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Filmhouse Cinema

4 MAR 11 31 MAR 11
films worth talking about
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True Grit
Archipelago
Benda Bilili!
The African Queen
Blue Valentine
Animal Kingdom
Never Let Me Go
Howl
Roeg’s Gallery
Rendez-vous with French Cinema
We Love Anime
Greek Film Festival
Back to the Future: Japanese Cinema Since the Mid-90s
Les
Diaboliques
A new restoration of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s masterpiece
3 CINEMAS CAFE BAR
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INDEX
INDEX
SCREENING DATES AND TIMES
TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
16-17
17
31
The African Queen
9
Alexandra
15
Animal Kingdom
8
Apnea
25
Archipelago
4
Attenberg
24
Back to the Future: Japanese Cinema
Since the Mid-90s
22-23
Bad Timing
14
Barney’s Version
7
The Battle of Algiers
15
Benda Bilili!
5
The Bird People in China
23
Blue Valentine
6
City of God
29
Come and See...
15
Confessions
6
Cure
22
Les Diaboliques
9
Don’t Look Now
13
Eleanor’s Secret
19
Eleftherios Venizelos
24
Eureka
13
Exile Island
25
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle... 18
The Family Friend
15
The Fighter
8
The Film of the Book
20
Filmhouse Café Bar
30
Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 32
Filmhouse Quiz
30
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
10
Get Low
7
Go
23
Greek Film Festival
24-26
Gypsy Melody
26
Happy Day
25
How Much Does Your Building Weigh...
6
Howard Hawks
10
Howl
9
Inside Job
8
Insignificance
Introduction to European Cinema
It’s a Long Road
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
King of Thorn
The Kite Runner
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Linda Linda Linda
Love Like Poison
Made in Edinburgh
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Monkey Business
My Perestroika
Never Let Me Go
No Woman, No Cry
Of Gods and Men
One Million Yen Girl
Performance
Plato’s Academy
Point Blank
Potiche
The Princess of Montpensier
Projecting the Archive
Quiet Days in August
Rio Bravo
Roeg’s Gallery
Sawako Decides
Science and Film
Soul Deep
The Space Between
The Stone Tape
Stone Years
Strella
Summer Wars
Sword of the Stranger
Take One Action
The Tigger Movie
True Grit
Walkabout
Waste Land
We Love Anime
Weans’ World
The Witches
AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLES
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15
25
23
28
20
28
22
18
20
14
10
29
7
26
8
23
13
26
18
19
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26
24
18-19
10
12-14
23
20
24
20
20
25
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28
29
26
19
5
13
5
28-29
19
14
We have now installed a system in all three
screens which enables us, whenever the necessary
discs are available, to show onscreen subtitles
for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing,
and provide audio description (via our infra-red
headsets) for those who are sight-impaired.
This issue:
True Grit – all screenings in FH1 will have audio
description (see pages 16-17 for details).
Never Let Me Go – all screenings will have audio
description (see pages 16-17 for details), and the
6.00pm screening on Monday 21 March will also
have subtitles.
The Fighter – all screenings will have audio
description (see pages 16-17 for details), and the
1.15pm screening on Saturday 26 March will also
have subtitles.
FORCRYINGOUTLOUD
Screenings for carers and their babies. This issue:
Archipelago Mon 7 Mar at 11.00am
Les Diaboliques Mon 21 Mar at 11.00am
Baby changing, bottle warming and buggy parking
facilities are available.Tickets cost £3.50/£2.50
concessions per adult. Screenings limited to babies
under 12 months accompanied by no more than
two adults. Screenings sponsored by Bepanthen.
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Introduction
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
BENDA BILILI!
LES DIABOLIQUES
ARCHIPELAGO
This year, your guess is probably better than mine...!
I usually take ruthless advantage of this column by timing things to perfection so I can write it from a film festival somewhere on the globe, in a pathetic
attempt to convince you I’m regularly anything other than a sedentary desk-bound drone who sits at a computer for eight hours a day: but the fact is I’m
currently at home. Yes, Sundance last week, Berlin next: but today, at home. (So whilst I didn’t write it at a festival, I got in the mention of two... clever, eh?)
Sundance was great, seeing as you asked. Very cold mind you (early December in Edinburgh was mighty good training), and Park City’s unique Film-Festivalin-a-Ski-Resort vibe took a bit of getting used to, but once I did... Saw some great films too, that with any luck might be coming EIFF’s way this year...
And now to matters March...
The glut of Oscar®-hopeful releases is well and truly over and Filmhouse-friendly new releases are like the proverbial fowl’s gnashers, so what a great
time to catch up on all those we didn’t have room to show on release – Barney’s Version, Blue Valentine, Inside Job, Never Let Me Go, Animal Kingdom (an
awesome Aussie crime/family drama, one of my absolute favourites of last year), Howl, Get Low, The Fighter... There are a few worthy new release inclusions
mind you: Joanna Hogg’s follow up to last year’s brilliant Unrelated, the incisive, quietly devastating, Scilly Isles-set dissection of the upper-middle-class
family, Archipelago; and Benda Bilili!, the incredible true story of the global success of a Kinshasa band of homeless and/or disabled musicians.
There’s some cracking re-releases coming up too: John Huston’s classic The African Queen has been given the full – to its original (and glorious, natch)
Technicolor® brilliance�
misanthropic invention,” Les Diaboliques; and the 40th anniversary of Nicolas Roeg’s debut as sole director, Walkabout, gave the British Film Institute
just the excuse they needed to restore it to its 1971 magnificence, and gave us the excuse we needed to put together a short season of the man’s best
films, including a rare screening of The Man Who Fell to Earth.
Following the success of our Scotland Loves Anime weekend back in October, we’ve a few more to keep you going ‘til SLA returns next October, which
we’ve called We Love Anime; there’s a quick look at contemporary Greek & Japanese cinemas in our Greek Film Festival and Back to the Future: Japanese
Cinema since the Mid-90s seasons respectively; and, in collaboration with Unifrance, we’ll be previewing a host of French films (hopefully with guest
appearances) long before their UK cinema releases, in Rendez-vous with French Cinema.
And, you’ll have been holding your breath for this... my Oscar® predictions for February 27. In a heart/head format, here goes: Film – Winter’s Bone/
King’s Speech, Director – David Fincher/Tom Hooper, Actor – Colin Firth/Colin Firth, Actress – Jennifer Lawrence/Natalie Portman, Supporting Actor
– Geoffrey Rush/Christian Bale, Supporting Actress – Helena Bonham Carter/Melissa Leo.
My, it’s tricky this year...
Rod White, Head of Programming
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NEWRELEASE
Archipelago
Fri 4 to Thu 17 Mar
Joanna Hogg • UK 2010 • 1h55m • Digital projection
15 – Contains strong language
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Kate Fahy, Lydia Leonard, Amy Lloyd,
Christopher Baker.
With her son Edward (Tom Hiddleston) about to
embark on a volunteer trip to Africa, doting mother
Patricia (Kate Fahy) wants to give him a good sendoff, and gathers her family together for a getaway
to a holiday home on idyllic Tresco, one of the Isles
of Scilly. Edward’s father’s attendance is eagerly
anticipated, though sister Cynthia (Lydia Leonard)
appears to be there under some duress, going through
dutiful motions. Cook Rose (Amy Lloyd) is happy to
tend to the family, though her presence causes some
discomfort. The holidaymakers spend their time
walking, cycling, taking picnics and being tutored in
oil painting, appreciating the breathless beauty of their
surroundings. Gradually, deep fractures within the
family set-up begin to surface.
One of the most eagerly anticipated features of the
year, Joanna Hogg’s follow-up to Unrelated serves
as a worthy companion piece to her brilliant and
acclaimed debut, as she continues to make astute
and authoritative observations on the malaises of the
middle-class, extracting sometimes painful drama
from incidental events. Archipelago confirms Hogg as
one of the most intriguing and vital voices in modern
British cinema.
New releases
TRUE GRIT
NEWRELEASE
WASTE LAND
BENDA BILILI!
NEWRELEASE
NEWRELEASE
True Grit
Waste Land
Benda Bilili!
Showing until Thu 17 Mar
Showing until Thu 10 Mar
Fri 18 to Thu 24 Mar
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen • USA 2010 • 1h50m • 35mm
15 – Contains scenes of violence
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry
Pepper.
Lucy Walker • Brazil/UK 2010 • 1h39m • Digital projection
PG – Contains mild language and references to sex and drugs
Documentary
Renaud Barret & Florent de La Tullaye
Democratic Republic of the Congo/France 2010 • 1h25m
Digital projection • Lingala and French with English subtitles
PG – Contains soft drug references, mild violence and language
Documentary
The Coen Brothers’ adaptation of Charles Portis’ novel
– used to such great (but very different) effect by Henry
Hathaway back in 1969, with John Wayne in his Oscar®winning role – is definitely not what we have come to expect
from them. Out goes the Brothers’ familiar eccentric, quirky
humour, and in comes a decidedly more straightforward
cinematic artistry, as if they’d tired of attempting to create
yet another highly original, signature work and, for a change,
simply wallow in the considerable pleasures of straight, genre
filmmaking. And what a great decision, for how they wallow!
Remarkably self-reliant and assured 14-year-old Mattie
Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) hits town in search of the meanest,
toughest lawman – of the titular grit – to help her track
down and kill the man who killed her father, Tom Chaney
(Josh Brolin), and sets her sights on the grizzled, boozeaddled Marshal Reuben J ‘Rooster’ Cogburn (played in
a completely immersive, brilliant performance by Jeff
Bridges). But there’s another man on Chaney’s trail too,
the indignant Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (pronounced LaBeef),
with whom ‘Rooster’ has a past…
Above all a wonderfully realistic and believable evocation
of Western times – the rugged, unforgiving landscapes,
the one-foot-on-each-side-of-the-law lawmen and the onthe-run lives of the outlaws – beautifully conceived, shot,
scored and performed.
Voted best documentary by audiences at both the
Sundance and Berlin International Film Festivals,
Waste Land is a touching and edgy documentary that
encompasses art, the environment, social issues, and
stories of ordinary lives.
New York artist Vik Muniz, renowned for his photographs
of portraits made from an assortment of materials – his most
famous being the ‘sugar children’ – returns to his native
Brazil to undertake a new project in the Jardim Gramacho,
the world’s largest landfill, outside Rio de Janeiro. Director
Lucy Walker follows Muniz and captures an intimate story
as he discovers an eclectic and impoverished population of
garbage pickers, catadores, who spend their days collecting
recyclables from the dump. He hires some of them for his
newest photographic project, and what unfolds is a story
of dignity and remarkable creativity, told through three
individuals whose lives are transformed by art.
