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6 FEB 15 5 MAR 15
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FILMS WORTH TALKING ABOUT
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INDEX
SCREENING DATES AND TIMES
TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
INDEX
16-17
17
31
3-Iron14
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible...
25
All About Our House
23
Annie24
Babel29
Bag of Rice
18
Big Hero 6
25
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
25
Birdman7
Blood and Bones
23
The Boot
18
Carmen from Kawachi
22
Casablanca11
Charlotte’s Web
24
Children in the Wind
19
The Cinema of Childhood
18-20
Come and See...
25
Coming Soon 11
Crows + Palle Alone in the World
19
Darkness Visible 26
A Day at the Races
20
The Desert Fish
12
Downpour12
Duck Soup and Animal Crackers:
The Films of the Marx Brothers 20
The Duke of Burgundy
9
Education and Learning
30
A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral
13
Filmhouse Cafe Bar + Quiz
30
Filmhouse Explorer 4
Filmhouse Junior 24-25
Filmhouse Loyalty Card 4
Filmhouse Player
8
Filmosophy 14
Forbidden Games
19
Foxcatcher7
The Green Ray
9
The Handsome Suit
23
Hugo and Josephine
19
The Informer
28
Into the Woods
24
Introduction to European Cinema
29
Iranian Film Festival
12-13
It only happens in the movies?
Japanese Cinema and Encounters 22-23
Kami’s Party
13
The King is Alive
29
The King of Masks
19
A Letter to Momo
22
The Light Shines Only There
23
Little Fugitive
20
Long Live the Republic
20
Love Is Strange
6
The Magdalene Sisters
28
Matilda24
Moving19
My Little Sweet Pea
22
My Name is N. Jamali and I Make Westerns
13
National Gallery
7
A Night in Casablanca
20
No Manifesto... Manic Street Preachers
6
Nobody to Watch Over Me
23
Parviz13
Pi14
The Prince
13
Proof14
Querelle29
Scattered Clouds
22
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
10
Secret Histories: Screening Irish History
28
Selma9
Shaun the Sheep
25
Stalker26
Super 8
26
Taboor12
A Terrible Beauty
28
Together29
Tomka and His Friends
20
A Town Called Panic
24
Trash5
The Unseen + The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun18
Valentine’s Day 11
Whiplash6
White God
10
Wild10
Wild at Heart
11
The Wind Rises
24
Winter’s Bone
26
Write Shoot Cut: Take it Back and Start...
25
The Wrong Move
29
AUDIODESCRIPTIONANDCAPTIONS
In all three screens we have a system which
enables us, whenever the necessary digital
files are available, to show onscreen captions
for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing,
and provide audio description (via infra-red
headsets) for those who are sight-impaired.
This issue, all screenings of Trash, Whiplash,
Foxcatcher, Wild, Birdman, Selma and The
Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel will have
audio description, and the following screenings
will have captions:
Sun 8 Feb: Trash at 1.10pm & Whiplash at 3.45pm
Sat 14 Feb: Foxcatcher at 1.00pm
Sat 21 Feb: Wild at 12.45pm & Birdman at 3.30pm
Sat 28 Feb: Selma at 12.50pm
There will be a captioned screening of The
Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel next month.
FORCRYINGOUTLOUD
Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets
£4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are
limited to babies under 12 months accompanied
by no more than two adults. Babychanging, bottlewarming and buggy parking facilities are available.
Selma: Mon 23 Feb, 11am
The Second... Marigold Hotel: Mon 2 Mar, 11am
There will be no For Crying Out Loud screenings
on Monday 9 or Monday 16 February. Apologies
for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Introduction
LOVE IS STRANGE
FOXCATCHER
BIRDMAN
THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
And the winner should be...
Well, here we go again… it’s awards season! The annual round of hopelessly subjective, ruthlessly lobbied, self-congratulatory back-slapping nonsense
so many of us find irresistible. (Oh yes we do, for that awards and nominations puts bums on seats is beyond question.) Normally at this point I like to
make a few Oscar predictions, you know, just for fun, though if any of you want to take my suggestions and go down the bookies (www.gambleaware.
co.uk) my commission rate on your winnings is currently 20%, and I operate a no win/no compensation system too, so don’t come crying to me.
Usually I’m writing this without the knowledge of who‘s been nominated, but this year either they are early to nominate or we are late to print (I suspect
it’s the latter) and as such the nominations are being announced, as it happens, exactly as I write this. I’m going to watch it on the www…
Well, no great surprises there (what, Bradley Cooper? For the third year in succession?), but some disappointment for Timothy Spall, who has
inexplicably been left out of the BAFTAs as well. Perhaps voting for three Brits in the category was too much for the Academy members and they
could not reasonably leave out either the marvellous Eddie Redmayne or Mr Cumberbatch, unquestionably the Brit Actor du jour. Now, let’s have a
proper think… I reckon Best Film is a two horse race between Birdman and Boyhood, likewise Best Director; actor is between young Eddie and Michael
Keaton; actress is between Reese Witherspoon and Julianne Moore; the other acting prizes are rather less clear… Coming on all decisive, I’m going to
plump for Boyhood, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Julianne Moore, Michael Keaton, Patricia Arquette and JK Simmons. There.
Between now and the ceremony (22 February) we’re giving you the chance to see a good few of the main contenders (Birdman, Selma, Foxcatcher,
Wild and the stonkingly good Whiplash) and fully anticipate bringing you a whole host of others over the coming months, including Inherent Vice
(March), brilliant Foreign Language nominees Wild Tales (April) and Timbuktu (May), and Wim Wenders’ masterful documentary, Salt of the Earth (July).
Back to February, the month at hand: the Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel opens its doors to Dames Maggie, Judi et al (plus, this time around,
American ‘silver fox’ Richard Gere) on the 27th; the 13th sees the release of Ira Sachs’ beautifully crafted, achingly poignant family drama/gay love
story (featuring star turns by John Lithgow and Alfred Molina), Love Is Strange; The Duke of Burgundy is the latest from much-praised British director
Peter (Berberian Sound Studio) Strickland, and tells the wonderfully bizarre, seductive tale of the sado-masochistic relationship between a wealthy
lepidopterist (Borgen’s Sidse Babett Knudsen as you’ve likely never seen her before!) and her housekeeper. Last up, is Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó’s
astonishing White God, a sort of grittier Lassie Come Home that morphs into a kind of Spartacus… with dogs. No, really, it does. This extraordinary
morality tale should not work, but it does, spectacularly, with some of the best ‘animal acting’ you will ever see. It is assuredly not, however, for the fainthearted.
Go Eddie!
Rod White, Head of Filmhouse
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Filmhouse Explorer
WHIPLASH
SELMA
WHITE GOD
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Wild (page 10)
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THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
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NEWRELEASE
Trash
Showing from Fri 30 Jan
Stephen Daldry • UK/Brazil 2014 • 1h54m
DCP • Portuguese and English with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong violence, bloody detail, strong language
Cast: Rickson Tevez, Eduardo Luis, Gabriel Weinstein, Martin
Sheen, Rooney Mara.
Winner of the top prize at the Rome Film Festival
in October, Stephen Daldry’s compelling and
uplifting drama features wonderful performances
from its young Brazilian cast, and has already drawn
comparisons to Slumdog Millionaire.
Three young boys live in a garbage dump on the
outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where they spend their days
searching for items they can use or sell. When they
come across a wallet containing cash and a key, they
soon find themselves fighting for their lives, as the
corrupt local police force try to get their hands on it.
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WHIPLASH
NO MANIFESTO
MAYBEYOUMISSED
Whiplash
NEWRELEASE
No Manifesto
Showing from Fri 6 Feb
A Film About Manic Street Preachers
Damien Chazelle • USA 2014 • 1h46m • DCP
15 – Contains very strong language, strong sex references
Cast: Miles Teller, JK Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist,
Austin Stowell.
Tue 10 Feb at 6.15pm
Fierce rhythms and ferocious humour drive Damien
Chazelle’s riveting film about an ambitious jazz drummer
pushed beyond his breaking point by an instructor who
takes tough love to extremes.
Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is an ambitious young jazz
drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top
of his elite conservatory. Terence Fletcher (JK Simmons),
an instructor equally known for his teaching talent and his
terrifying methods, leads the school’s top jazz ensemble.
Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring
drummer into his band, where Andrew’s passion to
achieve perfection quickly spirals into obsession, as his
ruthless teacher continues to push him to the brink of
both his ability and his sanity.
“Demolishes the cliches of the musical-prodigy genre,
investing the traditionally polite stages and rehearsal
studios of a top-notch conservatory with all the
psychological intensity of a battlefield or sports arena.” Variety
Elizabeth Marcus • UK 2015 • 1h36m • DCP • cert tbc
Documentary
In 1991, a band from South Wales with the unlikely name
of Manic Street Preachers came onto the British music
scene proclaiming their ambition to make one album, sell
16 million copies of it, and then split up. All these years,
multiple hit records, one missing member and many
controversies later, they are still here. In No Manifesto, this
colourful and contentious band faces off with their equally
colourful and contentious fans in a verité multimedia
mash-up experiment that turns the traditional rock’n’roll
documentary upside-down and shakes it until all the
change falls out of its pockets.
PLUS
Twenty minutes of exclusive live footage of the
following songs: Design For Life (with never before heard
instrumental opening), You Stole the Sun, Empty Souls,
Archives of Pain.
