04 Mar - Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh

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4 MAR 16 31 MAR 16
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Iona
Chronic
Marguerite
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Anomalisa
The Pearl Button
Sunday Double Bills
Italian Film Festival
CRIME: Hong Kong Style
Filmhouse Junior
Scotland Loves Anime
Where You’re Meant to Be
Screening Irish History: 1916 and its Legacy
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INDEX
SCREENING DATES AND TIMES
TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
INDEX
14-15
15
27
‘7122
1916: The Irish Rebellion
22
Adventure Film Festival
10-12
After Lucia
5
Anna18
Anomalisa10
Anthem of the Heart
23
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans...
8
Bastards24
Beginners17
Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure...
13
Bone Tomahawk
10
Call Me Francesco
16
Capture the Flag
13
Chlorine18
Chronic5
Cría cuervos
11
20-21
Don’t Be Bad
16
Double Bill: Fargo + Kumiko, the...
19
Double Bill: La peau douce + Vertigo
20
Education and Learning
26
Election21
Filmhouse Café Bar + Film Quiz
26
Filmhouse Explorer
4
Filmhouse Junior
12-13
Filmhouse Membership
28
Filmosophy: Three Colours
25
Freeheld6
God Willing
17
Goosebumps13
Growing Pains - A Season of Films...
11
Hail, Caesar! 5
The Here After
6
Hitchcock/Truffaut9
The Host
7
Howl’s Moving Castle
13
In Conversation with Oliver Stone
6
Infernal Affairs
21
The Invisible Boy
16
Iona10
16-18
Jamón Jamón
24
Kim Longinotto Double Bill: Sisters...
19
Latin Lover
16
The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
18
A Letter to Momo
23
The Man Who Mends Women...
9
Marguerite8
Mary Poppins
12
Mavis!6
Michael Collins
22
Miss Hokusai
23
Northern Soul
24
Oddball and the Penguins
13
Overheard 3
20
Over the Rainbow
6
The Pearl Button
7
Penguins of Madagascar
12
Pet Shop Boys: Promo
10
The Pilferers’ Progress
21
Police Story
21
Ponyo13
Portland Street Blues
21
Power in Our Hands
11
The Propaganda Game
9
Psycho-Pass: The Movie
23
Rocco and His Brothers
17
23
Screening Europe
24
Screening Irish History: 1916 and its Legacy 22
Shake Hands with the Devil
22
Short and Sweet: Animation for Kids
13
Signed Up
11
Spotlight5
Sunday Double Bills
19
Sworn Virgin
18
Talbot Rice Gallery... Michael Poetschko
8
That Demon Within
20
They Call Me Jeeg Robot
17
Three Colours: Blue
25
Three Colours: Red
25
Three Colours: White
25
The Visit
18
12
You Can’t Save Yourself Alone
17
Young Soul Rebels
24
Youth 7
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In all three screens we have a system which
enables us, whenever the necessary digital
files are available, to show onscreen captions
for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing,
and provide audio description (via infra-red
headsets) for those who are sight-impaired.
This issue, all screenings of Spotlight, Hail,
Caesar! and Youth have audio description, and
the following screenings will have onscreen
captions:
Tue 8 Mar at 6.10pm Spotlight
Mon 14 Mar at 6.05pm Youth
Tue 22 Mar at 8.45pm Hail, Caesar!
FORCRYINGOUTLOUD
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£4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings
are strictly limited to babies under 12 months
accompanied by no more than two adults.
Babychanging, bottle-warming and buggy parking
facilities are available.
Mon 7 Mar at 11am Hail, Caesar!
Mon 14 Mar at 11am Mavis!
Mon 21 Mar at 11am Hitchcock/Truffaut
Mon 28 Mar at 11am Cría cuervos
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Introduction
HAIL, CAESAR!
MARGUERITE
ANOMALISA
YOUTH
German comedians and demented old ladies...
As I write this I’m attending the Berlin International Film Festival - or as they call it, the Berlinale - as a ‘hired hand’ for our sister organisation EIFF, watching as
many films as I can in the hope of bringing the good ones to you this June. I caught the rather delightful Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! on the opening night, and
though I’m not important enough a guest of the festival to rate an invite to the ceremony itself, I did get into a simultaneous screening that beams the entire
red carpet and opening ceremony onto the screen prior to the film. Yes, all 75 minutes of it! (If I’m honest, I’m not important enough to get into that screening
either - I was given the ticket by someone who is!) The proceedings are hosted, as they have been for years I am told, by a German actress/comedian... let’s just say
Henning Wenn may indeed be unique. The worst/best of it was when The Mayor of Berlin was welcomed across the stage with something like “and now, Müller’s
Crossing”, (his name is Müller, and yes, she had to explain the joke too) which saw the Coens sinking even further into their seats. (I don’t think such events are
their natural habitat, to be fair.)
However, the undisputed highlight of the night was Jury President Meryl Streep, on camera and visibly annoyed whilst not getting a joke about her being more
accustomed to receiving than giving (awards, one had to assume) and if I’m any kind of lip reader appearing to mouth a well-known vulgar interrogative. And
there’s more: Meryl was introduced on stage by a short film that described her role in The Iron Lady as “covering Margaret Thatcher’s life from tough politician to
demented old lady” which I’m sure isn’t what they really meant... ahem.
As mentioned previously the big film of the month is the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar!, the framing plot of which sees Golden era Hollywood ‘fixer’ Eddie Mannix
(Josh Brolin) keeping his Studio’s productions running despite, amongst a host of other things, the kidnapping by ‘Commie’ scriptwriters of the big star of their
biblical epic (of the same name), Baird Whitlock (George Clooney). The recreations of studio staple fare being made on the lot are a constant pleasure - an On The
Town-style musical, an Esther Williams-style swimming extravaganza, a low budget western, etc. - featuring a host of delicious performances from the likes of
Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson. Marguerite is a marvellous French riff on the real life story of a rich American socialite in the
1920s who fancied herself as an opera singer - including performing in public - despite being utterly tone deaf. Her entourage, including her husband, chose not
to point out her vocal limitations... (As chance would have it, there is a US version of the same story starring the aforementioned Meryl Streep in the title role of
Florence Foster Jenkins that will no doubt be coming our way fairly soon.) Charlie Kaufman’s strikingly original Anomalisa and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth get an airing
as well. And it’s time again for our annual Italian Film Festival, in an impressive 23rd edition.
Arrivederci amici miei!
Rod White, Head of Filmhouse
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Filmhouse Explorer
ANOMALISA
MAVIS!
IONA
Filmhouse Explorer
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we screen. We know going to the cinema a lot can be quite expensive, so we’ve
devised a ticket deal to make it cheaper to see films beyond the big new releases.
Here’s how it works: buy a ticket for a film in the left hand column below, and you
will receive a voucher that will entitle you, on handing it in at the Box Office, to 50%
off a full price ticket to any film (or any film in any season) listed in the right hand
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Youth (page 7)
Marguerite (page 8)
Anomalisa (page 9)
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Chronic (page 5)
The Propaganda Game (page 9)
Hitchcock/Truffaut (page 9)
Italian Film Festival (pages 16-18)
CRIME: Hong Kong Style (pages 20-21)
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Main Features
SPOTLIGHT
HAIL, CAESAR!
MAYBEYOUMISSED
CHRONIC
NEWRELEASE
AFTER LUCIA
NEWRELEASE
Spotlight
Hail, Caesar!
Chronic
Showing from Fri 26 Feb
Showing from Fri 4 Mar
Fri 4 to Thu 10 Mar
Tom McCarthy • USA 2015 • 2h9m • Digital • 15 - Contains
child sexual abuse references
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev
Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci.
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen • USA/UK 2016 • 1h46m • Digital
12A - Contains infrequent moderate sex references • Cast: Josh
Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson,
Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton.
The story of the Boston Globe newspaper’s tenacious
Spotlight team and their investigation into allegations of
sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is deftly brought to
the screen in Tom McCarthy’s (Win Win, The Station Agent)
quietly gripping Spotlight.
Starring Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber
and Michael Keaton, this award-winning film is a taut and
compelling procedural drama, based on actual events
from 2001.
New editor Marty Baron (Schreiber) takes charge of the
Globe, and urges the relatively autonomous Spotlight
team to pursue a small story of hidden abuse within the
church. Their search uncovers a staggering pattern of
systematic abuses, corruption and cover-ups, far beyond
anything they imagined, leading to a wave of revelations
around the world.
It’s a busy day at Capital Pictures Studios for fixer Eddie
Mannix (Josh Brolin). Production has been halted on
sword-and-sandals epic Hail, Caesar!, as gleaming-teethed
star Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) goes missing,
bringing rival gossip columnists Thessaly Thacker (Tilda
Swinton) and Thora Thacker (Tilda Swinton) onto the
scene. Meanwhile, Merrily We Dance director Laurence
Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes) is having difficulties in getting
cowboy actor Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) to acclimate
to his new career in drawing-room drama. And aquatic
musical Jonah’s Daughter is in danger of running aground
on the personal problems of troubled star DeeAnna Moran
(Scarlett Johansson).
Returning to the Hollywood-inspired period homages of
Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy and O Brother, Where
Art Thou?, but with the added touch of Altman-inspired
ensemblism, the Coen Brothers’ 17th feature promises
much mirth and mayhem amidst the trials and tribulations
of Tinseltown.
Michel Franco • Mexico/France 2015 • 1h33m • Digital • 15 Contains brief strong sex references, infrequent strong language
Cast: Tim Roth, Sarah Sutherland, Robin Bartlett, Rachel Pickup,
Michael Cristofer, David Dastmalchian, Bitsie Tulloch, Nailea
Norvind.
David (Tim Roth) is a nurse who works with terminally
ill patients. Efficient and dedicated to his profession, he
develops strong, even intimate relationships with those
he cares for. But, outside of his work, David is awkward
and reserved as he struggles with an ongoing burden of
guilt and remorse. As the weight becomes unbearable, it
becomes clearer that David needs each of his patients as
much as they need him.
After Lucia
Después de Lucia
Thu 24 Mar at 1.10pm & 8.20pm
Michel Franco • Mexico/France 2012 • 1h43m • Digital • Spanish
with English subtitles • 15 - Contains distressing scenes of
bullying, including sexual assault
Cast: Tessa Ia, Gonzalo Vega Jr, Tamara Yazbek, Hernán Mendoza,
Monica del Carmen.
