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FILMS WORTH TALKING ABOUT
H O M E O F T H E E D I NB U RG H I N T E R N AT I O N A L F I L M F E S T I VA L
One man’s remake; another man’s reimagining… When I first heard that Sir Kenny Branagh was remaking Sydney Lumet’s 1973 apogee of the All-Star Cast film vehicle (or, perhaps, as he might prefer, reimagining of the 1934 Agatha Christie novel) Murder on the Orient Express, I confess I did pause to consider the wisdom of doing so, from the point of view of potential audience member, given that much of the enjoyment of a whodunnit is finding out who indeed did do it, and if you know that already, well… Which got me thinking about films I’ve watched more than once for which it could be said the destination is at least as important as the journey, and of the number of times I have been heard to say: “I know I’ve seen this, but I can’t remember for the life of me what happens at the end!” (With a memory like mine, whodunnits are the gift that keeps on giving...) Then I remembered how much I enjoyed watching TV’s And Then There Were None from a couple of years back, even though I had not forgotten that it was - SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! - the old Judge wot done it. And whatever happened to the All-Star ensemble film that once seemed so prevalent? Could it be that with how much these big names get paid these days – however unfairly split across the sexes – few can afford to make them!? Beyond MOTOE, from 3 Novmeber we have a very special engagement with David Lean’s classic/epic Lawrence of Arabia screening in a brand new and glorious 70mm print; Call Me By Your Name, which you really should not miss, continues; and I’d heartily recommend you catch Annette Bening as Gloria Grahame in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, Armando Iannucci’s often supremely funny The Death of Stalin and Yorgos (The Lobster) Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer; and our annual French Film Festival returns, marking, wait for it, its first quarter century… Zut alors! Rod White, Head of Filmhouse
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ACCESS/AUDIO DESC./CAPTIONED BABY & CARER SCREENINGS SCREENING DATES AND TIMES
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78/52 4 150 Milligrams 31 Adaptation. 11 Africa in Motion Film Festival 12-13 American Psycho 15 Aurora 26 A Bag of Marbles 26 Barbara 28 Batman Returns 15 Bay of Angels 27 Beauty and the Beast 25 Before Summer Ends 29 Belle 18 Biomedical Ethics Film Festival 35 Bound 15 Brother Jakob 32 By the Law + live music from RM Hubbert 9 Call Me By Your Name 4 Corporate 27 The Culpable 33 Cutting It? Behind the Scenes... BBFC 9 Delicatessen 15 De Voortrekkers 12 The Death of Stalin 6 The Double Lover 28 Edinburgh Greek Film Festival 36-37 Edinburgh Short Film Festival 10 Education and Learning 23 Electro-Pythagorus: A Portrait of... 8 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 11 ESFF International & Award-Winning... 10 Faaji Agba 17 Farinelli 17 Filmhouse Junior 24-25 Filmosophy: Being Charlie Kaufman 11 Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool 5 Fitzcarraldo 7 Fokus: Films from Germany 32-34 French Film Festival UK 26-31 Frontiéres 13 Fukushima Mon Amour 34 Future Baby 35 Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami 5 The Handmaid’s Tale 35 Home Alone 25 Hördur 33 House Guest: Young Fathers 16-17 House Without Roof 33 I Am Not Your Negro 16
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Indochine 27 Ismäel’s Ghosts 31 Jean de Florette 30 The Jungle Bunch 24 Just to Be Sure 27 Keyla 12 A Kid 28 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 6 Lawrence of Arabia 70mm 6 The LEGO Ninjago Movie 25 Liyana 13 London Symphony 8 Lost in Paris 31 Manon des Sources 30 Marathon Man 9 Marija 32 Mossane 13 Murder on the Orient Express 4 October 8 Phoenix 33 Privilege 16 Psycho 4 Redoubtable 26 The Road to Mandalay 5 Sanctuary 34 School of Life 29 The Secret of Kells 24 Senior Selections 18 Short Cuts 30 Short Docs Curated by Scottish Doc... 10 Shorts for Wee Ones 24 Signs of Life + Short 7 The Son of Bigfoot 25 Sorcerer 7 Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe 32 Step by Step 30 Submarine 8 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 14 Tey 17 The Thing 14 This is Our Land 29 Uncanny Valley 15-16 Wajdja 18 The Wages of Fear 7 Who’s Your Dandy? 9 Winnie 12 Wolf Children 17 A Woman’s Life 28 The Workshop 29
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New Releases
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Call Me By Your Name
Murder on the Orient Express
Fri 27 Oct to Thu 16 Nov
Fri 3 to Thu 30 Nov
Luca Guadagnino • Italy/France/Brazil/USA 2017 • 2h12m • Digital English, Italian, French and German with English subtitles 15 - Contains strong sex. • Cast: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel.
Kenneth Branagh • Malta/Italy 2017 • 1h54m Digital • cert tbc • Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, Willem Dafoe, Josh Gad, Olivia Colman, Penélope Cruz.
It’s northern Italy in the summer of 1983, and precocious Italian-American teenager Elio (Timothée Chalamet) spends his days in the family villa engorged on classical music and scholarly pursuits. Intellectually, Elio is a fully-fledged adult, but when a charming American (Armie Hammer) arrives in their midst - awakening desires beyond his immediate understanding - it will change both of their lives forever. Sun-dappled, erudite and sensual, Luca Guadagnino’s film is based on André Aciman’s 2007 novel, adapted here by James Ivory.
This classic Agatha Christie tale is truly given the Hollywood treatment here in Kenneth Branagh’s star-studded adaptation, featuring the likes of Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Olivia Colman and more. What begins as a lavish railway journey through Europe becomes a tantalising mystery when - while the train is at a standstill - a passenger is found murdered. Everyone aboard is now a suspect and, as chance would have it, Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot (Branagh, sporting a quite spectacular moustache) is on the scene - but he must be quick to solve the puzzle before the killer strikes again...
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78/52
Psycho
Fri 10 to Thu 16 Nov
Fri 10 to Thu 16 Nov (select dates only)
Alexandre O. Philippe • USA 2017 • 1h32m • Digital • 15 - Contains images of sexual violence, bloody images. • Documentary featuring Guillermo del Toro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny Elfman, Bret Easton Ellis.
Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1960 • 1h49m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong violence. • Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin.
Psycho reshaped what horror cinema was conceived to be - a combination of pulp dread and high art that made it very clear that even spaces of domestic intimacy were fair game for brutality. This entertaining and fascinating documentary takes the famous shower sequence and examines society in 1959, Alfred Hitchcock’s meticulous process, the film’s vast influence and how, with 78 camera set-ups and 52 cuts, one of the most enduring and iconic scenes in cinema was wrought. Definitely see Psycho before you watch. Book for Psycho and 78/52, get 15% off.
A milestone in cinema history, 57 years on from Psycho’s release its brilliance remains undimmed. Most of us will know what befalls Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) at the Bates Motel, but it still boasts more than enough richly nuanced details to keep us constantly amused, intrigued and pleasingly ill-at-ease. Bernard Herrmann’s unsettling score and Joseph Stefano’s darkly witty script work wonders, too. In the end, however, through his mastery of mischievous audience manipulation, this masterpiece is Hitchcock’s through and through. Book for Psycho and 78/52, get 15% off.
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Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool Fri 17 to Thu 30 Nov Paul McGuigan • UK 2017 • 1h45m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language. • Cast: Jamie Bell, Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Graham, Julie Walters.
Sultry Hollywood star Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) - an Oscar® winner in 1952 for Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful - finds herself far from home in the 1970s, treading the boards of the provincial UK theatre scene. Meeting the much younger aspiring actor Peter Turner (Jamie Bell), a vivacious romance begins - bridging continents and generations. Thirty years on from its initial publication, Turner’s candid, moving memoir has been lovingly brought to screen by Paul McGuigan (Sherlock) and Bond producer Barbara Broccoli, who knew Turner and Grahame when they were together, with Bening turning in a truly exceptional performance as Grahame. Three of Gloria Grahame’s finest performances are coming to Filmhouse in December In a Lonely Place (1-3 Dec), Human Desire (2 Dec) and The Big Heat (5-7 Dec). See Filmhouse December brochure for full details.
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The Road to Mandalay Fri 17 & Sat 18 Nov Midi Z • Myanmar/Taiwan 2016 • 1h48m • Digital • Burmese with English subtitles • 15 - Contains infrequent strong bloody violence. Cast: Kai Ko, Ke-Xi Wu.
The relationship between two illegal immigrants who escape Myanmar is the central premise of Midi Z’s extraordinary The Road to Mandalay. Lianqing (Wu Ke-Xi) and Guo (Kai Ko) meet while they’re trafficked across the Mekong River into Thailand, sparking unlikely romance. As they grapple with migrant life and struggle to hold down jobs, however, they find their hopes and aspirations for the future may be irreparably differ. In many ways an engrossing social realist film, it’s also visually striking and has an eerie, dreamlike soundtrack.
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Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami Sun 19 & Mon 20 Nov Sophie Fiennes • Ireland/UK 2017 • 1h56m • Digital • English and French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language. Documentary.
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami takes the viewer on an intimate and electrifying journey that moves between four distinct layers - performance, family, artist and gypsy - to explore the fascinating world of a pop culture phenomenon. Here we see her behind the mask as a daughter, mother, sister and grandmother, alongside her spectacular, vibrant performances on-stage. Larger than life, bordering on cartoon, wild, scary and androgynous - Grace Jones plays all these parts.
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New Releases/Lawrence of Arabia on 70mm
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The Death of Stalin
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Fri 24 to Thu 30 Nov
Fri 24 to Thu 30 Nov
Armando Iannucci • France/UK 2017 • 1h46m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language, brief strong violence. • Cast: Jeffrey Tambor, Rupert Friend, Andrew Riseborough, Jason Isaacs, Steve Buscemi.
Yorgos Lanthimos • UK/Ireland 2017 • 2h1m • Digital • cert tbc Cast: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Alicia Silverstone, Barry Keoghan.
Inspired by the graphic novel of the same name, the acerbic wit of Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, In the Loop) is turned loose on Soviet Russia and the death of its most ruthless and feared leader. It’s 1953, and Josef Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin) is brutally purging any dissenting voices from his nation and keeping even his cronies on edge. This abruptly changes when he’s found on the floor of his office, having suffered an apparent stroke. With an array of ambitious but less than capable lackeys jostling for position - the results are suitably, wonderfully chaotic.
