Filmhouse Brochure - February 2016

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THE HATEFUL EIGHT 70mm Roadshow Version

Room Trumbo Rams Casablanca Spartacus Roman Holiday David Bowie Janis: Little Girl Blue Sunday Double Bills Write Shoot Cut Over the Rainbow Filmhouse Junior IKIRU: The Highs and Lows of Life in Japanese Cinema Screening Europe Innocence of Memories The 2016 Edinburgh Iranian Festival Film Season

THE 8TH FILM BY QUENTIN TARANTINO

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

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The 2016 Edinburgh Iranian Festival... 22-23 Adventure Film Festival 10-12 Atomic Heart 23 Bastards 21 Being Good 24 Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure...

13 The Big Short 7 Bye Bye, We Love You - David Bowie 15 Casablanca 6 Cheers from Heaven 25 Deliverance + In the Heat of the...

19 The Double Life of Veronique 20 The Draughtsman’s Contract 20 Education and Learning 26 Eisenstein in Guanajuato 20 The Elegant Life of Mr Everyman 24 Filmhouse Café Bar + Film Quiz 26 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Junior 12-13 Filmhouse Membership 28 Filmosophy: Three Colours 14-15 Filmosophy Valentine’s Day 6 Finding Nemo 12 For a Rainy Day 23 The Front 8 The Hateful Eight 70mm 6 The Hollywood Blacklist 8 I’ll Give it My All... Tomorrow 25 IKIRU: The Highs and Lows of Life in...

24-25 Innocence of Memories 7 In the Mood for Love 6 Jamón Jamón 21 Janis: Little Girl Blue 9 The Japan Foundation Touring Film...

24-25 A Japanese Tragedy 24 Labyrinth 15 The Last Diamond 10 The Last Mistress 20 The Letter 24 The Lobster 6 The Man Who Fell To Earth 15 Mary Poppins 13

A Minor Leap Down 23 My Neighbour Totoro 13 My Own Private Idaho 7 Northern Soul 21 Over the Rainbow 7 Penguins of Madagascar 13 Ponyo 13 Present Love: A Collection...

9 The Princess Bride 12 Rams 5 Reservoir Dogs + Pulp Fiction 19 Roman Holiday 8 Screening Europe 21-22 Snoopy and Charlie Brown...

13 Spartacus 8 Spotlight 9 Sunday Double Bills 19 Tale of a Butcher Shop 25 Three Colours: Blue 14 Three Colours: Red 15 Three Colours: White 14 Today 22 Trumbo 5 Uzumasa Limelight 25 A Very Ordinary Citizen 22 Write Shoot Cut 10 Young Soul Rebels 21 Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders...

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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 Room, Rams, The Big Short and Spotlight have audio description, and the following screenings will have onscreen captions: Mon 8 Feb at 8.40pm Room Mon 15 Feb at 9.00pm Rams Mon 22 Feb at 5.50pm The Big Short

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

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

Mon 15 Feb at 11am Casablanca Mon 29 Feb at 11am Roman Holiday

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Introduction

TRUMBO

RAMS

JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE

THE HATEFUL EIGHT 70MM

And [I hope] the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film goes to...

The start of the year can only mean one thing: Awards Season! At this point in time the Golden Globes have been awarded and the Academy Awards® and our own BAFTAs have announced their nominations with the ceremonies still to take place. The Golden Globes bestowed an impressive number of awards on a film we have on currently, The Revenant, but a few days ago the Critic’s Choice Awards largely ignored it in favour of, principally, Spotlight (screening here in February) and Mad Max: Fury Road, so the field may yet be more open than we might have once imagined… As yet, there seems to be complete agreement on (the no longer quite so) young Leonardo for Best Actor, perhaps not so much for his chewing of scenery as his allowing himself to be chewed.

I usually snidely refer to Awards Season as an exercise in self-congratulatory, irresistible, subjective, massively-lobbied, hugely enjoyable, backslapping nonsense, though I find myself this year with a film in there I really do care whether wins the Best Foreign Language Film or not. It’s the film I spent a large part of last year trying to convince you you should see (it’s called Theeb, it’s brilliant, and 670 of you have seen it here!). The filmmaker, Naji Abu Nowar, was here back in August and partook in perhaps the best and most interesting Q&A session I’ve yet had hosted at Filmhouse. Privately he told me of the travails involved in submitting his film for the big awards, and at that point had no idea where the large sum of money needed to make enough DVDs of the film for Academy members’ perusal was going to come from. We’ve kept in touch, and he tells me he scraped the money together predominantly through friends and family and that the recent Academy Award® nomination is now a cause for national celebration in the film’s native Jordan. So, fingers crossed ‘til February the 28th! There is some very stiff competition mind you…

Trumbo, starring an Oscar®-nominated Bryan Cranston in the title role, tells the story, in supremely entertaining style, of legendary Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, blacklisted in the late ‘40s as one of the Hollywood Ten Communist ‘sympathisers’. (There’s a very short season to coincide with the release of the film too, see page 8.) From Iceland comes Rams, the multi-award-winning, tragicomic, gálgahúmor (as they call gallows humour in Iceland) drama wherein two farming brothers (also neighbours) who haven’t spoken to each other in 40 years may have to come together to save their prized flocks now threatened by disease. A couple of other Oscar® hopefuls get an airing too, the aforementioned Spotlight and the perhaps rather unexpectedly excellent The Big Short; and Janis: Little Girl Blue is Amy Berg’s excellent doc on the life, via her letters, of music icon Janis Joplin. We’re also paying tribute, in the only way we know how, to the legend that was David Bowie, by playing some of his best known film incarnations: his seminal The Man Who Fell to Earth (who but Bowie? – many thanks to Studiocanal for allowing this screening), Labyrinth and Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.

And lastly, and assuredly not leastly, we’re completely delighted to be only the second cinema in the UK to be able to bring you the Ultra Panavision 70mm ‘Roadshow’ version, complete with overture and intermission, of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, for a limited engagement. The squeamish aside, you will not want to miss this!

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

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Filmhouse Explorer

THE BIG SHORT

SPOTLIGHT

THE FRONT

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

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

We’ve marked the films and seasons involved with wee logos to make them easier to spot (orange for left hand column films and blue for right), and you can also find them on our website at www.filmhousecinema.com/tickets/filmhouse-explorer Happy Exploring!

BUY A TICKET FOR...

Room (page 5) Trumbo (page 5) The Big Short (page 7) Spotlight (page 9)

GET A HALF PRICE TICKET TO ONE OF THESE Rams (page 5) Innocence of Memories (page 7) The Hollywood Blacklist (page 8) Janis: Little Girl Blue (page 9) Bye Bye, We Love You - David Bowie (page 15)

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

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

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Main Features

ROOM

NEWRELEASE

TRUMBO

NEWRELEASE

Room

Trumbo

Showing from Fri 29 Jan

Showing from Fri 5 Feb

Lenny Abrahamson • Ireland/Canada 2015 • 1h58m • Digital 15 – Contains strong language, abduction theme Cast: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Wendy Crewson.

Jay Roach • USA 2015 • 2h4m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language Cast: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K., Elle Fanning, John Goodman.

Young Jack (Jacob Tremblay) lives with Ma (Brie Larson) in Room - a small locked space containing a kitchen, a bath, a bed and a television. As it is all he has ever known, Jack believes that Room is all that exists. Their only visitor is Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), who is their captor. When, shortly after Jack’s fifth birthday, Ma discovers that Old Nick is out of work and in danger of foreclosure, she hatches a plan to finally secure their escape.

Lenny Abrahamson (Frank, What Richard Did) directs this profound adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s Man Booker shortlisted novel of the same name. Quite extraordinary performances from Larson and Tremblay are the focal point of an emotionally-charged experience that manages to both wrench and warm the heart.

The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) came to an abrupt half when he and other prominent filmmaking figures - who became known as the Hollywood Ten - were arrested for refusing to “name names” during the anti-Communist witchhunts which plagued postwar America. But, despite being placed on an unofficial blacklist preventing him from being allowed to work for the studios, Trumbo continued to write, defiantly disguising his work behind a string of aliases and ‘fronts’ to create screenplays for classics including the Oscar-winning Roman Holiday.

A stranger-than-fiction tale about the clash between the disparate worlds of politics and Hollywood, populated by figures from John F Kennedy to John Wayne and Kirk Douglas, as well as powerful right-wing gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren).

This month, we are also screening a trio of films connected to the Hollywood blacklist - Spartacus, Roman Holiday (both written by Dalton Trumbo) and Martin Ritt’s 1976 film, The Front. See page 8.

RAMS

NEWRELEASE

Rams

Hrútar Showing from Fri 5 Feb

Grímur Hákonarson • Iceland/Denmark/Norway/Poland 2015 1h33m • Digital • Icelandic with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language Cast: Sigurdur Sigurjónsson, Theodór Júlíusson, Charlotte Bøving, Jon Benonysson.

A curiously touching, funny and captivating tale of two estranged brothers in a remote Icelandic farming valley, Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams earned the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes last year.

