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PROJECT
NIM
The Tree of Life
A Better Life
Cell 211
Sarah’s Key
The Big Picture
The Salt of Life
In a Better World
Whisky Galore!
Cría cuervos
Das Boot
Big Screen TV
Play Poland
Festival of Spirituality and Peace
Beyond Borders
Calamity Jane Sing-Along Screening
3 CINEMAS CAFE BAR
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INDEX
INDEX
SCREENING DATES AND TIMES
TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
12-13
13
23
The 9/11 Decade
14
21 Years of Revolution
17
A Better Life
5
Beyond Borders
17
The Big Picture
6
Big Screen TV
14-15
Black
19
Bloody Sunday
16
Das Boot
10
Calamity Jane
19
Cell 211
5
Come and See...
19
Comic Strip: The Hunt for Tony Blair
14
Courses, Workshops and Events
22
Cría cuervos
9
Detective Story
20
Doctor Who
14
Edinburgh Coll. of Art Post-Grad Screening 20
16
Film socialisme
5
Filmhouse Café Bar
22
Filmhouse
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Box Office: 0131 228 2688 (10am - 9pm)
Administration: 0131 228 6382
email: admin@filmhousecinema.com
Filmhouse is a trading name of Centre for the
Moving Image (CMI), a company limited by
guarantee, registered in Scotland No. 67087.
Scottish Charity No. SC006793
CMI also incorporates Edinburgh International
Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Guild.
Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 24
Filmhouse Quiz
22
The First Movie
17
Fresh Meat
15
General Nil
18
Getting Out
16
Horizontal 8
19
The Illusionist
15
In a Better World
7
Just Do It. A Tale of Modern-Day Outlaws 6
The Killing
15
Kirikou and the Sorceress
21
The Lavender Hill Mob
8
Life in a Day
8
Little Rose
18
London International Animation Fest 7+
21
Lynch
18
Made in Edinburgh
15
Midnight Cowboy
19
Miranda
10
Mystification
18
Once Upon a Time
15
Play Poland
18-19
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
16
Project Nim
7
Projecting the Archive
10
Rio
21
The Salt of Life
7
Sarah’s Key
6
The Scapegoat
10
Sing-Along Screening
19
The Skin I Live In
8
The Social Network
20
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
17
This Is Jinsy
14
The Tree of Life
4
Up
21
Weans’ World
21
Whisky Galore!
8
The Writer and the Flautist
17
AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLES
We have now installed a system which enables
us, whenever the necessary discs are available,
to show onscreen subtitles for customers who
are deaf or hard of hearing, and provide audio
description (via our infra-red headsets) for those
who are sight-impaired. Discs tend to only be
available for more mainstream films than we
generally show, but we try to make sure we screen
at least one film every issue with these features.
This issue:
The Tree of Life – all screenings will have audio
description, and the 3.00pm screening on Sunday
7 August will also have subtitles.
FORCRYINGOUTLOUD
Screenings for carers and their babies.
This issue:
Sarah’s Key Mon 8 August at 11am
Project Nim Mon 22 August at 11am
Baby changing, bottle warming and buggy parking
facilities are available.Tickets cost £3.50/£2.50
concessions per adult. Screenings limited to babies
under 12 months accompanied by no more than
two adults. Screenings sponsored by Bepanthen.
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Introduction
PROJECT NIM
CRIA CUERVOS
SARAH’S KEY
THE TREE OF LIFE
Programme Department: A Day in the Life
So there they were. 4pm. The Friday after EIFF. An office full of very tired staff looking forward to their first weekend off in months. Martinis
made, replete with twists of lime... And then, the call from projection. The 35mm print of Comradeship (screening the following
Wednesday in our Weimar Realist season) had just arrived and the soundtrack was in German and French with nary an English subtitle (a
crude reminder that in this business the best laid schemes ‘gang aft agley’). A quick call to the supplier of the film revealed one other print
exists but they don’t know whether it carries subtitles either. So, what to do? Well, with all due haste and another weekend ‘spoiled’, one
dedicated staffer was able to locate a subtitle list on the internet, transcribe it into a Powerpoint presentation (for projection on top of the
image), have a Box Officer who speaks German and French (they’re a clever lot) watch the film on screen and compare the dialogue we’d
prepared with that on the print itself, edit the file accordingly, then sit in the projection booth and manually control the subtitles on screen as
the audience enjoyed the film, blissfully unaware (one hopes) of what had gone into it. Anyway, there you have it. A bit of trumpet blowing
never did anyone any harm... unless your name is Ugo Solari. [Have you been reading the National Enquirer again? - Ed.]
Project Nim is James (Man on Wire) Marsh’s fascinating, moral maze doc about an ill-fated language research project in the 1970s that
attempted to teach a chimpanzee American Sign Language. Terrence Malick’s majestic, visionary The Tree of Life hits our screens
from July 29. You will want to see that... Sarah’s Key is the second film released this year set around the French historical disgrace that
saw the rounding up of Parisian Jews by the forces of the Vichy government in 1942; this one stars our own Kristin Scott Thomas as a
contemporary journalist seeking the truth about the story of a young girl, Sarah, that seems to connect to her new flat in Paris... The Salt of
Life is Gianni Di Gregorio’s excellent follow-up to his hit Mid-August Lunch (2009) which features Gianni himself as a similar Gianni (to the
earlier film), a retired mama’s boy, who still, he discovers, has an eye for the ladies... and In A Better World, Susanne Bier’s emotional
powerhouse drama, was the deserved Foreign Language Oscar®-winner this year.
We’ve a marvellous two-day collaboration with the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, which includes a big screen
preview of the first episode of the next series of Doctor Who (oh yes!); and Ben Mezrich, author of the book on which The Social Network
was based, joins us while he’s in town for the Book Festival. And two evergreen Ealing comedies get the digital restoration treatment (with
another, Kind Hearts and Coronets, to follow next month), as does Carlos Saura’s 1976 masterpiece Cría cuervos (Raise Ravens), which
was a total revelation to this seasoned cinemagoer.
Rod White, Head of Filmhouse
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New releases
NEWRELEASE
The Tree of Life
Fri 29 Jul to Thu 11 Aug
Terrence Malick • USA 2011 • 2h19m
Digital projection
12A – Contains potentially dangerous behaviour
Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain,
Hunter McCracken, Laramie Eppler.
Though any attempt at synopsis of Terrence
Malick’s 5th feature film (in 38 years of
making them) would be reductive... The
Tree of Life tells the impressionistic story of
a 1950s Texas family, through the modernday eyes of the eldest son, Jack (Penn), now
an architect emotionally adrift in the modern
world. Trying to reconcile his complex
relationship with his authoritarian father
(Pitt), Jack seeks the answers to the age old
questions of the origin and meaning of life,
faith and the existence of God.
Thematically closer, perhaps, to no other
film more than Stanley Kubrick’s 2001
(might we call Malick’s film 2011: A Spiritual
Odyssey?), Tree of Life is an astonishing
achievement, and despite the comparison, a
film unlike any other. Thoroughly deserving
of its Palme d’Or at Cannes, this is a singular,
pure cinematic experience.
This is the only film I’ve ever been to see
twice whilst at the Cannes Film Festival – the
second viewing revealing insights I missed
the first time around. I’m looking forward to
a third viewing! - Rod White
New releases
A BETTER LIFE
NEWRELEASE
CELL 211
FILM SOCIALISME
NEWRELEASE
NEWRELEASE
A Better Life
Cell 211 Celda 211
Film socialisme
Tue 2 to Thu 4 Aug
Chris Weitz • USA 2011 • 1h37m • Digital projection
12A – Contains one use of strong language, moderate violence &
brief drug use
Cast: Demián Bichir, José Julián, Dolores Heredia, Joaquín Cosio,
Nancy Lenehan.
Daniel Monzón • Spain/France 2009 • 1h53m • 35mm
Spanish, Basque and English with English subtitles
18 – Contains strong bloody violence and suicide
Cast: Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Antonio Resines, Marta Etura,
Carlos Bardem.
Jean-Luc Godard • Switzerland/France 2010 • 1h42m
Digibeta • French with English subtitles
PG – Contains mild language and footage of real dead bodies
Cast: Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehlé, Patti
Smith, Robert Maloubier.
From the director of About a Boy, a poignant story about
a father’s love and the lengths to which a parent will go to
give his child the opportunities he never had.