In the aftermath of his wife’s death in a car accident,
Roberto (Hernán Mendoza) and their daughter Alejandra
(Tessa Ia) move from Puerto Vallarta to Mexico City, where
Roberto plans to open a restaurant. Alejandra quickly
makes friends with the popular kids in school, but when a
drunken sexual experience is recorded and circulated, she
becomes the object of vicious bullying. Roberto’s struggle
to cope with the loss of his wife blinds him to what’s
happening to his daughter until it’s already gone too far.
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Over the Rainbow/Oliver Stone/Main Features
IN CONVERSATION WITH OLIVER STONE
FREEHELD
OVERTHERAINBOW
It’s here! It’s queer! Over the Rainbow is
Filmhouse’s monthly screening strand for new and
classic queer cinema and events.
Freeheld
THE HERE AFTER
SPECIALEVENT
In Conversation with Oliver Stone
Presented by the University of Edinburgh
and Filmhouse
Wed 9 Mar at 6.00pm
Sat 5 & Sun 6 Mar
1h40m • 15
Peter Sollett • USA 2015 • 1h41m • Digital • 12A - Contains
infrequent strong language, moderate sex references
Cast: Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Steve Carell, Michael Shannon.
Join an audience with three-time Academy Award®winner Oliver Stone. The writer and director will discuss his
illustrious career and life with experts from the University
of Edinburgh - Dr Jonny Murray of Edinburgh College
of Art and Dr David Sorfa of the School of Literatures
Languages and Cultures. A Q&A session with the audience
will follow.
Oliver Stone has written and directed more than 20 fulllength feature films, among them Platoon (1986), Born on
the Fourth of July (1989), and Nixon (1995).
An important true story from the continuing struggle for
equality is brought to light in this emotionally-charged
drama. Decorated New Jersey police detective Laurel
Hester (Julianne Moore) is left reeling when diagnosed
with terminal cancer, and even more so when she
discovers her hard-earned pension will not go to her
domestic partner Stacie Andree (Ellen Page).
In their increasingly urgent fight to change legislation
through the state’s unique ‘board of chosen freeholders’
governing system, they are joined by Laurel’s stoic
colleague Detective Wells (Michael Shannon) and
passionate activist Steven Goldstein (Steve Carell), who
help them lobby authorities and canvass for support from
fellow cops. Laurel and Stacie continue their inspiring and
courageous fight, even as time grimly marches on.
MAVIS!
NEWRELEASES
The Here After
Efterskalv
Fri 11 to Thu 17 Mar
Magnus von Horn • Sweden/Poland/France 2015 • 1h42m
Digital • Swedish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong
language, injury detail • Cast: Ulrik Munther, Mats Blomgren,
Ellen Jelinek, Loa Ek.
This measured, drip-feed drama is the impressive debut
feature of Magnus von Horn. Fresh-faced John (Swedish
pop musician, Ulrik Munther) arrives home to his father
(Mats Blomgren) and younger brother (Alexander
Nordgren) after a spell in prison. As he looks to reintegrate
into family life and school, it becomes quickly apparent
that his classmates and the wider community haven’t
forgotten his crime.
Mavis!
Fri 11 to Thu 17 Mar
Jessica Edwards • USA 2015 • 1h21m • Digital • PG
Documentary featuring Mavis Staples, The Staple Singers, Bob
Dylan, Prince, Bonnie Raitt, Chuck D.
Jessica Edwards’ Mavis! is the first documentary to tell the
story of music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples
and The Staple Singers. From their freedom songs to
hits like “I’ll Take You There”, to her collaborations with
Prince and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Mavis has inspired millions
whilst keeping her family close. And, at the age of 75,
she continues to record, win awards and reach new
generations of fans.
Featuring rare archival footage, powerful live
performances, and interviews with a panoply of music
legends, Mavis! reveals the struggles and successes of one
woman’s journey at a point when her message of love and
equality is more timely than ever.
Main Features/The Pearl Button/The Host
YOUTH
MAYBEYOUMISSED
THE PEARL BUTTON
NEWRELEASE
THE HOST
SPECIALEVENT
Youth
The Pearl Button
The Host
Sun 13 Mar at 1.30pm & Fri 25 to Thu 31 Mar
Thu 17 Mar at 6.15pm
Paolo Sorrentino • Italy/France/Switzerland/UK 2015 • 2h4m
Digital • English, Spanish and Swiss German with English
subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, sex, nudity
Cast: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane
Fonda.
Patricio Guzmán • Chile/France/Spain/Switzerland 2015 • 1h22m
Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • cert tbc
Documentary
Miranda Pennell • UK 2015 • 1h • Digital • 12A
Documentary
The visual splendour of Paolo Sorrentino’s films is such that
cinematic viewing is almost a requirement, and Youth is no
exception. Set in an elegant resort at the foot of the Swiss
Alps, Fred (Michael Caine) and Mick (Harvey Keitel) are two
old friends on holiday.
While Mick continues to work as a film director, musing
over his next screenplay, Fred has no intention of breaking
his own retirement from composing and conducting despite an unexpected request from Buckingham Palace
to perform. Fred’s daughter Lena (Rachel Weisz) - married
to Mick’s son - finds herself in emotional turmoil and,
perhaps inevitably, Fred’s paternal shortcomings in the
past are just one of the sub-narratives at play.
The supporting cast is rounded out by Paul Dano as an
actor retreating from the spotlight and a memorable turn
from Jane Fonda as Brenda Morel - a tough Hollywood
veteran with a sharp tongue.
The elegance of Sorrentino’s other work is here, but there
is also rich humour and more profound moments as the
endlessly watchable central pair meditate on ageing,
friendship, love, pain and wisdom.
The legendary Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán explores
the watery Patagonian Archipelago and its meaning in
Chilean history - from its use by Chile’s Indigenous peoples
to its function as a grave site for Pinochet’s desaparecidos
- in this visually stunning follow-up to 2010’s Nostalgia for
the Light.
In his previous film, Guzmán overlaid the ongoing search
for the regime’s victims with a contemplation of the
unfathomable mysteries of the cosmos; here, he finds
an equally poetic metaphor in another vast universe
considerably closer to home, exploring the recurring
theme of brutality throughout human history.
Combining profound metaphysical speculation with an
affecting, intimate approach, The Pearl Button asserts the
importance of memory in a world very quick to forget.
The preview screening on 13 March will be followed by
a Q&A with director Patricio Guzmán hosted by Xosé
Ramón Rivas (EIFF and IberoDocs).
While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now known as BP) filmmaker
Miranda Pennell comes across the letters of a petroleum
geologist in Iran in the 1930’s, who later embarked on a
search for the origins of civilization. The film sets out on its
own exploration to decipher signs from the fragmented
images buried in the BP archive.
This journey through images of the past interweaves
stories drawn from personal memory and from the records
of an imperial history, gradually building a picture of a 20th
century colonial encounter.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director
Miranda Pennell, hosted by Tom Nolan (Co-Director at
Rhubaba Gallery and Studios).
COMING SOON
Lost Treasure + Live Music
Thu 28 Apr at 6.30pm
Special screening of Lost Treasure - an ambitious 1956 film
project intended to tell the story of the Scottish Highlands
and its people, drawing on folk song and personal
testimony. It will feature a specially-commissioned live
score from Drew Wright (Wounded Knee) and Hamish
Brown (Swimmer One), performed live in the cinema.
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Main Features/Talbot Rice Gallery: Michael Poetschko
MARGUERITE
NEWRELEASE
Marguerite
Xavier Giannoli • France/Czech Republic/Belgium 2015 • 2h9m •
Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains infrequent
strong sex, sexualised nudity, sex references
Cast: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Denis Mpunga.
Inspired by the tragic-comic story of turn-of-the-century
American socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, Xavier
Giannoli’s title character (Catherine Frot) is a wealthy
heiress in 1920s Paris with an all-consuming love of opera
and, sadly, no singing talent whatsoever.
A devoted enthusiast, Marguerite performs to small,
private (bewildered) audiences from her wealthy Parisian
social circle. Too polite to be open and honest with her,
their backhanded compliments are enough to sustain
her passion. Surrounded by hypocrites, including her
philandering husband Georges (André Marcon) and aghast
voice coach (Michel Fau), Marguerite plans her biggest
show of all - a public concert in the centre of Paris...
Matinee Special!
If you’re a Senior Citizen you can go to a matinee
screening and get either soup of the day OR a cup
of tea or filter coffee and a traycake for only £8!
Offer runs from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and
only applies to screenings starting before 5.00pm. Ask
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receive a voucher which can be exchanged in the café
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is subject to availability and only available in person.
ATTACKING THE DEVIL: HAROLD EVANS AND THE LAST NAZI...
TALBOT RICE GALLERY PRESENTS: MICHAEL POETSCHKO
NEWRELEASE
SPECIALEVENT
Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and
the Last Nazi War Crime
Talbot Rice Gallery Presents:
Michael Poetschko
Fri 18 to Mon 21 Mar
Fri 18 Mar at 6.00pm
Jacqui Morris, David Morris • UK 2014 • 1h42m • Digital
12A - Contains brief images of Holocaust victims, hanging scene
Documentary
1h45m
As editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, Sir
Harold Evans had the freedom and resources to allow
teams of journalists to work on long-term projects.
As detailed by Evans himself in this stylish documentary,
his longest and most hard-fought campaign was for
the victims of Thalidomide. Originally developed by the
Germans in WWII to counter-effect sarin gas, post-war
the drug was blithely prescribed by British doctors as an
antidote to morning sickness, leading to tens of thousands
of children born with serious defects. The fight to win
compensation for families would take more than a decade,
as Evans tenaciously pursued drug companies through the
English courts and beyond.
The topological narrative follows the routes of an itinerant
photographer and a young philosophy student, their
searching movements in-between the fractures and folds of
the spatio-temporal fabric of the contemporary city. These
fragments started with a rereading of Andrei Tarkovsky and
the brothers Strugacky’s concept of the zone, as depicted in
their late 1970s science fiction script Сталкер (Stalker). We
suggest that the “zone” - a structure outside and closed off in
Сталкер has now entered the very heart of the urban fabric.
