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Boyhood Once Upon a Forest Mood Indigo Dinosaur 13 God Help the Girl Lilting Mystery Road Dawn of the Planet of the Apes The Deer Hunter To See Oursels Charlie Chaplin Beyond Borders Film Festival 2014 Filmhouse Junior The Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival
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Aleppo. Notes from the Dark 20 All This Mayhem 11 Beyond Borders Film Festival 2014 20-21 Boyhood 5 The Cabinet of Dr Caligari 11 A Cat in Paris 12 Charlie Chaplin 23 The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil 18 Cold in July 7 Come and See... 19 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 7 The Deer Hunter 6 Dinosaur 13 8 Dr Strangelove... 19 EIFF Short Film Challenge Screening 22 Erewhon 24 Evaporating Borders 21 Filmhouse Cafe Bar + Quiz 25 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Junior 12-13 Filmhouse Player 25 First to Fall 20 For No Good Reason 5 For Those Who Can Tell No Tales 21 From Scotland With Love 18 Future Shorts 24 God Help the Girl 10 Gone, But Not Forgotten 19 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 19 Grapes of Trust 24 The Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 22 The House of Magic 13 How to Train Your Dragon 2 13 I Am Divine 8 Jersey Boys 9 A King in New York 23 The King of Masks 12
Kirikou and the Men and Women 12 Laughter in the One-and-Nines 23 LIAF Amazing Animations 12 Lilting 10 Limelight 23 The List and Filming the List 22 Local Hero 17 Miles & War 20 Mood Indigo 8 Mystery Road 11 Namibia in Focus 21 A Night at the Cinema in 1914 6 Norte, the End of History 7 Northwest 6 Once Upon a Forest 5 Open Studies Autumn Film Courses 26 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! 13 Polyester 19 Postman Pat: The Movie 12 Scalarama 19 To Catch a Thief 10 To See Oursels 16-18 Two Days, One Night 9 Trainspotting 18 Wakolda 10 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 13 Your Cheatin’ Heart 17 Zulu 9
AUDIODESCRIPTIONANDSUBTITLES In all three screens we have a system which enables us, whenever the necessary digital files are available, to show onscreen subtitles for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing, and provide audio description (via infra-red headsets) for those who are sight-impaired. This issue, all screenings of Boyhood, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Jersey Boys will have audio description, and the following screenings will also have subtitles:
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Sat 9 Aug, 1.10pm Jersey Boys: Wed 20 Aug, 6.00pm
FORCRYINGOUTLOUD Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Babychanging, bottlewarming and buggy parking facilities are available.
Once Upon a Forest: Mon 4 Aug, 11am Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Mon 11 Aug, 11am Mood Indigo: Mon 18 Aug, 11am Two Days, One Night: Mon 25 Aug, 11am The Cabinet of Dr Caligari: Mon 1 Sep, 11am
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Introduction
GOD HELP THE GIRL
MYSTERY ROAD
MOOD INDIGO
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
Well here we are again in August, august readers... As many of you will doubtless remember (a few folk seem to find it hard to forget!), we used to have our annual International Film Festival in August, but moved it to June some years ago. So we, Filmhouse, are now left to our own devices in the month when the biggest arts festival known to man lands on our doorstep; in the month in which we need as much help as we can get to get your bums on our seats! What I’m trying to get at is it’s a notoriously difficult time for cinemas like us, doing what we do every month, when the focus of the city is, entertainmentwise, elsewhere. On top of all that, this summer (a pretty decent one weather-wise so far which also doesn’t help!), we’ve had the usual tennis, the biennial football (though home interest in both those events was mercifully – purely in terms of our business you understand – shorter than it might have been), and by the time you’re reading this the Commonwealth Games will be upon us! So many non-film-related distractions. It’s a tough old time, for sure. Hopefully we’ll still be here come September when you’ve nothing better to do... God willing... Enough doom and gloom, for we are, of course, confident we’ve put together a programme that will leave you little choice but to pay us a visit or two (or maybe even more) during the month. And bear in mind you can likely see three films for the price of a comedian, and nearer 20 for the price of the best seat at the opera! Our big film of the month is another winner from the Dardenne brothers – fresh from its Cannes Film Festival 2014 competition slot – Two Days, One Night, which stars Marion Cotillard as a factory worker who has the time indicated in the film’s title to persuade her co-workers to save her job by rejecting their own bonuses... Dinosaur 13 tells the unbelievable-were-it-not-true story of a group of amateur palaeontologists’ wrestle with the U.S. authorities after finding the world’s most complete T. Rex fossil; God Help the Girl is Stuart (main man of Glasgow band Belle & Sebastian) Murdoch’s exuberant musical feature film debut about an emotionally troubled young girl who seeks salvation through writing songs; Mystery Road is an awesome slowburn Aussie outback cop thriller; and a special recommendation must go to all 4h10m of Lav Diaz’s brilliant Norte, the End of History, a “quietly awe-inspiring, state-of-the-nation [The Philippines, that is] epic”, as The Telegraph puts it. We’ve a special tribute to recently late and undoubtedly great Eli Wallach with rare screenings of Sergio Leone’s masterpiece, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and brand spanking new digital restorations of Cy Endfield’s seminal war epic, Zulu, Robert Wiene’s iconic chiller, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, and Michael Cimino’s Oscar-laden The Deer Hunter, among others... My word, it turns out it’s the Fringe should be worried... Rod White, Head of Filmhouse
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Filmhouse Explorer
COLD IN JULY
MOOD INDIGO
NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY
Filmhouse Explorer We’re really keen to encourage your deeper engagement with the great cinema we screen. We know going to the cinema a lot can be quite expensive, so we’ve devised a ticket deal to make it cheaper to see films beyond the big new releases. Here’s how it works: buy a ticket for a film in the left hand column below, and you will receive a voucher that will entitle you, on handing it in at the Box Office, to 50% off a full price ticket to any film (or any film in any season) listed in the right hand column. We’ve marked the films and seasons involved with a wee logo to make them easier to spot, and you can also find them on our website at www.filmhousecinema.com/tickets Happy Exploring! BUY A TICKET FOR...
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Boyhood (page 5) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (page 7) Cold in July (page 7) Mood Indigo (page 8) Jersey Boys (page 9) Two Days, One Night (page 9)
The Deer Hunter (page 6) A Night at the Cinema in 1914 (page 6) Norte, the End of History (page 7) Dinosaur 13 (page 8) Zulu (page 9) The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (page 11)
All tickets subject to availability. The half price voucher only applies to full price tickets. The Filmhouse Explorer ticket deal cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. The 50% discount is not valid for Friday matinee screenings.
THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI
Main features
ONCE UPON A FOREST
NEWRELEASE
Once Upon a Forest Il était une forêt Fri 1 to Thu 7 Aug Luc Jacquet • France 2013 • 1h18m DCP • French with English subtitles U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm • Documentary
The director of the Oscar-winning March of the Penguins, Luc Jacquet, takes a spectacular journey with renowned French botanist and ecologist Francis Hallé to the very top of the tropical rainforest canopy in the Peruvian Amazon and Gabon. Using powerful telephoto lenses and drones to capture novel views of nature, and including spectacular animation based on Halle’s beautifully detailed drawings, Jacquet and Hallé lead viewers on a journey into the depths of the tropical jungle and into the very heart of life on earth.
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FOR NO GOOD REASON
NEWRELEASE
BOYHOOD
NEWRELEASE
For No Good Reason
Boyhood
Fri 1 to Mon 4 Aug
Showing until Thu 7 Aug
Charlie Paul • UK/USA 2012 • 1h29m • DCP • cert tbc Documentary
Richard Linklater • USA 2014 • 2h45m DCP • English and Spanish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, sex references, drug use Cast: Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane, Lorelei Linklater, Tamara Jolaine.
