Filmhouse February 2015

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3-Iron 14 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible...

25 All About Our House 23 Annie 24 Babel 29 Bag of Rice 18 Big Hero 6 25 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure 25 Birdman 7 Blood and Bones 23 The Boot 18 Carmen from Kawachi 22 Casablanca 11 Charlotte’s Web 24 Children in the Wind 19 The Cinema of Childhood 18-20 Come and See...

25 Coming Soon 11 Crows + Palle Alone in the World 19 Darkness Visible 26 A Day at the Races 20 The Desert Fish 12 Downpour 12 Duck Soup and Animal Crackers: The Films of the Marx Brothers 20 The Duke of Burgundy 9 Education and Learning 30 A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral 13 Filmhouse Cafe Bar + Quiz 30 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Junior 24-25 Filmhouse Loyalty Card 4 Filmhouse Player 8 Filmosophy 14 Forbidden Games 19 Foxcatcher 7 The Green Ray 9 The Handsome Suit 23 Hugo and Josephine 19 The Informer 28 Into the Woods 24 Introduction to European Cinema 29 Iranian Film Festival 12-13

It only happens in the movies?

Japanese Cinema and Encounters 22-23 Kami’s Party 13 The King is Alive 29 The King of Masks 19 A Letter to Momo 22 The Light Shines Only There 23 Little Fugitive 20 Long Live the Republic 20 Love Is Strange 6 The Magdalene Sisters 28 Matilda 24 Moving 19 My Little Sweet Pea 22 My Name is N. Jamali and I Make Westerns 13 National Gallery 7 A Night in Casablanca 20 No Manifesto... Manic Street Preachers 6 Nobody to Watch Over Me 23 Parviz 13 Pi 14 The Prince 13 Proof 14 Querelle 29 Scattered Clouds 22 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 10 Secret Histories: Screening Irish History 28 Selma 9 Shaun the Sheep 25 Stalker 26 Super 8 26 Taboor 12 A Terrible Beauty 28 Together 29 Tomka and His Friends 20 A Town Called Panic 24 Trash 5 The Unseen + The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun 18 Valentine’s Day 11 Whiplash 6 White God 10 Wild 10 Wild at Heart 11 The Wind Rises 24 Winter’s Bone 26 Write Shoot Cut: Take it Back and Start...

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AUDIODESCRIPTIONANDCAPTIONS 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 Trash, Whiplash, Foxcatcher, Wild, Birdman, Selma and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel will have audio description, and the following screenings will have captions: Sun 8 Feb: Trash at 1.10pm & Whiplash at 3.45pm Sat 14 Feb: Foxcatcher at 1.00pm Sat 21 Feb: Wild at 12.45pm & Birdman at 3.30pm Sat 28 Feb: Selma at 12.50pm There will be a captioned screening of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel next month.

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.

Selma: Mon 23 Feb, 11am The Second... Marigold Hotel: Mon 2 Mar, 11am There will be no For Crying Out Loud screenings on Monday 9 or Monday 16 February. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

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Introduction

LOVE IS STRANGE

FOXCATCHER

BIRDMAN

THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

And the winner should be...

Well, here we go again… it’s awards season! The annual round of hopelessly subjective, ruthlessly lobbied, self-congratulatory back-slapping nonsense so many of us find irresistible. (Oh yes we do, for that awards and nominations puts bums on seats is beyond question.) Normally at this point I like to make a few Oscar predictions, you know, just for fun, though if any of you want to take my suggestions and go down the bookies (www.gambleaware. co.uk) my commission rate on your winnings is currently 20%, and I operate a no win/no compensation system too, so don’t come crying to me.

Usually I’m writing this without the knowledge of who‘s been nominated, but this year either they are early to nominate or we are late to print (I suspect it’s the latter) and as such the nominations are being announced, as it happens, exactly as I write this. I’m going to watch it on the www…

Well, no great surprises there (what, Bradley Cooper? For the third year in succession?), but some disappointment for Timothy Spall, who has inexplicably been left out of the BAFTAs as well. Perhaps voting for three Brits in the category was too much for the Academy members and they could not reasonably leave out either the marvellous Eddie Redmayne or Mr Cumberbatch, unquestionably the Brit Actor du jour. Now, let’s have a proper think… I reckon Best Film is a two horse race between Birdman and Boyhood, likewise Best Director; actor is between young Eddie and Michael Keaton; actress is between Reese Witherspoon and Julianne Moore; the other acting prizes are rather less clear… Coming on all decisive, I’m going to plump for Boyhood, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Julianne Moore, Michael Keaton, Patricia Arquette and JK Simmons. There.

Between now and the ceremony (22 February) we’re giving you the chance to see a good few of the main contenders (Birdman, Selma, Foxcatcher, Wild and the stonkingly good Whiplash) and fully anticipate bringing you a whole host of others over the coming months, including Inherent Vice (March), brilliant Foreign Language nominees Wild Tales (April) and Timbuktu (May), and Wim Wenders’ masterful documentary, Salt of the Earth (July).

Back to February, the month at hand: the Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel opens its doors to Dames Maggie, Judi et al (plus, this time around, American ‘silver fox’ Richard Gere) on the 27th; the 13th sees the release of Ira Sachs’ beautifully crafted, achingly poignant family drama/gay love story (featuring star turns by John Lithgow and Alfred Molina), Love Is Strange; The Duke of Burgundy is the latest from much-praised British director Peter (Berberian Sound Studio) Strickland, and tells the wonderfully bizarre, seductive tale of the sado-masochistic relationship between a wealthy lepidopterist (Borgen’s Sidse Babett Knudsen as you’ve likely never seen her before!) and her housekeeper. Last up, is Hungarian Kornél Mundruczó’s astonishing White God, a sort of grittier Lassie Come Home that morphs into a kind of Spartacus… with dogs. No, really, it does. This extraordinary morality tale should not work, but it does, spectacularly, with some of the best ‘animal acting’ you will ever see. It is assuredly not, however, for the fainthearted.

Go Eddie!

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

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Filmhouse Explorer

WHIPLASH

SELMA

WHITE GOD

Filmhouse Explorer We’re really keen to encourage your deeper engagement with the great cinema we screen.

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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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Trash (page 5) Whiplash (page 6) Birdman (page 7) Foxcatcher (page 7) Selma (page 9) Wild (page 10) The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (page 10)

GET A HALF PRICE TICKET TO ONE OF THESE Love Is Strange (page 6) The Green Ray (page 9) The Duke of Burgundy (page 9) White God (page 10) The Cinema of Childhood (pages 18-20)

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THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY

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NEWRELEASE

Trash Showing from Fri 30 Jan Stephen Daldry • UK/Brazil 2014 • 1h54m DCP • Portuguese and English with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong violence, bloody detail, strong language Cast: Rickson Tevez, Eduardo Luis, Gabriel Weinstein, Martin Sheen, Rooney Mara.

Winner of the top prize at the Rome Film Festival in October, Stephen Daldry’s compelling and uplifting drama features wonderful performances from its young Brazilian cast, and has already drawn comparisons to Slumdog Millionaire.

Three young boys live in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where they spend their days searching for items they can use or sell. When they come across a wallet containing cash and a key, they soon find themselves fighting for their lives, as the corrupt local police force try to get their hands on it.

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WHIPLASH

NO MANIFESTO

MAYBEYOUMISSED

Whiplash

NEWRELEASE

No Manifesto

Showing from Fri 6 Feb

A Film About Manic Street Preachers

Damien Chazelle • USA 2014 • 1h46m • DCP 15 – Contains very strong language, strong sex references Cast: Miles Teller, JK Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell.

Tue 10 Feb at 6.15pm

Fierce rhythms and ferocious humour drive Damien Chazelle’s riveting film about an ambitious jazz drummer pushed beyond his breaking point by an instructor who takes tough love to extremes.

Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite conservatory. Terence Fletcher (JK Simmons), an instructor equally known for his teaching talent and his terrifying methods, leads the school’s top jazz ensemble.

Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into his band, where Andrew’s passion to achieve perfection quickly spirals into obsession, as his ruthless teacher continues to push him to the brink of both his ability and his sanity.

“Demolishes the cliches of the musical-prodigy genre, investing the traditionally polite stages and rehearsal studios of a top-notch conservatory with all the psychological intensity of a battlefield or sports arena.” Variety

Elizabeth Marcus • UK 2015 • 1h36m • DCP • cert tbc Documentary

In 1991, a band from South Wales with the unlikely name of Manic Street Preachers came onto the British music scene proclaiming their ambition to make one album, sell 16 million copies of it, and then split up. All these years, multiple hit records, one missing member and many controversies later, they are still here. In No Manifesto, this colourful and contentious band faces off with their equally colourful and contentious fans in a verité multimedia mash-up experiment that turns the traditional rock’n’roll documentary upside-down and shakes it until all the change falls out of its pockets.

