TheShop Around Corner - Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh
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TheShop Around Corner - Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh
3 DEC 10 6 JAN 11 films worth talking about HOME OF THE EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 88 LOTHIAN ROAD EDINBURGH EH3 9BZ WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688 PROGRAMME INFO 0131 228 2689 TheShop Around The Corner plus The Way Back The American Miral Of Gods and Men An Ordinary Execution On Tour The Illusionist The Kids Are All Right Boudu Saved from Drowning Peeping Tom Christmas at Our House Love Film Love Edinburgh Patrick Keiller East Side Stories 3 CINEMAS CAFE BAR 2 INDEX INDEX SCREENING DATES AND TIMES TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION GENERAL INFORMATION 12-13 13 23 Africa United 6 After Winter Comes Spring 17 Alice 17 The American 4 Berlin: Schönhauser Corner 16 The Bishop’s Wife 9 Born in ‘45 16 Boudu Saved from Drowning 7 Childish Things 17 Christmas at Our House 8-9 Come and See... 18 Coming Out 17 Courses, Workshops and Events 22 A Day in the Life... 15 East Side Stories 16-17 Edinburgh From the Archives 15 Filmhouse Café Bar 22 Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 24 Filmhouse Quiz 22 Gremlins 8 Hallam Foe 14 I Was Happy Here 15 The Illusionist 6/14 It’s a Wonderful Life 8 Jeremy Hardy vs. The Israeli Army 20 John Krish 15 The Kids Are All Right 6 Laura’s Star 10 The Legend of Paul and Paula 16 Life Cycles + Vast 21 London 10 Look at What the Light Did Now 18 Lost Horizon 18 Love Film Love Edinburgh 14-15 M 18 Megamind 6 Metropolis 7 Miral Moolaadé Mr Capra Comes to Filmhouse The Muppet Christmas Carol Of Gods and Men On Tour An Ordinary Execution Patrick Keiller Peeping Tom Projecting the Archive Quest for Fire Raymond Briggs Trilogy The Red Shoes Restless Natives Robinson in Ruins Robinson in Space Schools Screenings Science and Film Shallow Grave The Shop Around the Corner Traces of Stones Trade Trainspotting The Way Back Weans’ World White Christmas The Wizard of Oz AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLES 4 20 18 8 4 5 5 10 7 15 21 9 9 15 10 10 22 21 14 7 16 20 14 5 10 9 8 We have now installed a system in all three screens 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. This issue: Megamind – all screenings will have audio description, and the 1.00pm screening on Sunday 2 January will also have subtitles. FORCRYINGOUTLOUD Screenings for carers and their babies. This issue: The Shop Around the Corner Monday 13 December at 11.30am 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. For Crying Out Loud is sponsored by Bepanthen. See page 10 for details of Weans’ World, our regular screenings for a younger audience. KEEPINTOUCH Filmhouse email list For a weekly email containing screening times, news and competitions, join our email list at www.filmhousecinema.com/email/subscribe FESTIVEOPENINGHOURS We will be closed on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 December. On Friday 31 December, Saturday 1 January and Sunday 2 January the building will open at 12 noon instead of 10am. We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our customers a very happy Christmas and a wonderful, film-filled 2011! Filmhouse mailing list To have this monthly programme 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, or subscribe by phone on 0131 228 2688. Facebook Join our Facebook group for news, updates and competitions: search for ‘Filmhouse’ Twitter Follow us for regular news and updates: @Filmhouse Introduction MIRAL THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER ON TOUR THE WAY BACK Thoughts from the fruit cellar... It’s sad, when a Head of Programming has to speak the words that condemn his own colleagues. But I couldn’t allow you to believe that I would programme those Christmas films. (They’ll put me on ushering duties now, as I should have done years ago to them.) They were always bad, and in the end they intended to tell you I programmed those films... as if I could do anything but put on the most obscure European arthouse films (like the one last year about stuffed birds...). They know I don’t do the ‘festive’ season, and I won’t. I’ll just sit here and be quiet, just in case they do... suspect me of secretly loving It’s a Wonderful Life. They’re probably watching me. Well, let them. Let them see what kind of a person I am. I’m not even going to watch The Shop Around the Corner. Or The Red Shoes. Or White Christmas. Or The Muppet Christmas Carol. Or The Bishop’s Wife. I hope they are watching... they’ll see. They’ll see and they’ll know, and they’ll say, “Why, he wouldn’t even sit through The Wizard of Oz...” [Okay Mrs Bates, that’s enough from you. - Ed.] Sorry, I’m not quite myself today... The Way Back is Peter Weir’s immersive rendition of a gruelling, triumphant odyssey, which tells the astonishing ‘true‘ story of a group of men (and a woman) fleeing Stalin’s Siberian gulag, through Mongolia and the Himalayas, in a quest for freedom. Epic. Julian Schnabel’s first film since The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Miral, tells the story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of the titular heroine (played by Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto). Of Gods and Men and On Tour are two French films both of which featured in last year’s Cannes Film Festival competition and are, respectively, Xavier Beauvois’ classy drama about a group of Cistercian monks living in North Africa who refuse to be intimidated by a group of local Islamist fundamentalists, and actor Mathieu Amalric’s lively tale of the travails of an American New Burlesque troupe on tour in France. Jean Renoir’s best known film, Boudu Saved from Drowning, Ernst Lubitsch’s seasonal, Jimmy Stewart-starring The Shop Around the Corner, and Michael Powell’s seminal chiller, Peeping Tom, all get the classic rerelease/restoration treatment, and we’ve a short season of films from the former East German State-run DEFA studios. Also, we’ll be celebrating the New Year (in association with our friends at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay) with a short season of films set in wur marvellous city. And, of course, our December programme would not be complete (I’m told) without the requisite seasonal offerings... despite my protesteth-ing perhaps just a little too much! Rod White, Head of Programming 3 4 New releases THE AMERICAN NEWRELEASE MIRAL NEWRELEASE OF GODS AND MEN NEWRELEASES The American Miral Of Gods and Men Showing until Thu 16 Dec Fri 3 to Thu 16 Dec Des hommes et des dieux Anton Corbijn • USA 2010 • 1h45m • Digital projection English and Italian with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong sex and one gory image Cast: George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten, Irina Bjorklund. Julian Schnabel • France/Israel/Italy/India 2010 • 1h52m • 35mm 12A – Contains moderate language, violence and injury detail Cast: Hiam Abbass, Freida Pinto, Omar Metwally, Alexander Siddiq, Willem Dafoe. Fri 3 to Thu 9 Dec and Fri 17 to Thu 30 Dec (not 25 & 26 Dec) In a marked departure from Control, Anton Corbijn’s desire to expand his range is fulfilled in The American, a character-driven thriller realised with assurance and visual panache. Jack (George Clooney) is an assassin and arms expert growing weary of a life spent on the move and always alone. Following an incident in Sweden, Jack flees to the Italian countryside, hiding away in a small village in Abruzzo. There, although he takes on an assignment to provide a weapon for a mysterious female contact, he also begins to strike up relationships, and to contemplate a different kind of life. But at the heart of the film lies Jack’s fundamental dilemma – can he escape his past, and find a more peaceful future? Clooney is perfect as the enigmatic Jack, wrestling with questions of morality and trust, and is ably supported by a European cast including veteran Italian actor Paolo Bonacelli, excellent as the perceptive local priest, and Violante Placido and Thekla Reuten as the women Jack encounters. Equally impressive is the film’s magnificent setting, with the village of Castel del Monte bringing its own sense of suspense and