Filmhouse Brochure - April 2017

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FILMS WORTH TALKING ABOUT

H O M E O F T H E E D I NB U RG H I N T E R N AT I O N A L F I L M F E S T I VA L

The

Sense of an

Ending F IL M S VER 70 P LU S O

IN S ID E

No names, no pack drill...

Many moons ago we had a regular customer who only ever came to our bargain Friday matinees (every single week) and who only ever asked for a ticket to “Cinema 1”, “2” or “3”, rather than for a film – he wanted to know NOTHING about the film he was about to see, not even its title lest it gave too much away (maybe he’d once been to see The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade and wasn’t taking any chances!). If he’d seen the film already, he’d come back to the Box Office and swap his ticket for the next thing that was on. He was a man of very few words, none of which was ever “please” or “thank you”, but I found myself growing to respect this singular fellow and his unique approach. And I remain touched by the faith he had in our ability to choose films.

Such an MO as his might be trickier today what with information being rather harder to avoid, but what hasn’t changed is that one of our main aims is still to engender that kind of trust in us around our film choices, and that our ‘blurbs’ are a fair reflection of the films themselves, written with an honesty about who the audience for them might be. Occasionally, of course, you’ll each have to forgive us the odd apparent lapse of judgment – it’s a mighty big ask what with beauty being in the eye of the beholder ‘n’ all – but it’s what we aspire to nonetheless. Anyway, I have zero fear of jeopardising that trust by wholeheartedly recommending The Sense of an Ending (or should it be “Friday, 14 April, Cinema 1, 1:00, 3:30” etc…), I Am Not Your Negro, Suntan, The Handmaiden, Jackie, Get Out, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Mulholland Drive: they’re all in this programme, are just the ones that came to mind, and are all great!

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

Filmhouse Explorer Buy A TICKET FOR...

The Lost City of Z (p 4) The Sense of an Ending (p 4) The Handmaiden (p 7) Jackie (p 10) Mulholland Drive (p 11)

GET A HALF PRICE TICKET for I Am Not Your Negro (p 4) Tanna (p 5) The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli... (p 7) Suntan (p 7) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (p 11)

All tickets subject to availability. The half price voucher only applies to full price tickets. The Filmhouse Explorer ticket deal cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. The 50% discount is not valid for Friday matinee screenings.

Ticket Prices matinees (shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thu: £8.00 / £6.00 concessions Fri: £6.00 / £4.50 concessions Sat - Sun: £10.00 / £8.00 concessions

evening screenings (starting 5pm and later) £10.00 / £8.00 concessions 3D SCREENINGS add £2 to ticket price.

filmhouse junior screenings Under 12s are £4.50 for any screening.

CONCESSIONS

Children (under 15s), Students (with matriculation card), Young Scot card, Senior Citizens, Disability (carers go free), Claimants (Jobseekers Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit), NHS employees (with proof of employees).

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ACCESS/AUDIO DESC./CAPTIONED BABY & CARER SCREENINGS SCREENING DATES AND TIMES

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2D and Deranged 29 Accidental Exorcist 29 Always Shine 28 Another Time, Another Place 32 Arrival 11 Barravento 31 Beauty and the Beast 17 Bitter Rice 32 Blackbird 31 Blind 15 Bunch of Kunst 6 Chanson d’Armor with live Clarsach...

32 Crimes and Misdemeanors 15 Cronenberg Double Bill 27 Dead by Dawn 25-30 Dig Two Graves 30 Dry Blood 30 Edinburgh Spy Week 23-24 Education and Learning 13 The End is Nigh 28 Even Dwarfs Started Small 9 The Evil Within 25 The Eyes of My Mother 5 Filmhouse Cafe Bar 12 Filmhouse Junior 16-17 Filmhouse Quiz 12 Filmosophy: Sight and the Senses 15 The Fits 8 Folk Film Gathering 31-33 Get Out 10 Growing Pains 8 The Handmaiden 7 The Happiest Days in the Life of Olli Mäki 7 Hell is Other People 27 Herzog of the Month 9 Homo Sapiens 7 I Am Not Your Negro 4 It’s Over, Rover 30 Jackie 10 Killer of Sheep 31 King Kong 22 La La Land 10

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Lamb to the Slaughter 26 Land of Songs 33 Latcho Drom 33 The LEGO Batman Movie 12+16 Lion 10 The Looking Glass War 23 The Lost City of Z 4 Madhouse 28 Mad to Be Normal 8 Mary Poppins 17 Midnight Double Dekker 29 The Milk of Sorrow 33 Monkey Business 22 Moving Cinema 9 Mulholland Drive 11 A Murder of Quality 23 Nénette 22 Neruda 5 The Night Watchmen 27 Now Wash Your Hands 28 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 11 Over the Rainbow 8 The Olive Tree 5 Phantom Boy 17 Phenomena 26 A Quiet Passion 6 Run Lola Run 9 The Scar 32 Scream and Scream Again 29 The Sense of an Ending 4 Short Courses 14 Sing 16 Song 33 The Student 6 Suntan 7 Swallows and Amazons 17 The Tailor of Panama 24 Tanna 5 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 24 The Void 30 What You Make It 26 The Wild Blue Yonder 9 Wilde 8 Without Name 27 Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang 12 Zootropolis 16

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I Am Not Your Negro Fri 7 to Thu 13 Apr Raoul Peck • France/USA 2016 • 1h33m • Digital • cert tbc • Documentary.

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House.

The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends - Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Haitian-born filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book Baldwin never finished in this challenging, profound Oscar® nominated documentary. As Baldwin’s words and swathes of archive footage mesh seamlessly, I Am Not Your Negro draws a through-line from the pre-Civil Rights days to the #BlackLivesMatter of present day America.

“I Am Not Your Negro honors an influential 20th century writer by letting him speak for himself -- which he does beautifully and persuasively” - Screen International

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The Lost City of Z

The Sense of an Ending

Fri 24 Mar to Thu 13 Apr

Fri 14 Apr to Thu 4 May

James Gray • USA 2016 • 2h21m • Digital • 15 - Contains brief strong violence, gory images. • Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Angus Macfadyen.

Ritesh Batra • UK 2017 • 1h48m • Digital • 15 - Contains suicide references. • Cast: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Freya Mavor, Emily Mortimer, Michelle Dockery.

A richly atmospheric, pleasingly old-school adventure based on David Grann’s book The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, the extraordinary account of British explorer Percy Fawcett’s intrepid Amazon expeditions in the early 20th century. Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) plays Fawcett, who despite ridicule from scientists of the time - pursues evidence of a lost civilisation who once inhabited the region. Supported by his wife (Sienna Miller), children and aide de camp (Robert Pattinson), he returns time and again in an attempt to prove his case...

Jim Broadbent plays Tony Webster, whose reclusive existence is upended by the revival of a long-buried secret that forces him to face the flawed recollections of his younger self, the truth about his first love, Veronica (played as a younger woman by Edinburgh’s own Freya Mavor), and the devastating consequences of decisions made a lifetime ago. Based on Julian Barnes’ novel, Ritesh (The Lunchbox) Batra’s second feature is a remarkably mature, complex and nuanced work, and features the kind of brilliant central performance we’ve come to expect from Broadbent.

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The Olive Tree

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NEW RELEASE El olivo

The Eyes of My Mother

Fri 14 to Wed 19 Apr

Fri 14 to Sun 16 Apr

Icíar Bollaín • Spain/Germany 2015 • 1h38m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language. • Cast: Anna Castillo, Javier Gutiérrez, Pep Ambrós.

Nicolas Pesce • USA 2016 • 1h16m • 35mm • English and Portuguese with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong threat, injury detail.

Cast: Kika Magalhaes, Olivia Bond, Diana Agostini, Will Brill .

Alma, a young impulsive woman, is determined to reclaim her grandfather’s beloved olive tree after the family are forced to abandon their livelihood.

We follow her emotional journey as all that she once knew is uprooted around her. Beautifully written by Paul Laverty and directed by Icíar Bollaín, El Olivo is a stirring, bittersweet tale of family, vindication and moral dilemma that won’t leave you indifferent.

Contains flashing lights which might affect customers susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

Fri 14 Apr screening at 6.00pm followed by a Q&A.

Macabre, unsettling and hauntingly shot, debutant Nicolas Pesce’s black-and-white bilingual horror is not one you’ll forget in a hurry. Young Francisca (Olivia Bond, Kika Magalhaes) lives in a secluded farmhouse with a reticent father and her mother, once a surgeon in her native Portugal. Taking anatomy lessons as a girl, she develops a cold, clinical approach to life that, triggered by the arrival of a mysterious stranger, veers down a very dark path indeed.

