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2 APR 10 6 MAY 10
films worth talking about
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Ewan McGregor
A film by Roman Polanski
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Samson & Delilah
Lourdes
I Am Love
Shutter Island
No Greater Love
La Danse
A Single Man
An Education
Alice in Wonderland
A Single Man
Safety Last!
Italian Film Festival
New Europe Film Festival
Science Festival at Filmhouse
FAB Fest
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INDEX
INDEX
SCREENING DATES AND TIMES
TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
14-15
15
27
8th Wonderland
24
400 Years of the Telescope
19
The Age of Stupid
19
Alice in Wonderland (2D)
8
Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel 20
L’armata Brancaleone
12
Astro Boy
20
Bank Robbery
18
Beyond the Pole
4
The Big Dream
10
Black Sea
11
The Blacks
16
Blast!
19
City of the Living Dead
23
Combat Shock
23
Constantin and Elena
17
Cosmonauta
11
Courses, Workshops and Events
26
Crying with Laughter
7
La Danse
7
A Day of Violence
22
Dirty Oil
5
La dolce vita
11
Double Take
25
Eagles Over London
11
Easy Rider
9
An Education
8
The End
22
Equations
18
FAB Fest
22-24
The Family
12
Filmhouse Café Bar
26
Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 28
Filmhouse Quiz
26
The First Movie
9
The Front Line
10
The Ghost
5
Grindhouse
23
High Lane
22
I Am Love
9
I Am Not Your Friend
17
I Love You Phillip Morris
8
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle 23
An Inconvenient Truth
19
It’s All Judas’ Fault
10
10-12
Journey to the Edge of the Universe
19
Kaifeck Murder
24
Life is Hot in Cracktown
24
Lion’s Den
6
Little Moscow
16
Lourdes
4
Made in Edinburgh
9
Merantau
22
My Flesh My Blood
Neighbor
Nightwatching
No Greater Love
Nostalgia
The Other Irene
Ponyo
The Private Life of Chickens
The Railway Children
Reel Zombies
Resurrecting the Street Walker
Safety Last!
Samson & Delilah
Scent of a Woman
She, a Chinese
Shutter Island
Signe Baumane
A Single Man
Slovenian Girl
Snow White and Russian Red
Sons of Cuba
A Stroke of Luck
The Unknown Woman
Vortex
The War on Democracy
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Weans’ World
Where the Wild Things Are
White Space
Wonders of the Solar System
Yatterman
Zero
AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLES
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24
16-18
6
6
25
16
20
18
20
24
23
9
4
12
18-19
7
8
17
8
17
16
5
11
10
17
25
12
20
20
11
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This month:
Shutter Island – all screenings will have audio
description, and the 8.30pm screening on Monday
12 April will also have subtitles.
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our other screenings – www.filmhousecinema.com
FORCRYINGOUTLOUD
Screenings for carers and their babies, on Monday
mornings at 10.30am. This issue:
A Single Man on Monday 5 April
Alice in Wonderland (2D) on Monday 19 April
Where the Wild Things Are on Monday 3 May
Baby changing, bottle warming and buggy parking
facilities are available.Tickets cost £3.50/£2.50
concessions per adult. Screenings limited to babies
under 12 months accompanied by no more than
two adults. For Crying Out Loud is sponsored by
Bepanthen.
See page 20 for details of Weans’ World, our
regular screenings for a younger audience.
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Introduction
I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
SAMSON & DELILAH
I AM LOVE
THE GHOST
Ah, Ewan. It’s braw to have you back...
Looking at Ewan McGregor’s filmography, he has to be one of the hardest working actors around at the moment, even finding time to resurrect
the career of – sorry, I mean travel up, down and around the world on a motorbike with – his friend Charley Boorman (search for ‘Ewan and
Thingy’ on YouTube for a giggle). Looking at said list, I suddenly realised just how few of Ewan’s recent films I’ve actually seen. He seems to
make a lot of films at the end of the market where I don’t often find myself – and you’d have to go back to Miss Potter to find one that screened
at Filmhouse. Then lo, what do you know, like the proverbial buses, two come along in the same month: Roman Polanski’s sleek, intelligent,
‘Hitchcockian’, political conspiracy thriller The Ghost, and the outrageous, “hilarious tragedy” I Love You Phillip Morris, which features Ewan
and Jim Carrey as lovers! Miss that at your peril...
Now, getting slightly more serious... We’ve an Australian film (which opens on 2 April) called Samson and Delilah. It’s the kind of film that
often frustrates cinemas like us in that it doesn’t achieve the audience it so richly deserves. Not for any reason of its quality, just not
enough people become aware of how good it actually is. There’s an undeniable marketing challenge with an Australian outback (sort of) love
story be
lm
(you won’t be seeing posters on buses to remind you), so it’s up to the likes of me to make the case. I urge you to come and see it. Read the
review on page 4, decide it’s for you, then buy yourself a ticket – I am entirely confident you won’t regret it.
Our annual Italian Film Festival appears as a somewhat compact though definitely bijou (or is it gioiello?) 2010 edition, a victim, if you will,
of the recession, f.k.a. the ‘credit crunch’, the ‘financial downturn’, the ‘Global Financial Crisis’ etc. etc. Our New Europe Film Festival takes up
its annual April slot, and our annual horror festival Dead by Dawn’s hiatus left a gap we have filled with FAB Fest, so those with an appetite for
the more outré end of the cinema spectrum will not go unsatisfied.
Our Maybe You Missed section features a host of great films we couldn’t show on release for one reason or another, among them Martin
Scorsese’s awesome Shutter Island, and Luca Guadagnino’s stunning Tilda Swinton-starring I Am Love (Io sono l’amore). Basically, if we think
it’s good, we’ll show it as soon as we can, on that you can rely. It also allows us to bring stuff back by popular demand, such as A Single Man
and An Education, which sold out every screening last time we showed it!
We’ve also a brand new restored print of the silent classic, Safety Last! You know, the one where our hero ends up hanging off a building from
a very large clock. After me... “Hooray for Harold Lloyd, do-do, do-do, do-do, do-do...”
Rod White, Head of Programming
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New releases
SAMSON & DELILAH
NEWRELEASE
LOURDES
NEWRELEASE
BEYOND THE POLE
NEWRELEASE
Samson & Delilah
Lourdes
Beyond the Pole
Fri 2 to Thu 22 Apr
Screening until Thu 8 Apr
Fri 2 to Mon 5 Apr
Warwick Thornton • Australia 2009 • 1h41m
Digital projection • Aboriginal and English with English subtitles
15 – Contains frequent substance misuse and strong language
Cast: Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Gibson, Scott
Thornton, Matthew Gibson.
Jessica Hausner • Austria/France/Germany 2009 • 1h39m
Digital projection • French, English, German and Italian with
English subtitles • U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm
Cast: Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Gilette Barbier, Gerhard
Liebmann, Bruno Todeschini.
David L Williams • UK 2009 • 1h27m • Digital projection
15 – Contains strong language
Cast: Rhys Thomas, Stephen Mangan, Mark Benton, Rosie
Cavaliero, Alexander Skarsgård.
The debut feature from director Warwick Thornton,
Samson & Delilah was rapturously received when it
premiered at Cannes last year, and won the Caméra
d’Or there, while Australian critics have been falling over
themselves to find superlatives to describe it, calling
it ‘captured lightning in a bottle’ and ‘one of the most
wonderful films this country has ever produced’. None of
this is hyperbole; sensitively performed and beautifully
filmed, Samson & Delilah is thoroughly deserving of high
praise and prizes, and marks the arrival of a significant,
singular voice in world cinema.
Christine (Sylvie Testud) has been in a wheelchair for most
of her life, and suffers a sense of isolation. Desperately
wanting to take part in the world around her, she travels to
Lourdes on an organised tour accompanied by carers from
the Order of Malta. Sceptic though she is, Christine, like so
many others, is hoping for a miraculous cure at the iconic
site of pilgrimage.
Teenagers Samson and Delilah live in a small and isolated
Aboriginal community in the central Australian desert.
Samson’s mundane and boring existence is alleviated by
substance abuse; he also persistently shadows Delilah
as she cares for her elderly Nana. One day their lives are
shattered by a set of tragic events and the two youngsters
must leave their town and embark on a journey to the
city. A visually beautiful and profound film which reveals
the desperation and disconnection of the two teenagers
against a backdrop of indifference and racism.
Lourdes is a meticulously drawn and precisely nuanced
study taking in themes of faith, hope and charity.
Director Jessica Hausner is faultless in creating a sense of
atmosphere – vague foreboding hangs in the air, and there
is a feeling of things all being slightly off-kilter, reinforced
by the film’s cool palette. Sylvie Testud gives a superb
performance as Christine, capturing her frustrations and
indignities as well as her glimpsed possibility of a different
life, and the interactions between pilgrims and carers
are acutely observed. They also sometimes make for
uncomfortable viewing, as Hausner explores the complex
dynamics of seemingly selfless acts.
As they set out on the first ever carbon neutral, organic,
vegetarian expedition to attempt to reach the North Pole,
Mark (Stephen Mangan) and Brian (Rhys Thomas) have
high hopes of not only doing their bit for global warming,
but also, if all goes well, of getting into the Guinness Book
of Records. Unfortunately, not only is this a world first: it’s
a first for them too.
Brian and Mark have never done anything like this
before. Luckily they are accompanied by Steve, their
hardened Arctic cameraman, who is filming their journey
for the digital channel, Adventure Plus. That is, until they
accidentally shoot him. Left to fend for themselves on the
ice the boys have to deal with polar bears, some extremely
competitive Norwegians and Mark’s rapidly loosening grip
on reality.
A low-budget but highly entertaining and heartfelt comedy
that breathes new life into the eco movie genre.
New releases
SONS OF CUBA
NEWRELEASE
DIRTY OIL
NEWRELEASE
THE GHOST
NEWRELEASE
Sons of Cuba
Dirty Oil
The Ghost aka The Ghost Writer
Wed 14 & Thu 15 Apr
Fri 16 to Sun 18 Apr
Showing from Fri 16 Apr
Andrew Lang • UK 2009 • 1h28m • DigiBeta
Spanish with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary
Leslie Iwerks • USA/Canada 2009 • 1h16m • Digital projection
U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm • Documentary
Set in the legendary Havana Boxing Academy, Sons of Cuba
follows the stories of three 11-year-old boxers through eight
dramatic months as they prepare for Cuba’s National Boxing
Championship for under 12s. But during the season, crisis
strikes: Fidel Castro is taken ill, and all of Cuba’s Olympic
boxing champions defect to the USA, leaving Cuba at a
crossroads, and the boys contemplating a changing world.
