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THE
SECRET
IN THEIR
EYES
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London River
Beautiful Kate
The Refuge
Heartbreaker
Gainsbourg
Five Easy Pieces
Breathless
The Leopard
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival On Tour
DANCE:FILM 10: Fringe
Steve McQueen: King of Cool
Beyond Borders
Big Screen TV
True to Life
3 CINEMAS CAFE BAR
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INDEX
INDEX
SCREENING DATES AND TIMES
TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
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27
10 Minutes of Democracy
17
Ae Fond Kiss
17
And Then Came Lola
11
Beautiful Kate
4
Beyond Borders
16-17
Big Screen TV
20
Bodies of Work: Films by Scottish Ballet
19
La Bohème
23
Boys on Film
11
The Brain Machine
9
Breathless
8
Bronco Bullfrog
7
Bullitt
12
Burning: Mogwai
24
Children of God
10
The Cincinnati Kid
12
Contemporary Palestinian Documentaries 16
Courses, Workshops and Events
26
Creative Identities Showcase
24
18-19
Edinburgh College of Art Post Grad Show 25
Edinburgh Interactive
25
Exhibition
26
Festival of Spirituality and Peace
17
Filmhouse Café Bar
26
Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 28
Filmhouse Quiz
26
The Fish Child
11
Five Easy Pieces
7
Forward Motion: Artists’ Choice
19
Forward Motion: Intros
19
Gainsbourg
6
Give Me Your Hand
11
Great Scots On Tour
24
Greenberg
6
Gregory’s Girl
24
Hawaii Five-0
20
Heartbreaker
6
Hell is for Heroes
12
Here Come the Girls
10
In the Wake of the Flood
22
Know Your Mushrooms
22
The Leopard
8
Löie Fuller & Early Cinema w. Jody Sperling 18
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
On Tour
10-11
London River
Love with the Proper Stranger
Lymelife
Mugabe and the White African
My Generation
My Night with Maud
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Opera On Screen
The Other Bank
Papillon
Pina Bausch Tribute
Plan B
Projecting the Archive
The Refuge
Science and Film
The Secret in Their Eyes
Space & Light Revisited
Supervolcano
They Made Me a Fugitive
This is England ‘86
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Time That Remains
True to Life
The Valiant
Weans’ World
Welcome
Went the Day Well?
Women Without Men
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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – all
screenings will have audio description, and the
1.00pm screening on Sunday 15 August will also
have subtitles.
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FORCRYINGOUTLOUD
Screenings for carers and their babies, on Monday
mornings at 10.30am. This issue:
Heartbreaker on Monday 9 August
Went the Day Well? on Monday 23 August
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 23 for details of Weans’ World, our
regular screenings for a younger audience.
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Introduction
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
STEVE MCQUEEN: BULLITT
LONDON RIVER
FIVE EASY PIECES
’Why do you have to be a ... Heartbreaker?’
There’s something mighty annoying that happens in our office. It’s been happening for years. When a film gets in our programme whose title is the
same or at least suggestive of a popular song, someone in the office ends up whistling, humming, or even singing it. Then it spreads to others, as is the
insidious nature of these things. This month we have been driven insane by renditions, at varying levels of competence, of Dionne Warwick’s Bee
Gees-penned hit from the 80s, ‘Heartbreaker’. You know the one. Mind you, if you think that’s bad, imagine what it was like when we showed La Vie
En Rose, as naeb’dy tries to sing that without the requisite Piaf impersonation. So, I’ve decided, no more films that remind anyone of songs – that
at least is within my control. It’ll work fine until I fancy screening Blue Velvet. Or Singin’ in the Rain. Or Goldfinger. Or In The Mood For Love...
Our big film this month is Juan José Campanella’s brilliant The Secret in Their Eyes. We’ve devoted a lot of screen time to this magnificent film, which
should be seen as a measure of our belief in it. Please don’t cause me to have to question my judgement... François Ozon makes a welcome return
to our screens (and to making good films!) with The Refuge (Le refuge), and the very moving London River features a great performance by Brenda
Blethyn as a woman who can’t find her daughter following the 7/7 terrorist attacks.
Collaboration is a bit of a watchword for August, combining forces, as we are, variously, with the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the
MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Edinburgh Interactive, Beyond Borders, Dance Base, the Royal Botanic Gardens and the
Glasgow Film Festival for a host of screenings and special events which will involve, among others, Margaret Atwood and Shane Meadows.
The ‘King of Cool’, Steve McQueen, would have been 80 this year, so it seemed like a good time to put together a quick ‘Six of the Best’ of his
movies; and the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival On Tour is back for another year, celebrating the best in new queer cinema from around the
world.
We’ve some awesome restorations/re-releases too this month, two from Cavalcanti (Went the Day Well? and They Made Me a Fugitive), Eric
Rohmer’s masterpiece, My Night With Maud (Ma nuit chez Maud), Bob Rafelson’s Jack-Nicholson-in-his-prime-starring Five Easy Pieces [”I want
you to hold it between your knees!” - Ed.], Jean-Luc Godard’s seminal Breathless (A bout de souffle) and a full digital restoration of Luchino Visconti’s
masterwork, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo).
And, you know what, you can book for every one of these films, either online or by phone, completely free of any booking fee. I think we may be
the only cinema in town where you can do that...
Rod White, Head of Programming
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New releases
BEAUTIFUL KATE
NEWRELEASE
LONDON RIVER
NEWRELEASE
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES
NEWRELEASE
Beautiful Kate
London River
The Secret in Their Eyes
Showing until Thu 12 August
Fri 6 to Thu 12 Aug
El secreto de sus ojos
Rachel Ward • Australia 2009 • 1h41m • 35mm
15 – Contains very strong language and strong sex
Cast: Ben Mendelsohn, Bryan Brown, Rachel Griffiths, Sophie
Lowe, Scott O’Donnell.
Rachid Bouchareb • UK/France/Algeria 2009 • 1h28m • 35mm
English, French and Arabic with English subtitles
12A – Contains brief moderate injury detail and emotionally intense
scenes
Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Francis Magee, Sami
Bouajila, Roschdy Zem.
Fri 13 Aug to Thu 9 Sep
After his commanding, polemical reinvention of the World
War II epic in Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb takes up
a smaller canvas with this spare, timely drama, set against
the background of the July 2005 London bomb attacks.
In Guernsey, widowed Elizabeth (Brenda Blethyn) hears
the news about the bombs and starts to worry about her
daughter Jane, currently studying in the city. Meanwhile,
Ousmane (Sotigui Kouyaté), an elderly African forester
working in France, sets out to find his long-estranged son
Ali. As both characters arrive in the North London area,
and make inquiries in different directions, it can’t be long
before they meet…
A recently retired prosecutor revisits the unsolved rape
and murder of a Buenos Aires woman from 30 years
earlier, only to discover that the dark crime and its even
darker consequences have become deeply intertwined
with his own life... Directed by Juan José Campanella and
showcasing two of Argentina’s biggest stars in the lead
roles, this riveting thriller spiked with witty dialogue and
poignant romance is a film intensely focused on the search
for justice and the centrality of memory. Receiving rave
reviews and awards at several Film Festivals, it was also
the surprise (though thoroughly deserving) winner of this
year’s Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film, beating off
stiff competition from The White Ribbon and A Prophet.
For her feature film debut as writer/director, actor Rachel
Ward (most famous for 1980s TV mini-series The Thorn
Birds) has created a dark, gothic drama about family
conflict and taboo relationships.
Ben Mendelsohn plays Ned, who is returning to his family
home after a 20-year absence to see his dying father Bruce
(Bryan Brown), who he still blames for the suicide of his
older brother. It’s a classic Prodigal Son narrative, made
murkier once we learn about Ned’s twin sister Kate, who
also died young.
Mendelsohn, Brown and Rachel Griffiths (playing Ned’s
other sister) are excellent but the highlights of Beautiful
Kate are the performances in the flashback sequences
by newcomers Scott O’Donnell as 16-year-old Ned and
Sophie Lowe as Kate. Overall it’s an atmospheric, visually
striking and moving piece of cinema.
Dramatically spare, Bouchareb’s film avoids the clichés
about cultural misunderstanding that are so prevalent in
the current spate of globally-themed films about linked
destinies. Blethyn offers her strongest lead performance
since Secrets and Lies, and veteran Malian actor Kouyaté
proves an immensely commanding presence. With its
matter-of-fact London locations, the film captures the city
as non-British directors so often do best, with Bouchareb
persuasively and movingly channeling downbeat UK
realism in a Loachian vein.
Juan José Campanella • Argentina/Spain 2009 • 2h9m
Digital projection • Spanish with English subtitles
18 – Contains one scene of sexual violence and brief strong nudity
Cast: Soledad Villamil, Ricardo Darín, Carla Quevedo, Pablo Rago,
Javier Godino.
Think The Lives of Others as directed by Talk to Her/Volver
era Pedro Almodóvar and you’ll be not a million miles away
from the look, feel and sheer classiness of this intensely
involving, deeply satisfying, grown-up drama.