Most of us are familiar with Hunter S Thompson, but when you think of the gonzo legend, you’re probably picturing the work of Ralph Steadman. The British cartoonist is best known for his signature brand of illustrations that accompany Thompson’s work, but his influence extends far beyond these surreal sketches. Steadman was also a chronicler of the rebellion and anger that pervaded the 60s and the ushering in of a more cynical political and social climate throughout the 70s. For No Good Reason follows Steadman’s incredible life, from his gun duels with iconic beat writer William S Burroughs to his insightful political contributions. With Thompson’s close friend Johnny Depp as a guide, interviews with the likes of Terry Gilliam and Richard E Grant, terrific archival footage and a knockout soundtrack, this is a wonderfully entertaining tour of Steadman’s life and career.
Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, the Before Sunrise trilogy) makes a triumphant return to his independent roots with this dazzling micro-epic, shot in 39 days over the course of twelve years in and around Austin, Texas. Boyhood follows the tumultuous lives of Mason Sr (Ethan Hawke), Olivia (Patricia Arquette), Mason Jr (Ellar Coltrane) and his older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) from around the time Mason is six until he begins his freshman year of college. Within that timeframe, relationships ebb and flow, loved ones pass away, romantic entanglements develop, and life generally takes its course. Today, we’re accustomed to bells, whistles, and CGI pyrotechnics deployed in the hopes of holding our attention on screen. What Linklater and his top-notch cast offer is just the opposite – small, intimate moments of the type we may witness every day in our own homes but never stop to appreciate. Boyhood is a glorious achievement in filmmaking.
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THE DEER HUNTER
RESTOREDCLASSIC
A NIGHT AT THE CINEMA IN 1914
RESTOREDCLASSICS
NORTHWEST
NEWRELEASE
The Deer Hunter
A Night at the Cinema in 1914
Fri 1 to Thu 7 Aug
Mon 4 to Thu 7 Aug
Nordvest
Michael Cimino • UK/USA 1978 • 3h2m • DCP 18 – Contains strong violence and portrayals of wartime trauma Cast: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Christopher Walken, John Savage, Meryl Streep.
Various • UK/USA 1914 • 1h25m • DCP • Silent • cert tbc
Fri 8 to Sun 10 Aug
Marking the centenary of the start of World War I, this glorious miscellany of comedies, adventure films, travelogues and newsreels recreates a typical night out at the cinema in 1914. Among the highlights of this programme of 14 short films are a quirky comic short about a face-pulling competition, a sensational episode of the American film serial The Perils of Pauline, an early aviation display, scenes of suffragettes protesting at Buckingham Palace and Allied troops celebrating Christmas at the Front. There is also an anti-German animation and an early sighting of one of cinema’s greatest icons... The BFI has commissioned composer and pianist Stephen Horne, one of Britain’s leading accompanists of silent film, to create a new improvised score which reflects the time and spirit in which the films were made.
Michael Noer • Denmark 2013 • 1h31m DCP • Danish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, sex references, drug use, moderate violence Cast: Gustav Dyekjaer Giese, Oskar Dyekjaer Giese, Lene Maria Christensen, Annemieke Bredahl Peppink, Nicholas Westwood Kidd.
A new restoration of Michael Cimino’s 1978 epic drama. Three lifelong friends, Michael (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken) and Steve (John Savage) leave the wooded hills of their Pennsylvania steel town to serve their country in Vietnam. What follows is a stark representation of the horrors of war and the inevitable fallout experienced by a small town once the war has taken its toll. With superb performances from an impressive cast (Walken won an Oscar, and Meryl Streep, playing lovelorn war widow Linda, was nominated), The Deer Hunter stands as an important social meditation of love, loss, and life in post-Vietnam war America. “One of the most emotionally shattering films ever made.” - Roger Ebert
The First World War in Cinema Beginning next month and continuing for the next fourand-a-bit years (ie. the course of the First World War, 100 years on) we will be presenting a series of films that relate to the events of the war, some dated to coincide with the real events of 100 years ago and others which are not tied to specific events. The films will, where possible, be introduced by academics from the University of Edinburgh. Full details of screenings and events will appear in the relevant Filmhouse programme and on our website.
Northwest
A gritty drama set in Copenhagen’s seedy underbelly. Eighteen-year-old Casper supports his single mother and two siblings by committing burglaries for neighbourhood boss Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival Björn, he jumps at the chance for a better life, making his way into a world of drugs and prostitution. As things escalate between Björn and Jamal, Casper finds himself and his family caught up in a conflict that threatens to destroy them.
Main features
DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
MAYBEYOUMISSED
COLD IN JULY
MAYBEYOUMISSED
NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY
NEWRELEASE
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Cold in July
Fri 8 to Thu 14 Aug
Fri 8 to Mon 11 Aug
Norte, hangganan ng kasaysayan
Matt Reeves • USA 2014 • 2h10m • DCP 12A – Contains moderate violence, threat, infrequent strong language Cast: Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell.
Jim Mickle • USA/France 2014 • 1h50m • DCP 15 – Contains strong language, bloody violence, threat, sexualised images Cast: Michael C Hall, Vinessa Shaw, Don Johnson, Sam Shepard, Wyatt Russell.
Mon 11 to Thu 14 Aug
An intelligent and superbly crafted sequel to the 2011 hit Rise of the Planet of the Apes. A growing nation of genetically evolved apes is threatened by a band of human survivors of a devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. The two groups reach a fragile peace but it proves short-lived, and both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species. “Spectacular and sophisticated... If it resembles anything, it’s a Shakespearean tragedy, with its complex web of allegiances and weighty themes of revenge, mercy, loyalty, and, of course, what it means to be ‘human’.” - The Guardian
Director Jim Mickle (Stake Land, We Are What We Are) continues to impress with this stylish and utterly gripping revenge thriller set in East Texas in 1989. Michael C Hall (Dexter), stars as Richard Dane, a small business owner and quiet family man who is drawn into a vicious cycle of violence after he accidentally shoots wanted criminal Freddy Russell (Wyatt Russell). Richard’s troubles really begin when he meets the ominous Ben Russell (Sam Shepard), an ex-con hell-bent on avenging his son and willing to stop at nothing until he has done so. When Richard realises he can’t trust the local police, he is forced into an unlikely alliance with Ben, and with their ranks bolstered by the brilliantly flamboyant private eye and pig farmer Jim Bob Luke (Don Johnson), the most appealing vigilante trio in recent cinema history is born.
The lives of three people take an irreversible turn when one of them commits a crime. The wrong man is incarcerated, his wife is left to fend for their family, and the criminal, though he roams free, traps himself in a prison of his own making. Inspired by Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, arthouse favourite Lav Diaz’s latest epic profoundly explores everything from the state of present-day rural Philippines to the 1890s Philippine Revolution against the Spanish. And it does it so without wasting a single scene of its 250-minute running time. “There is, above all, an almost inexhaustible humanism at the heart of this remarkable film. It is the work of a director as fascinated by decency as by ugliness, and able to present the chaos of life in a series of pictures that are at once luminously clear and endlessly mysterious.” - The New York Times
Screening in both 2D and 3D – see schedule on pages 14 - 15 for details.
Norte, the End of History
Lav Diaz • Philippines 2013 • 4h10m • DCP Filipino and English with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Sid Lucero, Angeli Bayani, Archie Alemania, Soliman Cruz, Mailes Kanapi.
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I AM DIVINE
MOOD INDIGO
NEWRELEASE
I Am Divine
NEWRELEASE
Mood Indigo
Wed 13 & Thu 14 Aug
L’écume des jours
Jeffrey Schwartz • USA 2013 • 1h30m • DCP 15 – Contains very strong language, strong sex references, drug use, crude humour • Documentary
Fri 15 to Thu 21 Aug
I Am Divine pays tribute to the pioneering spirit of Divine, the larger-than-life diva who became an iconic symbol of filmic and sexual anarchy. Notoriously dubbed “the filthiest person alive” following a performance in John Waters’ Pink Flamingoes, Divine broke the rules of drag and gender performance. Director Jeffrey Schwarz delivers a heartfelt homage that explores Divine’s journey from being Greg Milstead, a bullied nancy boy in suburban Baltimore, to starring in a series of transgressive films such as Mondo Trasho, Female Trouble and Hairspray. Featuring interviews with many close to Divine, including Waters, Ricki Lake and Mink Stole, this is an entertaining and affecting portrait and a must-see for all queer cinema enthusiasts. Polyester, directed by John Waters and starring Divine, screens on 4 September – see page 19 for details!