An extraordinary documentary that follows the
unbelievable rise, from the poverty-stricken streets of
Kinshasa, to European acclaim on the back of a debut
album, of Staff Benda Bilili – a band of severely disabled
Congolese musicians and street children playing both
conventional and improvised instruments.
The group’s original core is made up of three paraplegic
middle-aged street-dwellers who live in cardboard boxes
in the slums of the city, where they stay sane by making
music. Their star is Roger Landu: plucked off the streets
when he was just 12. Roger, who is able-bodied, plays
a curious, self-invented instrument which consists of an
empty tin, a curved piece of wood and a tightly-wound
string, from which he extracts incredibly tuneful solos.
They perform songs – rooted in rumba, with elements of
old-school rhythm and blues – about the polio that afflicted
them and about life on the streets, and find Kinshasa Zoo to
be the only quiet place in which they’re able to rehearse.
Documentarists Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye
profile them in situ, and on tour in five-star European
luxury, in this moving, powerful film.
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New releases/Maybe you missed...
CONFESSIONS
NEWRELEASE
Confessions Kokuhaku
Tue 29 to Thu 31 Mar
Tetsuya Nakashima • Japan 2010 • 1h46m • Digital projection
Japanese with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong bloody
violence and sustained psychological threat
Cast: Takako Matsu, Masaki Okada, Yoshino Kimura.
On an average day at a middle-school, teacher Yoko
Moriguchi (Takako Matsu) calmly tells her class about the
tragic death of her four-year-old daughter at the hands
of two of their classmates. The initial shock and slight
disbelief turns to horror when she further announces that
she has tainted the two killers’ cartons of milk with HIVinfected blood. As we learn more about the story, each of
the characters confesses their sins to the class and new
clues are revealed to this tragic tale. Yet as the lives of the
two boys slowly start to unravel, we find that Moriguchi’s
plan is a complex one indeed...
Dealing with difficult issues, from bullying, teenage
violence and prejudice in the school system to mental
illness and murder, Confessions is also a tightly woven
thriller.
HOW MUCH DOES YOUR BUILDING WEIGH, MR FOSTER?
NEWRELEASE
How Much Does Your Building
Weigh, Mr Foster?
BLUE VALENTINE
MAYBEYOUMISSED
Blue Valentine
Carlos Carcas & Norberto López Amado
UK/Spain/Germany/USA/Switzerland/France/China/Hong Kong
2010 • 1h18m • Digital projection • cert tbc • Documentary
Derek Cianfrance • USA 2010 • 1h52m • 35mm
15 – Contains strong sex and strong language, once very strong
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka, John Doman,
Mike Vogel.
One of the world’s most prolific modern architects, Sir
Norman Foster has designed renowned buildings and
landmarks such as the Great Court of the British Museum,
Berlin’s Reichstag building and London’s 30 St Mary Axe
(otherwise known as ‘The Gherkin’). Despite having
designed works in more than 150 cities throughout more
than 50 countries, Foster maintains that the architect is
always at the mercy of the client.
An intelligent, heartbreaking story of a couple nearing
the end of their marriage. Dean (Ryan Gosling) and
Cindy (Michelle Williams) are parents of a beloved young
daughter, but their relationship seems set in a downward
spiral. In flashback we see the pleasure and promise of
their early relationship, and the film pulls us between past
and present, giving us a subtly drawn, non-judgemental
portrait of the ebb and flow of love.
In How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr Foster?
Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum in London,
narrates a journey through Foster’s life work. Coupled
with sweeping shots and breathtaking views of Foster’s
most well-known buildings, this film looks at what makes
the great man tick, and unearths the sources of his many
inspirations.
Writer-director Derek Cianfrance confidently handles his
themes, skilfully weaving ideas of memory and temporality
into the couple’s story, and into Dean’s attempt to get their
relationship back on track. The technical choices reinforce
this, contrasting 16mm and digital stock for past and
present, and the yearning melodies of Grizzly Bear provide
a fitting soundtrack to this painful, beautiful film.
Maybe you missed...
NEVER LET ME GO
BARNEY’S VERSION
GET LOW
MAYBEYOUMISSED
MAYBEYOUMISSED
Never Let Me Go
Barney’s Version
Get Low
Fri 18 to Sun 20 Mar
Mon 21 to Thu 24 Mar
Mark Romanek • UK/USA 2010 • 1h44m • Digital projection
12A – Contains moderate sex and nudity
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley, Charlotte
Rampling, Sally Hawkins.
Richard J Lewis • Canada/Italy 2010 • 2h14m • 35mm
15 – Contains strong language and infrequent strong sex
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Dustin Hoffman, Minnie
Driver, Rachelle Lefevre.
Aaron Schneider • USA/Germany/Poland 2009 • 1h43m • 35mm
PG – Contains mild language and violence
Cast: Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black.
Based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed best-selling novel,
Never Let Me Go is a haunting story of love and loss. Kathy
(Carey Mulligan), a young woman in her early thirties,
recalls her childhood years growing up with her friends
Ruth and Tommy at Hailsham, an idyllic-seeming English
boarding school. The Hailsham regime taught its pupils to
believe they were special, encouraging creativity, sporting
activity and a healthy lifestyle, reinforced by regular
medical checks. The children were sheltered from the
outside world, and afraid of what lay beyond the school
gates, though this had little impact on their day-to-day
happiness. But as they grew older, they learned that a
dark secret hung over their future. And for Kathy, Ruth
and Tommy came the discovery of deep feelings of love,
jealousy and betrayal that threatened to pull them apart.
Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti, brilliant), a Jewish
Canadian producer of bad television, is at once passionate
but petty; smart but foolish; generous but jealous; goodhearted but mean-spirited. In short, he’s a deftly drawn
study in human contradiction.
After the 6.00pm screening on Tuesday 22 March there will
be an open discussion on the issues raised by the film, led
by a representative of the Humanist Society of Scotland.
Humanism is an ethical stance which asserts that we
can lead good lives guided by compassion and reason,
rather than religion or superstition. Humanists are vitally
concerned with issues that affect our world.
Adapted from Mordechai Richler’s novel, this hilarious
and heartbreaking film jumps artfully through Barney’s life,
from his younger, bohemian-ish days in Rome in the 1970s
(he hangs out with writers and artists but is the only person
with a real job) to the harsher realities of his mid-60s in
his hometown of Montreal (he’s unhappily divorced,
his son will barely speak to him, and a single-minded
detective has just published a book declaring that Barney
was responsible for his best friend’s murder). In between,
Barney engages in the usual sorts of things people do:
gets married (three times), haggles with people at work,
makes life miserable (and sometimes wonderful) for his
spouses and children and tolerates with unabashed love
and humour the antics of his widowed ex-cop father (a
wickedly funny Dustin Hoffman).
MAYBEYOUMISSED
Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek anchor this
Depression-era tale of a Tennessee backwoods outcast who
decides to throw his own funeral – while still alive. For over
four decades the wily, much-feared hermit Felix Bush has
been living alone in the wilds guarding his privacy with a few
well-placed ‘No Damn Trespassing’ signs and, when those
don’t work, a few better-placed shotgun blasts. One day,
however, he hops on his mule and heads back into town,
looking for a preacher to help him ‘get low’, or down to the
business of getting buried. The catch? He’d like to be alive,
so he can hear what people have to say... Get Low combines
impeccable attention to period detail with a witty script and
sublime performances from its outstanding cast.
Matinee Special!
If you’re a Senior Citizen you can now go to a matinee
screening and get either soup of the day OR a cup of
tea or coffee and a traycake for only £6!
Offer runs from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and
only applies to screenings starting before 5.00pm. Buy
your Matinee Special ticket at the box office and you’ll
receive a voucher which can be exchanged in the café
bar between 1.30pm and 5.00pm that day only. Offer is
subject to availability and only available in person.
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Maybe you missed...
OF GODS AND MEN
MAYBEYOUMISSED
ANIMAL KINGDOM
MAYBEYOUMISSED
THE FIGHTER
MAYBEYOUMISSED
Of Gods and Men Des hommes et des dieux Inside Job
The Fighter
Fri 25 to Mon 28 Mar
Fri 25 to Wed 30 Mar
Xavier Beauvois • France 2010 • 2h2m • Digital projection
Arabic and French with English subtitles
15 – Contains infrequent strong violence
Cast: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin,
Philippe Laudenbach, Jacques Herlin.
Charles Ferguson • USA 2010 • 1h49m • Digital projection
12A – Contains brief sight of implied hard drug use & moderate
sex references • Documentary, narrated by Matt Damon.
David O Russell • USA 2010 • 1h56m • 35mm
15 – Contains strong language and hard drug use
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo,
Mickey O’Keefe.
Based on a true story, this sombre, humane and
provocative drama is set in a Cistercian monastery in North
Africa in the 1990s, where eight French monks live in
cordial harmony with the local population. The monastery’s
abbot, Brother Christian, is as much versed in the Koran as
in the Bible, giving him a special insight into, and respect
for, the nation he has chosen to work in. But the country is
increasingly in the grip of fundamentalist violence, and the
brothers must soon decide whether to stay or leave.
Animal Kingdom
Fri 25 to Wed 30 Mar
David Michod • Australia 2010 • 1h53m • 35mm
15 – Contains very strong language, strong violence and hard drug use
Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford.
The family-driven crime saga receives fresh new life in
Australian writer-director David Michod’s stunningly
confident debut. 17-year-old Joshua moves in with his
estranged family after his mother’s death from a heroin
overdose. His doting grandmother and her three criminal
sons, ‘the Cody boys’, are on the run from renegade
detectives, and Joshua is about to get caught up in a coldblooded revenge plot that turns the family upside down.
Suspenseful, moving and with a real psychological depth.
Aptly described by Variety as ‘the definitive screen
investigation of the global economic crisis’, this second
feature from Charles Ferguson (No End in Sight) offers a
clear-sighted call to action. This meticulous and frequently
jaw dropping study of greed and amorality chronicles a
story of private gain and public loss, showing how the
United States financial meltdown was far from accidental.