PLUS Twenty minutes of exclusive live footage of the following songs: Design For Life (with never before heard instrumental opening), You Stole the Sun, Empty Souls, Archives of Pain.

LOVE IS STRANGE

NEWRELEASE

Love Is Strange Fri 13 to Thu 19 Feb Ira Sachs • USA/France 2014 • 1h34m DCP • 15 – Contains strong language Cast: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Darren E Burrows, Marisa Tomei, Charlie Tahan.

Propelled by exquisite performances, this subtle yet profound drama is suffused with gentle humour.

After 39 years together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in Manhattan. But when news of their marriage reaches the Catholic school where George works, he is fired from his longtime job, and the couple can no longer afford their apartment. As a temporary solution, George moves in with the two gay cops next door, while Ben moves to Brooklyn to live with his nephew, Eliot, Eliot’s wife, Kate, and their teenage son. As Ben and George struggle to secure a new apartment, the pain of living apart and their presence in two foreign households test the resilience and relationships of all involved.

Main features

BIRDMAN

FOXCATCHER

MAYBEYOUMISSED

MAYBEYOUMISSED

NATIONAL GALLERY

MAYBEYOUMISSED

Birdman

Foxcatcher

National Gallery

Showing from Fri 13 Feb

Showing from Fri 13 Feb

Sat 14 Feb at 1.15pm

Alejandro González Iñárritu • USA 2014 • 1h59m DCP • 15 – Contains strong language, sex references Cast: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Edward Norton.

Bennett Miller • USA 2014 • 2h14m DCP • 15 – Contains drug use, brief strong violence Cast: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller.

Frederick Wiseman • France/USA/UK 2014 • 3h1m • DCP 12A – Contains infrequent strong language • Documentary

In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s big, bold, and beautifully brash new movie, one-time action hero Riggan Thomson (a jaw-dropping Michael Keaton), in an effort to be taken seriously as an artist, is staging his own adaptation of Raymond Carver’s ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Love’. As Thomson tries to get his play in shape for the opening, he must contend with a scene-hogging narcissist (Edward Norton), a vulnerable actress (Naomi Watts), an unhinged girlfriend (Andrea Riseborough), a resentful daughter (Emma Stone), a manager who’s about to crack up (Zach Galifianakis)... and his alter ego, the superhero who made him famous, Birdman.

An extravagant dream of a movie, alternately hilarious and terrifying.

A dark and gripping psychological thriller from the director of Capote and Moneyball. When wealthy John du Pont (Steve Carell) invites Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) to move to his estate and help form a wrestling team for the 1988 Olympics, Mark sees a way to step out of the shadow of his charismatic brother, Dave (Mark Ruffalo). However, du Pont begins to lead Mark down a dark road, causing the athlete’s self-esteem to slip.

Meanwhile, du Pont becomes fixated on bringing Dave into the fold, eventually propelling all three toward an unforeseen tragedy.

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Back by popular demand after a sell-out screening last month, master documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest takes us inside one of the world’s greatest art collections, the National Gallery in London, for a privileged look that deepens our appreciation for art and its upkeep. Filming over twelve weeks in 2012, Wiseman takes in visitor tours, staff meetings, restorations, classes, and protests. As usual, he practices a strict observational approach, eschewing voice-over and interviews. His method calls upon viewers to draw their own meaning from the material, just as we do with paintings, and, for art lovers, there are endless riches to enjoy over the film’s three hours – Wiseman concentrates mostly on Old Masters, and his visit coincides with major exhibitions of Titian, Leonardo Da Vinci and Turner.

“A great, great film.” - The Telegraph

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THE GREEN RAY

RESTOREDCLASSIC

SELMA

NEWRELEASE

THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY

NEWRELEASE

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Selma

The Duke of Burgundy

Tue 17 to Thu 19 Feb

Fri 20 Feb to Thu 5 Mar

Showing from Fri 20 Feb

Eric Rohmer • France 1986 • 1h39m DCP • French with English subtitles PG – Contains mild language and nudity Cast: Marie Rivière, Vincent Gauthier, Rosette, Béatrice Romand, Lisa Hérédia.

Ava DuVernay • UK/USA 2014 • 2h8m • DCP 12A – Contains moderate violence, racist language, infrequent strong language Cast: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Cuba Gooding Jr, Tom Wilkinson, Alessandro Nivola, Oprah Winfrey.

Peter Strickland • UK 2014 • 1h44m DCP • 18 – Contains sexual fetish theme Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Eugenia Caruso, Monica Swinn, Fatma Mohamed.

A new restoration of Eric Rohmer’s comedy of manners from 1986.

Left out of everyone’s summer vacation plans, unhappy Parisian student Delphine (Marie Rivière) accepts an invitation to stay at her friend’s empty apartment in Biarritz.

Swedish tourist Carita tries to snap Delphine out of her bad mood by encouraging interactions with the opposite sex, but Delphine is holding out for true romance. Then a mysterious assignation brings her into contact with what appears to be the man of her dreams...

“Mysterious and beautiful.” - the Guardian

Ava DuVernay’s powerful, compelling Selma chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when Dr Martin Luther King Jr led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement.

“Intelligently written, vividly shot, tightly edited, sharply acted, the film represents a rare example of craftsmanship working to produce a deeply moving piece of history.” Hollywood Reporter

Taking its title from a rare species of butterfly, The Duke of Burgundy chronicles the increasingly intimate relationship between wealthy amateur lepidopterist Cynthia (Borgen’s Sidse Babett Knudsen) and her newly hired housekeeper, Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna). As Cynthia’s demands begin to betray a sadomasochistic streak, Evelyn becomes less a domestic servant than an outright sex slave, submitting to her progressively extreme humiliations with a surprising relish.

In another director’s hands, this material might easily have tipped into the schlocky or the severe. Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio, Katalin Varga), however, once again demonstrates a marvellous gift for modulating tone, pitching the tenor of his film in a strange, beguiling register somewhere between Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour and Joseph Losey’s The Servant.

“Visually ravishing, emotionally wise, and kinky as a coiled rope, writer-director Peter Strickland’s third feature is a delight.” - Hollywood Reporter

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WILD

THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

MAYBEYOUMISSED

Wild Showing from Fri 20 Feb Jean-Marc Vallée • USA 2014 • 1h55m DCP • 15 – Contains strong language, sex, drug use Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Thomas Sadoski, Keene McRae, Michiel Huisman.

After the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behaviour, she makes a rash decision.

With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone.

Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of the incredible true story of one young woman, forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthens, and ultimately heals her.

Matinee Special!

If you’re a Senior Citizen you can go to a matinee screening and get either soup of the day OR a cup of tea or filter coffee and a traycake for only £8!

Offer runs from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and only applies to screenings starting before 5.00pm. Ask for the Matinee Special deal at the box office and you’ll receive a voucher which can be exchanged in the café bar between 1.30pm and 5.30pm that day only. Offer is subject to availability and only available in person.

NEWRELEASE

WHITE GOD

NEWRELEASE

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

White God Fehér Isten

Showing from Fri 27 Feb

Kornél Mundruczó • Hungary/Germany/Sweden 2014 2h1m • DCP • Hungarian and English with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, bloody injury detail Cast: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horváth, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Lili Monori.

John Madden • USA/UK 2015 • 2h2m • DCP PG – Contains mild bad language, sex references Cast: Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Richard Gere, Dev Patel.

Sonny (Dev Patel) has his eye on a second promising property now that his first venture, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful, has only a single remaining vacancy – posing a rooming predicament for fresh arrivals Guy (Richard Gere) and Lavinia (Tamsin Greig). Evelyn and Douglas (Judi Dench and Bill Nighy) have now joined the Jaipur workforce, and are wondering where their regular dates for Chilla pancakes will lead, while Norman and Carol (Ronald Pickup and Diana Hardcastle) are negotiating the tricky waters of an exclusive relationship, as Madge (Celia Imrie) juggles two eligible and very wealthy suitors. And newly installed comanager of the hotel, Muriel (Maggie Smith), is the keeper of everyone’s secrets...

Fri 27 Feb to Thu 5 Mar

Not for the faint-hearted, this extraordinary morality tale features the most stunning performances by dogs you will ever see.

Teenage Lili is sent to stay with her estranged father who is none too pleased about also inheriting Hagen, her dog, and eventually abandons him on the street. We follow Hagen as he tries to find his way home, making friends with fellow strays and evading the relentless dog-patrol and pound, only to be captured by worse – a proprietor of dog fights. Hagen is put through the torture of being trained as a fighting dog, which drives him to lead his fellow dogs in a revolt against their oppressors.

Coming soon/Valentine’s Day

INHERENT VICE

COMINGSOON

Blind Psychological tensions come to the fore in this Norwegian drama about a writer whose imagination preys on her after she loses her sight.

X+Y A sensitive, affecting drama about a socially awkward teenage maths prodigy.

Suite française A compelling drama set in France during the Nazi Occupation, based on the acclaimed novel by Irène Némirovsky.

My Name Is Salt Filmhouse Distribution’s newest release is this luminously beautiful documentary about salt production in India.

