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The Act of Killing 4 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa 5 Alias Ruby Blade 23 Amour 17 BAFTA Scotland Presents: Small Screen Insights 23 Before Midnight 7 Beware of Mr Baker 21 Beyond Borders Scotland Film Festival 22-23 The Big City 10 Blancanieves 4 Breathe In 9 Caché 16 Call Girl 6 Clash of the Titans 25 Cleopatra 10 Colour Me Kubrick 18 Come and See...

11 The Croods 24 The Crow Road 12 Days of Grace 7 Deliverance 11 Despicable Me 2 24 Dial M for Murder (3D) 9 Education and Learning 26 Filmhouse Cafe Bar & Quiz 25 Filmhouse Membership 28 Filmhouse Player 21 Frances Ha 8 Funny Games U.S. 17 The Gatekeepers 22 The Great Gatsby 9 The Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 24 Heaven’s Gate 11 I Am Breathing 4 Illégal 20 Infiltrators 22 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 9 Iron Man 8 Jason and the Argonauts 25 just festival European LUX Prize Films 20-21

Kalinovski Square 21 Looking for Hortense 5 Michael Haneke: Presented by Drambuie 16-17 Midnight Express 18 Monsters University 24 The Moo Man 8 Much Ado About Nothing 8 Night of Silence 7 Oldboy 11 The Paradise Trilogy 12 Paradise: Faith 12 Paradise: Hope 12 The Piano Teacher 16 Play 6 Plein Soleil 10 R: Hit First, Hit Hardest 21 Ray Harryhausen 25 Scarecrow 11 Shun Li and the Poet 6 The Silence of Lorna 20 Sing Your Song 23 South Africa: The Massacre that Changed... 23 Star Trek Into Darkness 8 The Stoker 21 Stories We Tell 21 This Is Not a Film 23 The Time of the Wolf 16 Vilmos Zsigmond 11 The Wall 5 Weans’ World 24 The White Ribbon 17 Write Shoot Cut 18 Filmhouse email list For screening times, news and competitions, join our email list at www. filmhousecinema.com/email/subscribe Filmhouse mailing list To have this monthly programme sent to you for a year, send £7 (cheques payable to Filmhouse Ltd) with your name and address and the month you wish your subscription to start, or subscribe in person at the box office or by phone on 0131 228 2688.

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This issue, all screenings of Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Much Ado About Nothing and Frances Ha will have audio description, and the following screenings will have subtitles: Much Ado About Nothing: Sun 11 Aug, 1.10pm Frances Ha: Mon 19 Aug, 6.10pm Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa: Tue 27 Aug, 8.50pm FORCRYINGOUTLOUD Screenings for carers and their babies!

Despicable Me 2: Mon 5 Aug at 11am Looking for Hortense: Mon 12 Aug at 11am Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa: Mon 19 Aug at 11am The Big City: Mon 26 Aug at 11am The Great Gatsby [2D]: Mon 2 Sep at 11am Screenings are limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Baby changing, bottle warming and buggy parking facilities are available.

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Introduction

CLEOPATRA

CALL GIRL

ALAN PARTRIDGE: ALPHA PAPA

PLEIN SOLEIL

Overtures, curtains and an intermission...

I’ve spotted something in the programme this month... we’ve got two films on that regularly appear on lists of all-time greatest Box Office flops – Cleopatra (1963) and Heaven’s Gate (1980). It got me thinking, how do these flops compare to today’s, in terms of actual, inflationadjusted loss? A film like Cleopatra, though a major loser on its initial theatrical release, has actually reportedly turned a profit over the 50 years since then, but for the purposes of this we’ll stick to the money made in cinemas. I would have thought that with the ridiculous sums of money thrown at Hollywood action films these days that the fairly recent John Carter would be top of the pile, but perhaps surprisingly, it’s not. Much internet research later, it would appear that there is a consensus on the biggest flop of all time. No, it’s not Hoffman and Beatty’s Ishtar. Or Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen. Or Kevvy Costner’s Waterworld. Or even his The Postman. All titles familiar to those of us who have read such lists before. No, the No.1 top box office flop ever is Renny Harlin’s Geena Davis-starring Cutthroat Island (1995) with a net loss of $145.4m, with the rest of the list made up of the likes of Sahara (2005), The Alamo (2004), and some other films I’ve never heard of, such as The Adventures of Pluto Nash (que?). Heaven’s Gate is a lowly 9th on the list. Let’s see if we can help get it out of the top ten with the screenings we have on here this month...

If you’re not too busy taking in all that Edinburgh’s August Festivals have to offer (and you’d better not be!), we’ve got some great stuff on. As if deliberately tying in with Edinburgh being the comedy capital of the world in August (like we can control national cinema release dates!), we’re well chuffed to be bringing you the Norwich-based radio and erstwhile TV presenter’s debut feature film, the highlyanticipated Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. Back of the net! Call Girl is a perfect widescreen evocation of an era and a gritty slice of Nordic noir, telling the story of the underage prostitution scandal that ripped through the Swedish political classes in the 1970s.

Our Michael Haneke retro concludes, and we’ve a host of awesome restorations this month. Hitchcock’s only film made in 3D, and a glaring omission from our Hitchcock retro of last year, Dial M for Murder, finally hits our cinema one screen – and it looks amazing! Satyajit Ray’s masterpiece Big City (Mahanagar), to celebrate its 50th anniversary, has had the full treatment, as has Plein Soleil, René Clément’s exemplary adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley (she loved the film, apparently, but wasn’t keen on the altered ending!), Elio Petri’s masterful political drama Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, three from cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond (Heaven’s Gate, Deliverance, Scarecrow) and Alan Parker’s Midnight Express (with an ‘in person’ event with the film’s subject, Billy Hayes).

And can I make a special case for Cleopatra? They don’t make films of such epic opulence any more, for sure, and not many places screen ‘em like they used to either, complete with overtures, curtains and an intermission. Marvellous.

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

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New releases

BLANCANIEVES

NEWRELEASE

THE ACT OF KILLING

NEWRELEASE

I AM BREATHING

NEWRELEASE

Blancanieves Snow White

The Act of Killing

I Am Breathing

Screening until Thu 8 Aug

Fri 2 to Wed 7 Aug

Sat 3 to Tue 6 Aug

Pablo Berger • Spain/France 2012 • 1h44m • DCP Spanish with English subtitles • 12A – Contains bullfighting scenes and infrequent moderate sex references Cast: Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina, Pere Ponce, Macarene García.

Joshua Oppenheimer • Denmark/Norway/UK 2012 • 2h2m • DCP Indonesian and English with English subtitles 15 – Contains graphic descriptions of torture and killings and strong sex references • Documentary

Emma Davie & Morag McKinnon • UK/Denmark 2012 • 1h12m DCP • 15 • Documentary

A wildly imaginative reinvention of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow White, brought to life in the style of classic silent cinema, shot in gorgeous monochrome and featuring a stirring flamenco score. The film won 10 Goyas, including Best Film and awards for both lead actresses.

Set in a romanticised 1920s Seville, director Pablo Berger’s beautifully realised melodrama follows Carmen, the daughter of a famous bullfighter, who lives under the tyrannical rule of her monstrous, evil stepmother.

She escapes and joins a troupe of bullfighting dwarves, and, due to her beauty and natural talent in the ring, she becomes a star. But her stepmother, jealous of the attention Carmen is receiving, plots her downfall...

A true cinematic experiment, The Act of Killing explores a chapter of Indonesia’s history in a way bound to stir debate – by enlisting a group of former killers, including Indonesian paramilitary leader Anwar Congo, to re-enact their lives in the style of the films they love.

When the government of President Sukarno was overthrown by the military in 1965, Anwar and his cohorts joined in the mass murder of more than one million alleged communists, ethnic Chinese, and intellectuals. Now, Anwar and his team perform detailed re-enactments of their crimes with pride, holding numerous discussions about sets, costumes, and pyrotechnics. Their fixation on style rather than substance – despite the ghastly nature of the scenes – makes them mesmerising to watch. But as movie violence and real-life violence begin to overlap, Anwar’s pride gradually gives way to regret. And we see a man overwhelmed by the horrific acts he has chosen to share with the world.

After the 5.45pm screening on Tuesday 6 August there will be an open discussion on the issues raised by the film, led by a representative of the Humanist Society of Scotland.

Humanism is an ethical stance which asserts that we can lead good lives guided by compassion and reason, rather than religion or superstition. Humanists are vitally concerned with issues that affect our world.

When Neil Platt is diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease at the age of 33, he makes the unusual decision to document his final months, not just in a blog (which he painstakingly dictates via frustratingly inaccurate speech recognition software) but by inviting a film crew into the home he shares with his tireless wife Louise and toddler son Oscar. The result is a heartbreaking, funny and tender portrayal of incredible fortitude and love.

New releases

ALAN PARTRIDGE: ALPHA PAPA

NEWRELEASE

LOOKING FOR HORTENSE

NEWRELEASE

THE WALL

NEWRELEASE

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

Looking for Hortense Cherchez Hortense The Wall Die Wand

Wed 7 Aug to Thu 5 Sep

Fri 9 to Thu 15 Aug

Mon 12 to Thu 15 Aug

Declan Lowney • UK 2013 • 1h30m (TBC) • DCP • cert tbc Cast: Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sean Pertwee, Nigel Lindsay.