Newly-hired prison guard Juan Oliver arrives a day
before his official start date in the hope of making a
good impression. Touring the facility, Juan falls victim to
a minor accident, which renders him unconscious. His
fellow guards place him in cell 211 to recover, but shortly
afterwards, the inmates from the high-security cellblock,
under the leadership of the ruthless Malamadre, break
free and seize control of the prison. After regaining
consciousness, Juan realises the perilousness of his
situation and poses as a new inmate rather than a guard.
This latest work from 80-year-old Jean-Luc Godard is one
of his most formally audacious, as well as one of his most
resonant.
An illegal Mexican immigrant named Carlos (Demián
Bichir) struggles to make ends meet as a gardener in
modern-day Los Angeles. His son Luis (José Julián),
alienated and adrift, is a high-school misfit, a thug in the
making. After borrowing funds from his sister, Carlos
acquires a truck and tools to start his own gardener’s
business. The business offers Carlos a ray of hope, a way
out of poverty for himself and his son. But then Carlos’
truck and tools are stolen, leaving father and son in a
desperate search through the city’s Latino neighbourhoods
to recover them.
The big winner at this year’s Goya Awards (the Spanish
equivalent of the Academy Awards®), Cell 211 shrewdly
weaves strands of political commentary into the fabric of an
intriguing, suspenseful thriller.
As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean (with Patti
Smith among its passengers), Godard embarks on a state of
the EU address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes,
historical revelations and pure cinematographic beauty.
Film socialisme is never simply an intellectual exercise;
there’s a passion behind this torrent of words and images,
a sense of the vital importance of the issues addressed and
the need to find new ways for cinema to discuss them.
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New releases
SARAH’S KEY
THE BIG PICTURE
NEWRELEASE
NEWRELEASE
JUST DO IT. A TALE OF MODERN-DAY OUTLAWS
NEWRELEASE
Sarah’s Key Elle s’appelait Sarah
The Big Picture
Fri 5 to Thu 25 Aug
L’homme qui voulait vivre sa vie
Gilles Paquet-Brenner • France 2010 • 1h51m • 35mm
French, English, Italian and German with English subtitles
12A – Contains emotionally intense scenes and a Holocaust theme
Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup,
Frédéric Pierrot, Aidan Quinn.
Just Do It.
A Tale of Modern-Day Outlaws
Fri 5 to Thu 11 Aug
Thu 11 Aug & Sat 13 to Mon 15 Aug
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year-old girl, is taken with her
family by the French police to the Vel’ d’Hiv’ stadium, one
Jewish family among thousands rounded up to be sent to
the camps. Desperate to protect her younger brother, she
locks him in a secret cupboard in the family’s apartment,
thinking that they will all be back soon.
On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond,
an American living in Paris, is asked to write an article about
this black day in France’s past. Through her investigation,
she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets
that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled
to retrace the girl’s ordeal, from that terrible term in the
Vel’ d’Hiv’, to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into
Sarah’s past, she begins to re-evaluate her marriage, her
adopted nation, and her life.
Harrowing, emotionally complex and filled with pathos,
this is a moving account of a terrible period of French
history, with Kristin Scott Thomas giving a pitch-perfect
performance as Julia.
Eric Lartigau • France 2010 • 1h55m
35mm • French with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong language, violence and sex
Cast: Romain Duris, Marina Foïs, Niels Arestrup, Branka Katic,
Catherine Deneuve.
A thoroughly satisfying Highsmithian thriller, adapted from
Douglas Kennedy’s acclaimed novel and retaining all its
insight and tantalising suspense.
Paul (Romain Duris) works in investment banking, with a
magazine-perfect lifestyle that he shares with his wife and
family. But he laments not having pursued photography,
his real passion, and as financial demands and personal
responsibilities continue to entrap him, his dream of
becoming an artist slips further and further away. When he
suspects his wife is having an affair, a moment of madness
will change his life forever.
Emily James • UK 2011 • 1h30m • Digital projection
12A – Contains one use of obscured strong language and
moderate violence • Documentary
Via G20 protests, climate camps, power station shutdowns
and UN meetings, the world of environmental direct action
in the UK has rarely been off the front pages in recent years.
With unprecedented access, Emily James gets inside the
largely youth-driven movement that has threatened to bring
down police forces, politicians, multinational corporations
and the media all in the name of climate change. Revealing
and at the same time complicit, Just Do It takes you into the
heart of the action to provoke, inspire and entertain.
Just Do It is an independently produced film made possible
by over 100 volunteers and 447 crowd funders.
www.justdoitfilm.com
The screening at 6pm on 11
August will be followed by a
Q&A with director Emily James.
Presented by Take One Action. For more world-changing
movies, visit www.takeoneaction.org.uk
Take One Action is on the lookout for people like you to join
our Green Shoots Audience Forum asking the question: can
film change behaviour? Whether you have lots, some or no
longstanding experience of taking personal action to reduce
your carbon footprint, we’d love your help.
Email [email protected] to find out more.
New releases
PROJECT NIM
NEWRELEASE
THE SALT OF LIFE
IN A BETTER WORLD
NEWRELEASE
NEWRELEASE
Project Nim
The Salt of Life Gianni e le donne
In a Better World Hævnen
Fri 12 to Thu 25 Aug
Fri 12 to Thu 25 Aug
Fri 19 Aug to Thu 1 Sep
James Marsh • UK 2011 • 1h39m • Digital projection
12A – Contains animal testing, strong language and drug use
Documentary
Gianni Di Gregorio • Italy 2011 • 1h29m
Digital projection • Italian with English subtitles
12A – Contains moderate sex references
Cast: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis, Alfonso Santagata,
Elisabetta Piccolomini, Valeria Cavalli.
Susanne Bier • Denmark/Sweden 2010
1h59m • Digital projection
Danish, Swedish, English and Arabic with English subtitles
cert tbc
Cast: Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Markus
Rygaard, William Jøhnk Nielsen.
From producer Simon Chinn and director James Marsh (the
team behind the thrilling Man on Wire) comes the story of
Nim, the chimpanzee who became the focus of a landmark
experiment in the 1970s. A Columbia University team
aimed to prove that an ape could learn to communicate
with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.
Following Nim’s extraordinary journey through human
society and the enduring impact he makes on the people
he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and
unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make
into a human. What we learn about his true nature – and,
indeed, our own – is comic, revealing, and profoundly
unsettling.
After the 6.00pm screening on Tuesday 16 August there
will be an open discussion on the issues raised by the
film, led by a representative of the Humanist Society of
Scotland.
Humanism is an ethical stance which asserts that we
can lead good lives guided by compassion and reason,
rather than religion or superstition. Humanists are vitally
concerned with issues that affect our world.
Gianni di Gregorio, the writer, director and star of The
Salt of Life, has a charmingly world-weary face – rather
like his neighbour’s St Bernard. His character in the film,
an early retiree also named Gianni, wanders the streets
of Rome (often with said dog) exuding a sense of ennui.
His wife, student daughter and eccentric mother live busy
lives, appearing sporadically to toss Gianni the odd errand.
An old friend suggests that what Gianni needs is a lover
– perhaps a beautiful woman would make him feel alive
again...
Di Gregorio’s script and his melancholic performance are
full of the humanity and humour that graced his previous
film, Mid-August Lunch, and nonagenarian Valeria de
Franciscis (who also featured in the earlier film) puts in a
star turn as Gianni’s formidable poker-playing mother.
The winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign
Language film is a breathtaking exploration of cycles of
violence in modern society.
Anton is a doctor commuting between his provincial home
in Denmark and his work at an African refugee camp, while
struggling with the possibility of a divorce from his wife
Marianne. Their ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at
school, until he makes friends with Christian, a new boy
who has just moved from London with his father. Elias and
Christian form a strong bond, but when Christian involves
Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic
consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put
in danger.
Susanne Bier (After the Wedding, Brothers, Things We
Lost In The Fire) masterfully uncovers the fragility of
everyday life and the chaos lurking beneath.
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Coming soon/Maybe you missed/Restored classics
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
LIFE IN A DAY
COMINGSOON
WHISKY GALORE!
MAYBEYOUMISSED
THE LAVENDER HILL MOB
RESTOREDCLASSICS
The Skin I Live In La piel que habito
Life in a Day
Whisky Galore!
