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22 May 2014

John Ford Ireland Film Symposium Programme Highlights - June 6-8th - in Dublin.
To register for free but ticketed events or to purchase tickets for screenings, click on individual links below. Full details about the Symposium are available at the www.johnfordireland.org website.

Friday June 6th, 7.00pm  €10/€8 Purchase Tickets HERE
The Gala Opening Night celebrates the 75th anniversary of Ford's Golden Year of 1939 at Dublin's historic SAVOY Cinema with a Discussion and Screening of the classic Western from that year, Stagecoach, starring John Wayne.

Friday June 6th , 7pm 
This Gala screening of Stagecoach is part of the Gala Opening Night package.

Saturday June 7th, 4pm
The Symposium welcomes renowned US Author and Biographer Scott Eyman, following the release of his recent highly acclaimed biography John Wayne The Life and Legend . Eyman will discuss Wayne's collaboration and unique relationship with John Ford.
This event is free but ticketed - Register Here

Sunday June 8th, from 11am-5pm
To commemorate the illustrious and courageous work of Ford at War, John Ford Ireland – in conjunction with The National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks - is hosting a FORD at WAR Day on Sunday June 8.
This event is free but ticketed - Register Here

Sunday June 8th, 11am 
This is part of the FORD at WAR event in Collins Barracks National Museum of Ireland.

Friday June 6
Award winning director and screenwriter Ben Wheatley has cemented his reputation as one of the most interesting filmmakers in recent years. Wheatley has directed some of the most acclaimed UK films of recent years including Down Terrace, Kill List, Sightseers and A Field in England.

Saturday June 7, 12noon / 2pm
This FORD Film Hub brings together directors, producers and actors to debate and discuss the skills and expertise of Ford's greatest films, providing a mix of insight and lively discussion into his lasting legacy. Panelists include Whit Stillman (Metrpolitan, Barcelona), Ben Wheatley (A Field in England, Kill List), Laura Hastings Smith (Hunger, Macbeth), Kieron J Walsh (Jump, When Brendan Met Trudy) and Andrew Reid (NI Screen), among others.
These events are free but ticketed - Register Here

Saturday June 7th, 9.00am
This Panel discussion will open the book on Ford's use of adaptation, and also consider Ford's legacy, and how many of leading figures of the New Hollywood film movement from Scorsese to Spielberg borrowed heavily from Ford.
This event is free but ticketed - Register Here

Saturday June 7th, 11.00am
Edward Buscombe (Former Head of Publications at BFI) will give a presentation on the Western and Stagecoach (1939) celebrating it's 75 anniversary this year, widely recognised as establishing the Western as a serious genre, after years of being dismissed as B-movie material.
This event is free but ticketed - Register Here

Saturday June 7th, 8pm €8/€7/€6 Purchase Tickets HERE
Ford's most influential film, a masterpiece of filmmaking and recently named as both the American Film Institute and Entertainment Weekly's 'Best Western Of All Time', John Ford's The Searchers' finds John Wayne in the classic role of Ethan Edwards, a gun slinging Civil War vet on the trail of the Indian tribe who kidnapped his niece across Texas desert plains.

Sunday June 8th, 6pm €8/€7/€6 Purchase Tickets HERE
Closing the 2014 Symposium and part of this year's theme of Ford at War, They Were Expendable is Ford's personal tribute to the United States Navy, in which he served during WWII. The film, which stars John Wayne has been called 'Ford's greatest work' by acclaimed director and Ford authority Lindsay Anderson, describing the film as 'a heroic poem'.

Saturday June 7th, 10.30pm
Enjoy one of John Ford's most beloved and personal films, The Quiet Man at this FREE night-time open air screening in Temple Bar. A true screen classic, The Quiet Man stars the unforgettable pairing of John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara shot against the lush, wistful backdrop of the Irish countryside of Mayo.
This event is free but ticketed - Register Here

Saturday June 7th, 6pm €8/€7/€6 Purchase Tickets HERE
My Darling Clementine (1946) is among Ford's most memorable, perfect works; a perfect example of his extraordinary evocation of the American West, set in Tombstone, about Wyatt Earp and his brothers, a treacherous family of cattle thieves and Earp's relationship with the tragic Doc Holliday – culminating in the famous O.K. Corral gunfight.

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