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The Last Station
A Prophet
The Scouting Book for Boys
Lourdes
The Father of My Children
Crazy Heart
The Headless Woman
The Kreutzer Sonata
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Samson & Delilah
The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights
Greek Film Festival
Girls on Film: Females in Contemporary Japanese Cinema
A FILM BY JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET
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INDEX
INDEX
SCREENING DATES AND TIMES
TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
12-13
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23
Asyle
16
The Blood of the Rose
19
Blue Velvet
18
Carmen
20
La ciénaga
10
Courses, Workshops and Events
22
Crazy Heart
8
Dogtooth
15
An Education
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5
Filmhouse Café Bar
22
Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 24
Filmhouse Quiz
22
The Flea
15
Fourteen
17
9
German plus Rain
17
Girls on Film: Females in
Contemporary Japanese Cinema
16-17
Greek Film Festival
14-15
Head On
20
The Headless Woman
5
How to Become Myself
17
The Hurt Locker
8
Introduction to European Cinema
20
Kamome Diner
17
The Kreutzer Sonata
6
The Last Station
5
Letter From an Unknown Woman
9
The Limits of Control
7
Lourdes
6
Lucrecia Martel
10
Lysistrata
14
A Man Escaped
18
Micmacs
4
Monsters vs. Aliens
9
Mugabe and the White African
7
La niña santa
Non-ko
Once Upon a Time in the West
Opera from La Scala
Pilton Video Presents: Streetwise 2010
Pooh’s Heffalump Movie
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
A Prophet
Rembetiko
Samson & Delilah
Slaves in Their Bonds
Small Revolts
The Sound of Film
Stolen
Talk to Her
Themis
Up in the Air
Weans’ World
The White Stripes: Under Great White
Northern Lights
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AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLES
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Crazy Heart – all Cinema One screenings will
have audio description, and the 8.30pm screening
on Monday 29 March will also have subtitles.
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FORCRYINGOUTLOUD
Screenings for carers and their babies, on Monday
mornings at 10.30am. This issue:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on Monday 8 March
Micmacs on Monday 22 March
Baby changing, bottle warming and buggy
parking facilities are available.Tickets cost £3/£2
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 9 for details of Weans’ World, our regular
screenings for a younger audience.
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Introduction
MICMACS
A PROPHET
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS
”I just want to thank everybody I’ve ever met in my entire life.” (Kim Basinger)
That quote should get you in the mood because, yes, it’s Academy Awards® time again! The irresistible nonsense that is Hollywood’s annual
patting-itself-on-the-back season. I say nonsense, because we all know it is (as any declaration of ‘the best’ in such a field has to be) and irresistible
because I for one find a great deal of fun in speculating who the winners might be. A few months ago it all seemed very up-in-the-air (geddit?)
and unclear who th
of the nominees carried not a lot of surprises to industry watchers such as myself. But what’s this? Ten nominations in the Best Film category?
Studio pressure to give more titles the Best Film Nomination kudos is the likely cause of that I fancy, and five of the titles haven’t a prayer. In fact,
probably nine of them haven’t a prayer, as I can’t imagine they won’t give Best Film to what Mark Kermode incitefully (sic) referred to as ‘Dances
with Smurfs’ – James Cameron’s Avatar. Who are the Academy to argue with $2 billion box office? (Remember Titanic came out ahead of LA
Confidential; I rest my case.) And the rest? For what it’s worth, here’s what I reckon: acting-wise, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges, Christopher Waltz
and Mo’Nique; and Best Director, the first ever woman to win that particular prize, will be Kathryn Bigelow. You’ll see! And Foreign Language? That
should go to the best (in my view, these things being subjective) foreign language film of the year, Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet – though quite why
Warwick Thornton’s stunning Samson & Delilah (see page 10 for details of our special preview screening) isn’t on the shortlist is anyone’s guess...
March at Filmhouse is another smorgasbord (forgive me, I was recently in Sweden!) of cinematic delights. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s stunning
Micmacs continues throughout the month, and France is further represented by two highly accomplished, intelligent and insightful dramas:
Mia Hansen-Løve’s moving and affecting The Father of My Children, and Jessica Hausner’s fascinating and complex Lourdes, which follows
a group on a trip to the Catholic pilgrimage site. The Kreutzer Sonata played EIFF a couple of years ago and I always wondered why no UK
distributor picked it up... well now they have, and it’s a fascinating, atmospheric thriller for grown-ups, based on the novel by Tolstoy (who
was, in turn, inspired by Beethoven’s musical work of the same name). The Scouting Book For Boys is an excellent rural drama from young
British filmmaker Tom Harper and stars ‘school of Shane Meadows’ alumnus Thomas Turgoose; and Argentina’s leading woman director,
Lucrecia Martel (La ciénaga, La niña santa, both screening this month), returns with the beguiling The Headless Woman. Re-release-wise
we’ve two dazzling yet completely different classics: Howard Hawks’ glorious (not to mention Glorious Technicolor®) musical Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes, and Max Ophüls’ heart-rending melodrama Letter From an Unknown Woman.
There’s plenty of opportunity to see those Oscar® winners too with our handy ‘Maybe you missed’ strand... fingers crossed we’re showing
the right films! In the meantime, I’m off down the turf accountant’s...
Rod White, Head of Programming
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NEWRELEASE
Micmacs Micmacs à tire-larigot
Showing until Thu 1 Apr
Jean-Pierre Jeunet • France 2009 • 1h44m • Digital projection
French with English subtitles • 12A – Contains moderate violence and
sex and references to hard drugs
Cast: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Yolande Moreau.
Jean Pierre Jeunet of Delicatessen and Amélie fame is back with
a delightful, inventive, visually stunning movie about a bunch
of misfits who bring arms dealers to account. It’s a film that is
steeped in cinema history, but wears that knowledge lightly,
incorporating everything from the finest in physical comedy,
reminiscent of Tati and Chaplin, to the practical jokes and
explosions of Tex Avery, to post-modern insider jokes worthy of
Charlie Kauffman.
Dany Boon, one of France’s most popular screen stars, plays
Bazil, a man who was orphaned as a youngster after his soldier
father was killed by a roadside bomb. Now working in a video
store and trying to find his place in the world, Bazil is hit by
a stray bullet in a freak drive-by shooting incident. Emerging
from hospital, he finds himself jobless and penniless, but good
fortune appears in the form of an ex-con and ingenious salvage
artist, who ekes out a marginal existence living in a scrapyard
together with a tirelessly good-humoured and resourceful
group of misfits. Charmed and overwhelmed by the hospitality
he receives, Bazil turns the dump into a warm underground
home full of magical tools and sculptures made from discarded
junk. Meanwhile, an opportunity to get even with the arms
manufacturers who killed his father and left him with a bullet in
the head keeps Bazil busy plotting sweet revenge.
The kinetic level of invention and narrative so familiar to Jeunet
lovers is on full display in Micmacs. This is a film that revels in
contemporary contrasts. While the rich arms dealers scheme
away and make weapons, Bazil and his rag-tag band of friends
create objects to delight and charm. And, along the way, Bazil
finds romance amid the craziness of the modern world.
Filmhouse and the Institut Français d’Ecosse are offering you the
opportunity to watch a French film and attend a French lesson
for only £7.50! The lesson, for beginners, intermediate and
advanced students will follow the 6.00pm screening of Micmacs
on Tuesday 23 March and will be based on the film’s
language and cultural content. The ticket price
includes both the film and the lesson.This offer
will be repeated throughout the year.
New releases
THE LAST STATION
NEWRELEASE
THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN
NEWRELEASE
The Last Station
Showing until Thu 11 Mar
Le père de mes enfants
Michael Hoffman • Germany/Russia/UK 2009 • 1h53m
35mm • 15 – Contains moderate sex
Cast: Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, James McAvoy, Paul
Giamatti, Anne-Marie Duff.
