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Index INDEX SCREENING DATES AND TIMES TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION GENERAL INFORMATION

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2nd Nordic Film Festival On Tour 32-33 12 Years a Slave 11 About Schmidt 14 Arthur Christmas 16 Audio Description and Subtitles 20 Batman 14 La Belle et la Bête 25 The Bishop’s Wife 28 The Border 15 Brigadoon 31 The Broken Circle Breakdown 6 The Brothers 31 Captain Phillips 9 Chasing the Wind 32 Child’s Pose 4 Christmas at Our House!

28-29 Cinema Paradiso 5 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 16 Come and See...

16 The Company of Wolves 22 Dark Visions 22-26 Daughters of Darkness 25 Day of Wrath 25 Dead of Night 23 Dracula + The Mummy 23 Drive, He Said 14 Education and Learning 34 Enough Said 4 The Epic of Everest 7 Fanny 6 Faust 26 Fill the Void 7 Filmhouse Cafe Bar & Quiz 33 Filmhouse Membership 36 Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart 33 Five Easy Pieces 13 For Crying Out Loud 20 Frankenstein + Bride of Frankenstein 24 From the Archive: Scotland on Film 31 Future My Love 6 Gaslight 24 Goin’ South 14

Gone with the Wind 9 Gravity 4 The Illusionist 30 The Innocents 23 It’s a Wonderful Life 28 Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie 12-15 The Jungle Book 7 Kidd Life 32 The King of Marvin Gardens 13 The Last Detail 12 Leviathan 6 Local Hero 30 Lou Reed’s Berlin 26 Marius 4 The Mask of Satan 22 The Masque of the Red Death 24 Meet Me in St Louis 28 Morgiana 25 The Muppet Christmas Carol 28 My Stuff 32 Nebraska 9 Night of the Demon 23 The Night of the Hunter 26 Nosferatu 23 NWR 32 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 15 Parkland 5 The Passenger 13 The Pledge 15 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 31 Prizzi’s Honor 13 The Railway Man 10 The Raymond Briggs Trilogy 29 Reds 12 Scotland Galore!

30-31 Seduced and Abandoned 6 Sunshine on Leith 30 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders 25 Walesa: Man of Hope 5 Weans’ World 16 Where Eagles Dare 16 Whisky Galore!

30 White Christmas 29 The Witches of Eastwick 14 The Wizard of Oz 28 You & Me Forever 33

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Introduction

MARIUS

THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN

CINEMA PARADISO

THE RAILWAY MAN

Come on Susie, get with the programme!

There was a word came up on Countdown the other day, or so a friend tells me. (No, I don’t record it and watch it when I get home. Pointless, on the other hand…) It’s a word I have used many’s the time in this column to describe the certain kind of cinema regularly screened by this particular establishment. The word was, or rather wasn’t, arthouse. Because according to Susie Dent, the so-called ‘expert’ so-called denizen of so-called Dictionary Corner, arthouse isn’t a word. Who knew? (You did, probably.) Art house is OK, as a compound noun that describes a film theatre showing a particular kind of cinema less interested in mere entertainment than artistic expression (though we are hugely interested in entertainment too!), but there is no such adjective. So it might be permissible to say: “Filmhouse is Edinburgh’s amazing, brilliantly programmed, world class ‘art house’ cinema” – as in Filmhouse plays the kind of cinema you might expect to find in an ‘art house’ – but “Filmhouse is Edinburgh’s amazing, brilliantly programmed, world class arthouse cinema” is just plain wrong… if only grammatically. No full-blown identity crisis just yet mind you, the Guardian Style Guide tells us, via the medium of Twitter, that Countdown are “very resistant to new compounds, yet don’t like hyphens much either.” But to show Countdown there are no hard feelings, here’s a tribute ‘tea-time teaser’: P E N T Y A R D – Missing the big picture?

I don’t know where to start with our December programme, so stuffed to the brim is it with brilliant stuff, some of it seasonal, some of it not, but all of it, in its own way, marvellous. If you’ve not seen Gravity (3D particularly) it’s still on until the 12th, and you really don’t want to miss that. Do yourself a favour, put aside any notions you may have of not being interested in mainstream cinema – this film is incredible. Daniel Auteuil fulfils his long-held ambition to bring Marcel Pagnol’s ‘Marseilles’ Trilogy to the screen (well, the first two parts at any rate, Marius and Fanny) and a pair of charmingly romantic little paeans to an earlier, more innocent time they most indubitably are. Nebraska is Alexander (Sideways, The Descendants) Payne’s funny and poignant road movie, which stars Bruce Dern as an aging alcoholic with growing dementia who sets off with his son to claim the $1,000,000 he thinks he has won, and everyone else knows he hasn’t, in a sweepstake; there are two great films that have been lighting up the festival circuit this past year – Belgian bluegrass drama The Broken Circle Breakdown, and, from Romania, Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear-winner, Child’s Pose; and we simply couldn’t not give a run to Paul Greengrass’ utterly gripping and compelling Captain Phillips. Plus there’s a 25th-anniversary restoration of the love letter to moviegoing that is Cinema Paradiso, and 2014 gets off to a flying start with Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman in the much-anticipated adaptation of Eric Lomax’s extraordinary autobiography The Railway Man, closely followed on 10 January by Steve McQueen’s astonishingly good 12 Years a Slave.

It’s A Wonderful Life leads the lineup, as it invariably does, of our seasonal fare, and our Drambuie-sponsored Jack Nicholson retrospective continues apace. We’re in bed with the BFI yet again with our Dark Visions, having culled all the best of the rare and the restored from their Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film season; and Scotland Galore! is a season of fairly obvious provenance which runs into the start of the year in which something in the back of my mind tells me is important for Scotland in some way….?

A very happy holiday season to you all, and a huge thanks for all your support in 2013!

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

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GRAVITY

CHILD’S POSE

NEWRELEASE

NEWRELEASE

ENOUGH SAID

NEWRELEASE

Gravity (3D)

Child’s Pose Pozitia copilului

Marius

Showing until Thu 12 December

Fri 6 to Sun 8 Dec

Fri 6 to Thu 12 Dec

Alfonso Cuarón • USA/UK 2013 • 1h31m • DCP 12A – Contains sustained moderate threat, disturbing images and strong language Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney.

Calin Peter Netzer • Romania 2013 • 1h52m • DCP Romanian with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Ilinca Goia, Florin Zamfirescu.

A gripping thriller set in the unforgiving realm of deep space. Sandra Bullock plays Dr Ryan Stone, a brilliant engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone – tethered to nothing but each other and spiralling out into the blackness…

Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, Child’s Pose is a riveting drama that centres on a mother’s twisted affection for her son, and the repercussions of her actions when his well-being is placed in jeopardy.

Daniel Auteuil • France 2013 • 1h34m DCP • French with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate sex references and nudity Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Raphaël Personnaz, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Victoire Bélèzy, Marie-Anne Chazel.

“Words can do little to convey the visual astonishment this space opera creates. It is a film whose impact must be experienced in 3-D on a theatrical screen to be fully understood.” - Los Angeles Times Screening in both 2D and 3D – see page 18 for details.

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.

60-year-old Cornelia (the phenomenal Luminita Gheorghiu) leads a life of privilege, social power and abundant wealth in contemporary Bucharest, but life is not perfect. More than anything in the world, she longs for her 34-year-old son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) to reciprocate her affections. But the pair barely speak, something the domineering Cornelia blames on Barbu’s live-in girlfriend.

When Barbu is involved in a tragic car accident, Cornelia is thrust back into his life. Seeing her chance to regain control, she commences a campaign to save her son from prison. But Barbu, boiling with anger yet hopelessly emasculated and infantilised, refuses to play along.

Propelled by Gheorghui’s towering, tour-de-force performance and a razor-sharp attention to class and generational resentments, Netzer’s disquieting but compassionate examination of guilt and the crippling effects of loss lays bare the moral bankruptcy of upperclass Romanian society and its institutions.

Daniel Auteuil continues his fascination with Marcel Pagnol’s masterpieces in this superbly performed and polished romantic drama. Part one of the great French playwright/ filmmaker’s Marseilles Trilogy (part two, Fanny, screens 13-19 December), this emotional love story between a would-be sailor and a local girl is carried by young stars Raphaël Personnaz and Victoire Bélèzy, with Auteuil lending support in a role first famously portrayed by the legendary Raimu.

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Enough Said Fri 6 to Tue 10 Dec Nicole Holofcener • USA 2013 • 1h33m DCP • 12A – Contains moderate language and sex references Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Toni Collette, Catherine Keener, Tracey Fairaway.

This smart and decidedly modern romantic comedy from indie stalwart Nicole Holofcener follows the misadventures of a divorcée who finds herself making a new friend – and dating that new friend’s ex-husband at the same time.

Enough Said stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Catherine Keener and the late James Gandolfini in one of his final screen roles.

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WALESA: MAN OF HOPE

NEWRELEASE

Walesa: Man of Hope

Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei Tue 10 to Thu 12 Dec Andrzej Wajda • Poland 2013 • 2h4m DCP • Polish and Italian with English subtitles 12A – Contains infrequent strong language and moderate violence Cast: Robert Wieckiewicz, Agnieszka Grochowska, Iwona Bielska, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Maria Rosaria Omaggio.

Lech Walesa, an electrician, husband and new father, works at the Gdansk shipyard. Arrested at a protest, Walesa discovers that he is a born leader. When he speaks, people respond, and he soon becomes the voice and face of the growing solidarity movement. Aware of the dangers his position entails, he is still determined to fight for his country.

Legendary director Andrzej Wajda (Ashes and Diamonds), still on brilliant form at the age of 87, tells the inspiring story of a Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader with skill and verve.

“A movie with terrific force and irresistible storytelling gusto – and a first-rate lead performance by Robert Wieckiewicz.” - The Guardian

PARKLAND

NEWRELEASE

CINEMA PARADISO

RESTOREDCLASSIC

Parkland

Cinema Paradiso Nuovo Cinema Paradiso

Wed 11 to Sat 14 Dec

Fri 13 to Thu 19 Dec

Peter Landesman • USA 2013 • 1h34m • DCP 15 – Contains bloody surgery scenes and gory injury detail Cast: Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti, Colin Hanks, Marcia Gay Harden, Billy Bob Thornton.

