Filmhouse Brochure - December 2015 by Filmhouse

4 DEC 15 31 DEC 15

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CAROL Bridge of Spies Sunset Song Güeros Scotland Galore! Die Hard The Dressmaker Sicario The Lobster SPECTRE Doctor Zhivago Watch & Wolf: Mean Girls Sunday Double Bills Christmas at Our House! Over the Rainbow Filmhouse Junior Biomedical Research Ethics Film Festival Mark Cousins Presents: Romanian Cinema Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

DIRECTED BY TODD HAYNES BASED ON THE NOVEL BY PATRICIA HIGHSMITH

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

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Arthur Christmas 10 & 21 Bad Santa 20 Belle and Sebastian 10 Belle and Sebastian - The Adventure... 9 Biomedical Research Ethics Film Festival 12-13 Brave 10 Bridge of Spies 5 Brigadoon 24 Carol 6 The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black... 23 Christmas at Our House! 19-21 Coma 12 Comfort and Joy 21 The Constant Gardener 13 Die Hard 21 Doctor Zhivago 8 The Dressmaker 8 Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival 16-17 Education and Learning 26 Elf 21 Extraordinary Measures 13 Filmhouse Café Bar + Film Quiz 26 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Junior 10-11 Filmhouse Membership 28 Filmish Presents: Die Hard 21 Filmosophy: Regeneration 25 Fire in the Blood 13 Fleeting Loves 16 French Film Festival UK 11 Frozen 10 The Good Dinosaur 11 Güeros 6 The Happiest Days of Your Life 18 The Happiest... + School for Scoundrels 18 He Named Me Malala 6 The Illusionist 23 It’s a Wonderful Life 19 The Jungle Book 11 Le Mans 18 The Lobster 8 Local Hero 24

Mark Cousins Presents: Romanian Cinema 16 Mean Girls 7 The Muppet Christmas Carol 19 My Nazi Legacy 7 The Nightmare Before Christmas (3D) 20 Operation ‘Monster’ 16 Over the Rainbow 22 Paper Planes 11 The Plague 7 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 22 Rachel Maclean + Int’l Shorts 17 Santa Claus! 11 School for Scoundrels 18 Scotland Galore! 22-24 Scrooge 20 Seven Songs for a Long Life 6 Shallow Grave 23 Shortbus 22 Sicario 9 The Skin I Live In 25 SPECTRE 8 Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans 18 Steve McQueen: The Man... + Le Mans 18 Stina Wirfelt + Int’l Shorts 17 Sunday Double Bills 18 Sunset Song 5 Sunshine on Leith 22 Tales of the Night 11 Tell Spring Not to Come This Year 5 Torsten Lauschmann + Int’l Shorts 17 Trading Places 19 True Romance 9 Under Our Skin 12 Watch & Wolf: Mean Girls 7 What We Did on our Holiday 23 Whisky Galore! 24 White Christmas 21

AUDIODESCRIPTIONANDCAPTIONS In all three screens we have a system which enables us, whenever the necessary digital files are available, to show onscreen captions for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing, and provide audio description (via infra-red headsets) for those who are sight-impaired. This issue, all screenings of Sunset Song, Carol, He Named Me Malala, Sicario, SPECTRE and It’s a Wonderful Life have audio description, and the following screenings will have onscreen captions: Mon 7 Dec at 8.25pm Sunset Song Mon 14 Dec at 6.00pm Carol Tue 22 Dec at 3.00pm It’s a Wonderful Life Tue 29 Dec at 8.15pm SPECTRE FORCRYINGOUTLOUD Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are strictly limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Babychanging, bottle-warming and buggy parking facilities are available. Mon 7 Dec at 11am Bridge of Spies Mon 14 Dec at 11am He Named Me Malala Mon 21 Dec at 11am It’s a Wonderful Life Mon 28 Dec at 11am SPECTRE

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Introduction

TRADING PLACES

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

“IT’S CH-R-I-I-I-I-S-T-M-A-A-A-A-A-A-S…!”

STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN & LE MANS

SPECTRE

- N. Holder, 1973

Some people’s “most wonderful time of the year”, full of days off work, family gatherings, drinking and general merriment; and for others a time of compulsory and enforced jollity, family gatherings and not being able to go to work. We have a few of the latter here, for sure. Choosing to ignore those seasonally-unadjusted few (though there is one film in there chosen with them in mind), our December programme is, as has become the custom, packed with films aimed at getting you right in the mood for the holidays ahead. Some of them we show just about every year, others are making their Christmas at Our House! (as we call the ‘strand’) debuts. One of the latter, Trading Places, may be the film I have seen more times than any other, so oft on the telly has it been over the years and so hard I have found it to ‘channel-hop’ past it. Don’t tell anyone, but I actually love it. I’ve never seen it in a cinema though so this is a rare opportunity for all of us in that particular boat to put it right. You are welcome. As has also become something of a tradition, there’s a whole host of Scottish films on around New Year, in partnership with our friends at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay. Speaking of seasonal cinema, there’s a minor phenomenon goes on in Glasgow every year in the run up to the 25th. Our sister cinema, if I may call them that, the Glasgow Film Theatre, shows It’s a Wonderful Life every year for a couple of weeks, and last year saw audiences upward of 8000. We, on the other hand, managed around 1500. What’s up with that?! Are we short on Christmas cheer here in the East? Are we so jaded? So tone deaf to the sound of an angel getting its wings? Too sure the world’s a better place with us in it to be able to empathise with a man who has lost sight of it? Let’s get with the (Filmhouse December) programme and see if we can challenge for IAWL supremacy. It may well be our civic duty. As the world awaits the new Star Wars film, ours is, as ever, to take the road less travelled. Sunset Song is Terence Davies’ long-anticipated film version of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s beloved work of Scottish literature, and if the response to it at its Scottish premiere (here, as I write, last night) is anything to go by, it’s been worth the wait. Carol is Todd Haynes’ sumptuous and altogether wonderful film version of Patricia Highsmith’s ground-breaking, taboo-busting novel (originally published in 1952 as ‘The Price of Salt’) starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans (amusingly translated as The Man and The Mans in this year’s Cannes Film Festival Guide) tells the story behind the actor’s obsession with the 24hr auto race and the film he made about it - the flawed but fascinating Le Mans (also screening). We’re catching up too with a few things we were unable to show any earlier: Denis Villeneuve’s mightily impressive Sicario, Yorgos Lanthimos’ dystopian romance The Lobster, and the hugely entertaining SPECTRE. We’re kicking off a new ‘strand’ as well, a regular (not every week, but most weeks) Sunday afternoon Double Bill which kicks off with the aforementioned Steve McQueen/Le Mans double, followed by a couple of classic Alastair Sim comedies. We look forward to bringing our (ahem) usual programming flair and imagination to that over the coming months. Great double bill ideas gratefully received (though not necessarily acted upon)! One more thing: thanks a million for all your support over 2015, and we look forward working toward deserving the same in 2016. In the meantime, have a very pleasant holiday season, and enjoy that screening of It’s A Wonderful Life! And Carol. And Trading Places. And The Muppet Christmas Carol…. Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

Filmhouse Explorer

CAROL

THE DRESSMAKER

HE NAMED ME MALALA

Filmhouse Explorer We’re really keen to encourage your deeper engagement with the great cinema we screen. We know going to the cinema a lot can be quite expensive, so we’ve devised a ticket deal to make it cheaper to see films beyond the big new releases. Here’s how it works: buy a ticket for a film in the left hand column below, and you will receive a voucher that will entitle you, on handing it in at the Box Office, to 50% off a full price ticket to any film (or any film in any season) listed in the right hand column.

CHRISTMAS AT OUR HOUSE!

Please Recycle Filmhouse is part of the Greens Arts Initiative and is committed to carrying out sustainable practices. Please use our recycling facilities when visiting and recycle this brochure when you’re finished with it. Thank You!

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

BUY A TICKET FOR... Bridge of Spies (page 5) Sunset Song (page 5) Carol (page 6) The Dressmaker (page 8)

GET A HALF PRICE TICKET TO ONE OF THESE He Named Me Malala (page 6) Doctor Zhivago (page 8) True Romance (page 9) Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival (pages 16-17) Christmas at Our House! (pages 19-21) Scotland Galore! (pages 22-24)

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

Main Features/Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

BRIDGE OF SPIES

NEWRELEASE

SUNSET SONG

NEWRELEASE

TELL SPRING NOT TO COME THIS YEAR

SPECIALEVENT

Bridge of Spies

Sunset Song

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year

Showing from Fri 27 Nov

Showing from Fri 4 Dec

Fri 4 Dec at 9.00pm

Steven Spielberg • USA 2015 • 2h21m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate threat, violence Cast: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda.

Terence Davies • UK/Luxembourg 2015 • 2h16m • Digital 15 - Contains strong implied sex, scene of sexual violence Cast: Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie, Jack Greenlees,.