Wild Tales A hugely inventive portmanteau film from Argentina, combining six standalone shorts all united by the theme of vengeance.

Inherent Vice A chance to catch Paul Thomas Anderson’s entrancingly paranoiac crime-novel hallucination, screening from 35mm.

Au revoir les enfants Louis Malle’s classic World War Two-era drama centring on the concealment of a Jewish child in a Catholic boarding school.

CASABLANCA

WILD AT HEART

Valentine’s Day Two very different takes on love and romance, variety being the spice of life and all that!

Casablanca

Wild at Heart

Sat 14 Feb at 5.00pm

Sat 14 Feb at 10.00pm

Michael Curtiz • USA 1942 • 1h42m • DCP • U Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet.

David Lynch • USA 1990 • 2h4m • 35mm • 18 Cast: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Harry Dean Stanton.

The world’s favourite Hollywood love story is all the more romantic because it doesn’t exalt romantic love above all.

Bogey is at his best as Rick, an American opportunist in 1940 French Morocco with a gruffly cynical exterior that belies his wary idealism and wounded heart. Ingrid Bergman is luminous as Ilsa, who arrives in Casablanca with resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), but clearly has a history with Rick. Cynicism and self-interest contend with idealism and self-sacrifice as Rick and Ilsa’s past weighs against the world’s future.

Made under a studio system that cranked out a film a week, this just happened to be one film in which everything came together with magical rightness – the wittily cynical dialogue, spare, effective storytelling, a vivid sense of time and place, sharply drawn characters, a first-rate cast, great cinematography and score, and classic wartime melodrama that hasn’t lost a thing as time goes by.

Wild at Heart, adapted from Barry Gifford’s book, follows Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern), lovers on the run from a hit man enlisted to kill Sailor by Lula’s ‘wicked witch’ mother. With liberal references to The Wizard of Oz and Elvis, and an iconic role for Sailor’s treasured snakeskin jacket – which symbolises his “individuality and belief in personal freedom” – the film is a gloriously dark and twisted romantic melodrama, with a story of true love at its dark core.

“Joltingly violent, wickedly funny and rivetingly erotic.” Variety

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Iranian Film Festival

THE DESERT FISH

TABOOR

DOWNPOUR

A FEW KILOS OF DATES FOR A FUNERAL

Iranian Film Festival

The Desert Fish Mahi Kavir

Taboor

Sun 8 Feb at 6.10pm

Mon 9 Feb at 8.45pm

Mohammad Ghorbankarimi • Iran/Canada 2013 • 1h24m Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Iman Afshar, Ayoub Afshar, Mohsen Hosseini, Ronak Yoonesi.

Vahid Vakilifar • Iran 2012 • 1h24m Format TBC • Farsi with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Mohammad Rabbanipour.

A season of classic and contemporary films from Iran, including a number of UK and Scottish premieres.

Ahmad is a young boy who wants to unravel the mystery of his dead mother, who still comes to him in dreams. He undertakes an incredible journey to find out where he came from and the secrets his father never told him.

The 2015 Iranian Film Festival is curated by Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz and sponsored by The Sutton Gallery, Arts & Business Scotland, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies of University of Edinburgh, and Filmhouse.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Mohammad Ghorbankarimi, arts director/custom and set designer Nassim Azadi, and editor Maryam Ghorbankarimi.

Part of the Edinburgh Iranian Festival – go to www.ediranfest.co.uk for more information.

There will be a drinks reception and live music by EYG Big Band, at the bar of the Traverse Theatre, opposite Filmhouse, to mark the opening of the Festival.

A man seeks to protect his hypersensitive body from a daily rise in temperature caused by pervasive electromagnetic waves. He concocts an aluminium jumpsuit which he wears under abundant layers of clothing. Despite his fragile health, every evening he rides his motorbike to keep appointments with his customers.

His mission: to destroy cockroach nests.

Downpour Ragbaar Tue 10 Feb at 5.45pm Bahram Beizai • Iran 1972 • 2h8m DCP • Farsi with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Manuchehr Farid, Parvaneh Massoumi, Parviz Fanizadeh.

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.

A well educated and humble teacher arrives at a new job in a new city in pre-revolutionary Iran. He falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman, who nurses her elderly mother and raises her young brother in an environment where commitments and social problems often stand in the way between people and their dreams.

Iranian Film Festival

THE PRINCE

KAMI’S PARTY

PARVIZ

A Few Kilos of Dates for a Funeral

Kami’s Party Mehmuni-ye Kami Chand Kilo Khorma baray-e Marasem-e Tadfin Fri 13 Feb at 6.10pm Wed 11 Feb at 8.45pm Saman Salur • Iran 2006 • 1h25m Format TBC • Farsi with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Mohsen Tanabandeh, Nader Fallah, Mohsen Namjoo, Mahmud Nazar-Alian.

Ali Ahmadzadeh • Iran 2013 • 1h20m Format TBC • Farsi with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Mina Sadati, Nazanin Farahani, Pegah Ahangarani, Mehdi Koushki.

It’s winter and heavy snow lies on the ground. Sadry and Yadi work at a petrol station excluded from the main traffic routes since the building of a ring road. They occasionally receive a visit from Orooj, the neighbourhood undertaker, their only contact with the outside world. Sadry, a former circus strongman, is behaving strangely...

Negin is spending a few days on holiday with her boyfriend Omid and her sister Nazanin in a villa on the banks of the Caspian Sea. Not having had news of Omid for several hours, Negin decides to go to a party with her friend Farnaz. The two young women drive off; Negin doesn’t realise, however, that a surprise awaits her in the trunk of the car.

The Prince Shah-Zadeh

Parviz

Thu 12 Feb at 6.10pm

Sat 14 Feb at 6.10pm

Mahmoud Behraznia • Iran/Germany 2014 • 1h32m Format TBC • Farsi and German with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Jalil Nazari, Mohammad Ponten.

Majid Barzegar • Iran 2012 • 1h45m Format TBC • Farsi with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Mahmoud Behrouzian, Levon Haftvan.

It’s 1997 and Afghanistan is controlled by the Taliban.

Seventeen-year-old Jalil Nazari finds refuge in Iran, where he ekes out an existence doing odd jobs. One day luck comes his way and he lands the starring role in an Iranian feature film. The film, Djomeh, directed by Hassan Yektapanah, is selected for the Cannes Film Festival where it wins the Camera d’Or award, thus hurtling Jali towards unexpected horizons…

Despite being 50 years old, Parviz still lives off his father, and the two men don’t get on very well. Things come to a head when the father tells his son he has decided to remarry, and Parviz is forced to leave home. He finds it difficult to get used to his new solitary life, far from his neighbourhood and the people he knows, and concocts a novel way of fighting back against the injustice he feels has been done to him.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Mahmoud Behraznia.

MY NAME IS NEGAHDAR JAMALI...

My Name is Negahdar Jamali and I Make Westerns

Man Negahdar Jamali Western Misazam Sun 15 Feb at 6.00pm Kamran Heidari • Iran 2012 • 1h5m • Digital Farsi with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary

“My name is John Ford and I make Westerns.” This is how John Ford introduced himself at the American Film Directors’ Association gathering. Negahdar Jamali, an Iranian from Shiraz, introduces himself the same way; he does indeed make Westerns, and has done for 35 years, not in the Monument Valley or in the Grand Canyon but in Shiraz and the deserts surrounding the city.

EXHIBITION

Vividly in Tehran Photographs by Laleh Sherkat 18 January - 15 February, Filmhouse Cafe Bar This playful exhibition represents the people of Tehran walking their daily routes, running their ordinary errands and going for drinks with friends.

The streets are always lively and busy with colour, optimism and talent...

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Filmosophy

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PI

PROOF

Filmosophy Filmosophy returns for a fourth season of original and thought-provoking films. This season focuses on the distinction between appearance and reality.

Each film provides a unique perspective on this philosophical problem, using the notions of sight and blindness as powerful metaphors. Questions addressed include: What is the ultimate nature of reality? How do we gain knowledge of the world around us? What, if anything, can we know for certain? In addition, the nature of film itself - as a medium that trades in appearances and yet is intimately connected to reality - will be explored.

Each screening will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by an opportunity to discuss the philosophical issues raised in an informal and accessible manner. The screenings will be introduced and discussion sessions 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, ‘like’ Filmosophy on Facebook, follow @film_philosophy on Twitter, or go to www.filmandphilosophy.com

3-IRON

Pi

Proof

Tue 24 Feb at 6.15pm

Tue 24 Mar at 6.00pm

Darren Aronofsky • USA 1998 • 1h24m • 35mm 15 – Contains infrequent strong language Cast: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman.

Jocelyn Moorhouse • Australia 1991 • 1h30m • 35mm 15 – Contains strong language and sexualised nudity Cast: Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe, Heather Mitchell, Jeffrey Walker.

