Filmhouse Brochure - March 2016

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Youth Iona Chronic Marguerite Hitchcock/Truffaut Anomalisa The Pearl Button Sunday Double Bills Italian Film Festival CRIME: Hong Kong Style Filmhouse Junior Scotland Loves Anime Where You’re Meant to Be Screening Irish History: 1916 and its Legacy

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

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‘71 22 1916: The Irish Rebellion 22 Adventure Film Festival 10-12 After Lucia 5 Anna 18 Anomalisa 10 Anthem of the Heart 23 Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans...

8 Bastards 24 Beginners 17 Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure...

13 Bone Tomahawk 10 Call Me Francesco 16 Capture the Flag 13 Chlorine 18 Chronic 5 Cría cuervos 11 CRIME: Hong Kong Style 20-21 Don’t Be Bad 16 Double Bill: Fargo + Kumiko, the...

19 Double Bill: La peau douce + Vertigo 20 Education and Learning 26 Election 21 Filmhouse Café Bar + Film Quiz 26 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Junior 12-13 Filmhouse Membership 28 Filmosophy: Three Colours 25 Freeheld 6 God Willing 17 Goosebumps 13 Growing Pains - A Season of Films...

11 Hail, Caesar!

5 The Here After 6 Hitchcock/Truffaut 9 The Host 7 Howl’s Moving Castle 13 In Conversation with Oliver Stone 6 Infernal Affairs 21 The Invisible Boy 16 Iona 10 Italian Film Festival 16-18

Jamón Jamón 24 Kim Longinotto Double Bill: Sisters...

19 Latin Lover 16 The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles 18 A Letter to Momo 23 The Man Who Mends Women...

9 Marguerite 8 Mary Poppins 12 Mavis! 6 Michael Collins 22 Miss Hokusai 23 Northern Soul 24 Oddball and the Penguins 13 Overheard 3 20 Over the Rainbow 6 The Pearl Button 7 Penguins of Madagascar 12 Pet Shop Boys: Promo 10 The Pilferers’ Progress 21 Police Story 21 Ponyo 13 Portland Street Blues 21 Power in Our Hands 11 The Propaganda Game 9 Psycho-Pass: The Movie 23 Rocco and His Brothers 17 Scotland Loves Anime 23 Screening Europe 24 Screening Irish History: 1916 and its Legacy 22 Shake Hands with the Devil 22 Short and Sweet: Animation for Kids 13 Signed Up 11 Spotlight 5 Sunday Double Bills 19 Sworn Virgin 18 Talbot Rice Gallery... Michael Poetschko 8 That Demon Within 20 They Call Me Jeeg Robot 17 Three Colours: Blue 25 Three Colours: Red 25 Three Colours: White 25 The Visit 18 Where You’re Meant to Be 12 You Can’t Save Yourself Alone 17 Young Soul Rebels 24 Youth 7

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 Spotlight, Hail, Caesar! and Youth have audio description, and the following screenings will have onscreen captions: Tue 8 Mar at 6.10pm Spotlight Mon 14 Mar at 6.05pm Youth Tue 22 Mar at 8.45pm Hail, Caesar!

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

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

Mon 7 Mar at 11am Hail, Caesar!

Mon 14 Mar at 11am Mavis!

Mon 21 Mar at 11am Hitchcock/Truffaut Mon 28 Mar at 11am Cría cuervos

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Introduction

HAIL, CAESAR!

MARGUERITE

ANOMALISA

YOUTH

German comedians and demented old ladies...

As I write this I’m attending the Berlin International Film Festival - or as they call it, the Berlinale - as a ‘hired hand’ for our sister organisation EIFF, watching as many films as I can in the hope of bringing the good ones to you this June. I caught the rather delightful Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! on the opening night, and though I’m not important enough a guest of the festival to rate an invite to the ceremony itself, I did get into a simultaneous screening that beams the entire red carpet and opening ceremony onto the screen prior to the film. Yes, all 75 minutes of it! (If I’m honest, I’m not important enough to get into that screening either - I was given the ticket by someone who is!) The proceedings are hosted, as they have been for years I am told, by a German actress/comedian... let’s just say Henning Wenn may indeed be unique. The worst/best of it was when The Mayor of Berlin was welcomed across the stage with something like “and now, Müller’s Crossing”, (his name is Müller, and yes, she had to explain the joke too) which saw the Coens sinking even further into their seats. (I don’t think such events are their natural habitat, to be fair.)

However, the undisputed highlight of the night was Jury President Meryl Streep, on camera and visibly annoyed whilst not getting a joke about her being more accustomed to receiving than giving (awards, one had to assume) and if I’m any kind of lip reader appearing to mouth a well-known vulgar interrogative. And there’s more: Meryl was introduced on stage by a short film that described her role in The Iron Lady as “covering Margaret Thatcher’s life from tough politician to demented old lady” which I’m sure isn’t what they really meant... ahem.

As mentioned previously the big film of the month is the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar!, the framing plot of which sees Golden era Hollywood ‘fixer’ Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) keeping his Studio’s productions running despite, amongst a host of other things, the kidnapping by ‘Commie’ scriptwriters of the big star of their biblical epic (of the same name), Baird Whitlock (George Clooney). The recreations of studio staple fare being made on the lot are a constant pleasure - an On The Town-style musical, an Esther Williams-style swimming extravaganza, a low budget western, etc. - featuring a host of delicious performances from the likes of Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson. Marguerite is a marvellous French riff on the real life story of a rich American socialite in the 1920s who fancied herself as an opera singer - including performing in public - despite being utterly tone deaf. Her entourage, including her husband, chose not to point out her vocal limitations... (As chance would have it, there is a US version of the same story starring the aforementioned Meryl Streep in the title role of Florence Foster Jenkins that will no doubt be coming our way fairly soon.) Charlie Kaufman’s strikingly original Anomalisa and Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth get an airing as well. And it’s time again for our annual Italian Film Festival, in an impressive 23rd edition.

Arrivederci amici miei!

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

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Filmhouse Explorer

ANOMALISA

MAVIS!

IONA

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

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

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

BUY A TICKET FOR...

Spotlight (page 5) Hail, Caesar! (page 5) Youth (page 7) Marguerite (page 8) Anomalisa (page 9)

GET A HALF PRICE TICKET TO ONE OF THESE Chronic (page 5) The Propaganda Game (page 9) Hitchcock/Truffaut (page 9) Italian Film Festival (pages 16-18) CRIME: Hong Kong Style (pages 20-21)

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.

HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT

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Thank You!

Main Features

SPOTLIGHT

HAIL, CAESAR!

MAYBEYOUMISSED

CHRONIC

NEWRELEASE

AFTER LUCIA

NEWRELEASE

Spotlight

Hail, Caesar!

Chronic

Showing from Fri 26 Feb

Showing from Fri 4 Mar

Fri 4 to Thu 10 Mar

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

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen • USA/UK 2016 • 1h46m • Digital 12A - Contains infrequent moderate sex references • Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton.

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

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

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

It’s a busy day at Capital Pictures Studios for fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin). Production has been halted on sword-and-sandals epic Hail, Caesar!, as gleaming-teethed star Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) goes missing, bringing rival gossip columnists Thessaly Thacker (Tilda Swinton) and Thora Thacker (Tilda Swinton) onto the scene. Meanwhile, Merrily We Dance director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes) is having difficulties in getting cowboy actor Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) to acclimate to his new career in drawing-room drama. And aquatic musical Jonah’s Daughter is in danger of running aground on the personal problems of troubled star DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson).

Returning to the Hollywood-inspired period homages of Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but with the added touch of Altman-inspired ensemblism, the Coen Brothers’ 17th feature promises much mirth and mayhem amidst the trials and tribulations of Tinseltown.

Michel Franco • Mexico/France 2015 • 1h33m • Digital • 15 Contains brief strong sex references, infrequent strong language Cast: Tim Roth, Sarah Sutherland, Robin Bartlett, Rachel Pickup, Michael Cristofer, David Dastmalchian, Bitsie Tulloch, Nailea Norvind.

David (Tim Roth) is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Efficient and dedicated to his profession, he develops strong, even intimate relationships with those he cares for. But, outside of his work, David is awkward and reserved as he struggles with an ongoing burden of guilt and remorse. As the weight becomes unbearable, it becomes clearer that David needs each of his patients as much as they need him.

After Lucia

Después de Lucia Thu 24 Mar at 1.10pm & 8.20pm

Michel Franco • Mexico/France 2012 • 1h43m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains distressing scenes of bullying, including sexual assault Cast: Tessa Ia, Gonzalo Vega Jr, Tamara Yazbek, Hernán Mendoza, Monica del Carmen.

In the aftermath of his wife’s death in a car accident, Roberto (Hernán Mendoza) and their daughter Alejandra (Tessa Ia) move from Puerto Vallarta to Mexico City, where Roberto plans to open a restaurant. Alejandra quickly makes friends with the popular kids in school, but when a drunken sexual experience is recorded and circulated, she becomes the object of vicious bullying. Roberto’s struggle to cope with the loss of his wife blinds him to what’s happening to his daughter until it’s already gone too far.

