Paul Markey
@boothprojection.bsky.social
Former child actor 🎥/ Present day adult / Last man standing in a booth/Projectionist at the Irish Film Institute 📽/Writer for RTE_Culture/ All opinion & laments are my own.
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· Jul 17
The return of Barry Lyndon - Kubrick's Irish masterpiece turns 50
"Before Private Barry Lyndon there came Commander Napoleon Bonaparte. For a director who sets his heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or his life will be but a sa...
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"Before Private Barry Lyndon there came Commander Napoleon Bonaparte. For a director who sets his heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or his life will be but a sad one."
BARRY LYNDON, one of the most sumptuous films ever made.
"Before Private Barry Lyndon there came Commander Napoleon Bonaparte. For a director who sets his heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or his life will be but a sad one."
BARRY LYNDON, one of the most sumptuous films ever made.
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Richard Linklater's new film, BLUE MOON, opens this Friday, November 28th 🎭
Shot entirely on a soundstage in Ireland, Blue Moon is a poignant chamber piece about the painful awareness that a once-golden partnership has irreversibly changed.
Tickets on sale now! 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/blue-moon/
Shot entirely on a soundstage in Ireland, Blue Moon is a poignant chamber piece about the painful awareness that a once-golden partnership has irreversibly changed.
Tickets on sale now! 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/blue-moon/
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Richard Linklater's new film, BLUE MOON, opens this Friday, November 28th 🎭
Shot entirely on a soundstage in Ireland, Blue Moon is a poignant chamber piece about the painful awareness that a once-golden partnership has irreversibly changed.
Tickets on sale now! 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/blue-moon/
Shot entirely on a soundstage in Ireland, Blue Moon is a poignant chamber piece about the painful awareness that a once-golden partnership has irreversibly changed.
Tickets on sale now! 🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/blue-moon/
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Obscure YT of the day CITIZEN STEVE, a B&W CITIZEN KANE parody Amy Irving produced for Steven Spielberg's 40th birthday party in 1987! Dan Ackroyd, John Candy, Michael Jackson, Irving, Robin Williams, Drew Barrymore, Michael J. Fox and more show up!
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November 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Obscure YT of the day CITIZEN STEVE, a B&W CITIZEN KANE parody Amy Irving produced for Steven Spielberg's 40th birthday party in 1987! Dan Ackroyd, John Candy, Michael Jackson, Irving, Robin Williams, Drew Barrymore, Michael J. Fox and more show up!
youtu.be/BC6suzi-y60?...
youtu.be/BC6suzi-y60?...
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IFI French Film Festival is back!
Huge thanks to Peugeot, the French Embassy, & @sheridanscheese.bsky.social
And to @irishtimes.com, @rte.ie, The Dean, Alliance Française, the Belgian Embassy, Europa Cinemas, Unifrance, Institut français, and @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
🇫🇷➡️ ifi.ie/frenchfest
Huge thanks to Peugeot, the French Embassy, & @sheridanscheese.bsky.social
And to @irishtimes.com, @rte.ie, The Dean, Alliance Française, the Belgian Embassy, Europa Cinemas, Unifrance, Institut français, and @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
🇫🇷➡️ ifi.ie/frenchfest
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
IFI French Film Festival is back!
Huge thanks to Peugeot, the French Embassy, & @sheridanscheese.bsky.social
And to @irishtimes.com, @rte.ie, The Dean, Alliance Française, the Belgian Embassy, Europa Cinemas, Unifrance, Institut français, and @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
🇫🇷➡️ ifi.ie/frenchfest
Huge thanks to Peugeot, the French Embassy, & @sheridanscheese.bsky.social
And to @irishtimes.com, @rte.ie, The Dean, Alliance Française, the Belgian Embassy, Europa Cinemas, Unifrance, Institut français, and @artscouncilireland.bsky.social
🇫🇷➡️ ifi.ie/frenchfest
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Happy 89th Birthday Dick Cavett, thank you for making television that would absolutely never be made by a major broadcast network any more, like letting Orson Welles perform a 9 minute monologue on ABC
Orson Welles Performs A Monologue About Noah's Ark | The Dick Cavett Show
YouTube video by The Dick Cavett Show
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November 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Happy 89th Birthday Dick Cavett, thank you for making television that would absolutely never be made by a major broadcast network any more, like letting Orson Welles perform a 9 minute monologue on ABC
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Remembering Rock Hudson on the 100th anniversary of his birth, 17 November 1925, in Winnetka, Illinois
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Remembering Rock Hudson on the 100th anniversary of his birth, 17 November 1925, in Winnetka, Illinois
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Tickets for a selection of our December releases are on sale NOW: https://shop.ifi.ie/! Including the new film IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, restored classics SUNSET BOULEVARD and L'ATALANTE, anniversary screenings of THE SHINING, as well as exclusive Q&As and special events you don't want to miss!
