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EYES Winter Sleep The Grandmaster The Imitation Game 2001: A Space Odyssey Charlie’s Country Citizenfour Still the Enemy Within Stations of the Cross Life Itself Concerning Violence Me, Myself and Mum Effie Gray Kon-Tiki Christmas at Our House!

Scotland Galore!

Filmhouse Junior Nordic Film Festival Jacques Tati

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

INDEX 14-15 15 27

2001: A Space Odyssey 6 Aerial View: A Guid New Year with STV 21 Arthur Christmas 12 Big Eyes 9 The Bishop’s Wife 16 Charlie’s Country 5 Christmas at Our House!

16-17 Citizenfour 6 Come and See...

22 Concerning Violence 6 Days of Gray 11 The Double Life of Veronique 22 Education and Learning 26 Effie Gray 7 Filmhouse Cafe Bar + Quiz 22 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Junior 12 Filmhouse Loyalty Card 4 Filmhouse Player 10 Filmosophy: The Double 22 From Scotland With Love 20 Frozen 12/17 The Grandmaster 5 Hotel 11 I Am An Old Communist Hag 24 I Am Yours 11 ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’

21 The Illusionist 20 The Imitation Game 7 It’s a Wonderful Life 16 Jacques Tati 19 Jour de fête 19 Joyeux Noël 17 Kon-Tiki 9 Life Itself 8

The Maths Behind The Imitation Game Me, Myself and Mum Mon Oncle Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday The Muppet Christmas Carol Nordic Film Festival Open Bethlehem Open Studies Film Courses Paris of the North The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Raymond Briggs Trilogy Rise of the Guardians Scotland Galore!

Silent Running Stations of the Cross Still the Enemy Within Sunshine on Leith Testament of Youth The Theory of Everything A Very Scottish Christmas What We Did on Our Holiday Whisky Galore!

White Christmas The Wicker Man: The Final Cut Winter Sleep Young Voices

AUDIODESCRIPTIONANDCAPTIONS 7 8 19 19 16 11 24 25 11 21 17 12 20-21 22 7 8 20 9 9 16 20 21 17 20 5 12

In all three screens we have a system which enables us, whenever the necessary digital files are available, to show onscreen captions for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing, and provide audio description (via infra-red headsets) for those who are sight-impaired.

This issue, all screenings of The Imitation Game will have audio description, and the following screenings will have captions:

The Imitation Game: Sat 13 Dec, 1.00pm The Imitation Game: Tue 23 Dec, 6.00pm It may be the case that Big Eyes also has audio description, but the film’s distributor was unable to confirm before we went to print. Please check our website nearer the time for up to date information.

FORCRYINGOUTLOUD Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Babychanging, bottlewarming and buggy parking facilities are available.

2001: A Space Odyssey: Mon 8 Dec, 11am The Bishop’s Wife: Mon 22 Dec, 11am Frozen (Sing-AlongScreening): Mon 29 Dec, 11am There will be no For Crying Out Loud screening on Monday 15 December. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Introduction

BIG EYES

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

THE IMITATION GAME

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Seasons greetings...

One of our fine and most regular of patrons – we’ll call her Morag, to either protect the innocent or name the guilty – has been in touch to suggest I name this column ‘Rod’s Rant’, so prone am I to ‘going off on one’ in the prosecution of it. She meant it as a compliment and a bit of fun, I’m sure... I’d never thought of it as a rant as such, and so looked back to see where that impression might have come from and, you know what, ‘Morag’ is probably right (though I do prefer to think of the instances of such more as one in an occasional series of gentle reminders that Filmhouse’s existence relies so heavily on your continued support, and to help you make informed decisions as to which cinema establishment is deserving of your patronage [Yeah, okay, we get the message. - Ed.]). Last month, and I think it was this that must have triggered the communication mentioned above, I explained that film-wise we can’t always get what we want when we want it, and you may or may not have guessed that The Imitation Game, playing from 12 December, was one of those films we could not (oops, I’m doing it again!) secure on its release. I’m hoping you’ve been waiting and will come and see it here…

The holiday season is upon us once again, so we’re all getting prepared to endure the usual round of Grinch-like grumblings about the ‘damnable compulsory jollity’ of it all from one of our number in the office... But, like us, pay them no heed, wallow in it, and metaphorically rub their face in it by coming to see one (or more!) of the seasonal classics we have lined up this year, including the inconceivable-without It’s a Wonderful Life, the equally essential The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Bishop’s Wife, and, in exceedingly timely fashion, Joyeux Noël, on the 100th anniversary of the ‘game-of-footyin-no-man’s-land’ depicted therein.

Our big release of the month comes on Boxing Day, and it’s Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, which tells the incredible true story of artist Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), whose husband Walter (Christoph Waltz) claimed credit for her massively popular paintings of big-eyed children, for decades. A grown-up, imaginative fable… and vintage Burton. Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, has been digitally mastered for the first time and gets the re-release treatment, screening here from 5 December; The Grandmaster is arthouse darling Wong Kar Wai’s dazzling, expressionistic character study of legendary kung-fu master, Ip Man; and, from Germany, one of the hits of EIFF 2014, Stations of the Cross gets a much-deserved cinema release.

Tying in with our chums at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay as we often do, we’ve a host of great films set in Scotland for your delectation; and there’s also a trio of Jacques Tati’s early marvels, Jour de fête, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday and Mon Oncle. N’est-ce pas fantastique!

Lastly, I want to thank you all for your support in 2014, and I hope we’ve done enough to warrant the same in 2015. Looking at films coming up in early 2015, I think we’ll be seeing you sooner in the New Year, rather than later… I do hope so.

Have a good one!

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

We are currently undergoing some building works to upgrade our kitchen and bar storage areas. There may be some occasional noise disruption and access issues to Cinemas 2 and 3 during these works; this is also the reason there are no early matinee screenings most days. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience, and be assured we are working with our contractors to keep this to a minimum.

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Filmhouse Explorer

THE IMITATION GAME

WINTER SLEEP

STATIONS OF THE CROSS

Filmhouse Explorer We’re really keen to encourage your deeper engagement with the great cinema we screen. We know going to the cinema a lot can be quite expensive, so we’ve devised a ticket deal to make it cheaper to see films beyond the big new releases.

Here’s how it works: buy a ticket for a film in the left hand column below, and you will receive a voucher that will entitle you, on handing it in at the Box Office, to 50% off a full price ticket to any film (or any film in any season) listed in the right hand column.

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Winter Sleep (page 5) The Imitation Game (page 7) Effie Gray (page 7) Big Eyes (page 9) It’s a Wonderful Life (page 16)

Charlie’s Country (page 5) 2001: A Space Odyssey (page 6) Concerning Violence (page 6) Stations of the Cross (page 7) Life Itself (page 8) Silent Running (page 22)

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.