Screening from the only existing 35mm print, kindly provided by director Nicolas Pesce.

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Tanna

Neruda

Tue 18 to Thu 20 Apr

Fri 21 to Thu 27 Apr

Martin Butler, Bentley Dean • Australia/Vanuatu 2015 • 1h40m Digital • Nauvhal with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate violence, suicide references. • Cast: Kapan Cook, Mungau Dain, Charlie Kahla, Lingai Kowia, Dadwa Mungau.

Pablo Larraín • Chile/Argentina/France/Spain/USA 2016 • 1h47m Digital • Spanish and French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains sexualised nudity, strong language. • Cast: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal, Mercedes Morán, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.

Set in the shadow of an active volcano, this Australia/ Vanuatu co-production has non-professional local actors from one of the last truly tribal societies inhabit the roles in a film based on true events. This Oscar® nominated story of tribal divides, forbidden love and family loyalty is heartfelt, well told and plays out against a backdrop of lush rainforest and scorched volcanic terrain. The third collaboration between its two directors (and their first non-documentary), Tanna proves cinema’s enduring power to transport and enthrall.

Prolific Chilean Pablo Larraín (Jackie) tackles poet and politician Pablo Neruda in what can be (and has been) comfortably described as an ‘anti-biopic’.

Neruda adopts an engrossing, playful approach to recounting the life events of the senator, poet, bigamist and fugitive (Luis Gnecco), and the pursuit of him by prideful police inspector Peluchonneau (Gael García Bernal), who doggedly follows his paper trail of little notes left in pulp novels as he zigzags across the country, culminating in a memorable final act set in the snowy Andes.

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Bunch of Kunst

The Student

Fri 21 to Sun 23 Apr

Mon 24 to Thu 27 Apr

Christine Franz • Germany 2017 • 1h43m • Digital 18 - Contains very strong language. • Documentary.

Kirill Serebrennikov • Russia 2016 • 1h55m • Digital • Russian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex references. • Cast: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Aleksandr Gorchilin, Yuliya Aug.

Nottingham punk duo Sleaford Mods have taken the UK music world by the scruff in the past 24 months.

Described as “The world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band” by none other than Iggy Pop, the group consisting of former chicken factory worker and benefits advisor Jason Williamson, his band mate and beatmaker Andrew Fearn and manager Steve Underwood (a former bus driver) have won over fans with their DIY attitude and brutally honest, acerbic lyrics - aimed squarely at the heart of the establishment. Christine Franz’s documentary tracks their two-year journey from Sherwood to the big stage.

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A Quiet Passion Mon 24 to Thu 27 Apr Terence Davies • UK/Belgium 2016 • 2h5m • Digital • 12A - Contains upsetting scenes of illness. • Cast: Cynthia Nixon, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff, Keith Carradine, Jodhi May.

Terence Davies’ (Sunset Song, The House of Mirth) directorial skill fits hand in glove with this poised and poignant biographical drama, based on the life of American poet Emily Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon).

Skilfully transporting her life story from youth to the more troubled years of adulthood, A Quiet Passion’s staging of Dickinson’s struggles, hopes, loves and poetry is both a celebration of the poet as a fiercely intelligent woman who defied societal mores and an earnest attempt to better understand her creative and reclusive nature.

(M)uchenik

An award-winner at Cannes 2016, writer-director Kirill Serebrennikov’s scintillating, satirical The Student draws inspiration from German playwright Marius von Mayenburg’s Martyr. Set in contemporary Russia, our protagonist Veniamin (Pytor Skvortsov) is a high school student whose fundamentalist convictions lead him to the conclusion that the world has been lost to evil. Armed with an arsenal of scripture and a zeal bordering on mania, he begins to challenge the morals and values of classmates, teachers and family.

With the establishment scrambling to accommodate his beliefs, will anyone dare to challenge him?

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The Handmaiden Fri 28 Apr to Thu 4 May Park Chan-wook • South Korea 2016 • 2h25m • Digital • Korean and Japanese with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong sex, sex references. • Cast: Tae-ri Kim, Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha.

A fiendishly clever, twisted and cinematic tale of ambition, deception and desire, set during the Japanese occupation. An adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, it sees Sook-Hee (Tae-ri Kim) hired as handmaiden to the Japanese Lady Hideko (Minhee Kim), who lives in a lavish manor designed as a hybrid of both Western and Japanese architecture.

All is not how it seems, however, and Sook-Hee’s accomplice ‘Count Fujiwara’ (Jung-woo Ha) soon arrives to seduce the heiress and claim her fortune. A perfect plan, meticulously detailed - what could go wrong?

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The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki Hymyilevä mies Fri 28 Apr to Thu 4 May Juho Kuosmanen • Finland/Sweden/Germany 2016 • 1h33m • Digital Finnish and English with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, Eero Milonoff.

Shot on 16mm, cast in splendid cinematic monochrome and perfectly soundtracked, Juho Kuosmanen’s bittersweet charmer is the story of 1960s boxer Olli Mäki (Jarkko Lahti). Swept to national stardom as he trains for a world title bout against the American champ, quiet smalltown Mäki’s mind veers sharply away from drills and conditioning when he begins to fall for Raija (Oona Airola). With the hopes of an entire country going toe-to-toe with the feelings in his heart, there can be only one winner.

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Suntan

Homo Sapiens

Fri 28 Apr to Thu 4 May

Tue 2 & Wed 3 May

Argyris Papadimitropoulos • Greece 2016 • 1h44m • Digital • Greek and English with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Elli Tringou.

Nikolaus Geyrhalter • Austria 2016 • 1h34m • Digital • No dialogue cert tbc • Documentary.

Messy and muddled sexual shenanigans are at the core of the third film from talented Greek director Argyris Papadimitropoulos. Fortysomething doctor Kostis (Efthymis Papadimitriou) arrives on the holiday resort island of Antiparos and becomes increasingly obsessed with a group of hedonistic young tourists and 21-year-old Anna (Elli Triggou) in particular.

They are beautiful and cruel to him, toying with his emotional and sexual needs, as Kostis is drawn into the clubs on warm summer nights desperately looking for some kind of love, at any cost.

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Homo Sapiens (beautifully directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, who made Our Daily Bread) is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age. Powerful images of empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation and crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity has disappeared.

Now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature after being taken from it so long ago. Homo Sapiens, which featured at EIFF 2016, is an ode to humanity as seen from a possible future scenario.

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Mad to Be Normal/Over the Rainbow/Growing Pains

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Wilde

Fri 7 Apr at 8.15pm

Sat 8 Apr at 3.25pm & Sun 9 Apr at 6.05pm

Robert Mullan • UK 2017 • 1h45m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, drug misuse, sex, scenes of suicide and self-harm. • Cast: David Tennant , Elisabeth Moss, Michael Gambon, Gabriel Byrne.

Brian Gilbert • UK/Germany/Japan 1997 • 1h54m • 15 • Cast: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle, Michael Sheen.

Mad to Be Normal brings to screen the controversial, fascinating figure of world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing (a magnetic David Tennant).

Ostracised by the medical establishment, in the ‘60s and ‘70s Laing operated out of Kingsley Hall in London - a medication-free establishment that sought to treat people affected by schizophrenia with a radical mix of LSD experiments and ‘metanoia’.

Dr. Peter Byrne of the Mental Health Foundation and the Royal College of Psychiatrists will moderate a discussion with director Robert Mullan and others after the film.

Growing Pains

The Fits Mon 24 Apr at 6.20pm Anna Rose Holmer • USA 2015 • 1h15m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent moderate bad language, threat. • Cast: Royalty Hightower, Alexis Neblett, Lauren Gibson, Da’Sean Minor.

Growing Pains shows classic and contemporary films dealing with some of the more complex aspects of childhood. All films followed by an informal chat and will be introduced by Jessie Moroney, a member of the programming team who attended the Practical Programming course with the Independent Cinema Office, which assists participants to develop a fresh programme for their venues.

How can a child grow to understand the changes happening to them, and consequently, how can they learn to accept this transformation? The Fits is an other-worldly, abstract exploration of the onset of female adolescence and socialisation, and tomboy Toni’s parallel struggle with the desire to retain her individuality.

Casting Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde seems obvious now, but his utterly natural performance in Brian Gilbert’s biopic should not be overlooked. This BBC production boasts a suitably witty script and brings tenderness and depth to the story of the great writer whose sexuality and flamboyance stuck in the craw of the established order. Picking up the story during his US lecture tour, Wilde returns to London, where he marries and has two children. Soon, however, his true feelings burn through this veneer of perceived ‘respectability’ and lead him to a fateful encounter with the handsome Lord Alfred Douglas (Jude Law).