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Over the Rainbow/Oliver Stone/Main Features

IN CONVERSATION WITH OLIVER STONE

FREEHELD

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

Freeheld

THE HERE AFTER

SPECIALEVENT

In Conversation with Oliver Stone Presented by the University of Edinburgh and Filmhouse Wed 9 Mar at 6.00pm

Sat 5 & Sun 6 Mar

1h40m • 15

Peter Sollett • USA 2015 • 1h41m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex references Cast: Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Steve Carell, Michael Shannon.

Join an audience with three-time Academy Award®winner Oliver Stone. The writer and director will discuss his illustrious career and life with experts from the University of Edinburgh - Dr Jonny Murray of Edinburgh College of Art and Dr David Sorfa of the School of Literatures Languages and Cultures. A Q&A session with the audience will follow.

Oliver Stone has written and directed more than 20 fulllength feature films, among them Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), and Nixon (1995).

An important true story from the continuing struggle for equality is brought to light in this emotionally-charged drama. Decorated New Jersey police detective Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore) is left reeling when diagnosed with terminal cancer, and even more so when she discovers her hard-earned pension will not go to her domestic partner Stacie Andree (Ellen Page).

In their increasingly urgent fight to change legislation through the state’s unique ‘board of chosen freeholders’ governing system, they are joined by Laurel’s stoic colleague Detective Wells (Michael Shannon) and passionate activist Steven Goldstein (Steve Carell), who help them lobby authorities and canvass for support from fellow cops. Laurel and Stacie continue their inspiring and courageous fight, even as time grimly marches on.

MAVIS!

NEWRELEASES

The Here After

Efterskalv

Fri 11 to Thu 17 Mar Magnus von Horn • Sweden/Poland/France 2015 • 1h42m Digital • Swedish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, injury detail • Cast: Ulrik Munther, Mats Blomgren, Ellen Jelinek, Loa Ek.

This measured, drip-feed drama is the impressive debut feature of Magnus von Horn. Fresh-faced John (Swedish pop musician, Ulrik Munther) arrives home to his father (Mats Blomgren) and younger brother (Alexander Nordgren) after a spell in prison. As he looks to reintegrate into family life and school, it becomes quickly apparent that his classmates and the wider community haven’t forgotten his crime.

Mavis!

Fri 11 to Thu 17 Mar Jessica Edwards • USA 2015 • 1h21m • Digital • PG Documentary featuring Mavis Staples, The Staple Singers, Bob Dylan, Prince, Bonnie Raitt, Chuck D.

Jessica Edwards’ Mavis! is the first documentary to tell the story of music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples and The Staple Singers. From their freedom songs to hits like “I’ll Take You There”, to her collaborations with Prince and Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, Mavis has inspired millions whilst keeping her family close. And, at the age of 75, she continues to record, win awards and reach new generations of fans.

Featuring rare archival footage, powerful live performances, and interviews with a panoply of music legends, Mavis! reveals the struggles and successes of one woman’s journey at a point when her message of love and equality is more timely than ever.

Main Features/The Pearl Button/The Host

YOUTH

MAYBEYOUMISSED

THE PEARL BUTTON

NEWRELEASE

THE HOST

SPECIALEVENT

Youth

The Pearl Button

The Host

Showing from Fri 11 Mar

Sun 13 Mar at 1.30pm & Fri 25 to Thu 31 Mar

Thu 17 Mar at 6.15pm

Paolo Sorrentino • Italy/France/Switzerland/UK 2015 • 2h4m Digital • English, Spanish and Swiss German with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, sex, nudity Cast: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda.

Patricio Guzmán • Chile/France/Spain/Switzerland 2015 • 1h22m Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • cert tbc Documentary

Miranda Pennell • UK 2015 • 1h • Digital • 12A Documentary

The visual splendour of Paolo Sorrentino’s films is such that cinematic viewing is almost a requirement, and Youth is no exception. Set in an elegant resort at the foot of the Swiss Alps, Fred (Michael Caine) and Mick (Harvey Keitel) are two old friends on holiday.

While Mick continues to work as a film director, musing over his next screenplay, Fred has no intention of breaking his own retirement from composing and conducting despite an unexpected request from Buckingham Palace to perform. Fred’s daughter Lena (Rachel Weisz) - married to Mick’s son - finds herself in emotional turmoil and, perhaps inevitably, Fred’s paternal shortcomings in the past are just one of the sub-narratives at play.

The supporting cast is rounded out by Paul Dano as an actor retreating from the spotlight and a memorable turn from Jane Fonda as Brenda Morel - a tough Hollywood veteran with a sharp tongue.

The elegance of Sorrentino’s other work is here, but there is also rich humour and more profound moments as the endlessly watchable central pair meditate on ageing, friendship, love, pain and wisdom.

The legendary Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán explores the watery Patagonian Archipelago and its meaning in Chilean history - from its use by Chile’s Indigenous peoples to its function as a grave site for Pinochet’s desaparecidos - in this visually stunning follow-up to 2010’s Nostalgia for the Light.

In his previous film, Guzmán overlaid the ongoing search for the regime’s victims with a contemplation of the unfathomable mysteries of the cosmos; here, he finds an equally poetic metaphor in another vast universe considerably closer to home, exploring the recurring theme of brutality throughout human history.

Combining profound metaphysical speculation with an affecting, intimate approach, The Pearl Button asserts the importance of memory in a world very quick to forget.

The preview screening on 13 March will be followed by a Q&A with director Patricio Guzmán hosted by Xosé Ramón Rivas (EIFF and IberoDocs).

While investigating her late parents’ involvement with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now known as BP) filmmaker Miranda Pennell comes across the letters of a petroleum geologist in Iran in the 1930’s, who later embarked on a search for the origins of civilization. The film sets out on its own exploration to decipher signs from the fragmented images buried in the BP archive.

This journey through images of the past interweaves stories drawn from personal memory and from the records of an imperial history, gradually building a picture of a 20th century colonial encounter.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Miranda Pennell, hosted by Tom Nolan (Co-Director at Rhubaba Gallery and Studios).

COMING SOON

Lost Treasure + Live Music Thu 28 Apr at 6.30pm Special screening of Lost Treasure - an ambitious 1956 film project intended to tell the story of the Scottish Highlands and its people, drawing on folk song and personal testimony. It will feature a specially-commissioned live score from Drew Wright (Wounded Knee) and Hamish Brown (Swimmer One), performed live in the cinema.

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Main Features/Talbot Rice Gallery: Michael Poetschko

MARGUERITE

NEWRELEASE

Marguerite Showing from Fri 18 Mar Xavier Giannoli • France/Czech Republic/Belgium 2015 • 2h9m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains infrequent strong sex, sexualised nudity, sex references Cast: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Denis Mpunga.

Inspired by the tragic-comic story of turn-of-the-century American socialite Florence Foster Jenkins, Xavier Giannoli’s title character (Catherine Frot) is a wealthy heiress in 1920s Paris with an all-consuming love of opera and, sadly, no singing talent whatsoever.

A devoted enthusiast, Marguerite performs to small, private (bewildered) audiences from her wealthy Parisian social circle. Too polite to be open and honest with her, their backhanded compliments are enough to sustain her passion. Surrounded by hypocrites, including her philandering husband Georges (André Marcon) and aghast voice coach (Michel Fau), Marguerite plans her biggest show of all - a public concert in the centre of Paris...

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.

ATTACKING THE DEVIL: HAROLD EVANS AND THE LAST NAZI...

TALBOT RICE GALLERY PRESENTS: MICHAEL POETSCHKO

NEWRELEASE

SPECIALEVENT

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime

Talbot Rice Gallery Presents: Michael Poetschko

Fri 18 to Mon 21 Mar

Fri 18 Mar at 6.00pm

Jacqui Morris, David Morris • UK 2014 • 1h42m • Digital 12A - Contains brief images of Holocaust victims, hanging scene Documentary

1h45m

As editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, Sir Harold Evans had the freedom and resources to allow teams of journalists to work on long-term projects.

As detailed by Evans himself in this stylish documentary, his longest and most hard-fought campaign was for the victims of Thalidomide. Originally developed by the Germans in WWII to counter-effect sarin gas, post-war the drug was blithely prescribed by British doctors as an antidote to morning sickness, leading to tens of thousands of children born with serious defects. The fight to win compensation for families would take more than a decade, as Evans tenaciously pursued drug companies through the English courts and beyond.

The topological narrative follows the routes of an itinerant photographer and a young philosophy student, their searching movements in-between the fractures and folds of the spatio-temporal fabric of the contemporary city. These fragments started with a rereading of Andrei Tarkovsky and the brothers Strugacky’s concept of the zone, as depicted in their late 1970s science fiction script Сталкер (Stalker). We suggest that the “zone” - a structure outside and closed off in Сталкер has now entered the very heart of the urban fabric.

We aim to explore the precarity, porosity and violence of this biopolitical space-time, as an immanent part of the city, our bodies and desires.

Zona Michael Poetschko • Austria 2012 • 51m • Digital • German and English with English subtitles PLUS SHORT Notebooks on Dislocation

Michael Poetschko • 2013 • 19m • Digital

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Michael Poetschko.

Main Features/The Man Who Mends Women

HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT

NEWRELEASE

Hitchcock/Truffaut Fri 18 to Mon 21 Mar Kent Jones • France/USA 2015 • 1h30m • Digital • English, French and Japanese with English subtitles • 12A Documentary featuring Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Olivier Assayas.

