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Suite Franรงaise Michelle Williams

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Inherent Vice My Name Is Salt A Second Chance Still Alice X+Y The Philadelphia Story Au revoir les enfants The Tales of Hoffmann Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Italian Film Festival The Cinema of Childhood Filmhouse Junior

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3-Iron 21 1994: The Bloody Miracle 9 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible...

10 Amour fou 8 Au revoir les enfants 5 Babel 22 BAFTA Shorts 2015 7 Big Hero 6 10 Charlotte’s Web 10 Children in the Wind 18 China is Near 15 The Cinema of Childhood 18-19 Come and See...

20 Darker Than Midnight 16 The Dinner 14 Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) 8 Filmhouse Cafe Bar + Quiz 22 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Junior 10 Filmhouse Loyalty Card 4 Filmhouse Membership 24 Filmosophy 21 First Snowfall 15 Forbidden Games 18 Good for Nothing 15 The Gospel According to St Matthew 17 Greenery Will Bloom Again 15 Happy to Be Different 16 Hugo and Josephine 18 I Can Quit Whenever I Want 14 Illustrious Corpses 16 In Bloom 17 Inherent Vice 5 Into the Woods 10 Introduction to European Cinema 22 Italian Film Festival 14-16 The King of Masks 18 Leopardi 15 Life of Riley 8

Little Fugitive 19 Long Live the Republic 19 The Mafia Kills Only in Summer 15 The Mattei Affair 16 Miners Shot Down 9 My Name Is Salt 6 Paths of Glory 17 Pelo Malo 8 The Philadelphia Story 5 Proof 21 Quiet Bliss 16 Scottish Shorts 2014 20 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 5 A Second Chance 6 Secret Histories: Screening Irish History 21 Shaun the Sheep: The Movie 10 Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs & the New S. Africa 9 South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour 9 Still Alice 7 Suite Française 6 The Tales of Hoffmann 7 A Terrible Beauty 21 That Sinking Feeling 20 Together 22 Tomka and His Friends 19 White Shadow 20 X+Y 7 Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot 14

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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 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Suite Française, Still Alice and X+Y will have audio description, and the following screenings will have captions: Sat 14 Mar: The Second... Marigold Hotel at 1.00pm Sun 22 Mar: Suite Française at 1.10pm Sat 28 Mar: Still Alice at 3.40pm Sun 29 Mar: X+Y at 1.15pm FORCRYINGOUTLOUD Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Babychanging, bottlewarming and buggy parking facilities are available.

Mon 9 Mar at 11am The Philadelphia Story Mon 16 Mar at 11am My Name Is Salt Mon 23 Mar at 11am The Tales of Hoffmann Mon 30 Mar at 11am Still Alice

Introduction

SUITE FRANÇAISE

STILL ALICE

THE TALES OF HOFFMANN

MY NAME IS SALT

Can you recall your very first trip to a cinema?

When asked, which I actually occasionally am, I always say my first cinema experience was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Dundee ABC, though I fear I may be making it up. It may, however, be the only way to explain my mighty, and perhaps, for some, otherwise inexplicable soft spot for the film. I’m not even clear whether there ever was an ABC in Dundee, but that’s what I think I remember. If it’s not CCBB at the Dundee ABC, then I simply don’t know what it is, so I think I’ll stick with it.

I also sometimes get asked (I don’t really... I just felt awkward bringing it up when not invited to do so) how I got involved with this cinema. So, seeing as you’ve asked... I’m not going to tell you how many years ago it was (suffice to say I may have been in Poll Tax arrears at the time) but I recall my first obsessively regular involvement with this cinema was as a customer, at the time the cinema was offering Wednesday matinees for students for the decidedly unprincely sum of 50p. (I know... imagine that now!) Sold out every week it was. It never crossed my mind at that time that I might want to work here, though I’m not quite sure why... Many years after those glorious 50p days, and by my tried and trusted method of leaving it to chance that I’ll end up in the right place at the right time, I was phoned by my then flatmate, who worked here, and asked if could I help out and cover an ushering shift, as someone hadn’t turned up. I said yes, was that night offered a regular ushering shift, which I took, and soon realised I might quite like the job of the person who chooses the films for this marvellous cinematic emporium. Only four people stood in my way... I’ve said enough.

This month’s programme is the usual, dare I say, excellent and eclectic mix ranging from Suite Française, Saul Dibb’s handsome and moving WWII drama, set in occupied France and based on the ‘lost’ and ultimately best-selling novel of the same name by Irène Némirovsky (the book was penned contemporaneously to events depicted, but only discovered by the author’s daughter in the late 1990s), to Bill Forsyth’s classic debut, That Sinking Feeling, in a new digital version; from Julianne Moore’s likely Oscar-winning turn as a woman with early-onset Alzheimer’s in Still Alice to X+Y, the poignant and moving tale of a young maths prodigy (Asa ‘Hugo’ Butterfield) with Asperger’s Syndrome; from Paul Thomas Anderson’s “gloriously rambunctious” (according to the Guardian) Inherent Vice, screening here in 35mm, to Louis Malle’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece Au revoir les enfants; and from strikingly beautiful documentary (EIFF prizewinner 2014), My Name Is Salt, which follows a year in the life of salt harvesters in Gujarat, India (and which we’re distributing ourselves, we liked it so much!), to a stunning new restoration of Powell and Pressburger’s sumptuous film of Offenbach’s classic opera, The Tales of Hoffmann.

The Italian Film Festival, now in its 22nd edition, graces our screens from 6 to 19 March, and our four-year First World War in Cinema season continues with Stanley Kubrick’s sublime Paths of Glory. All that and The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is still with us, very possibly throughout the whole month, though that will be dependent on how many of you come and see it. C’mon, let’s have it on for weeks!

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

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Filmhouse Explorer

INHERENT VICE

X+Y

MY NAME IS SALT

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 green for right), and you can also find them on our website at www.filmhousecinema.com/tickets Happy Exploring!

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The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (page 5) Inherent Vice (page 5) Suite Française (page 6) Still Alice (page 7) X+Y (page 7)

GET A HALF PRICE TICKET TO ONE OF THESE Au revoir les enfants (page 5) My Name Is Salt (page 6) The Tales of Hoffmann (page 7) Pelo Malo (page 8) The Cinema of Childhood (pages 18-19)

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.

PELO MALO

Main features

THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

INHERENT VICE

NEWRELEASE

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY

MAYBEYOUMISSED

AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS

RESTOREDCLASSICS

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Inherent Vice

The Philadelphia Story

Fri 6 to Tue 10 Mar

Fri 6 to Mon 9 Mar

Showing from Fri 27 Feb

Paul Thomas Anderson • USA 2014 • 2h29m • 35mm 15 – Contains drug use, strong language, sex, sex references Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson, Jena Malone, Jillian Bell.

