THE TERMINAL  2004, 124 minutes Directed by Steven Spielberg and inspired by the experiences of Mehran Nasseri, who lived at Charles De Gaulle Airport for fifteen years, this film stars Tom Hanks as Viktor N., an Eastern European traveler stuck...

WAKING NED DIVINE  1998, 91 minutes In the tiny village of Tullymore, someone has won the Irish National Lottery, and elderly friends Jackie and Michael are determined to find out who it is. They scheme high and low for the...

CIRCLE OF FRIENDS  1995, 103 minutes Based on the novel by Maeve Binchy, this coming-of-age film opens in the small 1950s town of Knockglen. Minnie Driver plays Benny, a teenager whose circle of friends consists of willowy Nan and Eve,...

BELFAST  2021, 98 minutes Directed by Kenneth Branagh and based his own childhood experiences in 1969 Northern Ireland, this film chronicles a working-class Protestant family as seen through the eyes of Buddy, a nine-year-old boy. With his parents trying to...

THE MATCHMAKER  1997, 97 minutes With St. Patrick’s soon upon us, Irish rom-coms can be a tricky thing. John Ford’s 1952 classic The Quiet Man now comes across as so brutal it should have a restraining order slapped on it....

MY LEFT FOOT  1989, 103 minutes In this extraordinary film Daniel Day Lewis plays Christy Brown, who was born in Depression-era Dublin to a family of 22 children––thirteen of whom survived infancy. That Christy Brown himself survived is something of...

ONDINE 2009, 111 minutes No series involving Ireland would be complete without one film that touches upon the mythic. Ondine does this, but in a sardonic way, updated to the era of the European Union. Set on the coast of...

Join Doc Crane every Thursday at the AIC for a film and discussion. These events are free and open to the public. THE PLAYBOYS, 1992 117 minutes Robin Wright plays Tara Maguire, an unwed mother living in a small village...

BROOKLYN 2015 117 Minutes Faithfully adapted from Colm Tóibín’s novel, this film relates New York’s ongoing immigration experience, as seen through the eyes of Ellis Lacey, a young Irish woman. Played by Saoirse Ronan in her breakout performance, Ellis leaves...

WILD MOUNTAIN THYME 2020, 102 minutes Our Irish film series concludes with this confection by John Patrick Shanley, the screenwriter of Moonstruck. Set in County Mayo and based on Shanley’s Broadway play Outside Mullingar, the film stars Jamie Dornan and...

I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!   1945,  91 minutes Martin Scorsese is on record for saying: “I reached the point of thinking there were no more masterpieces to discover, then I saw I Know Where I’m Going!” This film certainly feels like...

DEAR FRANKIE  2004, 105 minutes Frankie is a nine-year-old boy whose mother Lizzie is doing a questionable thing with the best of intentions. Frankie has only the vaguest memories of his father, but he gets regular letters from him, posted from...