We aim to explore the precarity, porosity and violence of this
biopolitical space-time, as an immanent part of the city, our
bodies and desires.
Zona Michael Poetschko • Austria 2012 • 51m • Digital • German and English
with English subtitles
PLUS SHORT
Notebooks on Dislocation
Michael Poetschko • 2013 • 19m • Digital
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Michael
Poetschko.
Main Features/The Man Who Mends Women
HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT
NEWRELEASE
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Fri 18 to Mon 21 Mar
Kent Jones • France/USA 2015 • 1h30m • Digital • English, French
and Japanese with English subtitles • 12A
Documentary featuring Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut,
Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Olivier Assayas.
In 1962, two legendary directors met for eight days to
discuss the fundamental building blocks of cinema. One,
Alfred Hitchcock, was a household name who had just
created three masterpieces in a row. The other, François
Truffaut, was a young, influential film critic and a leader of
the French New Wave with his first three films.
Based on the original recordings of their meetings, Kent
Jones’ documentary brings to life the greatest cinema
lesson of all time, and features a wealth of today’s leading
filmmakers discussing the significance of Hitchcock’s work
and these interviews on their own careers.
The Propaganda Game
Mon 21 to Thu 24 Mar
Álvaro Longoria • Spain 2015 • 1h34m • Digital • 15 - Contains
strong references to violence and torture • Documentary
Entering North Korea as a visitor, Spanish filmmaker Álvaro
Longoria seeks to reveal the competing and contrasting
forces at work in the country’s internal and external
propaganda machines. Granted unprecedented official
access for a Westerner, he is assisted by an curious and
unlikely figure - the Special Delegate on North Korea’s
Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries
(and fellow Spaniard), Alejandro Cao.
The result is a fascinating documentary that blends serious
issues of North Korea’s foreign policy with the often surreal
sociological quirks that abound amongst its citizens.
THE PROPAGANDA GAME
SPECIALEVENT
The Man Who Mends Women: The
Wrath of Hippocrates
L’homme qui répare le femmes
Mon 21 Mar at 8.15pm
Thierry Michel & Colette Braeckman • Belgium/Democratic
Republic of the Congo/USA 2015 • 1h52m • Digital • English and
French with English subtitles • cert tbc • Documentary
Doctor Denis Mukwege is internationally known as the
man who mends thousands of women who have been
raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the poorest
countries on the planet, despite its extremely rich sub-soil.
His endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities
and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators
is not welcomed by all. At the end of 2012, the Doctor
was the target of another attempt on his life, which he
miraculously survived.
He now lives cloistered in his hospital in Bukavu under the
protection of UN peacekeepers - but he is not longer alone
in his struggle. The women who he has helped restore
physical integrity and dignity stand beside him, true
activists for peace and hungry for justice.
The screening will be introduced by co-director Colette
Braeckman, who will take part in a post-film Q&A.
THE MAN WHO MENDS WOMEN
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Main Features/Pet Shop Boys: Promo
BONE TOMAHAWK
ANOMALISA
PET SHOP BOYS: PROMO
MAYBEYOUMISSED
SPECIALEVENT
IONA
NEWRELEASES
Bone Tomahawk
Anomalisa
Tue 22 & Wed 23 Mar
S Craig Zahler • USA 2015 • 2h12m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong
violence • Cast: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins,
Matthew Fox, Lili Simmons.
56m
Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson • USA 2015 • 1h30m • Digital
15 - Contains strong sex, sex references, strong language
The well-worn tropes of the western genre meet violent
horror in this peculiar, witty and bloody hybrid from
debutant S Craig Zahler. When savage, cannibalistic
‘troglodytes’ kidnap settlers from the peaceful frontier
town of Bright Hope, four locals - Sheriff Hunt (Kurt
Russell), his well-meaning ‘Backup Deputy’ Chicory (Richard
Jenkins), dapper gent Brooder (Matthew Fox) and injured
cowboy Arthur (Patrick Wilson) - set out across the rugged
plains to hunt them down.
Arthur, still recovering from a broken leg, endures the
perilous terrain to save his taken wife Samantha (Lili
Simmons) - a skilled medic who often deputises for the
town’s errant doctor.
While the tone is frequently lightened with moments of
humour - particularly in dialogue - this is a gripping and
brutal film, definitely not for the faint-hearted.
Please note this film contains scenes of extremely strong
violence.
24 March 2016 marks the 30th anniversary, to the day,
of the release of the debut album by the Pet Shop
Boys, ‘Please’. To celebrate this milestone, as well as
the contributions of the band to the fields of music,
theatre, film and design, join Filmhouse for an evening of
screenings of promos by the band. The videos shown will
include the duo’s collaborations with Derek Jarman, Bruce
Weber, Wolfgang Tillmans and Martin Parr, as well as a
selection of greatest hits.
The screening will be introduced by Dr Jonny Murray
(School of Design, Edinburgh College of Art), and will
include time for discussion.
This screening is part of ‘Pet Shop Boys: Symposium’, a two
day event hosted by the School of Design at Edinburgh
College of Art: it is open to all.
The ever-innovative Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine
of the Spotless Mind) co-directs this incredible animation
about love, anxiety and the human condition - subject
matter which finds perfect expression through a cast of
stop-motion characters.
Michael Stone (David Thewlis) is a popular motivational
speaker, yet he feels as if his daily life is bereft of meaning,
and that everyone else in the world (Tom Noonan) is
identical. But then, on a speaking tour, he encounters
Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Beginning with cautious
conversations, the unique take on romance which follows
proves to be one that is never simple nor obvious, but
genuinely one-of-a-kind.
Iona
Scott Graham • UK/Germany 2015 • 1h25m • Digital • 15 Contains strong sex • Cast: Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall, Tom
Brooke, Michelle Duncan, Ben Gallacher, Sorcha Groundsell.
Scott Graham’s follow-up to his award-winning debut
feature Shell is a striking and enthralling drama set against
the stunning backdrop of the Inner Hebrides.
Iona (Ruth Negga) and her teenage son, Bull (Ben
Gallacher), seek refuge on the island where she was raised
(and which she was named after), following a violent
incident. Her return exposes Bull to the gentler way of life
she rejected when she left the island as a teenager, but
also creates friction with those she left behind.
Signed Up/Growing Pains
POWER IN OUR HANDS
Signed Up
In 2015, Scotland passed a pioneering law
committing the country to “promoting” the use of
British Sign Language (BSL). In partnership with
Heriot-Watt University’s BSL experts, Filmhouse offers
a season of films highlighting Deaf experiences.
How does signing come to be at the heart of a hidden
community, and why does it need to be “promoted”?
Through new and classic films, each followed by a
panel session with Deaf and hearing guests, we invite
signers and non-signers alike to explore how sign
language comes to be the most powerful form of
human expression you’ve never heard.
Power in Our Hands
Sun 27 Mar at 3.00pm
Angela Spielsinger • UK 2015 • 1h15m • Digital • British Sign
Language with English subtitles • PG • Documentary
A ground-breaking documentary - containing newly digitised
archive footage available to the public for the first time - on
the Deaf community’s fight for civil rights and principally, the
right to be heard. Released in the 125th anniversary year of
the British Deaf Association, Power in Our Hands explores the
secret history and heritage of the Deaf community in the UK.
The screening will be followed by panel discussion with
special guests and BSL interpreters.
CRÍA CUERVOS
Growing Pains
A Season of Films Programmed by Jessie Moroney
Filmhouse’s monthly screening strand showing
classic and contemporary films dealing with
some of the more complex aspects of childhood.
Jessie Moroney invites viewers to join her for a
selection of introduced screenings that explore
the the emotional turbulences experienced
during our early years, and hopes to create a space
that encourages audiences to share their own
responses on how these films affect them now as
adults, as catharsis or otherwise, during postscreening chats.
Jessie is a member of the programming team at
Filmhouse and is currently attending the Practical
Programming course run by the Independent
Cinema Office. The course is designed to help
participants to develop a fresh programme for
their home venues. This programming idea was
successfully pitched to the Filmhouse team,
leading to a monthly screening of films focusing
on childhood issues.
In March, we present Cría cuervos, a classic tale
of a young girl coming to terms with her newly
orphaned status.
Cría cuervos Raise Ravens
Carlos Saura • Spain 1976 • 1h49m • Digital • Spanish with
English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate sex references and
disturbing scenes
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Torrent, Héctor Alterio, Florinda
Chico, Mónica Randall.
How can a child fully grasp the notion of the loss of her
parents? Carlos Saura’s 1976 film Cría Cuervos brings us
into the world of eight-year-old Ana, still reeling from the
loss of her mother, only to find the body of her dead father
soon after. Believing happily that she has poisoned the
man who she blames for her mother’s miserable existence
and death, Ana goes about her days officially in the care of
her aunt Paulina and the housemaid Rosa, with the added
supervision of the spirit of her deceased mother, who
frequently visits her to offer comfort and support.
11
12
12
Where You’re Meant to Be/Filmhouse Junior
WHERE YOU’RE MEANT TO BE
SPECIALEVENT
+ live music from Aidan Moffat
Sat 9 Apr at 9.00pm
Paul Fegan • UK 2016 • 1h15m • Digital • 15
Cast: Aidan Moffat, Sheila Stewart.
Cult-pop raconteur Aidan Moffat sets out to explore
Scotland’s past by rewriting and touring its oldest songs.
But he doesn’t count on running into 79-year-old force of
nature Sheila Stewart - a travelling balladeer who upturns
Moffat’s folk assumptions. He believes the old songs are
ripe for updating. She does not.
With Stewart’s wrath ringing in his ears, Moffat embarks on
a road trip that finds him dressed for battle in a Highland
graveyard, caught between feuding monster-hunters at
Loch Ness, and singing in a dismissive farmer’s kitchen before facing Stewart in his home-town of Glasgow for
an unlikely final showdown, in this funny wee film about
music and death.
The screening will be followed by a live musical
performance from Aidan Moffat
£10
PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR
Filmhouse junior
Films for a younger audience, weekly on
Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.50 (£5.50
for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!
For these shows we choose to screen
dubbed versions where these are available,
but some films will be in their original
language with subtitles – these are marked
on individual film descriptions.
Please note: although we normally disapprove of people
talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for
kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!