Saeed Taji Farouky & Michael McEvoy • UK/Afghanistan 2015 1h24m • Digital • Dari with English subtitles • 15 - Contains infrequent strong language, bloody injury detail • Documentary

At the height of the Cold War, American lawyer James Donovan (Tom Hanks) still holds firmly to the principle that all are entitled to a fair trial. This belief is put to the test when he is assigned the defence of hated Soviet agent Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), who is expected to be given little more than a show trial before his summary execution. Matters then become increasingly complex as an American spy is captured behind the Iron Curtain, and Donovan is sent to Berlin to act as a go-between in the potential exchange between East and West. A consummately crafted study pitting one man’s idealism against both lynch-mob mentality and realpolitik, Bridge of Spies is Steven Spielberg’s richlylayered follow-up to the Oscar-winning Lincoln, and features a gripping screenplay co-written by rising British dramatist Matt Charman and the Coen Brothers.

Terence Davies’ (The House of Mirth, The Long Day Closes) long-anticipated, exquisitely shot adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel. Sunset Song recently held its Scottish Premiere at Filmhouse, presented by Edinburgh International Film Festival. Scratching a livelihood out of the stunning but harsh terrain, the Guthrie family cowers in obedient fear of its brooding patriarch (Peter Mullan), a man prone to sudden and ferocious bursts of anger. As Guthrie’s wife retreats into silence, the film’s attention shifts to his daughter Chris (Agyness Deyn), a beautiful and intelligent young woman divided between her hatred for the coarse people in her village and her love of the landscape. She and her brother Will (Jack Greenlees) dream of freedom and escape, and life changes for Chris with the arrival of handsome young Ewan (Kevin Guthrie). Davies’ skill and sensitivity is evident, as is his love for these characters, and the beauty of the cinematography allows us to inhabit this world wholly and truly.

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year follows one unit of the Afghan National Army (ANA) over the course of their first year of fighting in Helmand without NATO support to finally tell the story of the war from their perspective. The only feature documentary filmed entirely embedded with the ANA, it is an intimate and humanist film, told from a largely unheard and misrepresented perspective, that gives viewers a unique perspective on the legacy of NATO’s war, and the future of the country. Without a foreign soldier in sight, and no narrative but their own, this is the war in Afghanistan, through the eyes of the Afghans who live it. The film premiered at Berlinale 2015 where it was awarded the Amnesty International Human Rights Film award and the Audience Choice Award Co-director Saeed Taji Farouky will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A.

Main Features/Seven Songs for a Long Life

GÜEROS

SEVEN SONGS FOR A LONG LIFE

NEWRELEASE

CAROL

SPECIALEVENT

HE NAMED ME MALALA

NEWRELEASE

Güeros

Seven Songs for a Long Life

Carol

Fri 4 to Mon 7 Dec

Sat 12 Dec at 3.20pm

Showing from Fri 11 Dec

Alonso Ruizpalacios • Mexico 2014 • 1h46m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language Cast: Tenoch Huerta, Sebastián Aguirre, Ilse Salas, Leonardo Ortizgris.

Amy Hardie • UK 2015 • 1h22m • Digital • 12A - Contains distressing scenes of illness • Documentary

Todd Haynes • UK/USA/France 2015 • 1h58m • Digital 15 - Contains infrequent strong sex Cast: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Kyle Chandler.

Alonso Ruizpalacios’ debut feature - a winner at the 2014 Berlinale - is a playful, often self-reflexive experience, shot in black-and-white with accomplished cinematography and an intriguing socio-political backdrop. The year is 1999. Young Tomás (Sebastián Aguirre) is a tearaway, and his long-suffering mother sends him packing to Mexico City to live with his older brother Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) - hoping he can be a steadying influence. Local college students are on strike in the capital, and Sombra describes himself as “on strike from the strike”, living in bohemian squalor with friends and associates. With little else to occupy their time beyond idle conversation, they resolve - though not with much conviction - to track down legendary musician Epigmenio Cruz (Alfonso Charpener).

Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans Fri 11 & Sat 12 Dec + Double Bill on Sun 13 Dec Gabriel Clarke & John McKenna • USA/UK 2015 • 1h42m • Digital 15 - Contains strong language. • Documentary

See page 18 for more info on this film and our Steve McQueen Sunday Double Bill. See the full schedule on page 14 for screening times.

From the moment Tosh refuses to fill in his assessment form and serenades us with a remarkably good Sinatra song, this documentary grabs life through song. Six hospice patients allow us into tender, vulnerable and funny moments of their lives. Singing unlocks the patients’ pasts, guides their dreams and their futures. Encouraged by one nurse who loves to sing, and a collaborative filming process, they wrestle with the new insecurity facing us all: recent advances in biomedicine mean we can now live for years rather than months after a terminal diagnosis. Sometimes. But not every time. How do we cope with this uncertainty? Patients at Strathcarron Hospice are quirky, wry frontrunners in a journey that we will all face. Each patient deals with enormous change during the three years of filming. As they go through the little and big dramas of trying to make a will, medicating pain, finding a guardian for a child and moving house, we see the growing relationship between staff and patient, patient and patient. Director Amy Hardie will be in attendance for a postfilm Q&A. Students can buy tickets for this screening for the special discount price of £6 (with valid student ID)

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel ‘The Price of Salt’, Todd Haynes’ sensuous and intelligent film places us in the pre-Christmas rush at a New York department store. Therese (Rooney Mara) is a store clerk, dreaming of a better life, who finds herself enchanted by a beautiful older woman - Carol (Cate Blanchett). A tender, intoxicating romance forms - tightly wrapped in conflicting circumstances and ‘50s chic - the result is emotionally honest, subtle and achingly beautiful. MAYBEYOUMISSED

He Named Me Malala Mon 14 to Thu 17 Dec Davis Guggenheim • United Arab Emirates/USA 2015 • 1h27m Digital • PG - Contains brief bloody images • Documentary

Few global figures in recent years have been as inspiring, dignified and openly courageous as Malala Yousafzai. Even at an early age, Malala was an outspoken advocate of education and women’s rights in her native Swat Valley in Pakistan. As a result of this precocious activism, in 2012 she was the victim of a failed assassination attempt when a gunman boarded her school bus and opened fire. Davis Guggenheim tracks the events leading up to this attack and, crucially, the remarkable aftermath - as Malala makes her way from hospital bed to the UN.

Main Features/The Plague/Watch & Wolf: Mean Girls

MY NAZI LEGACY

MAYBEYOUMISSED

THE PLAGUE

SPECIALEVENT

My Nazi Legacy

The Plague

Mon 14 to Thu 17 Dec

La plaga Thu 17 Dec at 6.15pm

David Evans • UK 2015 • 1h36m • Digital PG - Contains brief images of Holocaust victims Documentary featuring Philippe Sands, Niklas Frank, Horst von Wächter.

The shadow of the Nazi regime looms large over the childhood memories and lives of two men in David Evans’ challenging documentary. The film sees renowned human rights lawyer Phillipe Sands travel around European sites of major significance with the sons of two high-ranking SS officers - one of whom flatly condemns his father’s actions, while the other struggles to see his own as the murderer he was proven to be. Journeying to the site where Sands’ own family were killed during WWII, the three men engage in frank, difficult and deeply personal confrontations with their shared histories and feelings towards their families.

Matinee Special! If you’re a Senior Citizen you can go to a matinee screening and get either soup of the day OR a cup of tea or filter coffee and a traycake for only £8! Offer runs from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and only applies to screenings starting before 5.00pm. Ask for the Matinee Special deal at the box office and you’ll receive a voucher which can be exchanged in the café bar between 1.30pm and 5.30pm that day only. Offer is subject to availability and only available in person.

MEAN GIRLS

SPECIALEVENT

Neus Ballús • Spain 2013 • 1h25m • Digital • Spanish, Moldovan, Ilocano and Russian with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary

IberoDocs, Scotland’s Ibero-American Documentary Film Festival, continuing their support of the best emerging talent in the Ibero-American scene, is proud to present a special screening of Catalan filmmaker Neus Ballus’ debut film, a realistic drama blurring the borders between documentary and fiction - a courageous approach that has won the film multiple awards across the international festival circuit. Raul, a farmer who wants to grow organic food, hires Iurie to help him in the fields. Iurie is a Moldavian wrestler who earns a living doing whatever comes his way. Slowly, their personal stories intertwine with those of three solitary women: Maria, an elderly lady forced to leave her country house for a retirement home; Rose, a Philippine nurse who has just arrived in the country; and Maribel, a prostitute who has fewer and fewer clients. We are hopeful that there will be a Skype Q&A with Neus Ballús after the screening. www.iberodocs.co.uk

Mean Girls Thu 17 Dec at 8.45pm Mark Waters • UK 2004 • 1h37m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate language, sex and drugs references Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Amanda Seyfried.