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Mon 10 Apr at 6.00pm Tom Tykwer • Germany 1998 • 1h20m • 35mm • German, English and Japanese with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde.

Writer/director Tom Tykwer creates a mind-bending German thriller which follows three possible outcomes where fiesty heroine Lola (Franka Potente) attempts to save her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who has bungled a job for a local crime boss. In each 20-minute narrative, the smallest decisions have huge life or death consequences. Intense and fast-paced, the film gives a high level of depth to characters and story through a variety of inventive methods including colour, animation and camera work, with particularly notable editing and a memorable soundtrack. Moving Cinema is an initiative to encourage younger audiences to enjoy European Cinema. Our Young Programmers group, working alongside other groups in Vilnius, Lisbon and Barcelona, selected four films to share with Filmhouse audiences - this is the last screening. movingcinema.eu/strands-of-work/young-programmers/ £5 Filmhouse will screen a film by Werner Herzog every month.

This will continue for as long as possible. See these films.

Even Dwarfs Started Small

The Wild Blue Yonder

Sun 16 Apr at 6.00pm

Sun 21 May at 6.00pm

Werner Herzog • Germany 1970 • 1h36m • Digital • German with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Helmut Döring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer.

Werner Herzog • Germany/France/Austria/UK 2005 • 1h21m • Digital PG - Contains one suicide reference. • Cast: Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Shannon Lucid.

A joyfully anarchic and incredibly weird movie-going experience, as twenty-seven dwarfs take over a bleak, post-industrial penal colony and embark on a chaotic wave of utter destruction. Herzog’s second film is a satirical attack on all facets of human nature.

Hilarious, troubling, bracing and outrageous - you will never forget it. Introduced by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Edinburgh.

Most of Herzog’s lead characters could plausibly tell you “Where I come from is the wild blue yonder”, but this one (played by Brad Dourif ) means it literally.

As on-screen narrator of this ‘science fiction fantasy’, Dourif offers a rueful, embittered and often very funny account of his species’ journey, from their dying planet in the Andromeda system to Earth, where the establishment of a new civilisation foundered.

Moving Cinema/Herzog of the Month

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Jackie

La La Land

Fri 7 to Mon 10 Apr

Fri 7 to Mon 10 Apr

Pablo Larraín • Chile/France/USA 2016 • 1h40m • Digital 15 - Contains brief strong violence. • Cast: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt, Richard E. Grant.

Damien Chazelle • USA 2016 • 2h8m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, J.K. Simmons, Rosemarie DeWitt.

From Pablo Larraín (Neruda) comes this extraordinary portrait of one of the most important moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Oscar® nominee Natalie Portman). Placing us in the days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this is an intimate, non-linear vision of the First Lady - known for her dignity and poise - as she struggles with intense grief and maintaining her husband’s legacy. Portman is captivating, leading an impressive supporting cast in Chilean Larraín’s first English-language feature.

A drummer himself, Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) wrote this multi-Oscar® winner in tribute to the musicals he loves, while infusing elements of ‘city symphony’ films and the hard realities of life, love and being an artist. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone - a jobbing musician and aspiring actress respectively meet and fall for each other, and we are led through the stages of their whirlwind romance as they chase their dreams, find success and meet its challenges. All of the above is expressed through song, dance and big, bold homages to classic movie musicals.

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Get Out

Lion

Fri 7 to Thu 13 Apr

Tue 11 to Thu 13 Apr

Jordan Peele • USA 2017 • 1h44m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong violence, gore, sex references, language. • Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford.

Garth Davis • Australia 2016 • 1h58m • Digital • English, Bengali and Hindi with English subtitles • PG - Contains scenes of emotional intensity, mild threat. • Cast: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara.

Jordan Peele (Key and Peele) makes an astonishing directorial debut with this cleverly pitched mix of social comment and suspenseful horror. Get Out centres around young black man Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams), who head out to her family’s country estate to meet the parents. The enthusiastic, accommodating welcome he receives feels like a nervous attempt to process their daughter’s interracial relationship, but when he makes a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries, could it be masking something far more sinister?

A genuinely touching story of tenacity and hope adapted from Saroo Brierley’s autobiographical A Long Way Home, Garth Davis’ debut may have been an also-ran for the big awards but remains one of the finest films of the year. Dev Patel plays Brierley, who is separated tragically from his family at five years old and forced to roam the streets of Kolkata alone, before being adopted by an Australian family.

Twenty-five years pass and all the while, with just memories and internet maps to guide him, his search goes on to find his mother.

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Arrival

Mulholland Drive

Tue 11 to Thu 13 Apr

Fri 14 to Thu 20 Apr

Denis Villeneuve • USA 2016 • 1h56m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Michael Stuhlbarg, Forest Whitaker.

David Lynch • France/USA 2001 • 2h26m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language and moderate sex and violence • Cast: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux.

When, quite suddenly, twelve mysterious spacecraft land in seemingly random locations across the planet, linguistics expert Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is contacted by the military and offered the opportunity to attempt translation of their languages. Adding pressure to an already precarious political climate the government are desperate for answers on why the visitors are here on Earth. Joined by Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker) and mathematician/scientist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), she attempts to open a dialogue - an experience that begins to unearth a painful personal loss...

After The Straight Story, Lynch returned to more familiar territory with this moody, menacing and bizarrely humorous masterpiece. Betty (Naomi Watts), a plucky aspiring actress, and Rita (Laura Harring), a mysterious amnesiac who has stumbled from a car crash with several thousand dollars in her purse, search LA for clues to Rita’s identity. Dense with his customary doppelgangers, dream imagery and loose ends, Lynch’s film has an extra melancholic fascination with the destructive power of erotic desire. Mulholland Drive was voted the best film of the 21st century so far in a 2016 BBC Culture poll.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Fri 14 to Thu 20 Apr Milos Forman • USA 1975 • 2h14m • Digital • 18 - Contains very strong language, strong violence. • Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Danny De Vito.

Re-release of Milos Forman’s ‘70s classic to celebrate the 80th birthday of the inimitable Jack Nicholson.

Wisecracking Randle P McMurphy (Nicholson) escapes the rigours of prison life by pretending to be insane.

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, 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.

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Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang Zipi y Zape y el club de la canica Fri 7 to Wed 12 Apr Oskar Santos • Spain 2013 • 1h32m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild bad language, comic violence and threat.

Naughty twins Zip and Zap are sent to a strict boarding school, run by eye-patch-wearing tyrant Falconetti. Fun and games are forbidden, but the boys are determined and start the secret Marble Gang as a resistance movement. When the gang uncover a mysterious secret hidden deep within the school, they are drawn into the most exciting adventure of their lives. Based on Spain’s beloved comic book characters, this is a rollicking family adventure.

The LEGO Batman Movie Thu 13 to Mon 17 Apr Chris McKay • USA/Denmark 2017 • 1h44m • Digital • U - Contains mild comic violence, rude humour, very mild bad language. • With the voices of Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Ralph Fiennes, Jenny Slate, Rosario Dawson, Michael Cera.

Following on from the unexpected brilliance of The LEGO Movie, this irreverent new adventure in the land of building blocks has Gotham’s Caped Crusader take centre stage! Batman (Will Arnett) has a lot on his plate - crime sprees, raising a young orphan boy and trying to get his sweet music career off the ground - and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, he may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up...?

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Breakfast served every day until 12pm and Sunday till 3pm.

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Education and Learning Schools Screenings Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang (Zipi y Zape y el club de la canica) Wed 19 April, 10.00am • 92 min, Spanish with English subtitles • PG - suitable for P4+ • Modern Languages Mischief-loving twins Zip & Zap are punished and sent to summer school at Hope, a strict re-education centre run by the tyrannical Falconetti, who forbids all forms of recreation and entertainment. They form the Marble Gang, the children’s Resistance, in order to defy the evil headmaster. Guided by intelligence, bravery and unbreakable faith in friendship, they uncover a mysterious secret hidden deep within the school and end up having the most exciting adventure of their lives.