Winner of Best Documentary at the Rome and LA Latino
Film Festivals, Youth Jury Award at Sheffield Doc/Fest and
nominated for the British Independent Film Awards.
Welcome to the strip-mined world of Alberta, Canada,
once the beating heart of indigenous Cree communities,
now home to the most polluting environmental project
on the planet keeping US and UK companies in
business. Bearing witness to the tar sands through the
eyes of scientists, company reps, politicians, doctors,
environmentalists and the communities directly impacted,
Dirty Oil takes you to the centre of the new ‘black gold
rush’ powered by the world’s persistent dependence on
fossil fuels.
Roman Polanski • France/Germany/UK 2010 • 2h8m • 35mm
15 – Contains strong language, once very strong
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams.
“A film of devastating power.” - Empire
NEWNEWNEWNEWNEWNEWNEWNEW
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.
We are delighted to welcome from Canada the indigenous
Cree activist Clayton Thomas-Muller and Cree tribal elder
George Poitras, who will take part in audience discussions
after the screenings on Saturday 17 April at 6.00pm, and
Sunday 18 April at 3.30pm.
These events are organised by Take One Action Film
Festivals, Scotland’s global action cinema project, and its
partners, including The World Development Movement
and The New Internationalist.
To hear about similar events visit takeoneaction.org.uk and
twitter.com/takeoneaction
The controversy surrounding Roman Polanski could have
threatened to overshadow the release of his latest film, but
the sheer impeccable intensity and stylishness of this noir
thriller are undeniable.
When a successful British ghostwriter, ‘The Ghost’ (Ewan
McGregor), agrees to complete the memoirs of former British
Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), his agent assures
him it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems
doomed from the start – not least because his predecessor
on the project died in mysterious circumstances. The Ghost
flies out to work on the project, to a house on an island off the
US Eastern seaboard. But the day after he arrives, a former
cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorising the illegal seizure
of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture
by the CIA – a war crime. The controversy brings reporters
and protesters swarming to the island mansion where Lang
is staying. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues
suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark
secret linking Lang to the CIA – and that somehow this
information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind.
Resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and
suspenseful political thriller is a story of deceit and betrayal
executed with the panache of Hitchcock in his prime. There’s
no showing off here, just the quiet competence of a man who
knows how to be scary, subversive and satirical all at once.
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New releases
NIGHTWATCHING
LION’S DEN
NEWRELEASE
NEWRELEASE
NO GREATER LOVE
NEWRELEASE
Lion’s Den Leonera
Nightwatching
No Greater Love
Fri 16 to Sun 18 Apr
Mon 19 to Thu 22 Apr
Fri 23 to Thu 29 Apr
Pablo Trapero • Argentina/South Korea/Brazil 2008 • 1h53m
35mm • Spanish with English subtitles
15 – Contains very strong language and bloody injury detail
Cast: Martina Gusman, Elli Medeiros, Rodrigo Santoro, Laura
García, Tomás Plotinsky.
Peter Greenaway • Netherlands/Canada/UK/France/Poland 2007
2h14m • 35mm • 18
Cast: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May,
Toby Jones.
Michael Whyte • UK 2009 • 1h40m • Digital projection • cert tbc
Documentary
This prison drama with a difference is an unforgettable
tale of self-discovery, motherhood and redemption, with
an extraordinarily compelling performance from Martina
Gusman.
Julia, a young pregnant university student, wakes up with
blood on her hands and a dead man on the floor. She is
arrested and convicted of murdering her lover. Sentenced
to prison, she is placed in a special ward for pregnant
women, where she gives birth and begins raising her child.
Julia’s evolving relationship with her son provides the film
with an emotional focus as it goes through the motions
detailing the circumstances surrounding her trial (director
Pablo Trapero never explicitly reveals whether or not Julia
is guilty of the crimes of which she is accused, although
there is no question where our sympathies are meant to
lie), and Gusman wrenchingly balances Julia’s strength
and dignity with her desperation to maintain custody of
her child.
In Nightwatching, cinema provocateur Peter Greenaway
turns art history into a stylised murder mystery with a
provocative look at the creation of one of the most revered
paintings in the history of western art: Rembrandt’s ‘The
Nightwatch’.
This is not your usual genteel portrait of an artist or
biography of a painting, and has none of the romantic tone
of Girl with a Pearl Earring or visionary obsession of The
Agony and the Ecstasy. As played by Martin Freeman,
Rembrandt is earthy, arrogant and outspoken, and in his
grief over the death of his wife Saskia (Eva Birthistle), he
becomes obsessed with turning his commission to paint
the group portrait of Amsterdam Musketeer Militia into
an indictment of its grasping, corrupt members through
carefully placed clues and symbols. Directed in a highly
theatrical style on vast stage-like sets, painted in the
sombre shades of Rembrandt’s nocturnal colours and
sculpted in tightly controlled pools and carefully controlled
shafts of illumination that can only be described as
Rembrandt lighting, the entire film is designed to look like
a painting, right down to the careful composition of the
players within the frame.
After ten years of correspondence, Michael Whyte was
given unprecedented access to the monastery of the Most
Holy Trinity, in London’s Notting Hill. The monastery,
which was founded in 1878, is home to an order of
Carmelite nuns, who lead a cloistered life dedicated to
prayer and contemplation, rarely leaving the monastery
except to visit a doctor or dentist. Silence is maintained
throughout the day with the exception of two periods of
recreation.
No Greater Love gives a unique insight into this closed
world where the modern world’s materialism is rejected;
they have no television, radio or newspapers. Though
mainly an observational film, there are several interviews
which offer insights into the nuns’ life, faith, moments of
doubt and their belief in the power of prayer in the heart of
the community.
New releases
SHE, A CHINESE
NEWRELEASE
LA DANSE
NEWRELEASE
CRYING WITH LAUGHTER
NEWRELEASE
She, a Chinese
La Danse
Crying with Laughter
Fri 23 to Mon 26 Apr
Showing from Mon 3 May
Mon 3 to Thu 6 May
Xiaolu Guo • UK/France/Germany 2009 • 1h43m • 35mm
Mandarin and English with English subtitles
18 – Contains strong sexual violence and sex
Cast: Huang Lu, Wei Yi Bo, Geoffrey Hutchings, Chris Ryman.
Frederick Wiseman • USA/France 2009 • 2h39m
Digital projection • French and English with English subtitles
cert tbc • Documentary
Justin Molotnikov • UK 2009 • 1h33m • Digital projection • 18
Cast: Stephen McCole, Malcolm Shields, Andrew Neil, Jo Hartley,
Laura Keenan.
Frederick Wiseman, one of the world’s greatest
documentary makers, films the Paris Opera Ballet, one of
the world’s greatest ballet companies, and the result is
an impressively fluid and insightful glimpse inside one of
France’s foremost cultural institutions.
Things are looking good for stand-up comedian Joey
(Stephen McCole) – his foul-mouthed act is drawing
interest from people in high places. Then he tells one little
gag about an old schoolpal, who just happens to be in the
audience, and things begin to unravel – suddenly Frank
(Malcolm Shields) is everywhere Joey goes, wanting to talk
about the old days...
‘She’ is Mei, an enigmatic young Chinese woman raised in
a backwater but longing for a different life. To find herself,
she needs to escape, and her journey takes her first to a
city in her own country, where she finds love, and loses it.
Still searching, on a whim she travels to England, drifting
and rootless. All the time, she is learning more about
herself, experimenting. Sometimes the experiments are
misguided, false steps. But none of them are wasted.
Filmmaker and novelist Xiaolu Guo (How Is Your Fish
Today?) has herself followed a trajectory from China to
the UK, so perhaps has first-hand experience of the sense
of the unknown that Mei experiences. Here she brings
an impressive and attractive energy and freshness to her
cross-cultural story, both in the style and structure of the
piece and in her choice of PJ Harvey collaborator John
Parish to supply the score.
Wiseman wastes no time in taking us behind the scenes
into rehearsals, placing dance itself at the heart of the film,
and in sum we see preparations for and/or performances
of seven ballets, including ‘The Nutcracker’ by Rudolf
Nureyev, ‘Medea’ by Angelin Preljocaj, ‘Romeo and Juliet’
by Sasha Waltz and ‘Orpheus and Eurydyce’ by Pina
Bausch. He also shows us how the company functions
at every level, from administration and fundraising to
the selection of the dancers and their pastoral care. The
relationship between the beauty of the pieces and the
sheer hard work that lies behind them is keenly but subtly
drawn, and the struggle to maintain creative integrity in the
face of commercial reality has a resonance far beyond the
specific context.
A bold and darkly hilarious low-budget thriller which
makes superb use of its Edinburgh locations and features
powerhouse performances from McCole and Shields.
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Maybe you missed...
A SINGLE MAN
AN EDUCATION
MAYBEYOUMISSED
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
SHUTTER ISLAND
MAYBEYOUMISSED
I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
MAYBEYOUMISSED
A Single Man
Alice in Wonderland (2D)
I Love You Phillip Morris
Fri 2 to Thu 8 April
Fri 9 to Thu 15 Apr and
Mon 19 Apr at 10.30am (parents & babies only, £3.50/£2.50)
Fri 23 to Thu 29 Apr
Tom Ford • USA 2009 • 1h41m • 35mm
12A – Contains suicide theme, moderate threat, drug references
and nudity
Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode.
Iconic fashion designer Tom Ford makes his directorial
debut with the richly detailed and aesthetically brilliant
A Single Man. Los Angeles 1962, and 52-year-old British
college professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) is struggling
to find meaning in his life after the death of his long time
partner Jim (Matthew Goode). Through the course of one
day, a series of events and encounters cause him to reflect
on his past, and consider whether or not he has a future.
Tim Burton • USA 2010 • 1h48m • Digital projection
PG – Contains moderate fantasy violence
Cast: Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter,
Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Matt Lucas, Stephen Fry.
19-year-old Alice returns to the whimsical world she first
encountered as a young girl, reuniting with her childhood
friends – the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum,
the Dormouse, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, and the
Mad Hatter – and embarking on a fantastical journey to find
her true destiny and end the Red Queen’s reign of terror.
An Education
Shutter Island
Mon 5 to Sun 11 April
Fri 9 to Thu 15 Apr
Lone Scherfig • UK 2009 • 1h40m • 35mm
12A – Contains moderate sex references
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Cara
Seymour, Rosamund Pike.
Martin Scorsese • USA 2010 • 2h18m • 35mm
15 – Contains strong language, bloody injury and disturbing images
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von
Sydow, Michelle Williams.