Jelly & Gin present Watch & Wolf, in partnership with Filmhouse and Edinburgh International Film Festival. Mean Girls has grown cult status since 2004. Cady Heron, a home-school kid entering the world of high school for the first time, is snapped up by ‘The Plastics’, a notorious clique of teen royalty. As Cady’s popularity grows and she falls for the ex-boyfriend of Queen-Bee Regina George, things start to fall apart. With Watch & Wolf, viewers can fully immerse themselves in this fan-favourite by eating and drinking along with the action. On arrival, the audience will receive a box containing a series of small bites and bespoke cocktails in numbered packages. As the film plays, our host will signal the food moments! This is a strictly over 18s event. All food is vegetarian but due to the nature of this event, food allergies cannot be accommodated. Food provided is not a full meal, rather a series of small bites. £30 - Alcohol-free option available

Main Features

THE DRESSMAKER

THE LOBSTER

MAYBEYOUMISSED

SPECTRE

MAYBEYOUMISSED

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

RESTOREDCLASSIC

The Dressmaker

The Lobster

Doctor Zhivago

Showing from Fri 18 Dec

Sun 27 to Wed 30 Dec

Sun 27 & Mon 28 Dec

Jocelyn Moorhouse • Australia 2015 • 1h58m • Digital • 12A Contains infrequent strong language, moderate bloody violence, drug use. Cast: Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving, Judy Davis.

Yorgos Lanthimos • Ireland/UK/Greece/France/Netherlands 2015 1h58m • Digital • English and French with English subtitles • 15 Contains strong language, sex, sex references, bloody images. Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, John C Reilly.

A tale of haute couture, childhood secrets and terrible revenge in a 1950s rural Australian town, The Dressmaker is based on Rosalie Ham’s popular novel. Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage (Kate Winslet) returns to her hometown to care for her ill mother, who had sent her away at the age of ten following false accusations when a classmate suddenly died. Now an expert dressmaker trained in Paris, Tilly opens for business and becomes inundated with requests for bespoke outfits and garments - all the while still subject to town gossip and conspiracy. Only Teddy McSwiney (Liam Hemsworth), the eldest son of the town’s poorest family, stands by her against this rumour and idle talk. When the small-minded attitude of the locals towards Tilly becomes clearly apparent, tragedy ensues.

From the director of Dogtooth, a near-future dystopian romance with strange humour and a typically idiosyncratic twist - which earned the Jury Prize at Cannes 2015. In this imagined future, single people - according to the laws of The City - are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days. Failing to do so will see them transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods. This odd, funny and tragic science fiction premise plays out with an impressive cast, including Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, John C Reilly, Léa Seydoux.

David Lean • UK/Italy/USA 1965 • 3h20m • Digital • English, Russian and French • PG - Contains mild war violence, sex references and language Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness, Rita Tushingham, Klaus Kinski.

SPECTRE Sun 27 to Thu 31 Dec Sam Mendes • USA/UK 2015 • 2h28m • Digital 12A - Contains moderate violence, threat Cast: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes.

Still reeling from the devastating events of Skyfall, James Bond (Daniel Craig) investigates a cryptic message and begins to uncover layer upon layer of deception and global conspiracy, leading to the sinister SPECTRE organisation. As M battles political pressures on MI6, the shadow of Bond’s past looms large as he confronts a formidable and familiar enemy...

David Lean’s visually spectacular adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning poet Boris Pasternak’s semiautobiographical only novel, Doctor Zhivago, screens here in a gorgeous new digital restoration, made to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Promising young medical student and poet Yuri Zhivago (the late Omar Sharif) sees both his personal and professional lives become inextricably intertwined with the onset of the Russian Revolution and the changes wrought by it on those nearest him and the country as a whole. A more intimate epic than its predecessor, Lawrence of Arabia, Zhivago captures both the sweep and violence of war and revolution, as well as the effects these have on Yuri’s writing, his shifting place in society, and his relationships with his family, his devoted wife Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin), and the love of his life, Lara (Julie Christie). Please note, this screening will include a short intermission.

Main Features

BELLE & SEBASTIAN - THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES

NEWRELEASE

SICARIO

MAYBEYOUMISSED

TRUE ROMANCE

NEWDIGITALPRINT

Belle and Sebastian - The Adventure Continues

Sicario

True Romance

Mon 28 to Wed 30 Dec

Tue 29 to Thu 31 Dec

Belle et Sébastien, l’aventure continue Showing from Mon 28 Dec

Denis Villeneuve • USA 2015 • 2h1m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence, images of dead bodies, strong language Cast: Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Bernthal.

Tony Scott • USA/France 1993 • 2h • Digital • English and Italian with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer.

At the border between the United States and Mexico, idealistic and determined FBI agent Kate Macy (Emily Blunt) is enlisted as part of a joint government task force charged with taking on the cartels that operate between the nations. As her team work drug bosses against one another, she quickly finds herself at odds with the ethically dubious tactics at play. With cinematography from the great Roger Deakins, Denis Villeneuve (Enemy, Prisoners) helms this dark, suspenseful and surprising thriller, further endorsing his credentials as a skilled and versatile director.

A film boasting the kind of violent, smartmouth exchanges that one might expect from the direction of Tony Scott and the pen of Quentin Tarantino, True Romance is a fast, pulpy and irreverent road movie. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) meets beautiful prostitute Alabama Whitman (Patricia Arquette) at the cinema, kick-starting a spiralling romance that further escalates when they steal cocaine from her nefarious pimp (Gary Oldman) and go on the run from both the Sicilian Mafia and the LAPD.

Christian Duguay • France 2015 • 1h38m • Digital • French with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier.

The follow-up to Nicholas Vanier’s 2013 adaptation of Cécile Aubry’s novel sees the 1940s French boy/dog duo return for more Alpine escapades. September 1945, everybody is celebrating the end of the war. Young Sebastian (Félix Bossuet), now ten years old, waits with faithful Belle for Angelina’s (Margaux Châtelier) return. When news reaches the village that her plane crashed deep in the Transalpine forest, Sebastian’s grandfather knows a man who can help them find her. On their mission to locate Angelina, Belle and Sebastian must face peril, risk their lives and confront a secret - the adventure continues... Nicolas Vanier’s Belle and Sebastian screens as part of Filmhouse Junior on Sun 6 Dec (see page 10)

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Filmhouse Junior

BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

FROZEN

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

For these shows we choose to screen dubbed versions where these are available, but some films will be in their original language with subtitles – these are marked on individual film descriptions. Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS

Belle and Sebastian

Belle et Sébastien

BRAVE

Arthur Christmas

Sun 6 Dec at 11.00am

Sun 20 Dec at 11.00am

Nicolas Vanier • France 2013 • 1h39m • Digital • French and German with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild bad language, injury detail Cast: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier, Dimitri Storoge, Andreas Pietschmann.

Sarah Smith • UK/USA 2011 • 1h37m • Digital • U - Contains very mild language and mild comic threat With the voices of James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Ashley Jensen.

World War II is underway and life is on hold in a small village in the Alps: the German army has taken over the region and the villagers are understandably dejected. Then Belle, a beautiful sheepdog, arrives and chooses Sebastian, a plucky little boy, as her master. Together, they defy the Nazis and offer help to those who are deserving. Nicolas Vanier has successfully adapted the famous 1965 TV series by Cécile Aubry for the big screen. The sequel - Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues - screens from Mon 28 Dec (see page 9)

Frozen Sun 13 Dec at 10.30am Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee • USA 2013 • 1h48m • Digital PG - Contains mild threat With the voices of Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana.

When the icy powers of Elsa turn the kingdom of Arendelle into a frozen wasteland, it is up to her sister Anna to find her and reverse her spell. She sets off with mountain man Kristoff, his trusty reindeer and a talking snowman named Olaf in a race to save the kingdom. Please note: this screening has been moved to a slightly earlier 10.30am start time.

A wonderful family film from the team at Aardman. Santa Claus is nearing retirement, with his superefficient but joyless son Steven ready to take over. But the future of the position of Head of Christmas looks less certain when a child is left without a present and the only person prepared to put things right is Steven’s hapless brother, Arthur. For additional Christmas at Our House! screenings of Arthur Christmas see page 21

Brave Sun 3 Jan at 11.00am Mark Andrews & Brenda Chapman • USA 2012 • 1h40m • Digital PG - Contains some scary scenes With the voices of Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Kevin McKidd.

A grand adventure full of heart, memorable characters and signature Pixar humour. Headstrong Merida, a skilled archer and impetuous daughter of King Fergus and Queen Elinor, defies an age-old custom and inadvertently unleashes chaos, forcing her to discover the meaning of true bravery before it’s too late. Get more information on upcoming Education and Learning events at Filmhouse - including screenings for schools - on page 30.

Filmhouse Junior/French Film Festival UK

TALES OF THE NIGHT

PAPER PLANES

Tales of the Night

The Jungle Book

Les contes de la nuit Sun 10 Jan at 11.00am

Sun 24 Jan at 11.00am

Michel Ocelot • France 2011 • 1h24m • French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild threat

A stunningly beautiful animation from the creator of the Kirikou films. Every evening, a girl, a boy, and an old technician get together in a small movie theatre. Although the theatre no longer seems to be operating, it is full of wonders. The three friends invent, draw, dress up, and become characters in any story they feel like telling. There are witches and fairies, powerful kings and stable boys, werewolves and beautiful, cruel ladies, cathedrals and sequins, cities of gold and dark forests, devastating malice and triumphant innocence. Bathed in sublime, shimmering colours, this series of six tales featuring characters animated in the style of shadow puppetry is a constant visual delight.