SILENT RUNNING

Main features

WINTER SLEEP

NEWRELEASE

THE GRANDMASTER

NEWRELEASE

Winter Sleep

The Grandmaster

From Fri 28 Nov

From Fri 5 Dec

Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Turkey 2014 • 3h16m • DCP Turkish with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag, Ayberk Pekcan, Serhat Mustafa Kiliç.

Wong Kar Wai • Hong Kong/China 2013 • 1h48m • DCP Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong violence Cast: Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi, Wang Qingxiang, Elvis Tsui, Song Hye-kyo.

Kis uykusu

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Winter Sleep is the new film from Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Three Monkeys). Inspired by several short stories by Anton Chekhov, Winter Sleep is set in Anatolia, in the stunning Cappadocia region where homes are carved into the volcanic rock. It is here that Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel with his young wife Nihal, with whom he has a stormy relationship, and his recently-divorced sister Necla. As winter arrives and the snow begins to fall, the guests leave and lingering resentments come to the surface in the hotel and beyond.

Strikingly beautiful and with incisive dialogue, Winter Sleep is another milestone in Ceylan’s ongoing, illuminating exploration of the human condition.

Yi dai zong shi

A dazzling, melancholy martial arts film from master director Wong Kar Wai. China, 1936. It’s the eve of the Japanese invasion and China is in turmoil, with the country’s south teetering on the brink of partition from the north. The paths of two kung fu masters, Ip Man (Tony Leung) and Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi), cross at a gathering at legendary brothel the Golden Pavilion, where a retirement ceremony for Gong Er’s father is to be held.

Filmed in a range of stunning locations, The Grandmaster features virtuoso performances by some of the greatest stars of contemporary Asian cinema, and stunning fight choreography by the renowned Yuen Wo Ping (The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).

CHARLIE’S COUNTRY

NEWRELEASE

Charlie’s Country Fri 5 to Sun 7 Dec Rolf de Heer • Australia 2013 • 1h48m DCP • 15 – Contains strong language Cast: David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr, Luke Ford, Bobby Bunungurr, Jennifer Budukpuduk Gaykamangu.

The great Australian actor David Gulpilil (Walkabout, Ten Canoes) won the Best Actor prize at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard for his majestic performance in this semiautobiographical drama, about an aged Aborigine who journeys into the Outback to live in the traditional ways of his ancestors.

Charlie (Gulpilil) lives in a remote Aboriginal community in northern Australia, where government intervention in the culture’s traditional way of life has left many of the residents, Charlie included, feeling powerless to control their destinies. When his gun and hand-crafted spear are confiscated, leaving him nothing to hunt with, Charlie defiantly heads into the bush to live the old way. Battling both the elements and his own ageing body, Charlie is eventually forced back to the community and, later, to the provincial capital of Darwin. What he finds there proves to be just the beginning of a long road back home.

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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

RESTOREDCLASSIC

CITIZENFOUR

MAYBEYOUMISSED

CONCERNING VIOLENCE

NEWRELEASE

2001: A Space Odyssey

Citizenfour

Concerning Violence

Fri 5 to Thu 11 Dec

Sat 6 & Sun 7 Dec

Mon 8 & Tue 9 Dec

Stanley Kubrick • UK/USA 1968 • 2h29m DCP • U – Contains some mild horror Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack.

Laura Poitras • Germany/USA 2014 • 1h53m • DCP English, Portuguese and German with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language • Documentary

Göran Olsson • Sweden/Finland/Denmark/USA 2014 • 1h29m • DCP English, Swedish, French and Portuguese with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong images of real injury and dead bodies Documentary

Kubrick’s groundbreaking classic, undoubtedly the most influential science-fiction film of the 60’s, is a spellbinding masterpiece that can still make you dizzy with wonder.

Based on the novella ‘The Sentinel’ by Arthur C Clarke, the film quite literally changed our concept of space and spaceships, replacing the pencil-shaped rocketships with large constructions more commensurate with the vastness of deep space. Famous also for its use of Strauss (both Richard’s ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’ and Johann’s ‘Blue Danube’), the story (such as it is) details man’s first confrontation with a higher power (the monolith, the representation of the mysterious force that seems to guide man), his struggle against machines of his own making (the unforgettable HAL 9000), and the distant future, where man’s life cycle becomes meaningless.

In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was in the process of constructing a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as ‘citizen four’, saying he wanted to blow the whistle on the massive covert surveillance programs run by the NSA and other intelligence agencies. In June 2013, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the man who turned out to be Edward Snowden. She took her camera with her. The film that resulted from this series of tense encounters is absolutely unique in the history of cinema: a 100% real-life thriller unfolding minute by minute before our eyes.

“Alarming and essential – anyone with a phone should see it.” - Empire

Full of remarkably powerful footage, Concerning Violence is a challenging but ultimately illuminating look at the struggle against colonial rule in Africa. Acclaimed director Göran Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 1969-1975) assembles striking archival material of various liberation efforts from the 60s and 70s and sets it to passages from Frantz Fanon’s vital treatise on racism and colonialism, The Wretched of the Earth. Actor/singer Lauryn Hill narrates the text with passionate conviction, guiding us through a tricky terrain of often-difficult imagery. While it may sound simple, the images and words interact in subtle, interesting ways, each providing a nuanced context for the other. The result is a complex exploration of rebellion, burning with a contemporary urgency.

Main features

THE IMITATION GAME

MAYBEYOUMISSED

EFFIE GRAY

MAYBEYOUMISSED

STATIONS OF THE CROSS

NEWRELEASE

The Imitation Game

Effie Gray

From Fri 12 Dec

Fri 12 to Mon 15 Dec

Kreuzweg

Morten Tyldum • UK/USA 2014 • 1h54m DCP • 12A – Contains moderate sex references Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance.

Richard Laxton • UK 2014 • 1h48m DCP • 12A – Contains moderate sex references Cast: Dakota Fanning, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge, Emma Thompson, David Suchet, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, James Fox.

Fri 12 to Wed 17 Dec

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code, helping the Allies win WWII. Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was persecuted by the UK government for his homosexuality.

SPECIALEVENT

The Maths Behind The Imitation Game Sun 14 Dec, 12-1pm, FREE

The Imitation Game focuses on the life of Alan Turing, a famous British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, computer scientist, mathematical biologist and marathon runner. In this panel discussion organised and chaired by the University of Edinburgh, we speak to experts in several fields about the legacy of Turing’s work and its importance in our lives today, with a chance for the audience to ask questions inspired by the film.

Emma Thompson wrote and stars in this polished period drama about the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin (Greg Wise) and his teenage Scottish bride Effie Gray (Dakota Fanning). This ill-matched marriage, and the subsequent love triangle they formed with pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, has been the subject of many a work in theatre, TV and even opera, but is here given the full cinema treatment for the first time.

Rejected physically, and without explanation, on their wedding night and for many years beyond, the young, convivial Effie seems doomed – given the social mores of the time – to a life of chaste imprisonment by her unsociable, workaholic husband. Effie, however, is a woman of some spirit...