Tickets cost £3 per pupil/free for teachers. To book please contact Flip Kulakiewicz at education@cmi-scotland.co.uk or call 0131 228 2688

Schools at Edinburgh International Film Festival The 71st edition of EIFF runs from 21 June - 2 July and our education programme will include schools screenings, our popular Media Days and EIFF Youth Hub (for 15-25 yr olds) amongst other events. The full programme will will be published in May on www.edfilmfest.org.uk/learning

Easter Animation Workshops

Our popular workshops with Animation Jam return for two days over the Easter Holidays. All workshops are suitable for ages 7-12 years and no previous animation experience is necessary. Bookings can be made online, in person at Filmhouse Box Office or by calling 0131 228 2688 Cartoon Mania Thursday 13 April, 10.30am-12.40pm (130 mins) / £15 Make a gravity defying, explosion filled 2D cartoon starring your own characters. Animation Jam will help you get ideas inspired by classic Looney Tunes cartoon characters. Use your drawing skills to make card puppets and animate them to life!

Plasticine Creature Animation Thursday 13 April, 1.40pm-3.50pm (130 mins) / £15 Animation Jam present a fun-packed introduction to the world of 3D animation. Team up with other creatures to see what crazy stories emerge. Weird animals, comical super heroes, talking fruit… the only limit is your imagination!

Plasticine Easter Animation Workshop Friday 14 April, 10.30am-12.40pm (130 mins) / £15 Celebrate Easter with some animated fun! We’re back again to make films featuring the Easter bunny, crazy chicks and plenty of chocolate-themed animation. Perhaps your creature will meet more funny bunnies or some chocolate monsters?

3D Animation in 2D Friday 14 April, 1.40pm-3.50pm (130 mins) / £15 Animate in plasticine but with a twist. As plasticine creatures sometimes fall over (lots!) we’ll turn the camera around and film them from above. Create flat plasticine critters that easily defy gravity and find great ways to create special effects using plasticine.

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Welcome to the third term of Film Courses from the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Open Learning, with two new titles on offer: Gothic Cinema explores the history of ‘Gothic’ cinema from its Expressionist roots through its Hollywood heyday to the post-modern pastiches of today.

Talking Pictures is back with a new selection of films and covers key elements of film analysis such as narrative, style, authorship and ideology.

Gothic Cinema Mondays from 17 April 2017 • 6:30pm - 9:20pm • Guild Cinema David M. Wingrove • £121.00

Audiences and critics will often describe a film as ‘Gothic’ – but what does that term actually mean?

What impact has it had on the development of cinema?

Enrol early and join us at Filmhouse in the Edinburgh Film Guild cinema.

For more information and how to enrol, go to: www.ed.ac.uk/short-courses www.ed.ac.uk/studying/short-courses/ studentinfo/help-with-fees @UoEShortCourses

Talking Pictures Tuesdays from 18 April 2017 • 6:10pm - 9:00pm • Guild Cinema Anthony McKibbin • £121.00

facebook.com/UoEShortCourses Each week we will focus on a particular film and discuss it. The selection of films will be challenging works that demand ‘speculative probing’, are relatively little known, or well-known but where a new perspective can be found.

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Filmosophy: Sight and the Senses Filmosophy returns for an eighth season of original and thought-provoking films and philosophical discussions. The films featured in this season offer an opportunity to reflect on our perceptual experience of the world and related epistemological, metaphysical and moral issues. We will explore the nature and value of sensory perception and consider to what extent (if at all) it can provide us with access to reality. In addition, our role as the object of others’ perceptions will also be addressed. Each film will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by an accessible and informal post-screening discussion.

Screenings will be introduced and discussion sessions hosted by James Mooney, Short Courses lecturer at The University of Edinburgh.

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Blind Wed 26 Apr at 6.00pm Eskil Vogt • Norway 2014 • 1h36m • Digital • Norwegian with English subtitles • 18 - Contains images of strong real sex • Cast: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali, Marius Kolbenstvedt, Stella Kvam Young.

After losing her sight, Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) retreats to the safety and security of her Oslo apartment where, in order to retain her ability to visualise, she constructs elaborate narratives that reflect her repressed fears and fantasies. Eskil Vogt’s beautifully-composed drama breaks down the boundaries between illusion and reality and allows the audience a remarkable insight into Ingrid’s world.

Crimes and Misdemeanors Wed 24 May at 5.50pm Woody Allen • USA 1989 • 1h44m • 35mm • 15 • Cast: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Sam Waterston.

Judah (Martin Landau) is a respected ophthalmologist and family man, who fears that the revelation of his affair with flight attendant Dolores (Anjelica Huston) may threaten his comfortable life. Featuring an all-star cast (including Allen himself ), Woody Allen’s existential comedy forces us to consider how far we would go to protect what is ours, and whether our moral choices reflect anything more than our fear of being punished.

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JUN I OR Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.50 (£5.50 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!

For these shows we choose to screen dubbed versions where these are available, but some films will be in their original language with subtitles – these are marked on individual film descriptions.

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

Sing Sun 9 Apr at 11.00am Christophe Lourdelet, Garth Jennings • USA/UK/Japan 2016 1h48m • Digital • English, Japanese and Ukrainian with English subtitles • U - Contains very mild bad language, threat, rude humour.

A quirky animated caper, set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals. Buster Moon is a dapper koala who presides over a once-grand theatre. He has one final chance to restore it to its former glory by hosting the greatest animal singing competition ever staged!

The LEGO Batman Movie Sun 16 Apr at 11.00am

Zootropolis Sun 23 Apr at 11.00am

Chris McKay • USA/Denmark 2017 • 1h44m • Digital U - Contains mild comic violence, rude humour, very mild bad language.

Bryon Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush • USA 2016 • 1h48m Digital • PG - Contains mild threat

This irreverent new adventure in LEGOland has the Caped Crusader take centre stage! Batman (Will Arnett) has a lot on - crime sprees, raising a young orphan boy and trying to get his music career off the ground - and if he wants to save the city from The Joker, he may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, work with others and maybe learn to lighten up...?

A well-deserved Oscar® winner for Best Animated Feature. In the animal city of Zootopia - populated by all kinds of amazing animals - a wily fox goes on the run when he’s framed for a crime. The city’s top cop, a self-righteous rabbit, is hot on his tail, but when both become targets of a conspiracy, they’re forced to team up and discover even natural enemies can become best friends!

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Phantom Boy Sun 30 Apr at 11.00am

Swallows and Amazons Sun 7 May at 11.00am

Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol • France/Belgium 2015 • 1h25m Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, threat

Philippa Lowthorpe • UK 2016 • 1h37m • Digital PG - Contains mild threat, infrequent mild violence.

Set in a dreamily animated New York, Phantom Boy tells the story of Leo, a plucky, kind little boy who is very ill. But his illness has given him a gift: he can leave his body and spy unseen on others, something which becomes extremely handy when a dangerous villain tries to destroy the whole city with a computer virus. The beautiful, funny, moving follow-up to Felicioli and Gagnol’s Academy Award® nominated A Cat in Paris.

Based on Arthur Ransome’s classic children’s novel, the latest adaptation of Swallows and Amazons brings the timeless story of four children on an English island adventure back to the big screen for new audiences to enjoy. Set against the stunning Lake District and with a fine supporting cast, Philippa Lowthorpe’s version adds a mystery twist to the familiar tale.

Beauty and the Beast Sun 14 May at 11.00am

Mary Poppins Sun 21 May at 11.00am

Bill Condon • USA 2017 • 2h9m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, threat.

Robert Stevenson • USA 1964 • 2h19m • Digital U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm

A splendid re-telling of Disney’s animated classic which refashions classic characters while staying true to the original. Beauty and the Beast is the journey of Belle (Emma Watson), a bright and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast (Dan Stevens) in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond Beast’s exterior and realise the kind heart and soul within...

Mr and Mrs Banks decide to advertise for a nanny to care for their rowdy children, Michael and Jane.

The children write their own ad, and when their father tears it up and burns it in the fireplace, the pieces miraculously reassemble and go up the chimney. Next day, Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) appears, gliding down from on high with an umbrella as her parachute... One of the greatest family films of all time - on the big screen!

