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Christmas
at Our House!
IN S ID E 7 0 F IL M S R E V O S P LU
‘Matinees’, but in the morning...!? As if screening some 700+ different films every year wasn’t giving you all enough of a choice, we’re now about to offer you more opportunity to see them. We have, for some time, in the cinema we run up in Aberdeen (Belmont Filmhouse) held public screenings in the mornings, rather than starting at lunchtime as we have here in Edinburgh. Our patrons up there seem to really like it. Anyway, we’re going to trial the earlier start (c. 11am) here too and see how it goes. As it happens, I often go the cinema myself in the morning when I’m not working. It’s… quieter. On occasion I have found myself the only person in the cinema (“Happiness Is…”), though I’m hoping no-one gets to experience that here! As is the custom with our (pre-25th) December programme, we’re replete with seasonal fare which oughta get you in the mood for the coming festivities, including the completely essential It’s a Wonderful Life. We’re also catching up with a few titles we hadn’t room for earlier, such as Denis (Sicario) Villeneuve’s stunning Arrival (Close Encounters… meets The Day the Earth Stood Still), and The Birth of a Nation, and I’m self-important enough (only just, mind) to put in front of you my top ten films of 2016… feel free to (privately, verbally) tear me to shreds at the startling omissions and inexplicable inclusions! I’ve come this far without mentioning the C-word (bah, humbug), so in that spirit have a splendid holiday period (which should begin here, at Filmhouse!), and huge thanks for having joined us for a great year of cinema just passed. Rest assured, there’s another year of great cinema on the way – which will begin in some style with a bewildering array of brilliant films in the first few months of 2017 – to which we hugely look forward to welcoming you! Rod White, Head of Filmhouse
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ACCESS/AUDIO DESC./CAPTIONED 34 BABY & CARER SCREENINGS 34 SCREENING DATES AND TIMES 20-22 ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ 31 10 from 16 26-28 The 39 Steps 32 Ace in the Hole 16 Adapting Miss Highsmith 12-13 The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of... 8 Akira 10 The Angels’ Share 31 Annie Hall 33 The Apartment 31 Arrival 10 Assault on Precinct 13 33 The Assassin 26 The Birth of a Nation 7 The Black Hen 6 Blue Velvet 11 Cafe Bar 13 Calamity Jane Sing-Along! 8 Carol 30 Chevalier 23 Christmas at Our House! 29-30 A Christmas Star 24 Cloudy Sunday 22 Comfort and Joy 29 Creepy 4 Donnie Darko 9 Double Bill: Ripley’s Game + The American... 13 Double Bill: The Glass Cell + Plein Soleil 12 Double Bill: The Two Faces... + The Cry of... 12 Edinburgh Greek Film Festival 22-23 Education and Learning 15 EIFF Presents Hogmanay 33 The Elephant Man 11 A Family Affair 23 Fiddlesticks 24 Filmhouse Junior 24-25 Filmosophy: Mind and Consciousness 14 The First World War in Cinema 30 Francofonia 7 From Scotland with Love 32 Gimme Danger 6 Gremlins 30 Hamish 33 Hell or High Water 27 Her 14
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Highlander 33 Home Alone 8 Hunt for the Wilderpeople 26 The Illusionist 32 Indignation 6 In Pursuit of Silence 7 In the Heat of the Night 9 It’s a Wonderful Life 29 Joyeux Noël 30 Julieta 27 The Jungle Book 28 Kirk Douglas’ 100th Birthday 16 Lo and Behold, Reveries of the... 4 The Measure of a Man 27 Miracle on 34th Street 30 Mulholland Drive 11 The Muppet Christmas Carol 29 Mustang 28 My Feral Heart 6 Napoleon 9 OXI: An Act of Resistance 23 Paddington 24 Paterson 10 Paths of Glory 16 Paths of the Soul 5 Phantom Boy 7 Rams 27 Scotland Galore! 31-33 Short Fuse 22 Son of Saul 28 Spartacus 16 Storks 25 Sunday Double Bills 12-13 Sunset Song 32 Suntan 22 Talbot Rice Gallery Presents: Rob Kennedy... 8 Tale of Tales 27 Trolls 25 A United Kingdom 4 United States of Love 4 The Unknown Girl 5 The Wailing 5 Wallace and Gromit 25 What We Did on Our Holiday 31 The Wizard of Oz 29 Your Name 10 Zarafa 25
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A United Kingdom
Creepy
Showing from Fri 25 Nov
Fri 2 to Thu 8 Dec
Amma Asante • USA/UK/Czech Republic 2016 • 1h51m • Digital • 12A - Contains racist language, moderate violence. • Cast: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, Laura Carmichael, Jack Davenport.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa • Japan 2016 • 2h10m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence, gruesome images. Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Haruna Kawaguchi.
Based on extraordinary true events, A United Kingdom is a high-stakes love story that pits the bond between two people against the politicking and intolerance of two governments. In 1947, Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo) - King of Botswana - meets Londoner Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike), and the pair fall in love. Their proposed marriage is challenged not only by their families, but by the British and South African governments, the latter having recently introduced the policy of apartheid. Oyelowo and Pike shine in this stirring film, directed by BAFTA winner Amma Asante (Belle).
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Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World Fri 2 to Mon 5 Dec
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to Akira) returns to the dark, unsettling tone brought forth in films like Bright Future with this taut slow-burner that truly lives up to its title. Haunted by the deadly outcome of a hostage negotiation a year previously, ex-detective Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and his wife Yasuko (Yûko Takeuchi) move into a new home and encounter their strange, secretive neighbour Nishino (Teruyuki Kagawa). While Takakura assists ex-colleagues on a disappearance case, Nishino’s teenage daughter confides in him that Nishino is not her father at all...
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United States of Love Mon 5 to Thu 8 Dec
Werner Herzog • USA 2016 • 1h38m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Documentary.
Tomasz Wasilewski • Poland/Sweden 2016 • 1h46m • Digital • Polish with English subtitles • 18 - Contains sexual assault, strong sex. Cast: Julia Kijowska, Magdalena Cielecka, Dorota Kolak, Marta Nieradkiewicz.
Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog turns his philosophical, self-deprecating form of documentary towards our rapidly interconnecting digital lives in Lo and Behold. The film is an absorbing, entertaining and typically provocative look at the internet, our growing reliance and the rapid march of technological progress - giving close considerations to both the potential pitfalls and the glorious possibilities of these innovations for mankind.
A interweaving tale of unfulfilled desires, bitter love and obsession set in a nondescript Polish town as the country transitions into democratic rule, United States of Love foregrounds the lives of four women - all of whom desire more from life. Set in 1990, Wasilewski’s unflinching film showcases excellent period detail and striking use of muted colours to convey the repression and uncertainty of their relationships and, indeed, the times they live in.
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Goksung
Paths of the Soul
Kang rinpoche
Fri 9 to Mon 12 Dec
Wed 14 & Thu 15 Dec
Hong-jin Na • South Korea 2016 • 2h36m • Digital • Korean and Japanese with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, violence, gory images, brief sexual images. • Cast: Do Won Kwak, Jun Kunimura, Jung-min Hwang, Woo-hee Chun.
Yang Zhang • China 2015 • 1h55m • Digital • Tibetan with English subtitles • cert tbc
This exceptional, riveting horror hybrid sees a small village suddenly struck with a mysterious sickness which leads to violent murderous outbursts. The recent arrival of a mysterious Japanese stranger (Jun Kunimura) makes him, of course, the immediate suspect - and he is identified as the culprit by a local woman who then disappears. When the investigating officer (Do Won Kwak) finds that his daughter has been afflicted, a Korean shaman arrives to exorcise the demon, which sets into motion an ever-darkening story of fatherhood, suspicion and mythical forces...
Yang Zhang’s varied filmography spans biographical dramas, black comedies and sentimental road movies - but this docu-drama is an extraordinary road movie of a very different kind. Following the incredible journey of a group of Tibetans on a pilgrimage to Lhasa - the holy capital of Tibet - we observe these dedicated few as they make the 1,200km journey on foot, while repeatedly prostrating themselves on the ground every few feet. Come rain or shine (and everything else), they stoically forge on, while Zhang’s camera unobtrusively watches. A truly unique and ultimately rewarding cinematic experience.
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The Unknown Girl
La fille inconnue Fri 16 to Thu 22 Dec
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne • Belgium/France 2016 • 1h53m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Ben Hamidou, Olivier Gourmet, Louka Minnella.