Pascal Bonitzer • France 2012 • 1h40m DCP • French with English subtitles 12A – Contains infrequent strong language Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Kristin Scott Thomas, Isabelle Carré, Marin Orcand Tourrès, Claude Rich.

Julian Pölsler • Austria/Germany 2012 • 1h48m DCP • German with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate injury detail and threat Cast: Martina Gedeck, Karl Heinz Hackl, Ulrike Beimpold, Wolfgang Maria Bauer, Hans-Michael Rehberg.

An elegant, bittersweet comedy, Looking for Hortense tells the story of Damien (Jean-Pierre Bacri), a professor, and his wife Iva (Kristin Scott Thomas), a theatre director.

Their marriage has turned stale and the only thing they share is the care of their son Noé, a precocious child going through a pre-teen crisis. Damien also has a dysfunctional relationship with his father (Claude Rich), a high-ranking judge. When Iva asks Damien to speak to his father on behalf of Zorica (Isabelle Carré), a woman facing deportation, Damien is reluctant to ask for help for someone he doesn’t even know. But then he meets her...

Rarely does cinema use the most powerful tools at its disposal – especially its ability to conjure up unique visual worlds and make them real via an articulate script and a spectacular performance – with the authority on display in Julian Pölsler’s dystopian drama. Set in the Austrian Alps and stunningly shot to take full advantage of the locations, Pölsler’s film imagines a post-apocalyptic universe in which a lone woman (Martina Gedeck, The Lives of Others) is confined to a solitary Alpine existence by a bizarre, semi-invisible wall separating her from the (possibly uninhabited) outside world. Caught in this existential trap, she endures, relating her story via insightful and deeply unsettling narration.

Alan Partridge has had many ups and downs in his life.

National television broadcaster. Responsible for killing a guest on live TV. Local radio broadcaster. A nervous breakdown in Dundee. His self-published book, ‘Bouncing Back’, subsequently remaindered and pulped. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa portrays the events of the greatest low-to-high-ebb spectrum in his life to date – specifically how he tries to salvage his public career while negotiating a potentially violent turn of events at North Norfolk Digital Radio.

Matinee Special!

If you’re a Senior Citizen you can go to a matinee screening and get either soup of the day OR a cup of tea or coffee and a traycake for only £7!

Offer runs from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and only applies to screenings starting before 5.00pm. Ask for the Matinee Special deal 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.

The Wall is a riveting experience for many reasons, but most obviously for Gedeck’s outstanding performance in a role both physically and psychically demanding. Her voice heard almost exclusively in voiceover, Gedeck has to convey her character’s daily emotional and material challenges without recourse to speech. She does so brilliantly and her muscular performance ranks as one of the best of the year.

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New releases

CALL GIRL

SHUN LI AND THE POET

NEWRELEASE

PLAY

NEWRELEASE

NEWRELEASE

Call Girl

Shun Li and the Poet Io sono Li

Play

Fri 16 to Thu 29 Aug

Fri 16 to Sun 18 Aug

Fri 23 to Sun 25 Aug

Mikael Marcimain • Sweden/Norway/Finland/Ireland 2012 2h20m • DCP • Swedish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Ruth Vega Fernandez, David Dencik, Pernilla August, Sofia Karemyr, Simon J Berger.

Andrea Segre • Italy/France 2011 • 1h38m • DCP Italian and Mandarin with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language and sex references Cast: Tao Zhao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini, Roberto Citran, Giuseppe Battiston.

Ruben Östlund • Sweden/Denmark/Finland 2011 • 1h58m DCP • Swedish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, once very strong Cast: Kevin Vaz, Johan Jonason, Anas Abdirahman, Yannick Diakité, Sebastian Blyckert.

Many recent European films have chronicled the social and personal consequences of the recent wave of immigration to Europe, but few with the delicacy and insight of Andrea Segre’s touching drama.

Writer and director Ruben Östlund explores issues of race and class in contemporary Sweden in this provocative drama inspired by a true story.

The explosive story of underage prostitution amongst the Swedish elite in the 1970s.

Iris and Sonja are two young friends in a care home who like to smoke, drink and party. Eventually becoming exploited by a notorious brothel madam who supplies girls to the highest realms of the government, the girls are at the core of a sex scandal investigation that could rip Swedish politics apart.

Based on real allegations and events, Call Girl is as controversial as it is unsettling.

Brought to Italy from China by a ‘broker’ who she’s slowly paying off while saving money to bring over her son, Shun Li is sent from her factory job to a bar in Chioggia, a small town in the Veneto lagoon. She develops a warm but platonic friendship with Bepi, a retired fisherman, but both her employers and his circle of fisherman friends regard their relationship with sordid suspicion, and there are potentially dire consequences for Li. Also available on Filmhouse Player – see page 21 or go to www.filmhousecinema.com/player for more information.

Over the course of a tense afternoon in central Gothenburg, five African immigrant boys toy with three well-heeled teens. Eventually things get out of hand and the boys’ more subtle and sadistic purpose is revealed – a complex ‘game’ of intimidation that takes advantage of white liberal guilt and political correctness.

New releases/Maybe you missed

NIGHT OF SILENCE

NEWRELEASE

DAYS OF GRACE

NEWRELEASE

BEFORE MIDNIGHT

MAYBEYOUMISSED

Night of Silence Lal gece

Days of Grace Días de gracia

Before Midnight

Tue 27 to Thu 29 Aug

Tue 3 to Thu 5 Sep

Fri 2 to Thu 8 Aug

Reis Çelik • Turkey 2012 • 1h32m DCP • Turkish with English subtitles PG – Contains mild references to sexual behaviour Cast: Ilyas Salman, Dilan Aksüt, Mayseker Yucel, Sabri Tutal.

Everardo Valerio Gout • Mexico/France 2011 • 2h13m • DCP Spanish with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong language, violence, threat and brief sexualised nudity Cast: Paulina Gaitan, Carlos Bardem, Dolores Heredia, Miguel Rodarte, Mario Zaragoza.

Richard Linklater • USA 2013 • 1h48m DCP • English and Greek with English subtitles 15 – Contains very strong language, strong sex and sex references Cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Prior, Charlotte Prior.

In a remote Turkish village, an ancient blood feud between two families has finally been put to rest, and a marriage arranged to seal the union; a man just released from a life behind bars has been pledged to a teenage girl he has never met. It is their wedding night, and tradition demands their stained bedsheets be displayed by morning’s light – but, fearful of their consummation, the bride distracts her broken husband with tales, like a modern-day Scheherazade, rounding out the hours as dawn draws ever nearer.

Written and edited by director Reis Çelik, this lyrical, compelling film trains an unhurried lens on its characters, trapped in a claustrophobic bridal chamber that neither chose. Sensitively shot and surprisingly intimate, this is a nuanced two-hander, driven by stellar performances.

Furiously paced, violent, and shot in a vivid, hallucinogenic style, this thriller weaves together three kidnappings that occur in Mexico City during successive World Cup seasons in 2002, 2006, and 2010. The multilayered story is told from the points of view of several protagonists – a tough cop with principles, a hostage, a teenage kidnapper, and the wife of a hostage – and features a pumping soundtrack by Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Atticus Ross, Shigeru Umebayashi and Massive Attack.

They’re still the same romantic, articulate and gorgeous couple that met on a train in Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise in 1995, but now, nearly 20 years on, Jesse and Céline (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) are approaching middle age and facing questions of commitment, family and, as ever, the staying power of love. Before Midnight, with a funny and touching screenplay co-written by Linklater and his two lead actors, is that rare sequel (rarer still: a sequel to a sequel) that not only delivers the charm and energy of its antecedents but adds layers of poignancy, standing firmly on its own as a mature observation of love’s pleasures and discontents.

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Maybe you missed

FRANCES HA

STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS

MAYBEYOUMISSED

MAYBEYOUMISSED

THE MOO MAN

MAYBEYOUMISSED

Much Ado About Nothing

Star Trek Into Darkness (2D + 3D)

The Moo Man

Fri 9 to Sun 11 Aug

Fri 30 & Sat 31 Aug

Fri 30 Aug to Mon 2 Sep

Joss Whedon • USA 2012 • 1h48m • DCP 12A – Contains moderate sex and implied drug use Cast: Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Reed Diamond, Nathan Fillion, Jillian Morgese.

JJ Abrams • USA 2013 • 2h12m • DCP 12A – Contains moderate violence and threat Cast: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg.

Andy Heathcote • UK 2013 • 1h38m • DCP U – Contains scenes of animal birth and very mild language Documentary

Shot in 12 days at Joss Whedon’s house on a break between the shooting and editing of his superhero behemoth The Avengers, this DIY, black-and-white riff on Shakespeare’s comedy is an utter delight. Whedon updates the setting to contemporary times but leaves the Bard’s language gloriously intact, infusing the play with a subtly enchanting air of fantasy. The story will be familiar to most, but suffice to say that lovers unite, the scorned scheme, and everyone is witty as can be.

