Skip to main content
Tag

English film

Lola [Ireland/UK]

LOLA [Ireland/UK], Thursday 30 November, 8pm

By archive, Season 24 Autumn 2023

Online booking is appreciated and we cover the cost of your booking fee.  Click here to buy your ticket for LOLA.

LOLA stylishly fuses time-travel and found footage elements to craft a clever ‘what-if’ story that buzzes with timeless ingenuity.

Impressive debut film from an Irish director destined for cult status… like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice as written by HG Wells.Irish Times

England, 1941. Sisters Thomasina and Martha have created a machine that can intercept broadcasts from the future. This delightful apparatus allows them to explore their inner punk a generation before the movement comes into existence.

But with World War II escalating, the sisters decide to use the machine as a weapon of intelligence, intercepting information from the future that could help with military intelligence.

The machine initially proves to be a huge success, rapidly twisting the fortunes of the war against the Nazis. While Thomasina becomes intoxicated by LOLA, Martha begins to realise the terrible consequences of its power.

A thrillingly inventive Irish sci-fi thriller… Andrew Legge’s mockumentary, shot with vintage cameras, conjures a chilling glimpse of an alternative fascist reality. – The Guardian

Andrew Legge’s imaginative and experimental science-fiction feature commits itself admirably to an outlandish idea, and skilfully weaves black and white found footage into an intriguing, playful movie. – Irish Independent

Andrew Legge’s distinct authorial voice continues to wow, and one can’t help but look forward to what he does next! – Film Ireland Magazine

Even with all the metaphysical mayhem, the movie remains rooted in the lives and attitudes of its characters, and in the magnetic performances of Martini and Appleton. – Los Angeles Times

LOLA is the feature debut of Irish filmmaker Andrew Legge who loves playing with film form and music as part of the story telling process. He has made a series of award-winning short films. The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish, a silent love story, was partly shot on a hand wound 16mm camera and screened in Dublin, New York and the Barbican in London with live accompaniment from a pianist. The Girl With The Mechanical Maiden was screened with a twenty-five-piece orchestra and team of Foley artists dressed in lab coats at the National Concert Hall in Dublin and Lincoln Center in New York.

Click here to read Irish Times interview with Andrew Legge.

100% Rotten Tomatoes

Filmed at Killadoon House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare; Knockmaroon Farm, Castleknock, Dublin; and King’s Inns in Dublin. Music by Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy.

  • LOLA
  • Ireland/UK, 2023 | Language: English | 80 minutes | Cert: TBC
  • Director: Andrew Legge
  • Cast: Stefanie Martini, Emma Appleton, Rory Fleck Byrne, Aaron Monaghan
  • Foreign language films are subtitled.  Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • A short film may be shown before the feature.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Cork Cine Club is absorbing cost of online booking fees.
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/LOLA-30thNov
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

cancelled – SOMETIMES ALWAYS NEVER [U.K.], THU 2 APRIL, 8PM

By archive, Season 22 films

His son is missing, his family is lost, but his dress sense is immaculate. Bill Nighy is spellbinding as a Scrabble obsessive searching for his estranged son in this elegant, off-beat drama-comedy.

A triple-word score of a movie…the presence of Bill Nighy, funeral-faced national treasure, will no doubt be a key selling point for this tragicomic drama. But the real star is behind the scenes. Screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce, who adapted the film from his own short story, has crafted a joy of a script, which seeds its themes as elegantly as Nighy’s character, Alan, a Scrabble-obsessed tailor, wears his suits.The Guardian ★★★★

U.K., 2018 | Language: English| 91 minutes | Cert: 12a

Director: Carl Hunter

Cast: Bill Nighy, Sam Riley, Alice Lowe, Tim McInnerny, Jenny Agutter

ONLY YOU [U.K.], THU 17 OCTOBER, 8PM

By archive, Season 21 films

A couple in Glasgow discover that falling in love was the easy part.  This engrossing drama pierces the heart of a relationship with wit, honesty and emotional intimacy.

Elena, 35, and Jake, 26, meet by chance on New Year’s Eve in Glasgow, fighting for the same taxi. But instead of going their separate ways after a shared ride, they start a passionate relationship. Within weeks they are living together, and not long after they talk about starting a family. But as the seasons pass, reality catches up with them. Falling in love was the easy part, but can they remain in love when life doesn’t give them everything they hoped for?

A terrifically engrossing drama about two wholly believable characters, made with the kind of wit, honesty and raw emotional intimacy that pierces right to the heart of their relationship. Vividly rendered, and filled with tangible yearning, it strikes a balance between romantic passion and mundane domesticity, as the skin-prickling attraction of new love is tested by the day-to-day tribulations of real life. A perfectly realised story of love and longing.The Guardian ★★★★★

A sensual drama chronicles a couple’s desperate race against the biological clock… two powerful performances are at the heart of the film.The Irish Times ★★★★

The characters’ freshness and the film’s attention to mood and atmosphere reveal plenty of talent in Hary Wootliff, making her debut as a feature director. – The Sunday Times

100% from Rotten Tomatoes

U.K., 2018 | Language: English | 119 minutes | Cert: 15A

Director: Harry Wootliff

Cast: Laia Costa, Josh O’Connor, Natalie Arle-Toyne, Isabelle Barth, Tam Dean Burn