LOVE IS STRANGE
NEWRELEASE
Love Is Strange
Fri 13 to Thu 19 Feb
Ira Sachs • USA/France 2014 • 1h34m
DCP • 15 – Contains strong language
Cast: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Darren E Burrows, Marisa
Tomei, Charlie Tahan.
Propelled by exquisite performances, this subtle yet
profound drama is suffused with gentle humour.
After 39 years together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George
(Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding
ceremony in Manhattan. But when news of their marriage
reaches the Catholic school where George works, he is
fired from his longtime job, and the couple can no longer
afford their apartment. As a temporary solution, George
moves in with the two gay cops next door, while Ben
moves to Brooklyn to live with his nephew, Eliot, Eliot’s
wife, Kate, and their teenage son. As Ben and George
struggle to secure a new apartment, the pain of living
apart and their presence in two foreign households test
the resilience and relationships of all involved.
Main features
BIRDMAN
FOXCATCHER
MAYBEYOUMISSED
MAYBEYOUMISSED
NATIONAL GALLERY
MAYBEYOUMISSED
Birdman
Foxcatcher
National Gallery
Sat 14 Feb at 1.15pm
Alejandro González Iñárritu • USA 2014 • 1h59m
DCP • 15 – Contains strong language, sex references
Cast: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Stone, Naomi
Watts, Edward Norton.
Bennett Miller • USA 2014 • 2h14m
DCP • 15 – Contains drug use, brief strong violence
Cast: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller.
Frederick Wiseman • France/USA/UK 2014 • 3h1m • DCP
12A – Contains infrequent strong language • Documentary
In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s big, bold, and beautifully
brash new movie, one-time action hero Riggan Thomson
(a jaw-dropping Michael Keaton), in an effort to be taken
seriously as an artist, is staging his own adaptation of
Raymond Carver’s ‘What We Talk About When We Talk
About Love’. As Thomson tries to get his play in shape
for the opening, he must contend with a scene-hogging
narcissist (Edward Norton), a vulnerable actress (Naomi
Watts), an unhinged girlfriend (Andrea Riseborough), a
resentful daughter (Emma Stone), a manager who’s about
to crack up (Zach Galifianakis)... and his alter ego, the
superhero who made him famous, Birdman.
An extravagant dream of a movie, alternately hilarious and
terrifying.
A dark and gripping psychological thriller from the
director of Capote and Moneyball. When wealthy John du
Pont (Steve Carell) invites Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz
(Channing Tatum) to move to his estate and help form a
wrestling team for the 1988 Olympics, Mark sees a way to
step out of the shadow of his charismatic brother, Dave
(Mark Ruffalo). However, du Pont begins to lead Mark
down a dark road, causing the athlete’s self-esteem to slip.
Meanwhile, du Pont becomes fixated on bringing Dave
into the fold, eventually propelling all three toward an
unforeseen tragedy.
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Back by popular demand after a sell-out screening last
month, master documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest
takes us inside one of the world’s greatest art collections,
the National Gallery in London, for a privileged look that
deepens our appreciation for art and its upkeep. Filming
over twelve weeks in 2012, Wiseman takes in visitor tours,
staff meetings, restorations, classes, and protests. As usual,
he practices a strict observational approach, eschewing
voice-over and interviews. His method calls upon viewers
to draw their own meaning from the material, just as we do
with paintings, and, for art lovers, there are endless riches to
enjoy over the film’s three hours – Wiseman concentrates
mostly on Old Masters, and his visit coincides with major
exhibitions of Titian, Leonardo Da Vinci and Turner.
“A great, great film.” - The Telegraph
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THE GREEN RAY
RESTOREDCLASSIC
SELMA
NEWRELEASE
THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY
NEWRELEASE
The Green Ray Le rayon vert
Selma
Tue 17 to Thu 19 Feb
Fri 20 Feb to Thu 5 Mar
Eric Rohmer • France 1986 • 1h39m
DCP • French with English subtitles
PG – Contains mild language and nudity
Cast: Marie Rivière, Vincent Gauthier, Rosette, Béatrice Romand,
Lisa Hérédia.
Ava DuVernay • UK/USA 2014 • 2h8m • DCP
12A – Contains moderate violence, racist language, infrequent
strong language
Cast: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Cuba Gooding Jr, Tom
Wilkinson, Alessandro Nivola, Oprah Winfrey.
Peter Strickland • UK 2014 • 1h44m
DCP • 18 – Contains sexual fetish theme
Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Eugenia Caruso,
Monica Swinn, Fatma Mohamed.
A new restoration of Eric Rohmer’s comedy of manners
from 1986.
Left out of everyone’s summer vacation plans, unhappy
Parisian student Delphine (Marie Rivière) accepts an
invitation to stay at her friend’s empty apartment in Biarritz.
Swedish tourist Carita tries to snap Delphine out of her
bad mood by encouraging interactions with the opposite
sex, but Delphine is holding out for true romance. Then a
mysterious assignation brings her into contact with what
appears to be the man of her dreams...
“Mysterious and beautiful.” - the Guardian
Ava DuVernay’s powerful, compelling Selma chronicles
the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when Dr
Martin Luther King Jr led a dangerous campaign to secure
equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The
epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in
President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting
Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for
the civil rights movement.
“Intelligently written, vividly shot, tightly edited, sharply
acted, the film represents a rare example of craftsmanship
working to produce a deeply moving piece of history.” Hollywood Reporter
Taking its title from a rare species of butterfly, The Duke of
Burgundy chronicles the increasingly intimate relationship
between wealthy amateur lepidopterist Cynthia (Borgen’s
Sidse Babett Knudsen) and her newly hired housekeeper,
Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna). As Cynthia’s demands begin to
betray a sadomasochistic streak, Evelyn becomes less a
domestic servant than an outright sex slave, submitting to
her progressively extreme humiliations with a surprising
relish.
In another director’s hands, this material might easily have
tipped into the schlocky or the severe. Peter Strickland
(Berberian Sound Studio, Katalin Varga), however, once
again demonstrates a marvellous gift for modulating
tone, pitching the tenor of his film in a strange, beguiling
register somewhere between Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour
and Joseph Losey’s The Servant.
“Visually ravishing, emotionally wise, and kinky as a coiled
rope, writer-director Peter Strickland’s third feature is a
delight.” - Hollywood Reporter
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WILD
THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
MAYBEYOUMISSED
Wild
Jean-Marc Vallée • USA 2014 • 1h55m
DCP • 15 – Contains strong language, sex, drug use
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Keene
McRae, Michiel Huisman.
After the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her
mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of
reckless, destructive behaviour, she makes a rash decision.
With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer
determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of
the Pacific Crest Trail, alone.
Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of the
incredible true story of one young woman, forging ahead
against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthens,
and ultimately heals her.
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NEWRELEASE
WHITE GOD
NEWRELEASE
The Second Best
Exotic Marigold Hotel
White God Fehér Isten
Kornél Mundruczó • Hungary/Germany/Sweden 2014
2h1m • DCP • Hungarian and English with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong language, bloody injury detail
Cast: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horváth, Szabolcs
Thuróczy, Lili Monori.
John Madden • USA/UK 2015 • 2h2m • DCP
PG – Contains mild bad language, sex references
Cast: Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Richard Gere, Dev
Patel.
Sonny (Dev Patel) has his eye on a second promising
property now that his first venture, The Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful, has only a
single remaining vacancy – posing a rooming predicament
for fresh arrivals Guy (Richard Gere) and Lavinia (Tamsin
Greig). Evelyn and Douglas (Judi Dench and Bill Nighy)
have now joined the Jaipur workforce, and are wondering
where their regular dates for Chilla pancakes will lead,
while Norman and Carol (Ronald Pickup and Diana
Hardcastle) are negotiating the tricky waters of an
exclusive relationship, as Madge (Celia Imrie) juggles two
eligible and very wealthy suitors. And newly installed comanager of the hotel, Muriel (Maggie Smith), is the keeper
of everyone’s secrets...
Fri 27 Feb to Thu 5 Mar
Not for the faint-hearted, this extraordinary morality tale
features the most stunning performances by dogs you will
ever see.
Teenage Lili is sent to stay with her estranged father who
is none too pleased about also inheriting Hagen, her dog,
and eventually abandons him on the street. We follow
Hagen as he tries to find his way home, making friends
with fellow strays and evading the relentless dog-patrol
and pound, only to be captured by worse – a proprietor
of dog fights. Hagen is put through the torture of being
trained as a fighting dog, which drives him to lead his
fellow dogs in a revolt against their oppressors.
Coming soon/Valentine’s Day
INHERENT VICE
COMINGSOON
Blind
Psychological tensions come to the fore in this Norwegian
drama about a writer whose imagination preys on her after
she loses her sight.
X+Y
A sensitive, affecting drama about a socially awkward
teenage maths prodigy.
Suite française
A compelling drama set in France during the Nazi
Occupation, based on the acclaimed novel by Irène
Némirovsky.
My Name Is Salt
Filmhouse Distribution’s newest release is this luminously
beautiful documentary about salt production in India.
Wild Tales
A hugely inventive portmanteau film from Argentina,
combining six standalone shorts all united by the theme
of vengeance.
Inherent Vice
A chance to catch Paul Thomas Anderson’s entrancingly
paranoiac crime-novel hallucination, screening from 35mm.
Au revoir les enfants
Louis Malle’s classic World War Two-era drama centring on
the concealment of a Jewish child in a Catholic boarding
school.