In 1962, two legendary directors met for eight days to discuss the fundamental building blocks of cinema. One, Alfred Hitchcock, was a household name who had just created three masterpieces in a row. The other, François Truffaut, was a young, influential film critic and a leader of the French New Wave with his first three films.

Based on the original recordings of their meetings, Kent Jones’ documentary brings to life the greatest cinema lesson of all time, and features a wealth of today’s leading filmmakers discussing the significance of Hitchcock’s work and these interviews on their own careers.

The Propaganda Game Mon 21 to Thu 24 Mar Álvaro Longoria • Spain 2015 • 1h34m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong references to violence and torture • Documentary

Entering North Korea as a visitor, Spanish filmmaker Álvaro Longoria seeks to reveal the competing and contrasting forces at work in the country’s internal and external propaganda machines. Granted unprecedented official access for a Westerner, he is assisted by an curious and unlikely figure - the Special Delegate on North Korea’s Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (and fellow Spaniard), Alejandro Cao. The result is a fascinating documentary that blends serious issues of North Korea’s foreign policy with the often surreal sociological quirks that abound amongst its citizens.

THE PROPAGANDA GAME

SPECIALEVENT

The Man Who Mends Women: The Wrath of Hippocrates L’homme qui répare le femmes Mon 21 Mar at 8.15pm Thierry Michel & Colette Braeckman • Belgium/Democratic Republic of the Congo/USA 2015 • 1h52m • Digital • English and French with English subtitles • cert tbc • Documentary

Doctor Denis Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of the poorest countries on the planet, despite its extremely rich sub-soil.

His endless struggle to put an end to these atrocities and denounce the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators is not welcomed by all. At the end of 2012, the Doctor was the target of another attempt on his life, which he miraculously survived.

He now lives cloistered in his hospital in Bukavu under the protection of UN peacekeepers - but he is not longer alone in his struggle. The women who he has helped restore physical integrity and dignity stand beside him, true activists for peace and hungry for justice.

The screening will be introduced by co-director Colette Braeckman, who will take part in a post-film Q&A.

THE MAN WHO MENDS WOMEN

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Main Features/Pet Shop Boys: Promo

BONE TOMAHAWK

ANOMALISA

PET SHOP BOYS: PROMO

MAYBEYOUMISSED

SPECIALEVENT

IONA

NEWRELEASES

Bone Tomahawk

Pet Shop Boys: Promo

Anomalisa

Tue 22 & Wed 23 Mar

Thu 24 Mar at 8.30pm

Showing from Fri 25 Mar

S Craig Zahler • USA 2015 • 2h12m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong violence • Cast: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins, Matthew Fox, Lili Simmons.

56m

Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson • USA 2015 • 1h30m • Digital 15 - Contains strong sex, sex references, strong language

The well-worn tropes of the western genre meet violent horror in this peculiar, witty and bloody hybrid from debutant S Craig Zahler. When savage, cannibalistic ‘troglodytes’ kidnap settlers from the peaceful frontier town of Bright Hope, four locals - Sheriff Hunt (Kurt Russell), his well-meaning ‘Backup Deputy’ Chicory (Richard Jenkins), dapper gent Brooder (Matthew Fox) and injured cowboy Arthur (Patrick Wilson) - set out across the rugged plains to hunt them down.

Arthur, still recovering from a broken leg, endures the perilous terrain to save his taken wife Samantha (Lili Simmons) - a skilled medic who often deputises for the town’s errant doctor.

While the tone is frequently lightened with moments of humour - particularly in dialogue - this is a gripping and brutal film, definitely not for the faint-hearted.

Please note this film contains scenes of extremely strong violence.

24 March 2016 marks the 30th anniversary, to the day, of the release of the debut album by the Pet Shop Boys, ‘Please’. To celebrate this milestone, as well as the contributions of the band to the fields of music, theatre, film and design, join Filmhouse for an evening of screenings of promos by the band. The videos shown will include the duo’s collaborations with Derek Jarman, Bruce Weber, Wolfgang Tillmans and Martin Parr, as well as a selection of greatest hits.

The screening will be introduced by Dr Jonny Murray (School of Design, Edinburgh College of Art), and will include time for discussion.

This screening is part of ‘Pet Shop Boys: Symposium’, a two day event hosted by the School of Design at Edinburgh College of Art: it is open to all.

The ever-innovative Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) co-directs this incredible animation about love, anxiety and the human condition - subject matter which finds perfect expression through a cast of stop-motion characters.

Michael Stone (David Thewlis) is a popular motivational speaker, yet he feels as if his daily life is bereft of meaning, and that everyone else in the world (Tom Noonan) is identical. But then, on a speaking tour, he encounters Lisa (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Beginning with cautious conversations, the unique take on romance which follows proves to be one that is never simple nor obvious, but genuinely one-of-a-kind.

Iona Showing from Fri 25 Mar Scott Graham • UK/Germany 2015 • 1h25m • Digital • 15 Contains strong sex • Cast: Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall, Tom Brooke, Michelle Duncan, Ben Gallacher, Sorcha Groundsell.

Scott Graham’s follow-up to his award-winning debut feature Shell is a striking and enthralling drama set against the stunning backdrop of the Inner Hebrides.

Iona (Ruth Negga) and her teenage son, Bull (Ben Gallacher), seek refuge on the island where she was raised (and which she was named after), following a violent incident. Her return exposes Bull to the gentler way of life she rejected when she left the island as a teenager, but also creates friction with those she left behind.

Signed Up/Growing Pains

POWER IN OUR HANDS

Signed Up In 2015, Scotland passed a pioneering law committing the country to “promoting” the use of British Sign Language (BSL). In partnership with Heriot-Watt University’s BSL experts, Filmhouse offers a season of films highlighting Deaf experiences.

How does signing come to be at the heart of a hidden community, and why does it need to be “promoted”?

Through new and classic films, each followed by a panel session with Deaf and hearing guests, we invite signers and non-signers alike to explore how sign language comes to be the most powerful form of human expression you’ve never heard.

Power in Our Hands Sun 27 Mar at 3.00pm Angela Spielsinger • UK 2015 • 1h15m • Digital • British Sign Language with English subtitles • PG • Documentary

A ground-breaking documentary - containing newly digitised archive footage available to the public for the first time - on the Deaf community’s fight for civil rights and principally, the right to be heard. Released in the 125th anniversary year of the British Deaf Association, Power in Our Hands explores the secret history and heritage of the Deaf community in the UK. The screening will be followed by panel discussion with special guests and BSL interpreters.

CRÍA CUERVOS

Growing Pains A Season of Films Programmed by Jessie Moroney Filmhouse’s monthly screening strand showing classic and contemporary films dealing with some of the more complex aspects of childhood.

Jessie Moroney invites viewers to join her for a selection of introduced screenings that explore the the emotional turbulences experienced during our early years, and hopes to create a space that encourages audiences to share their own responses on how these films affect them now as adults, as catharsis or otherwise, during postscreening chats.

Jessie is a member of the programming team at Filmhouse and is currently attending the Practical Programming course run by the Independent Cinema Office. The course is designed to help participants to develop a fresh programme for their home venues. This programming idea was successfully pitched to the Filmhouse team, leading to a monthly screening of films focusing on childhood issues.

In March, we present Cría cuervos, a classic tale of a young girl coming to terms with her newly orphaned status.

Cría cuervos Raise Ravens Mon 28 Mar at 6.10pm Carlos Saura • Spain 1976 • 1h49m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate sex references and disturbing scenes Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Torrent, Héctor Alterio, Florinda Chico, Mónica Randall.

How can a child fully grasp the notion of the loss of her parents? Carlos Saura’s 1976 film Cría Cuervos brings us into the world of eight-year-old Ana, still reeling from the loss of her mother, only to find the body of her dead father soon after. Believing happily that she has poisoned the man who she blames for her mother’s miserable existence and death, Ana goes about her days officially in the care of her aunt Paulina and the housemaid Rosa, with the added supervision of the spirit of her deceased mother, who frequently visits her to offer comfort and support.

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Where You’re Meant to Be/Filmhouse Junior

WHERE YOU’RE MEANT TO BE

SPECIALEVENT

Where You’re Meant to Be + live music from Aidan Moffat Sat 9 Apr at 9.00pm Paul Fegan • UK 2016 • 1h15m • Digital • 15 Cast: Aidan Moffat, Sheila Stewart.

Cult-pop raconteur Aidan Moffat sets out to explore Scotland’s past by rewriting and touring its oldest songs.

But he doesn’t count on running into 79-year-old force of nature Sheila Stewart - a travelling balladeer who upturns Moffat’s folk assumptions. He believes the old songs are ripe for updating. She does not.

With Stewart’s wrath ringing in his ears, Moffat embarks on a road trip that finds him dressed for battle in a Highland graveyard, caught between feuding monster-hunters at Loch Ness, and singing in a dismissive farmer’s kitchen before facing Stewart in his home-town of Glasgow for an unlikely final showdown, in this funny wee film about music and death.

The screening will be followed by a live musical performance from Aidan Moffat £10

PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR

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

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

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

MARY POPPINS

Penguins of Madagascar Sun 6 Mar at 11.00am Eric Darnell & Simon J Smith • USA 2014 • 1h32m • Digital U - Contains very mild threat, slapstick violence, very mild bad language With the voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights, Conrad Vernon, John Malkovich, Benedict Cumberbatch.

