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FILMS WORTH TALKING ABOUT
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It’s either feast or it’s famine, likesay… It’s times like this right now when we come to realise just how seasonal the film industry actually can be. The temptation for film distributors to hold back their awards-hopeful films to the start of the year (i.e. the end of awards eligibility season when, presumably, the likely contenders will be fresh in voters’ minds) seems to have been overpowering, which has resulted in such a bottleneck of great films it’s hard for a cinema with only three screens to accommodate them! Of course, it’s not everyone who wants to go the cinema two or three times a week (which is roughly what you’d need to throughout January and February to see ‘em all) and, knowing you’re not the kind to have queued up at the cinema in a mad rush to see a 00:01 screening of Rogue One last Wednesday night/Thursday morning, we reckon you’ll be happy to wait and see them in a more orderly fashion over the coming months, when the ones we couldn’t play – for reasons of space or simply not being ‘allowed’ – will take their deserved place in our programme. Having said all that, many of these films do figure in our January programme: Ben Affleck’s terrific Boston-set prohibition-era crime ‘meller’ (to borrow a word from Variety ‘slanguage’) Live By Night kicks it all off on the 13th, quickly followed by Pablo Larraín’s extraordinary Natalie Portmanstarring portrait of Jackie Kennedy in the immediate aftermath of JFK’s assassination, Jackie, and the ‘new Slumdog Millionaire’, Lion. And, one imagines, outside of any awards hysteria (beyond perhaps the imaginary award of the most anticipated sequel in Scottish/Edinburgh film history), T2 Trainspotting picks up the story of our old ‘friends’ many years later… And hang fire ‘til February, when we’ll bring you La La Land, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, and Martin Scorsese’s Silence, which will run alongside our ace 12-film tribute to the man throughout January and February (see pages 11-12). Rod White, Head of Filmhouse
Filmhouse Explorer Buy A TICKET FOR... Live By Night (p 5) Jackie (p 6) Lion (p 6) T2: Trainspotting (p 6)
GET A HALF PRICE TICKET for Martin Scorsese (p 11-12) Toni Erdmann (coming in Feb)
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‘I Know Where I’m Going’ 26 10 from 16 27-29 The 39 Steps 26 Arrival 25 The Assassin 28 Au revoir les enfants 10 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 9 Bobby Sands: 66 Days 5 Bread & Chocolate 22 Code Unknown 23 The Dance of Reality 4 Dirty Pretty Things 23 The Edge of Seventeen 8 Education & Learning 15 Endless Poetry 4 Filmhouse Junior 20-21 From Scotland With Love 26 Hamish 26 Hell or High Water 27 Herzog of the Month 9 Highlander 26 The Hours 10 Hugo 12 Hunt for the Wilderpeople 27 The Illusionist 26 The Intepreter 25 Jackie 6 Julieta 29 The Jungle Book 28 The King of Comedy 12 Kundun 11 The Last Waltz 12 The Lego Movie 21 Life, Animated 5 The Light Between Oceans 8 Lilting 25 Lion 6 Live By Night 5 Magnus 8 Martin Scorsese 11-12
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Mean Streets 12 The Measure of a Man 29 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 10 Moana 21 Moving Cinema 24 The Music of Strangers 4 Mustang 27 Pressure 22 Raging Bull 11 Rams 28 Scotland Galore! 26 Screening Europe 22-23 Short Courses 13 The Short Ecstasies of Werner Herzog 9 Shun Li and the Poet 23 The Son of Joseph 5 Son of Saul 28 The Spy in Black 10 Storks 20 Sully 8 T2 Trainspotting 7 Tale of Tales 29 Tharlo 4 Toni 22 Trainspotting 6 Trolls 20 Watching Language: Translation... 25 Zarafa 21
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New Releases/Jodorowsky
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Endless Poetry Fri 6 to Thu 12 Jan Alejandro Jodorowsky • Chile/Japan/France/UK 2016 • 2h8m • Digital Spanish, French and English with English subtitles • cert tbc • Cast: Adam Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Leandro Taub, Pamela Flores.
Avant-garde Chilean master Alejandro Jodorowsky once again turns the lens towards his youth - a liberating time when he cast off the shackles of a troubled childhood and plunged into the artistic circles of 1940s Chile. Endless Poetry features members of the director’s family among the cast namely his son Adan, who plays his father as a young adult - and serves as both a tribute to Chile’s artistic heritage and the life-changing power Jodorowsky has felt on his quest for beauty and inner truth.
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Jodorowsky
The Dance of Reality
La danza de la realidad Fri 6 & Sat 7 Jan
Alejandro Jodorowsky • Chile/France 2013 • 2h13m • Digital Spanish with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong torture. • Cast: Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Jeremias Herskovits, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Bastián Bodenhöfer, Andres Cox, Adan Jodorowsky.
The Dance of Reality marked Jodorowsky’s return to filmmaking after a break of 23 years. He returns to Tocopilla, his coastal hometown on the edge of the Chilean desert, to recount his unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted immigrant family. Blending history with metaphor, mythology and poetry, this intensely personal film reflects Jodorowsky’s philosophy - that reality is a dance created by our own imaginations.
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The Music of Strangers
Tharlo
Wed 11 & Thu 12 Jan
Wed 11 & Thu 12 Jan
Morgan Nevill • USA 2015 • 1h35m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Documentary.
Pema Tesden • China 2015 • 2h4m • Digital • Mandarin and Tibetan with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild threat, scene of animal butchery. • Cast: Shide Nyima, Yangshik Tso.
From the Oscar© winning director of 20 Feet from Stardom comes this engrossing and deeply inspiring documentary on the extraordinary music ensemble, The Silk Road. Created by world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, inspired by the ancient trade route linking Asia Africa and Europe, it represents dozens of nationalities and musical traditions. The Music of Strangers blends performance footage, interviews and archival film, painting a vivid portrait of an extraordinary group of creators from across the globe.
Adapting his own novella about an eponymous shepherd, Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden returns with this Venice Best Film nominee. Tharlo (Shide Nyima) visits a town to obtain an ID card, and encounters alluring hairdresser Yangtso (Yangshik Tso). A courtship begins, equal parts awkward and endearing, as the smitten shepherd discovers the contemporary pleasures of smoking, drinking, karaoke and sex. Tseden’s film - in pristine black-andwhite - is a wondrous, low-key story of culture clash and a nation torn between tradition and modernity.
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Live by Night
Life, Animated
Fri 13 to Thu 26 Jan
Fri 13 to Sun 15 Jan
Ben Affleck • USA 2016 • 2h8m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language, strong violence, sex, racist language. • Cast: Ben Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Scott Eastwood, Elle Fanning, Anthony Michael Hall.
Roger Ross Williams • USA 2016 • 1h32m • Digital • PG - Contains infrequent mild sex references, language. • Documentary.