Michel Gondry • France/Belgium 2013 • 1h34m DCP • French and English with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate violence, nudity Cast: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Omar Sy, Aïssa Maïga.
Mood Indigo sees French writer-director Michel Gondry returning to his wild, imaginative and romantic roots. Colin (Romain Duris) is living a colourful life in Paris – he’s wealthy, he enjoys the company and comfort of his offbeat friends (Omar Sy, Gad Elmaleh), and is excited about his latest invention, the pianocktail (a piano that produces quality cocktails). One day, he meets the elegant Chloe (Audrey Tautou) and the two tumble into a whirlwind of jazz-dancing, ice-skating, city-sweeping romance. They fall in love and get married, but are suddenly confronted with the news of Chloe’s strange illness– she’s begun to grow a flower inside her lungs. Gondry examines the joys, turmoil, and poeticism of love by creating another imaginative, evocative world coloured by elation and heartache, as he did in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep.
DINOSAUR 13
NEWRELEASE
Dinosaur 13 Fri 15 to Thu 21 Aug Todd Douglas Miller • USA 2014 • 1h45m • DCP • cert tbc Documentary
When Palaeontologist Peter Larson and his team from the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research stumbled across some dinosaur bones in South Dakota in 1990, they knew it was the find of a lifetime: the largest, most complete T. Rex ever found. But during a ten-year battle with the US government, powerful museums, Native American tribes, and competing palaeontologists, they found themselves not only fighting to keep their dinosaur but fighting for their freedom as well.
Main features
JERSEY BOYS
MAYBEYOUMISSED
ZULU
RESTOREDCLASSIC
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
NEWRELEASE
Jersey Boys
Zulu
Fri 15 to Thu 21 Aug
Sun 17 Aug only
Two Days, One Night Deux jours, une nuit
Clint Eastwood • USA 2014 • 2h14m DCP • 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Christopher Walken, John Lloyd Young, Vincent Piazza, Erich Bergen, Freya Tingley.
Cy Endfield • UK 1964 • 2h18m • DCP English and Zulu with English subtitles • PG Cast: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine.
Fri 22 Aug to Thu 4 Sep
Clint Eastwood’s big screen version of the Tony Awardwinning musical tells the story of the four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 60s rock group The Four Seasons. Their trials and triumphs are accompanied by the hit songs that influenced a generation, and are now being embraced by a new generation of fans. “A classy affair that goes beyond schmaltz and nostalgia.” The Independent
A 50th anniversary restoration of this rousing, magnificently staged recreation of the January 22, 1879 siege of Rorke’s Drift in Natal, Africa. Having been warned by a pacifist missionary (Jack Hawkins) that a British army contingent has been massacred by Zulu warriors, Lt John Chard (Stanley Baker) orders his troops to dig in, despite the pleas of Lt Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine), the blueblood second-incommand who wants to abandon the post and who feels that he, rather than Chard (an engineer), should be in charge. This spectacular film is superbly directed by Cy Endfield, whose battle scenes are some of the most terrifying ever committed to film.
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne • Belgium/Italy/France 2014 • 1h35m • DCP • French with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Pili Groyne, Simon Caudry, Catherine Salée.
The latest from the Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc, who are among a select group of filmmakers who have won the Palme d’Or twice, for Rosetta (1999) and L’enfant (2005). Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose, Rust and Bone) is wonderful as Sandra, a woman in a precarious position when she goes back to her job at a solar panel factory after a leave of absence. Her employer has given her colleagues a stark choice – they can either have Sandra return to work or carry on without her and each receive a bonus. An initial ballot is not promising for her. The employer agrees to another vote, leaving Sandra one weekend to convince the majority of her colleagues to sacrifice their bonuses so she can keep her job. With the help of her husband Manu (Dardenne brothers regular Fabrizio Rongione), Sandra visits her colleagues one by one to make her case. “A tense dramatic situation and a subtly magnificent central performance from Marion Cotillard add up to an outstanding movie... impassioned, exciting and moving – a Twelve Angry Men of the 21st-century workplace.” - The Guardian
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GOD HELP THE GIRL
NEWRELEASES
TO CATCH A THIEF
RESTOREDCLASSIC
LILTING
NEWRELEASE
God Help the Girl
To Catch a Thief
Lilting
Fri 22 to Thu 28 Aug
Sat 23 & Sun 24 Aug
Fri 29 Aug to Thu 4 Sep
Stuart Murdoch • UK 2014 • 1h52m • DCP 15 – Contains strong language, sex references Cast: Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray, Pierre Boulanger, Cora Bisset.
Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1955 • 1h46m • DCP PG – Contains mild violence, threat and sex references Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel.
A bittersweet, utterly charming Glasgow-set indie musical, written and directed by Stuart Murdoch, lead singer of the group Belle and Sebastian. Over the course of one summer, troubled Eve meets two similarly rootless souls – posh Cass and fastidious James – and together they form a band.
A jewel thief is at large on the Riviera, and all evidence points to retired cat burglar John Robie (Cary Grant). Escaping the law, Robie heads to the Cote D’Azur, where he is greeted with hostility by his old partners in crime. All of them had been pardoned due to their courageous activities in the wartime Resistance, and all are in danger of arrest thanks to this new crime wave. But Robie pleads innocence, and vows to find out who’s been copying his distinctive style. Meanwhile one victim (Grace Kelly) finds his criminality, be it past or present, deeply alluring... Hitchcock’s bright and breezy comedy thriller shows the Master of Suspense at his most relaxed, revelling in visual and verbal innuendo and the easy inconsequentiality of the story.
Hong Khaou • UK 2014 • 1h26m • DCP English and Mandarin with English subtitles 15 – Contains very strong language Cast: Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei-pei, Morven Christie, Andrew Leung, Peter Bowles.
Wakolda Fri 22 to Mon 25 Aug Lucía Puenzo • Argentina/Spain/Norway/France 2013 • 1h33m • DCP Spanish, German and Hebrew with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Natalia Oreiro, Àlex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, Elena Roger.
This suspenseful drama set in 1960 tells the story of one family’s deepening entanglement with a seemingly kind German doctor, while unaware that he is actually the notorious Nazi, Dr Josef Mengele. In a remote Argentinian town, Mengele becomes fascinated by 12-year-old Lilith, while his charisma and manners impress her family. Meanwhile, Mossad are working to track him down. Director Lucía Puenzo has crafted an engaging, tense and chilling tale that explores the conditions in Argentina that allowed a notorious criminal to continue his heinous experiments.
Sixty-something Junn (Pei-pei Cheng) is in mourning for her son Kai. A first-generation immigrant, she is isolated from her London surroundings both physically – before his untimely death, Kai placed her in a nursing home – and linguistically, as she speaks little English. Although Junn finds some romantic solace in her droll nursing home co-resident Alan (Peter Bowles), their language barrier still hinders their time together. Enter young Richard (Ben Whishaw), Kai’s roommate and ‘best friend’, with a surprise: He has hired a translator, Vann (Naomi Christie), purporting to offer this service as a means for Junn and Alan to become better acquainted. In actuality, he hopes to earn Junn’s trust and reveal to her the true nature of his and Kai’s relationship, a secret her son kept hidden. A delicate chamber piece, Lilting addresses the universal language of grief with elegance and humour.
Main features
MYSTERY ROAD
NEWRELEASES
Mystery Road
THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI
RESTOREDCLASSIC
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
Fri 29 Aug to Thu 4 Sep
Cas Cabinet des Dr Caligari
Ivan Sen • Australia 2013 • 1h52m • DCP • cert tbc Cast: Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten, Jack Thompson, Tony Barry.