New releases
THE REFUGE
NEWRELEASE
LYMELIFE
NEWRELEASE
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN
NEWRELEASE
The Refuge Le refuge
Lymelife
Women Without Men
Fri 13 to Tue 24 Aug
Fri 13 to Sun 15 Aug
Zanan-e bedun-e mardan
François Ozon • France 2009 • 1h28m • Digital projection
French with English subtitles
15 – Contains hard drug use and strong language
Cast: Isabelle Carré, Louis-Ronan Choisy, Pierre Louis-Calixte,
Melvil Poupaud, Claire Vernet.
Derick Martini • USA 2008 • 1h34m • 35mm
15 – Contains strong language, violence, sex and soft drug use
Cast: Rory Culkin, Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Emma Roberts,
Timothy Hutton, Cynthia Nixon.
Wed 1 & Thu 2 Sep
A poignant and superbly performed drama in the style of
The Ice Storm and The Squid and the Whale.
Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat is well-known for her
photographs and moving image work depicting Islamic
culture in poetic, stylised form. Since 2005 she has been
working on the project ‘Women Without Men’, exhibiting
some parts of it as gallery installations, and now presenting
it as a feature film. It is an interpretation of Shahrunsh
Parsipar’s novel of the same name, banned in Iran since
its publication in 1989, which combines Neshat’s skill in
creating mood and tone with the magical-realist elements
of the original writing. In parallel sequences, she portrays
the lives of four women in 1953, the year when Iran’s
elected Prime Minister was removed in a coup d’etat
backed by Britain and the US, in order to reinstate the Shah
and avoid nationalising the country’s oil resources. During
this time of struggle for democracy and independence,
the women’s own search for freedom or survival in
a culture with strict rules about religion and sexual
and social behaviour leads each of them to a beautiful
ephemeral garden, a place of safety and refuge. Filmed
in haunting muted hues, the women’s individual journeys
are compelling, and the broader themes of the tensions
between religion and secularism and between tradition and
modernity have never felt more relevant.
The Refuge begins in a beautiful, empty apartment in Paris
where young lovers Mousse and Louis have been passing
their days and nights in a heroin haze. One morning,
Louis’ mother, who owns the apartment, arrives to show
it to a prospective tenant only to find that the pair has
overdosed. Louis dies, but Mousse survives and learns
that she is pregnant. She flees to a house by the sea,
where, some months later, Louis’ gay brother, Paul, joins
her. The fraught dynamics between the two give rise to an
unusual relationship as Mousse’s pregnancy progresses.
Director François Ozon has produced another masterful
character study that heightens tension with each passing
scene, never taking the easy way out but instead choosing
complexity and ambiguity over predictability or easy
sympathy.
As the late Seventies shift into the Eighties, sensitive Long
Island teenager Scott Bartlett (Rory Culkin) is undergoing
his own changes along with the landscape around him.
His mother Brenda (Jill Hennessy) keeps house while his
father Mickey (Alec Baldwin) spends long hours away
selling homes to others, and older brother Jimmy (Rory’s
actual brother Kieran Culkin) visits only when on furlough
from military service. Scott begins to notice the cracks in
his family’s supposed happiness, even as he experiences
love’s growing pains with Adrianna (Emma Roberts), the
slightly older, more confident girl next door.
Though familiar in many ways, with its suburban setting, its
awkward coming-of-age themes, its Oedipal conflicts, its
subversions of the American dream and its nostalgia-tinged
period details, this is nonetheless American indie cinema
par excellence.
Shirin Neshat & Shoja Azari • Germany/Austria/France 2009
1h40m • Digibeta • Persian with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong nudity and images of self harm
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Maybe you missed...
HEARTBREAKER
MAYBEYOUMISSED
GREENBERG
MAYBEYOUMISSED
GAINSBOURG
MAYBEYOUMISSED
Heartbreaker L’arnacoeur
Greenberg
Gainsbourg Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)
Fri 6 to Thu 12 Aug
Fri 6 to Sun 8 Aug
Pascal Chaumeil • France/Monaco 2010 • 1h45m • 35mm
French, English, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic and Mandarin with
English subtitles
15 – Contains strong language and moderate sexualised nudity
Cast: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, François Damiens.
Noah Baumbach • USA 2010 • 1h47m • 35mm
15 – Contains strong language and sex and hard drug use
Cast: Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Mark Duplass.
Joann Sfar • France/USA 2010 • 2h15m • 35mm
French with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong sex references and sexualised nudity
Cast: Eric Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Doug Jones.
Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller), single, fortyish and at a
crossroads in his life, finds himself in Los Angeles, housesitting for six weeks for his more successful/married-withchildren brother. In search of a place to restart his life,
Greenberg tries to reconnect with old friends including
his former bandmate Ivan (Rhys Ifans). But old friends
aren’t necessarily still best friends, and Greenberg soon
finds himself spending more and more time with his
brother’s personal assistant Florence (Greta Gerwig), an
aspiring singer and also something of a lost soul. Despite
Greenberg’s best attempts not to be drawn in, the two
manage to forge a connection, and Greenberg realises he
may at last have found a reason to be happy.
Best known in this country for ‘Je t’aime . . . moi non plus’,
his racy duet with then-lover Jane Birkin, singer/songwriter
Serge Gainsbourg packed a lot of life into 62 years. As
much provocateur as artist, he delighted in defying
expectations, so it is only appropriate that this offbeat
biopic should do the same. In keeping with a subject who
rode the waves of the pop charts, comic book artist–turnedfilmmaker Joann Sfar takes a greatest-hits approach to
Gainsbourg’s life, concentrating on his early years as a
Jewish child in Nazi-occupied France, his transition from
painter to jazz musician to pop superstar, his romances with
the likes of Birkin and Brigitte Bardot, his many scandals
and the behind-the-scenes stories of some of his most
famous songs, including the Bardot hits ‘Bonnie and Clyde’
and ‘Comic Strip’. In spot-on casting, Kacey Mottet Klein
contributes a vivacious turn as Lucien, the precocious,
irrepressible boy who would grow up to be Serge
Gainsbourg, while Eric Elmosnino is a dead ringer in looks
and mannerisms for the adult Serge. Sfar’s own comic-book
roots are evident in some of the drama’s quirkier elements,
particularly ‘La Gueule’ (or ‘ugly face’), a grotesque alter
ego who accompanies Gainsbourg through life. This
imaginative, exuberant and affectionate take on the man,
his music and his times is a treasure trove for his fans and a
witty introduction for anyone unfamiliar with his legend.
Pascal Chaumeil makes an auspicious feature debut with
this irresistible romantic comedy, starring two of France’s
most acclaimed stars, Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis.
Duris is Alex, a professional Don Juan who makes a living
breaking up couples with his sister Mélanie (Julie Ferrier)
and her husband (François Damiens). Because business
is slow, they go against their principles to break up only
unhappy couples, and agree to work for Monsieur Van
Der Bercq. Their mission seems simple: they have one
week to stop Van Der Bercq’s daughter Juliette (Paradis)
from marrying the man she is madly in love with. But this
questionable mission becomes hazardous for Alex, as he
enters the world of the rich, beautiful and self-assured
Juliette and her seemingly perfect boyfriend, Jonathan.
Filmhouse and the Institut Français d’Ecosse are offering
you the opportunity to watch a French film and attend a
French lesson for only £7.50! The lesson, for beginners,
intermediate and advanced students will follow the 6.00pm
screening of Heartbreaker on Wednesday 11 August and
will be based on the film’s language and cultural
content. The ticket price includes both the film
and the lesson.This offer will be repeated
throughout the year.
Bittersweet and beautifully realised, harsh but humane,
Greenberg is a self-consciously small film that nevertheless
leaves an indelible mark.
Restored classics
MY NIGHT WITH MAUD
RESTOREDCLASSIC
BRONCO BULLFROG
RESTOREDCLASSIC
FIVE EASY PIECES
RESTOREDCLASSIC
My Night with Maud Ma nuit chez Maud
Bronco Bullfrog
Five Easy Pieces
Fri 6 to Sun 8 Aug
Wed 11 & Thu 12 Aug
Fri 13 to Thu 19 Aug
Eric Rohmer • France 1969 • 1h50m • Digital projection
French with English subtitles • U
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine
Barrault, Antoine Vitez.
Barney Platts-Mills • UK 1969 • 1h27m • Digital projection
15 – Contains strong language and one written use of very strong
language
Cast: Del Walker, Anne Gooding, Sam Shepherd, Roy Haywood,
Freda Shepherd.
Bob Rafelson • USA 1970 • 1h38m • 35mm
15 – Contains moderate sex
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Lois Smith, Susan Anspach,
Billy Green Bush.
The third in Eric Rohmer’s series of ‘Moral Tales’ was the
film that sealed his international reputation. Exquisitely
shot by Nestor Almendros, it tells – lightly, wittily and
amazingly perceptively – of the long night of the soul of a
Catholic engineer (Jean-Louis Trintignant), smugly secure
in his acceptance of Pascal’s wager (it pays to believe in
God, because if you win, you win eternity; if you lose, you
lose nothing), who makes up his mind he is going to marry
a girl he has seen only in church. His philosophy comes
in for a rude shaking up, however, during the teasing,
tantalising, and ultimately chaste night he spends with a
free-thinking divorcee.
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.