MARY POPPINS
Penguins of Madagascar
Sun 6 Mar at 11.00am
Eric Darnell & Simon J Smith • USA 2014 • 1h32m • Digital
U - Contains very mild threat, slapstick violence, very mild bad
language
With the voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher
Knights, Conrad Vernon, John Malkovich, Benedict
Cumberbatch.
Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious
covert birds in the global espionage biz. Skipper, Kowalski,
Rico and Private join forces with undercover organisation
The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr Octavius Brine
from destroying the world as we know it.
Mary Poppins
Robert Stevenson • USA 1964 • 2h19m • Digital
U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm
Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis
Jones, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber.
Mr and Mrs Banks decide to advertise for a nanny to care
for their rowdy children, Michael and Jane. The children
write their own ad, and when their father tears it up
and burns it in the fireplace, the pieces miraculously
reassemble and go up the chimney. Next day, Mary
Poppins appears, gliding down from on high with an
umbrella as her parachute... This delightful musical is one
of the greatest family films of all time, still as fresh and
entertaining as it was fifty years ago!
Get more information on upcoming Education
and Learning events at Filmhouse - including
screenings for schools - on page 26.
Filmhouse Junior
BELLE AND
- THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
THESEBASTIAN
GOOD DINOSAUR
PONYO
FINDING NEMO
SHORTAND
ANDCHARLIE
SWEET: ANIMATIONS
KIDS
SNOOPY
BROWN: THEFOR
PEANUTS...
CAPTURE
THE FLAG
THE PRINCESS
BRIDE
Belle and Sebastian - The Adventure
Continues
Capture The Flag
Goosebumps
Sun 3 Apr at 11.00am
Belle et Sébastien, l’aventure continue
Enrique Gato • Spain 2015 • 1h34m • Digital • PG
Cast: Lorraine Pilkington, Phillippa Alexander, Sam Fink.
Rob Letterman • USA/Australia 2015 • 1h43m • Digital • PG
Cast: Jack Black, Dylan Minnette , Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan.
Christian Duguay • France 2015 • 1h37m • Digital • French with
English subtitles • PG - Contains mild threat, mild bad language
Cast: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier, Thierry
Neuvic.
Mike Goldwing - a plucky, determined 12-year old - is the
son and grandson of NASA astronauts. His grandfather
Frank, once revered, lives his days isolated from his family
after missing out on his big chance to fly to the moon
on the Apollo XI mission. When an eccentric billionaire
plans to steal the moon’s vast mineral resources and
destroy the US flag planted on it, Mike - accompanied
by his grandfather, best friends and a clever chameleon embarks on a magnificent adventure as a stowaway on the
space shuttle.
Having newly arrived in small-town Delaware, teenager
Zach (Dylan Minnette) meets his next door neighbour
Hannah (Odeya Rush), whose father turns out to be
Goosebumps author R.L. Stine (Jack Black).
He soon discovers that the monsters and ghouls from
Stine’s novels are real, and when they escape and begin
terrorising the town, Zach, Hannah, Stine and Zach’s friend
Champ (Ryan Lee) must work together to send them back.
September 1945, everybody is celebrating the end of
the war. Young Sebastian (Félix Bossuet), now ten years
old, waits with faithful Belle for Angelina’s (Margaux
Châtelier) return. When news reaches the village that her
plane crashed deep in the Transalpine forest, Sebastian’s
grandfather knows a man who can help them find her.
On their mission to locate Angelina, Belle and Sebastian
must face peril, risk their lives and confront a secret - the
adventure continues...
Short and Sweet: Animations for Kids
Ponyo
57m • U
Gake no ue no Ponyo
A selection of clever, colourful and beautifully-animated
short films that kids of all ages will love! Some have words
and others have noises, some have dancing rhinos and
others have stegosauruses - all of them, however, have
something special that makes them fantastic fun for all
the family.
Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 2008 • 1h41m • Digital • U - Contains very
mild threat
In Hayao Miyazaki’s beautiful animated feature, fiveyear-old Sosuke lives with his mum in a house on a cliff
overlooking the sea. One day Sosuke finds a strangelooking goldfish with a human face; he rescues her and
calls her Ponyo. Ponyo is so enamoured with Sosuke that
she decides she wants to become human, but her father,
Fujimoto, is determined that won’t happen...
Howl’s Moving Castle
Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 2004 • 1h59m • Digital • U
With the voices of Emily Mortimer, Christian Bale, Jean Simmons,.
In a land of witches, wizards and war, Sophie is a young
milliner who has a spell cast upon her, turning her into
an old lady. Sophie runs away so her friends can’t see
the transformation and ends up working as a cleaning
woman in Howl’s Moving Castle, the remarkable, magical
contraption that walks the land.
Oddball and the Penguins
Sun 1 May 11.00am
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Stuart McDonald • Australia 2015 • 1h36m • Digital • U
Cast: Alan Tudyk, Sarah Snook, Coco Jack Gillies.
The true story about an eccentric chicken farmer (Shane
Jacobson) who, with the help of his granddaughter, trains
his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a wild penguin
sanctuary from fox attacks and in the process tries to
reunite his family and save their seaside town.
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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
4 March - 31 March 2016 DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
Fri
4
Mar
1
2
2
2
3
3
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Chronic
Spotlight (AD)
Don’t Be Bad (IFF)
Spotlight (AD)
Chronic
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
1.10
3.20/6.05
8.50
1.05/8.25
3.50/6.10
Fri
11
Mar
1
2
2
2
3
3
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
The Here After
Youth (AD)
They Call Me Jeeg Robot (IFF)
Mavis!
The Here After
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
1.05
3.20/8.45
6.05 +Q&A
2.00/6.30
4.00/8.25
Sat
5
Mar
1
2
2
2
2
3
3
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
The Invisible Boy (IFF)
Freeheld
Chronic
Overheard 3 (HK)
Spotlight (AD)
Chronic
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
1.10
3.25
5.45
8.00 +Q&A
1.05/6.05
3.50/8.50
Sat
12
Mar
1
2
2
2
3
3
3
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Mavis!
Youth (AD)
God Willing (IFF)
Youth (AD)
The Here After
Mavis!
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
1.30
3.25/8.20
6.15
1.15
4.00/8.25
6.30
Penguins of Madagascar (FJ)
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Kim Longinotto Double Bill:
Sisters in Law + Gaea Girls
Freeheld
Call Me Francesco (IFF)
Spotlight (AD)
Chronic
11.00am
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30
Sun
13
Mar
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
3
Mary Poppins (FJ)
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
The Pearl Button
Rocco and His Brothers (IFF)
Youth (AD)
Youth (AD)
The Here After
Mavis!
11.00am
1.45/4.05/6.25/8.45
1.30 +Q&A
5.00
8.35
1.15
4.00/8.25
6.30
Sun 1
6 1
Mar 2
2
2
3
3
1.30
5.50
8.15
1.05/8.25
3.50/6.10
Mon 1 Hail, Caesar! (AD)
2.30/8.30
7 1 Adventure Film Festival 3 (AFF) 6.15
Mar 2 Spotlight (AD)
1.00
2 Hail, Caesar! (AD)
3.45/6.10
2 Latin Lover (IFF)
8.40
3 Chronic
1.05/8.55
3 Spotlight (AD)
3.15/6.10
For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2
Tue
8
Mar
1
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
Wed 1
9 1
Mar 2
2
2
3
3
Thu
10
Mar
1
2
2
2
3
3
Hail, Caesar! (AD) 2.30/6.05/8.30
Spotlight (AD)
12.50
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
3.35
Jamón Jamón (SE)
6.00
You Can’t Save Yourself... (IFF) 8.40
Chronic
1.05/8.55
Spotlight (AD)
3.15
Spotlight (AD) (C)6.10 (captioned)
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
In Conversation... Oliver Stone
Chronic
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
That Demon Within (HK)
Spotlight (AD)
Chronic
2.00/8.30
6.00
1.00
3.30/6.00
8.40
1.05/8.25
3.50/6.10
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Three Colours: Blue
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Beginners (IFF)
Spotlight (AD)
Chronic
2.30/6.00/8.30
1.00/6.05
3.30
8.20
1.05/8.25
3.50/6.10
SCREENING TIMES
Mon 1 Hail, Caesar! (AD)
2.30/6.00
14 1 Hail, Caesar! (AD)
8.30
Mar 2 Youth (AD)
1.00
2 Youth (AD) (C)
6.05 (captioned)
2 The Here After
3.40
2 The Legendary Giulia... (IFF)
8.45
3 Mavis!
1.30/8.35
3.30
3 The Here After
6.10
Tue
15
Mar
1
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
3
Wed 1
16 2
Mar 2
2
3
3
3
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Youth (AD)
The Here After
Bastards (SE)
Sworn Virgin (IFF)
Mavis!
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Youth (AD)
The Here After
2.30/6.05/8.30
1.00
3.40
6.00
8.25
1.30
3.30
5.55
8.45
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Youth (AD)
Mavis!
1916: The Irish Rebellion (IH)
The Here After
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Chlorine (IFF)
2.30/6.00/8.30
1.00/8.35
3.45
5.45 +Q&A
1.15/8.45
3.40
6.10
BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688 DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
Thu
17
Mar
1
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Youth (AD)
Mavis!
The Host
Anna (IFF)
The Here After
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Youth (AD)
2.30/6.00/8.30
1.00
3.45
6.15 +Q&A
8.40
1.15/8.45
3.40
6.05
Fri
18
Mar
1
1
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Marguerite
Attacking the Devil: Harold...
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Talbot Rice... Michael Poetschko
Marguerite
Marguerite
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
1.00/8.55
3.25/6.10
1.15
3.35
6.00 +Q&A
8.35
1.10
3.55/8.40
6.15
Sat
19
Mar
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
3
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Marguerite
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Marguerite
Marguerite
Hitchcock/Truffaut
1.00/8.55
3.25/6.10
1.15
3.35/6.00
8.25
1.10
3.55/8.40
6.15
KEY
(AD) – Audio Description (see page 2)
(C) – Captioned for customers who are deaf or hard
of hearing (see page 2)
All screenings in 2D unless marked (3D)
Information about For Crying Out Loud
screenings for babies and carers can now be found
on page 2.