Fri 29 Aug to Mon 1 Sep
The latest work from internationally lauded Australian director Ivan Sen showcases the filmmaker’s multiple talents; as its writer, director, editor, director of photography and composer, he is responsible for the singular vision of the film, one of the most compelling and purely cinematic offerings of the year. Set in the arid outback of Queensland, Mystery Road centres on Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen), an Aboriginal police detective recently returned to his small home town after a stint in the big city. When the body of a teenage girl is discovered, Jay is tasked with solving her murder. Both the violent crime and Jay’s arrival unsettle the community, and Sen is unsentimental about revealing the harsh contrasts – white versus Aboriginal, past versus present, urban versus rural, poverty versus opportunity – that simmer within the town, isolated by mile after dusty mile of flat, red earth.
Robert Wiene • Germany 1920 • 1h17m • DCP • Silent U – Contains mild violence and peril Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Feher, Hans Heinz von Twardowski.
One of the most iconic masterpieces in cinema history, Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr Caligari shook filmgoers worldwide and changed the direction of the art form. Now presented in a definitive restoration, the film’s chilling, radically expressionist vision is set to grip viewers again. At a local carnival in a small German town, hypnotist Dr Caligari presents the somnambulist Cesare, who can purportedly predict the future of curious fairgoers. But at night, the doctor wakes Cesare from his sleep to enact his evil bidding… Incalculably influential, the film’s nightmarishly jagged sets, sinister atmospheric and psychological emphasis left an immediate impact in its wake (horror, film noir, and gothic cinema would all be shaped directly by it). But this diabolical tale nevertheless stands alone – and is now more mesmerising than ever.
ALL THIS MAYHEM
NEWRELEASE
All This Mayhem Tue 2 to Thu 4 Sep Eddie Martin • UK/Australia 2014 • 1h44m • DCP 15 – Contains very strong language, drug use • Documentary
A compelling documentary about Tas and Ben Pappas, Australia’s most infamous professional skaters. From the late 80s into the 90s the brothers morphed from teenage skate rats at Prahran skate park in Melbourne to a relentless two-headed vert ramp phenomenon. Utilising thrilling handicam footage taken at the time, combined with interviews with Henry Sanchez, Lance Conklin, Dom Kekich, Bill Weiss and others, the film chronicles the brothers’ winding rise to number one and two in the world, touching upon their revolutionary styles, feuds with Tony Hawk, and ingestion of every mood-altering substance going. Not surprisingly, their lifestyle had its complexities, and the Pappas brothers’ time at the top was short lived. By the 2000s drugs and jail time had eclipsed their skating, and much of the film explores their difficult return to normal life.
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KIRIKOU AND THE MEN AND WOMEN
Filmhouse junior Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £3.50 (£4.50 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!
For these shows we choose to screen dubbed versions where these are available, but some films will be in their original language with subtitles – these are marked on individual film descriptions. Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!
A CAT IN PARIS
Kirikou and the Men and Women Kirikou et les hommes et les femmes Sun 10 Aug at 11am Michel Ocelot • France 2012 • 1h28m DCP • French with English subtitles U – Contains mild threat and natural nudity
Sun 3 Aug at 11am Mike Disa • UK 2014 • 1h27m DCP • U – Contains mild comic threat With the voices of Stephen Mangan, Rupert Grint, Jim Broadbent, David Tennant, Ronan Keating.
Greendale’s beloved Postman Pat enters a TV talent show competition, but will his small town values be compromised by the lure of fame and fortune?
The King of Masks Bian Lian Sun 24 Aug at 11am Wu Tiang-ming • China/Hong Kong 1996 1h41m • DCP • Mandarin with English subtitles PG – Contains mild bad language Cast: Zhang Zhigang, Zhao Zhigang, Zhou Renying, Zhu Xu.
An enchanting animation following the adventures of an unlikely superhero: the mischievous and heroic baby Kirikou. Based loosely on Senegalese fables, Kirikou tells five stories of ingenuity and courage, as the tiny but fearless crusader saves his village from foes both natural and supernatural.
An old illusionist in China needs an heir to pass on the secret of his mask tricks – so he buys himself a grandson from a needy peasant. A swooping emotional drama about a kid who wants to be loved, and an old man who learns how to open his heart.
A Cat in Paris Une vie de chat
LIAF Amazing Animations
Sun 17 Aug at 11am
Postman Pat: The Movie
THE KING OF MASKS
Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol France/Netherlands/Switzerland/Belgium 2010 • 1h10m • DCP English language version • PG – Contains infrequent mild violence
How often have cat owners pondered the secret nighttime antics of their feline companions? A Cat in Paris illuminates the nocturnal escapades of a black cat named Dino. He splits his life between two houses – during the day he lives with Zoé, the daughter of a police captain, but during the night he clambers over the roofs of Paris in the company of Nico, a skilful thief. A beautiful hand-painted animation for all the family.
Sun 31 Aug at 11am 1h16m • DCP • U
This special programme of brilliant films from the London International Animation Festival, carefully chosen for very young audiences, strips away all the soft-sell toy ads and the over-the-top blockbuster-style special effects and just delivers up a programme of wonderful films full of simple joys.
Filmhouse Junior
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
How To Train Your Dragon 2
The House of Magic
Sun 7 Sep at 11am
Sun 21 Sep at 11am
Dean DeBlois • USA 2014 • 1h42m DCP • PG – Contains mild violence, threat With the voices of Jay Baruchel, Kristen Wiig, Gerard Butler, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett.
Jeremy Degruson & Ben Stassen • Belgium 2013 1h25m • DCP • English language version U – Contains scary scenes, mild threat, very mild bad language
It’s been five years since Hiccup and Toothless successfully united dragons and vikings on the island of Berk. The now inseparable pair spend their time journeying through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the centre of a battle to protect the peace.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Sun 14 Sep at 11am Mel Stuart • USA 1971 • 1h40m • DCP • U Cast: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole.
The brilliant musical version of perhaps the most famous Roald Dahl book of them all. Enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) stages a contest by hiding five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious chocolate bars. Whoever finds these tickets will win a free tour of the Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of sweets.
Thunder, an abandoned young cat seeking shelter from a storm, stumbles into the strangest house imaginable, owned by an old magician and inhabited by a dazzling array of automatons and gizmos.