Stations of the Cross Dietrich Brüggemann • Germany 2014 • 1h50m DCP • German, French and Latin with English subtitles 15 – Contains distressing scenes Cast: Lucie Aron, Anna Brüggemann, Michael Kamp, Moritz Knapp, Birge Schade.

Siblings Anna and Dietrich Brüggemann intend to shake us with their film and they undeniably do. Written by both and directed by Dietrich, this is a harrowing yet beautiful look at Christian fanaticism.

Maria (Lea van Acken in a stunning performance) is 14, preparing for her Confirmation in the (fictional) Priestly Society of St Paul. The film’s title is literal, if ironic: the narrative is divided into fourteen chapters, each named after one of the traditional stages in depictions of Christ’s martyrdom. With each chapter, the atmosphere of oppression thickens, as Maria tamps down her emerging sexuality while suffering under the yoke of her tyrannical mother. Rigorous, subversive and profoundly moving, this is a work of considerable power.

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STILL THE ENEMY WITHIN

MAYBEYOUMISSED

LIFE ITSELF

NEWRELEASE

ME, MYSELF AND MUM

NEWRELEASE

Still the Enemy Within

Life Itself

Wed 17 & Thu 18 Dec

Wed 17 & Thu 18 Dec

Les garçons et Guillaume, à table!

Owen Gower • UK 2014 • 1h53m • DCP 15 – Contains strong language • Documentary

Steve James • USA 2014 • 2h1m • DCP 15 – Contains infrequent strong sex, sexualised nudity, violence Documentary

Fri 19 to Mon 22 Dec

In 1984, a conservative government under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared war on Britain’s unions, taking on the strongest in the country, the National Union of Mineworkers. Following a secret plan, the government began announcing the closure of coal mines, threatening not just an industry but whole communities and a way of life.

Against all the forces the government could throw at them, 160 000 coal miners took up the fight and became part of a battle that would change the course of history.

Still the Enemy Within tells the story of a group of miners and supporters who were on the front line of the strike for an entire year. These were people that Margaret Thatcher labelled ‘the Enemy Within’. Many of them have never spoken on camera before.

“As gripping as any thriller.” - the Guardian

Director Steve James (Hoop Dreams) explores the impact and legacy of Roger Ebert’s life, from his Pulitzer Prizewinning film criticism and his nearly quarter-century run with Gene Siskel on their review show, to becoming an influential cultural voice worldwide, and finally to his inspiring battles with cancer and the resulting physical disability. A poignant, candid, joyful story of life, love and movies.

“An impressively clear-eyed and deeply moving portrait.” The Telegraph

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Me, Myself and Mum

Guillaume Gallienne • France/Belgium 2013 • 1h25m • DCP French, German, English and Spanish with English subtitles 15– Contains strong sex, sex references Cast: Guillaume Gallienne, André Marcon, Françoise Fabian, Nanou Garcia, Diane Kruger.

Coming-of-age films are rarely as enjoyable, or as mischievous, as the surprise audience hit of last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Adapted from his one-man stage show, Guillaume Gallienne shows what it’s like to grow up as a boy when everyone is convinced that you’re really a girl – or should have been. Playing both himself and his frosty grande dame mother, Gallienne traces his life from childhood in an aristocratic family through adventures in Spain, ill-fated stints at boarding school and a hair-raising spa visit to the present, when he comes out as… well, simply as his own uncategorisable self.

Main features

BIG EYES

KON-TIKI

NEWRELEASE

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

NEWRELEASE

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH

COMINGSOON

Big Eyes

Kon-Tiki

The Theory of Everything

From Fri 26 Dec

Fri 26 to Tue 30 Dec

Tim Burton • USA 2014 • 1h44m • DCP • cert tbc Cast: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Jason Schwartzman, Krysten Ritter, Terence Stamp.

Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg UK/Norway/Denmark/Germany/Sweden 2012 • 1h59m • DCP Norwegian, English, French and Swedish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong threat, bloody images, injury detail Cast: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tobias Santelmann, Gustaf Skarsgård, Odd-Magnus Williamson.

James Marsh • UK 2014 • 2h3m • cert tbc Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Emily Watson.

Director Tim Burton reunites with Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski to tell the extraordinary true story of Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) and her husband Walter (Christoph Waltz), who took credit for his wife’s distinctive artworks and enjoyed fame and fortune while she toiled in anonymity, painting for sixteen hours a day under lock and key. Eventually Margaret decided she couldn’t take any more and left Walter, but how could she prove he had been deceiving the world for years and finally get the recognition she deserved?

Matinee Special!

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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.

When Norwegian scientist and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl developed the now widely accepted theory that the peoples of Polynesia first migrated from South America and not, as previously believed, from Asia, the international scientific community openly mocked him. Refusing to be deterred in his quest to prove his hypothesis – not even by the notable fact that he could not swim – he embarked on one of history’s most celebrated scientific adventures. In 1947, Heyerdahl built a raft of balsa wood and travelled across the open seas from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands, thereby demonstrating the plausibility of his theory – and changing the history books forever.

Directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg’s masterful account of Heyerdahl’s staggeringly brave journey is unerringly faithful to the original story, as we follow Heyerdahl gathering financing for the trip before setting off on an epic 101 day-long journey across 8,000 kilometres, all while the world was watching.

The extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, based on Jane Hawking’s memoir, ‘Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen’, and directed by Academy Award winner James Marsh (Man on Wire).

For young Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) the future looks limitless, his brilliant mind ensuring his success as a cosmologist, while his relationship with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) promising a fulfilling personal life. Then tragedy strikes when, at the age of 21, he is diagnosed with motor neuron disease.

“Redmayne towers: this is an astonishing, genuinely visceral performance which bears comparison with Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot.” - the Guardian

Testament of Youth James Kent • UK 2014 • 2h10m • cert tbc Cast: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson.

Vera Brittain’s beloved WWI memoir is exquisitely realised in this moving and timely adaptation. Intelligent and free-spirited Vera overcomes the narrow-mindedness of her conservative parents, winning a scholarship to Oxford. Entranced by her brother’s dashing friend Roland, who shares her literary aspirations, she plunges into an intoxicating romance. Blooming, in love and on the cusp of fulfilling her ambitions, Vera’s dreams are brutally shattered by the onset of war.

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Nordic Film Festival

I AM YOURS

DAYS OF GRAY

PARIS OF THE NORTH

HOTEL

Nordic Film Festival

I Am Yours Jeg er din

Paris of the North París Nordursins

Wed 10 Dec at 9.15pm

Wed 17 Dec at 6.30pm

Iram Haq • Norway 2013 • 1h36m • DCP Norwegian, Urdu and Swedish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Amrita Acharia, Ola Rapace, Prince Singh, Rabia Noreen, Trond Fausa.

Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson • Iceland/Denmark/France 2014 1h38m • DCP • Icelandic with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Helgi Björnsson, Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir, Björn Thors.