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

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

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

Get more information on upcoming Education and Learning events at Filmhouse - including screenings for schools - on page 26.

Filmhouse Junior

BELLE AND - THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES THESEBASTIAN GOOD DINOSAUR

PONYO FINDING NEMO

SHORTAND ANDCHARLIE SWEET: ANIMATIONS KIDS SNOOPY BROWN: THEFOR PEANUTS...

CAPTURE THE FLAG THE PRINCESS BRIDE

Belle and Sebastian - The Adventure Continues

Capture The Flag

Goosebumps

Sun 3 Apr at 11.00am

Sun 17 Apr at 11.00am

Belle et Sébastien, l’aventure continue Sun 20 Mar at 11.00am

Enrique Gato • Spain 2015 • 1h34m • Digital • PG Cast: Lorraine Pilkington, Phillippa Alexander, Sam Fink.

Rob Letterman • USA/Australia 2015 • 1h43m • Digital • PG Cast: Jack Black, Dylan Minnette , Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan.

Christian Duguay • France 2015 • 1h37m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild threat, mild bad language Cast: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier, Thierry Neuvic.

Mike Goldwing - a plucky, determined 12-year old - is the son and grandson of NASA astronauts. His grandfather Frank, once revered, lives his days isolated from his family after missing out on his big chance to fly to the moon on the Apollo XI mission. When an eccentric billionaire plans to steal the moon’s vast mineral resources and destroy the US flag planted on it, Mike - accompanied by his grandfather, best friends and a clever chameleon embarks on a magnificent adventure as a stowaway on the space shuttle.

Having newly arrived in small-town Delaware, teenager Zach (Dylan Minnette) meets his next door neighbour Hannah (Odeya Rush), whose father turns out to be Goosebumps author R.L. Stine (Jack Black).

He soon discovers that the monsters and ghouls from Stine’s novels are real, and when they escape and begin terrorising the town, Zach, Hannah, Stine and Zach’s friend Champ (Ryan Lee) must work together to send them back.

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

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

Short and Sweet: Animations for Kids Sun 10 Apr at 11.00am

Ponyo

57m • U

Gake no ue no Ponyo Sun 27 Mar at 11.00am

A selection of clever, colourful and beautifully-animated short films that kids of all ages will love! Some have words and others have noises, some have dancing rhinos and others have stegosauruses - all of them, however, have something special that makes them fantastic fun for all the family.

Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 2008 • 1h41m • Digital • U - Contains very mild threat

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

Howl’s Moving Castle Sun 24 Apr at 11.00am Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 2004 • 1h59m • Digital • U With the voices of Emily Mortimer, Christian Bale, Jean Simmons,.

In a land of witches, wizards and war, Sophie is a young milliner who has a spell cast upon her, turning her into an old lady. Sophie runs away so her friends can’t see the transformation and ends up working as a cleaning woman in Howl’s Moving Castle, the remarkable, magical contraption that walks the land.

Oddball and the Penguins Sun 1 May 11.00am

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Stuart McDonald • Australia 2015 • 1h36m • Digital • U Cast: Alan Tudyk, Sarah Snook, Coco Jack Gillies.

The true story about an eccentric chicken farmer (Shane Jacobson) who, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a wild penguin sanctuary from fox attacks and in the process tries to reunite his family and save their seaside town.

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

4 March - 31 March 2016

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Fri 4 Mar

1 2 2 2 3 3

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Chronic Spotlight (AD) Don’t Be Bad (IFF) Spotlight (AD) Chronic

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.10 3.20/6.05 8.50 1.05/8.25 3.50/6.10

Fri 11 Mar

1 2 2 2 3 3

Hail, Caesar! (AD) The Here After Youth (AD) They Call Me Jeeg Robot (IFF) Mavis!

The Here After

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.05 3.20/8.45 6.05 +Q&A 2.00/6.30 4.00/8.25

Sat 5 Mar

1 2 2 2 2 3 3

Hail, Caesar! (AD) The Invisible Boy (IFF) Freeheld Chronic Overheard 3 (HK) Spotlight (AD) Chronic

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.10 3.25 5.45 8.00 +Q&A 1.05/6.05 3.50/8.50

Sat 12 Mar

1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Mavis!

Youth (AD) God Willing (IFF) Youth (AD) The Here After Mavis!

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1.30 3.25/8.20 6.15 1.15 4.00/8.25 6.30

Penguins of Madagascar (FJ) Hail, Caesar! (AD) Kim Longinotto Double Bill: Sisters in Law + Gaea Girls Freeheld Call Me Francesco (IFF) Spotlight (AD) Chronic

11.00am 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30

Sun 13 Mar

1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Mary Poppins (FJ) Hail, Caesar! (AD) The Pearl Button Rocco and His Brothers (IFF) Youth (AD) Youth (AD) The Here After Mavis!

11.00am 1.45/4.05/6.25/8.45 1.30 +Q&A 5.00 8.35 1.15 4.00/8.25 6.30

Sun 1 6 1 Mar 2

2 2 3 3

1.30 5.50 8.15 1.05/8.25 3.50/6.10

Mon 1 Hail, Caesar! (AD) 2.30/8.30 7 1 Adventure Film Festival 3 (AFF) 6.15 Mar 2 Spotlight (AD) 1.00 2 Hail, Caesar! (AD) 3.45/6.10 2 Latin Lover (IFF) 8.40 3 Chronic 1.05/8.55 3 Spotlight (AD) 3.15/6.10 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 8 Mar

1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3

Wed 1 9 1 Mar 2 2 2 3 3 Thu 10 Mar

1 2 2 2 3 3

Hail, Caesar! (AD) 2.30/6.05/8.30 Spotlight (AD) 12.50 Hail, Caesar! (AD) 3.35 Jamón Jamón (SE) 6.00 You Can’t Save Yourself... (IFF) 8.40 Chronic 1.05/8.55 Spotlight (AD) 3.15 Spotlight (AD) (C) 6.10 (captioned) Hail, Caesar! (AD) In Conversation... Oliver Stone Chronic Hail, Caesar! (AD) That Demon Within (HK) Spotlight (AD) Chronic

2.00/8.30 6.00 1.00 3.30/6.00 8.40 1.05/8.25 3.50/6.10

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Three Colours: Blue Hail, Caesar! (AD) Beginners (IFF) Spotlight (AD) Chronic

2.30/6.00/8.30 1.00/6.05 3.30 8.20 1.05/8.25 3.50/6.10

SCREENING TIMES

Mon 1 Hail, Caesar! (AD) 2.30/6.00 14 1 Hail, Caesar! (AD) 8.30 Mar 2 Youth (AD) 1.00 2 Youth (AD) (C) 6.05 (captioned) 2 The Here After 3.40 2 The Legendary Giulia... (IFF) 8.45 3 Mavis!

1.30/8.35 3 Hail, Caesar! (AD) 3.30 3 The Here After 6.10 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 15 Mar

1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Wed 1 16 2 Mar 2 2 3 3 3

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Youth (AD) The Here After Bastards (SE) Sworn Virgin (IFF) Mavis!

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Youth (AD) The Here After

2.30/6.05/8.30 1.00 3.40 6.00 8.25 1.30 3.30 5.55 8.45

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Youth (AD) Mavis!

1916: The Irish Rebellion (IH) The Here After Hail, Caesar! (AD) Chlorine (IFF)

2.30/6.00/8.30 1.00/8.35 3.45 5.45 +Q&A 1.15/8.45 3.40 6.10

BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Thu 17 Mar

1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Youth (AD) Mavis!

The Host Anna (IFF) The Here After Hail, Caesar! (AD) Youth (AD)

2.30/6.00/8.30 1.00 3.45 6.15 +Q&A 8.40 1.15/8.45 3.40 6.05

Fri 18 Mar

1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Marguerite Attacking the Devil: Harold...

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Talbot Rice... Michael Poetschko Marguerite Marguerite Hitchcock/Truffaut Hail, Caesar! (AD)

1.00/8.55 3.25/6.10 1.15 3.35 6.00 +Q&A 8.35 1.10 3.55/8.40 6.15

Sat 19 Mar

1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Marguerite Attacking the Devil: Harold...

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Marguerite Marguerite Hitchcock/Truffaut Attacking the Devil: Harold...

1.00/8.55 3.25/6.10 1.15 3.35/6.00 8.25 1.10 3.55/8.40 6.15

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

SEASONS: (AFF) – Adventure Film Festival (F) – Filmosophy (page 25) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 12-13) (GP) – Growing Pains (page 11) (HK) – CRIME: Hong Kong Style (pages 20-21) (IH) – Screening Irish History (page 22) (IFF) – Italian Film Festival (pages 16-18) (OR) – Over the Rainbow (page 6) (SDB) – Sunday Double Bills (page 19) (SE) – Screening Europe (page 24) (SLA) – Scotland Loves Anime (page 24) (SU) – Signed Up (page 11)

WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Sun 1 20 1 Mar 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Belle and Sebastian - The... (FJ) Double Bill: Fargo + Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (SDB) Marguerite Hail, Caesar! (AD) Attacking the Devil: Harold...

Hail, Caesar! (AD) Portland Street Blues (HK) Marguerite Hitchcock/Truffaut Attacking the Devil: Harold...