Ben Affleck directs and stars in this adaptation of a novel by Dennis Lehane, whose adapted works to screen include Affleck’s feature debut Gone Baby Gone. Prohibition era U.S.A. - the son of a Boston police captain (Affleck) defies his law-abiding upbringing, climbing the perilous ladder of the underground liquor trade and dragging his loved ones into the firing line. This roaring ‘20s tale takes us from Boston, to Florida, to the streets of Cuba, via the Italian mob, Klansmen and corrupt police - all directed with a great deal of panache.
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Aged 3, Owen Suskind developed autism and withdrew into silence and distant thoughts. His loving parents struggled tirelessly to reach him - to interact in some meaningful way - but hope was fading. Enter Walt Disney, and a revelation that would change all of their lives. Young Owen was using his beloved Disney animated films to make sense of the world around him, and - as we see in this endearing coming-of-age documentary - this was the breakthrough he needed to reconnect with his family and forge ahead into young adulthood.
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The Son of Joseph
Bobby Sands: 66 Days
Sat 14 to Mon 16 Jan
Wed 18 & Thu 19 Jan
Eugène Green • France/Belgium 2016 • 1h53m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate threat, sex. • Cast: Victor Ezenfis, Fabrizio Rongione, Mathieu Amalric, Natacha Régnier.
Brendan Byrne • Ireland/UK 2016 • 1h46m • Digital • 15 - Contains footage of real violence, bloody injury. • Documentary featuring Martin McCann.
Eugène Green cleverly interlaces his latest film with tongue-in-cheek allusions to art and biblical themes - a theatrical, entertaining tale of parenthood, adolescence and relationships. Vincent (Victor Ezenfis) is a discontented Parisian teenager whose mind is consumed by one burning question - ‘who is my father?’ Upon finding out the disappointing truth of his parentage, however, he meets a kindred spirit in his birth father’s brother Joseph (Fabrizio Rongione). Their bond will change Vincent’s life forever.
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35 years on, Bobby Sands’ 66-day hunger strike as a political prisoner in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland, remains a defining event of 20th century Irish history. Brendan Byrne’s Bobby Sands: 66 Days is a significant attempt to collate and distill the events of this fatal protest and the swirling political and societal contexts that surrounded it. Structured around excerpts from Sands’ personal diary, it is a comprehensive, balanced and insightful exploration of the man, his life and his death.
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Lion
Jackie
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Garth Davis • Australia 2016 • 1h58m • Digital • English, Bengali and Hindi with English subtitles • PG - Contains scenes of emotional intensity, mild threat. • Cast: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara.
Pablo Larraín • Chile/France/USA 2016 • 1h40m • Digital • 15 Contains brief strong violence. Cast: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt, Richard E. Grant.
A genuinely touching story of tenacity and hope brought to screen from Saroo Brierley’s autobiographical book A Long Way Home, Lion is the debut feature of Garth Davis. The impressive Dev Patel plays Brierley, who is separated tragically from his family at five years old and forced to roam the streets of Kolkata alone, before being adopted by an family who raise him back in Australia. Twenty-five years pass and all the while, with just a handful of memories and internet maps to guide him, his search goes on to find his mother.
From Pablo Larraín (No, The Club) comes this extraordinary portrait of one of the most important moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). Placing us in the days after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this is an intimate, psychological vision of the First Lady - known for her dignity and poise - as she struggles with intense grief and maintaining her husband’s legacy. Portman is captivating, leading an impressive supporting cast in Chilean Larraín’s first English-language feature.
TRAINSPOTTING DAY
Trainspotting Tue 17 Jan at 4.10pm & 8.45pm Danny Boyle • UK 1996 • 1h33m • 35mm • 18 - Contains very strong language, strong sex and violence and hard drug use. • Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Kelly Macdonald.
A shocking, painfully subjective trawl through the Edinburgh heroin culture of the 1980s, Irvine Welsh’s cult novel was hardly an obvious choice for the team who made Shallow Grave, yet the film’s a triumph. Audaciously punching up the pitch-black comedy, juggling parallel character strands and juxtaposing image, music and voice-over with a virtuosity worthy of Scorsese on peak form, Trainspotting the movie captures precisely Welsh’s insolent, amoral intelligence. Screening from a 35mm print.
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T2 Trainspotting Showing from Fri 27 Jan Danny Boyle • UK 2017 • run time tbc • Digital • cert tbc Cast: Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner.
First there was an opportunity... then a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by since that day. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home - Edinburgh. Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle) await him, as do sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger - what did Renton really choose?
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The Light Between Oceans
The Edge of Seventeen
Fri 6 to Tue 10 Jan
Mon 9 to Thu 12 Jan
Derek Cianfrance • UK/New Zealand/USA 2016 • 2h13m • Digital 12A - Contains infrequent moderate sex. • Cast: Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, Rachel Weisz, Florence Clery.
Kelly Fremon Craig • USA 2016 • 1h44m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sex references. • Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Lu Richardson, Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedgwick.
Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine) directs this adaptation of M.L. Stedman’s novel. A veteran of World War I, Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender) keeps a lighthouse on the coast of Western Australia, with his wife Isabel (Alicia Vikander), with whom he unsuccessfully tries for a baby. When a rowboat washes up on the shore, they discover a frightened baby girl on board and decide to adopt her. When baby Lucy’s birth mother Hannah (Rachel Weisz) appears, they are faced with the agonising choice between their newfound joy and what is right.
Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star older brother Darian (Blake Jenner) starts dating her best friend (Haley Lu Richardson). All at once, Nadine feels more alone than ever, until the unexpected friendship of a thoughtful boy gives her a glimmer of hope... Kelly Fremon Craig’s film is earnest, witty and a pleasing throwback to the teen comedies of the ‘80s, with Steinfeld (True Grit) continuing to display excellent range in the lead role.
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Sully
Magnus
Fri 13 to Thu 19 Jan
Wed 18 & Thu 19 Jan
Clint Eastwood • USA 2016 • 1h36m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate threat, infrequent strong language. • Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Valerie Mahaffey, Mike O’Malley.
Benjamin Ree • Norway 2016 • 1h18m • Digital • U - Contains very mild bad language. • Documentary.
On Thursday 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the “Miracle on the Hudson” when Captain Chesley Sullenberger, nicknamed “Sully” (Tom Hanks), guided his malfunctioning plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded for his unprecedented feat of aviation, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career... Clint Eastwood returns to form, crafting a film of tension and poignance from this well-publicised story.
Norway’s Magnus Carlsen is regarded as the ‘Mozart of Chess’ for his skill in blending learned tactics with remarkable creativity and intuition. Memorised moves and calculated probabilities can carry a chess player extremely far, but Magnus’ journey eventually proves that there can be other elements of the game, ones that are impossible to measure or calculate. Through an extensive amount of archival footage and home movies, director Benjamin Ree reveals this young man’s fascinating, unusual and rapid trajectory to the top of the chess rankings.