After hours at a doctor’s surgery in Liège, Dr Jenny Davin (Adèle Haenel) and her intern Julian (Olivier Bonnaud) hear the door buzzer and choose to ignore it. The following day, a woman is found dead on the bank of the Meuse river. The deceased remains unidentified, prompting the doctor to embark on an investigation of her own - a decision that proves to be more dangerous than anticipated... Infused with the distinctive style of its directors, the Dardenne brothers (Two Days, One Night), this is a compelling, unravelling mystery.
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Indignation
The Black Hen
Fri 16 to Thu 22 Dec
Fri 16 & Sat 17 Dec
James Schamus • USA 2016 • 1h50m • Digital • English and Hebrew with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex, sex references, attempted suicide. • Cast: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts.
Min Bahadur Bham • Nepal/France/Germany/Switzerland 2015 1h30m • Digital • Nepali with English subtitles • 12A - Contains occasional gory images. • Cast: Khadka Raj Nepali, Sukra Raj Rokaya, Jit Bahadur Malla, Hansha Khadka, Benisha Hamal.
Set in 1951, Indignation follows Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), the idealistic son of a humble kosher butcher from Newark, New Jersey. Marcus leaves for Ohio to study at a small, conservative college, where he finds himself at odds with the administration, grapples with anti-Semitism and sexual repression and pines after a troubled girl (Sarah Gadon). James Schamus’ film is the second Philip Roth adaptation to screen at Filmhouse in as many months, following Ewan McGregor’s American Pastoral in November.
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Kalo Pothi
A temporary ceasefire is called in Northern Nepal the year is 2001. Two young friends divided by caste and social hierarchy, Prakash and Kiran are utterly inseparable. Together they begin raising a hen, hoping to earn money from selling her eggs. When she goes missing, however, the pair set off on a risky and life-changing journey - completely unaware of the fragile military situation around them. The Black Hen was the Best Film winner at Venice Critics Week.
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My Feral Heart
Gimme Danger
Mon 19 & Tue 20 Dec
Wed 21 to Fri 23 Dec
Jane Gull • UK 2015 • 1h23m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex references. • Cast: Steven Brandon, Pixie Le Knot, Shana Swash, Will Rastall.
Jim Jarmusch • USA 2016 • 1h48m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, drug misuse, drug references. • Documentary.
A sudden bereavement throws Luke (Steven Brandon), a fiercely independent young man with Down’s syndrome, into a daunting new environment where he finds unexpected support from his feisty, streetwise carer and a local heir dealing with his own demons. As friendships bloom and long-buried secrets are revealed, Luke verges dangerously close to disaster. A beautifully realised, understated character study with strong performances, distinctive cinematography and a deeply evocative score.
Emerging from Ann Arbor Michigan amidst a countercultural revolution, The Stooges blew a crater in the musical landscape of the late 1960s. Assaulting audiences with a blend of rock, blues, R&B, and free jazz, the band planted the seeds for what would be called punk and alternative rock. Directed by self-professed Stooges fan Jim Jarmusch, Gimme Danger presents the context of their emergence musically, culturally, politically, historically, and relates their misadventures while charting their inspirations and the reasons behind their initial commercial challenges and long-lasting legacy.
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Francofonia
In Pursuit of Silence
Wed 21 to Fri 23 Dec
Wed 21 & Thu 22 Dec
Aleksandr Sokurov • France/Germany/Netherlands 2015 • 1h28m Digital • Russian, German, French and English with English subtitles 12A - Contains images of real dead bodies.
Patrick Shen • USA 2015 • 1h22m • Digital • PG - Contains infrequent references to violence • Documentary.
Aleksandr Sokurov’s bravura ‘one-shot’ voyage through the Hermitage Museum - Russian Ark demonstrated the director’s flair for presenting great artistic institutions in an intelligent, artful way. Francofonia shifts his focus to the The Louvre in Paris - exploring its collections, architecture and storied history with elements of documentary and historical drama. Focusing specifically on the events of the Nazi occupation (though there’s still time for the ghost of Napoleon), Sokurov’s cinematic essay is a meditation on art, politics, war and an iconic museum.
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Our lives are steeped in noise, from the vehicles on our streets to the multitude of tiny screens that dominate our days. Beginning with an ode to John Cage’s seminal silent composition 4’33” , Patrick Shen’s powerful film explores the human relationship with silence and sound, and the real impact of all of this noise. As much a work of devotion as it is documentary, In Pursuit of Silence is a remarkable sensory experience filled with unforgettable visuals and immersive sound design that demands to be seen and heard on the big screen.
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The Birth of a Nation
Phantom Boy
Tue 27 Dec to Thu 5 Jan
Tue 27 to Sat 31 Dec
Nate Parker • USA 2016 • 2h • Digital • 15 - Contains strong bloody violence and gory images • Cast: Nate Parker, Penelope Ann Miller, Armie Hammer, Aunjanue Ellis.
Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol • France/Belgium 2015 • 1h25m Digital • French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild violence, threat • With the voices of Edouard Baer, Audrey Tautou.
Nate Parker’s directorial debut is a searing account of the life of Nat Turner, the enslaved African-American who spearheaded an insurrection in 1831. From its very title, appropriated from the canonised yet deeply racist D.W. Griffith film, The Birth of a Nation announces itself as a corrective reclamation of American history. Winner of both the Grand Jury and Audience Award prizes at Sundance, The Birth of a Nation is steeped equally in grace and horror, it building to a brutal finale that stirs deep emotion and unease.
Set in a dreamily animated New York City, 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 follow-up to Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol’s Academy Award© nominated A Cat in Paris, this is a gorgeously animated modern day fable - beautiful and original, extremely funny, and sometimes very moving.
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Talbot Rice Gallery presents:
Rob Kennedy - Play dis Thu 8 Dec at 6.00pm Rob Kennedy, Martin Parker, Sue Tompkins Digital • 12A
Mischievous, playful and often very funny, Rob Kennedy’s films look for depth, complication and absurdity in everyday life. Working with video, sound and sculpture in collaboration with other artists, musicians and performers, his broader practice deconstructs the social and cultural structures underlying our perceptions of the world. Complimenting his current exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery, Play dis will focus on his video work, followed by an in-depth conversation with Francis McKee, CCA: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow.
OVer the rainbow
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Sat 17 Dec & Sun 18 Dec Stephan Elliott • Australia 1994 • 1h43m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sex references and threat. • Cast: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, Sarah Chadwick.
Three Sydney showgirls - Felicia, Mitzi and Bernadette - are invited to play a four-week cabaret engagement at a resort hotel in Alice Springs, in the middle of Australia’s red desert. You know the twist already: the girls aren’t quite what they seem. Felicia and Mitzi are glorious drag queens and Bernadette is a svelte transsexual. The film follows their journey and performances through the beautiful scenery, macho values and aboriginal communities of the outback.
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Home Alone Sat 17 Dec at 1.30pm Chris Columbus • USA 1990 • 1h43m • Digital • PG - Contains moderate slapstick violence and infrequent moderate language 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, who attended the Practical Programming course with the Independent Cinema Office, which assists participants to develop a fresh programme for their venues.
When 8-year-old Kevin McCallister misbehaves on the night before a family trip to Paris, he is sent to sleep in the attic. Accidentally left behind when the McCallisters head for the airport, Kevin wakes up alone in the house. His presence in the otherwise empty home is not known to two con men who have staked out the house in order to stage a robbery - therein Kevin must save his family home, in this slapstick Christmas favourite.
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Calamity Jane
Sing-Along Screening Mon 2 Jan at 2.45pm
David Butler • USA 1953 • 1h41m • Digital • U • Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel, Allyn Ann McLerie, Philip Carey, Dick Wesson.
A special sing-along screening of this wonderfully energetic musical featuring Doris Day. Calamity dresses, talks and shoots like a man, but is smitten with Lieutenant Danny Gilmartin; her close friend Wild Bill has a similar crush on actress Katie Brown; but Danny and Katie are interested in each other. Could be trouble a-brewin’... Song lyrics will be projected onto the screen - join in with the fun!
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Napoleon Sat 31 Dec at 11.30am Abel Gance • France 1927 • 5h30m • Digital • Silent with recorded music track • PG - Contains mild battle violence.
Abel Gance’s heroic depiction of the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte is an undisputed cinema landmark. Renowned for its groundbreaking technical innovations, including a stunning triptych finale, Gance’s visionary epic traverses many of the formative experiences that shaped Napoleon’s rapid advancement. With an equally enthralling score composed and conducted by Carl Davis (newly recorded), this new digital restoration presents the silent masterpiece in all of its grandiose glory, with rich velvety blacks combining with gorgeously coloured tints and tones. Truly a magnificent big-screen experience. “A strong contender for the most exciting, daring and groundbreaking cinema release of the year” - The Guardian The film will feature three intervals - a 30 minute break followed by two 10 minute breaks.