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Jackie (AD) La La Land (AD) Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang Get Out (AD) Mad to Be Normal I Am Not Your Negro The Lost City of Z (AD)

1.00/6.00 3.15/8.15 11.00am/1.25 3.35/5.55 8.15 +Q&A 12.55/8.55 3.05/6.00

Sat 8 Apr

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The Lost City of Z (AD) Jackie (AD) (C) La La Land (AD) Jackie (AD) Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang Get Out (AD) The Lost City of Z (AD) I Am Not Your Negro Wilde (OR) The Lost City of Z (AD)

1.00 3.55 (captioned) 6.10 8.55 11.00am/1.25 3.35/9.00 6.00 11.05am/1.15/5.55 3.25 8.05

Sun 9 Apr

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Sing (FJ) (AD) La La Land (AD) Jackie (AD) Get Out (AD) Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang Get Out (AD) Wilde (OR) La La Land (AD) The Lost City of Z (AD) I Am Not Your Negro

11.00am 1.30 4.15/6.30 8.45 11.00am/1.25 3.45 6.05 8.35 1.00/6.00 3.55/8.55

Mon 1 Jackie (AD) 2.30/8.40 5.55 10 1 La La Land (AD) Apr 2 Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang 11.00am 1.30 2 I Am Not Your Negro 3.45 2 Get Out (AD) 8.30 (captioned) 2 Get Out (AD) (C) 6.00 (£5) 2 Run Lola Run (M) 8.55 3 I Am Not Your Negro 3.00/5.55 3 The Lost City of Z (AD) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 34

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Lion (AD) Arrival (AD) Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang Get Out (AD) The Lost City of Z (AD) I Am Not Your Negro The Lost City of Z (AD)

2.30/5.55 8.35 11.00am/1.20 3.40/6.00 8.20 12.55/8.55 3.00/5.55

Wed 1 12 1 Apr 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Lion (AD) Lion (AD) (C) Arrival (AD) Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang Get Out (AD) I Am Not Your Negro The Lost City of Z (AD) I Am Not Your Negro Nénette (MB)

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Thu 1 Arrival (AD) 13 1 Lion (AD) Apr 2 The LEGO Batman Movie (AD) 2 Get Out (AD) 2 The Lost City of Z (AD) 3 The Lost City of Z (AD) 3 I Am Not Your Negro G Cartoon Mania Animation...

G Plasticine Creature Animation...

2.30 8.35 11.00am/1.20 3.40/8.55 6.00 1.05/8.15 4.00/6.05 10.30am (£15) 1.40 (£15)

Fri 1 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.05/8.30 14 2 The LEGO Batman Movie (AD) 11.05am/1.25 3.45 Apr 2 The Olive Tree 6.00 +Q&A 2 The Olive Tree 8.45 2 The Eyes of My Mother 3 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s... 11.00am/8.25 2.15/5.20 3 Mulholland Drive G Plasticine Easter Animation... 10.30am (£15) G 3D Animation in 2D Workshop... 1.40 (£15) Sat 15 Apr

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Sun 16 Apr

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LEGO Batman Movie (FJ) (AD) The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Olive Tree The LEGO Batman Movie (AD) Even Dwarfs Started Small (HZ) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s...

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Mon 1 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 1.25/3.50/6.15/8.40 17 2 The LEGO Batman Movie (AD) 1.10 3.40 Apr 2 The Olive Tree 2 The Looking Glass War (SW) 5.55 +Intro 8.25 2 Mulholland Drive 3 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s... 11.00am/8.25 2.30 3 Mulholland Drive 6.10 3 The Olive Tree For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 34 Tue 18 Apr

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The Sense of an Ending (AD) 2.30/8.30 The Sense of an Ending (AD) (C) 6.00 (captioned) The Sense of an Ending (AD) 11.05am Tanna 1.30/6.15 The Olive Tree 3.50 A Murder of Quality (SW) 8.40 +Intro Mulholland Drive 11.00am/5.20 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s... 2.15/8.25

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(GP) Growing Pains (p 8) (HZ) Herzog of the Month (p 9)

7 APR 17 - 4 MAY 17

(M) Moving Cinema (p 9) (MB) Monkey Business (p 22)

(OR) Over the Rainbow (p 8) (SW) Edinburgh Spy Week (p 23-24) All screenings in 2D unless marked (3D)

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The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Olive Tree Tanna The Tailor of Panama (SW) Mulholland Drive One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s...

2.30/6.00/8.30 11.05am 1.30 3.45/6.15 8.40 +Intro 8.10 2.15/5.20

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The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Evil Within (DBD) Lamb to the Slaughter (DBD) Phenomena (DBD) Tanna Mulholland Drive Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (SW) The Sense of an Ending (AD) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (SW) Tanna

2.30/5.50 8.30 10.45pm (£6) Midnight 11.05am 2.15 5.45 +Intro 8.40 11.00am/8.20 2.45 6.00

Mon 1 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 1.35/6.00/8.30 24 2 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 11.00am/3.55 1.25 Apr 2 Neruda 6.20 2 The Fits (GP) 8.40 2 The Student 1.10/6.15 3 A Quiet Passion 3.50 3 The Student 8.55 3 Neruda For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 34

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What You Make It (DBD) 12.00 (£6) Without Name + Foxes (DBD) 2.00 Hell is Other People (DBD) 4.45 (£6) The Night Watchmen (DBD) 7.45 Cronenberg Double Bill: The Dead Zone + Scanners (DBD) 10.00pm (£12/£10) The Sense of an Ending (AD) 11.00am/1.25 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 3.50/6.15/8.40 Neruda 3.55/6.20 Bunch of Kunst 1.30/8.45

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Madhouse (DBD) 12.15 The End is Nigh (DBD) 2.45 (£6) Always Shine (DBD) 4.45 Now Wash Your Hands (DBD) 8.00 (£6) Accidental Exorcist (DBD) 9.30 +Q&A Midnight Double Dekker (DBD) 00.15 (£12/£10) The Sense of an Ending (AD) 11.00am/1.25 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 3.50/6.15/8.40 Neruda 11.05am/3.55/6.20 Bunch of Kunst 1.30/8.45

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Zootropolis (FJ) (AD) 11.00am Scream And Scream... (DBD) 1.15 2D & Deranged (DBD) 3.30 (£6) Dig Two Graves (DBD) 5.00 +Q&A It’s Over, Rover (DBD) 8.00 (£6) Dry Blood (DBD) 9.30 The Void (DBD) Midnight The Sense of an Ending (AD) 11.00am/1.25 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 3.50/6.15/8.40 Bunch of Kunst 1.30/8.45 Neruda 3.55/6.20

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The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Sense of an Ending (AD) Blind (F) The Student Neruda A Quiet Passion

2.00/6.00/8.30 11.00am/3.30 6.00 +Discussion 8.40 11.05am/8.35 3.00/5.55

Thu 27 Apr

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The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Sense of an Ending (AD) Neruda The Student A Quiet Passion The Student A Quiet Passion Neruda

2.00/6.00/8.30 11.00am 1.25 5.50 8.25 11.05am 3.00 6.10/8.35

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The Handmaiden 2.15/5.20/8.20 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 11.00am/3.35 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 6.00/8.30 The Happiest Day in the Life... 1.25 The Happiest Day in the Life... 11.05am The Sense of an Ending (AD) 1.15 Suntan 3.40/6.05/8.35

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The Handmaiden 2.15/5.20/8.20 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 11.00am/3.35 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 6.00/8.30 The Happiest Day in the Life... 1.25 The Happiest Day in the Life... 11.05am The Sense of an Ending (AD) 1.10 Suntan 3.35/8.40 Blackbird (FF) 5.45

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Phantom Boy (FJ) 11.00am The Handmaiden 2.15/5.20/8.20 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 11.00am/3.35 The Sense of an Ending (AD 6.05/8.30 The Happiest Day in the Life... 1.25 The Happiest Day in the Life... 11.05am The Sense of an Ending (AD) 1.15 Suntan 3.40/8.35 Killer of Sheep (FF) 6.00

Mon 1 The Handmaiden 2.30/8.15 1 1 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 5.50 May 2 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 1.15/3.45 2 The Sense of an Ending (AD) (C) 8.20 (captioned) 2 The Happiest Day in the Life... 6.10 3 The Sense of an Ending (AD) 11.00am 3 The Happiest Day in the Life... 1.25 3.40/8.35 3 Suntan 6.00 3 Barravento (FF) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 34 Tue 1 2 1 May 2 2 2 3 3 3

The Handmaiden The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Happiest Day in the Life...

The Sense of an Ending (AD) Homo Sapiens The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Happiest Day in the Life...

Suntan

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The Handmaiden The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Happiest Day in the Life...

Suntan The Sense of an Ending (AD) Homo Sapiens

2.30/8.15 5.50 11.00am/3.45/8.20 1.25/6.10 3.55/6.15 1.30 8.40

Thu 1 4 1 May 2 2 3 3 3

The Handmaiden The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Sense of an Ending (AD) The Happiest Day in the Life...

Suntan The Sense of an Ending (AD) ‘Chanson d’Armor’ (FF)

2.30/8.15 5.50 11.00am/3.45/8.20 1.25/6.10 11.05am/8.40 1.30 5.45 + Live Music

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 filter coffee and a traycake for the special discounted price of £8 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 5.30pm that day only.

Offer is subject to availability and only available in person.