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organisation has destroyed the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction.

Iron Man 3 (2D + 3D) Fri 30 & Sat 31 Aug

Frances Ha Fri 16 to Tue 20 Aug Noah Baumbach • USA 2012 • 1h26m • DCP 15 – Contains strong language and sex references Cast: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver.

In this deft comedy, Greta Gerwig gives a breakout performance as Frances, a 27-year-old dancer who, struggling to stay afloat after her roommate leaves their Brooklyn apartment, must try to find a place for herself, both literally and metaphorically. How long can Frances linger in the fun but awkward transition between a student lifestyle and adult responsibilities? A fast-paced homage to the French New Wave, a love poem to New York City, and a delightful personal portrait.

Shane Black • USA/China 2013 • 2h10m • DCP 12A – Contains moderate violence, threat and language Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Don Cheadle.

Marvel’s Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds, the formidable terrorist known as the Mandarin. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. As he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?

Dairy farmer Stephen Hook is determined that his small farm will not follow the way of so many others: scaled up or gone bust. His solution is to go niche, by selling his organic, raw milk direct or at farmers’ markets.

Filmed over several years on Hook’s farm in southern England, this charming documentary is partly a story about food sustainability, partly about the daily rhythm of farm life and, in particular, the fascinating bond between one farmer and his herd of 50 (named) cows.

Heartwarming, hilarious and occasionally traumatic, The Moo Man will have you rooting for the success of Hook and all like him.

Maybe you missed/Restored classics

THE GREAT GATSBY

MAYBEYOUMISSED

DIAL M FOR MURDER

RESTOREDCLASSIC

The Great Gatsby (2D + 3D)

Dial M for Murder (3D)

Mon 2 to Wed 4 Sep

Fri 2 to Tue 6 Aug

Baz Luhrmann • Australia/USA 2013 • 2h23m • DCP 12A – Contains moderate sex, violence and bloody images Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton , Isla Fisher.

Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1954 • 1h45m • DCP PG – Contains one scene of moderate violence Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams.

The Great Gatsby follows would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy (Carey Mulligan), and her philandering, blue-blooded husband, Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton).

Breathe In Mon 2 to Thu 5 Sep Drake Doremus • USA 2013 • 1h37m • DCP 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Amy Ryan, Mackenzie Davis.

Keith (Guy Pearce), a high-school music teacher and family man in Westchester County, New York, still nurtures his dream of a life devoted to music. His bohemian ideals and his impatience with his current bourgeois situation are inflamed by the sudden arrival of Sophie (Felicity Jones), an exchange student from the UK, whose personal maturity and exceptional talent as a pianist set her apart from her classmates and drive her and Keith closer and closer together. A visually eloquent and emotionally powerful portrait of life roles and relationships at breaking point.

At last we’re able to bring you the startling omisson from last year’s Alfred Hitchcock retrospective! Originally shot in 3D and newly remastered and restored, Hitchcock’s screen version of Frederick Knott’s stage hit is a tasty blend of elegance and suspense, casting Grace Kelly, Ray Milland and Robert Cummings as the points of a romantic triangle. Margot (Kelly) is in love with Mark (Cummings); her husband Tony (Milland) plots her murder. But when he dials a Mayfair exchange to set the plot in motion, his right number gets the wrong answer...

INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION

RESTOREDCLASSIC

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto Tue 13 to Thu 15 Aug Elio Petri • Italy 1970 • 1h52m • DCP Italian with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando, Sergio Tramonti.

Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Elio Petri’s masterful political drama is screening in a new digital restoration.

Gian Maria Volonté is on chilling form as a police chief who murders his mistress and quietly waits and watches as his colleagues try to solve the killing. He even provides them with clues that might lead to his own arrest, in a Kafkaesque drama on the way power corrupts and inspires only hypocrisy and contempt among those who wield it. There are clear echoes of the country’s fascist past in a gripping tale made all the more memorable by one of Ennio Morricone’s best scores. A film that is ripe for rediscovery.

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Restored classics

THE BIG CITY

PLEIN SOLEIL

RESTOREDCLASSIC

RESTOREDCLASSIC

CLEOPATRA

RESTOREDCLASSIC

The Big City Mahanagar

Plein Soleil

Cleopatra

Mon 26 to Thu 29 Aug

Fri 30 Aug to Thu 5 Sep

Sun 1 Sep at 1.00pm

Satyajit Ray • India 1963 • 2h15m • DCP English and Bengali with English subtitles PG – Contains mild sex references Cast: Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri, Haren Chatterjee, Sefalika Devi.

René Clément • France/Italy 1960 • 1h59m DCP • French, Italian and English with English subtitles PG – Contains mild violence Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore.

A woman’s place is with her cooking pots: that is the firmly articulated belief of Subrata Mazumdar, a young bank clerk struggling to support his entire extended family on a meagre salary, and he is duly horrified when his wife Arati (a ravishing, spirited performance from Madhabi Mukherjee) offers to help by going out to work as a ‘salesgirl’.

René Clément got hold of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley decades before Anthony Minghella.

In his third film appearance, sleek and beautiful 24year-old Alain Delon exudes icy charm as Tom Ripley, commissioned by a San Francisco industrialist to travel to Europe, find his prodigal son and bring him home. Ripley tracks down Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) in the Italian port town of Mongibello, near Naples. He instantly takes to the glorious sun-soaked Mediterranean life, and instead of convincing Greenleaf to return home, befriends him and settles in to stay, putting off the father’s requests for updates. The friendship takes a chilling turn, however, when the father cuts off Ripley’s funds and Ripley decides he has to maintain his new lifestyle at any cost.

Joseph L Mankiewicz • UK/USA/Switzerland 1963 4h31m (including a 20-minute intermission) • DCP PG – Contains mild violence, sex references, language and grisly images Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole.

Satyajit Ray’s wonderfully enjoyable portrait of mid50s Calcutta, a society still adjusting to Independence, displays warmth, wit and genuine insight into its large, multi-generational cast of characters, including Arati’s conservative old father-in-law, her studious teenage sisterin-law, and her benevolently despotic boss.

For this new restoration of The Big City, undertaken in India, the original negative was scanned at a high resolution (2K), enabling the film’s epic scale and intimate detail – from the portrayal of bustling urban life to the exquisite play of emotions on Arati’s face – to emerge in greater beauty and clarity. Now re-released by the BFI to mark its fiftieth anniversary, The Big City, with its emphasis on conflicting social values – and most particularly on the role of women – feels as fresh and relevant as ever.

In capturing the Ripley of Highsmith’s novel, Delon gives a spine-tingling performance, one that is underscored by Nino Rota’s sparkling and eerie soundtrack. And Clément slowly builds the tension to an almost unbearable level.

In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word – an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox down the Nile along with Cleopatra’s barge. Handsomely mounted by Joseph L Mankiewicz (who replaced Rouben Mamoulian as director after six days of shooting), the drama follows the eighteen tumultuous years that led to the founding of the Roman Empire.

Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) meets up with Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison), and plans to lure him to her boudoir in order to forge an alliance with Rome so that she may hold on to her Egyptian empire. When Caesar is stabbed to death in the Roman Senate, Cleopatra is left without an ally, and Egypt is up for grabs, so when Roman general Mark Antony (Richard Burton) comes along, she seduces him in the hope that he will become her new protector.

Featuring incredibly opulent set and costume design and Taylor and Burton perfectly cast as the doomed lovers, this is a must-see on the big screen!

Screening in a new restoration, and including a 20minute intermission.

Vilmos Zsigmond/Come and See... Oldboy

HEAVEN’S GATE

Vilmos Zsigmond New restorations of three films shot by Oscarwinning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, born in Hungary in 1930 and still working in Hollywood at the age of 83.

Heaven’s Gate Fri 30 Aug to Sun 1 Sep Michael Cimino • USA 1980 • 3h36m • DCP • 15 Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert.

Michael Cimino’s follow-up to The Deer Hunter divided critics and the public alike on its initial release, when it was shown in a shorter, 148-minute cut. Cimino’s story of a lawyer (Kris Kristofferson) and his attempts to help immigrants out West in their struggle with a brutal cattle owners’ association has been digitally restored to its full Director’s Cut length (216 minutes) and is back where it belongs, on the big screen. Over the last decade the film has been broadly reassessed; filmmaker Mark Cousins has written that the film is “America photographed like a 19th century painting,” while many other critics cite it as one of the key American films of its period.

TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off This offer is available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

SCARECROW

Deliverance Tue 3 Sep only John Boorman • USA 1972 • 1h50m • DCP • 18 Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox.

In the unfamiliar Appalachian backwoods, a weekend of male bonding for four inexperienced campers turns into a gut-wrenching fight for survival against the merciless forces of nature and the brutality of man. Their only escape is a terrifying canoe ride down the raging rapids of the Chattooga River. If their heartless pursuers don’t kill them, the treacherous waters just might.

Scarecrow Thu 5 Sep only Jerry Schatzberg • USA 1973 • 1h52m • DCP • 18 Cast: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Lynch.