Ferguson combines judiciously used archive material
with helpful graphics for those of us with a less than
A-grade grasp of economics, but the great strength of
the film lies in the director’s access to a range of insiders
and analysts, and the skilful interviews he conducts with
them. Alongside these are beautifully filmed sequences
of New York’s financial district, its glossy towers providing
the backdrop whilst European and Asian politicians
give their insights on the global consequences of the
decidedly unholy trinity of America’s financial institutions,
government and academia. Whilst Ferguson respects the
intelligence of his audience, he also provides enough dry
wit to engage, helped by accessible narration by Matt
Damon and an energetic soundtrack.
A comprehensive look at not only what went wrong,
but what is still going wrong, Inside Job is vital, if hardly
comforting, viewing.
Boxer Dicky Ecklund (Christian Bale) used to be the pride
of his home town, having once gone the distance with
World Champion Sugar Ray Leonard. However, since
losing that fight, Dicky has fallen on hard times, and his life
has been shattered by drug abuse. Younger half-brother
Micky (Mark Wahlberg), meanwhile, has followed in
Dicky’s footsteps, but his career is also failing, and, trained
by Dicky and managed by their hard-as-nails mother
(Melissa Leo), he loses fight after punishing fight. When
Micky’s latest fight nearly kills him, it looks like it could
all be over – until his iron-willed new girlfriend, Charlene
(Amy Adams), convinces him to do the unthinkable: split
with his family, pursue his own interests and train without
his increasingly volatile and criminal brother.
Based on a true story, The Fighter may have a somewhat
predictable plotline, but astute direction and superb
performances from the ensemble cast (all four leads were
nominated for Golden Globes, with Bale and Leo winning)
more than compensate.
Maybe you missed.../Restored classics
HOWL
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
MAYBEYOUMISSED
RESTOREDCLASSIC
LES DIABOLIQUES
RESTOREDCLASSIC
Howl
The African Queen
Les Diaboliques
Fri 4 to Thu 10 Mar
Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman • USA 2010 • 1h24m • 35mm
15 – Contains strong language, once very strong, and strong sex
references
Cast: James Franco, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels,
Alessandro Nivola.
John Huston • UK 1951 • 1h45m • 35mm
English, German and Swahili with English subtitles
PG – Contains moderate threat and violence
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley,
Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel.
Henri-Georges Clouzot • France 1955 • 1h53m • 35mm
French with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel,
Jean Brochard.
An insightful and inspiring glimpse into America on the
cusp of the 1960s, Howl is a brilliant film portrait of a poem,
a poet and his generation.
Now digitally restored to its former Technicolor glory,
John Huston’s blend of World War One adventure and
mature romance endures as witty, intelligent and rousing
entertainment.
James Franco gives a remarkable performance as poet
Allen Ginsberg in the restless, youthful and often sexual
fire of his poetic beginnings. Filmmakers Rob Epstein
and Jeffrey Friedman have taken the spirit of Beat
experimentation and produced a brilliantly multi-layered
film, where carefully rendered period detail and a great
soundtrack combine with authentic Ginsberg interviews
convincingly spoken by Franco. Monochrome footage
of smokey poets’ gatherings in San Francisco are set
against the poem, teasingly spoken in rhythmic fragments,
while conjured up by dazzling, colourful animations. And
the core of the piece is the 1957 obscenity trial where
Ginsberg has to defend his right to free expression. The
courtroom drama feels like its outcome is never certain,
and over 50 years later the battle over artistic freedom still
seems relevant.
Humphrey Bogart won his only Oscar as Charlie Allnut,
gin-swigging captain of the African Queen, the steamboat
in which he transports British spinster Rose Sayer
(Katharine Hepburn) after her brother has died following
a German raid on their Methodist mission in German East
Africa. Prim Rose may be, but she’s still spirited enough
to insist they take a perilous trip downriver in order to
sabotage an enemy gunboat...
Deftly adapted (by James Agee, among others) from
a novel by CS Forester, the movie benefited greatly
from being shot in Uganda and the Congo (as well as
Isleworth Studios), and from a supporting cast of character
actors that includes Robert Morley and Peter Bull.
Powell-Pressburger regulars Jack Cardiff and Allan Gray
contributed the excellent camerawork and score, and
Huston keeps it moving along at an exhilaratingly brisk
pace.
Sadistic cruelty, bitter hatred, murderous betrayal...
Clouzot’s razor-sharp thriller remains a dark classic of
misanthropic invention.
In the most Hitchcockian of all the films made by the
French master of suspense, the wife and the mistress of the
tyrannical headmaster of a seedy boys’ boarding school
conspire to put an end to his callous brutality. Taut as a
mantrap, the meticulous script provides plenty of tension,
surprises and shocks, but what really distinguishes the film
is Clouzot’s beady eye for details both atmospheric and
telling: a swimming pool clogged with debris, rancid school
meals, the dismal efforts of the staff to curry favour. Much
imitated but seldom bettered, the film can also lay claim to
a clutch of excellent performances; not just Véra Clouzot,
Simone Signoret and Paul Meurisse as the misbegotten
ménage-à-trois, but a young Michel Serrault as a teacher
and the inimitable Charles Vanel as a canny detective.
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Howard Hawks
MONKEY BUSINESS
Howard Hawks
The final three films in our season of the work
of one of Hollywood’s greatest directors. An Ivy
League-educated born storyteller who worked
his way up from assistant prop man to become
a screenwriter, director and producer (all before
the movies could even talk), Howard Hawks went
on to become one of the most consistent and
commercially successful independent directors
of the Studio System era, excelling in films
ranging from screwball comedies and musicals to
westerns, action-adventures and film noir crime
dramas.
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
RIO BRAVO
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Rio Bravo
Tue 8 Mar at 6.15pm & Wed 9 Mar at 6.15pm
Mon 14 Mar at 8.15pm
Howard Hawks • USA 1953 • 1h28m • Digital projection • U
Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid,
Tommy Noonan.
Howard Hawks • USA 1959 • 2h21m • 35mm • PG
Cast: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson,
Walter Brennan.
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.
Annoyed that the acclaimed and popular High Noon
portrayed a sheriff so afraid of his adversaries that he
spends most of the movie asking the townsfolk for help,
Hawks decided to make a filmed response, namely Rio
Bravo. A small Texas border town is under the control of
evil cattle baron Russell and his dim-witted brother, Akins.
When Akins commits a murder, the sheriff (John Wayne),
throws him in jail to await the arrival of a US Marshall.
Russell lays seige to the jailhouse, and Wayne is forced
to rely on the town drunk (Dean Martin), a cranky old
man (Walter Brennan), and an untested young gunslinger
(Ricky Nelson) for help. Beautifully acted, wonderfully
observed, and scripted with enormous wit and generosity.
Monkey Business
Sun 6 Mar at 8.45pm
Howard Hawks • USA 1952 • 1h37m • 35mm • U
Cast: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn, Marilyn Monroe,
Hugh Marlowe.
Immaculate screwball comedy by its greatest practitioners,
in which Cary Grant plays an absent-minded chemist
in search of a youth drug. The chaos starts when a
mischievous chimp accidentally mixes the magic formula
into the water cooler, whereupon Grant and wife Ginger
Rogers take turns to regress into childhood. The classic
inverted-world comedy, where kids and animals bring
anarchy into the demure adult world, leaving all inhabitants
much refreshed and highly amused.
TICKETDEALS
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These packages are available online, in person and on the
phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.
Tickets must all be bought at the same time.
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“Nobody ever said
Lady Macbeth
was a brunette.”
Pandas
World Première
Traverse Theatre Company
By Rona Munro
A romantic-comedy-thriller
set in Edinburgh and China
... maybe.
19 April - 7 May
Previews 15 - 17 April
www.traverse.co.uk 0131 228 1404
By Sue Glover
A co-production with Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
15 March–2 April 2011
BOX OFFICE: 0131 248 4848
GROUPS 8+: 0131 248 4949
www.lyceum.org.uk/marilyn
Supported by Glasgow Restaurant Association and
Arts & Business New Arts Sponsorship Investment.
Company No. SC062065 Scottish Charity Registered No. SC010509
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
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Roeg’s Gallery
WALKABOUT
Roeg’s Gallery
Nicolas Roeg’s visionary spirit has
produced an endlessly fascinating
series of works in which taboos are
embraced and explored. Challenging
preconceptions about civilisation
and the capabilities of the moving
image, Roeg is one of cinema’s most
influential mavericks.
PERFORMANCE
DON’T LOOK NOW
Performance
Don’t Look Now
Mon 21 to Wed 23 Mar
Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell • UK 1970 • 1h45m • 35mm
18 – Contains strong violence and drugs use
Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton,
Ann Sidney.
Nicolas Roeg • UK/Italy 1973 • 1h50m • 35mm • 18
Cast: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason, Clelia
Mantania, Massimo Serato.
Roeg’s debut as a director is a virtuoso juggling act which
begins as a straight thriller before deviating into more
provocative terrain. A 60s gangster (Fox), on the run from
his gangland colleagues, seemingly finds refuge in the
Notting Hill basement of a reclusive rock star (a perfectly
cast Jagger). An elliptical, absorbing puzzle exploring
notions of identity and sexuality, it was loathed by its
distributor.
Walkabout New Digital Restoration
Eureka
Wed 16 & Thu 17 Mar
Nicolas Roeg • UK 1971 • 1h40m • Digital projection • 12A
Cast: Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil, John Meillon,
Robert McDarra.
Nicolas Roeg • UK/USA 1983 • 2h9m • 35mm • 18
Cast: Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Jane
Lapotaire, Mickey Rourke.
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh
Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural
world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic
masterpiece. Along the way, they meet a young aborigine
on his ‘walkabout’, a rite of passage in which adolescent
boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into
the wilderness alone. A thrilling adventure as well as a
provocative rumination on time and civilisation.
Eureka unpicks the life of a prospector (Hackman) who,
after striking gold, lives out his life in a luxurious exile
polluted by vicious battles with business competitors and
members of his own family. A violent, uncompromising
work, the film, scripted by Paul Mayersberg, has parallels
with both Citizen Kane and There Will Be Blood in its
observations on how wealth often comes at huge personal
cost.
An intelligent, sensual and chilling adaptation of Daphne
du Maurier’s supernatural thriller in which a married
couple (an electric Christie and Sutherland) use a working
assignment in wintry Venice as an attempt to overcome a
recent tragedy in which their young daughter drowned,
Don’t Look Now is amongst Roeg’s most admired and
influential works. Hinting at the horrors that underlie
domesticity, the editing and use of colour are astonishing.