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Werner Herzog is one of the most distinctive and accomplished filmmakers of recent decades. He is an artist and storyteller of startling originality and range. His masterpieces include both documentary and fiction, both feature length and short form work. His career spans cultures and languages with remarkable fluidity. His acuteness of observation, and sensitivity to esoteric character, again and again yield moments of astonishing cinematic force. Filmhouse will screen a film by Werner Herzog every month. This will continue for as long as possible. See these films.
The Short Ecstasies of Werner Herzog
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Tue 17 Jan at 6.15pm
Thu 23 Feb at 5.50pm
1h54m • PG
Werner Herzog • USA 2009 • 2h2m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 18 - Contains frequent hard drug use, sex and very strong language • Cast: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Alvin ‘Xzibit’ Joiner, Fairuza Balk.
Werner Herzog’s abiding interest in the quixotic ambitions of eccentric outsiders comes to the fore in this trio of documentaries from early in his career. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Les Blank • USA 1980 • 20m • 16mm • Documentary
Les Blank documents Herzog, as he honours his promise to eat his own shoe if Errol Morris ever finished and released his film Gates of Heaven. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Werner Herzog • West Germany 1974 • 45m • Digital • German with English subtitles • Documentary
Herzog brings intense focus to his examination of the factors driving a Swiss woodcarver to leave his humble workshop and seek, through ski-jumping, the exhilaration of unfettered flight. How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck...
Werner Herzog • West Germany 1976 • 44m • Digital • Documentary
Herzog explores ”the last poetry possible, the poetry of capitalism”, as he documents the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship 1976 in New Holland, PA. The screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Edinburgh
When it was announced that Werner Herzog would be ‘re-imagining’ Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, it’s fair to say that eyebrows, not to mention a few hackles, were raised. Yet Herzog is right to insist this is not a remake, and moving the action from New York to New Orleans is indicative of how far apart the films are from each other. Nicolas Cage is on electrifying form as Terence McDonagh, one of the few cops left in town after a post-Katrina exodus. Crippled by a back injury, prescription drugs do little to ease his pain, so he turns to the hard stuff. When McDonagh is put in charge of the investigation into the brutal murder of a family, his moral compass gets lost and his behaviour becomes ever more erratic. Is he out of his depth or out of his mind?
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Hours
Wed 11 Jan at 8.30pm
Sat 14 Jan at 3.15pm & Sun 15 Jan at 6.00pm
Robert Altman • USA 1971 • 2h • Digital • English and Cantonese with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie.
Stephen Daldry • UK/USA 2002 • 1h54m • 35mm • 12A - Contains single use of strong language and suicide theme. • Cast: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, John C Reilly.
Every now and again, a great film quietly becomes available (again) to cinemas in a brand new print or in a new digital version. These we will showcase in our irregular and ongoing Come and See series.
Charismatic gambler John McCabe (Warren Beatty) arrives in a Pacific Northwest town to set up a brothel. The shrewd Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie) arrives soon after and offers to use her experience to help McCabe run his business, while sharing in the profits. It thrives, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller draw closer, despite their conflicting intelligences and philosophies. Soon, however, the mining deposits in the town attract the attention of a major corporation. With McCabe rejecting their takeover bid, his decision has major repercussions for him, Mrs. Miller and the town...
Daldry’s inspired adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s novel cuts between single days in the lives of three women. In 1923, Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is climbing the walls of her home, plotting her novel and her escape. In the 1950s, suburban Laura (Julianne Moore) dutifully bakes for a loving husband (John C Reilly) and son, but is slowly choking on frustrated desires. And, in the here and now, Clarissa (Meryl Streep) is devoting her energies to a party for her first love (Ed Harris), a poet in the final stages of AIDS.
GROWING PAINS THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN CINEMA
The Spy in Black Tue 17 Jan at 2.10pm & 6.25pm Michael Powell • UK 1939 • 1h22m • 35mm • U • Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring, June Duprez.
Michael Powell’s first collaboration with Emeric Pressburger (who wrote the screenplay, and with whom he would collaborate on a further 20 features) was a massive commercial hit on its release. Conrad Veidt plays a surprisingly sympathetic German spy at the height of WWI, slinking through the Scottish landscape on a covert mission of espionage...
Au revoir les enfants Wed 18 Jan at 6.00pm Louis Malle • France/West Germany/Italy 1987 • 1h45m • Digital French, German, English, Greek and Latin with English subtitles 12A - Contains moderate sex references, moderate bad language, scenes of smoking. Classic and contemporary films dealing with some of the more complex aspects of childhood. All films followed by an informal chat and will be introduced by Jessie Moroney, a member of the programming team who attended the Practical Programming course with the Independent Cinema Office, which assists participants to develop a fresh programme for their venues.
Can childhood withstand prejudice and atrocity? Set during the German Occupation of France in WWII, Louis Malle’s semi-autobiographical film details the the friendship between two 12-year-olds at a provincial Catholic boarding school - one from a wealthy Catholic family, the other a Jewish boy under an assumed identity, hidden by the priests who work to protect the boys from the Holocaust.
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Martin Scorsese
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As Martin Scorsese prepares to release long-awaited passion project Silence (coming to Filmhouse next month), we look back over his rich canon of cinematic work to date in this season of films that will continue into February (see next brochure) with Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, After Hours, Casino and The Age of Innocence. The first six (screened non-chronologically) are a testament to versatility, displaying his prowess approaching biographical works of hugely differing tone and focus (the Dalai Lama and Jake La Motta are not exactly kindred spirits), and the deft touch he has with dark, complicated characters (see The King of Comedy, Mean Streets). Beyond these, The Last Waltz is a must-see for music aficionados and Scorsese completists, while Hugo shows that Marty is more than capable of weaving together a beautiful, entertaining tale for the whole family.
Kundun Fri 6 to Sun 8 Jan Martin Scorsese • USA 1997 • 2h8m • 35mm • English, Tibetan and Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin.
This is the biographical story of the 14th Dalai Lama, spiritual and political leader of Tibet, from his early childhood to his forced exile in 1959 at age 24. The story introduces the Dalai Lama as a toddler and follows his ‘discovery’ by elders as a reincarnation of the Buddha through to his training by monks and enthronement as Tibet’s leader. Kundun captures the essential elements of an ancient culture, and builds to China’s brutal invasion, both real and spiritual.
Raging Bull Sun 8 to Tue 10 Jan Martin Scorsese • USA 1980 • 2h9m • Digital • 18 - Contains coarse language and strong violence • Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana.
37 years on, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull still explodes with imagination and life, revealing the thunder, sensitivity and artistry of a director on a creative high. It demands to be watched on the big screen. Every swirling camera movement and distinctive angle has a real reason for existing in this story of boxing champ Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro). A rather frightening probe into the limitations of masculinity, in which the power of Scorsese is matched by the intensity of De Niro, who delves deep into the soul of the boxer.
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The King of Comedy
Hugo
Tue 10 to Thu 12 Jan
Fri 13 to Sun 15 Jan
Martin Scorsese • USA 1982 • 1h49m • Digital • PG - Contains mild language, sex references. • Cast: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard, Diahnne Abbott.