George Cukor • USA 1940 • 1h52m • Digital U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey.

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

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

Paul Thomas Anderson’s (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, The Master) wild and entrancing new movie, adapted from a Thomas Pynchon novel, is a cinematic time machine, placing the viewer deep within the world of the paranoid, hazy Los Angeles dope culture of the early ’70s. Joaquin Phoenix goes all the way for Anderson (just as he did in The Master) playing Doc Sportello, the private investigator searching for his ex-girlfriend Shasta (Katherine Waterston), menaced at every turn by Josh Brolin as police detective Bigfoot Bjornsen.

“Gloriously rambunctious.” - The Guardian Screening from 35mm film.

A brilliant adaptation of Philip Barry’s hit Broadway comedy about a society girl (Katharine Hepburn) who yearns for down-to-earth romance: Cary Grant is her ex-husband, James Stewart a fast-talking (!) reporter who falls in love with her. The entire cast is excellent and Stewart won an Academy Award for his performance. The story was later filmed again as musical High Society.

Au revoir les enfants Mon 9 to Thu 12 Mar 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 Cast: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud, François Berléand.

One of the great movies about World War Two and the German Occupation, Louis Malle’s semi-autobiographical drama is set in January 1944 at a Catholic boarding school.

This deeply affecting film traces the friendship between two 12-year-olds, one from a wealthy Catholic family, the other a Jewish boy hidden by the priests, his identity concealed.

“It’s a work that has the kind of simplicity, ease and density of detail that only a filmmaker in total command of his craft can bring off, and then only rarely.” - New York Times

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SUITE FRANÇAISE

NEWRELEASE

MY NAME IS SALT

NEWRELEASE

A SECOND CHANCE

NEWRELEASE

Suite Française

My Name Is Salt

A Second Chance En chance til

Showing from Fri 13 Mar

Fri 13 to Tue 17 Mar

Showing from Fri 20 Mar

Saul Dibb • UK/France/Canada 2014 • 1h47m Digital • English and German with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, strong violence Cast: Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts, Kristin Scott Thomas, Margot Robbie, Sam Riley.

Farida Pacha • Switzerland 2013 • 1h32m Digital • Gujarati with English subtitles U – Contains infrequent very mild bad language • Documentary

Susanne Bier • Denmark 2014 • 1h45m • Digital Danish and Swedish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Peter Haber, Maria Bonnevie.

Based on the best-selling novel by Irène Némirovsky and set during the German occupation of France during the Second World War, Suite Française tells the story of Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams), who is leading a stifled existence with her domineering mother-in-law (Kristin Scott Thomas) as she awaits news of her husband, a prisoner of war. When Parisian refugees pour into their village, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who board in the residents’ homes, Lucile’s life is turned upside down – and is further complicated by the arrival of refined German officer, Bruno (Matthias Schoenaerts).

Filmhouse’s latest release as a distributor is a strikingly beautiful portrayal of an extraordinary world.

Every year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujarat, India, where they will stay for the next eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Director Farida Pacha and cinematographer Lutz Konermann spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives and crafting an exquisite, lyrical film in the process.

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.

In films like In a Better World, After the Wedding and Brothers, Academy Award-winning director Susanne Bier created characters who found themselves derailed by sudden, drastic changes, forcing them to confront previously suppressed tensions between desire, need, and ethics. Bier’s latest presents what may be the most extreme and disturbing moral conundrum she’s examined to date.

Veteran police officer Andreas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones) is happily married to the beautiful Anne (Maria Bonnevie), who has just given birth to their first child. The only cloud on Andreas’s otherwise untroubled horizon is his partner, Simon (Ulrich Thomsen), who is having enormous trouble adjusting to his divorce, and whose drinking binges are becoming alarmingly frequent. Andreas’s comfortable life is then thrown into sharp relief when a domestic disturbance brings him back in contact with an abusive junkie, whose girlfriend has also just given birth.

Main features

THE TALES OF HOFFMANN

BAFTA SHORTS 2015 - EMOTIONAL FUSEBOX

STILL ALICE

X+Y

RESTOREDCLASSIC

NEWRELEASE

The Tales of Hoffmann

BAFTA Shorts 2015

Still Alice

Fri 20 to Mon 23 Mar

Wed 25 & Thu 26 Mar

Showing from Fri 27 Mar

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger • UK 1951 2h18m • Digital • U – Contains mild violence Cast: Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tchérina, Ann Ayars, Pamela Brown, Léonide Massine, Robert Helpmann, Robert Rounseville.

2h3m • 15 – Contains strong language, sex references

Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland • USA/France 2014 • 1h41m • Digital • 12A – Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex references Cast: Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish.

Revealed afresh in this remarkable Technicolor restoration, Powell and Pressburger’s 1951 musical phantasmagoria is the stuff of beautiful nightmares.

A balletic adaptation of Offenbach’s opera about the German Romantic author ETA Hoffmann, and adapted from three of his gothic tales ‘on the folly of love’, this intensely composed film rivals even The Red Shoes for its cinematic daring, and its avowed belief in the transcendence of art over death. That film’s star, Moira Shearer, returns here to play three very different women: a dancer who discovers that she is actually a marionette; a courtesan in Venice; and an opera singer dying of consumption.

This stunning new restoration (containing previously unseen footage) from the original 3-strip Technicolor negative unleashes feverish colours straight from the candy box: a cacophony of clashing yellows and purples as disturbing as they are enchanting.

A feature-length selection of short live action and animated films from the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA).

The Bigger Picture Daisy Jacobs • UK 2014 • 8m The darkly humorous tale of caring for an elderly parent.

Monkey Love Experiments Ainslie Henderson, Will Anderson • UK 2014 • 9m

A misguided monkey believes he is destined for the moon.

My Dad Marcus Armitage • UK 2014 • 7m A short film depicting a dad’s influence on a young boy’s life.

Boogaloo and Graham Michael Lennox • UK 2014 • 15m Jamesy and Malachy’s dad gives them two baby chicks.

Emotional Fusebox Rachel Tunnard • UK 2014 • 15m Anna lives in her Mum’s garden shed. Her Mum wants her to come out but Anna doesn’t want to.

The Kármán Line Oscar Sharp • UK 2014 • 25m A mother is hit by a rare condition that sees her lift off the ground at a slow but ever increasing rate.