SEASONS:
(AFF) – Adventure Film Festival
(F) – Filmosophy (page 25)
(FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 12-13)
(GP) – Growing Pains (page 11)
(HK) – CRIME: Hong Kong Style (pages 20-21)
(IH) – Screening Irish History (page 22)
(IFF) – Italian Film Festival (pages 16-18)
(OR) – Over the Rainbow (page 6)
(SDB) – Sunday Double Bills (page 19)
(SE) – Screening Europe (page 24)
(SLA) – Scotland Loves Anime (page 24)
(SU) – Signed Up (page 11)
WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
Sun 1
20 1
Mar
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
3
Belle and Sebastian - The... (FJ)
Double Bill: Fargo + Kumiko,
the Treasure Hunter (SDB)
Marguerite
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Portland Street Blues (HK)
Marguerite
Hitchcock/Truffaut
SCREENING TIMES
11.00am
1.30
5.45
8.30
1.15
3.35/6.00
8.25
1.10
3.55/6.15
8.20
Mon 1 Marguerite
2.30/6.00
21 1 Hail, Caesar! (AD)
8.45
Mon 2 Attacking the Devil: Harold...
1.05
3.25/5.50
2 The Man Who Mends Women... 8.15 +Q&A
3 Hitchcock/Truffaut
1.10/8.30
3 The Propaganda Game
3.30/6.10
Tue
22
Mar
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
Wed 1
23 1
Mar 2
2
2
3
3
4 March - 31 March 2016 DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
Sat
26
Mar
Marguerite
A Letter to Momo (SLA)
Anthem of the Heart (SLA)
Anomalisa
Anomalisa
The Pearl Button
Iona
Marguerite
1.00
3.45
6.10
8.50
4.00
6.15
1.15/8.45
3.15/6.00
Ponyo (FJ)
Double Bill: Peau Douce
+ Vertigo (SDB)
Miss Hokusai (SLA)
Anomalisa
The Pearl Button
Power in Our Hands (SU)
Election (HK)
Iona
Marguerite
11.00am
1
1
1
1
2
2
3
3
Sun 1
27 1
Mar
1
1
2
2
2
3
3
1.30
6.30
8.35
1.00
3.00 +Q&A
8.35
1.15/8.45
3.15/6.00
Marguerite
Hail, Caesar! (AD) (C)
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Young Soul Rebels (SE)
Marguerite
The Propaganda Game
Bone Tomahawk
2.30/5.55
8.45 (captioned)
1.00/3.25
6.00
8.30
1.10/8.55
3.20/6.10
Mon 1 Marguerite
2.30
28 1 Anomalisa
8.50
Mar 2 The Pearl Button
4.00/8.40
2 Cría cuervos (GP)
6.10
3 Iona
1.30/8.45
3 Anomalisa
3.45
3 Marguerite
6.00
Marguerite
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Marguerite
The Pilferers’ Progress (HK)
The Propaganda Game
Bone Tomahawk
2.30
6.05/8.45
1.00/3.25
6.00
8.50
1.10/6.10
3.20/8.20
Tue
29
Mar
Wed 1
30 1
Mar 2
2
3
3
3
Thu
24
Mar
1
1
2
2
3
3
Marguerite
Hail, Caesar! (AD)
Marguerite
After Lucia
The Propaganda Game
2.30/5.45
8.30 +Discussion
1.00/3.25/6.00
8.25
1.10/8.20
3.30/6.10
Fri
25
Mar
1
1
1
2
3
3
Marguerite
Anomalisa
Psycho-Pass: The Movie (SLA)
The Pearl Button
Iona
Marguerite
1.00
3.45/8.50
6.10
4.00/6.15
1.15/8.45
3.15/6.00
*The week beginning Friday 25 March will have
additional screenings added at a later date - films
and times TBC
Thu
31
Mar
1
1
2
2
3
3
3
1
1
2
2
3
3
3
Marguerite
Anomalisa
The Pearl Button
Northern Soul (SE)
Iona
Anomalisa
Marguerite
2.30/6.05
8.50
4.00
6.00
1.30/6.10
3.45
8.15
Marguerite
Anomalisa
The Pearl Button
Shake Hands with the Devil (IH)
Anomalisa
Iona
Marguerite
2.30
6.15
3.45/8.40
5.45 +Q&A
1.30
3.45/8.45
6.00
Marguerite
Anomalisa
The Pearl Button
Police Story (HK)
Anomalisa
Iona
Marguerite
2.30
6.15
4.00/6.10
8.30
1.30
3.45/8.45
6.00
FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
TICKET PRICES AND INFORMATION
New Prices from 1 January 2016
MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm)
Mon - Thu: £8.00 full price, £6.00 concessions
Friday Matinees: £6.00/£4.50 concessions
Sat - Sun: £10.00 full price, £8.00 concessions
EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later)
£10.00 full price, £8.00 concessions
For screenings in 3D add £2 to ticket price.
All tickets to Filmhouse Junior screenings
(marked FJ on grid) are £4.50. Tickets for children
under 12 are £4.50 for any screening.
Filmhouse Members get £1.50 off every ticket
(excludes Friday matinees and Filmhouse Junior)
Concessions available for: children (under 15);
students (with valid matriculation card); school
pupils (15-18 years); Young Scot cardholders; senior
citizens; people with disability or invalidity status
(carers go free); claimants (Jobseekers Allowance,
Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit); NHS
employees (with proof of employment).
There are usually ticket deals available on film
seasons.
All performances are bookable in advance, in
person, online at www.filmhousecinema.com or
by phone on 0131 228 2688. We do not charge a
booking fee.
Tickets cannot be exchanged nor money
refunded except in the event of a cancellation of
a performance. Screenings are subject to change,
but only in extraordinary circumstances.
All seats are unreserved. If you require seats
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DON’T BE BAD
THE INVISIBLE BOY
CALL ME FRANCESCO
Don’t Be Bad
Non essere cattivo
Fri 4 Mar at 8.50pm
Benvenuti to the 23rd edition of the Italian Film
Festival in Scotland where you can find the best of il
cinema italiano, currently on a high with the global
and awards success of Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth (see
page 7). Sorrentino was a previous guest so you can
be confident of spotting talent in this year’s crop.
Claudio Caligari • Italy 2015 • 1h40m • Digital • Italian with
English subtitles • 15
Cast: Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Silvia D’Amico.
A major discovery at Venice Film Festival, Don’t Be Bad was
also Italy’s Oscar candidate this year. It is the last film from
the late Claudio Caligari. There are echoes of Scorsese and
Pasolini in the story of two hedonistic best friends, smalltime drug dealers from a working-class suburb in Ostia.
In the mid-1990s, their lives are defined by petty crimes,
It is curated and co-founded by directors Allan
minor scuffles, boredom, fast cars and ecstasy-fuelled
Hunter and Richard Mowe and partnered by principal oblivion. Vittorio (Alessandro Borghi) decides to break the
funder the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Edimburgo,
cycle by committing to a conventional life of hard graft
Filmhouse, Glasgow Film Theatre; plus supporters
and a steady relationship but Cesare (Luca Marinelli) is
Valvona & Crolla Vin Caffè and Fratelli Sarti, Glasgow; hellbent on self-destruction.
as well as Menabrea beers.
One of this year’s particular highlights is a special
focus on Luchino Visconti in the year of the 40th
anniversary of his death.The Cineteca di Bologna are
working with us to offer exclusive UK opportunities
to view one of his masterpieces Rocco and His
Brothers in a newly restored version.
www.italianfilmfestival.org.uk
The Invisible Boy
Il ragazzo invisible
Sat 5 Mar at 1.10pm
Gabriele Salvatores • Italy/France 2015 • 1h41m • Digital • French
with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Ludovico Girardello, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Bentivoglio.
Oscar®-winning director Gabriele Salvatores brings
an Italian twist to the superhero movie in this highly
entertaining family film. In the windswept city of Trieste,
Michele (Ludovico Girardello) is a typical thirteen year-old
worried about bullies, embarrassed by his mother being
a police officer and determined to impress his classmate
Stella (Noa Zatta). One disastrously humiliating Halloween
party has a silver lining in the discovery that he can
become invisible. Michele’s status as the new superhero
in town fills him with thoughts of revenge on the bullies
and winning his girl, but great powers are accompanied by
responsibility in this charming coming-of-age adventure.
LATIN LOVER
Call Me Francesco
Chiamatemi Francesco-Il Papa della gente
Sun 6 Mar at 8.15pm
Daniele Luchetti • Italy 2015 • 1h34m • Digital • Spanish with
English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Rodrigo De La Serna, Sergio Hernandez, Muriel Santa Ana.
Director Daniele Luchetti tells the early years of the future
Pope Francis in Call Me Francesco. Opening in Buenos
Aires in 1960, it covers the story of Jorge Mario Bergoglio
(Rodrigo De La Serna) from his days as a technician in a
food lab to his time as provincial superior of the Jesuits in
Argentina during the country’s brutal military dictatorship.
This is a compelling, thoughtful portrait of a man of
compassion and principle whose faith is defined by the
times in which he lived and the people he encountered.
Latin Lover
Mon 7 Mar at 8.40pm
Cristina Comencini • Italy 2015 • 1h44m • Digital • Italian with
Cast: Virna Lisi, Marisa Paredes, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Anyone who longs for the glory days of Marcello
Mastroianni and Vittorio De Sica will love this delightful
ensemble comedy that has become one of the biggest
successes in the career of writer/director Cristina
Comencini.
A hot Southern town in Apulia is world famous as the
birthplace of adored Italian movie idol Saverio Crispo
(Francesco Scianna). Ten years after his death, his first wife
Rita (the late Virna Lisi) is preparing for a memorial service
that mushrooms into a vast family reunion involving
Saverio’s Spanish wife Ramona (Marisa Paredes) and
his neurotic French daughter Stephanie (Valeria Bruni
Tedeschi). A comic treat filled with nostalgic moments of
spot-on pastiche celebrating the glories of Italian cinema.
YOU CAN’T SAVE YOURSELF ALONE
BEGINNERS
LABYRINTH
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS
You Can’t Save Yourself Alone
They Call Me Jeeg Robot
Rocco and His Brothers
Nessuno si salva da solo
Tue 8 Mar at 8.40pm
Lo chiavamano Jeeg Robot
Rocco e i suoi fratelli
Sergio Castellitto • Italy 2015 • 1h42m • Digital • Italian with
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Ana Galiena.