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Programming Change After an in-depth trial period of two years, we have decided not to continue with programming our monthly schedule with free ‘holdover ‘ slots, which we have used to extend the run of certain films. From this brochure forward, we will publish a full monthly schedule as we had done before.

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Monkey Business The Monkey Business exhibition is at the National Museum of Scotland until Sun 23 Apr. Free entry for children under 16. www.nms.ac.uk for more details.

Get 2 for 1 tickets to Monkey Business screenings with a valid Monkey Business exhibition ticket.

Get 2 for 1 tickets to NMS Monkey Business exhibition with valid Filmhouse Monkey Business ticket.

Present ticket to Admissions Desk/Box Office when booking, T&Cs apply - cheapest ticket free.

Nénette Wed 12 Apr at 6.10pm Nicolas Philibert • France 2010 • 1h10m • 35mm • French with English subtitles • PG • Documentary.

Centred on the titular 40-year-old female orangutan living in the zoo at Paris’ exquisite Jardin des Plantes, Nicolas Philibert’s charming study of Nénette is an observational treat. In her advancing years, she enjoys life’s simple pleasures like tea and yoghurt in the afternoon, and Philibert’s camera captures all the beautiful little details of her day-to-day routine. All the while, we hear comments, ponderings and tributes from from some of the 600,000 visitors who file past her enclosure every year. A poignant, funny portrait of a beloved Parisian.

King Kong Sat 15 Apr at 3.45pm Merian C Cooper & Ernest B Schoedsack • USA 1933 • 1h40m • 35mm PG • Cast: Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong.

The original - and, we think, the best - cinematic story of the great gorilla of Skull Island has been often rehashed but never bettered. If this glorious pile of horror-fantasy hokum has lost none of its power to move, excite and sadden it is in no small measure due to the remarkable technical achievements of Willis O’Brien’s animation work, and the superbly matched score of Max Steiner. Wray is not required to act, merely to scream; but what a perfect victim she makes.

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Edinburgh Spy Week focuses on espionage literature, film and television and the ways in which secrecy and spying run through our history and culture. The 2017 film programme concentrates on adaptations of John le Carré’s novels and ranges from the obscure to the more well known, from The Looking Glass War and A Murder of Quality to The Tailor of Panama and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Spy Week is organised by the English and Film departments at the University of Edinburgh.

All evening screenings will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies.

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The Looking Glass War Mon 17 Apr at 5.55pm Frank Pierson • UK 1969 • 1h47m • 35mm • English and German with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate violence. • Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Jones, Ralph Richardson, Pia Degermark, Paul Rogers.

Directed by Dog Day Afternoon screenwriter Frank Pierson, The Looking Glass War was the third feature film adaptation of le Carré after the success of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Deadly Affair. Co-starring Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson, this suspenseful Cold War tale sees Christopher Jones as a Polish defector, desperate to stay in London, who is offered UK citizenship in exchange for replacing a murdered MI6 agent in East Germany to undertake a high-risk military intelligence mission...

A Murder of Quality Tue 18 Apr at 8.40pm Gavin Millar • UK 1991 • 1h43m • Digital • PG • Cast: Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, David Threlfall, Ronald Pickup.

The distinguished Denholm Elliott inhabits the role of John le Carré’s George Smiley, who becomes entangled in a suitably complex investigation when a former colleague receives a perturbing letter from the wife of a junior schoolmaster. When she is found murdered, multiple suspects abound and Smiley soon begins to pull at the thread of an unravelling mystery bigger than even he could have imagined. With a screenplay by le Carré himself and a small role for a teenage Christian Bale, this is a most intriguing watch.

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The Tailor of Panama Wed 19 Apr at 8.40pm John Boorman • USA/Ireland 2001 • 1h45m • 35mm • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains some strong sex scenes and strong language. • Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Geoffrey Rush, Brendan Gleeson, Harold Pinter.

John Boorman (Deliverance) collaborated with le Carré on the sharp screenplay to this 2001 adaptation starring Pierce Brosnan as MI6 spy Andy Osnard. When he is unwillingly reassigned to Panama after an affair is exposed, Osnard soon begins to take an interest in the affairs of the country’s elite and meets Pendel (Geoffrey Rush), an ex-con who serves as tailor to many of Panama’s wealthiest citizens. The more that Osnard presses Pendel for information on his clients, the more Pendel begins to fabricate his stories, culminating in a truly thrilling third act.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Thu 20 Apr at 2.45pm & 5.45pm Tomas Alfredson • UK/France 2011 • 2h7m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sex, violence and bloody injury detail • Cast: Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Toby Jones.

Tomas (Let the Right One In) Alfredson’s superbly atmospheric adaptation of le Carré’s best-selling novel. Set at the height of the Cold War, Gary Oldman stars as George Smiley (the role Alec Guinness made his own in the much-loved 1979 TV adaptation), a recently retired British MI6 agent, rehired in secret by his government, which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets. With a cast of outstanding (albeit almost exclusively male) actors including Tom Hardy, Colin Firth, John Hurt and Benedict Cumberbatch, Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor is riveting spy cinema.

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Dead by Dawn returns to Filmhouse for its 24th edition with a tempting line-up of dark delights guaranteed to give you goose-bumps on your goose-bumps!

The UK’s longest running genre film festival, Dead by Dawn was established in 1993. It is a unique festival, celebrating the finest independent film-making with a focus on emerging talent.

Scotland’s international horror film festival

Our approach to horror is broad; story is paramount, as are humour, suspense and atmosphere. We welcome lifelong fans and the genre-curious to discover the breadth of unusual stories lurking under the ‘horror’ banner!

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we’ll begin... we have such sights to show you!

Adele Hartley, Festival Director

All-inclusive festival pass on sale now (£75)

The Evil Within Thu 20 Apr at 8.30pm Andrew Getty • USA 2017 • 1h38m • Digital • 18 • Cast: Frederick Koehler, Sean Patrick Flanery, Brianna Brown, Dina Meyer, Michael Berryman.

Dennis is a mentally challenged teen who lives with his older brother John, who one day brings home an antique mirror. John’s too busy, too stressed and too preoccupied to listen to Dennis’ objections to the piece, and left alone what Dennis sees in the mirror isn’t just his reflection...

What he sees soon becomes something he relies on for advice and support; something powerful and manipulative... something evil.

“Getty’s long, troubled path through production has yielded one of the surefire cult objects of tomorrow, in no small part because its larger-than-life background has complete sincerity at its root.” - The Guardian

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Lamb to the Slaughter

Phenomena

Thu 20 Apr at 10.45pm

Thu 20 Apr at Midnight

58m • 18

Dario Argento • Italy 1985 • 1h56m • English, Italian, German, Swiss German and Danish with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Jennifer Connolly, Daria Nicolodi, Fiore Argento, Federica Mastroianni.

Being a teenager is hard. All those hormones, all that pressure, and no idea yet just how wrong things can go...

A girl loves a boy but her preoccupied mother gets in the way; a teacher dares to ignore the curriculum; a shy boy finds an effective shortcut to changing his status and skipping school on a sunny day doesn’t go quite as planned. £6

Dario Argento’s everyday tale of psychic bugs, razorwielding chimps and deformed children was much maligned in its day. Even Argento scholars showed little love but naysayers be damned! Phenomena is a delirious tour-de-force featuring some of Argento’s most fevered imaginings. The eerie opening where poor Fiore meets the dungeon-dwelling killer is like a fairytale that turns nasty. Argento’s kooky concepts coalesce into the amazing finale. It’s a pure nightmare on film following its own loopy logic. From a review by Andrew Pragasam for thespinningimage.com

What You Make It Fri 21 Apr at 12:00pm Short Film Programme • 1h14m • 18

Not exactly horror films, but quite definitely horror stories. A little boy afraid to die gets some perspective from a very unlikely friend; a body dump takes on a whole new meaning; perfect lives unravel in bizarre ways; a child’s animal cruelty doesn’t go unnoticed and then there’s two wildly different views on what it takes to play a corpse... £6

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Without Name

Hell is Other People

Fri 21 Apr at 2.00pm

Fri 21 Apr at 4.45pm

Lorcan Finnegan • Ireland 2016 • 1h33m • Digital • 18 • Cast: Alan McKenna, Niamh Algar, James Browne, Brendan Conroy.

Short Film Programme • 1h8m • 18

Alan McKenna stars as Eric, a land surveyor hired for some secretive private contract. His employer won’t reveal exactly why he was chosen, but what’s the point in questioning a paycheck? Eric begins his duties alone but he’s eventually joined by his student associate Olivia. As Eric explores farther reaches of woodland nothingness, he discovers unnerving clues that suggest the presence of someone - or something - else. From a review by Matt Donato for We Got This Covered PLUS SHORT

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Children, neighbours, people you probably shouldn’t have reconnected with through social media.... they’re all here.