Dates TBC
Fri 29 Jul to Mon 1 Aug
Pedro Almodóvar • Spain 2011 • 2h • Digital projection
Spanish with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong sex, sexual
violence, brief gore & very strong language
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Marisa
Paredes, Fernando Cayo.
Kevin Macdonald & others • USA 2011 • 1h35m • Digibeta
12A – Contains animal slaughter, moderate language and sex
references • Documentary
Alexander Mackendrick • UK 1949 • 1h22m • Digital projection • PG
Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson.
A glorious return to the Almodóvar fold for Antonio
Banderas (for the first time since 1990’s Tie Me Up! Tie
Me Down!), in a deliciously warped and creepy revenge
thriller.
Brilliant Toledo plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard is obsessed
with his latest revolutionary human skin treatment. Not
exactly shy of breaking a few ethical rules here and there,
he’s also got a laboratory in his basement.... and a beautiful
woman in a flesh-coloured unitard he keeps imprisoned in
a room upstairs...
That’s all you’re getting on the plot, for to give any
more away would risk lessening the pure enjoyment
of watching this complex thriller unfold. Suffice to say,
Thierry Jonquet’s source novel, ‘Mygale’, gives the world’s
favourite Spanish auteur ample opportunity to explore
his customary themes and stylings, albeit in a genre he’s
perhaps not readily associated with.
The cast are perfect, the sets and cinematography are
to die for, the plot is serpentine and twisted, and it’s in
Spanish. It is, unmistakably, a Pedro Almodóvar film.
What were you doing on 24 July 2010? Academy Award
winning director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of
Scotland, Touching the Void, One Day in September)
asked the entire world this question via YouTube last
year. More than 80,000 people responded with videos
depicting their lives, thoughts and dreams. Macdonald
arranged 300 selected clips culled from more than 4,500
hours of digital footage from people in 192 countries into
a roughly chronologic but non-narrative order. As the day
wears on, we see a kaleidoscopic variety of human activity:
preparing meals, praying, working, raising children,
arguing, recovering from trauma, jumping from aeroplanes,
celebrating, conversing, dying – or doing nothing at all.
While it resembles tone poems such as Koyaanisqatsi
or Baraka, Life in a Day is more personal, focusing on
individuals rather than nature and culture. Fittingly,
Macdonald shares his director credit with the hundreds of
YouTube filmmakers who made the final edit.
The story of a ship that runs aground carrying 50,000 cases
of whisky, and of the fictional Todday islanders’ attempts to
salvage and hang on to the cargo. Compton Mackenzie, who
wrote the famous comic novel, was inspired by a real wreck
and by his experiences living among the islanders of Barra.
The humour is gentle and wonderfully dry – the introductory
voiceover sets the tone when talking about the isolation of
Todday: “To the west there is nothing,” says the narrator,
before adding as a throwaway line “... except America.”
The Lavender Hill Mob
Fri 26 to Mon 29 Aug
Charles Crichton • UK 1951 • 1h21m • Digital projection • U
Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James, Alfie Bass.
One of the most successful Ealing films, and one of
the most delightful genre comedies of all time. Alec
Guinness is Henry Holland, an unassuming transporter
of gold bullion who, after working for twenty years
with no rewards in sight for his faithful service to his
company, decides to steal a million pounds worth of gold.
Together with his friend Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway),
a manufacturer of paperweights and an amateur sculptor,
and a couple of Cockney crooks, they abscond with the
gold and Henry melts it into a collection of souvenir Eiffel
Towers, which he then ships off to Paris. But, of course,
things don’t go exactly to plan...
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RESTOREDCLASSIC
Cría cuervos Raise Ravens
Sat 27 to Tue 30 Aug
Carlos Saura • Spain 1976 • 1h49m
Digital projection • Spanish with English subtitles
12A – Contains moderate sex references and disturbing scenes
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Torrent, Héctor Alterio, Florinda
Chico, Mónica Randall.
Shot in the summer of 1975 as General Franco lay
dying, Carlos Saura’s masterpiece takes its title from a
sinister Spanish proverb: ‘raise ravens and they’ll pluck
out your eyes’. A subtle yet unmistakable indictment
of the family as a repressive force in Spanish society,
Cría cuervos centres on an eight-year-old orphan (the
spellbinding Ana Torrent from Erice’s The Spirit of the
Beehive) who believes herself to have poisoned her
cold, authoritarian father (Héctor Alterio), a highranking military man whom she blames for the death of
her adored mother (Geraldine Chaplin).
Looking forward to Pan’s Labyrinth, Cría cuervos is
one of cinema’s most hauntingly vivid depictions of a
child’s fantasy-imbued reality. Darkly unsettling, deeply
touching and comic by turns, this landmark of Spanish
cinema – premiered shortly after the dictator’s death
– exposes a stifling world in which talk of sex or the
Civil War is still largely taboo.
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Restored classic/Projecting the Archive
MIRANDA
DAS BOOT
RESTOREDCLASSIC
Das Boot
Sun 28 Aug, Wed 31 Aug & Thu 1 Sep
Wolfgang Petersen • West Germany 1981
3h36m • Digital projection
German, English and French with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann,
Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge.
Das Boot is one of the most gripping and authentic war
movies ever made. Based on an autobiographical novel
by German World War II photographer Lothar-Guenther
Buchheim, the film follows the lives of a fearless U-Boat
captain (Jürgen Prochnow) and his inexperienced crew
as they patrol the Atlantic and Mediterranean in search of
Allied vessels, taking turns as hunter and prey.
There’s very little plot, so the movie’s power comes from
both its riveting, epic battle scenes and its details of the
boring hours spent waiting for orders or signs of the
enemy. With the exception of one staunch Hitler Youth
lieutenant, none of the crew is particularly loyal to the
Nazis, and some are openly hostile toward their Fuhrer;
this allows viewer sympathy with the men as they perform
their laborious, monotonous duties in cramped, filthy
quarters, or await death as depth charges explode all
around the sub.
Prochnow is excellent as the nerves-of-steel commander;
the real star, however, is cinematographer Jost Vacano,
who makes the submarine’s grimy, claustrophobic interior
come to vivid life, as his camera follows the crew through
hatches, up ladders, into bunks, and under pipes, creating
a palpable sense of claustrophobia while injecting it with
movement.
Projecting
the Archive
A collaboration with the British Film Institute
aimed at unearthing and reappraising a wealth of
lesser-known British feature films using the BFI
National Archive’s holdings, and giving audiences
the opportunity to see and celebrate British
cinema beyond the usual titles, on the big screen.
THE SCAPEGOAT
The Scapegoat
Tue 30 Aug at 6.15pm
Robert Hamer • UK 1959 • 1h31m • 35mm • PG
Cast: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey, Irene Worth,
Pamela Brown.
A stylish, yet rather over-elaborate murder-mystery
adapted from a novel by Daphne Du Maurier. John Barratt
(Alec Guinness), a quiet English teacher on holiday in
France, is tricked by his double, the aristocratic Count
De Gue (also Guinness), into assuming his identity after
a heavy drinking session. He inherits a chateau, a crazy
mother (Bette Davis), an unhappy wife and a teenage
daughter...
Miranda
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Ken Annakin • UK 1948 • 1h20m • 35mm • PG
Cast: Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, John McCallum,
Margaret Rutherford.
A sparkling and mischievous comedy with Glynis Johns at
her seductive best as a mermaid who forces a holidaying
Harley Street doctor to take her to London, disguised as
an invalid. Once there, she wreaks light-hearted romantic
havoc with the male cast to the wry amusement of the
female bystanders, including the redoubtable Margaret
Rutherford. And there’s an intriguing twist to the tale...
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DAY
DATE
29 July - 1 September 2011
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Fri 1 LIAF 7+ (WW)
29 1 The Tree of Life (AD)
Jul 1 Whisky Galore!
2 Whisky Galore!
2 A Better Life
2 The Tree of Life (AD)
3 Life in a Day
3 Cell 211
1.00
2.30/8.20
6.15
1.30
3.45/9.00
6.00
1.20/6.30
3.30/8.45
Sat 1 LIAF 7+ (WW)
Jul 2 Whisky Galore!