CASABLANCA
WILD AT HEART
Valentine’s Day
Two very different takes on love and romance, variety being the spice
of life and all that!
Casablanca
Wild at Heart
Michael Curtiz • USA 1942 • 1h42m • DCP • U
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul
Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet.
David Lynch • USA 1990 • 2h4m • 35mm • 18
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Harry
Dean Stanton.
The world’s favourite Hollywood love story is all the more
romantic because it doesn’t exalt romantic love above all.
Bogey is at his best as Rick, an American opportunist
in 1940 French Morocco with a gruffly cynical exterior
that belies his wary idealism and wounded heart. Ingrid
Bergman is luminous as Ilsa, who arrives in Casablanca
with resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), but
clearly has a history with Rick. Cynicism and self-interest
contend with idealism and self-sacrifice as Rick and Ilsa’s
past weighs against the world’s future.
Made under a studio system that cranked out a film a week,
this just happened to be one film in which everything
came together with magical rightness – the wittily cynical
dialogue, spare, effective storytelling, a vivid sense of time
and place, sharply drawn characters, a first-rate cast, great
cinematography and score, and classic wartime melodrama
that hasn’t lost a thing as time goes by.
Wild at Heart, adapted from Barry Gifford’s book, follows
Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern), lovers on the
run from a hit man enlisted to kill Sailor by Lula’s ‘wicked
witch’ mother. With liberal references to The Wizard of Oz
and Elvis, and an iconic role for Sailor’s treasured snakeskin
jacket – which symbolises his “individuality and belief
in personal freedom” – the film is a gloriously dark and
twisted romantic melodrama, with a story of true love at
its dark core.
“Joltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic.” Variety
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THE DESERT FISH
TABOOR
DOWNPOUR
A FEW KILOS OF DATES FOR A FUNERAL
Iranian
Film Festival
The Desert Fish Mahi Kavir
Taboor
Sun 8 Feb at 6.10pm
Mon 9 Feb at 8.45pm
Mohammad Ghorbankarimi • Iran/Canada 2013 • 1h24m
Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Iman Afshar, Ayoub Afshar, Mohsen Hosseini, Ronak
Yoonesi.
Vahid Vakilifar • Iran 2012 • 1h24m
Format TBC • Farsi with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Mohammad Rabbanipour.
A season of classic and contemporary films
from Iran, including a number of UK and
Scottish premieres.
Ahmad is a young boy who wants to unravel the mystery
of his dead mother, who still comes to him in dreams. He
undertakes an incredible journey to find out where he
came from and the secrets his father never told him.
The 2015 Iranian Film Festival is curated by
Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz and sponsored by The
Sutton Gallery, Arts & Business Scotland,
Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies of University
of Edinburgh, and Filmhouse.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director
Mohammad Ghorbankarimi, arts director/custom
and set designer Nassim Azadi, and editor Maryam
Ghorbankarimi.
Part of the Edinburgh Iranian Festival – go to
www.ediranfest.co.uk for more information.
There will be a drinks reception and live music by EYG
Big Band, at the bar of the Traverse Theatre, opposite
Filmhouse, to mark the opening of the Festival.
A man seeks to protect his hypersensitive body
from a daily rise in temperature caused by pervasive
electromagnetic waves. He concocts an aluminium
jumpsuit which he wears under abundant layers of
clothing. Despite his fragile health, every evening he rides
his motorbike to keep appointments with his customers.
His mission: to destroy cockroach nests.
Downpour Ragbaar
Bahram Beizai • Iran 1972 • 2h8m
DCP • Farsi with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Manuchehr Farid, Parvaneh
Massoumi, Parviz Fanizadeh.
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Tickets must all be bought at the same time.
A well educated and humble teacher arrives at a new
job in a new city in pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love
with a hardworking underprivileged young woman, who
nurses her elderly mother and raises her young brother in
an environment where commitments and social problems
often stand in the way between people and their dreams.
THE PRINCE
KAMI’S PARTY
PARVIZ
A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral
Kami’s Party Mehmuni-ye Kami
Chand Kilo Khorma baray-e Marasem-e Tadfin Fri 13 Feb at 6.10pm
Wed 11 Feb at 8.45pm
Saman Salur • Iran 2006 • 1h25m
Cast: Mohsen Tanabandeh, Nader Fallah, Mohsen Namjoo,
Mahmud Nazar-Alian.
Ali Ahmadzadeh • Iran 2013 • 1h20m
Cast: Mina Sadati, Nazanin Farahani, Pegah Ahangarani, Mehdi
Koushki.
It’s winter and heavy snow lies on the ground. Sadry and
Yadi work at a petrol station excluded from the main traffic
routes since the building of a ring road. They occasionally
receive a visit from Orooj, the neighbourhood undertaker,
their only contact with the outside world. Sadry, a former
circus strongman, is behaving strangely...
Negin is spending a few days on holiday with her
boyfriend Omid and her sister Nazanin in a villa on the
banks of the Caspian Sea. Not having had news of Omid
for several hours, Negin decides to go to a party with her
friend Farnaz. The two young women drive off; Negin
doesn’t realise, however, that a surprise awaits her in the
trunk of the car.
The Prince Shah-Zadeh
Parviz
Thu 12 Feb at 6.10pm
Mahmoud Behraznia • Iran/Germany 2014 • 1h32m
Format TBC • Farsi and German with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Jalil Nazari, Mohammad Ponten.
Majid Barzegar • Iran 2012 • 1h45m
Cast: Mahmoud Behrouzian, Levon Haftvan.
It’s 1997 and Afghanistan is controlled by the Taliban.
Seventeen-year-old Jalil Nazari finds refuge in Iran,
where he ekes out an existence doing odd jobs. One day
luck comes his way and he lands the starring role in an
Iranian feature film. The film, Djomeh, directed by Hassan
Yektapanah, is selected for the Cannes Film Festival where
it wins the Camera d’Or award, thus hurtling Jali towards
unexpected horizons…
Despite being 50 years old, Parviz still lives off his father,
and the two men don’t get on very well. Things come
to a head when the father tells his son he has decided
to remarry, and Parviz is forced to leave home. He finds
it difficult to get used to his new solitary life, far from his
neighbourhood and the people he knows, and concocts
a novel way of fighting back against the injustice he feels
has been done to him.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director
Mahmoud Behraznia.
MY NAME IS NEGAHDAR JAMALI...
My Name is Negahdar Jamali and
I Make Westerns
Man Negahdar Jamali Western Misazam
Sun 15 Feb at 6.00pm
Kamran Heidari • Iran 2012 • 1h5m • Digital
Farsi with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary
“My name is John Ford and I make Westerns.” This is
how John Ford introduced himself at the American Film
Directors’ Association gathering. Negahdar Jamali, an
Iranian from Shiraz, introduces himself the same way; he
does indeed make Westerns, and has done for 35 years,
not in the Monument Valley or in the Grand Canyon but in
Shiraz and the deserts surrounding the city.
EXHIBITION
Vividly in Tehran
Photographs by Laleh Sherkat
18 January - 15 February, Filmhouse Cafe Bar
This playful exhibition represents the people of
Tehran walking their daily routes, running their
ordinary errands and going for drinks with friends.
The streets are always lively and busy with colour,
optimism and talent...
13
Filmosophy
14
PI
PROOF
Filmosophy
Filmosophy returns for a fourth season of original
and thought-provoking films. This season focuses
on the distinction between appearance and reality.
Each film provides a unique perspective on this
philosophical problem, using the notions of sight
and blindness as powerful metaphors. Questions
addressed include: What is the ultimate nature of
reality? How do we gain knowledge of the world
around us? What, if anything, can we know for
certain? In addition, the nature of film itself - as
a medium that trades in appearances and yet is
intimately connected to reality - will be explored.
Each screening will be preceded by a short
introduction and followed by an opportunity
to discuss the philosophical issues raised in an
informal and accessible manner. The screenings
will be introduced and discussion sessions hosted
by James Mooney (Lecturer in Film and Philosophy
and Open Studies Course Organiser at The
University of Edinburgh). For more details on screenings or to continue the
discussion, ‘like’ Filmosophy on Facebook, follow
@film_philosophy on Twitter, or go to www.filmandphilosophy.com
3-IRON
Pi
Proof
Tue 24 Mar at 6.00pm
Darren Aronofsky • USA 1998 • 1h24m • 35mm
15 – Contains infrequent strong language
Cast: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart,
Stephen Pearlman.
Jocelyn Moorhouse • Australia 1991 • 1h30m • 35mm
15 – Contains strong language and sexualised nudity
Cast: Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe, Heather
Mitchell, Jeffrey Walker.
Holed up in his apartment, electronics whiz Max (Sean
Gullette, who, with the director and producer, came
up with the film’s story) is obsessed with finding the
underlying numerical pattern behind the global stock
market, since he believes everything in the universe can
be expressed in purely mathematical terms. Is he staring
into the mysteries of creation? Or is he just a disturbed
loner whose off-kilter psychosis has spurred him to find
patterns of meaning where none exist? Darren Aronofsky’s
startlingly original debut recalls the inspirational fervour
of Eraserhead, as it constructs a paranoid vision from
b/w cinematography, a pounding score, and flashes of
sheer hallucinatory weirdness. We share Max’s feelings of
imminent psychological disintegration as the film probes
our own insecurity in the face of the eternal.