Wolfgang Reitherman • USA 1967 • 1h18m • Digital U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm With the voices of Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, George Sanders, Louis Prima, Bruce Reitherman.

In a tropical jungle Bagheera the Panther discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat. Ten years later, the child has grown into a happy, inquisitive little boy, but his life is in danger when human-hating Shere Khan the tiger returns to the area... Wonderful characters, stunning animation and delightful jazzy songs make this a true classic.

The Good Dinosaur Sun 31 Jan at 11.00am Peter Sohn • USA 2015 • Digital • 1h41m • PG - Contains mild threat, violence With the voices of Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Anna Paquin, Steve Zahn, Sam Elliott.

Robert Connolly • Australia 2014 • 1h37m • Digital U - Contains infrequent very mild bad language Cast: Sam Worthington, Ed Oxenbould, Deborah Mailman, Nicholas Bakopoulos-Cooke.

In a world where the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely, the age of giant dinosaurs never ended. Here, Arlo, a lively Apatosaurus with a big heart, sets out on a remarkable journey with a most unlikely companion: a human boy. This extraordinary tale of self-discovery is filled with thrilling adventures, humour and poignancy.

12-year-old Dylan might not have the latest phone, but when a supply teacher shows him how to make the perfect paper plane, his imagination and his enthusiasm know no limits. On his journey from his home in rural Australia to the bright lights of Tokyo, he makes new friends and learns how he can help his family heal.

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Paper Planes Sun 17 Jan at 11.00am

SANTA CLAUS!

French Film Festival UK Santa Claus! Le père Noël Sat 5 Dec at 1.00pm Alexander Coffre • France/Belgium 2014 • 1h21m • Digital French with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Tahar Rahim, Victor Cabal, Annelise Hesme, Michaël Abiteboul, Philippe Rebbot.

Here’s a perfect seasonal choice for all ages. On Christmas Eve, Antoine (Victor Cabal) not only looks forward to the usual toys, but dreams of hitching a ride on Santa’s sleigh, so he can visit the star where he believes his deceased father resides. With a clear wink at The Little Prince, just one of director Alexandre Coffre’s sources, Antoine seems to get his wish when he sees someone in the traditional red-andwhite costume climbing up and down the building. This someone even has a flowing white beard. In fact, it’s not Santa but a cat burglar (Tahar Rahim) set on stealing anything he can lays his hands on. Only the most hard-hearted could fail to be won over by this sentimental, comic fairy tale.

Biomedical Research Ethics Film Festival

COMA

UNDER OUR SKIN

Biomedical Research Ethics Film Festival

Coma

Under Our Skin

Fri 4 Dec at 6.00pm

Sat 5 Dec at 12.45pm Andy Abrahams Wilson • USA 2008 • 1h44m • Digital PG - Contains scenes of emotional distress • Documentary

How does biomedical research take place? Is it safe? Who undertakes the research? Should vulnerable individuals, such as children, be used in biomedical investigations?

Michael Crichton • USA 1978 • 1h53m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark.

Based on the best-selling novel by Robin Cook, Coma is a taut paranoid thriller. Dr Susan Wheeler (Geneviève Bujold) suspects her colleagues of foul play when her closest friend lapses into a coma following a routine operation. When Wheeler discovers a suspiciously frequent pattern of unexplained comas in her hospital, she becomes obsessed with finding an answer, even when it puts her own career and life in danger. The tension builds as Wheeler’s investigation leads her to a secret corporation specializing in organ transplant experimentation and sale for profit. This screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Dr Gill Haddow (University of Edinburgh), Dr Chris Willmott (University of Leicester), Cllr. Jeremy Balfour (Edinburgh City Council) and Prof. Gerard Magill (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh), chaired by Dr Calum MacKellar (Scottish Council on Human Bioethics).

The Biomedical Research Ethics Film Festival, the first of its kind, 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.

A gripping tale of microbes, medicine and money, Under Our Skin exposes the hidden story of Lyme disease, one of the most controversial and fastest growing epidemics of our time. Each year, thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, often told that their symptoms are “all in their head.” Following the stories of patients and physicians fighting for their lives and livelihoods, the film brings into focus a haunting picture of the health care system and a medical establishment all too willing to put profits ahead of patients. This screening will be followed by a panel discussion.

Biomedical Research Ethics Film Festival

THE CONSTANT GARDENER

FIRE IN THE BLOOD

EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES

The Constant Gardener

Fire in the Blood

Extraordinary Measures

Sat 5 Dec at 3.20pm

Sun 6 Dec at 1.00pm

Sun 6 Dec at 3.15pm

Fernando Meirelles • USA/UK 2005 • 2h9m • 35mm • English, Swahili and German with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language and sexual nudity Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy.

Dylan Mohan Gray • India 2013 • 1h27m • Digital • English, Hindi, Manipuri and Xhosa with English subtitles • PG - Contains distressing images of illness and mild language Documentary

Tom Vaughan • USA 2010 • 1h46m • 35mm • 15 - Contains mild bad language

In this film adaptation of John Le Carré’s socio-political thriller, Ralph Fiennes plays a low grade, unambitious British diplomat, Justin Quayle, whose wife (Rachel Weisz) is found brutally murdered in a remote area of Northern Kenya. All evidence, rather too conveniently, points to a crime of passion, and the powers-that-be assume the mild-mannered Quayle will simply let it lie, but when he gets a sniff of the business she was involved in and kept from him - an investigation into the practices of a multinational drug company - he sets off on a one man quest into, for him, completely uncharted territory... Intriguing and gripping, Mereilles’ application of the same gritty, unblinking aesthetic used to such great effect in City of God imbues the action here with a sweaty, ground-level immediacy not normally associated with the genre. This screening will be followed by a panel discussion.

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

The inspirational and impassioned story of the activists who fought to stop Western companies and governments blocking access to HIV medicines in the developing world. In the late nineties, medicines were created to curb the impact of HIV, charged at £10,000 per person per year. As a result, AIDS-associated deaths dropped by 84 percent in developed countries. But to maintain profits and apparently fund research, the drugs companies refused to licence more affordable versions, leaving millions to die in countries that could not afford such high prices. Fire in the Blood narrates the remarkable true story of the global activists fought to overturn the situation. It screens in 2013 as a reawakening World Trade Organisation looks set to protect future medical and other development-essential patents more vigorously than ever. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Dr Trevor Stammers (Editor, The New Bioethics), Ms Emily Murtagh (Scottish Council on Human Bioethics) and Dr Chris Willmott (University of Leicester), chaired by Rachel McKenzie (Scottish Council on Human Bioethics).

A Portland couple have two children with Pompe disease - a genetic anomaly that kills most before a child’s tenth birthday. The husband, John (Brendan Fraser), an advertising executive, contacts Robert Stonehill (Harrison Ford), a researcher in Nebraska who has done innovative research for an enzyme treatment. He has little money to fund his laboratory, and a thorny personality that drives away colleagues and funders. John and his wife Aileen (Keri Russell) raise money to help Stonehill’s research and the required clinical trials, as they race against time to make a breakthrough on an effective treatment. PLUS SHORT In Vitro Toby Stephens • UK 2015 • 18m • 15 This screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Ms Fiona Coyle (Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, University of Edinburgh) and Prof. Gerard Magill (Duquesne University), chaired by Dr Tony Weir

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

4 December - 31 December 2015

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Fri 1 Sunset Song (AD) 4 2 Bridge of Spies (AD) Dec 3 Güeros 3 Coma (BE) 3 Tell Spring Not to Come This... *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

2.00/5.35/8.25 2.15/5.20/8.20 3.40 6.00 +Discussion 9.00 +Q&A

Thu 1 Sunset Song (AD) 10 2 Bridge of Spies (AD) Dec 3 Torsten Lauschmann (EA) *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.30/5.35/8.25 2.15/5.20/8.20 8.30 +Shorts

Sat 1 Santa Claus! (FFF) 5 1 Sunset Song (AD) Dec 2 Bridge of Spies (AD) 3 Under Our Skin (BE) 3 The Constant Gardener (BE) 3 Güeros *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

1.00 3.00/5.50/8.40 2.15/5.20/8.20 12.45 +Discussion 3.20 +Discussion 8.55

Wed 1 16 1 Dec 2 2 2 3 3 3

2.30 6.00/8.35 12.55 3.00 5.35/8.25 1.00 3.10/8.20 6.10

Sun 1 Belle and Sebastian (FJ) 6 1 Sunset Song (AD) Dec 2 Bridge of Spies (AD) 3 Fire in the Blood (BE) 3 Extraordinary Measures (BE) 3 Güeros *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

11.00am 1.00/4.00/7.00 2.00/5.00/8.00 1.00 +Discussion 3.15 +Discussion 8.55

Mon 1 Sunset Song (AD) 2.30/5.35 7 1 Sunset Song (AD) (C) 8.25 (captioned) Dec 2 Bridge of Spies (AD) 2.15/5.45 3 Güeros 3.40 3 Operation ‘Monster’ (R) 6.00 +Short 3 Bridge of Spies (AD) 8.20 *Plus films and times TBC (see below) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 1 Sunset Song (AD) 8 2 Bridge of Spies (AD) Dec 2 The Skin I Live In (F) 3 Bridge of Spies (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