Martin Scorsese • USA 2011 • 2h6m • Digital • U - Contains mild scenes of danger • Cast: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone.
In his own mind, Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) is the next big comedy sensation to hit primetime television - all he needs is someone to listen to his jokes. Scorsese’s dark comedy rings true as a prophetic vision of fame-hunger and media frenzies to come, as Pupkin - obsessed with talk show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) - goes to drastic lengths to have his 15 minutes of fame. Stalking Jerry with psychotic fellow obsessive Masha (Sandra Bernhard), they hatch a plan to kidnap their idol...
Scorsese’s delightful family adventure tells the tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. Hugo (Asa Butterfield) - searching for the key to operate the broken machine left to him by his late father - encounters an eccentric girl (Chloë Moretz), and a cold, reserved man (Ben Kingsley) by the name of Georges Méliès who runs a toy shop. From there, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.
The Last Waltz
Mean Streets
Mon 16 & Tue 17 Jan
Wed 18 & Thu 19 Jan
Martin Scorsese • USA 1978 • 1h57m • Digital • U - Contains infrequent mild sex references. • Documentary.
Martin Scorsese • USA 1973 • 1h52m • 35mm • English and Italian with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, Victor Argo.
An embellished record of The Band’s farewell concert, mostly shot at San Francisco’s Winterland in 1976, on a set borrowed from a local opera company. Wonderful music, a stage crowded with guests including Neil Diamond, Neil Young, Dr John, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell and Muddy Waters, and consummately stylish direction from Martin Scorsese, who intersperses concert footage with fragments of interview shot around pool tables and in bars.
Martin Scorsese’s breakthrough movie is as invigorating today as it was 44 years ago. Lifting the lid on the manners and mores of the Little Italy neighbourhood where Scorsese grew up (famously aspiring to the priesthood), Mean Streets has an exuberance and vitality only Goodfellas can match - but with a moral compass the later film misses. Already the dynamic camerawork, contrapuntal editing and rock’n’roll scoring are firmly in place; while the young Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro bounce each other all over the screen.
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Short Courses
Looking forward to new 2017 University of Edinburgh Short Courses taking place at Filmhouse in the Edinburgh Film Guild cinema. In Red Hollywood we learn about East German cinema before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forgotten Gems of World Cinema invites us to rediscover neglected classics by acclaimed directors such as Taiwanese Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Romanian Lulian Mihu or Egyptian Youssef Chahine. Italian Cinema is also back with a new line-up of selected films. Enrol early and join us for lively post-screening discussions! For more information and how to enrol, go to: www.ed.ac.uk/short-courses www.ed.ac.uk/studying/short-courses/ studentinfo/help-with-fees
Italian Cinema Mondays from 16 January 2017 • 6:30pm - 9:20pm • (10 classes) Guild Cinema • Pasquale Iannone • £121.00
With a new line-up of films every year, this course offers an exciting overview of one of the world’s most important national cinemas. We will explore a variety of genres and styles (dramas, comedies, westerns and more) while discussing the work of both canonical and lesser known figures in Italian cinema.
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Forgotten Gems of World Cinema Tuesdays from 17 January 2017 • 6:30pm - 9:20pm (10 classes) Guild Cinema • Rolland Man • £121.00
The history of cinema is often a history of rediscovery. Many films now held as classics were neglected for years by critics and audiences. Sometimes they were too obscure or daring, or they seemed out of fashion. Come and explore some forgotten gems that will amaze you by their modernity!
Red Hollywood Thursdays from 19 January 2017 • 6:30pm - 9:20pm (10 classes) Guild Cinema • James Dunnigan • £121.00
More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, films from the former GDR have finally become available. The course will focus on the output of State controlled DEFA studios from 1946 to the Reunification, and address the relationship between art and politics, issues surrounding state censorship and the construction of a National Cinema. We will also examine representations of gender, youth and work in the context of Socialist cinema.
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Education and Learning Edinburgh and Lothians Schools Film Competition – Teachers’ Event Tuesday 24 January, 16:30-18:30 Schools are invited to submit film entries to the Edinburgh and Lothians Schools Film Competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017. We invite teachers to attend this free teachers’ event to learn more about the competition, including a short film making workshop showing how simply you can make a film with your pupils. To book places please contact Heather Law at heather@screen-ed.org
Inside Hana’s Suitcase A special screening for Holocaust Memorial Day Thursday 26 January, 10am, 1h28m, English, Czech and Japanese with English subtitles, recommended cert PG, suitable for P6-S3, Religious & Moral Education, History Hana Brady was just a little girl when she and her brother George were singled out at Jews, and sent away from home by the Nazis. Seventy years later a class of Japanese children received a package from the Holocaust museum in Germany. It contained what appears to be Hana’s suitcase and from this starting point the children and their teacher begin to unravel her story. A moving film which deals with the difficult subject of the holocaust, and a wider theme of tolerance. You can visit the film’s interactive website at www.cbc.ca/hanassuitcase/ Tickets cost £3 per pupil/free for teachers. To book please contact Flip Kulakiewicz at education@cmi-scotland.co.uk or call 0131 228 2688 Morning Screenings Filmhouse has introduced morning public screenings starting from 11am, which schools are welcome to attend. We offer 25% off tickets to public screenings when bringing a group of ten or more pupils. This discount applies to concession price tickets for pupils and full price tickets for accompanying adults. We hope that this discount will allow school groups to attend a range of films at more suitable times. January screenings include award-winning documentary Life, Animated (page 5), historical biopic Jackie (page 6) and moving family drama Lion (page 6).