Fri 5 to Thu 18 Mar
After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya
(Helen Mirren), the devoted wife, passionate lover, muse
and secretary of Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer),
suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In
the name of his newly created religion, the great Russian
novelist has renounced his noble title, his property and
even his family in favour of poverty, vegetarianism and
celibacy. When Sofya then discovers that Tolstoy’s trusted
disciple, Chertkov (Paul Giamatti) – whom she despises
– may have secretly convinced her husband to sign a new
will, leaving the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian
people rather than his very own family, she is consumed
by righteous outrage. Using every bit of cunning, every
trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, she fights
fiercely for what she believes is rightfully hers. The more
extreme her behaviour becomes, however, the more easily
Chertkov is able to persuade Tolstoy of the damage she will
do to his glorious legacy.
Under the accomplished direction of Michael Hoffman,
who also wrote the script, The Last Station is well-acted
across the board, but the film’s centrepiece is the
mesmerising back and forth between Christopher Plummer
and Helen Mirren, two acting powerhouses on superb
form.
Mia Hansen-Løve • France/Germany 2009 • 1h51m • 35mm
French with English subtitles
12A – Contains suicide theme and scenes of smoking
Cast: Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Chiara Caselli, Alice de
Lencquesaing, Alice Gautier, Manelle Driss.
Director Mia Hansen-Løve was inspired to create The
Father of My Children following the tragic suicide in 2005
of prolific producer Humbert Balsan, one of the most
respected figures in French cinema. The film follows
Gregoire (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) as he struggles to
keep Moon Films afloat. Gregoire is a champion of artists,
and is happy to take huge personal gambles to produce
the work of filmmakers he respects, but it is a thankless job
infested with conceited directors, dispassionate financiers,
and unforgiving bank managers. Eventually the stress
becomes too much to bear, and Gregoire kills himself.
Gregoire’s wife Sylvia (Caselli) enlists the help of
Gregoire’s closest friends to save Moon Films and finish
the films currently in production, all the while struggling
to cope with her own grief as well as that of her three
daughters.
This mournful but wonderfully evocative and warmhearted film is not only a moving tribute to a great
producer, but also a superb and sincere testament to the
beauty that can still exist in the cinema.
THE HEADLESS WOMAN
NEWRELEASE
The Headless Woman
La mujer sin cabeza
Fri 19 to Thu 25 Mar
Lucrecia Martel • Argentina/France/Italy/Spain 2008 • 1h29m
35mm • Spanish with English subtitles
12A – Contains one use of strong language
Cast: Maria Onetto, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón, Daniel
Genoud, Guillermo Arengo.
Veronica (Maria Onetto) is a successful upper-middle-class
Argentinian, a dentist with a good practice, a family that
loves her and, perhaps a little too much, depends upon
her. One afternoon, while driving alone on a deserted
country road, Vero, struggling with her cell phone, strikes
something with her car. Was it an object, or a dog – or a
person? She cannot say, and neither can we, but as the
days progress, her misgivings grow more pronounced,
and soon she is making unofficial inquiries. At first, all of
officialdom is reassuring to her that nothing serious could
have happened, but soon she hears of searches being
made, and a body possibly being discovered in the vicinity
of her accident.
Director Lucrecia Martel’s own screenplay never gives
away too much; she knows how to reveal precisely enough
information, between her camera and her dialogue, to
keep the viewer engrossed but also off balance, in a
manner that sustains the suspense throughout the film.
See page 10 for details of screenings of La ciénaga and
La niña santa, Lucrecia Martel’s previous films.
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New releases
THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS
NEWRELEASE
LOURDES
NEWRELEASE
THE KREUTZER SONATA
NEWRELEASE
Lourdes
The Kreutzer Sonata
Fri 19 Mar to Thu 1 Apr
Tom Harper • UK 2009 • 1h33m • 35mm
15 – Contains strong language, once very strong and one scene
of strong violence
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Holly Grainger, Rafe Spall, Steven
Mackintosh, Susan Lynch.
Jessica Hausner • Austria/France/Germany 2009 • 1h39m
Digital projection
French, English, German and Italian with English subtitles
U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm
Cast: Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Gilette Barbier, Gerhard
Liebmann, Bruno Todeschini.
Bernard Rose • USA 2008 • 1h40m • 35mm
18 – Contains strong bloody violence and strong sex
Cast: Danny Huston, Elisabeth Röhm, Matthew Yang King,
Anjelica Huston, Devon Sorvari.
Having grown up together on a caravan park on the
Norfolk coast where their respective parents work,
teenagers David (Thomas Turgoose) and Emily (Holly
Grainger) have become close friends, deeply reliant
on each other for distractions and mischief. It’s a shock
to them both when it’s decided that Emily is to be sent
away to live with her father, and there’s even greater
alarm throughout the park community when Emily then
disappears. David struggles to cope as the situation grows
ever more complex.
The debut feature from Tom Harper, director of a number
of acclaimed shorts, and written by playwright and Skins
contributor Jack Thorne, The Scouting Book for Boys is an
expertly constructed drama with deftly handled shifts in
tone, depicting the anxieties, awkwardness and fears of
being a teenager, without denying the occasional delights
of being young. Thomas Turgoose continues to build
on the reputation he’s gained from appearing in Shane
Meadows’ This Is England and Somerstown, while Holly
Grainger delivers an equally impressive performance as
Emily.
Christine (Sylvie Testud) has been in a wheelchair for most
of her life, and suffers a sense of isolation. Desperately
wanting to take part in the world around her, she travels to
Lourdes on an organised tour accompanied by carers from
the Order of Malta. Sceptic though she is, Christine, like so
many others, is hoping for a miraculous cure at the iconic
site of pilgrimage.
Lourdes is a meticulously drawn and precisely nuanced
study taking in themes of faith, hope and charity.
Director Jessica Hausner is faultless in creating a sense of
atmosphere – vague foreboding hangs in the air, and there
is a feeling of things all being slightly off-kilter, reinforced
by the film’s cool palette. Sylvie Testud gives a superb
performance as Christine, capturing her frustrations and
indignities as well as her glimpsed possibility of a different
life, and the interactions between pilgrims and carers
are acutely observed. They also sometimes make for
uncomfortable viewing, as Hausner explores the complex
dynamics of seemingly selfless acts.
Based on a story written by Leo Tolstoy in response to
Ludwig van Beethoven’s eponymous composition, director
Bernard (Ivans xtc, Immortal Beloved) Rose’s powerful and
gripping dissection of a modern marriage tells the tale of
a wealthy philanthropist (Danny Huston) who becomes
intensely possessive of his wife (Elisabeth Röhm) – a
beautiful and talented pianist.
With a house to die for and a job leading a charitable
foundation, Edgar would not appear to lack for much. But
his boorish instincts start to stir when his second wife Abby
begins rehearsing Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata with a
young violinist, and Edgar’s ugly jealousy starts to eat him
alive.
Mature in every sense, the film is sexually explicit and
emotionally frank, with protracted sex scenes that switch
from tender to aggressive and back. As Edgar becomes
increasingly disorientated, Rose exploits the opportunities
for intimacy allowed by a hand-held digital camera in a
way palpably more composed than the generic camera
wobble practised by lesser talents, instead using it for a
heightened sense of Edgar’s self-obsession. And Huston
makes a terrific ogre – as Edgar’s mind goes adrift in his
own imagined world of infidelities while high on drugs and
hotel porn, the actor goes with him.
Maybe you missed...
AN EDUCATION
MAYBEYOUMISSED
THE LIMITS OF CONTROL
MAYBEYOUMISSED
MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN
MAYBEYOUMISSED
An Education
The Limits of Control
Mugabe and the White African
Fri 5 to Mon 8 Mar
Sun 14 to Wed 17 Mar
Mon 15 to Thu 18 Mar
Lone Scherfig • UK 2009 • 1h40m • 35mm
12A – Contains moderate sex references
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Cara
Seymour, Rosamund Pike.
Jim Jarmusch • USA/Japan 2009 • 1h56m • 35mm
English, Spanish, Hebrew, French and Japanese with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong language and sexualised nudity
Cast: Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton,
Bill Murray, Gael García Bernal.
Lucy Bailey & Andrew Thompson • UK 2009 • 1h30m
Digital projection • 12A • Documentary
A standout performance from the enchanting Carey
Mulligan is reason alone to see this lively Nick Hornbyscripted adaptation of Lynn Barber’s memoir of growing
up in the west London suburbs in the early 1960s.