This poignant, rambling road movie won of the Palme d’Or at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.

Max (Gene Hackman), just out of jail, and Lion (Al Pacino), an ex-sailor, meet on a remote California road. They’re both hitchhiking, trying to make their way east, Max with dreams of opening a car wash in Pittsburgh, Lion hoping to reconcile with the wife and child he left behind. The two decide to travel together, and embark on a tentative though increasingly deep friendship.

“A masterpiece of the American new wave, a rangy, freewheeling tragicomedy in which Hackman and Pacino give effortlessly charismatic performances.” - The Guardian

OLDBOY

Come and See...

A monthly one-off screening of a great film we simply thought you might like to see, again or for the first time, on the big screen.

Oldboy Oldeuboi Wed 14 Aug at 8.15pm Park Chan-wook • South Korea 2003 • 2h • 35mm Korean with English subtitles 18 – Contains frequent strong violence Cast: Choi Min-sik, Yu Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, Ji Dae-han, Oh Dal-su.

Womanising businessman Oh is returning home one night to his wife and baby daughter when he’s drugged and kidnapped. He wakes to find himself locked up in a prison cell, with a small television his only link to the outside world and with no idea of what his crime was or whom his jailers may be. As if this wasn’t bad enough, his wife, he learns, has been killed – and he’s been framed, in absentia, for the murder. Eventually, after fifteen years have passed, he’s released, as abruptly as he was taken, and thrown back into the world – but can he discover the identity of his kidnappers, and gain revenge? Bloody, brutal and brilliant, this is a nightmare made flesh.

In advance of Spike Lee’s remake, due to be released in December, a wee reminder of how good the original is...

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The Paradise Trilogy/The Crow Road

PARADISE: FAITH

PARADISE: HOPE

The Paradise Trilogy Austrian iconoclast Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy is an epic thematic tapestry telling the story of three women, whose stories delicately cross over between films, each finding themselves at a turning point in their lives while on a journey to find happiness. Paradise: Love, the first part of the trilogy, screened in July.

THE CROW ROAD

SPECIALEVENT A special screening celebrating the work of author Iain [M] Banks, part of a short season produced

by Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust in partnership with Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh City Libraries, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Illicit Ink, Society of Young Publishers Scotland, Filmhouse and the Scottish Poetry Library.

Paradise: Faith Paradies: Glaube

Paradise: Hope Paradies: Hoffnung

Fri 9 to Sun 11 Aug at 3.30pm + 8.45pm

Fri 23 to Sun 25 Aug at 3.30pm + 8.45pm

Ulrich Seidl • Austria/Germany/France 2012 • 1h53m DCP • German and Arabic with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, Natalya Baranova, Rene Rupnik, Daniel Hoesl.

Ulrich Seidl • Austria/France/Germany 2013 • 1h40m DCP • German with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz, Michael Thomas, Viviane Bartsch.

The second film of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy follows Anna Maria (Maria Hofstatter, one of the director’s frequent collaborators), the fanatically religious self-flagellating sister of the main character from Paradise: Love, who decides to spend her vacation time doing missionary work in the suburbs of Vienna. With a foot-high statue of the Virgin Mary in tow, she travels through immigrant communities imposing her beliefs on those she meets. Her work is interrupted by the surprise return of her husband Nabil (Nabil Saleh), an Egyptian Muslim who has been absent for two years and is now confined to a wheelchair.

He is shocked by the change in his wife, and the two soon engage in an abrasive theological face-off.

Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy concludes as it began, with divorced mother Teresa sending her daughter Melanie off to weight loss camp, but this final chapter has a lighter touch and a surprising sweetness. A chubby 13-year-old, Melanie (Melanie Lenz) is not at all excited about this drab, industrialised campground in the middle of the woods where dieticians and fitness coaches impose a boot-camp style regimen. That is, until she meets Verena (Verena Lehbauer), a ribald cabin mate who loves to share tales of her extensive sexual experience, and even sneaks Melanie into town for a spirited night of drinking and dancing.

The Crow Road

While Paradise: Hope contains all the hallmarks of Seidl’s distinctive and provocative style, here he fills the story with a sensitive openness, with Melanie as a particularly poignant heroine, that provides an unexpected and refreshing finale to the series, ending on a true note of hope.

Tickets £10/£8, with all profits going to Cancer Research UK.

With Paradise: Faith, Seidl gleefully examines the hypocrisies of religious zealotry through expressive confrontation, satire, and a shockingly explicit chance encounter. But the film also shows tenderness, as the relationship between husband and wife, fractured as it may have become, is their true saving grace.

Go to www.cityofliterature.com for more information.

Sun 18 Aug at 1.00pm 4h30m • 15

This 1996 BBC adaptation of Iain Banks’ acclaimed and darkly comic novel won the approval of Banks himself.

Prentice McHoan, a young history student, begins to suspect that his family has secrets. Starring Joe McFadden, Bill Paterson and Peter Capaldi.

Screening in two parts, each of two hours, with a 30minute break in between.

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Shun Li and the Poet

Stories We Tell

The Stoker

Rent-a-Cat

A Late Quartet

Beware of Mr. Baker

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

2 August - 5 September 2013

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Fri 1 Dial M for Murder [3D] 2 1 Before Midnight Aug 2 Despicable Me 2 (WW) 2 Blancanieves 3 Before Midnight 3 The Act of Killing

1.00/8.40 3.30/6.00 1.20 3.40/6.10/8.30 1.10/8.50 3.35/6.15

Fri 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 9 2 Much Ado About Nothing (AD) Aug 2 Paradise: Faith (P) 3 Looking for Hortense 3 The Time of the Wolf (MH)

1.00/3.15/6.00/8.30 1.10/6.15 3.30/8.45 1.30/3.45/6.10 8.45

Sat 1 Jason and the Argonauts (RH) 3 1 Dial M for Murder [3D] Aug 1 Before Midnight 2 Despicable Me 2 (WW) 2 Blancanieves 2 Before Midnight 3 Before Midnight 3 The Act of Killing 3 I Am Breathing 3 Blancanieves

1.00 3.30/8.40 6.00 1.20 3.40/6.10 8.30 1.10 3.35 6.15 8.00

Sat 1 Clash of the Titans (RH) 10 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) Aug 2 Much Ado About Nothing (AD) 2 Paradise: Faith (P) 3 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Looking for Hortense

1.00 3.40/6.00/8.30 1.10/6.15 3.30/8.45 1.30 3.45/6.10/8.35

Sun 1 The Crow Road 18 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) Aug 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 2 Call Girl 2 Frances Ha (AD) 3 Shun Li and the Poet 3 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Funny Games U.S. (MH)

1.00 (£10/£8) 6.00/8.30 1.10 3.15/6.10 9.00 1.15/5.45 3.30 8.45

1.00/6.00 3.30 8.20 1.10 3.20/8.40 5.45 + discussion 1.00 3.00 5.30 8.30

1.00/6.00/8.30 3.30 1.10 (subtitled) 3.30/8.45 6.15 1.30/6.10 3.45 8.40

11am (babies + carers) 2.15/6.00/8.30 3.00/8.20 6.10 (subtitled) 3.30/8.45 6.00

Sun 1 Dial M for Murder [3D] 4 1 Jason and the Argonauts (RH) Aug 1 Before Midnight 2 Despicable Me 2 (WW) 2 Blancanieves 2 The Silence of Lorna (JF) 3 I Am Breathing 3 Before Midnight 3 The Act of Killing 3 The Piano Teacher (MH)

Sun 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 11 1 Clash of the Titans (RH) Aug 2 Much Ado About... (AD) + (S) 2 Paradise: Faith (P) 2 Much Ado About Nothing (AD) 3 Looking for Hortense 3 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Caché (MH)

Mon 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (B) 19 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) Aug 2 Call Girl 2 Frances Ha (AD) + (S) 3 Frances Ha (AD) 3 Funny Games U.S. (MH)

Mon 1 Looking for Hortense (B) 12 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) Aug 2 The Wall 2 Colour Me Kubrick 3 Looking for Hortense 3 Caché (MH)

11am (babies + carers) 2.30/6.00/8.30 3.30/6.10 9.00 + Q&A 3.15/8.45 5.50

Tue 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 20 2 Call Girl Aug 2 Frances Ha (AD) 3 Frances Ha (AD) 3 The Gatekeepers (BB) 3 Infiltrators (BB)

2.15/6.00/8.30 3.00/6.10 9.00 3.30 6.30 8.45

Mon 1 Despicable Me 2 (B) 5 1 Dial M for Murder [3D] Aug 1 Before Midnight 2 Despicable Me 2 (WW) 2 Blancanieves 2 I Am Breathing 3 The Act of Killing 3 The Piano Teacher (MH)

11am (babies + carers) 2.30/6.00 8.30 1.20 3.30/8.15 6.30 3.15/8.25 5.45

Tue 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 13 2 The Wall Aug 3 Investigation of a Citizen...