A standout performance from the enchanting Carey
Mulligan is reason alone to see this lively Nick Hornbyscripted adaptation of Lynn Barber’s memoir of growing
up in the west London suburbs in the early 1960s.
Barber’s schoolgirl alter ego, Jenny (Mulligan), falls into
a relationship with the older, more worldly David (Peter
Sarsgaard), who offers her a window on a more material
world – clubs, champagne, drives in the country, sex
– than her Oxbridge ambitions allow...
The spirit of Alfred Hitchcock is clearly alive and well,
and is currently residing in Martin Scorsese’s latest film,
Shutter Island. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as US Marshal
Teddy Daniels, who is summoned to Shutter Island, a highsecurity hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate the
escape of a dangerous murderess. However, plagued by
spectres and nightmarish suspicions from his own tragic
past, Marshal Daniels has other – more pertinent – reasons
for visiting the facility and its inmates.
Glenn Ficarra & John Requa • France/USA 2009 • 1h37m
35mm • 15 – Contains strong language and sex
Cast: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro.
With alacrity and style, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the
co-directors of I Love You Phillip Morris, have fashioned
an improbable, but true, tale of a spectacularly charismatic
and resourceful con-man’s journey from small-town cop to
flamboyant white-collar criminal.
When a local Texas policeman, Steve Russell (Jim Carrey
in an eccentrically wonderful performance), turns to cons
and fraud to allow him to change his lifestyle (in more ways
than one), his subsequent stay in the state penitentiary
results in his meeting the love of his life, a sensitive fellow
inmate named Phillip Morris, perfectly portrayed by
Ewan McGregor. What ensues can only be described as a
relentless quest, as Russell attempts escape after escape
and executes con after con, all in the name of love...
Maybe you missed.../Restored classics/Made in Edinburgh
I AM LOVE
EASY RIDER
MAYBEYOUMISSED
SAFETY LAST!
RESTOREDCLASSICS
I Am Love Io sono l’amore
Easy Rider
Fri 30 Apr to Thu 6 May
Tue 6 to Thu 8 Apr
Luca Guadagnino • Italy 2009 • 1h59m • 35mm
Italian, Russian and English with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong sex
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba
Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono.
Dennis Hopper • USA 1969 • 1h35m • New 35mm print • 18
Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Phil Spector.
Exquisitely shot, beautifully paced and conceived, I Am
Love moves through the cultivated world of a wealthy
and distinguished industrial family. In a massive Milanese
mansion, the Recchi family gathers to celebrate the birthday
of its patriarch. Handsome grandson Edoardo introduces his
new girlfriend to the family; his sister, Elisabetta, presents
a painting she has made to her grandfather; a young man
who beat the unbeatable Edoardo in a race earlier in the day
makes a surprise appearance on the doorstep; and finally,
the grandfather announces his succession plan to his family.
All of these events mark the beginning of a narrative that
sees the carefully controlled, hyper-refined sphere of the
Recchis come under increasing strain.
Director Luca Guadagnino has made a superb film that
touches on many different complexities. While ‘King Lear’
comes to mind, I Am Love also bears a resemblance to
Visconti’s The Leopard in more ways than one. Both films
depict a world on the cusp of change, the magnificent old
order struggling to hold its place against the rowdy new
challengers. Sexual and class politics also play a key role,
as wonderfully controlled moments of passion and emotion
suddenly trouble the surface placidity. Featuring a cast
headed by the ever-brilliant Tilda Swinton (here speaking
Italian and Russian), this is a stunning work.
A tale of two men searching for a freedom they can never
attain, this slacker classic features Peter Fonda and Dennis
Hopper as a pair of hippie bikers who journey to New
Orleans. On the way, the duo encounter rebuffs at various
motels because of their way-out appearance, a hitchhiker
who takes them back to the sun-drenched revels of his
commune, and a squeaky-clean Texas parade. Arrested for
joining the latter, the pair meets up with drunken civil-rights
lawyer George Hanson (Jack Nicholson in a performance
which earned him an Oscar nomination and made him a star).
Safety Last!
Fri 9 to Tue 13 Apr
Fred C Newmeyer & Sam Taylor • USA 1923 • 1h10m
New 35mm print • Silent with music track • U
Cast: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strothers, Noah Young.
Harold Lloyd’s most famous comedy has been fully restored
and is back on the big screen where it belongs. It features
Lloyd as a sales clerk in a department store, who finds
himself hanging off the hands of a collapsing clock on the
side of a skyscraper high above the streets of downtown Los
Angeles. Harold’s legendary building climb is breathtaking
and hilariously funny at the same time. What is even more
amazing is that the sequence was achieved without any
rear-screen projection or special effects. A superb example
of Lloyd’s ability to mix suspense and slapstick.
THE FIRST MOVIE
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.
The First Movie
Wed 5 May at 6.15pm
Mark Cousins • UK 2009 • 1h16m • DigiBeta
English and Kurdish with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary
Edinburgh-based writer and filmmaker Mark Cousins
travels to Goptapa, a Kurdish-Iraqi village of just 700
people on a tributary of the Tigris river, and tries to make a
film about a place that is normally only portrayed in current
affairs programmes. He shows the kids films, projected
onto a sheet, then gives them cameras. They make little
movies about war, love, a fish that goes to a magical place,
and a chicken who debates justice. Despite the production
being stopped twice by the Iraqi secret police, The First
Movie is an absorbing and achingly beautiful dream of a
film about wonder and the power of the imagination.
“A terrifically enjoyable and engaging film: open-minded
and open-hearted, and utterly unlike the material on regular
commercial release.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“I loved it.” - Wim Wenders
We are delighted that director Mark Cousins will be here to
take part in a Q&A after the screening.
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THE BIG DREAM
THE FRONT LINE
Benvenuti to this year’s edition of the Italian Film
Festival Scotland, supported by the Italian Cultural
Institute in Edinburgh, Filmhouse, Glasgow Film
Theatre and Dundee DCA. In the mix are titles by
such world-class directors as Giuseppe Tornatore,
Michele Placido, Francesca Archibugi, and Davide
Ferrario, as well as exciting newcomer Federico
Bondi.
Also on the menu: After Spaghetti Westerns it’s time
to taste Macaroni Combat, the war movie rip-off
which inspired Quentin Tarantino. And in the 50th
anniversary year of La dolce vita, a chance to revisit
and reassess the 1960 Fellini cult classic. All this plus
a four-film tribute to the legend known affectionately
as Il Mattatore (spotlight chaser) – Vittorio Gassman.
Visit: www.italianfilmfestival.org.uk
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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.
THE UNKNOWN WOMAN
IT’S ALL JUDAS’ FAULT
The Front Line La prima linea
The Unknown Woman La sconosciuta
Mon 19 Apr at 8.30pm
Thu 22 Apr at 8.15pm
Renato De Maria • Italy/Belgium/UK/France 2009 • 1h41m
35mm • Italian with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Fabrizio Rongione.
Giuseppe Tornatore • Italy/France 2006 • 1h58m • 35mm
Italian with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Xenia Rappoport, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alessandro Haber.
The tumultuous political events of the late Sixties that
swept across Europe left a particular mark on Italy. The
radical Red Brigades, committed to the violent overthrow
of the State, were formed out of the student protests of
1968. La prima linea was an Italian terrorist organisation,
founded in the late Seventies and even more extreme
in its methods. Director Renato De Maria tackles his
subject from the perspective of his male protagonist, who
looks back from his jail cell on his youthful exploits with
understanding, candour and remorse.
Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore is back at the
very top of his form with this dark, troubling contemporary
thriller. Xenia Rappoport is Irina, a Ukranian girl drawn
into an international prostitution ring. Now in her thirties,
she works as a cleaner, rents an expensive apartment and
worms her way into the affections of an unsuspecting
family. Her true motives fuel a brooding sense of suspense,
but the sheer hell of her past life ensures that she is never
unsympathetic as the film builds to a gripping climax,
propelled by a cracking Ennio Morricone score.
The Big Dream Il grande sogno
It’s All Judas’ Fault Tutta colpa di Giuda
Tue 20 Apr at 8.30pm
Fri 23 Apr at 8.30pm
Michele Placido • Italy/France 2009 • 1h41m • 35mm
Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Luca Argentero.
Davide Ferrario • Italy 2009 • 1h42m • 35mm
Cast: Kasia Smutniak, Fabio Troiano, Gianluca Gobbi, Cristiano
Godano, Luciana Littizzetto.
The place is Italy; the year is 1968: A time when young
men and women fostered the dream of ‘changing the
world’, and when the rules set by the Establishment were
broken and love was free. Nicola, a police officer from
Puglia, goes undercover to spy on the leaders of the leftist
student movement. There, at the university, he meets
Laura, an idealist committed to the fight for a world free
of injustice, and Libero, leader of the student ‘revolution’.
Michele Placido’s semi-autobiographical account has a
great sense of period, and uses to perfection the talents of
the young leads.
A prison-set musical where docu-style talking heads
alternate with inmates workshopping an all-dancing, allsinging reinterpretation of the Crucifixion. Young theatre
director Irena (Kasia Smutniak) comes to a Turin prison
to develop a performance piece with the convicts. She is
forced to tackle Christ’s Passion as her subject, and hits a
brick wall when none of the prisoners will play Judas. So
she develops another idea: present the Jesus story but
without a traitor, and without the sacrifice.
A STROKE OF LUCK
LA DOLCE VITA
EAGLES OVER LONDON
WHITE SPACE
A Stroke of Luck Questione di cuore
Cosmonauta
Black Sea Mar nero
Sun 25 Apr at 8.30pm
Wed 28 Apr at 6.15pm
Sat 1 May at 6.15pm
Francesca Archibugi • Italy 2009 • 1h44m • 35mm
Cast: Kim Rossi Stuart, Antonio Albanese, Micaela Ramazzotti.
Susanna Nicchiarelli • Italy 2009 • 1h27m • 35mm
Italian with English subtitles • 12A
Cast: Pietro Del Giudice, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Angelo Orlando,
Claudia Pandolfi, Marianna Raschillà.
Federico Bondi • Italy/Romania/France 2008 • 1h35m • 35mm
Italian and Romanian with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Ilaria Occhini, Doroteea Petre, Corso Salani, Vlad Ivanov, Maia
Morgenstern.
In the early sixties Arturo and Luciana, brother and sister
and passionate communists, follow the progress of the
space race together, urging on the Soviet cosmonauts.
However as they reach adolescence, the relationship
between the two gets a little complicated: Luciana,
assertive and unconventional, starts going out with boys,
and is ashamed of her odd brother, who shows no signs of
growing up.