A leading cult film of the 60s and one of the finest records
of Mod culture in British cinema, Bronco Bullfrog was
largely improvised by a non-professional cast of teenagers
from Stratford, East London, and is loosely based on events
taken from the actors’ lives. Seventeen-year-old Del and
fifteen-year-old Irene suffer the perennial problems of
teenage lovers – no money and nowhere to go. Del’s
resentful, suspicious dad and Irene’s uptight, comically
snobbish mum only make things worse. So they turn for
help to old friend ‘Bronco Bullfrog’, fresh out of Borstal and
pursuing an enviably independent lifestyle. A wonderful
time capsule of late 60s London, this is filmmaking with
a spontaneity, wit and endearing humanity that still feels
strikingly fresh.
A key work from an era that’s now considered the last
Golden Age of American cinema (1967-1975), Five Easy
Pieces, Bob Rafelson’s superlative character study, won
the Best Picture from the New York Film Critics Circle
and established Jack Nicholson, fresh from his success in
Easy Rider the previous year, as the foremost actor of his
generation. One of the few honest American films about
social class, downward mobility, family, and alienation, it’s
more of a character and mood piece than a straightforward,
plot-driven narrative.
Nicholson plays Bobby Dupea, an upper-middle class
dropout who now works as rigger in the California oil
fields, spending his leisure time in bowling alleys and
bars with his drinking buddies and his waitress girlfriend
Rayette (Karen Black). Upon discovering that his father has
suffered a stroke, he takes a trip up North to visit his family.
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Restored classics
WENT THE DAY WELL?
RESTOREDCLASSIC
THEY MADE ME A FUGITIVE
RESTOREDCLASSIC
THE LEOPARD
RESTOREDCLASSICS
Went the Day Well?
They Made Me a Fugitive
The Leopard Il Gattopardo
Fri 20 to Mon 23 Aug
Wed 25 & Thu 26 Aug
Alberto Cavalcanti • UK 1942 • 1h34m • 35mm
PG – Contains strong language and sexualised nudity
Cast: Leslie Banks, C V France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr, Basil
Sydney.
Alberto Cavalcanti • UK 1947 • 1h41m • 35mm
PG – Contains moderate violence and threat
Cast: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Griffith Jones, René Ray, Mary
Merrall.
Luchino Visconti • Italy/France 1963 • 3h8m • Digital projection
Italian with English subtitles
PG – Contains some mild language, sex references and war violence
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paola Stoppa.
Alberto Cavalcanti’s wartime film, based on a story by
Graham Greene, still unsettles, even shocks, with its
subversive, almost surreal spectacle of a cosy English
village under Nazi attack in the Second World War.
This dark thriller caused some anguish on release for its
toughness and the successful depiction of the underbelly
of post-war London life. Director Alberto Cavalcanti
was plainly influenced by US noir cinema and by French
poetic realism, and is wonderfully aided by atmospheric
camerawork from Otto Heller (who was to go on to shoot
The Queen of Spades and Peeping Tom) and the gutsy
screenplay. The film’s final claim to greatness stems from
the complexity Trevor Howard brings to the role of Clem,
the RAF officer who gets into crooked company but rejects
it when drugs are involved, only to be framed. It becomes
a story of retribution and love that is intelligent and adult
beyond the dreams of current British gangster cinema.
1860s Sicily, where revolution is underway to unite Italy
as a republic. When his penniless nephew (Alain Delon)
marries Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the daughter of
a merchant, the Prince of Salina (Burt Lancaster in a
wonderfully nuanced performance) reflects sadly on the
death of the aristocratic world and the rise of the crass
bourgeoisie. With superb attention to detail, Visconti takes
us right back to the place and time, filling each scene with
authentic touches and drawing out the script’s subtleties.
Disguised as British soldiers, the invading Germans
insinuate themselves into a pretty village inhabited by
British character players so familiar to wartime audiences
that they must have seemed like family members. Always
the mischievous foreign observer, Cavalcanti kicks away
their usual charm, letting them kill and be killed in a violent
battle for their green, pleasant land. Critics’ reactions at
the time were mixed, but now we can properly relish this
visionary film, as jolting and quizzical about British life as
anything by Powell and Pressburger.
The first of two restored Alberto Cavalcanti films screening
this month – see also They Made Me a Fugitive (right).
The second of two restored Alberto Cavalcanti films
screening this month – see also Went the Day Well? (left).
Breathless A bout de souffle
Mon 30 Aug to Wed 1 Sep
Jean-Luc Godard • France 1960 • 1h30m • Digital projection
French and English with English subtitles • PG
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger.
The 50th anniversary rerelease of Godard’s Breathless is
another opportunity to marvel at the sheer joie de vivre
of this film, at its pure, raw, chaotic newness – still fresh
after all this time. Jean-Paul Belmondo is the smouldering
tough guy who has killed a cop; Jean Seberg is the
gamine American would-be journalist and novelist who
is hanging out with this man, just to see if she is really in
love. Belmondo and Seberg’s aimless, languorous, erotic
conversation in her apartment is a glorious riff; in fact the
whole movie is one continuous, inspired cine-jazz solo.
BREATHLESS
THE VALIANT
THE BRAIN MACHINE
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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.
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The Brain Machine
The Valiant
Mon 9 Aug at 6.00pm
Mon 23 Aug at 6.00pm
Ken Hughes • UK 1954 • 1h23m • 35mm • U
Cast: Patrick Barr, Elizabeth Allan, Maxwell Reed, Russell Napier,
Gibb McLaughlin.
Roy Ward Baker • UK/Italy 1962 • 1h30m • 35mm • U
Cast: John Mills, Ettore Manni, Roberto Risso, Robert Shaw, Liam
Redmond.
Elizabeth Allan plays a doctor who uses her new ‘brain
machine’ to analyse the thought patterns of criminals;
Maxwell Reed is the unfortunate petty thief she diagnoses
as being on the brink of homicide. Despite a misleadingly
sci-fi title, The Brain Machine is, in fact, an underrated
thriller that trawls through corporate corruption, marriage
breakdown, drug smuggling and kidnap in an East End
lock-up. Reed’s anxious brute and Allan’s cold-fish scientist
make a surprisingly compelling couple.
John Mills exercises his stiff upper lip in this rarely seen
WW2 drama. During the 1941 raid on Alexandria, two
Italian frogmen are discovered and brought aboard HMS
Valiant. Unsure whether they have successfully mined the
ship, Mills’ Captain Morgan holds them until they confess.
Military bluffs, broken protocols and the increasing dread
of annihilation make for a tense standoff between fiercely
loyal adversaries. Shaw’s dignified Lieutenant Field reveals
the vulnerability beneath the bravado, while John Meillon
provides some required light relief.
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CHILDREN OF GOD
PLAN B
London Lesbian &
Gay Film Festival
On Tour
Highlights from this year’s hugely successful
two-week festival, which took place in March
at BFI Southbank. The season includes
LLGFF Closing Night Gala Children of God,
a fascinating and politically bold study of
sexuality in the Bahamas; lesbian comedy And
Then Came Lola; erotically charged crime
thriller The Fish Child; acclaimed Argentinian
drama Plan B; and two programmes of shorts,
one for the girls and one for the boys!
TICKETDEALS
See any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% off
See any six (or more) films in this season and get 25% off
These packages are available online, in person and on the
phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.
Tickets must all be bought at the same time.
HERE COME THE GIRLS: FALLING FOR CAROLINE
Children of God
Here Come the Girls
Tue 10 Aug at 8.30pm
Kareem Mortimer • Bahamas 2009 • 1h43m • Beta SP • 15
Cast: Johnny Ferro, Stephen Tyrone Williams, Margaret Laurena
Kemp, Adela Osterloh, Jason Elwood Hanna.
1h35m • 15
Johnny, a white Bahamian artist from Nassau, is depressed
and creatively uninspired. He relocates to the rural island
of Eleuthera, where he meets Romeo, who inspires a new
creative drive in him. The two embark on a passionate love
affair, but when Romeo’s fiancée and overbearing mother
arrive at his home unannounced, he is asked to make
some important decisions. Meanwhile, Lena, the wife of an
ultra-conservative pastor, sets out on a campaign to spread
anti-gay policies among the quiet community...
Plan B
Thu 12 Aug at 6.15pm
Marco Berger • Argentina 2009 • 1h43m • 35mm
Spanish with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Manuel Vignau, Lucas Ferraro, Mercedes Quinteros, Damián
Canduci, Ana Lucia Antony.
When Bruno’s attempts to win back his ex-girlfriend prove
unsuccessful, he formulates a plan to befriend her current
partner, Pablo, in an attempt to break up the couple. As the
friendship between the two boys develops, Bruno begins
to flirt with Pablo, and soon their relationship takes a detour
that neither of them expected. With strikingly natural
performances from the two male leads, Marco Berger’s
debut feature is a subtly complex look at male friendships
and nascent desires.
Memoirs of an Evil Stepmother
Cherien Dabis • USA • 2004 • 18m • 15
A modern take on the Snow White fairytale as told from
the evil stepmother’s point of view.
Henna Night
Sally El Hosaini • UK • 2009 • 12m • 15
A young woman takes drastic action in the face of her
lover’s looming wedding day.
Wicked Desire
Angela Cheng • USA • 2008 • 13m • 15
A mother and daughter react very differently to their
discovery of a family member’s secret.