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Roeg’s Gallery (continued)
BAD TIMING
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
Bad Timing
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Sun 27 to Tue 29 Mar
Thu 31 Mar at 2.30pm + 8.35pm
Nicolas Roeg • UK 1980 • 2h1m • 35mm
English, German, Czech and French with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm
Elliott, Daniel Massey.
Nicolas Roeg • UK 1976 • 2h18m • HD-Cam-SR • 18
Cast: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie
Casey.
Vienna is used to similar effect as Venice was in Don’t Look
Now in the masterful and much maligned Bad Timing,
one of the director’s most elusive and complex pictures.
Examining in flashback the consuming relationship
between two Americans in the city of Klimt, Roeg has
described Bad Timing as an apt summation of his career,
believing himself to have often been ahead of time, instead
of simply being of it. The film was poorly distributed and
led to the diminution of Roeg as a commercial force.
Casting the otherworldly Bowie as an alien in America
seeking the resources to save his dying planet, Roeg
adapted Walter Tevis’ novel ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’
into a telling and intricate fable about the deadening
effects of contemporary society. Largely rejecting linearity
in favour of thematic juxtapositions, the English director
offered a singular take on the expansive American
landscape, both fetishising and undermining its mythical
qualities.
Insignificance
The Witches
Wed 30 & Thu 31 Mar
Sat 2 Apr at 1.00pm
Nicolas Roeg • UK 1985 • 1h49m • 35mm • 15
Cast: Michael Emil, Theresa Russell, Tony Curtis, Gary Busey,
Will Sampson.
Nicolas Roeg • UK/USA 1990 • 1h31m • 35mm • PG
Cast: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan
Atkinson, Bill Paterson.
Adapted from Terry Johnson’s play, Insignificance
gathers together Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, Joe
DiMaggio and Senator McCarthy (Tony Curtis, in one of
his greatest later roles) for a series of intense discussions in
anonymous hotel rooms. The publicity brochure claimed
“Insignificance is about everything”, and it’s hard to find
fault with this statement as Roeg riffs on love, hate, fame,
jealousy and everything in between.
One of Roeg’s rare commercial successes (allegedly made
to appease his family), this tale of a young boy confronting
a coven of witches who have plans to turn all children into
mice weaves a deliciously dark spell. Featuring splendid
effects by Jim Henson and a marvellously malevolent turn
from Anjelica Huston, it failed to gain the seal of approval
from author Roald Dahl, but charmed and delighted
audiences of all ages.
THE WITCHES
Introduction to European Cinema/Come and See...
ALEXANDRA
THE FAMILY FRIEND
Introduction to
European Cinema
Alexandra Aleksandra
The final two films in this popular season, which
provides 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.
Into the Russian army field headquarters in the civil-war
zone near Grozny, Chechnya, comes an ailing old woman,
Alexandra, searching for her soldier grandson. Alexandra
cuts an absurd but also a poignant figure – and director
Aleksandr Sokurov observes her with an ex-documentarist’s
sense of realism. But, as a director long concerned with
the subject of human, spiritual and political oppression, his
aims are deeper and his careful depiction of Alexandra’s
humanising effect on those she meets is symbolic.
Organised in parallel with the Film Studies
department at the University of Edinburgh,
the screenings are part of undergraduate and
graduate students’ syllabuses, but are equally
open to regular members of the Filmhouse
public.
All IEC screenings will be introduced by
course organiser Dr Pasquale Iannone from the
University of Edinburgh.
Wed 9 Mar at 6.00pm
Aleksandr Sokurov • Russia/France 2007 • 1h35m • 35mm
Russian and Chechen with English subtitles
PG – Contains mild language
Cast: Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva.
The Family Friend L’Amico di famiglia
Wed 16 Mar at 6.00pm
Paolo Sorrentino • Italy 2006 • 1h43m • 35mm
Italian with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong language and moderate sex
Cast: Giacomo Rizzo, Laura Chiatti, Clara Bindi, Luigi Angelillo.
Paolo Sorrentino’s follow-up to his captivating 2004 film
The Consequences of Love is a subtle, intriguing study of
fear and desire, attraction and repulsion, power and need.
Living alone with his invalid mother in a leaking apartment,
the physically unattractive Geremia is, in his own words,
“a pathetic and disgusting person.” He presents himself to
his clients as a generous benefactor, helping only the poor
and needy, and relying on his assistant, the cowboy-hatted
Gino, to ensure payments are maintained. But, after he falls
for stunning bride-to-be Rosalba, Geremia discovers that
those he trusted are more than capable of betrayal...
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
Come and See...
A monthly one-off screening of a great
film we simply thought you might like to
see, again or for the first time, on the big
screen.
The Battle of Algiers
La Battaglia di Algeri
Thu 31 Mar at 6.00pm
Gillo Pontecorvo • Italy/Algeria 1965 • 2h1m • 35mm
French, Arabic, English and Italian with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong torture violence
Cast: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Ugo Paletti,
Fusia El Kader.
Gillo Pontecorvo’s stirring anatomy of an urban uprising
– the violent nationalist revolt in Algiers in 1956 and
1957 – feels strikingly relevant today, showing the real
consequences of defying popular will with institutional
aggression and military force. The tone is mournful but
the approach journalistic, and Pontecorvo refuses to
caricature the French or glamorise the Algerians: instead
he sketches the way a guerilla movement is organised and
the way a colonial force sets about decimating it. There’s a
minimum of verbal rhetoric: the urgent images and Ennio
Morricone’s thunderous score spell out the underlying
political sympathies. Dazzling and unforgettable.
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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
DAY
DATE
4 - 31 March 2011
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Fri 1 Archipelago
4 1 True Grit (AD)
Mar 2 Waste Land
2 Archipelago
3 The African Queen
3 Cure (J)
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.30
1.20/6.10
3.35/8.20
1.15/3.45/6.15
8.40
Sat 1 Archipelago
5 1 True Grit (AD)
Mar 2 Waste Land
2 Archipelago
3 The African Queen
3 Linda Linda Linda (J)
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.30
1.20/6.10
3.35/8.20
1.15/3.45/6.15
8.40
Sun 1 Archipelago
6 1 True Grit (AD)
Mar 1 Monkey Business (HH)
2 Waste Land
2 Archipelago
3 The African Queen
3 Go (J)
1.00
3.30/6.00
8.45
1.20/8.50
3.35/6.10
1.15/3.45/6.15
8.40
Mon 1 Archipelago
7 1 True Grit (AD)
Mar 1 The Stone Tape
2 Archipelago (B)
2 Archipelago
2 Waste Land
3 The African Queen
3 Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (J)
1.00
3.30/6.00
8.30 + discussion
11am (babies only)
3.35/8.20
1.30/6.10
3.45/6.15
8.40
Tue 1 Archipelago
8 1 True Grit (AD)
Mar 1 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (HH)
2 Waste Land
2 Archipelago
3 The African Queen
3 City of God
1.00
3.30/8.30
6.15
1.20/8.50
3.35/6.10
3.45/8.55
6.00 + intro
Wed 1 Archipelago
9 1 True Grit (AD)
Mar 1 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (HH)
2 Waste Land
2 Archipelago
3 The African Queen
3 Alexandra (EC)
1.00
3.30/8.30
6.15
1.20/8.50
3.35/6.10
3.45/8.15
6.00 + intro
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DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
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Thu 1 Archipelago
10 1 True Grit (AD)
Mar 1 The Space Between (£6/£4.50)
2 Waste Land
2 Archipelago
3 The African Queen
3 One Million Yen Girl (J)
1.00
3.30/8.45
6.00 + Q&A
1.20/6.10
3.35/8.20
3.45/6.15
8.40
Fri 1 True Grit (AD)
11 1 Walkabout (NR)
Mar 2 Archipelago
2 Attenberg (G)
3 Blue Valentine
3 The Bird People in China (J)
1.00/8.30
3.30/6.00
1.15/3.45/8.40
6.15
1.00/3.30/6.00
8.45
Sat 1 Walkabout (NR)
12 1 True Grit (AD)
Mar 2 True Grit
2 Archipelago
3 Eleftherios Venizelos (G)
3 Blue Valentine
3 Sawako Decides (J)
1.30/6.00
8.30
1.00
3.30/6.10/8.40
2.00
6.00
8.45
Sun 1 Eleanor’s Secret (WW)
13 1 Walkabout (NR)
Mar 1 True Grit (AD)
2 Archipelago
2 No Woman, No Cry
3 Quiet Days in August (G)
3 Blue Valentine
3 Soul Deep (G)
1.00
3.30/8.30
6.00
1.00/3.30/8.15
6.00 + discussion
2.00 + Q&A
5.30
8.00 + Q&A
Mon 1 Eleanor’s Secret (WW)
14 1 Walkabout (NR)
Mar 1 True Grit (AD)
2 Archipelago
2 Rio Bravo (HH)
3 Blue Valentine
3 Happy Day (G)
11.00am
2.30/8.30
6.00
3.00/5.45
8.15
3.15/6.00
8.30 + Q&A
Tue 1 True Grit (AD)
15 2 Archipelago
Mar 2 Performance (NR)
3 Blue Valentine
3 Stone Years (G)
2.30/6.00/8.30
3.30/6.10
8.45
3.00/5.45
8.15 + Q&A
DAY
DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Wed 1 True Grit (AD)
16 2 Archipelago
Mar 2 Performance (NR)
3 Eureka (NR)
3 The Family Friend (EC)
3 Blue Valentine
2.30/6.00/8.30
3.30/8.40
6.10
3.00
6.00 + intro
8.20
Thu 1 Performance (NR)
17 1 True Grit (AD)
Mar 2 Archipelago
2 Eureka (NR)
3 Blue Valentine
3 It’s a Long Road (G)
2.30
6.00/8.30
3.30/6.00
8.30
6.10
8.40
Fri 1 Never Let Me Go (AD)
18 1 The Princess of Montpensier (RV)
Mar 2 Benda Bilili!