2.30/5.35/8.25 2.15/8.35 6.00 +Discussion 5.45

Wed 1 Sunset Song (AD) 9 2 Bridge of Spies (AD) Dec 3 Stina Wirfelt (EA) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)

2.30/5.35/8.25 2.15/5.20/8.20 8.30 +Shorts

* The majority of our screenings are scheduled well in advance, and times published in this monthly brochure and on our website. Most weeks we leave some spaces in the schedule in order to allow us to keep on films that are proving popular for a little longer; these late-scheduled screenings will be added to our website from midday at the latest on the Tuesday preceding the start of the new cinema week on Friday, and listed in our weekly screenings email – sign up at www.filmhousecinema.com/news

Fri 11 Dec

1 2 3 3 3 3

Carol (AD) Sunset Song (AD) Sunset Song Steve McQueen: The Man... Rachel Maclean (EA) Bridge of Spies (AD)

1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45 2.30/5.35/8.25 12.45 3.40 5.55 +Shorts 8.20

Sat 12 Dec

1 1 2 2 2 3 3

Sunset Song (AD) Carol (AD) Carol (AD) Seven Songs for a Long Life Sunset Song (AD) Steve McQueen: The Man... Bridge of Spies (AD)

12.45 3.35/6.10/8.45 12.50 3.30 +Q&A 5.45/8.35 3.15/8.40 5.35

Frozen (FJ) Carol (AD) Steve McQueen... +Le Mans (SDB) Sunset Song (AD) Die Hard (CS) Sunset Song (AD) Bridge of Spies (AD)

10.30am 3.15/5.50/8.25

Sun 1 13 1 Dec 2 2 2 3 3

1.00 (£12/£10) 5.30 8.20 +Intro 1.30/7.30 4.30

Mon 1 Sunset Song (AD) 2.30 14 1 Carol (AD) (C) 6.00 (captioned) Dec 1 Carol (AD) 8.35 2 My Nazi Legacy 1.00/8.45 2 Carol (AD) 3.15 2 Sunset Song (AD) 5.55 3 He Named Me Malala (AD) 1.05 3 Bridge of Spies (AD) 3.05 3 Fleeting Loves (R) 6.05 +Short 3 Sunset Song (AD) 8.30 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 15 Dec

1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Sunset Song (AD) Carol (AD) My Nazi Legacy Carol (AD) Sunset Song (AD) He Named Me Malala (AD) Bridge of Spies (AD) My Nazi Legacy

2.30 6.00 1.00 3.10/8.35 5.45 1.05 3.05/8.20 6.05

Thu 17 Dec

Sunset Song (AD) Carol (AD) He Named Me Malala (AD) Carol (AD) Sunset Song (AD) My Nazi Legacy Bridge of Spies (AD) He Named Me Malala (AD)

1 Sunset Song (AD) 1 Carol (AD) 1 Watch & Wolf: Mean Girls 2 He Named Me Malala (AD) 2 Carol (AD) 2 The Plague (ID) 2 Sunset Song (AD) 3 My Nazi Legacy 3 Bridge of Spies (AD) 3 He Named Me Malala (AD)

Fri 1 Trading Places (CH) 18 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) Dec 1 The Muppet Christmas...(CH) 2 Carol (AD) 3 The Dressmaker 3 Scrooge (CH) *Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.30 5.50 8.45 (£30) 1.05 3.15 6.15 +Q&A 8.25 1.00 3.10/8.20 6.10 1.00 3.30/8.20 6.15 12.45/6.10/8.45 1.10/5.45 3.45

KEY (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (C) – Captioned for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing (see page 2) All screenings in 2D unless marked (3D) Information about For Crying Out Loud screenings for babies and carers can now be found on page 2. SEASONS: (BE) – Biomedical Research Ethics FF (pages 12-13) (CH) – Christmas at Our House! (pages 19-21) (EA) – Ed. Artists’ Moving Image Fest (pages 16-17) (F) – Filmosophy (page 25) (FFF) - French Film Festival UK (page 11) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 10-11) (ID) – IberoDocs (page 7) (OR) – Over the Rainbow (page 22) (R) – Mark Cousins...:Romanian Film (page 16) (SDB) – Sunday Double Bills (page 18) (SG) – Scotland Galore! (pages 22-24)

WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Sat 1 The Muppet Christmas... (CH) 19 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) Dec 1 Bad Santa (CH) 2 Carol (AD) 3 The Dressmaker 3 Scrooge (CH) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

SCREENING TIMES

1.00 3.15/8.20 6.00 12.45/6.10/8.45 1.10/5.45 3.45

Sun 1 Arthur Christmas (FJ) 11.00am 20 1 The Nightmare Before..(3D)(CH) 1.00 Dec 1 The Muppet Christmas... (CH) 3.00 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 5.30 1 Comfort and Joy (CH) 8.15 2 Carol (AD) 12.45/6.10/8.45 2 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 3.20 3 The Dressmaker 3.25/6.00 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14) Mon 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 2.30/6.00 21 1 Trading Places (CH) 8.45 Dec 2 White Christmas (CH) 1.00 2 Carol (AD) 3.35/6.10/8.45 3 The Dressmaker 3.20/8.40 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 1 Scrooge (CH) 1.00 22 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH)(AD)(C) 3.00 (captioned) Dec 1 White Christmas (CH) 5.45 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) 8.30 2 The Dressmaker 1.00 2 Carol (AD) 3.35/6.10/8.45 3 The Dressmaker 3.25/6.00 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14) Wed 1 Arthur Christmas (CH) 23 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) Dec 2 Carol (AD) 2 Elf (CH) 3 Carol (AD) 3 The Dressmaker *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

11.00am 2.30/5.45/8.30 3.50/8.45 6.30 12.50/6.00 3.25

Thu 1 Arthur Christmas (CH) 24 1 It’s a Wonderful Life (CH) (AD) Dec 2 Elf (CH) 2 Carol (AD) 3 The Dressmaker 3 Carol (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

11.00am 1.00/3.45/6.30 3.50 6.10 1.10 3.45

Fri 25 Merry Christmas! Dec

4 December - 31 December 2015 DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

Sat 26 Filmhouse Closed Dec Sun 1 SPECTRE (AD) 27 1 The Prime of Miss Jean... (SG) Dec 1 Sunshine on Leith (SG) 2 The Happiest Days of Your Life + School for Scoundrels (SDB) 2 Doctor Zhivago 2 The Lobster 3 Shortbus (OR) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

12.25/8.15 3.30 6.00 1.00 (£12/£10) 4.50 8.50 3.40

Mon 1 SPECTRE (AD) 12.30/8.15 28 1 Shallow Grave (SG) 3.45 Dec 1 The Cheviot, the Stag... (SG) 6.00 2 Belle & Sebastian - The... 12.00 2 Sicario (AD) 2.15 2 The Lobster 4.55 2 Doctor Zhivago 7.30 3 Shortbus (OR) 8.30 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 1 SPECTRE (AD) 29 1 SPECTRE (AD) (C) Dec 1 What We Did on Our... (SG) 1 The Illusionist (SG) 2 Belle & Sebastian - The... 2 The Lobster 2 Sicario (AD) 2 True Romance *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

12.30 8.15 (captioned) 3.45 6.00 1.00 3.20 6.05 8.40

Wed 1 SPECTRE (AD) 30 1 Sunshine on Leith (SG) Dec 1 Local Hero (SG) 2 Belle & Sebastian - The... 2 The Lobster 2 True Romance 2 Sicario (AD) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

12.30/8.30 3.45 6.00 1.00 3.20 6.05 8.40

Thu 1 SPECTRE (AD) 31 1 Whisky Galore! (SG) Dec 2 Belle & Sebastian - The... 2 True Romance 2 Shallow Grave (SG) *Plus films and times TBC (see page 14)

12.30/6.10 3.45 1.00 3.20 6.00

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

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Mark Cousins Presents: Romanian Cinema/EAMIF

OPERATION ‘MONSTER’

FLEETING LOVES

Mark Cousins Presents: Romanian Cinema With characteristic idiosyncratic flair, acclaimed director and author Mark Cousins curates a series of Romanian film, revisiting 100 years of cinematic haunting eeriness, delicious sarcasm and groundbreaking miserabilism, which have amassed some of the highest distinctions of the seventh art. Organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Operation ‘Monster’

UK Premiere

Operatiunea ‘Monstrul’ Mon 7 Dec at 6.00pm Manole Marcus • Romania 1976 • 1h40m • Digital • Romanian with English subtitles • PG Cast: Toma Caragiu, Octavian Cotescu, Marin Moraru

A couple of communist businessmen go fishing while their wives think they’re on a business trip. Once there, they set up a camp and make plans for catching the biggest fish around those waters, legendarily called `The Monster’... “Three great Romanian actors skewer pomposity in a much admired comedy with echoes of Miloš Forman’s Czech film The Fireman’s Ball. Rarely seen outside Romania, it’s a revealing treat.” - Mark Cousins PLUS SHORT A Brief History Ion Popescu-Gopo • Romania 1957 • 3m

Fleeting Loves

EDINBURGH ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL

UK Premiere

Trecatoarele iubiri Mon 14 Dec at 6.05pm Malvina Ursianu • Romania 1974 • 1h43m • Digital • Romanian with English subtitles • PG Cast: Cornel Coman, George Motoi, Gina Patrichi, Silvia Popvici.