isolation. Based on Rula Jebreal’s first-hand account of growing up in East Jerusalem, Miral is the richly textured and deeply moving account of an intelligent young woman whose personal story is inextricably linked with the political history and social consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Spanning the period from the birth of the State of Israel in 1948 to the brief hope of the Oslo peace agreement in 1994, Miral begins with the setting up of an orphanage and school for Palestinian children. The owner of the school, Hind Husseini (Hiam Abbass), is an inspirational figure who believes education is the only route to peace. Miral (Freida Pinto) joins the school in 1978, but eleven years later as the first Intifada gathers support, she begins to question Hind’s fundamentally non-violent belief. As in previous films such as Before Night Falls and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Julian Schnabel has unerringly found the humanity and emotional heart in a story of fragmented or damaged lives. Xavier Beauvois • France 2010 • 2h2m • Digital projection Arabic and French with English subtitles 15 – Contains infrequent strong violence Cast: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach, Jacques Herlin. Based on a true story, this sombre, humane and provocative drama is set in a Cistercian monastery in North Africa in the 1990s, where eight French monks live in cordial harmony with the local population. The monastery’s abbot, Brother Christian, is as much versed in the Koran as in the Bible, giving him a special insight into, and respect for, the nation he has chosen to work in. But the country is increasingly in the grip of fundamentalist violence, and the brothers must soon decide whether to stay or leave. A compassionate plea for understanding between cultures, the film muses on the meaning of religious vocation in a violent world, and tackles its subject with authoritative, non-sensationalist forcefulness. New releases AN ORDINARY EXECUTION NEWRELEASE THE WAY BACK NEWRELEASE ON TOUR NEWRELEASE An Ordinary Execution The Way Back On Tour Tournée Une exécution ordinaire Showing from Mon 27 Dec Fri 31 Dec to Thu 6 Jan Fri 17 to Thu 23 Dec Peter Weir • USA 2010 • 2h3m • Digital projection • cert tbc Cast: Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, Colin Farrell. Mathieu Amalric • France 2010 • 1h51m • 35mm French and English with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Miranda Colclasure, Suzanne Ramsey, Linda Marraccini, Julie Ann Muz. Marc Dugain • France 2010 • 1h45m • 35mm French with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate sex references and descriptions of torture Cast: André Dussollier, Marina Hands, Edouard Baer, Denis Podalydès, Tom Novembre. Based on his own hugely successful novel of the same name, Marc Dugain’s debut feature, An Ordinary Execution, describes an imagined encounter between the ageing Joseph Stalin and a young doctor with extraordinary healing abilities, brought in to treat the escalating physical woes of his old age after his own doctor has been ‘purged’. The apprehension of the young woman, Anna, as she enters the menacing milieu of the old tyrant is palpable, and she is forced to put up with his daily ranting and ramblings, which subtly start to reveal his warped philosophy of terror. The film adds further fuel to the fire of speculation about how Stalin (played here by one of France’s national treasures, André Dussollier, in a piece of inspired casting) actually died, but at heart it is a piercing insight into the mind of a dictator. Brilliantly shot to reflect the grimness of oppression, and filled with tension and mystery, An Ordinary Execution is a compelling addition to the canon of examinations of police states. Peter Weir is rightly regarded as one of the world’s master filmmakers, but he has not made a film since 2003’s Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The Way Back is a harrowing yet powerful epic that finds Weir again working at the top of his game. The script is inspired by true stories of several individuals who escaped from Stalinist labour camps, but Weir emphasises that the characters in the film are fictional. The Polish protagonist, Janusz (Jim Sturgess), is introduced in the opening scene in 1940, when he is interrogated by a Soviet officer who accuses him of espionage. Janusz refuses to confess to the false charges, but when his wife is tortured and informs against him, Janusz is shipped off to the gulag. There he encounters a number of other disaffected prisoners, including an American engineer (Ed Harris), who came to Russia during the 1930s, and a hardened criminal (Colin Farrell), all bent on escape. The security system at the gulag is not overwhelmingly efficient because, as the commandant informs the new arrivals, the biggest deterrent to escape is the unyielding natural environment that surrounds the prison. As a technical achievement, the film – which ranges from the gulags of Siberia to the Gobi Desert – is astonishing, but it also showcases powerful themes that make it unexpectedly moving and resonant. Mathieu Amalric is best known outside France for starring in the lauded and successful adaptation of journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. That meditative and mournful film dealt in part with the importance of family connections, a theme that seems to appeal to Amalric. He’s taken it up again by reviving the backstage drama through a performance form that is itself a revival of a moribund art – burlesque. The result is an ambling, entertaining, nostalgic film with a lot of charm. Amalric stars as Joachim Zand, a former French TV producer and personality who has returned from an extended stay in the United States with a troupe of New Burlesque artists. He has planned a tour of the port cities of France from Le Havre to Toulouse, then on to a grand finale in Paris. When the Paris venue pulls out, he must return to the capital to find another; while there, he reunites with his young children, an ex-lover, and various other people from his past. 5 6 Maybe you missed... THE ILLUSIONIST THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT MAYBEYOUMISSED AFRICA UNITED MAYBEYOUMISSED MEGAMIND MAYBEYOUMISSED The Illusionist L’illusionniste The Kids Are All Right Africa United Fri 17 Dec to Thu 6 Jan (not 25 & 26 Dec) Mon 27 Dec to Mon 3 Jan Mon 27 to Fri 31 Dec Sylvain Chomet • UK/France 2010 • 1h20m • 35mm English and French with English subtitles PG – Contains a scene of aborted suicide and images of smoking Lisa Cholodenko • USA 2010 • 1h46m • 35mm 15 – Contains strong sex, hard drug use and language Cast: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska, Josh Hutcherson. Debs Gardner-Paterson • UK 2010 • 1h28m • Digital projection 12A – Contains moderate violence, language and sex references Cast: Eriya Ndayambaje, Roger Nsengiyumva, Sanyu Joanita Kintu, Yves Dusenge, Emmanuel Jal. For lesbian couple Jules (Julianne Moore) and Nic (Annette Bening), life with their two teenage children in suburban LA is quiet and a little too comfortable. But when the kids go behind their back and track down the sperm donor who made it all possible, things start to get complicated. A talented Rwandan teenager has hopes of being selected by FIFA for the 2010 World Cup opening ceremony. But thanks to his bumbling fast-talking pal, the boys end up travelling to South Africa under their own steam. An appealing adventure story blending bumps and scrapes, comedy and high jinks with the very real issues (including Aids, poverty and child soldiers) affecting the continent. 