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
THE HOUSE OF MAGIC
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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
1 August - 4 September 2014
DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
Fri 1 Aug *
1 1 2 2 3
The Deer Hunter Once Upon a Forest For No Good Reason Boyhood (AD) Boyhood (AD)
2.00/7.40 5.45 3.50/6.00 8.00 2.00/5.30
Sat 2 Aug *
1 1 1 2 2 3 3
Once Upon a Forest For No Good Reason The Deer Hunter Limelight (CC) Erewhon The Deer Hunter Boyhood (AD)
1.00/5.45 3.00 7.40 3.15 6.00 + Q&A 1.05 4.45/8.00
Tue 5 Aug *
Sun 3 Aug *
1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3
Postman Pat: The Movie (FJ) Once Upon a Forest For No Good Reason The Deer Hunter Once Upon a Forest The List and Filming The List The Deer Hunter Limelight (CC) Boyhood (AD)
11.00am 1.00/5.10 3.00 7.00 3.50 6.00 + Q&A 1.00 5.00 7.50
Once Upon a Forest (B) The Deer Hunter Once Upon a Forest For No Good Reason Boyhood (AD) A Night at the Cinema in 1914
11am (babies/carers) 2.00/7.40 5.45 3.15/6.00 8.00 3.30/6.15
Mon 1 4 1 Aug 1 * 2 2 3
* We’re changing the way our programme
schedule works, in order to allow us to keep on, for a little longer, the films that are doing well. To do this, we will be leaving a small part of the screening schedule (one or two slots per day) empty most weeks. We will publish the full weekly schedule (Friday to Thursday) on our website no later than midday on the Tuesday prior, and also list it in our weekly screenings email – sign up at www.filmhousecinema.com/news If you have any comments or feedback on this new system, please let us know by emailing admin@filmhousecinema.com
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SCREENING TIMES
DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
Tue 12 Aug *
1 1 2 2 3 3
Once Upon a Forest The Deer Hunter Local Hero (TSO) A King in New York (CC) A Night at the Cinema in 1914 Boyhood (AD)
2.30/5.40 7.40 5.45 + Q&A 8.45 3.30 8.00
Wed 1 6 1 Aug 2 * 3 3 3
Once Upon a Forest The Deer Hunter Boyhood (AD) Boyhood (AD) A King in New York (CC) A Night at the Cinema in 1914
2.30/5.45 7.40 8.00 2.15 5.45 8.15
SCREENING TIMES
1 1 2 3
Dawn... of the Apes [3D] (AD) Dawn...Planet of the Apes (AD) Namibia in Focus Norte, the End of History
2.30/8.40 5.55 5.45 1.30/6.15
Wed 1 13 1 Aug 2 * 3
Dawn...Planet of the Apes (AD) Dawn... of the Apes [3D] (AD) Norte, the End of History I Am Divine
2.30/5.55 8.40 1.30/6.15 6.00
Thu 14 Aug *
1 1 2 3
Dawn... of the Apes [3D] (AD) Dawn...Planet of the Apes (AD) Norte, the End of History I Am Divine
2.30/5.55 8.40 1.30/6.15 3.30/8.50
Thu 7 Aug *
1 1 1 2 2 3 3
The Deer Hunter Once Upon a Forest Laughter in the One-and-Nines A Night at the Cinema in 1914 The Deer Hunter Boyhood (AD) A Night at the Cinema in 1914
2.00 5.45 8.00 (£10) 3.15 5.15 2.15/8.00 6.00
Fri 15 Aug *
1 1 1 2 2 3
Mood Indigo Jersey Boys (AD) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Mood Indigo Dinosaur 13
2.00 4.50 7.40 1.00 4.35/6.45/8.55 3.25/5.45
Fri 8 Aug *
1 1 1 2 2 3
Northwest Dawn... of the Apes [3D] (AD) Dawn...Planet of the Apes (AD) Dawn...Planet of the Apes (AD) Northwest Cold in July
1.00 3.10/8.40 5.55 1.10 3.55/6.00/8.20 3.30/5.55
Sat 9 Aug *
1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3
EIFF Short Film Challenge Mood Indigo Mood Indigo Jersey Boys (AD) Dinosaur 13 Future Shorts Mood Indigo Dinosaur 13
2.00 (FREE) 6.00/8.45 12.30 2.40 5.30 8.15 + Q&A 3.25 8.30
1 1 1 2 2 3
Northwest Dawn... of the Apes [3D] (AD) Dawn...Planet of the Apes (AD) Dawn...of the Apes (AD) + (S) Northwest Cold in July
1.00 3.10/8.40 5.55 1.10 (subtitled) 3.55/6.00/8.20 3.30/5.55
Sat 16 Aug *
Sun 10 Aug *
1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3
Kirikou & the Men & Women (FJ) 11.00am Northwest 12.55 Grapes of Trust 3.30 + disc. (£8/£6) Dawn... of the Apes [3D] (AD) 5.55 Dawn...Planet of the Apes (AD) 8.40 Your Cheatin’ Heart (TSO) 1.30 (£10/£8) Northwest 8.20 Cold in July 3.30/8.50
Sun 17 Aug *
1 1 1 2 2 2 3
A Cat in Paris (FJ) Zulu Mood Indigo Mood Indigo Jersey Boys (AD) Dinosaur 13 Dinosaur 13
11.00am 1.00/8.20 4.00/6.10 1.10/8.40 3.20 6.15 3.25/8.45
Mon 1 18 1 Aug 1 * 2 2 2 3
Mood Indigo (B) Mood Indigo Jersey Boys (AD) Jersey Boys (AD) Dinosaur 13 Mood Indigo Dinosaur 13
11am (babies/carers) 2.30/6.10 8.15 3.20 6.15 8.40 3.15/8.45
Jersey Boys (AD) Mood Indigo Mood Indigo Trainspotting (TSO) Dinosaur 13
2.30/8.15 6.10 3.30/8.40 6.00 + intro 8.45
Mon 1 11 1 Aug 1 * 2 3
Dawn... of the Apes (B) (AD) Dawn...Planet of the Apes (AD) Dawn... of the Apes [3D] (AD) Norte, the End of History Cold in July
11am (babies/carers) 2.30/8.40 5.55 1.30/6.15 3.30/8.50
Tue 19 Aug *
1 1 2 2 3
WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM
1 August - 4 September 2014
FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION
Wed 1 20 1 Aug 2 * 2 3
Mood Indigo Jersey Boys (AD) + (S) Jersey Boys (AD) Mood Indigo Dinosaur 13
2.30/8.50 6.00 (subtitled) 3.20/8.30 6.15 5.45
Sat 30 Aug
1 2 3 3
Mystery Road Two Days, One Night The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Lilting
1.00/3.30/6.10/8.40 1.10/3.20/6.00/8.30 1.15/6.15 3.10/8.50
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
Sun 31 Aug
1 1 2 3 3
LIAF Amazing Animations (FJ) Mystery Road Two Days, One Night The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Lilting
11.00am 1.00/3.30/6.10/8.40 1.10/3.20/6.00/8.30 1.15/8.45 3.10/6.20
EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later) £8.20 full price, £6.00 concessions
Mon 1 1 1 Sep 2 3 3
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (B) Mystery Road Two Days, One Night The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Lilting
11am (babies/carers) 2.30/6.10/8.40 3.15/6.00/8.30 3.30/8.45 6.20
1 2 2 3 3
Mystery Road Two Days, One Night The Cheviot, the Stag... (TSO) Lilting All This Mayhem
2.30/6.10/8.40 3.15/8.50 6.00 + discussion 3.10/6.20 8.45
Wed 1 3 2 Sep 3 3
Mystery Road Two Days, One Night Lilting All This Mayhem
2.30/6.10/8.40 3.15/6.00/8.30 3.10/8.50 5.45
1 2 2 3 3
Mystery Road Two Days, One Night Polyester All This Mayhem Lilting
2.30/6.10/8.40 3.15/6.00 8.30 3.30/5.45 8.50
Thu 21 Aug *
1 2 2 2 3
Mood Indigo Mood Indigo Jersey Boys (AD) Dinosaur 13 Dinosaur 13
9.05 3.30 6.00 8.50 3.15/5.45
Fri 22 Aug *
1 2 2 3
Two Days, One Night Two Days, One Night God Help the Girl Wakolda
9.10 1.00/6.00 3.20/8.30 1.10/8.45
Sat 23 Aug *
1 2 2 3
Two Days, One Night To Catch a Thief God Help the Girl Wakolda
1.10/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.00/6.10 3.20/8.40 1.10/5.45
Sun 24 Aug *
1 1 2 2 3
The King of Masks (FJ) Two Days, One Night To Catch a Thief God Help the Girl Wakolda
11.00am 1.15/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.00/8.40 3.20/6.10 1.10/8.45
Two Days, One Night (B) Two Days, One Night God Help the Girl From Scotland With Love (TSO) Wakolda
11am (babies/carers) 2.30/6.05/8.30 2.15/8.40 6.00 + Q&A 3.30/5.45
Two Days, One Night Dr Strangelove... + Pink Ice God Help the Girl Miles & War (BB)
2.30/6.05 8.30 3.15/8.40 7.00 + Q&A
Two Days, One Night God Help the Girl First to Fall (BB) Aleppo. Notes from the Dark (BB)
2.30/6.05/8.40 3.15/8.35 6.30 8.30
Mon 1 25 1 Aug 2 * 2 3 Tue 26 Aug *
1 1 2 3
Wed 1 27 2 Aug 3 * 3 Thu 28 Aug *
1 2 3 3
Two Days, One Night God Help the Girl Evaporating Borders (BB) For Those Who Can Tell... (BB)
2.30/6.05/8.40 3.15/6.10 6.30 8.30
Fri 29 Aug
1 2 3 3
Mystery Road Two Days, One Night The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Lilting
1.00/3.30/6.10/8.40 1.10/3.20/6.00/8.30 1.15/6.15 3.10/8.50
Tue 2 Sep
Thu 4 Sep
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 Film Festival (pages 20-21) (CC) – Charlie Chaplin (page 23) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 12-13) (TSO) – To See Oursels (pages 16-18) Full index of films on page 2
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To See Oursels
LOCAL HERO
To See Oursels
LOCAL HERO
Local Hero
Your Cheatin’ Heart
Tue 5 Aug at 5.45pm
Sun 10 Aug at 1.30pm
Bill Forsyth • UK 1983 • 1h51m • 35mm • PG Cast: Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi.