Gabriele Mainetti • Italy 2015 • 1h52m • Digital • Italian with
English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Luca Marinelli,.
Luchino Visconti • Italy 1960 • 3h • Digital • Italian with English
subtitles • 15 • Cast: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie
Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin, Paolo Stoppa, Suzy Delair.
The road to divorce and disillusion is paved with the
best of intentions in the latest box-office hit from
director Sergio Castellitto. Delia (Jasmine Trinca) and
Gaetano (Riccardo Scamarcio) meet to discuss holiday
arrangements for their two sons. The couple are separated
and the dinner soon becomes emotionally charged as
they pick over the wreckage of their ten year marriage.
Flashbacks capture the rise and fall of their relationship
from the early passion to all the misunderstandings and
lost opportunities that signalled its demise.
Beginners
Alaska
Claudio Cupellini • Italy/France 2015 • 2h5m • Digital • Italian and
French with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Elio Germano, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Roschdy Zem.
Love changes everything in this sweeping, irresistible
romantic epic from A Quiet Life director Claudio Cupellini.
Nadine (Astrid Berges-Frisbey) is on her first modelling
audition at a plush hotel in Paris when she meets Italianborn waiter and inveterate charmer Fausto (Elio Germano).
An instant, impulsive attraction is the beginning of a
beautiful relationship that unfolds in Paris and Milan,
through triumph and tragedy as she becomes a successful
model and he opens the chicest nightclub in town. Their
love is constantly tested against a sea of troubles in a
stylish widescreen drama that showcases charismatic
performances from the two stars and a lush musical score
from Pasquale Catalano.
Savour a superhero tale that blends style with substance
and a character you really care about. Inspired by the
1970s cartoon series Steel Jeeg, They Call Me Jeeg Robot
combines well-handled special-effects with a superhero
story that comments on the social and political ills of Italy.
We first meet Enzo (Claudio Santamaria) as he tries to
evade the police. Tumbling into toxic waste, he emerges
with super powers that soon find him tackling crime
boss Fabio (Luca Marinelli) and protecting Alessia (Ilenia
Pastorelli) who is convinced he’s Jeeg Robot and has come
to help humanity.
The screening will be followed by a director Q&A.
Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece follows a mother and her
five sons as they abandon the poverty of southern Italy to
seek a better life in Milan. The ties of blood are challenged
by the struggles for work, dignity and acceptance. Matters
are further complicated when the young Rocco (Alain
Delon) falls in love with the same woman as his boorish,
viciously possessive brother Simone (Renato Salvatori).
This sweeping melodrama is distinguished by the lustrous
black and white cinematography of Giuseppe Rotunno,
who sculpts with light in a way that would influence
Scorsese’s Raging Bull. A recent restoration by Cineteca di
Bologna allows the film to glow with a fresh intensity.
God Willing
Se Dio vuole
Sat 12 Mar at 6.15pm
Edoardo Maria Falcone • Italy 2015 • 1h25m • Digital • Italian with
Cast: Marco Giallini, Alessandro Gassman, Enrico Oetiker.
Edoardo Falcone’s award-winning debut feature is a
witty, thought-provoking comedy on keeping the faith.
Tommaso (Marco Giallini) is a renowned surgeon, liberal
and fierce atheist. He expects his son Andrea (Enrico
Oetiker) to follow in his footsteps and is shocked when
Andrea intends to become a priest. Tommaso discovers
that the charismatic priest Don Pietro (Alessandro
Gassman) has played a big influence on his son’s decision
and sets out to discredit the him and steer his son back
towards medicine. The road to hell may be paved with
good intentions but could the path to enlightenment
proceed along some misguided deceptions?
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Italian Film Festival (continued)/The Visit
OPERATION ‘MONSTER’
SWORN VIRGIN
CHLORINE
The Legendary Giulia And Other
Miracles Noi e la Giulia
Chlorine Cloro
Wed 16 Mar at 6.10pm
Lamberto Sanfelice • Italy 2015 • 1h38m • Digital • Italian with
Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Ivan Franek, Giorgio Colangeli.
Edoardo Leo • Italy 2015 • 1h55m • Digital • Italian with English
subtitles • 12A Cast: Claudio Amendola, Claudio Buccirosso.
Winner of the Nastro d’Argento and Italian Golden Globe
as comedy of the year, The Legendary Giulia and Other
Miracles is a smart, endearing romp in which a group
of friends decide to abandon the rat race of urban life
and pursue their collective Plan B by entering the world
of agritourism. They open a rustic B&B in the sun-kissed
hinterland east of Naples.
The previous owners seem eager to sell up, and they soon
discover why when a member of the Camorra arrives and
demands protection money. Is the threat of organised
crime about to destroy their dream?
Sworn Virgin Vergine giurata
Tue 15 Mar at 8.25pm
Laura Bispuri • Italy/Switzerland/Germany/Albania/France 2015
1h27m • Digital • Albanian and Italian with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Flonja Kodheli, Luan Jaha.
Laura Bispuri’s award-winning debut feature manages to
be both highly topical and utterly timeless in the way it
addresses issues of gender and identity.
In a remote village in northern Albania, Hana (Alba
Rohrwacher) has followed the ancient tradition of
burmesha (sworn virgin), renouncing her female identity
to live as a man. She has taken a lifelong vow of chastity
but in return she is liberated from the servile role assigned
to women. Leaving home for the first time, she visits her
estranged sister Lila (Flonja Kodheli) who escaped their
home for Italy. Their reunion encourages Hana to confront
the choices she made and the regrets that haunt her.
Lamberto Sanfelice’s assured debut feature made a big
splash at Sundance and Berlin. A fresh perspective on the
coming of age drama, it focuses on seventeen year-old
Jenny (Sara Serraiocco). Determined to achieve success
as part of a synchronised swimming team, her every
waking moment is devoted to training and the pursuit of
her sporting goals. When her mother dies, Jenny’s father
struggles to cope and the family is obliged to move to
an uncle’s chalet in the Abruzzo Mountains. Forced to
become the breadwinner, an embittered Jenny tries to
juggle adult responsibilities with the fading promise of her
personal ambitions.
Anna Per amor vostro
Giuseppe M. Gaudino • Italy/France 2015 • 1h50m • Digital
Italian with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Valeria Golino, Massimiliano Gallo, Adriana Giannini.
Set in Naples, this largely black and white melodrama
features heartwrenching work from the award-winning
Valeria Golino as Anna, the long-suffering mother of three
teenage children and the wife of Gigi (Massimiliano Gallo),
a failed singer who makes her life hell.
Seeking a measure of independence, Anna finds work with
a local TV company where she meets soap star Michele
(Adriano Giannini). The rare promise of happiness is a burst
of sunshine in Anna’s gloomy existence as she struggles
with domestic pressures, depression and the unbearable
burdens of her life.
THE VISIT
SPECIALEVENT
The Visit
Mon 4 Apr at 6.00pm
Michael Madsen • Denmark/Austria/Ireland/Finland/Norway/
Sweden/Netherlands 2015 • 1h23m • Digital • PG - Contains mild
threat • Documentary
“This film documents an event that has never taken place man’s first encounter with intelligent life from space.”
Earth may not have been visited by aliens, but ever since
the invention of radio and television, humans have been
announcing their existence to other civilizations, so the
question is not ‘what if’ it happens, but rather ‘when.’
With unprecedented access to the UN Office for Outer
Space Affairs, the film builds a chillingly believable scenario
of first contact on Earth, beginning with the simplest of
questions: Why are you here? How do you think? What do
you see in humans that we don’t see in ourselves?
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director
Michael Madsen and Royal Society scientist Martin
Dominik.
£10.50/£8.50
Sunday Double Bills
SISTERS IN LAW
GAEA GIRLS
Sunday Double Bills
A regular, though not weekly, double bill, always
on a Sunday afternoon.
Double Bill tickets cost £12/£10 concs.
Films in our Sunday Double Bills will be separated
by a 15 minute break.
FARGO
KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER
Kim Longinotto Double Bill:
Sisters in Law + Gaea Girls
Double Bill:
Fargo + Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Sun 6 Mar at 1.30pm
3h43m • 12A
3h38m • 18
A special double bill in anticipation of International
Women’s Day on Tuesday 8 March 2016, featuring two
films by prolific British documentarian Kim Longinotto.
An observational filmmaker and champion of women’s
rights, Longinotto’s first project was a film about the
oppressive conditions in her childhood boarding school in
Buckinghamshire (Pride of Place) and her career has taken
her across several continents and cultures since then.
Sisters in Law - co-directed with Florence Ayisi - explores
the inequalities and disparities between men, women and
children in Cameroon. In a small town in which there have
been no domestic abuse convictions for over two decades,
the film focuses on a handful of court cases concerning
violence against women, presided over by a female judge.
The second feature in our double - Gaea Girls, codirected with Jano Williams - is an extraordinary look at
the regimented lifestyles of trainee female professional
wrestlers in Japan. As the prospective grapplers live and
train in the most basic conditions, we follow the progress
of one trainee as she prepares for her ‘test’ - a brutal
initiation that would pave the way for her professional
debut.
With the release of the latest instalment in the Coen
brothers’ impressive filmography, Hail, Caesar! (page
5), it seems fitting to revisit one of their most amusing
and macabre tales. Fargo is a snowy, bloody and darkly
comedic tale of ineptitude - with deadly consequences that has spawned a successful television spin-off in recent
years. The beauty of this quirky black comedy-thriller is in
the subtle detail of the dialogue and performances, which
continues to entertain upon every viewing.
Paired with it is David Zellner’s 2014 film Kumiko, the
Treasure Hunter, in which a VHS copy of Fargo is the
central MacGuffin in the story of an isolated and frustrated
Tokyo office worker (Rinko Kikuchi) - convinced that the
Coens’ film is a true story - who escapes to rural Minnesota
in search of Steve Buscemi’s buried satchel of ransom
money.
Sisters in Law
Kim Longinotto & Florence Ayisi • Cameroon/Britain 2005 • 1h44m • Digital
12A
Gaea Girls
Kim Longinotto & Jano Williams • UK 2000 • 1h44m • Digital • Japanese and
English with English subtitles • Exempt from Classifcation
Fargo
Joel Coen • USA 1996 • 1h38m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong violence.
