Ahead of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013, TARA BRADYreveals the Ticket's top 10 picks for the fest – and offers a three-a-day movie guide
OK, NOW that you’ve finished gasping over this year’s starry contingent of festival guests – Danny De Vito, Joss Whedon, Frank Langella, Robert Towne, Jem Cohen, Costa-Gavras – we’ve only gone and made you this extra special cut-out-and-keep diary planner to this year’s very best JDIFF titles to really whet your appetite.
Set your dial to jdiff.comfor the complete programme and booking options. And try not to miss any of our official Ticket top 10 picks.
GANGS OF WASSEYPUR, PARTS 1 2
Picture The Godfather saga refashioned as a Bollywood musical but with more explosions and prison breaks and sex addiction. Expect swearing and butchering throughout the epic, 318-minute extravaganza.
WEST OF MEMPHIS
Even if you’ve seen all three parts of the similarly themed Paradise Lost, Deliver Us From Evil director Amy Berg’s chilling portrait of the West Memphis Three case makes for white-knuckle storytelling.
SHORT STORIES
A rejected manuscript influences the lives of all who touch it in Mikhail Segal’s surreal, stately, socially conscious anthology.
WHITE TIGER
A ghostly German tank channels Moby Dick – a Great White Panzerkampfwagen – in Karen Shakhnazarov’s enigmatic, strikingly original second World War drama.
CALL GIRL
A troubled youngster is recruited into a prostitution ring in this compelling Swedish thriller inspired by a real-life 1970s political scandal.
The King of Pigs
Yeun Sang-ho’s startling Korean anime flashes back from recessionary hardships to an even more traumatic past. Schoolyard bullies reign in a film that could easily be OldBoy Jr.
POST TENEBRAS LUX
Does this schoolboy rugby match have anything to do with that glowing demon?
You can stand there arguing with Carlos Reygadas’s obtuse, bizarre, maddening fourth feature or you can stand back and marvel at one of cinema’s greatest opening scenes.
BLANCANIEVES
Pablo Berger’s modern, silent melodrama re-imagines Snow White as a feminist heroine against Expressionist shapes and Buñuelian compositions. A classier, more cine-literate companion for The Artist.
WHITE ELEPHANT
Pablo Trapero regulars Ricardo Darín and Martina Gusman reunite for a thriller about two priests working to bring food, medicine and education to a Buenos Aires slum caught in the crossfire of a drug war.
THE GATEKEEPERS
Documentarian Dror Moreh interviews all
six former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli internal security service, in this revealing, award-winning chronicle of frontlines and ruthless tactics.
FRIDAY, FEB 15
Manhunt
Cineworld 11, 8.45pm
Night of Silence
Light House 3, 8.30pm
With You, Without You
Light House 1, 8.45pm
SATURDAY, FEB 16
Gangs of Wasseypur, Pt 1
Cineworld 8, 10.30am
Blancanieves
Savoy 1, 11am
Clip
Light House 3, 6pm
SUNDAY, FEB 17
The Gatekeepers
Light House 1, 6.10pm
White Tiger
Cineworld 8, 6.15pm
Spies
Light House 1, 8.20pm
MONDAY, FEB 18
The King of Pigs
Cineworld 9, 9pm
Pieta
Light House 1, 6.10pm
Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
Light House 2, 6.15pm
TUESDAY, FEB 19TH
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Cineworld 8, 3.30pm
Vanishing Waves
Light House 2, 8.25pm
Pablo
Light House 2, 6.05pm
WEDNESDAY, FEB 20TH
80 Million
Cineworld 8, 8.45pm
Post Tenebras Lux
Cineworld 9, 3.45pm
After Lucia
Cineworld 8, 4.00pm
THURSDAY, FEB 20TH
Call Girl
Light House 1, 8.20pm
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
Light House 2, 8.40pm
Populaire
Cineworld 9, 8.30pm
FRIDAY, FEB 21ST
Short Stories
Light House 3, 6.15pm
West of Memphis
Cineworld 11, 6pm
Beyond the Hill
Cineworld 8, 8pm