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! Filmmaker Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, Laurel Canyon) mixes family drama and comedy to paint an orthodox picture of an unorthodox family. Features standout performances from Moore and Bening, along with Mark Ruffalo as the hippy man-child Paul, who makes a better sperm donor than he does a father. Matinee Special! If you’re a Senior Citizen you can now go to a matinee screening and get either soup of the day OR a cup of tea or coffee and a traycake for only £6! Offer runs from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and only applies to screenings starting before 5.00pm. Buy your Matinee Special ticket at the box office and you’ll receive a voucher which can be exchanged in the café bar between 1.30pm and 5.00pm that day only. Offer is subject to availability and only available in person. Megamind (2D) Sun 2 to Thu 6 Jan Tom McGrath • USA 2010 • 1h36m • Digital projection PG – Contains mild language and comic fight scenes With the voices of Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill, David Cross. Having defeated superhero Metro Man (voice of Brad Pitt), evil genius Megamind (Will Ferrell) finds he’s bored without an arch-rival. But his plan to create a new enemy by injecting Metro Man’s DNA into a loser human (Jonah Hill) goes haywire. Now Megamind must team with TV reporter Roxanne (Tina Fey) to save the city he had so much fun trying to destroy. AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLES See page two for details. Restored classics THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER RESTOREDCLASSICS METROPOLIS RESTOREDCLASSIC PEEPING TOM RESTOREDCLASSIC The Shop Around the Corner Metropolis Peeping Tom Fri 10 to Sun 19 Dec Reconstructed and Restored version Tue 4 to Thu 6 Jan Ernst Lubitsch • USA 1940 • 1h39m • 35mm • U Cast: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Sara Haden. Tue 4 to Thu 6 Jan Michael Powell • UK 1960 • 1h41m • Digital projection 15 – Contains moderate violence and strong psychological threat Cast: Carl Boehm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley, Brenda Bruce. A welcome re-release for Ernst Lubitsch’s deliciously nuanced and graceful romantic comedy from 1940. Budapest gift-shop clerk Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and newly-hired shopgirl Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) hate each other almost at first sight. Kralik would prefer the company of the woman with whom he is corresponding by mail but has never met. Novak likewise carries a torch for her male pen pal, whom she also has never laid eyes on. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Kralik and Novak have been writing letters to each other... Boudu Saved from Drowning Boudu sauvé des eaux Fri 17 to Thu 30 Dec (not 25 & 26 Dec) Jean Renoir • France 1932 • 1h25m • Digital projection French with English subtitles • PG Cast: Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska, Jean Gehret. Shot in 1932, when sound at the movies was still in its infancy, and later lamely remade as Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Boudu Saved from Drowning is one of Jean Renoir’s most enjoyable films, and its wit, freshness and spontaneity continue to impress almost eighty years later. Pioneering in its use of authentic locations, it stars Michel Simon as the anarchic tramp Boudu, who’s rescued from drowning by a kindly Parisian bookseller and then installed in the latter’s household, with chaotic results. Fritz Lang • Germany 1927/2010 • 2h25m • Digital projection Silent with music track• PG – Contains mild horror and violence Cast: Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf KleinRogge, Fritz Rasp. A ‘holy grail’ among film finds, Fritz Lang’s sci-fi epic is presented here in a newly reconstructed and restored version, as visionary and iconic as ever thanks to the discovery of 25 minutes of footage previously thought lost to the world. Lang’s “captivating symphony of movement” (as Spanish director Luis Buñuel described the film) can finally be seen, for the first time in 83 years, as its director originally intended. In the titular futuristic city, a ruling class live in opulence, while a literal underclass toil in a vast subterranean workshop. Lured from his Edenic existence by the saintly Maria (Brigitte Helm), Freder Fredersen (Gustav Fröhlich) witnesses the misery of the working class and vows to persuade his despotic father, Joh (Alfred Abel), to change the system. But Joh has no qualms about the status quo, and works with a loony scientist to create a robotic ‘Evil Maria’, who they hope will turn the workers from revolutionary thoughts... Read more about this remarkable discovery and the ensuing reconstruction and restoration at the stunning website, www.metropolis1927.com Castigated and condemned upon its original release, Powell’s study of an insane young man, who films women as he murders them, was pulled swiftly from distribution and went unseen for over two decades – until it was championed by Scorsese, Bertolucci and a new generation of filmmakers. The film rivals Hitchcock’s Psycho in its depiction of cruelty, desire and aggression, but it was Powell’s ability to generate sympathy for his psychotic protagonist which most alienated viewers and critics. Viewed today, its psychological complexity, and its acute awareness of the voyeurism inherent in the act of filmmaking, make it a key work of postwar cinema... as well as a gripping, terrifying thriller. 7 8 Christmas at Our House THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE GREMLINS THE WIZARD OF OZ Christmas at Our House It’s a Wonderful Life Gremlins Fri 17 to Fri 24 Dec Sat 18 Dec at 6.00pm Frank Capra • USA 1946 • 2h10m • Digital projection U – Contains mild violence Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Henry Travers, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell. Joe Dante • USA 1984 • 1h46m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Polly Hollida. Spend the holidays with us and enjoy some seasonal favourites on the big screen where they belong! This heartwarming fantasy is one of the most popular films ever made. The film begins as angels discuss George Bailey (James Stewart), a small-town resident so beset with problems that he contemplates suicide. In flashback, we review George’s life, learning that he has always wanted to leave his hometown to see the world, but that circumstances and his own good heart have kept him in Bedford Falls, sacrificing his own education for his brother’s, keeping the family-run savings and loan afloat, protecting the town from the avarice of banker Potter (Lionel Barrymore), marrying his childhood sweetheart (Donna Reed), and raising a family. Back in the present, George prepares to jump from a bridge, but ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers), who has come to earn his wings... Weans’ World screenings, specifically for a younger audience and priced at £2.50 per ticket, are marked ‘(WW)’. For all other screenings normal ticket prices apply. For another Weans’ World film see page 10. The Muppet Christmas Carol Sat 11 Dec at 1.00pm, Sun 12 Dec at 1.00pm (WW) + 6.15pm & Mon 13 Dec at 11am (WW) Brian Henson • USA 1992 • 1h26m • 35mm U – Contains infrequent very mild peril Cast: Michael Caine and the voices of Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson. A fun but meaningful adaptation of the Dickens story, with Gonzo taking on the role of Dickens and narrating the tale, along with the help of Rizzo the Rat. They take us on a journey through a dank London, filled with all your favourite Muppets and a lot of talking vegetables too! Scrooge (Michael Caine) is so miserly he won’t even allow his fuzzy employees an extra piece of coal for the fire at Christmas. Such meanness is not tolerated by his deceased business partners, who appear to him one night and tell him that he must face up to his misdeeds. And so he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future... With a characteristic mix of narrative anarchy, cinephile allusion, cartoon-style slapstick and black-tinged comedy, Joe Dante gleefully sinks his teeth into the kind of fluffy, sugary, sickly small town fantasy beloved of his pal and sometime producer Spielberg. It starts with a Christmas gift – a cute, cuddly little ‘mogwai’ – but the time of goodwill soon turns hellish when, splashed with water, the creature starts sprouting the titular monsters... Gremlins won a public vote we held on our website in late October, publicised via Facebook and Twitter, narrowly beating Scrooged and Die Hard as the classic 80s Christmas film you wanted to see! The Wizard of Oz Sun 19 Dec at 1.00pm (WW) & Mon 20 Dec at 11.00am (WW) + 6.00pm Victor Fleming • USA 1939 • 1h38m • Digital projection U – Contains mild fantasy horror Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley. TICKETDEALS See