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Donnie Darko
In the Heat of the Night
Sun 1 to Tue 3 Jan
Wed 4 & Thu 5 Jan
Richard Kelly • USA 2001 • 2h2m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language and psychological horror. • Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Patrick Swayze.
Norman Jewison • USA 1967 • 1h50m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate threat, sex references and discriminatory terms • Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates.
Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a typical American teen a smart boy with a nice family and friends. Donnie is also, however, a little bit strange. When a jet engine crashes through the ceiling, narrowly missing him, a monstrous rabbit called Frank appears to him, telling him he must fulfil his destiny - and that there’s no time to lose. He embarks on an increasingly strange series of actions which startle his teachers, scare his parents and amaze his friends. Surreal, imaginative and enticingly dark, Donnie Darko is a wickedly intelligent fantasy.
In the Heat of the Night won five Oscars© in 1968, including Best Picture, Best Actor (for Rod Steiger), Best Screenplay and Best Editing. Sidney Poitier is devastatingly cool and charismatic as Philadelphia homicide detective Virgil Tibbs, who arrives in a small Southern backwater to visit his mother but becomes embroiled in a murder investigation when he’s picked up by the local police. When Tibbs’ profession is confirmed, he’s teamed with a racist redneck sheriff (Rod Steiger) - a riveting partnership that reflects the era’s desperately strained race relations.
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Paterson
Arrival
Showing from Fri 9 Dec
Showing from Fri 9 Dec
Jim Jarmusch • France/Germany/USA 2016 • 1h53m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language. • Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Kara Hayward, William Jackson Harper, Chasten Harmon.
Denis Villeneuve • USA 2016 • 1h56m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Michael Stuhlbarg, Forest Whitaker.
Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey - they share the name. Every day, he drives his daily route, observing the city and overhearing fragments of conversation; he writes poetry into a notebook; he walks his dog; he stops in a bar; he goes home to his wife, Laura (Golshifteh Farahani). By contrast, Laura’s world is ever changing. New dreams come to her almost daily. Paterson loves Laura and she loves him. He supports her newfound ambitions; she champions his gift for poetry. Jim Jarmusch’s Palme d’Or nominee quietly observes the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
When, quite suddenly, twelve mysterious spacecraft land in seemingly random locations across the planet, linguistics expert Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is contacted by the U.S. military and offered the opportunity to attempt translation of their languages. Adding pressure to an already precarious international political climate - the U.S. 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...
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Your Name
Akira
Tue 27 to Fri 30 Dec
Thu 29 Dec at 2.00pm & 8.30pm
Makoto Shinkai • Japan 2016 • 1h47m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate language, sex references. • With the voices of Kana Hanazawa, Etsuko Ichihara, Ryûnosuke Kamiki.
Katsuhiro Otomo • Japan 1988 • 2h5m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 15 - Contains some strong language, violence and sexual violence • With the voices of Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda.
Mitsuha and Taki are total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he’s never visited. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together? Find out in the latest film from the acclaimed auteur Makoto Shinkai, a huge hit at Scotland Loves Anime 2016.
A special re-release of this iconic, acclaimed anime to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Manga Entertainment. Neo-Tokyo, 2019. Kaneda and Tetsuo, two members of a teenage bike gang, stumble across a secret government project to develop telekinetic super-humans in the riot-torn metropolis. Unwittingly they become involved in a power struggle between government forces and terrorists to unleash and control the awesome power of Akira, the force which started World War III... A rollercoaster ride through an apocalyptic future.
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Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
Fri 9 to Sun 11 Dec
Mon 12 Dec at 12.00 noon & 8.15pm
David Lynch • USA 1986 • 2h • Digital • 18 - Contains strong sex, violence and language • Cast: Kyle McLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Laura Dern, Dean Stockwell.
David Lynch • France/USA 2001 • 2h26m • 35mm • 15 - Contains strong language and moderate sex and violence • Cast: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux.
There’s something going on behind the white picket fences of Lumberton, N. Carolina. And after stumbling upon a severed human ear in a field, mystery-loving student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) is determined to find out what. Teaming up with the daughter of a local detective (Laura Dern), his investigation leads him into a strange world of sensuality and violence, and the relationship between a troubled club singer (Isabella Rossellini) and a sociopathic sadomasochist (Dennis Hopper). David Lynch’s nightmarish portmanteau of beauty and horror returns to mark its 30th anniversary.
We celebrate the re-release of Blue Velvet by screening Mulholland Drive - voted the best film of the 21st Century so far in a 2016 BBC poll. Having just directed The Straight Story, Lynch returned to more familiar territory with this moody, menacing and bizarrely humorous masterpiece. Betty (Naomi Watts), an 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 dream imagery and loose ends, it has a fascination with the destructive power of erotic desire.
The Elephant Man Thu 15 Dec at 12.00 noon & 8.45pm David Lynch • USA 1980 • 2h3m • Digital • PG - Contains mild horror and violence. • Cast: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller.
David Lynch’s moving retelling of a true story features an Academy Award©-nominated performance by John Hurt as John Merrick, the victim of a disease that has left him so horrendously deformed he’s spent most of his life as a carnivalshow ‘freak’. In time, Merrick comes under the care of Dr Treves (Anthony Hopkins), who installs the ‘Elephant Man’ in a hospital, where he studies him, helps him to overcome a seemingly insurmountable speech impediment, and - for a time - gives him back some human dignity. Through the striking cinematography, the film superbly invokes the bleak mood of industrial Victorian England.
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Adapting Miss Highsmith: The Glass Cell + Plein Soleil Sun 4 Dec at 1.30pm 3h47m • 15 • £12/£10 • 15 minute break between films
Two Patricia Highsmith adaptations in which Europe takes centre stage. Hans W. Geissendörfer shifts the action of Highsmith’s The Glass Cell to Frankfurt, focusing on the struggles of Philip, an architect released from prison after serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. In Plein Soleil, meanwhile, René Clément directs Alain Delon in the role of Highsmith’s most famous character: the eponymous, ice-cold sociopath Tom Ripley, in a sun-soaked Italian-set adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripley. The Glass Cell (Die Gläserne Zelle)
Hans W. Geissendörfer • West Germany/Portugal 1978 • 1h33m Digital • German with English subtitles • 15
Plein Soleil
René Clément • France/Italy 1960 • 1h59m • Digital • French, Italian and English with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild violence
Double bill
Adapting Miss Highsmith:
The Two Faces of January + The Cry of the Owl Sun 11 Dec at 2.00pm
3h33m • 15 • £12/£10 • 15 minute break between films
Two classic Highsmithian thrillers. In Hossein Amini’s The Two Faces of January, Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst star as an American couple on a lavish European holiday, dragged in to a web of intrigue and criminality by small-time con artist Rydal (Oscar Isaac). Claude Chabrol’s chilling The Cry of the Owl is a tale of obsession and revenge centred around a destructive love triangle, in which tragic events seem as inescapable as breathing. The Two Faces of January
Hossein Amini • UK/USA/France 2014 • 1h36m • Digital • English, Greek and Turkish with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate violence & scenes of smoking
The Cry of the Owl (Le cri du hibou)
Claude Chabrol • France/Italy 1987 • 1h42m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15
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Ripley’s Game + The American Friend Sun 18 Dec at 1.15pm
4h10m • 15 • £12/£10 • 15 minute break between films
Two wildly different interpretations of the third Ripley novel, Ripley’s Game. In the 2002 adaptation by Liliana Cavani, soundtracked by Ennio Morricone, John Malkovich takes on the lead role with Dougray Scott as the terminally ill framer tangled up in Ripley’s schemes. German Cinema auteur Wim Wenders’ adaptation The American Friend is less faithful to the original novel, also incorporating strands of Highsmith’s earlier book Ripley Under Ground, and stars counter-culture icon Dennis Hopper. Ripley’s Game Liliana Cavani • USA/UK/Italy 2002 • 1h50m • 35mm • English, German and Italian with English subtitles • 15
The American Friend (Der Amerikanische Freund) Wim Wenders • West Germany/France 1977 • 2h5m • Digital • German and English with English subtitles • 15
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Filmosophy: Mind and Consciousness
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Filmosophy: Mind and Consciousness Filmosophy’s seventh season explores the nature of mind and consciousness, the importance of memory, and the possibility of artificial intelligence. 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 and course organiser at The University of Edinburgh. No previous knowledge of philosophy is required. For details of short courses, visit www.ed.ac.uk/short-courses. For more information on screenings and events or to continue the discussion, ‘like’ Filmosophy on Facebook or follow @film_philosophy on Twitter.