Nordic Film Festival returns to the UK with another diverse mix of fresh and classic features, docs and shorts, showcasing some of the most celebrated and emerging filmmaking talent of the Nordic region. This year’s theme is horizons, as we explore the diverse and ever-expanding landscape of Nordic culture through cinema – from explorations to journeys, to cross-cultural experiences and collaborations.

Iram Haq’s courageous semi-autobiographical debut feature is a powerful and moving portrayal of a young woman struggling with love, motherhood and being caught between two cultures. Mina is a 27-year-old actress, second generation Pakistani and single mother of 4-yearold Felix. She’s separated from her husband whom her family adore. Burdened by their constant disappointment and desperately lonely, Mina looks for comfort and places her trust in all the wrong places, with devastating effects on her state of mind.

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Thu 11 Dec at 5.45pm Ani Simon-Kennedy • Iceland 2013 • 1h18m DCP • No dialogue • 15 Cast: David Laufdal Arnarsson, Diljá Valsdóttir, Viktoría Rós Antonsdóttir, Gudmundur Thorvaldsson, Bryndís Petra Bragadóttir.

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It is a world where nobody speaks, language doesn’t exist.

On the dry and arid plains, men are hunters, protectors of a society bound by strict rules. Men hunt outsiders. A young boy lives with his precious younger sister, they like to play but in this oppressed existence, joyful childhood is forbidden. Upon meeting an outsider, a young girl who he befriends, he begins to question this world and is continually plagued by the awareness that as he grows older he faces becoming a hunter himself.

Thirty-something Hugi is a primary school teacher in a remote village, and a recovering alcoholic. He’s the sort of guy who takes an online language course because he’s still hung up on his ex-girlfriend who has moved to Portugal to be with another man, and the kind who is best friends with a 10-year-old boy. When Hugi’s estranged father turns up, yet another humorously complicated relationship unfurls against the hostile yet stunning mountainous landscape of Iceland’s West Fjords, in this subtly deadpan and bleakly comic tale.

Hotel Hotell Thu 18 Dec at 6.30pm Lisa Langseth • Sweden/Denmark 2013 • 1h37m DCP • Swedish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Alicia Vikander, David Dencik, Anna Bjelkerud, Mira Eklund.

Erika is a wealthy and successful young professional. After a traumatic event, her life takes an unexpected turn and she spirals into depression. Having joined a therapy group, Erika sees the exercise as futile until one crucial session.

In an attempt to escape her own reality by waking up somewhere different every day, she pays for the group to check into a hotel to take therapy into their own hands…

In this follow-up to her outstanding debut Pure (NFF 2012), Lisa Langseth teams up again with Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair, Anna Karenina) in this brutally honest and at times absurdly humorous exploration of the human psyche.

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Filmhouse Junior

RISE OF THE GUARDIANS

Filmhouse junior Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am.

Tickets cost £3.50 (£4.50 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!

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

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

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS

Young Voices

Arthur Christmas

Sun 7 Dec at 11.00am

Sun 21 Dec at 11.00am

1h15m • PG

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 selection of films made by young people who participated in our Understanding Cinema project at schools and cinemas across Scotland in 2013/14. The young filmmakers examined the technique of ‘the long take’ and worked through exercises before making these final films. Most of these films were made by primary school pupils and demonstrate wonderful imagination, skill and creativity.

Rise of the Guardians Sun 14 Dec at 11.00am Peter Ramsey • USA 2012 • 1h37m DCP • PG – Contains mild threat and language With the voices of Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher, Jude Law.

A fantastic animation for the festive season. An evil spirit named Pitch enacts a plan to take over the world using fear. Jack Frost, Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and the Sandman need to join forces in order to protect the Earth’s children and stop this new menace.

See pages 16-17 for a season of festive favourites for the whole family – spend Christmas at Our House!

FROZEN

A wonderful family film from the team at Aardman. Santa Claus is nearing retirement, with his super-efficient but joyless son Steven ready to take over. But the future of 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.

Families of all ages are welcome to our FREE drop in Christmas arts and crafts event themed around the movie Arthur Christmas. From 9.30-11am on Sunday 21 December. Free – just come along!

Frozen

Sing-Along Screenings!

Sun 28 Dec at 10.45am + 11.00am (Also screening in the afternoon from 28 Dec to 4 Jan – normal ticket prices apply, see page 17) Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee • USA 2013 • 1h48m DCP • PG – Contains mild threat With the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana.

When the icy powers of Elsa turn the kingdom of Arendelle into a frozen wasteland, it is up to her sister Anna to find her and reverse her spell. She sets off with mountain man Kristoff, his trusty reindeer and a talking snowman named Olaf in a race to save the kingdom.

Special sing-along screenings of this magical film!

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“A rip-roaring success from start to finish” Scottish Daily Express

Sat 13 Dec 2014 – Sat 3 Jan 2015 Box office: 0131 529 6000 Book online: edtheatres.com

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

5 December 2014 - 1 January 2015

BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Fri 5 Dec

1 1 3 3 3

2001: A Space Odyssey The Grandmaster The Grandmaster Charlie’s Country Winter Sleep

2.30/8.25 6.00 3.00 5.20 7.40

1.00/3.30/8.45 6.00 3.15 8.40 6.30 8.45

2001: A Space Odyssey Winter Sleep Winter Sleep The Grandmaster The Grandmaster Citizenfour Charlie’s Country

1.10/8.10 4.15 1.45 8.50 1.00 6.20 8.45

2.00 5.50 8.55 3.00 3.10 5.25 9.15

The Imitation Game (AD) It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) Still the Enemy Within Life Itself Paris of the North (N) Stations of the Cross

1 1 2 2 3 3 3

Winter Sleep 2001: A Space Odyssey The Grandmaster 2001: A Space Odyssey The Grandmaster Winter Sleep I Am Yours (N)

Wed 1 17 1 Dec 2 2 3 3

Sat 6 Dec

Wed 1 10 1 Dec 1 2 3 3 3

2.00/8.30 6.00 3.15 5.50 6.30 8.40

11.00am 1.00/4.10 7.15 1.05 3.25/8.50 6.20 8.45

2.00 6.00 + Q&A 8.30 6.00 3.10 5.45 7.35

It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) The Imitation Game (AD) Life Itself Still the Enemy Within Hotel (N) Life Itself

Young Voices (FJ) 2001: A Space Odyssey Winter Sleep Charlie’s Country The Grandmaster Citizenfour Charlie’s Country

Winter Sleep Open Bethlehem 2001: A Space Odyssey The Grandmaster The Grandmaster Days of Gray (N) Winter Sleep

1 1 2 2 3 3

1 1 1 2 2 3 3

1 1 1 2 3 3 3

Thu 18 Dec

Sun 7 Dec

Thu 11 Dec

Fri 12 Dec

1 1 2 2 3

Effie Gray The Imitation Game (AD) Effie Gray It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) Stations of the Cross