2 Les Diaboliques
3 Barney’s Version
3 Exile Island (G)
1.00/3.30/9.15
6.00 + Q&A
1.45/6.15
3.45/8.15
6.00
8.45
Sat 1 Les Diaboliques
19 1 Never Let Me Go (AD)
Mar 1 Love Like Poison (RV)
1 Point Blank (RV)
2 Benda Bilili!
2 Les Diaboliques
2 Never Let Me Go (AD)
3 Apnea (G)
1.00
3.30
6.00 + Q&A
8.45
1.45/6.15
3.45
8.15
3.00/6.00
8.45
Sun 1 Never Let Me Go (AD)
20 1 The Extraordinary... Adèle B-S (RV)
Mar 1 Potiche (RV)
2 Benda Bilili!
2 Les Diaboliques
3 Plato’s Academy (G)
1.00/8.45
3.30
6.00
1.45/6.15
3.45/8.15
3.00/6.00
8.45
Mon 1 Les Diaboliques (B)
21 1 Les Diaboliques
Mar 1 Never Let Me Go (AD)
1 Never Let Me Go (AD) + (S)
2 Benda Bilili!
2 The Kite Runner
3 Don’t Look Now (NR)
3 Get Low
3 Strella (G)
11am (babies only)
8.30
2.30
6.00 (subtitled)
3.30/8.45
6.00
3.00
6.15
8.30
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Tue 1 Les Diaboliques
Mar 1 Never Let Me Go (AD)
2 Benda Bilili!
2 Les Diaboliques
3 Get Low
2.30
6.00 + discussion
8.45
3.30/6.00
8.15
3.00/8.30
6.15
Mon 1 The Tigger Movie (WW)
28 1 Animal Kingdom
Mar 1 The Fighter (AD)
2 Inside Job
2 Of Gods and Men
3 Howl
3 Bad Timing (NR)
11.00am
2.30/6.05
8.35
3.35/8.40
6.00
3.45/8.45
6.10
Wed 1 Never Let Me Go (AD)
23 1 Les Diaboliques
Mar 2 Benda Bilili!
2 My Perestroika
3 Get Low
2.30/8.30
6.00
3.30/8.45
6.15
3.00/8.30
6.00
Tue 1 Animal Kingdom
29 1 The Fighter (AD)
Mar 2 Confessions
2 How Much... Mr Foster?
3 Bad Timing (NR)
3 Howl
2.30/6.00
8.45
2.40/8.55
5.00/7.00
3.15
6.15/8.15
Thu 1 Les Diaboliques
Mar 2 Benda Bilili!
2 Les Diaboliques
3 Get Low
3 Gypsy Melody
2.30
6.00/8.30
3.30/6.00
8.15
3.00/8.30
6.15
Wed 1 Animal Kingdom
30 1 The Fighter (AD)
Mar 2 Confessions
3 Howl
3 Insignificance (NR)
2.30/8.30
6.00
2.40/8.55
5.00/7.00
3.45/8.45
6.00
Fri 1 Inside Job
25 1 Animal Kingdom
Mar 2 Of Gods and Men
2 Inside Job
3 The Fighter (AD)
3 Howl
1.30
3.45/6.10/8.35
1.00/6.00
3.35/8.40
1.15/6.15
3.45/8.45
Thu 1 The Man Who Fell To Earth (NR)
31 1 The Battle of Algiers (CS)
Mar 2 Confessions
3 Insignificance (NR)
3 Howl
2.30/8.35
6.00
2.40/8.55
5.00/7.00
3.15/8.00
6.00
Sat 1 Laputa: Castle in the Sky (WLA) 1.00
26 1 Animal Kingdom
3.40/8.35
Mar 1 King of Thorn (WLA)
6.10
2 Of Gods and Men
1.00/6.00
2 Inside Job
3.35/8.40
3 The Fighter (AD) + (S)
1.15 (subtitled)
3 The Fighter (AD)
6.15
3 Howl
3.45/8.45
Sun 1 The Tigger Movie (WW)
27 1 Summer Wars (WLA)
Mar 1 Sword of the Stranger (WLA)
1 Animal Kingdom
2 Of Gods and Men
2 Inside Job
3 The Fighter (AD)
3 Howl
3 Bad Timing (NR)
1.00
3.30
6.00
8.35
1.00/6.00
3.35/8.40
1.15
3.45/6.15
8.15
KEY:
(AD) – Audio Description (see page 2)
(B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2)
(S) – Subtitled (see page 2)
SEASONS:
(EC) – Introduction to European Cinema (page15)
(G) – Greek Film Festival (pages 24-26)
(HH) – Howard Hawks (page 10)
(J) – Back to the Future: Japanese Cinema Since
the Mid-90s (pages 22-23)
(NR) – Roeg’s Gallery (pages 12-14)
(RV) – Rendez-vous with French Cinema (pages
18-19)
(WLA) – We Love Anime (pages 28-29)
(WW) – Weans’ World (page 19)
Full index of films on page 2
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THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER
LOVE LIKE POISON
Rendez-vous with
French Cinema
POINT BLANK
The Princess of Montpensier
Point Blank À bout portant
La princesse de Montpensier
Sat 19 Mar at 8.45pm
Fri 18 Mar at 6.00pm + Q&A
Fred Cavayé • France 2010 • 1h24m • 35mm
French with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Gérard Lanvin, Elena Anaya.
Bertrand Tavernier • France/Germany 2010 • 2h19m • 35mm
Cast: Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet.
UniFrance Films is very pleased to come to The ultra-versatile Bertrand Tavernier returns to a
favourite terrain, the French historical drama, in a superbly
Edinburgh with a selection of five avantmounted 16th-century drama of politics, passion and
premieres. Work by some of the most
swordplay. Noblewoman Marie is in love with
prominent directors of French cinema will occasional
her swashbuckling cousin Henri de Guise, but must yield
be heading this Rendez-vous: Bertrand
to her father’s political ambitions and marry Philippe de
Tavernier, François Ozon and Luc Besson. Montpensier. When war calls him away, her husband
leaves her in the benevolent charge of tutor Chabannes, a
The programme includes also debut or
nobleman outlawed after he turns his back on war. But Marie
second feature films directed by new
is soon exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of court.
French talents: Katell Quillévéré and Fred
Cavayé.
Love Like Poison Un poison violent
We are delighted that Bertrand Tavernier
and Katell Quillévéré will be attending to
take part in Q&A sessions following the
screenings of their films.
TICKETDEALS
THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADELE BLANC-SEC
Sat 19 Mar at 6.00pm + Q&A
Katell Quillévéré • France 2010 • 1h32m • 35mm
Cast: Clara Augarde, Lio, Michel Galabru, Stefano Cassetti.
Screened last May at Cannes in the Directors Fortnight,
Katell Quillévéré’s debut feature, following an adolescent’s
struggles with the competing demands of faith and the
flesh, won critical acclaim and a best screenplay prize.
Newcomer Clara Augarde impresses as 14-year-old Anna,
who returns home from boarding school prepared to be
confirmed into the Catholic faith, but feeling the first pangs
of desire for her friend Pierre. Quillévéré handles the teen
sexual awakening with sensitivity and poses some thoughtprovoking questions about the nature of religion from
numerous perspectives without ever appearing judgmental.
Things couldn’t be better for Samuel and Nadia: he will soon
qualify as a nurse and she is expecting their first child. But
their world is tipped upside down when Nadia is kidnapped
in front of Samuel’s eyes and he’s incapable of doing
anything about it. When he comes to, his cellphone rings:
he has three hours to get a man, under police surveillance,
out of the hospital where he works. Director Fred Cavayé’s
follow-up to his debut Anything For Her is another taut and
visceral account of dubious morals and criminal activity.
The Extraordinary Adventures of
Adèle Blanc-Sec
Les aventures extraordinaires d’Adèle Blanc-Sec
Sun 20 Mar at 3.30pm
Luc Besson • France 2010 • 1h47m • 35mm
French with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul
Rouve, Jacky Nercessian.
A wonderfully silly family adventure tale. Adèle Blanc-Sec
is a bestselling travel writer whose tales of strange lands
and derring-do have made her a minor celebrity. Setting
out to save her sister from a mystery ailment, Adèle sets
out to recover the mummy of an Egyptian Doctor, believing
he has the knowledge required to restore her ailing sibling.
Of course, the mummy in turn needs someone to resurrect
him, and a supernatural comedy of errors ensues as Adèle
races against the clock to break an ageing scientist from
prison before her sister shuffles off this mortal coil...
Rendez-vous with French Cinema/Weans’ World
POTICHE
Potiche
François Ozon • France 2010 • 1h43m • 35mm
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini,
Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche.
Catherine Deneuve commands the screen with a regal wink
as Suzanne Pujol, a trophy wife (‘potiche’) whose mettle is
tested when catastrophe strikes in her husband Robert’s
umbrella factory. The smug, philandering Robert, who
secured the factory through her dowry, is taken hostage by
his employees, and it is Suzanne who negotiates his release,
with the help of union leader Babin (Gérard Depardieu).
Under the assured direction of prolific French filmmaker
François Ozon, this stylish farce is an irresistible romp
through 1970s kitsch, politics and female emancipation.
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ELEANOR’S SECRET
Weans’ World
Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost
£2.50 per person, big or small!
Please note: although we normally disapprove of people
talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for
kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!
Eleanor’s Secret
Sun 13 Mar at 1.00pm & Mon 14 Mar at 11.00am
Dominique Monfery • France/Italy 2009 • 1h16m • Digibeta
English language version • cert tbc
Seven-year-old Nat can’t read, making his inheritance
of his Aunt Eleanor’s collection of books immensely
disappointing. Despite his love of having Eleanor read
to him, his disinterest encourages his parents to sell the
books to a greedy collector. But then Nat discovers that,
if the books leave the library, the characters will fade into
oblivion and leave the world without stories forever...
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The Tigger Movie
Sun 27 Mar at 1.00pm & Mon 28 Mar at 11.00am
Jun Falkenstein • USA 2000 • 1h17m • 35mm • U
With the voices of Jim Cummings, Nikita Hopkins, Ken Samson.
Tigger is sad because no one in the Hundred Acre Woods
will bounce with him. He starts to wonder if there could
be other Tiggers out in the woods. After observing Owl’s
family tree, Tigger sets out to look for members of his own
family...
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Made in Edinburgh/Science and Film/The Film of the Book
THE SPACE BETWEEN
Made in
Edinburgh
Made In Edinburgh invites you to enjoy
Edinburgh’s finest moments on the big
screen, showcasing work from local moving
image industry talent alongside productions
shot on location in and around the city.
World Premiere
The Space Between
Thu 10 Mar at 6.00pm - TICKETS £6/£4.50
Tim Barrow • UK 2010 • 1h25m • HDV • 15
Cast: Vivien Reid, Tim Barrow, David Whitney, Nicola Jo Cully,
Colin Scott Moncrieff.