2 A Better Life
3 Life in a Day
3 Cell 211
1.00
2.30/5.30/8.20
1.30/6.00
3.45/8.00
1.20/6.30
3.30/8.45
Sun 1 The Tree of Life (AD)
31 2 Rio (2D) (WW)
Jul 2 A Better Life
2 Whisky Galore!
3 Life in a Day
3 Cell 211
2.30/5.30/8.20
1.00
3.45/8.00
6.00
1.20/6.30
3.30/8.45
Mon 1 The Tree of Life (AD)
1 1 Whisky Galore!
Aug 2 Rio (2D) (WW)
2 A Better Life
3 Cell 211
3 Life in a Day
2.30/6.00
9.00
11am/1.00
3.15/6.15
8.30
3.30/8.45
6.30
Tue 1 The Tree of Life (AD)
2 1 Whisky Galore!
Aug 2 Rio (2D) (WW)
2 A Better Life
3 Cell 211
3 Film socialisme
2.30/6.00
9.00
1.20
3.15/6.15
8.30
3.30/8.45
6.30
Wed 1 Whisky Galore!
Aug 2 Rio (2D) (WW)
2 A Better Life
3 Cell 211
3 Film socialisme
1.00
3.00/8.15
1.20
3.15/9.00
6.00
3.30/6.30
8.55
Thu 1 Whisky Galore!
Aug 1 ECA Post-Graduate Screening
2 Rio (2D) (WW)
2 A Better Life
3 Cell 211
3 Film socialisme
2.30
5.30
8.30
1.20
3.15/6.15
8.30
3.30/6.30
8.55
DAY
DATE
BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Fri 1 Sarah’s Key
Aug 2 A Better Life
3 The Big Picture
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
3.00/8.15
6.00
1.20/3.45/6.15/8.45
Sat 1 Sarah’s Key
Aug 2 A Better Life
3 The Big Picture
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
3.00/8.15
6.00
1.20/3.45/6.15/8.45
Sun 1 Sarah’s Key
7 2 The Tree of Life (AD) + (S)
Aug 2 The Tree of Life (AD)
2 A Better Life
3 The Big Picture
3 Detective Story
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
3.00 (subtitled)
8.15
6.00
1.20/3.45/8.45
6.15
Mon 1 Sarah’s Key (B)
8 1 Sarah’s Key
Aug 2 A Better Life
3 The Big Picture
11am (babies & carers)
2.30/6.00/8.30
3.00
5.30/8.20
6.15/8.45
Tue 1 Sarah’s Key
Aug 2 A Better Life
3 The Big Picture
2.30/6.00/8.30
3.00/8.15
6.00
6.15/8.45
Wed 1 Sarah’s Key
Aug 2 A Better Life
3 The Big Picture
2.30/6.00/8.30
3.00/6.00
9.00
6.15/8.45
Thu 1 Sarah’s Key
Aug 2 A Better Life
2 Just Do It...
2 Sarah’s Key
3 Little Rose (PP)
3 The Big Picture
2.30/5.45
8.15
3.00
6.00 + discussion
8.40
6.10
8.45
Fri 1 The Salt of Life
12 1 Project Nim
Aug 2 Sarah’s Key
2 The Salt of Life
2 Getting Out (SP)
3 Sarah’s Key
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.15
1.20
3.45/8.30
5.45 + Q&A
6.15/8.40
Sat 1 The Salt of Life
13 1 Project Nim
Aug 2 Just Do It...
2 The Salt of Life
3 Sarah’s Key
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.15
1.20
3.45/6.00/8.30
1.20/3.45/6.15/8.40
DAY
DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Sun 1 Kirikou and the Sorceress (WW)
14 1 Project Nim
Aug 2 The Salt of Life
2 Just Do It...
3 Sarah’s Key
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.15
1.30/3.45/8.30
6.00
1.20/3.45/6.15/8.40
Mon 1 Kirikou and the Sorceress (WW)
15 1 The Illusionist
Aug 1 Project Nim
2 Sarah’s Key
2 The Salt of Life
2 Just Do It...
3 Sarah’s Key
11.00am
1.00
3.00/6.00/8.15
1.20
3.45/8.30
6.00
6.15/8.40
Tue 1 The Illusionist
16 1 Project Nim
Aug 1 Project Nim
2 Sarah’s Key
2 The Salt of Life
2 Miranda (PA)
3 Sarah’s Key
1.00
3.00/8.45
6.00 + discussion
1.20
3.45/8.30
6.00
6.15/8.40
Wed 1 The Illusionist
17 1 Project Nim
Aug 1 Midnight Cowboy (CS)
2 Sarah’s Key
2 The Salt of Life
2 Project Nim
3 Sarah’s Key
1.00
3.00/8.45
6.15
1.20
3.45/8.30
6.00
6.15/8.40
Thu 1 The Illusionist
18 1 Project Nim
Aug 2 Sarah’s Key
2 The Salt of Life
3 Lynch (PP)
3 Sarah’s Key
1.00
3.00/6.00/8.15
1.20/6.00
3.45/8.30
6.00
8.40
KEY:
(AD) – Audio Description (see page 2)
(B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2)
(S) – Subtitled (see page 2)
SEASONS:
(BB) – Beyond Borders (page 17)
(CS) – Come and See (page 19)
(PA) – Projecting the Archive (page 10)
(PP) – Play Poland (pages 18-19)
(SP) – Festival of Spirituality and Peace (page 16)
(TV) – Big Screen TV (pages 14-15)
(WW) – Weans’ World (page 21)
Full index of films on page 2
WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM
DAY
DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
29 July - 1 September 2011
SHOW
TIMES
Fri 1 The Illusionist
19 1 In a Better World
Aug 2 Project Nim
2 The Salt of Life
3 The Salt of Life
3 Sarah’s Key
3 Bloody Sunday (SP)
1.00
3.25/6.00/8.40
4.45/9.00
6.55
1.15
3.15/8.40
5.45 + Q&A
Sat 1 The Illusionist
20 1 Calamity Jane Sing-Along
Aug 1 In a Better World
2 In a Better World
2 Project Nim
3 Sarah’s Key
3 The Salt of Life
1.00
3.30
6.00/8.40
1.20
4.00/6.15/8.30
1.30/8.15
3.55/6.00
Sun 1 The Illusionist
2 Project Nim
3 Sarah’s Key
3 The Salt of Life
1.00
3.25/6.00/8.40
1.20
3.30/6.15/8.30
1.30/6.00
3.55/8.25
Mon 1 The Illusionist
Aug 2 Project Nim (B)
2 Project Nim
2 The Salt of Life
3 Sarah’s Key
3 The Salt of Life
1.00
3.25/6.00/8.40
11am (babies & carers)
3.30/6.15/8.30
1.20
3.15/6.00
8.25
Tue 1 The Illusionist
2 The Salt of Life
2 Project Nim
3 Sarah’s Key
3 The Writer and the Flautist (BB)
3 The First Movie (BB)
1.00
3.25/8.20
6.15
1.20
3.30/6.15/8.30
3.15
7.00 + Q&A
8.45 + Q&A
Wed 1 The Illusionist
2 The Salt of Life
2 Project Nim
3 Sarah’s Key
3 21 Years of Revolution (BB)
3 Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields (BB)
1.00
3.25/8.20
6.15
1.20
3.30/6.15/8.30
3.15
7.00 + discussion
8.45 + discussion
Thu 1 The Illusionist
2 Project Nim
2 The Social Network (SW)
3 Sarah’s Key
3 General Nil (PP)
1.00
3.25/6.00/8.35
1.20
3.30/8.45
5.45 + Q&A
3.15/8.40
6.00
DAY
DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Fri 1 The 9/11 Decade (TV) + Q&A
26 1 Comic Strip... T. Blair (TV) + intro
Aug 1 This Is Jinsy (TV) + Q&A
1 Doctor Who (TV)
1 FILM TBC*
2 FILM TBC*
2 In a Better World
2 The Lavender Hill Mob
3 In a Better World
3 Pray the Devil Back to Hell (SP)
12.00 (£5.60/£3.60)
1.45 (£5.60/£3.60)
3.15 (£5.60/£3.60)
4.45 (£5.60/£3.60)
6.00/8.40
1.10/3.40
6.15
8.50
1.00
3.15/8.15
5.45 + Q&A
Sat 1 Once Upon a Time (TV)
27 1 Fresh Meat (TV) + intro
Aug 1 The Killing (TV) + Q&A
1 FILM TBC*
2 FILM TBC*
2 Cría cuervos
3 Cría cuervos
3 In a Better World
11am (£5.60/£3.60)
12.30 (£5.60/£3.60)
2.30 (£5.60/£3.60)
6.00/8.40
1.10/3.40
6.15
8.15
1.00
3.20/6.00/8.40
Sun 1 Up (WW)
28 1 FILM TBC*
Aug 2 Das Boot
2 Cría cuervos
3 In a Better World
3 Cría cuervos
1.00
3.15/6.00/8.40
2.00
6.15
8.15
1.30
3.30/8.40
6.00
Mon 1 Up (WW)
29 1 FILM TBC*
Aug 2 The Lavender Hill Mob
2 Cría cuervos
3 In a Better World
11.00am
2.30/6.00/8.40
3.30/8.50
6.15
3.00/6.00/8.40
Tue 1 FILM TBC*
30 2 Cría cuervos
Aug 2 The Scapegoat (PA)
3 In a Better World
2.30/6.00/8.40
3.30/8.15
6.15
3.00/6.00/8.40
Wed 1 FILM TBC*
31 2 Das Boot
Aug 3 In a Better World
2.30/6.00/8.40
2.00/7.00
3.00/6.00/8.40
Thu 1 FILM TBC*
1 2 Das Boot
Sep 3 In a Better World
3 Mystification (PP)
2.30/6.00/8.40
2.00/7.00
3.00/8.40
6.00
* We were still awaiting confirmation on a particular film when
we went to print – please check www.filmhousecinema.com
or call the box office on 0131 228 2688 nearer the time for up
to date information.