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(AD) Audio Description (see p 30) (10) 10 from 16 (p 27-29) (C) Captioned for deaf or hard of hearing (CS) Come and See (p 10) (see p 30) (FJ) Filmhouse Junior (p 20-21) DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
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Fri 1 The Light Between Oceans (AD) 1.00 6 1 Hunt...Wilderpeople (AD) (10) 3.50/6.10 Jan 1 Kundun (MS) 8.30 2 Hamish (SG) 11.05am 2 From Scotland With Love (SG) 1.10 2 Mustang (10) 3.05 2 The Light Between Oceans (AD) 5.45 3 Endless Poetry 2.00/8.25 3 The Dance of Reality 5.40 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 18) Sat 1 The Light Between Oceans (AD) 12.15 7 1 Endless Poetry 3.05 Jan 1 Kundun (MS) 5.50 1 Hell or High Water (AD) (10) 8.40 2 Highlander (SG) 11.05am 2 The Illusionist (SG) 1.35 2 Hell or High Water (AD) (10) 3.40 2 The Light Between Oceans (AD) 6.00 3 The Dance of Reality 2.00/5.40 3 Endless Poetry 8.25 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 18) Sun 1 Storks (FJ) 11.00am 8 1 The Jungle Book (AD) (10) 1.00/6.15 Jan 1 Kundun (MS) 3.25 1 Raging Bull (MS) 8.40 2 The 39 Steps (SG) 11.05am 2 ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ (SG) 1.10 2 Son of Saul (10) 3.15/5.45 2 The Light Between Oceans (AD) 8.15 3 Endless Poetry 2.30/5.50 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 18) Mon 1 Mustang (10) 2.30/8.45 9 1 Raging Bull (MS) 6.00 Jan 2 The Edge of Seventeen 11.15am/6.10 2 The Light Between Oceans (AD) 2.00 2 The Light Between Oceans (C) 8.30 (captioned) 3 Endless Poetry 3.05/5.50 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 18) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 30
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Tue 1 Raging Bull (MS) 2.30 10 1 The King of Comedy (MS) 6.15 Jan 1 Rams (10) 8.40 2 The Light Between Oceans (AD) 11.15am/8.30 2 The Edge of Seventeen 2.00/6.10 3 Endless Poetry 11.00am/8.25 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 18) Wed 1 The King of Comedy (MS) 11 1 The Assassin (10) Jan 1 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (CS) 2 Tharlo 2 The Edge of Seventeen 3 The Music of Strangers 3 Endless Poetry *Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)
2.30 6.10 8.30 11.15am/6.00 2.00/8.45 11.00am/8.55 1.10
Thu 1 Endless Poetry 12 1 Tale of Tales (10) Jan 1 The King of Comedy (MS) 2 The Edge of Seventeen 2 Tharlo 3 The Music of Strangers *Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)
2.30 5.45 8.40 11.15am/8.45 2.00/6.00 1.35/6.30
Fri 13 Jan
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Live by Night (AD) Live by Night (AD) Hugo (MS) The Measure of a Man (10) Sully (AD) Life, Animated (AD)
Sat 14 Jan
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Live by Night (AD) 12.15/3.00/5.45/8.30 Live by Night (AD) 11.30am The Hours (OR) 3.15 Son of Saul (10) 6.00 The Son of Joseph 8.35 Life, Animated (AD) (C) 11.00am (captioned) Life, Animated (AD) 6.15 Sully (AD) 1.10/8.25 Hugo (MS) 3.25
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11.30am 2.15/6.00 8.45 11.15am/3.45/6.10 1.30/8.25
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Sun 15 Jan
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Trolls (FJ) Live by Night (AD) Hugo (MS) The Hours (OR) The Son of Joseph Live by Night (AD) Life, Animated (AD) Sully (AD) Julieta (10)
(SG) Scotland Galore! (p 26) (WL) Watching Languages (p 25) (WW) First World War in Cinema (p 10)
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Fri 20 Jan
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Jackie 1.00/8.40 Lion (AD) 3.15/6.00 Jackie 11.05am/3.55/6.15 Lion (AD) 1.20/8.35 Live by Night (AD) 11.15am/2.15 Live by Night (AD) 5.45/8.30
Sat 21 Jan
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Jackie 1.00/8.40 Lion (AD) 3.15/6.00 Jackie 11.05am/3.55/6.15 Lion (AD) 1.20/8.35 Live by Night (AD) 11.15am/2.15 Live by Night (AD) 5.45/8.30
Sun 22 Jan
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Zarafa (FJ) 11.00am Jackie 1.00/8.40 Lion (AD) 3.15/6.00 Jackie 11.05am/3.55/6.15 Lion (AD) 1.20/8.35 Live by Night (AD) 11.15am/2.15 Live by Night (AD) 5.45/8.30
Mon 1 Live by Night (AD) 2.30/5.45/8.30 16 2 Live by Night (AD) 11.30am Jan 2 The Son of Joseph 3.20/8.35 2 ‘71 (M) 6.00 +Intro 3 The Last Waltz (MS) 1.30/8.40 3 Sully (AD) 4.00 3 Sully (AD) (C) 6.15 (captioned) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 30 Tue 17 Jan
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Live by Night (AD) 2.30/5.45/8.30 Live by Night (AD) 11.25am The Spy in Black (WW) 2.10/6.25 Trainspotting 4.10/8.45 Sully (AD) 11.15am/4.00 The Last Waltz (MS) 1.30/8.40 Short Ecstacies of...Herzog (HZ) 6.15 +Intro Live by Night (AD) Live by Night (AD) Mean Streets (MS) Au revoir les enfants (GP) Magnus Bobby Sands: 66 Days Sully (AD)
2.30/5.45/8.30 11.30am 2.15/8.40 6.00 +Discussion 11.15am/6.15 1.15/8.25 3.45
Live by Night (AD) Live by Night (AD) Mean Streets (MS) Sully (AD) Bobby Sands: 66 Days Magnus Sully (AD)
2.30/5.45/8.30 11.30am 2.15/8.40 6.00 11.15am/6.15 1.45/8.45 3.45
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Mon 1 Jackie 1.45/6.00 23 1 Lion (AD) 8.20 Jan 2 Jackie 11.05am/8.50 2 Lion (AD) 1.20 2 The Interpreter (WL) 5.30 +Discussion 3 Live by Night (AD) 11.15am/2.15/8.30 3 Live by Night (AD) (C) 5.45 (captioned) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 30
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Jackie Lion (AD) Live by Night (AD) Jackie Lion (AD) Toni (SE) Live by Night (AD) Arrival (WL) (AD)
1.00 3.15/8.40 5.55 11.05am/3.55/6.15 1.20 8.35 +Intro 11.15am/2.15/8.30 5.30 +Discussion
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Lion (AD) Live by Night (AD) Lion (AD) Jackie Live by Night (AD) Lilting (WL)
12.50/3.25/8.40 5.55 11.05am/6.10 1.40/3.55/8.45 11.15am/2.15/8.30 5.45 +Discussion
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Thu 26 Jan
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Lion (AD) 12.50/3.25/6.00 Jackie 8.40 Jackie 1.40/3.55/6.15 Lion (AD) 8.35 Live by Night (AD) 11.15am/2.15 Live by Night (AD) 5.45/8.30
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T2 Trainspotting (AD) 1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45 Lion (AD) 11.15am/2.00 Lion (AD) 6.00/8.40 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 11.00am Jackie 1.35/3.50/6.15/8.30
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T2 Trainspotting (AD) 1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45 Lion (AD) 11.15am/2.00 Lion (AD) 6.00/8.40 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 11.00am Jackie 1.35/3.50/6.15/8.30
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T2 Trainspotting (AD) 1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45 Lion (AD) 11.15am/2.00 Lion (AD) 6.00/8.40 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 11.00am Jackie 1.35/3.50/6.15/8.30
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T2 Trainspotting (AD) 1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45 Lion (AD) 11.15am/2.00 Lion (AD) 6.00/8.40 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 11.00am Jackie 1.35/3.50/6.15/8.30
Sun 29 Jan
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The Lego Movie (FJ) T2 Trainspotting (AD) T2 Trainspotting (AD) Lion (AD) T2 Trainspotting (AD) Jackie
11.00am 2.30/5.15/8.00 1.00 3.35/6.10/8.45 11.00am 1.35/3.50/6.15/8.30
Mon 1 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 3.35/6.10/8.45 30 2 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 1.00 Jan 2 Lion (AD) 3.35/6.10/8.40 3 T2 Trainspotting (AD) 11.00am 3 Jackie 1.35/3.50/6.15 3 Jackie (C) 8.30 (captioned) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 30
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T2 Trainspotting (AD) Lion (AD) Bread and Chocolate (SE) T2 Trainspotting (AD) Jackie Lion (AD) (C)
1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45
11.15am/1.50/8.40 6.05 +Intro 11.00am 1.35/3.50/8.35 6.00 (captioned)
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* The majority of our screenings are scheduled well in advance, and times published in the brochure and online. Most weeks we leave spaces in the schedule in order to allow us to keep on films that are proving popular for a little longer; these screenings will be added to our website on the Tuesday preceding the start of the new cinema week on Friday.