Falling for Caroline
Christine Chew • Canada • 2009 • 20m • 15
The path to true love never runs smooth; thankfully for
Darcy she has her best friend to offer advice, with hilarious
results.
Private Life
Abbe Robinson • UK • 2006 • 16m • 15
Yorkshire, 1952 Ruth leaves work as a supervisor at her
father’s textile mill on a Friday evening and secretly takes
the train to Manchester. There, she meets a man on the
station platform, but all is not what it seems...
Little Black Boot
Colette Burson • USA • 2004 • 16m • 15
Goth-girl Cindy admires beautiful Laurie from afar, until the
night when she dresses as a boy for the prom...
AND THEN CAME LOLA
THE FISH CHILD
BOYS ON FILM: MY NAME IS LOVE
GIVE ME YOUR HAND
Give Me Your Hand
And Then Came Lola
Boys on Film
Donne-moi la main
1h29m • 18
Thu 2 Sep at 6.00pm
Candy Boy
Pascal-Alex Vincent • France/Germany 2008
1h20m • Digital projection
French, Spanish and English with English subtitles • 18
Cast: Alexandre Carril, Victor Carril, Anaïs Demoustier, Samir
Harrag, Katrin Saß.
Ellen Seidler & Megan Siler • USA 2009 • 1h11m • Digibeta • 15
Cast: Ashleigh Sumner, Jill Bennett, Cathy DeBuono, Jessica
Graham, Angelyna Martinez.
This raunchy comedy is a loose homage to hit film Run
Lola Run only with more women in tight vests and plenty
of Sapphic shenanigans to keep you entertained. Flaky
photographer Lola has three chances to save both her
girlfriend Casey’s design career and Casey herself from the
clutches of rich and predatory Danielle, but only if she can
make it across San Francisco in time.
Pascal-Alex Vincent • France • 2007 • 13m • French with English subtitles • 15
Panic in the orphanage! The children are mysteriously
falling ill and Candy Boy, the most valiant of the orphans,
investigates. But the arrival of a new boarder complicates
our hero’s inquiries.
Protect Me from What I Want
Dominic Leclerc • UK • 2009 • 13m • 15
Daz is looking for love. Saleem is looking for sex. In an
underground archway, these two worlds collide.
Dish :)
Two handsome twins, Antoine and Quentin, leave home
on a road trip from France to northern Spain in order to
attend a funeral. On the way they have a number of social
and sexual encounters. While one brother seems to be gay,
the other seems to be straight. Throughout the film there’s
a simmering tension between the two, which may reflect
their own unstated attraction for each other.
Brian Krinsky • USA • 2009 • 15m • 15
The Fish Child El niño pez
Fri 20 Aug at 1.30pm + 6.00pm
Lucía Puenzo • Argentina/France/Spain 2009 • 1h36m • Beta SP
Spanish and Guarani with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Inés Efron, Mariela Vitale, Pep Munné, Diego Velázquez,
Carlos Bardem.
English & foreign language courses all year round
Conversational courses - Translation - Interpretation
Lucky Blue
Håkon Liu • Sweden • 2007 • 28m • Swedish with English subtitles • 18
A balmy summer night. A camping site somewhere in
Sweden. The grand emotions, the shy teenager, first love,
caravans, karaoke and a budgie…
My Name Is Love
David Färdmar • Sweden • 2008 • 20m • Swedish with English subtitles • 18
Love and Sebastian meet each other on a romantic
Swedish summer night. They happen to share the same
secret, but their encounter will have consequences for
both of them.
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Unbeknown to her family, she is having an illicit liaison
with Ailin, their voluptuous Guaraní maid from Paraguay.
Together they steal money from Lala’s unscrupulous
father so they can escape to the lush Lake Ypoá, where
Ailin spent her childhood. However, when Lala’s father is
murdered and Ailin is taken into custody, Lala must unravel
her lover’s dark past if they are to be reunited. From the
award-winning director of XXY.
Emo kids Israel and Louie walk around their east Los
Angeles neighbourhood dishing about their high school
classmates. After listening to Louie boast about his sexual
escapades, Israel decides he has some catching up to do.
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PAPILLON
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER
Steve McQueen:
King of Cool
Six of the best from a Hollywood icon.
Papillon
Sat 14 Aug at 5.30pm
Franklin J Schaffner • USA/France 1973 • 2h31m • 35mm • 18
Cast: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon.
Against Jerry Goldsmith’s mournful score a hard-bitten
convict plots to escape from the harsh penal colony on
Devil’s Island. Perhaps the most overlooked film in the
McQueen canon and one for which many have claimed he
should have won an Oscar. There is much fun to be had in
comparing the contrasting styles of minimalist McQueen
and Method advocate Dustin Hoffman, but this remains
McQueen’s finest example of character work.
Love with the Proper Stranger
Robert Mulligan • USA 1963 • 1h40m • 35mm • 18
Cast: Steve McQueen, Natalie Wood, Edie Adams, Anne Hegira.
McQueen’s cocksure jazz musician can’t remember his
one-night stand with pregnant shop girl Natalie Wood, but
he reluctantly agrees to pay for an illegal termination. The
slow-burn charm of this anti-romance is in the gradual and
genuine love that forms between this incompatible duo.
The winning chemistry between McQueen and Wood
makes for a perfect pairing.
HELL IS FOR HEROES
The Cincinnati Kid
The Thomas Crown Affair
Fri 20 Aug at 6.15pm
Sun 29 Aug at 5.00pm
Norman Jewison • USA 1965 • 1h42m • 35mm • PG
Cast: Steve McQueen, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld,
Edward G Robinson.
Norman Jewison • USA 1968 • 1h42m • 35mm • PG
Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston.
Bristling with energy and the sexual frisson between ambitious
McQueen, good girl Tuesday Weld and sly sexpot AnnMargret, this thrilling saga of the poker table gave McQueen
his entrée into the annals of cool. Edward G Robinson is the
elegant old card sharp seeking to preserve his image and
reputation; McQueen is the young Turk looking to usurp him.
Bullitt
Peter Yates • USA 1968 • 1h53m • 35mm • 15
Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon.
One of those films that’s so iconic you feel like you’ve seen
it even if you haven’t. In one of his most famous roles,
McQueen stars as tough-guy police detective Frank Bullitt,
assigned for 48 hours to watch a witness before his trial.
However, when the witness and another officer are shot,
Bullitt decides to investigate the case on his own, much to
the dismay of an ambitious Senator (Robert Vaughn) who
wants to shut the investigation down, hindering Bullitt’s
plan to bring the killers to justice.
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Effortlessly slipping into the white-collar world of moguls
and billionaires, McQueen brings plausibility and panache
to Thomas Crown, the super-rich playboy who orchestrates
the perfect bank heist just to prove it can be done. But it’s
Crown’s tentative stalking of icy insurance investigator
Vicki Anderson (Dunaway) that gives this film its heat, with
a chess match presenting a steamy, intellectual form of
subtle seduction at its best. Pure 60s magic.
Hell is for Heroes
Thu 2 Sep at 6.15pm
Don Siegel • USA 1962 • 1h30m • 35mm • 12
Cast: Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino,
James Coburn.
A war film is a war film is a war film... except that Don
Siegel, brought into the project at the last moment when
Steve McQueen refused to work with the scheduled
director, toughened the standard war-is-hell screenplay
into an extraordinary study of psychopathology. He centres
everything squarely on the McQueen character (one of
his best performances, as a human war machine), and
emphasises the tensions within the American platoon
rather than the conflict with the offscreen Germans. The
ending, which stresses the enormous human cost of a small
tactical gain, is remarkably powerful, precisely because
it’s the first time that Siegel allows his audience any
perspective on what they’ve been seeing.
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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
DAY
DATE
6 August - 2 September 2010
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
DAY
DATE
BOX OFFICE 0131 228 268
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Thu 1 Heartbreaker
12 2 Bronco Bullfrog
Aug 2 Plan B (LG)
3 London River
3 Beautiful Kate
1.30/6.00/8.20
3.15/8.45
6.15
1.30/6.30
3.30/8.30
Fri 1 The Secret in Their Eyes
13 2 The Refuge
Aug 2 The Secret in Their Eyes
3 Lymelife
3 Five Easy Pieces
1.00/6.00/8.45
1.30/6.30/8.35
3.45
1.45/6.15
4.00/8.50
Sat 1 The Secret in Their Eyes
14 2 The Refuge
Aug 2 Papillon (SM)
3 Lymelife
3 Five Easy Pieces
1.00/6.00/8.45
1.30/3.30/8.35
5.30
2.00/6.30
4.15/8.50
Fri 1 Greenberg
6 1 Heartbreaker
Aug 1 Creative Identities Showcase
2 My Night with Maud
2 Greenberg
3 London River
3 Beautiful Kate
1.00
3.30/8.20
6.00
1.15/3.45/8.45
6.15
1.30/6.30
3.30/8.30
Sat 1 Greenberg
7 1 Heartbreaker
Aug 2 Ae Fond Kiss
2 My Night with Maud
2 Greenberg
3 London River
3 Beautiful Kate
1.00
3.30/6.00/8.20
1.00 + Q&A
3.45/8.45
6.15
1.30/6.30
3.30/8.30
Sun 1 Heartbreaker
8 1 La Bohème
Aug 2 My Night with Maud
2 Greenberg
3 London River
3 Beautiful Kate
1.00/3.15/5.30
8.00 (£15/£10)
1.15/3.45/8.45
6.15
1.30/6.30
3.30/8.30
Mon 1 Heartbreaker (B)
9 1 Heartbreaker
Aug 1 The Brain Machine (PA)
3 London River
3 Beautiful Kate
10.30am (babies only)
1.30/8.20
6.00
1.30/6.30
3.30/8.30
Tue 1 Heartbreaker
10 1 Beautiful Kate
Aug 3 London River
3 Beautiful Kate
3 Children of God (LG)
1.30/8.20
6.00
1.30/6.30
3.30
8.30
Mon 1 Nanny McPhee &... (WW) (AD) 10.30am/1.00
16 1 The Refuge
3.30
6.00/8.45
2 The Secret in Their Eyes
3.00
2 Supervolcano
5.45 + intro/disc.