Australian filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse made an
auspicious debut with this dry, dark comedy about a blind
photographer. Martin (Hugo Weaving) walks in the park
with his guide dog and takes pictures, aiming his camera
at sounds or objects he feels with his hands. Since he can
never see what he shoots, he needs someone to describe
what he has photographed, but he trusts no one –
particularly not his manipulative, controlling housekeeper
Celia (Geneviève Picot).
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Tue 21 Apr at 6.00pm
Kim Ki-duk • South Korea/Japan 2004 • 1h28m
35mm • Korean with English subtitles
15 – Contains moderate sex and violence
Cast: Jae Hee, Lee Seung-yeon, Kwon Hyuk-ho, Choi Jeong-ho.
Korean writer-director Kim Ki-duk captures raw realities
about modern life while telling a genuinely touching
romance using virtually no dialogue. Tae-suk (Jae Hee) is
a young man who takes up residence in homes that sit
empty while the occupants are on holiday. He cleans, does
the laundry, indulges in subtle practical jokes, then moves
on. This pattern changes drastically when he takes up
residence in the upscale home of Min-kyu and Sun-hwa,
a hothead, golf-obsessed businessman and his battered
trophy-wife.
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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
6 February - 5 March 2015
BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688 DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
SCREENING TIMES
Fri 1 Whiplash (AD)
6 2 Trash (AD)
Feb 3 A Night in Casablanca (MB)
2.30/6.20/8.45
3.15/6.00/8.30
8.45
Mon 1
9 1
Feb 2
3
Whiplash (AD)
Winter’s Bone (DV)
Trash (AD)
Taboor (IFF)
2.30/8.35
6.00
3.15/6.10/8.40
8.45
Sat
7
Feb
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
Whiplash (AD)
Super 8 (DV)
A Night in Casablanca (MB)
The Magdalene Sisters (IH)
Trash (AD)
Trash (AD)
A Day at the Races (MB)
1.15/6.20/8.45
3.40
1.00
3.00 + discussion
6.00/8.30
1.10
8.45
1
1
2
3
Whiplash (AD)
No Manifesto... Manic Street...
Trash (AD)
Downpour (IFF)
2.30/8.50
6.15
3.15/6.00/8.30
5.45
Mon 1
16 1
Feb 1
2
3
3
Birdman (AD)
Love Is Strange
Foxcatcher (AD)
Foxcatcher (AD)
Birdman (AD)
Love Is Strange
2.30
5.50
8.00
3.10
5.45
8.15
Sun
8
Feb
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
3
3
The Wind Rises (FJ)
Stalker (DV)
Whiplash (AD)
Trash (AD) + (C)
Whiplash (AD) + (C)
The Desert Fish (IFF)
Trash (AD)
A Day at the Races (MB)
Trash (AD)
11.00am
2.45
6.20/8.45
1.10 (captioned)
3.45 (captioned)
6.10 + Q&A
8.40
1.00
6.05
Wed 1
11 1
Feb 2
2
3
Whiplash (AD)
Trash (AD)
Trash (AD)
Querelle (EC)
A Few Kilos of Dates for... (IFF)
2.30/8.50
6.15
3.15/8.30
6.00 + intro
8.45
1
1
2
2
2
3
Birdman (AD)
Foxcatcher (AD)
Love Is Strange
The Green Ray
Foxcatcher (AD)
Love Is Strange
2.30/8.40
5.50
3.10
6.00
8.15
6.10
Wed 1
18 1
Feb 2
2
2
3
Birdman (AD)
Foxcatcher (AD)
Foxcatcher (AD)
Love Is Strange
The Green Ray
Love Is Strange
2.30/8.40
5.50
3.10
6.00
8.15
8.50
KEY
(AD) – Audio Description (see page 2)
(B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2)
(C) – Captioned for customers who are deaf or
hard of hearing (see page 2)
All screenings in 2D unless marked [3D]
SEASONS:
(CC) – The Cinema of Childhood (pages 18-20)
(CS) – Come and See... (page 25)
(DV) – Darkness Visible (page 26)
(EC) – Introduction to European Cinema (page 29)
(F) – Filmosophy (page 14)
(FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 24-25)
(IFF) – Iranian Film Festival (pages 12-13)
(IH) – Secret Histories: Screening Irish History
(page 28)
(J) – It only happens in the movies? Japanese
Cinema and Encounters (pages 22-23)
(MB) – Duck Soup and Animal Crackers: The Best
of the Marx Brothers (page 20)
(VD) – Valentine’s Day (page 11)
Full index of films on page 2
Tue
10
Feb
Thu
12
Feb
1
2
3
3
Whiplash (AD)
Trash (AD)
The Prince (IFF)
Trash (AD)
2.30/6.15/8.50
3.15/6.00
6.10 + Q&A
8.40
Fri
13
Feb
1
1
2
2
3
Birdman (AD)
Foxcatcher (AD)
Foxcatcher (AD)
Love Is Strange
Kami’s Party (IFF)
2.30/8.40
5.50
3.10/8.30
6.15
6.10
Sat
14
Feb
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
3
3
National Gallery
Casablanca (VD)
Birdman (AD)
Wild at Heart (VD)
Foxcatcher (AD) + (C)
Bag of Rice (CC)
Foxcatcher (AD)
Love Is Strange
Love Is Strange
Parviz (IFF)
1.15
5.00
7.20
10.00
1.00 (captioned)
4.00
6.00
8.50
1.10
6.10
Sun
15
Feb
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
Annie (FJ)
Love Is Strange
The Boot + Ten Minutes Older (CC)
Birdman (AD)
Foxcatcher (AD)
Foxcatcher (AD)
Birdman (AD)
Love Is Strange
Foxcatcher (AD)
My Name is Negahdar... (IFF)
11.00am
1.30
3.45
5.30
8.15
1.00
3.50
6.25/8.40
3.15
6.00
Tue
17
Feb
Thu
19
Feb
1
1
1
2
2
2
3
Foxcatcher (AD)
Birdman (AD)
Bill & Ted’s Excellent... (CS)
The Green Ray
Love Is Strange
Foxcatcher (AD)
Love Is Strange
2.30
6.00
8.45
3.10
6.10
8.25
8.50
Fri
20
Feb
1
1
2
3
Wild (AD)
Selma (AD)
Birdman (AD)
12.45/6.00
3.15/8.30
3.30/6.10/8.40
8.45
The majority of our screenings are scheduled well
in advance, and times published in this monthly
brochure and on our website. Most weeks we leave
some spaces in the schedule in order to allow us to
keep on films that are proving popular for a little
longer; these late-scheduled screenings will be
added to our website from midday at the latest on
the Tuesday preceding the start of the new cinema
week on Friday, and listed in our weekly screenings
email – sign up at www.filmhousecinema.com/news
WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
6 February - 5 March 2015
Fri
27
Feb
1
2
2
3
The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35
Selma (AD)
12.50/6.05
White God
3.30/8.45
Scattered Clouds (J)
8.45
Sat
28
Feb
1
2
2
2
2
3
3
Selma (AD) + (C)
12.50 (captioned)
Moving (CC)
3.30
White God
6.05
Selma (AD)
8.40
A Letter to Momo (J)
3.50
Carmen from Kawachi (J)
6.25
Sun
1
Mar
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
A Town Called Panic (FJ)
11.00am
White God
1.15/8.40
Crows + Palle Alone... (CC)
3.50
Selma (AD)
5.55
The Handsome Suit (J)
3.30
The Light Shines Only There (J) 6.05
Concessions available for: children (under 15); students
(with valid matriculation card); school pupils (15-18 years);
Young Scot cardholders; senior citizens; people with
disability or invalidity status (carers go free); claimants
(Jobseekers Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Housing
Benefit); NHS employees (with proof of employment).
Mon 1
2 1
Mar 2
2
3
The Second... Hotel (AD) (B)
11am (babies + carers)
The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.35
White God
12.50/6.05
Selma (AD)
3.20/8.35
Blood and Bones (J)
8.30
There are usually ticket deals available on film seasons.
1
2
2
3
White God
12.50/6.05
Selma (AD)
3.20/8.35
All About Our House (J)
5.55
Wed 1
4 2
Mar 2
3
Selma (AD)
12.50/6.05
White God
3.30/8.45
The King Is Alive (EC)
5.50 + intro
1
2
2
3
Selma (AD)
12.50/6.05
White God
3.30/8.45
Nobody to Watch Over Me (J) 8.40
1
1
1
2
2
3
3
Wild (AD) + (C)
Selma (AD)
Wild (AD)
The Informer (IH)
Birdman (AD) + (C)
Birdman (AD)
12.45 (captioned)
3.15/8.30
6.00
1.00/6.10/8.40
3.20 + discussion
3.30 (captioned)
8.45
Sun
22
Feb
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
3
Matilda (FJ)
Selma (AD)
Wild (AD)
The Unseen + The Little Girl... (CC)
Selma (AD)
Birdman (AD)
11.00am
1.15
3.55/8.45
6.15
1.00/6.10
3.20
8.30
3.30/6.05
Selma (AD) (B)
Wild (AD)
Selma (AD)
Write Shoot Cut: Take It Back...
Birdman (AD)
11am (babies + carers)
2.30/8.45
6.00
3.10/8.40
6.10 + Q&A (£6/£5)
5.55
1
1
2
2
2
3
Wild (AD)
Selma (AD)
Birdman (AD)
Pi (F)
Birdman (AD)
12.45/8.45
3.15/6.00
3.10
6.15 + intro/disc.