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JUN I OR Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.50 (£5.50 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small! For these shows we choose to screen dubbed versions where these are available, but some films will be in their original language with subtitles – these are marked on individual film descriptions. Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grownups should expect some noise!
Storks Sun 8 Jan at 11.00am Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland • USA 2016 • 1h29m • Digital U - Contains mild slapstick, very mild bad language.
Storks deliver babies...or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore.com. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorised baby girl. Desperate to deliver this bundle of trouble before the boss gets wise, Junior and his human friend Tulip race to make their first-ever baby drop - in a wild and revealing journey!
Trolls Sun 15 Jan at 11.00am Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn • USA 2016 • 1h32m • Digital • U
A smart, musical and irreverent new animated world from the creators of Shrek, featuring the highly nostalgic and overly optimistic Trolls - a gang of tall-haired musical misfits of all colours and sizes. When Troll Town is invaded by the villainous Bergens, curmudgeonly Branch (Justin Timberlake) and the eternally joyful Poppy (Anna Kendrick) embark on a daring rescue mission to save their friends.
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Zarafa Sun 22 Jan at 11.00am Rémi Bezançon & Jean-Christophe Lie • France/Belgium 2012 1h15m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, threat
With stunning animation, Zarafa gorgeously tells the story of the undying friendship between 10-yearold Maki and an orphaned giraffe, intended as a gift for the King of France. Hassan, Prince of the Desert, is instructed to deliver the giraffe himself, but Maki makes up his mind to bring Zarafa back to its native land - even if it means risking his life.
The Lego Movie Sun 29 Jan at 11.00am
Moana Sun 5 Feb at 11.00am
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller • USA/Denmark/Australia 2014 1h40m • Digital • U - Contains mild fantasy violence and very mild language
John Musker, Ron Clements • USA 2016 • 1h43m • Digital PG - Contains mild threat.
Emmet is a perfectly ordinary, generic construction worker. He spends his days following the instructions and building whatever is desired of him. That is until he discovers the Piece of Resistance, a relic which heralds the coming of ‘The Special’. As the prophesy has foretold, The Special will save the world from ultimate destruction. Emmet goes on a wild adventure through all the Lego realms, from The Wild West to Cloud Cuckoo Land, on a quest to save the world and ultimately discover what is truly special about himself.
Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped - and no one today knows why. Moana, a spirited teenager who sails out on a daring mission to prove herself a master wayfinder and fulfill her ancestors’ unfinished quest. During her journey, she meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui (Dwayne Johnson), and together, they traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds.
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Screening Europe
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Screening Europe Curated in collaboration with Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Screening Europe is an annual season celebrating and interrogating the history and aesthetics of cinema in Europe. For 2017, the focus is on the immigrant experience and we will be featuring works by celebrated auteurs such as Jean Renoir and Michael Haneke as well as titles from underappreciated figures such as Franco Brusati and Horace Ové. All films will be introduced by 2017 season curator Dr Pasquale Iannone (Centre for Open Learning).
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Toni Tue 24 Jan at 8.35pm Jean Renoir • France 1935 • 1h23m • 35mm • French, Italian and Spanish with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild violence, language and sex references. • Cast: Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván, Edouard Delmont, Max Dalban, Jenny Hélia.
Toni, an Italian immigrant in love with Spanish washerwoman Josefa, ends up marrying his landlady instead when Josefa is seduced by the local quarry foreman. Jean Renoir’s Toni is considered by many to be an early forerunner of Italian neo-realism. In addition to the use of many non-actors, most scenes are shot either outdoors in the southern French countryside or in local buildings, and the effect is palpable: one immediately gets the sense of being immersed in this particular niche of early 20th century French immigrant society.
Bread and Chocolate
Pressure
Tue 31 Jan at 6.05pm
Tue 7 Feb at 5.50pm
Franco Brusati • Italy 1974 • 1h52m • Digital • Italian, German, English, French, Greek and Spanish with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina, Paolo Turco, Ugo D’Alessio.
Horace Ové • UK 1975 • 2h8m • 16mm • 15 - Contains strong language and drug use. • Cast: Herbert Norville, Oscar James.
A classic commedia all’italiana in which a rather hapless Southern Italian immigrant (Nino Manfedi) tries (disastrously) to integrate into Swiss society. Starting out as a waiter, he tries in vain to get it right - to keep up with the unflappable, poised locals - but nothing quite pans out. A funny and sad comedy of manners with great physical gags and much comment on the state of life for migrant workers - the land of Bread and Chocolate is tough for an outsider...
A milestone 1970s British film that - with its themes of racism, unemployment and inter-generational tension - remains resonant and relevant now, Horace Ové’s Pressure places us among the West Indian migrant community in London. Tony (Herbert Norville) is the first in his household to be born and raised in Britain - his mother, father and brother were born in Trinidad. Unlike the rest of his family, he believes in a British society where he can progress, integrate and thrive, but is this the reality of life in a white-dominated nation?
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Dirty Pretty Things
Tue 14 Feb at 5.50pm
Tue 21 Feb at 6.05pm
Michael Haneke • France/Germany/Romania 2000 • 1h57m • 35mm French, Romanian, English, German, Arabic, Malinke and French Sign Language with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language Cast: Juliet Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Sepp Bierbichler, Ona Lu Yenke.
Stephen Frears • UK 2002 • 1h37m • 35mm • English, Somali, Spanish and French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, moderate sex and grisly images. • Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi López, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong.
Whereas much of Michael Haneke’s previous work placed an extremely violent act at the centre, in Code Unknown the violence is more subtle and psychological in nature. In a kaleidoscope of tales - some interrelated, some not - Haneke delivers a sobering reflection on the nature of action and obligation. The events of the film are propelled by a fascinating opening scene where a triad of characters and stories intersect - an illegal immigrant from Romania, a man who lives in Paris with his African family, and an actress married to a war photographer constantly away on assignment.