Lisa spends her days numb, isolated, alone in a comfortless
show-flat, her only respite being work at an observatory
bringing her close to the stars. In London Steven loses
everything and heads for sanctuary in the city he grew up
in. At dead of night, at their lowest points, Lisa and Steven
find one another, discovering kindred spirits and a chance
of redemption.
Filmed for £15,000 over 17 days in Edinburgh and London,
The Space Between was written and directed by Tim
Barrow, producer of award-winning debut feature The
Inheritance.
Tim Barrow will take part in a Q&A following the screening.
THE STONE TAPE
THE KITE RUNNER
Science and Film The Film of
the Book
Screenings in association with The British Science
Association, a registered charity which exists to
advance the public understanding, accessibility and
accountability of the sciences and engineering.
For further details on The British
Science Association, see
www.britishscienceassociation.org
The Stone Tape
Mon 7 Mar at 8.30pm + discussion
Peter Sasdy • UK 1972 • 1h29m • Beta SP • PG
Cast: Michael Bryant, Jane Asher, Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Bates.
A cult 1970s ghost story depicting a scientific investigation
of a haunted mansion, featuring a sophisticated soundtrack
created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop using atonal
electronic sounds. The Stone Tape was one of the first films
to propose the notion that ghosts may be recordings of
past events made by the physical environment, and since
its broadcast this hypothesis has come to be referred to as
the ‘Stone Tape Theory’ within parapsychology.
Part experiment, part film showing, The Edinburgh Secret
Society and the British Science Association investigate
our fear of the unknown. After having their powers of
imagination measured, the audience will watch The Stone
Tape. The audience’s fear levels will be measured as we
discover whether this classic of terror has stood the test
of time, and whether those with vivid imaginations find it
especially terrifying.
A special screening as part of The Film of the
Book, an eight week course organised by
Edinburgh City Libraries and the Workers’
Educational Association. Liz Hare leads the course
and will be introducing this screening. For further
information on the full course please contact 0131
225 2580 or email [email protected]
The Kite Runner
Marc Forster • USA 2007 • 2h8m • 35mm
English, Dari, Pashtu, Urdu and Russian with English subtitles
12A – Contains strong language and infrequent strong violence
Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Ehsan Aman, Vsevolod Bardashev, Ismail
Bashey, Larry Brown, Laurie Burke.
The Kite Runner, based on the 2003 bestseller by Khaled
Hosseini, is a moving and beautifully acted morality tale of
fathers and sons, friendship and betrayal, set against the
backdrop of Afghanistan’s tumultuous politics, past and
present.
Life is good before the Soviet invasion in 1979, especially
for young Amir, whose father is a wealthy merchant. Amir’s
best friend is their servant’s son Hassan, a minority Sh’ia
Muslim, but Amir fails to stand by his friend when he is
attacked. The episode haunts him for years, even after
emigrating to America.
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Recommended 15+ contains violence and strong language
Cast includes
Alex Ferns
Nicky Elliott
Iain Robertson
Paul Morrow
Alison
O’Donnell
Stewart Porter
Cara Kelly
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Thu March 31 – Sat April 9, 2011
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LINDA LINDA LINDA
Back to the Future
GO
Japanese Cinema Since the Mid-90s
Following last year’s successful Girls on Film: Females in Contemporary Japanese Cinema season, this year’s
Japan Foundation touring film programme looks at the marked resurgence of Japanese cinema from the 1990s
onwards, with a series of works from seven key directors who set a new path for the future and success of
Japanese cinema and whose works best illustrate the development of contemporary Japanese cinema during
the three periods of the late-1990s, the first half of the millennium, and onwards into the future.
By 1989, Japanese cinema had suffered its bleakest period, the international fame of Kurosawa was very much in the
past and audience figures in Japanese cinemas fell as the industry failed to produce new and interesting talents; this
was compounded by the loss of mentoring opportunities for new talent following the collapse of the studio system.
However, by the 1990s there was some light at the end of the tunnel with the release of more works by
independent directors such as Takeshi Kitano and Takashi Miike, amongst others, who wished to explore
their individuality. These new directors can be seen as having inspired the world by leading a revived interest
in Japanese cinema in the West. This renewed interest fuelled the emergence of directors from subsequent
generations who have pushed the industry to even greater success in the 21st century.
The seven films included in the 2011 line-up have been selected to reflect the changing tastes, styles, and
circumstances of the period they were produced. They are the finest examples from key Japanese directors
popular both at home and abroad, such as Takashi Miike and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and directors such as
Isao Yukisada who have been highly successful with the domestic market in Japan but are less recognised
overseas. Also included are representatives from a younger generation who are ones to watch in the future.
As well as inspiring the beginnings of a new era of Japanese cinema, these directors all continue to work and are
very much a part of the present as well as the future of Japanese cinema. Though the selected works may be
less well-known in the UK, they help to exhibit the breadth of creativity in Japanese contemporary cinema and
have contributed greatly to the course of Japanese cinema and to the development of these directors’ careers.
This season will provide UK audiences with an insight into the landscape of Japanese cinema during these
important periods of its development, which saw its revival through some of the most engaging and versatile
examples of contemporary Japanese cinema from the mid-1990s to the present.
This season is produced and organised by the Japan Foundation
with advice from Jasper Sharp.
Supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
JOSEE, THE TIGER AND THE FISH
Cure
Fri 4 Mar at 8.40pm
Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Japan 1997 • 1h51m • 35mm
Japanese with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa.
The bodies of a number of prostitutes who have been
brutally murdered are found in Tokyo. All the murders
have one thing in common – each victim has been slashed
with a large ‘X’ across their body. Detective Takabe
and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the
connection, but their investigation goes nowhere. Takabe’s
irritation at the investigation’s slow progress is intensified
by his problems in his personal life, including his wife’s
growing mental illness. Meanwhile the police hold a young
drifter in custody, not knowing his connection to the crime.
Cure is a landmark film in the career of Kiyoshi Kurosawa,
bringing him wide international acclaim.
Linda Linda Linda
Sat 5 Mar at 8.40pm
Nobuhiro Yamashita • Japan 2005 • 1h54m • 35mm
Japanese with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Doona Bae, Aki Maeda, Yu Kashii, Shiori Sekine.
Linda Linda Linda, one of Nobuhiro Yamashita’s most
popular works, is set in a modern-day high school just
outside Tokyo. In the run-up to the school’s culture festival,
a girl’s music group is facing a dilemma. They planned on
playing an original piece of music but, three days before
the festival, due to injuries and arguments, they need to
find a new guitarist and vocalist. The girls each face their
own different teenage struggles while trying to master their
act for the school festival. Can they make their moment in
the spotlight a success?
ONE MILLION YEN GIRL
THE BIRD PEOPLE IN CHINA
SAWAKO DECIDES
Go
One Million Yen Girl
Sawako Decides
Sun 6 Mar at 8.40pm
Hyakuyman-en to nigamushi onna
Kawano sokokara konnichiwa
Isao Yukisada • Japan 2001 • 2h2m • 35mm
Japanese and Korean with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Yosuke Kubozuka, Kou Shibasaki, Shinobu Otake, Hirofumi Arai.
Yuki Tanada • Japan 2008 • 2h1m • 35mm
Cast: Yu Aoi, Mirai Moriyama, Pierre Taki, Terunosuke Takezai.
Yuya Ishii • Japan 2009 • 1h52m • 35mm
Cast: Hikari Mitsushima, Kotaro Shiga, Ryo Iwamatsu, Kira Aihara,
Masashi Endo.
Sugihara is a Korean who was born and raised in Japan
but who has so far attended a Korean school. At the end
of junior high, he decides to move onto a Japanese high
school to expand his horizons. Sugihara meets a Japanese
girl, Sakurai, at a party and falls in love. But Sugihara had
not told her that he was not Japanese, and is in agony
whether to tell her or not, for his confession might ruin their
relationship. A breakthrough film for director Isao Yukisada,
Go took his career to a new level whilst provoking some
compelling and thought-provoking questions.
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Joze to tora to sakana tachi
Mon 7 Mar at 8.40pm
Isshin Inudo • Japan 2003 • 1h56m • 35mm
Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chizuru Ikewaki, Juri Ueno, Hirofumi Arai.
Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah
jong parlour. Lately customers have been talking about an
old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets.
They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate,
and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage...
money? Drugs? One day Tsuneo encounters the old lady,
who asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a
girl clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl
who calls herself ‘Josee’... Isshin Inudo’s mini masterpiece
is an original take on modern day love.
Written and directed by Yuki Tanada, one of Japan’s most
promising young directors, One Million Yen Girl tells the
story of 21 year old Suzuko, who gets into trouble and ends
up in jail. When she comes out, living with her parents no
longer seems like an option, and she moves to a seaside
resort. Suzuko takes on various jobs: cleaning offices,
delivering newspapers, working in a guest house. A local
boy falls for her, but she has made a promise to herself that
she will leave for another town once she saves up a million
The Bird People in China
Chugoku no chojin
Sawako has lived in Tokyo for five years, is in her fifth office
job, and is dating her fifth boyfriend, who is also her boss.
Her life with Kenichi, her boyfriend, and his daughter
from a previous marriage feels like a compromise, and she
worries about her career and love life. One day, Sawako
receives word that her father, who runs a freshwater
clam processing business in her hometown, has fallen
ill, and she reluctantly returns home with Kenichi and his
daughter in tow. Featuring the comic charms of acclaimed
actor Hikari Mitsushima as Sawako, Sawako Decides is a
perfectly paced gem of a film
Fri 11 Mar at 8.45pm
Takashi Miike • Japan 1998 • 1h58m • 35mm
Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Mako, Wang Li Li.
Workaholic Tokyo salaryman Wada ventures into deepest,
darkest China to investigate a massive deposit of highquality jade. Tailing him is Ujiie, a snarling yakuza hell-bent
on getting Wada’s company to repay its debts. Led by
their unflappable guide, Shun, the two travel through rural
villages and striking landscapes, quickly leaving behind all
signs of the 20th century. And when they encounter a hill
tribe whose children are adorned with wings made from
bamboo and paper, their lives change forever. A change
of pace for the legendary Takashi Miike, proving his great
versatility and poetic talent as a filmmaker.