Slap Nick Rowland • UK 2014 • 26m The struggles of a young boxer named Connor who secretly likes to cross-dress.

Three Brothers Aleem Khan • UK 2014 • 18m Hamid struggles to care for his younger brothers when their father abandons them for Pakistan.

The screening on 26 March will be followed by a Q&A with Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson, directors of Monkey Love Experiments.

MAYBEYOUMISSED

Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), happily married with three grown children, is a respected linguistics professor who finds herself forgetting words. When she receives a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested.

“Julianne Moore guides us through the tragic arc of how it must feel to disappear before one’s own eyes, accomplishing one of her most powerful performances.” - Variety

X+Y Showing from Fri 27 Mar Morgan Matthews • UK 2014 • 1h51m • Digital • cert tbc Cast: Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Jo Yang.

Teenage maths prodigy Nathan (Asa Butterfield, star of Hugo) struggles when it comes to building relationships with other people. When his talents win him a place at the International Mathematics Olympiad, Nathan is faced with unexpected challenges – not least his new and unfamiliar feelings for his Chinese counterpart, the beautiful Zhang Mei. This thoughtful and affecting drama tracks Nathan’s journey, from suburban England to bustling Taipei and back again, as he is confronted by the irrational nature of love.

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AMOUR FOU

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

NEWRELEASE

LIFE OF RILEY

RESTOREDCLASSIC

PELO MALO

NEWRELEASES

Amour fou

Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)

Life of Riley Aimer, boire et chanter

Fri 27 to Sun 29 Mar

Fri 27 to Mon 30 Mar

Mon 30 & Tue 31 Mar

Jessica Hausner • Austria/Luxembourg/Germany 2014 1h34m • Digital • German with English subtitles 12A – Contains suicide theme Cast: Christian Friedel, Birte Schnoeink, Stephan Grossmann, Katharina Schüttler.

John Schlesinger • UK 1967 • 2h47m • Digital U – Contains very mild violence, nudity and language Cast: Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, Fiona Walker.

Alain Resnais • France 2014 • 1h48m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A – Contains infrequent strong language Cast: Sabine Azéma, Sandrine Kiberlain, Caroline Sihol, André Dussollier, Hippolyte Girardot.

1967 saw Julie Christie and Terence Stamp immortalised by The Kinks in ‘Waterloo Sunset’, and cast as lovers in Thomas Hardy’s epic love story. Headstrong and independent Bathsheba Everdene unexpectedly inherits a large farm in rural Dorset. Struggling to manage the farm herself, she captivates the hearts and minds of three very different men: an honest and hardworking sheep farmer, a wealthy but tortured landowner, and a reckless and violent swordsman.

But as emotions become entangled, free spirited and innocent folly soon leads to devastating tragedy.

Screening in a new restoration which beautifully showcases Nicolas Roeg’s stunning cinematography and the harsh beauty of the Dorset landscape.

The great Alain Resnais passed away last year at the age of 91. Fortunately, we have the pleasure and privilege of enjoying his final film, the deliciously theatrical Life of Riley, based on an Alan Ayckbourn play about three couples dealing with the news that their mutual friend is terminally ill. Shot on sound stages with painted backgrounds bursting with candy colours, the film has all of the energy and inventiveness of the work of a young artist.

The fourth feature from acclaimed Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner (Lovely Rita, Lourdes) is a disarmingly humorous and romantic rendition of the events preceding the double suicide of nineteenth-century German poet Heinrich von Kleist (Christian Friedel) and his platonic devotee Henriette Vogel (Birte Schnoeink).

Ready to embrace the end, but only if he has a companion on his journey to the great beyond, the po-faced young poet scours Berlin’s high-society soirees in search of a woman who shares his death wish. We gradually become more and more sympathetic to Heinrich’s endeavour, despite its grim nature, as the film reveals the depth of his twin desires for love and oblivion.

COMING SOON Force Majeure A model husband and father behaves unexpectedly when his family is in danger.

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

Blade Runner: The Final Cut A stunning new restoration of Ridley Scott’s spectacular sci-fi noir.

Laura Poitras Three films by BAFTA-winning documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras. Referred to by her as the 9/11 Trilogy for their individual looks into the realities of life in post-9/11 America, the films are My Country, My Country (2006), The Oath (2010) and this year’s BAFTA Best Documentary winner, Citizenfour.

Pelo Malo Bad Hair Wed 1 & Thu 2 Apr Mariana Rondón • Venezuela/Peru/Argentina/Germany 2013 • 1h33m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong sex, strong language Cast: Samuel Lange Zambrano, Samantha Castillo, Beto Benites, Nelly Ramos, María Emilia Sulbarán.

A touching and humorous drama from Venezuela, Pelo Malo chronicles the life of nine-year-old Junior, living in a bustling Caracas tenement with his widowed mother. For his school photo, Junior wants to iron his stubbornly curly mane straight to resemble one of his pop star idols. His mother, frazzled from the pressures of raising two children in an unforgiving city, has serious misgivings; she suspects her son is gay. Grandma is more accepting, teaching Junior to dance to one of her favourite ‘60s rock ‘n’ roll tunes.

South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour

SOFT VENGEANCE

1994: THE BLOODY MIRACLE

Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa

Miners Shot Down

Mon 30 Mar at 6.15pm

Rehad Desai • South Africa 2014 • 1h35m • Digital English and Zulu with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary

Abby Ginzberg • South Africa 2014 • 1h24m • Digital • 15 Documentary

2014 marked the 20th anniversary of democracy and freedom in South Africa. To commemorate this landmark date, South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour, a season of South African cinema, is taking place from October 2014 to April 2015 at venues across the UK, bringing the diversity, creative innovation and technical brilliance of South African cinema to British audiences.

For more information on the tour go to www.safilmtour.uk South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour is supported by the British Film Institute’s Programming Development Fund and the South African Season in the United Kingdom 2014 & 2015.

The SA-UK Seasons is a partnership between the Department of Arts and Culture, South Africa, and the British Council.

MINERS SHOT DOWN

A touching portrait of Albie Sachs, a lawyer, writer, art lover and freedom fighter, set against the dramatic events leading to the overthrow of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Shining a spotlight on Albie’s story provides a prism through which to view the challenges faced by those unable to tolerate a society founded on principles of slavery and disempowerment of South Africa’s majority black population.

The screening will be introduced by Lizelle Bisschoff, director of South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour.