any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% off See any six (or more) films in this season and get 25% off These packages are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time. When Dorothy’s neighbour, Miss Gulch, threatens to take away her precious dog, Toto, Dorothy runs away from home. Attempting to return, she and her house are caught in a twister and blown to the garish, colour-saturated Land of Oz. Dorothy must escape from Oz by following the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, where the great Wizard of Oz can help her return to Kansas. Along the way, Dorothy picks up some new friends, each of whom hopes that the Wizard can offer him what he lacks. Christmas at Our House THE RED SHOES WHITE CHRISTMAS THE BISHOP’S WIFE The Red Shoes The Bishop’s Wife Sun 19 Dec AT 5.30pm Thu 23 Dec at 2.30pm + 6.00pm & Fri 24 Dec at 3.15pm + 7.35pm Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger • UK 1948 • 2h15m Digital projection • U – Contains mild threat, injury and smoking Cast: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine. One of Powell and Pressburger’s best-loved films, The Red Shoes, released in 1948, is perhaps the definitive ballet movie, but don’t let that put you off if you’re not generally a fan of dance – there’s plenty here to keep you utterly spellbound. Moira Shearer stars as Victoria Page, an aspiring dancer who gets a chance to work with the great ballet director Lermontov (Anton Walbrook). Lermontov is suave, charming and sly, and soon develops a maniacal obsession to mould Vicky into a truly great dancer... White Christmas Tue 21 Dec at 2.30pm & Wed 22 Dec at 5.55pm Michael Curtiz • USA 1954 • 2h • Digital projection U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen. Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and head to Vermont for a white Christmas. Of course, there’s the requisite fun with the ladies, but the real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the resort is run by their old army general, who’s now in financial trouble, and they decide to put on a benefit to raise funds. White Christmas is a treasury of Irving Berlin classics, among them ‘Sisters’, ‘Blue Skies’, and, of course, ‘White Christmas’ itself. Henry Koster • USA 1947 • 1h49m • 35mm • U Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley. When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds for a new cathedral, his prayers are answered in the form of a handsome guardian angel named Dudley (Cary Grant). Establishing himself as a Yuletide guest in the Brougham home, Dudley arouses the ire of Henry, who, unaware that his visitor is from Up Above, assumes that Dudley has designs on Julia (Loretta Young, the bishop’s wife... Raymond Briggs Trilogy Fri 24 Dec at 1.00pm 1h21m • U The Snowman Dianne Jackson • UK • 1982 • 29m • U A young boy’s snowman comes to life at midnight and together they set out on a wonderful adventure. Father Christmas David Unwin • UK • 1991 • 26m • U This irreverent Santa breaks from tradition in many ways. He has no Mrs, owns only four reindeer, and decides to convert his sleigh into an airborne motor home for a preChristmas trip to Vegas... The Bear Hilary Audus • UK • 1998 • 26m • U A polar bear returns a teddy bear to a little girl and so begins a beautiful friendship. RAYMOND BRIGGS TRILOGY – THE SNOWMAN 9 10 Weans’ World/Patrick Keiller LAURA’S STAR ROBINSON IN SPACE Weans’ World Patrick Keiller Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost £2.50 per person, big or small! One of the most distinctive voices in British cinema returns, after a thirteenyear absence, with the third film in his informal ‘Robinson trilogy’, which gives us all the excuse we need to show the other two as well! Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise! Laura’s Star Sun 5 Dec at 1.00pm & Mon 6 Dec at 11.00am Piet De Rycker & Thilo Rothkirch • Germany/Bulgaria 2004 1h20m • 35mm • U 7-year-old Laura has just moved to a new city with her family and she is having a hard time finding new friends. Then one night she watches a little star fall from the sky. She rushes to find the star and discovers it’s been hurt in the fall. With loving care, she mends its broken point – and it’s the beginning of a fantastic friendship. But Laura soon realises that, in spite of all the love she feels, she must let the star go and return to its home in the universe. If the star stayed on Earth, it would fade away. It’s a hard decision for Laura to make, but Max, a boy who lives next door, proves to be a great help – Laura forgets her initial reluctance and is happy to find a new friend. First published in 1996, Klaus Baumgart’s children’s books about Laura and her star have sold more than two million copies worldwide and have been translated into 25 languages. See pages 8-9 for more Weans’ World screenings, as part of Christmas at Our House. ROBINSON IN RUINS Robinson in Space Sun 5 Dec at 3.40pm Patrick Keiller • UK 1997 • 1h22m • 35mm • PG Documentary, narrated by Paul Scofield. An unseen narrator accompanies Robinson on seven trips to investigate ‘the problem of England’. Again, documentary and fiction are combined to create a dazzlingly erudite and satirical meditation on the nation’s culture and society, touching on everything from the Tories to the Tolpuddle Martyrs, Defoe to Dracula, The Rolling Stones to the Cerne Abbas giant. Droll, odd and elegant. London Sat 4 Dec at 4.00pm Patrick Keiller • UK 1994 • 1h25m • 35mm • U Documentary, narrated by Paul Scofield. Robinson in Ruins Patrick Keiller’s widely acclaimed and highly original first feature chronicles three journeys around London undertaken by an unnamed narrator and his (also unseen) friend and former lover Robinson in search of the source of English romanticism. Meticulously composed shots of the city mix with a wry, resonant, slyly suggestive commentary to reflect on the quality of London life and all manner of things. Funny, insightful and, in its own understated way, profoundly passionate. Patrick Keiller • UK 2010 • 1h41m • Digital projection • U Documentary, narrated by Vanessa Redgrave. TICKETDEALS See all three films in this season and get 15% off This offer is available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time. Fri 10 to Mon 13 Dec A decade after his earlier trips around London and England, newly discovered film cans and notes suggest Robinson resumed his investigations on leaving prison. Keen to cure the world of ‘a great malady’ (symptoms include the banking crisis, global warming, war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the transfer of UK land to obscure owners), he sought – or so we’re told by the narrator (Vanessa Redgrave) – to communicate with ‘non-human intelligences’ determined to preserve life on Earth… Keiller’s witty, revealing script weaves together philosophy, the arts, history, politics, economics, science, agriculture and much else, while surreal, mysterious and beautiful images, imbued with love of the natural world, remind us of what’s at risk. Timely indeed. 11 A PERFEC CHRISTM T GIFT AS Choreography ASHLEY PAGE Music SERGEI PROKOFIEV “A MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION FOR ALL AGES” The Observer FESTIVAL THEATRE EDINBURGH 12–15 JANUARY 2011 0131 529 6000* www.festivaltheatre.org.uk* For full details visit www.scottishballet.co.uk Sponsored by * Booking fee 12 FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME DAY DATE 3 December 2010 - 6 January 2011 SCREEN NO. & FILM TITLE SHOW TIMES DAY DATE BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688 SCREEN NO. & FILM TITLE SHOW TIMES Fri 1 The American 3 1 Of Gods and Men Dec 2 Of Gods and Men 2 The American 3 Miral 1.00/6.00/8.30 3.20 1.00/8.20 3.40 1.15/3.45/6.15/8.45 Fri 1 The American 10 2 Robinson in Ruins (PK) Dec 2 Miral 3 The Shop Around the Corner 3 Traces of Stones (ES) Sat 1 Of Gods and Men 4 1 The American Dec 2 The American 2 London (PK) 2 Look at What the Light Did Now 2 Of Gods and Men 3 Alice 3 Miral 1.00 3.40/6.00/8.30 1.30 4.00 6.15 8.40 1.15 + intro 3.15/5.45/8.45 Sat 1 The Muppet Christmas Carol (C) 1.00 11 1 The American 3.30/6.00/8.30 Dec 2 Robinson in Ruins (PK) 1.45/6.30 2 Miral 4.00/8.45 3 The Shop Around the Corner 1.30/3.45/6.00/8.15 Sun 1 Laura’s Star (WW) 5 1 The American Dec 