1.00 3.30/6.00/8.30 6.05 8.25 3.10/8.50

Fri 19 Dec

1 1 2 2 3

The Imitation Game (AD) It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) Me, Myself and Mum The Imitation Game (AD) Me, Myself and Mum

12.45 3.15/6.00/8.45 3.15 6.10/8.40 6.15

2001: A Space Odyssey (B) 2001: A Space Odyssey The Grandmaster The Grandmaster Concerning Violence Winter Sleep

11am (babies & carers) 2.00/5.45 8.50 3.20 3.15/9.15 5.25

Sat 13 Dec

1 1 2 2 2 3

The Imitation Game (AD) (C) The Imitation Game (AD) A Very Scottish Christmas (Ch) It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) Effie Gray Stations of the Cross

1.00 (captioned) 3.30/6.00/8.30 1.30 (£3.50) 3.20/8.25 6.05 8.50

Sat 20 Dec

1 1 2 2 3

The Muppet Christmas Carol (Ch) It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) The Imitation Game (AD) The Bishop’s Wife (Ch) Me, Myself and Mum

1.00 3.00/5.45/8.30 1.05/3.35/8.40 6.10 4.15/6.15

Winter Sleep The Double Life of Veronique 2001: A Space Odyssey The Grandmaster The Grandmaster Concerning Violence Winter Sleep

2.00 6.00 + discussion 8.20 6.00 3.10 5.30 7.35

Sun 1 14 1 Dec 2

2 2 3

Rise of the Guardians (FJ) The Imitation Game (AD) The Maths Behind The Imitation Game Effie Gray It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) Stations of the Cross

11.00am 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30

Sun 21 Dec

1 1 1 2 2 2 3

Arthur Christmas (FJ) It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) The Muppet Christmas Carol (Ch) The Bishop’s Wife (Ch) The Imitation Game (AD) It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) Me, Myself and Mum

11.00am 1.30 4.30 1.00 3.25/6.00 8.30 3.45/8.45

Mon 1 15 1 Dec 2 2 3

The Imitation Game (AD) Silent Running + short (CS) Effie Gray It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) Stations of the Cross

1.00/3.30/6.00 8.30 3.15/5.45 8.25 3.20/5.50

The Imitation Game (AD) It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) I Am An Old Communist Hag Stations of the Cross

1.00/3.30/6.00 3.15/8.30 6.00 + Q&A 3.20/5.50

Mon 1 8 1 Dec 1 2 3 3 Tue 9 Dec

1 1 1 2 3 3 3

The majority of our screenings are scheduled well in advance, and times published in this monthly brochure and on our website. Most weeks we leave some spaces in the schedule in order to allow us to keep on films that are proving popular for a little longer; these late-scheduled screenings will be added to our website from midday at the latest on the Tuesday preceding the start of the new cinema week on Friday, and listed in our weekly screenings email – sign up at www.filmhousecinema.com/news

Tue 16 Dec

1 2 2 3

12.00 (FREE) 1.10/8.50 3.30/6.10 1.00/5.50

KEY (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2) (C) – Captioned for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing (see page 2) All screenings in 2D unless marked [3D] SEASONS: (Ch) – Christmas at Our House! (pages 16-17) (CS) – Come and See... (page 22) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (page 12) (JT) – Jacques Tati (page 19) (SG) – Scotland Galore! (pages 20-21) Full index of films on page 2

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5 December 2014 - 1 January 2014

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Mon 1 22 1 Dec 1 2 2 2 2 3

1.00 3.30/8.20 6.15 11am (babies & carers) 1.15 3.35/6.05 8.40 1.10/8.45

Mon 1 29 1 Dec 1 2 2 2 3

The Imitation Game (AD) It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) The Muppet Christmas Carol (Ch) The Bishop’s Wife (Ch) (B) The Bishop’s Wife (Ch) The Imitation Game (AD) White Christmas (Ch) Me, Myself and Mum

1 1 2 2 3 3

The Raymond Briggs Trilogy (Ch) It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) The Imitation Game (AD) The Bishop’s Wife (Ch) The Bishop’s Wife (Ch) The Imitation Game (AD) (C)

11.00am 2.00/5.45/8.30 1.00/3.30/8.35 6.10 1.10 6.00 (captioned)

Wed 1 24 1 Dec 2 2 3

The Raymond Briggs Trilogy (Ch) It’s a Wonderful Life (Ch) Joyeux Noël (Ch) White Christmas (Ch) The Imitation Game (AD)

11.00am 1.00/3.45/6.30 1.05/6.15 3.35 1.10

Tue 23 Dec

T hu 25 Dec – CLOSED – Merry Christmas!

Fri 26 Dec

1 2 2 3

Big Eyes Kon-Tiki Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (JT) Jour de fête (JT)

1.00/3.30/6.05 1.10/6.10 3.45 1.15

Sat 27 Dec

1 2 2 2 3

Big Eyes From Scotland With Love (SG) Mon Oncle (JT) The Illusionist (SG) Kon-Tiki

1.00/3.30/6.05/8.35 1.10 3.25 6.00 1.10/6.10

Sun 28 Dec

1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3

Frozen (Sing-Along) (FJ) Big Eyes Frozen (Sing-Along) (Ch) Frozen (Sing-Along) (FJ) Sunshine on Leith (SG) Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (JT) From Scotland With Love (SG) Jour de fête (JT) Kon-Tiki

11.00am 1.20/6.15/8.45 3.55 10.45am 1.10 3.40 6.00 8.30 1.10/8.40

Tue 30 Dec

1 1 2 2 2 3 3

SCREENING TIMES

Frozen (Sing-Along) (Ch) (B) 11am (babies & carers) Frozen (Sing-Along) (Ch) 1.15 Big Eyes 3.30/6.05/8.35 What We Did on Our Holiday (SG) 1.15 Mon Oncle (JT) 3.25 The Wicker Man: The Final Cut (SG) 6.00 Kon-Tiki 3.30/8.40 Frozen (Sing-Along) (Ch) 1.05 Big Eyes 3.30/6.05/8.35 ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ (SG) 1.00 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (SG) 6.00 Mon Oncle (JT) 8.30 Jour de fête (JT) 1.10 Kon-Tiki 6.10

Wed 1 31 1 Dec 2

2 2 3

Frozen (Sing-Along) (Ch) Big Eyes Aerial View: A Guid New Year with STV (SG) Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (JT) Sunshine on Leith (SG) Big Eyes

1.05 3.30/6.05

1 1 2 2 3

Frozen (Sing-Along) (Ch) Big Eyes Whisky Galore! (SG) ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ (SG) Big Eyes

1.05 3.30/6.05 1.00 6.00 1.10

Thu 1 Jan

1.00 + intro 3.25 6.00 1.10

BOX OFFICE OPENING HOURS Over the festive season the box office will be open from 10am to 9pm as usual, apart from on the following days: Wed 24 Dec: 10am - 7pm Thu 25 Dec: Closed Fri 26 Dec: 12pm - 7pm Wed 31 Dec: 12pm - 7pm Thu 1 Jan: 12pm - 7pm Fri 2 Jan: 11am - 9pm

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thu: £6.50 full price, £4.50 concessions Friday Matinees: £5.00/£3.50 concessions Sat - Sun: £8.20 full price, £6.00 concessions EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later) £8.20 full price, £6.00 concessions For screenings in 3D add £2 to ticket price.