Gummi (Sigurdur Sigurjónsson) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson) are sheep farming siblings who haven’t spoken for decades. Living on adjacent plots of land, they tend to their beloved flocks and compete fiercely in their village’s annual competition for best ram.

Their livelihoods and bitter feud are thrown into disarray upon the discovery of an incurable ovine disease in the area. When the authorities decide to cull all livestock, it spells disaster for the whole community - but these brothers don’t give up easily...

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Main Features/Valentine’s Day/Filmosophy

THE HATEFUL EIGHT 70MM

70MMROADSHOWVERSION

Filmosophy Valentine’s Day Special

VALENTINE’SDAY

The Hateful Eight

Casablanca

Showing from Fri 12 Feb

Sun 14 Feb at 6.45pm

Quentin Tarantino • USA 2015 • 3h7m • 70mm • 18 - Contains strong bloody violence Cast: Kurt Russell, Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen.

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

Quentin Tarantino follows the pulpy and provocative Django Unchained with this edgy ensemble period piece - his eighth film in the director’s chair. Set in the rural wilds of Wyoming shortly after the Civil War, The Hateful Eight sees John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) escorting his prisoner Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Red Rock to be tried and hanged for murder. Happening upon a bounty hunter (Samuel L Jackson) and a man claiming to be Sheriff of Red Rock (Walton Goggins), they are forced to seek refuge in a stagecoach passover cabin when a blizzard hits.

Sharing accommodation with four other strangers, and with a $10,000 bounty brought to light, a game of suspicion and deadly intrigue is set into motion...

We’re delighted to be the second UK cinema to host the 70mm Roadshow Version of Tarantino’s latest work book ahead to avoid disappointment!

FILMOSOPHY - THE LOBSTER

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE

CASABLANCA

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.

In the Mood for Love

Fa yeung nin wa

Sun 14 Feb at 9.00pm Wong Kar-Wai • Hong Kong 2000 • 1h37m • Digital • Cantonese, Shanghainese and French with English subtitles • PG Cast: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Ping Lam Siu

To Western eyes, In the Mood for Love looked like the latest example of ravishing dream films stretching from Von Sternberg’s The Scarlet Empress to Lynch’s Blue Velvet.

To Chinese people it was something more. Set in 1960s Hong Kong, the subtle story of an affair between Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung’s characters was studded with specific cultural references. The use of the Shanghainese dialect indicates a disjunctive, émigré setting, as does the disapproving, old-world landlady. Full of nostalgic details, it heralded the new cinematic millennium with aplomb.

What is love? Why do we love some people rather than others? Is love biological and universal or is it a cultural product relative to our own society? Yorgos Lanthimos’ surreal satire holds a mirror up to our own practices concerning love and relationships. Join us for this alternative Valentine’s Day screening and discussion on the philosophy of love, from Plato to the present day.

The Lobster Sun 14 Feb at 3.40pm Yorgos Lanthimos • Ireland/UK/Greece/France/Netherlands 2015 1h58m • Digital • English and French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, sex, sex references, bloody images.

Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, John C Reilly.

From the director of Dogtooth, a near-future dystopian romance with strange humour and a typically idiosyncratic twist - which earned the Jury Prize at Cannes 2015.

In this imagined future, single people - according to the laws of The City - are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days. Failing to do so will see them transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.

This odd, funny and tragic science fiction premise plays out with an impressive cast, including Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, John C Reilly, Léa Seydoux and Ashley Jensen.

Main Features/Over the Rainbow

THE BIG SHORT

MAYBEYOUMISSED

The Big Short Showing from Fri 19 Feb Adam McKay • USA 2015 • 2h10m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sexualised nudity Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Marisa Tomei, Melissa Leo, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, John Magaro, Finn Wittrock.

Adam McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers) assembles an impressive ensemble for this pacy, sharp-witted adaptation of ‘The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine’, Michael Lewis’ non-fiction exposé of the housing market bubble and its subsequent crash of the mid-2000s.

Eccentric hedge fund manager Michael Burry (Christian Bale), having observed the instability of the US housing market, bets against it with the major banks - drawing the interest of trader Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) and frustrated hedge fund manager Mark Baum (Steve Carell).

Both men join Burry in betting against the fraudulentlyrated loans packages that sustain market corruption, and they stand to profit hugely from the impending collapse.

Meanwhile, two young investors (John Magaro, Finn Wittrock) hire retired investment banker Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt) to help them broker potentially lucrative deals in the same way.

Acerbic, smart and deeply ominous, this is a financial tragicomedy that will infuriate and entertain.

MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO

OVERTHERAINBOW

INNOCENCE OF MEMORIES

NEWRELEASE

It’s here! It’s queer! Over the Rainbow is Filmhouse’s monthly screening strand for new and classic queer cinema and events.

Innocence of Memories

My Own Private Idaho

Grant Gee • UK/Ireland/Italy/France 2015 • 1h37m • Digital 12A - Contains moderate sex references Documentary featuring Pandora Colin, Mehmet Ergen, Suleyman Fidaye, Dursun Saka, Türkan Soray, Orhan Pamuk.

Sat 20 Feb at 3.10pm & Sun 21 Feb at 5.45pm Gus Van Sant • USA 1991 • 1h44m • Digital • English and Italian with English subtitles • 18 Cast: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Udo Kier.

Gus Van Sant’s 1991 cult classic exemplifies some of the aesthetic difficulties, as well as the creative opportunities, that Shakespeare presents to the modern cinema.

Starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves as two street hustlers wandering through the seedy underworld of contemporary America, the film both charts and makes sense of their personal and familial journeys through a series of detailed allusions to, and quotations from, Shakespeare’s ‘Henry IV Parts One and Two’, and ‘Henry V’.

Don’t miss Present Love: A Collection of Joyous LGBT Shorts on 26 & 27 February - see page 10.

Orhan Pamuk’s Museum and Istanbul Sun 21 to Thu 25 Feb

The subject of Grant Gee’s latest project has been described by the great art historian, Simon Schama as “the single most powerfully beautiful, humane and affecting work of contemporary art anywhere in the world.”

He refers to the Museum of Innocence, a museum in Istanbul which houses real objects that trace the fictional love affair described in the novel of the same name, both of which are the creations of writer Orhan Pamuk.

In this feature length documentary essay, fact and fiction are artfully interwoven in a tripartite narrative whose main characters are the city of Istanbul, the Museum of Innocence, and Orhan Pamuk himself, whose life and work have been indelibly influenced by the city he roams. The reciprocity of all these relationships - novel and museum, writer and city, reality and fiction - is explored through a unique interleaving of narrative voiceover, interviews, music, animation, fictional sequences and archive.

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The Hollywood Blacklist

SPARTACUS

The Hollywood Blacklist To tie-in with the release of Trumbo (page 5), we’re screening two films scripted by Dalton Trumbo and one film inspired by the kind of blacklisting that blighted his screenwriting career.

Spartacus Sun 21 Feb at 3.45pm Stanley Kubrick • USA 1960 • 3h17m • Digital • PG - Contains moderate violence Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov.

Although not a Kubrick project (he took over direction from Anthony Mann, and had no hand in Dalton Trumbo’s script), 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, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains his entire life. After being forced to put on a gladiator show - that almost leads to his death - for wealthy Romans (including a marvellously conniving Laurence Olivier as the power-hungry Crassus), Spartacus leads a slave revolt across Italy that soon has thousands marching on Rome.

The screenplay for Spartacus was written by Dalton Trumbo, the man on which Jay Roach’s Trumbo is based (see page 5), and was the first film to be openly credited to a blacklisted writer.

ROMAN HOLIDAY

THE FRONT

Roman Holiday

The Front

Mon 29 Feb at 1.10pm & Tue 1 Mar at 5.55pm

Wed 2 Mar at 8.45pm & Thu 3 Mar at 3.45pm

William Wyler • USA 1953 • 1h58m • Digital • U - Contains very mild fight scene Cast: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert, Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams.

Martin Ritt • USA 1976 • 1h35m • Digital • 12A - Contains one use of strong language and moderate sex references Cast: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Michael Murphy, Herschel Bernardi, Andrea Marcovicci, Danny Aiello.

Audrey Hepburn became a star (and a Best Actress Oscar®winner) with this film, in which she plays Princess Ann, weary of protocol and anxious to have some fun before she is mummified by affairs of state. On a diplomatic visit to Rome, Ann escapes her royal retainers and scampers incognito through the Eternal City. She happens to meet American journalist Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck), who pretends that he doesn’t recognise her and offers to give her a guided tour of Rome. Naturally, Joe hopes to get an exclusive interview, while his photographer pal Irving (Eddie Albert) attempts to sneak a photo. And just as naturally, Joe finds himself falling in love...

The screenplay for this classic was co-written by Dalton Trumbo, although he was initially uncredited due to his blacklisted status. Trumbo screens from 5 February - see page 5.

McCarthyism and Hollywood blacklisting is tackled by a number of the artists directly affected in this story of a small-time 1950s bookie who poses as a screenwriter to sell his friends’ works. He is The Front.