Giuseppe Tornatore • Italy/France 1988 • 2h3m DCP • Italian with English subtitles • PG Cast: Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Cascio, Enzo Cannavale.

Dallas, 22 November, 1963. 12:38pm. A wounded President John F Kennedy is rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where a frantic trauma team struggles in vain to save him.

Forty-eight hours later, the same personnel would attend to the President’s mortally wounded assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

A successful film director returns to his rural Sicilian village after 30 years to attend the funeral of a dear friend and former mentor who advised him, all those years ago, to forsake his humble origins and move to Rome to make a life for himself.

That symmetry provides the framework for Parkland, a kaleidoscopic response to that generation-defining question: “Where were you when JFK was shot?” Adapting Vincent Bugliosi’s acclaimed non-fiction book Four Days in November, first-time writer-director Peter Landesman gathers a star-studded cast (including Zac Efron, Paul Giamatti, and Academy Award-winners Billy Bob Thornton and Marcia Gay Harden) to deliver an engrossing ensemble procedural drawn from the accounts of the medical staff, investigators, and ordinary citizens who witnessed the world-changing events first-hand.

Giuseppe Tornatore hit upon something miraculous when he wrote and directed this tale of romance, between a young man and the movies, and friendship, between the wise, wry projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret) and the cheeky urchin Salvatore (Salvatore Cascio) who wiles his way into the booth. A captivating tribute to the wonder of cinema.

The 5.45pm screening on Friday 13 December will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

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THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN

NEWRELEASE

FANNY

NEWRELEASES

FUTURE MY LOVE

NEWRELEASES

The Broken Circle Breakdown

Leviathan

Seduced and Abandoned

Fri 13 to Sun 15 Dec

Fri 13 to Sun 15 Dec

Mon 16 to Wed 18 Dec

Felix Van Groeningen • Belgium/Netherlands 2012 • 1h52m DCP • Flemish and English with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong sex and language Cast: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert Van Rampelberg, Nils De Caster.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel • France/UK/USA 2012 1h27m • DCP • 12A – Contains one use of strong language Documentary

James Toback • USA 2013 • 1h38m • DCP • 15 – Contains strong language, once very strong, strong sex and sex references Documentary

This stunning documentary immerses the audience in the sights and sounds of a voyage of a battered fishing trawler, detailing the cycle of violent encounters of men, fish, birds, and machines. At times hallucinatory and disorientating, at times gorgeous and abstract, the film will leave no viewer unaffected. An astonishing sensory experience.

For ten days in May 2012, director James Toback and actor Alec Baldwin worked their way through the Cannes Film Festival in an attempt to secure financing for a proposed film project, a political-erotic Middle Eastern adventure inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci’s classic Last Tango in Paris. As they dashed around – hopeful against all odds – Toback filmed the hilarious and revealing proceedings, from pitches to billionaires, studio moguls, producers and international sales financiers, to intimate encounters with major movie stars and iconic directors whose passion for movies proves it’s still possible to transcend the madness.

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2013 Berlinale, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a boisterous, heart-wrenching tale of love, passion, tragedy and joy.

When two unconventional lovers, Elise (a tattoo artist) and Didier (a banjo-playing cowboy), find out their young daughter has a terminal illness, the strength of their relationship is put to the test.

Using a beautifully edited, non-linear structure, the film crisscrosses between key moments in the couple’s past and the increasingly desperate events in their present.

Shot in widescreen to showcase the gorgeous Flemish countryside, the film is elevated to something much more than melodrama with the help of a fabulous soundtrack of American bluegrass.

“Leviathan is cinema on the edge. It shows us a world, ours but unrecognisable, as we’ve never seen it before.” - Slant Magazine

Fanny Fri 13 to Thu 19 Dec

Future My Love

Daniel Auteuil • France 2013 • 1h42m DCP • French with English subtitles PG – Contains mild sex references and mild language Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Victoire Bélèzy, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Raphaël Personnaz, Marie-Anne Chazel.

Sun 15 Dec at 6.00pm & Mon 16 Dec at 8.20pm

The second part of Daniel Auteuil’s Pagnol Trilogy begins where the last story (Marius, screening from 6-12 December) ended, concentrating on the heroine’s efforts to survive back home while her lover sails the seven seas. Like its predecessor, this handsomely mounted production is marked by magnificent performances from Daniel Auteuil, Victoire Bélèzy and especially Jean-Pierre Darroussin as a widower looking to cash in on Fanny’s predicament.

Maja Borg • UK/Sweden 2012 • 1h37m DCP • 12A – Contains infrequent strong language • Documentary

“We have the resources to feed everyone; the technology to create clean energy; and the ability to supply everyone with creative, free and comfortable lives: yet we choose not to.” Maja Borg’s poetic experimental documentary explores, in the light of global economic collapse, alternatives to monetary capitalism and, in particular, the work of sprightly 93-year-old futurist and social engineer, Jacque Fresco.

The screening on Sunday 15 December will be followed by a Q&A with director Maja Borg.

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THE EPIC OF EVEREST

RESTOREDCLASSIC

FILL THE VOID

NEWRELEASE

THE JUNGLE BOOK

RESTOREDCLASSIC

The Epic of Everest

Fill the Void Lemale et ha’halal

The Jungle Book

Tue 17 to Thu 19 Dec

Fri 20 to Sun 22 Dec

Fri 27 Dec to Thu 2 Jan

JBL Noel • UK 1924 • 1h27m • DCP • Silent U – Contains references to mountaineering deaths

Rama Burshtein • Israel 2012 • 1h31m DCP • Hebrew with English subtitles U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein, Irit Sheleg, Chayim Sharir, Razia Israeli.

Wolfgang Reitherman • USA 1967 • 1h18m DCP • U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm With the voices of Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, George Sanders, Louis Prima, Bruce Reitherman.

The official film record of the legendary Everest expedition of 1924 is one of the most remarkable films in the BFI National Archive. Filming in brutally harsh conditions with a hand-cranked camera, Captain John Noel captured images of breathtaking beauty and considerable historic significance. The film is also among the earliest filmed records of life in Tibet and features sequences at Phari Dzong (Pagri), Shekar Dzong (Xegar) and Rongbuk monastery. But what resonates so deeply is Noel’s ability to frame the vulnerability, isolation and courage of people persevering in one of the world’s harshest landscapes.

The restoration by the BFI National Archive has transformed the quality of the surviving elements of the film and reintroduced the original coloured tints and tones. Revealed by the restoration, few images in cinema are as epic – or moving – as the final shots of a blood red sunset over the Himalayas.

A newly commissioned score composed, orchestrated and conducted by Simon Fisher Turner (The Great White Silence) features a haunting combination of electronic music, found sounds, western and Nepalese instruments and vocals.

Restoration supported by The Eric Anker-Petersen Charity.

The winner of Israeli Academy Awards for Best Film and Best Actress, Fill the Void is a nuanced portrait of an Orthodox Hasidic family living in Tel Aviv.

Eighteen-year-old Shira and her family are struck by tragedy when her older sister dies in childbirth. As her sister’s husband is pressed to remarry, her mother makes a startling proposition. Torn between her heart’s desire and religious and family obligation, Shira must decide her future.

Actress Hadas Yaron delivers a pitch-perfect performance in the lead role of a dutiful daughter who nevertheless remains resolutely her own woman.

The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively musical, loosely based on the stories of Rudyard Kipling.

In a tropical jungle Bagheera the Panther discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat. Ten years later, the child has grown into a happy, inquisitive little boy, but his life is in danger when human-hating Shere Khan the tiger returns to the area...

Wonderful characters, stunning animation and delightful jazzy songs make this a true classic.

The 1.00pm show on Saturday 28 December will be a special sing-along screening. Lyrics will be projected onto the screen – join in with unforgettable songs including The Bare Necessities, Trust in Me and I Wanna Be Like You!

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CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

MAYBEYOUMISSED

NEBRASKA

MAYBEYOUMISSED

GONE WITH THE WIND

RESTOREDCLASSIC

Captain Phillips

Nebraska

Gone with the Wind

Fri 27 Dec to Thu 2 Jan

Fri 27 Dec to Thu 2 Jan

Sun 29 Dec at 1.00pm

Paul Greengrass • USA 2013 • 2h14m DCP • 12A – Contains moderate violence and threat Cast: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Faysal Ahmed, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Addirahman.

Alexander Payne • USA 2013 • 1h55m • DCP • 15 – Contains infrequent strong language and moderate sex references Cast: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Bob Odenkirk, Stacy Keach.

The riveting new film from director Paul Greengrass (United 93) is both a taut, high-stakes thriller and a complex dramatisation of the 2009 hijacking of a US container ship by a crew of Somali pirates.

Shot in black and white and built around a father-and-son cross-country road trip, Nebraska marks Alexander Payne’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated The Descendants, delivering another comedic look at complicated, sometimes troubled, family relationships.

Victor Fleming • USA 1939 • 3h53m plus 15-minute intermission DCP • PG – Contains mild violence and dated discriminatory terms Cast: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell, Hattie McDaniel.

Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) is a cautious yet experienced seaman who sets out to navigate the MV Maersk Alabama through treacherous waters to Mombasa, Kenya. Muse (a mesmerising debut from Barkhad Abdi) is a young fisherman-turned-pirate who lives in a small village on the Somali coast under the brutal sway of local gangsters. Set on an irreversible collision course in which the shadowy hand of global economics steers both their ships, the two men pay a very human price for their opposing endeavours.

Bruce Dern shines as Woody, an ageing alcoholic with increasing dementia who believes he has won a milliondollar sweepstake and attempts to walk to Lincoln, Nebraska, to claim his prize. After thwarting his earliest attempt, Woody’s wife and two sons develop growing frustrations and differing opinions on how to deal with the problem. Instead of joining his mother Kate and his brother Ross in their lobbying to put their father into a home, Dave, Woody’s youngest, agrees to drive Woody to Lincoln himself. Destined for failure, the two set off on a hilarious road trip that delves deep into the dark corners of Woody’s past and teaches them both a little bit about the nature of family.