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Tickets for a selection of our December releases are on sale NOW: https://shop.ifi.ie/! Including the new film IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, restored classics SUNSET BOULEVARD and L'ATALANTE, anniversary screenings of THE SHINING, as well as exclusive Q&As and special events you don't want to miss!
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"What the THE DEAD sacrifices in character subjectivity, it makes up for in a kind of living, overhanging sense of the passage of time. Its inevitability. Our inability to control it. In conveying that, John Huston gets at the very heart of Joyce’s story. He gets at the inevitability of death."
The Dead (1987): You Have Promised Me A Thing Not Possible
What John Huston's 'The Dead' sacrifices in character subjectivity, it makes up for in a kind of living, overhanging sense of the passage of time.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
"What the THE DEAD sacrifices in character subjectivity, it makes up for in a kind of living, overhanging sense of the passage of time. Its inevitability. Our inability to control it. In conveying that, John Huston gets at the very heart of Joyce’s story. He gets at the inevitability of death."
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We are delighted to be collaborating with @EuropaCinemasNetwork once again to present EULAC Cinema Night 2025. On December 2nd, we will be screening the film, MALU directed by Pedro Freire. This event will be hosted by Ingrid Machado, Solax Film Club.
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/eulac-cinema-night-malu/
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/eulac-cinema-night-malu/
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We are delighted to be collaborating with @EuropaCinemasNetwork once again to present EULAC Cinema Night 2025. On December 2nd, we will be screening the film, MALU directed by Pedro Freire. This event will be hosted by Ingrid Machado, Solax Film Club.
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/eulac-cinema-night-malu/
🎟️ https://ifi.ie/film/eulac-cinema-night-malu/
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🌕🌍 Take a look at this gorgeous new artwork for Yorgos Lanthimos’s BUGONIA 🌕🌍
Tickets for our #35mm screenings are on sale now 📽🎞
🎟👉 https://ifi.ie/film/bugonia/
Tickets for our #35mm screenings are on sale now 📽🎞
🎟👉 https://ifi.ie/film/bugonia/
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌕🌍 Take a look at this gorgeous new artwork for Yorgos Lanthimos’s BUGONIA 🌕🌍
Tickets for our #35mm screenings are on sale now 📽🎞
🎟👉 https://ifi.ie/film/bugonia/
Tickets for our #35mm screenings are on sale now 📽🎞
🎟👉 https://ifi.ie/film/bugonia/
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📣 We're thriled to announce the Irish Premiere of DIE MY LOVE
Exclusively at the IFI on Wednesday, November 5th
Pre-screening reception with thanks to 5 Lamps
Tickets on sale now 🎟👉 https://ifi.ie/film/die-my-love/
A MUBI UK & Ireland release.
With thanks to Volta Pictures.
Exclusively at the IFI on Wednesday, November 5th
Pre-screening reception with thanks to 5 Lamps
Tickets on sale now 🎟👉 https://ifi.ie/film/die-my-love/
A MUBI UK & Ireland release.
With thanks to Volta Pictures.
October 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📣 We're thriled to announce the Irish Premiere of DIE MY LOVE
Exclusively at the IFI on Wednesday, November 5th
Pre-screening reception with thanks to 5 Lamps
Tickets on sale now 🎟👉 https://ifi.ie/film/die-my-love/
A MUBI UK & Ireland release.
With thanks to Volta Pictures.
Exclusively at the IFI on Wednesday, November 5th
Pre-screening reception with thanks to 5 Lamps
Tickets on sale now 🎟👉 https://ifi.ie/film/die-my-love/
A MUBI UK & Ireland release.
With thanks to Volta Pictures.
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Anyone who gives a toss about film writing, Repost please?
RIP to Terence Stamp. C&B on The Limey: cinephiliabeyond.org/bide-time-ev...
“Bide Your Time and Everything Becomes Clear”: The Construction of Memory in Soderbergh’s ‘The Limey’ • Cinephilia & Beyond
By Sven Mikulec From time to time, a film that is received less enthusiastically at the box office and perhaps gets overlooked by critics goes on to become a cult classic. In fact, this actually happe...
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August 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Anyone who gives a toss about film writing, Repost please?
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separated at birth
August 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
separated at birth
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With IFI Family Festival only a week away, our Education Programme Manager Holly Furlong takes us through some highlights of this year's programme 🎞✨
Explore our full programme here 👉 ifi.ie/familyfest/
Explore our full programme here 👉 ifi.ie/familyfest/
August 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
With IFI Family Festival only a week away, our Education Programme Manager Holly Furlong takes us through some highlights of this year's programme 🎞✨
Explore our full programme here 👉 ifi.ie/familyfest/
Explore our full programme here 👉 ifi.ie/familyfest/
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Proof - if proof be needed - that the very finest Oliver Hardy of them all is @realpaulputner.bsky.social.