Stephen Frears’ stunning film focuses on the usually unseen world of the London’s illegal immigrants the invisible people who keep its economy running smoothly. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Okwe is one such person: by day he drives a minicab; at night he’s a porter in a hotel that’s home to some shady goings-on. When Okwe stumbles upon the hotel’s dirty secret, he is placed in an impossible dilemma. A decent man, how can he do the right thing - given his precarious status - and still protect the people he cares about?
Shun Li and the Poet
Io sono Li
Tue 28 Feb at 6.05pm Andrea Segre • Italy/France 2011 • 1h38m • Digital • Italian and Mandarin with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language and sex references • Cast: Tao Zhao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini, Roberto Citran, Giuseppe Battiston.
Many recent European films have chronicled the social and personal consequences of the recent wave of immigration to Europe, but few with the delicacy and insight of this touching drama. Brought to Italy from China by a ‘broker’ who she’s slowly paying off while saving money to bring over her son, Shun Li (Tao Zhao) is sent from her factory job to a bar in a small town in the Veneto lagoon. She develops a warm, platonic friendship with Bepi (Rade Serbedzija), a retired fisherman, but both her employers and his circle of friends regard their relationship with sordid suspicion...
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Moving Cinema is a new initiative to encourage younger audiences to enjoy European Cinema. Our Young Programmers group, working alongside other groups in Vilnius, Lisbon and Barcelona, have selected four films to share with Filmhouse audiences over the next four months. More details of Moving Cinema can be found at movingcinema.eu/strands-of-work/young-programmers/
Young Programmers will also be presenting new films at Edinburgh International Film Festival in June. For more information contact education@cmi-scotland.co.uk The next selection is Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s brilliant Mustang on Mon 20 Feb at 6.05pm
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‘71 Mon 16 Jan at 6.00pm Yann Demange • UK 2014 • 1h39m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language, strong bloody violence, injury detail • Cast: Jack O’Connell, Sam Reid, Sean Harris, Charlie Murphy, Paul Anderson.
Set in a war-torn Belfast, ‘71 closely follows Gary Hook (Jack O’Connell), a young British soldier who becomes separated from his unit amid a wildly escalated riot. It shows the conflict on an intensely personal scale through a single night of brutal violence. From this viewpoint, we see the hospitality and fear of civilians contrasted with the corruption of the army officials and leaders. The experience of the tragedies of both sides, showing their basic humanity distinguishes it from most other action films. £5
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Every month, our infamously tricky (but fun) Film Quiz, hosted by Sam Kitchener. Free to enter, teams of up to eight people to be seated in the Café Bar by 9pm. Next quiz is on Sunday 8 January 2017 We now offer an extensive and affordable Breakfast Menu including Full Scottish and Vegetarian cooked breakfast options, Eggs Benedict and hot fillings for Morning Rolls. Breakfast served every day until 12pm and Sunday till 3pm.
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Watching Languages Translation, Interpreting & Multilingualism in Films
Join us for a three-day event on languages, translation and interpreting as depicted and utilised in films. The films will be introduced by Dr Şebnem SusamSaraeva, Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, University of Edinburgh, and will be followed by Q&A and discussion sessions with experts, focusing on issues of trust, authority, power, gender, and representation in relation to language and translation.
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The Interpreter Mon 23 Jan at 5.30pm Sydney Pollack • UK/USA/France 2004 • 2h8m • 35mm • 12A Contains moderate violence. • Cast: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal.
Silvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an interpreter at United Nations HQ in New York. One evening, she’s working late and overhears a plot of assassination through the main chamber’s microphone system. A Secret Service agent (Sean Penn) is assigned to suss out if her story is true, doubting her less than unblemished past. While the pair bicker and bond, the clock is ticking on the assassination attempt... Followed by a discussion on the dual role of interpreters/translators as cultural mediators, and issues of trust and power.
Arrival
Lilting
Tue 24 Jan at 5.30pm
Wed 25 Jan at 5.45pm
Denis Villeneuve • USA 2016 • 1h56m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner.
Hong Khaou • UK 2014 • 1h26m • Digital • English and Mandarin with English subtitles • 15 - Contains very strong language • Cast: Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei-pei, Morven Christie, Andrew Leung.
When, quite suddenly, twelve mysterious spacecraft land in seemingly random locations across the planet, linguistics expert Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is contacted by the U.S. military and offered the opportunity to attempt translation of their languages. Joined by Colonel Weber (Forest Whitaker) and mathematician/scientist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner), she tries to open a dialogue - an experience that begins to unearth a painful personal loss... Followed by a discussion on the links between language, translation, representation and authority.
An intimate film about finding the things which bring us together. In London, a Cambodian Chinese mother mourns the untimely death of her son. Her world is further disrupted by the presence of a stranger. They try to connect with one another without a common language, and through an interpreter, they begin to piece together memories of a man they both loved... Followed by a discussion focusing on the use of multilingualism in films as well as links between language and gender.
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Hamish
From Scotland With Love
Fri 6 Jan at 11.05am
Fri 6 Jan at 1.10pm
Robbie Fraser • UK 2016 • 1h30m • Digital • English and Gaelic with English subtitles • PG • Documentary.
Virginia Heath • UK 2014 • 1h16m • Digital • U
Hamish Henderson (1919-2002) was a colossal figure in Scottish culture, a man of boundless passion and curiosity whose poems continue to and inspire a nation. Robbie Fraser’s documentary describes the many contrary forces and diverse facets of his life.
Made entirely of archive film, From Scotland With Love is a wondrous feature by award-winning director Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician/composer King Creosote.
Highlander
The Illusionist
Sat 7 Jan at 11.05am
Sat 7 Jan at 1.35pm
Russell Mulcahy • UK 1986 • 1h56m • Digital • 15
Sylvain Chomet • UK/France 2010 • 1h20m • Digital • PG
A cult favourite packed with quotes, stylish swordfighting and memorable songs from Queen. It flits from 1980s New York, to World War II, to the Scottish Highlands, where Connor MacLeod (Christophe Lambert) first discovers he is not like other men...
A truly magical piece of cinema. Our hero is an overthe-hill magician, complete with less-than-friendly white rabbit. He treks from Paris, to the Western Isles, to Edinburgh - acquiring a young companion who sincerely believes in his magical abilities.
L’illusionniste
The 39 Steps
‘I Know Where I’m Going!’
Sun 8 Jan at 11.05am
Sun 8 Jan at 1.10pm
Alfred Hitchcock • UK 1935 • 1h27m • Digital • U
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger • UK 1945 • 1h28m • Digital • U
Swept from a London music hall to the Scottish Highlands and back to the Palladium, this amazingly pacy version of John Buchan’s novel is one of Hitchcock’s most fully satisfying achievements.
A headstrong, rather proud woman (Wendy Hiller) travels to the Hebrides to marry her wealthy fiancé. But along the way, she falls under the spell of the Scottish landscape, and encounters another man...