Howard Prince (Woody Allen) is a struggling cashier/ bookie in New York City whose blacklisted writer friend (Michael Murphy) comes to him for help. Upon agreeing to be named as the author of his TV scripts, he becomes a popular pseudonym for a number of other writers, and quickly becomes hot property with producers and editors...

Featuring a director (Martin Ritt), screenwriter (Walter Bernstein) and performers (Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Lloyd Gough) who had themselves been listed, The Front is a fascinating personal project that features scenes and themes based on actual events from one of the darkest periods of American cultural history.

TICKETDEALS

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

Buy any three (or more) tickets for films on this page and get 15% 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.

Main Features/Present Love: A Collection of Joyous...

JANIS: LITTLE GIRL BLUE

NEWRELEASE

SPOTLIGHT

MAYBEYOUMISSED

PRESENT LOVE: A COLLECTION OF JOYOUS LGBTI SHORTS

Present Love: A Collection of Joyous LGBTI Shorts

Janis: Little Girl Blue

Spotlight

Showing from Fri 26 Feb

Showing from Fri 26 Feb

1h23m • Digital • 12A

Amy Berg • USA 2015 • 1h43m • Digital • cert tbc Documentary, narrated by Cat Power.

Tom McCarthy • USA 2015 • 2h9m • Digital • 15 - Contains child sexual abuse references Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci.

The collaborative intention to celebrate LGBTI History Month between Filmhouse, LGBT Youth Scotland and the University of Edinburgh provided the impetus for the creativity of four industrious students to curate this lovingly sculptured programme with a clear, queer aim to challenge one-dimensional depictions of the LGBTI community, on-screen, worldwide. After observing a harmful, growing trend of tragic LGBTI narratives that seek to illustrate our lives and relationships within confines where joy may not, and cannot, be sustained, we decided to take action, through the universal powerful language of the moving image. As such, we present you with a series of charming short films and informative interviews with prominent LGBTI figures, that aim to inspire, encourage and support the rights of the LGBTI community.

The Queen Christina Choe • USA 2010 • 8m • English and Korean with English subtitles Hold On Tight Anna Rodgers • Ireland 2011 • 13m Alone with People Drew Van Steenburgen • USA 2014 25m Plugin Sergio Di Bitetto • Canada 2014 • 5m Dylan Elizabeth Rohrbaugh • USA 2014 • 9m

Janis Joplin is one of the most revered and iconic rock & roll singers of all time, a tragic and misunderstood figure who thrilled millions of listeners and blazed new creative trails before her death in 1970 at 27 years old.

With Janis: Little Girl Blue, Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg (Prophet’s Prey, West of Memphis) examines Joplin’s story in depth for the first time on film, presenting an intimate and insightful portrait of a complicated, driven, often beleaguered artist. Joplin’s own words tell much of the film’s story through a series of letters she wrote to her parents over the years, many of them made public here for the first time (and read by Southern-born indie rock star/ actor Chan Marshall, also known as Cat Power).

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.

The story of the Boston Globe newspaper’s tenacious Spotlight team and their investigation into allegations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is deftly brought to the screen in Tom McCarthy’s (Win Win, The Station Agent) quietly gripping Spotlight.

Starring Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber and Michael Keaton, this award-winning film is a taut and compelling procedural drama, based on actual events from 2001.

New editor Marty Baron (Schreiber) takes charge of the Globe, and urges the relatively autonomous Spotlight team to pursue a small story of hidden abuse within the church. Their search uncovers a staggering pattern of systematic abuses, corruption and cover-ups, far beyond anything they imagined, leading to a wave of revelations around the world.

Fri 26 & Sat 27 Feb at 3.45pm

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Write Shoot Cut/Main Features/Adventure Film Festival

WRITE SHOOT CUT

Write Shoot Cut Mon 29 Feb at 6.20pm

THE LAST DIAMOND

MAYBEYOUMISSED

1h38m • 15

The Last Diamond

Presented by Screen Education Edinburgh in partnership with Filmhouse and now in its fourth year, the Write Shoot Cut platform is dedicated to celebrating and showcasing independent short films from Scotland.

There is a diverse wealth of talent in Scotland producing interesting, thought provoking, entertaining films and at Write Shoot Cut you get the chance to become actively involved in the scene.

If you are a filmmaker, or someone with an interest in Scottish film and a desire to see something out of the ordinary, then this is an excellent opportunity to connect with like-minded people, watch some great films, network afterwards in the bar and meet potential collaborators.

Tickets £6/£5

La dernier diamant Mon 29 Feb to Thu 3 Mar

Party On Nicholas Afchain • UK • 30m • Mockumentary Black Night Broken, White Morning Woken Christopher Cook • UK • 15m • Drama The Magic Box Paul Wilson • UK • 5m • Drama Asking for It Siri Rodnes • UK • 3m • Drama

Eric Barbier • France/Luxembourg/Belgium 2014 • 1h48m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence, strong language Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Yvan Attal, Jean-François Stévenin, Antoine Basler, Jacques Spiesser, Annie Cordy.

Having screened at at Filmhouse during the French Film Festival in November 2015, Eric Barbier’s tale of intrigue returns to our screens...

Simon (Yvan Attal), a thief released on parole, agrees to carry out the biggest job of his life: to steal the “Florentin,” a mythical diamond being auctioned by its owners. To succeed, he must get close to Julia (Bérénice Bejo), a diamond expert, for whom the sale is of considerable personal importance.

Simon uses his thieving skills to seduce Julia, who’s been put in charge of the jewel’s auction following her mother’s mysterious death. Like his stylised 2006 thriller, The Serpent (also starring Attal), Barbier provides an extremely polished sheen to the proceedings. In the grand Gallic tradition of Rififi, The Red Circle and Mélodie en sous-sol.

AFF PROGRAMME 2 - THE LAST EXPLORERS OF...

Adventure Film Festival 11 of the world’s most exciting action and adventure documentary films at 30 locations nationwide.

Experience adventure as it happens around the globe, from being sling shot over the cliffs of Norway, riding horseback through the extreme terrain of Patagonia and jumping out of planes with the oldest female skydiver. We’ve combined the best and most adventure films into a 3 night program that will give film goers a diverse and inspiring look at how modern day pioneers of exploration and adventure are pushing the boundaries of what we thought possible.

Adventure Film Festival (cont.)

AFF PROGRAMME 1 - CHASING SHADOWS

AFF PROGRAMME 2 - BJØRNØYA

AFF PROGRAMME 2 - THE LAST EXPLORERS OF...

Adventure Film Festival: Programme 1

Adventure Film Festival: Programme 2

Adventure Film Festival: Programme 3

Thu 3 Mar at 6.00pm

Mon 7 Mar at 6.15pm

Fri 26 Feb at 8.45pm

1h46m • PG • DCP

1h44m • PG • DCP

1h38m • Exempt from Classification

Bjørnøya Inge Wegge • 54m Three brothers set out on a very special trip together.

Motivated by the classic surfer’s relentless quest for the perfect wave, they travel to the remote Norwegian island of Bjørnøya. Lugging a surfboard, snowboard, paraglider and various other equipment they transform the challenging nature of Bjørnøya into their own playground. The brothers find their ice-cold waves and precipitous slopes, and we get the chance to join in on the excitement of shredding arctic snow and cruising the ice cold waves.

Burn It Down Jack Boston • 4m • DCP Longboarder James Kelly bombs down the stunningly picturesque hills around his family cabin in Western Sierras, California. Riding at an insane speed on the straight and windy roads, James Kelly shows his mastery of the newly popular sport.

The Last Explorers of the Rio Santa Cruz Tom Allen + Leon McCarron • 48m • DCP In winter 2014, Leon McCarron, Tom Allen and Jose Argento travelled along the entire length of the Rio Santa Cruz. They took with them five horses, carrying all their food and relying on the river for water. Their journey was inspired by the story of the first European exploration of the river, undertaken

by Captain FitzRoy in 1834. FitzRoy had been charged with charting the coastline of South America, and his crew included a very young and impressionable Charles Darwin who fancied himself as a bit of a geologist and amateur explorer. Both FitzRoy and Darwin left detailed writings of their journey along the river which, sadly, ultimately ended in a failure to find the source (though they came heartbreakingly close.)

unReal Anthill Films • 15m unReal is for those of us who escape. A film that celebrates breaking free from the confines of reality and venturing into a boundless world. This place isn’t remote or hard to find, and yet many never see it. Here, glacial walls transform into mountain bike trails, rain and snow aren’t the only elements to fall from the sky and thousand pound mammals become riding partners.

Breathtaking visuals conjure feelings of awe and pure joy; feelings that only those of us who venture outside can truly understand.

The 82 Year Old Sky Diver James Callum • 4m At 82, Dylis holds the world record for being the oldest female skydiver in the world.