Heart surgeon Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) and his ophthalmologist wife Anna (Nicole Kidman) are parents to two children and live a pristine, comfortable life in the suburbs. Steven has also surreptitiously taken teenager Martin (Barry Keoghan), whose late father was a patient of his, under his wing. The Killing of a Sacred Deer hops between genres, unfolding as Martin’s behaviour becomes more erratic, and more sinister. Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) has mastered the art of blending dark comedy with absurd situations - and now he’s testing our boundaries with gusto.
70mm print
Lawrence of Arabia Fri 3 to Thu 9 Nov David Lean • UK/USA 1962 • 3h48m • 70mm • PG • Cast: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, Anthony Quayle.
A brand new 70mm print of of David Lean’s magnificent epic - a real cinema treat at Filmhouse! During the First World War, a British officer (Peter O’Toole) succeeds in uniting the Arab tribes and goes to war against the occupying Turkish army. Grand in every sense, Lawrence of Arabia is an example of an established director full of confidence and ambition. Nearly four hours long, several years in the making, and complete with an interval and its own overture, the film aims for greatness and achieves it. Peter O’Toole, then the new boy among international stars (including Alec Guinness as a shrewd Prince Feisal and Jack Hawkins as the calculating General Allenby) gives a wonderfully charismatic performance as the enigmatic Lawrence, and that other star of the film - the desert - is magnificently captured in all its immensity. All screenings of Lawrence of Arabia on 70mm will include a 15 minute interval. There is an additional £2 charge for 70mm.
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Classic re-release
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The Wages of Fear
Sorcerer
Sun 26 Nov at 2.00pm & 8.00pm
Sun 26 Nov at 5.15pm
Henri-Georges Clouzot • France/Italy 1953 • 2h33m • Digital • French, English, Spanish, German, Italian and Russian with English subtitles 12A • Cast: Folco Lulli, Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck.
William Friedkin • USA 1977 • 2h1m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri.
Henri-Georges Clouzot more than earned his title as the ‘French Hitchcock’ with The Wages of Fear. This adaptation of Georges Arnaud’s 1950 Le salaire de la peur marked him out as a master filmmaker. In an unnamed South American country, four shady characters are offered $2,000 to transport two trucks of highly volatile nitroglycerine to a remote oil field. The tension between the four men rises with every jolt along the way... Book for both The Wages of Fear and Sorcerer, get 15% off.
Herzog of the month
Signs of Life
Lebenszeichen Sun 26 Nov at 5.55pm
Werner Herzog • West Germany 1968 • 1h31m • Digital • German and Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Peter Brogle, Wolfgang Reichmann, Athina Zacharopoulou.
Herzog’s astonishing, funny feature debut, in which wounded German paratrooper Stroszek is sent to the quiet and remote island of Kos with his wife Nora and two other soldiers recovering from minor wounds. Billeted in a decaying fortress, they guard a munitions depot. There’s little to do, and slowly Stroszek goes mad, drives the others from the fortress, and threatens the city with blowing up the depot... Part of Fokus: Films from Germany, see p 32-33. PLUS SHORT Herakles Werner Herzog • West Germany 1962 • 12m • Digital
German with English subtitles
Roy Scheider lends his intense talent to William Friedkin’s taut action-adventure, a remake of HenriGeorges Clouzot’s 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear. On the edge of the South American jungle, a ragtag fourman team, led by Scheider, must transport a volatile cargo of nitroglycerine over 200 miles of treacherous terrain in order to plug a potentially disastrous fire at an oil refinery. With every bump in the road potentially calamitous, these four desperate men will have to overcome their differences to stay alive. Book for both The Wages of Fear and Sorcerer, get 15% off.
Herzog of the month
Fitzcarraldo Sun 17 Dec at 5.00pm Werner Herzog • West Germany/Peru 1982 2h38m • German, Spanish and Italian with English subtitles PG - Contains mild language, violence and sex references. • Cast: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes.
A filmmaking accomplishment that only Herzog would have the audacity to attempt, Fitzcarraldo stars Klaus Kinski as a dreamer who plans to bring opera and Enrico Caruso to the South American jungles. With limited funding he decides to finance it by capitalising on South America’s rubber industry. He discovers a hidden forest on the other side of a small group of mountains, and resolves to hire local natives to pull his steamship over them. No camera trickery is used. This is a real steamship being hauled over a real mountain - all at the command of Herzog, a man as driven in his way as his most obsessed heroes.
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Special Events/WWI in Cinema/Growing Pains
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SPECIAL EVENT
London Symphony Fri 3 Nov at 6.10pm
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October Oktyabr Thu 9 Nov at 6.15pm
Alex Barrett • UK 2017 • 1h12m • Digital • U • Documentary.
Sergei Eisenstein & Grigori Aleksandrov • USSR 1928 • 1h43m • 35mm Silent • PG • Cast: Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko.
With this wonderful black-and-white journey through the city of London, director Alex Barrett brings a gloriously beautiful and enjoyable modern-day variation on the city symphonies of the 1920s urban cinema (such as the 1929 film Man With A Movie Camera). His stunning visuals, combined with James McWilliam’s stirring music, help take the viewer on a poetic journey through London, exploring its rich diversity of culture, architecture and religion. It is a meditative and blissful film that celebrates a vibrant and visually stunning city. Contains flashing images. Followed by a Q&A with director Alex Barrett.
One of the finest examples of intellectual montage, consisting of more than 3,200 shots in its 103 minutes, October has been described as a Constructivist poster come to life. Working from a commission by the Soviet government to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the overthrow of the Kerensky government by the Bolsheviks in 1917, Eisenstein saw an opportunity to push his montage experiments to the limit. Part of The First World War in Cinema, a five year project programmed in association with the University of Edinburgh.
LUX SCOTLAND PRESENTS
Growing Pains
Electro-Pythagorus:
Submarine
A Portrait of Martin Bartlett
Mon 20 Nov at 6.15pm
Tue 14 Nov at 6.00pm Luke Fowler • UK 2017 • 1h43m (feature 45m) • 35mm • 12A
Electro-Pythagorus is an intimate and subjective portrait of Martin Bartlett (1939-93), a Canadian experimental electronic musician who pioneered the use of the ‘microcomputer’ during the 1970s and 80s. Created largely from archival material as well as new 16mm film footage, and softly guided by Luke Fowler’s insightful camera and montage, it is a journey through the evolution of Bartlett’s musical time and space, creating an experimental portrait that defies one-dimensionality. A series of four shorts by Luke Fowler will screen before Electro-Pythagorus. Followed by a Q&A with Luke Fowler.
Richard Ayoade • UK/USA 2010 • 1h37m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language • Cast: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins.
Oliver Tate has a couple of things on his mind - how to lose his virginity before he turns sixteen, and how to stop his parents’ marriage falling apart. The first task seems possible when he begins to woo his unusual (read: pyromaniac) schoolmate Jordana. The second part is proving trickier. Witty and self-aware, Oliver works through his romantic yearnings and gloomy home life with tenacious determination and humour - a boy growing up all while not wanting to get older. Growing Pains shows classic and contemporary films dealing with some of the more complex aspects of childhood. All films followed by an informal chat and introduced by Jessie Moroney, a member of the programming team who attended the Practical Programming course with the Independent Cinema Office.
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Cutting It? Behind the Scenes at the BBFC Tue 21 Nov at 6.00pm 1h40m • Recommended for ages 15+
Who really banned A Clockwork Orange? Why did audiences live in fear of Snow White? Was The Dark Knight too dark for 12A? These questions and many others relating to the work of the British Board of Film Classification will be answered by BBFC compliance officer Emily Fussell. Emily will talk about the creation and history of the Board, how censorship became classification over time and will give insight into how films are rated today. There will be plenty of clips from films, cut and uncut, and the chance to ask questions. Tickets £3
Come and See
Marathon Man Thu 30 Nov at 8.25pm John Schlesinger • USA 1976 • 2h5m • Digital • English, French, German, Spanish and Yiddish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, violence, nudity and scenes of torture. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider, Laurence Olivier, Marthe Keller. Every now and again, a great film quietly becomes available (again) to cinemas in a brand new print or in a new digital version. These we will showcase in our irregular and ongoing Come and See series.
Dustin Hoffman plays distance-running PhD student Tom “Babe” Levy, whose older brother Doc (Roy Scheider) seems concerned by his pursuit of their late father’s studies. When Tom and a fellow student are mugged in Central Park, Tom is thrown headlong into a web of international intrigue, centred around a fugitive Nazi (Laurence Olivier) and a cache of diamonds. The enigmatic words “Is it safe?” will haunt your dreams.
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Who’s Your Dandy? Featuring equivalence and andra simons
Tue 28 Nov at 7.30pm 2h10m • Includes interval • 15
After an inaugural event that packed Filmhouse, Who’s Your Dandy? returns with more off-the-wall, accessible and film-based artworks from Scotland and beyond. Equivalence, Sandra Alland’s live short story with film by Ania Urbanowska, receives a remount after soldout shows at Transpose Barbican and Anatomy. Also featuring unique queer and trans shorts in English and sign languages, plus stunning live performance from Andra Simons and filmmaker Joao Trindade. £8/£6. The event is BSL interpreted and/or subtitled, and audio described. Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network.
SPECIAL EVENT
By the Law with Live Music by R.M. Hubbert Sun 3 Dec at 3.30pm 1h50m • Digital • PG
Multi-award-winning post-rock Scottish composer and song-writer R.M. Hubbert (aka Hubby) performs his brand new guitar score, commissioned by HippFest, for this pared-back 1926 Soviet Western - By the Law. Legendary director Lev Kuleshov adapted a short story by Jack London, fashioning a tense, existential study of moral pressure. An exhilarating match for the candid and genre-defying music of one of Scotland’s best-loved artists. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with R.M. Hubbert. £12/£10
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Edinburgh Short Film Festival
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Devoted to screening short film from Edinburgh, Scotland and around the world, the Edinburgh Short Film Festival returns to Filmhouse screenings of shorts and animations from across the globe.
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Short Docs curated by Scottish Documentary Institute Mon 6 Nov at 8.40pm 1h56m • Digital • Various • 18
The Edinburgh Short Film Festival has partnered with the Scottish Documentary Institute to present a night of short documentary. Lively, engaging and insightful, the SDI explores some of the back alleys and fartherflung landscapes of the contemporary Scottish experience. Combining an SDI-curated programme of some of the best Scottish short documentaries and some of the SDI’s favourite docs of recent years with international documentaries from the Edinburgh Short Film Festival. Followed by a discussion.