All tickets to Filmhouse Junior screenings (marked FJ on grid) are £3.50. Tickets for children under 12 are £3.50 for any screening.

Filmhouse Members get £1.50 off every ticket (excludes Friday matinees and Filmhouse Junior) 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.

See page 22 for Cafe Bar opening hours.

BOX OFFICE: 0131 228 2688 (10am-9pm daily)

We would like to wish all our customers a very merry Christmas and a happy, film-filled 2015!

PROGRAMME INFO: 0131 228 2689 BOOK ONLINE: www.filmhousecinema.com

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Christmas at Our House!

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

A VERY SCOTTISH CHRISTMAS

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 12 to Wed 24 Dec

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

A Very Scottish Christmas

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Sat 13 Dec at 1.30pm

Sat 20 to Mon 22 Dec

1h5m • PG

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

Professional Christmas researcher Dr Clause needs your help to understand Christmas customs in Scotland. She has found some films that demonstrate a number of interesting activities. Can you help her investigate the Christmas traditions and write a letter for her to take back to S.A.N.T.A.?

This fun family event has been created by the Scottish Screen Archive and theatre-maker Geraldine Heaney.

Tickets £3.50 Suitable for ages 7+ Colour and black & white footage from the 1930s - 1960s.

Don’t forget to bring your favourite toy to this special Christmas-themed event!

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!

THE BISHOP’S WIFE

A fun but meaningful adaptation of the Dickens story, with Gonzo taking on the role of Dickens and narrating the tale, along with the help of Rizzo the Rat. They take us on a journey through a dank London, filled with all your favourite Muppets and a lot of talking vegetables too!

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 Bishop’s Wife Sat 20 to Tue 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.

TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off These offers are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

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 his wife Julia (Loretta Young).

Christmas at Our House!

WHITE CHRISTMAS

THE SNOWMAN

JOYEUX NOEL

FROZEN

White Christmas

Joyeux Noël Merry Christmas

Frozen

Mon 22 & Thu 24 Dec

Wed 24 Dec only

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.

Christian Carion • France/Germany/UK/Belgium/Romania/Norway 2005 • 1h56m • DCP French, German and English with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate battle violence, sex, and one use of strong language Cast: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Daniel Brühl.

Sun 28 Dec at 3.55pm, Mon 29 Dec at 1.15pm, Tue 30 Dec to Sun 4 Jan at 1.05pm

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 ‘Sisters’, ‘Blue Skies’, and, of course, ‘White Christmas’ itself.

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

The Snowman Dianne Jackson • UK 1982 • 29m • Digital • 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 • Digital • 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 • Digital • U A polar bear returns a teddy bear to a little girl, and so begins a beautiful friendship.

Christian Carion’s beautifully directed drama tells the story of an event during World War I, when a Scottish, a German and a French regiment called a temporary halt to the slaughter on Christmas Eve, 1914.

Among the entrenched Germans is the famous tenor Nikolaus Sprink who, on hearing the Scots’ bagpipes playing Christmas songs, strides onto no-man’s-land and, with only a Christmas tree for cover, proceeds to sing along at the top of his voice. Influenced by the sentimental nature of the songs, the three commanding officers call a temporary truce, and before long the rank-and-file are exchanging gifts and seasonal best wishes. But at what point does ‘goodwill to all men’ end and high treason begin....?

Screening as part of The First World War in Cinema, a four-year series of films, programmed in association with the University of Edinburgh, that relate to the First World War, some timed to coincide with the real events of 100 years ago and other which are not tied to specific dates.

Next month, Abel Gance’s J’accuse! (1919).

Sing-Along Screenings!

Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee • USA 2013 • 1h48m DCP • PG – Contains mild threat With the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana.

When the icy powers of Elsa turn the kingdom of Arendelle into a frozen wasteland, it is up to her sister Anna to find her and reverse her spell. She sets off with mountain man Kristoff, his trusty reindeer and a talking snowman named Olaf in a race to save the kingdom.

Special sing-along screenings of this magical film!

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JOUR DE FETE

Jacques Tati Celebrating the genius of one of cinema’s most celebrated comedians and influential icons, Jacques Tati (1907-1982) who worked as actor, writer and director.

Jour de fête Fri 26, Sun 28 & Tue 30 Dec Jacques Tati • France 1949 • 1h20m DCP • French with English subtitles • U Cast: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli.

A joyful, almost silent comedy set in the French countryside. François (Jacques Tati), a village postman, does his rounds on his bicycle – the old-fashioned way. But when a travelling carnival comes to town, its proprietors show a film extolling the virtues of modern American mail delivery, and soon the townspeople start to wonder if François has fallen behind the times...

MONSIEUR HULOT’S HOLIDAY

MON ONCLE

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

Mon Oncle

Fri 26, Sun 28 & Wed 31 Dec

Sat 27, Mon 29 & Tue 30 Dec

Jacques Tati • France 1952 • 1h27m DCP • French with English subtitles U – Contains no sex, violence or bad language Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Michèle Rolla, Valentine Camax, Louis Perrault.

Jacques Tati • France/Italy 1958 • 1h56m DCP • French with English subtitles U – Contains no sex, violence or bad language Cast: Jacques Tati, Adrienne Servantie, Jean-Pierre Zola, Lucien Frégis, Betty Schneider.

Taking a vacation at a seaside resort in Brittany, confirmed bachelor Monsieur Hulot creates unintentional havoc among the hotel guests with his well-meaning but terribly clumsy antics. As with all the best slapstick, Tati’s theme is the cruelty of the physical world. Nothing in Monsieur Hulot acts quite how it ought to. Every object has a mind of its own – from the canoe that folds in half while being rowed, to the foxskin rug that attaches itself to Hulot’s foot – and each appears to be intent on causing as many pratfalls, bumps and bruises as possible.

In Tati’s second feature film and first film in colour, we find him contrasting the bohemian provincial home life of his gangling alter ego Monsieur Hulot with the modern, contraption-filled concrete and glass home belonging to Hulot’s sister and her family, the Arpels, where Hulot’s nephew, Gerard, is drowning in boredom. When Hulot comes for a visit, the gadgets get the better of him, in a seamless spectacle of electric switches, slamming doors and malfunctioning accoutrements. Unforgettably funny, wonderfully observed and always technically brilliant.

Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot

My Uncle

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

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

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Scotland Galore!

FROM SCOTLAND WITH LOVE

THE ILLUSIONIST

Scotland Galore!