3 Looking for Hortense

2.30/6.00/8.30 3.30/6.10/8.40 3.15/6.15 8.45

Wed 1 Midnight Express 21 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) Aug 2 Call Girl 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Sing Your Song (BB) 3 South Africa: The Massacre... (BB)

2.15/8.00 + Q&A 5.45 3.00/6.10 9.00 3.30 6.30 8.45

Tue 1 Dial M for Murder [3D] 6 1 Before Midnight Aug 2 The Croods (WW) 2 Blancanieves 2 The Act of Killing 2 I Am Breathing 3 The Act of Killing 3 Blancanieves 3 Before Midnight

2.30/8.40 6.00 1.20 3.30 5.45 + discussion 9.00 3.15 6.15 8.50

Wed 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 14 1 Oldboy Aug 2 The Wall 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Investigation of a Citizen...

3 Looking for Hortense

2.30/6.00 8.15 3.30/6.10 8.30 3.15/8.45 6.15

Thu 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 22 1 Call Girl Aug 2 Call Girl 2 Kalinovski Square (JF) 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 This Is Not a Film (BB) 3 Alias Ruby Blade (BB)

6.00 8.20 3.00 6.00 + discussion 8.30 3.30 6.30 8.45

Thu 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 15 2 The Wall Aug 2 R: Hit First, Hit Hardest (JF) 3 Looking for Hortense 3 Investigation of a Citizen...

2.30/6.00/8.30 3.30/8.40 6.00 + discussion 3.15/6.15 8.45

Fri 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 23 2 Play Aug 2 Paradise: Hope (P) 3 Call Girl 3 Play

3.45/6.00/8.30 1.00/6.10 3.30/8.45 2.30/5.45 8.40

Wed 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 7 2 The Croods (WW) Aug 2 Blancanieves 3 Before Midnight 3 The Act of Killing

2.30/6.00/8.30 1.20 3.30/6.10 3.15/8.50 6.15

Fri 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 16 2 Frances Ha (AD) Aug 2 Call Girl 3 Shun Li and the Poet 3 Frances Ha (AD)

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.10/6.10 3.15/8.20 1.15/5.45 3.45/8.15

2.30/6.15/8.30 1.20 3.30/8.50 6.00 + discussion 3.15/8.40 6.00

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.10/6.10 3.15/8.20 1.15/5.45 3.45/8.15

1.00 3.45/6.00/8.30 10.30am (£4/£3) 1.00/6.10 3.30/8.45 2.30/5.45 8.40

Thu 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 8 2 The Croods (WW) Aug 2 Before Midnight 2 Illégal (JF) 3 Blancanieves 3 The Time of the Wolf (MH)

Sat 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 17 2 Frances Ha (AD) Aug 2 Call Girl 3 Shun Li and the Poet 3 Frances Ha (AD)

Sat 1 Monsters University (WW) 24 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) Aug 2 BAFTA Scotland: Small Screen...

2 Play 2 Paradise: Hope (P) 3 Call Girl 3 Play Sun 1 Monsters University (WW) 25 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) Aug 2 Play 2 Paradise: Hope (P) 3 Call Girl 3 The White Ribbon (MH)

11.00am 1.30/3.45/6.00/8.30 1.00/6.10 3.30/8.45 2.15/5.15 8.15

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2 August - 5 September 2013

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

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Mon 1 The Big City (B) 26 1 Call Girl Aug 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 2 The Big City 2 Write Shoot Cut 3 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 The White Ribbon (MH)

11am (babies + carers) 2.30/8.15 6.00 3.15/8.25 6.10 (£6/£5) 3.30/8.50 5.45 2.30 6.15 8.25 3.15/6.00 8.50 (subtitled) 3.30 5.50 8.45

11am (babies + carers) 2.30 6.00 8.15 3.30/8.30 5.50 3.15/8.25 6.10

TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION

Tue 1 Call Girl 27 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) Aug 1 The Big City 2 The Big City 2 Alan Partridge... (AD) + (S) 3 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Call Girl 3 Night of Silence

Mon 1 The Great Gatsby (B) 2 1 The Great Gatsby [3D] Sep 1 Breathe In 1 The Great Gatsby 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 2 Amour (MH) 3 Plein Soleil 3 The Moo Man Tue 1 Deliverance (VZ) 3 1 The Great Gatsby [3D] Sep 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 2 Days of Grace 3 Days of Grace 3 Breathe In 3 Plein Soleil

2.30/8.45 5.45 3.30/8.50 6.00 3.15 6.10 8.25

Wed 1 Call Girl 28 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) Aug 2 Night of Silence 2 The Big City 3 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Call Girl 3 Night of Silence

2.30 6.15/8.30 3.15/6.00 8.25 3.30 5.50 8.45

Thu 1 Call Girl 29 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) Aug 1 The Big City 2 Night of Silence 2 The Big City 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Night of Silence 3 Call Girl

2.30 6.15 8.25 3.15 6.00 8.50 3.30 6.10 8.15

Wed 1 The Great Gatsby 4 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) Sep 1 Plein Soleil 2 Breathe In 2 Days of Grace 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Days of Grace 3 Breathe In

2.30 6.00 8.15 3.30 5.45 8.50 3.15/8.25 6.10

Thu 1 Scarecrow (VZ) 5 1 Plein Soleil Sep 2 Breathe In 2 Days of Grace 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 Days of Grace 3 Breathe In

2.30/8.40 6.00 3.30 5.45 8.50 3.15/8.25 6.10

Fri 1 Heaven’s Gate (VZ) 30 1 Star Trek Into Darkness Aug 1 Iron Man 3 [3D] 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 The Moo Man 3 Plein Soleil

1.00 5.45 8.40 1.15/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.10/6.10 3.25/8.25

Sat 1 Heaven’s Gate (VZ) 31 1 Iron Man 3 Aug 1 Star Trek Into Darkness [3D] 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 3 The Moo Man 3 Plein Soleil

1.00 5.45 8.40 1.15/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.10/6.10 3.25/8.25

Sun 1 Cleopatra 1 1 Plein Soleil Sep 1 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 2 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (AD) 2 Heaven’s Gate (VZ) 3 The Moo Man 3 Plein Soleil 3 Amour (MH)

1.00 6.15 8.45 2.30/4.45 7.00 1.10/6.10 3.25 8.30

KEY (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2) (S) – Subtitled (see page 2) All screenings in 2D unless marked [3D] SEASONS: (BB) – Beyond Borders Scotland Film Festival (pages 22-23) (JF) – just festival European LUX Prize Films (pages 20-21) (MH) – Michael Haneke: Presented by Drambuie (pages 16-17) (P) – The Paradise Trilogy (page 12) (RH) – Ray Harryhausen (page 25) (VZ) – Vilmos Zsigmond (page 11) (WW) – Weans’ World (page 24)

SCREENING TIMES

MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thu: £6.50 full price, £4.50 concessions Friday Matinees: £5.00/£3.50 concessions Sat - Sun: £8.20 full price, £6.00 concessions EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later) £8.20 full price, £6.00 concessions All tickets to Weans’ World screenings (marked WW on grid) are £3.50. Tickets for children under 12 are £3.50 for any screening.

For screenings in 3D add £2 to ticket price.

Filmhouse Members get £1.50 off every ticket (excludes Friday matinees and Weans’ World) Concessions available for: children (under 15); students (with valid matriculation card); school pupils (15-18 years); Young Scot cardholders; senior citizens; people with disability or invalidity status (carers go free); claimants (Jobseekers Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit); NHS employees (with proof of employment).

We participate in the Orange Wednesdays 2 for 1 scheme.

There are usually ticket deals available on film seasons.

All performances are bookable in advance, in person, online at www.filmhousecinema.com or by phone on 0131 228 2688. We do not charge a fee for bookings made by telephone or on the website. Tickets may also be reserved without payment, in which case they must be collected no later than 30 minutes before the performance starts.

Tickets cannot be exchanged nor money refunded except in the event of a cancellation of a performance.

Screenings are subject to change, but only in extraordinary circumstances.

All seats are unreserved. If you require seats together please arrive in plenty of time. Cinemas will be open 15 minutes before the start of each screening. The management reserves the right of admission and will not admit latecomers. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Double bills are shown in the same order as indicated on these pages. Intervals in double bills last 10 minutes.

BOX OFFICE: 0131 228 2688 (10am-9pm daily) PROGRAMME INFO: 0131 228 2689 BOOK ONLINE: www.filmhousecinema.com

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Michael Haneke: Presented by Drambuie

THE PIANO TEACHER

Drambuie brings you A Taste of the Extraordinary...

Michael Haneke Michael Haneke is one of the most brilliant and distinctive writer/directors of contemporary European cinema. We are delighted to present this retrospective, which includes every feature film made by this exceptional filmmaker plus a documentary about his work.

This is the sixth and final special season of films produced in partnership with Drambuie.

Drambuie’s support means Filmhouse can screen some unique cinematic programmes that showcase the unexpected and extraordinary from film history. Audiences will also experience Drambuie’s blend of Scotch whisky, spices and heather honey in an array of bespoke cocktails created to celebrate each season by Drambuie’s Brand Ambassador, Bruce Hamilton.