Full of confidence and liberated by her passion, Dylis talks us through her mindset before each dive. She confides that her only worry when it comes to skydiving is refusing to get out of the car at the drop zone because she knows that if she backed out of a dive she would regret it. In her opinion “the ecstasy is far more than the fear”. Dylis describes skydiving as “better than having sex”. Along with the enjoyment, it has given Dylis the courage she needed to start her own charity and share the uplifting energy with others.“I won’t stop until I know it’s not safe, so for now I will continue”. This is her story.

Humble Pie Chris Alstrin • 5m Failure is always present amongst professional athletes but few like to talk about it. Mayan Smith-Gobat and Niels Tietze are setting their sights on freeing ‘Free Rider’ on El Capitan and The Regular Northwest Route on Half Dome in a 24 hour push.

Chasing Shadows Warren Miller • 1h38m • DCP Warren Miller Entertainment’s 66th annual winter sports film Chasing Shadows is a celebration of why we commit ourselves every winter to a passion that’s guaranteed to melt away every spring.

Follow the world’s biggest names in skiing and snowboarding on a breathtaking cinematic journey as they push toward the edge, where the mountain’s shadow cast below leads the way. Watch JT Holmes, Seth Wescott, Caroline Gleich, Steven Nyman, Marcus Caston and more as they pursue turns on the mountains of our dreams: Chamonix, Alaska’s Chugach, the Chilean Andes, Utah’s Wasatch and the mightiest range of them all: the Himalaya.

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

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

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Adventure Film Festival (cont.) / Filmhouse Junior

AFF PROGRAMME 3 - OCEAN GRAVITY

Sufferfest 2 Cedar Wright • 26m Less than a year after enchaining the fifteen tallest peaks in California by bike, Alex Honnold and Cedar Wright have forgotten that it was their worst trip ever and are at it again, this time attacking an ambitious goal to climb 45 of the American Southwest’s most iconic Desert Towers, via their most difficult routes. This movie has it all, including: gale force winds, hard climbing, snow in the desert, a puppy, huge phallic towers, loose rock, and Alex Honnold’s bare ass. What more could you ask for?

Ocean Gravity Guillaume Néry & Julie Gautier • 3m Welcome to the fascinating universe of Ocean Gravity, a short film that rewrites the rules of the underwater world and takes us into the world of weightlessness.

As in space, there is no top or bottom, no upside down or wrong side out. The ocean becomes cosmos, man a satellite, and the bottom of the sea an unknown planet.

FINDING NEMO

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

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

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

THE PRINCESS BRIDE

Finding Nemo Sun 7 Feb at 11.00am Andrew Stanton • USA 2003 • 1h44m • Digital • U - Contains mild peril • With the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Allison Janney.

Marlin, an overprotective clown fish father, desperately searches the sea for his missing son, Nemo. His journey leads him beyond the Great Barrier Reef into deeper and darker waters, where he meets Dory, a forgetful yet optimistic blue tang, and a number of other aquatic creatures. Meanwhile, Nemo finds himself in a dentist’s fish tank in Sydney, Australia, along with other underwater captives. As Nemo works with his new friends on a plan to escape their tank, Marlin and Dory swim closer, but they’ll need more than just fins to get into the dentist’s office...

The Princess Bride

Will Sutton: Homefree Stu Thompson • 5m Top freerunner and parkour athlete Will Sutton in a unique journey across his homeland of the Isle of Man.

Sun 14 Feb at 11.00am

Objectif Amazone Paul-Henri Vanthournout • 46m From 4 October 2011 to 20 March 2012, Paul-Henri and Charles-Antoine undertook the first integral raid of the Amazon River, from its source in Nevado Queshuisha to its river outfall in Macapa, Brazil.

When the one true love of her life, Westley, is killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts, Buttercup blindly agrees to the Royal command that she marry Prince Humperdinck. But the Prince is planning to incite war between his country and its neighbour - by murdering Buttercup and blaming foreign agents. Yet even as the Prince’s men kidnap Buttercup, a mysterious man in black is in pursuit...

Rob Reiner • USA 1987 • 1h38m • Digital • PG - Contains mild fantasy violence and language Cast: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Peter Falk.

Filmhouse Junior

SNOOPYTHE ANDGOOD CHARLIE BROWN: THE PEANUTS MOVIE DINOSAUR

MYFINDING NEIGHBOUR TOTORO NEMO

PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR THE PRINCESS BRIDE

Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie

Penguins of Madagascar

Sun 21 Feb at 11.00am

Eric Darnell & Simon J Smith • USA 2014 • 1h32m • Digital U - Contains very mild threat, slapstick violence, very mild bad language With the voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights, Conrad Vernon, John Malkovich, Benedict Cumberbatch.

Steve Martino • USA 2015 • 1h33m • Digital • U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm With the voices of Noah Schnapp, Mariel Sheets, Alexander Garfin.

Remaining faithful to the look and vision of Charles M Schulz, The Peanuts Movie is set to demonstrate that there’s hope for everyone, even beloved underdog Charlie Brown and his faithful beagle Snoopy. In this big-screen adventure, Charlie Brown embarks on an epic quest, while Snoopy takes to the skies in pursuit of his arch-nemesis, the Red Baron.

My Neighbour Totoro Tonari no Totoro Sun 28 Feb at 11.00am Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 1988 • 1h27m • Digital • English language version • U - Contains infrequent mild scary scenes With the voices of Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Frank Welker.

This superbly animated children’s tale is directed by Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japan’s most beloved animators. The story follows Satsuke and Mei, two young girls who find that their new country home is in a mysterious forest inhabited by a menagerie of mystical creatures named totoros. The eldest of these creatures becomes their friend, and, as their mother lies sick in the hospital, he takes the sisters on a magical adventure while also helping them to understand the realities of life.

Get more information on upcoming Education and Learning events at Filmhouse - including screenings for schools - on page 30.

Sun 6 Mar at 11.00am

Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz. Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organisation The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

Mary Poppins Sun 13 Mar at 11.00am Robert Stevenson • USA 1964 • 2h19m • Digital U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Jones, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber.

Mr and Mrs Banks decide to advertise for a nanny to care for their rowdy children, Michael and Jane. The children write their own ad, and when their father tears it up and burns it in the fireplace, the pieces miraculously reassemble and go up the chimney. Next day, Mary Poppins appears, gliding down from on high with an umbrella as her parachute... This delightful musical is one of the greatest family films of all time, still as fresh and entertaining as it was fifty years ago!

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POPPINS BROWN: THE PEANUTS...

SNOOPYMARY AND CHARLIE

Belle and Sebastian - The Adventure Continues Belle et Sébastien, l’aventure continue Sun 20 Mar at 11.00am Christian Duguay • France 2015 • 1h37m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild threat, mild bad language Cast: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier, Thierry Neuvic.

September 1945, everybody is celebrating the end of the war. Young Sebastian (Félix Bossuet), now ten years old, waits with faithful Belle for Angelina’s (Margaux Châtelier) return. When news reaches the village that her plane crashed deep in the Transalpine forest, Sebastian’s grandfather knows a man who can help them find her.

On their mission to locate Angelina, Belle and Sebastian must face peril, risk their lives and confront a secret - the adventure continues...

Ponyo Gake no ue no Ponyo Sun 27 Mar at 11.00am Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 2008 • 1h41m • Digital • U - Contains very mild threat

In Hayao Miyazaki’s beautiful animated feature, fiveyear-old Sosuke lives with his mum in a house on a cliff overlooking the sea. One day Sosuke finds a strangelooking goldfish with a human face; he rescues her and calls her Ponyo. Ponyo is so enamoured with Sosuke that she decides she wants to become human, but her father, Fujimoto, is determined that won’t happen...

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Filmosophy: Three Colours

THREE COLOURS: BLUE

Filmosophy: Three Colours This sixth season of Filmosophy focuses on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s stunning Three Colours Trilogy.

The films - Blue, White, Red - which correspond to the colours of the French flag, are loosely based on the central tenets of the French Republic - liberty, equality, and fraternity. More than this, they are deeply philosophical cinematic treatises on love and loss and offer a prescient insight into the plight of present-day Europe. The films will be screened from newly restored DCPs and will be followed by an opportunity to discuss the issues raised.

All films will be introduced by James Mooney, lecturer and course organiser for the University of Edinburgh’s Short Courses programme.

For more information: www.facebook.com/thinkingfilm www.twitter.com/film_philosophy Filmosophy host a special Valentine’s Day screening of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster - see page 6.

THREE COLOURS: WHITE

THREE COLOURS: RED

Three Colours: Blue

Three Colours: White

Trois couleurs: Bleu Wed 2 Mar at 6.00pm

Trois couleurs: Blanc Wed 6 Apr at 6.10pm

Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Switzerland/UK 1993 1h38m • Digital • French, Romanian and Polish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoït Régent, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Véry, Hélène Vincent.

Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Switzerland 1994 • 1h31m Digital • Polish, French, English and Russian with English subtitles 15 • Cast: Julie Delpy, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr.