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Friday Bargain Matinees £4.20/£2.60 concessions
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EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later)
£7.50 full price, £5.50 concessions
Filmhouse Members get £1.50 off every ticket
(excludes Friday matinees and Weans’ World).
All tickets to Weans’ World screenings (marked
WW on grid) are £2.50. Tickets for children
under 12 are £2.50 for any screening.
Concessions available for: Children (under 15); Students
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Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit);
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There are ticket deals available on film seasons, these
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All performances are bookable in advance. Tickets may be
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Big Screen TV
THIS IS JINSY
DOCTOR WHO
ONCE UPON A TIME
Big Screen TV
The 9/11 Decade
This Is Jinsy
Fri 26 Aug at 12.00pm (Tickets £5.60/£3.60)
2011 • 1h • Digibeta • English subtitles • 15 • Documentary
Continuing on from last year’s successful partnership
with MediaGuardian Edinburgh International
Television Festival, we’re bringing you the best new
and exclusive programmes from the UK and US.
An Al Jazeera documentary as part of its season on how
9/11 changed the world. This film explores the image war:
how new, independent media in the emerging world, led
by Al Jazeera, and the unstoppable connectivity of the
global internet transformed the way people perceived the
conflict between Al Qaeda and the West.
Chris Bran & Justin Chubb • UK 2011 • 46m • 12A
Cast: Chris Bran, Justin Chubb, David Tennant, Harry Hill, Alice
Lowe, Peter Serafinowicz, Janine Duvitski.
MGEITF is the essential annual event for everyone
working in television, shaping the future of the
television and media industries by debating the
key issues of today. Engaging, vibrant and fun, the
TV Festival is a sociable experience that celebrates
creativity and is committed to developing new talent.
Founded in 1976 and now in its 36th successful year,
the Festival is held annually over the August bank
holiday (26 – 28 August 2011) at the Edinburgh
International Conference Centre.
Featuring prominent voices from television and beyond,
the Festival is packed with over 60 sessions covering
the pertinent issues facing the industry from policy to
programme making, alongside plenty of fun session to
make sure the weekend is enjoyable and informative.
For the full 2011 programme visit www.mgeitf.co.uk
MGEITF is grateful to the BBC, Channel 4, Disney
and Sky for permission to screen these programmes
ahead of transmission.
As we went to print more screenings were still to be
confirmed – check www.filmhousecinema.com for
programme updates.
This screening will be followed by a discussion with the
film’s director/producer and other Al Jazeera figures.
Comic Strip: The Hunt For Tony Blair
Michael Wood, Nick Smith & Peter Richardson • UK 2011 • 47m
Digibeta • 15
Cast: Stephen Mangan, Catherine Shepherd, Robbie Coltrane,
James Buckley, Nigel Planer, Jennifer Saunders.
In this 50s style ‘fugitive’ film noir spoof from the team
behind The Comic Strip Presents, Prime Minister Tony Blair
(Stephen Mangan) is wanted for murder and on the run.
Escaping from Number 10 and leaving behind his adoring
wife Cherie, Tony vows to clear his name. With few
friends willing to harbour a wanted man and newspapers
demanding his capture, Tony must flee, with Inspector
Hutton (Robbie Coltrane) and his sidekick hot on his trail.
Surely Tony’s an innocent man, pursued for a crime he
didn’t commit?
This screening will be introduced by Channel 4’s Head
of Comedy, Shane Allen, with special guests to be
announced.
Sky Atlantic HD is proud to present the episodes one and
three of its first original comedy commission. Directed
by Matt Lipsey (Little Britain), This Is Jinsy is an eccentric
eight-part comedy written by and starring newcomers
Chris Bran and Justin Chubb. It follows Arbiter Maven
(Chubb) and Operative Sporall (Bran) as they keep a close
eye on the 791 residents of Jinsy from the Great Tower in
the rather Orwellian parish of Veen.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with the producers,
James Dean and Chris Carey, and Sky’s Head of Comedy,
Lucy Lumsden, chaired by journalist Stephen Armstrong.
Doctor Who
Richard Senior • UK 2011 • 45m • Digibeta • PG
Cast: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Alex Kingston, Frances Barber.
An exclusive screening of the first episode in the new series.
In the desperate search for Melody Pond, the TARDIS
crash lands in 1930’s Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to
face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And
Hitler. The Doctor must teach his adversaries that time
travel has responsibilities – and, in so doing, learns a harsh
lesson in the cruellest warfare of all.
Big Screen TV/Made in Edinburgh
THE KILLING
THE KILLING
THE ILLUSIONIST
Once Upon a Time
The Killing Forbrydelsen
Sat 27 Aug at 11.00am (Tickets £5.60/£3.60)
Sat 27 Aug at 2.30pm (Tickets £5.60/£3.60)
Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz • USA 2011 • 45m • Digibeta • PG
Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Carlyle.
Soren Sveistrup • Denmark 2009 • 1h • Digibeta
Danish with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Sophie Gråbøl, Mikael Birkkjær, Nicolas Bro, Morten Suurballe.
From the Executive Producers of Lost, Adam Horowitz and
Edward Kitsis, a bold new imagining of the world, where
fairytales and the modern-day are about to collide. Emma
Swan knows how to take care of herself. She’s a 28-year-old
bail bonds collector who’s been on her own ever since she
was abandoned as a baby. But when the son she gave up
years ago finds her, everything starts to change. Henry is
now 10 years old and in desperate need of Emma’s help. He
believes that Emma actually comes from an alternate world
and is Snow White and Prince Charming’s missing daughter.
Once Upon a Time is from ABC Studios.
In the first episode of the new series, the body of a
murdered woman is found in a Copenhagen park
commemorating Danish Resistance in World War II… An
ex-soldier disabled while serving in Afghanistan is savagely
killed… Copenhagen’s Homicide Department is stumped.
But Detective Commander Brix decides to send for Chief
Inspector Sarah Lund, who has been banished to the
provinces after her last murder investigation, and Lund
soon discerns a common thread in the cases.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Senior
Producer Piv Bernth and Actress Sophie Gråbøl, chaired by
Emma Kennedy.
Fresh Meat
Sat 27 Aug at 12.30pm (Tickets £5.60/£3.60)
Sam Bain & Jessie Armstrong • UK 2011 • 45m • Digibeta • 12A
Cast: Jack Whitehall, Joe Thomas, Kimberley Nixon, Greg McHugh,
Zawe Ashton, Charlotte Ritchie.
From the award-winning creators of Peep Show, Sam Bain
and Jesse Armstrong, this new series follows a group of six
students about to embark on the most exciting period of
their lives thus far – university! From the moment they ship
up as freshers at their shared house, their lives are destined
to collide, overlap and run the whole gamut of appalling
behaviour and terrible errors of judgement.