“Throughout, Payne gently infuses the film’s comic tone with strains of longing and regret, always careful to avoid the maudlin or cheaply sentimental.” - Variety

Now the beneficiary of a 4K digital restoration, David O Selznick’s production of Margaret Mitchell’s best-seller remains the pinnacle of polished Hollywood storytelling and craftsmanship. Despite a lengthy genesis which involved several directors and numerous writers, the completed film is a remarkably coherent account of the novel, and successfully balances the larger backdrop – the seismic changes affecting the South at the time of the American Civil War – with the more intimate story of Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh), a petulant belle wreaking havoc on others in her pursuit of Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) and her dealings with Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). The cast – which also boasts Olivia de Havilland as Ashley’s wife Melanie – does an excellent job; but it is as a sumptuous historical romance that the film most impresses, with superlative art direction, music and lush Technicolor camerawork. With so many big-name collaborators, one wonders who should take credit for the film’s enduring success: Selznick? Fleming? Leigh? (All three were among the film’s ten Oscar-winners.) Frankly, my dears, I don’t give a damn... - Geoff Andrew, BFI

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The Railway Man Showing from Wed 1 Jan Jonathan Teplitzky • Australia/UK 2013 • 1h56m • DCP • cert tbc Cast: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Hiroyuki Sanada, Jeremy Irvine.

Based on Eric Lomax’s extraordinary autobiography, The Railway Man is a powerful tale of survival, love and redemption. Eric (Colin Firth) is a quiet, middle-aged radio and railway enthusiast. He meets kind, sunny Patti (Nicole Kidman) one afternoon on a Scottish train. A whirlwind courtship and wedding follow, but on their wedding night, and for many nights to come, Eric succumbs to graphic, paralysing nightmares. He provides Patti no explanation.

Confused and hurt by her new husband’s remoteness, Patti turns to Eric’s friend Finlay (Stellan Skarsgård), who finally discloses her husband’s harrowing secret: along with thousands of other British soldiers captured by the Japanese during the Second World War, Eric was forced to work on the construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway – the so-called Death Railway. When a secret radio he had built was discovered, he was brutally tortured by a Japanese officer. In the hope of helping her husband put his past to rest, Patti decides to search for this man.

See page 20 for screening times for 1 and 2 January.

For the week commencing Friday 3 January, screening times are as follows: Fri 3 Jan: 1.00pm, 3.30pm, 6.00pm, 8.30pm Sat 4 Jan: 1.05pm, 6.15pm, 8.45pm Sun 5 Jan: 1.00pm, 6.00pm, 8.30pm Mon 6 Jan: 3.00pm, 6.00pm, 8.30pm Tue 7 Jan: 3.00pm, 6.00pm, 8.30pm Wed 8 Jan: 3.00pm, 6.00pm, 8.30pm Thu 9 Jan: 3.00pm, 6.00pm, 8.30pm

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12 Years a Slave Showing from Fri 10 Jan Steve McQueen • USA/UK 2013 • 2h14m • DCP • 15 – Contains strong violence, injury detail, sex, nudity and racist terms Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Kelsey Scott.

Steve McQueen (Hunger, Shame) confirms his directorial prowess with a film of momentous importance and expanded cinematic scope in which he tackles head-on the long-untouchable subject of slavery.

Solomon (an extraordinary performance from Chiwetel Ejiofor) is an accomplished violinist living as a free man in New York who is conned into joining a travelling show then brutally abducted and sold as a slave. When his comparatively benevolent first owner Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) sells him to abusive, demented plantation boss Epps (Michael Fassbender), any chance to prove the illegitimacy of his situation seems lost. As Epps spirals into madness, Solomon and his fellow slaves are subjected to escalating bouts of violence and their struggle to maintain dignity becomes increasingly desperate.

Based on Solomon Northup’s confronting memoir, 12 Years a Slave plays out on Louisiana plantations prior to the American Civil War, a potent historical context for McQueen to continue exploring themes of physical deprivation, self-loathing and the absence of choice. This unrelenting, indelible work of cinema is timely as both an expansion of, and antidote to, the very different ventures of Tarantino’s Django Unchained and Spielberg’s Lincoln. LFF programme For the week commencing Friday 3 January, screening times are as follows: Fri 10 Jan: 2.30pm, 5.40pm, 8.30pm Sat 11 Jan: 1.00pm, 4.00pm, 7.00pm Sun 12 Jan: 2.30pm, 5.40pm, 8.30pm Mon 13 Jan: 2.45pm, 5.40pm, 8.30pm Tue 14 Jan: 2.45pm, 5.40pm, 8.30pm Wed 15 Jan: 2.45pm, 5.40pm, 8.30pm Thu 16 Jan: 2.45pm, 5.40pm, 8.30pm

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Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie

THE LAST DETAIL

REDS

THE PASSENGER

Drambuie brings you A Taste of the Extraordinary...

The Last Detail

Jack Nicholson

Hal Ashby • USA 1973 • 1h44m • DCP • 18 Cast: Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James.

Jack Nicholson is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director who is not only one of three men to win a record three Oscars, but is also the most nominated male actor ever, with twelve Oscar nominations in total. We are delighted to present this retrospective, which includes films that explore the depths of Nicholson’s extraordinary career spanning over five decades (amongst his records, he is also one of only two actors to receive Oscar nods in every decade from the 1960s-2000s). The season will showcase the complex and memorable characters that he has created and portrayed over the years.

This is the seventh special season of films showcased in partnership with Drambuie, who, we are delighted to announce, have recently renewed their partnership with Filmhouse through to at least September 2014. Drambuie’s ongoing financial support allows Filmhouse to screen unique cinematic programmes that showcase extraordinary filmmakers, actors and actresses that have made a lasting impact on cultural society as well as film history. Alongside these extraordinary films, audiences can experience Drambuie’s unique blend of Scotch whisky, spices and heather honey in an array of bespoke cocktails at our Café Bar, created to celebrate each season. And over the cold winter months, look out for the special Drambuie Hot Apple Toddy!

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

Thu 12 Dec at 6.00pm

A naïve new Navy recruit (Randy Quaid), sentenced to prison after stealing 40 bucks from a charity collection box, is escorted from his base in Virginia to New Hampshire Naval Prison by two officers (Jack Nicholson and Otis Young). But in the course of their journey, the two men develop an affectionate sort of pity for their young charge, and decide to make his last week of freedom a memorable one.

Written for the screen by Robert (Chinatown) Towne, and effortlessly directed by Hal Ashby, this funny, profane and sorrowful film features one of Nicholson’s finest ever performances, as the manic, foul-mouthed Buddusky.

Reds Sun 15 Dec at 2.00pm Warren Beatty • USA 1981 • 3h15m • 35mm • English, Russian, German, French and Finnish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski.

This second directorial effort from Warren Beatty was his most daring and politically volatile, painting a sympathetic portrait of America’s radical Left in the second decade of the 20th century. The film focuses on John Reed (played

by Beatty), a revolutionary journalist best known for his first-hand account of the Russian Revolution – Ten Days That Shook the World. Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Maureen Stapleton round out the powerful cast nominated in all four acting categories at the Academy Awards, the only film to do so until 2013.

Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie

THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS

PRIZZI’S HONOR

FIVE EASY PIECES

The Passenger Professione: Reporter

The King of Marvin Gardens

Five Easy Pieces

Mon 16 Dec at 8.30pm

Thu 19 Dec at 8.45pm

Fri 27 Dec at 6.15pm & Sat 28 Dec at 3.30pm

Michelangelo Antonioni • Italy/Spain/France 1975 • 2h6m 35mm • 12A – Contains strong language Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry, Steven Berkoff.

Bob Rafelson • USA 1972 • 1h44m DCP • 15 – Contains strong violence Cast: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson, Scatman Crothers.

Bob Rafelson • USA 1970 • 1h38m DCP • 15 – Contains moderate sex Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Lois Smith, Susan Anspach, Billy Green Bush.

The last in a trio of English-language films Antonioni made for MGM, The Passenger opens in the heat of the North African desert. David Locke (Nicholson) is a television reporter at the end of his tether. When he finds his fellow hotel guest, a Brit named David Robertson, dead in his bed, he takes strange advantage of the situation. He swaps shirts, passport photos and hotel rooms and assumes Robertson’s identity, an identity which brings with it a whole host of new dangers…

In a film that captures all the sadness of an American dream gone wrong, Jason Staebler (Bruce Dern) concocts impossible get-rich-quick schemes. He involves his brother David (Jack Nicholson, reunited with director Bob Rafelson after their 1970 hit Five Easy Pieces, screening later in this season) and girlfriend Sally (Ellen Burstyn) in his latest venture, to build a Hawaiian resort with embezzled money from his mobster boss.

A key work from an era that’s now considered the last Golden Age of American cinema (1967-1975), Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson’s superlative character study, won the Best Picture from the New York Film Critics Circle and established Jack Nicholson, fresh from his success in Easy Rider the previous year, as the foremost actor of his generation. One of the few honest American films about social class, downward mobility, family, and alienation, it’s more of a character and mood piece than a straightforward, plot-driven narrative.

Prizzi’s Honor

Nicholson plays Bobby Dupea, an upper-middle class dropout who now works as rigger in the California oil fields, spending his leisure time in bowling alleys and bars with his drinking buddies and his waitress girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black). Upon discovering that his father has suffered a stroke, he takes a trip up North to visit his family.

A languorous, mysterious and quite captivating thriller that moves from Africa to London to Munich and, finally, to Barcelona and the Spanish countryside.

“A classic of a difficult and alienating kind, but one that really does shimmer in the mind like a remembered dream.” - The Guardian 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 Buy any nine (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 35% 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.

Mon 23 Dec at 8.15pm John Huston • USA 1985 • 2h9m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Robert Loggia, John Randolph, Anjelica Huston.

Director John Huston, one-time master of film noir, returned to the form for his penultimate film, a black comedy about the Mafia. Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson) is a dopey hit man who works for a powerful New York Mafia family. He spots luscious Irene Walker (Kathleen Turner) at a gangster wedding and loses his heart. She’s ostensibly a tax consultant living in Los Angeles, and soon Charley finds himself flying westward to court her. Then he discovers that she’s really a hit woman for the mob, and when he learns that Irene has cheated his own Mafia family – the Prizzis – out of a great deal of money, his loyalties are painfully divided.