ESFF International & Award-winning Shorts Thu 9 Nov at 8.40pm 2h23m • Digital • Various • 18
A programme of outstanding contemporary International Short Film. Packed with award-winning short films fresh from Film Festivals across the world, in a diverse and eclectic programme that includes films fresh from Cannes, BAFTA nominees and Oscar® qualifying shorts. This is a varied and eclectic programme that includes comedy, dramas, thrillers and flights of short fancy as well as animation from across the globe. The ESFF promises another evening of powerful short film and engaging discussion. Followed by a Q&A.
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Filmosophy: Being Charlie Kaufman Filmosophy returns for a ninth season of thoughtprovoking films and philosophical discussions. This season we celebrate the work of award-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Kaufman engages with great creativity, rare imagination and whimsical humour some of the most fascinating issues in philosophy. Join us in exploring questions regarding the nature of consciousness, truth, art, and the human condition through the mind of one of the most original artists of the 21st century. Each film will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by an accessible and informal post-screening discussion hosted by James Mooney, lecturer in film and philosophy (Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh). For more information on Filmosophy: www.facebook.com/thinkingfilm www.twitter.com/film_philosophy www.instagram.com/filmphilosophy For information on Short Courses at COL: www.ed.ac.uk/short-courses
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Wed 8 Nov at 6.00pm Michel Gondry • USA 2004 • 1h48m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language • Cast: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo.
Imagine a procedure whereby you could rid yourself of troubling memories. Suppose that you could have particular people or traumatic events erased from your mind. When their relationship turns sour, Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) undertake just such a procedure only to discover, perhaps too late, exactly what they stand to lose. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind invites us to consider the vital importance of our memories, both good and bad, in making us the person we are.
Adaptation. Wed 6 Dec at 5.55pm Spike Jonze • USA 2002 • 1h54m • Digital • English and Latin with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper.
Charlie Kaufman (Nicholas Cage) is an insecure and self-loathing screenwriter struggling to adapt ‘The Orchid Thief’ by writer Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep) for the screen while simultaneously dealing with the presence of his reckless and charismatic twin brother (also played by Cage). Kaufman blurs the line between reality and fiction, writing himself into this multi-layered and highly subjective take on the creative process and the apparent distinction between high and low art.
Filmosophy: Being Charlie Kaufman
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Africa in Motion Film Festival
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Africa in Motion is Scotland’s major annual celebration of African cinema, and is delighted to return for the 12th year to bring audiences in Edinburgh and Glasgow a wide variety of creative stories from across the African continent. Artistically stimulating and thought-provoking, the programme takes on bold narratives through a range of features, documentaries and shorts, from across the continent. The programme will once again be packed with an eclectic array of director Q&As, discussions, children’s workshops and more. For the full festival programme, including the Glasgow programme, additional screenings and complementary events, pick up an AiM brochure in the Filmhouse foyer or visit the AiM website: www.africa-in-motion.org.uk
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Winnie Fri 3 Nov at 8.35pm Pascale Lamche • South Africa/France/Netherlands 2017 • 1h38m Digital • 15 • Documentary.
Filmmaker Pascale Lamche paints a complex portrait of Winnie Mandela: the woman, the paradox, both exalted and villainized in the eyes of history. Using rich, unseen archival footage and interviews with intimate comrades, Lamche unravels the tale of cause and effect by which Winnie was taken down. This screening will be followed by a discussion with anti-Apartheid activist and women’s rights campaigner Firdoze Bulbulia. Supported by the Global Development Academy and Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
De Voortrekkers + LIVE SCORE
Keyla
Sat 4 Nov at 4.00pm
Sat 4 Nov at 1.15pm
Harold M. Shaw • South Africa 1916 • 54m • Digital • Afrikaans with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Dick Cruikshanks, Caroline Frances Cooke, Jackie Turnbull, Bobby Rowson, Stephen Ewart.
Viviana Gómez Echeverry • Colombia 2017 • 1h27m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Elsa Whitaker Sanchez, Mercedes Salazar, Sebastián Enciso Salamanca, Norvel Walters.
This 1916 epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions, and the oldest surviving South African feature film. It tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek, concluding with a reconstruction of the horrific 1838 Battle of Blood River. The film has been compared to the equally contentious and racist Birth of a Nation. While we recognise its problematic politics, as the first film from South Africa it has its place in the Lost Classics programme. Accompanied by acclaimed Nigerian composer Juwon Ogungbe’s original score, performed live by the musician.
Keyla is the first ever fiction feature filmed in Providence Island, a Caribbean territory where the community is a mixture of African, Spanish and English descent. Keyla, a young woman, is searching for her father who is lost at sea. When her estranged family comes to help look for him, she must confront their dark past. Activist and co-curator of the strand, Ramón Perea Lemos, from Carabantú Association, Colombia, will take part in a Q&A. Organised as part of the ‘Afro-Latin Visibility in Focus’ project, supported by the University of Edinburgh.
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Liyana
Mossane
Sat 4 Nov at 8.35pm
Sun 5 Nov at 3.20pm
Aaron Kopp, Amanda Kopp • Swaziland/Qatar/USA 2017 • 1h15m Digital • 12A
Safi Faye • Senegal 1996 • 1h45m • Digital • Wolof with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Magou Seck, Isseu Niang, Moustapha Yade, Abou Camara, Alioune Konaré.
A Swazi girl embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her young twin brothers. This animated African tale is born in the imaginations of five orphaned children in Swaziland who collaborated to tell a story of perseverance drawn from their darkest memories and brightest dreams. Their fictional character’s journey is interwoven with poetic animation and observational documentary scenes to create a genre-defying celebration of collective storytelling. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Aaron and Amanda Kopp.
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In this stunning Senegalese drama, Mossane is an extraordinarily beautiful girl with many suitors. Does she choose love or a secure financial future? This is a unique chance to see a true African classic, never screened in the UK before, by Safi Faye, the first black woman from sub-Saharan Africa to direct a fiction feature film in 1975. Africa in Motion worked with the filmmaker to restore the film in collaboration with Titra Film in France. Part of AiM’s focus on Africa’s Lost Classics, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
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Sun 5 Nov 8.35pm Apolline Traoré • Burkina Faso/France 2017 • 1h30m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Amelie Mbaye, Naky Sy Savange.
In this female road movie, Burkinabe director Apolline Traoré poignantly explores the developing friendships among four women from different African countries as they travel by bus across a gorgeous West African landscape, from Dakar to Lagos. While it is an everyday journey it is nonetheless fraught with peril, especially for women, but through their friendship and solidarity they find strength and resilience. Supported by the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies.
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Uncanny Valley
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Fri 3 Nov at 11.15pm Uncanny Valley is a place for dreams as well as nightmares. The hope here is to shine a lantern on the nocturnal neo-classics lurking in the shadows.
Tobe Hooper • USA 1974 • 1h23m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong violence and horror. • Cast: Marilyn Burns, Gunnar Hansen, Allen Danziger, Edwin Neal, Paul A Partain, William Vail .
The unsung heroes of grungy science-fiction, Lovecraftian terrors by modern horror masters, social commentary in the form of farce comedies and, most importantly, strange and uncanny tales that evade definition. Be it a journey into the darkest depths of the world we live in or whimsical flights of hysteria and cringe-worthy dilemmas, we hope to showcase the flicks of decades now adrift and ones best shown at night.
Tobe Hooper’s visceral, horror classic is disturbingly subtle and ultimately terrifying. On a road trip, Sally and Franklin Hardesty (Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain), along with three friends, find themselves caught in a web, awakening a darkness they can’t see right away, never mind believe. Are they merely cattle, trapped and destined for slaughter? The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is an assault on the senses as much as it is on the mind, and must be seen... to be believed.
As we head into the future with borrowed ideas and twisted dreams, we have our own fiction to craft, and it’s about movies. Uncanny Valley screenings are fortnightly on Friday nights and cost £8/£6 concessions (£5 students).
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The Thing Fri 17 Nov at 11.00pm John Carpenter • USA 1982 • 1h49m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong violence and gory horror. • Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, TK Carter, David Clennon, Keith David, Richard Dysart.
The ultimate in alien terror and body horror, with a pulsating, minimalist score from Ennio Morricone, John Carpenter’s 1982 sci-fi is a nail-biting chiller. After a mystifying incident in which two Norwegian scientists are killed, Antarctic helicopter pilot MacReady (Kurt Russell) is tasked with visiting their base. They find it destroyed, along with evidence of alien existence. Returning, they discover that an organism has integrated itself into their own facility. Able to mimic any lifeform, it hungers to absorb other forms of life - it could be any of them.
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American Psycho
Bound
Fri 1 Dec at 11.00pm
Fri 15 Dec at 11.00pm
Mary Harron • USA 2000 • 1h41m • 35mm • English, Spanish and Cantonese with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, Chloë Sevigny.
Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski • USA 1996 • 1h48m • Digital English and Italian with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong sex and violence. • Cast: Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano.
Based on Bret Easton Ellis’ controversial novel, Mary Harron’s psychological slasher oozes style and provides a rather sardonic social commentary on the yuppie lifestyle in the late 1980s. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a wealthy executive on Wall Street. Obsessed with success and his own appearance, he spends his days mingling over fine dining, devouring hard drugs and inner monologuing his detest for the bourgeois crowd around him and the ‘filth’ walking the streets. From this is born a killer. American Psycho is a pitch-black satire and a modern classic.
Before they bulldozed the limits of cinema and TV with the Matrix Trilogy and Sense8, the Wachowskis gifted us with this genre-weaving, erotic neo-noir. Corky (Gina Gershon) is out on parole, she gets lucky with work as the sole maintenance-worker in an exclusive apartment complex. Next door lives loud-mouthed mobster Caesar (Joe Pantoliano) and his flirtatious girlfriend, Violet (Jennifer Tilly). It doesn’t take long for Violet to begin seducing Corky or for the two to plot robbing Caesar. But the stakes are high, and the two women are going to have to trust each other implicitly; to not get killed...
Batman Returns
Delicatessen
Fri 29 Dec at 10.45pm
Fri 12 Jan at 11.10pm
Tim Burton • USA/UK 1992 • 2h6m • 35mm • 15 - Contains moderate violence. • Cast: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer.
Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet • France 1991 • 1h39m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains suicide theme and strong comic horror. • Cast: Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac.
Step right up! See the grotesque penguin-man living in Gotham sewers! Energy tycoon Max Shreck (Chistopher Walken) has plans to suck Gotham dry. Oswald Cobblepot (Danny DeVito) was discarded as a child, deformed and undesired he now seeks to utilise the city’s sympathies for his own callous ploy. Selina Kyle (Michelle Pfeiffer) finds herself plummeting to her death, only to be reborn as leather-clad predator, Catwoman. Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) wallows in isolation; as Batman he must forever be the bastion for the soul of Gotham from the beasts that wish to tear it apart. A dazzling, yet haunting fairy-tale.