SCREENING TIMES

11.00am 1.30 5.45 8.30 1.15 3.35/6.00 8.25 1.10 3.55/6.15 8.20

Mon 1 Marguerite 2.30/6.00 21 1 Hail, Caesar! (AD) 8.45 Mon 2 Attacking the Devil: Harold...

1.05 2 Hail, Caesar! (AD) 3.25/5.50 2 The Man Who Mends Women... 8.15 +Q&A 3 Hitchcock/Truffaut 1.10/8.30 3 The Propaganda Game 3.30/6.10 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 22 Mar

1 1 2 2 2 3 3

Wed 1 23 1 Mar 2 2 2 3 3

4 March - 31 March 2016

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Sat 26 Mar

Marguerite A Letter to Momo (SLA) Anthem of the Heart (SLA) Anomalisa Anomalisa The Pearl Button Iona Marguerite

1.00 3.45 6.10 8.50 4.00 6.15 1.15/8.45 3.15/6.00

Ponyo (FJ) Double Bill: Peau Douce + Vertigo (SDB) Miss Hokusai (SLA) Anomalisa The Pearl Button Power in Our Hands (SU) Election (HK) Iona Marguerite

11.00am

1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3

Sun 1 27 1 Mar 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

1.30 6.30 8.35 1.00 3.00 +Q&A 8.35 1.15/8.45 3.15/6.00

Marguerite Hail, Caesar! (AD) (C) Hail, Caesar! (AD) Young Soul Rebels (SE) Marguerite The Propaganda Game Bone Tomahawk

2.30/5.55 8.45 (captioned) 1.00/3.25 6.00 8.30 1.10/8.55 3.20/6.10

Mon 1 Marguerite 2.30 28 1 Anomalisa 8.50 Mar 2 The Pearl Button 4.00/8.40 2 Cría cuervos (GP) 6.10 3 Iona 1.30/8.45 3 Anomalisa 3.45 3 Marguerite 6.00 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2

Marguerite Hail, Caesar! (AD) Hail, Caesar! (AD) Marguerite The Pilferers’ Progress (HK) The Propaganda Game Bone Tomahawk

2.30 6.05/8.45 1.00/3.25 6.00 8.50 1.10/6.10 3.20/8.20

Tue 29 Mar

Wed 1 30 1 Mar 2 2 3 3 3

Thu 24 Mar

1 1 2 2 3 3

Marguerite Pet Shop Boys: Promo Hail, Caesar! (AD) Marguerite After Lucia The Propaganda Game

2.30/5.45 8.30 +Discussion 1.00/3.25/6.00 8.25 1.10/8.20 3.30/6.10

Fri 25 Mar

1 1 1 2 3 3

Marguerite Anomalisa Psycho-Pass: The Movie (SLA) The Pearl Button Iona Marguerite

1.00 3.45/8.50 6.10 4.00/6.15 1.15/8.45 3.15/6.00

*The week beginning Friday 25 March will have additional screenings added at a later date - films and times TBC

Thu 31 Mar

1 1 2 2 3 3 3

1 1 2 2 3 3 3

Marguerite Anomalisa The Pearl Button Northern Soul (SE) Iona Anomalisa Marguerite

2.30/6.05 8.50 4.00 6.00 1.30/6.10 3.45 8.15

Marguerite Anomalisa The Pearl Button Shake Hands with the Devil (IH) Anomalisa Iona Marguerite

2.30 6.15 3.45/8.40 5.45 +Q&A 1.30 3.45/8.45 6.00

Marguerite Anomalisa The Pearl Button Police Story (HK) Anomalisa Iona Marguerite

2.30 6.15 4.00/6.10 8.30 1.30 3.45/8.45 6.00

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

TICKET PRICES AND INFORMATION

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

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

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

There are usually ticket deals available on film seasons.

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

Tickets cannot be exchanged nor money refunded except in the event of a cancellation of a performance. Screenings are subject to change, but only in extraordinary circumstances.

All seats are unreserved. If you require seats together please arrive in plenty of time. Cinemas will be open 15 minutes before the start of each screening. The management reserves the right of admission and will not admit latecomers. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Double bills are shown in the same order as indicated on these pages. Intervals in double bills last 15 minutes.

BOX OFFICE: 0131 228 2688 (10am-9pm daily) PROGRAMME INFO: 0131 228 2689 BOOK ONLINE: www.filmhousecinema.com

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Italian Film Festival

DON’T BE BAD

THE INVISIBLE BOY

CALL ME FRANCESCO

Don’t Be Bad

Non essere cattivo Fri 4 Mar at 8.50pm

Benvenuti to the 23rd edition of the Italian Film Festival in Scotland where you can find the best of il cinema italiano, currently on a high with the global and awards success of Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth (see page 7). Sorrentino was a previous guest so you can be confident of spotting talent in this year’s crop.

Claudio Caligari • Italy 2015 • 1h40m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Silvia D’Amico.

A major discovery at Venice Film Festival, Don’t Be Bad was also Italy’s Oscar candidate this year. It is the last film from the late Claudio Caligari. There are echoes of Scorsese and Pasolini in the story of two hedonistic best friends, smalltime drug dealers from a working-class suburb in Ostia.

In the mid-1990s, their lives are defined by petty crimes, It is curated and co-founded by directors Allan minor scuffles, boredom, fast cars and ecstasy-fuelled Hunter and Richard Mowe and partnered by principal oblivion. Vittorio (Alessandro Borghi) decides to break the funder the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Edimburgo, cycle by committing to a conventional life of hard graft Filmhouse, Glasgow Film Theatre; plus supporters and a steady relationship but Cesare (Luca Marinelli) is Valvona & Crolla Vin Caffè and Fratelli Sarti, Glasgow; hellbent on self-destruction. as well as Menabrea beers.

One of this year’s particular highlights is a special focus on Luchino Visconti in the year of the 40th anniversary of his death.The Cineteca di Bologna are working with us to offer exclusive UK opportunities to view one of his masterpieces Rocco and His Brothers in a newly restored version. www.italianfilmfestival.org.uk

The Invisible Boy

Il ragazzo invisible

Sat 5 Mar at 1.10pm Gabriele Salvatores • Italy/France 2015 • 1h41m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Ludovico Girardello, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Bentivoglio.

Oscar®-winning director Gabriele Salvatores brings an Italian twist to the superhero movie in this highly entertaining family film. In the windswept city of Trieste, Michele (Ludovico Girardello) is a typical thirteen year-old worried about bullies, embarrassed by his mother being a police officer and determined to impress his classmate Stella (Noa Zatta). One disastrously humiliating Halloween party has a silver lining in the discovery that he can become invisible. Michele’s status as the new superhero in town fills him with thoughts of revenge on the bullies and winning his girl, but great powers are accompanied by responsibility in this charming coming-of-age adventure.

LATIN LOVER

Call Me Francesco Chiamatemi Francesco-Il Papa della gente Sun 6 Mar at 8.15pm Daniele Luchetti • Italy 2015 • 1h34m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Rodrigo De La Serna, Sergio Hernandez, Muriel Santa Ana.

Director Daniele Luchetti tells the early years of the future Pope Francis in Call Me Francesco. Opening in Buenos Aires in 1960, it covers the story of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Rodrigo De La Serna) from his days as a technician in a food lab to his time as provincial superior of the Jesuits in Argentina during the country’s brutal military dictatorship.

This is a compelling, thoughtful portrait of a man of compassion and principle whose faith is defined by the times in which he lived and the people he encountered.

Latin Lover Mon 7 Mar at 8.40pm Cristina Comencini • Italy 2015 • 1h44m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Virna Lisi, Marisa Paredes, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.

Anyone who longs for the glory days of Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio De Sica will love this delightful ensemble comedy that has become one of the biggest successes in the career of writer/director Cristina Comencini.

A hot Southern town in Apulia is world famous as the birthplace of adored Italian movie idol Saverio Crispo (Francesco Scianna). Ten years after his death, his first wife Rita (the late Virna Lisi) is preparing for a memorial service that mushrooms into a vast family reunion involving Saverio’s Spanish wife Ramona (Marisa Paredes) and his neurotic French daughter Stephanie (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). A comic treat filled with nostalgic moments of spot-on pastiche celebrating the glories of Italian cinema.

Italian Film Festival

YOU CAN’T SAVE YOURSELF ALONE

BEGINNERS

LABYRINTH

ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS

You Can’t Save Yourself Alone

They Call Me Jeeg Robot

Rocco and His Brothers

Nessuno si salva da solo Tue 8 Mar at 8.40pm

Lo chiavamano Jeeg Robot Fri 11 Mar at 6.05pm

Rocco e i suoi fratelli Sun 13 Mar at 5.00pm

Sergio Castellitto • Italy 2015 • 1h42m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Ana Galiena.

Gabriele Mainetti • Italy 2015 • 1h52m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Luca Marinelli,.

Luchino Visconti • Italy 1960 • 3h • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Katina Paxinou, Roger Hanin, Paolo Stoppa, Suzy Delair.

The road to divorce and disillusion is paved with the best of intentions in the latest box-office hit from director Sergio Castellitto. Delia (Jasmine Trinca) and Gaetano (Riccardo Scamarcio) meet to discuss holiday arrangements for their two sons. The couple are separated and the dinner soon becomes emotionally charged as they pick over the wreckage of their ten year marriage.