A season of great films set in Scotland, screening as part 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.org

WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY

The Illusionist L’illusionniste

What We Did on Our Holiday

Sat 27 Dec at 6.00pm & Sun 4 Jan at 1.00pm

Mon 29 Dec at 1.15pm & Fri 2 Jan at 6.00pm

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

Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin • UK 2014 • 1h35m • DCP 12A – Contains moderate bad language, discriminatory language, moderate sex references Cast: David Tennant, Rosamund Pike, Billy Connolly, Celia Imrie.

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.

Sunshine on Leith From Scotland With Love Sat 27 Dec at 1.10pm, Sun 28 Dec at 6.00pm & Sat 3 Jan at 6.00pm Virginia Heath • UK 2014 • 1h16m • DCP U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm

Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland With Love is a feature film by award-winning director Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long since dead, their names and identities largely forgotten, appear shimmering from the depth of the vaults to take a starring role. Brilliantly edited together, these silent individuals become composite characters, who emerge to tell us their stories, given voice by King Creosote’s poetic music and lyrics.

THE WICKER MAN

Doug (David Tennant) and Abi (Rosamund Pike) travel to the Scottish Highlands with their three children for Doug’s father Gordie’s (Billy Connolly) birthday party. It soon becomes clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability... From the creators of the hit BBC comedy series Outnumbered, What We Did on Our Holiday is a heart-warming, uplifting comedy.

Sun 28 Dec at 1.10pm & Wed 31 Dec at 6.00pm 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.

Dexter Fletcher directs this hugely enjoyable adaptation of the successful stage musical featuring the songs of the Proclaimers.

Home is where the heart is for best pals Davy and Ally.

Returning home to Leith from duty in Afghanistan, the lads 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.

The Wicker Man: The Final Cut Mon 29 Dec at 6.00pm & Sat 3 Jan at 1.00pm Robin Hardy • UK 1973 • 1h35m • DCP 15 – Contains moderate horror, sex and nudity Cast: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Eckland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt.

Generally regarded as one of the best British horror films ever made, The Wicker Man focuses on a virginal police officer, who is sent to a remote Scottish island to investigate the case of a missing child. What he discovers, though, is a community that has renounced Christianity in favour of pagan fertility rites. It’s a movie about religion, God, and the crisis of faith, and on top of all that, it’s bloody scary.

Scotland Galore!

‘I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!’

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

‘I Know Where I’m Going!’

Tue 30 Dec at 1.00pm & Thu 1 Jan at 6.00pm Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger • UK 1945 • 1h28m DCP • U – Contains mild peril Cast: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Finlay Currie, Pamela Brown, John Laurie.

A headstrong, rather proud young woman (Wendy Hiller) travels by train and ferry to the Hebrides, there to marry her wealthy fiancé. But along the way, she falls under the spell of the Scottish landscape, and encounters another man (Roger Livesey), with whom she falls suddenly, passionately in love. This synopsis, however, can do little to convey the unique power of this film, with its odd, dreamlike interludes, its weird symbolism, its sense of ancient forces and the supernatural, and its alertness to the possibility of romantic love. It is a magical, unforgettable experience, a work of real and enduring genius.

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

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.

A GUID NEW YEAR WITH STV

WHISKY GALORE!

Aerial View: A Guid New Year with STV

Whisky Galore!

Wed 31 Dec at 1.00pm

Alexander Mackendrick • UK 1949 • 1h24m • DCP • U Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson.

1h30m • U

Join us on a trip into STV’s past, as we open the archives to see how the broadcaster celebrated Hogmanay in 1957 and 1978.

STV had been on the air for just four months when it broadcast its first Hogmanay Outside Broadcast in 1957, live from Glasgow Cross. Rai Purdy is your genial host for a look back at the year’s news, alongside comedy from Mike and Bernie Winters and interviews with members of the public. Plus, look out for a Glasgow tram. Next, fast forward to Cowcaddens in 1978 for the astonishing, disco-infused, Out With the Old In With the New. Hosted by formerSaint, Ian Ogilvy, this music and comedy extravaganza features some “wonderful Scottish girls” in Beryl Reid, Amy MacDonald, Una McLean, Molly Weir and Lulu, while the great Rikki Fulton makes a cameo appearance. When the girls start dancing, you won’t believe your eyes…

Thu 1 Jan at 1.00pm & Sun 4 Jan at 6.00pm

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.”

The screening will be introduced by Jonathan Melville, Edinburgh arts journalist and curator of Aerial View, bringing television programmes to the big screen.

TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off These offers are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

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Come and See.../Filmosophy/Filmhouse Cafe Bar & Quiz

SILENT RUNNING

THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE

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

Now with added panther!

Silent Running Mon 15 Dec at 8.30pm Douglas Trumbull • USA 1972 • 1h29m • DCP PG – Contains mild bad language, violence, injury Cast: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Mark Persons.

The directorial debut of Douglas Trumbull, who had previously worked on special effects for films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Silent Running, screening here in a new digitally re-mastered ‘print’, is one of the most intelligent and entertaining sci-fi movies of the 1970s.

Bruce Dern stars as Freeman Lowell, the caretaker of a greenhouse located on a space station. The Earth has been stripped clean of foliage, and the greenhouse contains the last remaining flora from the planet. When word arrives from the powers that be that the greenhouse is to be destroyed (the space station is more valuable to man when hauling cargo), Lowell decides to ignore the order and fend off all outside attempts to eliminate his ecological paradise.

PLUS SHORT We Give Pink Stamps Friz Freleng • USA 1965 • 6m • DCP • U The Pink Panther hides in a department store and spends the night trying to hide from the janitor.

The final film in this season of Filmosophy screenings, which has focused on the idea of the double. The screening will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by a discussion on the philosophical issues raised, hosted by James Mooney (Lecturer in Film and Philosophy and Open Studies Course Organiser at The University of Edinburgh).

For more details on screenings or to continue the discussion, please ‘like’ Filmosophy’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/thinkingfilm) or follow @film_philosophy on Twitter.

The Double Life of Veronique La Double vie de Véronique Tue 9 Dec at 6.00pm Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Norway 1991 • 1h38m 35mm • French and Polish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Irène Jacob, Philippe Volter, Claude Duneton.

Weronika and Véronique are two young women in Poland and France, both singers, the same age and physically the same in every respect, unaware of each other’s existence, yet unconsciously sensing a spectral companion. Weronika, who has a weak heart, dies onstage mid-song, and, hundreds of miles away, Véronique, without knowing why, senses that there is danger in pursuing a demanding singing career.

FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR

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Opening hours: Monday to Thursday: 8am - 11.30pm Friday: 8am - 12.30am Saturday: 10am - 12.30am Sunday: 10am - 11.30pm Festive season opening hours: All hours as normal except on the following days: 17 Dec: 10am to 11.30pm (last food orders 10pm) 24 Dec: 10am to 8pm (last food orders 7.30pm) 25 Dec: Closed 26 Dec: 12pm to 7pm (last food orders 6.30pm) 29 Dec: 10am to 11.30pm (last food orders 10pm) 30 Dec: 10am to 11.30pm (last food orders 10pm) 31 Dec: 12pm to 7pm (last food orders 6.30pm) 1 Jan: 12pm to 7pm (last food orders 6.30pm) 2 Jan: 9am to 12am (last food orders 10pm) 0131 229 5932

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Film Quiz Sunday 14 December Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and rather tricky) monthly quiz. Free to enter, teams of up to eight, to be seated in the cafe bar by 9pm.