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10 from 16 From a comparatively long long list of the best films released in 2016, here’s my top ten. Subjectivity being what it is, you’ll likely disagree, so feel free to animatedly discuss my choices, with a friend, over a glass of wine in the Filmhouse Cafe Bar! A few others that probably occupy the 11-15 slots might be: Our Little Sister, Suburra, Weiner, Captain Fantastic and a film that I’ve seen since compiling the list, Arrival, but we have that on in January (see page 25) anyway! Enjoy! Rod White, Head of Filmhouse
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople Fri 6 Jan at 3.50pm & 6.10pm Taika Waititi • New Zealand 2016 • 1h42m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate bad language, innuendo, infrequent bloody moments Cast: Julian Dennison, Sam Neill, Rima Te Wiata, Rhys Darby.
Though much praised after its première at Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, the worry for most industry types was who was the audience for it? Was it a kids’ film that might struggle to find an adult audience? Was it too adult for kids? No, it’s for everybody, stoopid! A manhunt is launched when a rebellious ‘hip-hop’ kid and his foster father go on the run in the New Zealand bush. You will laugh, certainly. And cry, very probably.
Mustang
Hell or High Water
Fri 6 Jan at 3.05pm
Sat 7 Jan at 3.40pm & 8.40pm
Deniz Gamze Ergüven • France/Germany/Turkey/Qatar 2015 • 1h37m • Digital • Turkish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains infrequent strong sex references • Cast: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu, Elit Iscan.
David Mackenzie • USA 2016 • 1h42m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Katy Mixon, Dale Dickey.
Regularly dubbed the ‘Turkish Virgin Suicides’ on its release back in May - without giving anything else away, it’s easy to see why. The earlier film’s melancholy and aimed-for poetry gives over to a more direct celebration of life and personal freedom as five orphaned sisters rail against their conservative guardians (in particular the girls’ uncle) to by turns tragic and uplifting effect, in a remote village in Turkey. A striking debut.
Local lad (OK, he’s from Glasgow) made-verygood-indeed David Mackenzie hit pay dirt with this brilliant Texas-set crime thriller, chock full of great characters and a great story, and one of those hugely enjoyable show-stealing turns that we’ve come to expect from Jeff Bridges. And there’s even some social commentary! A considerable entertainment.
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The Jungle Book Sun 8 Jan at 1.00pm & 6.15pm Jon Favreau • USA 2016 • 1h46m • Digital • PG • Cast: Neel Sethi, Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson, Christopher Walken.
I didn’t hold out much hope that Hollywood, and indeed Disney, might deliver a ‘remake’ of the much-loved 1967 animated classic of my childhood (obviously I didn’t see it on its actual release!) worthy of the original, but they did! Judiciously retaining the key song-and-dance numbers, it’s a near-perfect and visually splendid fusion of animation and live action, and of the Kipling source and the ‘67 classic.
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Son of Saul
Saul fia Sun 8 Jan at 3.15pm & 5.45pm László Nemes • Hungary/USA/France/Israel/Bosnia and Herzegovina 2015 • 1h47m • Digital • Hungarian, Yiddish, German, Russian, Polish, French, Greek and Slovak with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong threat • Cast: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Jerzy Walczak.
Very much the talk of Cannes 2015 (where it won the Grand Jury Prize), László Nemes’ astonishing, harrowing Oscar-winning debut, set amongst a group of Hungarian Sonderkommando in Auschwitz in 1944, is not an easy watch - in more ways than one. The viewer is deprived of any perspective beyond that which Saul himself has; we are Saul, as he struggles to retain his humanity in the face of untold horrors.
The Assassin
HrÚtar Tue 10 Jan at 8.40pm
Nie Yinniang Wed 11 Jan at 6.10pm
Grïmur Hákonarson • Iceland/Denmark/Norway/Poland 2015 • 1h33m • Digital • Icelandic with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language • Cast: Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Theodór Júlïusson, Charlotte Bøving, Jon Benonysson.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien • Taiwan/China/Hong Kong/France 2015 • 1h45m Digital • Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate violence • Cast: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki.
Another film in this year’s top ten selection that world premiered at Cannes in 2015, and indeed won the Un Certain Regard prize. This Icelandic deadpan delight tells the story of two sheep-farming brothers, who live right next door to each in the middle of nowhere in the unforgiving Icelandic countryside, but who have not spoken for 40 years. But when disease threatens their prize-winning flocks, perhaps working together might be the only thing left to do...
Another from the Cannes competition of 2015, it took me two goes at this one to fully appreciate it. I think I spent too much time worrying about not knowing what on earth was going on the first time around, though I’m not sure I’m entirely any the wiser now... I don’t much care though; just watch, and get lost in Hou’s beguiling, slow-burn, dreamlike martial arts film, perhaps the most beautiful of the year.
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Tale of Tales
The Measure of a Man
Il racconto dei racconti Thu 12 Jan at 5.45pm
La loi du marché Fri 13 Jan at 8.45pm
Matteo Garrone • UK/France/Italy 2015 • 2h14m • Digital • English and Russian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex, violence, gory images • Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones.
Stéphane Brizé • France 2015 • 1h33m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Vincent Lindon, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller, Francoise Anselmi.
Prior to seeing this I’d been warned off it by some of my peers, but as per had to find out for myself. And thank God I did, or we may not have played it at all! It’s a tad too long, for sure, but that these three intertwined folk tales (adapted from the works of 17th Century Italian poet and fairy/folk tale collector Giambattista Basile) create an entirely unique and consistently astonishing world all of their own is not in question.
This “veritable masterclass in understated humanism” is really little more than a sequence of vignettes detailing the indignities witnessed by and heaped upon a working class everyman (a deserved Cannes Best Actor winning Vincent Lindon) as he tries to work his way, with dignity intact, through the job market in contemporary France. But, it accrues such power on the way, as to be, ultimately, devastating.
Julieta Sun 15 Jan at 6.15pm Pedro Almodóvar • Spain 2016 • 1h39m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex. • Cast: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Inma Cuesta, Michelle Jenner, Daniel Grao.
Whilst perhaps not quite hitting the heights of Volver or Talk to Her, Julieta is nonetheless a considerable return to form for the Spanish maestro. Revisiting the femme-centred storytelling that made his name, this finely-tuned, beautifully mounted melodrama (adapted from three Alice Munro short stories) tells the story of the titular Julieta, who by chance bumps into an old friend of her daughter; a daughter who had walked out of her mother’s life many years before...
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Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are strictly limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Babychanging, bottle-warming and buggy parking facilities are available.
This issue, all screenings of The Light Between Oceans, Arrival, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Hell or High Water, The Jungle Book, Life Animated, Sully, Live by Night and Lion have audio description, and the following screenings will have captions: Mon 9 Jan at 8.30pm The Light Between Oceans Sat 14 Jan at 11.00am Life, Animated Mon 16 Jan at 6.15pm Sully Mon 23 Jan at 5.45pm Live by Night Mon 30 Jan at 8.30pm Jackie Tue 31 Jan at 6.00pm Lion
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