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
David Zellner • USA 2014 • 1h45m • Digital • English and Japanese with
English subtitles • 12A - Contains occasional bloody images
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Sunday Double Bills (cont.)/CRIME: Hong Kong Style
VERTIGO
OVERHEARD 3
Double Bill: La peau douce + Vertigo
4h20m • PG
With Hitchcock/Truffaut (page 9) giving us the opportunity
to meditate and ruminate on two of the great directors
of the 20th Century, what better way to celebrate than to
screen one film from each as a double bill?
While not achieving the same box office success as the
likes of The 400 Blows or Jules and Jim, François Truffaut’s
La peau douce is a compelling and suspenseful morality
play, of sorts, that sees a celebrated writer (Jean Desailly)
engage in an illicit affair with a woman (Françoise Dorléac)
he meets on a plane. In its wit, style and occasions of dark
humour, it draws some inspiration from the director of
Vertigo.
From its iconic Saul Bass titles to the dramatic climax,
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller is a genre classic and a true
innovator. James Stewart’s retired detective ‘Scottie’ is a
man tormented by his loss - leading to obsession, intrigue
and the gravest of consequences.
La peau douce
François Truffaut • France/Portugal 1964 • 1h57m • 35mm • French,
Portuguese and English with English subtitles • PG - Contains references to
sexual experience
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1958 • 2h8m • Digital • PG
THAT DEMON WITHIN
With a city of 7.2 million people, you’re bound to
get a few bad apples... CRIME: Hong Kong Style
presents an explosive new season of crime films
from Hong Kong.
From noir-tinged thrillers, to tales of hardnosed
gangsters, to entertainingly comic capers,
CRIME: Hong Kong Style offers stone cold classics
(Infernal Affairs, Election), cult movies (Police Story),
forgotten gems (Portland Street Blues) and, with
premieres of Dante Lam’s That Demon Within and
the latest releases from some of the world’s most
revered and stylish directors.
PORTLAND STREET BLUES
Overheard 3 Sit ting fung wan 3
Sat 5 Mar at 8.00pm
Alan Mak, Felix Chong • China/Hong Kong 2015 • 2h12m • Digital
• Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Xun Zhou.
Another free standing and independent film, the third
instalment of Alan Mak and Felix Chong’s highly successful
Overheard series offers a story that focuses on corruption
around land acquisition in Hong Kong’s New Territories.
Again displaying a strong social conscience, Overheard
3 once again offers Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu
new roles and needs no previous knowledge of the series
to enjoy this taut and complex story.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director
Felix Chong.
That Demon Within
Mo jing
Wed 9 Mar at 8.40pm
Dante Lam • Hong Kong/China 2014 • 1h51m • Digital
Cantonese with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Daniel Wu, Nick Cheung, Andy On.
The new Hong Kong action maestro Dante Lam is behind
this taut and ultimately unsettling psychological thriller.
Quiet and distant cop Dave (Daniel Wu) is increasingly
haunted by the violent images of a criminal gang who use
traditional demon masks when committing their crimes.
Truth, reality and imagination begin to blur in this stylish
film with which Lam once again brings a new energy to
the Hong Kong crime film.
THE PILFERERS’ PROGRESS
ELECTION
Portland Street Blues
Goo waak chai ching yee pin ji hung hing sap
saam mooi
Wai Man Yip • Hong Kong 1998 • 1h54m • 35mm • Cantonese and
English with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Sandra Ng, Kristy Yang, Alex Fong, Qi Shu.
A relative of the popular Young and Dangerous franchise,
Portland Street Blues offers a significant lead role for
Sandra Ng who takes the opportunity to deliver a nuanced
and powerful performance as a woman who rises up
through the ranks of a triad gang.
The Pilferers’ Progress
Fa qian han
John Woo • Hong Kong 1977 • 1h38m • Digital • Cantonese with
Cast: Richard Ng, Ricky Hui, Ying Cheung, Angie Chiu.
Ricky Hui and Richard Ng star as a pair of criminals who
join forces to help a young woman retrieve her family’s
jewels from Rich Chen. A broad slapstick comedy, here
John Woo is venturing into territory that will be distinctly
unfamiliar to his many UK fans. The Pilferers’ Progress is an
example of Hong Kong comedy at its frenetic and crazy
best and proves that John Woo is more than simply a
master of cinematic mayhem. The Pilferers’ Progress was a
box-office smash in Hong Kong.
POLICE STORY
Election
Infernal Affairs
Hak se wui
Thu 7 Apr at 8.45pm
Mou gaan dou
Johnnie To • Hong Kong 2005 • 1h41m • 35mm • Cantonese,
Mandarin and English with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Simon Yam, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung.
Andrew Lau & Alan Mak • Hong Kong 2002 • 1h41m • 35mm •
Cantonese, English and Thai with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang.
Johnnie To is one of Hong Kong’s most important
contemporary filmmakers and this one of his greatest
works. Starring Hong Kong acting heavyweights Simon
Yam and Tony Leung Ka Fai, Election focuses on the
selection of a new triad leader and explores a string of
issues from generational conflict to tradition and loyalty.
At the same time Election is a pointed reflection on the
politics of post-1997 Hong Kong.
Bringing together two of Asia’s biggest stars, Andy Lau and
Tony Leung, Infernal Affairs became a world-wide hit upon
its release and remains one of Hong Kong’s most famous
and influential crime films. At its core it is a classic, edge of
the seat, cop and gangster cat and mouse story. Infernal
Affairs was later remade by Martin Scorsese as the award
winning The Departed.
Police Story
Ging chat goo si
Jackie Chan • Hong Kong 1985 • 1h39m • Digital • Cantonese
with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam.
Following his disappointment with the US produced The
Protector (1985), Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan wrote
and directed this crime story vehicle to showcase his wide
variety of skills in front of and behind the camera. The
result is a hugely influential blend of action, comedy and
crime and remains perhaps one of the greatest films ever
made.
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Screening Irish History: 1916 and its Legacy
1916: THE IRISH REBELLION
SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL
‘71
MICHAEL COLLINS
Screening Irish History:
1916 and its Legacy
1916: The Irish Rebellion
‘71
Wed 13 Apr at 5.45pm
Pat Collins, Ruan Magan • USA/Ireland 2016 • 1h20m • Digital
cert tbc
Documentary, narrated by Liam Neeson.
Yann Demange • UK 2014 • 1h39m • Digital • 15 - Contains very
strong language, strong bloody violence, injury detail
Cast: Jack O’Connell, Sam Reid, Sean Harris, Charlie Murphy.
The 1916 Rising was one of the most significant and
transformative events in modern Irish history and this
year marks the centenary of the week-long rebellion
in Dublin. Screening Irish History, now in its third
year, explores the conflicts and consequences of
1916 in imaginative and provocative ways. The series
includes the premiere of 1916: the Irish Rebellion
(screened simultaneously with other international
locations) and Neil Jordan’s classic Michael Collins.
Each of the four films will be followed by a Q&A with
filmmakers, critics and experts.
Narrated by Liam Neeson, this landmark documentary tells
the dramatic story of the events that took place in Dublin
during Easter Week 1916, when a small group of Irish
rebels took on the might of the British Empire.
Featuring a combination of rarely seen archival footage,
new segments filmed on location worldwide, and
interviews with leading international experts, the film
also uncovers the untold story of the central role Irish
Americans played in the lead-up to the rebellion.
A gritty, relentless drama set in 1970s Belfast, written by
Scottish playwright Gregory Burke (Black Watch).
New army recruit Private Gary Hook (Jack O’Connell) is
deployed to Belfast during the Troubles in 1971. Shortly
after arriving his unit are supporting a routine house
search operation which escalates into a terrifying street
riot, and during the chaos Hook is accidentally left behind.
Unable to tell friend from foe, the raw recruit must survive
the night alone and find his way to safety through a
disorientating, alien and deadly landscape.
Shake Hands with the Devil
Michael Collins
The series is jointly organized with the University
of Edinburgh’s School of History, Classics and
Archaeology and the Irish Consulate, Scotland.
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Michael Anderson • Ireland/USA 1959 • 1h48m • 35mm • 12A
Cast: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns.
From Michael Anderson (The Dam Busters, and later
Logan’s Run) comes this Irish-American co-production,
shot in Dublin and Wicklow.
Irish-American Kerry O’Shea (Don Murray) is a student at
the College of Surgeons in Dublin. Despite his apolitical
and non-violent worldview (having served in World War
I), he finds himself living in a city in the grip of guerilla
warfare.
Upon discovering that one of his professors, Sean Lenihan
(James Cagney), is a high-ranking Republican leader, Kerry
suddenly and unwittingly becomes involved in the conflict
between the IRA and the British ‘Black and Tans’.
Wed 27 Apr at 5.45pm
Neil Jordan • UK/Ireland/USA 1996 • 2h13m • Format TBC • 15 Contains strong violence, strong language
Cast: Liam Neeson, Julia Roberts, Aidan Quinn, Alan Rickman.
With Liam Neeson in the title role, Aidan Quinn as Harry
Boland and Alan Rickman as Éamon de Valera, Neil Jordan’s
Michael Collins presents the key figures of the Irish War of
Independence in a prestige historical biopic - the winner
of the Golden Lion award at Venice Film Festival 1996.
Tracking historical events from the Easter Rising through
to the formation of the Irish Free State, it focuses on
the shifting and fractious relationships between these
passionate and determined men in their struggle for
independence from British rule and their differing attitudes
towards compromise and negotiation in the name of
progress.
PSYCHO-PASS: THE MOVIE
A LETTER TO MOMO
Scotland Loves Anime runs annually in October
across Glasgow, Edinburgh and now Aberdeen. In
2016 we’re pleased to announce we’re bringing a
mini-programme of anime films to Edinburgh and
beyond. You have a mix of classics, films that sold
out during SLA 2015 and a new film before the
2016 festival. There’s something for everyone here
and it’s all been made possible thanks to our 2016
Sponsor - FunimationNow.uk
So sit back, enjoy a bit of anime this spring to keep
you going until October!