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Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie (continued)

ABOUT SCHMIDT

THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK

GOIN’ SOUTH

About Schmidt

Batman

Goin’ South

Sat 28 Dec at 1.15pm & Mon 30 Dec at 6.05pm

Sun 29 Dec at 8.30pm

Wed 8 Jan at 3.15pm & Thu 9 Jan at 8.45pm

Alexander Payne • USA 2003 • 2h5m • 35mm 15 – Contains infrequent strong language Cast: Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, June Squibb.

Tim Burton • USA/UK 1989 • 2h6m DCP • 15 – Contains moderate violence Cast: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle.

Jack Nicholson • USA 1978 • 1h48m • 35mm • PG Cast: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Veronica Cartwright.

Putting aside all vanity, and eschewing his killer smile and eyebrow arching, Nicholson dominates every frame of this bleak comedy about a recently retired insurance administrator who sets out on a cross-country odyssey, determined to stop his daughter marrying a man he believes is unworthy of her. Warren Schmidt’s verbal impotence and self-doubt are made all the more affecting because it is Nicholson who displays them, a star who usually appears charismatic, witty and sexually confident.

Here, he’s bathed in sadness, striving to find himself.

In crime-ridden, corrupt Gotham City, stories circulate about a vigilante who’s cleaning up the town on his own.

Photographer Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger) is determined to get some pictures of this mysterious ‘Bat Man’, but in the meantime falls for enigmatic millionaire Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), completely unaware of his alter ego.

Meanwhile Jack Napier (Nicholson), the loose cannon henchman of a local crime boss, has plans to take over the business, and steps up the offensive, on both the city and Batman.

Drive, He Said

The Witches of Eastwick

Sat 28 Dec at 6.15pm & Sun 29 Dec at 1.25pm Jack Nicholson • USA 1971 • 1h35m • DCP • 15 Cast: William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern, Robert Towne.

The directorial debut of the Los Angeles Lakers’ most famous fan, Jack Nicholson, Drive, He Said is an ambitious if somewhat ramshackle drama about basketball, draft dodging and sleeping with professors’ wives. Hector (William Tepper), the long-haired star of an Ohio college team, can’t decide if he wants to turn pro or join Gabriel (Michael Margotta), his radical roommate, in bringing about the revolution. In the meantime, he’s content to carry on an affair with a faculty wife (Karen Black), while Gabriel works hard at convincing the draft board that he’s crazy.

Mon 6 Jan at 3.10pm & Tue 7 Jan at 6.10pm George Miller • USA 1987 • 1h58m • 35mm • 18 Cast: Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright, Richard Jenkins.

Three bored, sexually repressed New England women – Alex (Cher), Jane (Susan Sarandon), and Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer) – accidentally conjure up a mysterious stranger after they spend an evening drinking martinis and fantasising about their ideal man. The next day, Daryl Van Horne (Jack Nicholson), filthy rich, wild-eyed Devil incarnate, arrives in town, and strange things begin to happen...

Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the while to escape at the first possible opportunity. But Tate insists that he honour his end of the bargain, and puts him to work on the gold mine that she has on her property. A beguiling, offbeat comedy Western with Nicholson taking on the role of director as well as star.

Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST

THE BORDER

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

The Border

Tue 21 Jan at 8.45pm

Mon 27 Jan at 6.00pm & Tue 28 Jan at 3.15pm

Milos Forman • USA 1975 • 2h14m • 35mm • 18 Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Danny De Vito.

Tony Richardson • USA 1982 • 1h48m • 35mm English and Spanish with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo.

Ken Kesey’s grim satire of institutionalised authority, bracingly filmed by Milos Forman and featuring a bravura performance from Jack Nicholson that earned him his first Best Actor Oscar.

Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) is an El Paso border guard, saddled with an avaricious wife. Hoping to stifle her nagging about money matters, Charlie begins accepting payoffs to allow Mexican aliens to cross the border without interference. This leads to a relationship with a young Mexican woman (Elpidia Carrillo). Harvey Keitel and Warren Oates lend strong support to this atmospheric drama.

Wisecracking Randle P McMurphy (Nicholson) escapes the rigours of prison life by pretending to be crazy. Shipped to a mental asylum, he becomes the prisoner of a much more hateful system, presided over by a quietly sadistic head nurse (Louise Fletcher). To bring life to the dead atmosphere, McMurphy introduces card games, organises basketball games, and even conducts a field trip for his fellow inmates, but at every turn Nurse Ratched is there to administer punishment, determined to break his spirit.

With thanks to the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.

N.B. This 35mm print, the only one available to us, is somewhat faded and pink in colour but in otherwise good condition.

The Pledge Wed 29 Jan at 5.50pm & Thu 30 Jan at 3.05pm Sean Penn • USA 2001 • 2h3m • 35mm 15 – Contains strong violence, child abuse and crime scene images Cast: Jack Nicholson, Patricia Clarkson, Benicio Del Toro, Robin Wright-Penn, Aaron Eckhart.

Reno policeman Jerry Black (Nicholson) is middle-aged, twice-divorced, and ready to take up his fishing rod and settle into retirement. But his hopes are disturbed by the grisly discovery in the Nevada mountains of a 7-year-old girl’s violated corpse. With heavy heart, Black elects to carry the dreadful news to the girl’s parents, and finds himself making a solemn pledge to her mother (Patricia Clarkson) that he will hunt down the killer.

THE PLEDGE

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Weans’ World/Come and See... Where Eagles Dare

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2

Weans’ World Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost £3.50 (£4.50 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS

Arthur Christmas Sat 21 Dec at 1.00pm & Sun 22 Dec at 11.00am Sarah Smith • UK/USA 2011 • 1h37m • DCP U – Contains very mild language and mild comic threat With the voices of James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Ashley Jensen.

A wonderful family film from the team at Aardman. Santa

See Christmas at Our House (pages 28-29) for Claus is nearing retirement, with his super-efficient but joyless son Steven ready to take over. But the future of more great family films!

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 position of Head of Christmas looks less certain when a child is left without a present and the only person prepared to put things right is Steven’s hapless brother, Arthur.

WHERE EAGLES DARE

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.

Where Eagles Dare Wed 11 Dec at 8.15pm Brian G Hutton • USA/UK 1968 • 2h35m • Digital • PG Cast: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern.

“Broadsword calling Danny Boy...”

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 Sat 7 Dec at 1.00pm & Sun 8 Dec at 11.00am Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn • USA 2013 • 1h35m • DCP U – Contains mild threat, rude humour and very mild language With the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg.

When Flint Lockwood discovers that his most infamous invention, the FLDSMDFR, is still working, he returns to Swallow Falls to deal with it. Except now the machine is producing huge food-animal hybrids. Filnt has to decide whether to destroy the machine or leave the new creations in peace.

An elite group of Allied commandos, led by John Smith (Richard Burton), are assigned to rescue an American general being held captive by the Nazis in a castle high in the Bavarian Alps. Ably assisted by a young American lieutenant, Morris Schaffer (Clint Eastwood), Smith and his crew of six don German uniforms and parachute into enemy territory. One of their number is found dead after landing, and Smith begins to suspect that one of his men is a double agent...

Burton, in a switch from the heavy dramatic roles that made him famous, is excellent as an action hero, but Eastwood is the one who makes it all worthwhile. If it’s explosions, gunplay, and wartime treachery that you like, Where Eagles Dare delivers – it is Quentin Tarantino’s favourite ‘men on a mission’ movie after all!

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Choreography Christopher Hampson Music Engelbert Humperdinck

Wed 8 – Sat 11 January 2014 Box Office 0131 529 6000 Book Online edtheatres.com

Booking fee | Registered in Scotland No. SC065497 and Scottish Charity No. SC008037 | Illustration by Scottish Ballet in collaboration with Neil Duerden. Original photograph by Nisbet & Wylie. Dress supplied by Oscar De La Renta.

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

6 December 2013 - 2 January 2014

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Tue 10 Dec

Fri 6 Dec

1 2 2 3 3

Gravity [3D] (AD) Child’s Pose Chasing the Wind (N) Marius Enough Said (AD)

3.15/6.00/8.15 3.40/8.30 6.15 3.20/6.10 8.20

Sat 7 Dec

1 1 2 2 3 3

Cloudy with a Chance... 2 (WW) Gravity [3D] (AD) Child’s Pose My Stuff (N) Enough Said (AD) Marius

1.00 3.15/6.00/8.15 1.15/3.40/8.30 6.15 1.10/8.20 3.20/6.10

Sun 8 Dec

1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3

Cloudy with a Chance... 2 (WW) Gravity [3D] (AD) + (S) Gravity [3D] (AD) The Company of Wolves (DV) Child’s Pose Kidd Life (N) Enough Said (AD) Marius

11.00am 1.00 (subtitled) 3.15/8.15 6.00 1.15/3.40/8.30 6.15 1.10/8.20 3.20/6.10

Enough Said (AD) (B) Gravity [3D] (AD) Gravity (AD) Enough Said (AD) NWR (N) Marius

11am (carers & babies) 3.15/8.15 6.00 3.00/8.00 6.15 3.20/8.30

Mon 1 9 1 Dec 1 2 2 3

1 2 2 2 3 3

Wed 1 11 1 Dec 2 2 2 3 3

BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Gravity [3D] (AD) Enough Said (AD) Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart (N) Walesa: Man of Hope Marius Enough Said (AD) + (S)

3.15/6.00/8.15 3.00 6.15 8.20 3.20/8.30 6.10 (subtitled)

Gravity [3D] (AD) Where Eagles Dare (CS) Parkland You & Me Forever (N) Walesa: Man of Hope Marius Parkland

3.15/6.00 8.15 3.00 6.15 8.20 3.20/6.10 8.40

Sat 14 Dec

1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

Parkland Leviathan Cinema Paradiso It’s a Wonderful Life (C) The Mask of Satan (DV) The Broken Circle Breakdown It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Leviathan Fanny Parkland

1.00 3.10 5.15 7.45 10.30 1.10/6.30 3.40 9.00 1.30/6.00 3.45/8.15

Sun 15 Dec

1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Leviathan Reds (JN) The Broken Circle Breakdown Cinema Paradiso Cinema Paradiso Fanny Future My Love