8.20
8.45
Wed 1
25 1
Feb 2
2
3
3
Selma (AD)
Wild (AD)
Birdman (AD)
The Wrong Move (EC)
Birdman (AD)
12.45/8.30
3.30/6.00
3.10
6.10
6.00 + intro
8.35
1
1
2
3
3
Selma (AD)
Wild (AD)
My Little Sweet Pea (J)
Birdman (AD)
12.45/8.30
3.30/6.00
3.10/6.10
6.15
8.35
Mon 1
23 1
Feb 1
2
2
3
Tue
24
Feb
Thu
26
Feb
TICKET PRICES AND INFORMATION
SCREENING TIMES
Sat
21
Feb
Tue
3
Mar
Thu
5
Mar
SCREENING TIMES
FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm)
Mon - Thu: £7.20 full price, £5.70 concessions
Friday Matinees: £5.50/£4.00 concessions
Sat - Sun: £9.00 full price, £7.20 concessions
EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later)
£9.00 full price, £7.20 concessions
For screenings in 3D add £2 to ticket price.
All tickets to Filmhouse Junior screenings
(marked FJ on grid) are £4.00. Tickets for children
under 12 are £4.00 for any screening.
Filmhouse Members get £1.50 off every ticket
(excludes Friday matinees and Filmhouse Junior)
We participate in the EE Wednesdays 2 for 1 scheme
(please note EE Wednesdays end on 25 February).
All performances are bookable in advance, in person,
online at www.filmhousecinema.com or by phone on
0131 228 2688. We do not charge a booking fee. Tickets
may also be reserved without payment, in which case
they must be collected no later than 30 minutes before
the performance starts.
Tickets cannot be exchanged nor money refunded
except in the event of a cancellation of a performance.
Screenings are subject to change, but only in
extraordinary circumstances.
All seats are unreserved. If you require seats together
please arrive in plenty of time. Cinemas will be open
15 minutes before the start of each screening. The
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be accompanied by an adult.
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18
BAG OF RICE
THE BOOT
Another chance to see this season of rare films about
children from all over the world, curated by Mark
Cousins and inspired by his documentary, A Story
of Children and Film. Emotionally engaging with
audiences from 8 to 80, the Cinema of Childhood
invites filmgoers to go on a global adventure, to
discover previously unknown movie masterpieces
and to see the world anew through young eyes.
Since we first screened these films in 2014, we have
toured them to 56 venues around the UK, and
between them they have screened nearly 450 times!
For more information on the project, go to
www.cinemaofchildhood.com
Many of the films are also available at
www.filmhousecinema.com/player
TEN MINUTES OLDER
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN
Bag of Rice Kiseye Berendj
DOUBLE BILL
Mohammad Ali Talebi • Japan/Iran 1998 • 1h20m
DCP • Persian with English subtitles
U – Contains infrequent very mild bad language
Cast: Jairan Abadzade, Shirin Bina, Masume Eskandari.
The Unseen Nespatrené
Four-year-old Jairan is ignored at home, and is itching for
something to do. She convinces her neighbour, an old lady
who is partially blind, that the two of them should travel
across Tehran to buy rice. What could possibly go wrong?
Talebi’s disarming film starts as an odd-couple adventure,
then becomes something profound and unforgettable.
At a school for blind children in the Czech Republic, the
pupils show off their remarkable talents – as musicians,
as daredevil bike riders and, most extraordinary of all, as
photographers.
Miroslav Janek • Czech Republic 1997 • 53m
DCP • Czech with English subtitles
U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm
PLUS
The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
La petite vendeuse de soleil
The Boot Chakmeh
Mohammad Ali Talebi • Iran 1993 • 1h • DCP
Persian with English subtitles • U – Contains mild threat
Cast: Samaneh Jafar-Jalali, Raya Nasiri, Ali Atashkar, Osamah Sami.
A little girl, Samaneh, pesters her mother to buy her red
boots, then loses one, then tries to find it. The story is fairytale simple, but the emotions swell, like in Bicycle Thieves.
Director Mohammad Ali Talebi had been working with
children for years, and it shows. He makes Samaneh one of
the most vivid characters in the movies.
Djibril Diop Mambéty • Senegal/Switzerland/France/Germany
1999 • 45m • DCP • French and Wolof with English subtitles
U – Contains mild threat
Cast: Lissa Balera, Aminata Fall, Tayerou M’Baye.
Sili, a crippled Senegalese girl, decides to do a boy’s job,
selling newspapers on the streets of Dakar. Djibril Diop
Mambéty’s film is a big-hearted odyssey about daring to
imagine what you can be, and to hell with what anyone
else thinks.
PLUS SHORT
Ten Minutes Older (Par desmit minutem vecaks)
Herz Frank • Latvia 1978 • 10m • DCP • No dialogue
Herz Frank’s seminal short film has to be seen on the big
screen. Storms of emotion sweep across a child’s face as he
watches a show that we never see.
Filmhouse Explorer
Get a half-price ticket to any of the films
in this season with Filmhouse Explorer –
see page 4 for details!
MOVING
CROWS
Moving Ohikkoshi
THE KING OF MASKS
Children in the Wind
Kaze no naka no kodomo
Shinji Sômai • Japan 1993 • 2h4m
DCP • Japanese with English subtitles
PG – Contains infrequent bloody images
Cast: Tomoko Tabata, Kiichi Nakai, Shinobu Chihara, Mariko Sudo.
Sun 8 Mar at 3.45pm
Renko’s mum and dad are splitting up, and she feels like
her life is coming apart. Shinji Sômai is Japan’s equivalent
of John Hughes, a poet of ‘90s adolescence. Moving is an
extraordinary account of divorce from the child’s point
of view.
Crows Wrony
Sun 1 Mar at 3.50pm
Dorota Kedzierzawska • Poland 1994 • 1h6m • DCP
Polish with English subtitles • PG – Contains mild bad language
Cast: Karolina Ostrozna, Kasia Szczepanik, Malgorzata Hajewska.
Wrona is neglected by her feckless mother, laughed at by
her classmates, and furious with the world. So she steals
a cute little girl to become her surrogate mother. But
she soon discovers just how hard being a parent really is.
Dorota Kedzierzawska’s remarkable film about a damaged
girl trying to heal herself is tough yet tender.
PLUS SHORT
Palle Alone in the World (Palle alene i verden)
Astrid Henning-Jensen • Denmark 1949 • 25m
DCP • Danish with English subtitles
Cast: Lars Henning-Jensen.
A boy wakes up to find that he’s alone in the world.
A deserted, silent Copenhagen becomes his giant
playground.
Hiroshi Shimizu • Japan 1937 • 1h28m
DCP • Japanese with English subtitles
U – Contains mild violence, nudity
Cast: Jun Yokoyama, Masao Hayama, Reikichi Kawamura,
Mitsuko Yoshikawa.
Sampei is a little rascal who leads his village gang with
the Tarzan cry of his hero Johnny Weissmuller. But when
his father is falsely imprisoned for fraud, his idyllic life falls
apart. Sent to stay with his uncle, Sampei runs away any
chance he gets – up a tree, down the river, to the circus.
If only his father can clear his name, everything will be
all right again. Hiroshi Shimizu’s luminous masterpiece is
nearly 80 years old, but still shines brightly.
HUGO AND JOSEPHINE
Forbidden Games Jeux interdits
Sun 15 Mar at 3.45pm
René Clément • France 1952 • 1h26m • DCP
French with English subtitles • 12A – Contains emotionally
intense scenes and one use of moderate language
Cast: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie,
Suzanne Courtal.
German fighter planes massacre a column of middle-class
refugees fleeing Paris on a country road. A dazed little
orphaned girl is left wandering the fields clutching her
dead dog. She’s adopted by a peasant boy who brings her
into his eccentric family. The children retreat into a fantasy
world, but they cannot hide from reality forever. René
Clément’s angry masterpiece blends tragedy and farce into
a heart-breaking account of children caught in a war they
can’t possibly understand.
Hugo and Josephine Hugo och Josefin
The King of Masks Bian Lian
Sat 14 Mar at 3.45pm
Wu Tiang-ming • China/Hong Kong 1996 • 1h41m
DCP • Mandarin with English subtitles
PG – Contains mild bad language
Cast: Zhang Zhigang, Zhao Zhigang, Zhou Renying, Zhu Xu.
An old illusionist in China needs an heir to pass on the
secret of his mask tricks – so he buys himself a grandson
from a needy peasant. A swooping emotional drama
about a kid who wants to be loved, and an old man who
learns how to open his heart.
Kjell Grede • Sweden 1967 • 1h22m
DCP • Swedish with English subtitles
PG – Contains potentially imitable behaviour, mild violence
Cast: Fredrik Becklén, Marie Öhman, Beppe Wolgers, Inga
Landgré, Helena Brodin.
The lonely daughter of a rural pastor makes friends with a
wild boy who lives in the woods. The mysterious giant who
tends the garden seems sinister, but is really a big teddy
bear. The darkness of the world beyond childhood lingers
at the edge of the frame, but never intrudes. Kjell Grede
delivers a Swedish summer classic, blond and gorgeous
and heart-breakingly innocent. A pure pleasure.
SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF
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The Cinema of Childhood (contd)/Duck Soup & Animal Crackers
LITTLE FUGITIVE
Little Fugitive
TOMKA AND HIS FRIENDS
Tomka and His Friends
Tomka dhe shokët e tij
Morris Engel, Ray Ashley & Ruth Orkin • USA 1953 • 1h20m
DCP • PG – Contains mild frightening moments
Cast: Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams, Will Lee,
Charlie Moss.