Michael Whyte • UK 1990 • 5h • Digital • 15 Cast: John Gordon Sinclair, Tilda Swinton, Ken Stott, Katy Murphy, Eddi Reader.
2014 is a big year for Scotland, with questions of Scottish history, culture and identity looming large in many peoples’ Writer/director Bill Forsyth’s third feature is one of the funniest culture-clash comedies in cinema history. minds. To See Oursels offers audiences Described by its maker as “Apocalypse Now meets an entertaining and stimulating Brigadoon”, Local Hero both celebrates and subverts a opportunity tae think again about such laundry list of Scottish stereotypes. When a materialistic American corporate executive arrives matters. A diverse range of classic Scottish film and television drama screenings, programme notes, expert introductions and panel discussions shine a spotlight on some of the key ways, both past and present, in which Scotland has understood itself – and in which the wider world has understood the Scots.
YOUR CHEATIN’ HEART
in Scotland with the aim of turning a huge stretch of unspoilt northern coastline into a gigantic petrochemical refinery, the economics of oil go head to head with the enchantment of Highland culture and mythology. A movie warm enough to melt the heart of Donald Trump. The screening will be ollowed by a Q&A with director Bill Forsyth, exploring the film’s comic subversion of a wide range of Scottish stereotypes.
Hardly seen since its first (and to date, only) television broadcast in 1990, and still commercially unavailable on DVD, writer John Byrne’s six-part follow-up to the muchlauded Tutti Frutti (1987) is the great lost treasure in the history of Scottish television drama. Tilda Swinton, Eddie Reader Ken Stott and John Gordon Sinclair star in an acutely observed tale of love and criminality in Country-and-Western-obsessed Glasgow, a frontier town overrun by Johnstone (as opposed to rhinestone) cowboys. Screening in two parts with a break in between: Part I (Episodes 1 - 3, 2h30m) - 1.30pm Part II (Episodes 4 - 6, 2h30m) - 5.00pm Ads and trailers will only be shown at the very beginning – part II will begin sharp at the advertised time.
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the British Film Institute’s Film Audience Network.
Tickets £10/£8
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SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF
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To See Oursels (continued)
TRAINSPOTTING
FROM SCOTLAND WITH LOVE
Trainspotting
From Scotland With Love
Tue 19 Aug at 6.00pm
Mon 25 Aug at 6.00pm
Danny Boyle • UK 1996 • 1h33m • DCP • 18 Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Kelly Macdonald.
Virginia Heath • UK 2014 • 1h16m • DCP U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm
The film that made an entire generation of local cinemagoers dare to think it was alright (not sh***) being Scottish. A motley crew of Edinburgh junkies trade heroin and low blows in Irvine Welsh’s exuberantly unreliable memoir of 1980s and early-’90s drug culture in workingclass Edinburgh. Rarely can one movie have launched so many top-flight filmmaking careers: some twenty years on, Trainspotting remains a notable high point on the cinematic CVs of director Danny Boyle and actors Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Ewan McGregor, Kevin McKidd and Peter Mullan.
Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland With Love is a feature film by award-winning director Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long since dead, their names and identities largely forgotten, appear shimmering from the depth of the vaults to take a starring role. Brilliantly edited together, these silent individuals become composite characters, who emerge to tell us their stories, given voice by King Creosote’s poetic music and lyrics.
The screening will be introduced by Dr Jonny Murray, Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art, who will explore the film’s assertion that ‘It’s sh*** being Scottish’.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Virginia Heath and composer King Creosote, with King Creosote also playing a couple of tunes from the film’s soundtrack live.
THE CHEVIOT, THE STAG AND THE BLACK, BLACK OIL
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil Tue 2 Sep at 6.00pm John Mackenzie • UK 1974 • 1h30m • DCP • 12A Cast: Bill Paterson, Alex Norton, Timothy Martin, Elizabeth MacLennan, John Bett.
A dazzling (and enduring topical) reminder that politics can be entertaining – and entertainment can be political. Capitalising on the remarkable popular success of playwright John McGrath’s touring production of the same name, this 1974 television film (broadcast as a BBC Play for Today) surveys two centuries of Scottish history from the Battle of Culloden to the coming of North Sea oil. Questions about a small nation’s ability to resist wholesale exploitation at the hands of multinational capital and ageold seats of political privilege have rarely been asked with such passion, historical insight and dramatic skill. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion examining the film’s portrayal of the exploitation of Scottish people.
Gone, But Not Forgotten/Come and See.../Scalarama
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Gone, But Not Forgotten Screening in tribute to actor Eli Wallach, who died in June at the age of 98. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Fri 15 Aug at 1.00pm + 7.40pm Sergio Leone • Italy/ Spain 1966 • 2h59m • DCP 15 – Contains strong violence, moderate gore and hanging scenes Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè, Mario Brega.
A milestone in the career of Sergio Leone, the crowning glory of his ‘Dollars’ trilogy, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly made Clint Eastwood an international star. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, Leone’s subversive reimagining of the traditional Western tells the tale of the pursuit of a fortune in gold by Eastwood’s ‘good’ (only marginally less ruthless than the other two!), Lee Van Cleef’s ‘bad’, and Eli Wallach’s ‘ugly’... but the story’s only one thing. Chock-full of astonishing setpieces, extraordinary imagery, a perfect score from Ennio Morricone and more wit and invention than most could even aspire to, this really is the ultimate ‘Spaghetti’ Western – in its fullest version, beautifully restored.
DR STRANGELOVE
POLYESTER
Come and See... Scalarama 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. Now with added panther!
A special screening as part of Scalarama, a national celebration of film that runs throughout September. www.scalarama.com
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Tue 26 Aug at 8.30pm Stanley Kubrick • UK/USA 1964 • 1h34m • DCP • PG Cast: Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens.
Through a series of military and political accidents, a psychotic general – US Air Force Commander Jack D Ripper (Sterling Hayden) – triggers an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia’s strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The US President (Peter Sellers) and Dr Strangelove (Sellers again), a nuclear scientist with bizarre ideas about man’s future, work with the Soviet premier in a desperate effort to save the world. “Perhaps Kubrick’s most perfectly realised film, simply because his cynical vision of the progress of technology and human stupidity is wedded with comedy. The result is scary, hilarious and nightmarishly beautiful, far more effective in its call for disarmament than any number of worthy anti-nuke documentaries.” - Time Out PLUS SHORT Pink Ice Friz Freleng & Hawley Pratt • USA 1965 • 7m • DCP • U The Pink Panther attempts to rescue diamonds in South Africa from two English diamond hunters.
Polyester Thu 4 Sep at 8.30pm John Waters • USA 1981 • 1h25m DCP • 15 – Contains drug misuse Cast: Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, David Samson, Mary Garlington.
After making a name for himself with such underground gross-out epics as Pink Flamingos and Desperate Living, director John Waters made a bid for somewhat wider acceptance with this black comedy, which is sedate only by the standards of his previous work. Francine Fishpaw (Divine) is a housewife whose life has become a living hell. Her husband Elmer runs a porno cinema and is having an affair with his secretary. Francine’s life has become so miserable that her dog commits suicide rather than witness it, but a light appears on the horizon – Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), the handsome and dashing owner of a local drive-in specialising in art films... Screening in ‘Odorama’ – pick up your scratch ‘n’ sniff card on the way in!