Holed up in his apartment, electronics whiz Max (Sean Gullette, who, with the director and producer, came up with the film’s story) is obsessed with finding the underlying numerical pattern behind the global stock market, since he believes everything in the universe can be expressed in purely mathematical terms. Is he staring into the mysteries of creation? Or is he just a disturbed loner whose off-kilter psychosis has spurred him to find patterns of meaning where none exist? Darren Aronofsky’s startlingly original debut recalls the inspirational fervour of Eraserhead, as it constructs a paranoid vision from b/w cinematography, a pounding score, and flashes of sheer hallucinatory weirdness. We share Max’s feelings of imminent psychological disintegration as the film probes our own insecurity in the face of the eternal.

Australian filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse made an auspicious debut with this dry, dark comedy about a blind photographer. Martin (Hugo Weaving) walks in the park with his guide dog and takes pictures, aiming his camera at sounds or objects he feels with his hands. Since he can never see what he shoots, he needs someone to describe what he has photographed, but he trusts no one – particularly not his manipulative, controlling housekeeper Celia (Geneviève Picot).

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3-Iron Bin-jip Tue 21 Apr at 6.00pm Kim Ki-duk • South Korea/Japan 2004 • 1h28m 35mm • Korean with English subtitles 15 – Contains moderate sex and violence Cast: Jae Hee, Lee Seung-yeon, Kwon Hyuk-ho, Choi Jeong-ho.

Korean writer-director Kim Ki-duk captures raw realities about modern life while telling a genuinely touching romance using virtually no dialogue. Tae-suk (Jae Hee) is a young man who takes up residence in homes that sit empty while the occupants are on holiday. He cleans, does the laundry, indulges in subtle practical jokes, then moves on. This pattern changes drastically when he takes up residence in the upscale home of Min-kyu and Sun-hwa, a hothead, golf-obsessed businessman and his battered trophy-wife.

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

6 February - 5 March 2015

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Fri 1 Whiplash (AD) 6 2 Trash (AD) Feb 3 A Night in Casablanca (MB)

2.30/6.20/8.45 3.15/6.00/8.30 8.45

Mon 1 9 1 Feb 2 3

Whiplash (AD) Winter’s Bone (DV) Trash (AD) Taboor (IFF)

2.30/8.35 6.00 3.15/6.10/8.40 8.45

Sat 7 Feb

1 1 2 2 2 3 3

Whiplash (AD) Super 8 (DV) A Night in Casablanca (MB) The Magdalene Sisters (IH) Trash (AD) Trash (AD) A Day at the Races (MB)

1.15/6.20/8.45 3.40 1.00 3.00 + discussion 6.00/8.30 1.10 8.45

1 1 2 3

Whiplash (AD) No Manifesto... Manic Street...

Trash (AD) Downpour (IFF)

2.30/8.50 6.15 3.15/6.00/8.30 5.45

Mon 1 16 1 Feb 1 2 3 3

Birdman (AD) Love Is Strange Foxcatcher (AD) Foxcatcher (AD) Birdman (AD) Love Is Strange

2.30 5.50 8.00 3.10 5.45 8.15

Sun 8 Feb

1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3

The Wind Rises (FJ) Stalker (DV) Whiplash (AD) Trash (AD) + (C) Whiplash (AD) + (C) The Desert Fish (IFF) Trash (AD) A Day at the Races (MB) Trash (AD)

11.00am 2.45 6.20/8.45 1.10 (captioned) 3.45 (captioned) 6.10 + Q&A 8.40 1.00 6.05

Wed 1 11 1 Feb 2 2 3

Whiplash (AD) Trash (AD) Trash (AD) Querelle (EC) A Few Kilos of Dates for... (IFF)

2.30/8.50 6.15 3.15/8.30 6.00 + intro 8.45

1 1 2 2 2 3

Birdman (AD) Foxcatcher (AD) Love Is Strange The Green Ray Foxcatcher (AD) Love Is Strange

2.30/8.40 5.50 3.10 6.00 8.15 6.10

Wed 1 18 1 Feb 2 2 2 3

Birdman (AD) Foxcatcher (AD) Foxcatcher (AD) Love Is Strange The Green Ray Love Is Strange

2.30/8.40 5.50 3.10 6.00 8.15 8.50

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: (CC) – The Cinema of Childhood (pages 18-20) (CS) – Come and See... (page 25) (DV) – Darkness Visible (page 26) (EC) – Introduction to European Cinema (page 29) (F) – Filmosophy (page 14) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 24-25) (IFF) – Iranian Film Festival (pages 12-13) (IH) – Secret Histories: Screening Irish History (page 28) (J) – It only happens in the movies? Japanese Cinema and Encounters (pages 22-23) (MB) – Duck Soup and Animal Crackers: The Best of the Marx Brothers (page 20) (VD) – Valentine’s Day (page 11) Full index of films on page 2

Tue 10 Feb

Thu 12 Feb

1 2 3 3

Whiplash (AD) Trash (AD) The Prince (IFF) Trash (AD)

2.30/6.15/8.50 3.15/6.00 6.10 + Q&A 8.40

Fri 13 Feb

1 1 2 2 3

Birdman (AD) Foxcatcher (AD) Foxcatcher (AD) Love Is Strange Kami’s Party (IFF)

2.30/8.40 5.50 3.10/8.30 6.15 6.10

Sat 14 Feb

1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3

National Gallery Casablanca (VD) Birdman (AD) Wild at Heart (VD) Foxcatcher (AD) + (C) Bag of Rice (CC) Foxcatcher (AD) Love Is Strange Love Is Strange Parviz (IFF)

1.15 5.00 7.20 10.00 1.00 (captioned) 4.00 6.00 8.50 1.10 6.10

Sun 15 Feb

1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

Annie (FJ) Love Is Strange The Boot + Ten Minutes Older (CC) Birdman (AD) Foxcatcher (AD) Foxcatcher (AD) Birdman (AD) Love Is Strange Foxcatcher (AD) My Name is Negahdar... (IFF)

11.00am 1.30 3.45 5.30 8.15 1.00 3.50 6.25/8.40 3.15 6.00

Tue 17 Feb

Thu 19 Feb

1 1 1 2 2 2 3

Foxcatcher (AD) Birdman (AD) Bill & Ted’s Excellent... (CS) The Green Ray Love Is Strange Foxcatcher (AD) Love Is Strange

2.30 6.00 8.45 3.10 6.10 8.25 8.50

Fri 20 Feb

1 1 2 3

Wild (AD) Selma (AD) The Duke of Burgundy Birdman (AD)

12.45/6.00 3.15/8.30 3.30/6.10/8.40 8.45

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

WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

6 February - 5 March 2015 DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Fri 27 Feb

1 2 2 3

The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35 Selma (AD) 12.50/6.05 White God 3.30/8.45 Scattered Clouds (J) 8.45

Sat 28 Feb

1 2 2 2 2 3 3

The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35 Selma (AD) + (C) 12.50 (captioned) Moving (CC) 3.30 White God 6.05 Selma (AD) 8.40 A Letter to Momo (J) 3.50 Carmen from Kawachi (J) 6.25

Sun 1 Mar

1 1 2 2 2 3 3

A Town Called Panic (FJ) 11.00am The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35 White God 1.15/8.40 Crows + Palle Alone... (CC) 3.50 Selma (AD) 5.55 The Handsome Suit (J) 3.30 The Light Shines Only There (J) 6.05

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).

Mon 1 2 1 Mar 2 2 3

The Second... Hotel (AD) (B) 11am (babies + carers) The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.35 White God 12.50/6.05 Selma (AD) 3.20/8.35 Blood and Bones (J) 8.30

There are usually ticket deals available on film seasons.

1 2 2 3

The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35 White God 12.50/6.05 Selma (AD) 3.20/8.35 All About Our House (J) 5.55

Wed 1 4 2 Mar 2 3

The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35 Selma (AD) 12.50/6.05 White God 3.30/8.45 The King Is Alive (EC) 5.50 + intro

1 2 2 3

The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35 Selma (AD) 12.50/6.05 White God 3.30/8.45 Nobody to Watch Over Me (J) 8.40

1 1 1 2 2 3 3

Wild (AD) + (C) Selma (AD) Wild (AD) The Duke of Burgundy The Informer (IH) Birdman (AD) + (C) Birdman (AD)

12.45 (captioned) 3.15/8.30 6.00 1.00/6.10/8.40 3.20 + discussion 3.30 (captioned) 8.45

Sun 22 Feb

1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3

Matilda (FJ) Selma (AD) The Duke of Burgundy Wild (AD) The Duke of Burgundy The Unseen + The Little Girl... (CC) Selma (AD) Birdman (AD)

11.00am 1.15 3.55/8.45 6.15 1.00/6.10 3.20 8.30 3.30/6.05

Selma (AD) (B) Wild (AD) Selma (AD) The Duke of Burgundy Write Shoot Cut: Take It Back...