An architect returns from Germany to Romania with his wife on a business trip, to find his ex-lover married to his ex-best friend. Suffering from lung cancer, he decides to visit his native place and the women he loved. “Hardly even seen in the English speaking world, this bold mood piece by female director Malvina Ursianu is striking for its ruminatory tracking shots. Dreamlike at times, and melancholic, it suggests that love is a losing game. A discovery. ‘ - Mark Cousins PLUS SHORT A Brief History Ion Popescu-Gopo • Romania 1957 • 3m

Celebrating international video art and experimental film, the inaugural Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival (EAMIF) is a chance to see something truly different. Take a leap from conventional cinema into our diverse programme of contemporary artists who challenge what we see on the screen. Each evening we present work by an award- winning Scotland-based artist, alongside an eclectic selection of international shorts from our open call. With Q&As each night and specially commissioned texts, the festival encourages conversation and critical dialogue on artists’ moving image. See over 25 artists from over 12 countries at Filmhouse, plus enjoy a day of screenings and discussion organised by our festival partners at Summerhall on 12 Dec. Accessible screenings at Filmhouse; please see our website for further details, plus details on the Summerhall event. www.eamif.com

Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival

STINA WIRFELT

Stina Wirfelt + International Shorts Wed 9 Dec at 8.30pm 1h40m • Various Languages with English subtitles • 12A Samuel Devereux, Raphael Giannesini, Aleksander Isaenko, Kalun Leung, Kera Mackenzie, Andrew Mausert-Mooney, Arban Severin, Valentine Siboni, Paul Stewart, Stina Wirfelt.

The stories of a misplaced mural, a Hollywood film set, an Irish ghost town and a deck of playing cards converge in Fire Work by Stina Wirfelt, whilst Sean Paul and a washing machine are the surprise stars of Oasis and The Wash House. These will be shown alongside shorts by international artists whose work considers the construction of narrative and meaning in on-screen space. Screening will be followed a Q&A between Stina Wirfelt and Tom Nolan, Co-director of Rhubaba Gallery and Studios. There shall be a specially commissioned text by Nolan. Q&A shall be BSL signed. All films shall be subtitled in English. Audio descriptions available.

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

TORSTEN LAUSCHMANN

RACHEL MACLEAN

Torsten Lauschmann + International Shorts

Rachel Maclean + International Shorts

Thu 10 Dec at 8.30pm

1h40m • Various Languages with English subtitles • 12A Fatih Belgin, Kristina Cranfield, Francesca Fini, Emma Finn, Reinhard Hölker, Nikola, Kekerović, Rachel Maclean, Purple Moustacho, Guli Silberstein, Ivar Veermäe.

1h40m • Various Languages with English subtitles • 18 Stefan Adamski, colectif_fact, Stephanie Hough, John Kelley, Torsten Lauschmann, Guy Oliver, Rembrant Quiballo, Paula Varjack.

The work of Torsten Lauschmann celebrates the overlooked in filmmaking; glitches, out-takes, and the in-between bits that might otherwise be ignored. His works Skipping Over Damaged Areas and Crazy Paving collage spoon bending, talking plants and classic film title cards. These will be accompanied by a selection of shorts from international artists employing ideas around appropriation and collage to blur the line between mass media and propaganda. Screening will be followed a Q&A between Torsten Lauschmann and Neil Mulholland, Professor of Contemporary Art Practice and Theory, Edinburgh College of Art. There shall be a specially commissioned text by Mulholland. All films shall be subtitled in English. See www.eamif.com for updates on BSL signing and audio descriptions.

Fri 11 Dec at 5.55pm

A bilingual Disney character sings in a field of poppies as a general with David Cameron’s voice drinks oil from a coke bottle; welcome to A Whole New World by Rachel Maclean. Synthetic spaces and unstable identities are explored in her film work, in which characters, all played Maclean, lip-sync to found audio against a fantastical background. Her work will be shown alongside a selection of shorts by international artists considering invented characters and landscapes alongside enforced identities and borders. Screening will be followed a Q&A between Rachel Maclean and Daisy Lafarge, student of MA (Hons) Fine Art, Edinburgh College of Art. There shall be a specially commissioned text by Lafarge. All films shall be subtitled in English. See www.eamif.com for updates on BSL signing and audio descriptions.

Sunday Double Bills

STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN AND LE MANS

THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE

LE MANS

Sunday Double Bills A regular, though not weekly, double bill, always on a Sunday afternoon. Double Bill tickets cost £12/£10 concs. In advance of the first film, tickets can ONLY be bought for the Double Bill. Tickets to see the second film can ONLY be bought on the door, subject to availability, at regular Filmhouse prices, from an hour after the first film’s published start time. Films in our Sunday Double Bills will be separated by a 15 minute break.

SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS

Double Bill: Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans + Le Mans

Double Bill: The Happiest Days of Your Life + School for Scoundrels

Sun 13 Dec at 1.00pm

Sun 27 Dec at 1.00pm

3h43m • 15

3h15m • U

A double bill featuring one of the most iconic American actors of the 20th Century - Steve McQueen. New documentary Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans (which also screens individually on Fri 11 and Sat 12 Dec, see page 14 for times) features previously unseen footage, original interviews and some of McQueen’s personal recordings, as it explores the star power that led the actor to invest heavily in the production of motor-racing drama Le Mans in 1971. Le Mans is arguably far more fascinating now than at the time of its initial release. On the back of major successes in The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt, this was an indulgence for McQueen - an avid automobile enthusiast. Centred around the eponymous 24 hour race and shot on location in France, the film weaves together stock footage and narrative cinema - placing far greater emphasis on the racing than the story. McQueen plays an American driver, haunted by an accident that killed a fellow driver at last year’s race. Increasingly drawn to the driver’s widow (Elga Andersen), his focus shifts between these feelings and his long-held rivalry with Ferrari driver Erich (Siegfried Rauch).

This double-bill combines two outstanding performances by the great Alastair Sim - an actor very close to the collective Filmhouse heart, given that he was ‘born near here’, according to the plaque just outside our doors! A precursor to their St Trinian’s series, The Happiest Days of Your Life centres on the accidental merging of an all-boys boarding school with an all-girls college. The film boasts brilliantly witty performances from all involved, headed by Sim and Margaret Rutherford as the headmasters of the two institutions. The final film directed by Robert Hamer (Kind Hearts and Coronets), School for Scoundrels finds Sim in another scholastic role - albeit a decidedly less salubrious one. Here, he is Stephen Potter, Principle of Yeovil’s College of Lifemanship, which instructs its pupils on ‘how to succeed in life without actually cheating’. Seeking Potter’s underhanded tutelage is upper-class loser Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael), who hopes to overcome his adversary and chief romantic rival, the roguish cad Raymond Delauney (Terry-Thomas - who else?). Both films screen from brand-new DCPs (the first time either film has been available in the format) as a complement to Sim’s iconic performance as Scrooge, seen earlier in December as part of the Christmas at Our House! season (see page 20)

Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans Gabriel Clarke & John McKenna • USA/UK 2015 1h32m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language Le Mans Lee H Katzin • USA 1971 • 1h36m • Digital PG - Contains mild injury details • Cast: Steve McQueen, Sigfried Rauch, Elga Andersen.

The Happiest Days of Your Life Frank Launder • UK 1950 • 1h21m • Digital • U School for Scoundrels Robert Hamer • UK 1960 • 1h34m • Digital • U

Christmas at Our House!

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Christmas at Our House!

Join us for some seasonal favourites, back on the big screen where they belong! For all films cert 12A and under, tickets for children under 12 are just £4.00!

It’s a Wonderful Life Fri 18 to Thu 24 Dec Frank Capra • USA 1946 • 2h10m • Digital • U - Contains mild violence. Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Henry Travers, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell.

This heartwarming fantasy is one of the most popular films ever made. The film begins as angels discuss George Bailey (James Stewart), a small-town resident so beset with problems that he contemplates suicide. In flashback, we review George’s life, learning that he has always wanted to leave his hometown to see the world, but that circumstances and his own good heart have kept him in Bedford Falls. A masterfully crafted exercise in sentiment, augmented by director Frank Capra’s undying faith in community. The supporting cast are uniformly excellent, but Stewart is the heart and the soul of the film as the dreamer who sacrifices all for his fellow man. Bring a hanky!

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

TRADING PLACES

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Trading Places

Fri 18 to Sun 20 Dec

Fri 18 & Mon 21 Dec

Brian Henson • USA 1992 • 1h26m • Digital • U - Contains infrequent very mild peril Cast: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz.

John Landis • USA 1983 • 1h56m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, drug use and nudity. Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche.