Failing to find the courage to commit suicide after her husband and infant daughter die in a car crash, Julie (Binoche) decides to build a new, anonymous, and wholly independent life. Leaving her country mansion for a Paris apartment, she soons finds that freedom is not as easy to achieve as she had hoped - neighbours seek help and friendship, and doubts about her husband’s fidelity inflame jealousy. Most troubling is the music: Julie can’t escape the sounds in her head. The first of the trilogy is an arresting study of notions of individual freedom in the modern world. There’s no facile moralising, simply a lucid examination of a woman’s state of mind, and Binoche is quiet, strong, stubborn, and deeply aware that the heart holds mysteries that neither we nor those close to us will ever understand.

In Blue, Juliette Binoche’s Julie briefly enters a courtroom, in which a Polish man, Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), finds himself in divorce proceedings with his estranged wife Dominique (Julie Delpy). We return to this scene at the beginning of Three Colours: White.

Humiliated and now bereft of his marriage, business and legal residency in France, Karol lives on the streets performing songs for spare change. He happens upon a fellow Pole, the wealthy and successful Mikołaj (Janusz Gajos), and - after the ultimate first task - begin to work for him back in Poland. As he uses his wits to grow rich and richer still, his mind turns to Dominique once again...

Kieslowski’s second instalment is dark, wry and bittersweet - described by Roger Ebert as “the anti-comedy, in between the anti-tragedy and the anti-romance”.

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Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Filmosophy: Three Colours/Bye Bye, We Love You

THREE COLOURS: RED

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH

Three Colours: Red Trois couleurs: Rouge Wed 4 May at 6.00pm Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Switzerland/Poland 1994 • 1h39m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder, JeanPierre Lorit, Samuel Le Bihan, Marion Stalens.

Kieslowski’s final film is a tale of parallel lives which, in his uniquely poignant yet oblique fashion, draws together the threads and themes of the entire Three Colours trilogy.

Swiss model Valentine (Irène Jacob) discovers that a nearby retired judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) has been using his radio equipment to eavesdrop on his neighbours’ phone conversations. Confronting him, he urges Valentine to follow her conscience in deciding whether to denounce him or not. Meanwhile, law student Auguste (Jean-Pierre Lorit) is unaware that his girlfriend, Karin (Frédérique Feder), has been unfaithful to him. The paths of the judge, the student, his girlfriend and Valentine - all of whom live in the same street - begin to cross and re-cross in a web of coincidence.

Superbly acted, photographed and scored, this most complex film of the trilogy echoes the distinctive grace notes which span Kieslowski’s entire career.

LABYRINTH

ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS

“Bye Bye, We Love You”

Labyrinth

We pay tribute this month to The Thin White Duke; to Ziggy Stardust; to the mesmerising, transformative and unforgettable David Bowie.

Jim Henson • UK/USA 1986 • 1h41m • Digital • U Cast: Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie, Toby Froud, Shelley Thompson, Christopher Malcolm.

While his musicianship and iconic personas have left an incomparable legacy, his appearances on the big screen were sporadic, diverse and often quite astonishing.

We’ve selected three of our favourite Bowie films and we think you’ll enjoy them too - so just sit right down and await the gift of sound and vision...

The Man Who Fell To Earth Sat 27 Feb at 8.15pm Nicolas Roeg • UK 1976 • 2h19m • Digital • 18 Cast: David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey.

An alien (Bowie) crash lands on Earth, seeking help for his drought-stricken planet. By securing patents to advanced technology, he becomes a fabulously wealthy industrialist.

However, money and its attendant decadence ultimately exert a stronger gravitational pull. The otherworldly Bowie was perfectly cast as the space traveller, and the film further cemented director Nicolas Roeg’s status as one of the most unique filmmakers of the 1970’s.

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

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Mon 29 Feb at 6.00pm

Jennifer Connelly plays Sarah, a young girl who must travel through the Labyrinth to save her baby brother from the Goblin King (Bowie). Full of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop’s typically imaginative creature design, the film’s eye-popping sets, including the MC Escher inspired castle, create a wholly believable world existing just behind the facade of reality.

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Thu 3 Mar at 8.45pm DA Pennebaker • UK 1973 • 1h30m • Digital • PG Documentary

DA Pennebaker’s film of Bowie’s dazzling concert at the Hammersmith Odeon on 3 July 1973. Framed by a smattering of behind-the-scenes footage, the bulk of the film concerns the actual concert, notable as the final time that Bowie would perform under the Ziggy Stardust persona - an announcement that, at the time, led many fans to mistakenly believe Bowie was retiring altogether.

This ‘final’ performance features numerous songs from Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory, Aladdin Sane and other Bowie albums, as well as a cover of the Velvet Underground’s ‘White Light/White Heat’. Unmissable on the big screen!

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

5 February - 3 March 2016

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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 Trumbo 5 2 Rams (AD) Feb 2 Room (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

12.30/3.15/5.55/8.35

2.05/8.00 5.50 1.15 3.25/6.05/8.45

Fri 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 19 2 The Big Short (AD) Feb 2 A Very Ordinary Citizen (IFF) *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

12.30/4.15/8.00 3.00/8.30 5.50

Sat 1 Trumbo 6 2 Rams (AD) Feb 2 Room (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

Fri 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 12 1 Rams (AD) Feb 2 Rams (AD) 2 Trumbo *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

12.30/3.15/5.55/8.35

11.00am

1.00/7.30 5.15 1.15/6.05/8.45 3.55

Sun 1 Finding Nemo (FJ) 7 1 Double Bill: Deliverance + Feb In the Heat of the Night (SDB) 1 Trumbo 2 Rams (AD) 2 Room (AD) 3 Trumbo *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

Sat 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 13 1 Rams (AD) Feb 2 Trumbo 2 Rams (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

Sat 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 20 2 The Big Short (AD) Feb 2 Today (IFF) 2 A Minor Leap Down (IFF) 3 My Own Private Idaho (OR) *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

12.30/4.15/8.00 1.00/8.30 3.50 6.00 3.10

Mon 1 Trumbo 8 2 Room (AD) Feb 2 Room (AD) (C) 2 Rams (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

2.30/5.55/8.35 1.15 8.40 (captioned) 3.50/6.15

Sun 1 Rams (AD) 14 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm Feb 1 Casablanca (VD) 1 In the Mood for Love (VD) 2 The Princess Bride (FJ) 2 Trumbo 2 The Lobster (F) (VD) 2 Rams (AD) 3 Trumbo *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

12.45 3.00 6.45 9.00 11.00am 1.00/8.35 3.40 6.25 5.30

Sun 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 21 1 Spartacus (H) Feb 2 Snoopy...The Peanuts Movie(FJ) 2 Innocence of Memories 2 For a Rainy Day (IFF) 2 Atomic Heart (IFF) 2 The Big Short (AD) 3 My Own Private Idaho (OR) *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

12.00/7.50 3.45 11.00am 1.00 3.20 5.50 8.30 5.45

Tue 1 Trumbo 9 2 Room (AD) Feb 2 Rams (AD) 2 The Double Life of... (SE) 3 Rams (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

2.30/5.55/8.35 1.15/8.40 3.50 6.00 5.45

Wed 1 Trumbo 10 2 Rams (AD) Feb 2 Room (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

2.30/5.55/8.35 1.15/8.40 3.25/6.00

Thu 1 Trumbo 11 2 Rams (AD) Feb 2 Room (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

2.30/5.55/8.35 1.15/8.40 3.25/6.00

1.15/6.15 3.25/8.40

1.15/8.40 3.25/6.00

1.15 5.55/8.35 1.15/8.40 3.25/6.00 1.05

* 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

Mon 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 1.30/5.15 15 1 Rams (AD) (C) 9.00 (captioned) Feb 2 Trumbo 1.00/5.55/8.35 2 Rams (AD) 3.40 *Plus films and times TBC (see below) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 16 1 Rams (AD) Feb 2 Trumbo 2 Rams (AD) 2 The Last Mistress (SE) 3 Trumbo *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

1.30/7.50 5.40 1.00/8.35 3.40 5.55 5.30

Wed 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 17 1 Rams (AD) Feb 2 Rams (AD) 2 Trumbo *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

1.30/5.15 9.00 1.00 3.10/5.55/8.35

Thu 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 18 1 Rams (AD) Feb 2 Rams (AD) 2 Trumbo *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

1.30/7.50 5.40 1.00 3.10/5.55/8.35

KEY (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (C) – Captioned for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing (see page 2) All screenings in 2D unless marked (3D) Information about For Crying Out Loud screenings for babies and carers can now be found on page 2.