After their mother leaves them home alone in New York
for the weekend, 7-year-old Joey is tricked into thinking
he’s killed his older brother with an air rifle. So he runs
away, to the funfair at Coney Island, to get lost in the rides,
the spectacle. Filmmaker Morris Engel and his team see
so much in him: a cowboy, the boy in Shane, the kid in
Chaplin’s The Kid. Truffaut credited this film with inspiring
the French New Wave.
Long Live the Republic At’ zije republika
Xhanfise Keko • Albania 1977 • 1h18m
DCP • Albanian, German and Italian with English subtitles
PG – Contains mild bad language, violence
Cast: Sotiraq Çili, Pavlina Oça, Zehrudin Dokle, Xhelal Tafaj, Enea
Zhegu.
When the Nazis occupy an Albanian village after the
withdrawal of the Italian army from WWII, Tomka and his
gang are furious – because the Germans set up camp on
their football pitch. The local partisans recruit the boys to
spy on the invaders, and help to set an ambush. Who knew
war could be this much fun? Albania’s greatest female
director Xhanfise Keko spins a classic boys’ own adventure
yarn, but in a style as raw and authentic as anything from
the Italian neo-realists. Never before seen in the UK, freshly
restored, this is a rare discovery.
Karel Kachyna • Czechoslovakia 1965 • 2h14m • DCP
Czech with English subtitles • 12A – Contains moderate violence
Cast: Zdenek Lstiburek, Vlado Müller, Nadezda Gajerová, Gustáv
Valach.
Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied
by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and
a wiry toughness they can’t defeat. The village is in turmoil,
because the Nazi occupiers have just retreated and the Red
Army is advancing upon them. Oldrich dodges amid the
mayhem and panic, taking his share of blows but always
managing to stay one step ahead. Beautifully shot and
darkly ironic, Karel Kachyna’s forgotten masterpiece jumbles
reality, memory and fantasy to capture the intensity and
confusion of childhood in a war zone.
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A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA
Duck Soup and
Animal Crackers
The Best of the Marx Brothers
The final two films screening in this season
celebrating the films of the Marx brothers.
A Night in Casablanca
Fri 6 Feb at 8.45pm & Sat 7 Feb at 1.00pm
Archie Mayo • USA 1946 • 1h25m • 35mm • U
Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake.
Ronald Kornblow (Groucho Marx) is hired to manage a
luxurious hotel in Casablanca, just after World War II. He
begins to fear for his safety, however, when he discovers
both his predecessors were murdered, and has to contend
with Count Pfefferman, determined to get his hands on a
treasure trove stashed in the hotel by the Nazis.
A Day at the Races
Sat 7 Feb at 8.45pm & Sun 8 Feb at 1.00pm
Sam Wood • USA 1937 • 1h49m • 35mm • U
Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones,
Maureen O’Sullivan, Margaret Dumont.
Hugo Z Hackenbush (Groucho Marx) is a veterinarian
who passes himself off as a doctor when summoned by
wealthy hypochondriac Emily Upjohn (Margaret Dumont)
to take over the financially-strapped Standish Sanitarium.
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It only happens in the movies? Japanese Cinema and Encounters
MY LITTLE SWEET PEA
SCATTERED CLOUDS
It only happens
in the movies?
Japanese Cinema
and Encounters
This year’s Japan Foundation Touring Film
Programme provides an exciting programme of
films under the narrative framework of ‘encounters’.
Showcasing a vast variety of styles and tones,
from popular contemporary films, classics through
to animation, the programme includes titles in
which characters experience unusual meetings,
plunge into unexpected circumstances and new
environments, as well as collide with different
generations, ideals and ideas – asking the question,
does it really only happen in the movies?.
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme is
produced and organised by the Japan Foundation.
Supported by:
A LETTER TO MOMO
CARMEN FROM KAWACHI
My Little Sweet Pea Mugiko-san to
A Letter to Momo Momo e no tegami
Keisuke Yoshida • Japan 2013 • 1h35m
DCP • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Maki Horikita, Ryuhei Matsuda, Yumi Aso, Eri Fuse.
Hiroyuki Okiura • Japan 2011 • 2h
DCP • Japanese with English subtitles • PG
A comedy about an anime-obsessed girl with dreams of
becoming a voice actor, who is forced to grow up when
her estranged mother dies. Mugiko, abandoned by her
mother Ayako at an early age, visits her hometown for
the first time to place her mother’s ashes in the family
tomb. She is the spitting image of Ayako in her youth,
and receives a hearty welcome from the townspeople.
Gradually, Mugiko learns of her mother’s surprising past as
a local idol.
A heartwarming animated fantasy from director Okiura
Hiroyuki that was seven years in the making. An 11-year-old
girl named Momo moves to a tiny island in the Seto Inland
Sea. She continues to cling to the memory of her late father
who left her an unfinished letter, and finds herself unable
to adjust to her new lifestyle or make friends. Then one day,
she is visited by three bizarre creatures.
Carmen from Kawachi Kawachi Karumen
Scattered Clouds Midaregumo
Fri 27 Feb 8.45pm
Mikio Naruse • Japan 1967 • 1h48m
35mm • Japanese and English with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Yuzo Kayama, Yoko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mitsuko
Mori, Mie Hama.
In this romantic melodrama, a man is involved in a fatal car
accident. Though he was deemed blameless in the crash,
his company still transfers him from Tokyo to a remote
branch in a small town. Just before he leaves, the man,
who is overcome with guilt, offers the dead man’s widow a
large sum of money. She refuses it at first, but then listens
to her persistent in-laws and takes the cash. She then
decides to return to her hometown to recover. Naturally it
is the town where the young man has been assigned.
Seijin Suzuki • Japan 1966 • 1h29m
35mm • Japanese with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Yumiko Nogawa, Ruriko Ito, Chikako Miyagi, Michio Hino.
An interesting variant on Bizet’s Carmen from acclaimed
director Seijun Suzuki, this experimental film tells of young
Karumen, who leaves home after being gang-raped by
thugs from school. She goes to Osaka, where men fall at
her feet when she becomes a nightclub singer. The film
is shot variously in black-and-white, red-and-white, blueand-white, etc., Suzuki using the colours to accentuate
the story.
It only happens in the movies? Japanese Cinema and Encounters
THE LIGHT SHINES ONLY THERE
BLOOD AND BONES
NOBODY TO WATCH OVER ME
The Handsome Suit Hansamu sutsu
Blood and Bones Chi to hone
All About Our House Minna no ie
Sun 1 Mar at 3.30pm
Mon 2 Mar at 8.30pm
Tue 3 Mar at 5.55pm
Tsutomu Hanabusa • Japan 2008 • 1h55m
35mm • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Shosuke Tanihara, Muga Tsukaji, Keiko Kitagawa.
Yoichi Sai • Japan 2004 • 2h20m
35mm • Korean and Japanese with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Hirofumi Arai, Tomoko Tabata, Jo Odagiri.
Koki Mitani • Japan 2001 • 1h56m
Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Toshiaki Karasawa, Kunie Tanaka, Naoki Tanaka, Akiko Yagi.
Kind-hearted diner chef Takuro has lots of friends, but has
never been considered attractive to the opposite sex. One
day, a beautiful young girl named Hiroko begins working
at the diner as a part-time employee. She is very kind to
Takuro, giving him the confidence to blurt out his feelings.
Unfortunately, he fumbles miserably in his attempt. One
day, Takuro is approached with an offer of a special suit that
can make him instantly handsome simply by wearing it...
Director Yoichi Sai explores social history through one man,
a Korean emigrant to 1920s Japan. Kim Shun-Pei emigrates
from Jeju Island in Korea (a Japanese colony at the time)
to Osaka as a young man in 1923. A lifelong fear of poverty
meshes with his compulsive womanising and his capacity
for violence to turn him into a monster, as he moves from
initial success with a fish-cake business to heading a small
criminal empire as a loan shark. Sai’s brilliant recreation
of a vanished community raises difficult questions about
Korean-Japanese identity.
Writer/director Koki Mitani brings his twisted sense
of humour to film once again, covering the trials and
tribulations of a middle class couple trying to build their
dream home. Naosuke Iijima and his wife Tamiko need
a bigger house. Both are busy with work, but they know
someone who might be able to design a new home for
them, and Tamiko’s father has been building houses for
over fifty years. It sounds easy enough, but everyone
involved wants to do it their own way.
The Light Shines Only There
Sokonominite hikari kagayaku
Nobody to Watch Over Me
Sun 1 Mar at 6.05pm
Daremo mamotte kurenai
Mipo Oh • Japan 2014 • 2h
DCP • Japanese with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Go Ayano, Chizuru Ikewaki, Masaki Suda, Kazuya Takahashi.
Tatsuo Sato quits his job and roams around aimlessly,
trying to escape from his painful past. He meets Takuji
Oshiro at a pachinko parlour. They strike up a friendship
and Tatsuo goes with Takuji to his home a rundown shack
on the beach, where he lives with his ill father, ambivalent
mother and older sister Chinatsu. Tatsuo sees something
special in Chinatsu. A light shines there despite the
oppressive atmosphere that surrounds their situation.
Thu 5 Mar at 8.40pm
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Ryoichi Kimizuka • Japan 2009 • 1h58m • HD-Cam • Japanese
with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Koichi Sata, Mirai Shida, Ryuhei Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida.