A post-apocalyptic Sweeney Todd, Delicatessen noisily explores the lives of outcasts living above a homicidal butcher, with Dominic Pinon as next-onthe-menu, circus performer turned maintenanceman, Louison. The butcher’s daughter befriends Louison and works to keep him off the slab. Could their only hope be a band of vegetarian troglodytes in the sewers below? Delicatessen’s style marries Gilliam with Burton while retaining a visceral, bloody edge and the illustrative use of the constant creaking, scraping and banging of tenement life leads to a most joyous final scene. Bon appétit!
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House Guest: Young Fathers
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| 3 NOV 17 - 30 NOV 17
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YOUNG FATHERS House Guest is our newly launched guest programming initiative which will see a range of Scotland’s leading lights across music, writing, film and the arts converge on Filmhouse over the coming years. Following the debut season curated by renowned author Ian Rankin in July/August 2017, our next guest programmers are the Edinburgh-based Mercury Prize winning band Young Fathers. “These films weren’t chosen to reflect our good taste or to help build the legend of a pop group, these are just the images and sounds that have resonated, entertained, connected with us as people. Almost accidentally, they combine to say something about Young Fathers.” - Young Fathers Supported by:
Privilege Mon 6 Nov at 6.15pm Peter Watkins • UK 1967 • 1h43m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence and injury. • Cast: Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London, William Job, Max Bacon, Jeremy Child.
A very Sixties portrait of rock’n’roll idolatry, mass entertainment culture and propaganda from Peter Watkins (Culloden), starring Paul Jones as a pop sensation whose fame is harnessed for church and state propaganda. Young Fathers: “Not because of the acting, necessarily, or even the script, but because of the look and what the film describes: a snapshot of the power of a stage, an image, a profile. How rebellion is captured and tamed. One of the most honest films about pop music.”
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I Am Not Your Negro Thu 16 Nov at 6.30pm Raoul Peck • France/USA 2016 • 1h33m • Digital • 12A - Contains images of real violence, racist and strong language. • Documentary.
A challenging, profound Oscar® nominated documentary. YF: “The film that uses James Baldwin’s unpublished essay for narration. Baldwin, who was rock’n’roll, and was rebellion, no longer seems to have been a shocker so much as a seer, whose words talk about now - what, back then, must have seemed like a sci-fi future, now just reads like a documentary description. Is that because Baldwin could really see into the future or because so little has truly changed?”
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Farinelli
Faaji Agba
Wed 22 Nov at 6.10pm
Wed 29 Nov at 6.15pm
Gérard Corbiau • France/Italy/Belgium 1994 • 1h51m • 16mm • French and Italian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains infrequent strong sex scenes. • Cast: Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein.
Remi Vaughan-Richards • Nigeria/USA 2014 • 1h31m • Digital • 12A Documentary.
A visually striking and sumptuous telling of the life and times of 18th century opera singer Farinelli. YF: “Art from atrocity is more precious. A statement we recognise from the pop world: Joy Division at #1 on the back of Ian Curtis’ suicide; Bow Wow Wow on Top Of The Pops after some blatant paedophilic PR; Elton John’s remix/rewind as the ‘People’s Princess’ makes her way down the Mall to her grave. Isn’t it natural that the unspoken mutilation that made Farinelli’s ‘pop’ career in the 18th century possible also added the spice to titillate the punter’s palate?”
Tey Aujourd’hui Tue 5 Dec at 6.00pm Alain Gomis • France/Senegal 2012 • 1h26m • Digital • French and Wolof with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Saul Williams, Djolof Mbengue, Anisia Uzeyman, Aïssa Maïga, Mariko Arame.
He is a strong, healthy man, yet today is the last day of his life. Satché (Saul Williams) recounts his past as he ambles through the streets of his Senegalese home town for the last time, as if on a quest to leave his relationships in peace. YF: “Starring Saul Williams. About death but completely alive. When the years shrink and the need to create art becomes as crucial as the next breath. Identify.” The screening will be introduced by Young Fathers.
A richly detailed and intimate documentary portrait of the music scene of Lagos, Nigeria. YF: “‘Don’t kill me with toy music...’ by Remi VaughanRichards, which follows seven 70-85 year old yoruba master musicians. It is partly about the influence of Jazzhole Records, in Lagos who uncovered an un-mined seam of unique sounds, created without the normal polite restrictions, exposing layers of self/ humanity in a unique way. Rough and ready is more beautiful than fresh and so clean.”
Wolf Children
Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki Thu 14 Dec at 5.50pm Mamoru Hosoda • Japan 2012 • 1h57m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild violence and threat • With the voices of Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Ohsawa, Haru Kuroki, Yukito Nishii.
College student Hana falls in love with Kare, but then discovers he has a secret: he’s a wolf man. Hana is not afraid and remains by his side, and eventually they have two children, Ame and Yuki. Their whole world changes when Kare dies, after which Hana decides to retreat to the countryside where Ame and Yuki can choose: do they want to grow up as humans or wolves? YF: “Hard core cute. A series of visual hooks and choruses. Sprinkles...”
House Guest: Young Fathers
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Senior Selections
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| 3 NOV 17 - 30 NOV 17
We love talking about films and so do our audiences. Senior Selections invites older audiences to enjoy classic and contemporary cinema and share their thoughts about the film over a cuppa after the film. Discover new films and make new friendships in the comfortable surroundings of Filmhouse. Senior Selections films are chosen by our Senior Volunteers, who will be on hand to welcome you and have a chat after the film. These fortnightly film screenings are for audiences who are over-60. They screen where possible with on-screen captions/subtitles. Tickets are £3 each and include tea, coffee and biscuits after the film. Places are limited, booking essential!
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Wadjda Tue 7 Nov at 1.00pm Haifaa Al-Mansour • Saudi Arabia/Germany 2012 • 1h38m • Digital Arabic with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild sex references Cast: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani.
A charming, groundbreaking drama, shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and the first feature by a female Saudi filmmaker. Wadjda lives with her mother, a beautiful young woman whose absentee husband is about to take a second wife. Wadjda’s dearest wish is to own a bicycle she’s spotted in a local shop she wants be able to race her friend Abdullah. To raise money she enters her school’s Quran recital competition, but Saudi society isn’t keen on strong-willed young girls who ride bicycles, and Wadjda has to fight for what should be hers by right.
Belle Tue 21 Nov at 1.00pm Amma Asante • UK 2013 • 1h44m • Digital • 12A - Contains brief sexual assault, discrimination theme • Cast: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Watson, Matthew Goode, Sarah Gordon.
Belle is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the illegitimate mixed race daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his wife, Belle’s lineage affords her certain privileges, yet her status prevents her from the traditions of noble social standing. While her cousin Elizabeth chases suitors for marriage, Belle is left wondering will she ever find love. But then she meets an idealistic young vicar’s son bent on changing society, and the two work together to help shape Lord Mansfield’s role as Lord Chief Justice in a bid to end slavery in England.
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All screenings in 2D unless marked (3D) (3D) - £2 charge for 3D (70mm) - £2 charge for 70mm DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
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Lawrence of Arabia (70mm) Murder on the Orient... (AD) The Texas Chainsaw... (UV) Murder on the Orient... (AD) London Symphony Call Me By Your Name (AD) Call Me By Your Name (AD) Winnie (AiM)
Sat 4 Nov
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Lawrence of Arabia (70mm) Aurora (FF) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Keyla (AiM) De Voortrekkers (AiM) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Call Me By Your Name (AD) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Call Me By Your Name (AD) Liyana (AiM)
1.00 6.00 +Q&A 8.45 1.15 4.00 +Live Score 5.45 8.30 12.30 3.00/5.45 8.35
Sun 5 Nov
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Shorts for Wee Ones (FJ) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Lawrence of Arabia (70mm) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Call Me By Your Name (AD) Call Me By Your Name (AD) Mossane (AiM) Frontiéres (AiM)
11.00am 1.00/8.45 3.45 11.10am/3.00/5.45 8.30 12.30/5.45 3.20 8.35
1.00 6.00/8.25
11.15 11.00am/2.30 6.10 +Q&A 8.30 11.15am/3.00/5.45 8.35
Mon 1 Lawrence of Arabia (70mm) 1.00 6 1 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 6.00/8.45 Nov 2 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 2.15 2 Privilege (HG) 6.15 2 Short Docs - SDI (ES) 8.40 +Discussion 3 Call Me By Your Name (AD) 2.30/5.45/8.30 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 38
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(AD) Audio Description (see p 38) (AiM) Africa in Motion (p 12-13) (C) Captioned for deaf or hard of hearing (BE) Biomedical Ethics Film Fest. (p 35) (see p 38) (CS) Come and See (p 9)
Fri 3 Nov
Tue 7 Nov
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Lawrence of Arabia (70mm) 1.00/6.30 Murder on the Orient... (AD) (C) 11.10am (captioned) Murder on the Orient... (AD) 6.00/8.35 Call Me By Your Name (AD) 3.00 Wadjda (SR) (over-60s) 1.00 (£3) Murder on the Orient... (AD) 3.15 Call Me By Your Name (AD) 5.45/8.30
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Murder on the Orient... (AD) 2.30 Lawrence of Arabia (70mm) 6.30 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 11.10am/2.15/8.35 Eternal Sunshine of the...(F) 6.00 +Discussion Call Me By Your Name (AD) (C) 11.15am (captioned) Call Me By Your Name (AD) 2.30/5.45/8.30
Thu 9 Nov
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Lawrence of Arabia (70mm) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Murder on the Orient... (AD) October (WW) ESFF International Shorts (ES) Call Me By Your Name (AD)
Fri 10 Nov
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Murder on the Orient... (AD) 1.00 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 3.30/6.00 Redoubtable (FF) 8.30 +Q&A 78/52 11.10am/3.50/6.10 Psycho 1.25 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 8.20 Call Me By Your Name (AD) 11.15am/3.00 Call Me By Your Name (AD) 5.45/8.30
Sat 11 Nov
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A Bag of Marbles (FF) 1.00 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 3.30/6.00/8.35 78/52 12.15/8.40 Psycho 2.30 Indochine (FF) 5.00 +Q&A Call Me By Your Name (AD) 11.15am/3.00 Call Me By Your Name (AD) 5.45/8.30
Sun 12 Nov