ANTHEM OF THE HEART
Psycho-Pass: The Movie
Anthem of the Heart
Gekijouban Psycho-Pass
Kokoro ga sakebitagatterunda
Naoyoshi Shiotani • Japan 2015 • 2h • Digital • Japanese with
English subtitles • 15
Tatsuyuki Nagai • Japan 2015 • 1h59m • Digital • Japanese with
In the year 2116, the Japanese government begins
exporting its Sibyl System of unmanned robot drones in
an attempt to reach all conflict areas worldwide. Alongside
this, the Southeast Asia Union (SEAUn) decides to test the
floating city of Shambhalafloat, which achieves fleeting
peace and security. But, shortly after, SEAUn terrorists
enter Japanese territory, attempting to sneak through the
Japanese Sibyl System and launch an attack against its
brain. As Akane Tsunemori of the Criminal Investigation
Division sets off to investigate Shambhalafloat, the truth of
the justice brought down by the system is revealed....
Long ago, young Jun Narase dreamed of one day
attending a ball at the glamorous castle on the hill.
After innocently and inadvertently revealing her father’s
infidelity to her mother, her family falls apart.
She falls into despair until a strange egg tells her she can
save herself from further heartbreak and maybe even find
her prince on the hill. All it would take is for her voice to be
sealed away forever, never to speak again...
Now in high school and still mute, Jun is grouped together
in a committee of other students - all still suffering from
their own heartbreaks - as they plan to produce a musical...
A Letter to Momo
Momo e no tegami
Okiura Hiroyuki • Japan 2011 • 2h1m • Digital • Japanese with
English subtitles • PG - Contains infrequent mild bad language
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This offer is available online, in person and on the
MISS HOKUSAI
A heartwarming animated fantasy from director Okiura
Hiroyuki that was seven years in the making. An 11-yearold girl named Momo moves to a tiny island in the Seto
Inland Sea. She continues to cling to the memory of her
late father who left her an unfinished letter, and finds
herself unable to adjust to her new lifestyle or make
friends. Then one day, she is visited by three bizarre
creatures.
Screening as a taster of a strand in the main festival,
selecting some of the classics screened at past editions
of SLA.
Miss Hokusai
Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai
Keiichi Hara • Japan 2015 • 1h30m • Digital • Japanese with
English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate sex references
In 1814 Edo, a much accomplished artist works tirelessly
in his studio. His name is Katsushika Hokusai and decades
later his work will come to mesmerise a score of prominent
Western artists. But few were aware of the woman who
often painted for him whilst remaining uncredited.
This is the untold story of Hokusai’s daughter, O-Ei, a
free-spirited woman overshadowed by her larger-than-life
father. Inheritor of both his stubbornness and his talent,
her own art is so powerful that it leads to trouble....
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Screening Europe
JAMÓN JAMÓN
BASTARDS
Screening Europe
Screening Europe is a new season curated by Film
Studies at the University of Edinburgh. We will
bring a varied selection of past and contemporary
European films to Filmhouse to celebrate and
interrogate the history and aesthetics of cinema in
Europe. We invite members of the public as well as
students to join us for an exciting series that will
chart the development of film across Europe.
Our first programme of ten films oscillates
between the 1980s or thereabouts and today. We
will explore the ways in which European cinema
has changed over the last twenty-five years and
more.
All films will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa,
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of
Edinburgh.
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YOUNG SOUL REBELS
NORTHERN SOUL
Jamón Jamón
Young Soul Rebels
Tue 8 Mar at 6.00pm
Bigas Luna • Spain 1992 • 1h34m • 35mm • Spanish with English
subtitles • 18
Cast: Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna
Galiena, Juan Diego, Jordi Mollà.
Isaac Julien • UK/France/Germany/Spain 1991 • 1h45m • 35mm
18 – Contains strong sex
Cast: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber,
Sophie Okonedo, Jason Durr.
Never one for understatement or for avoiding clichés,
Bigas Luna provides an allegory for Spain’s transition from
the old to the new via bullfighting, legs of cured pork and
a masculinity so deeply in crisis that even Javier Bardem
struggles to be man enough for the film’s pseudopsychoanalytical conceits. While Pedro Almodóvar’s
cinema gives us a Spain of exuberant optimism, Luna
is more gloomily carnivalesque in this vision of battling
idiots.
The Screening Europe conference in 1991 actually
premiered Isaac Julien’s evocation of black pirate radio Soul
Patrol against the backdrop of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in
1977. Returning to the time of Derek Jarman’s own Jubilee,
Julien presents a portrait of London where the racists
of the National Front are in pitched battle with almost
everyone else and soul funk provides the soundtrack for
a murder mystery of political engagement. Young Soul
Rebels is Dick Hebdidge’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style
on screen.
Bastards Les salauds
Northern Soul
Claire Denis • France/Germany 2013 • 1h23m • Digital • French
and English with English subtitles • 12A – Contains moderate
language
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille, Michel
Subor, Lola Créton.
Elaine Constantine • UK 2014 • 1h42m • Digital • 15 - Contains
strong language, drug use, sex
Cast: Elliot James Langridge, Joshua Whitehouse, Antonia
Thomas, Jack Gordon, James Lance, Christian McKay.
A complicated tale of sexual exploitation and financial
collapse in contemporary France, Denis’s noirish grand
guignol tale of suicide, unpleasant sex and tawdry
prurience divided audiences and critics. Inspired by Akira
Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well, the film is a pessimistic
cry against the strictures of family, and the all pervasive
corruption of contemporary capitalism and a society in
which only pain and suffering are sources of pleasure.
Vincent Lindon as the returning brother is the film’s only
source of possible redemption.
In the final film of the Screening Europe season, Northern
Soul is an exuberant and unashamedly nostalgic look at
the Northern youth club scene of the 1970s galvanised
by American soul music and amphetamines. Featuring
Steve Coogan and Ricky Tomlinson in supporting parts, the
film was extremely and unexpectedly successful during
its short release in 2014. Northern Soul is an example of
contemporary independent European filmmaking and
marketing which raises questions about the future of both
Europe and film.
Three Colours Trilo/Filmosophy: Three Colours
THREE COLOURS: BLUE
Three Colours Trilogy
Additional screenings of all three instalments
of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy to
celebrate their recent digital restoration.
Three Colours: Blue
Trois couleurs: Bleu
Thu 10 Mar at 1.00pm & 6.05pm
Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Switzerland/UK 1993
1h38m • Digital • French, Romanian and Polish with English
subtitles • 15
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoït Régent, Florence Pernel,
Charlotte Véry, Hélène Vincent.
Trois couleurs: Blanc
Thu 14 Apr at 1.00pm & 6.10pm
Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Switzerland 1994 •
1h31m Digital • Polish, French, English and Russian with
English subtitles 15 • Cast: Julie Delpy, Zbigniew Zamachowski,
Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr.
Three Colours: Red
Trois couleurs: Rouge
Thu 12 May at 1.00pm & 6.05pm
Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Switzerland/Poland 1994 •
1h39m Digital • French with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder,
Jean-Pierre Lorit, Samuel Le Bihan, Marion Stalens.
THREE COLOURS: WHITE
Filmosophy: Three
Colours
This sixth season of Filmosophy focuses on
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s stunning Three Colours
Trilogy.
All films will be introduced by James Mooney,
lecturer and course organiser for the University
of Edinburgh’s Short Courses programme.
For more information:
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www.twitter.com/film_philosophy
THREE COLOURS: RED
Trois couleurs: Blanc
Wed 6 Apr at 6.10pm
Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Switzerland 1994 • 1h31m
Digital • Polish, French, English and Russian with English subtitles
15 • Cast: Julie Delpy, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Janusz Gajos,
Jerzy Stuhr.
Humiliated and now bereft of his marriage to Dominique
(Julie Delpy), his business and his legal residency in
France, Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski) lives on the streets
performing songs for spare change. He happens upon a
fellow Pole, the wealthy and successful Mikołaj (Janusz
Gajos), and - after the ultimate first task - begin to work for
him back in Poland. As he uses his wits to grow rich and
richer still, his mind turns to Dominique once again...
Kieslowski’s second instalment is dark, wry and bittersweet
- described by Roger Ebert as “the anti-comedy, in
between the anti-tragedy and the anti-romance”.
Three Colours: Red
Trois couleurs: Rouge
Wed 4 May at 6.00pm
Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Switzerland/Poland 1994 • 1h39m •
Digital • French with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder, JeanPierre Lorit, Samuel Le Bihan, Marion Stalens.
Swiss model Valentine (Irène Jacob) discovers that a
nearby retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) has been
using his radio equipment to eavesdrop on his neighbours’
phone conversations. Confronting him, he urges Valentine
to follow her conscience in deciding whether to denounce
him or not. Meanwhile, law student Auguste (Jean-Pierre
Lorit) is unaware that his girlfriend, Karin (Frédérique
Feder), has been unfaithful to him. The paths of the judge,
the student, his girlfriend and Valentine - all of whom live
in the same street - begin to cross and re-cross in a web of
coincidence.
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PLASTICINE CREATURE ANIMATION
CARTOON ANIMATION
Filmhouse offers schools the opportunity to engage with a variety of film which support
moving image literacy and subjects including modern languages and social studies. For more
information email [email protected] or call Nicola Kettlewood or Jenny Leask on
0131 228 6382. Details at www.filmhousecinema.com/learning
Animation Workshops
How to Animate (Adults and 16+) Sun 20 Mar • 10am-4.30pm • £40
A fun-packed introduction to the world of animation, which will allow you to explore different
2D and 3D techniques to create your own short films. This hands-on workshop covers 2D drawn
animation, 2D cut-out puppet, 3D stop motion and other animation techniques.
Cartoon Animation (7-12 years) Tue 29 Mar • 10.30am-12.45pm • £15
Build your own paper creatures and bring them to life in a cartoon! You could make an alien, a
robot monster or a superhero - your imagination is the only limit!
Plasticine Creature Animation (7-12 years) Tue 29 Mar • 1.40pm-3.50pm • £15
Animation Jam present a fun packed introduction to the world of 3D animation. Make your own
plasticine characters and bring them to life in your own animated film.
Stop Motion Puppet Making (11-17 years) Wed 30 Mar • 10.00am-4pm • £40
(Please bring a packed lunch)
Ever wanted to make an animation puppet like the professionals? Animation Jam will help you
make a humanoid metal skeleton and then fatten it up and dress it to be your own design. Make
a short animation in the class and then take your creation home.
For all of these workshops please book in person at
Filmhouse Box Office or by phone on 0131 228 2688.
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Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and
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