IFI Film Shop

The best shop in Ireland for
Movie DVD it has such a great range and not bad priced. Drop in for coffee and cake afterwards was well
Love this place

By far my favourite specialist bookshop. The books here are chosen by movie lovers for movie lovers, and I have discovered movies I’ve wanted to see just from browsing the books here.

What makes the IFI experience really special is that it expands your mind. I feel intellectually stimulated by the impartial and often outlandish films on show that don’t conform to populist mentality and thus are some of the most interesting pieces of work you will see. This sensation of ‘culture’ at your fingertips is unlike any other and that’s why I truly adore this institution. The bookshop more than expands upon this unconventionalist attitude. It has established a reputation throughout the country for its wide selection of books on Irish and Foreign Film and its range of Irish and world cinema on video and DVD.
To attempt to convey the shop’s diverse as well as very cultured and educated stockpile I shall relay what I have bought there since the start of this year:
A collection of really cool postcards, some of timeless film imagery and some taken by iconic photographers Herb Ritts and Annie Leibovitz including a one-​off snapshot of the Cash family the same year as both Johnny and June Cash’s death and Johnny Depp with his scissorhands and an A1 sized ‘Blade Runner’ poster. I bought the books ‘100 European Horror Films’, ‘The Universal Screen Surrealism on Film’ and ‘Directors in British and Irish Cinemas, A Reference Companion’, as well as the DVDs ‘The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion’ — a very special box set celebrating the works of one of the greatest filmmakers Russia, if not the world has ever produced, together with the sublime ‘Jean-​Luc Godard Collection’ and a copy of the French classic ‘The Barbarian Invasions’. I hope relaying my list of recent purchases communicates how the products for sale are as wide-​ranging as they are erudite. Any film buffs and those well-​read and knowledgeable in the domain of motion picture and cultured arts would totally relish in everything this shop has to offer.
I know it’s a cliché term but the shop’s stockpile does seem to carry a lot of ‘Indie’ flick memorabilia, again indisposed to support populist stuff that lacks in quality and subject matter.
The magnitude of the anthology of books on sale never ceases to amaze me with biographies, hardbacks on the topic of gender and race studies, film studies, cinematography and adaptations: ‘Book to Film’. DVD’s from remote provinces are too for sale. Films from Italy, Russia, Germany, as well as the terrific world of Asian Cinema including the Wong Kar-​Wai collection are here in abundance. And of course DVD’s from pastures closer to home including a diverse selection of Ireland’s finest, everything from Waking Ned, a film adaptation of Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Beckett on Film are here for your attention.
This is an extraordinary shop full to the brim with goods you will not find anywhere else in the city. Prepare to be bowled over by the streams of sophisticated art ready to be snapped up.