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The Jungle Bunch (FJ) 11.00am Psycho 1.20 Bay of Angels (FF) 3.45 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 6.00/8.35 78/52 11.10am/3.55/8.40 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 1.25 Just To Be Sure (FF) 6.15 Call Me By Your Name (AD) 11.15am/3.00 Call Me By Your Name (AD) 5.45/8.30
1.00 6.00/8.35 11.10am/2.15 6.15 8.40 +Discussion 12.15/3.00/5.45/8.30
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(DE) Fokus: Films from Germany (p 32-33) (ES) Edinburgh Short FF (p 10) (F) Filmosophy (p 11) DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
3 NOV 17 - 30 NOV 17
(FF) French Film Festival UK (p 26-31) (FJ) Filmhouse Junior (p 24-25) (GP) Growing Pains (p 8) SCREENING TIMES
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Mon 1 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 2.30/6.00 13 1 Psycho 8.30 Nov 2 78/52 1.45/6.30 2 Psycho 4.00 2 Corporate (FF) 8.40 +Q&A 3 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 11.30am/8.45 3 Call Me By Your Name (AD) 3.00 3 Call Me By Your Name (AD) (C) 5.45 (captioned) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 38
Sat 18 Nov
Tue 14 Nov
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Murder on the Orient... (AD) 2.30/5.55 Murder on the Orient... (AD)(C) 8.30 (captioned) 78/52 1.15 The Double Lover (FF) 3.30/8.40 Electro-Pythagorus + Shorts 6.00 +Q&A Call Me By Your Name (AD) 11.30am/3.00/5.45 78/52 8.45
Wed 1 15 2 Nov 2 2 3 3 3
Murder on the Orient... (AD) A Woman’s Life (FF) 78/52 A Kid (FF) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Call Me By Your Name (AD) 78/52
2.30/5.55/8.35 1.00/6.00 3.45 8.40 11.30am 3.15/8.30 6.15
Thu 16 Nov
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Murder on the Orient... (AD) 78/52 I Am Not Your Negro (HG) Barbara (FF) Call Me By Your Name (AD) Call Me By Your Name (AD) Psycho
2.30/6.00/8.35 1.30/3.45 6.30 8.40 11.30am 3.15/8.30 6.05
Fri 17 Nov
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Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 1.30/3.50/6.10/8.30 The Thing (UV) 11.00 Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 11.00am The Road to Mandalay 1.20/6.15 The Workshop (FF) 3.45/8.40 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 11.15am/3.00 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 6.00/8.45
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1.00/6.20/8.40 3.30 11.00am 1.30 +Discussion 5.30 +Q&A 8.30 1.30/6.25 4.00/8.55
The Secret of Kells (FJ) 11.00am Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 1.15/3.50/6.20/8.40 Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 11.00am The Handmaid’s Tale (BE) 1.30 +Discussion Before Summer Ends (FF) 5.30 Grace Jones: Bloodlight and... 7.30 Murder on the Orient... (AD)(C) 1.00 (captioned) Murder on the Orient... (AD) 3.30/6.00/8.30
Mon 1 Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 2.30/8.45 20 1 Film Stars Don’t Die... (AD) (C) 6.20 (captioned) Nov 2 Jean de Florette (FF) 1.00 2 Grace Jones: Bloodlight and... 3.40 2 Submarine (GP) 6.15 +Discussion 2 Step by Step (FF) 8.40 3 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 11.15am/3.00 3 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 6.00/8.30 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 38
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Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Jean de Florette (FF) French Shorts (FF) Belle (SR) (over-60s) (C) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Cutting It? ...at the BBFC
2.30/6.20/8.40 12.45/6.00 3.15 8.30 +Intro 1.00 (£3) 3.30/8.30 6.00 (£3)
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Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) Manon des Sources (FF) Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) Murder on the Orient... (AD) 150 Milligrams (FF) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Farinelli (HG)
2.30/6.20/8.40 1.00 3.30 6.00 8.35 11.15am/3.30/8.45 6.10
Tue 21 Nov
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(OR) Over the Rainbow (p 9) (SR) Senior Selections (p 18) (over-60s) (UV) Uncanny Valley (p 14-15) DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
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Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 2.30/5.55/8.45 Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 1.10 Manon des Sources (FF) 3.30 Ismaël’s Ghosts (FF) 6.05 Stefan Zweig: Farewell... (DE) 8.40 (£6.50/£5.50) Murder on the Orient... (AD) 11.15am/3.30 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 6.00/8.35
Fri 24 Nov
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The Death of Stalin (AD) The Killing of a Sacred Deer Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) Lost in Paris (FF) The Death of Stalin (AD) Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Marija (DE)
12.50/8.45 3.20/6.00 11.05am/3.45/8.40 1.40/6.15 +Q&A 11.00am 1.25/6.30 3.50 8.50
Sat 1 25 Nov 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3
Double Bill: Jean de Florette + Manon des Sources The Killing of a Sacred Deer The Death of Stalin (AD) Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) Murder on the Orient... (AD) The Killing of a Sacred Deer The Death of Stalin (AD) The Killing of a Sacred Deer Brother Jakob (DE) House Without Roof (DE) Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD)
1.00 (£12/£10) 6.15 8.50 11.05am/1.25/6.20 3.45 8.40 11.00am 1.20 4.00 (£6.50/£5.50) 6.10 (£6.50/£5.50) 8.45
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The LEGO Ninjago Movie (FJ) The Wages of Fear Sorcerer Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) Murder on the Orient... (AD) The Killing of a Sacred Deer Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) The Death of Stalin (C) Hördur (DE) Signs of Life + Short (HZ) (DE) The Death of Stalin (AD)
11.00am 2.00/8.00 5.15 1.10/6.10 3.30 8.40 11.00am 1.20 (captioned) 3.55 (£6.50/£5.50) 5.55 8.20
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Mon 1 The Death of Stalin (AD) 1.35/6.00 27 1 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 8.30 Nov 2 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 1.25 2 Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 3.55/6.15/8.40 3 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 1.00 3 The Death of Stalin (AD) 3.45 3 The Culpable (DE) 6.15 (£6.50/£5.50) 3 Phoenix (DE) 8.35 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 38 Tue 28 Nov
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer Who’s Your Dandy? (OR) (C) Murder on the Orient... (AD) Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) The Killing of a Sacred Deer The Death of Stalin (AD)
2.30 7.30 (£8/£6) 1.25 3.55/6.15/8.40 1.00/6.05 3.40/8.45
Wed 1 29 1 Nov 2 2 2 2 3 3 3
Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 6.20 The Death of Stalin (AD) 8.40 Film Stars Don’t Die in...(AD)(C) 11.05am (captioned) Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 3.55/8.25 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 1.25 Faaji Agba (HG) 6.15 The Death of Stalin (AD) 1.00 The Killing of a Sacred Deer 3.25/8.30 Sanctuary (DE) 6.10 (£6.50/£5.50)
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2.30 The Death of Stalin (AD) 6.00 Marathon Man (CS) 8.25 Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 11.05am/3.55 Film Stars Don’t Die in... (AD) 6.15/8.40 Murder on the Orient... (AD) 1.25 The Death of Stalin (AD) 11.00am/1.20/3.45 Fukushima Mon Amour (DE) 6.10 (£6.50/£5.50) The Killing of a Sacred Deer 8.30
Thu 30 Nov
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Education and Learning Schools Screenings French Film Festival A Bag of Marbles (Un sac de billes) Wed 1 November, 10am • 1h50min, French with English subtitles, £3/ free for teachers, advised certificate PG, suitable for P6-S6 Based on the autobiographical novel A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo, this is the incredible true story of two young Jewish brothers, Maurice and Joseph, who travel alone through Nazi occupied France in order to survive the war. Aided by the occasional kind soul, the two young boys swerve and dart through obstacles set by Nazi soldiers to avoid succumbing to the dreadful fate of so many others in this situation. The Teacher (Les grands esprits) Tue 7 November, 10am • 1h46min, French with English subtitles, £3/free for teachers, advised certificate 12A, suitable for S3-S6 Francois is a teacher at a middle class Parisian high school who believes that the French system of the most experienced teachers being sent to the best schools is counterproductive. He never believes this theory will be challenged until he is offered the chance to test this by teaching at an inner-city school, with younger teachers and a wider socio-economic student group. A warm-hearted comedy drama with a fantastic performance by Denis Podalydés as the fish-out-of-water teacher. Ivan Tsarevitch and the Changing Princess (Ivan Tsarevitch et la princesse changeante) Thurs 9 November, 10am • 57min, FREE, advised certificate PG, Suitable for P4 upwards, French with English subtitles The newest film from renowned animator Michel Ocelot is a quartet of enchanting fairy tales, retold in gorgeous silhouette animation. A young girl who lives in a monster-fearing underground community gains the courage to face her fears. A poor Persian boy becomes apprentice to a powerful enchanter. A put-upon ward on a pirate ship outsmarts his captain during a stop in India. And the son of a dying Russian tsar races against time to find a cursed princess.
Fokus: German Film Festival Hördur Tue 28 November, 10am • 1h20min, £3/free for teachers, advised certificate 12A, Suitable for S1 upwards, German with English subtitles Aylin, a 17 year-old Muslim girl who is part of the Turkish diaspora in Germany, finds herself sentenced to community service at a riding school on the outskirts of town after a brush with the law. Beset by trouble at home and school, it is here that she begins to find her feet and discover a place in the world in which she feels comfortable and accepted. As time progresses, her unique relationship with the stallion Hördur and her own fledgling dreams are tested to breaking point. Can Aylin truly build a bridge between worlds? And if she can, will others follow?
Into Film Festival The Into Film Festival takes place all over the UK from 8-24 November (14-23 November at Filmhouse) with free film screenings, workshops and masterclasses. Go to www.intofilm.org/festival for more information and to book tickets. To book tickets at any of the screenings please contact Flip Kulakiewicz at education@cmi-scotland.co.uk or call 0131 228 2688
Young Programmers Aged 15-19 and passionate about cinema? Our Young Programmers group is starting again and we welcome new members! Our first meeting is on Monday 6 November. Turn up at Filmhouse at 4.30pm or email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk for more info and to register your interest.
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JUN I OR Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.50 (£5.50 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!
Shorts for Wee Ones Sun 5 Nov at 11.00am
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.
The Discovery collections of short films are always the best-attended of the festival! Our old friend The Little Bird is back with a new pal (as well as that sly old fox), we watch a hungry tiger find a tasty meal (and eat his carrots) and learn how a big, old bear finds his singing voice. All these short films are in English or are dialogue free (except for one with one word of German - and it’s very easy to understand!).
Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grownups should expect some noise!
30m • Digital • English or dialogue-free. • U
The Jungle Bunch Sun 12 Nov at 11.00am
The Secret of Kells Sat 18 Nov at 11.00am
David Alaux • France 2017 • 1h37m • Digital • U - Contains mild threat, slapstick violence, very mild bad language.