2 The Refuge
9.00
3 Five Easy Pieces
3.30/8.50
3 Mugabe & the White African (BB) 6.00 + Q&A
Wed 1 Heartbreaker
11 2 Bronco Bullfrog
Aug 3 London River
3 Beautiful Kate
1.30/6.00/8.20
3.15/6.15/8.45
1.30/6.30
3.30/8.30
Tue 1 The Secret in Their Eyes
17 2 The Refuge
Aug 3 Five Easy Pieces
3 Here Come the Girls (LG)
Sun 1 Nanny McP &... (WW) (AD) + (S) 1.00 (subtitled)
15 1 The Secret in Their Eyes
6.00/8.45
1.15
2 Welcome
4.00 - FREE (see p.25)
2 The Refuge
6.30/8.35
3 Lymelife
2.00/6.40
3 Five Easy Pieces
4.15/8.50
2.30/6.00/8.45
3.15/6.30/8.35
3.30/8.50
6.15
DAY
DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Wed 1 The Secret in Their Eyes
18 2 The Refuge
Aug 3 Five Easy Pieces
2.30/6.00/8.45
3.15/6.30/8.35
3.30/6.15/8.50
Thu 1 The Secret in Their Eyes
19 1 Love with the Proper Stranger (SM)
Aug 2 The Refuge
3 Five Easy Pieces
3 And Then Came Lola (LG)
2.30/8.30
6.15
3.15/8.45
6.00
3.30/8.15
6.15
Fri 1 The Refuge
2 The Refuge
2 The Cincinnati Kid (SM)
3 The Fish Child (LG)
3 Went the Day Well?
1.00
3.15/6.00/8.45
1.15
4.00/8.45
6.15
1.30/6.00
3.45/8.15
Sat 1 The Refuge
21 1 In the Wake of the Flood (BF)
2 The Refuge
3 Contemp. Palestinian Docs (BB)
3 The Time That Remains (BB)
1.00
5.00 + Q&A
8.00
1.15/6.00
4.00/8.45
2.00/9.00
4.45
6.30
Sun 1 Space & Light Revisited (BF)
2 The Refuge
2 Know Your Mushrooms + short
3 10 Minutes of Democracy (BB)
3 The Other Bank (BB)
3.30 + Q&A
5.45/8.30
1.15
4.00/6.15
8.30
1.30/8.15
3.45
6.00
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SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
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6 August - 2 September 2010
DAY
DATE
SCREEN NO. &
FILM TITLE
SHOW
TIMES
Fri 1 This is England ‘86 (TV)
2 The Leopard
2 Fwd Motion: Artists’ Choice (D)
3 Gainsbourg
3 Forward Motion: Intros (D)
3.00 + Q&A
6.00/8.45
2.00
5.00
8.45
1.00/3.45/8.30
6.30
2.30/5.45
8.30
3.30
6.00 + Q&A
8.40
3.15/6.15
8.30
Sat 1 My Generation (TV)
28 1 Hawaii Five-0 (TV)
Aug 1 The Leopard
1 Bullitt (SM)
3 Gainsbourg
2.00
3.30
5.15
9.00
3.00/5.45/8.30
2.15/5.30/8.15
Wed 1 Edinburgh Interactive
Aug 3 They Made Me a Fugitive
3 Gregory’s Girl (GS)
6.00 - 10.00
3.00/5.45/8.30
3.15/6.00
8.15
Sun 1 The Leopard
29 1 The Thomas Crown Affair (SM)
3 Gainsbourg
1.15/7.30
5.00
3.00/5.45/8.30
2.15/5.30/8.15
Thu 1 Edinburgh Interactive
Aug 3 Burning: Mogwai + short (GS)
3 They Made Me a Fugitive
6.00 - 10.00
3.00/5.45/8.30
3.15/8.15
6.00
Mon 1 The Leopard
30 1 Breathless
3 Gainsbourg
2.00/7.45
5.45
3.00/5.45/8.30
2.15/5.30/8.15
Tue 1 The Leopard
31 1 Breathless
Aug 2 Breathless
3 Gainsbourg
3 Boys on Film (LG)
2.00/7.45
5.45
3.00
5.45/8.30
2.15/8.15
6.00
Wed 1 The Leopard
1 1 Breathless
Sep 2 The Secret in Their Eyes
3 Women Without Men
3 Gainsbourg
2.00/7.45
5.45
3.00/5.45/8.30
3.30/8.45
5.55
Thu 1 The Leopard
2 1 Hell is for Heroes (SM)
Sep 1 The Secret in Their Eyes
2 Give Me Your Hand (LG)
2 The Leopard
3 Gainsbourg
3 Women Without Men
2.00
6.15
8.30
3.00
6.00
7.50
2.45/5.55
8.45
Mon 1 The Secret in Their Eyes
23 2 The Refuge
Aug 2 Loïe Fuller & Early Cinema... (D)
3 Went the Day Well? (B)
3 The Valiant (PA)
2.30/5.45/8.30
3.30/8.45
6.30 (£5)
10.30am (babies only)
3.15/8.15
6.00
Tue 1 The Secret in Their Eyes
24 1 ECA Post Graduate Show
Aug 2 The Refuge
2 Pina Bausch Tribute (D)
3 Gregory’s Girl (GS)
3 Bodies of Work...Scottish Ballet (D)
KEY:
(AD) – Audio Description (see page 2)
(B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2)
(S) – Subtitled (see page 2)
SEASONS:
(BB) – Beyond Borders (pages 16-17)
(BF) – True to Life (page 22)
(D) – DANCE:FILM 10: Fringe (pages 18-19)
(GS) – Great Scots On Tour (page 24)
(LG) – London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival On
Tour (pages 10-11)
(PA) – Projecting the Archive (page 9)
(SM) – Steve McQueen: King of Cool (page 12)
(TV) – Big Screen TV (page 20)
(WW) – Weans’ World (page 23)
Full index of films on page 2
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Beyond Borders
MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN
THE TIME THAT REMAINS
Beyond Borders
Based in Scotland, new not-for-profit company
Beyond Borders Productions Ltd seeks to
promote a greater understanding of small
nation cultures around the world that face
border issues, conflicts and share cross cutting
cultural themes. This film season features some
of the finest feature films and documentaries
from Georgia and Palestine, and a screening of
Mugabe and the White African, a documentary
charting one family’s extraordinary courage in the
face of a relentless campaign of state-sanctioned
terror in Zimbabwe. This screening will, we hope,
be followed by a Q&A with Lucy Bailey and
Andrew Thompson, the directors of the film.
For information on more Beyond Borders
events happening this August go to
www.beyondborders2010.com
TICKETDEALS
Mugabe and the White African
Lucy Bailey & Andrew Thompson • UK 2009 • 1h34m
Digital projection • English and Shona with English subtitles
12A – Contains bloody injury detail
Since 2000, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has
pursued a campaign of aggressive land reform, claiming
land owned by white farmers. Government supporters
have occupied many white-owned farms, with violence
flaring frequently, and a number of white farmers and
their black workers have been killed. Though Mugabe
proposed that the land would be distributed among the
poorer black population, evidence suggests most has
been put in the hands of government officials and cronies.
White farmer Michael Campbell faced intimidation and
aggression, but chose to put up a fight for his land, taking
the unprecedented step of challenging Mugabe before
the South African Development Community’s international
court, charging him and his government with racial
discrimination and of violations of Human Rights. Filmed
covertly in a country where a press ban exists, Mugabe
and the White African provides a valuable, unsettling
insight into the reality of life under Mugabe’s dictatorship,
following Campbell and his family on their brave campaign,
as they fight for the right to live peacefully.
We are hopeful that this screening will be followed by a
Q&A with the film’s directors, Lucy Bailey and Andrew
Thompson.
ALTZANEY
Contemporary Palestinian
Documentaries
1h37m • 12A
Nahed Awwad, an independent filmmaker, lives in Ramallah/
Palestine. She discovered the world of film and media in the
first Intifada, the popular uprising against the Israeli occupation.