SEASONS: (AFF) – Adventure Film Festival (page 10-11) (B) – Bye Bye We Love You - David Bowie (page 15) (F) – Filmosophy (pages 6 & 14-15) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 12-13) (H) – Hollywood Blacklist (page 8) (IFF) – 2016 Iranian Festival Film Season (page 22-23) (J) – IKIRU: The Highs and Lows of... (page 24-25) (OR) – Over the Rainbow (page 7) (SDB) – Sunday Double Bills (page 19) (SE) – Screening Europe (pages 20-21) (VD) – Valentine’s Day(page 6)

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Mon 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 22 1 Innocence of Memories Feb 2 Innocence of Memories 2 The Big Short (AD) 2 The Big Short (AD) (C) 3 The Letter (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

1.30/5.15 9.00 12.55 3.05 5.50 (captioned) 8.40

Tue 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 23 1 Innocence of Memories Feb 2 Innocence of Memories 2 The Big Short (AD) 2 The Draughtsman’s... (SE) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)

1.30/7.50 5.30 1.00 3.15/8.30 6.00

Wed 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 24 1 Innocence of Memories Feb 2 The Big Short (AD) 2 Innocence of Memories 3 Being Good (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)

1.30/5.15 9.00 1.00/8.30 3.45 6.00

Thu 1 The Hateful Eight 70mm 25 1 Innocence of Memories Feb 2 The Big Short (AD) 2 Innocence of Memories 3 The Elegant Life of... (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)

1.30/7.50 5.30 12.55/5.50 3.40 8.40

Fri 1 Janis: Little Girl Blue 26 1 Adventure Film Festival 1 (AFF) Feb 2 Spotlight (AD) 2 Present Love...LGBT Shorts 2 Janis: Little Girl Blue 3 A Japanese Tragedy (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16) Sat 1 Janis: Little Girl Blue 27 1 The Man Who Fell To Earth (B) Feb 2 Spotlight (AD) 2 Present Love...LGBT Shorts 2 Janis: Little Girl Blue 3 Uzumasa Limelight (J) 3 Cheers from Heaven (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)

5 February - 3 March 2016

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Sun 1 My Neighbour Totoro (FJ) 28 1 Double Bill: Reservoir Dogs Feb + Pulp Fiction (SDB) 2 Janis: Little Girl Blue 2 Spotlight (AD) 3 I’ll Give It My All... Tomorrow (J) 3 Tale of a Butcher Shop (J) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)

11.00am 1.00 1.05/8.55 3.25/6.10 3.40 6.00

Mon 1 Labyrinth (B) 6.00 29 1 Spotlight (AD) 8.30 Feb 2 Roman Holiday (H) 1.10 2 Janis: Little Girl Blue 3.45/8.40 2 Write Shoot Cut 6.20 3.25 3 Spotlight (AD) 3 The Last Diamond 6.10 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 1 Roman Holiday (H) 1 1 Spotlight (AD) Mar 2 Janis: Little Girl Blue 2 The Last Diamond 2 Eisenstein in Guanajuato (SE) 3 Spotlight (AD) 3 The Last Diamond *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)

5.55 8.30 1.00/8.40 3.30 6.00 3.25 6.10

2.30 8.45 1.00/8.30 3.45 6.05 6.00

Wed 1 Spotlight (AD) 2 1 The Front (H) Mar 2 The Last Diamond 2 Janis: Little Girl Blue 2 Three Colours: Blue (F) 3 Spotlight (AD) 3 The Last Diamond *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)

5.55 8.45 1.00 3.30/8.25 6.00 3.25 6.10

2.00 8.15 1.00/5.55 3.45 8.40 1.00 6.00

Thu 1 Adventure Film Festival 2 (AFF) 3 1 Ziggy Stardust and the... (B) Mar 2 Janis: Little Girl Blue 2 The Front (H) 2 Spotlight (AD) 3 Spotlight (AD) 3 The Last Diamond *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)

6.00 8.45 1.15/6.00 3.45 8.30 3.25 6.10

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

TICKET PRICES AND INFORMATION

New Prices from 1 January 2016 MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thu: £8.00 full price, £6.00 concessions Friday Matinees: £6.00/£4.50 concessions Sat - Sun: £10.00 full price, £8.00 concessions EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later) £10.00 full price, £8.00 concessions For screenings in 3D add £2 to ticket price.

All tickets to Filmhouse Junior screenings (marked FJ on grid) are £4.50. Tickets for children under 12 are £4.50 for any screening.

Filmhouse Members get £1.50 off every ticket (excludes Friday matinees and Filmhouse Junior) Concessions available for: children (under 15); students (with valid matriculation card); school pupils (15-18 years); Young Scot cardholders; senior citizens; people with disability or invalidity status (carers go free); claimants (Jobseekers Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit); NHS employees (with proof of employment).

There are usually ticket deals available on film seasons.

All performances are bookable in advance, in person, online at www.filmhousecinema.com or by phone on 0131 228 2688. We do not charge a booking fee.

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 15 minutes.

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Mark Cousins Presents: Romanian Cinema/EAMIF

OPERATION ‘MONSTER’

FLEETING LOVES

EDINBURGH ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL

Sunday Double Bills

DELIVERANCE

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

Sunday Double Bills A regular, though not weekly, double bill, always on a Sunday afternoon.

Double Bill tickets cost £12/£10 concs.

Films in our Sunday Double Bills will be separated by a 15 minute break.

RESERVOIR DOGS

PULP FICTION

Double Bill: Deliverance + In the Heat of the Night

Double Bill: Reservoir Dogs + Pulp Fiction

Sun 7 Feb at 1.15pm

4h29m • Digital • 18

3h55m • Digital • 18

Following our special 70mm screenings of The Hateful Eight, we present the two ‘90s landmarks that launched the career of Quentin Tarantino.

A double-bill celebrating the lives and works of two legendary, Oscar-winning cinematographers: Haskell Wexler (1922-2015) and Vilmos Zsigmond (1930-2016).

In the Heat of the Night was not only groundbreaking for its forward-thinking portrayal of racial tensions in the American South, but also for Haskell Wexler’s attention to the lighting of lead actor Sidney Poitier. Whereas, in previous films, Poitier had often been overlit in a way that sabotaged the subtlety of his performances, Wexler’s sensitivity made this film the first major Hollywood production shot in colour to be photographed with proper consideration for African-American actors.

Vilmos Zsigmond came to Hollywood as a refugee from post-revolutionary Hungary, and was to become one of its most influential cinematographers. Deliverance was his first feature shot entirely on location, and his choice of a desaturated film stock was to lend the film its oft-imitated visual grittiness. And, as there were no special effects in the film, Zsigmond was given the added challenge of capturing scenes such as the shooting of the rapids whilst also being obliged to do so himself.

Deliverance John Boorman • USA 1972 • 1h50m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong violence and sexual violence Cast: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox.

In the Heat of the Night Norman Jewison • USA 1967 • 1h50m • Digital • 12A Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates.

Sun 28 Feb at 1.00pm

Reservoir Dogs, his astonishing heist-gone-wrong debut, tells the story of a jewellery robbery undertaken by a gang of colour-coded criminals, and its bloody aftermath. With an excellent script and a host of great performances, particularly from Tim Roth and Steve Buscemi, Tarantino cleverly engineers the gang’s downfall around a set of character flaws, producing a witty, dialogue-driven and utterly involving example of the genre.

Somehow upping the ante on outrageous violence and the love of language, Tarantino’s second feature proved to be a hands-down masterpiece. The Palme d’Or-winning Pulp Fiction synthesised film noir, David Mamet, crime thrillers and the fragmented storytelling structures of Citizen Kane and Rashomon. The result features another extraordinary ensemble cast, a seemingly endless stream of quotable dialogue, dozens of pop culture touchstones and a soundtrack that redefined everything from surf rock to Chuck Berry.

Reservoir Dogs Quentin Tarantino • USA 1992 • 1h40m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong bloody violence, torture, strong language & sex references Cast: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Eddie Bunker, Quentin Tarantino.

Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino • USA 1994 • 2h34m • Digital • English, Spanish and French with English subtitles • 18 - Contains drug use, sexual violence Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel, Maria de Medeiros, Christopher Walken.

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Screening Europe

THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE

THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT

THE LAST MISTRESS

Screening Europe Screening Europe is a new season curated by Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh. We will bring a varied selection of past and contemporary European films to Filmhouse to celebrate and interrogate the history and aesthetics of cinema in Europe. We invite members of the public as well as students to join us for an exciting series that will chart the development of film across Europe.

Our first programme of ten films oscillates between the 1980s or thereabouts and today. We will explore the ways in which European cinema has changed over the last twenty-five years and more.

All films will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

The Double Life of Veronique

The Draughtsman’s Contract

La Double vie de Véronique Tue 9 Feb at 6.00pm

Tue 23 Feb at 6.00pm

Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Norway 1991 • 1h38m • 35mm • French and Polish with English subtitles • 15 – Contains moderate sex Cast: Irène Jacob, Philippe Volter, Claude Duneton, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko.

Having made a number of innovative films in Poland, Kieslowski preceded his Three Colours trilogy with this joint French-Polish production starring Irène Jacob starring as both the Polish Weronika and the French Véronique in an intricate exploration of identity and desire. Music by Zbigniew Preisner is central to the atmosphere of the film while the importance of puppets and acting as oneself looks forward to Charlie Kaufman’s existential obsessions in Being John Malkovich; Synecdoche, New York and Anomalisa.

The Last Mistress Une vieille maîtresse Tue 16 Feb at 5.55pm

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Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO

Catherine Breillat • France/Italy 2007 • 1h54m • 35mm • French with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong sex and nudity, and brief bloody injury Cast: Asia Argento, Fu’ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolande Moreau, Michael Lonsdale.