This screening will be introduced by Channel 4’s Head of
Drama, Camilla Campbell.
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These packages are available online, in person and on the
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Tickets must all be bought at the same time.
Made in
Edinburgh
Celebrating Edinburgh’s finest moments
on the big screen!
The Illusionist L’illusionniste
Mon 15 to Thu 25 Aug
Sylvain Chomet • UK/France 2010 • 1h20m • Digital projection
PG – Contains a scene of aborted suicide and images of smoking
As cheeky, boisterous and witty as it is delicately drawn
and beauteous to behold, Sylvain Chomet’s follow-up to
2003’s Belleville Rendez-Vous is a truly magical piece of
cinema.
Our weary hero is an over-the-hill magician, complete
with less-than-friendly white rabbit; their adventures
are based upon an unrealised script by Jacques Tati, the
action of which Chomet transposed to Scotland after he
moved here in 2004. Always in search of a paying gig,
the illusionist treks from Paris to the Western Isles to
Edinburgh – acquiring, along the way, a young travelling
companion who sincerely believes in his magical abilities.
Rich with visual jokes, seductive 1950s period detail
and breathtaking views of city and wilderness alike,
this is the work of a master in his field – and one of the
most gorgeous evocations of Scotland, and especially
Edinburgh, in cinema history.
Back again by popular demand, the runaway hit of 2010!
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BLOODY SUNDAY
PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL
PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL
Three films screening as part of this year’s Festival of Spirituality and Peace.
For details of other events go to www.festivalofspirituality.org.uk
Getting Out
Bloody Sunday
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Fri 12 Aug at 5.45pm
Uganda 2011 • 1h • Digibeta
Various languages with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary
Paul Greengrass • UK/Ireland 2002 • 1h50m • 35mm • 15
Cast: James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan, Mary Moulds,
Tim Pigott-Smith.
A documentary, produced by the Refugee Law Project in
collaboration with the Ugandan Civil Society Coalition on
Human Rights & Constitutional Law, which explores the
reality that for many LGBTI Africans coming out to family
and friends at home is not even an option. Before they can
come out, they first have to get out. This means not only
finding means to escape the political forces promoting
homophobia at home, but also dealing with the hypocrisies
and failings of asylum systems around the world. Filmed
in Uganda, South Africa, Geneva, and London, with
supporting footage from Malawi and Zimbabwe, Getting
Out depicts the true stories of five individuals navigating
their way through this complex issue.
Documentary-style drama showing the events that lead up
to the tragic incident on January 30, 1972, in the Northern
Ireland town of Derry, when a protest march led by civil
rights activist Ivan Cooper was fired upon by British troops,
killing 13 protesters and wounding 14 more.
Followed by Q&A with Don Mullan, co-producer of the
film and on whose book ‘Eyewitness Bloody Sunday’ it was
based.
Followed by Q&A with Bishop Christopher Senjonyo from
Uganda, a campaigner for gay rights.
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Gini Reticker • USA 2008 • 1h12m • Digibeta • 15
Documentary
The remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women
who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring
peace to their shattered country. Thousands of women
– ordinary mothers, grandmothers, aunts and daughters,
both Christian and Muslim – came together to pray for
peace and then staged a silent protest outside of the
Presidential Palace. Armed only with white T-shirts and the
courage of their convictions, they demanded a resolution
to the country’s civil war. Their actions were a critical
element in bringing about a agreement during the stalled
peace talks.
A story of sacrifice, unity and transcendence, Pray the
Devil Back to Hell honours the strength and perseverance
of the women of Liberia. Inspiring, uplifting, and most of all
motivating, it is a compelling testimony of how grassroots
activism can alter the history of nations.
Followed by a Q&A with Derek MacLeod, international
officer for Africa, University of Edinburgh in conversation
with Lizelle Bisschoff, Africa in Motion Film Festival.
Beyond Borders
THE WRITER AND THE FLAUTIST
THE FIRST MOVIE
Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders is a creative Scottish initiative
dedicated to showcasing the work of writers,
intellectuals, artists and filmmakers who come from
small nations around the world. Beyond Borders
works across several mediums including literature,
political debate, visual arts, film and dialogue, and we
are running events in relation to each medium during
the Edinburgh Festival.
This year’s film programme focuses on four small
nations emerging from conflict: Palestine, Kurdish
Iraq, Libya and Sri Lanka. In celebrating these
cultures, we aim to create a vibrant international
platform for cultural exchange and small nation
dialogue in Scotland. Each film will be followed by a
discussion featuring filmmakers and writers as they
take questions from the audience and try to illuminate
both the film, and the plight of each nation.
In conjunction with these films there will be an exhibition
in the Filmhouse café bar: ‘Revolutionary Graffiti of the
Arab Spring’. Graffiti – scratched, scrawled or painted
on public property – is by its nature a political medium,
used to express social and political anxieties. The Arab
Spring of 2011 deployed graffiti in its most powerful and
political form, used as a mouthpiece of protest by young
men and women willing to risk their lives for an ideal
– democracy and freedom.
For information on other
Beyond Borders events see
beyondbordersscotland.com
SRI LANKA’S KILLING FIELDS
AFTER THE REVOLUTION
The Writer and the Flautist
21 Years of Revolution
Wed 24 Aug at 7.00pm
John Tchalenko & Luke Tchalenko • UK/Occupied Palestinian
Territory 2010 • 30m • Digibeta • 12A • Documentary
1h • 15
A short documentary featuring Palestinian author and
human rights lawyer Raja Shehadeh in which the idyllic
West Bank landscape is contrasted with the devastating
Arab-Israeli ideological divide.
Raja Shehadeh will introduce the screening and it will be
followed by a 30-minute Q&A.
The First Movie
Mark Cousins • UK 2009 • 1h16m • Digibeta
English and Kurdish with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary
This magical realist documentary film is set in the village
of Goptapa, Kurdish Iraq, which was targeted by Saddam
Hussein’s chemical bombardment in 1988. Mark Cousins
showed movies from around the world to the village’s
children, then they made their own short films. The results
are inspiring.
This screening will be introduced by Mark Muller Stuart
QC, and will be followed by a Q&A with Mark Cousins.
TICKETDEALS
A thematic evening on 21 Years of Revolution focusing on
Romania and Libya.
After the Revolution documents the street protests that
took place in Bucharest in early 1990, capturing a moment
of post-revolution anarchy in which people spoke without
inhibition, cumulating in a disputed election. Laurentiu
Caiciu, who shot the material on VHS in 1990, will discuss
extracts of the film with producer Rupert Wolfe-Murray.
Mark Muller Stuart QC will present shorts from the Libyan
Revolution, with images from his visit to Benghazi at the
beginning of the uprising in April 2010 and short films
made by Libyan rebel youths. This will be followed by a
discussion on Revolution and the Arab Spring, lead by
Mark Muller Stuart QC.
Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields
Callum Macrae • UK 2011 • 50m • Digibeta
English and Various languages with English subtitles • 18
Documentary
This recent Channel 4 documentary, presented by Jon Snow,
investigates war crimes that allegedly took place in the final
months of Sri Lanka’s 25 year-long civil war in 2009.
This screening will be followed by a discussion with Gordon
Weiss (author of ‘The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last
Days of the Tamil Tigers’) and Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
from the Centre for Policy Alternatives (Sri Lanka’s foremost
civil rights NGO); chaired by Mark Muller Stuart QC.
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Play Poland
GENERAL NIL
LYNCH
LITTLE RISE
Play Poland
Play Poland is the first edition of a new touring
festival of recent Polish cinema, bringing
feature films as well as film posters to cinemas
across the UK and Ireland. The films in the
season have received considerable acclaim and
several prizes at film festivals internationally,
and provide an exciting overview of Polish
filmmaking now.
Festival organised by Polish Art Europe,
carried out under the auspices of the
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland
in Edinburgh, Professor Zbigniew Pelczynski
(President of the Polonia Leadership School)
and Professor Richard Demarco (founder of
The Demarco European Art Foundation).
TICKETDEALS
See all six films in this season and get 25% off
MYSTIFICATION
Little Rose Rózyczka
General Nil
Thu 11 Aug at 6.10pm
Jan Kidawa-Blonski • Poland 2010 • 1h58m • 35mm
Polish with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Andrzej Seweryn, Magdalena Boczarska, Robert
Wieckiewicz, Jan Frycz, Andrzej Blumenfeld.