3.30/8.15 6.15 2.00 5.50 8.30 1.05 3.45/8.45 6.00 + Q&A

Cinema Paradiso (B) It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Cinema Paradiso Seduced and Abandoned The Passenger (JN) Fanny Future My Love

11am (carers & babies) 3.00/8.30 5.45 3.10/6.15 8.30 3.15/6.00 8.20

Thu 12 Dec

1 1 2 2 3 3

Gravity [3D] (AD) The Last Detail (JN) Walesa: Man of Hope Lou Reed’s Berlin Marius Parkland

3.15/8.30 6.00 3.00/5.45 8.25 3.20/6.10 8.40

Fri 13 Dec

1 1 2 2 2 3 3

It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Cinema Paradiso Cinema Paradiso The Broken Circle Breakdown Leviathan Fanny Parkland

3.00/8.30 5.45 + intro 3.15 6.10 8.45 3.10/6.00 8.15

Mon 1 16 1 Dec 1 2 2 3 3

KEY (AD) – Audio Description (see page 20) (B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 20) (S) – Subtitled (see page 20) All screenings in 2D unless marked [3D] SEASONS: (C) – Christmas at Our House! (pages 28-29) (CS) – Come and See (page 16) (DV) – Dark Visions (pages 22-26) (JN) – Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie (pages 12-15) (N) – 2nd Nordic Film Festival On Tour (pages 32-33) (SG) – Scotland Galore! (pages 30-31) (WW) – Weans’ World (page 16) Full index of films on page 2

WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Sun 22 Dec

1 2 2 3 3

It’s a Wonderful Life (C) The Epic of Everest Seduced and Abandoned Fanny Cinema Paradiso

3.00/5.45 3.10/8.15 6.00 3.15/5.40 8.00

Wed 1 18 1 Dec 2 2 2 3 3

It’s a Wonderful Life (C) The Bishop’s Wife (C) Cinema Paradiso Seduced and Abandoned The Epic of Everest Fanny Cinema Paradiso

3.00/8.30 6.00 3.10 6.15 8.40 3.15/8.25 5.45

Tue 17 Dec

6 December 2013 - 2 January 2014

Thu 19 Dec

1 2 2 3 3

It’s a Wonderful Life (C) The Epic of Everest The King of Marvin Gardens (JN) Fanny Cinema Paradiso

3.00/5.45/8.30 3.10/6.15 8.45 3.15/8.40 6.00

Fri 20 Dec

1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Fill the Void Fill the Void The Bishop’s Wife (C) Meet Me in St Louis (C) The Bishop’s Wife (C) The Innocents (DV) Fill the Void

1.00/5.50/8.35 3.45 1.10/8.30 3.15 6.00 1.15 3.45/8.25 6.15

Sat 21 Dec

1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3

Arthur Christmas (WW) Fill the Void The Muppet Christmas Carol (C) It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Nosferatu (DV) Fill the Void It’s a Wonderful Life (C) The Bishop’s Wife (C) The Innocents (DV) Fill the Void

1.00 3.00 5.15 7.15 10.00 1.10/8.45 3.15/6.00 1.15 3.45/8.25 6.15

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Fri 27 Dec

1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3

The Jungle Book Captain Phillips (AD) Five Easy Pieces (JN) Sunshine on Leith (SG) Nebraska (AD) Captain Phillips (AD) + (S) Sunshine on Leith (SG) Captain Phillips (AD)

1.00 3.00/8.30 6.15 1.15 3.30/6.00/8.40 1.05 (subtitled) 3.55/9.00 6.10

Sat 28 Dec

1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

The Jungle Book (Sing-Along) Dracula + The Mummy (DV) Whisky Galore! (SG) Sunshine on Leith (SG) About Schmidt (JN) The Illusionist (SG) Nebraska (AD) Sunshine on Leith (SG) Five Easy Pieces (JN) Drive, He Said (JN) Captain Phillips (AD)

1.00 3.00 6.30 8.45 1.15 4.00 6.00/8.40 1.10 3.30 6.15 8.25

Sun 29 Dec

1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Gone with the Wind Local Hero (SG) Batman (JN) Night of the Demon (DV) Nebraska (AD) Sunshine on Leith (SG) Drive, He Said (JN) The Jungle Book Captain Phillips (AD) The Brothers (SG)

1.00 6.00 8.30 1.15 3.30/6.10 8.40 1.25 3.45 5.45 8.45

The Jungle Book (B) The Jungle Book Whisky Galore! (SG) The Prime of Miss J Brodie (SG) Night of the Demon (DV) The Prime of Miss J Brodie (SG) Nebraska (AD) About Schmidt (JN) Night of the Demon (DV) Captain Phillips (AD) Sunshine on Leith (SG)

11am (carers & babies) 2.00 4.00 6.00 8.30 1.00 3.30/8.45 6.05 1.10 3.10/8.25 6.10

1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3

Arthur Christmas (WW) It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Fill the Void The Wizard of Oz (C) Fill the Void Meet Me in St Louis (C) It’s a Wonderful Life (C) White Christmas (C) The Muppet Christmas Carol (C) The Innocents (DV) Fill the Void

11.00am 1.00/8.15 3.45 6.00 1.10 3.15 5.45 8.30 1.15 3.30/8.25 6.15

Mon 1 23 1 Dec 1 2 2 2 2 3 3

The Raymond Briggs Trilogy (C) It’s a Wonderful Life (C) White Christmas (C) It’s a Wonderful Life (C) (B) The Wizard of Oz (C) It’s a Wonderful Life (C) Prizzi’s Honor (JN) Meet Me in St Louis (C) The Innocents (DV)

11.00am 3.00/8.30 5.45 11am (carers & babies) 3.10 5.30 8.15 1.15/8.20 3.45/6.00

1 1 2 2 2 3 3

The Raymond Briggs Trilogy (C) It’s a Wonderful Life (C) The Muppet Christmas Carol (C) White Christmas (C) The Wizard of Oz (C) The Wizard of Oz (C) The Innocents (DV)

11.00am 1.00/3.45/7.00 1.10 3.10 6.30 1.15 3.30/6.15

Tue 24 Dec

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

Wed 25 & Thu 26 Dec - CLOSED - Merry Christmas!

Christmas and New Year Opening Hours Our box office will be open as usual (10am - 9pm) apart from on the following days: Tue 24 Dec: 10am - 7.15pm Wed 25 & Thu 26 Dec: Closed Tue 31 Dec: 12pm - 7.15pm Wed 1 Jan: 12pm - 7.30pm Thu 2 Jan: 11am - 9.00pm See page 33 for details of cafe bar opening times over the festive period.

Mon 1 30 1 Dec 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

GRID CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

6 December 2013 - 2 January 2014

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Tue 31 Dec

1 1 1 2 3 3

Wed 1 1 2 Jan 2 3 3 Thu 2 Jan

1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

The Jungle Book Local Hero (SG) Sunshine on Leith (SG) Nebraska (AD) Whisky Galore! (SG) Captain Phillips (AD)

BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688

WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM

SCREENING TIMES

TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION

AUDIODESCRIPTIONANDSUBTITLES

2.00 4.00 7.00 1.45/4.15/6.45 1.30 3.30/6.30

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

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.

The Railway Man The Jungle Book Nebraska (AD) Sunshine on Leith (SG) Captain Phillips (AD)

2.00/4.30/7.00 2.15 4.15/6.45 1.45/7.15 4.00

The Railway Man The Prime of Miss J Brodie (SG) Nebraska (AD) The Railway Man Brigadoon (SG) The Jungle Book Captain Phillips (AD) Nebraska (AD) + (S)

1.00/6.00/8.30 3.30 1.10/8.45 3.40 6.15 1.05 3.00/8.25 5.50 (subtitled)

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.

This issue, all screenings of Gravity, Enough Said, Captain Phillips and Nebraska will have audio description, and the following screenings will also have subtitles:

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

Gravity: Sun 8 Dec, 1.00pm

Filmhouse Members get £1.50 off every ticket (excludes Friday matinees and Weans’ World)

Enough Said: Tue 10 Dec, 6.10pm

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 EE 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

Captain Phillips: Fri 27 Dec, 1.05pm Nebraska: Thu 2 Jan, 5.50pm

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, bottle-warming and buggy parking facilities are available.

Enough Said: Mon 9 Dec, 11am Cinema Paradiso: Mon 16 Dec, 11am It’s a Wonderful Life: Mon 23 Dec, 11am The Jungle Book: Mon 30 Dec, 11am

We are embarking on some essential remedial works to upgrade our boilers, water supply, heating control systems and back room facilities over the next few months. These works will result in significant improvements in energy and operational efficiency for Filmhouse.

There may be some occasional noise disruption and access issues to Cinemas 2 and 3 during these works. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience, and be assured we are working with our contractors to keep this to a minimum.

‘A landmark theatre event.’

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Wed 22 Jan - Sat 15 Feb 2014 Edinburgh Festival Theatre Box Office 0131 529 6000* edtheatres.com* *Booking fee. Registered Charity SC018605.

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Dark Visions

THE COMPANY OF WOLVES

THE MASK OF SATAN

Dark Visions A season exploring representations of witchcraft and gothic horror in cinema, Dark Visions is part of the BFI season Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film, a celebration of film and television’s ability to reveal our darkest fears and desires, and conjure the creatures of the night into being. Over the coming months, the BFI and a host of UK partners lift the lid on Gothic’s dark storehouse of horror and romance tales, with over 150 titles and around 1,000 screenings, and spectacular and terrifying special events to thrill every corner of the land. Featuring restorations from the BFI National Archive, new BFI publications, DVD releases, an education programme, and some very special guests, we look forward to welcoming you to the dark heart of film.

For our season here at Filmhouse, we have chosen to focus primarily on the rare and the restored films that feature in the BFI’s wider Gothic season, bringing in many prints from European archives and including many titles newly available in digital restorations.

Part of the BFI Gothic season.

For more information, visit bfi.org.uk/gothic

THE INNOCENTS

The Company of Wolves Sun 8 Dec at 8.15pm Neil Jordan • UK 1984 • 1h35m • DCP • 18 Cast: Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Graham Crowden, Sarah Patterson, Brian Glover.