For updates and giveaways on Drambuie’s ‘A Taste of the Extraordinary’ cinema seasons, visit facebook.com/UKDrambuie or @Drambuie

THE TIME OF THE WOLF

CACHE

The Piano Teacher La pianiste

The Time of the Wolf Le temps du loup

Sun 4 Aug at 8.30pm & Mon 5 Aug at 5.45pm

Thu 8 Aug at 6.00pm & Fri 9 Aug at 8.45pm

Michael Haneke • Austria/France/Germany 2001 • 2h5m 35mm • French and German with English subtitles 18 – Contains strong language, violence, sexual violence, sex and sado-masochism theme Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel.

Michael Haneke • France/Austria/Germany 2003 • 1h53m 35mm • French and Romanian with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language and animal slaughter Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Béatrice Dalle, Patrice Chéreau, Rona Hartner, Olivier Gourmet.

In her late thirties, Erika Kahut is a piano teacher at the esteemed Vienna Conservatory. She is strict, intimidating and respected; however, her personality is a diligent construction and a painful response to her constricted life.

She still shares an apartment with her mother and their co-dependent relationship is stifling and even violent.

Erika’s twisted regimen and careful façade are completely obliterated when Walter, a younger student, decides to seduce his teacher.

The opening of The Time of the Wolf recalls Haneke’s 1997 film Funny Games. Anne (Isabelle Huppert) and her two children watch in horror as her husband is gunned down by a stranger who has invaded their holiday home. But there the comparison ends. As the remaining trio go on the run through the countryside, much of the first half of the film is shrouded in darkness. It’s only after they encounter a group of what appears to be vagrants that all becomes clear.

Caché Hidden Sun 11 Aug at 8.40pm & Mon 12 Aug at 5.50pm Michael Haneke • France/Austria/Germany/Italy/USA 2005 1h58m • 35mm • French with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong violence Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot, Bernard Le Coq.

TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off These offers 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.

Georges, a TV talk-show host, receives a mysterious videotape containing two hours of static footage of his house. More tapes follow, and Georges becomes convinced that a pivotal figure from his past is responsible.

With Caché, Haneke elegantly interlaces the concepts that have long obsessed him – bourgeois complacency penetrated by strange invaders, the surfacing of subconscious guilt, the ripple effects of violence across generations.

Michael Haneke: Presented by Drambuie

FUNNY GAMES U.S.

THE WHITE RIBBON

Funny Games U.S.

Amour Love

Sun 18 Aug at 8.45pm & Mon 19 Aug at 6.00pm

Sun 1 Sep at 8.30pm & Mon 2 Sep at 5.50pm

Michael Haneke • UK/USA/France/Austria 2007 • 1h51m • 35mm 18 – Contains strong sustained threat, humiliation and violence Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearheart.

Michael Haneke • Austria/France/Germany 2012 • 2h7m DCP • French and English with English subtitles 12A – Contains one use of strong language and distressing scenes Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert.

Haneke’s English-language remake of his own 1997 film uses the viewer’s expectations against him or her. He makes a bold statement about how the indoctrination of mainstream thrillers has made violence and terror acceptable for entertainment by crafting a motion picture that is anything but entertaining. It gives you what you want and asks why you want it in the first place, and it does both those things superbly. It is cruel, cold and darkly thrilling.

Michael Haneke’s deserving Palme d’Or-winner about an otherwise comfortably-off octogenarian couple, Georges and Anne (Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva), trying to cope when a stroke leaves the wife partly paralysed and speechless, is characteristically honest and unsentimental. The film takes place in the retired music teachers’ Paris apartment; as Anne’s condition deteriorates, so their world shrinks, and visits by their daughter (Isabelle Huppert) and others merely distract Georges from the business of deciding what’s best for his wife.

The White Ribbon Das weiße Band Sun 25 Aug at 8.15pm & Mon 26 Aug at 5.45pm Michael Haneke • Austria/Germany/France/Italy 2009 2h24m • 35mm • German with English subtitles 15 – Contains child abuse references Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Josef Bierbichler, Mercedes Jadea Diaz, Burghart Klaußner.

With this dazzlingly intelligent drama, which won him his first Palme d’or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival (he won a second with Amour in 2012), Haneke returns to his classic themes of guilt, denial and violence as the mysterious symptom of mass dysfunction. In a secluded northern German village on the eve of the First World War, malicious incidents – some small, some not small – begin to occur, and the very structure of this small community seems to be under threat. Impeccably acted, shot in monochrome, and directed with the filmmaker’s icily exact rigour and severity.

AMOUR

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Colour Me Kubrick/Midnight Express/Write Shoot Cut

COLOUR ME KUBRICK

SPECIALEVENT

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS

SPECIALEVENT

WRITE SHOOT CUT - THE PORT

SPECIALEVENT

Colour Me Kubrick

Midnight Express

Mon 12 Aug at 9.00pm

Wed 21 Aug at 2.15pm + 8.00pm

Brian W Cook • UK/France 2005 • 1h26m • Digibeta • 15 Cast: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E Grant, Luke Mably, Marc Warren.

Alan Parker • UK/USA 1978 • 2h1m • DCP English, Maltese and French with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins.

Write Shoot Cut

Nominated for six Oscars, this harrowing prison drama is based on a true story. Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is an American tourist visiting Turkey with his girlfriend Susan (Irene Miracle) when he’s caught by customs officials trying to smuggle a large quantity of hashish out of the country.

The crime would normally carry a sentence of four years, but officials decide to make an example of Billy, and he draws a 30-year sentence despite the promises of his Turkish legal counsel. While Susan and Billy’s father pledge to do everything they can to speed Billy’s release, in fact there’s little than can be done. Billy quickly finds himself in a hellish prison that’s a nightmare of filth, inedible food and violence. Before long, Billy is convinced that he can take no more, and he makes plans to take the ‘midnight express’ – jailhouse slang for escape.

Write Shoot Cut is dedicated to celebrating and showcasing short independent film from Scotland and beyond. Starting out as a blog (www.write-shoot-cut. com), the platform has grown to underground monthly screenings, podcasts and now, through Screen Education Edinburgh in association with Filmhouse, special showcase events.

The 8pm screening will be followed by a Q&A with Billy Hayes, upon whose book the film is based.

Peter’s Room

Screened to coincide with the World premiere of theatre comedy Kubrick3 (Pleasance Courtyard, 31 June - 26 August, 19:10), Colour Me Kubrick follows the same amazing true story as Kubrick3; depicting conman Alan Conway’s impersonations of famous film director Stanley Kubrick throughout the 1990s. Despite looking nothing like Stanley Kubrick, Conway’s outrageous lies even trick people who have met Kubrick before into giving him money and sexual favours in return for the possibility of working on ‘his’ next film.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Anthony Frewin, Stanley Kubrick’s long time assistant and screenwriter of Colour Me Kubrick.

Billy Hayes is appearing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performing his show Riding the Midnight Express, at the Gilded Balloon Teviot from 23-25 August at 9pm.

For more details visit www.edfringe.com

Screen Education Edinburgh in association with Filmhouse presents Mon 26 Aug at 6.10pm – Tickets £6/£5 1h40m • 15

Hosted by Neil Rolland, the inaugural Write Shoot Cut will feature four quality shorts from Scotland and a Q&A with the filmmakers involved in each film.

If you are a filmmaker, or someone with an interest in Scottish film and a desire to see something out of the ordinary, then this is an excellent opportunity to connect with the local scene, watch some great films and meet potential collaborators.

In The Block The Port

(Rodger Griffiths, 14min)

(Andreas Antonopoulos, 12min)

(Rory Alexander Stewart, 17min)

V For Visa

(John McPhail, 13min)

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just festival European LUX Prize Films

THE SILENCE OF LORNA

ILLEGAL

just festival European LUX Prize Films Since 2007, the European Parliament LUX prize has cast an annual spotlight on films that go to the heart of the European public debate. The Parliament believes that the cinema, a mass cultural medium, can be an ideal vehicle for debate and reflection on Europe and its future.

Cinema is popular, attracts different generations and is affordable. The films selected for the LUX Prize competition help to air different views on some of the main social and political issues of the day and, as such, contribute to building a stronger European identity. They help celebrate the universal reach of European values, illustrate the diversity of European traditions and shed light on the process of European integration. The LUX Prize is becoming a quality label backing European film productions. Its winning films have become hits within the EU and beyond. It has helped publicise films that might have otherwise been seen and discovered by few and has put the spotlight on urgent issues of the day.

The four films screening explore European issues under the just festival umbrella theme of Behind Closed Doors. Each screening will be followed by a Q&A session hosting Scottish Members of the European Parliament and other experts in the themes discussed in the films.

The screenings are organised by just festival in partnership with the European Parliament Information Office in Edinburgh and Filmhouse. www.justjust.org TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off This offer is available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

R: HIT FIRST, HIT HARDEST

The Silence of Lorna Le Silence de Lorna Sun 4 Aug at 5.45pm Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne Belgium/France/Italy/Germany 2008 • 1h45m 35mm • French and Albanian with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language and sexualised nudity Cast: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Alban Ukaj.