1994: The Bloody Miracle Tue 31 Mar at 6.15pm Meg Rickards • South Africa 2013 • 52m • Digital • 15 Documentary

As South Africa celebrates the 20th anniversary of the advent of democracy in 1994, it is difficult to believe the ‘Mandela miracle’ nearly didn’t happen. In an orgy of countrywide violence, some were intent on derailing the first free elections. Now, for the first time, those responsible for countless deaths and widespread mayhem explain how they nearly brought South Africa to its knees. 1994: The Bloody Miracle is a chilling look at what these hard men did to thwart democracy, and how they have now made an uneasy peace with the ‘Rainbow Nation’ in their own different ways.

The screening will be introduced by Lizelle Bisschoff, director of South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour.

Wed 1 Apr at 8.35pm

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the point of view of the Marikana miners, Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers. What emerges is collusion at the top, spiralling violence and the country’s first post-apartheid massacre. South Africa will never be the same again.

The screening will be followed by a discussion on the ongoing struggle for human rights in post-apartheid South Africa, featuring a panel of experts and chaired

by Lizelle Bisschoff, director of South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour.

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

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

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Filmhouse Junior

CHARLOTTE’S WEB

INTO THE WOODS

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

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!

Charlotte’s Web Sun 8 Mar at 11.00am Gary Winick • USA 2006 • 1h37m DCP • U – Contains very mild language Cast: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts (voice), Steve Buscemi (voice), John Cleese (voice), Oprah Winfrey (voice).

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

BIG HERO 6

SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE MOVIE

Into the Woods

Shaun the Sheep: The Movie

Sun 15 Mar at 11.00am

Sun 5 Apr at 11.00am

Rob Marshall • USA 2014 • 2h5m • DCP PG – Contains mild violence, threat Cast: Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep.

Mark Burton & Richard Starzack • UK/France 2015 • 1h25m DCP • U – Contains mild slapstick, threat, rude humour

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

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

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

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

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

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

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

6 March - 2 April 2015 SCREENING TIMES

Fri 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35 6 2 I Can Quit Whenever I Want (IFF) 8.45 Mar 3 Inherent Vice 2.30/8.10 3 The Philadelphia Story 5.40 * Plus films and times TBC (see right) Sat 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35 7 2 A Terrible Beauty (IH) 3.20 + Q&A Mar 2 The Dinner (IFF) 8.45 3 Inherent Vice 2.30/8.10 3 The Philadelphia Story 5.40 * Plus films and times TBC (see right) Sun 1 Charlotte’s Web (FJ) 11.00am 8 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45 Mar 2 Children in the Wind (CC) 3.45 2 Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot (IFF) 5.50 + Q&A 3 The Philadelphia Story 2.30 3 In Bloom 5.30 3 Inherent Vice 7.45 * Plus films and times TBC (see right) Mon 1 The Philadelphia Story (B) 11am (babies & carers) 9 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.35 Mar 2 Good for Nothing (IFF) 6.10 3 The Philadelphia Story 3.15 3 Inherent Vice 5.45 3 Au revoir les enfants 8.50 * Plus films and times TBC (see right) Tue 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35 10 2 The Mafia Kills... in Summer (IFF) 6.10 Mar 3 Inherent Vice 2.30/8.10 3 Au revoir les enfants 5.45 * Plus films and times TBC (see right) Wed 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35 11 2 First Snowfall (IFF) 8.45 Mar 3 Au revoir les enfants 3.15/8.30 3 Together (EC) 6.00 + intro * Plus films and times TBC (see right) Thu 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 12.45/3.25/6.00/8.35 12 2 China Is Near (IFF) 8.45 Mar 3 Au revoir les enfants 3.15/6.10 * Plus films and times TBC (see right) Fri 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 1.00 13 1 Suite Française (AD) 3.40/6.00/8.25 Mar 2 Suite Française (AD) 1.10 2 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 3.30/6.10 2 Greenery Will Bloom Again (IFF) 8.45 3 My Name Is Salt 4.00/6.15 * Plus films and times TBC (see right)

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Sat 1 The 2nd... Marigold Hotel (AD) (C) 1.00 (captioned) 14 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 3.40 Mar 1 Suite Française (AD) 6.15/8.35 2 Suite Française (AD) 1.10 2 The King of Masks (CC) 3.45 2 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 6.00 2 Leopardi (IFF) 8.35 3 My Name Is Salt 1.15/6.10 3 Suite Française (AD) 3.30 * Plus films and times TBC (see right) Sun 1 Into the Woods (FJ) 11.00am 15 1 My Name Is Salt 1.30 Mar 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 3.40 1 Suite Française (AD) 6.15/8.35 2 Suite Française (AD) 1.10 2 Forbidden Games (CC) 3.45 2 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 5.55 2 Illustrious Corpses (IFF) 8.30 + intro 3 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 1.00 3 Suite Française (AD) 3.35 3 My Name Is Salt 6.10 * Plus films and times TBC (see right) Mon 1 My Name Is Salt (B) 11am (babies & carers) 16 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 3.00 Mar 1 Suite Française (AD) 6.15/8.35 2 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 1.00/6.00 2 Suite Française (AD) 3.40 2 The Mattei Affair (IFF) 8.40 3 Suite Française (AD) 1.05 3 My Name Is Salt 3.30/6.10 * Plus films and times TBC (see right) Tue 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 3.00 17 1 Suite Française (AD) 6.15 Mar 1 Paths of Glory 8.45 + intro 2 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 1.00/6.00 2 Suite Française (AD) 3.40 2 Happy to Be Different (IFF) 8.40 3 Suite Française (AD) 1.05/8.35 3 My Name Is Salt 3.30/6.10 * Plus films and times TBC (see right) Wed 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 3.00 18 1 Suite Française (AD) 6.15/8.35 Mar 2 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 1.00/6.00 2 Suite Française (AD) 3.40 2 Darker Than Midnight (IFF) 8.40 3 Suite Française (AD) 1.05 3 Babel (EC) 5.45 + intro * Plus films and times TBC (see right)

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Thu 1 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 3.00 19 1 Suite Française (AD) 6.15/8.35 Mar 2 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 1.00 2 Suite Française (AD) 3.40 2 Quiet Bliss (IFF) 8.15 3 Suite Française (AD) 1.05 3 The Second... Marigold Hotel (AD) 6.00 * Plus films and times TBC (see below) Fri 1 Suite Française (AD) 20 2 The Tales of Hoffmann Mar 2 Suite Française (AD) 3 Suite Française (AD) 3 A Second Chance * Plus films and times TBC (see below)

8.40 1.00/8.30 3.50/6.10 1.10 3.30/6.15

Sat 1 Suite Française (AD) 21 2 The Tales of Hoffmann Mar 2 Hugo and Josephine (CC) 2 Suite Française (AD) 2 A Second Chance 3 Suite Française (AD) 3 A Second Chance 3 The Tales of Hoffmann * Plus films and times TBC (see below)