Barber’s schoolgirl alter ego, Jenny (Mulligan), falls into
a relationship with the older, more worldly David (Peter
Sarsgaard), who offers her a window on a more material
world – clubs, champagne, drives in the country, sex
– than her Oxbridge ambitions allow. He also charms
her wide-eyed parents with his apparent wealth and wit.
Often very funny, the film is also sensitive to how we can
often see before our eyes only that which we want – or are
trained – to see.
With The Limits of Control, his ode to John Boorman’s
stark 1967 revenge thriller Point Blank, Jim Jarmusch
has delivered a work of dazzling formal discipline that
riffs on the simple notion of repetition and variation.
Gorgeously photographed by Christopher Doyle, with
constant touches of black humour, dark tension and bizarre
surrealism, the film feels like a purring blend of Hitchcock
and Lynch.
A lone man (Isaach De Bankolé) is on a mysterious mission,
flying into Madrid then travelling to Seville and Alicante.
Along the way, he has a series of clandestine meetings
with a nervous violinist, an enigmatic blonde, a naked
seductress, a British guitarist, an edgy Mexican, a silent
driver and an arrogant American. But he’s all business,
never distracted from his assignment and quietly hearing
the philosophy that seems to swirl around his every move.
As usual, Jarmusch is having fun with his audience,
respecting our intelligence while provoking thought in
unusual, circuitous ways. This is definitely not a film for
viewers who like lots to happen in a movie, or who want
firm answers to the mysteries of the plot (or life). But for
those who savour vivid filmmaking that takes us somewhere
new and makes us laugh and think, this is a delight.
Since 2000, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has
pursued a campaign of aggressive land reform, claiming
land owned by white farmers. Government supporters
have occupied many white-owned farms, with violence
flaring frequently, and a number of white farmers and
their black workers have been killed. Though Mugabe
proposed that the land would be distributed among the
poorer black population, evidence suggests most has
been put in the hands of government officials and cronies.
White farmer Michael Campbell faced intimidation and
aggression, but chose to put up a fight for his land, taking
the unprecedented step of challenging Mugabe before
the South African Development Community’s international
court, charging him and his government with racial
discrimination and of violations of Human Rights. Filmed
covertly in a country where a press ban exists, Mugabe
and the White African provides a valuable, unsettling
insight into the reality of life under Mugabe’s dictatorship,
following Campbell and his family on their brave campaign,
as they fight for the right to live peacefully.
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Maybe you missed...
THE HURT LOCKER
A PROPHET
MAYBEYOUMISSED
UP IN THE AIR
MAYBEYOUMISSED
CRAZY HEART
MAYBEYOUMISSED
A Prophet Un prophète
The Hurt Locker
Crazy Heart
Sun 21 to Tue 23 Mar
Jacques Audiard • France/Italy 2009 • 2h30m • 35mm
French, Arabic and Corsican with English subtitles
18 – Contains strong bloody violence and very strong language
Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi.
Kathryn Bigelow • USA 2008 • 2h11m • Digital projection
15 – Contains strong language and gory images
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce.
Scott Cooper • USA 2009 • 1h52m • Digital projection
15 – Contains strong language
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell.
Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, Near Dark, Strange Days)
takes on yet another male-dominated genre, the war
film, embedding us deep within post-conflict Iraq with
the phony-toughs and crazy-braves of a US Army bomb
disposal unit. Former bomb squad-embedded journalist
Mark Boal’s script, Barry Ackroyd’s cinematography and
Bigelow’s flair for sheer physicality combine to great effect,
giving the film a rare, street-level veracity.
At one point in Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart, 57-year-old
alcoholic, down-on-his-luck country singer/songwriter
Bad Blake (Oscar-nominated Jeff Bridges) explains that the
great songs sound like you’ve already heard them. There’s
much truth in that statement, and it’s an apt description of
the movie’s charm as well.
Another outstanding drama from Jacques Audiard,
director of The Beat That My Heart Skipped and Read
My Lips. Made with the filmmaker’s trademark emotional
intensity and ability to elevate traditional genre material to
exceptional heights, it tells the complex story of a young
Arab man’s coming of age and into power during six years
inside a corrupt, brutal prison. It’s a closed society which
Audiard portrays in unflinching realist terms, indulging with
impressive detail in the numbing rituals and rhythms of life
in a high-security modern jail. Winner of the Grand Prize of
the Jury at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, and nominated
in the Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars.
Up in the Air
Tue 23 to Thu 25 Mar
Jason Reitman • USA 2009 • 1h49m • Digital projection
15 – Contains strong language
Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman.
George Clooney gives a wonderful performance as
a corporate hatchetman who travels around America
firing people for a living. Enjoying a solitary life with no
complications, the emotionally detached bachelor finds
his resolve tested when he meets beautiful travelling
businesswoman Vera Farmiga, and then learns his nomadic
lifestyle may be coming to an end. Witty, pertinent and
moving, this is a sophisticated treat from director Jason
Reitman (Juno, Thank You for Smoking), who gets better
with every picture.
A onetime country star who wrote a number of popular
tunes, Bad’s career is currently in the dumps. He’s on a
tour travelling hundreds of miles a day in his trusty, beat-up
truck in order to play in bowling alleys and bars with a
different set of local musicians every night. His diet consists
primarily of whiskey and the easily seduced members of
his ageing fan base. However, things change when he sits
down for an interview with struggling young music writer
and single mom Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal). The two begin
a tentative affair, and not long after that, Bad’s manager
calls with an offer to have him open a big show for Tommy
Sweet (Colin Farrell), a onetime member of Bad’s backup
band who’s now a new-country superstar.
There isn’t much pressing drama in Crazy Heart, but that’s
fine because the key to the film’s success is Bridges, doing
his own singing and exuding a lived-in weariness. We see
how four bad marriages and a long time without a hit have
turned him into an alcoholic mess, but we also see the
talent and the inner fire that keeps him going.
Classic re-releases/Weans’ World
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
CLASSICRE-RELEASE
POOH’S HEFFALUMP MOVIE
CLASSICRE-RELEASE
Letter From an Unknown Woman
Fri 5 to Sun 14 Mar
Howard Hawks • USA 1953 • 1h28m • Digital projection • U
Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid,
Tommy Noonan.
Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and her friend Dorothy
Shaw (Jane Russell) are a pair of showgirls, Dorothy
the sassy one looking for true love, Lorelei the blonde
hoping to marry a millionaire, with her sights set on Gus
Esmond, a wealthy nerd stuck under his father’s thumb.
When Lorelei and Dorothy take a transatlantic cruise
to Paris, an undercover detective follows to find out if
Lorelei is really a gold-digging schemer. Unfortunately, the
irrepressible Lorelei is a born flirt, and soon finds herself in
a compromising position with Sir Francis Beekman (Charles
Coburn), owner of a diamond mine. The girls have to use
all their wits to get out of trouble and still find love and
marriage.
Thanks to the talents of the luminous stars and
director Howard Hawks, plus stunning Technicolor
cinematography, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is one of the
most charming, entertaining musicals of the 1950s.
Max Ophüls • USA 1948 • 1h27m • New 35mm print
U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm
Cast: Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians, Marcel
Journet, Art Smith.
Director Max Ophüls considered love as much a curse as
a blessing, and this heart-rending drama is one the finest
expressions of his delicate aesthetic balance.
Stefan (Louis Jourdan) is a self-serving and pleasureseeking concert pianist in late 19th-century Vienna.
Returning home the night before he’s due to fight yet
another duel he discovers a letter that opens, “By the
time you read this, I may be dead.” So begins the story of
Lisa (Joan Fontaine), the woman with whom he enjoyed a
fleeting relationship ten years earlier and then abandoned,
unaware she was pregnant. Told largely in flashback, Lisa’s
subsequent life turns out to have been a catalogue of
disappointments, but throughout that time she clung to the
memory of Stefan. Horribly, she even spent a second night
with him, during which he failed to recognise her.
Ophüls’ gliding camerawork is fantastically agile, swooping
in on his characters and then suddenly retreating, but this
is really Fontaine’s show – her Lisa is hopelessly romantic
but there’s also an impressive resilience at her core. A
tragic tale in every way but beautiful to behold.