She has released eight films, which have been screened at
various international film festivals, including the Cannes Film
Festival in 2008. In The Fourth Room we meet Abu Jameel, the
owner of a small stationery shop in Ramallah, where nothing
has changed since the fifties. The restriction of movement and
recurring military raids have left Abu Jameel with a general sense
of insecurity. Nahed Awwad approaches him gently, asking him
about his dreams, his past, and eventually... his secret rooms. Five
Minutes from Home portrays the Jerusalem airport, now lying
abandoned in an area that has been occupied by Israeli troops
since 1967. As she gathers personal testimonies and memories
of free international travel, Nahed Awwad stakes out a happy,
vibrant past, which contrasts bitterly with a bleak Palestinian
present tense, marked by immobility and growing isolation.
The Time That Remains
Elia Suleiman • UK/Italy/Belgium/France 2009 • 1h49m
35mm • Hebrew, Arabic & English with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong language, once very strong
Cast: Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri, Samar Qudha Tanus, Nati Ravitz.
Elia Suleiman’s sweeping, comic and ultimately heartbreaking
account of sixty years in the life of a Palestinian family.
Beginning in 1948, on the day Nazareth surrendered to the
Israeli army, and continuing through to the most recent Intifada,
the film skilfully interweaves the personal and the political.
Beyond Borders/Festival of Spirituality and Peace
THE OTHER BANK
10 Minutes of Democracy
1h57m • 15
‘10 minutes of Democracy’ was a project established to
provide an opportunity for three Georgian filmmakers to
produce artistic documentaries that would not usually
be commissioned. These films do not show the state of
democracy directly, but rather reflect on it through an
artistic approach. Altzaney shows the power of a woman in
a patriarchal environment. When Clocks Stop looks at how
the sense of time has in Georgia been transformed along with
the political condition of the society. Speechless emphasises
the relationship of the camera and the ‘actor’, the camera
focusing on the details of the actors’ faces and the gravity of
emotions disturbing them in the aftermath of the GeorgianRussian War in 2008. And The Leader is Always Right is shot
in in a summer camp financed by President Saakashvili, and
shows how young Georgians see nationalism, hatred and
obedience.
The Other Bank Gagma Napiri
George Ovashvili • Georgia/Kazakhstan 2009 • 1h30m • Digibeta
Georgian, Abkhazian and Russian with English subtitles • 15
Cast: Tedo Bekhauri, Tamar Meskhi, Archil Tabukashvili.
Georgian director George Ovashvili’s first feature tells a moving
and powerful story of the life of 12-year old Tedo. The civil
war has claimed everything he and his mother ever owned,
including their hopes for a bright future. Tedo is an apprentice
at a car repair shop and gives all his money to his mother to
support her. When he then discovers his mother with a lover at
their home, he decides to return to Abkhazia to find his father
in the hope of finding the solution to all his problems.
AE FOND KISS
Festival of Spirituality
and Peace 7 - 30 August 2010
“The Golden Rule: Can we live by it?”
What would our politics, our economics, our communities
look like if we lived by the Golden Rule: ‘Treat others as
you would like to be treated’ ? To celebrate the Festival’s
10th year we explore this issue through a range of topical
conversation events as well as music, dance, spoken
word, film, art and various opportunities for prayer, quiet
time, meditation and healing. Full programme listing at
www.festivalofspirituality.org.uk or in the Filmhouse foyer.
Ae Fond Kiss
Sat 7 Aug at 1.00pm
Ken Loach • UK/Belgium/Germany/Italy/Spain 2004 • 1h44m
35mm • 15
Cast: Atta Yaqub, Eva Birthistle, Ahmad Riaz, Shamshad Akhtar.
Bad enough that handsome young Casim should fall for
Roisin, one of the teachers at his sister’s school, but they
have other, larger obstacles to overcome if they intend to
settle down – not least, the fact that he’s Asian and Muslim,
while she’s Irish-Catholic, and white. So can true love
overcome the prejudices of their families and communities?
After the screening there will be a question and answer
session with the lead actor Atta Yaqub, in discussion with
Annie George regarding the issues raised in the film.
AE FOND KISS
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LOIE FULLER AND EARLY CINEMA WITH JODY SPERLING
PINA BAUSCH TRIBUTE
Loïe Fuller and Early Cinema with
Jody Sperling
Scotland’s dance film festival returns
for a sneaky wee outing during the
Fringe in 2010 before its main festival
in 2011 with DANCE:FILM 11.
DANCE:FILM 10: Fringe offers you
two live screendance performance
works (taking place at Dance Base),
a lecture about the dance in the
development of early cinema, a series
of quality pre-curated screendance
programmes and a filmic tribute to the
great Pina Bausch who died suddenly
last June.
BODIES OF WORK: FILMS BY SCOTTISH BALLET
Pina Bausch Tribute
Mon 23 Aug at 6.30pm – TICKETS £5
1h59m • PG
1h30m • PG
Pina Bausch
Early modern dancer Loïe Fuller (1862 - 1928) created
a unique art form by crafting mesmerising, multi-media
spectacles out of fabric, motion, coloured lights and
projections. From the 1890s through to the 1920s, she
enraptured audiences and visual artists with her iridescent,
sculptural creations. In a period when movies were coming
into being, the art of Fuller and her many imitators, or
‘serpentine dancers’, captured the essence of motion
pictures. This presentation features a slideshow of dozens
of Fuller images and select video clips from Jody Sperling’s
recreations. Joining Jody will be Calum MacDonald of
Giclee UK who owns some of the original Edison films from
the 1890s featuring Fuller.
Anne Linsel • Germany • 2006 • 43m • Beta SP
German with English subtitles • PG • Documentary
An exhibition of limited fine art prints produced from
the footage will be exhibited in Dance Base from 9 to 21
August.
Anne Linsel’s documentary provides a fascinating insight
into the life and art of German choreographer Pina Bausch,
whose sudden death in June last year was mourned
across the world. Before Pina Bausch and her Tanztheater
Wuppertal became internationally known, her new and
unusual and original body language was ill-received. In this
documentary Pina Bausch talks about the beginnings of the
Tanztheater Wuppertal and the inescapable path she felt
she had to follow.
PLUS
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch:
Sacre du Printemps
Pit Weyrich • Germany • 1976 • 36m • Beta SP
German with English subtitles • PG
Premiered in Wuppertal in 1975, Pina Bausch’s legendary
interpretation of Stravinsky’s ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’ was
brought to the Edinburgh International Festival in 1978 and
has since been seen at numerous venues across the globe.
This film was originally produced for German TV (ZDF).
For more information go to
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Barbara Kaufman from Tanztheater Wuppertal will be at
the screening to take part in a Q&A afterwards.
Screening supported by
FORWARD MOTION: INTROS
FORWARD MOTION: ARTISTS’ CHOICE
WHEN WE MEET AGAIN
Bodies of Work:
Films by Scottish Ballet
Forward Motion – Leading British
Screen Dance
PERFORMANCES
Featuring historic, seminal and ground breaking films,
Forward Motion creates a moving snapshot of Britain’s
prolific screen dance output.
At Dance Base, Venue 22,
14 - 16 Grassmarket, Edinburgh
1h17m • PG
From Edinburgh filmmaker Daniel Warren comes a series of
films presenting three very different sides of Scottish Ballet.
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Public: Private
Daniel Warren • UK • 2004 • 14m • Beta SP • PG
Documentary
Inspired by the work of Edgar Degas, this beautifully
observed short captures members of Scottish Ballet
stretching, chatting, improvising, preparing in the wings.
We are presented with a palpable sense of not just what it
looks like, but what it feels like to inhabit a dancer’s body.
Marionettes
Marionettes was developed from a series of ‘dance for film’
workshops with members of Scottish Ballet. Limor Ziv’s
choreography and its puppet characters Pieretta and Puaro
are based on lyrics written by Hebrew poet Leah Goldberg,
famously put to music by Achinoam Nini.
Mercury
Mercury enters a previously unseen, slowed down world
of motion featuring dancers from Scottish Ballet with
glimpses of the intensive processes and conversations
which lead to the creation of movement.
The Point of Being an Apple
Forward Motion: Intros
Out of Hand/Me & The Machine
Tue 24 Aug – Fri 27 Aug I 6.00pm (45min) I £5
1h5m • 12A
This double bill of performances breaks down the
boundaries of performer, choreographer, and film.
Professor Liz Aggiss introduces the genre of screen dance.
Includes Touched by Wendy Houstoun and David Hinton,
Tra La La by Magali Charrier and the rarely seen gems
Basini by Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie and Sardinas by Lea
Anderson.
Forward Motion: Artists’ Choice
1h20m • 12A
High profile dance makers introduce a film that has
inspired their practice. Includes Akram Khan introducing
Lloyd Newson’s multi-award winning The Cost of Living;
Rosemary Butcher selecting an excerpt of Feature Film
by visual artist Douglas Gordon; and Shobana Jeyasingh
choosing Miranda Pennell’s Tattoo.
Supported by Arts Council England
When We Meet Again
Me & The Machine
Tue 24 Aug – Fri 27 Aug I 1.00pm, 4.00pm, 7.00pm
(10min) | £3
Performed nine times from each start time – when
booking you can pick a specific slot.
When We Meet Again is a wearable film and one-to-one
performance, a bizarre sensuous experience featuring
you, your invisible friend, a 3D soundtrack, an old
forgotten dance, an ocean, a flavour and me.
