Forget ‘Sex and the City', if you are looking to gaze upon a true Hollywood Femme fatale, make sure you check out the Bette Davis retrospective at Dublin's Irish Film Institute running throughout June. Described by Robert Ebert as "an icon with grand style" Davis dominated Hollywood throughout the ‘40s and ‘50s with ten Oscar nominations and two wins to her name.
Throughout her career she was known for her uncompromising character, both on-screen and off, with several notable rows between Davis and studio execs, directors and actors- most notably her long-standing rivalry with Joan Crawford, who she would later star alongside in the ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?'
The season, which marks the 100 anniversary of her birth, opens June 1st with ‘The Old Maid' and closing on June 30th with her iconic performance of Margo Channing in ‘All about Eve'. As Davis says in the film, "fasten your seat-belts, it's going to be a bumpy night".
Movies.ie has a full list of the movies being shown along with some video highlights, check it out here