A dinner party gets awkward when it’s gatecrashed; some feral kids stress a fastidious mama; an allAmerican family get caught in a cliché loop and a man without a squash partner is just a teeny bit rattled when a satan-worshipping sex cult moves in next door... £6

Lorcan Finnegan • Ireland 2012

The Night Watchmen

Cronenberg Double Bill

Fri 21 Apr at 7.45pm

Fri 21 Apr at 10.00pm

Mitchell Altieri • USA 2016 • 1h20m • Digital • 18 • Cast: Ken Arnold, Dan DeLuca, Kevin Jiggetts, Kara Luiz, Max Gray Wilbur.

3h45m • 18

A distinctly silly horror comedy taking gleeful joy in piling on the slapstick while ensuring everything - and everyone - gets to know the true meaning of ‘blood-soaked’. In a spectacular homage to campy horror, this rancorous gore-fest mimicking b-movies and double features features as much blood as laughs - The Night Watchmen are about to take you on a wild nostalgic thrill ride!

From a review by Breno Pereia.

David Cronenberg • USA 1983 • 1h43m • English and Russian with English subtitles • Cast: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams.

The Dead Zone Scanners

David Cronenberg • Canada 1981 • 1h43m 18 • Cast: Jennifer O’Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan.

A late-night Double Bill of 1980s David Cronenberg classics about people who discover they have freaky telekenetic powers. Naturally, things get messy... £12/£10

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Madhouse

The End is Nigh

Sat 22 Apr at 12.15pm

Sat 22 Apr at 2.45pm

Jim Clark • UK/USA 1974 • 1h32m • 18 • Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri, Natasha Pyne.

Short Film Programme • 56m • 18

At one point actor Paul Toombes (Vincent Price) was master of all he surveyed in the field of horror movies, recognised across the globe as the finest exponent in the genre, especially as his famed Doctor Death character. However, one New Year’s Eve at a party at his mansion it all goes horribly wrong for him... After ten years away from the screen thanks to a nervous breakdown, Toombes agrees to return as his most famous character for a TV series, but it’s not long before disaster befalls the set....

From a review by Graeme Clark for thespinningimage. com

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Death comes to us all, but without the cowl and scythe, he can be kinda hard to recognise.

A heat wave pushes one artist to meet another; a cute teenage girl suggests dancing when things don’t go your way, the shadows look back at you on a remote farm; the grim reaper is much more concerned with getting his hands on your vintage leather sofa than ushering you into the next world and a girl runs screaming through the woods pursued by a masked would-be assailant.... £6

Always Shine

Now Wash Your Hands

Sat 22 Apr at 4.45pm

Sat 22 Apr at 8.00pm

Sophia Takal • USA 2016 • 1h25m • Digital • 18 • Cast: Mackenzie Davis, Caitlin FitzGerald, Lawrence Michael Levine, Khan Baykal.

Short Film Programme • 54m • 18

Two 20-something actresses, Beth and Anna, take a weekend road trip to the isolated Big Sur home of Anna’s aunt. Beth’s career has started to gain a kind of momentum while Anna, on the other hand, seethes with jealousy. Always Shine is an immersive nightmare of merging, over-identification, and projection.

From a review by Sheila O’Malley for rogerebert.com

In life there’s always the potential for love, for joy, for personal growth, for a cosmic epiphany. But life is messy... sticky... sometimes ankle-deep in entrails. Between an abbatoir and a brothel things get confusing; a teenage girl gives herself to her boyfriend and is surprised at what she gets in return; a man swallows a bug while out running but the bug does not die and a surfeit of mucus inspires the arrogant worms. £6

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Accidental Exorcist

Midnight Double Dekker

Sat 22 Apr at 9.30pm

Sat 22 Apr at 12.15am (quarter past midnight)

Daniel Falicki • USA 2016 • 1h45m • Digital • 18 Cast: Daniel Falicki, Faye Sills, Sherryl Despres, David Higbee.

3h27m • 18

Writer/director Daniel Falicki plays Richard Vanuk, a man cursed with the power to exorcise demons from possessed souls, but at great cost to himself. Faliki is charismatic as hell, all dry wit and casual aloofness as he carries a film with such a nihilistic narrative.

Being a possession movie, it is definitely not for the squeamish - much regurgitation is regurgitated. It is, however, refreshing to see someone do something with the genre that’s different and if you have the stomach for it, I think you’ll be surprised too.

From a review by Mark L Miller for Ain’t It Cool News Followed by a Q&A with director Daniel Falicki.

Roger Cobb is a horror novelist/Vietnam vet whose career has hit a slump since the disappearance of his son. When his aunt dies, Roger decides to move into her house. Desperate to get some work done on his book, Roger is instantly haunted...

House

Steve Miner • USA 1985 • 1h33m

The Monster Squad

Fred Dekker • USA 1987

1h22m • 35mm • English and German with English subtitles

It all starts as Van Helsing puts the finishing touch on Dracula by having a virgin recite a spell to an amulet that opens a portal and sucks everyone up. Flash forward to the ‘80s where a group of kids realize that monsters have descended on their town. This is their cue to form The Monster Squad! £12/£10

Scream And Scream Again

2D & Deranged

Sun 23 Apr at 1.15pm

Sun 23 Apr at at 3.30pm

Gordon Hessler • UK 1970 • 1h35m • 18 • Cast: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Judy Huxtable, Alfred Marks.

Short Film Programme • 1h5m • 18

A jogger has some kind of seizure and collapses in the street: when he awakes, he is horrified to discover that one of his legs has been amputated. Meanwhile, a European totalitarian state has some connection to the brutal killings of young British women - but what could it be? It may not make much sense until the very end but Scream and Scream Again holds your attention because of its barmy plotting, unexpected twists and deep suspicion A true original. From a review by Graeme Clark for thespinningimage.com

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Animation to make your jaw drop! One man’s nightmares are made flesh in extraordinary detail guaranteed to invade your own dreams; there’s highly critical and unhealthy oedipal advice, amphibians take full advantage of a pool party; the overlords of a totalitarian insect regime are targeted by the resistance and some gently curved metal will break your heart. You may never be able to use wire-cutters again... £6

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Dig Two Graves

It’s Over, Rover

Sun 23 Apr at 5.00pm

Sun 23 Apr at 8.00pm

Hunter Adams • USA 2017 • 1h25m • Digital • 18 Cast: Ted Levine , Samantha Isler, Danny Goldring.

Short Film Programme • 59m • 18

After Jacqueline ‘Jake’ Mather suffers a tragic bereavement she’s offered an unlikely opportunity to make her spirit whole again when mysterious local gypsy Wyeth Buchta claims he can undo what’s been done, but Jake has to make a sacrifice. While the offer weighs heavily on Jake’s conscience, her Sheriff grandfather is forced to confront his own dark history with the gypsies that makes Wyeth’s proposition potentially more sinister. This is a rare gothic drama that delivers a suspenseful story executed with powered precision. From a review by Ian Sedensky for culturecrypt.com Followed by a Q&A with director Hunter Adams.

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Pets provide us with companionship and love; they lower our blood pressure and help us live longer.

Shame it’s such a one-way street, really.

A fisherman’s wildest catch doesn’t respond too well captivity; one man’s devotion to his faithful hound spirals out of control; kindness oversees an entire menagerie of misfortune and a cat fits nine lifetimes of adventure into one short, surprising existence. £6

Dry Blood

The Void

Sun 23 Apr at 9.30pm

Sun 23 Apr at Midnight

Kelton Jones • USA 2016 • 1h23m • Digital • 18 • Cast: Clint Carney, Jaymie Valentine, Kelton Jones, Graham Sheldon, Rin Ehlers.

Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski • Canada 2016 • 1h31m • Digital 18 • Cast: Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh, Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe.

Brian’s an addict - booze, pills - either is fine, both is better, but now he wants to sober up. Unwilling to endure the withdrawal alone, he calls his longsuffering best friend Anna and asks if she’ll come to his rural cabin and help... Brian’s best intentions for sobriety, however, are relatively short-lived while he’s waiting for Anna to arrive and it’s not long before terrifying pill-induced hallucinations start getting the better of him. Wild, unpredictable and genuinely shocking, this one isn’t for the squeamish!

Officer Daniel Carter finds a young man in a bad way, crawling along the side of the road. The nearest hospital is in the process of being packed up and moved to a new site but it’s the closest help available.