Her Wed 14 Dec at 5.50pm Spike Jonze • USA 2013 • 2h6m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language and sex references • Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara, Chris Pratt.
Set in Los Angeles in the near future, Spike Jonze’s comedy-drama follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a lonely and introverted individual who develops a relationship with Samantha, an intelligent computer operating system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson). As their relationship evolves, so does Samantha, and we are invited to reflect on the nature of love and what it means to be human.
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Education and Learning SCHOOL EVENTS Trolls + Q&A with David Burgess from DreamWorks Mon 19 December, 10.00am • 1h32m, cert U, P4 upwards, Expressive arts As a special Christmas treat, we are delighted to offer schools a unique opportunity to watch the new animated comedy Trolls and meet the lead character animator behind the film. Dave Burgess has been a Supervising Animator at DreamWorks Animation for the last 15 years on films such as Over the Hedge and Monsters vs Aliens. Previously, while at Disney, he was responsible for animating the hyenas in The Lion King, was part of the Genie animation team for Aladdin and lead animator for Professor Porter in Tarzan. Dave will be able to answer all your questions about how the trolls were brought to life and all the work that goes into making amazing animation! Tickets cost £3 per pupil / free for teachers. To book please contact Flip Kulakiewicz on 0131 228 6382 or email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk
ANIMATION WORKSHOPS - FEBRUARY 2017 Our February 2017 half-term workshops with Animation Jam will be on sale from 26 November 2016 – the perfect Christmas gift for animation lovers! All workshops are suitable for ages 7-12 years. To book please contact the Box Office on 0131 228 2688. DAY 1 – Thursday 16 February 2017 Toys Alive Animation 10.30am to 12.40 (130 mins) Whether it’s a toy robot firing lasers, cars racing with Lego or a furry cat drinking some milk, we’ll help you bring your own toys to life with animation. Bring along a small-ish toy (5-15cm) you want to animate or choose from random ones we’ll provide. Plasticine Creature Animation 1.40pm to 3.50pm (130 mins) Animation Jam present a fun-packed introduction to the world of 3D animation. Make your own plasticine characters and bring them to life in your own animated film. Weird animals, comical super heroes, talking fruit… the only limit is your imagination! DAY 2 – Friday 17 February 2017 3D Animation in 2D – 7-12 years 10.30am to 12.40 (130 mins) 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. Join others and make flat plasticine critters that can easily defy gravity and find great ways to make special effects with plasticine. Plasticine Creature Animation1.40pm to 3.50pm (130 mins) Animation Jam present a fun-packed introduction to the world of 3D animation. Make your own plasticine characters and bring them to life in your own animated film. Team up with other creatures to see what crazy stories emerge, and watch your films online. The only limit is your imagination!
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Kirk Douglas’ 100th Birthday Born Issur Danielovitch in 1916, Kirk Douglas’ impoverished beginnings as the son of a ragman in Amsterdam, NY, led to a remarkable life and career - from acting training, to World War II, breaking into theatre and feature films in the mid-1940s and, ultimately, Hollywood stardom. His intensity and distinguished masculine features made him a much sought-after actor as the 1950s brought a rich vein of westerns and war dramas to the screen, and Douglas found himself working with directors like Billy Wilder and the emerging Stanley Kubrick (the fruits of which you can see this month at Filmhouse). The iconic Spartacus would prove to be his most enduring role, and in crediting its screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, marked a political milestone in its part in breaking apart the anti-Communist Hollywood ‘blacklist’. Kirk Douglas turns 100 years old on 9 December 2016 - join us in wishing him a very Happy Birthday!
Ace in the Hole Fri 9 Dec at 8.45pm Billy Wilder • USA 1951 • 1h51m • Digital • English, Spanish and Latin with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall, Frank Cody.
Billy Wilder’s superb Ace in the Hole, so ahead of its time in the 1950s with its unflinching examination of journalistic values and human ethics, should rightly take its place alongside his greatest works. Kirk Douglas stars as Chuck Tatum, a reporter who stumbles upon a potentially career-making story when a man becomes trapped in a cave in New Mexico. Desperate to prolong the drama in the name of his coverage, Tatum involves himself with local law enforcement, the rescue party and the victim’s family - a dangerous game to play, with the gravest of consequences...
Spartacus
Paths of Glory
Sat 10 Dec at 2.00pm
Tue 13 Dec at 11.00am, 1.15pm & 6.30pm
Stanley Kubrick • USA 1960 • 3h17m • Digital • PG - Contains moderate violence • Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov.
Stanley Kubrick • USA 1957 • 1h27m • Digital • PG - Contains moderate war violence • Cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker, George Macready, Wayne Morris.
Although not a Kubrick project (he took over direction from Anthony Mann), this epic account of the abortive slave revolt in Ancient Rome emerges as a surprisingly apt companion piece to Paths of Glory in its consideration of the mechanisms of power. Kirk Douglas stars as a man born of a slave woman who has known nothing but chains his entire life. After being forced to put on a gladiator show for wealthy Romans (including Laurence Olivier as the power-hungry Crassus), Spartacus leads a slave revolt across Italy that soon has thousands marching on Rome.
Based on a true incident of World War I, Paths of Glory is a film that has lost none of its power since its release in 1957, when Kubrick was only 29. A vain and ambitious French general, Mireau (George Macready), is manipulated by his wily superior into a hopeless attack on an impregnable German position. When it inevitably fails, Mireau orders the entire regiment court-martialled and 100 men executed for cowardice. He is persuaded to settle for three men, as an example, and heroic commander Dax (Kirk Douglas) volunteers as defence attorney to battle against hopeless odds...
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(AD) Audio Description (see p 34) (10) 10 from 16 (p 26-28) (C) Captioned for deaf or hard of hearing (CH) Christmas at Our House! (p 29-30) (see p 34) (F) Filmosophy (p 14) DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
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Fri 1 A United Kingdom (AD) 2 2 A United Kingdom (AD) Dec 2 Creepy 2 Lo and Behold... 2 Suntan (G) 3 Lo and Behold... 3 Creepy *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
1.00/3.30/6.10/8.40
Sat 1 A United Kingdom (AD) 3 2 A United Kingdom (AD) Dec 2 Creepy 2 Lo and Behold... 2 Short Fuse (G) 3 Lo and Behold... 3 Creepy *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
1.00/3.30/6.10/8.40
Sun 1 Fiddlesticks (FJ) 4 1 A United Kingdom (AD) Dec 2 A United Kingdom (AD) 2 Double Bill: The Glass Cell + Plein Soleil (SDB) 2 Creepy 2 Cloudy Sunday (G) 3 Lo and Behold... *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
11.00am 3.00 6.05 8.45 +Q&A 3.40 8.30
11.00am 3.00 6.05 8.45 +Q&A 3.40 8.30 11.00am
1.00/3.30/6.10/8.40
11.00am
1.30 6.00 8.45 3.40/8.30
Mon 1 A United Kingdom (AD) 2.30/6.10/8.40 5 2 A United Kingdom (AD) 11.00am Dec 2 Creepy 3.00/6.00 2 A Family Affair (G) 8.45 3 United States of Love 3.40/6.05 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 34 Tue 1 A United Kingdom (AD) 6 1 A United Kingdom (AD) (C) Dec 2 A United Kingdom (AD) 2 Creepy 2 Chevalier (G) 3 United States of Love *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
12.00/2.30/6.10 8.40 (captioned) 11.00am 3.00/6.00 8.45 3.40/6.05
Wed 1 A United Kingdom (AD) 12.00/2.30 7 1 A United Kingdom (AD) 6.10/8.40 Dec 2 A United Kingdom (AD) 11.00am 2 Creepy 3.00/6.00 2 OXI: An Act of Resistance (G) 8.45 +Q&A 3 United States of Love 11.05am/8.30 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