2 Of Gods and Men 2 Robinson in Space (PK) 2 Jeremy Hardy vs. The Israeli Army 3 Childish Things 3 Miral 3 Berlin: Schönhauser Corner (ES) 1.00 3.20/6.00/8.30 1.00/5.40 3.40 8.15 + discussion 1.15 + intro 3.15/6.15 8.45 Mon 1 Laura’s Star (WW) 6 1 The American Dec 1 Quest for Fire 2 Of Gods and Men 2 The American 3 Miral 3 Moolaadé 11.00am 2.30/5.55 8.15 + discussion 3.00/5.50 8.30 3.15/8.45 5.45 + discussion Tue 1 The American 7 2 Of Gods and Men Dec 2 Miral 3 Miral 3 Born in ‘45 (ES) 2.30/6.00/8.30 3.00/8.40 6.15 3.15/8.45 6.30 Wed 1 The American 8 2 Of Gods and Men Dec 2 Lost Horizon 3 Miral 3 Trade 2.30/6.00/8.30 3.00/8.40 6.00 3.15/8.45 5.45 + discussion Thu 1 The American 9 2 Of Gods and Men Dec 2 Miral 3 Miral 3 Lost Horizon 2.30/6.00/8.30 3.00/8.40 6.15 3.15/8.45 6.00 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.45/6.30 4.00/8.45 1.30/3.45/6.00 8.15 Sun 1 The Muppet Xmas Carol (WW) 12 1 The Muppet Christmas Carol (C) Dec 1 The American 2 Robinson in Ruins (PK) 2 Miral 3 The Shop Around the Corner 3 Life Cycles + Vast 1.00 6.15 3.30/8.30 1.15/5.55 3.30/8.30 1.30/3.45/6.05 8.15 Mon 1 The Muppet Xmas Carol (WW) 13 1 The American Dec 2 The Shop Around the Corner (B) 2 Miral 2 Robinson in Ruins (PK) 3 The Shop Around the Corner 3 The Legend of Paul & Paula (ES) 11.00am 2.30/6.00/8.30 11.30am (babies only) 3.15/8.45 6.30 3.30/6.00 8.15 Tue 1 The American 14 2 Miral Dec 2 I Was Happy Here 3 The Shop Around the Corner 3 After Winter Comes Spring (ES) 3.00/6.00/8.30 3.15/8.45 6.30 3.30/6.00 8.15 Wed 1 The American 15 2 Miral Dec 3 The Shop Around the Corner 3 Coming Out (ES) 2.30/6.00/8.30 3.15/8.55 3.30/8.30 6.00 Thu 1 The American 16 1 M Dec 2 Miral 2 The American 3 The Shop Around the Corner 2.30/8.30 6.15 3.15/8.45 6.00 3.30/6.15/8.30 Fri 1 The Shop Around the Corner 17 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Dec 2 Of Gods and Men 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 3 The Illusionist 3 An Ordinary Execution 1.00/6.00 3.15/8.30 1.30/8.30 4.15/6.30 1.45/6.15 3.45/8.15 DAY DATE SCREEN NO. & FILM TITLE SHOW TIMES Sat 1 The Shop Around the Corner 18 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Dec 1 Gremlins (C) 2 Of Gods and Men 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 3 The Illusionist 3 An Ordinary Execution 1.00 3.15/8.30 6.00 1.30/8.30 4.15/6.30 1.45/6.15 3.45/8.15 Sun 1 The Shop Around the Corner 19 1 Boudu Saved from Drowning Dec 1 The Red Shoes (C) 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (C) 2 The Wizard of Oz (WW) 2 It’s a Wonderful Life (C) 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 2 Of Gods and Men 3 The Illusionist 3 An Ordinary Execution 1.00 3.30 5.30 8.30 1.00 3.15 6.30 8.30 1.45/6.15 3.45/8.15 Mon 1 The Wizard of Oz (WW) 20 1 The Wizard of Oz (C) Dec 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (C) 2 Of Gods and Men 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 3 The Illusionist 3 An Ordinary Execution 11.00am 6.00 2.30/8.30 1.30/8.30 4.15/6.30 1.45/6.15 3.45/8.15 Tue 1 White Christmas (C) 21 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Dec 2 Of Gods and Men 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 3 The Illusionist 3 An Ordinary Execution 2.30 5.45/8.30 1.30/8.30 4.15/6.30 1.45/6.15 3.45/8.15 Wed 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (C) 22 1 White Christmas (C) Dec 2 Of Gods and Men 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 3 The Illusionist 3 An Ordinary Execution 2.30/8.30 5.55 1.30/8.30 4.15/6.30 1.45/6.15 3.45/8.15 Thu 1 The Bishop’s Wife 23 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Dec 2 Of Gods and Men 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 3 The Illusionist 3 An Ordinary Execution 3 The Bishop’s Wife 2.30 5.45/8.30 1.30/8.30 4.15/6.30 1.45 3.45/8.45 6.00 WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM DAY DATE SCREEN NO. & FILM TITLE Fri 1 Raymond Briggs Trilogy (C) 24 1 The Illusionist Dec 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (C) 2 It’s a Wonderful Life (C) 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 2 Of Gods and Men 3 The Illusionist 3 The Bishop’s Wife 3 December 2010 - 6 January 2011 SHOW TIMES 1.00 3.00 5.00/7.45 1.00 3.45/5.45 7.55 1.15/5.40 3.15/7.35 Sat 25 & Sun 26 Dec CLOSED – Merry Christmas! Mon 1 Africa United 27 1 The Way Back Dec 2 Of Gods and Men 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 3 The Illusionist 3 The Kids Are All Right 1.00 3.15/6.00/8.45 1.45/8.30 4.30/6.30 2.00/6.15 3.55/8.15 Tue 1 Africa United 28 1 The Way Back Dec 2 Of Gods and Men 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 3 The Illusionist 3 The Kids Are All Right 1.00 3.15/6.00/8.45 1.45/8.30 4.30/6.30 2.00/6.15 3.55/8.15 Wed 1 Africa United 29 1 The Way Back Dec 2 Of Gods and Men 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 3 The Illusionist 3 The Kids Are All Right 1.00 3.15/6.00/8.45 1.45/8.30 4.30/6.30 2.00/6.15 3.55/8.15 Thu 1 Africa United 30 1 The Way Back Dec 2 Boudu Saved from Drowning 2 Of Gods and Men 3 The Illusionist 3 Trainspotting (EH) 3 The Kids Are All Right 1.00 3.15/6.00/8.45 4.30/6.30 8.30 2.00 4.00/8.45 6.15 Fri 1 Africa United 31 1 The Way Back Dec 2 The Kids Are All Right 2 The Illusionist 2 Shallow Grave (EH) 3 Shallow Grave (EH) 3 On Tour 1.00 3.15/6.30 2.30 5.00 7.00 1.45 4.00/6.30 Sat 1 The Way Back 1 2 The Kids Are All Right Jan 2 The Illusionist 2 Hallam Foe (EH) 3 Hallam Foe (EH) 3 On Tour 1.00/3.45/6.30 2.30 5.00 7.00 1.45 4.00/6.30 DAY DATE SCREEN NO. & FILM TITLE SHOW TIMES Sun 1 Megamind (AD) + (S) 2 1 Edinburgh From the Archives (EH) Jan 1 The Way Back 2 The Way Back 2 The Illusionist 2 The Kids Are All Right 3 Restless Natives (EH) 3 On Tour 1.00 (subtitled) 4.00 6.00/8.40 1.30 4.30/6.30 8.30 1.45/8.45 3.50/6.15 Mon 1 Megamind (AD) 3 1 The Way Back Jan 2 A Day in the Life... 2 The Kids Are All Right 3 The Illusionist 3 On Tour 1.00 3.15/6.00/8.40 1.30/6.15 3.45/8.30 2.00/6.30 4.00/8.45 Tue 1 Megamind (AD) 4 1 The Way Back Jan 2 Metropolis 2 Peeping Tom 3 The Illusionist 3 On Tour 1.00 3.15/6.00/8.40 12.45/8.15 3.45/6.00 2.00/6.30 4.00/8.45 Wed 1 Megamind (AD) 5 1 The Way Back Jan 2 Metropolis 2 Peeping Tom 3 The Illusionist 3 On Tour 1.00 3.15/6.00/8.40 12.45/8.15 3.45/6.00 2.00/6.30 4.00/8.45 Thu 1 Megamind (AD) 6 1 The Way Back Jan 2 Metropolis 2 Peeping Tom 3 The Illusionist 3 On Tour 1.00 3.15/6.00/8.40 12.45/8.15 3.45/6.00 2.00/6.30 4.00/8.45 KEY: (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2) (S) – Subtitled (see page 2) SEASONS: (C) – Christmas at Our House (pages 8-9) (EH) – Love Film Love Edinburgh (pages 14-15) (ES) – East Side Stories (pages 16-17) (PK) – Patrick Keiller (page 10) (WW) – Weans’ World (page 10) Full index of films on page 2 FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thur £5.40 full price, £3.50 concessions Friday Bargain Matinees £4.00/£2.50 concessions Sat - Sun £6.90 full price, £5.20 concessions EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later) £6.90 full price, £5.20 concessions All tickets to Weans’ World screenings (marked WW on grid) are £2.50. 