Sheltered 13-year-old Rosaleen (Sarah Patterson), living on the edge of a foreboding wood, is visited by her grandmother (Angela Lansbury). The old lady delights in telling Rosaleen the most horrific stories, usually involving what happens to little girls if they trust wolves – the actual, rather than symbolic kind. Later, when Rosaleen is walking through the woods to visit her grandmother, she makes the acquaintance of a seductive young huntsman, who turns out to be... well, what big teeth he’s got.

“Rarely has the Gothic landscape of the imagination been so perfectly conveyed by film.” - Time Out

The Mask of Satan

La maschera del demonio Sat 14 Dec at 10.30pm Mario Bava • Italy 1960 • 1h28m • 35mm Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi, Ivo Garrani, Arturo Dominici.

Italian horror cinema is known for its atmosphere, visual style and gory scenes, a potent mix pioneered by The Mask of Satan. The beautiful witch Asa (Barbara Steele) rises from her grave to take revenge on her enemies and possess her descendent Katia (also played by Steele) 200 years after being put to death by having a spiked mask hammered down on her face.

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NOSFERATU

The Innocents Fri 20 to Tue 24 Dec Jack Clayton • USA/UK 1961 • 1h40m DCP • 12A – Contains moderate horror Cast: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave, Martin Stephens, Pamela Franklin.

Henry James’ 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw has been filmed many times, but by universal consent the definitive version is this 1961 film by Jack Clayton. Deborah Kerr gives a virtuoso performance as Miss Giddens, the emotionally repressed vicar’s daughter who takes up a job as governess at a vast country mansion but finds herself comprehensively outmanoeuvred by her precocious charges Miles and Flora.

Confiding in the housekeeper Mrs Grose, she discovers certain things about her predecessor that she hadn’t been told at the time of her appointment, notably the circumstances in which she met her mysterious death...

DRACULA

DOUBLE BILL Dracula + The Mummy Sat 28 Dec at 3.00pm (includes 15-minute interval)

Dracula

Tod Browning • USA 1931 • 1h14m DCP • PG – Contains mild horror Cast: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan.

Tod Browning’s seminal film is bathed in an atmosphere of nightmare, dread and otherworldliness that is unlike anything else in American horror cinema. While subsequent 1930s horror films are undeniably better and certainly slicker, nothing else captures the strange funereal poetry of Dracula – and the equally otherworldly performance of its star, Bela Lugosi.

Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens Sat 21 Dec at 10.00pm F W Murnau • Germany 1922 • 1h33m DCP • Silent • PG – Contains mild violence and horror Cast: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach, Georg H Schnell.

A stunning new restoration of F W Murnau’s classic of silent cinema, complete with the original score. In this first-ever screen adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a simple real-estate transaction leads an intrepid businessman deep into the superstitious heart of Transylvania. There he encounters the otherworldly Count Orlok, portrayed by the legendary Max Schreck.

Night of the Demon Sun 29 Dec at 1.15pm & Mon 30 Dec at 1.10pm + 8.30pm Jacques Tourneur • UK 1957 • 1h35m DCP • PG – Contains mild horror and séance scene Cast: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis, Maurice Denham, Athene Seyler.

A sceptical American psychologist visits England and investigates a fellow scientist’s mysterious death. In so doing he encounters a black magician who has the power to invoke an ancient fire demon to do his bidding. Jacques Tourneur’s Night of the Demon largely continues the director’s subtle, suggestive approach to horror; just as in his earlier Cat People (1943), it’s what the audience doesn’t see that causes a sense of unease.

PLUS

The Mummy Nosferatu

NIGHT OF THE DEMON

Karl Freund • USA 1932 • 1h13m DCP • PG – Contains mild horror and violence Cast: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron, Edward Van Sloan.

Brought back to life after nearly 3,700 years, Egyptian high priest Imhotep (Boris Karloff ) wreaks havoc upon the members of the British field exposition that disturbed his tomb. Jack Pierce’s justly celebrated makeup skills offers us two Karloffs: the wizened Egyptologist and the flaking, rotting mummy, who, though only seen for a few seconds, remains in the memory long after the film’s final image has faded.

Dead of Night Fri 3 Jan at 8.45pm & Sun 5 Jan at 1.15pm Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer • UK 1945 • 1h43m • DCP • PG Cast: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Frederick Valk, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes.

This superb Ealing chiller is still the most effective example of the portmanteau style: five separate ghost stories embedded in a framework of a country house party, where an architect is experiencing sinister sensations of déjà vu.

The ghost stories are related in turn by the other guests, and events gradually move into total nightmare territory.

You’ll never look at a ventriloquist’s dummy in the same way again...

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BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

GASLIGHT

DOUBLE BILL Frankenstein + Bride of Frankenstein

The Masque of the Red Death

Gaslight

Sun 5 Jan at 8.45pm

Mon 6 Jan at 6.10pm & Tue 7 Jan at 3.10pm

Sat 4 Jan at 3.00pm (includes 15-minute interval)

Roger Corman • USA/UK 1964 • 1h29m DCP • 15 – Contains moderate horror and violence Cast: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Patrick Magee.

Thorold Dickinson • UK 1940 • 1h24m Digital • PG – Contains mild violence and psychological threat Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton.

In Roger Corman’s wonderfully stylish horror, the always wonderful Vincent Price is Prince Prospero, a 12th-century Italian despot who lives for his one true love...Satan! After jailing two locals, Ludovico and Gino, for defying his harsh tax laws, Prospero meets the beautiful Francesca (Jane Asher), the daughter of Ludovico and the fiancee of Gino. She comes to him to plead for mercy, but Prospero tells her that only one will be spared and toys with her emotions for his private amusement. When Prospero learns that the Red Death is sweeping the village, he locks himself and his followers in his castle where they continue their decadent parties. But soon a mysterious figure dressed in red robes arrives...

Not the 1944 George Cukor movie which won Ingrid Bergman a Best Actress Oscar, but an earlier, darker and more chilling adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s play Angel Street.

Frankenstein

James Whale • USA 1931 • 1h10m DCP • PG – Contains mild horror and violence Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye.

Scientist Henry Frankenstein and his hunchbacked assistant embark on a mission to create a new being by stealing a body from a graveyard and a human brain from a medical college... Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley’s classic tale of tragedy and horror, and featuring a beautifully nuanced performance from Boris Karloff as the tortured and bewildered ‘monster’.

PLUS

Bride of Frankenstein

James Whale • USA 1935 • 1h15m DCP • PG – Contains mild horror Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger.

Light on its feet, brisk and full of wicked humour, James Whale’s extravagantly produced sequel to his own Frankenstein still ranks as one of horror’s greatest achievements. Believing the monster he created to be dead at last, Dr Frankenstein swears to never again dabble in the reanimation of dead tissue. But fellow mad scientist Dr Pretorius has other plans, and sets out to build the monster a mate...

PLUS SHORT The Tell-Tale Heart Ted Parmelee • USA 1953 • 8m • DCP

James Mason narrates this imaginative animated telling of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of a deranged boarder compelled to murder his landlord, and thereafter haunted by guilt.

In one of her finest roles, Diana Wynyard plays wealthy Bella, who marries the urbane but calculating Paul Mallen (Anton Walbrook). They move into her ancestral home, and Bella begins to notice that things aren’t quite right. Is she losing her mind, or is Paul playing tricks on her to make it seem that way?

While the Cukor film was shooting, MGM’s Louis B Mayer ordered all prints of this version to be destroyed, fearing that his lavish production would suffer by comparison.

Fortunately, some prints survived, and this neglected masterpiece can now be seen in a new restoration.

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LA BELLE ET LA BETE

DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS

MORGIANA

La Belle et la Bête

Day of Wrath Vredens Dag

Wed 8 Jan at 3.10pm & Thu 9 Jan at 6.10pm

Wed 8 Jan at 6.10pm & Thu 9 Jan at 3.10pm

Valerie a tyden divu

Jean Cocteau • France 1946 • 1h35m DCP • French with English subtitles PG – Contains mild language and scary scenes Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André, Mila Parély, Nane Germon.

Carl Theodor Dreyer • Denmark 1943 • 1h40m 35mm • Danish with English subtitles PG – Contains implied torture, witch burning, and mild language Cast: Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Anna Svierkier, Olaf Ussing.

Thu 16 Jan at 8.45pm

A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with his son and his three daughters. One of his daughters, Belle, is exploited and maltreated by the other two, who are selfish and spiteful. One day, the merchant loses his way in a forest and finds himself in a strange castle. He picks a rose for Belle, causing the castle’s owner to appear – a monster, half human, half beast. The creature says the merchant will die unless he sends Belle to him...

Inevitably seen as an allegory of Nazi occupation, Day of Wrath is set in a Danish village in 1632 against a background of fear, superstition, betrayal and religious cruelty. Anne, a young woman who has married an elderly preacher responsible for sending an old peasant woman to the stake, falls in love with his son and wishes her husband dead. When he obliges, she is accused by her mother-inlaw of witchcraft and condemned to be burnt.

Jaromil Jires’ haunting evocation of a girl’s emergence into womanhood is based on the novel by the surrealist poet, Vítezslav Vezval. A mixture of eroticism and gothic horror, it focuses on the adventures of 13-year-old Valerie, who lives with her austere grandmother. While Valerie’s visions are often nightmarish, she remains curiously innocent.

By pushing film technology to its creative limits and avoiding sentimentality, Jean Cocteau succeeded in creating a work that is both visually entrancing and emotionally rewarding, whilst re-telling a familiar tale in a fresh and innovative way.

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders Jaromil Jires • Czechoslovakia 1969 • 1h16m • 35mm Czech with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anyzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prymek, Jan Klusák.

Morgiana Daughters of Darkness Les lèvres rouges

Sat 11 Jan at 10.00pm Harry Kümel • Belgium/France/West Germany 1971 • 1h35m Digital • 18 – Contains strong horror and sexualised nudity Cast: Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau, Paul Esser.

Holed up in a huge, eerie Ostend hotel, troubled newlyweds Stefan and Valerie become increasingly entangled with the mysterious Countess Bathory and her stunningly beautiful travelling companion.

Harry Kümel’s deliciously offbeat film plays with the traditions of the vampire genre, adding a feminine element to place female desire at the centre of the narrative. It’s stylish, erotic and atmospheric, and features scenes of stomach-turning violence.