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Thu 1 A United Kingdom (AD) 8 2 A United Kingdom (AD) Dec 2 Creepy 2 TRG: Rob Kennedy - Play dis 3 United States of Love *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
12.00/2.30/6.10/8.40
Fri 1 Paterson (AD) 9 1 Arrival (AD) Dec 2 Blue Velvet 2 The Wailing 2 Ace in the Hole (KD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
12.00/6.00 2.45/8.35 11.15am 2.15/5.30 8.45
Sat 1 Arrival (AD) 10 1 Spartacus (KD) Dec 1 Paterson (AD) 2 Blue Velvet 2 The Wailing *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
11.00am/8.35 2.00 6.00 11.15am/5.30 2.15/8.05
11.00am 3.00/8.30 6.00 +Q&A 11.05am/8.30
Sun 1 Arrival (AD) 3.30/8.35 11 1 Paterson (AD) 6.00 Dec 2 A Christmas Star (FJ) 11.00am 2 Double Bill: The Two Faces of January + The Cry of the Owl (SDB) 2.00 2 Blue Velvet 6.10/8.45 3 The Wailing 8.05 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20) Mon 1 Mulholland Drive 12.00/8.15 12 1 Paterson (AD) 3.10 Dec 1 Arrival (AD) 5.45 2 The Wailing 2.00/8.05 2 Paterson (AD) (C) 5.30 (captioned) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 34 Tue 1 Arrival (AD) 13 1 Arrival (AD) (C) Dec 2 Paths of Glory (KD) 2 Paterson (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
12.00/2.45 6.00 (captioned) 11.00am/1.15/6.30 3.50/8.35
Wed 1 Arrival (AD) 14 1 Paterson (AD) Dec 2 Paterson (AD) 2 Paths of the Soul 2 Her (F) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
12.00/8.35 2.45/6.00 11.00am 2.00/8.40 5.50
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(KD) Kirk Douglas (p 16) (OR) Over the Rainbow (p 8) (SDB) Sunday Double Bills (p 12-13)
(SG) Scotland Galore! (p 31-33) (WW) First World War in Cinema (p 30)
All screenings in 2D unless marked (3D)
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Thu 1 The Elephant Man 15 1 Paterson (AD) Dec 2 Paths of the Soul 2 Arrival (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
12.00/8.45 2.45/6.00 11.00am/6.10 2.00/8.45
Fri 1 The Wizard of Oz (CH) 16 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) Dec 1 Muppet Christmas Carol (CH) 1 Comfort and Joy (CH) 2 The Unknown Girl 2 Indignation 3 The Black Hen *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
11.00am 1.15/6.00 4.00 8.45 11.05am/3.55/6.20 1.30/8.40 1.35/6.15
Wed 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 21 1 Muppet Christmas Carol (CH) Dec 1 Joyeux Noël (CH) (WW) 1 The Wizard of Oz (CH) 2 In Pursuit of Silence 2 The Unknown Girl 2 Indignation 2 Gimme Danger 3 Francofonia 3 Gimme Danger *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
11.00am/8.30 1.45 3.45 6.15 11.05am/6.00 1.05 3.30 8.15 11.10am/6.10 3.45
Thu 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 22 1 Comfort and Joy (CH) Dec 2 Indignation 2 The Unknown Girl 2 In Pursuit of Silence 2 Gimme Danger 3 Gimme Danger 3 Francofonia *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
11.00am/5.45/8.30 3.15 11.05am 1.30 4.00/8.25 6.00 11.10am 1.35/8.45
Fri 1 Comfort and Joy (CH) 23 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) Dec 1 Miracle on 34th Street (CH) 1 Muppet Christmas Carol (CH) 2 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 2 Francofonia 2 Gimme Danger *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
11.00am 1.30/8.30 4.15 6.25 11.05am/6.00 1.50/3.55 8.45
Sat 1 Wallace & Gromit (FJ) 24 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) Dec 2 Miracle on 34th Street (CH) 2 Muppet Christmas Carol (CH) 2 The Wizard of Oz (CH) 2 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
11.00am 1.00/3.45/6.30 11.05am 1.10 3.15 5.30
Sat 1 Muppet Christmas Carol (CH) 11.00am 17 1 Miracle on 34th Street (CH) 1.00 Dec 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 3.10/8.30 1 Carol (CH) (AD) 5.55 2 The Unknown Girl 11.05am/8.45 2 Home Alone (GP) 1.30 2 The Adventures of Priscilla..(OR) 4.00 2 Indignation 6.20 3 Indignation 11.10am 3 The Black Hen 1.35/6.15 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20) Sun 1 Paddington (FJ) 11.00am 18 1 The Wizard of Oz (CH) 1.10 Dec 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 3.25 1 The Adventures of Priscilla..(OR) 6.15 1 Gremlins (CH) 8.50 + Intro 2 The Unknown Girl 11.00am/8.45 2 Double Bill: Ripley’s Game + The American Friend (SDB) 1.15 2 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 6.00 3 Indignation 1.00/8.40 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20) Mon 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 19 1 Joyeux Noël (CH) (WW) Dec 2 Indignation 2 The Unknown Girl 3 My Feral Heart *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
3.00/8.25 5.55 4.10/6.25 1.50/8.50 1.40/8.40
Tue 1 Miracle on 34th Street (CH) 20 1 Muppet Christmas Carol (CH) Dec 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (AD) (C) 1 Carol (CH) (AD) 2 The Unknown Girl 2 Indignation 2 Muppet Christmas Carol (CH) 3 My Feral Heart *Plus films and times TBC (see page 20)
11.00am 1.10 3.10 5.55 (captioned) 8.40 11.05am/6.00 1.30/8.30 4.00 11.10am/6.15
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Sun 25 Merry Christmas! Dec Mon 26 Filmhouse Closed Dec
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Tue 1 Phantom Boy 27 1 The Birth of a Nation (AD) Dec 2 ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ (SG) 2 The Angels’ Share (SG) 2 Phantom Boy 2 The Apartment (SG) 2 Hunt...Wilderpeople (10) (AD) 3 Your Name *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
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1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45
11.05am 1.10 3.30 5.55 8.35 1.35/6.25
Wed 1 Wallace & Gromit (FJ) 28 1 Phantom Boy Dec 1 The Birth of a Nation (AD) 2 Sunset Song (SG) 2 What We Did on Our... (SG) 2 Phantom Boy 2 From Scotland With Love (SG) 2 Rams (10) 3 Your Name *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
11.00am 1.00 3.15/6.00/8.40 11.05am 1.55 4.10 6.20 8.30 11.10am/4.00
Thu 1 Phantom Boy 29 1 The 39 Steps (SG) Dec 1 The Birth of a Nation (AD) 1 Akira 2 From Scotland With Love (SG) 2 The Illusionist (SG) 2 Phantom Boy 2 The 39 Steps (SG) 2 The Assassin (10) 3 Akira 3 Your Name *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
11.00am 1.10 3.15/5.50 8.30 11.05am 1.00 3.30 6.00 8.15 2.00 8.30
Fri 1 Sunset Song (SG) 30 1 The Birth of a Nation (AD) Dec 2 The Apartment (SG) 2 Hamish (SG) 2 Phantom Boy 2 Sunset Song (SG) 2 The Measure of a Man (10) 3 Your Name *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
11.00am 2.00/6.00/8.35 11.05am 1.45 3.50 5.55 8.45 11.10am/6.20
Sat 1 Napoleon 31 1 The Birth of a Nation (AD) Dec 2 What We Did on Our... (SG) 2 The 39 Steps (SG) 2 Phantom Boy 2 Highlander (SG) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
11.30am 6.40 11.05am 1.15 3.30 6.00
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3.15/5.50 8.35 3.00 5.45 8.20 8.30
Mon 1 The Birth of a Nation (AD) 12.00/5.45/8.20 2 1 Calamity Jane Sing-Along! 2.45 Jan 2 From Scotland With Love (SG) 11.05am 2 Highlander (SG) 1.00 2 Rams (10) 3.40 2 The Angels’ Share (SG) 6.00 2 Hell or High Water (10) (AD) 8.25 3 Donnie Darko 6.05 *Plus films and times TBC (see below) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 34 Tue 1 The Birth of a Nation (AD) 3 1 The Birth of a Nation (AD) (C) Jan 1 Julieta (10) 2 The Illusionist (SG) 2 The Apartment (SG) 2 The Measure of a Man (10) 2 Hamish (SG) 2 Hunt... Wilderpeople (10) (AD) 3 Donnie Darko *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
12.00/8.20 5.45 (captioned) 3.00 11.05am 1.30 4.10 6.20 8.25 2.30
Wed 1 The Birth of a Nation (AD) 4 1 The Jungle Book (10) (AD) Jan 2 ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ (SG) 2 Sunset Song (SG) 2 Hunt... Wilderpeople (10) (AD) 2 The Jungle Book (10) (AD) 2 Son of Saul (10) 3 In the Heat of the Night *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
12.00/5.45/8.20 3.00 11.05am 1.10 4.00 6.20 8.45 11.00am/8.50
Thu 1 The Birth of a Nation (AD) 5 1 Tale of Tales (10) Jan 2 The Angels’ Share (SG) 2 What We Did on Our... (SG) 2 The Assassin (10) 2 Mustang (10) 2 Julieta (10) 3 In the Heat of the Night *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
12.00/5.45/8.20 2.50 11.05am 1.20 3.30 6.00 8.15 1.30/8.50
* The majority of our screenings are scheduled well in advance, and times published in the brochure and online. Most weeks we leave spaces in the schedule in order to allow us to keep on films that are proving popular for a little longer; these screenings will be added to our website on the Tuesday preceding the start of the new cinema week on Friday.