A fun but meaningful adaptation of the Dickens story, with Gonzo taking on the role of Dickens and narrating the tale, along with the help of Rizzo the Rat. They take us on a journey through a dank London, filled with all your favourite Muppets and a lot of talking vegetables too! Scrooge (Michael Caine) is so miserly he won’t even allow his fuzzy employees an extra piece of coal for the fire at Christmas. Such meanness is not tolerated by his deceased business partners, who appear to him one night and tell him that he must face up to his misdeeds. And so he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future...

John Landis’ Christmas-set reworking of The Prince and the Pauper is considered an ‘80s comedy classic showcasing Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd at the peak of their powers and BAFTA-winning supporting turns from Jamie Lee Curtis and Denholm Elliott. When snobbish businessman Louis Winthorpe (Dan Aykroyd) bumps into street hustler Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) on the street and assumes he is being robbed, he has him arrested. The two elderly brothers who run Winthorpe’s firm take an interest in this incident and, noticing how different the men are, make a wager on the result of taking away Winthorpe’s home and job while putting Valentine in his place.

TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off Buy any nine (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 35% off These offers are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time. Under 12s tickets for films (12A and under) in this season can be purchased for the special price of £4.00

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

Christmas at Our House!

SCROOGE

BAD SANTA

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (3D)

Scrooge

Bad Santa

The Nightmare Before Christmas (3D)

Fri 18, Sat 19 & Tue 22 Dec

Sat 19 Dec at 6.00pm

Sun 20 Dec at 1.00pm

Brian Desmond Hurst • UK 1951 • 1h26m • Digital • U - Contains very mild horror. • Cast: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Jack Warner, George Cole, Patrick Macnee.

Terry Zwigoff • USA/Germany 2003 • 1h31m • Digital 15 - Contains bad language and moderate sex. Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom, Bernie Mac, John Ritter.

Henry Selick • USA 1993 • 1h16m • Digital • PG -Contains mild comic horror. With the voices of Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara, William Hickey, Paul Reubens.

Ebenezer Scrooge is an elderly miser with a less than festive attitude. On Christmas Eve the ghost of his old partner decides to intervene, and a trio of spirits inflict a series of horrifying visions on Scrooge to convince him of the error of his ways... Alastair Sim is superb in the title role, all wayward hair and lantern eyes. He invests Scrooge with dignity and wit as the old curmudgeon’s cynicism is gradually stripped away, making his joyous transformation on Christmas morning all the more moving. He is ably supported by a roll-call of British acting talent, particularly George Cole as Scrooge’s earlier, earnest self, and Michael Hordern as a splendidly tortured Jacob Marley. See also our Alastair Sim Sunday Double Bill on Sun 27 Dec - page 18

A black comedy that is hilarious in its foul-mouthed malice and disenchantment with all things wholesome and familial. Willie T Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) is a shopping-mall Santa with a difference: he’s a cynical safe-cracking alcoholic with a wholly unconcealed dislike of kids. Indeed, he only does the job as a cover for the felonies he perpetrates with Marcus (Tony Cox), his criminal-mastermind elf. But then Willie has two not-quite-life-changing encounters: one with selfconfessed Santa groupie Sue (Lauren Graham); the other with parentless eight-year-old Thurman Merman (Brett Kelly), whose innocence verges on idiocy. Wonderfully tasteless, gloriously non-PC, admirably bilious.

Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloweentown, has grown bored with his lot in life and the repetitive nature of giving people a scare each Halloween. A chance visit to neighbouring Christmastown provides Skellington with a tantalising prospect: why not kidnap Santa Claus and hijack all his little elf helpers and replace them with his band of ghouls and goblins to deliver his own variation on Christmas? From an original fairy tale poem and the fertile imagination of Tim Burton comes a wickedly dark and decidedly alternative look at every child’s favourite day of the year. Please note there is an additional charge of £2 for tickets to 3D screenings at Filmhouse.

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

Christmas at Our House!/Die Hard

COMFORT AND JOY

WHITE CHRISTMAS

ELF

Comfort and Joy

Elf

Sun 20 Dec at 8.15pm

Wed 23 & Thu 24 Dec

Bill Forsyth • UK 1984 • 1h46m • Digital • English and Italian with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild language, sex references and violence Cast: Bill Paterson, Eleanor David, Clare Grogan, Alex Norton.

Jon Favreau • USA/Germany 2003 • 1h33m • Digital PG - Contains mild bad language. Cast: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Bob Newhart.

DJ Allan “Dicky” Bird (Bill Paterson), recently dumped by his girlfriend, spots an attractive girl (Clare Grogan) working in an ice cream van and decides to buy a cone. Suddenly, a trio of men wielding baseball bats attack the van, with Allan - understandably stunned - looking on. He now finds himself in the middle of a fierce rivalry, working as an intermediary between the two feuding businesses, which naturally leads to further misadventures and some gradually escalating damage to his beloved car. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Bill Forsyth’s BAFTA-nominated festive comedy back in cinemas for the first time in many years.

Will Ferrell is at his wide-eyed best in this disarmingly funny and good-natured festive family frolic. Buddy (Ferrell) is an adult human who has been raised by elves at the North Pole after stowing away in Santa’s sack as an infant during his Christmas visit to an orphanage. Having finally realised that he is not like the other elves, he sets off to New York City to find his birth father - and finds things to be rather different there. He quickly finds himself inadvertently working at a department store, and meets Jovie (Zooey Deschanel), who he immediately falls for. Upon discovering that his father (James Caan) is a cold and greedy man - on Santa’s naughty list - Buddy resolves to help him find his Christmas spirit and change his life.

White Christmas

Arthur Christmas

Mon 21 & Tue 22 Dec Michael Curtiz • USA 1954 • 2h • Digital • U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen.

Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and head to Vermont for a white Christmas. Upon discovering that the resort is run by their old army general, who’s now in financial trouble, they decide to put on a benefit to raise funds.

Wed 23 & Thu 24 Dec Sarah Smith • UK/USA 2011 • 1h37m • Digital • U - Contains very mild language and mild comic threat With the voices of James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Ashley Jensen.

A wonderful family film from the team at Aardman. Santa Claus is nearing retirement, with his superefficient but joyless son Steven ready to take over. But the future of the position of Head of Christmas looks less certain when a child is left without a present and the only person prepared to put things right is Steven’s hapless brother, Arthur. Arthur Christmas will also screen on Sun 20 Dec as part of Filmhouse Junior - see page 10.

DIE HARD

SPECIALEVENT

Die Hard Sun 13 Dec at 8.20pm John McTiernan • USA 1988 • 2h12m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong violence, language, nudity and hard drug use Cast: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman, Alexander Gudonov, Paul Gleason.

Filmish presents a very Die Hard Christmas! Start the festive season the right way with a screening of this yuletide classic. The story of foul-mouthed cop John McClane is an action classic that deserves to be seen on the big screen. It’s Christmas time in Los Angeles, and there’s an employee party in progress on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who plan to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi’s high-tech safe. Meanwhile, New York cop McClane (Bruce Willis) has come to LA to visit his estranged wife, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), who happens to be one of the hostages... Edward Ross, the author of Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film, will be here to introduce the film, and there will be a book signing after the movie.

Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film will be on general sale from 12 November. As an added bonus, the first 200 copies pre-ordered at the Filmhouse box office or on our website will be signed by the artist and will include a limited edition bookplate with artwork that features a rather familiar looking cinema foyer...

Over the Rainbow/Scotland Galore!

SHORTBUS

OVERTHERAINBOW Our monthly LGBTQIA strand presents the highs, lows and relationship woes of a handful of New Yorkers in this sharp, bare-all comedy from John Cameron Mitchell...

Shortbus Sun 27 & Mon 28 Dec John Cameron Mitchell • USA 2006 • 1h41m • 35mm 18 - Contains strong real sex. Cast: Raphael Barker, Lindsey Beamish, Justin Bond, Jay Brannan, Paul Dawson, PJ Deboy.

John Cameron Mitchell’s follow-up to Hedwig and the Angry Inch centres around Shortbus - an exclusive club where a variety of New Yorkers come to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob and Sophia (ironically, a couples counsellor) are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. Two of her patients are Jamie and James, who are in a long-term, monogamous relationship into which James wants to bring other men, though his own history with depression may hint at an ulterior motive. Ceth may be the perfect addition to their family, but Caleb, a voyeur from across the street, may have his own ideas about that. At the urging of the two Jamies, Sophia visits Severin, a dominatrix with secrets of her own to reveal. The film that emerges is funny, sharply observed, poignant and thoroughly enjoyable - sexually explicit, make no mistake about that, but really good fun. Queer cinema icon Pedro Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In also screens this month as part of Filmosophy (see page 25).

SUNSHINE ON LEITH

Scotland Galore! A season of great films set in Scotland, screening as part of the Edinburgh Hogmanay Festival - a packed programme welcoming the arrival of the New Year and saying farewell to the old. For details of all events, go to www.edinburghshogmanay.com

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

Sunshine on Leith Sun 27 & Wed 30 Dec Dexter Fletcher • UK 2013 • 1h40m • Digital • PG - Contains mild language, violence and sex references Cast: George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Peter Mullan, Jason Flemyng, Jane Horrocks.