In order to become the owner of a snack bar with her boyfriend, Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, becomes an accomplice to a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio. Fabio has orchestrated a sham marriage between her and Claudy. The marriage allows her to obtain Belgian citizenship and then marry a Russian Mafioso willing to pay a lot of money to acquire the same quickly. However, for this second marriage to be possible, Fabio has planned to kill Claudy. Will Lorna keep silent?

Illégal Thu 8 Aug at 6.00pm Olivier Masset-Depasse • Belgium/Luxembourg/France 2010 • 1h30m 35mm • French, English and Russian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Anne Coesens, Alexandre Gontcharov, Milo MassetDepasse, Natalia Belokonskaya, Olga Zhdanova.

Tania, a 39-year-old Russian woman, has been living illegally in Belgium for ten years with her 14 year old son. Although the authorities refused her application for asylum, she manages to find a job and send her son to school. But she lives in constant fear of being found out.

Following a police check, she is arrested and placed in a detention centre. Her young son manages to escape and take refuge at a friend’s home. And so she begins her fight for her dignity and the search for her son despite the constant deportation threat hanging over her head.

just festival European LUX Prize Films/Filmhouse Player

KALINOVSKI SQUARE

THE STOKER

STORIES WE TELL

R: Hit First, Hit Hardest

The Stoker Kochegar

Thu 15 Aug at 6.00pm

Alexey Balabanov • Russia 2010 • 1h27m • Russian with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong sex, violence and sexual violence Cast: Mikhail Skryabin, Yuri Matveev, Alexander Mosin, Aida Tumutova, Anna Korotayeva.

Tobias Lindholm & Michael Noer • Denmark 2010 • 1h39m Digibeta • Danish and Arabic with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Pilou Asbaek, Dulfi Al-Jabouri, Roland Møller, Jacob Gredsted, Omar Shargawi.

A visceral and tense prison drama, featuring a cast made up of ex-convicts and guards, showing what life is really like behind bars in a tough penitentiary. R is in prison for violence. He is determined to stay out of harm’s way, but faces the challenge of navigating through prison culture with its notions of honour, hidden agendas and contracts.

This compelling drama is an anthropological study of life in a Danish prison.

Kalinovski Square Thu 22 Aug at 6.00pm Yury Khashchavatski • Estonia 2007 • 1h27m • Digibeta Russian and Belarusian with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary

This documentary by Belarus’ most celebrated filmmaker Yury Khashchavatski shows the demonstrations that took place in Kalinovski Square after the elections on 19 March 2006, where Lukashenka claimed to have received almost 83% of the votes. With astonishing footage and ironic discourses, Khashchavatski speaks out about resistance and persecution, displaying an overwhelming will for freedom. He uses satire and cinematic idioms to give us a docu-comedy: we laugh because this is too much, it can’t be true. But it is.

After the screening and Q&A, all audience members will be invited to join a reception in Filmhouse Café Bar.

Our online viewing platform allows you to enjoy a selection of Filmhouse-curated films whenever suits you and wherever you are. Some films will screen at Filmhouse as well, some will only be available online. New films are being added all the time, but here’s a small selection of what’s currently available. www.filmhousecinema.com/player The Filmhouse Player is a pilot project, in collaboration with GFT and video-on-demand providers Distrify, supported by NESTA’s Digital R&D Fund, Scotland.

Beware of Mr. Baker Jay Bulger • USA 2012 • 1h32m • 15 – Contains strong language, twice very strong, and drug references • Documentary

Legendary drummer Ginger Baker was as well known for his monstrous rock ’n’ roll behaviour as he was for his skin-pounding in supergroups Cream and Blind Faith. The 73-year-old now lives in seclusion with his young bride and 39 polo ponies, and director Jay Bulger spent three months living with them, resulting in a rollicking and frequently hilarious film, enhanced by interviews with Stewart Copeland, Charlie Watts, John Lydon, Neil Peart, Mickey Hart, Lars Ulrich and others who comment on Baker’s legacy and persona.

Filmhouse’s first film as distributor is a fascinating, atmospheric, stylistic tour-de-force of idiosyncratic filmmaking. Set in the mid 1990s outside St Petersburg, The Stoker tells the story of an ethnic Yakut, Major Skryabin, a shell-shocked veteran of the Afghan-Soviet War, who works as a stoker. Living in the incinerator room, the Major shovels coal all day, and fills his spare time writing a novel about a Russian criminal sent into exile in Yakutia in the XIX century, whilst turning a blind eye to his former military comrade-turned-hitman, the Sergeant, who arrives to dispose of bodies. But even our compliant stoker has his limits...

Stories We Tell Sarah Polley • Canada 2012 • 1h49m • 12A – Contains one use of strong language and infrequent moderate sex references Documentary

Actor and director Sarah Polley’s first feature documentary is a beautifully-structured investigation into the history of her own family – in particular her mother, who died when Polley was eleven. Layering interviews with family members and friends with archive footage and a recording of her father’s witty and revealing memoir, Polley builds up an enthralling collage of fact, hearsay and memory as she strives to find out the truth about her mother, and, by extension, herself.

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Beyond Borders Scotland Film Festival

THE GATEKEEPERS

INFILTRATORS

Beyond Borders Scotland Film Festival Beyond Borders Scotland is a not-for profit organisation dedicated to facilitating dialogue and international cultural exchange. Working across several platforms including literature, performing arts, visual arts, film, politics and dialogue, it seeks to showcase the work of filmmakers, activists, intellectuals, artists and cultural icons of small nations in an innovative and collaborative way.

This series of film screenings, alongside other events scheduled to take place in Edinburgh and at Traquair House in the Scottish Borders, explore common themes about such topics as homelands, landscape, memory, dialogue and cultural reconciliation. From the Middle East to East Timor via South Africa, we introduce you to some inspiring people and stories that changed the world.

To find out more about Beyond Borders and its 2013 programme, visit www.beyondbordersscotland.com

TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off These offers 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.

SING YOUR SONG

The Gatekeepers Tue 20 Aug at 6.30pm Dror Moreh • Israel/France/Germany/Belgium 2012 • 1h41m DCP • English and Hebrew with English subtitles 15 – Contains images of real dead bodies • Documentary

Charged with overseeing Israel’s war on terror – both Palestinian and Israeli – the head of the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret service, is present at the crossroads of every decision made. For the first time ever six former heads of the agency agreed to share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions. The Gatekeepers offers an exclusive account of the sum of their success and failures.

It validates how each man individually and the six as a group came to reconsider their hard-line positions and advocate a conciliatory approach toward their enemies.

Infiltrators Mutasalilun Tue 20 Aug at 8.45pm Khaled Jarrar • Occupied Palestinian Territory/United Arab Emirates/Lebanon 2012 • 1h10m • DCP Arabic with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary

This moving documentary follows the efforts by various Palestinians to cross the seven metre high wall that separates the Palestinian Territories from Israel. Director Khaled Jarrar runs alongside the infiltrators, showing the viewer, with an unobtrusive style, the huge risks taken by those who feel that they have nothing to lose.

Beyond Borders/BAFTA Scotland Presents...

SOUTH AFRICA: THE MASSACRE...

THIS IS NOT A FILM

ALIAS RUBY BLADE

BAFTA SCOTLAND PRESENTS...

Sing Your Song

This Is Not a Film In film nist

Wed 21 Aug at 6.30pm

Thu 22 Aug at 6.30pm

Susanne Rostock • USA 2011 • 1h45m • DCP 12A – Contains real images of violence and one use of strong language • Documentary

Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb • Iran 2010 • 1h15m DCP • Persian with English subtitles U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm • Documentary

BAFTA Scotland Presents: Small Screen Insights

This film is an up close look at a great American, Harry Belafonte. A patriot to the last and a champion for worldwide human rights, Belafonte is one of the truly heroic cultural and political figures of the past 60 years.

Told from Harry’s point of view, the film charts his life from a boy born in New York and raised in Jamaica, who returns to Harlem in his early teens where he discovers the American Negro Theater and the magic of performing.

Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support of the opposition party in Iran’s 2009 election. In this documentary, which was secretly shot on an iPhone and a modest DV camera by Panahi’s close friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and smuggled into France in a cake for a lastminute submission to Cannes, Panahi shares his day-to-day life as he waits for a decision on his appeal.

Sat 24 Aug at 10.30am

Alias Ruby Blade

The panel session will be followed by an audience involved Q&A. Please check our website for full details nearer the time.

South Africa: The Massacre that Changed a Nation Wed 21 Aug at 8.45pm

Thu 22 Aug at 8.45pm

John Thynne • UK 2013 • 1h • Digibeta • 15 • Documentary

Alex Meillier • USA 2012 • 1h18m • DCP • 15 • Documentary

In August 2012, 34 miners were shot dead by police as they protested outside a mine in Marikana, just outside Johannesburg. Nearly 50 years after he left South Africa as a teenager, Peter Hain MP returns to ask how the country of his childhood, once such a beacon of hope, is now the scene of such tragedy.

