doors!:eek:


Comments

  • #2
    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    All I know is that I love the horrorthon and will be going to it. Beer, popcorn and non stop horror films. Horrorthon forever.


  • #3
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon
    You come and go
    You come and go
    Loving would be easy
    if your colours were like my dreams
    Red, gold and green
    Red, gold and green


  • #4
    Sir Pompous Righteousness
    Closed Accounts Posts: 437 ✭✭Sir Pompous Righteousness


    Filthy Dirty French Movies. «Baise-moi latéralement» was another one.


  • #5
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Do they still use the Battleship Potemkin as an aspiration for Irish filmmakers?


  • #6
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,905 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Well, love it or loathe it, the IFI has been one of the few cultural hotspots of Temple Bar to actually survive the transformation of the place from a so-called "cultural" quarter into a hen and stag tourist-trap boozer strip.

    DesignYard, ArtHouse, Viking Centre and EcoCity - all gone. But the IFI has survived and thrived.

    And they don't only show arty films - lots of popular films are shown there from time to time.:)


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