Supported by The Basement
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Big Screen TV
THIS IS ENGLAND ‘86
Big Screen TV
An exciting new partnership with MediaGuardian
Edinburgh International Television Festival,
bringing you the best new and exclusive UK and
US programmes not yet shown in the UK.
MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television
Festival is the essential annual event for everyone
working in television. Shaping the future of our
industry by debating the key issues of the day,
the Festival opens doors to learn from the best in
the business and build relationships within the TV
community. Engaging, vibrant and fun, MGEITF is
a sociable experience that celebrates success, and
is committed to the development of new talent.
Founded in 1976 and now in its 35th successful
year, the Festival is held annually over the August
bank holiday weekend (27-29 August 2010) at the
Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Featuring prominent industry voices, the Festival is
packed with over 60 individual sessions covering
the most pertinent issues facing the industry from
policy to programme making, alongside plenty of fun
sessions to make sure the weekend is enjoyable and
informative.
For the 2010 programme visit www.mgeitf.co.uk
MGEITF and Filmhouse are grateful to Bravo, Channel 4 and Disney
for permission to screen these programmes ahead of transmission.
MY GENERATION
HAWAII FIVE-0
This is England ‘86
My Generation
Sat 28 Aug at 2.00pm - TICKETS £5.40/£3.50
Shane Meadows & Tom Harper • UK 2010 • 48m • HD-Cam • 15
Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Joseph Gilgun, Vicky McClure, Rosamund
Hanson, Jack O’Connell.
Craig Gillespie • USA 2010 • 45m • Digibeta • 12A
Cast: Julian Morris, Kelli Garner, Daniella Alonso, Jaime King.
The first episode of Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne’s
new TV drama.
1986 – the Mexico World Cup, Top Gun at the cinemas,
The Final Countdown at number one and over 3.4 million
Brits unemployed. A memorable year in the national
psyche – and the year that Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) is
leaving school. Suddenly being young isn’t that easy and
he’s got to find his own way in the world. The gang are
back. Loud and proud, they’re looking for love, a laugh, a
job and something that resembles a future.
This is England ’86 is acclaimed British filmmaker Shane
Meadows’ television debut and the much anticipated
follow up to his BAFTA award-winning film This is England.
Reuniting the original cast, the four-part drama for Channel
4 was co-written by Meadows and Jack Thorne (The
Scouting Book for Boys), directed by Meadows and Tom
Harper (Misfits) and produced by Warp Films.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer and
director Shane Meadows, producer Mark Herbert and
David Abraham, Chief Executive of Channel 4.
As we went to print two more possible
screenings were still to be confirmed
– check www.filmhousecinema.com
for programme updates.
The pilot episode of this brand new mockumentary series.
What a difference ten years can make. In 2000, a camera
crew follows a disparate group of high schoolers from
Greenbelt High School in Austin, TX as they prepare for
graduation, and then revisits these former classmates
ten years later as they return home to rediscover that just
because they’re not where they planned doesn’t mean
they’re not right where they need to be.
My Generation is produced by ABC Studios and licensed
internationally by Disney Media Distribution.
Hawaii Five-0
Sat 28 Aug at 3.30pm - TICKETS £5.40/£3.50
Len Wiseman • USA 2010 • 45m • Digibeta • 12A
Cast: Alex O’Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park.
The pilot eposide of this brand new take on the classic
TV series. An elite branch of the Hawaii State Police is
tasked to wipe out the crime that washes up on the Islands’
sun-drenched beaches. Detective Steve McGarrett (Alex
O’Loughlin), a decorated Naval officer turned cop, returns
to Oahu to investigate his father’s murder and stays after
Hawaii’s governor persuades him to head up the new
team: his rules, her backing, no red tape and full blanket
immunity to hunt down the biggest game in town. With the
support of his team McGarrett is determined to eliminate
the seedy elements from the 50th state.
Premiering exclusively on Bravo
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True to Life/Know Your Mushrooms
IN THE WAKE OF THE FLOOD
SPACE & LIGHT REVISITED
Edinburgh International Book Festival and Filmhouse present
True to Life
Books and film have coexisted for more than a century, with each medium providing a rich vein of inspiration for the other.
Both have found particular success in building biographical accounts of real lives, or real things. In these films, jointly selected
by Filmhouse and the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the written and the filmed biography can be compared side
by side. Murray Grigor and Brian Dillon will be present for the screening of Space & Light Revisited, and novelist Margaret
Atwood joins the Filmhouse audience by live video link for a Q&A following the screening of In the Wake of the Flood.
In the Wake of the Flood
Space & Light Revisited
Ron Mann • Canada/UK 2010 • 47m • HD-Cam • 12A
Murray Grigor • UK 2009 • 20m • Format t.b.c. • PG
Twelve months ago, the internationally acclaimed novelist
Margaret Atwood began a world tour of literary festivals
to launch her new book, ‘The Year of the Flood’. But this
was no ordinary literary tour: the event took the form
of a dramatised reading with hymns, and the opening
performance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
took place in St John’s Church on Princes Street, and
included an appearance by a leopardskin-clad Richard
Holloway. Atwood used the tour as a means of travelling by
‘green’ transport methods, while also raising money for bird
protection charities in the process. The performance was
filmed as part of this documentary, which charts not only
the story of a groundbreaking book tour but the growing
phenomenon of literary festivals around the world.
St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross is Scotland’s neglected
modernist masterpiece. Designed by two graduates of
Glasgow School of Art, Isi Metzstein and Andy MacMillan,
following the inspiration of Le Corbusier, St Peter’s
Seminary was considered without rival in Great Britain
on its completion in 1966. But whether as the result of a
decline in the intake for the priesthood or for other external
reasons, the seminary was closed and abandoned in 1980.
In 1972 filmmaker Murray Grigor celebrated the building
in a near-wordless 20-minute film, with music by Frank
Spedding. In February 2009 he returned to the derelict,
graffiti-ridden site with Oscar-nominated cinematographer
Seamus McGarvey to film an exact shot-for-shot remake.
We present the new film projected simultaneously
alongside the restored original in a remarkable timespanning cinema diptych, with a new recording of the score
by students of RSAMD.
The film receives its European premiere today in the
presence of its producer, Leslie Hills, while Margaret
Atwood joins the audience by live video link from Toronto
for a post-screening discussion with Richard Holloway.
Murray Grigor will discuss his film with Brian Dillon, who
has just completed a novella set in the Seminary.
KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS
SPECIALEVENT
Filmhouse is pleased to present a special screening in
association with the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh,
whose exhibition ‘From Another Kingdom: the Amazing
World of Fungi’ runs from 31 July to 21 November.
Know Your Mushrooms
Ron Mann • USA 2008 • 1h14m • Digibeta • 12A • Documentary
Ron Mann’s absorbing documentary opens a window on
the world of mushrooms, and those who love them. Largely
focusing on the Telluride Mushroom Festival, but also
including some wonderful archive footage as well as original
music by The Flaming Lips, the film explores our age-old
fascination with these strange and beautiful organisms.
PLUS SHORT
Magic Myxies
Mary Field • UK • 1931 • 11m • 35mm • U
This Mary Field short is an early sound-era documentary
about slime moulds. Dismissed by reviewers at the time
for its “inappropriately jolly” commentary, but boasting
beautiful time-lapse footage of the slime moulds going
about their business, Magic Myxies is a delightful rarity.
The Botanics’ original exhibition and events programme
From Another Kingdom explores our relationship with the
world of fungi: from mushroom picking to the rots that
destroy our homes, crops and even our bodies. Ultimately
it aims to show how essential fungi are to maintaining
healthy lives and the health of the
planet. For more information go to
www.rbge.org.uk
Weans’ World/Science and Film/Opera On Screen
NANNY MCPHEE AND THE BIG BANG
SUPERVOLCANO
LA BOHEME
Weans’ World
Science and Film Opera On Screen
Films for a younger audience.
Tickets cost £2.50 per person,
big or small!
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
This month’s screening is also in association with
Café Scientifique, see www.cafescientifique.org for
more information.
Please note: although we normally disapprove
of people talking during screenings, these shows
are primarily for kids, so grown-ups should
expect some noise!
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Sun 15 Aug at 1.00pm &
Mon 16 Aug at 10.30am + 1.00pm
Susanna White • UK/France/USA 2010
1h49m • Digital projection
U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm
Cast: Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ralph Fiennes, Ewan
McGregor, Maggie Smith, Rhys Ifans.
Magical Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried
young mother, Mrs Green, who is trying to run the family
farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s
arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that the Green children
are fighting a war of their own against their spoiled city
cousins, who have just moved in and refuse to leave...
Supervolcano
Tony Mitchell • UK/Germany/Italy/Japan/USA 2005 • 2h
Beta SP • PG
Cast: Michael Riley, Gary Lewis, Shaun Johnston, Adrian Holmes,
Jennifer Copping.
The beauty of America’s Yellowstone National Park masks
one of the rarest and most destructive forces on Earth
– a supervolcano. This two-part BBC factual drama asks:
‘What if Yellowstone erupted?’
This screening will be introduced by Professor John
Underhill, who will participate in a post-film discussion,
revealing the science behind volcanoes, the activity at
Yellowstone and the recent Icelandic eruption. The floor
will be open to questions from the audience at the end of
the presentation.
