Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

USA | 2008 | 96mins | 35mm | Colour

At the headquarters of the CIA in Arlington, Virginia, analyst Osborne Cox arrives for a top-secret meeting. Unfortunately for Cox, the secret is soon out: he is being ousted. Cox does not take the news particularly well and returns to his Georgetown home to work on his memoirs and his drinking, not necessarily in that order.
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Ramin Bahrani

USA | 2008 | 91mins | 35mm | Colour

After the success of Man Push Cart and Chop Shop, Ramin Bahrani’s third feature is another slice of rewardingly idiosyncratic independent filmmaking from the one of the most distinctive and rapidly emerging young auteurs working in cinema today...
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Paul Merton

USA | 2008 | 120mins | 35mm | Colour

An evening of silent comedy, music and chat with comedian and cinema-lover Merton
Well-known to Irish audiences as a razor-witted panelist on Have I Got News for You, British comedian Paul Merton is also something of an authority on Hollywood’s golden age of silent comedy.
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Fernando Meirelles

USA | 2008 | 120mins | 35mm | Colour

Adapted from Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago’s masterwork, Blindness is an epic tale about the sheer resilience of human nature at the most dangerous of times. The action takes place in a city which is ravaged by an epidemic of instant ‘white blindness’. Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital, where the newly created ‘society of the blind’ quickly breaks down.
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Peter Greenaway

USA | 2008 | 120mins | 35mm | Colour

The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as ‘The Night Watch’.
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Julian Jarrold

USA | 2007 | 133mins | 35mm | Colour

High society’s misdemeanours are lavishly explored in Julian Jarrold’s latest feature Brideshead Revisited. Set in the decadent pre-World War II era of 1920s Britain and based on Evelyn Waugh’s acclaimed novel, the story details Charles Ryder’s summer with the noble Marchmain family.
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Steve McQueen

England | 2008 | 90mins | 35mm | Colour

Video artist Steve McQueen’s debut feature tells the story of Bobby Sands, focusing on the final days of his hunger strike at the Maze prison in 1981. Written by playwright Enda Walsh (Disco Pigs, Bedbound), McQueen displays a deft touch with breathtaking physical imagery, sound and tone as his portrait of Sands delivers a definitive account of political violence and idealism.
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Clarke Gregg

USA | 2008 | 89mins | 35mm | Colour

Actor-turned-director Clark Gregg shows he is as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it with Choke, a wickedly colourful dark comedy about mothers and sons, sexual compulsion, and the sordid underbelly of Colonial theme parks. Adapted from the cult Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name.
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Belgium, France | 2008 | 105mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled

Described by critics as nuanced, surprising and deeply moving, The Silence of Lorna is a beautifully observed study of immigrants in the new Europe attempting to eke out a living, often through rather dubious means.
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Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton

USA | 1927 | 75mins | 35mm | Black & White

Generally regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies, The General is an imaginative masterpiece of deadpan Buster Keaton comedy, featuring what is unquestionably the greatest chase scene ever filmed
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Henry Selick

USA | 2006 | 76mins | 35mm | Colour

Based on an original story by Tim Burton, The Nightmare Before Christmas has been revamped in 3-D and audiences can now get up close and bone-rattlingly personal with the film’s cast of mischievous ghosts and ghouls.
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