I have to say membership of the IFI is the best investment I’ve made in Dublin to date. As much as the great new films on offer though, I’ve been loving the re-releases. Seeing the Battleship Potemkin on a big screen was every bit as cool as I expected it to be.
This month, from May 13th to 19th, Taxi Driver gets an airing at the IFI. I’ve only watched this film once before, on a crappy portable DVD player. They were the thing to have about five years ago, presenting new and exciting ways to set a house on fire while you sleep.
The chance to see Travis Bickle on the big screen is something to seize I think. The May programme for the IFI is available to read right now.
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Donal
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Come Here To Me! 
The IFI is supercool and they do a vegy burger to die for too. Must consider investing in membership, especially since Smithfield is now closed 😦
😦 You get invites to freebies during the year, the thing pays for itself Kate! Go for it.
One of my flavourites. A Taxi Driver day to equal RSD Mr. Fallon?
The IFI often has some very good stuff on, but their staff are usuall arrogant twentysomething D4 trash.
Also, their building isn’t a dedicated, purpose-built cinema. That’s why it’s a real shame that the Lighthouse had to close.
I like it there, but the screens are too small. I’ll also never forgive them for denying me entry to a reprint of 2001: A Space Odyssey about 10 years ago because I was five minutes late.
Taxi Driver is great but I think Casino is Scorsese’s masterpiece. Potemkin is awesome too. It’s great to watch it with that really triumphant contemporaneous Soviet classical music, Prokofiev especially.