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Beyond Borders Film Festival 2014
MILES & WAR
Beyond Borders Film Festival 2014 Tales From the Front Lines 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. Alongside other events taking place in Edinburgh and at Traquair House in the Scottish Borders, the Beyond Borders Film Festival explores different aspects of conflict. Learn from The Peacemakers, tackling violence with words; those Under Fire hoping for a brighter future; and those deemed Collateral Damage, whose lives are forever changed by the destructive legacy of warfare. To find out more about Beyond Borders Scotland and its 2014 summer programme, visit www.beyondbordersscotland.com
FIRST TO FALL
ALEPPO. NOTES FROM THE DARK
THE PEACEMAKERS
UNDER FIRE
Tue 26 Aug at 7.00pm
Wed 27 Aug at 6.30pm
Anne Thoma • Switzerland/Germany 2013 • 1h18m • Digital German, English and Arabic with English subtitles • 15 Documentary
Rachel Beth Anderson • UK/USA/Canada/Libya 2014 • 1h23m DCP • English and Arabic with English subtitles • 15 Documentary
Today’s wars and conflicts are increasingly complex and incomprehensible. When conflict takes centre stage, rarely do we get to see those behind the scenes trying to rewrite the ending. With surprising and emotional insights into the private peace industry, director Anne Thoma observes three private mediators and their work, conducted in hotel lobbies, during business class flights and in secret conference rooms. As we follow the protagonists we begin to understand their motivation, share their hopes and disappointment, and witness rare moments of triumph. A personal view on today’s conflicts, the endeavours to end them and the unusual career of ‘making peace’.
Despite having never fired a gun, but fuelled by hatred of Muammar Gaddafi, Hamid and Tarek abandon peaceful lives in Canada and return to their home country of Libya to join the revolution in 2011. Untrained fighters in an unconventional war, they risk everything to reach the front lines. For eight months, the cameras document raw personal moments and dangerous acts of war as the two friends discover who they are and what they are capable of.
Miles & War
Join us after the screening as we meet with director Anne Thoma and featured mediator David Gorman to talk about the making of the film and discuss the challenges of 21st century peace building.
TICKETDEAL 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.
First to Fall
UNDER FIRE
Aleppo. Notes from the Dark Wed 27 Aug at 8.30pm Wojciech Szumowski & Michal Predlaki • Poland 2014 • 1h28m Digital • Arabic with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary
Next to exploding bombs and under sniper fire, seven Aleppo residents talk about the Syrian revolution and their own ambitions of pursuing varied careers in fields such as journalism and medicine. Protests in the streets and situations from the front line are interspersed with Quran study and humanitarian aid to the ones in need. Shot in the bombarded city of Aleppo over a period of 44 days in the summer of 2013, this documentary creates a unique account of the situation in Syria.
Beyond Borders Film Festival 2014/Namibia in Focus
EVAPORATING BORDERS
FOR THOSE WHO CAN TELL NO TALES
AFRICAN COWBOY
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Thu 28 Aug at 6.30pm
Thu 28 Aug at 8.30pm
Namibia in Focus
Iva Radivojevic • USA/Cyprus 2014 • 1h13m • DCP Greek, English and Arabic with English subtitles • 15 Documentary
Jasmila Zbanic • Bosnia and Herzegovina/Qatar/Germany 2013 1h15m • DCP • Bosnian and English with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Kym Vercoe, Boris Isakovic, Simon McBurney, Branko Cvejic.
Tue 12 Aug at 5.45pm
Exploring notions of belonging, exile and migration, Evaporating Borders poetically examines a series of vignettes on the lives of asylum seekers and political refugees on the island of Cyprus, one of the easiest access points into Europe. Iva Radivojevic’s film investigates the effects of large-scale immigration on national identity and, by dissecting individual’s experiences, the film explores immigration practices throughout Europe and the degree to which a border is insurmountable depending on who stands before it.
Kym, an Australian tourist, travels to Bosnia during her summer holidays and is led to Visegrad, a historical town on the Serbian border, recommended by her guidebook as a must-see destination. Only after returning home does Kym discover the horrific rape crimes and wartime atrocities that were committed there. Haunted by this silent legacy and the lack of memorial, she travels back to Visegrad to investigate why such a place is a recommended tourist location and uncover its hidden history.
Evaporating Borders
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
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Aya Distribution in partnership with Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival present Namibia in Focus, a unique double bill portraying Namibia on film, challenging exotic views of this beautiful but littleknown southern African country, and looking at new representations of the country emerging locally.
African Cowboy Rodney Charles • USA/Namibia 2013 • 13m • Digital
A Namibian cowboy is beaten and left for dead in the desert after standing up to a posse of land-grabbers. PLUS
Taste of Rain Richard Pakleppa • South Africa/Namibia/Germany 2012 • 1h23m DCP • English, Afrikaans and Nama with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Nicola Hanekom, Pope Jerrod, Grant Swanby, Frieda Byl.
Set on a farm in the unforgiving Namibian desert, this film is a poetic exploration of one woman’s journey through drought, loss and love to healing. As her husband leaves the farm in search of water, a water diviner unexpectedly arrives, bringing new life to the farm. But this beautiful stranger, having fought as a guerilla soldier for the liberation of Namibia, is also plagued by the scars from his own past. www.africa-in-motion.org.uk www.ayadistribution.org
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Special Events/The Guardian Edinburgh International TV Festival
THE LIST
EIFF SHORT FILM CHALLENGE SCREENING
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The List and Filming The List
EIFF Short Film Challenge Screening
Sun 3 Aug at 6.00pm
Sat 16 Aug at 2.00pm - FREE
The List
2h15m • PG
Morag Mckinnon • UK 2014 • 50m • DCP Cast: Maureen Beattie.
In 2013 Stellar Quines set out to discover how a mid-scale theatre company can reach a larger audience for their work via the cinema. Restaging their award-winning Edinburgh Festival Fringe production The List, Stellar Quines commissioned BAFTA-winning film director Morag McKinnon to work alongside the company’s Artistic Director Muriel Romanes to produce a cinema version of the play. Their aim was to transform the intimacy of live theatre for the big screen. Produced in association with Screen Academy Scotland at Edinburgh Napier University. PLUS
Filming The List Robin MacPherson • UK 2014 • 30m • DCP
A behind the scenes documentary revealing how the worlds of theatre and film worked with their differences to create a Scottish first for both. Filming The List goes behind the scenes as the two groups of professionals find out how to reconcile the creative and technical differences between theatre and cinema in pursuit of a film of which they can all be proud. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with The List’s stage and screen directors Muriel Romanes and Morag McKinnon.
We invited aspiring and established Scottish filmmakers to submit their films to our Challenge with the only requirement being some reference to our key word: Fourteen. We received a wide selection of films from across the country and are delighted to be screening the shortlisted ones at Filmhouse. Come along and check out the Scottish talent that this Challenge has discovered. Our guest jury will be present for the screening and the winning films will be announced at the end of the event. Awards will be given for best film, most original idea and most innovative use of ESFC theme (Fourteen). Tickets are free (bookable through the box office). Ticketholders are invited to join us for refreshments at an informal get-together in the cafe bar after the screening.
DYNAMO: MAGICIAN IMPOSSIBLE
The Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival From 21 - 23 August we will be hosting exclusive preview screenings of forthcoming TV shows as part of the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. The programme for this year was still to be confirmed as we went to print, but possible screenings include new Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe, with Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney; an episode of the new series of Dynamo: Magician Impossible; and fascinating documentary Showrunners, which looks at the individuals responsible for creating, writing and overseeing every element of production on major US TV shows. Check our website after 4 August for full details of all screenings.
Laughter in the One-and-Nines/Charlie Chaplin
LAUGHTER IN THE ONE-AND-NINES
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Laughter in the One-and-Nines Thu 7 Aug at 8.00pm 2h
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue’s Colin Sell forsakes his piano to turn film buff and share his favourite British comedy film clips in this one-off show in support of Waverley Care. Colin takes us on a personal tour of favourite scenes and actors going back from the 1960s to the very beginning of the British funnies. We revisit Ealing, the ‘Carry Ons’, Alastair Sim, Peter Sellers, Margaret Rutherford and so forth, alongside the likes of Sam Kydd, Liz Fraser, Michael Ward and – would you believe – Blair the Wonderdog. It’s a rich and very funny mix, appealing as much now as then to anyone with a funny bone. Tickets £10
LIMELIGHT
Charlie Chaplin The final two films screening in our retrospective of the work of Charles Chaplin (1889-1977). Chaplin was born in London and, following a difficult, impoverished childhood, rose to worldwide fame in the silent era. His career across stage and screen spanned more than seven decades, and his private life was often mired in controversy. He remains a hugely important figure in the history of cinema.