Ryszard Bugajski • Poland 2009 • 2h5m • 35mm
Polish, Russian and German with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Alicja Jachiewicz, Magdalena
Emilianowicz, Anna Cieslak, Zbigniew Stryj.
Based on the autobiography of renowned Polish author
Pawel Jasienica, Little Rose is set in 1968, when the Polish
government launched an anti-Semitic campaign in the
wake of Israel’s triumph over Egypt in the Six-Day War.
It tells the story of a writer’s betrayal at the hands of a
beautiful young informant, recruited by her lover in the
secret service to prove his rival is a Jew.
Taking place between 1947 and 1953, this drama
reconstructs the last years of general August Emil Fieldorf
(pseudonym ‘Nil’), a legendary commander-in-chief of
Poland’s underground Home Army during the resistance
to the Nazi occupation, who was falsely accused and
sentenced to death by the communist regime.
Lynch Lincz
Mystification Mistyfikacja
Thu 1 Sep at 6.00pm
Krzysztof Lukaszewicz • Poland 2011 • 1h21m • 35mm
Cast: Leszek Lichota, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Wieslaw Komasa,
Maciej Mikolajczyk, Lukasz Simlat.
Jacek Koprowicz • Poland 2010 • 2h • 35mm
Cast: Jerzy Stuhr, Maciej Stuhr, Ewa Blaszczyk, Karolina Gruszka,
Ewa Dalkowska.
A 60-year-old man is murdered in a small remote village in
Mazury. The victim turns out to be a repeat offender who
had terrorised people in the area for many years, and six
local men are accused of the murder. The people of the
village, along with the families of the accused men, unite
to fight for an acquittal. A fictitious reconstruction of actual
events from some years ago.
Father and son Jerzy and Maciej Stuhr star in this film about
the mysterious supposed suicide of Polish artist Stanislaw
‘Witkacy’ Witkiewicz in 1939. In 1988 an exhumation
proved that the supposed body of the painter and writer
was actually the remains of a 30-year-old woman, and
several new works of art attributed to Witkacy, as well as
letters dated after his death, kept appearing over the years.
Play Poland/Come and See.../Sing-Along Screening
BLACK
Black Czarny
Thu 8 Sep at 6.00pm
Dominik Matwiejczyk • Poland 2008 • 1h45m • Digibeta
Cast: Michal Zurawski, Maria Niklinska, Mateusz Damiecki,
Magdalena Rózczka, Marta Klubowicz.
Czarny comes back to his family village after a long
absence, having left many years ago under dramatic
circumstances involving the mysterious suicide of his
father. He meets Ola, a rebellious teenager who claims to
be his father’s daughter and his stepsister. The villagers
are scandalised by their friendship, and when Ola’s devout
mother finds a copy of ‘The Satanic Bible’ in her daughter’s
room, an exorcist is called in.
Horizontal 8 8 w poziomie
Wed 14 Sep 6.00pm
Grzegorz Lipiec • Poland 2008 • 1h30m • Digibeta
Cast: Tomasz Burka, Krzysztof Czarkowski, Piotr Materna, Andrzej
Flugel.
A remote town in Poland in the near future. A man wakes
up in a hotel room, suffering from amnesia. He has a gun
and a briefcase full of money. One of the banknotes flies
out through the window and begins changing owners, and
we follow its path through their lives.
MIDNIGHT COWBOY
CALAMITY JANE
Come and See... Sing-Along
A monthly one-off screening of a great
Screening
film we simply thought you might like to
see, again or for the first time, on the big
screen.
Midnight Cowboy
John Schlesinger • USA 1969 • 1h53m • Digital projection • 18
Cast: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver,
Brenda Vaccaro.
Based on a James Leo Herlihy novel, British director John
Schlesinger’s first American film dramatised the small
hopes, dashed dreams, and unlikely friendship of two late
‘60s lost souls.
Dreaming of an easy life as a fantasy cowboy stud, cheerful
Texas rube Joe Buck (Jon Voight) heads to New York City
to be a gigolo, but he quickly discovers that hustling isn’t
what he thought it would be after he winds up paying his
first trick (Sylvia Miles). He gets swindled by tubercular
grifter Rico ‘Ratso’ Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) but, when
Joe falls in the direst of straits, Ratso takes Joe into his
condemned apartment so that they can help each other
survive.
One of the first major studio films to be given the newly
minted X rating for its then frank portrayal of New York
decadence, Midnight Cowboy was critically praised for
Schlesinger’s insight into American lives, with the intercut
mosaic of Joe’s memories and Ratso’s dreams lending their
characters and actions greater psychological complexity.
Calamity Jane
Sat 20 Aug at 3.30pm
David Butler • USA 1953 • 1h41m • 35mm • U
Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey,
Dick Wesson.
A special sing-along screening of this wonderfully
energetic musical featuring Doris Day and Howard Keel.
Calamity dresses, talks and shoots like a man, but is smitten
with Lieutenant Danny Gilmartin; her close friend Wild
Bill has a similar crush on actress Katie Brown; but Danny
and Katie are interested in each other. Could be trouble
a-brewin’...
Features unforgettable songs such as ‘The Deadwood
Stage (Whip Crack Away)’, ‘Just Blew in from the Windy
City’, ‘The Black Hills of Dakota’ and ‘Secret Love’.
Song lyrics will be projected onto the screen – join in with
the fun!
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Special Events
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
SPECIALEVENT
A screening in collaboration with the Edinburgh
International Book Festival.
Ben Mezrich will be talking about his new book, Sex
on the Moon, at a Book Festival event on 26 August
– see www.edbookfest.co.uk for details.
The Social Network
David Fincher • USA 2010 • 2h • Digital projection
12A – Contains infrequent strong language and drug use
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Andrew
Garfield, Justin Timberlake.
Brilliantly directed by David Fincher from a razor-sharp
script by Aaron Sorkin (itself based on ‘The Accidental
Billionaires’ by Ben Mezrich), The Social Network tells the
scintillating story of the meteoric rise and acrimonious fall
of the founders of Facebook – Harvard undergrads who
developed their zeitgeist-altering phenomenon out of their
dorm rooms…and ended up suing each other for millions.
Jesse Eisenberg turns in a mesmerising performance as the
genius but socially maladroit CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose
flash of social-networking inspiration occurs during a
drunken act of internet revenge on an ex-girlfriend. Much
more than a ripped-from-the-headlines docudrama, The
Social Network is a timeless study of unchecked ambition,
status and privilege, and those other, more precious things
that money can’t buy.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with author Ben
Mezrich, hosted by writer and film critic Hannah McGill.
ECA POST-GRADUATE SCREENING
SPECIALEVENT
Edinburgh College of Art
Post-Graduate Screening
Thu 4 Aug at 8.30pm
2h • 15
This year’s screening curates the best graduation films
from the Master course in Film Directing at Screen
Academy Edinburgh College of Art. The show is a
mysterious labyrinth with an eclectic range of films.
Soul-searching, comedy, romance, suspense, political
action is all re-imagined in the light of twenty-first century
low-budget digital cinema. Juggling tones and styles
with assurance and wit, these young filmmakers attack
their subjects with verve and sensitivity, whether in
the field of drama or documentary. All fine examples of
creativity, celebrating the vision of the next generation of
international award winning filmmakers.
DETECTIVE STORY
SPECIALEVENT
Detective Story
Sun 7 Aug at 6.15pm
William Wyler • USA 1951 • 1h58m • 35mm • 12
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy
O’Donnell, George Macready.
A day in the life of New York’s 21st precinct police station.
Kirk Douglas is hard-hitting, by-the-book detective Jim
McLeod, whose world falls apart when, through his
investigations of an abortionist, his own family becomes
incriminated.
We don’t normally show films on request, but this special
screening is in response to a letter from a long-standing
customer who asked us if we could make it possible for her
to see this film again.
Weans’ World/Coming Soon
LIAF 7+
RIO
Weans’ World
Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost
£2.50 per person, big or small!
Please note: although we normally disapprove of people
talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for
kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!
London International
Animation Festival 7+
Fri 29 & Sat 30 Jul at 1.00pm
1h6m • PG
An exciting programme of short animation for ages 7 and
up, featuring a stalking duck, an unlikely love triangle and
a day in the life of a bag of money. Selected by the London
International Animation Festival.