MONSTERS VS. ALIENS
Weans’ World
Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost
£2.10 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!
Pooh’s Heffalump Movie
Sun 14 Mar at 1.00pm & Mon 15 Mar at 10.30am
Frank Nissen • USA 2005 • 1h8m • 35mm • U
With the voices of Jim Cummings, John Fiedler, Nikita Hopkins.
Beware the marauding heffalump! That’s a big purple
elephant to you and me, but for Winnie the Pooh, Tigger,
Piglet and Rabbit, a heffalump is a frightening creature
of legend that must be captured before it invades the
Hundred Acre Wood...
Monsters vs. Aliens
Sun 28 Mar at 1.00pm & Mon 29 Mar at 10.30am
Rob Letterman & Conrad Vernon • USA 2009 • 1h34m • 35mm
PG – Contains mild fantasy violence
With the voices of Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie.
After being hit by a meteorite on her wedding day, Susan is
transformed into a 50 foot colossus. In no time, the military
have her locked away in a secret base with other freaks
of nature like Dr Cockroach, The Missing Link, and a blob
called B.O.B.. But when an evil UFO commander threatens
to take over the Earth, Susan and the monster squad are
brought in to battle the aliens.
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Samson & Delilah/Lucrecia Martel
SAMSON & DELILAH
SPECIALPREVIEWSCREENING
Samson & Delilah
Sat 20 Mar at 8.30pm + Q&A
Warwick Thornton • Australia 2009 • 1h41m
Digital projection • Aboriginal and English with English subtitles
15 – Contains frequent substance misuse and strong language
Cast: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Gibson, Scott
Thornton, Matthew Gibson.
The debut feature from director Warwick Thornton,
Samson & Delilah was rapturously received when it
premiered at Cannes last year, and won the Caméra
d’Or there, while Australian critics have been falling over
themselves to find superlatives to describe it, calling
it ‘captured lightning in a bottle’ and ‘one of the most
wonderful films this country has ever produced’. None of
this is hyperbole; sensitively performed and beautifully
filmed, Samson & Delilah is thoroughly deserving of high
praise and prizes, and marks the arrival of a significant,
singular voice in world cinema.
Teenagers Samson and Delilah live in a small and isolated
Aboriginal community in the central Australian desert.
Samson’s mundane and boring existence is alleviated by
substance abuse; he also persistently shadows Delilah
as she cares for her elderly Nana. One day their lives are
shattered by a set of tragic events and the two youngsters
must leave their town and embark on a journey to the
city. A visually beautiful and profound film which reveals
the desperation and disconnection of the two teenagers
against a backdrop of indifference and racism.
We are delighted to welcome Warwick Thornton, the
director of Samson & Delilah, who will take part in a Q&A
after this special preview screening.
LA CIENAGA
Lucrecia Martel
The two previous features from the
director of The Headless Woman, also
screening this month (see page 5).
La ciénaga The Swamp
Thu 25 Mar at 1.15pm + 6.00pm
Lucrecia Martel • Argentina/France/Spain 2000 • 1h40m
Spanish with English subtitles
12 – Contains one use of strong language and some bloodshed
Cast: Mercedes Morán, Graciela Borges, Martín Adjemián,
Leonora Balcarce, Silvia Baylé.
A group of inebriated middle-aged people lies beside a
fetid, stagnant swimming pool. As a storm approaches, the
people slowly rise to shuffle inside, carrying their drinks
and dragging their lounge chairs noisily behind them. One
woman falls, cutting herself deeply, but no one rushes to
her aid. This unnerving opening scene of Lucrecia Martel’s
2001 debut sets the languid tone for a story about two
branches of an alcohol-ravaged, bourgeois Argentine
family that has gone to seed along with their decaying
estate.
For a film of disenchantment and disappointment, where
time is inert (the film could span a couple of days or a
couple of sweltering months) and nothing much seems to
happen, La ciénaga is vital and alive, and Martel’s direction
is tactile and confident. Her camera is fiercely intimate and
confrontational, never judgmental but far from forgiving,
and more interested in experience than story.
LA NINA SANTA
La niña santa The Holy Girl
Thu 1 Apr at 1.15pm + 6.00pm
Lucrecia Martel • Argentina/Italy/Netherlands/Spain 2004
1h44m • 35mm • Spanish with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta,
María Alche, Julieta Zylberberg.
Lucretia Martel’s impressive follow up to La ciénaga is an
oblique but outstanding study of Catholic guilt, morality
and sexual awakening. Amelia is 16 and lives with her
glamorous mother in a sprawling hotel, the location for a
wintertime medical convention. After choir rehearsals she
and the other girls get together in the parish church to
discuss faith and vocation, and secretly to whisper about
kissing. In a chance encounter with one of the visiting
doctors, he presses himself up against her, setting in
motion an unforeseen and sometimes gently funny web
of misunderstandings. Caught between her religious
education and her burgeoning sexuality, Amelia sees it as
her vocation to save him from sin, though her fascination
with him seems closer to an old fashioned crush.
Martel tells the story through the gradual accumulation of
detail, her measured visual style characterised by things
only half seen, or partially concealed. With an air of sexual
tension and a palpable sense of longing that pervade, but
do not overwhelm, La Niña santa confirms Martel as a
singular, original talent.
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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
DAY
DATE
5 March - 1 April 2010
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
Fri 1 Micmacs
5 1 Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Mar 2 The Father of My Children
2 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
2 Micmacs
3 An Education
3 The Last Station
Sat 1 Micmacs
6 2 The Father of My Children
Mar 2 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
3 A Man Escaped (SoF)
3 The Last Station
3 An Education
SHOW
TIMES
1.00/3.30/8.30
6.15 + discussion
1.15/8.45
3.45
6.00
1.00/5.45
3.15/8.15
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
1.15/5.45/8.25
3.40
1.00 + intro
3.45/6.15
8.45
Sun 1 Micmacs
3 The Last Station
3 The Blood of the Rose
3 An Education
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
1.15/5.45/8.25
3.40
1.00/8.15
3.30 + Q&A
6.00
Mon 1 Micmacs
8 2 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (B)
2 The Father of My Children
3 The Last Station
3 An Education
2.30/6.00/8.30
10.30am (babies only)
1.30/6.15
3.40/8.25
3.15/8.15
6.00
Tue 1 Micmacs
9 2 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
3 The Last Station
3 Talk to Her (EC)
2.30/6.00/8.30
1.30/6.15
3.40/8.25
3.15/8.40
5.45 + intro
Wed 1 Micmacs
3 The Last Station
3 Non-ko (GoF)
2.30/6.00/8.30
1.30/6.15
3.40/8.25
3.15/8.15
5.45
Thu 1 Micmacs
3 The Last Station
3 Asyle (GoF)
2.30/6.00/8.30
1.30/6.15
3.40/8.25
3.15/8.15
5.45
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Fri 1 Micmacs
2 Stolen
3 Letter From an Unknown Woman
3 Kamome Diner (GoF)
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
1.15
3.30/8.45
6.15 + Q&A
1.45/3.45/8.15
5.45
Sat 1 Micmacs
3 German plus Rain (GoF)
3 How to Become Myself (GoF)
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
1.15
3.30/6.15/8.45
2.00
3.45/8.15
5.45
Sun 1 Pooh’s Heffalump Movie (WW)
14 1 Micmacs
3 Fourteen (GoF)
3 The Limits of Control
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.30
1.15
3.30/6.15/8.45
1.00
3.45/6.00
8.15
Mon 1 Pooh’s Heffalump Movie (WW)
15 1 Micmacs
Mar 1 Z (G)
2 Mugabe and the White African
10.30am
2.30/8.45
6.00
3.30/8.45
6.15
3.15/6.00
8.15
Tue 1 Micmacs
Mar 2 Mugabe and the White African
3 Head On (EC)
3.30/6.00/8.30
2.30/8.45
6.15
1.15
3.45/8.50
5.45
Wed 1 Micmacs
17 1 The White Stripes: Under...