A compelling drama depicting the fears of a modern
day society. The Funamura family is the target of mass
media attention after their eldest son commits murder.
Furthermore, every move made by the detective assigned
to protect the bewildered daughter of the family, Saori, is
being maliciously exposed over the internet.
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Filmhouse Junior
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ANNIE
A TOWN CALLED PANIC
Filmhouse junior
Films for a younger audience, weekly on
Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.00 (£5.00
for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!
PLEASE NOTE – some screening dates have
changed from those previously advertised.
For these shows we choose to screen
dubbed versions where these are available,
but some films will be in their original
language with subtitles – these are marked
on individual film descriptions.
Please note: although we normally disapprove of people
talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for
kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!
The Wind Rises Kaze tachinu
Sun 8 Feb at 11.00am
CHARLOTTE’S WEB
INTO THE WOODS
Annie
Charlotte’s Web
Sun 8 Mar at 11.00am
Will Gluck • USA 2014 • 1h58m • DCP
PG – Contains mild bad language
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Cameron Diaz.
Gary Winick • USA 2006 • 1h37m
DCP • U – Contains very mild language
Cast: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts (voice), Steve Buscemi
(voice), John Cleese (voice), Oprah Winfrey (voice).
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who’s also tough
enough to make her way on the streets of New York in
2014. Left by her parents as a baby with the promise that
they’d be back for her someday, it’s been a hard knock life
ever since. But everything’s about to change...
Matilda
Plucky farm girl Fern (Dakota Fanning) rescues Wilbur
the pig – the runt of his litter – from her father’s axe. But
as Wilbur grows up and faces his likely fate of becoming
Sunday dinner, another friend steps in to save the day –
the spider Charlotte (voiced by Julia Roberts), who spins
fancy, slogan-filled webs above Wilbur’s pen to convince
his guardians that he is indeed a special pig and worth
saving.
Danny DeVito • USA 1996 • 1h38m • DCP • PG
Cast: Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz.
Matilda Wormwood is an extremely curious and intelligent
little girl who is very different from her parents, who
quite cruelly ignore her. As she grows older, she begins to
discover that she has telekinetic powers...
A Town Called Panic Panique au village
Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 2013 • 2h7m • DCP • English language
version • PG – Contains brief bloody image, smoking scenes
Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar • Belgium/Luxembourg/France
2009 • 1h17m • DCP • French with English subtitles
PG – Contains mild violence and one use of mild language
A decades-spanning epic from master filmmaker Hayao
Miyazaki. Jiro dreams of flying and designing aeroplanes.
He studies hard and joins a Japanese engineering
company in 1927. His bright intelligence and dedication
will lead him to create the Zero fighter, a bomber put into
service just as Japan is contemplating war with the US.
A brilliantly inventive stop motion animation. Cowboy
and Indian plan to buy a birthday gift for their friend
Horse, but accidentally destroy his house. A series of
wacky adventures ensues that finds the trio journeying to
the centre of the earth, wandering across icy tundra and
discovering a strange aquatic world.
Into the Woods
Rob Marshall • USA 2014 • 2h5m • DCP
PG – Contains mild violence, threat
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, Meryl
Streep.
This spectacular family musical follows the classic tales of
Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk
and Rapunzel – all linked by a story involving a baker and
his wife, and the witch who has put a curse on them.
Filmhouse Junior/Come and See.../Write Shoot Cut
BIG HERO 6
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible,
No Good, Very Bad Day
Miguel Arteta • USA 2014 • 1h21m • DCP
PG – Contains mild bad language, sex references
Cast: Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Ed Oxenbould, Dylan
Minnette, Kerris Dorsey.
11-year-old Alexander experiences the most terrible and
horrible day of his young life – a day that begins with gum
stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another.
Big Hero 6
Don Hall & Chris Williams • USA 2014 • 1h48m
DCP • PG – Contains mild threat, scary scenes
With the voices of Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney, TJ Miller.
In the futuristic city of San Fransokyo, 14-year-old genius
Hiro looks up to his older brother Tadashi. Tadashi is a
student at the Institute of Technology, where he has
developed an inflatable robot named Baymax, with whom
Hiro forms a special bond.
Shaun the Sheep
Sun 5 Apr at 11.00am
Mark Burton & Richard Starzack • UK/France 2015 • 1h25m
DCP • U – Contains mild slapstick, threat, rude humour
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some
fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A
mix-up with the farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead
them all to the big city, and it’s up to Shaun and the flock
to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
Come and See...
A monthly one-off screening of a great film
we simply thought you might like to see,
again or for the first time, on the big screen.
Now with added panther!
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Stephen Herek • USA 1989 • 1h30m • DCP
PG – Contains mild language and violence
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Terry Camilleri,
Dan Shor.
With only a few days before their high-school graduation,
it looks like air-headed rock star wannabes Bill (Alex Winter)
and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are doomed to flunk their finals.
The boys’ long-suffering teacher gives them one more
chance – if they can ace a presentation on the topic of
how a famous historical personality might react to modern
times, they will be allowed to pass. Help arrives in the
unexpected form of Rufus (George Carlin), an Emissary
from the Future...
PLUS SHORT
The Hand is Pinker Than the Eye
Hawley Pratt • USA 1967 • 7m • DCP • U
A cold Pink Panther sneaks into a house owned by a
magician and gets irritated by a rabbit who keeps kissing
him.
TAKE IT BACK AND START ALL OVER
SPECIALEVENT
Write Shoot Cut
Mon 23 Feb at 6.10pm • Tickets £6/£5
Screen Education Edinburgh in partnership with Filmhouse
is committed to supporting new talent through the
Write Shoot Cut platform, offering local filmmakers the
opportunity to screen their work to new audiences. We are
delighted to showcase these films, and will welcome various
cast and crew members for a Q&A after the screening.
Take It Back and Start All Over
Neil Rolland • UK 2014 • 1h9m • Digital
Cast: Kerri Clarence, Neil Rolland, Kyle Titterton, Kate Dickie,
Robert Williamson.
Take It Back and Start All Over is the debut feature film
from Edinburgh based writer/director and creator of the
Write Shoot Cut platform, Neil Rolland. Shot in 5 days
on a budget of £1000 by a team of professional Scottish
filmmakers, it is part of a new movement in Scotland called
Tartan Features (www.tartanfeatures.com).
Take It Back and Start All Over is a relationship drama with
music following 33 year old mum Jennie, who attempts to
recapture her past as a successful singer/songwriter while
dealing with a marriage that is falling apart.
PLUS SHORT
James and the Urn Louis Clark • UK 2014 • 8m • Digital
A young boy, James, finds the body of his gran on her
living room floor. Forced to attend the wake, he becomes
increasingly distressed as he realises that everyone there
has already moved on.
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Darkness Visible
SUPER 8
Darkness Visible
Darkness Visible is a series of feature films
selected to accompany Christopher Orr’s
exhibition The Beguiled Eye at The University
of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery.
Orr’s paintings cast a range of enigmatic
characters into ambiguous, uncanny landscapes.
The scenes are charged with a palpable tension,
a mixed sense of wonder and foreboding, falling
somewhere between the romantic and the
supernatural. The inner lives of the protagonists
are concealed, their purpose and intent
unexplained, as they grapple with something
profound.
The films in Darkness Visible reflect different
elements contained in Orr’s work: From the
enchantment and terror of the Ozark mountains
in Winter’s Bone, to the barren, ominous
desolation of Tarkovksy’s ‘Zone’ in Stalker, and
the unearthly mystery and sense of adventure
in Super 8.
Christopher Orr: The Beguiled Eye is at Talbot
Rice Gallery until 14 February 2015.
STALKER
WINTER’S BONE
Super 8
Winter’s Bone
Sat 7 Feb at 3.40pm
Mon 9 Feb at 6.00pm
JJ Abrams • USA 2011 • 1h47m • DCP • 12A – Contains one use of
strong language, moderate threat and soft drug use
Cast: Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Gabriel Basso, Zach
Mills, Elle Fanning.
Debra Granik • USA 2010 • 1h40m • DCP
15 – Contains strong language and drug use
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale
Dickey, Garret Dillahunt.
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio
town witness a catastrophic train crash while making
a super 8 movie, and soon suspect that it was not an
accident. Shortly afterwards, unusual disappearances and
inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the
local Deputy tries to uncover the truth...
A dark yet utterly absorbing drama starring Jennifer
Lawrence. In the desolate Ozark Mountain region of the
central United States, 17-year-old Ree Jolly (Lawrence)
is on a desperate quest to save her family home from
the bailiffs, after her drug dealing father skips bail. Pulled
perilously close to a brutal family of crack cocaine dealers,
Ree is forced to undergo a series of terrifying ordeals,
where death is always a distinct possibility.
This fascinating, deeply atmospheric thriller, based on the
novel by Daniel Woodrell and sensitively directed by Debra
Granik, is anchored by an extraordinary performance by
Jennifer Lawrence, who brings heart and hope to what
may have been an overly bleak film.
Stalker
Sun 8 Feb at 2.45pm
Andrei Tarkovsky • USSR 1979 • 2h41m • 35mm
Russian with English subtitles • PG
Cast: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko,
Alisa Freindlikh, Natasha Abramova.
An epic and frequently puzzling inquiry into freedom and
faith, which unfolds in an unspecified totalitarian society. A
shaven-headed guide known as Stalker agrees to escort a
writer and a scientist to a forbidden wasteland area known
as the Zone, where, in a miraculous ‘Room’, all one’s wishes
can be granted. But as the man of words asks, “How do I
know I want what I want?”