Relations between the elderly and somewhat bitter
widow Gemma (Ilaria Occhini) and her young Romanian
caretaker Angela (Doroteea Petre) are fraught at first. But
the friendship between the two lonely women develops
and they come to depend on one another. When Angela’s
husband goes missing in Romania, Gemma must decide
how far she is prepared to go in order to help her friend.
Macaroni Combat
White Space Lo spazio bianco
Angelo and Alberto have nothing in common. Angelo is
a typical family man, married with children, running his
own business garage; Alberto is a screenwriter, a man
of abstract ideas, a loner unable to fully commit to his
girlfriend. A heart attack brings both men face to face with
mortality, and they meet each other when they share a
hospital room. The two men become close friends against
all odds and end up learning a lot from each other. The
story of a special friendship and the things that really
matter in life, told with a light touch and keen humour.
50th Anniversary Screening
La dolce vita
Federico Fellini • Italy/France 1960 • 2h56m • 35mm
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Yvonne Furneaux, Anouk Aimée, Anita
Ekberg.
Gossip columnist and would-be serious writer Marcello is
caught in the morass of decadent Roman society in which
he rootlessly and amorally wanders in search of himself.
Perhaps Fellini’s most famous film, its notorious set-pieces
(a vast statue of Christ is flown over Rome; Marcello and
a bored heiress pick up a prostitute for a ménage-å-trois;
Nadia Gray hosts an orgy at which she performs an immortal
striptease; Anita Ekberg takes a dip in the Trevi Fountain)
may have lost their capacity to shock, but the imaginative
brilliance and wit of their construction is clearly evident.
Eagles Over London
La battaglia d’Inghilterra
Enzo G Castellari • Italy/France/Spain 1969 • 1h52m • DigiBeta
English and Italian with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Frederick Stafford, Van Johnson, Francisco Rabal, Ida Galli.
In this Second World War action-thriller, the British High
Command finds itself in the thick of a dilemma: they have
been infiltrated by spies from a German intelligence group.
Nine years before his classic Inglorious Bastards, Enzo
Castellari virtually invented the Macaroni Combat genre with
this over-the-top saga of valour, vengeance and machine-gun
mayhem, featuring Castellari’s jaw-dropping recreations of
the evacuation of Dunkirk, the Battle Of Britain and more.
Optimum Releasing will shortly be issuing this and other
titles in the Macaroni Combat series on DVD and Blu Ray.
Sun 2 May at 6.15pm
Francesca Comencini • Italy 2009 • 1h36m • 35mm
Cast: Margherita Buy, Gaetano Bruno, Giovanni Ludeno, Antonia
Truppo, Guido Caprino.
A middle-aged, somewhat footloose teacher becomes
pregnant from a short-lived affair, gives birth to a
premature baby, and finds her life revolving around her
hopes and fears for the tiny child. Margherita Buy – in
a towering performance – brings sensititivity, emotional
empathy and a sense of genuine bewilderment to her
predicament, as she tries to lead a semblance of normal
life, existing in the confines of a hospital ward where many
women from different backgrounds are in exactly the same
situation as her.
SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF
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Italian Film Festival (continued)
SCENT OF A WOMAN
L’ARMATA BRANCALEONE
Italian Film Festival –
Tribute to Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman (1922-2000) was one of Italy’s most
prolific and admired actors with a remarkable 50-year
film career that stretched from neo-realist classics to
Hollywood ventures with Robert Altman and Barry
Levinson.
Born in Genoa, he studied at Rome’s Academia
Nazionale di Arte Dramatica and was a veteran of
forty plays before his film debut in 1946. His haughty
good looks meant that he was initially typecast
as unrepentant cads but over the course of his
career he revealed the wide-range of his talent for
freewheeling comedy, hard-hitting melodrama and
tender-hearted dramas.
He became affectionately known as Il Mattatore
(spotlight chaser) after a television series in which he
obtained unexpected success, and it soon became
the nickname that accompanied him for the rest of
his life.
This tribute includes two of the films for which he
won the David di Donatello award and his showstopping performance in Dino Risi’s classic Scent Of
A Woman.
All prints courtesy of Cinecittà Luce
WE ALL LOVED EACH OTHER SO MUCH
The Family La famiglia
L’armata Brancaleone For Love and Gold
Ettore Scola • Italy/France 1987 • 2h10m • 35mm
Italian and English with English subtitles • PG
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Noireti
Mario Monicelli • Italy/France/Spain 1966 • 2h • 35mm
Italian and Latin with English subtitles • 12
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli, Gian Maria
Volonté, Maria Grazia Buccella.
Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, The
Family won Vittorio Gassman his fourth David di Donatello
Best Actor award. He leads a strong ensemble cast through
an eighty year saga covering one man’s life and the way
his loves, hopes and regrets manage to reflect the wider
history of the Italian nation. Carlo is christened in his
grandfather’s lap in 1906. Over the following decades
we witness his marriage, his lingering love for his wife’s
sister, his relationship with his brother and the inexorable
passage of time until the moment that he too has become
a grandfather. A film of heartfelt emotion and true insight
into the soul of 20th century Italy.
Scent of a Woman Profumo di donna
Sat 24 Apr at 6.15pm
Dino Risi • Italy 1974 • 1h43m • 35mm
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli.
Vittorio Gassman won the Cannes Best Actor Prize and the
David di Donatello Best Actor Award for his magnificent
performance in one of the best films from director Dino
Risi’s long career. Gassman plays Fausto, an irascible blind
army officer assigned a young cadet to accompany him on
a weekend trip from Turin to Naples. Fausto is a force of
nature, greeting the world with a lusty bravado and finely
tuned sense of the outrageous. Al Pacino won an Oscar
for his performance in the 1992 American remake but the
original is much less sentimental and infinitely more touching.
Frequently hailed as a masterpiece of Italian comedy and
rarely seen on British screens, L’armata Brancaleone is the
kind of supremely silly swashbuckling romp that could
have provided the inspiration for Monty Python and the
Holy Grail. A group of vagabonds steal a scroll granting
the bearer ownership of Aurocastro in Apulia. Vittorio
Gassman’s ebullient, shaggy-haired knight Brancaleone
is duped into becoming their leader, as they head off in
search of unimaginable riches...
We All Loved Each Other So Much
C’eravamo tanto amati
Ettore Scola • Italy 1974 • 2h4m • 35mm
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Stefano Satta Flores.
An immensely entertaining tale of a close-knit friendship
that also serves as a heartfelt letter to the glories of postWar Italian cinema. Bourgeois lawyer Gianni (Gassman),
political activist Antonio (Manfredi) and film buff Nico
(Flores) have a history that stretches back over 30 years to
when they first met as partisan fighters during the dying
days of the Second World War. Flashbacks reveal the
changing currents of their friendship and the way it reflects
the history of Italian cinema, especially when they share a
passion for an aspiring actress who becomes an extra in La
dolce vita (also screening, see previous page).
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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
DAY
DATE
2 April - 6 May 2010
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Fri 1 The Railway Children (WW)
2 1 Samson & Delilah
Apr 2 Beyond the Pole
2 Lourdes
3 A Single Man
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.30
1.45/6.15
4.00/8.15
1.30/3.45/6.30/8.45
Sat 1 The Railway Children (WW)
Apr 2 Beyond the Pole
2 Lourdes
3 A Single Man
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.30
1.45/6.15
4.00/8.15
2.00/4.15/6.30/8.45
Sun 1 Ponyo (WW)
Apr 2 The Railway Children (WW)
2 Lourdes
2 Beyond the Pole
3 A Single Man
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.30
1.30
4.00/8.15
6.15
2.00/4.15/6.30/8.45
Mon 1 Ponyo (WW)
2 Lourdes
2 Beyond the Pole
3 A Single Man (B)
3 An Education
3 A Single Man
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.30
1.40
4.00/8.15
6.15
10.30am (babies only)
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
Tue 1 Ponyo (WW)
2 Lourdes
2 Easy Rider
3 An Education
3 A Single Man
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.30
1.40
4.00/8.30
6.15
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
KEY:
(AD) – Audio Description (see page 2)
(B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2)
(S) – Subtitled (see page 2)
SEASONS:
(FAB) – FAB Fest (pages 22-24)
(IFF) – Italian Film Festival (pages 10-12)
(NE) – New Europe Film Festival (pages 16-18)
(SF) – Science Festival at Filmhouse (pages 18-19)
(WW) – Weans’ World (page 20)
Full index of films on page 2
BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688
DAY
DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Wed 1 Ponyo (WW)
2 Lourdes
2 Easy Rider
3 An Education
3 A Single Man
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.30
1.40
4.00/8.30
6.15
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
Thu 1 Ponyo (WW)
Apr 1 Easy Rider
2 The Railway Children (WW)
2 Lourdes
2 Samson & Delilah
3 An Education
3 A Single Man
1.00
3.30/8.30
6.15
1.40
4.00/8.30
6.15
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
Fri 1 Alice in Wonderland (2D)
9 1 Shutter Island (AD)
Apr 2 Samson & Delilah
3 Safety Last!
3 An Education
1.00/6.10
3.20/8.30
1.30/3.45/6.00/8.15
2.00/6.30
4.00/8.45
Sat 1 Alice in Wonderland (2D)
3 Safety Last!
3 The Private Life of Chickens (SF)
3 An Education
1.00/6.10
3.20/8.30
1.30/3.45/6.00/8.15
2.00/6.30
4.00 + Q&A
8.45
Sun 1 Alvin & the...: Squeakquel (WW)
Apr 1 Alice in Wonderland (2D)
2 Samson & Delilah
3 Safety Last!
3 Equations (SF)
3 An Education
1.00
3.20/8.30
6.10
1.30/3.45/6.00/8.15
2.00/6.30
4.00 + Q&A
8.45
Mon 1 Alvin & the...: Squeakquel (WW)
Apr 1 Alice in Wonderland (2D)
1 Wonders of the Solar System (SF)
2 Astro Boy (WW)
2 Samson & Delilah
3 Safety Last!
3 Shutter Island (AD) + (S)
10.30am
2.30
5.30
8.30 + Q&A
1.00
3.15/6.00/8.15
3.30/6.30
8.30 (subtitled)
Tue 1 Alice in Wonderland (2D)
Apr 2 Astro Boy (WW)