Catherine Breillat unexpectedly moves beyond the exaggerated sexually violent provocations of her earlier brutalist films to produce a period drama set amongst the upper classes of 19th century Paris. Asia Argento plays the titular mistress who refuses to be relegated to second place by the whims of her lover, who quickly becomes irrelevant as the relationship between mistress and wife begins to take precedence. Look out for Léa Seydoux in one of her first screen roles.

Peter Greenaway • UK 1982 • 1h48m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, Neil Cunningham.

Shot in the formal gardens of Groombridge Place in Kent, Peter Greenaway’s metaphysical detective story is set in 1694 as a sexually manipulative artist dandy is commissioned to produce twelve landscape drawings of the house. It soon becomes unclear who is actually in charge. As is usual with Greenaway, the film is cluttered with allusions to art, history and theory while the painstaking attention to detail is undercut by the ludicrous nature of the characters and their farcical pretensions.

Eisenstein in Guanajuato Tue 1 Mar at 6.00pm Peter Greenaway • Netherlands/Mexico/Finland/Belgium 2015 • 1h45m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti, Rasmus Slatis, Jakob Öhrman, Maya Zapata, Lisa Owen, Stelio Savante.

We are extremely proud to present a preview of Peter Greenaway’s new film Eisenstein in Guanajuato as part of the Screening Europe programme. Taking as his subject the revolutionary Soviet filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein, and his trip to Mexico in the early 1930s, the film returns to Greenaway’s obsessions with sex, death and the artifice of cinema. Greenaway’s Eisenstein is also enthusiastically homosexual which has not endeared the film to some parts of contemporary Russia.

Special preview screening courtesy of Axiom Films.

Screening Europe

JAMÓN JAMÓN

YOUNG SOUL REBELS

BASTARDS

Jamón Jamón

Young Soul Rebels

Tue 8 Mar at 6.00pm

Tue 22 Mar at 6.00pm

Bigas Luna • Spain 1992 • 1h34m • 35mm • Spanish with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego, Jordi Mollà.

Isaac Julien • UK/France/Germany/Spain 1991 • 1h45m • 35mm 18 – Contains strong sex Cast: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber, Sophie Okonedo, Jason Durr.

Never one for understatement or for avoiding clichés, Bigas Luna provides an allegory for Spain’s transition from the old to the new via bullfighting, legs of cured pork and a masculinity so deeply in crisis that even Javier Bardem struggles to be man enough for the film’s pseudopsychoanalytical conceits. While Pedro Almodóvar’s cinema gives us a Spain of exuberant optimism, Luna is more gloomily carnivalesque in this vision of battling idiots.

The Screening Europe conference in 1991 actually premiered Isaac Julien’s evocation of black pirate radio Soul Patrol against the backdrop of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. Returning to the time of Derek Jarman’s own Jubilee, Julien presents a portrait of London where the racists of the National Front are in pitched battle with almost everyone else and soul funk provides the soundtrack for a murder mystery of political engagement. Young Soul Rebels is Dick Hebdidge’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style on screen.

Bastards Les salauds Tue 15 Mar at 6.00pm

Northern Soul

Claire Denis • France/Germany 2013 • 1h23m • Digital • French and English with English subtitles • 12A – Contains moderate language Cast: Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille, Michel Subor, Lola Créton.

Elaine Constantine • UK 2014 • 1h42m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, drug use, sex Cast: Elliot James Langridge, Joshua Whitehouse, Antonia Thomas, Jack Gordon, James Lance, Christian McKay.

A complicated tale of sexual exploitation and financial collapse in contemporary France, Denis’s noirish grand guignol tale of suicide, unpleasant sex and tawdry prurience divided audiences and critics. Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well, the film is a pessimistic cry against the strictures of family, and the all pervasive corruption of contemporary capitalism and a society in which only pain and suffering are sources of pleasure.

Vincent Lindon as the returning brother is the film’s only source of possible redemption.

Tue 29 Mar at 6.00pm

In the final film of the Screening Europe season, Northern Soul is an exuberant and unashamedly nostalgic look at the Northern youth club scene of the 1970s galvanised

by American soul music and amphetamines. Featuring Steve Coogan and Ricky Tomlinson in supporting parts, the film was extremely and unexpectedly successful during its short release in 2014. Northern Soul is an example of contemporary independent European filmmaking and marketing which raises questions about the future of both Europe and film.

NORTHERN SOUL

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The 2016 Edinburgh Iranian Festival Film Season

A MINOR LEAP DOWN

A VERY ORDINARY CITIZEN

The 2016 Edinburgh Iranian Festival Film Season

A Very Ordinary Citizen

Following on from the success of its 2015 edition, the Edinburgh Iranian Festival presents a set of five new feature films, centring on the themes of masculinity, alienation and the family.

A focus on Iran often comes with much commentary on the nation's women, and there's a tendency to imagine men as a homogenous group striving to protect and enforce the patriarchal system. Cinema, however, is the ideal lens through which to examine these constructions of masculinity – hence the theme of the season, curated by Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz. And, with four UK premieres and one Scottish premiere, Edinburgh cinephiles will have a real treat in store.

Following last year’s warm reception of Majid Barzegar’s Parviz, his newest film - co-written by internationally acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi (The White Balloon, Taxi Tehran) - has been chosen to open this year’s Iranian film season. In it, Barzegar once again turns his camera to the understudied isolation of men living in a patriarchal society.

Facing the onset of Alzheimer’s, Mr Safari, a pensioner in his eighties, decides to visit his son abroad. A young travel agent, Sara, is tasked with organising Mr Safari’s travel arrangements. However, the nature of their relationship is understood very differently by Sara and Mr Safari.

The season opens with the screening of Majid Barzegar's A Very Ordinary Citizen, co-written with the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Barzegar, who will also speak following A Minor Leap Down, which he produced. There will also be post-screening discussions following For a Rainy Day and Atomic Heart, and all screenings will be preceded by an introduction by the season's curator, Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz, or another member of the Edinburgh Iranian Festival team.

Yek shahrvand-e kamelan maamouli Fri 19 Feb at 5.50pm Majid Barzegar • Iran/Czech Republic/Netherlands 2015 • 1h40m • Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Souren Mnatsakanian, Shadi Karamroudi, Nahid Hadadi.

Followed by a discussion with director Majid Barzegar and Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz.

If you would like to know more about Iranian cinema and culture, please join Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, for a discussion in the Filmhouse Café Bar on Thursday 11 February at 15:00.

More information will be available on the website.

TODAY

Today Emrouz Sat 20 Feb at 3.50pm Reza Mirkarimi • Iran 2014 • 1h28m • Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Parviz Parastui, Soheila Golestani, Shabnam Moghadami.

Director Reza Mirkarimi’s flair for simple yet profound stories once again displays itself in Today, his third feature to be selected as Iran’s official Oscar submission. In it, ageing taxi driver Younes takes a young woman to hospital at the end of his working day, not knowing what awaits him there. Like Mirkarimi’s earlier films, A Cube of Sugar and As Simple as That, the narrative of Today unfolds in a single 24-hour period. And yet, it surpasses the limits of these few hours, telling stories of times gone by, some of which are of mythic proportions.

The 2016 Edinburgh Iranian Festival Film Season

A MINOR LEAP DOWN

A Minor Leap Down

FOR A RAINY DAY

Paridan az ertefa kam

For a Rainy Day

ATOMIC HEART

Rouz-e mabada

Sat 20 Feb at 6.00pm

Sun 21 Feb at 3.20pm

Hamed Rajabi • Iran/France 2015 • 1h28m • Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Negar Javaherian, Rambod Javan, Mehri Aleagha, Shafagh Shokri, Mahmoud Behrouzian, Sadaf Ahmadi.

Faezeh Azizkhani • Iran 2015 • 1h30m • Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Shirin Agharezakashi, Valli Azizkhani, Vahid Azizkhani, Hedieh Tehrani.

Nahal is four months into her pregnancy when she is given the news that her foetus has died and that she has two days to undergo an abortion. This revelation plunges her into a revolt against family and friends.

Director Hamed Rajabi describes his film as one depicting conditions in which meaningful social action has become extremely limited, and where the action takes place within the private and semi-public interactions of everyday life.

But, when everyday life is itself both limited and limiting, these actions may risk alienating both our loved ones and the institutions that sustain our livelihood.

Followed by a discussion with producer Majid Barzegar and Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz.

A student filmmaker discovers that her mother has been having recurring dreams about her own imminent death.

Believing these omens, her mother sets out to both fulfil her outstanding religious duties and make her childrens’ dreams come true. And, knowing that her daughter’s foremost ambition is to make a feature film, she sets about hiring a superstar....

An impressive work by an up-and-coming filmmaker, For a Rainy Day experiments with the boundaries between fiction and reality. Following in the footsteps of the masters of Iranian cinema (including Abbas Kiarostami, who served as directorial consultant), Faezeh Azizkhani explores the possibilities for telling the truth in cinema.

Followed by a discussion with producer Negar Eskandarfar and Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz.