Limelight Sat 2 Aug at 3.15pm & Sun 3 Aug at 5.00pm Charles Chaplin • USA 1952 • 2h14m DCP • U – Contains very mild sex references Cast: Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin.
A sweetly elegiac drama about a fading music-hall star (Chaplin, beautifully partnered by Buster Keaton – the only time the two appeared in a film together) who falls in love with a suicidal young dancer (Claire Bloom). One of Chaplin’s least political later films, though politics were looming large in his private life – considered a dangerous radical in the United States, he was refused entry to the country when he tried to return to Los Angeles following the UK premiere of the film.
A KING IN NEW YORK
A King in New York Tue 5 Aug at 8.45pm & Wed 6 Aug at 5.45pm Charles Chaplin • UK 1957 • 1h45m DCP • U – Contains very mild comic violence Cast: Charles Chaplin, Maxine Audley, Jerry Desmonde, Sidney James.
Panned by contemporary critics and effectively banned in the USA for 16 years, A King in New York remains as a testament to Chaplin’s determination to expose what he perceived as the political failings of the society that rejected him. Chaplin, having been expelled from his adopted homeland, shot the film entirely in England, and stars as the exiled King Shahdov of Estrovia, who arrives in New York after he is deposed in his homeland. Sensing an opportunity, a shrewd TV personality hoists the bumbling ex-monarch on to television, and sure enough, he becomes an overnight celebrity.
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Special Events
FUTURE SHORTS - I AM TOM MOODY
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FUTURE SHORTS - BUTTER LAMP
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Future Shorts
Grapes of Trust
Sat 16 Aug at 8.15pm
Sun 10 Aug at 3.30pm
2h25m • 15
Alexander Kluge • Germany 2014 • 1h30m • Digital • 12A Documentary
The Future Shorts Festival is the biggest pop-up film festival of its kind in the world, with a massive global audience who regularly attend locally organised screenings in diverse locations each season, often alongside live music, DJs and art. The Future Shorts Summer Season comprises a varied selection of awardwinning short films from the UK, Canada, China, Spain, Austria and France that include animation, fiction and music videos. Included in this season’s selection are Hu Wei’s Butter Lamp, winner of the Audience Award at Glasgow Short Film Festival; Oscar nominated Just Before Losing Everything from Xavier Legrand; and the Edinburgh College of Art produced and BAFTA nominated I Am Tom Moody by Ainslie Henderson. We are delighted to welcome Ainslie to attend this special Future Shorts Edinburgh screening, where we’ll be screening some of his more recent work alongside a short Q&A discussing the life of a short film post-completion, across film festival screenings before its eventual public release.
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This special screening, organised in partnership with Edinburgh Art Festival, coincides with the exhibition ‘Where do I end and you begin’ at City Art Centre.
Filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge is one of the major German public figures of the 20th century. Grapes of Trust is an unusual meditation on capitalism today, through the idiosyncratic eye of a man who has worked closely with Fritz Lang as well as philosopher Theodor Adorno. Screening as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Join us for a short discussion after the film between sociologist Richard Sennett and Edinburgh International Film Festival director Chris Fujiwara. Tickets £8/£6
Erewhon Sat 2 Aug at 6.00pm Gavin Hipkins • New Zealand/Australia/India 2014 • 1h32m DCP • 15
For his first feature-length film, New Zealand artist Gavin Hipkins creates a rich pictorial essay inspired by Samuel Butler’s utopian satire Erewhon (1872). The film follows its narrator from a high country sheep station to a fictional society where machines are banished for fear of their becoming conscious. The screening will be introduced by director Gavin Hipkins and followed by a Q&A.
Filmhouse Player/Filmhouse Cafe Bar and Film Quiz
STRANGER BY THE LAKE
STORIES WE TELL
Little Fugitive Morris Engel, Ray Ashley & Ruth Orkin • USA 1953 • 1h20m PG – Contains mild frightening moments Cast: Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams, Will Lee.
Our online viewing platform allows you to enjoy a selection of Filmhouse-curated films whenever suits you and wherever you are. New films are being added all the time, but here’s a small selection of what’s currently available, with prices starting from only £2.99!
After their mother leaves them home alone in New York for the weekend, 7-year-old Joey is tricked into thinking he’s killed his older brother with an air rifle. So he runs away, to the funfair at Coney Island, to get lost in the rides, the spectacle. Filmmaker Morris Engel and his team see so much in him: a cowboy, the boy in Shane, the kid in Chaplin’s The Kid. A film this fresh could not have been made in America in the 50s, and yet somehow it was – the first true indie movie, real life captured wild in the streets. Truffaut credited this film with inspiring the French New Wave.
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.
Stranger by the Lake L’inconnu du lac Alain Guiraudie • France 2013 • 1h40m • DCP French with English subtitles / 18 – Contains strong real sex Cast: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d’Assumçao, Jérôme Chappatte, Mathieu Vervisch.
A brilliantly observed, sharply insightful and refreshingly frank meditation on sex and desire. In a secluded cruising spot tucked away on a picturesque lake, Franck notices the muscular Michel and quickly falls for him. Franck’s desire continues to grow even as he witnesses Michel commit a terrible, violent act. Aware of the potential danger, possibly even excited by it, Franck ignores the advice of his wary friend Henri and indulges his passion.
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.
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 10 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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Open Studies Autumn Film Courses
LE SAMOURAI
Open Studies Autumn Film Courses A warm welcome to the new Open Studies film programme for 2014/15! From an introduction to celebrated directors (a ten week course on Fritz Lang and a one-day course as a special homage to Theo Angelopoulos) to surveys of national cinemas (beginning with French cinema, and with Italian and Polish to follow in 2015) and thoughtprovoking thematic approaches such as the Cinema of Fantasy and Imagination, we hope there will be a course just for you. Martine Pierquin, Course Organiser
ETERNITY AND A DAY
French Cinema
Martine Pierquin MA MSc DPSI
(code F117) Mondays from 22 September (10 Weeks) 6.30pm - 9.30pm £100/£66 conc. Learn more about the popular stars and innovative directors of French cinema. Together we will examine ten critically acclaimed films, all introduced by a short lecture and followed by a group discussion. Films include: A Nous La Liberté (1931), Remorques (Stormy Waters, 1941), Le Beau Serge (1958), Le Samourai (1967), Mes petites Amoureuses (My Little Loves,1974), Sans Toit Ni Loi (Vagabond, 1985), Germinal (1993), 8 Femmes (2002), J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother, Québec, 2009). In November, we will also attend a screening at the French Film Festival (not included in course fee).
Time and Memory in the Films of Angelopoulos Vangelis Makrigiannakis MA MSc PhD
(code F132) Saturday 25 October, 10am - 4pm £35 (full fee only) The films of Theo Angelopoulos are strong meditations on the element of Time. This day course offers a screening and discussion of Eternity and a Day (1998) and examines the relationship between Time, Memory and History in the films of Angelopoulos, both in comparison to other longtake directors and to ‘Hollywood’ hegemonic aesthetic.
Director Focus: Fritz Lang – From Weimar to Hollywood Jim Dunnigan MA
Cinema of Fantasy and Imagination Rolland Man BA MA MSc
For enrolment and further information please check the University of Edinburgh website: www.ed.ac.uk/studying/short-courses/openstudies Please enrol well in advance of the course’s starting date to avoid disappointment. All courses take place in the Film Guild Cinema at Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road.
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(code F108) Tuesdays from 23 September (10 Weeks) 6.30pm - 8.30pm £100/£66 conc. From the early history of cinema the partisans of realism opposed those who thought film opens doors to new realms of imagination. This is an expedition on the other side of the medium – the fantasy, the fantastic, the miraculous, the imagined, the invented.
(code F120) Thursdays from 25 September (10 Weeks) 6.30pm - 9.30pm £100/£66 conc. The course offers a reassessment of the films of Fritz Lang and explores the ideology of Lang’s work, its social and political backdrop, and his relationship with both Weimar and Hollywood Cinema. We will discuss the historical and political context and the directorial personality that gave Lang’s work a distinct stamp.
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