Thu 23 Jan at 8.45pm Juraj Herz • Czechoslovakia 1972 • 1h39m • 35mm Czech with English subtitles • 15 – Contains scene of hanging Cast: Iva Janzurová, Josef Abrhám, Nina Divísková, Petr Cepek, Josef Somr.

Sisters Viktoria and Klara (both played by Iva Janzurová) each inherit a house and staff when their father passes away. Viktoria, the older sister, is jealous of Klara’s popularity; to make it worse, Klara is nothing but kind, even trying to have some of her suitors pay attention to her sister. Viktoria has had enough, and obtains a supposedly untraceable poison...

A deliriously gothic adaptation of a short story by Aleksandr Grin, known as the ‘Russian Poe’.

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FAUST

Faust

Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage Sun 26 Jan at 4.00pm F W Murnau • Germany 1926 • 1h56m • 35mm • Silent • PG Cast: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard, William Dieterle.

Although F W Murnau’s Faust is not as well known as his Nosferatu (screening on 21 December) or Sunrise, it’s certainly in the same league as those silent classics, displaying the same astonishing use of stylised imagery and his mastery of cinematic technique.

In an attempt to gain control of the Earth, Mephisto the Devil (Emil Jannings) wagers an angel (Werner Fuetterer) that he can destroy the soul of a kind, elderly professor named Faust (Gosta Ekman). Mephisto brings a devastating plague to the town where Faust lives and kills half of its inhabitants. Faust’s attempts to find a cure are unsuccessful, and he loses his faith in God and science when his prayers go unanswered. He invokes the aid of Satan, and Mephisto agrees to help him, but at a cost...

Screening with live musical accompaniment from s i n k. www.theplughole.org

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

LOU REED’S BERLIN

The Night of the Hunter

SPECIALEVENT

Tue 4 to Thu 6 Feb Charles Laughton • USA 1955 • 1h32m • DCP • 12A Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, James Gleason, Sally Ann Bruce.

The Night of the Hunter – the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed – is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a travelling preacher named Harry Powell, whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children.

Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humour, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil.

A special screening in memory of the great Lou Reed.

Lou Reed’s Berlin Thu 12 Dec at 8.25pm Julian Schnabel • UK/USA 2007 • 1h25m • 35mm 12A – Contains one use of strong language and references to sex and drugs

Following his hit ‘Walk on the Wild Side’, in 1973, Lou Reed recorded ‘Berlin’, an ambitious concept album that came as a sharp and unexpected contrast. Scored with orchestral arrangements, it traced the same characters through several songs, exploring themes of jealousy, rage and loss. Harsh initial reviews dashed the hopes Reed and his producer Bob Ezrin had of performing the album live, but critical assessment has gradually made a complete turnaround and the album is now considered a classic. And so, thirty-three years later, Reed and Ezrin finally got their wish: they teamed up with music producer Hal Willner to stage ‘Berlin’ in venues around the world. Julian Schnabel art-directed the staging and filmed the production over five nights at St Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, and his daughter Lola shot impressionistic films for the performance that are projected on stage and enhance the music’s narrative elements.

Reed remains a totem of cool. The band is superb, joined by the haunting back-up vocals of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and celebrated singer Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons) comes on for a version of ‘Candy Says’ – one of a handful of Velvet Underground songs also featured in the concert – that is performed so sweetly it brings a smile to Reed’s stoic face.

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Christmas at Our House!

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

THE BISHOP’S WIFE

Christmas at Our

House!

Join us for some seasonal favourites, back on the big screen where they belong! And don’t forget tickets for children under 12 are £3.50 for any screening!

It’s a Wonderful Life Fri 13 to Tue 24 Dec Frank Capra • USA 1946 • 2h10m • DCP • U – Contains mild violence Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Henry Travers, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell.

This heartwarming fantasy is one of the most popular films ever made. The film begins as angels discuss George Bailey (James Stewart), a small-town resident so beset with problems that he contemplates suicide. In flashback, we review George’s life, learning that he has always wanted to leave his hometown to see the world, but that circumstances and his own good heart have kept him in Bedford Falls.

A masterfully crafted exercise in sentiment, augmented by director Frank Capra’s undying faith in community.

The supporting cast are uniformly excellent, but Stewart is the heart and the soul of the film as the dreamer who sacrifices all for his fellow man. Bring a hanky!

MEET ME IN ST LOUIS

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

The Bishop’s Wife

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Wed 18, Fri 20 & Sat 21 Dec

Sat 21 to Mon 23 Dec

Henry Koster • USA 1947 • 1h49m DCP • U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason.

Brian Henson • USA 1992 • 1h26m DCP • U – Contains infrequent very mild peril Cast: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Frank Oz.

When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds for a new cathedral, his prayers are answered in the form of a handsome guardian angel named Dudley (Cary Grant). Establishing himself as a Yuletide guest in the Brougham home, Dudley arouses the ire of Henry, who, unaware that his visitor is from Up Above, assumes that Dudley has designs on the his wife Julia (Loretta Young).

Meet Me in St Louis Fri 20, Sun 22 & Mon 23 Dec Vincente Minnelli • USA 1944 • 1h53m • DCP • U Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Leon Ames, Mary Astor, Tom Drake.

This glorious Vincente Minnelli musical is one of the greatest ever made, and one that’s still as fresh as a newly picked daisy. A nostalgic valentine to youthful romance, filmed in gorgeous Technicolor and with terrific songs, it tells the story of an upper-middle-class family living in St Louis in 1903.

The happy existence of the Smiths is threatened when the patriarch, Alonzo, decides to relocate the family to New York because of a lucrative promotion. The prospect of leaving town particularly upsets 17-year-old Esther (Judy Garland), who has a crush on boy-next-door John Truett...

Scrooge (Michael Caine) is so miserly he won’t even allow his fuzzy employees an extra piece of coal for the fire at Christmas. Such meanness is not tolerated by his deceased business partners, who appear to him one night and tell him that he must face up to his misdeeds. And so he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future...

The Wizard of Oz Sun 22 to Tue 24 Dec Victor Fleming • USA 1939 • 1h38m DCP • U – Contains mild fantasy horror Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton.

When Dorothy’s neighbour, Miss Gulch, threatens to take away her precious dog, Toto, Dorothy runs away from home.

Attempting to return, she and her house are caught in a twister and blown to the garish, colour-saturated Land of Oz...

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Christmas at Our House!

THE WIZARD OF OZ

White Christmas Sun 22 to Tue 24 Dec Michael Curtiz • USA 1954 • 2h • DCP U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger.

Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and head to Vermont for a white Christmas. Upon discovering that the resort is run by their old army general, who’s now in financial trouble, they decide to put on a benefit to raise funds. White Christmas is a treasury of Irving Berlin classics, among them ‘Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep’, ‘Sisters’, ‘Blue Skies’, and, of course, ‘White Christmas’ itself.

The Raymond Briggs Trilogy Mon 23 & Tue 24 Dec 1h21m

The Snowman Dianne Jackson • UK 1982 • 29m • Beta SP • U A young boy’s snowman comes to life at midnight and together they set out on a wonderful adventure.

Father Christmas David Unwin • UK 1991 • 26m • Digibeta • U This irreverent Santa breaks from tradition in many ways.

He has no Mrs, owns only four reindeer, and decides to convert his sleigh into an airborne motor home for a preChristmas trip to Vegas...

The Bear Hilary Audus • UK 1998 • 26m • Digibeta • U A polar bear returns a teddy bear to a little girl, and so begins a beautiful friendship.

WHITE CHRISTMAS

THE SNOWMAN

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Scotland Galore!

SUNSHINE ON LEITH

Scotland Galore!

A season of great films set in Scotland, screening as part of the 21st anniversary celebrations of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Festival, a packed programme welcoming the arrival of the New Year and saying farewell to the old.

For details of all events, go to www.edinburghshogmanay.com

WHISKY GALORE!

Sunshine on Leith

L’illusionniste

Dexter Fletcher • UK 2013 • 1h40m • DCP PG – Contains mild language, violence and sex references Cast: George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Peter Mullan, Jason Flemyng, Jane Horrocks.

Sat 28 Dec at 4.00pm & Fri 3 Jan at 6.30pm

Dexter Fletcher directs this hugely enjoyable adaptation of the successful stage musical featuring the songs of the Proclaimers. Returning home to Leith from duty in Afghanistan, best pals Davy and Ally kindle romances old and new: Ally with Davy’s sister Liz, and Davy with Yvonne, his wee sister’s best friend from work. Meanwhile, Davy’s parents Rab and Jean are busy planning their 25th wedding anniversary. Everything’s going swimmingly, until a revelation from Rab’s past threatens to tear the family and all three couples apart.

Sat 28, Mon 30 & Tue 31 Dec Alexander Mackendrick • UK 1949 • 1h24m • DCP • U Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson.

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.

The Illusionist

Fri 27 Dec to Wed 1 Jan

Whisky Galore!

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THE ILLUSIONIST

The story of a ship that runs aground carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, and of the fictional Todday islanders’ attempts to salvage and hang on to the cargo. Compton Mackenzie, who wrote the famous comic novel, was inspired by a real wreck and by his experiences living among the islanders of Barra. The humour is gentle and wonderfully dry – the introductory voiceover sets the tone when talking about the isolation of Todday: “To the west there is nothing,” says the narrator, before adding as a throwaway line “... except America.”

Sylvain Chomet • UK/France 2010 • 1h20m • DCP PG – Contains a scene of aborted suicide and images of smoking

Sylvain Chomet’s beautifully animated film is a truly magical piece of cinema. Our weary hero is an over-the-hill magician, complete with less-than-friendly white rabbit.

Always in search of a paying gig, the illusionist treks from Paris to the Western Isles to Edinburgh – acquiring, along the way, a young travelling companion who sincerely believes in his magical abilities.

Local Hero Sun 29 Dec at 6.00pm & Tue 31 Dec at 4.00pm Bill Forsyth • UK 1983 • 1h51m • 35mm • PG Cast: Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi.

Bill Forsyth’s heartwarming comedy deals with Mac (Peter Riegert), who travels to the small Scottish town of Ferness to negotiate buying land to allow the construction of an oil refinery. Mac’s best efforts are trumped by a local beachcomber (Fulton Mackay) who refuses to budge.