8.40 12.50 3.45 6.10 8.30 1.10 3.30 5.50

Sun 1 Alexander and the Terrible... (FJ) 22 1 Suite Française (AD) Mar 2 The Tales of Hoffmann 2 Little Fugitive (CC) 2 Suite Française (AD) 2 A Second Chance 3 Suite Française (AD) (C) 3 A Second Chance 3 The Tales of Hoffmann * Plus films and times TBC (see below)

11.00am 8.40 12.50 3.45 6.10 8.30 1.10 (captioned) 3.30 5.50

* 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

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6 March - 2 April 2015

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Mon 1 The Tales of Hoffmann (B) 23 1 Suite Française (AD) Mar 2 Suite Française (AD) 2 Scottish Shorts 2014 2 The Tales of Hoffmann 3 Suite Française (AD) 3 A Second Chance * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

11am (babies & carers) 8.40 3.40 6.10 + Q&A 8.25 1.10/6.10 3.30/8.30

Mon 1 Still Alice (AD) (B) 11am (babies & carers) 30 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) 2.30 Mar 1 Still Alice (AD) 8.45 2 Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs... (SA) 6.15 + intro 3 X+Y (AD) 1.15/6.10 3 Still Alice (AD) 3.40 3 Life of Riley 8.40 * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

Tue 1 That Sinking Feeling 24 2 Suite Française (AD) Mar 2 Proof (F) 3 Suite Française (AD) 3 A Second Chance * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

8.45 3.40/8.40 6.00 + discussion 1.10/6.10 3.30/8.30

Tue 1 Still Alice (AD) 31 2 1994: The Bloody Miracle (SA) Mar 3 X+Y (AD) 3 Life of Riley * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.30/8.45 6.15 + intro 1.15/6.10 3.40/8.40

Wed 1 Suite Française (AD) 25 2 Suite Française (AD) Mar 2 BAFTA Shorts 2015 3 Suite Française (AD) 3 A Second Chance * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

8.40 3.40/6.10 8.35 1.10 3.30/6.05

Wed 1 X+Y (AD) 1 2 Miners Shot Down (SA) Apr 3 Still Alice (AD) 3 Pelo Malo * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.30/6.15 8.35 + discussion 1.15/8.25 3.30/6.10

Thu 1 Suite Française (AD) 26 2 Suite Française (AD) Mar 2 BAFTA Shorts 2015 3 Suite Française (AD) 3 A Second Chance 3 The Gospel Acc. to St Matthew * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

8.40 3.25/5.50 8.15 + Q&A 1.10 3.30/8.45 5.45 + intro

Thu 1 X+Y (AD) 2 1 Still Alice (AD) Apr 2 White Shadow 3 Still Alice (AD) 3 Pelo Malo 3 X+Y (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.30 6.15 8.35 + intro 1.15 3.30/6.10 8.25

Fri 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) 1.00/5.15 27 2 Amour fou 8.40 Mar 3 X+Y (AD) 1.15/6.10 3 Still Alice (AD) 3.40/8.45 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Sat 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) 1.00/5.15 28 2 Long Live the Republic (CC) 3.20 Mar 2 Amour fou 8.40 3 X+Y (AD) 1.15/6.10 3 Still Alice (AD) (C) 3.40 (captioned) 3 Still Alice (AD) 8.45 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Sun 1 Big Hero 6 (FJ) 11.00am 29 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) 7.30 Mar 2 Tomka and His Friends (CC) 3.45 2 Amour fou 5.45 3 X+Y (AD) (C) 1.15 (captioned) 3 Still Alice (AD) 3.40/6.10 3 X+Y (AD) 8.45 * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

SCREENING TIMES

KEY (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2) (C) – Captioned for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing (see page 2) All screenings in 2D unless marked [3D] SEASONS: (CC) – The Cinema of Childhood (pages 18-19) (CS) – Come and See... (page 20) (EC) – Introduction to European Cinema (page 22) (F) – Filmosophy (page 21) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (page 10) (IFF) – Italian Film Festival (pages 14-16) (SA) – South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour (page 9) Full index of films on page 2

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Italian Film Festival

I CAN QUIT WHENEVER I WANT

THE DINNER

ZORAN, MY NEPHEW THE IDIOT

I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot

Fri 6 Mar at 8.45pm

Sun 8 Mar at 5.50pm

Sydney Sibilia • Italy 2014 • 1h40m Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Edoardo Leo, Valeria Solarino, Valerio Aprea, Paolo Calabresi, Libero De Rienzo.

Matteo Oleotto • Italy/Slovenia 2013 • 1h46m • Digital Italian, Slovenian and English with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Giuseppe Battiston, Teco Celio, Rok Prasnikar, Roberto Citran, Sylvain Chomet.

Sacked from his university job, Pietro keeps the truth from his wife as he struggles to pay the bills. He decides there is money to be made in the production of ‘smart drugs’, and former colleagues are happy to join him in the enterprise.

All they have to do is remain inconspicuous and not attract the attention of a local drugs kingpin. This wildlyentertaining mixture of Breaking Bad and The Lavender Hill Mob proved the most successful Italian comedy of 2014.

Paolo, a feckless, unreliable misanthrope with a fondness for booze, is left to look after his shy, studious teenage nephew Zoran. When Zoran proves to have a special talent at darts, Paolo senses a goldmine, and begins training him for a world championship in Scotland. Initially a match made in hell, their relationship proves rewarding in ways they could never have imagined. Matteo Oleotto’s awardwinning comedy combines echoes of Rain Man and Uncle Buck with the melancholy of Bill Forsyth.

Smetto quando voglio

Benvenuti to the 22nd edition of the Italian Film Festival. Curated by Allan Hunter and Richard Mowe and partnered by principal funder the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Edimburgo, Filmhouse and Glasgow Film Theatre, as well as supporters Valvona & Crolla VinCaffè and Fratelli Sarti, Glasgow plus Ibis Styles Hotel, Edinburgh, it runs from 6 to 19 March 2015.

Our new edition highlights an exciting and diverse line-up of contemporary and classic Italian cinema, including hilarious comedies, insightful dramas, seat-edge thrillers and classics from award-winning directors and featuring stellar acting talents.

One of this year’s particular highlights is a special focus on Francesco Rosi, who died earlier this year, with two of his acclaimed films in restored copies – Illustrious Corpses and The Mattei Affair. In addition there is a focus on Marco Bellocchio and his courageous and innovative work.