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Edinburgh Greek Film Festival Our festival always has, we hope, interesting and involving films. This year we have suprising films as well. We have dramatic catharsis in Suntan, the private life of a Greek island and its mixed-up men; Short Fuse, a daft non-stop action caper by two young directors turning a genre upside down to see what happens; the heartbreaking story of Salonica’s Jews in Cloudy Sunday; A Family Affair and its hyper-Cretan music; Chevalier, the latest teaser from Attenberg’s director; and OXI: An Act of Resistance, a rumination on the Greek Mind in crisis. We will have visiting directors. It will be interesting, involving. And surprising. www.edinburghgreekfestival.com
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Suntan Fri 2 Dec at 8.45pm Argyris Papadimitropoulos • Greece 2016 • 1h44m • Digital • Greek and English with English subtitles • 18
A Greek island. Summer comes and everybody seems to be there. Kostis, the new doctor, is good with colds and chills in winter but can’t cope with summer or with young women who wear clothes only when they really have to, seem to send out mixed messages and have occasional meaningless sex with amusing older men who do not realize they are older, amusing or meaningless. This is Kostis’ story. You may meet someone like him on your next Greek island. You will probably like him. Followed by a Q&A with director Argyris Papadimitropoulos.
Short Fuse
Cloudy Sunday
Ouzeri Tsitsanis
Sat 3 Dec at 8.45pm
Sun 4 Dec at 8.45pm
Kostas Skiftas, Andreas Lampropoulos • Greece 2016 • 1h26m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 18
Manousos Manousakis • Greece 2015 • 1h52m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 18
A young lawyer loses his temper with several people, who lose their tempers with him. He’s given some do-or-die tasks. There are adventures, various cars suffer, many Greek policemen look threateningly baffled, fights are arranged. There is action - lots and lots of it. Could this is the very first Greek action movie ever? There’s a girl, of course, who needs to be rescued. The plot forgets about her for a bit so she has to be rescued again. Will the guy remember who she is? Will they live happily ever after? Will they ever manage to sit down?
Salonica, 1942, under German occupation. Vasilis Tsitsanis, the great Rebetika musician, is running an Ouzo joint, a crossroads where collaborators, blackmarketeers, resistance fighters and musicians meet. Salonica’s Jews - about a third of the population - cannot comprehend the evil they face. Through the eyes of a Jewish girl and her Christian lover we watch their tragedy take its course. This is a lament for a city still beautiful but horribly wounded and a monument to Tsitsanis and his masterpiece of implied resistance, the song ‘Cloudy Sunday’.
Followed by a Q&A with director, co-screenwriter Kostas Skiftas and Producer/co-screenwriter Konstantinos Moutsinas.
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A Family Affair
Mia Oikogeneiaki Ypothesi Mon 5 Dec at 8.45pm Angeliki Aristomenopolou • Greece 2015 • 1h27m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary
The Xylouris family are a bunch of crazy Cretan musicians. Of course we are all crazy, but Cretans are crazy in their very own way. Nikos was maybe the voice that destroyed the Colonels artistically. This is about his remaining family - Yorgos, who talks, teaches and explains; and Andonis, who hardly talks at all but plays stubborn Cretan, unreformed, uncompromising music and hypnotises audiences as he travels the festival circuit. This is an intimate portrait of a very old, living tradition. Dancing may be inevitable, but only on Lothian Road.
Chevalier Tue 6 Dec at 8.45pm Athina Rachel Tsangari • Greece 2015 • 1h45m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong nudity, sex references.
Tsangari (Attenberg) turns her steely eye on men six of them on a boat with nothing better to do than try to work out who is the best. What ‘best’ means turns out to be uncertain when applied to men, so more or less everything they can think of is tested. Measurements are taken, IKEA units competitively assembled - the dafter it is the more competitive it gets. The men reveal themselves to themselves and leave us with all the usual questions about humanity and masculinity but fashioned into something new and tantalising. Tsangari has added something very human to her usual philosophical concerns.
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OXI: AN ACT OF RESISTANCE Wed 7 Dec at 8.45pm Ken McMullan • UK/Greece 2014 • 1h40m • Digital • English, French and Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary
A meditation on Greekness, what it is, how it behaves, the persistence of Ancient Greece in Modern Greeks, the magnificent history of Greek resistance, how Sophocles’s Antigone might resist now, how the laughter of Aristophanes might dissolve the absurdities of Austerity, how Cavafy’s poems speak of the ancient but enlighten the modern. OXI (the Greek for ‘No’) dramatizes and documents the crisis we all live in and which we all must understand and solve and helps us both to understand Greece and to ask questions of ourselves. Followed by a Q&A with Ken McMullan and producer Martin McQuillan.
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SYN presents, in the framework of this year’s Edinburgh Greek Film Festival, the group exhibition Imagine the Sounds. The exhibition takes as its starting point the relationship between moving image and sound, which has been portrayed in cinema since its very first incarnation. Beginning from the festival’s films, the exhibition examines sound, and ultimately music, as a code of communication. It performs a role as an element which both leads and complements the "story” and also as an expression of cultural, political and social life. www.synfestivaledinburgh.co.uk
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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.
Fiddlesticks
Quatsch und die NasenbÄrenbande
Sun 4 Dec at 11.00am Veit Helmer • Germany 2014 • 1h22m • Digital • German with English subtitles • PG
Brilliant animated film Phantom Boy also screens at Filmhouse this month, see page 7.
Fiddlesticks takes place in a small, ordinary town in the middle of Germany, a place so average that it has become the centre for all kinds of market research. This results in all old people being put in nursing homes in order to keep down the average age! A group of six rambunctious kids set out to rescue their fun-loving grannies and grandads!
A Christmas Star Sun 11 Dec at 11.00am
Paddington Sun 18 Dec at 11.00am
Richard Elson • UK 2015 • 1h22m • Digital • U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm • Cast: Robert James-Collier, Bronagh Waugh, Suranne Jones, Pierce Brosnan.
Paul King • UK/France 2014 • 1h35m • Digital • PG - Contains dangerous behaviour, mild threat, innuendo, infrequent mild bad language • Cast: Ben Whishaw, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville.
Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grownups should expect some noise!
Set in the picturesque village of Pottersglen in Northern Ireland, A Christmas Star follows young and spirited Noelle who, born in dramatic circumstances under the Christmas Star, believes she has the gift to perform strange miracles. When conniving developer McKerrod threatens her peaceful life, she teams up with a misfit gang of local kids to save the village from demolition.
A surprisingly excellent reimagining of a childhood favourite. A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Lost and alone, he meets the Brown family and it looks as though his luck has changed. Until, of course, this rarest of bears catches the eye of a museum taxidermist...
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Storks Sun 8 Jan at 11.00am
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Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland • USA 2016 • 1h29m • Digital U - Contains mild slapstick, very mild bad language. • With the voices of Andy Samberg, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell.
There’s no better time to watch this trio of Aardman classics than the festive period - and there’s no better place than Filmhouse! These unforgettable, inventive animations about hapless Yorkshire inventor Wallace and his long-suffering dog Gromit (the brains of the operation) are an absolute joy for filmgoers of all ages! Cheese and crackers optional.
Storks deliver babies... or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for internet giant Cornerstore.com. Junior, the top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable baby girl. Desperate to deliver before the boss gets wise, Junior and his human friend Tulip race to make their first-ever baby drop!
Trolls Sun 15 Jan at 11.00am
Zarafa Sun 22 Jan at 11.00am
Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn • USA 2016 • 1h32m • Digital • U With the voices of Anna Kendrick, Zooey Deschanel, Jeffrey Tambor, Justin Timberlake.
Rémi Bezançon & Jean-Christophe Lie • France/Belgium 2012 1h15m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, threat.
A smart, musical and irreverent new animated world from the creators of Shrek, featuring the highly nostalgic and overly optimistic Trolls - a gang of tall-haired musical misfits of all colours and sizes. When Troll Town is invaded by the villainous Bergens, curmudgeonly Branch and the eternally joyful Poppy embark on a daring rescue mission to save their friends.
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Zarafa gorgeously tells the story of the undying friendship between 10-year-old Maki and an orphaned giraffe, Zarafa, intended as a gift for the King of France. Hassan, Prince of the Desert, is instructed to deliver the giraffe himself, but Maki makes up his mind to bring Zarafa back to its native land - even if it means risking his life.