Local Hero ingeniously examines how a community is bound together by its shared experience.

Scotland Galore!

LOCAL HERO

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

BRIGADOON

The Brothers

Brigadoon

From the Archive: Scotland on Film

Sun 29 Dec at 8.45pm & Sun 5 Jan at 3.30pm

Thu 2 Jan at 6.15pm & Sat 4 Jan at 3.30pm

Sun 5 Jan at 4.00pm

David MacDonald • UK 1947 • 1h38m • 35mm • PG Cast: Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe, Maxwell Reed, Finlay Currie, John Laurie, Duncan Macrae.

Vincente Minnelli • USA 1954 • 1h48m • 35mm • U Cast: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart.

1h30m • U

The McFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles. When the McFarishes take on a new servant girl, she forms an attachment to young Fergus Macrae with tragic consequences. David MacDonald’s adaptation of Leonard Strong’s novel perfectly captures the quality of the Scottish ballad, with its air of malevolence, its heartfelt romanticism, lyrical beauty and unbearably tragic climax.

One of the cheesiest depictions of Scotland on film, Brigadoon is also swoonily romantic and utterly enchanting, thanks in no small part to Gene Kelly’s impeccable choreography and performance. A classic Minnelli musical, it begins with a disenchanted Kelly, taking a break from ‘civilised’ New York, lost in the Scottish Highlands and stumbling on the legendary village of Brigadoon, which only appears for one day each century. There he meets and falls in love with Fiona (Cyd Charisse), only to discover both the truth about the village, and that some of its inhabitants want the real life he is fleeing from, even though it will destroy Brigadoon...

A specially-curated programme from the Scottish Screen Archive, depicting life in Scotland throughout the twentieth century. Featuring some silent films, which will have live piano accompaniment.

Details of specific films screening will be available in our January programme, and on our website nearer the time.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Mon 30 Dec at 1.00pm + 6.00pm & Thu 2 Jan at 3.30pm Ronald Neame • UK 1969 • 1h56m • 35mm • 12A Cast: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson, Celia Johnson.

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This Oscar-winning classic is set in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh, where Maggie Smith’s headstrong teacher ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable young charges with her over-romanticised world view.

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2nd Nordic Film Festival On Tour

CHASING THE WIND

2nd Nordic Film Festival On Tour With a diverse mix of dramas, crime thrillers and documentaries, Nordic Film Festival presents some of the freshest filmmaking talent from the far North.

Nordic Film Festival is presented by day for night.

MY STUFF

Chasing the Wind Jag etter vind

Kidd Life

Fri 6 Dec at 6.15pm

Sun 8 Dec at 6.15pm

Rune Denstad Langlo • Norway 2013 • 1h31m DCP • Norwegian with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Marie Blokhus, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Frederik Meldal Nørgaard, Tobias Santelmann, Sven-Bertil Taube.

Andreas Johnsen • Denmark 2012 • 1h36m DCP • Danish with English subtitles • 18 • Documentary

Anna, a twenty-something fashion designer, lives in Berlin with her boyfriend, and hasn’t seen her family in a decade. Following her grandmother’s death, she returns to the small coastal town in Norway where she grew up.

In the days leading up to the funeral things go awry. As Anna is confronted by her past, she revisits long buried secrets, forcing her to reconsider her entire reality. The producers of Oslo, August 31 present another delicately pensive story about the complexities of conditional and unconditional love.

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My Stuff Tavarataivas Sat 7 Dec at 6.15pm Petri Luukkainen • Finland 2013 • 1h24m DCP • Finnish with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary

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NWR

In the midst of an existential crisis following a recent break-up, Petri Luukkainen begins his experiment: he locks away all his possessions in storage, allowing himself to retrieve only one item a day. Naked at midnight on day one, Petri has ahead of him 365 days of creative living.

Inspired by the wise words of his grandmother and the childlike pragmatism of his young cousin, day by day he re-evaluates each of his belongings. A ‘Finnish-weird’ approach to self-help.

Hard-hitting and darkly comic music documentary-turnedsocial commentary following Nicholas Kidd, a young, ordinary guy who shoots to fame overnight when his mock-rap YouTube video goes viral. As he is invited onto talk shows, to awards ceremonies, and even to partake in a charity poetry reading, Kidd illustrates the absurdity of his fame and how disturbingly surreal it is that the joke has got so out of hand. But slowly the tables turn and, lured by sex, drugs and wild partying, we watch Kidd get swept up in the world he started out mocking.

NWR Mon 9 Dec at 6.15pm Laurent Duroche • France 2012 • 1h5m • Digibeta French, English and Danish with English subtitles • 18 Documentary

Bursting onto the film scene with Pusher, Nicholas Winding Refn has taken us deep into Copenhagen’s underworld, driven us through the streets of LA in Drive, and brought us to Bangkok in his latest film Only God Forgives. NWR offers a behind the scenes insight into the world of the provocative Danish filmmaker, featuring in-depth interviews with the two actors who have almost become synonymous with Refn himself, Mads Mikkelsen and Ryan Gosling. As the director talks of his inspirations and his own personal journey in film, Refn explicitly professes that “film does not have to be normal.”

2nd Nordic Film Festival On Tour/Filmhouse Cafe Bar

FINNISH BLOOD, SWEDISH HEART

Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart Laulu koti-ikävästä

Tue 10 Dec at 6.15pm Mika Ronkainen • Finland/Sweden 2012 • 1h30m DCP • Swedish and Finnish with English subtitles • 12A Documentary

Kai and his father take a road trip back to Gothenburg where they lived in the 1970s during the time of mass Finnish emigration. As they embark on a poignant journey of self-discovery their conversations reach far and wide, revealing deep rooted feelings of guilt as secrets surface and they begin to reconcile the past. Largely shot within the confines of their car, this is an intimate portrait of a father-son relationship forged across borders, punctuated with performances of traditional Finnish immigrant folk music.

Winner of Best Nordic Documentary at Gothenburg International Film Festival 2013. Director Mika Ronkainen was named one of Variety’s Ten European Directors to Watch at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2013.

YOU & ME FOREVER

You & Me Forever Wed 11 Dec at 6.15pm Kaspar Munk • Denmark 2012 • 1h22m DCP • Danish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Julie Andersen, Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Emilie Kruse, Benjamin Wandschneider, Allan Hyde.

Best friends forever Laura and Christine, both sweet sixteen, are inseparable... until the arrival of new girl in town, the super-confident and feisty Maria. Laura is at once captivated and mystified by Maria, as Christine feels increasingly alienated. While Laura hangs on her every word, Maria takes her by the hand on a wild and hedonistic journey through adolescence to adulthood.

Kaspar Munk’s second feature offers a sensitive portrayal of female teenage angst in this gritty coming-of-age story about idolisation, vulnerability, sexuality, and ultimately friendship.

FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR

Filmhouse Cafe Bar Opening hours: Monday to Thursday: 8am - 11.30pm Friday: 8am - 12.30am Saturday: 10am - 12.30am Sunday: 10am - 11.30pm Festive opening hours: All hours as normal except on the following days: 23 Dec: 10am to 11.30pm (last food orders 10pm) 24 Dec: 10am to 8pm (last food orders 7.30pm) 25 & 26 Dec: Closed 27 Dec: 10am to 12.30am (last food orders 10pm) 28 Dec: 10am to 12.30am (last food orders 10pm) 30 Dec: 12pm to 7pm (last food orders 6.30pm) 31 Dec: 12pm to 7pm (last food orders 6.30pm) 1 Jan: 12pm to 7pm (last food orders 6.30pm) 2 Jan: 11am to 12am (last food orders 10pm) 0131 229 5932

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Education and Learning

THE JUNGLE BOOK

THE JUNGLE BOOK

BESA: THE PROMISE

Education and Learning CMI Education and Learning offers a range of screenings, workshops and events for all ages, year-round at Filmhouse and during the Edinburgh International Film Festival. We arrange schools screenings, supporting a variety of curriculum areas for Primary and Secondary schools. 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

To book tickets, please contact the box office on 0131 228 2688.

The Jungle Book (U) Why not bring your class to see Walt Disney’s classic The Jungle Book as a Christmas treat? Loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling, the story follows a boy called Mowgli who is found as a baby and raised in the jungle by wolves. When he is ten Bagheera the Panther decides that Mowgli must go to the human village where he will be safe from Shere Khan the Tiger. But Mowgli, who doesn’t want to be sent to the human village, runs away from Bagheera and meets up with funloving Baloo the Bear.

Monday 16 Dec at 10am is a rare chance to see the film on the big screen. Perfect for all ages, tickets are £2.60, teachers free.

Tuesday 17 Dec at 10am is a special sing-a-long screening for you and your class to join in with. The words will be projected along with the film. Tickets £3.50, teachers free.

Holocaust Memorial Day Screening - Besa: The Promise Mon 27 Jan, 10am • 90min • S1 - S6 • Tickets £2.60, teachers free This is the never-before-told story of Albania – a small European country which opened its borders to shelter Jewish refugees, even as it endured a brutal Nazi occupation. It’s witnessed through the prism of two men joined together in a remarkable and unexpected quest: Norman H. Gershman, a renowned JewishAmerican photographer determined to record the bravery and compassion of the Albanians; and Rexhep Hoxha, a Muslim-Albanian toy shop owner who sets out to return three precious books to the last surviving member of the Jewish family his father sheltered sixty years before. When these two men meet, an extraordinary and utterly unexpected personal drama is set in motion – one that bridges generations and religions...uniting fathers and sons...Muslims and Jews.

Understanding Cinema Centre for the Moving Image (Filmhouse & Edinburgh International Film Festival) is proud to be coordinating a team of Film Tutors to work with schools across Scotland for its Understanding Cinema project. Based upon the Cinematheque Française’s long-running film education programme Le Cinema cent ans de jeunnese, which each year examines one aspect of cinema. This year pupils in Edinburgh, East Lothian, Glasgow, Dundee, Mull, Stornoway, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Inverness will be examining ‘the long take’, and are working towards their own short films which will be show at EIFF in June 2013.

For further details of Understanding Cinema or other CMI Education work please contact nicola.kettlewood@cmi-scotland.co.uk

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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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