Join the celebration of all that’s best in il cinema italiano.

For information about screenings at other venues, see www.italianfilmfestival.org.uk

GOOD FOR NOTHING

The Dinner I nostri ragazzi

Zoran, il mio nipote scemo

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with with director Matteo Oleotto.

Sat 7 Mar at 8.45pm Ivano De Matteo • Italy 2014 • 1h32m Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Alessandro Gassman, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Luigi Lo Cascio, Barbora Bobulova, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers.

Two brothers and their wives meet regularly for dinner.

Their respective children are close friends at school, which helps to maintain the pretence of close family ties. When the children are out one night, someone dies and the parents tear themselves apart as they try to figure out the best course of action to take to protect the family. Herman Koch’s nailbiting novel presented a chilling view of modern morality, and Ivan De Matteo’s screen version proves equally enthralling.

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

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Italian Film Festival

THE MAFIA KILLS ONLY IN SUMMER

FIRST SNOWFALL

CHINA IS NEAR

GREENERY WILL BLOOM AGAIN

Good for Nothing Buoni a nulla

First Snowfall La prima neve

Mon 9 Mar at 6.10pm

Wed 11 Mar at 8.45pm

Torneranno i prati

Gianni Di Gregorio • Italy 2014 • 1h27m Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Gianni Di Gregorio, Marco Marzocca, Valentina Lodovini.

Andrea Segre • Italy 2013 • 1h44m Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Matteo Marchel, Jean-Christophe Folly, Anita Caprioli, Giuseppe Battiston, Peter Mitterrutzner.

Fri 13 Mar at 8.45pm

The incomparable Gianni Di Gregorio follows Mid-August Lunch and The Salt of Life with another gem, sprinkled with his sly wit and irresistible charm.

Easygoing Gianni looks forward to retirement - until he is informed that a change in the law obliges him to work three more years. Faced with the outrageous possibility of having to do a full day’s work, he sets about finding a way to achieve a quiet life in this jaunty, melancholic Roman comedy.

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer La mafia uccide solo d’estate Tue 10 Mar at 6.10pm Pierfrancesco Diliberto • Italy 2013 • 1h30m Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Cristiana Capotondi, Pierfrancesco Diliberto, Alex Bisconti, Ginevra Antona.

Arturo is born into a Sicily dominated by crime, corruption and execution. His childhood in 1970s Palermo is marked by his love for classmate Flora and a devotion to Prime Minister Andreotti. True tales of those who gave their lives in the fight against organised crime are interwoven with Arturo’s story in an inspired coming-of-age comedy that pays heartwarming tribute to all of those who have fallen in the long struggle against the Mafia.

Dani is an African refugee struggling to make a new life for himself and his daughter. His employer is elderly carpenter Pietro, whose eleven-year-old grandson Michele is haunted by the death of his father. Bitter grief provides the common ground between them in this tender tale of the shared humanity in two lost souls. A melancholy, sensitively-handled drama, graced by the luminous cinematography of Luca Bigazzi who captures the staggering beauty of the changing Alpine seasons.

China Is Near La Cina è vicina

Greenery Will Bloom Again Ermanno Olmi • Italy 2014 • 1h20m Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Camillo Grassi, Niccolò Senni, Andrea Di Maria, Francesco Formichetti.

Veteran director Ermanno Olmi brings an intensely personal perspective to the horrors of the First World War, depicting events in which his own father played a part. In the winter of 1917, a senior officer arrives with orders from High Command. Cold, wracked with fevers and terrified by what lies ahead, the troops prepare to make the ultimate sacrifice. Beautifully photographed, the film offers simple, eloquent testimony that “war is an ugly beast that travels around the world and never ceases”.

Thu 12 Mar at 8.45pm

Leopardi Il giovane favoloso

Marco Bellocchio • Italy 1967 • 1h47m Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Glauco Mauri, Elda Tattoli, Paolo Graziosi, Daniela Surina, Pierluigi Aprà.

Sat 14 Mar at 8.35pm

An aristocratic professor is pursuing a political career as a Socialist candidate. His indolent sister enjoys a life of pleasure whilst his teenage brother marches for Mao and plots to unmask his brother’s lack of conviction.

Their privileged lifestyle comes under attack when a pair of working class lovers plot to marry into the ranks of the wealthy landed gentry. Marco Bellocchio’s lovinglyrestored black comedy anticipates the upheavals of May 1968 and remains a splendidly caustic excursion into class conflict and sexual politics.

Mario Martone • Italy 2014 • 2h17m • Digital Italian, Greek, French and Neapolitan with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, Anna Mouglalis, Valerio Binasco.

Poet, philosopher and philologist Giacomo Leopardi remains one of Italy’s greatest literary figures, and Mario Martone’s biography offers us a darkly insightful portrait.

A noble’s son who fights against the expectations placed upon him by his class and physical frailty, Leopardi lives with restless intensity as the world gradually opens up to him.

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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Italian Film Festival (continued)

ILLUSTRIOUS CORPSES

THE MATTEI AFFAIR

DARKER THAN MIDNIGHT

QUIET BLISS

Illustrious Corpses Cadaveri eccellenti

Happy to Be Different Felice chi è diverso Quiet Bliss In grazia di Dio

Sun 15 Mar at 8.30pm

Tue 17 Mar at 8.40pm

Thu 19 Mar at 8.15pm

Francesco Rosi • Italy/France 1976 • 2h 35mm • Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Fernando Rey, Max von Sydow, Charles Vanel.

Gianni Amelio • Italy 2014 • 1h33m • Digital Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary

Edoardo Winspeare • Italy 2014 • 2h7m Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Celeste Casciaro, Laura Licchetta, Anna Boccadamo, Barbara De Matteis, Gustavo Caputo.

In a country rocked by political unrest, a district attorney is murdered in Palermo, and dogged inspector Rogas (Lino Ventura) is assigned to the case. As two judges are subsequently murdered, he tries to make sense of a killing spree that appears linked to official corruption and miscarriages of justice, but grows increasingly uneasy about the cynicism of the state and the true price of dissent. A film that remains strikingly relevant, Illustrious Corpses remains one of the finest in Francesco Rosi’s long career.

The screening will by introduced by by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

The Mattei Affair Il caso Mattei Mon 16 Mar at 8.40pm Francesco Rosi • Italy 1972 • 1h56m • Digital Italian and English with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Gianfranco Ombuen.