Tomm Moore • France/Belgium/Ireland 2009 • 1h19m • Digital PG - Contains some scary scenes.
Maurice looks like a penguin, but inside, he’s all tiger! Raised by a tigress, this penguin is far from awkward and has become a kung fu pro! With his friends, the Jungle Bunch, Maurice, following in his mother’s footsteps, intends to ensure that order and justice will reign from now on in the jungle. But Igor, an evil koala, surrounded by his gang of not very smart baboon mercenaries, plans to destroy the jungle...
In a remote medieval outpost of Ireland, young Brendan embarks on a new life of adventure when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from foreign lands carrying a book brimming with secret wisdom and powers. To help complete the magical book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the enchanted forest. A stunningly beautiful animation.
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The LEGO Ninjago Movie Sun 26 Nov at 11.00am
Beauty and the Beast Sun 3 Dec at 11.00am
Paul Fisher, Charlie Bean, Bob Logan • USA/Denmark 2017 1h41m • Digital • U - Contains mild comic violence, very mild bad language, rude humour.
Bill Condon • USA 2017 • 2h9m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, threat.
In this big-screen animated LEGO adventure, the battle for Ninjago City calls to action young Lloyd, aka the Green Ninja, along with his friends, who are all secret warriors and LEGO Master Builders. Led by kung fu master Wu, as wise-cracking as he is wise, they must defeat evil warlord Garmadon, the Worst Guy Ever, who also happens to be Lloyd’s dad...
A live-action re-telling of Disney’s animated classic, Beauty and the Beast is the fantastic journey of Belle (Emma Watson), a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast (Dan Stevens) in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast’s hideous exterior and realise the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within...
The Son of Bigfoot Sun 10 Dec at 11.00am
Home Alone Sun 17 Dec at 11.00am
Jeremy Degruson, Ben Stassen • Belgium/France 2017 • 1h33m Digital • PG - Contains mild bad language, comic violence, threat.
Chris Columbus • USA 1990 • 1h43m • Digital • PG - Contains moderate slapstick violence and infrequent moderate language.
13-year-old outsider Adam sets out on an epic quest to uncover the mystery behind his long-lost dad - the legendary Bigfoot, who has been hiding in the forest for years to protect himself and his family from HairCo., a giant corporation eager to run scientific experiments with his special DNA. Father and son start making up for lost time, but little do they know HairCo. is on their tail...
8-year-old Kevin McAllister (Macaulay Culkin) feels like he’s the black sheep of his huge family nobody listens to him and no-one understands. To make matters worse, they accidentally leave him behind when they go on holiday to France for the winter holidays. Home alone, Kevin soon learns to fend for himself, and when the family home is targeted by two bumbling burglars he draws up an elaborate defence plan...
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Filmhouse is proud to be one of the founding venue partners of the French Film Festival UK which celebrates its 25th silver jubilee edition with a line-up of some of the most eagerly anticipated Francophone titles of the year among them such Cannes 2017 hits as Redoubtable by Michel (The Artist) Hazanavicius and Laurent Cantet’s critically acclaimed The Workshop as well as the über topical This is Our Land by Lucas Belvaux (guest). As a link to the first Festival, veteran director Régis Wargnier will present in person his sumptuous Oscarwinning Indochine in a new edition, and there’s a celebration of Jeanne Moreau, an early FFF UK patron. It all begins with a special preview of the endearing Aurora by Blandine Lenoir (guest) and starring the inimitable Agnès Jaoui (guest). Bon festival! Richard Mowe
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AurorA AURORE Sat 4 Nov at 6.00pm Blandine Lenoir • France 2016 • 1h29m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Agnès Jaoui, Thibault de Montalembert, Pascale Arbillot, Lou Roy-Lecollinet.
With humour and sensitivity, Blandine Lenoir’s second feature offers an endearing film with a perfect role for Agnès Jaoui. Aurore, separated from her husband, has just lost her job and been told that she is going to be a grandmother. She feels she is slowly being pushed out of the way, yet she refuses to be relegated to the sidelines. What if now was the time to start over? What if a whole new life could begin? Delightful, warm-hearted and brimming with charm and optimism. Followed by a Q&A with Agnès Jaoui and director Blandine Lenoir.
A Bag of Marbles Un sac de billes
Fri 10 Nov at 8.30pm
Sat 11 Nov at 1.00pm
Michel Hazanavicius • France 2016 • 1h42m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Gregory Gadebois, Micha Lescot, Olivia Forest, Félix Kysyi.
Christian Duguay • France/Canada 2016 • 1h50m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial, Patrick Bruel, Elsa Zylberstein, Bernard Campan, Christian Clavier.
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) takes on the French New Wave and runs with it in style. Charting the brief relationship of the iconic Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Wiazemsky, Hazanavicius gives his subject a thorough going over, liberally sprinkled with irony, humour and affection. As Godard becomes more interested in politics he alienates his wife and his friends not to mention the public who preferred his zestful early films. With an almost unrecognisable Louis Garrel displaying a deft talent for comedy, Hazanavicius focuses on the inner turmoil of creative spirits.
Based on the famous memoirs of Joseph Joffo, A Bag of Marbles offers a new version of his incredible story following the experiences of two young Jewish boys living in France during the Second World War. When Joseph Joffo was ten years old, his father (Patrick Bruel) gave him and his brother Maurice some money and a map and sent them on a dangerous mission to escape Nazi-occupied Paris in 1941. Aided by the occasional kind soul, the two young boys swerve and dart through obstacles set by Nazi soldiers to avoid succumbing to the dreadful fate of so many others.
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Bay of Angels
Sat 11 Nov at 5.00pm
Sun 12 Nov at 3.45pm
Régis Wargnier • France 1992 • 2h34m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Linh DanPham, Jean Yanne, Dominique Blanc, Thibaut de Montalembert.
Jacques Demy • France 1963 • 1h29m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Claude Mann, Paul Guers, Henri Nassiet, André Certes.
An epic historical romance set in Indochina (Vietnam) with Catherine Deneuve as a plantation owner who begins a passionate affair with a young naval officer (Vincent Perez). In the hothouse atmosphere of the setting the officer falls in love with Deneuve’s adopted daughter (Linh Dan Pham). She follows him when he is posted to a remote outpost. The lovers hope to hide themselves amid the islands of a secret lake. All the components are in place for a lush and sensual old-fashioned (in a good way) melodrama. Followed by a Q&A with director Régis Wagnier.
A mild-mannered banker (Claude Mann) becomes obsessed with roulette. Along the way, he also becomes obsessed with an aloof platinum blonde (Jeanne Moreau) who seems to live at the roulette wheel. She returns his attentions until revealing that it was all a ruse, brought on simply because she thought he brought her good luck. It’s triumph of style, from Jean Rabier’s stunning camerawork to Moreau, looking resplendently like Bette Davis, and her entrance flashing across a succession of mirrors in the penultimate shot.
Just To Be Sure
Ôtez-moi d’un doute
Sun 12 Nov at 6.15pm Carine Tardieu • France/Belgium 2016 • 1h37m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: François Damiens, Cécile de France, Guy Marchand, André Wilms, Alice de Lencquesaing, Estéban.
The question at the heart of the new film by writerdirector Carine Tardieu (The Dandelions) is: You can’t choose who your parents are - or can you? Out of the conundrum the director turns in a sharp and funny comedy about two interconnected stories involving paternity and possible incest, as a widowed father discovers that his own dad may not be his biological one, while learning that his budding love interest may actually be his sister. It’s as light-hearted as its subject matter is deadly serious.
La Baie des anges
Corporate Mon 13 Nov at 8.40pm Nicolas Silhol • France 2016 • 1h35m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Céline Sallette, Lambert Wilson, Violaine Fumeau.
Nicolas Silhol takes a dive into the murky waters of corporate hierarchy. Céline Sallette astutely plays a woman who knows the rules of the game. As head of human resources she has mastered a calibrated femininity to match the ruthlessness and cold ambition expected. When executive Stéphane Froncart (Lambert Wilson) devises a secret costcutting plan, he knows he can count on Emilie to implement it. What he doesn’t count on are the deadly consequences... The starting point was a rash of suicides at France Telecom that shocked Paris. Followed by a Q&A with writer Nicolas Fleureau.
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A Woman’s Life Une vie Wed 15 Nov at 1.00pm & 6.00pm
François Ozon • France 2017 • 1h47m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset.
Stéphane Brizé • France/Belgium 2015 • 1h59m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande Moreau, Swann Arlaud, Nina Meurisse, Olivier Perrier.
François Ozon’s erotic thriller, about a woman Chloé (Marion Vacth) who falls in love with her psychoanalyst Paul (Jérémie Renier), but discovers there’s more to him than meets the eye, sees the director back to his old tricks after the restrained WWII saga Frantz. His latest foray has style, sex appeal and a delicious streak of craziness. When Chloé and Paul move into their new apartment she discovers a box containing Paul’s past, including a passport bearing a different surname. A web of secrets are about to be unleashed...
A moving, beautifully modulated adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s first novel. Stephane Brizé (The Measure of a Man) offers a dazzling mosaic of the trials and tribulations spanning 27 years in the life of Jeanne (Judith Chemla, Camille Rewinds). 20-year-old Jeanne is a noblewoman living in Normandy in 1819. When the handsome Viscount (Swann Arlaud) asks for her hand in marriage, she fantasises that the years to follow will be brimming with dreamy afternoons of flower beds bathed in dappled sunlight. Yet fate holds a very different destiny for this woman’s life.
A Kid Le Fils de Jean Wed 15 Nov at 8.40pm
Thu 16 Nov at 8.40pm
Philippe Lioret • France/Canada 2015 • 1h38m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Pierre Deladonchamps, Gabriel Arcand, Timothée Vom Dorp, Catherine de Léan, Marie-Thérèse Fortin.
Frenchman Mathieu (Pierre Deladonchamps) finds himself in strange circumstances when he learns the father he never knew has just passed away. Mathieu is overcome with eagerness to unravel his life’s mystery, to receive the package his father left him, and meet his two brothers. He travels to Quebec, where he is welcomed by his father’s best friend, Pierre. With the body of his father still missing, and forced to conceal his true identity, Mathieu undertakes an extraordinary and compelling journey of self-discovery against the picturesque Quebec landscape.
Barbara Mathieu Amalric • France 2017 • 1h37m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Jeanne Balibar, Mathieu Amalric, Erwan Ribard.