Birdman (AD)

11am (babies + carers) 2.30/8.45 6.00 3.10/8.40 6.10 + Q&A (£6/£5) 5.55

1 1 2 2 2 3

Wild (AD) Selma (AD) Birdman (AD) Pi (F) The Duke of Burgundy Birdman (AD)

12.45/8.45 3.15/6.00 3.10 6.15 + intro/disc.

8.20 8.45

Wed 1 25 1 Feb 2 2 3 3

Selma (AD) Wild (AD) Birdman (AD) The Duke of Burgundy The Wrong Move (EC) Birdman (AD)

12.45/8.30 3.30/6.00 3.10 6.10 6.00 + intro 8.35

1 1 2 3 3

Selma (AD) Wild (AD) The Duke of Burgundy My Little Sweet Pea (J) Birdman (AD)

12.45/8.30 3.30/6.00 3.10/6.10 6.15 8.35

Mon 1 23 1 Feb 1 2 2 3 Tue 24 Feb

Thu 26 Feb

TICKET PRICES AND INFORMATION

SCREENING TIMES

Sat 21 Feb

Tue 3 Mar

Thu 5 Mar

SCREENING TIMES

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thu: £7.20 full price, £5.70 concessions Friday Matinees: £5.50/£4.00 concessions Sat - Sun: £9.00 full price, £7.20 concessions EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later) £9.00 full price, £7.20 concessions For screenings in 3D add £2 to ticket price.

All tickets to Filmhouse Junior screenings (marked FJ on grid) are £4.00. Tickets for children under 12 are £4.00 for any screening.

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

We participate in the EE Wednesdays 2 for 1 scheme (please note EE Wednesdays end on 25 February).

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 booking fee. 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.

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The Cinema of Childhood

BAG OF RICE

THE BOOT

Another chance to see this season of rare films about children from all over the world, curated by Mark Cousins and inspired by his documentary, A Story of Children and Film. Emotionally engaging with audiences from 8 to 80, the Cinema of Childhood invites filmgoers to go on a global adventure, to discover previously unknown movie masterpieces and to see the world anew through young eyes.

Since we first screened these films in 2014, we have toured them to 56 venues around the UK, and between them they have screened nearly 450 times!

For more information on the project, go to www.cinemaofchildhood.com Many of the films are also available at www.filmhousecinema.com/player

TEN MINUTES OLDER

THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN

Bag of Rice Kiseye Berendj

DOUBLE BILL

Sat 14 Feb at 4.00pm

Sun 22 Feb at 3.20pm

Mohammad Ali Talebi • Japan/Iran 1998 • 1h20m DCP • Persian with English subtitles U – Contains infrequent very mild bad language Cast: Jairan Abadzade, Shirin Bina, Masume Eskandari.

The Unseen Nespatrené

Four-year-old Jairan is ignored at home, and is itching for something to do. She convinces her neighbour, an old lady who is partially blind, that the two of them should travel across Tehran to buy rice. What could possibly go wrong?

Talebi’s disarming film starts as an odd-couple adventure, then becomes something profound and unforgettable.

At a school for blind children in the Czech Republic, the pupils show off their remarkable talents – as musicians, as daredevil bike riders and, most extraordinary of all, as photographers.

Miroslav Janek • Czech Republic 1997 • 53m DCP • Czech with English subtitles U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm

PLUS

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun La petite vendeuse de soleil

The Boot Chakmeh Sun 15 Feb at 3.45pm Mohammad Ali Talebi • Iran 1993 • 1h • DCP Persian with English subtitles • U – Contains mild threat Cast: Samaneh Jafar-Jalali, Raya Nasiri, Ali Atashkar, Osamah Sami.

A little girl, Samaneh, pesters her mother to buy her red boots, then loses one, then tries to find it. The story is fairytale simple, but the emotions swell, like in Bicycle Thieves.

Director Mohammad Ali Talebi had been working with children for years, and it shows. He makes Samaneh one of the most vivid characters in the movies.

Djibril Diop Mambéty • Senegal/Switzerland/France/Germany 1999 • 45m • DCP • French and Wolof with English subtitles U – Contains mild threat Cast: Lissa Balera, Aminata Fall, Tayerou M’Baye.

Sili, a crippled Senegalese girl, decides to do a boy’s job, selling newspapers on the streets of Dakar. Djibril Diop Mambéty’s film is a big-hearted odyssey about daring to imagine what you can be, and to hell with what anyone else thinks.

PLUS SHORT Ten Minutes Older (Par desmit minutem vecaks) Herz Frank • Latvia 1978 • 10m • DCP • No dialogue U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm

Herz Frank’s seminal short film has to be seen on the big screen. Storms of emotion sweep across a child’s face as he watches a show that we never see.

Filmhouse Explorer Get a half-price ticket to any of the films in this season with Filmhouse Explorer – see page 4 for details!

The Cinema of Childhood

MOVING

CROWS

Moving Ohikkoshi

THE KING OF MASKS

Children in the Wind

Sat 28 Feb at 3.30pm

Kaze no naka no kodomo

Shinji Sômai • Japan 1993 • 2h4m DCP • Japanese with English subtitles PG – Contains infrequent bloody images Cast: Tomoko Tabata, Kiichi Nakai, Shinobu Chihara, Mariko Sudo.

Sun 8 Mar at 3.45pm

Renko’s mum and dad are splitting up, and she feels like her life is coming apart. Shinji Sômai is Japan’s equivalent of John Hughes, a poet of ‘90s adolescence. Moving is an extraordinary account of divorce from the child’s point of view.

Crows Wrony Sun 1 Mar at 3.50pm Dorota Kedzierzawska • Poland 1994 • 1h6m • DCP Polish with English subtitles • PG – Contains mild bad language Cast: Karolina Ostrozna, Kasia Szczepanik, Malgorzata Hajewska.

Wrona is neglected by her feckless mother, laughed at by her classmates, and furious with the world. So she steals a cute little girl to become her surrogate mother. But she soon discovers just how hard being a parent really is.

Dorota Kedzierzawska’s remarkable film about a damaged girl trying to heal herself is tough yet tender.

PLUS SHORT Palle Alone in the World (Palle alene i verden) Astrid Henning-Jensen • Denmark 1949 • 25m DCP • Danish with English subtitles U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Lars Henning-Jensen.

A boy wakes up to find that he’s alone in the world.

A deserted, silent Copenhagen becomes his giant playground.

Hiroshi Shimizu • Japan 1937 • 1h28m DCP • Japanese with English subtitles U – Contains mild violence, nudity Cast: Jun Yokoyama, Masao Hayama, Reikichi Kawamura, Mitsuko Yoshikawa.

Sampei is a little rascal who leads his village gang with the Tarzan cry of his hero Johnny Weissmuller. But when his father is falsely imprisoned for fraud, his idyllic life falls apart. Sent to stay with his uncle, Sampei runs away any chance he gets – up a tree, down the river, to the circus.

If only his father can clear his name, everything will be all right again. Hiroshi Shimizu’s luminous masterpiece is nearly 80 years old, but still shines brightly.

HUGO AND JOSEPHINE

Forbidden Games Jeux interdits Sun 15 Mar at 3.45pm René Clément • France 1952 • 1h26m • DCP French with English subtitles • 12A – Contains emotionally intense scenes and one use of moderate language Cast: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie, Suzanne Courtal.

German fighter planes massacre a column of middle-class refugees fleeing Paris on a country road. A dazed little orphaned girl is left wandering the fields clutching her dead dog. She’s adopted by a peasant boy who brings her into his eccentric family. The children retreat into a fantasy world, but they cannot hide from reality forever. René Clément’s angry masterpiece blends tragedy and farce into a heart-breaking account of children caught in a war they can’t possibly understand.

Hugo and Josephine Hugo och Josefin The King of Masks Bian Lian Sat 14 Mar at 3.45pm Wu Tiang-ming • China/Hong Kong 1996 • 1h41m DCP • Mandarin with English subtitles PG – Contains mild bad language Cast: Zhang Zhigang, Zhao Zhigang, Zhou Renying, Zhu Xu.

An old illusionist in China needs an heir to pass on the secret of his mask tricks – so he buys himself a grandson from a needy peasant. A swooping emotional drama about a kid who wants to be loved, and an old man who learns how to open his heart.

Sat 21 Mar at 3.45pm Kjell Grede • Sweden 1967 • 1h22m DCP • Swedish with English subtitles PG – Contains potentially imitable behaviour, mild violence Cast: Fredrik Becklén, Marie Öhman, Beppe Wolgers, Inga Landgré, Helena Brodin.

The lonely daughter of a rural pastor makes friends with a wild boy who lives in the woods. The mysterious giant who tends the garden seems sinister, but is really a big teddy bear. The darkness of the world beyond childhood lingers at the edge of the frame, but never intrudes. Kjell Grede delivers a Swedish summer classic, blond and gorgeous and heart-breakingly innocent. A pure pleasure.