2 Samson & Delilah
3 Safety Last!
3 Blast! (SF)
1.00/6.10
3.20/8.30
1.00
3.15/6.15/8.30
3.30/8.45
6.00 + Q&A
DAY
DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Wed 1 Alice in Wonderland (2D)
2 Samson & Delilah
3 Sons of Cuba
3 400 Years of the Telescope (SF)
1.00/6.10
3.20/8.30
1.00
3.15/6.15/8.30
3.30/8.45
6.00 + Q&A
Thu 1 Alice in Wonderland (2D)
2 Samson & Delilah
3 Sons of Cuba
3 Journey... Edge of the Universe (SF)
1.00/6.10
3.20/8.30
1.00
3.15/6.15/8.30
3.30/8.45
6.00 + Q&A
Fri 1 The Ghost
16 2 The Age of Stupid (SF)
Apr 2 Dirty Oil
2 Samson & Delilah
3 An Inconvenient Truth (SF)
3 Lion’s Den
3 Little Moscow (NE)
2.30/6.00/8.40
1.00
3.30/6.00
8.15
1.00
3.45/6.15
8.45
Sat 1 The Ghost
17 2 Dirty Oil
Apr 2 Dirty Oil
2 Samson & Delilah
3 Lion’s Den
3 The Blacks (NE)
3 Snow White & Russian Red (NE)
12.30/3.15/6.00/8.40
1.15
6.00 + discussion
3.30/8.30
1.30/6.15
4.15
8.45
Sun 1 The Ghost
Apr 2 Dirty Oil
2 Dirty Oil
3 Lion’s Den
3 The Other Irene (NE)
12.30/3.15/6.00/8.40
1.15/8.15
3.30 + discussion
6.00
1.00/3.45/6.15
8.45
Mon 1 Alice in Wonderland (2D) (B)
19 1 The Ghost
2 The Front Line (IFF)
3 Nightwatching
3 Slovenian Girl (NE)
2.30/6.00/8.40
3.30/6.00
8.30
3.15/8.15
6.15
Tue 1 The Ghost
Apr 2 The Big Dream (IFF)
3 Nightwatching
3 Signe Baumane (NE)
2.30/6.00/8.40
3.30/6.00
8.30
3.15/8.15
6.15
Wed 1 The Ghost
Apr 2 The Family (IFF)
3 Nightwatching
3 Zero (NE)
2.30/6.00/8.40
3.30/8.30
5.45
2.45/6.00
8.45
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DAY
DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
2 April - 6 May 2010
SHOW
TIMES
Thu 1 The Ghost
Apr 2 The Unknown Woman (IFF)
3 Nightwatching
3 Vortex (NE)
2.30/6.00/8.40
3.30/6.00
8.15
2.45/8.35
5.45
Fri 1 The Ghost
23 2 I Love You Phillip Morris
Apr 2 No Greater Love
2 It’s All Judas’ Fault (IFF)
3 She, a Chinese
3 I Love You Phillip Morris
12.30/3.15/6.00/8.40
1.45
4.00/6.15
8.30
1.30/6.30
3.45/8.45
Sat 1 The Ghost
24 2 I Love You Phillip Morris
2 Scent of a Woman (IFF)
3 She, a Chinese
3 I Am Not Your Friend (NE)
12.30/3.15/6.00/8.40
1.45
4.00/8.30
6.15
1.30/6.30
3.45
8.45
Sun 1 Where the Wild Things Are (WW)
25 1 The Ghost
Apr 2 I Love You Phillip Morris
2 No Greater Love
2 A Stroke of Luck (IFF)
3 She, a Chinese
3 Constantin and Elena (NE)
1.00
3.15/6.00/8.40
1.45
4.00/6.15
8.30
1.30/8.45
3.45
6.00
Mon 1 Where the Wild Things Are (WW)
26 1 The Ghost
2 La dolce vita (IFF)
3 She, a Chinese
3 My Flesh My Blood (NE)
10.30am
2.30/6.00/8.40
3.15/5.30
7.45
3.30
6.00
8.30
Tue 1 The Ghost
27 2 No Greater Love
Apr 2 L’armata Brancaleone (IFF)
2.30/6.00/8.40
3.15/6.15
8.30
3.30/6.00/8.45
Wed 1 The Ghost
Apr 2 Cosmonauta (IFF)
3 Bank Robbery (NE)
2.30/6.00/8.40
3.15/8.30
6.15
3.30/6.00
8.45
Thu 1 The Ghost
Apr 2 Eagles over London (IFF)
2.30/6.00/8.40
3.15/6.15
8.30
3.30/6.00/8.45
DAY
DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
Fri 1 High Lane (FAB)
30 1 Merantau (FAB)
Apr 1 The End (FAB)
1 A Day of Violence (FAB)
1 Yatterman (FAB)
2 I Am Love
2 We All Loved Each Other... (IFF)
3 The Ghost
SHOW
TIMES
2.00 *
4.00 *
6.30 *
9.00 + Q&A
11.30 *
1.00/3.30/8.40
6.00
2.30/5.45/8.25
Sat 1 City of the Living Dead (FAB) 1.00 * + Q&A
1 1 The Immaculate... Little Dizzle (FAB) 3.30 *
May 1 Combat Shock (FAB)
5.45 * + Q&A
1 Resurrecting... Street Walker (FAB) 8.15 + Q&A
1 Grindhouse (FAB)
10.30 *
2 I Am Love
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.40
3 The Ghost
2.30/8.25
3 Black Sea (IFF)
6.15
Sun 1 Reel Zombies (FAB)
2 1 8th Wonderland (FAB)
May 1 Neighbor (FAB)
1 Life is Hot in Cracktown (FAB)
1 Kaifeck Murder (FAB)
2 I Am Love
3 The Ghost
3 White Space (IFF)
1.00 * + Q&A
3.30 * + Q&A
6.15 * + Q&A
8.45 + Q&A
11.30 *
1.00/3.30/6.00/8.40
2.30/8.25
6.15
Mon 1 Where the Wild Things Are (B)
3 1 I Am Love
May 2 La Danse
2 Crying with Laughter
3 The Ghost
3 Nostalgia
2.00/6.00/8.30
2.30/8.00
5.50
3.00/8.50
6.00 + introduction
Tue 1 I Am Love
4 2 La Danse
May 2 Crying with Laughter
3 The Ghost
3 The War on Democracy
2.00/6.00/8.30
2.30/8.00
5.50
3.00/8.40
6.00 + discussion
Wed 1 I Am Love
5 1 The First Movie
May 2 La Danse
2 Crying with Laughter
3 The Ghost
2.00/8.30
6.15 + Q&A
2.30/5.50
9.00
3.00/6.00/8.40
Thu 1 I Am Love
6 2 La Danse
May 2 Crying with Laughter
3 The Ghost
2.00/6.00/8.30
2.30/5.50
9.00
3.00/6.00/8.40
* Screening has no ads or trailers and the film will start five
minutes after published time.
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LITTLE MOSCOW
SNOW WHITE AND RUSSIAN RED
THE BLACKS
THE OTHER IRENE
New Europe
Film Festival
Little Moscow Mala Moskwa
Snow White and Russian Red
Wojna polsko-ruska
Waldemar Krzystek • Poland 2008 • 1h54m • 35mm
Russian and Polish with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Svetlana Khodchenkova, Leslaw Zurek, Dmitri Ulyanov, Jurij
Ickov, Aleksey Gorbunov.
New Europe is back for the annual portion of film
treasures from Eastern and Central Europe. This
year’s films come from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia,
Estonia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Romania.
In the late 1960s, the military moves Russian pilot Yuri and
his beautiful wife Vera to the town of Legnica, headquarters
for the Soviet Army in Poland. While fraternising between
the Russian occupiers and local Poles is strictly controlled,
Vera’s enchanting performance in a singing contest ignites a
deep passion in Polish lieutenant Michal, and the two must
choose between loyalty and love.
Why not take your Polish neighbour and catch an
evening show and then a drink in the Filmhouse
bar? This could be the beginning of a beautiful
friendship...
Jan Naszewski, New Europe Film Festival
The Blacks Crnci
Goran Devic & Zvonimir Juric • Croatia 2009 • 1h18m • Beta SP
Croatian with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Ivo Gregurevic, Kresimir Mikic, Franjo Dijak, Rakan Rushaidat,
Niksa Butijer.
Honorary patronage of
the Polish Consulate in
Edinburgh
TICKETDEALS
See any nine (or more) films in this season and get 35% off
A pitch-dark glimpse at the horrors of the Balkan War,
the appropriately titled The Blacks is a relentless story of
soldiers driven to psychological extremes by the pressures
of the job. Ivo, the commander of an elite paramilitary unit,
defies a ceasefire and takes the surviving members of his
squad out to blow up a dam and to retrieve the bodies of
three of their men. They, however, are all close to breaking
point, and soon the group begins to disintegrate.
Xawery Zulawski • Poland 2009 • 1h50m • Beta SP
Polish with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Borys Szyc, Roma Gasiorowska, Maria Strzelecka, Sonia
Bohosiewicz, Magdalena Czerwinska.
A high energy examination of a man coping with
relationships and mortality, Snow White and Russian
Red follows Silny, a low level criminal who slides through
Warsaw’s underbelly, finding himself in various Kafkaesque
situations. Adapted from Dorota Maslowska’s post-modern
novel, the film voices the problems and confusion of
youth in an urban environment. Director Xawery Zulawski
challenges narrative convention with highly stylised visuals
and special effects combined with smart, sharp dialogue,
and Borys Szyc is enthralling as the crass yet overly
thoughtful and often comedic Silny.
The Other Irene Cealalta Irina
Andrei Gruzsniczki • Romania 2009 • 1h30m • DigiBeta
Romanian with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Andi Vasluianu, Simona Popescu, Dan Astilean, Doru Ana.
Sharing themes as it does with some of the finest European
thrillers such as The Vanishing, it’s hard to believe The
Other Irene is, in fact, based on a true story. Reluctantly,
security guard Aurel lets his wife Irene go on a working
trip to Cairo. Having had a breath of fresh air, she returns
transformed and soon sets out again – but this time she does
not come back. Now Aurel’s true ordeal begins as he sets
out on his own journey: a search for his wife amidst dubious
bureaucrats, criminal embassies and hateful in-laws.
SIGNE BAUMANE
ZERO
CONSTANTIN AND ELENA
VORTEX
Slovenian Girl Slovenka
Zero
I Am Not Your Friend
Nem vagyok a barátod
Damjan Kozole • Slovenia/Germany/Serbia/Croatia/
Bosnia and Herzegovina 2009 • 1h30m • 35mm
Slovenian and English with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Nina Ivanisin, Peter Musevski, Primoz Pirnat, Marusa Kink.
Pawel Borowski • Poland 2009 • 1h50m • 35mm
Cast: Robert Wieckiewicz, Bogdan Koca, Zbigniew Konopka,
Andrzej Mastalerz, Cezary Kosinski.