Magnificent international productions of some
of the world’s favourite operas, filmed live and
digitally projected onto the big screen.
La Bohème Giacomo Puccini
Sun 8 Aug at 8.00pm – TICKETS £15/£10
2009 • 2h12m • Italian with English subtitles • 12A
John Copley’s enduring production of one of the most
famously melodious and popular of all operas is a classic
of the Royal Opera repertory. With historically accurate
designs by Julia Trevelyan Oman and an excellent cast
headed by Hibla Gerzmava and Teodor Ilincai, this 2009
revival, in which conductor Andris Nelsons makes a
distinguished Royal Opera House debut, does full justice to
Puccini’s masterpiece.
Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, London, in
December 2009.
The performance will be preceded by approximately
fifteen minutes of on-screen advertising and there will be
one fifteen-minute interval between acts two and three.
The screening will end at approximately 10.30pm.
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Great Scots On Tour/Creative Identities Showcase
GREGORY’S GIRL
Great Scots
On Tour
Great Scots was one of the strands of
this year’s Glasgow Film Festival. The
Festival attracted record numbers, and
is now touring some of these films to
other parts of the country.
BURNING: MOGWAI
Burning: Mogwai
Thu 26 Aug at 3.15pm + 8.15pm
Creative Identities Showcase
Glasgow-based musicians Mogwai present a black and
white concert film, capturing their unique layered rock
sound. Shot over three nights in Brooklyn, the imagery
of the film is artistic and beautiful; band members are
almost motionless as soft melody inevitably gives in to the
cacophony of distortion and raw emotion the band are
famed for.
1h45m • 12A
PLUS SHORT
Johanna Wagner • UK • 2009 • 10m • Digibeta • 12A • Documentary
Tue 24 Aug at 3.15pm + 6.15pm &
Wed 25 Aug at 8.15pm
Bill Forsyth • UK 1981 • 1h31m • 35mm • 12
Cast: John Gordon Sinclair, Dee Hepburn, Jake D’Arcy, Clare
Grogan, Robert Buchanan.
BAFTA-winning Gregory’s Girl is one of the most beloved
Scottish films ever made. John Gordon Sinclair is the
gangly teenager besotted with the new star player on the
school football team (the gorgeous Dorothy), but fate has
other plans in story for his romantic longings. Writerdirector Bill Forsyth beautifully portrays the awkwardness
and cockeyed optimism of adolescence in a film that
captures school life like no other.
SPECIALEVENT
Vincent Moon & Nat Le Scouarnec • UK • 2009 • 48m •
Digibeta • 15 • Documentary
Peter in Radioland
Gregory’s Girl
CREATIVE IDENTITIES SHOWCASE: MUM’S BIRTHDAY
80-year-old Peter reluctantly exists in the new age of
technology, but finds a welcome retreat in his analogue
environment of long wave radios, vinyl records and
Super 8 memories.
Fri 6 Aug at 6.00pm
Pilton Video and Scottish Screen present a programme of
films from East and Central Scotland, part of the Creative
Identities programme involving a varied portfolio of film,
media, dance and arts projects working with looked after
young people, young carers and young people at risk.
Mum’s Birthday
Written and Directed by Graham Fitzpatrick
Produced by Sarah Drummond
Starring Elek Kish, Chris Robertson, Sharron Devine, Ashleigh Shephard and
Tam Dean Burn.
A poignant drama about a newly single parent father who
must overcome heartbreak to save his relationship with his
son on his wife’s birthday.
Also showing are the short dramas Classified, The Curse,
Drucilla’s Uprising, Gangland and Weet A Bixed, the dance
film documentary Previously Unseen, and music/dance
promos Pictures on Wax and Fixx.
Edinburgh Interactive/Welcome/ECA Post Graduate Show
EDINBURGH INTERACTIVE
Edinburgh
Interactive
Now celebrating its eighth successful year, Edinburgh
Interactive is powered up to showcase the continued
popularity, growth and influence of video games.
Filmhouse has been selected to be the venue for the
increasingly popular public screenings that will take
place from 6pm to 10pm on Wednesday 25 August and
6pm to 10pm on Thursday 26 August. Access to these
sessions is free, but tickets are quickly snapped up by
gamers eager to get an exclusive preview on future
titles for PlayStation, Xbox, PC and mobile gaming.
Public screenings will also include Q&A sessions with
game developers and sessions on how to break into the
games industry. Tickets are available to download for
free from the Edinburgh Interactive website –
www.edinburghinteractive.co.uk.
And this year, the Interactive Festival is more
synchronised with the world famous Edinburgh Festival
than ever, with a unique opportunity to experience the
latest titles in a designated hands-on area in Festival
Square.
For further details and an up to date list of what exciting
games and sessions will be shown during the free
public screenings at Filmhouse on 25 and 26 August
check out www.edinburghinteractive.co.uk/screenings
WELCOME
SPECIALEVENT
The European Parliament Office in Scotland hosts this
special screening of the 2009 European Parliament LUX
Film Prize winner Welcome by the French director Philippe
Lioret. This event has been rescheduled from 16 May
Welcome
Sun 15 Aug at 4.00pm - FREE (see below for details)
Philippe Lioret • France 2009 • 1h49m • Digital projection
French, Kurdish and English with English subtitles
15 – Contains strong language
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Derya Ayverdi.
Set in Calais, France, Welcome tells the tale of a French
swimming instructor who chooses to help out a young
Kurdish refugee who needs to swim across the English
Channel to join his girlfriend.
EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART POST GRADUATE SHOW
SPECIALEVENT
Edinburgh College of Art
Post Graduate Show
1h30m
The best post graduate work from Edinburgh College of
Art’s Film and TV department (Screen Academy Scotland),
these short films range from realism to fantasy, taking
us from the heartaches of Waltzer men in Scotland’s
seaside towns to robotic footballers and a girl who walks
on roofs under moonlit nights. Their fresh talent and new
approaches to filmmaking range from documentary to
fiction and continues the College’s tradition of helping to
foster international filmmaking talent.
Awarding the LUX Prize to Philippe Lioret, European Parliament
President Jerzy Buzek said “The Lux Prize is a young and
forward-looking initiative, and one of which Parliament expects
much. We want the medium of film to spark debate on subjects
that attract public attention in the EU’s Member States, and give
rise to questions that can be of relevance to us all, questions that
are also relevant to this Parliament. This year’s winner meets that
challenge in its own particular way. Philippe Lioret’s Welcome,
takes us into the world of immigrants in Europe and their hopes
for a better future. This is an issue both important and relevant
to society, one to which we cannot remain indifferent.”
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More Than Movies
SUMMER WORKSHOPS
EXHIBITION: ARTS BY OFFENDERS
FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR
Courses, Workshops and Events
Filmhouse Café Bar
Summer Workshops
Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea
and enjoy one of our superb cakes.
Filmhouse is offering a range of great value workshops in the school summer break.
Workshops run from 10.30am - 3.30pm unless otherwise stated and include:
Creating Comedy Sketches (for 9-12 year-olds): 9 August - £16
Puppet Making (for 7-12 year-olds): 10 & 11 August - £35
Comic Book Drawing (for 10-13 year-olds): 12 August - £17
Superstition and Animation (for 7-12 year-olds): 13 August - £17
Mask Making (for 10-14 year-olds): 16 August - £20
Superheroes (for 5-8 year-olds): 17 August - £18
Comic Creations (for 6-9 year-olds): 18 August - £17
Please check the Filmhouse website for more information – www.filmhousecinema.com
Screenwriters Group
19 August, 16 September, 21 October, 18 November, 16 December
‘Screenwriters, EH’ holds free monthly meetings for screenwriters and filmmakers. Meetings are from 7pm
- 10pm, free and open to all.More information can be found at www.scottishscreenwriters.ning.com
Exhibition: Arts by Offenders, Secure Patients and Detainees from Scotland
The Co-operative Koestler Exhibition for Scotland 2010 6 August - 3 September
Arts by Offenders is an exhibition of artwork produced by offenders, patients in secure hospitals, young
people in secure children’s homes and immigration centre detainees in Scotland. This challenging and
thought-provoking collection of paintings, drawings and creative writing, was selected from entries to the
2010 Koestler Awards – a charitable scheme which has been rewarding artistic achievement in the penal and
secure sectors for 48 years. The exhibition has been funded by The Co-operative as part of its wide ranging
community activity in Scotland.
www.koestlertrust.org.uk
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
Film Quiz
Sunday 8 August
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
To have this monthly brochure sent to
you for a year, send £6 (cheques payable
to Filmhouse Ltd) with your name and
address and the month you wish your
subscription to start.
This brochure is also available to
download as a PDF from our website,
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
Gavin Miller
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.
Graham Wallace
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.
David Boyd
Chief Technician
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.
CORPORATEMEMBERS
The Leith Agency
EQSN
Vast Blue
Newhaven
Line Digital Ltd
STAFF
James McKenzie
Company Secretary
Rod White
Head of Programming
Richard Moore
Cinema Operations Manager
Allan MacRaild
Front of House Manager
Robert Howie
Catering 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
FINDINGFILMHOUSE
88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ
Nearest car parks: Morrison Street (next to
the Conference Centre), Castle Terrace
Buses: 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24,
30, 34, 35

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