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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The Cinema of Childhood (contd)/Duck Soup & Animal Crackers

LITTLE FUGITIVE

Little Fugitive

TOMKA AND HIS FRIENDS

Tomka and His Friends

Sun 22 Mar at 3.45pm

Tomka dhe shokët e tij

Morris Engel, Ray Ashley & Ruth Orkin • USA 1953 • 1h20m DCP • PG – Contains mild frightening moments Cast: Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams, Will Lee, Charlie Moss.

Sun 29 Mar at 3.45pm

After their mother leaves them home alone in New York for the weekend, 7-year-old Joey is tricked into thinking he’s killed his older brother with an air rifle. So he runs away, to the funfair at Coney Island, to get lost in the rides, the spectacle. Filmmaker Morris Engel and his team see so much in him: a cowboy, the boy in Shane, the kid in Chaplin’s The Kid. Truffaut credited this film with inspiring the French New Wave.

Long Live the Republic At’ zije republika Sat 28 Mar at 3.20pm

Xhanfise Keko • Albania 1977 • 1h18m DCP • Albanian, German and Italian with English subtitles PG – Contains mild bad language, violence Cast: Sotiraq Çili, Pavlina Oça, Zehrudin Dokle, Xhelal Tafaj, Enea Zhegu.

When the Nazis occupy an Albanian village after the withdrawal of the Italian army from WWII, Tomka and his gang are furious – because the Germans set up camp on their football pitch. The local partisans recruit the boys to spy on the invaders, and help to set an ambush. Who knew war could be this much fun? Albania’s greatest female director Xhanfise Keko spins a classic boys’ own adventure yarn, but in a style as raw and authentic as anything from the Italian neo-realists. Never before seen in the UK, freshly restored, this is a rare discovery.

Karel Kachyna • Czechoslovakia 1965 • 2h14m • DCP Czech with English subtitles • 12A – Contains moderate violence Cast: Zdenek Lstiburek, Vlado Müller, Nadezda Gajerová, Gustáv Valach.

Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they can’t defeat. The village is in turmoil, because the Nazi occupiers have just retreated and the Red Army is advancing upon them. Oldrich dodges amid the mayhem and panic, taking his share of blows but always managing to stay one step ahead. Beautifully shot and darkly ironic, Karel Kachyna’s forgotten masterpiece jumbles reality, memory and fantasy to capture the intensity and confusion of childhood in a war zone.

TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off Buy any nine (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 35% off These offers are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA

Duck Soup and Animal Crackers The Best of the Marx Brothers The final two films screening in this season celebrating the films of the Marx brothers.

A Night in Casablanca Fri 6 Feb at 8.45pm & Sat 7 Feb at 1.00pm Archie Mayo • USA 1946 • 1h25m • 35mm • U Cast: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake.

Ronald Kornblow (Groucho Marx) is hired to manage a luxurious hotel in Casablanca, just after World War II. He begins to fear for his safety, however, when he discovers both his predecessors were murdered, and has to contend with Count Pfefferman, determined to get his hands on a treasure trove stashed in the hotel by the Nazis.

A Day at the Races Sat 7 Feb at 8.45pm & Sun 8 Feb at 1.00pm Sam Wood • USA 1937 • 1h49m • 35mm • U Cast: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O’Sullivan, Margaret Dumont.

Hugo Z Hackenbush (Groucho Marx) is a veterinarian who passes himself off as a doctor when summoned by wealthy hypochondriac Emily Upjohn (Margaret Dumont) to take over the financially-strapped Standish Sanitarium.

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Symphonies for Sundays International Orchestras | World-class Soloists Great Music for Sunday Afternoons 2015 St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra Natalie Clein | 15 Feb | 3pm

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Czech Philharmonic Jiří Bĕlohlávek | 19 Apr | 3pm Warsaw Philharmonic Jacek Kaspszyk | 10 May | 3pm

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Camerata Salzburg Nicola Benedetti | 15 Mar | 3pm

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It only happens in the movies? Japanese Cinema and Encounters

MY LITTLE SWEET PEA

SCATTERED CLOUDS

It only happens in the movies?

Japanese Cinema and Encounters This year’s Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme provides an exciting programme of films under the narrative framework of ‘encounters’.

Showcasing a vast variety of styles and tones, from popular contemporary films, classics through to animation, the programme includes titles in which characters experience unusual meetings, plunge into unexpected circumstances and new environments, as well as collide with different generations, ideals and ideas – asking the question, does it really only happen in the movies?.

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme is produced and organised by the Japan Foundation.

Supported by:

A LETTER TO MOMO

CARMEN FROM KAWACHI

My Little Sweet Pea Mugiko-san to

A Letter to Momo Momo e no tegami

Thu 26 Feb at 6.15pm

Sat 28 Feb at 3.50pm

Keisuke Yoshida • Japan 2013 • 1h35m DCP • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Maki Horikita, Ryuhei Matsuda, Yumi Aso, Eri Fuse.

Hiroyuki Okiura • Japan 2011 • 2h DCP • Japanese with English subtitles • PG

A comedy about an anime-obsessed girl with dreams of becoming a voice actor, who is forced to grow up when her estranged mother dies. Mugiko, abandoned by her mother Ayako at an early age, visits her hometown for the first time to place her mother’s ashes in the family tomb. She is the spitting image of Ayako in her youth, and receives a hearty welcome from the townspeople.

Gradually, Mugiko learns of her mother’s surprising past as a local idol.

A heartwarming animated fantasy from director Okiura Hiroyuki that was seven years in the making. An 11-year-old girl named Momo moves to a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea. She continues to cling to the memory of her late father who left her an unfinished letter, and finds herself unable to adjust to her new lifestyle or make friends. Then one day, she is visited by three bizarre creatures.

Carmen from Kawachi Kawachi Karumen Sat 28 Feb at 6.25pm

Scattered Clouds Midaregumo Fri 27 Feb 8.45pm Mikio Naruse • Japan 1967 • 1h48m 35mm • Japanese and English with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Yuzo Kayama, Yoko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mitsuko Mori, Mie Hama.

In this romantic melodrama, a man is involved in a fatal car accident. Though he was deemed blameless in the crash, his company still transfers him from Tokyo to a remote branch in a small town. Just before he leaves, the man, who is overcome with guilt, offers the dead man’s widow a large sum of money. She refuses it at first, but then listens to her persistent in-laws and takes the cash. She then decides to return to her hometown to recover. Naturally it is the town where the young man has been assigned.

Seijin Suzuki • Japan 1966 • 1h29m 35mm • Japanese with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Yumiko Nogawa, Ruriko Ito, Chikako Miyagi, Michio Hino.

An interesting variant on Bizet’s Carmen from acclaimed director Seijun Suzuki, this experimental film tells of young Karumen, who leaves home after being gang-raped by thugs from school. She goes to Osaka, where men fall at her feet when she becomes a nightclub singer. The film is shot variously in black-and-white, red-and-white, blueand-white, etc., Suzuki using the colours to accentuate the story.

It only happens in the movies? Japanese Cinema and Encounters

THE LIGHT SHINES ONLY THERE

BLOOD AND BONES

NOBODY TO WATCH OVER ME

The Handsome Suit Hansamu sutsu

Blood and Bones Chi to hone

All About Our House Minna no ie

Sun 1 Mar at 3.30pm

Mon 2 Mar at 8.30pm

Tue 3 Mar at 5.55pm

Tsutomu Hanabusa • Japan 2008 • 1h55m 35mm • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Shosuke Tanihara, Muga Tsukaji, Keiko Kitagawa.

Yoichi Sai • Japan 2004 • 2h20m 35mm • Korean and Japanese with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Hirofumi Arai, Tomoko Tabata, Jo Odagiri.

Koki Mitani • Japan 2001 • 1h56m Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Toshiaki Karasawa, Kunie Tanaka, Naoki Tanaka, Akiko Yagi.

Kind-hearted diner chef Takuro has lots of friends, but has never been considered attractive to the opposite sex. One day, a beautiful young girl named Hiroko begins working at the diner as a part-time employee. She is very kind to Takuro, giving him the confidence to blurt out his feelings.

Unfortunately, he fumbles miserably in his attempt. One day, Takuro is approached with an offer of a special suit that can make him instantly handsome simply by wearing it...

Director Yoichi Sai explores social history through one man, a Korean emigrant to 1920s Japan. Kim Shun-Pei emigrates from Jeju Island in Korea (a Japanese colony at the time) to Osaka as a young man in 1923. A lifelong fear of poverty meshes with his compulsive womanising and his capacity for violence to turn him into a monster, as he moves from initial success with a fish-cake business to heading a small criminal empire as a loan shark. Sai’s brilliant recreation of a vanished community raises difficult questions about Korean-Japanese identity.

Writer/director Koki Mitani brings his twisted sense of humour to film once again, covering the trials and tribulations of a middle class couple trying to build their dream home. Naosuke Iijima and his wife Tamiko need a bigger house. Both are busy with work, but they know someone who might be able to design a new home for them, and Tamiko’s father has been building houses for over fifty years. It sounds easy enough, but everyone involved wants to do it their own way.