Dexter Fletcher directs this hugely enjoyable adaptation of the successful stage musical featuring the songs of the Proclaimers. Home is where the heart is for best pals Davy and Ally. Returning home to Leith from duty in Afghanistan, the lads kindle romances old and new: Ally with Davy’s sister Liz, and Davy with Yvonne, his wee sister’s best friend from work. Meanwhile, Davy’s parents Rab and Jean are busy planning their 25th wedding anniversary. Everything’s going swimmingly, until a revelation from Rab’s past threatens to tear the family and all three couples apart. “Sunshine on Leith oozes crowd-pleaser from every frame... a soaring, big-hearted delight.” - Screen International

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Sun 27 Dec & Sun 3 Jan Ronald Neame • UK 1969 • 1h56m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate language, sex references and sexualised nudity Cast: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson, Celia Johnson.

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

This Oscar©-winning classic is set in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh, where Maggie Smith’s headstrong teacher ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable young charges with her overromanticised world view.

Scotland Galore!

THE CHEVIOT, THE STAG AND THE BLACK, BLACK OIL

SHALLOW GRAVE

WHAT WE DID ON OUR HOLIDAY

THE ILLUSIONIST

The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

Shallow Grave

What We Did on Our Holiday

Mon 28 & Thu 31 Dec

Tue 29 Dec & Mon 4 Jan

Mon 28 Dec & Fri 1 Jan

Danny Boyle • UK 1994 • 1h32m • Digital • 18 Cast: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Ken Stott, Keith Allen.

Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin • UK 2014 • 1h35m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate bad language, discriminatory language, moderate sex references Cast: David Tennant, Rosamund Pike, Billy Connolly, Celia Imrie, Ben Miller.

John Mackenzie • UK 1974 • 1h30m • Digital • 12A Cast: Bill Paterson, Alex Norton, Timothy Martin, Elizabeth MacLennan, John Bett.

A dazzling (and enduringly topical) reminder that politics can be entertaining - and entertainment can be political. Capitalising on the remarkable popular success of playwright John McGrath’s touring production of the same name, this 1974 television film (broadcast as a BBC Play for Today) surveys two centuries of Scottish history from the Battle of Culloden to the coming of North Sea oil. Questions about a small nation’s ability to resist wholesale exploitation at the hands of multinational capital and age-old seats of political privilege have rarely been asked with such passion, historical insight and dramatic skill.

When their mysterious new flatmate suffers a fatal overdose, David, Alex and Juliet (Eccleston, McGregor and Fox) find a fortune in bank notes stashed in his room. They quickly resolve to keep the money, but nothing comes for free, and the price here involves not only dismemberment and burial, but the trio’s trust, sanity and friendship. Danny Boyle’s impressively assured, highly accomplished debut feature doesn’t dwell on moral niceties, but goes straight for the gut.

Doug (David Tennant) and Abi (Rosamund Pike) travel to the Scottish Highlands with their three children for Doug’s father Gordie’s (Billy Connolly) birthday party. It soon becomes clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability... From the creators of the hit BBC comedy series Outnumbered, What We Did on Our Holiday is a heartwarming, uplifting comedy.

The Illusionist L’illusionniste Tue 29 Dec & Mon 4 Jan Sylvain Chomet • UK/France 2010 • 1h20m • Digital • PG Contains a scene of aborted suicide and images of smoking

Sylvain Chomet’s beautifully animated film is a truly magical piece of cinema. Our weary hero is an over-thehill magician, complete with less-than-friendly white rabbit. Always in search of a paying gig, the illusionist treks from Paris to the Western Isles to Edinburgh acquiring, along the way, a young travelling companion who sincerely believes in his magical abilities. SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

Scotland Galore!

LOCAL HERO

WHISKY GALORE!

BRIGADOON

Local Hero

Whisky Galore!

Brigadoon

Wed 30 Dec & Sat 2 Jan

Thu 31 Dec & Sat 2 Jan

Fri 1 & Sun 3 Jan

Bill Forsyth • UK 1983 • 1h51m • Digital • PG Cast: Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi.

Alexander Mackendrick • UK 1949 • 1h24m • Digital • U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Jean Cadell, Gordon Jackson, James Robertson.

Vincente Minnelli • USA 1954 • 1h48m • 35mm • U Cast: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Barry Jones.

Bill Forsyth’s heartwarming comedy deals with Mac (Peter Riegert), who travels to the small Scottish town of Ferness to negotiate buying land to allow the construction of an oil refinery. Mac’s best efforts are trumped by a local beachcomber (Fulton Mackay) who refuses to budge. Local Hero ingeniously examines how a community is bound together by its shared experience.

The story of a ship that runs aground carrying 50,000 cases of whisky, and of the fictional Todday islanders’ attempts to salvage and hang on to the cargo. Compton Mackenzie, who wrote the famous comic novel, was inspired by a real wreck and by his experiences living among the islanders of Barra. The humour is gentle and wonderfully dry - the introductory voiceover sets the tone when talking about the isolation of Todday: “To the west there is nothing,” says the narrator, before adding as a throwaway line “... except America.”

One of the cheesiest depictions of Scotland on film, Brigadoon is also swoonily romantic and utterly enchanting, thanks in no small part to Gene Kelly’s impeccable choreography and performance. A classic Minnelli musical, it begins with a disenchanted Kelly, taking a break from ‘civilised’ New York, lost in the Scottish Highlands and stumbling on the legendary village of Brigadoon, which only appears for one day each century. There he meets and falls in love with Fiona (Charisse), only to discover both the truth about the village, and that some of its inhabitants want the real life he is fleeing from, even though it will destroy Brigadoon...

Filmosophy

THE SKIN I LIVE IN

Filmosophy: Regeneration

The Skin I Live In La piel que habito

This season is offered in association with Short Courses at the University of Edinburgh and the MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM). The films screened will allow an opportunity to discuss the ground-breaking research currently being undertaken at the CRM and associated ethical issues surrounding the use of stem cells.

Pedro Almodóvar • Spain 2011 • 2h • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex, sexual violence, brief gore & very strong language Cast: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez

The screenings will be introduced and discussion sessions hosted by James Mooney, film and philosophy lecturer at The University of Edinburgh. For more information see: www.facebook.com/thinkingfilm www.twitter.com/film_philosophy

Tue 8 Dec at 6.00pm

Brilliant Toledo plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard is obsessed with his latest revolutionary human skin treatment. Not exactly shy of breaking a few ethical rules here and there, he’s also got a laboratory in his basement.... and a beautiful woman in a flesh-coloured unitard he keeps imprisoned in a room upstairs... Suffice to say, Thierry Jonquet’s source novel, ‘Mygale’, gives the world’s favourite Spanish auteur ample opportunity to explore his customary themes and stylings, albeit in a genre he’s perhaps not readily associated with.

Education and Learning

FROZEN

Education and Learning

SUNSET SONG

Filmhouse Cafe Bar

Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea and enjoy one of our superb cakes. Filmhouse offers schools the opportunity to engage with a variety of film which support moving image literacy and subjects including modern languages and social studies. For more information Our full menu runs from noon to 10pm seven email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk or call Nicola Kettlewood or Jenny Leask on 0131 228 6382. days a week! Details at www.filmhousecinema.com/learning All our dishes are prepared on the premises using fresh ingredients. Screenings for Schools We have an extensive vegetarian range with a Sunset Song Tuesday 8 December, 9.45am • 2h15m, cert 15 | Terence Davies’ eagerly-awaited variety of daily specials. adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s timeless novel. In the north east of Scotland, teenage Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn) dreams of escape from the tyranny of her violent father and the harshness A glass of wine? Choose from nine! The bar has of crofting life. The arrival of handsome young Ewan Tavendale (Kevin Guthrie) into her life brings real choice in ales, beers and bottles. happiness, but the Great War soon casts a shadow over their lives. A special event? Just ask, we can probably help. Arthur Christmas Tuesday 8 December, 10am • 1h37m, cert U | Santa Claus is nearing retirement, Or just come and relax in the ambience! with his super-efficient but joyless son Steven ready to take over. But the future of the position Opening hours: of Head of Christmas looks less certain when a child is left without a present and the only person prepared to put things right is Steven’s hapless brother, Arthur. Monday to Thursday: 8am - 11.30pm Friday: 8am - 12.30am Frozen Wednesday 9 December, 10am 1h48m, cert PG | When the icy powers of Elsa turn the kingdom of Arendelle into a frozen wasteland, it is up to her sister Anna to find her and reverse her Saturday: 10am - 12.30am spell. She sets off with mountain man Kristoff, his trusty reindeer and a talking snowman named Sunday: 10am - 11.30pm Olaf in a race to save the kingdom. 0131 229 5932 Inside Out Thursday 10 December, 10am • 1h42m, cert U | Meet the emotions inside the mind of cafebar@filmhousecinema.com teenager Riley: Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust. Struggling to adjust after a long-distance move, an emotional rollercoaster ensues when Joy and Sadness get lost in Riley’s head. Can they find their way back?

Film Quiz

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

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