Atomic Heart

Madar-e ghalb atomi Sun 21 Feb at 5.50pm

Ali Ahmadzadeh • Iran 2015 • 1h37m • Digital • Farsi with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani, Mehrdad Sedighiyan, Mohammad Reza Golzar.

On their way home from a wild party, Arineh and Nobahar get into a car accident. A mysterious stranger by the name of Toofan offers to cover the costs and refuses to be reimbursed, instead asking the two girls to follow him into the unknown. As the trio travel through a Tehran night full of mysteries and surprises, Arineh and Nobahar discover a parallel world of the unexpected, the existence of which they had never imagined.

Atomic Heart, which had its world premiere at Berlinale, is director Ali Ahmadzadeh’s follow-up to Kami’s Party, which screened as part of last year’s Iranian film season.

Followed by a discussion with Farshid Kazemi (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz.

TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% 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.

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network.

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The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2016

THE LETTERS

BEING GOOD

IKIRU: The Highs and Lows of Life in Japanese Cinema Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s iconic 1952 film Ikiru (“To Live”), the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2016 will provide an exciting collection of films looking at the way in which Japanese filmmakers have been observing and capturing people’s lives, and how people across the ages persevere, negotiate and reconcile with the environment and situation they live in.

THE ELEGANT LIFE OF MR EVERYMAN

The Letters Tegami Mon 22 Feb at 8.40pm Jiro Shono • Japan 2006 • 2h1m • 35mm • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Takayuki Yamada, Erika Sawajiri, Tetsuji Tamayama.

Tsuyoshi and Naoki are two brothers who have always looked out for each other since they lost their parents.

When older brother Tsuyoshi becomes unemployed, he is driven to commit a robbery in order to help Naoki with his university tuition fees and accidently murders. Undergoing a rough life as the brother of a murderer, Naoki begins to despise his sibling for the trouble he caused.

Being Good Kimi wa iiko Wed 24 Feb at 6.00pm Mipo O • Japan 2015 • 1h41m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Kengo Kora, Machiko Ono.

Tasuku (Kengo Kora) is a new primary school teacher struggling to deal with his class who is constantly on the receiving end of concerns from the children’s overlyprotective parents. Despite feeling out of his depth, when he discovers that one of his pupils is being abused by their parents, he decides that he must do something to help. Meanwhile in the same city, Masami (Machiko Ono), a woman who appears to be a good mother, can’t help lashing out at her own child.

Director Mipo O (The Light Shines Only There) returns to this year’s programme with her latest film, a heartwrenching portrayal of isolated people caught in downward spirals which also shows how simple acts of kindness can blossom and make a difference in someone’s life. This film was awarded the NETPAC Jury Prize at the 37th Moscow International Film Festival.

A JAPANESE TRAGEDY

The Elegant Life of Mr Everyman Eburiman shi no yuga na seikatsu (©1963 Toho Co., Ltd.) Thu 25 Feb at 8.40pm Kihachi Okamoto • Japan 1963 • 1h56m • 35mm • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Keiju Kobayashi, Michiyo Aratama, Eijiro Tono.

Eburi is a lowly salaryman who drunkenly promises two magazine editors that he will write them a masterpiece.

Once sober, Eburi commits himself to his promise and after deliberating over what to write about, he decides to write a novella using himself, his middle class life and his experiences as the theme.

Based on the magazine series by Hitomi Yamaguchi and falling within the framework of Toho’s popular ‘Salaryman Comedies’, this classic depicts the life of Eburi (Keiju Kobayashi), showing his mixed feelings about Japan’s social and economic outcome of the Second World War. Featuring animation and audacious editing, this idiosyncratic and inventive film is a timeless treatment of life in postwar Japan.

A Japanese Tragedy

Nihon no Higeki

(© 1953 Shochiku Co., Ltd.)

Fri 26 Feb at 6.00pm Keisuke Kinoshita • Japan 1953 • 1h39m • 35mm • Japanese with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Yuko Mochizuki, Yoko Katsuragi, Masami Taura.

Having lost her husband in the war, Haruko (Yuko Mochizuki) struggles to bring up her ungrateful materialistic son and daughter. Despite her countless sacrifices, including selling her land and even her body, her now grown-up children reject their mother, driving her to despair.

Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, considered to be one of the most important directors of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema in the 1950s, this film is a bleak portrait of post war Japan through the story of a mother’s self-sacrifice.

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2016

UZUMASA LIMELIGHT

CHEERS FROM HEAVEN

I’LL GIVE IT MY ALL...TOMORROW

Uzumasa Limelight

Cheers From Heaven

Sat 27 Feb at 1.00pm

Sat 27 Feb at 6.00pm

Ken Ochiai • Japan 2014 • 1h44m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Seizo Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Goda.

Makoto Kumazawa • Japan 2011 • 1h54m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • PG Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Keita Tanaka, Nanami Sakuraba.

An award-wining film telling the admirable story of Seiichi, a ‘kirareyaku’ actor whose main job in samurai movies is simply to be killed-off by the lead star. When the studio where Seiichi works decides to discontinue its samurai epics, Seiichi finds himself at a loss but hope arrives in the form of a young woman named Satsuki, who soon becomes his disciple.

Using Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight as an underlying theme, this film pays homage to the unsung heroes of Japanese movies filmed in Uzumasa film studios (Kyoto), Japan’s Hollywood. The semi-autobiographical performance by real-life kirareyaku, 71-year-old Seizo Fukumoto, who is said to have acted out 50,000 on-screen deaths, earned him the best actor prize at the Fantasia International Film Festival, Montreal, in 2014, with the film also winning the festival’s Cheval Noir for best film.

When ‘bento’ (lunch box) shop owner Hikaru (Hiroshi Abe) learns that a group of local high school students have no place to practice music, he decides to build a studio beneath his store allowing them to play there for free. The students begin to grow fond of Hikaru but still know little of his terminal illness which Hikaru has been battling and keeping secret from his family and friends.

Set in the coastal town of Motobu-cho, Okinawa, this film depicts the incredible true story of Hikaru Nakasone, a man who devoted the last days of his life to helping youngsters who felt as if they had nowhere to go.

Tengoku kara no eru

I’ll Give It My All... Tomorrow Ore wa mada honki dashite nai dake

(© 2013 “I’ll Give It My All...Tomorrow” Film Partners)

Sun 28 Feb at 3.40pm Yuichi Fukada • Japan 2013 • 1h45m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • PG Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi, Ai Hashimoto, Renji Ishibashi.

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Fed-up forty-something Shizuo (Shinichi Tsutsumi) quits his secure job to become a full-time slacker, embarking on a reluctant pursuit to follow his true dreams. Despite now spending most of his time hanging around the house playing video games and working part-time at a fast-food restaurant, Shizuo eventually comes to realise his true passion in life: Manga!

Adapted from Shunju Aono’s popular manga series, this comedy by Yuichi Fukuda (the director behind HK: Forbidden Super Hero) follows the mid-life crisis of a loveable lazybones trying to find his calling.

TALE OF A BUTCHER SHOP

Tale of a Butcher Shop Aru Seinikuten no Hanashi Sun 28 Feb at 6.00pm Aya Hanabusa • Japan 2013 • 1h49m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary

An award-winning documentary about the Kitades and their family-run butcher shop in Kaizuka City (outside Osaka), where they have been raising and slaughtering cattle, and selling their meat in their small shop for over 100 years. Aya Hanabusa’s touching documentary follows the family upon their decision to shut down their long-running slaughterhouse and looks at how the three butcher siblings have devoted their lives to the trade.

Containing unflinching scenes of animal slaughter, the film reveals the intricate, old-fashioned and reverential procedures the family follow in processing the meat. The seventh generation of their family’s business, the Kitades are descendants of the Buraku people, a social minority in Japan who are still subject to discrimination today and Hanabusa’s film touches upon the family’s continuing struggle to make their living despite the persistence of ancient prejudices.

Warning: Some scenes that show the slaughtering process may be disturbing for viewers.

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Education and Learning

TOYS ALIVE ANIMATION

PLASTICINE CREATURE ANIMATION

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. For more information email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk or call Nicola Kettlewood or Jenny Leask on 0131 228 6382. Details at www.filmhousecinema.com/learning February Animation Workshops Toys Alive Animation Wed 17 Feb 10.30am to 12.40pm (130 mins) OR 1.40pm to 3.50pm (130 mins) - £15 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. Animation Jam will give you extra bits and show you how to make quick special effects in small teams of animators. Bring along a small-ish toy (like 5-15cm) you want to animate or choose from random ones we’ll provide.

This workshop is suitable for ages 7-12 years -------------------------------------Plasticine Creature Animation Thu 18 Feb 10.30am to 12.40pm (130 mins) OR 1.40pm to 3.50pm (130 mins) - £15 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 come up, and watch your films online. Weird animals, comical super heroes, talking fruit, the only limit is your imagination!

This workshop is suitable for ages 7-12 years Animation Jam will also be running workshops in the Easter break, on Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 March – details on our website and in next month’s brochure.

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