2 Rembetiko (G)
2.30/6.00
8.30
1.15
3.30/8.45
6.15
3.15/6.00
8.15
DAY
DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Thu 1 Micmacs
3 Small Revolts (G)
2.30/6.00/8.30
3.30/8.45
6.15
3.15/8.15
5.45
Fri 1 A Prophet
19 1 Micmacs
Mar 2 Micmacs
2 Lysistrata (G)
3 The Headless Woman
3 The Scouting Book for Boys
2.15/8.15
5.45
1.15/3.30/8.30
6.00
1.30/6.15
3.45/8.45
Sat 1 Carmen
20 1 A Prophet
Mar 1 Micmacs
2 Blue Velvet (SoF)
2 Micmacs
2 Samson & Delilah
3 Slaves in Their Bonds (G)
1.30 (£15/£10)
5.15
8.30
1.00 + intro
4.00
6.15
8.30
1.30
3.45/8.45
6.00
Sun 1 A Prophet
21 1 The Hurt Locker
Mar 2 Themis (G)
2 Micmacs
2 The Flea (G)
2.15/8.15
5.30
1.15
3.30/6.00
8.30
1.30/6.15
3.45/8.45
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22 1 Micmacs
Mar 1 A Prophet
1 The Hurt Locker
2 Micmacs
2 Dogtooth (G)
2 A Prophet
10.30am (babies only)
8.45
2.15
6.00
3.30
6.00
8.15
3.15/8.45
6.15
Tue 1 A Prophet
23 1 Micmacs
Mar 2 Micmacs
2 Up in the Air
2 The Hurt Locker
2.15/8.15
6.00
3.30
6.00
8.30
3.15/8.45
6.15
Wed 1 A Prophet
24 1 Micmacs
Mar 2 Micmacs
2 Up in the Air
2.15/5.45
8.55
3.30
6.00/8.30
3.15/8.45
6.15
Thu 1 A Prophet
25 1 Micmacs
Mar 2 La ciénaga
2 Micmacs
2 Up in the Air
2.15/5.45
8.55
1.15/6.00
3.30
8.30
3.15/8.45
6.15
Fri 1 Crazy Heart (AD)
26 1 Micmacs
Mar 2 Lourdes
2 Crazy Heart
3 The Kreutzer Sonata
1.00/6.00
3.30/8.30
1.15/6.00/8.15
3.30
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
Sat 1 Once Upon a Time... West (SoF)
27 1 Micmacs
Mar 1 Crazy Heart (AD)
2 Lourdes
2 Crazy Heart
1.00
4.15/8.55
6.30
1.15/6.00/8.15
3.30
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
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DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Sun 1 Pilton Video Presents: Streetwise
28 1 Micmacs
Mar 1 Crazy Heart (AD)
2 Monsters vs. Aliens (WW)
2 Lourdes
1.00
3.30/8.30
6.00
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.15
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
Mon 1 Micmacs
29 1 Crazy Heart (AD) + (S)
Mar 2 Monsters vs. Aliens (WW)
2 Lourdes
2.30/6.00
8.30 (subtitled)
10.30am
3.30/6.00/8.15
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
Tue 1 Micmacs
30 1 Crazy Heart (AD)
Mar 2 Lourdes
2.30/6.00
8.30
3.30/6.00/8.15
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
Wed 1 Micmacs
Mar 2 Lourdes
2 Micmacs
2.30/6.00
8.30
3.30/6.15
8.30
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
Thu 1 Micmacs
Apr 2 La niña santa
2 Lourdes
2.30/8.30
6.00
1.15/6.00
3.30/8.15
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
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SEASONS:
(EC) – Introduction to European Cinema (page 20)
(G) – Greek Film Festival (pages 14-15)
(GoF) – Girls on Film: Females in Contemporary
Japanese Cinema (pages 16-17)
(SoF) – The Sound of Film (page 18)
(WW) – Weans’ World (page 9)
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Greek Film Festival
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Z
REMBETIKO
SLAVES IN THEIR BONDS
Greek Film
Festival
Z
Small Revolts Mikres exegerseis
Mon 15 Mar at 6.00pm
Thu 18 Mar at 5.45pm
Costa-Gavras • France/Algeria 1969 • 2h7m • 35mm
French with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques
Perrin, Charles Denner.
Kyriakos Katzourakis • Greece 2009 • 1h44m • 35mm
Greek with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Katia Yerou, Dimitris Plionis, Martha Fritzila, Nikolas
Papagiannis, Arto Apartian.
This year’s festival is bookended by two superb films,
one representing classic Greek cinema and the other
the new wave of Greek filmmakers. Costas-Gavras’
political thriller Z, shot whilst in exile, is the opening
night film; and Giorgos Lanthimos’ graphic, twisted
and brilliant Cannes prizewinner Dogtooth closes
the festival. In between there is the opportunity to
sample the best in classic Greek cinema, with Costas
Ferris’ award-laden Rembetiko, Yorgos Zervoulakis’
adaptation of a play by Aristophanes, Lysistrata, and
Dimitris Spyrou’s forgotten masterpiece, The Flea.
New Greek cinema is represented through Adonis
Lykouresis’ adaptation of the novel by Constantinos
Theotokis, Slaves in Their Bonds, a new film by
Kyriakos Katzourakis, Small Revolts, and the highly
entertaining documentary critique of the Greek court
system, Themis.
Costa-Gavras’ left wing thriller was based on the 1965
Lambrakis affair, in which investigation of the accidental
death of a medical professor uncovered a network of
police and government corruption. As Greece was under
the Colonels at the time, the film was shot in Algeria,
with a script by Spaniard Jorge Semprun and music
by Theodorakis. The recreation of the murder and the
subsequent investigation uses the techniques of an
American thriller to gripping effect.
Manos, a young artist from Athens, is thrilled to discover
a beautiful mural by Panselinos in a northern border town.
He is even more inspired when he meets a young woman,
Anna, who looks just like the painting. Anna, married to an
abusive man, is mesmerised by Manos’ kindness, and they
begin a passionate affair. When Anna falls pregnant, she
decides to keep the baby and leave her husband.
Rembetiko
Lysistrata
Wed 17 Mar at 6.15pm
Fri 19 Mar at 6.00pm
Special thanks to Katy Logothieti for her continued
assistance and support with this festival.
TICKETDEALS
See any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% off
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Tickets must all be bought at the same time.
Costas Ferris • Greece 1983 • 1h50m • 35mm
Greek with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Sotira Leonardou, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Michalis Maniatis,
Themis Bazaka, Nikos Dimitratos.
Rembetiko is a passionate exploration of rembetika music:
a form of urban blues that expresses the history and depth
of Greek culture. The film charts the tragic true story of
one of Greece’s most popular rembetiko singers, Marika
Ninou (Sotiria Leonardou): her professional successes and
personal disasters. Her rise as a singer is shadowed by key
moments in Greek history, such as the Nazi occupation
and the Civil War. Her life is full of torment, and her pain
is evident in her singing. Marika Ninou is as cherished in
Greece as Edith Piaf is in France.
Yorgos Zervoulakis • Greece 1972 • 1h40m • 35mm
Greek with English subtitles • PG
Cast: Jenny Karezi, Kostas Kazakos, Anna Fonsou, Dionysis
Papagiannopoulos, Anna Matzourani.
Aristophanes’ ancient Greek play is brought to life in this
adaptation starring Jenny Karezi and Kostas Kazakos.
Lysistrata is the Athenian woman disgusted by the way
men have ruined the country with their endless war.
Rallying other women, she proposes that they impose an
embargo on sexual relations with men as long as the war
lasts. The film liberates the action from the stage, places
it on location in the Acropolis, and renders Aristophanes’
plea in a forceful manner.
Greek Film Festival
THE FLEA
Slaves in Their Bonds
The Flea O psyllos
Oi sklavoi sta desma tous
Sun 21 Mar at 8.30pm
Sat 20 Mar at 6.00pm
Dimitris Spyrou • Greece 1990 • 1h48m • 35mm
Greek with English subtitles • PG
Cast: Pantelis Trivizas, Vassilis Kolovos, Dimitra Hatoupi, Amalia Giza.
Adonis Lykouresis • Greece 2008 • 2h7m • 35mm
Greek with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Giannis Fertis, Dimitra Matsouka, Akis Sakellariou, Christos
Loulis, Eirini Inglesi.