Flashbacks capture the rise and fall of their relationship from the early passion to all the misunderstandings and lost opportunities that signalled its demise.

Beginners

Alaska Thu 10 Mar at 8.20pm

Claudio Cupellini • Italy/France 2015 • 2h5m • Digital • Italian and French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Elio Germano, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Roschdy Zem.

Love changes everything in this sweeping, irresistible romantic epic from A Quiet Life director Claudio Cupellini.

Nadine (Astrid Berges-Frisbey) is on her first modelling audition at a plush hotel in Paris when she meets Italianborn waiter and inveterate charmer Fausto (Elio Germano).

An instant, impulsive attraction is the beginning of a beautiful relationship that unfolds in Paris and Milan, through triumph and tragedy as she becomes a successful model and he opens the chicest nightclub in town. Their love is constantly tested against a sea of troubles in a stylish widescreen drama that showcases charismatic performances from the two stars and a lush musical score from Pasquale Catalano.

Savour a superhero tale that blends style with substance and a character you really care about. Inspired by the 1970s cartoon series Steel Jeeg, They Call Me Jeeg Robot combines well-handled special-effects with a superhero story that comments on the social and political ills of Italy.

We first meet Enzo (Claudio Santamaria) as he tries to evade the police. Tumbling into toxic waste, he emerges with super powers that soon find him tackling crime boss Fabio (Luca Marinelli) and protecting Alessia (Ilenia Pastorelli) who is convinced he’s Jeeg Robot and has come to help humanity.

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

Luchino Visconti’s masterpiece follows a mother and her five sons as they abandon the poverty of southern Italy to seek a better life in Milan. The ties of blood are challenged by the struggles for work, dignity and acceptance. Matters are further complicated when the young Rocco (Alain Delon) falls in love with the same woman as his boorish, viciously possessive brother Simone (Renato Salvatori).

This sweeping melodrama is distinguished by the lustrous black and white cinematography of Giuseppe Rotunno, who sculpts with light in a way that would influence Scorsese’s Raging Bull. A recent restoration by Cineteca di Bologna allows the film to glow with a fresh intensity.

God Willing

Se Dio vuole Sat 12 Mar at 6.15pm

Edoardo Maria Falcone • Italy 2015 • 1h25m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Marco Giallini, Alessandro Gassman, Enrico Oetiker.

Edoardo Falcone’s award-winning debut feature is a witty, thought-provoking comedy on keeping the faith.

Tommaso (Marco Giallini) is a renowned surgeon, liberal and fierce atheist. He expects his son Andrea (Enrico Oetiker) to follow in his footsteps and is shocked when Andrea intends to become a priest. Tommaso discovers that the charismatic priest Don Pietro (Alessandro Gassman) has played a big influence on his son’s decision and sets out to discredit the him and steer his son back towards medicine. The road to hell may be paved with good intentions but could the path to enlightenment proceed along some misguided deceptions?

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

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Italian Film Festival (continued)/The Visit

OPERATION ‘MONSTER’

SWORN VIRGIN

CHLORINE

The Legendary Giulia And Other Miracles Noi e la Giulia

Chlorine Cloro Wed 16 Mar at 6.10pm

Mon 14 Mar at 8.45pm

Lamberto Sanfelice • Italy 2015 • 1h38m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Sara Serraiocco, Ivan Franek, Giorgio Colangeli.

Edoardo Leo • Italy 2015 • 1h55m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Claudio Amendola, Claudio Buccirosso.

Winner of the Nastro d’Argento and Italian Golden Globe as comedy of the year, The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles is a smart, endearing romp in which a group of friends decide to abandon the rat race of urban life and pursue their collective Plan B by entering the world of agritourism. They open a rustic B&B in the sun-kissed hinterland east of Naples.

The previous owners seem eager to sell up, and they soon discover why when a member of the Camorra arrives and demands protection money. Is the threat of organised crime about to destroy their dream?

Sworn Virgin Vergine giurata Tue 15 Mar at 8.25pm Laura Bispuri • Italy/Switzerland/Germany/Albania/France 2015 1h27m • Digital • Albanian and Italian with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Flonja Kodheli, Luan Jaha.

Laura Bispuri’s award-winning debut feature manages to be both highly topical and utterly timeless in the way it addresses issues of gender and identity.

In a remote village in northern Albania, Hana (Alba Rohrwacher) has followed the ancient tradition of burmesha (sworn virgin), renouncing her female identity to live as a man. She has taken a lifelong vow of chastity but in return she is liberated from the servile role assigned to women. Leaving home for the first time, she visits her estranged sister Lila (Flonja Kodheli) who escaped their home for Italy. Their reunion encourages Hana to confront the choices she made and the regrets that haunt her.

Lamberto Sanfelice’s assured debut feature made a big splash at Sundance and Berlin. A fresh perspective on the coming of age drama, it focuses on seventeen year-old Jenny (Sara Serraiocco). Determined to achieve success as part of a synchronised swimming team, her every waking moment is devoted to training and the pursuit of her sporting goals. When her mother dies, Jenny’s father struggles to cope and the family is obliged to move to an uncle’s chalet in the Abruzzo Mountains. Forced to become the breadwinner, an embittered Jenny tries to juggle adult responsibilities with the fading promise of her personal ambitions.

Anna Per amor vostro Thu 17 Mar at 8.40pm Giuseppe M. Gaudino • Italy/France 2015 • 1h50m • Digital Italian with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Valeria Golino, Massimiliano Gallo, Adriana Giannini.

Set in Naples, this largely black and white melodrama features heartwrenching work from the award-winning Valeria Golino as Anna, the long-suffering mother of three teenage children and the wife of Gigi (Massimiliano Gallo), a failed singer who makes her life hell.

Seeking a measure of independence, Anna finds work with a local TV company where she meets soap star Michele (Adriano Giannini). The rare promise of happiness is a burst of sunshine in Anna’s gloomy existence as she struggles with domestic pressures, depression and the unbearable burdens of her life.

THE VISIT

SPECIALEVENT

The Visit Mon 4 Apr at 6.00pm Michael Madsen • Denmark/Austria/Ireland/Finland/Norway/ Sweden/Netherlands 2015 • 1h23m • Digital • PG - Contains mild threat • Documentary

“This film documents an event that has never taken place man’s first encounter with intelligent life from space.”

Earth may not have been visited by aliens, but ever since the invention of radio and television, humans have been announcing their existence to other civilizations, so the question is not ‘what if’ it happens, but rather ‘when.’

With unprecedented access to the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, the film builds a chillingly believable scenario of first contact on Earth, beginning with the simplest of questions: Why are you here? How do you think? What do you see in humans that we don’t see in ourselves?

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Michael Madsen and Royal Society scientist Martin Dominik. £10.50/£8.50

Sunday Double Bills

SISTERS IN LAW

GAEA GIRLS

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

Double Bill tickets cost £12/£10 concs.

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

FARGO

KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER

Kim Longinotto Double Bill: Sisters in Law + Gaea Girls

Double Bill: Fargo + Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

Sun 6 Mar at 1.30pm

Sun 20 Mar at 1.30pm

3h43m • 12A

3h38m • 18

A special double bill in anticipation of International Women’s Day on Tuesday 8 March 2016, featuring two films by prolific British documentarian Kim Longinotto.

An observational filmmaker and champion of women’s rights, Longinotto’s first project was a film about the oppressive conditions in her childhood boarding school in Buckinghamshire (Pride of Place) and her career has taken her across several continents and cultures since then.

Sisters in Law - co-directed with Florence Ayisi - explores the inequalities and disparities between men, women and children in Cameroon. In a small town in which there have been no domestic abuse convictions for over two decades, the film focuses on a handful of court cases concerning violence against women, presided over by a female judge.

The second feature in our double - Gaea Girls, codirected with Jano Williams - is an extraordinary look at the regimented lifestyles of trainee female professional wrestlers in Japan. As the prospective grapplers live and train in the most basic conditions, we follow the progress of one trainee as she prepares for her ‘test’ - a brutal initiation that would pave the way for her professional debut.

With the release of the latest instalment in the Coen brothers’ impressive filmography, Hail, Caesar! (page 5), it seems fitting to revisit one of their most amusing and macabre tales. Fargo is a snowy, bloody and darkly comedic tale of ineptitude - with deadly consequences that has spawned a successful television spin-off in recent years. The beauty of this quirky black comedy-thriller is in the subtle detail of the dialogue and performances, which continues to entertain upon every viewing.

Paired with it is David Zellner’s 2014 film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, in which a VHS copy of Fargo is the central MacGuffin in the story of an isolated and frustrated Tokyo office worker (Rinko Kikuchi) - convinced that the Coens’ film is a true story - who escapes to rural Minnesota in search of Steve Buscemi’s buried satchel of ransom money.

Sisters in Law Kim Longinotto & Florence Ayisi • Cameroon/Britain 2005 • 1h44m • Digital 12A

Gaea Girls Kim Longinotto & Jano Williams • UK 2000 • 1h44m • Digital • Japanese and English with English subtitles • Exempt from Classifcation

Fargo Joel Coen • USA 1996 • 1h38m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong violence.