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The Illusionist L’illusionniste Fri 17 Dec to Thu 6 Jan (not 25 & 26 Dec) Sylvain Chomet • UK/France 2010 • 1h20m • 35mm English and French with English subtitles PG – Contains a scene of aborted suicide and images of smoking Sylvain Chomet’s follow-up to 2003’s Belleville RendezVous is a truly magical piece of cinema. Our weary hero is an over-the-hill magician, complete with less-thanfriendly 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... TRAINSPOTTING SHALLOW GRAVE Trainspotting Hallam Foe Thu 30 Dec at 4.00pm + 8.45pm Sat 1 Jan at 1.45pm + 7.00pm Danny Boyle • UK 1996 • 1h33m • 35mm • 18 Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Kelly Macdonald. David Mackenzie • UK 2007 • 1h36m • 35mm 18 – Contains very strong language and strong sex Cast: Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Ciarán Hinds, Claire Forlani, Ewen Bremner. A shocking, painfully subjective trawl through the Edinburgh heroin culture of the 1980s, Irvine Welsh’s cult novel was hardly an obvious choice for the team who made Shallow Grave, yet the film’s a triumph. Audaciously punching up the pitch-black comedy, juggling parallel character strands and juxtaposing image, music and voice-over with a virtuosity worthy of Scorsese on peak form, Trainspotting the movie captures precisely Welsh’s insolent, amoral intelligence. Hallam Foe is a boy haunted by his mother’s death. His belief that his alluring stepmother murdered her soon turns into an obsession, and his only resort is to flee the family nest for Edinburgh. Once there, his talent for spying on people leads him to roam the city’s rooftops, where he catches a glimpse of Kate, a young woman who looks uncannily like his mother... Shallow Grave Fri 31 Dec at 1.45pm + 7.00pm Danny Boyle • UK 1994 • 1h32m • 35mm • 18 Cast: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Ken Stott, Keith Allen. When their mysterious new flatmate suffers a fatal overdose, David, Alex and Juliet (Eccleston, McGregor and Fox) find a fortune in bank notes stashed in his room. They quickly resolve to keep the money, but nothing comes for free, and the price here involves not only dismemberment and burial, but the trio’s trust, sanity and friendship. Danny Boyle’s impressively assured, highly accomplished debut feature doesn’t dwell on moral niceties, but goes straight for the gut. TICKETDEALS See any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% off See any six (or more) films in this season and get 25% off These packages are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time. Love Film Love Edinburgh/John Krish/Projecting the Archive A DAY IN THE LIFE – OUR SCHOOL HALLAM FOE Restless Natives Sun 2 Jan at 1.45pm + 8.45pm Michael Hoffman • UK 1985 • 1h29m • 35mm • PG Cast: Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney, Teri Lally, Ned Beatty, Bernard Hill. This hugely enjoyable whimsical comedy follows two youthful Edinburgh losers, unemployed Will and orphaned joke shop assistant Ronnie, as they strive to improve their lifestyle by holding up tourist coaches in the Highlands disguised as the Clown and the Wolfman. The pair soon gain media notoriety in Scotland and angling-obsessed local detective Baird and CIA officer Bender are put on the case to apprehend the terrible twosome. The two highwaymen elevate themselves to the status of national heroes when they distribute a share of their proceeds to the poor, but when Will falls in love with coach guide Margot and Ronnie gets ideas above his station about joining a criminal cooperative, the day of the pair’s final stick-up draws ever near. Edinburgh From the Archives Sun 2 Jan at 4.00pm A programme of short archive films of Edinburgh. Waverley Steps Rose Street Jean L Gray • UK 1937 • 14m John Eldridge • UK 1948 • 31m Margaret Tait • UK 1956 • 15m Sean Connery’s Edinburgh A key figure in post-war documentary, John Krish made films notable for their clarity of purpose and an understated, unsentimental but profoundly engaged humanism. This selection of four of his finest achievements finds him dealing with a Britain in transition. The Elephant Will Never Forget (1953) bids farewell to a way of life represented by London’s trams; They Took Us to the Sea (1961) and Our School (1962) look at the opportunities offered, respectively, to young children and school-leavers by a nation slowly emerging from years of austerity; while I Think They Call Him John (1964) is a deeply affecting account of the decidedly un-swinging life of an elderly widower. Poignant, to the point and still all too relevant. - Geoff Andrew, BFI Southbank A Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain by John Krish Mon 3 Jan at 1.30pm + 6.15pm 1h32m • U 1h29m • U Northern Capital John Krish Murray Grigor • UK 1982 • 29m The Elephant Will Never Forget John Krish • UK • 1953 • 10m • Digital They Took Us To The Sea John Krish • UK • 1961 • 26m • Digital Our School John Krish • UK • 1962 • 28m • Digital I Think They Call Him John John Krish • UK • 1964 • 28m • Digital I WAS HAPPY HERE 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. I Was Happy Here Tue 14 Dec at 6.30pm Desmond Davis • UK 1966 • 1h31m • 35mm • PG Cast: Sarah Miles, Cyril Cusack, Julian Glover, Sean Caffrey, Maire Keane. Edna O’Brien’s affecting story tells of an Irish girl who flees her bullying husband and a grubby London to return to the tiny fishing port where she grew up – and where her childhood sweetheart still lives. The film, with a resounding John Addison score, is full of new-wave flourishes – flashbacks, frozen shots – and takes maximum advantage of the pictorial contrasts between London and Lahinch, but it’s the romantic wistfulness that lingers in the mind. 15 16 East Side Stories BERLIN: SCNONHAUSER CORNER (Image© Holstein, Schneider) THE LEGEND OF PAUL AND PAULA (Image© Norbert Kuhröber) AFTER WINTER COMES SPRING (Image© Thomas Plenert) East Side Stories Berlin: Schönhauser Corner Traces of Stones Spur der Steine Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser Fri 10 Dec at 8.15pm 20 years after the unification of East and West Germany, this film season presents some of the most outstanding productions by DEFA, East Germany’s state-owned film company. It includes films which were banned by the GDR authorities, the first East German feature that deals with gay issues, a hugely popular love story and an outstanding documentary which captures the Zeitgeist during the final years of the GDR. Sun 5 Dec at 8.45pm Gerhard Klein • East Germany 1957 • 1h20m • Digibeta German with English subtitles • 12 Cast: Ekkehard Schall, Ilse Pagé, Ernst-Georg Schwill, Harry Engel, Raimund Schelcher. Frank Beyer • East Germany 1966 • 2h30m • Digibeta German with English subtitles • 12 Cast: Manfred Krug, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Jutta Hoffmann, Eberhard Esche, Johannes Wieke. With thanks to Marlies Pfeifer at the Goethe-Institut Glasow. TICKETDEALS See any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% off See all six films in this season and get 25% off These packages are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time. In East Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg, in the heart of the old working class district, a group of young people meet every evening to listen to music, dance, flirt and display their bravado. Berlin: Schönhauser Corner is one of the most remarkable DEFA films of the 1950s. Following Stalin’s death in 1953 and the brief ‘thaw’ in cultural policy in the Soviet Union, filmmakers were able to adopt artistic positions which would previously have fallen prey to censorship. Set on a large building site, Beyer’s masterpiece tells the story of hard-drinking and hard-working carpenter Balla, who finds himself confronted by young, idealistic party secretary Horrath. They become rivals when they both fall in love with young engineer Kati; they remain allies, however, in their fight against shoddy work practices and opportunistic party officials. Banned soon after its premiere and re-released 23 years later, Traces of Stones became the most successful German film of 1990. Born in ‘45 Jahrgang ‘45 The Legend of Paul and Paula Tue 7 Dec at 6.30pm Die Legende von Paul und Paula Jürgen Böttcher • East Germany 1965 • 1h34m • Digibeta German with English subtitles • 12 Cast: Monika Hildebrand, Rolf Römer, Paul Eichbaum, Holger Mahlich, Gesine Rosenberg. Mon 13 Dec at 8.15pm With his first feature film, internationally renowned documentary filmmaker and painter Jürgen Böttcher cast aside conventions of East German filmmaking. He shot exclusively at actual locations, causing a party official to wonder “how Böttcher found the time to build these slums”. Working with a handheld camera and using mostly non-professional actors, Böttcher developed a style which could have marked the beginning of an East German variant of cinema verité. Instead, Born in ‘45 was banned for its alleged “glorification of the perverse”. Heiner Carow • East Germany 1973 • 1h45m • Digibeta German with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Angelica Domröse, Winfried Glatzeder, Heidemarie Wenzel, Fred Delmare, Rolf Ludwig. The most popular of all DEFA films, this is the bittersweet story of a young woman who is determined to fulfill her love despite all obstacles. The film’s fundamental plea for individual freedom caused hostile reactions among dogmatic east German politicians, who banned it for months. Featuring