TICKETDEALS
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Greek Film Festival
ATTENBERG
Greek Film Festival
The focus for this year’s Greek Film Festival is on Pantelis
Voulgaris, a hugely influential figure in the Greek new
wave of the late sixties and early seventies, a movement
that included past festival favourites Theo Angelopoulos,
Nikos Panayotopolous and Nikos Nicolaides. His films are
often deeply political and humanistic, bringing together
complex characterisations and tumultuous events to create
a sensitive and insightful look at Greece’s recent turbulent
history. We are delighted to welcome Mr Voulgaris to the
festival to introduce and take part in post-film discussions
for the screenings of Quiet Days in August, Soul Deep,
Happy Day and Stone Years.
Another film looking at Greece’s recent past is Exile
Island, a documentary about the internment of left wing
intellectuals, including celebrated filmmaker Nikos
Koundouros, between 1947 and 1952 on the island of
Makronissos.
The festival also looks to Greece’s ‘next generation’, with
Aris Bafaloukas’ much anticipated debut feature Apnea and
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s highly acclaimed Attenberg.
Rounding the festival off are Filippos Tsitos’ lauded comedy
on Greek xenophobia, Plato’s Academy and Panos Koutras’
impressive Strella, a sensitively-told and lyrical tale of a love
affair between an ex-con and pre-op transsexual.
Special thanks, as always, go to the Greek Film Centre and
to Katy Logotheti and Kevin Anderson for their continued
and tireless support of the festival.
James McKenzie, Filmhouse
ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELOS
SOUL DEEP
Attenberg
Quiet Days in August
Isyhes Meres tou Avgoustou
Athina Rachel Tsangari • Greece 2010 • 1h35m • Digibeta
Greek with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Ariane Labed, Giorgos Lanthimos, Vangelis Mouridis,
Evangelia Randou.
Sun 13 Mar at 2.00pm + Q&A
Attenberg opens with two women French kissing – or at
least trying to. Marina (23) is not experienced in the art of
love and wants to know from her friend Bella how it works.
In scenes that are occasionally hilarious, occasionally
painful, sometimes moving, we see how Marina slowly
learns more about love and sexuality. And about other
girls, whom she studies the way David Attenborough looks
at animals. In the meantime, she has to come to terms with
the approaching death of her terminally ill father.
The figure of a woman at a lighted window, an exchange of
glances in a near-empty subway compartment, the voice
of an unknown man on the telephone – each of these
triggers off a relationship. Three stories about life in Athens
in August (a month when most inhabitants desert the city)
that are linked by loneliness, the need for human contact
and the full moon.
Pantelis Voulgaris • Greece 1991 • 1h48m • 35mm
Greek and French with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Aleka Paizi, Themis Bazaka, Thanasis Vengos, Alekos Oudinotis.
Soul Deep Psyhi Vathia
Eleftherios Venizelos
Cast: Minas Christidis, Giannis Voglis, Dimitris Myrat, Manos
Katrakis, Olga Karlatos.
Pantelis Voulgaris’ excellent historical epic chronicles one
of the most important and eminent figures in 20th-century
Greek history: the progressive yet expansionist politician
Eleftherios Venizelos, one of the fathers of modern Greece.
A Cretan who came to prominence in the struggle to unite
Crete with Greece, Venizelos was several times elected
Greece’s Prime Minister, presided over the expansion of
the country’s national borders, and ultimately had a major
schism with Greece’s pro-German monarchy over the issue
of Greece’s entry into World War I.
Sun 13 Mar at 8.00pm + Q&A
Pantalis Voulgaris • Greece/Cyprus 2009 • 2h4m • Digibeta
Cast: Vangelis Mourikis, Giorgos Symeonidis, Victoria Haralabidou,
Kostas Kleftogiannis, Vasilis Nanakis.
Pantelis Voulgaris’s latest film tackles the still-divisive topic
of Greece’s 1946-49 Civil War, when the ‘National’ army of
Greece’s Western-backed government fought an insurgent
‘Democratic’ army of Greek leftists and communists. The
struggle was one of the first armed conflicts of the new Cold
War. Voulgaris dramatises these events through the tale of
two young brothers – 14-year-old Vlassis and 17-year-old
Anestis – who find themselves enlisted in opposing camps
after their father is killed and they are separated from
their mother. Voulgaris has stated that his intention with
this beautifully-shot and very moving film was “to finally
reconcile the bloodiest pages of our modern history.”
Greek Film Festival
STONE YEARS
IT’S A LONG ROAD
APNEA
Happy Day
It’s a Long Road Ola Einai Dromos
Exile Island Makronisos
Mon 14 Mar at 8.30pm + Q&A
Cast: Zorz Sarri, Giorgos Moshidis, Stavros Kalaroglou, Nikos
Bousdoukos, Costas Fyssoun.
Cast: Thanasis Vengos, Giorgos Armenis, Dimitris Katalifos, Kostas
Kazanas, Stella Kazazi.
Elias Giannakakis & Evi Karabatsou • Greece 2008 • 1h30m
Digibeta • Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary
On a sun-scorched, windswept island a concentration camp
of political prisoners awaits the visit of the ‘great mother’,
in honour of whom they have prepared a celebration.
One of the prisoners, who steadfastly refuses to renounce
his beliefs, disappears and is proclaimed dead by the
authorities, but on the day of the official visit the ‘dead
man’ mysteriously reappears. Based on a novel by Andreas
Franghias, Voulgaris’ film is a brutal and thinly disguised
allegory on the period of the military junta (1967-74).
Pantelis Voulgaris’ It’s a Long Road is an elegant, affecting
three-part film, rendered in the director’s assured,
authoritative style, and dealing with three people at crucial
turning points in their lives. Part one, ‘A Silver Coin on
the Lips’, is the moving tale of an archaeologist whose
discovery of ancient Macedonian remains forces him to
confront a painful personal tragedy. In part two, ‘The Last
of the Lesser Whites’, a group of ornithologists follows a
rare species of goose to a bird sanctuary in Thrace, where
the game warden must make a momentous decision. In
part three, ‘Vietnam’, a factory owner goes on a wild,
destructive bender after he is abandoned by his wife and
children.
Stone Years Petrina Hronia
Tue 15 Mar at 8.15pm + Q&A
Cast: Themis Bazaka, Dimitris Katalifos, Maria Martika, Eirini Inglesi.
An engaging story of love and persecution. Eleni and
Babis meet and fall in love in 1954 – he is 22 and an active
member of the Communist Party, she is 18 and shares his
political sympathies. When Babis is caught distributing Party
leaflets he is sent to prison, while Eleni escapes by hiding out
with friends. Twelve years later, Babis is released from prison
during an amnesty, and the couple spend an idyllic, though
limited, time together. Eleni is finally caught and arrested
and, while she is in prison, Babis remains faithful to her on
the outside. The couple’s fortunes continue to vacillate until
the downfall of the military dictatorship in 1974.
TICKETDEALS
See any nine (or more) films in this season and get 35% off
During the period 1947-52, an experiment took place just a
few miles outside Athens. Its subject: to rehabilitate leftists.
Its location: the desert island of Makronisos. More than
100,000 people suffered in this ‘National Reformatory’.
Many of the survivors are still alive, as are many of their
torturers. Now, in their 80s and 90s, they are willing to
confront each other and share their experience.
Apnea Apnoia
Aris Bafaloukas • Greece 2010 • 1h27m • 35mm
Cast: Youlika Skafida, Sotiris Pastras, Andrianna Babali, Giorgos
Karamihos, Akilas Karazisis.
23-year-old swimmer Dmitris is a brooding type who
can hold his breath for more than four minutes. As he
daydreams underwater, he recalls his relationship with the
vivacious activist Elsa, who disappeared whilst on a mission
to protect dolphins from marine waste. This visually
accomplished first feature from Ari Bafalouka (himself a
former national swimming champion) smoothly weaves
together past and present.
SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF
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Greek Film Fest (contd.)/Take One Action/Projecting the Archive
STRELLA
Plato’s Academy Akadimia Platonos
Filippos Tsitos • Germany/Greece 2009 • 1h43m • Digibeta
Greek and Albanian with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Anastasis Kozdine, Titika Sarigouli,
Yorgos Souxes, Kostas Koronaios.
In the quiet Plato’s Academy neighbourhood of Athens,
four ethnocentric Greek slackers spend their days
watching industrious immigrants working all around them.
When one of the four discovers his Albanian heritage, their
smug outlook, not to mention their friendship, is severely
challenged.
Strella
Panos H Koutras • Greece 2009 • 1h53m • 35mm
Cast: Mina Orfanou, Yannis Kokiasmenos, Minos Theoharis, Akis
Ioannou, Betty Vakalidou.
A post-modern Greek tragedy unfurling against the
glowing nights of Athens, Strella follows a man, Yiorgos,
who meets and falls in love with a young pre-op
transsexual prostitute, Strella, the day he is released from
prison. Portraying people who live on the fringes of society,
questioning preconceived ideas, feelings and the collective
imagination, this touching film presents a parallel world,
generally considered as immoral and suspect by the larger
masses. But this is a world that doesn’t for a moment doubt
its own core values: humanity and compassion.
NO WOMAN, NO CRY
GYPSY MELODY
Take One Action Projecting
No Woman, No Cry
the Archive
Sun 13 Mar at 6.00pm + discussion
Christy Turlington Burns • USA 2010 • 1h • Digibeta
English and Swahili with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary
For hundreds of thousands of women each year, pregnancy
is a death sentence: every minute another woman dies
as a result. But shockingly nearly all maternal deaths and
disabilities could be prevented. In her gripping directorial
debut, Christy Turlington Burns shares the powerful stories
of at-risk pregnant women in four parts of the world. The film
puts audiences in the footsteps of a Maasai woman in labor
who must walk five miles to a clinic with no electricity, a young
pregnant woman in the slums of Bangladesh too ashamed to
seek out care, a pregnant OB in Guatemala who helps women
who have suffered from botched illegal abortions, and a
midwife in central Florida who treats uninsured women who
are denied appointments elsewhere. It presents the powerful
message that every mother counts, and a challenge to raise
awareness of these forgotten women.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with leading
experts and campaigners on maternal health asking the
question “What can we do to make a difference?”
Screening in association with Oxfam Scotland.
Presented by Take One Action, Scotland’s global action
cinema project, to mark 100 years of International
Women’s Day (8 March).
For more world-changing film and action
ideas, visit www.takeoneaction.org.uk
A collaboration with the British Film Institute
aimed at unearthing and reappraising a wealth
of lesser-known British feature films using the
BFI National Archive’s holdings, and giving
audiences the opportunity to see and celebrate
British cinema beyond the usual titles, on the
big screen.