The eighth feature by Slovenian director Damjan Kozole
(well known for Spare Parts, 2003) is set in Ljubljana in
2008, when Slovenia was chair of the European Union for
six months. Against that background, we follow 23-yearold student Alexandra, who leads a double life: she is a
respectable student by day and a call girl by night. But
things get complicated when a client has a heart attack
after taking too much Viagra, and he turns out to be a
member of the European Parliament. The police become
involved and Alexandra is in danger of having to give up
her secret. Nina Ivanisin gives a powerful performance as
the cool anti-heroine.
Twenty-four people with twenty-four stories cross each
other in twenty-four hours. In an unusual narrative form,
Polish director Pawel Borowski follows one character
until, through choice or chance, he encounters another
– at home, in the street, in a bus or bar. In this way the
film flows from one situation to the next, with the same
people returning several times in stories about jealousy,
unfaithfulness, revenge, despair and fate.
Shot in just twenty days and completely improvised by
Hungarian director György Pálfi, his writers, his director of
photography, and his cast of non-professional actors, this
unusual drama delves into the dark side of human relations
in modern Budapest. A group of friends is enmeshed in a
web of conflicted and conflicting relationships. Sara loves
Mark and is pregnant by him. Though Mark loves Sara, he
also loves Sophie. She in turn has a yen for Andras, who
loves to spoil his wife Rita. But Rita wants only to take care
of the dying Natasha, who can think of no one but Jimmy.
Jimmy, meanwhile, can think of no one but Attal, a brutal
thug to whom he is in serious debt and who himself – just
to round things out – is in love with Sara.
Signe Baumane
Signe Baumane • 1h19m • DigiBeta • 18
Signe Baumane is a Latvian animator based in New York
and a co-worker of Bill Plympton. Her award-winning films
are full of absurd and Freudian fascinations.
The Witch and the Cow (1991, 2’40”),
The Gold and the Tigers (1995, 20’), Love Story (1998, 3’30”),
Natasha (2001, 9’), Five F*cking Fables (2002, 7’),
Woman (2002, 10’), Dentist (2005, 10’) ,
Five Infomercials for Dentists (2005, 3’30”),
Birth (2009, 12’)
Vortex Duburys
Gytis Luksas • Lithuania 2009 • 2h22m • DigiBeta
Lithuanian and Russian with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Giedrius Kiela, Egle Mikulionyte, Oksana Borbat, Yevgeniya
Varenitsa, Jurate Onaityte.
It’s a compliment to say that Lithuanian period drama
Vortex might be mistaken for a Soviet-bloc feature of 40-50
years ago – its austere black-and-white beauty, deliberate
pace and tender solemnity are of a piece with works from a
great period in world cinema.
His father killed returning from WWI, and a teenage best
friend drowned in another accident, Juzik nonetheless
reaches adulthood with his country innocence and
good faith intact. After military service, he works in a
corrupt quarry where he becomes involved with two
self-destructive women: boozing, promiscuous Klara and
insecure, much-victimised Maska.
György Pálfi • Hungary 2009 • 1h40m • Beta SP
Hungarian with English subtitles • 18
Cast: István Szüle, Gyöngyvér Országh, Corbisier Kim, Zsolt Páll.
Constantin and Elena
Andrei Dascalescu • Romania/Spain 2008 • 1h42m • Beta SP
Romanian with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary
In a Romanian village, an elderly couple has been happily
married for almost 55 years. Constantin and Elena know
that life must end, but are happy with everything that
they’ve had. They fill their days with chores in and around
the house, going to church and receiving welcome visitors,
not to mention a catnap every now and then. This love
story tells itself in images, and the filmmaker, also the
couple’s grandson, keeps himself invisible.
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New Europe Film Fest (contd.)/Science Festival at Filmhouse
MY FLESH MY BLOOD
My Flesh My Blood Moja krew
Marcin Wrona • Poland 2009 • 1h30m • Beta SP
Cast: Eryk Lubos, Luu De Ly, Wojciech Zielinski, Krzysztof
Kolberger, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska.
Igor is a boxer who has quit the ring because of serious
brain damage from repeated blows to the head. Yien Ha
is a Vietnamese immigrant who works in a small ethnic
restaurant. He wants to have a child so that he can leave
something of himself behind; she needs a work permit
to stay in Poland. They come to an understanding which
should, in theory, make everyone happy...
Bank Robbery Pangarööv
Andrus Tuisk • Estonia 2009 • 1h33m • 35mm
Estonian with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Hannes Kaljujärv, Henri Kuus, Karin Tammaru, Marilyn
Jurman, Indrek Taalmaa.
An accomplished, affecting and, at times, hilarious film,
anchored by a terrific script and pitch-perfect acting in all
the major roles. Just out of a ten-year stint in jail, all Madis
wants is to get married and stay out of trouble. To his shy
teenage nephew Hannes, who is bullied by his father and
neighbourhood toughs, Madis seems like a god. When
Madis leaves to be with his bride-to-be, Hannes tags along.
Sometimes, though, there is no straight line between two
points, and the surprises awaiting them on the path they
take will change both their lives forever.
WONDERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Science Festival
at Filmhouse
From 3-17 April there are over 220 Science
Festival events happening across Edinburgh.
And it isn’t just for the kids! From debate and
discussion to screenings and comedy – there’s
something for everyone. Once again the
Science Festival has teamed up with Filmhouse
to present a series of films and BBC World of
Wonder preview screenings. Also look out for
‘Mars’, our amazing exhibition of brand new
high resolution images of the Red Planet in the
Filmhouse Café Bar.
For details of the full Edinburgh International
Science Festival programme visit
www.sciencefestival.co.uk
TICKETDEALS
BLAST!
The Private Life of Chickens
BBC Preview Screening
Ishbel Hall • UK 2010 • 59m • DigiBeta • 12A
There are more of them on this planet than any other bird.
24 billion in fact. They are the closest living relative to
Tyrannosaurus Rex . Yet we know little about the private
lives of chickens. Is there really a pecking order in the
farmyard? Are they truly bird brained or are they quite
clever? What does all that clucking mean? Why do some
birds change sex? Farmer Jimmy Doherty wants to know
and he spends a week on a Devon farm to discover just
what goes on behind the hen house door.
Introduction and Q&A with director Ishbel Hall.
Equations
BBC Preview Screening
UK 2010 • 1h • DigiBeta • 12A
Matt Collings, artist and writer, explores the most important
equations in science, including Einstein’s E=mc2, Paul Dirac’s
equation on anti-matter, and Newton’s law of gravity. Matt
discovers that simplicity, elegance and symmetry are often
the key to successful equations. He meets cosmologist
Stephen Hawking, looks up at the stars at a Cambridge
observatory, and observes a particle of anti-matter for the
first time. It will be an emotional and challenging journey for
Matt as in search of the beauty in equations.
Introduction and Q&A with producer Andrew Thompson.
JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE
THE AGE OF STUPID
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Wonders of the Solar System
400 Years of the Telescope
The Age of Stupid
UK 2010 • 1h • DigiBeta • 12A
Kris Koenig • USA 2009 • 57m • Beta SP • 12A
Watch clips from episodes of this spellbinding series and
listen to Professor Brian Cox as he describes how the
laws of nature, freed from Earth-bound constraints, carve
spectacular sights throughout the Solar System. Amongst
his chosen seven wonders are fountains of ice that erupt
thousands of kilometres into space, and mysterious lakes
filled with a liquid unlike anything on our home planet.
A visually stunning history of the telescope from the time
of Galileo, its profound impact upon astronomy, and how
it shapes the way we view ourselves in the midst of an
infinite universe. Hear interviews from leading astronomers
and cosmologists from around the world as the team
journey across five continents to visually write the story of
the past and the future of telescopes, astronomy, and our
ever-changing perception of the cosmos.
Franny Armstrong • UK 2009 • 1h32m • Digital projection
12A – Contains bleeped strong language and reality footage of
death and injury
Introduction and Q&A with presenter Brian Cox.
Introduction and Q&A with director Kris Koenig.
Blast!
Paul Devlin • USA 2008 • 1h19m • DigiBeta • 12A
Astrophysics Indiana Jones style! Follow a team of
scientists in an adventure from Arctic Sweden to Inuit polar
bear country in Canada to to find out how all the galaxies
formed by launching a revolutionary new telescope under
a NASA high-altitude balloon. Our understanding of the
evolution and origins of our Universe is at stake on this
exciting escapade that seeks to answer humankind’s most
basic question, How did we get here?
Introduction and Q&A with Professor Donald Wayne Kurtz,
Centre for Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire.
Journey to the Edge of
the Universe
Yavar Abbas • USA 2008 • 1h36m • DigiBeta • 12A
A non-stop journey from Earth to infinity. On this aweinspiring and unique voyage we encounter the most
beautiful, powerful and mysterious phenomena in the
Cosmos, from pulsars to supermassive black holes, from
star nurseries to quasars. You will be taken to the very
edge of Time itself in a scientific and visual extravaganza
that maps the Universe itself and will be the most stunning
cosmology film ever made.
Introduction and Q&A with Professor Donald Wayne Kurtz,
Centre for Astrophysics, University of Central Lancashire.
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In the Name of the
Father, Brassed Off) stars as a man living alone in the
devastated world of 2055 as he looks back at archive
footage from 2007 and asks: why didn’t we stop climate
change when we had the chance? Directed by Franny
Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out), this compelling
drama-doc explores the social causes and consequences
of humans delaying serious action to tackle climate change
through a heady mix of human tragedy, corporate greed,
bitingly satirical animation and political activism.
An Inconvenient Truth
Davis Guggenheim • USA 2006 • 1h37m • 35mm
U – Contains images of ecological disasters • Documentary
The ‘truth’ the title refers to, is the brute fact of climate
change and global warming – the onset of which (and its
likely impact upon our civilisation) becomes harder to deny
with each passing year. The speaker of this truth is former
US vice-president and presidential candidate Al Gore,
whose crusade to raise awareness of the situation forms
the focus of this impassioned, forceful documentary. It’s
essentially a record of the lecture which Gore has been
touring for a number of years, bolstered with a formidable
array of graphics and supporting evidence – not least, that
the last five decades alone have wreaked more drastic
changes upon the Earth, than any period since the Ice Age.
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Weans’ World
PONYO
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!
ASTRO BOY
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Ponyo Gake no ue no Ponyo
Astro Boy
Sun 4 to Thu 8 Apr
Mon 12 to Thu 15 Apr
Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 2008 • 1h41m • 35mm
English language version • U – Contains very mild threat
David Bowers • Hong Kong/USA/Japan 2009 • 1h34m
Digital projection • PG – Contains mild fantasy violence
With the voices of Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Charlize
Theron, Samuel L Jackson, Kristen Bell.