Rio (2D)
Sun 31 Jul to Thu 4 Aug
Carlos Saldanha • USA 2011 • 1h36m • 35mm
U – Contains mild comic threat, slapstick violence and innuendo
With the voices of Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jamie Foxx,
Will I Am, Jermaine Clement.
Blu is a domesticated Macaw who never learned to fly, living
a comfortable life with his owner Linda in the small town of
Moose Lake, Minnesota. Blu and Linda think he’s the last
of his kind, but when they learn about another Macaw who
lives in Rio de Janeiro, they head to the faraway and exotic
land to find Jewel, Blu’s female counterpart.
UP
KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS
Kirikou and the Sorceress
Kirikou et la sorcière
Sun 14 Aug at 1.00pm & Mon 15 Aug at 11.00am
Michel Ocelot • France/Belgium/Luxembourg 1998 • 1h14m
35mm • U – Contains mild peril and natural nudity
This animated elaboration of a Senegalese folk tale brings
us surely cinema’s smallest hero - Kirikou, a walking,
talking newborn. He emerges into a village short on gold,
water and menfolk, all these and more requisitioned by
Karaba, the implacable sorceress down the way...
Up (2D)
Sun 28 Aug at 1.00pm & Mon 29 Aug at 11.00am
Pete Docter • USA 2009 • 1h42m • 35mm
U – Contains mild threat
With the voices of Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, Christopher
Plummer, Bob Peterson, Delroy Lindo.
78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen finally
fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he
ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to
the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late
that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an
overly enthusiastic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named
Russell...
COMINGSOON
This September, the Introduction to
European Cinema season returns for
its seventh year at Filmhouse. Curated
in collaboration with the University of
Edinburgh’s Film Studies department,
it’s a unique opportunity to see some
of the classics of European film on the
big screen – many of which are very
rarely shown. The season will run
between September 2011 and March
2012 and each screening will be
introduced by IEC Course Organiser
Dr Pasquale Iannone.
You can keep up to date with
screening dates/times by checking
the Filmhouse website and ‘liking’ the
Introduction to European Cinema page
on Facebook.
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Courses, Workshops & Events/Café Bar
2D ANIMATION – MAKING IT BETTER
SCREEN BANDITA
FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR
Courses, Workshops and Events
Filmhouse Café Bar
Could you be the next Steven Spielberg or Kathryn Bigelow? Or perhaps you are more interested in
animation or comic book drawing, or want to develop your acting skills for the screen? We have a packed
programme of workshops this summer and look forward to seeing what you might produce. Full details can
be obtained at www.filmhousecinema.com/learning or by emailing [email protected]
All of the films made at our summer workshops will be premiered at our Showcase screening on 13 August.
Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea
and enjoy one of our superb cakes.
Screen Bandita Sun 31 Jul & Sun 14 Aug, 11am - 12pm • Ages 8+ (adults welcome too!) • £5
A delightful workshop which will reveal the mysteries of film technology. Cinema outlaws Screen Bandita present their
collection of found Super 8 films, gramophone and 78 rpm records and share their passion for outdated technology and film.
All our dishes are prepared on the premises
using fresh ingredients.
2D Animation – The beginning Mon 1 Aug, 10am - 12.30pm • Ages 8-10 • £16
Create a cut-out animation puppet and animate your own short stories with the help of Red Kite animation.
We’ve an extensive vegetarian range with a
variety of daily specials.
Our full menu runs from noon to 10pm seven
days a week!
2D Animation – Making it better Mon 1 Aug, 1.30pm - 4pm • Ages 10-14 • £21
Learn real animator’s special tips on how to make a better 2D animation. Practice cut-out puppet animation and
learn some drawn cartoon animation skills too. All animations will feature on Red Kite’s website and You Tube page.
A glass of wine? Choose from nine! The bar has
real choice in ales, beers and bottles.
Create Your Own Comic Book Tue 2 Aug (Ages 10-13) & Tue 9 Aug (Ages 14-16) • 10am - 3pm • £18
A one-day comic book-making workshop, guiding participants through basic comic book storytelling
techniques to a finished comic book. By the end of the session all the work will be collated into a finished
comic book that the participants can take home with them.
Or just come and relax in the ambience!
Make a Music Promo Wed 3 - Fri 5 Aug, 10am - 4pm • Ages 12-16 • £90 (including DVD)
Over three days you will work as a team to storyboard, shoot and edit a pop promo designed for a track from
a local band. Workshop delivered by Pilton Video.
Acting for Film Wed 10 Aug, 10am - 4pm • Ages 14-16 • £35
The skills required for acting on camera are different to those for theatre. Through a series of on-camera
exercises you will have a chance to develop your acting style and then put it into practice working on a scene
with another actor. Workshop delivered by The Raw Talent Company.
Workshop Showcase Sat 13 Aug, 12 - 1pm • Free
The premiere of all work produced in our summer filmmaking workshops.
Screenwriters Group 18 Aug, 15 Sep, 20 Oct, 17 Nov, 15 Dec • 7 - 10pm • Free • Guild Rooms
Monthly meetings for screenwriters and filmmakers. More information at www.scottishscreenwriters.ning.com
A special event? Just ask, we can probably help.
Opening hours:
Sunday – Thursday 10am till 11.30pm
Friday – Saturday 10am till 12.30am
0131 229 5932 cafebar@filmhousecinema.com
Film Quiz
Sunday 14 August
Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful
(and rather tricky) monthly quiz.
Teams of up to eight people to
be seated in the café bar by 9pm.
New Bollocks Cinema
ACCESS
MAILINGLISTS
To have this monthly brochure sent to
you for a year, send £6 (cheques payable
to Filmhouse Ltd) with your name and
address and the month you wish your
subscription to start.
This brochure is also available to
download as a PDF from our website,
Alternatively, sign up to our emailing list to
find out what’s on when, and hear about
special offers and competitions, by going
to www.filmhousecinema.com
There is a large print
version of the brochure
available which can be
posted to you free of
charge.
FUNDINGFILMHOUSE
INFORMATION FOR PATRONS WITH
DISABILITIES
Filmhouse foyer and box office are
reached via a ramped surface from
Lothian Road. Our café-bar and
accessible toilet are also at this level. The
majority of seats in the café-bar are not
fixed and can be moved.
The Leith Agency
EQSN
Vast Blue
Newhaven
Line Digital Ltd
Filmhouse
88 Lothian Road
Edinburgh
EH3 9BZ
Box Office: 0131 228 2688 (10am - 9pm)
Recorded Programme Info: 0131 228 2689
There is wheelchair access to all three
screens. Cinema one has space for two
wheelchair users and these places are
reached via the passenger lift; cinemas
two and three have one space each
and to get to these you need to use our
platform lifts. Staff are always on hand to
operate them – please ask at the box
office when you purchase your tickets.
Gavin Miller
Chief Executive Officer
Advance booking for wheelchair spaces
is recommended. A second accessible
toilet is situated at the lower level close
to cinemas two and three. If you need
to bring along a helper to assist you
in any way, then they will receive a
complimentary ticket.
Administration: 0131 228 6382
Fax: 0131 229 6482
email: admin@filmhousecinema.com
There are induction loops and infra-red
in all three screens for those with hearing
impairments. Our brochure carries
information on which films have
subtitles.
CORPORATEMEMBERS
INFORMATION
We regularly have screenings with Audio
Description and subtitles for those with
hearing difficulties – see page two for
details of these.
Email admin@filmhousecinema.com or
call the Box Office on 0131 228 2688 if
you require further information.
Rod White
Head of Filmhouse
Robert Howie
Customer Experience Manager
Holly Daniel & Nicola Kettlewood
Knowledge & Learning
Filmhouse is a trading name of Centre
for the Moving Image (CMI), a company
limited by guarantee, registered in
Scotland No. 67087.
Scottish Charity No. SC006793
CMI also incorporates Edinburgh
International Film Festival and the
Edinburgh Film Guild.
Edinburgh International Film Festival
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
Tel: 0131 228 4051 Fax: 0131 229 5501
Edinburgh Film Guild
www.edinburghfilmguild.com
Tel: 0131 623 8027
FINDINGFILMHOUSE
88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ
Nearest car parks: Semple Street, Castle
Terrace
Buses: 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24,
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