Gypsy Melody
Edmond T Greville • UK 1936 • 1h13m • 35mm • PG
Cast: Lupe Velez, Alfred Rode, Jerry Verno, Fred Duprez.
This (somewhat topical) tale of oppressed Romanies
features some rousing gypsy numbers performed by the
hugely popular Alfred Rode and his Tzigane Orchestra.
Mexican firebrand Lupe Velez provides the gypsy passion
while Jerry Verno and Fred Duprez furnish some nice
comedy moments. Considered lost for many years, the film
was donated to the BFI by the French national archive.
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We Love Anime
LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY
We Love Anime
KING OF THORN
SUMMER WARS
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Summer Wars
Tenku no Shiro Laputa
Sama wozu
Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 1986 • 2h4m • 35mm
Every year there are a slew of anime
Japanese with English subtitles
films released onto DVD or Blu-Ray that PG – Contains mild violence and peril
With the voices of Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui,
never get a chance to be shown on the
Minori Terada, Fujio Tokita.
big screen. So here at Scotland Loves
An aerial shoot-out and a girl floating from the sky form
Animation, we’ve partnered up with
the starting point for this rollercoaster adventure in a 19th
century fantasy world. Two children set off on a hazardous
our friends at Manga Entertainment,
treasure hunt for the legendary flying castle Laputa. Also
Kazé, Optimum Releasing and Beez
chasing the treasure are a gang of airborne pirates and a
Entertainment to bring you the a
sinister government agent. The spectacular aerial battles
selection of the biggest films coming out and warrior robots never obscure the film’s essential
innocence.
in the next 12 months to the big screen
across the UK and Ireland. So catch
King of Thorn
them in cinemas while you can!
Ibara no O
We Love Anime is proudly sponsored
Kazuyoshi Katayama • Japan 2009 • 1h50m • Digibeta
by Uniqlo – anyone who buys tickets
With the voices of Sendai Eri, Kana Hanazawa, Toshiyuki Morikawa,
to all four films will get a goodie bag
Sayaka Ohara, Akiko Yajima.
containing a Uniqlo Naruto t-shirt
A mysterious virus, nicknamed Medusa, is spreading
among other things...
around Japan, turning its victims into stone. Given the
impossibility of finding an immediate cure, the government
opts for cryopreserving a select group of patients until they
come up with a solution. Based on Yuji Iwahara’s manga by
the same name, King of Thorn sets animated images in a
sensational cross between Aliens and Lost. Enigmatic and
highly explosive.
Mamoru Hosoda • Japan 2009 • 1h54m • Digital projection
With the voices of Ryunosuke Kamiki, Nanami Sakuraba, Sumiko
Fuji, Ayumu Saito, Yoji Tanaka.
When timid eleventh-grader and math genius Kenji Koiso
is asked by older student and secret crush Natsuki to come
with her to her family’s Nagano home for a summer job, he
agrees without hesitation. Natsuki’s family, the Jinnouchi
clan, dates back to the Muromachi era, and they’ve all
come together to celebrate the 90th birthday of the spunky
matriarch of the family, Sakae. That’s when Kenji discovers
his ‘summer job’ is to pretend to be Natsuki’s fiancé
and dance with her at the birthday celebration. As Kenji
attempts to keep up with Natsuki’s act around her family,
he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone
which, being a math genius, he can’t resist solving. As it
turns out, the solution to the mysterious equation causes a
hijacking of the social networking site through which most
of the world’s social and business traffic flows. It’s up to
Kenji and his new fake family to put reality back in order.
We Love Anime/My Perestroika/Youth Gangs on Film
SWORD OF THE STRANGER
Sword of the Stranger
Sutorenjia: Muko hadan
Masahiro Ando • Japan 2007 • 1h43m • 35mm
With the voices of Tomoya Nagase, Koichi Yamadera, Akio Otsuka,
Yuki Chinen, Naoto Takenaka.
This thrilling action anime is a hair-raising adventure laced
with stunningly animated fight scenes and a high body
count. Kotarou is a young boy pursued by the royal army
of China’s Ming dynasty. When his trusty dog Tobimaru
is injured in an ambush he reluctantly hires a nameless
samurai for protection however, No-Name has a guilty past
to deal with along with some of China’s fiercest warriors.
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See all four films in this season and get a Uniqlo goodie bag
MY PERESTROIKA
SPECIALEVENT
CITY OF GOD
Youth Gangs on Film:
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the end
of the USSR, Filmhouse, in association with the Representations and Realities
Scotland Russia Forum, have chosen to screen this The final film screening in this short season which
insightful document of the last generation of Soviet formed the basis of a four-week course. The
children brought up behind the Iron Curtain.
screening will be introduced and contextualised ty
My Perestroika
Wed 23 Mar at 6.15pm
Robin Hessman • USA/UK/Russia 2010 • 1h28m • Digibeta
Russian with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary
Five childhood classmates living in extraordinary times
– from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse
of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the
constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia.
Interweaving their contemporary world with rare home
footage from the 70s and 80s in the USSR, and official
Soviet propaganda films that surrounded them at the
time, director Robin Hessman depicts their memories and
opinions that both complement and contradict each other,
but together paint a complex picture of the challenges,
dreams, and disillusionment of this generation in Moscow
today.
an academic expert on the social issues raised by
the film.
City of God Cidade de Deus
Tue 8 Mar at 6.00pm + intro
Fernando Meirelles • Brazil/France 2002 • 2h10m
35mm • Portuguese with English subtitles
18 – Contains strong language, drug use, and violence
Cast: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen,
Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen.
A stunningly realised exploration of organised crime in
the sprawling shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro. Moving
from the 60s to the 80s to chart the transformation of the
titular slum into a constant battleground between rival
gangs and the alternately corrupt/ineffectual cops, it’s
narrated by young African-Brazilian Rocket, who looks
back on the kids he grew up with and their journeys into
drug dealing and racketeering. Visually, it’s a triumph, and
anchored by remarkable performances, developed over a
year’s improvision, with many performers resident in the
neighbourhood and acting for the first time.
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Courses, Workshops & Events/Café Bar
FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR
Courses, Workshops and Events
Filmhouse Café Bar
Knowledge and Learning
Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea
and enjoy one of our superb cakes.
As part of the creation of the Centre For the Moving Image, the new umbrella organisation of
Filmhouse and Edinburgh International Film Festival, there is a new Knowledge and Learning team
who will be arranging screenings for schools, workshops and learning events for all ages. For further
information please contact Holly Daniel or Nicola Kettlewood on 0131 228 6382 or at education@filmh
ousecinema.com
Schools Screenings
Please check our website for details of upcoming schools screenings
(www.filmhousecinema.com/learning/schools-and-teachers)
Screenwriters Group
17 Mar, 21 Apr
‘Screenwriters, EH’ holds free monthly meetings for screenwriters and filmmakers. Meetings are from
7- 10pm in the Guild Rooms at Filmhouse, free and open to all. More information can be found at
www.scottishscreenwriters.ning.com
Exhibition: 24 Click!
Our full menu runs from noon to 10pm seven
days a week!
All our dishes are prepared on the premises
using fresh ingredients.
We’ve an extensive vegetarian range with a
variety of daily specials.
A glass of wine? Choose from nine! The bar has
real choice in ales, beers and bottles.
A special event? Just ask, we can probably help.
Or just come and relax in the ambience!
Opening hours:
Sunday – Thursday 10am till 11.30pm
Friday – Saturday 10am till 12.30am
0131 229 5932 cafebar@filmhousecinema.com
27 February - 13 March
An exhibition of film posters-classic contemporary and cult.
Redesigned and hand printed by staff and students of
Edinburgh College of Art School of Design.
Film Quiz
Sunday 13 March
Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful
(and rather tricky) monthly quiz.
Teams of up to eight people to
be seated in the café bar by 9pm.
New Bollocks Cinema
ACCESS
MAILINGLISTS
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you for a year, send £6 (cheques payable
to Filmhouse Ltd) with your name and
address and the month you wish your
subscription to start.
This brochure is also available to
download as a PDF from our website,
www.filmhousecinema.com
Alternatively, sign up to our emailing list to
find out what’s on when, and hear about
special offers and competitions, by going
to www.filmhousecinema.com
There is a large print
version of the brochure
available which can be
posted to you free of
charge.
FUNDINGFILMHOUSE
INFORMATION FOR PATRONS WITH
DISABILITIES
Filmhouse foyer and box office are
reached via a ramped surface from
Lothian Road. Our café-bar and
accessible toilet are also at this level. The
majority of seats in the café-bar are not
fixed and can be moved.
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Box Office: 0131 228 2688 (10am - 9pm)
Recorded Programme Info: 0131 228 2689
There is wheelchair access to all three
screens. Cinema one has space for two
wheelchair users and these places are
reached via the passenger lift; cinemas
two and three have one space each
and to get to these you need to use our
platform lifts. Staff are always on hand to
operate them – please ask at the box
office when you purchase your tickets.
Gavin Miller
Chief Executive Officer
Advance booking for wheelchair spaces
is recommended. A second accessible
toilet is situated at the lower level close
to cinemas two and three. If you need
to bring along a helper to assist you
in any way, then they will receive a
complimentary ticket.
Administration: 0131 228 6382
Fax: 0131 229 6482
email: admin@filmhousecinema.com
There are induction loops and infra-red
in all three screens for those with hearing
impairments. Our brochure carries
information on which films have
subtitles.
CORPORATEMEMBERS
INFORMATION
We regularly have screenings with Audio
Description and subtitles for those with
hearing difficulties – see page two for
details of these.
Email admin@filmhousecinema.com or
call the Box Office on 0131 228 2688 if
you require further information.
Rod White
Head of Programming
Robert Howie
Customer Experience Manager
Holly Daniel & Nicola Kettlewood
Knowledge & Learning
Filmhouse is a trading name of Centre
for the Moving Image (CMI), a company
limited by guarantee, registered in
Scotland No. 67087.
Scottish Charity No. SC006793
CMI also incorporates Edinburgh
International Film Festival and the
Edinburgh Film Guild.
Edinburgh International Film Festival
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
Tel: 0131 228 4051 Fax: 0131 229 5501
Edinburgh Film Guild
www.edinburghfilmguild.com
Tel: 0131 623 8027
FINDINGFILMHOUSE
88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ
Nearest car parks: Morrison Street, Castle
Terrace
Buses: 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24,
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