An aristocratic Corfu family propels itself toward rack and
ruin in this adaptation of Konstantinos Theotokis’ classic
novel. Count Ofiomahos (Giannis Fertis) is up to his ears in
debt and decides to sell his daughter Evlalia (Rinio Kyriazi)
off to social climber Dr Steriotis (Akis Sakellariou). Though
in love with a worthier suitor, she reluctantly agrees to
save the family’s honour – a concept her weak or wastrel
siblings cannot comprehend.
‘The Flea’ is a little handwritten newspaper written, edited
and published by Ilias, a determined twelve year-old
schoolboy who lives in a remote village in the mountains
near ancient Olympia. His efforts go largely unappreciated
by his elders, who tease him and nickname him ‘The Flea’,
and his concerned parents are convinced his preoccupation
with his newspaper will distract him from more serious
studies and forbid him to continue it. But the villagers’
scoffing at Ilias’ ambitions changes to admiration when an
Athenian journalist shows up to do a story on him...
Themis
Dogtooth Kynodontas
Mon 22 Mar at 6.00pm
Markos Gastin • Greece 2008 • 1h20m • Beta SP
Greek with English subtitles • 12A
Documentary
Giorgos Lanthimos • Greece 2009 • 1h37m
Digital projection Greek with English subtitles
18 – Contains incest theme and infrequent real sex
Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia.
One in ten Greeks goes to court at least once a year. The
courtroom is a miniature of society, a small theatre where
everyday differences are played out and resolved. For the
first time, a camera is allowed inside the Athens Court of
First Instance to record ‘ordinary’ trials; these eloquent
and moving dramas of everyday life make for a thoroughly
engaging documentary.
A patriarch leaves his house on the outskirts of town each
day to go to work in a factory, though his family remain
home, barred from going outside its grounds. His son and
two daughters remain completely unaware of what’s going
on in the outside world, while their mother is complicit
in never allowing them out. Recognising that his son has
reached an age where he may have certain needs to be
catered for, father brings a woman into the household so
that she might have sex with the lad. Her interaction with
the family provokes a bizarre and vicious chain of events...
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Girls on Film
NON-KO
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Girls on Film: Females in
Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Following last year’s successful Reality Fiction: Japanese Films Inspired by Actual Events season, this year’s
Japan Foundation annual touring film programme looks at contemporary Japanese cinema made for, about,
and in some cases by, women.
Women have continuously been at the centre of Japanese cinema, with notable examples being films by Kenji
Mizoguchi and Mikio Naruse, and even the animation works of Hayao Miyazaki. In the world of Japanese
cinema, female characters embrace “more dramatic possibilities” since they have “much stronger feelings
than men” as Shochiku company president, Shiro Kido, once described.
In the 21st century, the roles of Japanese women are no longer constrained to the simple archetypes of
mother, wife or daughter as they were in the 50s. The lives of modern women are much more diverse, as are
the various issues and problems that they face, mirroring contemporary Japanese society. This richness in the
versatility of women’s issues continues to provide inspiration to contemporary filmmakers, as does the strong
appetite of female cinema-goers in Japan (currently making up 70% of cinema audiences).
The films chosen for this season may not represent all of Japanese society. They are nonetheless some of
the best produced in Japan in recent years, showcasing how Japanese contemporary filmmakers, from the
very established, such as the late Jun Ichikawa, to young and promising filmmakers, like Satoko Yokohama,
approach the issues facing women (including adolescents) and how different their treatments of this subject
are. The season also tries to demonstrate that the perpetual theme of the female still occupies a significant
position in Japanese cinema.
This year’s film season includes some works by female directors, reflecting the exciting trend of a marked
increase in the number of female directors working in the Japanese film industry. The mix of films included in
this programme may also allow audiences to compare and contrast the views of female directors to their male
counterparts.
This film season is produced and organised by the Japan Foundation with advice from Jasper Sharp.
KAMOME DINER
Non-ko Non-ko 36-sai: Kaji tetsudai
Kazuyoshi Kumakiri • Japan 2008 • 1h45m • 35mm
Japanese with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Maki Sakai, Gen Hoshino, Shingo Tsurumi, Kanji Tsuda.
Nonko, a 36-year-old divorced ex-actress, returns
home to her family, where her father is a priest at a local
Shinto shrine. Disillusioned and lonely, she takes out her
frustration by drinking herself to oblivion at a local bar,
until she meets up with a naïve young man who is trying to
make his fortune by selling baby chicks. Maki Sakai gives a
stellar performance in the title role of Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s
uplifting portrait of a woman of complexity.
Asyle Park and Love Hotel
Thu 11 Mar at 5.45pm
Izuru Kumasaka • Japan 2007 • 1h51m • 35mm
Cast: Lily, Hikari Kajiwara, Chiharu, Sachi Jinno, Ken Mitsuishi.
A haven for clandestine lovers turns out to be more than
most passers-by would imagine in this independent drama.
The Parku Ando is a ‘love hotel’ in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district,
where couples can rent a room for a night or by the hour
for romantic assignations. However, few of its regular
customers seem to come there for sexual encounters; the
hotel has become a hangout for rootless teenagers, senior
citizens looking for a place to relax, and kids who play
under the watchful eye of manager Tsuyako (Lily). Tsuyako
and her friend Tsuki handle the day to day business at the
hotel, and while they can be tough when they need to be,
they’re also capable of kindness to strangers...
Girls on Film
GERMAN PLUS RAIN
How to Become Myself
Fri 12 Mar at 5.45pm
Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata
Naoko Ogigami • Japan 2006 • 1h42m • 35mm
Japanese and Finnish with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Satomi Kobayashi, Hairi Katagiri, Masako Motai, Jarkko Niemi,
Tarja Markus.
A heartwarming human drama that portrays the interaction
between the owner of a restaurant and the people who
gather there. After moving to Helsinki on a whim, Sachie
opens a diner, Ruokala Lokki. With the help of two
Japanese women travelling through Finland, she slowly
develops relationships with the locals, like Japan-fanatic
Tommi and a mysterious man who teaches Sachie how to
make the best cup of coffee.
FOURTEEN
HOW TO BECOME MYSELF
Kamome Diner Kamome Shokudo
Jun Ichikawa • Japan 2007 • 1h37m • 35mm
Cast: Riko Narumi, Atsuko Maeda, Mariko Ishihara, Yoshizumi
Ishihara, Sosuke Takaoka.
Two schoolfriends struggle with notions of identity and
selfhood in this drama from the late Jun Ichikawa (director
of Tony Takitani). Juri plays the role of the ideal daughter
at home and in school, but all she really wants is for her
parents to stop fighting. Deep down, she admires her
popular primary school classmate Kanako. However,
Kanako suddenly becomes the class outcast...
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by Tony Cownie
Fourteen Juyon-sai
German plus Rain German + Ame
Satoko Yokohama • Japan 2007 • 1h11m • DigiBeta
Cast: Yoshimi Nozaki, Peter Hyman, Suzune Fujioka, Yuki Tokunaga.
One of the most startling debuts of the year, Satoko
Yokohama’s exuberant movie centres on an indomitable
female misfit. 16-year-old Yoshiko has lived alone since
her parents divorced. She works as a gardener’s assistant
alongside a young German guy, and is determined to
make it as a singer-songwriter… One-time office worker
Yokohama largely funded this herself, using money she
won at the CO2 Festival in Osaka with the graduation short
she made at Tokyo Film School. Other Japanese movies
have touched on serious issues like broken families, social
ostracism and child abuse, but none has this much wild
humour, or a heroine to compare with Yoshiko.
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BITTER
TWISTED
DARK
HILARIOUS
Hiromasa Hirosue • Japan 2006 • 1h54m • 35mm
Cast: Hiromasa Hirosue, Akie Namiki, Teruyui Kagawa, Shota
Sometani.
Ryo is a young teacher who, unlike her colleagues, does
not adopt an authoritarian attitude to the adolescents she
has in her care. She does not realise that, by doing this, she
is putting herself at risk, and will be confronted by her own
dark past. An atmospheric and subtle drama.