A loving tribute to the icon of French song with a brilliant performance by Jeanne Balibar who has an uncanny physical resemblance to the late “Dame en noir” as the legend used to be called by her admirers. Mathieu Amalric (On Tour) directs Jeanne Balibar, his ex-wife, in a film within a film. Balibar plays an actress called Brigitte who is cast to star in a film about Barbara with Amalric playing a director called Yves. At times it is deliberately difficult to know what is real and what is recreation as Amalric edits in material from documentaries, but there’s no doubt about the power of Balibar’s performance.
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The Workshop L’atelier Fri 17 Nov at 3.45pm & 8.40pm Laurent Cantet • France 2016 • 1h53m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Marina Foïs, Matthieu Lucci, Warda Rammach.
Laurent Cantet (The Class) here returns to top form by mixing social relevance and tension as his characters, all high school, attend a workshop for fictional writing headed by well-known French novelist Olivia (Marina Foïs). The multiculturalism is, like most of France, represented in the group with Arabic, African, and Spanish among the dozen or so students attending the workshop. The main character, Antoine (Matthieu Lucci), is a white-nationalist-minded teenager. Olivia soon finds herself fascinated by the angry-eyed Antoine, because, for all of his troubling views, he happens to be an astute literary critic.
This is Our Land
Chez nous
Sat 18 Nov at 5.30pm Lucas Belvaux • France/Belgium 2016 • 1h58m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Émilie Dequenne, André Dussolier, Guillaume Gouix, Catherine Jacob, Anne Marivin, Patrick Descamps.
This timely drama follows a young nurse and mother named Pauline (Émilie Dequenne), who is recruited by a right-wing politician resembling Marine Le Pen (Catherine Jacob) to be the approachable face of the National Front. She is seduced by the promise of an increased salary to support her family and the opportunity to make her country a safer place. As she becomes more embroiled in political theatre, Pauline begins to realise that the message she’s endorsing conflicts with her own beliefs... Followed by a Q&A with director Lucas Belvaux.
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School of Life
L’Ecole buissonniére
Sat 18 Nov at 3.30pm Nicolas Vanier • France 2017 • 1h56m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG • Cast: François Cluzet, Jean Sandel, Eric Elmosinino.
Paul (Solal de Montalivet) is sent from his austere orphanage in working-class Paris in 1930 to live in the country with cheerful Célestine and her taciturn game-keeper husband, on a vast estate belonging to Count de la Fresnaye. While out exploring, Paul meets Totoche (François Cluzet), a kindly poacher, who teaches him the secrets of the forest, the ponds and wildlife. As Paul begins his strange apprenticeship, he begins to realise it is no coincidence that he has come to this unknown place. A wonderful period evocation of boyhood and discovery.
Before Summer Ends
Avant la fin de l’été Sun 19 Nov at 5.30pm
Maryam Goormagnitgn • France/Switzerland 2017 • 1h20m • Digital French and Persian with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary.
After five years in Paris, Arash has decided to return home to Iran, but his fellow Iranian natives Hossein and Ashkan convince him to take one last trip through the South of France. As the best friends drive, drink lots of beer, and meet a pair of female French musicians, the trio experiences the thrill of a road trip imbued with a wistful longing for home. This artfully photographed non-fiction comedy beautifully captures the ex-pat experience, and opened the Cannes Acid sidebar earlier this year.
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Jean de Florette
Step by Step
Mon 20, Tue 21 & Double Bill on Sat 25 Nov
Mon 20 Nov at 8.40pm
Claude Berri • France/Switzerland/Italy 1986 • 2h1m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild bad language and sexual references • Cast: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Margarita Lozano.
Mehdi Idir, Grand Corps Malade aka Fabien Marsaud • France 2016 1h50m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Pablo Pauly, Soufiane Guerrab, Moussa Mansaly, Nailia Harzoune.
In the mid-1920s, hunchback tax collector Jean Cadoret inherits a Provence farm, moving there with his wife and daughter to fulfil his naive city-dweller’s dreams of an idyllic pastoral life. There’s a valuable spring on his land, but some cunning neighbours have stopped it up, and plan to wait for him to go broke so that they can buy up his land for a song... On Saturday 25 November, this will screen in a double bill with Manon des Sources (see below) tickets £12/£10.
Short Cuts Tue 21 Nov at 8.30pm
Patients
An uplifting, contemporary comedy-drama based on popular French slam poet Fabien Marsaud’s autobiography. A young man lies in a hospital bed. He can neither feel nor move his limbs. He can only stare at the ceiling. The nurses and doctors speak about him as if he weren’t present in the room. They are saying he will never walk again. Thus begins the travails of 20-year-old Ben, an athletic college student whose dreams are as broken as his spine. The inspiring story recounts the hardships and the tears, as well as the ultimate victories of a life reinvented.
Manon des Sources
Manon of the Spring Wed 22, Thu 23 & Double Bill on Sat 25 Nov
Various • 2h6m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A
The ranks of celebrated directors who started their careers by making short films is legion from Agnès Varda to François Truffaut. This programme embraces film-makers who relish working in the format from guests Wilfried Méance and Fabrice Bracq to veteran Jean-Luc Godard (see Redoubtable) cutting his directorial teeth in 1959. The screening will include intros by filmmakers Wilfried Méance and Fabrice Bracq. Jean-Luc Godard’s All the Boys are Called Patrick will be introduced by Martine Pierquin.
Claude Berri • Italy/France/Switzerland 1986 • 1h54m • Digital French with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Emmanuelle Béart, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Hippolyte Girardot, Margarita Lozano.
The tale resumes a decade later, focusing on Jean de Florette’s beautiful daughter, Manon (Emmanuelle Béart), a shepherdess with whom Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) falls hopelessly in love but fails to win. When Manon eavesdrops on hunters and learns the truth about the Soubeyrans and their plot against her father, she blocks the water supply to the village at its source in a cave only she knows about. Pandemonium ensues as Manon’s scheme exacts revenge. Double bill on Saturday 25 November.
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La Fille de Brest
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Wed 22 Nov at 8.35pm
Thu 23 Nov at 6.05pm
Emmanuelle Bercot • France 2016 • 2h8m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoît Magimel.
Arnaud Desplechin • France 2017 • 1h54m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Louis Garrel, Alba Rohrwacher, László Szabó.
The inspirational crusade of one dedicated nurse against a large-scale pharmaceutical company is based on real-life whistleblower Irène Frachon’s bestselling memoir. Irène (Borgen’s Sidse Babett Knudsen) is a hospital lung specialist who begins to suspect a connection between recent patient deaths and a medication called Mediator. Seeking solid proof, she joins forces with head of research Antoine (Benoît Magimel). What follows is a road strewn with shady coverups, impenetrable institutional frameworks and powerful figures who are either corrupt or simply have their heads in the sand.
Just before he is about to start shooting his new film, a filmmaker’s life is turned upside down when a woman he had loved and who had disappeared, reappears. Ismaël (Mathieu Amalric) describes himself as a widower. He married Carlotta (Marion Cotillard) when she was just 20 years-old. A few years later she vanished without a trace. No body or evidence of foul play was ever found. Ismaël has been grieving for two decades, finally obliged to have her legally classified as “missing”. Then she seems to reappear - but how could that be?
Lost in Paris Paris pieds nus Fri 24 Nov at 1.40pm & 6.15pm Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon • France/Belgium 2017 • 1h23m Digital • French with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard.
A fun and hectic tale of peculiar people finding love while lost in the City of Light. Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s signature whimsical style, Lost in Paris features the Belgium-based filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive vagabond. When Fiona’s orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (delightfully portrayed by the late Emmanuelle Riva, Oscarnominated for Amour) who is living in Paris, she hops on the first plane she can. She arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom (Abel), the affable, but annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone. Lost in Paris with its trademark antics and intricately choreographed slapstick, will have you leaving the cinema with a gleeful skip in your step and a renewed zest for life. The 6.15pm screening is followed by a Q&A with directors Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon.
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Fokus: Films from Germany returns for its third year, as Filmhouse and Goethe-Institut Glasgow partner once again to present a diverse and engaging selection of recent German cinema, covering a range of themes and genres. Also screening this year are legendary director Werner Herzog’s first short film Herakles and first feature film Signs of Life - see page 7 - which also screen as part of Filmhouse’ s ongoing Herzog of the Month series (supported by Goethe-Institut). Seven of this year’s line-up are bookable for the special reduced ticket price of £6.50/£5.50.
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
Vor der Morgenröte Thu 23 Nov at 8.40pm
Maria Schrader • Austria/Germany/France 2016 • 1h46m • Digital German, French, English, Spanish and Portuguese with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Josef Hader, Barbara Sukowa, Aenne Schwarz.
Maria Schrader’s film follows the life of the AustrianJewish writer Stefan Zweig, one the most translated German-speaking writers of his era, during his exile from 1936 to 1942. Driven to emigrate at the peak of his worldwide fame, Zweig falls into despair at the prospect of Europe’s downfall - which he had foreseen at an early stage. Zweig’s exile takes him to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, New York, and Petrópolis, but none of his stopping places will help him to find peace or to replace his true home. £6.50/£5.50
Marija
Brother Jakob
Fri 24 Nov at 8.50pm
Sat 25 Nov at 4.00pm
Michael Koch • Germany/Switzerland 2016 • 1h40m • Digital German, Ukrainian, Turkish and Romanian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Margarita Breitkreiz, Georg Friedrich, Sahin Eryilmaz.
Eli Roland Sachs • Germany 2016 • 1h32m • Digital • German and Arabic with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.
Marija, a young Ukrainian woman, earns her living as a hotel maid in Dortmund, but dreams of owning her own hair salon. She puts money aside each month, but when she is fired without notice, her dream seems out of reach. Without work and under financial pressure, she finds herself forced to look for other opportunities. Michael Koch’s feature film debut is the portrait of a young woman who lives on the periphery of our production and consumer-oriented society, but does not accept the ascribed role of the victim.
Bruder Jakob
Brother Jakob is an intimately personal documentary exploring the relationship between the filmmaker Eli Roland and his brother, Jakob. Jakob’s outlook has changed since he has adopted Salafist Islam as his religion, and a new distance has emerged between the siblings. While Jakob is searching for the truth, Eli Roland is searching for his brother. Will the two find their way back to each other? Seeking to understand the changes in his brother’s personality, Eli Roland uses the camera as a means of talking with him again. £6.50/£5.50
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House Without Roof
Haus Ohne Dach Sat 25 Nov at 6.10pm
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Soleen Yusef • Germany/Iraq/Qatar 2016 • 1h57m • Digital • German and Kurdish with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Mina Sadic, Sasun Sayan, Murat Seven, Wedad Sabri, Ahmet Zirek.