Switching between grainy monochrome for the scenes
in the industrially-ravaged police state and faded colour
for those in the contaminated landscape of the Zone,
Tarkovsky, amidst the grime and the destruction, summons
up moments of pure magic.
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Secret Histories: Screening Irish History
THE MAGDALENE SISTERS
Secret Histories:
Screening Irish
History
Secret Histories explores the dark and
troubling aspects of Irish life. From
institutional abuse in Magdalene homes to
betrayal during the Civil War of 1922, this
series reveals Irish history in imaginative,
provocative and controversial ways. The
series includes John Ford’s 1935 classic The
Informer and the Scottish premiere of A
Terrible Beauty, about the 1916 Rising. Each
of the films will be followed by a Q&A with
filmmakers, critics and experts. THE INFORMER
A TERRIBLE BEAUTY
The Magdalene Sisters
The Informer
Sat 7 Feb at 3.00pm
Peter Mullan • Ireland/UK 2002 • 1h59m • 35mm • 15
Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eileen Walsh, Dorothy
Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone.
John Ford • USA 1935 • 1h31m • 16mm • PG
Cast: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot
Grahame, Wallace Ford.
For over 150 years, the Magdalene Laundries existed to
punish young women who had fallen foul of Ireland’s
strict adherence to Catholic doctrine. Many spent their
lives there, to be buried in unmarked graves. Set in the
1960s, Peter Mullan’s powerful film dramatises the lives of
three women sent to a Laundry as punishment for their
‘sins’. With exceptional performances throughout, it is an
indictment of a system that put religious dogma before
the rights of its children.
Former boxer Victor McLaglen gave the performance
of his life as scar-faced Gypo Nolan in John Ford’s 1935
adaptation of Liam O’Flaherty’s novel, about a harddrinking brute who betrays one of his friends in order to
collect a reward during the Irish Civil War of 1922.
A Terrible Beauty
Sat 7 Mar at 3.20pm
Keith Farrell • Ireland 2013 • 1h37m • DCP
12A – Contains moderate violence and one use of strong
language
Cast: Hugh O’Conor, Owen McDonnell, Rick Burn, Gina Costigan,
Seamus Hughes.
Following the success of our Irish History
season last year we are delighted to be
working again with University of Edinburgh
School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
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Ireland’s bloody 1916 Easter Rising was an early bid for the
nation’s independence, but the massive loss of life was a
tragedy that still resonates through the Irish diaspora. This
meticulously researched docudrama combines archive
footage and dramatic re-enactments based on first-hand
accounts to vividly recreate the ferocious battles of
Dublin’s Mount Street and North King Street, as seen from
the perspective of the Irish Volunteers, British soldiers, and
innocent civilians.
Introduction to European Cinema
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Introduction to
European Cinema
Now in its tenth year at Filmhouse, Introduction to
European Cinema provides a great opportunity to
see some of the classics of European cinema on the
big screen, many of which are very rarely shown.
Curated by specialists in European cinema from
the University of Edinburgh¹s Division of European
Languages and Cultures, the screenings form part
of a University course, but you don¹t need to be a
student to come along!
Each screening will be preceded by a short
introduction by Dr Leanne Dawson (Lecturer in
German and Film Studies at the University of
Edinburgh and IEC Course Organiser) or another
University of Edinburgh academic working on
European Cinema.
To keep up to date with screening dates
and times, please ‘like’ IEC’s Facebook
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THE WRONG MOVE
THE KING IS ALIVE
Querelle
The King Is Alive
Wed 4 Mar at 5.50pm
Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany/France 1982
1h48m • Digital • 18
Cast: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet,
Hanno Pöschl.
Kristian Levring • Denmark/Sweden/USA 2000 • 1h50m
35mm English and French with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong language and moderate sex
Cast: Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, Jennifer
Jason Leigh, Bruce Davidson.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is an adaptation of
Jean Genet’s infamous novel ‘Querelle de Brest’. Querelle is
a sailor on shore leave. Following an argument, in which he
stabs and kills his drug-smuggling partner, he seeks shelter
in a nearby brothel. There he befriends the predatory
madam, Lysiane, who leads him into his first homosexual
encounter. From then on Querelle embarks upon a voyage
of highly charged and sometimes violent sexual selfdiscovery that will transform him forever.
The Wrong Move Falsche Bewegung
Wim Wenders • West Germany 1975 • 1h43m
Digital • German with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Hans Christian Blech, Hanna Schygulla,
Nastassja Kinski, Peter Kern.
Wim Wenders’ 1975 drama is full of his trademark touches:
the highly-charged road sequences, the meditative use of
landscape, and the tensions beneath apparently desultory
encounters. Wilhelm, a would-be writer, travels through
Germany, encountering history (a former Nazi), economics
(an industrialist) and passion (Nastassja Kinski).
This second feature by Dogme co-founder Kristian Levring
is a cerebral yet unflinchingly passionate meditation on
the incongruities of human nature. Eleven tourists are
travelling by bus through the barren North African desert.
Hopelessly lost, they eventually find themselves stranded
in an abandoned mining town. Its only resident, the
grizzled Kanana, informs them it’s a five-day walk over
endless sand dunes to the next town. One passenger, Jack,
offers to make the journey. The others wait anxiously for his
return, and, to pass time and stave off panic, elect to put
on a desert version of ‘King Lear’. But, fuelled by the bleak
situation, their passions are ignited, and noble sentiments
give way to envy, lust and the struggle for power.
Screening next month:
Together Tillsammans
(Lukas Moodysson, 2000)
Wed 11 Mar at 6.00pm
Babel
(Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2006)
Wed 18 Mar at 5.45pm
See our website or next month’s programme for more
information on these films.
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WORLD SAVING INVENTIONS
EVERYTHING’S ALIVE
Filmhouse offers schools the opportunity to engage with a variety of film which support
moving image literacy and subjects including modern languages and social studies.
To book please call 0131 228 6382 or email [email protected]. Details at
www.filmhousecinema.com/learning
February Animation Workshops
Animation workshops delivered by Animation Jam –
all animation work produced will be uploaded to
www.animationjam.co.uk
World Saving Inventions (2D Animation)
Mon 16 Feb • 10.30am-12.45pm OR 1.45pm-4.00pm • Age 7-12 years • £14.50
Dog poop picker-upper? Strange machines to help slow hedgehogs cross the roads safely?
There are so many crazy machines you can invent to SAVE THE WORLD!! Come to this cartoon
animation workshop and create a mini movie studio with other animators. Draw and build all
the bits you need to make your machine move. Will it work or will it all go horribly wrong? It’s a
cartoon challenge, are you up for it?
Everything’s Alive (3D Animation)
Tue 17 Feb • 10.30am-12.45pm OR 1.45pm-4.00pm • Age 7-12 years • £14.50
Cups, toys, vegetables, anything can be brought to life with animation! Think of ‘Toy Story’ or
CBBC’s ‘Ooglies’. This animation workshop gives you lifeless random objects and all you have to
do is make them move. Animation Jam will show you how to make faces and extra bits and all
you have to do is get some good ideas going with the other new animators. If you have a small
(10-15cm) toy you want to animate too, you can bring it along.
FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR
Filmhouse Cafe Bar
Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea
and enjoy one of our superb cakes.
Our full menu runs from noon to 10pm seven
days a week!
All our dishes are prepared on the premises using
fresh ingredients.
We have an extensive vegetarian range with a
variety of daily specials.
A glass of wine? Choose from nine! The bar has
real choice in ales, beers and bottles.
A special event? Just ask, we can probably help.
Or just come and relax in the ambience!
Opening hours:
Monday to Thursday: 8am - 11.30pm
Friday: 8am - 12.30am
Saturday: 10am - 12.30am
Sunday: 10am - 11.30pm
0131 229 5932 [email protected]
Film Quiz
Sunday 8 February
Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and rather
tricky) monthly quiz. Free to enter, teams of up to
eight, to be seated in the cafe bar by 9pm.
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FUNDINGFILMHOUSE
ACCESS
Filmhouse foyer and box office are
Filmhouse
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surface and two sets of automatic doors.
Edinburgh EH3 9BZ
Our cafe bar and accessible toilet are also at
this level. The majority of seats in the cafe
bar are not fixed and can be moved.
Box Office: 0131 228 2688 (10am-9pm)
Recorded Programme Info: 0131 228 2689
There is wheelchair access to all three
Administration: 0131 228 6382
screens. Cinema one has space for two
wheelchair users and these places are
Fax: 0131 229 6482
reached via the passenger lift. Cinemas
email: [email protected]
two and three have one space each and to
Ken Hay
get to these you need to use our platform
CEO
lifts. Staff are always on hand to help
operate them – please ask at the box office Rod White
when you purchase your tickets. A second Head of Filmhouse
accessible toilet is situated at the lower
Robert Howie
level close to cinemas two and three.
Customer Experience Manager
Advance booking for wheelchair spaces is
recommended. If you need to bring along
Holly Daniel & Nicola Kettlewood
a helper to assist you in any way, then they Knowledge & Learning
will receive a complimentary ticket.
There are induction loops and infra-red
in all three screens for those with hearing
impairments. This programme and our
website carry information on which films
have subtitles.
We regularly have screenings with audio
description for customers with visual
impairments and subtitles for those with
hearing difficulties – see page 2 for details
of these.
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