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The Sound of Film
A MAN ESCAPED
BLUE VELVET
The Sound
of Film
This short season is organised in conjunction
with The Sound of Film, an 11-week course
held at the University of Edinburgh’s Office of
Lifelong Learning.
Still comparatively under-explored in the area
of Film Studies, Sound and Music is a crucial
part of the film-viewing experience. The course
examines the use of sound and music in the
cinema from the pre-sound era to the present
through the work of filmmakers such as Bresson,
Scorsese and Tarkovsky and composers such as
Steiner, Hermann and Morricone.
These screenings are open to all and will be
introduced by course tutor Pasquale Iannone.
Post-screening discussions will focus on the
films’ use of sound and music.
For course details contact The Office of Lifelong
Learning at the University of Edinburgh,
telephone 0131 650 4400, email [email protected]
www.ed.ac.uk/openstudies
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
A Man Escaped
Blue Velvet
Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent
souffle où il veut
Sat 20 Mar at 1.00pm + intro
Robert Bresson • France 1956 • 1h41m • 35mm
French and German with English subtitles • U
Cast: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock,
Roland Monod, Jacques Ertaud.
Avoiding all the clichés of the prison movie genre, Robert
Bresson presents a highly minimalist depiction of a prisoner
plotting a jailbreak, and is still able to evoke incredible
suspense despite the fact that the film frequently consists
of little more than a man toiling away quietly in his cell.
Neither Bresson’s seemingly odd choice of a past-tense
title, nor the fact that the film is based on a real WWII event
in which a prisoner successfully escaped a German-run
jail in occupied France, lessens the film’s impact. Bresson
inserts a spiritual element into the prisoner’s behaviour by
emphasising the ritualistic nature of his daily activities, and
by showing how group activity and trust are required to
resist evil, personified by the Nazi captors. Gripping and
sublime, A Man Escaped is a cinematic masterpiece.
TICKETDEAL
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.
David Lynch • USA 1986 • 2h • 35mm • 18
Cast: Kyle McLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rosselini, Laura Dern.
After shy adolescent Jeffrey (MacLachlan) discovers a
severed ear in an overgrown backlot, he embarks upon
an investigation that leads him into a hellish netherworld,
where he observes – and comes to participate in
– a terrifying sado-masochistic relationship between
damsel-in-distress Dorothy (Rossellini) and mad mobster
Frank Booth (Hopper). Grafting on to this story his own
idiosyncratic preoccupations, Lynch creates a visually
stunning, convincingly coherent portrait of a nightmarish
substratum to conventional, respectable society.
Once Upon a Time in the West
C’era una volta il West
Sergio Leone • Italy/USA 1968 • 2h45m • 35mm • 15
Cast: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Charles
Bronson, Frank Wolff, Lionel Stander, Woody Strode.
The opening minutes of this masterpiece of western
mythology are some of the most truly audacious in film
history. A stakeout at a deserted railroad station, Jack
Elam, a fly, Woody Strode and a constantly squeaking
wind pump. The arrival of the man with the harmonica, the
enigmatic exchange of words, the shoot-out... With one of
the greatest film scores ever by Ennio Morricone, wonderful
countercasting (Henry Fonda against type as the sadistic
Frank) and spectacular locations, Leone’s revisionist/
revolutionary critique of the Classic American Creation
Myth is pure cinema, an essential big screen experience.
The Blood of the Rose/Stolen/The White Stripes...
THE BLOOD OF THE ROSE
STOLEN
SPECIALEVENTS
SPECIALEVENT
Two special screenings in association with the Scottish Documentary Institute, followed by director
Q&A sessions. The directors will also take part in masterclasses, held at Edinburgh College of Art from
2pm to 5pm, Henry Singer on Friday 5 March and Violeta Ayala on Friday 12 March. Places are free but
please email [email protected] to book.
Go to www.docscene.org for more information.
The Blood of the Rose
Stolen
Sun 7 Mar at 3.30pm + Q&A
Fri 12 Mar at 6.15pm + Q&A
Henry Singer • UK/Japan/Germany 2009 • 1h30m • DigiBeta
15 • Documentary
Violeta Ayala & Dan Fallshaw • Australia 2009 • 1h16m
DigiBeta Hassanya, Spanish and English with English subtitles
15 • Documentary
Henry Singer’s gripping film tells the story of the
extraordinary life and brutal death of filmmaker-turnedconservationist Joan Root, and of her campaign to save her
beloved Lake Naivasha in Kenya.
THE WHITE STRIPES: UNDER GREAT WHITE NORTHERN LIGHTS
The film is both a biopic and a classic whodunit. Who killed
Joan Root? Was it the fish poachers, whom Root stopped
from plying their illegal trade in a bid to save the lake?
Was it her once-loyal staff member Chege, whom Root
ultimately cut off from her payroll? Or was it someone closer
to home? Through telling the story, Singer opens a window
onto the simmering tensions in an Africa still emerging
from colonialism and anxious to take its place in the global
economy. For it is the Kenyan rose, which is exported by
the millions from Naivasha to the rest of the world, that has
brought not just jobs and foreign exchange earnings, but
also the environmental destruction that Root worked so hard
to stop, and which may have ultimately cost her her life.
What starts out for filmmakers Violeta Ayala and Daniell
Fallshaw as a family reunion in a refugee camp in Algeria
turns into a dangerous political game. Initially, the
documentary filmmakers concentrate on the story of Fetim
and her family, who live in the refugee camps run by the
Polisario Liberation Front. The more the family tells about
everyday life, the more painfully clear it becomes that the
camp is in the grip of a great taboo: slavery. The Polisario
authorities are less than pleased about the news that Ayala
and Fallshaw want to share with the world and attempt to
detain the filmmakers, who flee and bury the tapes they have
recorded in the desert. Stolen has since become the subject
of a great deal of commotion. Fetim has stated her words
were wrongly interpreted, and denies she is a slave. The
filmmakers believe that the Polisario tried to block the film
and are now attempting to undermine their story. In any case,
this compelling work is guaranteed to spark intense debate.
Director Henry Singer will take part in a Q&A following the
screening.
Director Violeta Ayala will take part in a Q&A following the
screening.
The White Stripes: Under Great
White Northern Lights
Emmett Malloy • USA 2009 • 1h32m • Digital projection • 15
Documentary
In the summer of 2007, just after the release of Icky Thump
and in the lead-up to their tenth anniversary, The White
Stripes set out on an ambitious and idiosyncratic tour,
aiming to play in every province and territory in Canada,
“from the ocean to the permafrost,” as Jack White put it.
Filmmaker Emmett Malloy was invited along, and was able
to record this beautifully shot and often very touching
document of their journey on and off stage. The nighttime gigs often have the feel of being big events in small
towns, whilst during the day, Jack and Meg play a variety
of ‘secret’ shows – in pool halls, schools, bowling alleys,
even a flour mill – where their blues roots resonate with
many of the communities they visit. This version of The
White Stripes, best seen in a wonderful scene with a group
of Inuit elders, is less the cool, successful rock and roll
band, and more as curious if musically gifted duo in search
of authentic experiences. Alongside this, the intimate
moments between the acutely private Meg and her ersatz
brother are fascinating, and the ultimate poignancy of
the film is every bit as haunting as the wide Canadian
landscapes.
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Introduction to European Cinema/Opera from La Scala
TALK TO HER
Introduction to
European Cinema
An invaluable opportunity to discover or to
learn more about great classics as well as
less known films that are representative of
key periods and movements in European
cinema.
Organised in parallel with the Edinburgh
University programmes in Film Studies,
the screenings are part of undergraduate
and graduate students’ syllabuses, but are
equally open to regular members of the
Filmhouse public. Films are preceded by
short presentations by Pasquale Iannone
from the Film Studies Programme at the
University of Edinburgh, and followed by
question and answer sessions, allowing
those spectators who wish to do so to take
part in informal discussions and ask specific
questions about the film they have just
seen.
HEAD ON
Talk to Her Hable con ella
Tue 9 Mar at 5.45pm + intro
Pedro Almodóvar • Spain 2002 • 1h53m • 35mm
Spanish with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong language and sexual references
Cast: Javier Cámara, Dario Grandinetti, Rosario Flores, Leonor
Watling, Geraldine Chaplin.