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10 from 16 From a comparatively long long list of the best films released in 2016, here’s my top ten. Subjectivity being what it is, you’ll likely disagree, so feel free to animatedly discuss my choices, with a friend, over a glass of wine in the Filmhouse Cafe Bar! A few others that probably occupy the 11-15 slots might be: Our Little Sister, Suburra, Weiner, Captain Fantastic and a film that I’ve seen since compiling the list, Arrival, but we have that on in December (see page 10) anyway! Enjoy! Rod White, Head of Filmhouse
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople Tue 27 Dec to Wed 4 Jan (select dates only) Taika Waititi • New Zealand 2016 • 1h42m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate bad language, innuendo, infrequent bloody moments Cast: Julian Dennison, Sam Neill, Rima Te Wiata, Rhys Darby.
Though much praised after its première at Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, the worry for most industry types was who was the audience for it? Was it a kids’ film that might struggle to find an adult audience? Was it too adult for kids? No, it’s for everybody, stoopid! A manhunt is launched when a rebellious ‘hip-hop’ kid and his foster father go on the run in the New Zealand bush. You will laugh, certainly. And cry, very probably.
The Assassin
HrÚtar Wed 28 Dec at 8.30pm & Mon 2 Jan at 3.40pm
Nie Yinniang Thu 29 Dec at 8.15pm & Thu 5 Jan at 3.30pm
Grïmur Hákonarson • Iceland/Denmark/Norway/Poland 2015 • 1h33m • Digital • Icelandic with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language • Cast: Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Theodór Júlïusson, Charlotte Bøving, Jon Benonysson.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien • Taiwan/China/Hong Kong/France 2015 • 1h45m Digital • Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate violence • Cast: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki.
Another film in this year’s top ten selection that world premiered at Cannes in 2015, and indeed won the Un Certain Regard prize. This Icelandic deadpan delight tells the story of two sheep-farming brothers, who live right next door to each in the middle of nowhere in the unforgiving Icelandic countryside, but who have not spoken for 40 years. But when disease threatens their prize-winning flocks, perhaps working together might be the only thing left to do...
Another from the Cannes competition of 2015, it took me two goes at this one to fully appreciate it. I think I spent too much time worrying about not knowing what on earth was going on the first time around, though I’m not sure I’m entirely any the wiser now... I don’t much care though; just watch, and get lost in Hou’s beguiling, slow-burn, dreamlike martial arts film, perhaps the most beautiful of the year.
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The Measure of a Man
Tale of Tales
La loi du marché Fri 30 Dec at 8.45pm & Tue 3 Jan at 4.10pm
Il racconto dei racconti Sun 1 Jan at 8.20pm & Thu 5 Jan at 2.50pm
Stéphane Brizé • France 2015 • 1h33m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller, Francoise Anselmi.
Matteo Garrone • UK/France/Italy 2015 • 2h14m • Digital • English and Russian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex, violence, gory images • Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones.
This “veritable masterclass in understated humanism” is really little more than a sequence of vignettes detailing the indignities witnessed by and heaped upon a working class everyman (a deserved Cannes Best Actor winning Vincent Lindon) as he tries to work his way, with dignity intact, through the job market in contemporary France. But, it accrues such power on the way, as to be, ultimately, devastating.
Prior to seeing this I’d been warned off it by some of my peers, but as per had to find out for myself. And thank God I did, or we may not have played it at all! It’s a tad too long, for sure, but that these three intertwined folk tales (adapted from the works of 17th Century Italian poet and fairy/folk tale collector Giambattista Basile) create an entirely unique and consistently astonishing world all of their own is not in question.
Hell or High Water
Julieta
Mon 2 Jan at 8.25pm & Sat 7 Jan at 3.40pm
Tue 3 Jan at 3.00pm & Thu 5 Jan at 8.15pm
David Mackenzie • USA 2016 • 1h42m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Katy Mixon, Dale Dickey.
Pedro Almodóvar • Spain 2016 • 1h39m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex. • Cast: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Inma Cuesta, Michelle Jenner, Daniel Grao.
Local lad (OK, he’s from Glasgow) made-verygood-indeed David Mackenzie hit pay dirt with this brilliant Texas-set crime thriller, chock full of great characters and a great story, and one of those hugely enjoyable show-stealing turns that we’ve come to expect from Jeff Bridges. And there’s even some social commentary! A considerable entertainment.
Whilst perhaps not quite hitting the heights of Volver or Talk to Her, Julieta is nonetheless a considerable return to form for the Spanish maestro. Revisiting the femme-centred storytelling that made his name, this finely-tuned, beautifully mounted melodrama (adapted from three Alice Munro short stories) tells the story of the titular Julieta, who by chance bumps into an old friend of her daughter; a daughter who had walked out of her mother’s life many years before...
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The Jungle Book Wed 4 Jan at 3.00pm & 6.20pm Jon Favreau • USA 2016 • 1h46m • Digital • PG • Cast: Neel Sethi, Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson, Christopher Walken.
I didn’t hold out much hope that Hollywood, and indeed Disney, might deliver a ‘remake’ of the much-loved 1967 animated classic of my childhood (obviously I didn’t see it on its actual release!) worthy of the original, but they did! Judiciously retaining the key song-and-dance numbers, it’s a near-perfect and visually splendid fusion of animation and live action, and of the Kipling source and the ‘67 classic.
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Saul fia Wed 4 Jan at 8.45pm & Sun 8 Jan at 3.15pm László Nemes • Hungary/USA/France/Israel/Bosnia and Herzegovina 2015 • 1h47m • Digital • Hungarian, Yiddish, German, Russian, Polish, French, Greek and Slovak with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong threat • Cast: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Jerzy Walczak.
Very much the talk of Cannes 2015 (where it won the Grand Jury Prize), László Nemes’ astonishing, harrowing Oscar-winning debut, set amongst a group of Hungarian Sonderkommando in Auschwitz in 1944, is not an easy watch - in more ways than one. The viewer is deprived of any perspective beyond that which Saul himself has; we are Saul, as he struggles to retain his humanity in the face of untold horrors.
Mustang Thu 5 Jan at 6.00pm & Fri 6 Jan at 3.05pm Deniz Gamze Ergüven • France/Germany/Turkey/Qatar 2015 • 1h37m • Digital • Turkish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains infrequent strong sex references • Cast: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu, Elit Iscan.
Regularly dubbed the ‘Turkish Virgin Suicides’ on its release back in May - without giving anything else away, it’s easy to see why. The earlier film’s melancholy and aimed-for poetry gives over to a more direct celebration of life and personal freedom as five orphaned sisters rail against their conservative guardians (in particular the girls’ uncle) to by turns tragic and uplifting effect, in a remote village in Turkey. A striking debut.
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It’s a Wonderful Life
The Muppet Christmas Carol
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Frank Capra • USA 1946 • 2h10m • Digital • U - Contains mild violence • Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Henry Travers, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell.
Brian Henson • USA 1992 • 1h26m • Digital • U - Contains infrequent very mild peril
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. Stewart is the heart and the soul of the film as the dreamer who sacrifices all for his fellow man. Bring a hanky!
A fun but meaningful adaptation, 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 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...
Comfort and Joy
The Wizard of Oz
Fri 16 to Fri 23 Dec (select dates only)
Fri 16 to Wed 21 Dec (select dates only)
Bill Forsyth • UK 1984 • 1h46m • Digital • English and Italian with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild language, sex references, violence
Victor Fleming • USA 1939 • 1h38m • Digital • U - Contains mild fantasy horror
A Glaswegian radio DJ becomes inadvertently tangled in an ice cream turf war in Bill Forsyth’s BAFTA-nominated festive comedy. DJ Allan “Dicky” Bird (Bill Paterson), recently dumped, spots an attractive girl (Clare Grogan) working in an ice cream van and decides to buy a cone. Suddenly, a trio of men wielding baseball bats attack the van, with Allan looking on. He now finds himself in the middle of a fierce rivalry, which naturally leads to further misadventures and some gradually escalating damage to his beloved car...
Judy Garland stars in this classic as Dorothy, who must escape from Oz by following the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City, where the great Wizard of Oz can help her return to Kansas. Along the way, she picks up some new friends - the heartless Tin Man, the brainless Scarecrow, and the courage-less Cowardly Lion, each of whom hopes that the Wizard can offer him what he lacks. Filled with extravagant sets and costumes and glorious song and dance routines, this is a joy, even more so on the big screen.