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Francesco Rosi’s conspiracy thriller provides a striking insight into post-war Italy and the bitter realities of global capitalism. Gian Maria Volonté stars as Enrico Mattei, a man dubbed “the most powerful Italian since Caesar Augustus”. His death in a 1962 air crash remains shrouded in suspicion, and Rosi’s film takes the form of an investigation into Mattei’s personality and his rise from wartime hero to key figure in Italy’s economic boom.

Veteran director Gianni Amelio came out as gay in his late sixties and subsequently compiled this documentary recording the experiences of twenty elderly gay men and one transsexual who lived through the Fascist years and the decades that followed. There are tales of prejudice and oppression, religious conflict, antiquated attitudes and bitter self-loathing, as well as the small victories of those who strove to be true to themselves. Happy to Be Different offers moving first-hand testimony from the long struggle for equality.

Europe’s economic crisis presents one family with a bittersweet opportunity to get back to basics in Edoardo Winspeare’s beautiful, warmhearted drama. When a small, family-run textile factory is forced to close, Adele persuades her sister and daughter to take refuge at the family’s Salento olive grove overlooking the sea.

Three generations of women work the farm, selling fruit, vegetables and eggs to pay off their debts, and reconnecting with the land has profound effects on their relationships, responsibilities and pursuit of happiness.

Darker Than Midnight Più buio di mezzanotte Wed 18 Mar at 8.40pm Sebastiano Riso • Italy 2014 • 1h38m • Digital Italian, English and French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Davide Capone, Vincenzo Amato, Micaela Ramazzotti, Pippo del Bono, Fabio Grossi.

Sebastiano Riso’s debut feature tells the true story of the teenage boy who became the renowned drag queen Fuxia in Rome’s historic gay bar Muccassassina, contrasting his coming-of-age with painful memories of the home life he has survived. Newcomer Davide Capone gives a striking performance as the fourteen year-old David Cordova, who finds a new family in the community of outsiders who live on the margins of society.

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The Gospel According to St Matthew/Paths of Glory/In Bloom

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST MATTHEW

SPECIALSCREENING A special screening in association with the Italian Cultural Institute and the University of Edinburgh, part of a season of events celebrating the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini. For details see www.iicedimburgo.esteri.it

The Gospel According to St Matthew Il vangelo secondo Matteo Thu 26 Mar at 5.45pm Pier Paolo Pasolini • Italy/France 1964 • 2h17m Digital • Italian with English subtitles PG – Contains moderate violence, hanging and crucifixion scenes Cast: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante, Mario Socrate.

Pasolini’s vision of the life of Christ is astonishing in its inventiveness and understated, hypnotic power. Using nonprofessional actors (including Irazoqui as Christ and Pasolini’s own mother as the Virgin Mary), the film was shot near the southern Italian city of Matera, the same location that Mel Gibson would later use for The Passion of the Christ.

The screening will be introduced by Professor Robert Gordon (Cambridge University).

From 6 March to 4 April there will be an exhibition of photographs by Angelo Novi, taken on the set of the film, in Filmhouse Cafe Bar.

PATHS OF GLORY

SPECIALSCREENING

Paths of Glory Tue 17 Mar at 8.45pm Stanley Kubrick • USA 1957 • 1h27m Digital • PG – Contains moderate war violence Cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker, George Macready, Wayne Morris.

Set in the trenches of France’s Western Front during World War I, Paths of Glory remains one of the most moving film portrayals of war. A vain and ambitious French general, Mireau, is manipulated by his wily superior into a hopeless attack on an impregnable German position. When the attack inevitably fails, Mireau takes his anger out on his men.

The events upon which the film is based occurred on 17 March 1915 (a different date than that given in the film), when four French corporals were shot for refusing to advance out of their trenches through the carnage of no man’s land. The circumstances of the ‘crime’ – the senselessness of the advance, the order to bombard their own troops, the fury of the reprisal – inspired novelist Humphrey Cobb, and subsequently a young Stanley Kubrick, who, remarkably, filmed this adaptation at the age of 29.

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

The screening will be introduced by Professor Jolyon Mitchell, Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI) at the University of Edinburgh.

IN BLOOM

SPECIALSCREENING

A special screening to mark International Women’s Day.

In Bloom Grzeli nateli dgeebi Sun 8 Mar at 5.30pm Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Groß • Georgia/Germany/France 2013 • 1h42m • Digital • Georgian with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Lika Babluani, Mariam Bokeria, Zurab Gogaladze, Data Zakareishvili, Ana Nijaradze.

An impressive coming-of-age story from Georgia, In Bloom tells a universal and personal story about female friendship and fatal feuds with the help of brilliant cinematography, superb production design and two teenage actresses who effortlessly draw the audience into their world.

It’s the early 90s in Tbilisi, capital of the newly independent Georgia. The Soviet Union having collapsed, the country is facing chaos: a war on the Black Sea coast, violence and vigilante justice plaguing the streets of the city. Eka and Natia (Lika Babluani and Mariam Bokeria, respectively, both excellent) are inseparable friends living with their families in crumbling high-rise apartments. Though their world appears to be coming apart at the seams, the two of them are interested in the same things most 14-year-olds are: classroom gossip, the neighbourhood boys and their growing awareness of their own sexuality and power.

Screenwriter and co-director (with Simon Groß) Nana Ekvtimishvili draws on her personal memories of growing up at this difficult time to fashion this compelling debut feature.

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The Cinema of Childhood

CHILDREN IN THE WIND

THE KING OF MASKS

Children in the Wind

Kaze no naka no kodomo Sun 8 Mar at 3.45pm Hiroshi Shimizu • Japan 1937 • 1h28m DCP • Japanese with English subtitles U – Contains mild violence, nudity Cast: Jun Yokoyama, Masao Hayama, Reikichi Kawamura.

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

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

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

When Sampei’s father is falsely imprisoned for fraud, his idyllic life falls apart. Sent to stay with his uncle, Sampei runs away any chance he gets – up a tree, down the river, to the circus. If only his father can clear his name, everything will be all right again. Hiroshi Shimizu’s luminous masterpiece is nearly 80 years old, but still shines brightly.

The King of Masks Bian Lian

FORBIDDEN GAMES

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

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

Sat 14 Mar at 3.45pm Wu Tiang-ming • China/Hong Kong 1996 • 1h41m DCP • Mandarin with English subtitles PG – Contains mild bad language Cast: Zhang Zhigang, Zhao Zhigang, Zhou Renying, Zhu Xu.