The Light Shines Only There Sokonominite hikari kagayaku

Nobody to Watch Over Me

Sun 1 Mar at 6.05pm

Daremo mamotte kurenai

Mipo Oh • Japan 2014 • 2h DCP • Japanese with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Go Ayano, Chizuru Ikewaki, Masaki Suda, Kazuya Takahashi.

Tatsuo Sato quits his job and roams around aimlessly, trying to escape from his painful past. He meets Takuji Oshiro at a pachinko parlour. They strike up a friendship and Tatsuo goes with Takuji to his home a rundown shack on the beach, where he lives with his ill father, ambivalent mother and older sister Chinatsu. Tatsuo sees something special in Chinatsu. A light shines there despite the oppressive atmosphere that surrounds their situation.

Thu 5 Mar at 8.40pm

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Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Ryoichi Kimizuka • Japan 2009 • 1h58m • HD-Cam • Japanese with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Koichi Sata, Mirai Shida, Ryuhei Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida.

A compelling drama depicting the fears of a modern day society. The Funamura family is the target of mass media attention after their eldest son commits murder.

Furthermore, every move made by the detective assigned to protect the bewildered daughter of the family, Saori, is being maliciously exposed over the internet.

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Filmhouse Junior

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ANNIE

A TOWN CALLED PANIC

Filmhouse junior Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.00 (£5.00 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!

PLEASE NOTE – some screening dates have changed from those previously advertised.

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!

The Wind Rises Kaze tachinu Sun 8 Feb at 11.00am

CHARLOTTE’S WEB

INTO THE WOODS

Annie

Charlotte’s Web

Sun 15 Feb at 11.00am

Sun 8 Mar at 11.00am

Will Gluck • USA 2014 • 1h58m • DCP PG – Contains mild bad language Cast: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Cameron Diaz.

Gary Winick • USA 2006 • 1h37m DCP • U – Contains very mild language Cast: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts (voice), Steve Buscemi (voice), John Cleese (voice), Oprah Winfrey (voice).

Annie is a young, happy foster kid who’s also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they’d be back for her someday, it’s been a hard knock life ever since. But everything’s about to change...

Matilda Sun 22 Feb at 11.00am

Plucky farm girl Fern (Dakota Fanning) rescues Wilbur the pig – the runt of his litter – from her father’s axe. But as Wilbur grows up and faces his likely fate of becoming Sunday dinner, another friend steps in to save the day – the spider Charlotte (voiced by Julia Roberts), who spins fancy, slogan-filled webs above Wilbur’s pen to convince his guardians that he is indeed a special pig and worth saving.

Danny DeVito • USA 1996 • 1h38m • DCP • PG Cast: Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz.

Matilda Wormwood is an extremely curious and intelligent little girl who is very different from her parents, who quite cruelly ignore her. As she grows older, she begins to discover that she has telekinetic powers...

A Town Called Panic Panique au village Sun 1 Mar at 11.00am

Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 2013 • 2h7m • DCP • English language version • PG – Contains brief bloody image, smoking scenes

Stéphane Aubier & Vincent Patar • Belgium/Luxembourg/France 2009 • 1h17m • DCP • French with English subtitles PG – Contains mild violence and one use of mild language

A decades-spanning epic from master filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. Jiro dreams of flying and designing aeroplanes.

He studies hard and joins a Japanese engineering company in 1927. His bright intelligence and dedication will lead him to create the Zero fighter, a bomber put into service just as Japan is contemplating war with the US.

A brilliantly inventive stop motion animation. Cowboy and Indian plan to buy a birthday gift for their friend Horse, but accidentally destroy his house. A series of wacky adventures ensues that finds the trio journeying to the centre of the earth, wandering across icy tundra and discovering a strange aquatic world.

Into the Woods Sun 15 Mar at 11.00am Rob Marshall • USA 2014 • 2h5m • DCP PG – Contains mild violence, threat Cast: Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep.

This spectacular family musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel – all linked by a story involving a baker and his wife, and the witch who has put a curse on them.

Filmhouse Junior/Come and See.../Write Shoot Cut

BIG HERO 6

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Sun 22 Mar at 11.00am Miguel Arteta • USA 2014 • 1h21m • DCP PG – Contains mild bad language, sex references Cast: Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Ed Oxenbould, Dylan Minnette, Kerris Dorsey.

11-year-old Alexander experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life – a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another.

Big Hero 6 Sun 29 Mar at 11.00am Don Hall & Chris Williams • USA 2014 • 1h48m DCP • PG – Contains mild threat, scary scenes With the voices of Scott Adsit, Ryan Potter, Daniel Henney, TJ Miller.

In the futuristic city of San Fransokyo, 14-year-old genius Hiro looks up to his older brother Tadashi. Tadashi is a student at the Institute of Technology, where he has developed an inflatable robot named Baymax, with whom Hiro forms a special bond.

Shaun the Sheep Sun 5 Apr at 11.00am Mark Burton & Richard Starzack • UK/France 2015 • 1h25m DCP • U – Contains mild slapstick, threat, rude humour

When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix-up with the farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the big city, and it’s up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.

BILL & TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

Come and See...

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

Now with added panther!

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Thu 19 Feb at 8.45pm Stephen Herek • USA 1989 • 1h30m • DCP PG – Contains mild language and violence Cast: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin, Terry Camilleri, Dan Shor.

With only a few days before their high-school graduation, it looks like air-headed rock star wannabes Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are doomed to flunk their finals.

The boys’ long-suffering teacher gives them one more chance – if they can ace a presentation on the topic of how a famous historical personality might react to modern times, they will be allowed to pass. Help arrives in the unexpected form of Rufus (George Carlin), an Emissary from the Future...

PLUS SHORT The Hand is Pinker Than the Eye Hawley Pratt • USA 1967 • 7m • DCP • U

A cold Pink Panther sneaks into a house owned by a magician and gets irritated by a rabbit who keeps kissing him.

TAKE IT BACK AND START ALL OVER

SPECIALEVENT

Write Shoot Cut Mon 23 Feb at 6.10pm • Tickets £6/£5 Screen Education Edinburgh in partnership with Filmhouse is committed to supporting new talent through the Write Shoot Cut platform, offering local filmmakers the opportunity to screen their work to new audiences. We are delighted to showcase these films, and will welcome various cast and crew members for a Q&A after the screening.

Take It Back and Start All Over Neil Rolland • UK 2014 • 1h9m • Digital Cast: Kerri Clarence, Neil Rolland, Kyle Titterton, Kate Dickie, Robert Williamson.

Take It Back and Start All Over is the debut feature film from Edinburgh based writer/director and creator of the Write Shoot Cut platform, Neil Rolland. Shot in 5 days on a budget of £1000 by a team of professional Scottish filmmakers, it is part of a new movement in Scotland called Tartan Features (www.tartanfeatures.com).

Take It Back and Start All Over is a relationship drama with music following 33 year old mum Jennie, who attempts to recapture her past as a successful singer/songwriter while dealing with a marriage that is falling apart.

PLUS SHORT James and the Urn Louis Clark • UK 2014 • 8m • Digital A young boy, James, finds the body of his gran on her living room floor. Forced to attend the wake, he becomes increasingly distressed as he realises that everyone there has already moved on.

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Darkness Visible

SUPER 8

Darkness Visible Darkness Visible is a series of feature films selected to accompany Christopher Orr’s exhibition The Beguiled Eye at The University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery.

Orr’s paintings cast a range of enigmatic characters into ambiguous, uncanny landscapes.

The scenes are charged with a palpable tension, a mixed sense of wonder and foreboding, falling somewhere between the romantic and the supernatural. The inner lives of the protagonists are concealed, their purpose and intent unexplained, as they grapple with something profound.

The films in Darkness Visible reflect different elements contained in Orr’s work: From the enchantment and terror of the Ozark mountains in Winter’s Bone, to the barren, ominous desolation of Tarkovksy’s ‘Zone’ in Stalker, and the unearthly mystery and sense of adventure in Super 8.

Christopher Orr: The Beguiled Eye is at Talbot Rice Gallery until 14 February 2015.

STALKER

WINTER’S BONE

Super 8

Winter’s Bone

Sat 7 Feb at 3.40pm

Mon 9 Feb at 6.00pm

JJ Abrams • USA 2011 • 1h47m • DCP • 12A – Contains one use of strong language, moderate threat and soft drug use Cast: Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Gabriel Basso, Zach Mills, Elle Fanning.

Debra Granik • USA 2010 • 1h40m • DCP 15 – Contains strong language and drug use Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt.

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie, and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly afterwards, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth...

A dark yet utterly absorbing drama starring Jennifer Lawrence. In the desolate Ozark Mountain region of the central United States, 17-year-old Ree Jolly (Lawrence) is on a desperate quest to save her family home from the bailiffs, after her drug dealing father skips bail. Pulled perilously close to a brutal family of crack cocaine dealers, Ree is forced to undergo a series of terrifying ordeals, where death is always a distinct possibility.