Little do either of the men know that they’re heading right into the heart of a cult. Gruesome, messy, violent and loaded with maniacs and monsters, what unfolds here is a wild and wicked Lovecraft-inspired ride. Definitely not one for the squeamish!

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Our programme of folk cinema this year revolves around a dual theme of Songs and Labour, showcasing the many instances in Scottish and world cinemas where filmmakers have explored the complex ties between communities, music and labour. Given recent world events, Folk Film Gathering also voices political solidarity with those experiencing new degrees of vulnerability. As such, we have given particular focus to the experience of black communities, to communities experiencing the dislocations of emigration and diaspora, to women’s perspectives and the work of female directors, and to communities battling austerity and exploitative labour practices. www.folkfilmgathering.com

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Blackbird Sat 29 Apr at 5.45pm Jamie Chambers • UK 2013 • 1h33m • Digital • English and Scots Gaelic with English subtitles • 15

Featuring luminaries of the Scottish folk revival Norman Maclean, Sheila Stewart and Margaret Bennett, this lyrical cinematic fable explores the passing of songs from one generation to another.

Ruadhan is an angry young man all too aware of changes in his community: there’s no more fish in the sea, the ceilidh house is shutting down, and the town is besieged by middle-class incomers’ intent on gentrification. Ruadhan stages a one man-stand: can he save the soul of his community? Preceded by a live performance from Margaret Bennett. Followed by an audience with Norman Maclean.

Killer of Sheep

Barravento

Sun 30 Apr at 6.00pm

Mon 1 May at 6.00pm

Charles Burnett • USA 1977 • 1h20m • Digital • 12A - Contains strong language • Cast: Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy.

Glauber Rocha • Brazil 1962 • 1h18m • 16mm • Portuguese with English subtitles • 12A

Charles Burnett’s debut remains as relevant today as when it was first released. Stan works long hours, struggling to hold onto his humanity under the grinding weight of hard labour and poverty. A work of stark poetry and quiet, excoriating anger, the film depicts the myriad perspectives and pressures upon an urban black community, with a score encompassing the length, breadth and richness of Afro-American music. Preceded by a live performance from Jamaican singer Brina.

Barrovento is an exhilarating, rhapsodic mix of Brazilian folk custom and political drama. In village of Xaréu (Kingfish) fishermen, the return of the trickster Firmino stirs up underlying tensions. Firmino convinces the fishermen to rebel against their propertied masters, but are his motives pure? And will young lovers Naina and Arua be able to shake off the superstitions of their community, find happiness and survive the oncoming storm? Preceded by a live Brazilian folk song from Sarah Campbell.

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‘Chanson d’Armor’

Bitter Rice

with Live Clarsach Recital Thu 4 May at 5.45pm

Fri 5 May at 5.40pm

1h55m • 12A

In 1935, Scottish composer and clarsach player Heloise Russell-Ferguson traveled to Brittany to perform a set of Gaelic songs at this film’s premiere - the first Breton language film. Based on a Breton folk tale, Chanson is a lyrical and mythic portrayal of forbidden love within a fishing community. Join us as we recreate the event, with Scots Trad Awards Instrumentalist of the Year winner Rachel Newton.

Followed by Q&A with Rachel and Dr Stuart Eydmann (University of Edinburgh).

Another Time, Another Place Sat 6 May at 5.45pm Michael Radford • UK 1983 • 1h42m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Phyllis Logan, Giovanni Mauriello, Denise Coffey, Tom Watson, Gianluca Favilla.

This unsung classic of Scottish cinema explores the tensions in a remote rural community during WWII. A shy housewife constrained by a loveless marriage and a life of hard labour, Janie’s world is turned upside down by the arrival of three Italian prisoners of war, awakening in her a new sense of passion and possibility. Preceded by folk songs from the East Coast of Scotland sung by Steve Byrne (Malinky).

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Riso Amaro

Giuseppe De Santis • Italy 1948 • 1h47m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Raf Vallone.

A potent, exhilarating brew of folk song, film noir, and Italian neorealism. On the run from the law, small-time thief Francesca hides amidst a group of female workers in the Po Valley rice fields. Despite the back-breaking work, Francesca finds a new sense of camaraderie and community amongst her coworkers. Will she be able to hold onto her newfound footing when violent boyfriend Walter reappears?

Preceded by live Italian folk song from Simone Caffari. Followed by Q&A with Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh) on the film and director.

Supported by the Italian Cultural Institute.

The Scar Sun 7 May at 5.30pm The Amber Collective • UK 1997 • 1h54m • 35mm • 15

Like many women active during the miners’ strike, May has been left to clean up the mess. Struggling with a failed marriage, two unruly children, and the onset of hot flushes, May is just about holding things together when she meets Roy, the new manager of an open-cast mine. Roy brings a degree of humour and warmth long missing in May’s life, but is he truly the answer to her problems? Preceded by a live performance from the McTaggart Scott Loanhead Brass Band. Followed by Q&A with director Ellin Hare and cinematographer Peter Robert.

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Mon 8 May at 6.00pm

Song Laulu Tue 9 May at 6.00pm

Aldona Watts • USA/Lithuania 2015 • 1h • Digital • Lithuanian with English subtitles • PG

Selma Vilhunen • Finland 2014 • 1h22m • Digital • Finnish with English subtitles • 12A

In a region of Lithuania known as ‘Land of Songs’, five sprightly elderly women have kept their village’s ancient folk singing tradition alive through decades of war, occupation, and desertion. Aldona Watts’ debut feature is a tender record of the lives of these remarkable women, and an eloquent testament to heritage and the universal language of folk music.

Preceded by a live performance of Lithuanian and Polish work songs by Davno. Followed by Q&A with director Aldona Watts.

Oscar®-nominated director Selma Vilhunen’s documentary about the passing on of Finnish oral traditions documents two years in the life of Jussi, the last-surviving Finnish rune singer, and his student Hanneriina, a young woman with a mysterious past.

A lyrical rumination on roots and connections full of humour and mystery, Laulu is a moving testament to the healing power of song as a binding force between people and communities.

The Milk of Sorrow La teta asustada Latcho Drom Wed 10 May at 5.50pm

Thu 11 May at 8.35pm

Claudia Llosa • Spain/Peru 2009 • 1h38m • Digital • Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles • 12A - Contains references to rape Cast: Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Bárbara Lazón.

Tony Gatlif • France 1993 • 1h43m • Digital • French, Romany, Turkish, Slovak, Hungarian, Arabic and Spanish with English subtitles • PG

Claudia Llosa’s Golden Bear winner is an audacious testament to female survival full of song, black humour and luminous imagery. Fausta is one of a generation of young women who have received the ‘milk of sorrow’; feelings of terror and desperation after two decades of civil war, rape and persecution.

Nursing her mother on her death-bed, Fausta must confront the inheritance from her generation and decide for herself whether she is a victim or a survivor.

A one-of-a-kind ‘folk musical’, Tony Gatlif’s cinematic masterpiece celebrates Romany music traditions from their roots in Rajasthan and Egypt to their new homes and journeys across Europe. Part road-movie, part rhapsodic community portrait, and all-parts Romany musical show-case, Latcho Drom is one of the great works of cinema: a true epic in its scope, generosity and humanity. Don’t miss it.

Preceded by a live performance of Scots Traveller songs from Jess Smith.

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The majority of seats in the Cafe Bar are not fixed and can be moved.

There is wheelchair access to all three screens. Cinema One has space for two wheelchair users and these places are reached via the passenger lift. Cinemas Two and Three have one space each. Staff are always on hand to help operate lifts – please ask at the box office when you purchase your tickets. A second accessible toilet is situated at the lower level close to Cinemas Two and Three.

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In all screens we have a system which enables us, whenever available, to show onscreen captions, and provide audio description (via infra-red headsets) for those who are sight-impaired.

Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are strictly limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults.

Babychanging, bottle-warming and buggy parking facilities are available.

This issue, all screenings of Jackie, Get Out, The Sense of an Ending, Arrival, The Lost City of Z, La La Land, Lion, The LEGO Batman Movie and Sing have audio description, and the following screenings will have captions: Sat 8 Apr at 3.55pm

Jackie

Mon 10 Apr at 8.30pm

Get Out

Wed 12 Apr at 5.55pm

Lion

Tue 18 Apr at 6.00pm

The Sense of an Ending

Mon 1 May at 8.20pm

The Sense of an Ending

Mon 10 Apr at 11.00am La La Land Mon 17 Apr at 11.00am The LEGO Batman...

Mon 24 Apr at 11.00am The Fits Mon 1 May at 11.00am The Happiest Day in...

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