Benigno (Javier Cámara) is an inoffensive male nurse
with a sinister secret that belies his name. Marco (Darío
Grandinetti) is a restless travel writer who can no longer
ignore his problems at home. Both come to care for
girlfriends in a coma. Almodóvar’s most audacious script,
which won him a second Academy Award, dares to
disorientate the viewer, jumping backwards and forwards
in time and slowly knitting together the fates of its four
protagonists. Talk to Her is Almodóvar’s most moving essay
on the impossibility and the necessity of love.
Head On Gegen die Wand
Tue 16 Mar at 5.45pm + intro
Fatih Akin • Germany/Turkey 2004 • 2h2m • 35mm
German, Turkish and English with English subtitles • 18 – Contains
very strong language, strong sex, hard drug use and suicide theme
Cast: Birol Unel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck, Meltem Cumbul.
Raw, impassioned and provocative, German/Turkish drama
Head On lives up to its title in its opening minutes, as angry
alcoholic Cahit (Birol Unel) deliberately drives his car into
a wall. This failed suicide attempt brings him together with
Sibel (Sibel Kekilli), the equally desperate daughter of strict
Muslim Turks, who begs Cahit to join her in a marriage of
convenience. Soon enough, though, faked feelings turn
real in a film that’s part comedy, part tragedy and filled with
a sense of edgy surprise.
CARMEN
Opera from
La Scala
Carmen Georges Bizet
Sat 20 Mar at 1.30pm – TICKETS £15/£10 concession
2009 • 3h30m • Digital projection • French with English subtitles • 12A
Georges Bizet, who died soon after the first run of
‘Carmen’, never enjoyed the success and fame of his
creation. ‘Carmen’ wasn’t initially well received, but
became and still is one of the most famous and most
popular work in the opera repertoire. It tells the story of the
fatal attraction between Carmen, the hot-blooded gypsy,
and Don José, the upstanding corporal in the Spanish army
who’s already engaged to another woman.
This production, filmed live at Teatro all Scala in December
2009 on the opening night of the new Opera Season, brings
together the new generation of opera stars, including the
German tenor Jonas Kaufmann, the Uruguayan baritone
Erwin Schrott, the Italian soprano Adriana Damato, and
Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili.
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Cast Includes: Anita Rachvelishvili, Jonas Kaufmann, Erwin
Schrott, Adriana Damato
NB: The screening will include two 15-minute intermissions,
one after Act I (55 min) and a second after Act II (45 min).
Acts III and IV combined are 60 minutes, plus there will be
approximately 15 minutes of advertising at the beginning of
the screening, so it will end at approximately 5pm.
Pray the Devil Back to Hell/Pilton Video Presents: Streetwise 2010
PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL
PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL
SPECIALEVENT
PILTON VIDEO PRESENTS: STREETWISE 2010 – GUERILLA GARDENERS
SPECIALEVENT
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Pilton Video Presents: Streetwise 2010
Fri 5 Mar at 6.15pm + discussion
Gini Reticker • USA 2008 • 1h12m • DigiBeta • 15 • Documentary
Various • Scotland • 2h • DVD • 12A
This award-winning documentary is the gripping account of a group of brave and visionary women who demanded peace
for Liberia, a nation torn to shreds by a decades-old civil war. The women’s historic yet unsung achievement finds voice
in a narrative that intersperses contemporary interviews, archival images, and scenes of present-day Liberia together to
recount the experiences and memories of the women who were instrumental in bringing lasting peace to their country.
Primary Park Written & directed by Leo Bruges
When Brian, a nine year mixed race boy, is bullied out of
his local playpark, he looks to his hero Barack Obama to
find the courage to face the bullies. But will he succeed?
The screening will be followed by a discussion.
When II Worlds Collide Written & directed by Garry Fraser
Jai, a teenage boy from a shattered family, crosses the class
divide into his girlfriend’s world.
The Africa in Motion film festival has teamed up with Women for Women International to screen this film, which Feminist
Review called a ‘model of what is possible and what should be strived for in times of naked tyranny and oppression.’
Since 1993, Women for Women International has empowered over 243,000 women survivors of war to move towards
economic self-sufficiency by providing financial and emotional support, jobs and business skills training, rights and
leadership education. In their 16-year history they have distributed £42 million in direct aid, micro credit loans, and other
programme services.
The screening will kick off Women for Women International’s JOIN WOMEN campaign that culminates on 8 March on
International Women’s Day as thousands of women worldwide gather on bridges to honour the resilience of women
survivors of war around the world, in a global women’s movement showing that women can build the bridges of peace
and development for the future. Thousands of women from Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Sudan, Nigeria, as well as
in the United States and the United Kingdom stand together to say ‘no’ to war and ‘yes’ to peace. The Edinburgh Join Me
on the Bridge event will kick-off at 12pm in Princes Street Gardens.
Proceeds from this screening will go to Women for Women International.
For more information about the JOIN WOMEN campaign visit: www.womenforwomen.org/bridge
GirlTM Written by Fraser Edmond, directed by Catriona Ruth Paterson
Ben’s dream girl arrives for his birthday. Rob, useless in love,
wants one too. Ben leaves town and presents Rob with an
opportunity not to be missed – with tragic consequences.
Street Pastors
Directed & produced by Genevieve Bicknell & Magda Dragan
Late evening on the drunken streets of Edinburgh, the
Street Pastors go out to ‘help, care and listen’...
A Tramline Runs Through It
Directed by Jon Pullman, produced by Lorna Sinclair
It was supposed to be an iconic transport system for
Scotland’s capital, but as project costs have escalated and
the route downsized, only a single line remains – forging its
determined way from airport to ocean.
Guerrilla Gardeners
Directed and produced by The Velveteen Screen Collective
Across the city a growing army of disaffected gardeners
are reclaiming land left to ruin. But just who are these
green fingered rebels?
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More Than Movies
EXHIBITION: DANIEL KILLEEN
EXHIBITION: DANIEL KILLEEN
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Create and Animate for Wee People Tuesday 6 April
Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea
and enjoy one of our superb cakes.
This easy peasy and very fun day will see you making up characters to put in your own stories. We’ll learn how to
make your new friends move, and then make a brilliant short film for them to star in!
Age group: 5 - 9 Duration: 10am – 3pm (lunch not included) Cost: £15 Book: 0131 228 2688
Create and Animate for Bigger People Wednesday 7 - Friday 9 April
A three day course where you’ll learn what makes good characters, before creating, designing, animating and
editing a short film. This is a brilliant start for anyone interested in animation who wants a simple and fun way to
learn the basics.
Age group: 10 - 15 Duration: 10am – 3pm (lunch not included) Cost: £45 Book: 0131 228 2688
Train Your Eye Workshop Tuesday 13 April
This one day photography course will be spent working with a talented photographer learning to see the world in a
different way and offering an opportunity to take personal images which can then be downloaded and discussed.
Each student will select an image to be processed and framed to have an opening and exhibition later in the week.
Students can bring their own cameras or use mobile phones – or we can provide a shared camera to use.
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Create a Character Workshop Monday 19 April
A workshop where we’ll be looking at the best characters from the big and small screen. Be prepared to have fun
making your own creations, ready to be dropped into a script, performance or showing-off-at-a-party!
Age group: 9 - 14 Duration: 10am – 3pm (bring packed lunch) Cost: £15 Book: 0131 228 2688
Screenwriters Group 18 Mar, 15 Apr, 19 Aug, 16 Sep, 21 Oct, 18 Nov, 16 Dec
‘Screenwriters, EH’ holds free monthly meetings for screenwriters and filmmakers. Meetings include talks
from film industry professionals, workshopping with actors, and feedback on members’ scripts, and always
incorporate time for networking and film-related chat. Meetings are from 7pm - 10pm, free and open to all.
More information can be found at www.scottishscreenwriters.ning.com
Exhibition: Daniel Killeen 1 - 31 March
A collection of paintings by Daniel Killeen, exploring the relationship between person and environment.
Daniel travels round Scotland to sites of interest which allow him to find a particular feeling which he wishes
to translate to image. www.danielkilleen.com
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