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Miracle on 34th Street
Carol
Sat 17 to Fri 23 Dec (select dates only)
Sat 17 Dec at 5.55pm & Tue 20 Dec at 8.40pm
George Seaton • USA 1947 • 1h34m • Digital • English and Dutch with English subtitles • U
Todd Haynes • UK/USA/France 2015 • 1h58m • Digital • 15 - Contains infrequent strong sex
A true classic Christmas tale about believing in magic and the power of hope. When the actor playing Santa Claus is discovered to be inebriated at the Thanksgiving Parade, Doris Walker (Maureen O’Hara) recruits kindly old Kris Kringle to replace him as store Santa at Macy’s Department Store, with great success. She soon finds out, however, that Kris (Edmund Gwenn) claims to be the real Santa Claus, something which goes against everything Doris has taught her young daughter Susan (Natalie Wood) about believing in fantasy stories. He couldn’t be... could he?
Based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel The Price of Salt, Todd Haynes’ sensuous and intelligent film places us in the pre-Christmas rush at a New York department store. Therese (Rooney Mara) is a store clerk, dreaming of a better life, who finds herself enchanted by a beautiful older woman - Carol (Cate Blanchett). A tender yet intoxicating romance forms - tightly wrapped in conflicting circumstances and ‘50s chic - and the result is emotionally honest, subtle and achingly beautiful.
THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN CINEMA
Gremlins
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Sun 18 Dec at 8.50pm Joe Dante • USA 1984 • 1h46m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate violence and fantasy horror.
It starts with a Christmas gift - a cute, cuddly little ‘mogwai’ - but the time of goodwill soon turns hellish when, splashed with water, the creature starts sprouting the titular monsters, whose sense of mischief extends to the murderous and beyond... With a characteristic mix of narrative anarchy, cinephile references, cartoon-style slapstick and black-tinged comedy, Joe Dante gleefully sinks his teeth into the kind of fluffy, sugary, sickly small town fantasy beloved of his pal and sometime producer Steven Spielberg.
Joyeux NoËl Merry Christmas Mon 19 Dec at 5.55pm & Wed 21 Dec at 3.45pm Christian Carion • France/Germany/UK/Belgium/Romania/Norway 2005 • 1h56m • Digital • French, German and English with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate battle violence, sex, and one use of strong language
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. Expertly weaving together the separate national strands of the story and remaining just the right side of sentimental, the film’s powerful message is matched by the brilliant storytelling, and carries significant contemporary resonance.
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‘I Know Where I’m Going!’
Tue 27 Dec to Thu 5 Jan (select dates only)
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Ken Loach • UK/France 2012 • 1h41m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language and strong violence
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger • UK 1945 • 1h28m • Digital U - Contains mild peril
From director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty (recent collaborators on I, Daniel Blake) comes a bittersweet Scottish comedic caper which proves that sometimes all you need in life is a little spirit. Robbie (Paul Brannigan), a young Glasgow man still running from his troubled past, is determined to create a better life for his new-born son. Along with three new friends he makes while doing community service, he hatches a plan to go into whisky...
A headstrong, rather proud 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. With its odd, dreamlike interludes, its weird symbolism, its sense of 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 Apartment
What We Did on Our Holiday
Tue 27 Dec to Tue 3 Jan (select dates only)
Wed 28 Dec to Thu 5 Jan (select dates only)
Billy Wilder • USA 1960 • 2h5m • Digital • PG - Contains mild sex references, violence and suicide attempt
Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin • UK 2014 • 1h35m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate bad language, discriminatory language, moderate sex references.
The Apartment succeeds not only as a wonderful romantic comedy but also as sharp satire. Jack Lemmon is brilliant as the clerk who attempts to forge ahead in the rat race by lending his apartment out to philandering senior executives, only to find himself in an intolerable situation when Miss Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the girl of his dreams, is brought there by his sleazy boss... (Ok, ok, we know there isn’t really a Scottish connection - other than it’s set at Hogmanay, and we love Hogmanay - but who cares?!)
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, a heart-warming, uplifting comedy that showcases the Highlands in their full splendour.
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From Scotland With Love
Sunset Song
Wed 28 Dec to Fri 6 Jan (select dates only)
Wed 28 Dec to Wed 4 Jan (select dates only)
Virginia Heath • UK 2014 • 1h16m • Digital • U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm
Terence Davies • UK/Luxembourg 2015 • 2h16m • Digital 15 - Contains strong implied sex, scene of sexual violence
Made entirely of archive film, From Scotland With Love is a feature 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, their names and identities largely forgotten, appear shimmering from the depth of the vaults to take a starring role. Brilliantly edited together, they become composite characters, who emerge to tell us their stories, given voice by the poetic music and lyrics.
Director Terence Davies’ exquisitely-shot adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic Scottish novel centres on the agrarian Guthrie family. Contrasted against its fearsome patriarch, daughter Chris (Agyness Deyn) is an intelligent young woman divided between hatred for her coarse village and love of its landscape. She and her brother dream of escape and freedom - possibilities for which suddenly present themselves to Chris....
The 39 Steps Thu 29 Dec to Sun 8 Jan (select dates only)
The Illusionist L’illusionniste Thu 29 Dec to Sat 7 Jan (select dates only)
Alfred Hitchcock • UK 1935 • 1h27m • Digital • U - Contains very mild language and violence
Sylvain Chomet • UK/France 2010 • 1h20m • Digital • PG - Contains a scene of aborted suicide and images of smoking
Swept from a London music hall to the Scottish Highlands and back to the Palladium, Robert Donat’s Richard Hannay is the archetypal wrongly accused man, embarking on a quest to find the villain and prove his innocence. The model for many subsequent films, this amazingly pacy version of John Buchan’s novel is one of Hitchcock’s most fully satisfying achievements: tense, witty, effortlessly stylish and emotionally direct, it’s also his warmest, most touching movie.
Sylvain Chomet’s beautifully animated film is a truly magical piece of cinema. Our weary hero is an overthe-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. The Illusionist is bittersweet, beautiful and timeless - perfect Hogmanay viewing.
For details of all events in Edinburgh’s packed programme to welcome in the New Year , go to www.edinburghshogmanay.com
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Hamish
Highlander
Fri 30 Dec to Fri 6 Jan (select dates only)
Sat 31 Dec to Sat 7 Jan (select dates only)
Robbie Fraser • UK 2016 • 1h30m • Digital • English and Gaelic with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild bad language, sex references. Documentary.
Russell Mulcahy • UK 1986 • 1h56m • Digital • 15
Hamish Henderson (1919-2002) was a colossal figure in Scottish culture, a man of boundless passion and curiosity whose poems continue to elevate and inspire a nation. Robbie Fraser’s documentary describes the many contrary forces and diverse facets of his life. From an English orphanage and the draughty corridors of Cambridge, to overseeing the capitulation of the Italian army in WWII and penning the most celebrated Scottish ballad in contemporary folk music, ‘Freedom Come Aa’ Ye’, this is Henderson’s life as told by those who knew him best and loved him most.
Highlander is a true cult favourite packed with quotable lines, stylish sword-fighting moments and memorable songs from Queen. Its interweaving storyline flits around from 1980s New York to World War II, but it has its dramatic origins in the 16th century Scottish Highlands where Connor MacLeod (Christophe Lambert) first discovers he is not like other men... Befriended and trained by the charismatic Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery), he finds out he is part of a group of immortals who must do battle until there is only one left alive...
EIFF Presents Hogmanay
Celebrate 2017 with two films that screened at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 1977!
Annie Hall
Assault on Precinct 13
Sun 1 Jan at 3.00pm
Sun 1 Jan at 8.35pm
Woody Allen • USA 1977 • 1h33m • 35mm • 15 - Contains drugs use and references
John Carpenter • USA 1976 • 1h31m • 35mm • 15 - Contains strong language and violence.
Winning four Academy Awards©, including Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Actress, (for the brilliant Diane Keaton), this timeless romantic comedy proved to be a key film in the career of cowriter, director and star Woody Allen, and provided the 31st edition of EIFF with a perfect opening night.
The second of our retrospective choices for New Year is a cult classic by seminal director John Carpenter, whose early work features prominently in EIFF history. Influenced by classic westerns and cult horror, Carpenter’s second feature was described in our 1977 catalogue as ‘a powerhouse thriller’ in which ‘an almost deserted police station is subjected to an all-night raid by hordes of suicidal hoodlums’. Happy New Year from EIFF!
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This issue, all screenings of A United Kingdom, Arrival, Paterson, It’s a Wonderful Life, Carol, The Birth of a Nation, Hell or High Water, Hunt for the Wilderpeople and The Jungle Book have audio description, and the following screenings will have captions: Tue 6 Dec at 8.40pm A United Kingdom Mon 12 Dec at 5.30pm Paterson Tue 13 Dec at 6.00pm Arrival Tue 20 Dec at 5.55pm It’s a Wonderful Life Thu 3 Jan at 5.45pm The Birth of a Nation
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