Special Events

BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: THE NEW MODEL ARMY STORY

WRITE SHOOT CUT: SKELETONS

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Open Bethlehem/I Am An Old Communist Hag

OPEN BETHLEHEM

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A special screening presented by Take One Action, Scotland’s global change cinema project. www.takeoneaction.org.uk

I AM AN OLD COMMUNIST HAG

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Filmhouse welcomes the Romanian Film Festival, presented by Profusion International in collaboration with the National Centre of Cinematography, Bucharest. For further details, visit www.rofilmfest.com

Open Bethlehem Thu 11 Dec at 6.00pm Leila Sansour • Occupied Palestinian Territory 2014 • 1h30m DCP • English and Hebrew with English subtitles • cert tbc Documentary

Armed with her camera and a dilapidated family car that keeps breaking down, Bethlehem-born Leila Sansour returns to her childhood home to make a deeply personal film about a legendary town in crisis. But just few months into the project, her life and the film take an unexpected turn when Leila’s cousin Carol, her last relative in town, persuades her to stay and start a campaign to save the city from irredeemable separation.

Take One Action is delighted to host director Leila Sansour for a Q&A following the screening.

I Am An Old Communist Hag Sunt o baba comunista Tue 16 Dec at 6.00pm Stere Gulea • Romania 2013 • 1h34m • DCP English and Romanian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Luminita Gheorghiu, Marian Ralea, Ana Ularu, Valeria Seciu, Colin Blair.

This adaptation of Dan Lungu’s 2007 novel details the chaos that ensues when an estranged family is reunited.

The quiet provincial life of couple Emilia and Tucu is turned upside down when their daughter returns from Canada, together with her American fiancé.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Stere Gulea.

Open Studies Film Courses

THE GREAT BEAUTY

Open Studies Film Courses Welcome to a new series of fascinating film courses from the University of Edinburgh’s Open Studies programme.

The courses are open to all and no previous knowledge is required, just your enthusiasm for international cinema.

From Italian Cinema to The Dark Side of Ealing, there is a course for every taste.

Book early!

Martine Pierquin, Course Organiser for Film, Media & Contemporary Cultures m.pierquin@ed.ac.uk For enrolment please go to www.course-bookings.lifelong.ed.ac.uk

SMOKE

Italian Cinema

Tutor: Pasquale Iannone MA MSc PhD Mondays from 12th January 2015 (10 classes) 6.30pm - 9.30pm Film Guild Cinema, Filmhouse £100/£66 conc.

This course offers an exciting overview of one of the world’s most important national cinemas, moving from the hugely influential 1914 epic Cabiria through post-war neorealism, the great auteur and genre cinema of the 1960s and 70s and coming right up to date with the recent, Oscar-winning The Great Beauty.

IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY

Writing with Images: The Cinema of Writers

Tutor: Rolland Man BA MA MSc Tuesdays from 13 January 2015 (10 classes) 6.30pm - 8.30pm Film Guild Cinema, Filmhouse £100/£66 conc.

From the early days of cinema, writers had an uneasy relationship with the medium. Some considered films vulgar and commercial while other thought cinema offered new ways of artistic expression. From Mayakovsky to Paul Auster we will explore how by working as screenwriters and directors these writers have enriched the film language

USA Through Strangers’ Eyes Tutor: Derek Wilson MA BA

Tuesdays from 13 January 2015 (10 classes) 2.00pm - 5.00pm Film Guild Cinema, Filmhouse £100/£66 conc.

While the American film industry has always welcomed directors from other countries, foreign directors often bring different perspectives to depictions of American history, society and culture. This course examines the representations within their social, political and cinematic contexts.

The Dark Side of Ealing Tutor: Jim Dunnigan MA

Thursdays from 15 January 2015 (10 classes) 6.30pm - 9.30pm Film Guild Cinema, Filmhouse £100/£66 conc.

There was more to Ealing than ‘just’ comedy, and this course will focus on Ealing’s darker side; films which are morally complex, socially critical, challenging and cynical.

We will examine the lesser known side of Ealing Studios during the 1940s and 50s, with its rich vein of often surprisingly radical films

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Education and Learning

FROZEN

INSIDE HANA’S SUITCASE

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH

Education and Learning Filmhouse offers schools the opportunity to engage with a variety of films which support moving image literacy and a variety of subjects.

To book (apart from Into Film screenings, see below) call 0131 228 2688. Details at www.filmhousecinema.com/learning Frozen Sing-Along Screening Monday 15 December & Tuesday 16 December • 10am • 1h50m • Tickets £3 per pupil, teachers free Fearless adventurer Anna enlists the help of thrill-seeking Kristoff, loyal reindeer Sven, and hapless snowman Olaf to find her sister Elsa, who has unintentionally trapped the kingdom in eternal winter using her icy powers. Sing along with Anna and friends as they go on an epic journey and battle the elements in a bid to save their land.

Inside Hana’s Suitcase Tuesday 27 January • 10am • 1h28m • Tickets £3 per pupil, teachers free As small children Hana and George Brady were sent to the Terezin concentration camp after the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, then on to Auschwitz. George survived but his little sister Hana did not. This is their story, told through the voices and innocent perspectives of modern day children in the Czech Republic, Canada and Japan, who unravel Hana’s mystery for themselves. Based on the international bestselling book, Inside Hana’s Suitcase is screening for Holocaust Memorial Day.

Testament of Youth Date and time TBC • Tickets £3 per pupil, teachers free We will have a school screening of this powerful new adaptation of Vera Brittain’s WW1 memoir. Please call or email for further information.

EIFF Young Programmers Are you aged 15-19yrs and passionate about film? Would you be interested in viewing and selecting films for Edinburgh International Film Festival? From January until April EIFF Young Programmers meet every Wednesday to watch new short and feature films and to select the very best for EIFF. You will learn about the curation, promotion and presentation of films for EIFF and have the opportunity to attend the Festival in June. For more information please contact Nicola Kettlewood on 0131 228 6382 or at education@cmi-scotland.co.uk

All Together Now? Sat 13 Dec • 1pm • A Disability History Month Scotland event, funded by HLF • Free Join us for the launch of our locally made animation, using the words of impaired people today to describe the changes in society and the emergence of rights for disabled people from the beginning of WWI. We will also be showing two more short, grassroots, social commentary films from ELREC and Camcord Guerillas. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session where we can discuss the making of our animation with Muckle Hen, history and activism in Scotland today. Free tickets are available from Disability History Scotland. Contact admin@disabilityhistoryscotland.org

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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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