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

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

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

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

The Cinema of Childhood

HUGO AND JOSEPHINE

Little Fugitive

LITTLE FUGITIVE

Tomka and His Friends

Sun 22 Mar at 3.45pm

Tomka dhe shokët e tij

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

Sun 29 Mar at 3.45pm

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

Long Live the Republic At’ zije republika

TOMKA AND HIS FRIENDS

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

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

Sat 28 Mar at 3.20pm Karel Kachyna • Czechoslovakia 1965 • 2h14m • DCP Czech with English subtitles • 12A – Contains moderate violence Cast: Zdenek Lstiburek, Vlado Müller, Nadezda Gajerová, Gustáv Valach.

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

SPRING TERM 2015

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

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Learn French!

At the Institut français d’Écosse, we offer you all year round a friendly, authentic francophile atmosphere with a large range of courses and much more. www.ifecosse.org.uk

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White Shadow/Come and See.../Scottish Shorts 2014

WHITE SHADOW

SPECIALSCREENING

A special screening in association with Africa in Motion Film Festival. www.africa-in-motion.org.uk

THAT SINKING FEELING

Come and See...

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

That Sinking Feeling Tue 24 Mar at 8.45pm

White Shadow Thu 2 Apr at 8.35pm Noaz Deshe • Tanzania/Germany/Italy 2013 • 1h57m Digital • Swahili with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Hamisi Bazili, Riziki Ally, Tito D Ntanga, Salum Abdallah.

Not only an ancient tradition but a modern-day practice, the underground trade of albino body parts still exists in Tanzania, ironically a country with one of the highest percentages of albinism in the world. Used primarily by witch doctors, these parts can command prices of tens of thousands of dollars, offering a tempting source of revenue for the working class. In Noaz Deshe’s White Shadow, Alias, an albino youth on the verge of adolescence, must learn to navigate a world in which he is not just an outsider, but actual prey.

The film’s fractured and uneasy world zigzags between the village and the city, from transcendent flights of fancy to scenes of desperate brutality. But despite the pervasive, often harrowing amorality of this world, it’s one not entirely bereft of hope.

The screening will be introduced by Justine Atkinson, Director of Aya Distribution.

Bill Forsyth • UK 1979 • 1h30m • Digital 12A – Contains strong language, sexualised nudity, suicide references Cast: Robert Buchanan, John Hughes, Billy Greenlees, Douglas Sannachan.

Bill Forsyth’s debut feature, a hilarious and inventive zerobudget depiction of 1970s Glasgow youth, screening in a new restoration.

Unemployed teenager Ronnie (Robert Buchanan, Gregory’s Girl) and his hapless pals spend their time hanging around the rainy parks and dingy cafes of Glasgow, but their world changes when Ronnie hatches a plan to make them all rich by sealing a job-lot of stainless steel sinks.

“Forsyth successfully captured the subversively ironic optimism of the Glasgow streets and somehow managed to combine it with the good-humoured charm of the best Ealing comedies.” - Time Out

SCOTTISH SHORTS 2014 - AS HE LAY FALLING

SPECIALSCREENING

Scottish Shorts 2014 Mon 23 Mar at 6.10pm + filmmaker Q&A 1h13m • 15

Award winning shorts from DigiCult, Scotland’s internationally renowned new talent studio, working in partnership with Hopscotch Films.

As He Lay Falling Ian Waugh • UK 2014 • 20m A Greek economic migrant tries to disappear within the Scottish Highlands.

Exchange and Mart Cara Connolly & Martin Clark • UK 2014 • 15m A schoolgirl’s self-defence lesson is the only human touch she gets.

Monkey Love Experiments Ainslie Henderson, Will Anderson • UK 2014 • 9m

A misguided monkey believes he is destined for the moon.

Seagulls Martin Smith • UK 2014 • 14m A young showman visits a new town and struggles to fit in.

Wyld Rory Alexander Stewart • UK 2014 • 15m A barmaid must decide between responsibility and friendship.

Supported by

Filmosophy/Secret Histories: Screening Irish History

PROOF

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

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

Each screening will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by an opportunity to discuss the philosophical issues raised in an informal and accessible manner. The screenings will be introduced and discussion sessions hosted

by James Mooney (Lecturer in Film and Philosophy and Open Studies Course Organiser at The University of Edinburgh).

For more details on screenings or to continue the discussion, ‘like’ Filmosophy on Facebook, follow @film_philosophy on Twitter, or go to www.filmandphilosophy.com

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Proof Tue 24 Mar at 6.00pm Jocelyn Moorhouse • Australia 1991 • 1h30m • 35mm 15 – Contains strong language and sexualised nudity Cast: Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe, Heather Mitchell, Jeffrey Walker.

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

A TERRIBLE BEAUTY

Secret Histories: Screening Irish History The final screening in this season exploring the dark and troubling aspects of Irish life, in association with University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology. The film will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.

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A Terrible Beauty

Tue 21 Apr at 6.00pm

Sat 7 Mar at 3.20pm

Kim Ki-duk • South Korea/Japan 2004 • 1h28m 35mm • Korean with English subtitles 15 – Contains moderate sex and violence Cast: Jae Hee, Lee Seung-yeon, Kwon Hyuk-ho, Choi Jeong-ho.

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

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

SCOTTISH PREMIERE

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

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Introduction to European Cinema/Cafe Bar and Quiz

TOGETHER

BABEL

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

Curated by specialists in European cinema from the University of Edinburgh’s Division of European Languages and Cultures, the screenings form part of a University course, but you don’t need to be a student to come along!

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

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

Together Tillsammans Wed 11 Mar at 6.00pm Lukas Moodysson • Sweden/Denmark/Italy 2000 1h46m • 35mm • Swedish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language and moderate sex Cast: Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Gustav Hammarsten, Emma Samuelsson, Sam Kessel.

Swedish writer and director Lukas Moodysson’s wonderfully idiosyncratic and charming comedy drama set in a 1975 commune in Stockholm. The equilibrium of the commune is thrown off kilter when Goran’s sister Elisabeth arrives with her two children, seeking sanctuary from her alcoholic and violent husband Rolf. Moodysson pokes fun at the alternate lifestyle of these freethinkers but at the same time demonstrates an abiding affection for them.

Babel Wed 18 Mar 5.45pm Alejandro González Iñárritu • France/USA/Mexico 2006 • 2h23m 35mm • English and Various languages with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, violence, sex references and drug use Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi.

According to the Christian legend that inspired Babel, language is the barrier that keeps the world’s masses from ascendancy. Handily the world also provides director Alejandro González Iñárritu with an epic stage to exercise his talent for multi-strand storytelling, in this uncommonly raw and startling portrait of humanity. The story is a variation on the so-called butterfly effect. Here, a gun fired more or less at random has consequences in Morocco, the United States, Mexico and Japan.

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