In Hayao Miyazaki’s beautiful new animated feature,
five-year-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...
The Railway Children
Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young
robot with incredible powers, created by a brilliant scientist
after the death of his son. Astro Boy is endowed with
super strength, x-ray vision, unbelievable speed and the
ability to fly. Through his adventures, he learns the joys
and emotions of being human, and gains the strength to
embrace his destiny.
Fri 2 to Thu 8 Apr
Lionel Jeffries • UK 1970 • 1h49m • Digital projection • U
Cast: Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, Iain Cuthbertson,
Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett.
A fortieth anniversary digital restoration of this family
favourite. Three children and their mother move to a
country house after their father is mysteriously taken
away by the police. Suddenly poor, the family is forced to
become resourceful, and the children learn the value of
being helpful to others as well. Fascinated by the nearby
railway, the children wave to the passengers faithfully
every day and befriend one old gentleman in particular.
Can he help solve the mystery of their missing father?
Alvin and the Chipmunks:
The Squeakquel
Sun 11 & Mon 12 Apr
Betty Thomas • USA 2009 • 1h28m • 35mm
U – Contains very mild language
Cast: Justin Long (voice), Anna Faris (voice), Jason Lee, Christina
Applegate (voice), Jesse McCartney.
The sequel to the 2007 hit. When the Chipmunks’
manager-slash-guardian Dave winds up in traction after
an on-stage stunt goes wrong, the Chipmunks are sent to
school and wind up in the care of Dave’s slacker cousin
Toby, who’s too interested in playing video games to take
his guardianship responsibilities seriously...
Where the Wild Things Are
Sun 25 & Mon 26 Apr and
Mon 3 May at 10.30am (parents & babies only, £3.50/£2.50)
Spike Jonze • USA 2009 • 1h41m • 35mm
PG – Contains mild threat and brief violence
Cast: Max Records, Pepita Emmerichs, Catherine Keener.
Innovative director Spike Jonze collaborates with
celebrated author Maurice Sendak to bring one of the
most beloved books of all time to the big screen. The film
tells the story of Max, a rambunctious and sensitive boy
who feels misunderstood at home and escapes to an island
where he meets some strange and mysterious creatures.
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FAB Fest
HIGH LANE
THE END
FAB Fest
Three days of horror and fantasy cinema.
All tickets £6.90/£5.20 concessions – see
three or more films and save 15%, or buy a
pass for the whole weekend for £65!
Pass is non-transferable. For three film deal tickets
must all be bought at the same time
N.B. Most of these screenings will have NO ads
and trailers and will start five minutes after the
advertised time.
UK THEATRICAL PREMIERE
Merantau
Gareth Evans • Indonesia 2009 • 1h46m • DigiBeta
Indonesian and English with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Iko Uwais, Sisca Jessica, Christine Hakim, Mads Koudal.
Coming to Britain on the back of the hottest online buzz in
years, suffice to say that everything you have read is true
- Merantau is without doubt the standout action movie of
the year. Merantau’s star Iko Uwais is about to popularise
the Indonesian martial art of Silat in just the way that
Tony Jaa showcased Thailand’s Muay Thai style with the
cross-over hit Ong Bak. FAB Fest is presenting Merantau’s
one and only British theatrical screening at Filmhouse, so
don’t miss your only chance to see this bone-shattering
masterpiece on the big screen!
UK PREMIERE
UK PREMIERE
High Lane Vertige
The End
Abel Ferry • France 2009 • 1h30m • DigiBeta
French with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Fanny Valette, Johan Libéreau, Raphaël Lenglet, Nicolas Giraud.
Jeremy Thomas • Canada 2007 • 1h48m • DigiBeta • 18
Cast: Jeremy Thomas, Ella May, Katie Webber, John Knight.
This spectacular new French survivalist horror film is
drawing comparisons to a host of action and horror
favourites including The Descent, Deliverance, The
Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Wrong Turn. A group of
adventurous friends heads into the wilderness seeking
thrills in the hills, but they soon encounter much more
than they bargained for as the dangers of scaling cliffs
and crossing dizzyingly high rope bridges are soon
overshadowed by the much more lethal attentions of a
homicidal mountain man.
Joseph Rickman is suffering from shocking premonitions,
whilst a stranger in ghastly garb has been lurking in his
neighbourhood, his appearances coinciding with a string
of inexplicable disappearances. Convinced that Joseph’s
psychic abilities can help catch the culprit, detective
Clara Wilkie urges him to help her. Director Jeremy
Thomas leads us into a realm of the delirious where the
standard rules of film narrative are shattered. A postmodern nightmare from the fringe, The End announces an
exceptional new talent.
YATTERMAN
A Day of Violence
Fri 30 Apr at 9.00pm (+ ads/trailers)
Darren Ward • UK 2009 • 1h31m • DigiBeta • 18
Cast: Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Nick Rendell, Christopher Fosh,
Victor D Thorn, Peter Rnic.
Mitchell Parker is a low ranking debt collector. He thinks
his luck is in when he stumbles across £100,000 cash in
a client’s flat – a deadly mistake that could cost him his
life. With parallels to The Long Good Friday, this dark tale
of violence, life and death in the underworld is the most
uncompromising and gritty feature to emerge from the UK
in 25 years.
Plus Q&A with director Darren Ward, star Nick Rendell and
guest star Giovanni Lombardo Radice.
Yatterman
Takashi Miike • Japan 2009 • 1h59m • HD-Cam
Japanese with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Sho Sakurai, Saki Fukuda, Kyoko Fukada, Kendo Kobayashi,
Katsuhisa Namase.
Takashi Miike’s live-action anime adaptation is an
astonishing assault on the senses. Attack sushi, the Funny
Bunny Club, a pile of every schoolgirl in Japan – Yatterman
offers up something shiny, new and crazy in every frame.
The heart of the movie is Doronjo, played by Kyoko
Fukada from Kamikaze Girls. She’s a preening, prancing,
pretty-pony prima donna who just loves to be evil simply
because, well, she’s a genius. What else is she going to do?
Yatterman is the perfect adrenaline-rush climax to the first
night of FAB Fest.
FAB Fest
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF LITTLE DIZZLE
COMBAT SHOCK
GRINDHOUSE
City of the Living Dead
Combat Shock aka American Nightmares
Grindhouse
Sat 1 May at 1.00pm
Sat 1 May at 5.45pm
Sat 1 May at 10.30pm
Lucio Fulci • Italy 1980 • 1h33m • DigiBeta • 18
Cast: Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Christopher George, Catriona
MacColl, Antonella Interlenghi, Michele Soavi.
Buddy Giovinazzo • USA 1986 • 1h38m • 16mm • 18
Cast: Ricky Giovinazzo, Veronica Stork, Mitch Maglio, Asaph Livni,
Nick Nasta.
Brand new uncut High-Definition transfer. Lucio Fulci’s
Gothic zombie classic has long been regarding as one of the
great Italian horror movies. It features some of the grisliest
set-pieces ever concocted for cinema, along with lashings
of doom-laden atmosphere, a literate script and a creepy
sense of surreal dislocation that is genuinely disconcerting.
Prepare to be unsettled, grossed-out and entertained as
you are invited to step through The Gates of Hell!
Buddy Giovinazzo’s cult classic documents a neglected
war veteran’s disintegration through poverty and
abandonment. This heart-stopping vision of hell on earth
is almost unendurably disturbing in its impact, fusing the
immediacy and honesty of Cassavetes, the confrontation
and shock of the New York underground movement, and
elements of Abel Ferrara into a deeply personal assault on
the senses.
Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, Edgar Wright &
Rob Zombie • USA 2007 • 3h11m • 35mm
English and Spanish with English subtitles • 18 – Contains strong
bloody violence, gore and brief strong sexual images
Cast: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodríguez, Kurt Russell, Josh Brolin,
Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey, Michael Biehn, Naveen Andrews, Stacy
Ferguson, Nicky Katt.
Plus Q&A with star Giovanni Lombardo Radice.
Plus Q&A with director Buddy Giovinazzo.
UK PREMIERE
Resurrecting the Street Walker
The Immaculate Conception of
Little Dizzle
Sat 1 May at 3.30pm
David Russo • USA 2009 • 1h40m • DigiBeta • 18
Cast: Marshall Allman, Vince Vieluf, Natasha Lyonne, Tania
Raymonde, Tygh Runyan.
After losing his job, Dory is forced to become a janitor. He
and his group of cast-off co-workers soon find themselves
being used as unwitting guinea pigs by a corrupt cookie
company... Quirky, humorous and dark, David Russo’s
feature debut is a stylish meditation on the meaning of
garbage in our throwaway society. Featuring a hallucinatory
animation sequence by renowned animator Rosto and a
stellar ensemble cast, Little Dizzle is a bittersweet postmodern fable and a genre-defying cult classic in the making.
Sat 1 May at 8.15pm (+ ads/trailers)
Not seen here for two years and still unavailable on DVD,
FAB Fest and Filmhouse present an unmissable and
extremely rare chance to see the double bill of Death Proof
and Planet Terror exactly as originally intended, complete
with an intermission consisting of trailers for non-existent
exploitation movies, directed by the likes of Rob (Devil’s
Rejects) Zombie, Edgar (Shaun of the Dead) Wright, and
Eli (Hostel) Roth. Grindhouse is the ultimate midnight
movie, so join us for this once in a lifetime Saturday night
cinematic experience!
Ozgur Uyanik • UK 2009 • 1h20m • DigiBeta • 18
Cast: Joanne Ferguson, Christina Helena, Pinar Ögün, Mia
Perovetz, Emma Pollard.
After stumbling upon film reels for The Street Walker,
an incomplete horror film from the 1980s, wannabe
director James starts to obsess over his discovery. The
downtrodden office worker tirelessly works to uncover the
movie’s mysterious origins and decides to complete the
discarded feature by shooting new footage. His life spirals
into chaos as the film’s legacy takes over his every waking
moment, leading him down a dark and dangerous road
towards his inevitable horrifying fate.
Plus Q&A with director Ozgur Uyanik and producer Ian
Prior.
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FAB Fest (continued)
8TH WONDERLAND
LIFE IS HOT IN CRACKTOWN
KAIFECK MURDER
Reel Zombies
Neighbor
Sun 2 May at 1.00pm
Sun 2 May at 6.15pm
Kaifeck Murder Hinter Kaifeck
David J Francis & Mike Masters • Canada 2008 • 1h29m
DigiBeta • 18
Cast: David J Francis, Mike Masters, Stephen Papadimitriou,
Stephannie Hawkins, Lloyd Kaufman.
