Film Features

• IFI presents Watching Wes Anderson season this June

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  Writer-director Wes Anderson is arguably one of the foremost cinematic stylists working in American film today; his rigorous and distinctive aesthetic approach makes his films instantly recognisable. To celebrate the release of his latest film, Moon... more

• The week in film

  18th May 2012
  

  Every Friday, we'll be bringing you a list of all the new releases for the coming week, complete with links to film reviews and trailers. Find out what’s hitting theatres –  art house cinemas and multiplexes alike – this week below. The DictatorGene... more

• Meeting House Square hosts Outdoor Film Festival

  10th May 2012
  

  What better way to kick off the summer months than by watching old film favourites, outside, while sipping hot chocolate and throwing back fistfuls of popcorn? Well, every Thursday night from May 10th to June 14th you can do just that, as the new an... more

• Action Movies 101 at the IFI

  30th April 2012
  

  Robocop, Die Hard, First Blood, Goldfinger … If you’re looking for an introduction to cinema’s most adrenaline-packed genre, or if you’re an action flick aficionado who simply has to see Terminator 2 in 70mm, you are in luck. For the entire month of... more

• Light House exclusive: Butch Cassidy returns in Blackthorn

  18th April 2012
  

  Blackthorn, an elegiac western from Mateo Gil, screens exclusively at the Light House Cinema in Smithfield. Sam Shepard stars as Butch Cassidy, the famed, exiled outlaw who has been living as Blackthorne for the past 20 years. The film follows..... more

• Stellan Skarsgård officially launches 10th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival

  3rd February 2012
  

  Acclaimed Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård officially launched the 10th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF) last night at the recently reopened Light House Cinema in Smithfield. Highlights of this year’s programme have been revealed,.... more

• Element Pictures launches videos on demand service 'Volta'

  26th January 2012
  

  After reopening the Light House last week, film/television production company and film distributor Element Pictures today launches a new Irish video on demand service called Volta. The online service - www.volta.ie - offers access to the best of..... more

• Two Irish shorts are nominated for Oscar

  24th January 2012
  

  Two Irish shorts have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. Peter McDonald’s Pentecost and Terry George’s The Shore are among the five films now competing for the Oscar. The final five were whittled down from 107 shorts..... more

• Dublin Docklands welcome new cinema this March

  23rd January 2012
  

  According to the Irish Times, a new cinema will open up near the O2 in the Dublin Docklands this March. The 12-screen cinema complex, to be called Point Pictures, is the most recent addition to the area’s big-venue entertainment options, and will..... more

• Smithfield’s Light House Cinema reopens January 20th

  17th January 2012
  

  Film/television production company and film distributor Element Pictures has taken over management of the Light House Cinema in Smithfield in Dublin 7, which will reopen on Friday, January 20. Element Pictures - the company behind productions such..... more