When Stan Swears At Ollie In Laurel & Hardy - The Peter Serafinowicz Show
YouTube video by Absolute Jokes
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August 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Proof - if proof be needed - that the very finest Oliver Hardy of them all is @realpaulputner.bsky.social.
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"Before Private Barry Lyndon there came Commander Napoleon Bonaparte. For a director who sets his heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or his life will be but a sad one."
BARRY LYNDON, one of the most sumptuous films ever made.
"Before Private Barry Lyndon there came Commander Napoleon Bonaparte. For a director who sets his heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or his life will be but a sad one."
BARRY LYNDON, one of the most sumptuous films ever made.
The return of Barry Lyndon - Kubrick's Irish masterpiece turns 50
"Before Private Barry Lyndon there came Commander Napoleon Bonaparte. For a director who sets his heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or his life will be but a sa...
www.rte.ie
July 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
"Before Private Barry Lyndon there came Commander Napoleon Bonaparte. For a director who sets his heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or his life will be but a sad one."
BARRY LYNDON, one of the most sumptuous films ever made.
"Before Private Barry Lyndon there came Commander Napoleon Bonaparte. For a director who sets his heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or his life will be but a sad one."
BARRY LYNDON, one of the most sumptuous films ever made.
Sunday in the booth with Dietrich & Lubitsch @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #marlenedietrich #ernstlubitsch #projectionbooth 📽️
June 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Sunday in the booth with Dietrich & Lubitsch @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #marlenedietrich #ernstlubitsch #projectionbooth 📽️
Due to the particular 2.76:1 picture ratio chosen by director Danny Boyle, 27 YEARS LATER has been assigned its own special 🎆 Projector lens 📽️ in Screen 1 at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social. Along with our drop down masking, this ensures the film image will be concentrated & entirely black bar free.
June 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Due to the particular 2.76:1 picture ratio chosen by director Danny Boyle, 27 YEARS LATER has been assigned its own special 🎆 Projector lens 📽️ in Screen 1 at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social. Along with our drop down masking, this ensures the film image will be concentrated & entirely black bar free.
#DavidLean’s THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI will showing from a lovely NEARLY NEW #35mm 📽️ print on Saturday afternoon May 10th at the @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
#DavidLean’s THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI will showing from a lovely NEARLY NEW #35mm 📽️ print on Saturday afternoon May 10th at the @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social
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Arguably the first of David Lean's films to display a true mastery of the medium, BRIEF ENCOUNTERS returns to our big screen next week!
Screening on #35mm as part of The Films of David Lean.
📅 Wed 16th
⏰ 18.20
🎟 ifi.ie/film/david-l...
Screening on #35mm as part of The Films of David Lean.
📅 Wed 16th
⏰ 18.20
🎟 ifi.ie/film/david-l...
April 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Arguably the first of David Lean's films to display a true mastery of the medium, BRIEF ENCOUNTERS returns to our big screen next week!
Screening on #35mm as part of The Films of David Lean.
📅 Wed 16th
⏰ 18.20
🎟 ifi.ie/film/david-l...
Screening on #35mm as part of The Films of David Lean.
📅 Wed 16th
⏰ 18.20
🎟 ifi.ie/film/david-l...
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After a tragic accident results in the death of a valuable horse, the once-celebrated jockey Remo becomes a fugitive, disappearing into the underbelly of Buenos Aires.
KILL THE JOCKEY screens as part of IberScreen Festival 2025! 🏇
📆 Thu 24th
⏰ 18.30
🎟 ifi.ie/film/iberscr...
KILL THE JOCKEY screens as part of IberScreen Festival 2025! 🏇
📆 Thu 24th
⏰ 18.30
🎟 ifi.ie/film/iberscr...
April 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
After a tragic accident results in the death of a valuable horse, the once-celebrated jockey Remo becomes a fugitive, disappearing into the underbelly of Buenos Aires.
KILL THE JOCKEY screens as part of IberScreen Festival 2025! 🏇
📆 Thu 24th
⏰ 18.30
🎟 ifi.ie/film/iberscr...
KILL THE JOCKEY screens as part of IberScreen Festival 2025! 🏇
📆 Thu 24th
⏰ 18.30
🎟 ifi.ie/film/iberscr...
THIS HAPPY BREED (1944), Dir: #DavidLean, #35mm 🎞️ restored print from 2008 @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #ProjectionBooth 📽️
April 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
THIS HAPPY BREED (1944), Dir: #DavidLean, #35mm 🎞️ restored print from 2008 @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social #ProjectionBooth 📽️
March 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM