Subtitled cinema

All 3D-equipped cinemas can screen this film in 3D - with subtitles. Please ask your nearest one to screen it!

Tim Burton directs an epic 3D fantasy adventure featuring an all-star cast including Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter. When Alice returns to the world she encountered as a young girl, she embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny, and encounters some of the most fantastical, charismatic characters ever created.

Dublin - Clondalkin D22 Vue
In 3D! Sun 21st March 4:30, Tue 23rd March 4:30

Dublin - Dundrum D14, Movies@Dundrum
In 3D! Wed 17th, Thurs 18th March 6.30 daily,
Fri 19th March 5.30, Sat 20th March 12.30

Dublin Stillorgan, Ormonde
In 3D! Wed 17th March 6.10, Fri 19th March 5.50

Dublin - Swords Movies@Swords
In 3D! Thurs 18th March 6.30, Fri 19th March 6.40, Sat 20th, Sun 21st March 11.00am

Action drama from director Paul Greengrass, starring Matt Damon as Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller, who is sent to Baghdad in 2003 to find weapons of mass destruction thought to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Soon, Miller and his men stumble upon an elaborate cover-up. Now they must hunt through faulty intelligence to find answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war. As they search, they discover that the most elusive weapon of all is the truth...

Avatar subtitled in 3D! (12a) 2 hours 41 mins
3D - unless otherwise indicated.

All 3D-equipped cinemas can screen this film in 3D - with subtitles. Please ask your nearest one to screen it!

Ten years in the making, 'Avatar' incorporates the latest CGI technology to transport the audience into a spectacular alien world, promising an unprecedented cinema experience. James Cameron directs this adventure starring Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, an ex-Marine who is selected to participate in the Avatar programme, in which genetically-engineered human beings are sent to explore a small moon called Pandora. There, the indigenous Navi tribe of three-metre-high human-like beings have long lived a peaceful existence. Jake meets Navi princess Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), falls in love and is torn between his mission and the plight of the aliens...

Five stars! Empire & Total Film mags. "An audacious, awe-inspiring work of modern art that reinvents and redesigns the whole process of sitting in a darkened room staring up at a screen"

John Travolta and Robin Williams star in the Walt Disney comedy 'Old Dogs'. Two business partners, one a divorcé (Robin Williams) and the other a fun-loving bachelor, have their lives turned upside down when pair of seven-year-old twins are placed in their care. With no childcare skills whatsoever, the bumbling bachelors go from one disaster to another. But as they strike a bond with the twins, the men discover there’s more to life than business...

Latest releases include:

Micmacs (French with English Subtitles) A visually inventive tour de force. With ‘Micmacs’, Jean-Pierre Jeunet (‘Amelie’) sets his sights on the international arms industry. French superstar Danny Boon plays Bazil, the victim of a drive-by shooting who, on leaving hospital, teams up with an ex-con and his eccentric friends to exact revenge on a group of arms dealers. What unfolds confirms Jeunet’s place as one of French cinema’s true visionaries. Subtitled trailer & Subtitled clips & Review

Ponyo "As visually alluring a fairytale as you are ever likely to see." (Dubbed in English, but some cinemas will show it in the original Japanese, with English Subtitles - check local listings). Empire Review

A Prophet (French with English Subtitles)
"An endlessly powerful and absorbing tapestry of criminal life, which has all the epic human drama of such classics as SCARFACE and THE GODFATHER".

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Swedish with English Subtitles)
This crime thriller has broken all box office records across Scandinavia. Complex, intelligent and challenging, this a tense slice of Swedish drama that is a cut above the rest. Subtitled trailer

The Headless Woman (12a) (Spanish with full English subtitles) Disturbing and deeply mysterious, this tale of ghosts and guilt is nothing short of a masterpiece (Guardian). Verónica is a well-to-do, middle-aged dentist whose life becomes plagued with doubt following her involvement in a possible hit-and-run accident. Dialogue-free trailer HERE Official website HERE

Check local listings for shows. Details, trailers and links to some listings HERE

We receive accessible listings directly from cinema head offices. Unless urgent amendments are required, listings are updated every Thursday. We take great care to ensure the listings are timely and accurate but can take NO RESPONSIBILITY for postponed or cancelled shows. If cinemas inform us of changes, we will tell you via this website. If they don't inform us, we can't inform you.

Many cinemas schedules are "SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTIFICATION". Sometimes the files necessary for a subtitled or described film are not available, or are not delivered to the cinema on time. The only way to be 100% sure is to check with the ACTUAL cinema before you plan a visit. But DOUBLE check, preferably with a manager. We recommend that you should always request confirmation that a show is definitely on.

Digital cinema info

These digital projection systems have built in subtitle readers. Subtitle 'files' are available for almost all popular cinema releases, which can be 'read' by digital projection systems. Some of these cinemas regularly schedule subtitled shows.

It is hoped that the 'access' features of these digital projectors will be utilised, to enable people with hearing or sight loss to enjoy digital cinema, but there's no guarantee that it will happen. We urge organisations, groups and individuals to create total awareness of this access issue, to ensure it is addressed as soon as possible. Please contact digitally-equipped cinemas in your area and request that they utilise the built in 'access' features of digital projectors!

Note: as with DVD releases, the film - on disc, or hard disk - needs to have a subtitle track included for it to be broadcast - almost all popular releases now have that track.

No subtitled mainstream films next week? Please ask the cinemas to screen the many available subtitled films! Cinemas below have shown them in the past:

"Have you ever tried to lip-read a masked super hero or villain? Or an animated rat, fish, car or robot? Without subtitles we just watch the pictures and guess the story"

"After losing most of my sight four years ago I gave up on cinema - only to discover audio description some months later. I've since watched many more films. Watching 'Avatar' I felt just like one of the crowd, reacting with amazement just like the other people in the cinema. I actually felt like I had my vision back."

"I have lost my sight. You think I can't enjoy the cinema? Imagine the scariest film you know, only SCARIER!"

"I enjoyed A Christmas Carol a lot. I can hear well with my digital hearing aids, compared to many deaf people I know, but the unfamiliar, oldie-style Dickensian words would have been lost on me without subtitles."

"My profoundly deaf mother had given up trying to lip-read movie stars years ago. At a subtitled show her eyes flickered into life. Two glorious hours and finally my mother and I have rekindled our cinema habit. She is now in her seventies, I'm approaching my forties. It may have been some time coming, but damn was it worth it!"

"My Granddad was a big film fan – Dad too – and I grew up with books and magazines on films and cinema in general. But being deaf, thanks to meningitis, I could never get the full cinema experience. My Granddad, also very deaf due to his advancing years, used to say it was better for people like us a hundred years ago when silent films were around as they had caption cards on the screen! I missed out on many films at the cinema, which I have since watched with subtitles on DVD. I believe that if my Granddad was alive today he'd be joining my Dad and me on our regular trips to the movies because captioned cinema has returned!"

"I know quite a few people who, like me, have become disabled in the prime of their lives. I served in Iraq, came home last year with permanent damage to my hearing. I can still enjoy music, it's just not as clear as it used to be. I find I now read a lot of song lyrics! Never really bothered before. Same with films. I can still enjoy them with a little 'assistance'. In this case, subtitles. I only go to the cinema now if the film is subtitled. Thankfully most are these days."

"Audio described cinema is wonderful, not just because it allows me to enjoy movies but to discuss them with sighted friends afterwards. Through cinema audio description, I have been able to follow up the recommendation of a friend who gushed about the beauty of the visuals in Volver. Conversely, I have been able to return the favour by plugging the striking images in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. It doesn't matter that I couldn't 'see' them – the description was so vivid that I can still imagine Brad Pitt shooting into the ice, causing a puff of smoke to rise, or Casey Affleck in a rocking chair. When accompanying sighted friends, I can enjoy the car chase in Casino Royale and the decapitation by helicopter blade in 28 Weeks Later, relying on my memories of being a sighted gorehound."

Click here to read selection of quotes and reports from people with hearing or sight loss who have discovered - or rediscovered - the joys of cinema-going, thanks to subtitles and audio description:
http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/quote.html

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