The remarkable story of documentarian-turned-activist Kirsty Sword Gusmão, who became a forceful advocate for the tiny nation of Timor-Leste and a lynchpin in its harrowing struggle for independence. In solidarity with the Timorese independence movement in Jakarta, her task is to be a conduit of information and instruction for the enigmatic leader of the Timorese resistance, Kay Rala ‘Xanana’ Gusmão, serving life in prison for his revolutionary activities. Through correspondence, they fell in love.

Alias Ruby Blade captures their incredible story from this beginning to the ultimate triumph of freedom in East Timor, demonstrating along the way the astonishing power of ordinary individuals to change the course of history.

In this documentary for the BBC’s award-winning This World strand, Hain speaks to the families of some of the men killed at Marikana and uncovers a day of shocking brutality and many disturbing allegations.

SPECIALEVENT

1h30m

The second in BAFTA Scotland’s new series in partnership with Filmhouse, this instalment comes hot on the heels of July’s Games-focused event.

Coinciding with the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, our theme for August had to be issues surrounding the small screen. These are exciting times for television, so join us for a lively discussion from an informed panel of industry experts.

Tickets £4/£3 concessions, available from Filmhouse.

Free for BAFTA members – book via bafta.org/Scotland

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Weans’ World/The Guardian Edinburgh International TV Fest

DESPICABLE ME 2

Weans’ World Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost £3.50 per person, big or small!

THE CROODS

The Croods Tue 6 to Thu 8 Aug at 1.20pm Kirk De Micco & Chris Sanders • USA 2013 • 1h38m DCP • U – Contains mild threat With the voices of Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener.

Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!

The Croods are the world’s first ever family, and they live and survive by one rule; never leave the cave. When their home is destroyed they are forced to abandon this rule and make their way in the world. A fantastic adventure awaits the Croods as they journey to find a new home in the colourful and lively prehistoric Earth.

Despicable Me 2

Monsters University

Fri 2 to Mon 5 Aug at 1.30pm Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud • USA 2013 • 1h38m • DCP U – Contains very mild scary scenes and slapstick violence With the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Ken Jeong, Benjamin Bratt.

Having turned away from his evil ways, Gru is hired by Lucy Wilde and Silas Ramsbottom from the Anti-Villian League and taken to their headquarters. There, Gru is told of a new bad guy, Eduardo, who is on the loose and causing havoc.

With his experience as a villain, Gru is the perfect person to combat this new threat.

Sat 24 Aug at 1.00pm & Sun 25 Aug at 11.00am Dan Scanlon • USA 2013 • 1h50m • DCP U – Contains mild slapstick and comic threat With the voices of Voices of Nathan Fillion, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Billy Crystal, Helen Mirren .

Mike Wazowski and James P Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn’t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn’t stand each other. The pair’s out-of-control competitive spirit gets them both kicked out of the University’s elite Scare Program, and to make matters worse, they realise they will have to work together if they ever hope to make things right. Monsters University unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.

MONSTERS UNIVERSITY

The Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival From 22 - 24 August we will be hosting exclusive preview screenings of forthcoming TV shows as part of the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.

In previous years the programme has included advance screenings of new shows, like the first episode of Fresh Meat, as well as established favourites like Dr Who. The programme for this year was still to be confirmed as we went to print – please check www.filmhousecinema.com nearer the time for details.

Ray Harryhausen/Filmhouse Cafe Bar

JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

Ray Harryhausen The final two films screening in this celebration of the work of Ray Harryhausen, visual effects pioneer and stop-motion model animator, who died on 7 May 2013 at the age of 92.

Jason and the Argonauts Sat 3 Aug at 1.00pm & Sun 4 Aug at 3.30pm Don Chaffey • UK/USA 1963 • 1h44m • DCP • U Cast: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Honor Blackman.

Jason sets out on a perilous quest to find the Golden Fleece, leading a team of adventurers called the Argonauts.

Along the way they encounter a multitude of monsters including bronze giant Talos, the Harpies, the Hydra and an army of skeletons. As well as Harryhausen’s pioneering special effects, Jason and the Argonauts features an exciting score by Bernard Herrmann, who gives each monster its own theme.

CLASH OF THE TITANS

Clash of the Titans Sat 10 Aug at 1.00pm & Sun 11 Aug at 3.30pm Desmond Davis • USA 1981 • 1h58m • 35mm • 12A Cast: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith.

Perseus, the mortal son of Zeus, goes on a quest to win the hand of the beautiful Andromeda and defeat her former betrothed Calibos, who has been turned into a monster.

With the help of the poet Ammon and a robot owl, Perseus must also catch and tame the winged horse Pegasus, overcome some giant scorpions, and behead the evil Medusa, all in an attempt to stop Andromeda from being sacrificed to the giant creature known as the Kraken.

FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR

Filmhouse Cafe Bar Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea and enjoy one of our superb cakes.

Our full menu runs from noon to 10pm seven days a week!

All our dishes are prepared on the premises using fresh ingredients.

We have 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: Monday to Thursday: 8am - 11.30pm Friday: 8am - 12.30am Saturday: 10am - 12.30am Sunday: 10am - 11.30pm 0131 229 5932

cafebar@filmhousecinema.com

Film Quiz Sunday 11 August Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and rather tricky) monthly quiz. Free to enter, teams of up to eight, to be seated in the cafe bar by 9pm.

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Ghosted/QMU Degree Show/Education and Learning

THE SPIRIT OF ‘45

LE PETIT NICOLAS

THE COLOUR OF THE OCEAN

Education and Learning CMI Education and Learning department offers a range of screenings, workshops, courses and events for all ages, year-round at Filmhouse and during the Edinburgh International Film Festival. We arrange schools screenings year round, supporting a variety of curriculum areas for Primary and Secondary schools. In addition EIFF showcases films made for the Edinburgh Schools Film Competition and allows young people the opportunity to speak to filmmakers and creative professionals. Details of current events can be found at www.filmhousecinema.com/learning, or for further information please email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk

Schools Screenings Tickets £2.60 per pupil, teachers free. To book tickets, please contact the box office on 0131 228 2688.

The Spirit of ‘45 Wed 11 Sep, 10am 1945 was a pivotal year in British history. The unity that carried Britain through the war allied to the bitter memories of the inter-war years led to a vision of a better society. Director Ken Loach has used film from Britain’s regional and national archives, alongside sound recordings and contemporary interviews, to create a rich political and social narrative. This screening supports learning in History, Modern Studies and English, from S1-S6. There is a Film Education teaching resource available at www.filmeducation.org/thespiritof45/ and further details of the film at: www.thespiritof45.com/About-The-Film/

The Great Gatsby Wed 18 Sep, 10am Baz Luhrman’s audacious adaptation is unashamedly aimed at a younger audience, employing a soundtrack by Jay-Z, and with Leonardo de Caprio as Gatsby. Suitable for English, Media Studies, Art & Design

Le Petit Nicholas Wed 25 Sep, 10am 8-year-old Nicolas is enjoying his life with his great gang of friends, his long-suffering but friendly teacher, and his loving parents. But when he thinks he overhears that his mother is pregnant, he panics. With a new baby around, what will happen to him? He imagines the worst and hatches a mischievous plan with his friends. Based on the classic book of the same name by Asterix author René Goscinny, this quirky comedy was a huge hit at the French box office. Suitable for P4-P7 this film is screening in French with English subtitles. http://www. frenchfilmfestival.org.uk/2010/documents/LepetitNicolas_learningpack.pdf

The Colour of the Ocean (Die Farbe des Ozeans, Germany 2011, Dir.: Maggie Peren; Cert. 12) Fri 27 Sep, 10am A German tourist and a Spanish border guard determine to help a father and son pair of refugees in this compelling moral drama. Three European languages are spoken throughout the film (with English subtitles) and the Goethe Institut are coordinating film study guides to support teaching German, Spanish and French.

One Mile Away Wed 2 Oct, 10am The film follows two young men from rival gangs as they attempt to put their differences aside and end the violent war that has been raging on the streets of Birmingham for over 20 years. This film covers key themes for Advanced Higher/Int 2 Modern Studies such as why people commit crime, citizenship, social exclusion, conflict resolution and is suitable for S4 – S6. A teaching resource from EIFF 2012 is available.

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FUNDINGFILMHOUSE

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Edinburgh EH3 9BZ Our cafe bar and accessible toilet are also at www.filmhousecinema.com this level. The majority of seats in the cafe bar are not fixed and can be moved.

Box Office: 0131 228 2688 (10am-9pm) Recorded Programme Info: 0131 228 2689 There is wheelchair access to all three Administration: 0131 228 6382 screens. Cinema one has space for two wheelchair users and these places are Fax: 0131 229 6482 reached via the passenger lift. Cinemas email: admin@filmhousecinema.com two and three have one space each and to Ken Hay get to these you need to use our platform CEO lifts. Staff are always on hand to help operate them – please ask at the box office Rod White when you purchase your tickets. A second Head of Filmhouse accessible toilet is situated at the lower Robert Howie level close to cinemas two and three.

Customer Experience Manager Advance booking for wheelchair spaces is recommended. If you need to bring along Holly Daniel & Nicola Kettlewood a helper to assist you in any way, then they Knowledge & Learning will receive a complimentary ticket.

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