the music of the East German cult rock band The Puhdys, the film proved enormously popular, despite the fact that it was not reviewed by the statecontrolled press. East Side Stories/Childish Things COMING OUT (Image© Wolfgang Fritsche) After Winter Comes Spring Winter adé Tue 14 Dec at 8.15pm Helke Misselwitz • East Germany 1988 • 1h56m • 35mm German with English subtitles • 12 • Documentary This fascinating and poetic documentary was filmed during the last year of the GDR. Director Helke Misselwitz travelled from the North to the South of East Germany, talking to women about their life stories. Her intention was to create a platform for people who don’t usually have a voice: punk rockers, shift workers, mothers, intellectuals, young and old women talk openly about their families, careers, dreams and personal yearnings. The women’s strong wish for social and political change is tangible but, despite all criticisms, the hope for a better future remains. Coming Out Wed 15 Dec at 6.00pm Heiner Carow • East Germany 1989 • 1h53m • Digibeta German with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Matthias Freihof, Dagmar Manzel, Dirk Kummer, Michael Gwisdek, Werner Dissel. Philipp, a young teacher in East Berlin, meets Matthias and falls in love with him, although he has a girlfriend who is expecting his child. After years of repressing his homosexuality he finally comes to accept who he truly is. The first East German feature that deals with gay issues and openly confronts xenophobia and homophobia, Coming Out premiered on the same night the Berlin Wall came down. ALICE Childish Things The Fruitmarket Gallery have teamed up with Filmhouse to run a short film series over a weekend to tie in with their exhibition Childish Things. These films, by Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer and his protégés The Brothers Quay, inhabit a world of nursery nightmares, gothic tales and sinister toys. The films will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone from the University of Edinburgh Childish Things is The Fruitmarket Gallery’s second collaboration with David Hopkins, Professor of Art History at the University of Glasgow; acknowledged authority on Marcel Duchamp, dada and surrealism; increasingly renowned writer on contemporary art; and curator of the popular 2006 Fruitmarket Gallery exhibition Dada’s Boys: Identity and Play in Contemporary Art. The exhibition runs from 19 November 2010 until 23 January 2011. Go to www.fruitmarket.co.uk for more information. CHILDISH THINGS – STREET OF CROCODILES Alice Neco z Alenky Sat 4 Dec at 1.15pm + intro Jan Svankmajer • Czech Republic 1988 • 1h25m • 35mm Czechoslovakia • PG Cast: Kristyna Kohoutová. No other filmmaker is so consistently inventive in his ability to marry pure, startling nonsense with rigorous logic, black wit with piercing psychological insights than Svankmajer. Alice (the only human in a feature debut populated by a fantastic array of superbly animated puppets) not only changes size, but actually becomes her own doll. Eggs crack to reveal skulls. Steaks crawl. A wonderland imbued with a grotesque, cruel, and menacing dream-logic at once distinctively Svankmajer’s and true to the spirit of Carroll. Childish Things Sun 5 Dec at 1.15pm + intro 1h17m • 15 Punch and Judy Jan Svankmajer • Czechoslovakia 1966 • 10m • 16mm Czech with English subtitles Down to the Cellar Jan Svankmajer • Czechoslovakia 1983 • 15m • 35mm Czech with English subtitles The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay • UK 1984 • 14m • 16mm Street of Crocodiles Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay • UK 1986 • 20m • 35mm • No dialogue The Comb Stephen Quay,Timothy Quay • UK 1990 • 18m • 35mm • No dialogue 17 M/Lost Horizon/Look at What the Light Did Now 18 LOST HORIZON M Come and See... Mr Capra Comes A monthly one-off screening of a great to Filmhouse film we simply thought you might like to see, again or for the first time, on the big screen. M Thu 16 Dec at 6.15pm Fritz Lang • Germany 1931 • 1h41m • 35mm German with English subtitles • PG Cast: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos. The final film screening in our season of films from the 1930s directed by Frank Capra, one of the most popular and revered of all American filmmakers. With thanks to Sony Pictures and BFI Southbank. Fritz Lang’s first sound film (based on the true story of a Düsseldorf child-murderer) is a work of stunning sophistication and mesmerising artistry. A spate of child killings has stricken a terrified Berlin. Murderer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre in an extraordinary performance) soon finds himself chased by all levels of society. Lost Horizon From cinema’s first serial killer hunt, Lang pulls back to encompass social tapestry, police procedural, and underworld conspiracies in an astonishingly multi-faceted and level-headed look at a deeply incendiary topic. One of the greatest psychological thrillers of all time, M remains as fresh and startling 80 years on. Probably the weirdest of Capra’s films, this epic was adapted from James Hilton’s bestselling novel about a plane full of passengers stranded in Tibet who are brought to the imaginary utopia Shangri-la. A strange but haunting mixture of drama, long expository passages, and romance, with lavish, Xanadu-like sets set against stock footage of icy mountains – but it’s the performance of Ronald Colman, as a Brit who decides he doesn’t mind staying with the Buddhists, that carries the movie. This special screening will be from the only English subtitled 35mm print known to exist anywhere in the world! Wed 8 & Thu 9 Dec at 6.00pm Frank Capra • USA 1937 • 2h10m • 35mm English and Mandarin with English subtitles • U Cast: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell. For more Capra, see It’s a Wonderful Life (page 8). LOOK AT WHAT THE LIGHT DID NOW SPECIALEVENT Look at What the Light Did Now Sat 4 Dec at 6.15pm Anthony Seck • Canada 2010 • 1h17m • Digibeta • 15 Documentary A kaleidoscopic behind-the-scenes tour of the creation of Feist’s latest album ‘The Reminder’, Look at What the Light Did Now imaginatively chronicles the process from concept to finished record through candid interviews, live performances, footage of the album’s unique recording, filming of music videos and the creation of the album artwork. From beginning to end the film encapsulates the ethereal dynamism of Feist herself and underlines the beauty of artistic collaboration married by music. 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All Central Taxis accept Credit & Debit cards Edinburgh’s LARGEST taxi company “Once I am a citizen… I would start to be something wonderful here.” By Arthur Miller By arrangement with Josef Weinberger Ltd 14 January–12 February 2011 BOX OFFICE: 0131 248 4848 GROUPS 8+: 0131 248 4949 www.lyceum.org.uk/view Company No. SC062065 Scottish Charity Registered No. SC010509 Musketeers Filmhouse.indd 1 02/11/2010 12:37:49 20 Moolaadé/Trade/Jeremy Hardy vs. The Israeli Army TRADE MOOLAADE SPECIALEVENTS Two screenings plus discussions, part of this year’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence (25 November - 10 December). Moolaadé Mon 6 Dec at 5.45pm + discussion Ousmane Sembene • Senegal/France/Burkina Faso/Cameroon/ Morocco/Tunisia 2004 • 2h5m • 35mm • Bambara and French with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong language, sex and female circumcision theme Cast: Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré. This award-winning 2004 feature film from Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene centres on the story of Colle, a local village woman in Burkina Faso who uses ‘moolaadé’ (‘magical protection’) to protect girls from the tradition of female circumcision, a decision that tears her village apart. A post-film discussion will be hosted by Shakti Women’s Aid Information & Education team and joined by Dr Monica Mhoja from Dignity Alert Research Forum (DARF) and Mukami McCrum of the Scottish Government Gender Violence Team. Shakti Women’s Aid, based in Edinburgh since 1986, offers support and advocacy for black minority ethnic women, children and young people affected by domestic abuse and culturally-connected forms of control and violence including forced marriage