The journey of three siblings, who were born in the Kurdish region of Iraq but grew up in Germany. They have grown apart over the years. Their mother’s death brings them together to fulfill her last wish - to be buried next to their father who had died in the war under Saddam Hussein’s regime. Their nervewracking odyssey to troubled Kurdistan stimulates personal argument and reproach, but even in conflict they slowly manage to find their way back to each other. £6.50/£5.50
The Culpable
3 NOV 17 - 30 NOV 17
Die Verfehlung
Ekrem Ergür • Germany 2015 • 1h23m • Digital • German and Turkish with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Almila Bagriacik, Felicitas Woll, Hilmi Sözer.
After a run in with the law, Aylin - a 17-year-old Muslim girl of Turkish descent - finds herself sentenced to community service at an out-of-town horse stable in Germany. Beset by troubles at home and school, it is here that she, against all odds, is set on the road to self-discovery. As the pace quickens, her blossoming relationship with the stallion Hördur and her fledgling dreams are tested to breaking point. Can Aylin build a bridge between worlds? And if she can, will others follow? £6.50/£5.50
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Gerd Schneider • Germany 2015 • 1h36m • Digital • German with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Sebastian Blomberg, Hartmut Becker, Sandra Borgmann, Kai Schumann, Jan Messutat.
Christian Petzold • Germany/Poland 2014 • 1h38m • Digital • German and English with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent moderate bad language • Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld.
Jakob, Dominik and Oliver are friends, connected to one another not only through their football matches and occasional pub visits, but also through their profession: all three are setting out on careers in the clergy. Jakob works as a prison chaplain, Dominik is active in a parish and Oliver aspires to a role in the church hierarchy. Their friendship is put to the test when one day Dominik is arrested on suspicion of having sexually abused minors. The scandal will be covered up if no one speaks out - will Jakob do what needs to be done...? £6.50/£5.50
Emerging from a concentration camp at the end of World War II, Nelly Lenz (Nina Hoss) undergoes reconstructive surgery to repair a serious facial injury caused by a bullet wound. Nelly wants everything to be exactly the way it was before the war - but it isn’t. Presumed dead by her friends and relatives, Nelly returns to Berlin to fulfil the dream that sustained her: reuniting with her husband, Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld). But will Johnny recognise her? And what of the terrible, whispered rumours that it was Johnny himself who betrayed her to the Nazis?
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Fukushima Mon Amour
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Wed 29 Nov at 6.10pm Marc Brummund • Germany 2015 • 1h44m • Digital • German with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Louis Hofmann, Alexander Held.
May 1968: The Rolling Stones, bell-bottoms, miniskirts, sexual revolution, protests against the Vietnam War. While Germany embarks on a new era of freedom, rebellious 14-year-old Wolfgang is confined to Freistatt, a foster home for difficult children. There he is to be “educated” to become a decent boy. Wolfgang puts up a determined resistance to the brutal working conditions and the perfidious education methods of his warders. But for how long can Wolfgang manage to resist the system of violence and oppression without brutalising himself? Based on a true story, Sanctuary maps the relentless fight of a boy to save his humanity and dignity. £6.50/£5.50
GrüSSe aus Fukushima Thu 30 Nov at 6.10pm
Doris Dörrie • Germany 2016 • 1h44m • Digital • English, German and Japanese with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Rosalie Thomass, Kaori Momoi, Mosche Cohen, Nami Kamata.
Marie, a young German, escapes to Fukushima in a bid to change her life. Working with the organisation Clowns4Help, she strives to bring joy to survivors of the 2011 catastrophe. Marie soon realises she’s absolutely unsuited to the task. Instead of running away, though, she decides to stay with cantankerous old Satomi, the last geisha of Fukushima, who has decided to retreat back to her destroyed house in the former radioactive exclusion zone. These two women couldn’t be more different, but each in her own way is trapped in the past. £6.50/£5.50
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Biomedical Ethics Film Festival on Surrogacy What are the ethical issues arising from surrogacy? Where is it taking place? Who is considering such procedures? How do the children, born from these procedures, feel when they grow up? This Surrogacy Ethics Film Festival, which is one of the first in the world, will seek to answer some of these questions. At the end of each screening, a discussion will take place between the audience and a panel of invited experts in bioethics, science, law, medicine and politics. The Film Festival is organised in partnership with The Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, Filmhouse, the Mason Institute, at the School of Law, The University of Edinburgh, St Mary’s University, Twickenham - London, the University of Leicester, and the Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA.
Future Baby Sat 18 Nov at 1.30pm Maria Arlamovsky • Austria 2016 • 1h28m • Digital • English, German and Portuguese with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary.
Future Baby is a film about the future of human reproduction as it is happening right before our eyes. Maria Arlamovsky’s exploration takes her all around the world to patients and researchers, to egg donors and surrogate mothers, to laboratories and clinics. The hopes and wishes of future parents mesh with research on how to “upgrade” human embryos in the face of an ever-accelerating rate of progress, presenting us with a snapshot that is as disturbing as it is informative. How far do we want to go?
The Handmaid’s Tale Sun 19 Nov at 1.30pm Volker Schlöndorff • USA/Germany 1990 • 1h49m • 35mm 15 - Contains strong sex, violence and language. • Cast: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Robert Duvall.
Five years after Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel was published (and almost thirty before the critically-acclaimed TV series), this Harold Pinter scripted adaptation brought this staggering vision to screen. Kate (Natasha Richardson) is captured while trying to escape the future fascist Republic of Gilead and sentenced to become a Handmaid - a subjugated woman who must bear the children of an assigned man. Haunted her husband’s death and her separation from her daughter, she is sent to live with the Commander (Robert Duvall) and his cold, unfeeling wife Serena Joy (Faye Dunaway)...
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Fri 1 Dec at 8.30pm Yannis Sakaridis • Greece/UK/Germany 2016 • 1h26m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Makis Papadimitriou, Yannis Stankoglou, Ksenia Dania, Vassilis Koukalani.
Nakos is bewildered. Life has not delivered on its imagined promises. He blames Life and - as usual - immigrants and off he goes on a moped and on a mission. His friend Billy has nothing against the unexpected, falls in love with Tereza, a black Greekspeaking migrant and helps Syrian Tarek and his daughter, desperately trying to get to Italy. This crisis - The Crisis - has generated its own instant clichés, behind which are the people to whom Sakaridis here gives human voices, credible lives and dramatic life. Followed by Q&A with the director, Yannis Sakaridis.
The Story of the Green Line
Prasini Grammi Sun 3 Dec at 8.25pm
Panikos Chrysanthou • Cyprus 2017 • 1h53m • Digital • Greek, English and Turkish with English subtitles • 15
Cyprus, 1974. Things are already seriously wrong. A border crossing. Nobody crosses except the slightly bewildered conscripts who used to be Cypriot but are now compulsorily Greek or Turkish and who have been assigned to the wrong side of a border that, in their childhoods, did not exist. This gradual and civilised film observes the extraordinary everyday. Followed by a Q&A with director Panikos Chrysanthou
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Medea Louder Than My Thoughts
kreisson ton emon volevmaton Sat 2 Dec at 8.30pm Nikos Grammatikos • Greece 2014 • 1h33m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Nikos Hourmouziadis , Vangelis Mourikis.
Medea is maybe the most potent and puzzling heroine of Greek theatre, occupying the stage so powerfully, we think we know her and can judge her. Many have tried, from Pasolini to Liz Lochhead. This film gives us strong performances of the essentials of the play and takes us for a walk around it. This is a conversation with Medea in which she - and Euripides - give us things to think about. Followed by Skype Q&A with director Nikos Grammatikos.
Beneath the Olive Tree Mon 4 Dec at 8.30pm Stavroula Toska • USA/Greece 2015 • 1h16m • Digital • English and Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.
During the ‘40s and ‘50s women of the left were jailed on prison islands by the British-dependent government. They wrote journals they buried under an olive tree. These were discovered years later and here the women tell their own stories, revisiting their old prisons and describing, as only they can, the detail and absurdity of the repression and showing us the spirit it takes to resist over a patient lifetime. Followed by a Skype Q&A with Olympia Dukakis and director Stavroula Toska.
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Lines Tue 5 Dec at 8,45pm Vasilis Mazomenos • Greece 2016 • 1h28m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Anna Kalaitzidou, Tasos Nousias.
There is a helpline. It can’t help with what has happened to Greece, but people still ring. This beautiful nocturne of a film takes us into seven stories in which normality does its best to cope normally with challenges beyond anyone’s everyday skills. Aristotle, who knew all about pity and terror, would have liked it. It’s a sad film and, like the best sad music, it fortifies you, inspiring feelings of sympathy, resistance and enquiry. The Greeks can still make great tragedies. Maybe that’s where the recovery begins.
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The Listening Eye of Marianna Economou: Two Documentaries Wed 6 Dec at 8.30pm 2h11m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 12A
You’ll have heard of the suitcase of mother-made moussaka airlifted to a faraway son who failed to collect it. Heathrow hasn’t smelled the same ever since. Economou collects stories and allows them to tell themselves - Greek mothers cooking for faraway children and connecting by food shuttle. Then there’s the village that remembered how to dance. This is Economou. You will hardly notice her but you will remember her women. Followed by a Skype Q&A with director Marianna Economou.
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There is a large print version of the programme available which can be posted to you free of charge. Audio Description and Captions
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In all screens we have a system which enables us, whenever available, to show onscreen captions, and provide audio description (via infra-red headsets) for those who are sight-impaired.
Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are strictly limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Babychanging, bottle-warming and buggy parking facilities are available.
This issue, all screenings of Murder on the Orient Express, Call Me By Your Name, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, The Death of Stalin and Belle have audio description. The following screenings will have captions: Tue 7 Nov at 11.10am
Murder on the Orient...
Wed 8 Nov at 11.15am
Call Me By Your Name
Mon 13 Nov at 5.45pm
Call Me By Your Name
Tue 14 Nov at 8.30pm
Murder on the Orient...
Sun 19 Nov at 1.00pm
Murder on the Orient...
Mon 20 Nov at 6.20pm
Film Stars Don’t Die in...
Tue 21 Nov at 1.00pm
Belle (over-60s only)
Sun 26 Nov at 1.20pm
The Death of Stalin
Tue 28 Nov at 7.30pm
Who’s Your Dandy?
Wed 29 Nov at 11.05am
Film Stars Don’t Die in...
Mon 6 Nov at 11.00am
Privilege
Mon 13 Nov at 11.00am
Murder on... (TBC)
Mon 20 Nov at 11.00am
Jean de Florette
Mon 27 Nov at 11.00am
Phoenix
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