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter David Zellner • USA 2014 • 1h45m • Digital • English and Japanese with English subtitles • 12A - Contains occasional bloody images

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Sunday Double Bills (cont.)/CRIME: Hong Kong Style

VERTIGO

OVERHEARD 3

Double Bill: La peau douce + Vertigo Sun 27 Mar at 1.30pm 4h20m • PG

With Hitchcock/Truffaut (page 9) giving us the opportunity to meditate and ruminate on two of the great directors of the 20th Century, what better way to celebrate than to screen one film from each as a double bill?

While not achieving the same box office success as the likes of The 400 Blows or Jules and Jim, François Truffaut’s La peau douce is a compelling and suspenseful morality play, of sorts, that sees a celebrated writer (Jean Desailly) engage in an illicit affair with a woman (Françoise Dorléac) he meets on a plane. In its wit, style and occasions of dark humour, it draws some inspiration from the director of Vertigo.

From its iconic Saul Bass titles to the dramatic climax, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller is a genre classic and a true innovator. James Stewart’s retired detective ‘Scottie’ is a man tormented by his loss - leading to obsession, intrigue and the gravest of consequences.

La peau douce François Truffaut • France/Portugal 1964 • 1h57m • 35mm • French, Portuguese and English with English subtitles • PG - Contains references to sexual experience

Vertigo Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1958 • 2h8m • Digital • PG

THAT DEMON WITHIN

CRIME: Hong Kong Style With a city of 7.2 million people, you’re bound to get a few bad apples... CRIME: Hong Kong Style presents an explosive new season of crime films from Hong Kong.

From noir-tinged thrillers, to tales of hardnosed gangsters, to entertainingly comic capers, CRIME: Hong Kong Style offers stone cold classics (Infernal Affairs, Election), cult movies (Police Story), forgotten gems (Portland Street Blues) and, with premieres of Dante Lam’s That Demon Within and the latest releases from some of the world’s most revered and stylish directors.

PORTLAND STREET BLUES

Overheard 3 Sit ting fung wan 3 Sat 5 Mar at 8.00pm Alan Mak, Felix Chong • China/Hong Kong 2015 • 2h12m • Digital • Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu, Xun Zhou.

Another free standing and independent film, the third instalment of Alan Mak and Felix Chong’s highly successful Overheard series offers a story that focuses on corruption around land acquisition in Hong Kong’s New Territories.

Again displaying a strong social conscience, Overheard 3 once again offers Ching Wan Lau, Louis Koo, Daniel Wu new roles and needs no previous knowledge of the series to enjoy this taut and complex story.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Felix Chong.

That Demon Within

Mo jing

Wed 9 Mar at 8.40pm Dante Lam • Hong Kong/China 2014 • 1h51m • Digital Cantonese with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Daniel Wu, Nick Cheung, Andy On.

The new Hong Kong action maestro Dante Lam is behind this taut and ultimately unsettling psychological thriller.

Quiet and distant cop Dave (Daniel Wu) is increasingly haunted by the violent images of a criminal gang who use traditional demon masks when committing their crimes.

Truth, reality and imagination begin to blur in this stylish film with which Lam once again brings a new energy to the Hong Kong crime film.

CRIME: Hong Kong Style

THE PILFERERS’ PROGRESS

ELECTION

Portland Street Blues

Goo waak chai ching yee pin ji hung hing sap saam mooi Sun 20 Mar at 8.25pm Wai Man Yip • Hong Kong 1998 • 1h54m • 35mm • Cantonese and English with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Sandra Ng, Kristy Yang, Alex Fong, Qi Shu.

A relative of the popular Young and Dangerous franchise, Portland Street Blues offers a significant lead role for Sandra Ng who takes the opportunity to deliver a nuanced and powerful performance as a woman who rises up through the ranks of a triad gang.

The Pilferers’ Progress

Fa qian han

Wed 23 Mar at 8.50pm John Woo • Hong Kong 1977 • 1h38m • Digital • Cantonese with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Richard Ng, Ricky Hui, Ying Cheung, Angie Chiu.

Ricky Hui and Richard Ng star as a pair of criminals who join forces to help a young woman retrieve her family’s jewels from Rich Chen. A broad slapstick comedy, here John Woo is venturing into territory that will be distinctly unfamiliar to his many UK fans. The Pilferers’ Progress is an example of Hong Kong comedy at its frenetic and crazy best and proves that John Woo is more than simply a master of cinematic mayhem. The Pilferers’ Progress was a box-office smash in Hong Kong.

POLICE STORY

Election

Infernal Affairs

Hak se wui Sun 27 Mar at 8.35pm

Thu 7 Apr at 8.45pm

Mou gaan dou

Johnnie To • Hong Kong 2005 • 1h41m • 35mm • Cantonese, Mandarin and English with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Simon Yam, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung.

Andrew Lau & Alan Mak • Hong Kong 2002 • 1h41m • 35mm • Cantonese, English and Thai with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Tony Leung, Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang.

Johnnie To is one of Hong Kong’s most important contemporary filmmakers and this one of his greatest works. Starring Hong Kong acting heavyweights Simon Yam and Tony Leung Ka Fai, Election focuses on the selection of a new triad leader and explores a string of issues from generational conflict to tradition and loyalty.

At the same time Election is a pointed reflection on the politics of post-1997 Hong Kong.

Bringing together two of Asia’s biggest stars, Andy Lau and Tony Leung, Infernal Affairs became a world-wide hit upon its release and remains one of Hong Kong’s most famous and influential crime films. At its core it is a classic, edge of the seat, cop and gangster cat and mouse story. Infernal Affairs was later remade by Martin Scorsese as the award winning The Departed.

Police Story

Ging chat goo si Thu 31 Mar at 8.30pm

Jackie Chan • Hong Kong 1985 • 1h39m • Digital • Cantonese with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Kwok-Hung Lam.

Following his disappointment with the US produced The Protector (1985), Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan wrote and directed this crime story vehicle to showcase his wide variety of skills in front of and behind the camera. The result is a hugely influential blend of action, comedy and crime and remains perhaps one of the greatest films ever made.

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Screening Irish History: 1916 and its Legacy

1916: THE IRISH REBELLION

SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL

‘71

MICHAEL COLLINS

Screening Irish History: 1916 and its Legacy

1916: The Irish Rebellion

‘71

Wed 16 Mar at 5.45pm

Wed 13 Apr at 5.45pm

Pat Collins, Ruan Magan • USA/Ireland 2016 • 1h20m • Digital cert tbc Documentary, narrated by Liam Neeson.

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.

The 1916 Rising was one of the most significant and transformative events in modern Irish history and this year marks the centenary of the week-long rebellion in Dublin. Screening Irish History, now in its third year, explores the conflicts and consequences of 1916 in imaginative and provocative ways. The series includes the premiere of 1916: the Irish Rebellion (screened simultaneously with other international locations) and Neil Jordan’s classic Michael Collins.

Each of the four films will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers, critics and experts.

Narrated by Liam Neeson, this landmark documentary tells the dramatic story of the events that took place in Dublin during Easter Week 1916, when a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire.

Featuring a combination of rarely seen archival footage, new segments filmed on location worldwide, and interviews with leading international experts, the film also uncovers the untold story of the central role Irish Americans played in the lead-up to the rebellion.

A gritty, relentless drama set in 1970s Belfast, written by Scottish playwright Gregory Burke (Black Watch).

New army recruit Private Gary Hook (Jack O’Connell) is deployed to Belfast during the Troubles in 1971. Shortly after arriving his unit are supporting a routine house search operation which escalates into a terrifying street riot, and during the chaos Hook is accidentally left behind.

Unable to tell friend from foe, the raw recruit must survive the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorientating, alien and deadly landscape.

Shake Hands with the Devil

Michael Collins

The series is jointly organized with the University of Edinburgh’s School of History, Classics and Archaeology and the Irish Consulate, Scotland.

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Wed 30 Mar at 5.45pm Michael Anderson • Ireland/USA 1959 • 1h48m • 35mm • 12A Cast: James Cagney, Don Murray, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns.

From Michael Anderson (The Dam Busters, and later Logan’s Run) comes this Irish-American co-production, shot in Dublin and Wicklow.

Irish-American Kerry O’Shea (Don Murray) is a student at the College of Surgeons in Dublin. Despite his apolitical and non-violent worldview (having served in World War I), he finds himself living in a city in the grip of guerilla warfare.

Upon discovering that one of his professors, Sean Lenihan (James Cagney), is a high-ranking Republican leader, Kerry suddenly and unwittingly becomes involved in the conflict between the IRA and the British ‘Black and Tans’.

Wed 27 Apr at 5.45pm Neil Jordan • UK/Ireland/USA 1996 • 2h13m • Format TBC • 15 Contains strong violence, strong language Cast: Liam Neeson, Julia Roberts, Aidan Quinn, Alan Rickman.

With Liam Neeson in the title role, Aidan Quinn as Harry Boland and Alan Rickman as Éamon de Valera, Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins presents the key figures of the Irish War of Independence in a prestige historical biopic - the winner of the Golden Lion award at Venice Film Festival 1996.

Tracking historical events from the Easter Rising through to the formation of the Irish Free State, it focuses on the shifting and fractious relationships between these passionate and determined men in their struggle for independence from British rule and their differing attitudes towards compromise and negotiation in the name of progress.