and female genital mutilation. www.shaktiedinburgh.co.uk JEREMY HARDY VS. THE ISRAELI ARMY SPECIALEVENT Trade Jeremy Hardy vs. The Israeli Army Wed 8 Dec at 5.45pm + discussion Sun 5 Dec at 8.15pm + discussion Marco Kreutzpaintner • Germany/USA 2007 • 1h59m • 35mm English, Spanish, Polish and Russian with English subtitles • 15 – Contains a scene of sexual violence, strong language and violence Cast: Paulina Gaitan, Cesar Ramos, Kevin Kline, Alicja Bachleda. Leila Sansour • Palestine/UK 2003 • 1h15m • Beta SP • 15 Documentary As the closing titles of Trade inform us, over a million people are trafficked illegally each year. This is the story of one victim – 13-year-old Adriana, who is taken from the streets of Mexico City to be sold into sex slavery in the US – and her brother Jorge, who steals across the border to retrieve her. PLUS SHORT Money and Power (7 min) A short introduction to commercial sexual exploitation in Scotland including the voices of two women involved in prostitution. It was produced by the Glasgow-based media coop for Zero Tolerance and the Women’s Support Project. After the screening there will be an opportunity to discuss the issues raised by both films with Laura Tomson of Zero Tolerance and Linda Thompson of Women’s Support Project. When comedian Jeremy Hardy is asked to visit Palestine and do his bit to solve the world’s longest running conflict, facing the world’s fourth biggest military power is not his idea of a holiday. On the other hand, neither is travelling to Florida to spend Easter with his in-laws. What he doesn’t know , as he arrives in Tel-Aviv a week later, is that he will become one of the most unlikely witnesses to a horrific yet seminal moment in the struggle of the Palestinian people. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with experts on the film and on Palestine, plus a short preview clip of Leila Sansour’s new film, The Road to Bethlehem. On the panel: Michael Marten, university lecturer and Chair of the Scottish Palestinian Forum; Deborah Burton, cofounder of Tipping Point Film Fund; Rev. Clarence Musgrave, who has worked in Zambia and Scotland as well as spending several years in Jerusalem; and Maureen Jack, Vice Chair of the Scottish Palestinian Forum. Zero Tolerance is an organisation promoting innovative policy and practice that tackle the root causes of male violence against women and children. www.zerotolerance.org.uk Tipping Point Film Fund is supported by The Co-operative and is a not-for- profit drawing on public support to back challenging, truth-telling cinematic documentaries that combine the popular appeal of film with ambitious international campaigns. www.tippingpointfilmfund.com Quest for Fire/Life Cycles + Vast LIFE CYCLES QUEST FOR FIRE Science and Film Screenings in association with The British Science Association, a registered charity which exists to advance the public understanding, accessibility and accountability of the sciences and engineering. For further details on The British Science Association, see www.britishscienceassociation.org SPECIAL 70MM PRESENTATION Quest for Fire La guerre du feu Mon 6 Dec at 8.15pm + discussion Jean-Jacques Annaud • Canada/France/USA 1981 • 1h40m 70mm • No dialogue • 15 Cast: Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, Nicholas Kadi, Rae Dawn Chong, Gary Schwartz. A glimpse of humankind some 80,000 years ago. Using diverse locations in Kenya, Scotland, and Canada, JeanJacques Annaud tells the purely visual story of five tribes (some more advanced than others) who depend on fire for survival. They ‘steal’ fire from nature, but the actual creation of fire remains elusive, lending profound mystery and majesty to the film’s climactic, real-time display of fire-making ingenuity. Archaeologist Nikolaos Kourampas will introduce the film and lead a post-film discussion on human prehistory in the ice age. SPECIALEVENT Life Cycles + Vast Sun 12 Dec at 8.15pm 1h32m • 12A A Glasgow International Bike Film Festival On Tour special presentation in association with www.bikelove.co.uk Life Cycles Derek Frankowski & Ryan Gibb • USA 2010 • 45m • Digibeta • 12A Life Cycles is the first film feature from ace filmmaker Ryan Gibb and multi-award-winning photographer Derek Frankowski. Shot on location over a three year period and combining stunning visuals, a strong narrative structure revolving around the life of a bike, ground breaking cinematography and the world’s finest riders and locations, Life Cycles has taken both the industry and reviewers by storm. See the trailer at www.lifecyclesfilm.com PLUS Vast Brian Gottschalk & Fabian Näf • Switzerland 2010 • 47m • Digibeta • 12A Vast is the latest feature from Ionate Films. Shot entirely on location in Europe, spanning locations such as the Swiss Alps, the stunning Ligurian coastline, the broad spaces of Provence and the streets of Berlin, Vast presents a uniquely European take on the freeride mountain bike film genre. While the riders may not yet be household names, their riding speaks for itself. See the trailer at www.ionatefilms.com VAST 21 22 Courses, Workshops & Events/Café Bar THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL RAYMOND BRIGGS TRILOGY – THE SNOWMAN Courses, Workshops and Events Filmhouse Café Bar Knowledge and Learning As part of the creation of the Centre For the Moving Image, the new umbrella organisation of Filmhouse and Edinburgh International Film Festival, there is a new Knowledge and Learning team who will be arranging screenings for schools, workshops and learning events for all ages. For further information please contact Holly Daniel and Nicola Kettlewood on 0131 228 6382 or at education@filmhousecinema.com Schools Screenings To book tickets please contact the Duty Manager on 0131 228 6382. Tickets £2.50, teachers free. The Muppet Christmas Carol Tue 14 Dec at 10am and 1pm Raymond Briggs Trilogy Wed 15 Dec at 10am Screenwriters Group 16 Dec, 20 Jan, 17 Feb, 17 Mar, 21 Apr ‘Screenwriters, EH’ holds free monthly meetings for screenwriters and filmmakers. Meetings are from 7pm - 10pm in the Guild Rooms at Filmhouse, free and open to all. More information can be found at www.scottishscreenwriters.ning.com FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR Filmhouse Festive Lunch Menu 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! £18.25 per person Available from 6 - 24 December Call 0131 229 5932 for a reservation Opening hours: Today’s Freshly Prepared soup (Vegan) Sunday – Thursday 10am till 11.30pm Friday – Saturday 10am till 12.30am 0131 229 5932 cafebar@filmhousecinema.com Roast Red Pepper & Smoked Cheddar Risotto Smoked Salmon with Dill dressing Exhibition ******** Traditional Roast Turkey and Trimmings 19 December - 16 January Smoked Haddock Pie Ian MacKenzie was one of Scotland’s leading ethnographic photographers. Born in the distillery village of Tomatin, his early work conveys the essence of rural Highland life. As head of the School of Scottish Studies Photographic Archive, he travelled all over Scotland, capturing scenes and customs on the edge of extinction. Mushroom and Chestnut Wellington (Vegan) A mixture of black & white prints and more recent digital images will be displayed in memory of his passing on 20 December last year. See www.zenbends.com for more information. Film Quiz Sunday 12 December from 9pm Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and rather tricky) monthly quiz. Teams of up to eight, free to enter. ******** Traditional Individual Christmas Pudding Special Cake Selection ******** Coffee, warmed mince pies and mints to finish ******** Festive Opening Hours All hours as normal except: 24 Dec – 10am to 8pm (last food order 7.30pm) 25 & 26 Dec – CLOSED 31 Dec – Noon to 7pm (last food order 6.30pm) 1 Jan – Noon to 7pm (last food order 6.30pm) 2 Jan – Noon to Midnight (last food order 10pm) 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, www.filmhousecinema.com 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 www.filmhousecinema.com Box Office: 0131 228 2688 (12 noon - 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 Programming 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: Morrison Street (next to the Conference Centre), Castle Terrace Buses: 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 30, 34, 35