This fascinating, deeply atmospheric thriller, based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell and sensitively directed by Debra Granik, is anchored by an extraordinary performance by Jennifer Lawrence, who brings heart and hope to what may have been an overly bleak film.

Stalker Sun 8 Feb at 2.45pm Andrei Tarkovsky • USSR 1979 • 2h41m • 35mm Russian with English subtitles • PG Cast: Aleksandr Kaidanovsky, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko, Alisa Freindlikh, Natasha Abramova.

An epic and frequently puzzling inquiry into freedom and faith, which unfolds in an unspecified totalitarian society. A shaven-headed guide known as Stalker agrees to escort a writer and a scientist to a forbidden wasteland area known as the Zone, where, in a miraculous ‘Room’, all one’s wishes can be granted. But as the man of words asks, “How do I know I want what I want?”

Switching between grainy monochrome for the scenes in the industrially-ravaged police state and faded colour for those in the contaminated landscape of the Zone, Tarkovsky, amidst the grime and the destruction, summons up moments of pure magic.

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Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Special Events

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Secret Histories: Screening Irish History

THE MAGDALENE SISTERS

Secret Histories: Screening Irish History Secret Histories explores the dark and troubling aspects of Irish life. From institutional abuse in Magdalene homes to betrayal during the Civil War of 1922, this series reveals Irish history in imaginative, provocative and controversial ways. The series includes John Ford’s 1935 classic The Informer and the Scottish premiere of A Terrible Beauty, about the 1916 Rising. Each of the films will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers, critics and experts.

THE INFORMER

A TERRIBLE BEAUTY

The Magdalene Sisters

The Informer

Sat 7 Feb at 3.00pm

Sat 21 Feb at 3.20pm

Peter Mullan • Ireland/UK 2002 • 1h59m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone.

John Ford • USA 1935 • 1h31m • 16mm • PG Cast: Victor McLaglen, Heather Angel, Preston Foster, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford.

For over 150 years, the Magdalene Laundries existed to punish young women who had fallen foul of Ireland’s strict adherence to Catholic doctrine. Many spent their lives there, to be buried in unmarked graves. Set in the 1960s, Peter Mullan’s powerful film dramatises the lives of three women sent to a Laundry as punishment for their ‘sins’. With exceptional performances throughout, it is an indictment of a system that put religious dogma before the rights of its children.

Former boxer Victor McLaglen gave the performance of his life as scar-faced Gypo Nolan in John Ford’s 1935 adaptation of Liam O’Flaherty’s novel, about a harddrinking brute who betrays one of his friends in order to collect a reward during the Irish Civil War of 1922.

A Terrible Beauty Sat 7 Mar at 3.20pm Keith Farrell • Ireland 2013 • 1h37m • DCP 12A – Contains moderate violence and one use of strong language Cast: Hugh O’Conor, Owen McDonnell, Rick Burn, Gina Costigan, Seamus Hughes.

Following the success of our Irish History season last year we are delighted to be working again with University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

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.

Ireland’s bloody 1916 Easter Rising was an early bid for the nation’s independence, but the massive loss of life was a tragedy that still resonates through the Irish diaspora. This meticulously researched docudrama combines archive footage and dramatic re-enactments based on first-hand accounts to vividly recreate the ferocious battles of Dublin’s Mount Street and North King Street, as seen from the perspective of the Irish Volunteers, British soldiers, and innocent civilians.

Introduction to European Cinema

QUERELLE

Introduction to European Cinema Now in its tenth year at Filmhouse, Introduction to European Cinema provides a great opportunity to see some of the classics of European cinema on the big screen, many of which are very rarely shown.

Curated by specialists in European cinema from the University of Edinburgh¹s Division of European Languages and Cultures, the screenings form part of a University course, but you don¹t need to be a student to come along!

Each screening will be preceded by a short introduction by Dr Leanne Dawson (Lecturer in German and Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh and IEC Course Organiser) or another University of Edinburgh academic working on European Cinema.

To keep up to date with screening dates and times, please ‘like’ IEC’s Facebook page ‘Introduction to European Cinema at Filmhouse’ or follow @Filmhouse on Twitter.

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Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

THE WRONG MOVE

THE KING IS ALIVE

Querelle

The King Is Alive

Wed 11 Feb at 6.00pm

Wed 4 Mar at 5.50pm

Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany/France 1982 1h48m • Digital • 18 Cast: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Hanno Pöschl.

Kristian Levring • Denmark/Sweden/USA 2000 • 1h50m 35mm English and French with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language and moderate sex Cast: Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bruce Davidson.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is an adaptation of Jean Genet’s infamous novel ‘Querelle de Brest’. Querelle is a sailor on shore leave. Following an argument, in which he stabs and kills his drug-smuggling partner, he seeks shelter in a nearby brothel. There he befriends the predatory madam, Lysiane, who leads him into his first homosexual encounter. From then on Querelle embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and sometimes violent sexual selfdiscovery that will transform him forever.

The Wrong Move Falsche Bewegung Wed 25 Feb at 6.00pm Wim Wenders • West Germany 1975 • 1h43m Digital • German with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Hans Christian Blech, Hanna Schygulla, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Kern.

Wim Wenders’ 1975 drama is full of his trademark touches: the highly-charged road sequences, the meditative use of landscape, and the tensions beneath apparently desultory encounters. Wilhelm, a would-be writer, travels through Germany, encountering history (a former Nazi), economics (an industrialist) and passion (Nastassja Kinski).

This second feature by Dogme co-founder Kristian Levring is a cerebral yet unflinchingly passionate meditation on the incongruities of human nature. Eleven tourists are travelling by bus through the barren North African desert.

Hopelessly lost, they eventually find themselves stranded in an abandoned mining town. Its only resident, the grizzled Kanana, informs them it’s a five-day walk over endless sand dunes to the next town. One passenger, Jack, offers to make the journey. The others wait anxiously for his return, and, to pass time and stave off panic, elect to put on a desert version of ‘King Lear’. But, fuelled by the bleak situation, their passions are ignited, and noble sentiments give way to envy, lust and the struggle for power.

Screening next month:

Together Tillsammans

(Lukas Moodysson, 2000)

Wed 11 Mar at 6.00pm

Babel

(Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2006)

Wed 18 Mar at 5.45pm See our website or next month’s programme for more information on these films.

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Education and Learning

WORLD SAVING INVENTIONS

EVERYTHING’S ALIVE

Education and Learning Filmhouse offers schools the opportunity to engage with a variety of film which support moving image literacy and subjects including modern languages and social studies.

To book please call 0131 228 6382 or email nicola.kettlewood@cmi-scotland.co.uk. Details at www.filmhousecinema.com/learning

February Animation Workshops Animation workshops delivered by Animation Jam – all animation work produced will be uploaded to www.animationjam.co.uk

World Saving Inventions (2D Animation) Mon 16 Feb • 10.30am-12.45pm OR 1.45pm-4.00pm • Age 7-12 years • £14.50 Dog poop picker-upper? Strange machines to help slow hedgehogs cross the roads safely?

There are so many crazy machines you can invent to SAVE THE WORLD!! Come to this cartoon animation workshop and create a mini movie studio with other animators. Draw and build all the bits you need to make your machine move. Will it work or will it all go horribly wrong? It’s a cartoon challenge, are you up for it?

Everything’s Alive (3D Animation) Tue 17 Feb • 10.30am-12.45pm OR 1.45pm-4.00pm • Age 7-12 years • £14.50 Cups, toys, vegetables, anything can be brought to life with animation! Think of ‘Toy Story’ or CBBC’s ‘Ooglies’. This animation workshop gives you lifeless random objects and all you have to do is make them move. Animation Jam will show you how to make faces and extra bits and all you have to do is get some good ideas going with the other new animators. If you have a small (10-15cm) toy you want to animate too, you can bring it along.

FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR

Filmhouse Cafe Bar Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea and enjoy one of our superb cakes.

Our full menu runs from noon to 10pm seven days a week!

All our dishes are prepared on the premises using fresh ingredients.

We have an extensive vegetarian range with a variety of daily specials.

A glass of wine? Choose from nine! The bar has real choice in ales, beers and bottles.

A special event? Just ask, we can probably help.

Or just come and relax in the ambience!

Opening hours: Monday to Thursday: 8am - 11.30pm Friday: 8am - 12.30am Saturday: 10am - 12.30am Sunday: 10am - 11.30pm 0131 229 5932 cafebar@filmhousecinema.com

Film Quiz Sunday 8 February Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and rather tricky) monthly quiz. Free to enter, teams of up to eight, to be seated in the cafe bar by 9pm.

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Edinburgh EH3 9BZ Our cafe bar and accessible toilet are also at www.filmhousecinema.com this level. The majority of seats in the cafe bar are not fixed and can be moved.

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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We regularly have screenings with audio description for customers with visual impairments and subtitles for those with hearing difficulties – see page 2 for details of these.

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