Robert A Masciantonio • USA 2009 • 1h30m • HD-Cam • 18
Cast: America Olivo, Christian Campbell, Lauren Rooney, Pete
Postiglione.
Sun 2 May at 11.30pm
A group of independent zombie filmmakers sets about
completing their living dead trilogy, using the real zombies
that have taken over much of the world. As they work on their
masterpiece they discover that shooting in a post-apocalyptic
world offers many more challenges than those they faced
on the first two films. An inspirational mockumentary and a
satirical commentary on the contemporary obsession with
‘reality’ filmmaking, Reel Zombies is the most strikingly clever
zombie movie of the last few years.
Plus Q&A with co-director Mike Masters.
UK PREMIERE
8th Wonderland
Sun 2 May at 3.30pm
Nicolas Alberny & Jean Mach • France 2008 • 1h33m • 35mm
English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Turkish with English
subtitles • 18
Cast: Matthew Géczy, Robert William Bradford, Alain Azerot,
Eloïssa Florez, Michael Hofland.
Neighbor cleverly flips the gender roles of classic
exploitation cinema staples, giving us a lone woman who
terrorises a series of mostly very frightened and defenceless
men. Love thy neighbour? Depends on where your pain
threshold lies. If you couldn’t handle the last act of Takashi
Miike’s Audition, this isn’t the film for you; we can’t imagine
finding a nastier film this year. It’s character-driven, mind
you, unlike the so-called ‘torture porn’ wave. Neighbor is an
astonishing modern Grand Guignol masterpiece.
Plus Q&A/guests.
UK PREMIERE
Life is Hot in Cracktown
Sun 2 May at 8.45pm (+ ads/trailers)
Buddy Giovinazzo • USA 2009 • 1h41m • 35mm • 18
Cast: Kerry Washington, Illeana Douglas , Brandon Routh, RZA,
Victor Rasuk.
There is a virtual country on the Internet, its name: 8th
Wonderland. Every week, each inhabitant of 8th Wonderland
votes for a motion by referendum, then take it upon
themselves to apply it to the real world. Gradually the motions
of 8th Wonderland became more reactionary. But how do you
counter a country whose inhabitants infiltrate every real world
nation? How do you fight a country that doesn’t exist?
This haunting urban nightmare plays like a strung-out
version of Altman’s Short Cuts by way of Last Exit to
Brooklyn. Shot on location in a downtown Los Angeles
neighbourhood overrun with drugs, guns and crime, the
performances are extraordinary, bringing life to this deeply
affecting portrait of the broken and the dangerous. This
shocking and compassionate work chillingly illustrates how
America has already lost so much more than just its war
on drugs.
Plus Q&A/guests.
Plus Q&A with director Buddy Giovinazzo.
UK PREMIERE
Esther Gronenborn • Germany 2009 • 1h26m • 35mm
German with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Henry Stange,
Michael Gwisdek, Erni Mangold.
The Bavarian town of Kaifeck hides a terrible dark secret,
as photographer Marc finds out soon after stumbling
upon the remote community. Marc becomes obsessed by
the tale of a gruesome multiple murder on a nearby farm
back in 1922, but it’s a topic that everyone in the village
seems to want to forget. However, mysterious things begin
happening to Marc, an uncanny interweaving of visions
and reality that draws him ever deeper into the secret of
the murders.
Special Events/Coming Soon
NOSTALGIA
THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY
SPECIALEVENT
SPECIALEVENT
DOUBLE TAKE
COMINGSOON
Double Take
An event hosted by the Italian and
The War on Democracy
Showing from Fri 7 May
Russian Consulate Generals to celebrate Tue 4 May at 6.00pm
John Pilger & Christopher Martin • UK/Australia 2007 • 1h38m • 35mm Johan Grimonprez • Belgium/Germany/Netherlands 2009
common links in filmmaking.
1h20m • 35mm • cert tbc
12A – Contains real images of human suffering • Documentary
Nostalgia Nostalghia
Mon 3 May at 6.00pm
Andrei Tarkovsky • Italy/Soviet Union 1983 • 2h6m • 35mm
Italian and Russian with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Oleg Yankovsky, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano,
Patrizia Terreno, Laura De Marchi.
Lushly beautiful and haunting, Andrei Tarkovsky’s
Nostalgia is also a challenging, thought-provoking
meditation on man’s search for self.
Tarkovsky’s film follows a musicologist, Gortchakov, during
a research trip to Italy where the composer he’s studying
lived for several years. Gortchakov is apparently oblivious
to his beautiful translator and the wonders of Italy, instead
dwelling on memories of Russia. Things start to change
when he encounters Domenico, a somewhat unstable man
who has kept his family locked up for seven years while
waiting the end of the world. Domenico has now decided
that rather than wait he should do something about the
end; and he’s decided Gortchakov should help.
Award-winning journalist John Pilger presents a compelling view
of Washington’s intervention over more than 50 years in Latin
American states, propping up often brutal regimes which have
reinforced the ‘invisibility’ of their majority peoples. The film
casts similar CIA policies supposedly continuing in Iraq, Iran and
Lebanon against the rise of vibrant, accountable and popular
uprisings in countries like Venezuela and Bolivia that are leading
to a powerful sense of change among poor communities. It
ultimately reveals a scale of political engagement, alongside
new approaches to economics, that the West should be actively
supporting, and arguably learning from.
“An extraordinary and fascinating documentary.” - Empire
Whatever the results, the General Election – following
hot on the heels of this screening – will undoubtedly be
marked by public feeling about democratic accountability
and the West’s intervention in Iraq. This screening will be
followed by a short audience discussion reflecting on the
question: “How should British governments safeguard
democracy at home and abroad?” With contributions from
leading civil society organisations, and you.
Hosted by Take One Action, Scotland’s global action
cinema project. To hear about similar events visit
takeoneaction.org.uk and twitter.com/takeoneaction
Consulate General of the Russian Federation
Cast: Ron Burrage, Mark Perry, Delfine Bafort.
An ingenious hybrid, Double Take is part mockdocumentary, part conceptual provocation, and altogether
a thought-provoking, hugely entertaining piece that does
for Alfred Hitchcock what Orson Welles did for himself
in his myth-making F for Fake. Using a zippy assemblage
of TV and newsreel material, artist/filmmaker Johan
Grimonprez muses on Hitchcock’s persona and humour,
reading his films of the late 50s and early 60s against the
climate of Bomb-era political anxiety. The film especially
mulls on Hitchcock’s preoccupation with doubles, a
theme that recurs not just in his films but in the portly
auteur’s jokey intros to the vintage TV series Alfred
Hitchcock Presents; the theme is further expanded on in an
apocryphal story about the maestro meeting his own future
self. Interwoven with all this is a mass of newsreel material,
dealing largely with US-USSR Cold War relations, and
focusing on America’s relationship with that other famous
Hitchcock lookalike Nikita Krushchev. Grimonprez leaves
viewers to draw their own conclusions about identity,
filmmaking, power and paranoia, but the film’s love of
Hitchcock – artist, public face, TV clown – is unmistakeable
and very infectious.
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More Than Movies
EXHIBITION: EMMA JANE BOA
EXHIBITION: EMMA JANE BOA
FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR
Courses, Workshops and Events at Filmhouse
Filmhouse Café Bar
Children’s Drawing Workshop Thursday 15 April
Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea
and enjoy one of our superb cakes.
Find new ways of doodling and improve on your drawing skills in a workshop designed and hosted by Scottish
cartoonist Malcy Duff. Delve into the depths of your imagination, through various drawing exercises, learn
about exploring images and pick up new techniques along the way.
Age group: 7 - 12 Duration: 10am – 2pm (lunch not included) Cost: £12 Book: 0131 228 2688
Train Your Eye Workshop Tuesday 13 April
This one day photography course will be spent working with a talented photographer learning to see the world in a
different way and offering an opportunity to take personal images which can then be downloaded and discussed.
Each student will select an image to be processed and framed to have an opening and exhibition later in the week.
Students can bring their own cameras or use mobile phones – or we can provide a shared camera to use.
Age group: S3 - S6 Duration: 10am – 4pm (lunch not included) Cost: £20 Book: 0131 228 2688
Create a Character Workshop Monday 19 April
A workshop where we’ll be looking at the best characters from the big and small screen. Be prepared to have fun
making your own creations, ready to be dropped into a script, performance or showing-off-at-a-party!
Age group: 9 - 14 Duration: 10am – 3pm (bring packed lunch) Cost: £15 Book: 0131 228 2688
Adult Drawing Workshop Saturday 24 April
An exploratory drawing workshop, encompassing all the senses, to create unique images and new ideas. Using
music and other non-traditional approaches, cartoonist Malcy Duff will guide participants on a journey to cut up
the definition of drawing, and tape it back together again.
Age group: over 18 Duration: 10am – 1pm (lunch not included) Cost: £25/£15 conc. Book: 0131 228 2688
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
Screenwriters Group 15 Apr, 19 Aug, 16 Sep, 21 Oct, 18 Nov, 16 Dec
‘Screenwriters, EH’ holds free monthly meetings for screenwriters and filmmakers. Meetings include talks
from film industry professionals, workshopping with actors, and feedback on members’ scripts, and always
incorporate time for networking and film-related chat. Meetings are from 7pm - 10pm, free and open to all.
More information can be found at www.scottishscreenwriters.ning.com
Exhibition: Emma Jane Boa 1 - 30 April
Darsana: a selection of images capturing daily life in motion in India and Nepal. Emma has travelled
extensively in India and Nepal and won The Times travel photography award in March 2009.
Film Quiz
Sunday 11 April
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
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FUNDINGFILMHOUSE
INFORMATION FOR PATRONS WITH
DISABILITIES
Graham Wallace
Chief Executive Officer
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.
James McKenzie
Chief Operations Officer
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.
Richard Moore
Cinema Operations Manager
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.
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.
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STAFF
Rod White
Head of Programming
David Boyd
Chief Technician
Allan MacRaild
Front of House Manager
Robert Howie
Catering Manager
Kirsty Dickson
Marketing Manager
Fiona Henderson
Education Officer
Jenny Leask
Programme Coordinator
James Rice
Programme Coordinator
Jayne Fortescue
Information and Events Coordinator
Cathi Hitchmough
Finance Officer
RELATEDORGANISATIONS
We regularly have screenings with Audio
Description and subtitles for those with
hearing difficulties – see page two for
details of these.
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Tel: 0131 228 4051 Fax: 0131 229 5501
www.edfilmfest.org.uk
Email admin@filmhousecinema.com or
call the Box Office on 0131 228 2688 if
you require further information.
Edinburgh Film Guild
Tel: 0131 623 8027
www.edinburghfilmguild.com
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