Scotland Loves Anime

PSYCHO-PASS: THE MOVIE

A LETTER TO MOMO

Scotland Loves Anime Scotland Loves Anime runs annually in October across Glasgow, Edinburgh and now Aberdeen. In 2016 we’re pleased to announce we’re bringing a mini-programme of anime films to Edinburgh and beyond. You have a mix of classics, films that sold out during SLA 2015 and a new film before the 2016 festival. There’s something for everyone here and it’s all been made possible thanks to our 2016 Sponsor - FunimationNow.uk So sit back, enjoy a bit of anime this spring to keep you going until October!

ANTHEM OF THE HEART

Psycho-Pass: The Movie

Anthem of the Heart

Gekijouban Psycho-Pass Fri 25 Mar at 6.10pm

Kokoro ga sakebitagatterunda Sat 26 Mar at 6.10pm

Naoyoshi Shiotani • Japan 2015 • 2h • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 15

Tatsuyuki Nagai • Japan 2015 • 1h59m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A

In the year 2116, the Japanese government begins exporting its Sibyl System of unmanned robot drones in an attempt to reach all conflict areas worldwide. Alongside this, the Southeast Asia Union (SEAUn) decides to test the floating city of Shambhalafloat, which achieves fleeting peace and security. But, shortly after, SEAUn terrorists enter Japanese territory, attempting to sneak through the Japanese Sibyl System and launch an attack against its brain. As Akane Tsunemori of the Criminal Investigation Division sets off to investigate Shambhalafloat, the truth of the justice brought down by the system is revealed....

Long ago, young Jun Narase dreamed of one day attending a ball at the glamorous castle on the hill.

After innocently and inadvertently revealing her father’s infidelity to her mother, her family falls apart.

She falls into despair until a strange egg tells her she can save herself from further heartbreak and maybe even find her prince on the hill. All it would take is for her voice to be sealed away forever, never to speak again...

Now in high school and still mute, Jun is grouped together in a committee of other students - all still suffering from their own heartbreaks - as they plan to produce a musical...

A Letter to Momo Momo e no tegami Sat 26 Mar at 3.45pm Okiura Hiroyuki • Japan 2011 • 2h1m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • PG - Contains infrequent mild bad language

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MISS HOKUSAI

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

Screening as a taster of a strand in the main festival, selecting some of the classics screened at past editions of SLA.

Miss Hokusai Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai Sun 27 Mar at 6.30pm Keiichi Hara • Japan 2015 • 1h30m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate sex references

In 1814 Edo, a much accomplished artist works tirelessly in his studio. His name is Katsushika Hokusai and decades later his work will come to mesmerise a score of prominent Western artists. But few were aware of the woman who often painted for him whilst remaining uncredited.

This is the untold story of Hokusai’s daughter, O-Ei, a free-spirited woman overshadowed by her larger-than-life father. Inheritor of both his stubbornness and his talent, her own art is so powerful that it leads to trouble....

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Screening Europe

JAMÓN JAMÓN

BASTARDS

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

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

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

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YOUNG SOUL REBELS

NORTHERN SOUL

Jamón Jamón

Young Soul Rebels

Tue 8 Mar at 6.00pm

Tue 22 Mar at 6.00pm

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

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

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

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

Bastards Les salauds Tue 15 Mar at 6.00pm

Northern Soul

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

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

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

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

Tue 29 Mar at 6.00pm

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

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

Three Colours Trilo/Filmosophy: Three Colours

THREE COLOURS: BLUE

Three Colours Trilogy Additional screenings of all three instalments of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours trilogy to celebrate their recent digital restoration.

Three Colours: Blue Trois couleurs: Bleu Thu 10 Mar at 1.00pm & 6.05pm Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Switzerland/UK 1993 1h38m • Digital • French, Romanian and Polish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoït Régent, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Véry, Hélène Vincent.

Three Colours: White Trois couleurs: Blanc Thu 14 Apr at 1.00pm & 6.10pm Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Switzerland 1994 • 1h31m Digital • Polish, French, English and Russian with English subtitles 15 • Cast: Julie Delpy, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr.

Three Colours: Red Trois couleurs: Rouge Thu 12 May at 1.00pm & 6.05pm Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Switzerland/Poland 1994 • 1h39m Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Samuel Le Bihan, Marion Stalens.

THREE COLOURS: WHITE

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

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

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THREE COLOURS: RED

Three Colours: White

Trois couleurs: Blanc

Wed 6 Apr at 6.10pm Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Switzerland 1994 • 1h31m Digital • Polish, French, English and Russian with English subtitles 15 • Cast: Julie Delpy, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr.

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

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

Three Colours: Red

Trois couleurs: Rouge

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

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

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Education and Learning

PLASTICINE CREATURE ANIMATION

CARTOON ANIMATION

Education and Learning Filmhouse offers schools the opportunity to engage with a variety of film which support moving image literacy and subjects including modern languages and social studies. For more information email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk or call Nicola Kettlewood or Jenny Leask on 0131 228 6382. Details at www.filmhousecinema.com/learning Animation Workshops How to Animate (Adults and 16+) Sun 20 Mar • 10am-4.30pm • £40 A fun-packed introduction to the world of animation, which will allow you to explore different 2D and 3D techniques to create your own short films. This hands-on workshop covers 2D drawn animation, 2D cut-out puppet, 3D stop motion and other animation techniques.

Cartoon Animation (7-12 years) Tue 29 Mar • 10.30am-12.45pm • £15 Build your own paper creatures and bring them to life in a cartoon! You could make an alien, a robot monster or a superhero - your imagination is the only limit!

Plasticine Creature Animation (7-12 years) Tue 29 Mar • 1.40pm-3.50pm • £15 Animation Jam present a fun packed introduction to the world of 3D animation. Make your own plasticine characters and bring them to life in your own animated film.

Stop Motion Puppet Making (11-17 years) Wed 30 Mar • 10.00am-4pm • £40 (Please bring a packed lunch) Ever wanted to make an animation puppet like the professionals? Animation Jam will help you make a humanoid metal skeleton and then fatten it up and dress it to be your own design. Make a short animation in the class and then take your creation home.

For all of these workshops please book in person at Filmhouse Box Office or by phone on 0131 228 2688.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Or just come and relax in the ambience!

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

Film Quiz Sunday 13 March Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and rather tricky) monthly quiz. Free to enter, teams of up to eight, to be seated in the cafe bar by 9pm.

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To have this monthly programme sent to you for a year, send £7 (cheques made payable to Filmhouse) with your name and address and the month you wish your subscription to start.

This programme is also available to download as a PDF from our website, www.filmhousecinema.com.

Alternatively, sign up to our emailing list, to find out what’s on when and hear about special offers and competitions, by going to www.filmhousecinema.com

There is a large print version of the programme available which can be posted to you free of charge.

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ACCESS

Filmhouse foyer and box office are accessed from Lothian Road via a ramped surface and two sets of automatic doors.

Our cafe bar and accessible toilet are also at this level. The majority of seats in the cafe bar are not fixed and can be moved.

There is wheelchair access to all three screens. Cinema one has space for two wheelchair users and these places are reached via the passenger lift. Cinemas two and three have one space each and to get to these you need to use our platform lifts. Staff are always on hand to help operate them – please ask at the box office when you purchase your tickets.

A second accessible toilet is situated at the lower level close to cinemas two and three.

INFORMATION

Filmhouse 88 Lothian Road Edinburgh EH3 9BZ www.filmhousecinema.com Box Office: 0131 228 2688 (10am-9pm) Recorded Programme Info: 0131 228 2689 Administration: 0131 228 6382 Fax: 0131 229 6482 email: admin@filmhousecinema.com

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Head of Filmhouse

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Customer Experience Manager

Advance booking for wheelchair spaces is Nicola Kettlewood recommended. If you need to bring along Knowledge & Learning a helper to assist you in any way, then Filmhouse is a trading name of Centre for they will receive a complimentary ticket.

There are induction loops and infra-red in all three screens for those with hearing impairments. This programme and our website carry information on which films have subtitles.

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

the Moving Image, a company limited by guarantee, registered in Scotland No. SC067087 Registered Office: 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ Scottish Charity No.: SC006793 VAT Reg. No.: 328 6585 24 CMI also incorporates Edinburgh International Film Festival and Belmont Filmhouse, Aberdeen.

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Email admin@filmhousecinema.com or www.edinburghfilmguild.com call the box office on 0131 228 2688 if you 0131 623 8027 require further information or assistance.

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88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ www.filmhousecinema.com Nearest car parks: Semple Street, Castle Terrace, Edinburgh Quay Lothian Buses: 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 22, 24, 34, 35, 47 (www.lothianbuses. com)

MEMBERSHIP Great Films, Special Discounts, Amazing Offers All whilst supporting your local cinema!

FILMHOUSE MEMBERSHIP • £1.50 off future ticket purchases • 10% discount on all DVDs, merchandising, food, snacks and drinks • £5 loyalty points on signing up and accrue loyalty points on all future box office purchases • Exclusive Membership email offers, information and e-newsletters • Priority booking for the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the world’s longest continually running film festival • Free monthly mail-out of the Filmhouse brochure direct to your home Get your Membership at the Filmhouse Box Office or online at www.filmhousecinema.com. We can also send your Membership by post to the person of your choice as a surprise present. Terms and conditions apply, see www.filmhousecinema.com/support for details.