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THE REVENANT INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS Joy Ice and the Sky A War Sherpa Room Scotland Galore! Blade Runner: The Final Cut The Hateful Eight Le mépris Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict Bolshoi Babylon Sunday Double Bills The Assassin Over the Rainbow Filmhouse Junior The Danish Girl 10 from 15 Screening Europe Song of the Sea
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10 from 15 14-15 45 Years 14 The Assassin 11 Bastards 21 Belle and Sebastian - The Adventure... 5 Blade Runner: The Final Cut 7 Bolshoi Babylon 9 Brave 12 Brigadoon 23 The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black... 22 The Danish Girl 11 The Double Life of Veronique 20 The Draughtman’s Contract 21 Education and Learning 25-26 Eisenstein in Guanajuato 21 Fateless 11 Filmhouse Café Bar + Film Quiz 26 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Junior 12-13 Filmhouse Membership 28 Finding Nemo 13 Force Majeure 14 The Good Dinosaur 13 Güeros 6 The Hateful Eight 6 Ice and the Sky 5 The Illusionist 23 Jamón Jamón 21 Joy 5 The Jungle Book 12 The Last Mistress 20 Local Hero 23 Macbeth 20 Mad Max: Fury Road (3D & 2D) 15 Le mépris 9 My Name Is Salt 15 My Neighbour Totoro 13 Night Train 15 Northern Soul 21 Oh! What a Lovely War 22 Over the Rainbow 22 Paper Planes 12
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 5 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 23 The Princess Bride 13 The Revenant 8 Room 10 The Salt of the Earth 14 Scotland Galore! 22-23 Screening Europe 20-21 Sherpa 9 Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts... 13 Song of the Sea 7 Sunday Double Bills 19 Tales of the Night 12 Tangerine 8 The Tempest 20 Theeb 15 & 19 Theeb + Timbuktu 19 Timbuktu 14 & 19 University of Edinburgh Short Courses 24 Victim 22 Vivre sa vie + Bande à part 19 A War 7 What We Did on Our Holiday 23 Whiplash 15 Whisky Galore! 23 White God 15 Young Soul Rebels 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 Joy, The Revenant, The Danish Girl and Room have audio description, and the following screenings will have onscreen captions: Tue 12 Jan at 8.40pm Joy Tue 26 Jan at 5.00pm The Revenant Mon 1 Feb at 5.55pm The Danish Girl
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 4 Jan at 11am
Ice and the Sky
Mon 11 Jan at 11am Joy Mon 25 Jan at 11am Bolshoi Babylon Mon 1 Feb at 11am The Assassin
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Introduction
TIMBUKTU
THE REVENANT
JOY
BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT
Happy Birthday, Roy Batty… Well, it’s 2016… cripes! But, before we get on with the business of bringing you the best films made in the world for release in 2016, we must get out of the way, as has become the tradition, showing again what we consider to have been the best films of 2015 (I say ‘we’, though I guess I really mean ‘I’). Having compiled my own list with only a little cheating – including, as it does, one non-new title from our Martin Scorsese’s Polish Masterpieces season – it was a trickier process than most years. A top ten took more whittling down from a longer long list this time around, for sure. It is of course a bunch of subjective nonsense, the old top ten, but so long as the end result is one where great films end up back on cinema screens, where’s the harm?! Every year people let us know how much they appreciate the chance to catch up on some great films they missed, so, as long as you keep telling us that, we’ll keep on doing it. Of course, I’m not the only one who feels compelled to ruminate on the subject at this time of year (though I am one of the few who gets to put them on a cinema screen!), and there’s much enjoyment to be had comparing my list to others, and laughing, mockingly and disparagingly, at the questionable judgement on display. I mean, what serious list could have left out Timbuktu? Or Mad Max: Fury Road? Not mine, matey. But would you believe I found some that did? Jeez! One has to feel some sympathy for the serious film critic who must figure his/her top ten to include all the overlong, impenetrable, patiencetesting, art house provocations (Long? Tick. Unintelligible? Tick. Has no audience? Tick.) or risk being laughed out of the club by his/her peers! Segueing effortlessly into some films, one or two of which may well figure on my top ten list next year, The Revenant kicks off on the 15th of January, and is Alejandro González Iñárritu’s astonishing follow up to last year’s Birdman. It tells the (admittedly) violent tale of 19th century frontiersman, Hugh Glass (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), left for dead by his fellow hunters after a bear-mauling, and his subsequent quest for revenge. A supremely simple tale brilliantly told, I saw it some weeks ago and still can’t shake its incredible imagery and atmosphere (one reads how difficult the shoot was, well it’s all up there on the screen!). Room is Lenny Abrahamson’s nigh-perfect adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s 2010 bestseller, which tells the story of a mother and her young son held captive in a small… room, and Joy is David O Russell’s funny and moving Jennifer Lawrence-starring ‘Miracle Mop’ domestic drama. The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited (ever since reports reached us the script had been leaked and he was abandoning the project altogether) latest which stars QT regular Samuel L Jackson as one of eight reportedly hateful individuals holed up in a stagecoach stopover during a blizzard in Civil War-era Wyoming. Early chatter is hugely positive… And critics are falling over themselves to praise Hou Hsiao-hsien’s completely gorgeous entry into the wuxia genre, The Assassin. In reference to the top of the page, a screening at home of Blade Runner recently alerted me to the fact that January 8, 2016 is indeed the birth date, or rather ‘incept’ date, of Rutger Hauer’s replicant in the film, so it seemed a good time to stick it on. Perhaps we’ll organise a rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’ just before the screening… Rod White, Head of Filmhouse
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A WAR
Filmhouse Explorer We’re really keen to encourage your deeper engagement with the great cinema we screen. We know going to the cinema a lot can be quite expensive, so we’ve devised a ticket deal to make it cheaper to see films beyond the big new releases. Here’s how it works: buy a ticket for a film in the left hand column below, and you will receive a voucher that will entitle you, on handing it in at the Box Office, to 50% off a full price ticket to any film (or any film in any season) listed in the right hand column. We’ve marked the films and seasons involved with wee logos to make them easier to spot (orange for left hand column films and blue for right), and you can also find them on our website at www.filmhousecinema.com/tickets/filmhouse-explorer Happy Exploring!
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THE ASSASSIN
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Main Features
JOY
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
NEWRELEASE
Joy Showing from Fri 1 Jan David O Russell • USA 2015 • 1h59m • Digital • 12A – Contains infrequent strong language Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd.
Reassembling key players from the cast of his Academy Award© nominated adaptation Silver Linings Playbook, David O Russell (The Fighter, American Hustle) returns with a new feature based on the life of American inventor/ entrepreneur Joy Mangano - the inventor of the ‘Miracle Mop’. A story told across four generations, it features Jennifer Lawrence in the title role of the woman who, while singlehandedly raising two children, built a business empire through perseverance, work ethic and ingenuity. Boasting a supporting cast including the likes of Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper and Isabella Rossellini, this is an inspiring tale of family, loyalty... and Joy.
ICE AND THE SKY
NEWRELEASE
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT
NEWRELEASE
Belle and Sebastian - The Adventure Continues
Ice and the Sky
Belle et Sébastien, l’aventure continue Showing until Sun 3 Jan
Luc Jacquet • France 2015 • 1h29m • Digital • French with English subtitles • U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm Documentary featuring Claude Lorius; narrated by Michel Papineschi.
Christian Duguay • France 2015 • 1h37m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG – Contains mild threat, mild bad language Cast: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Châtelier.
La Glace et le Ciel
Mon 4 to Tue 5 Jan
The closing film of Cannes 2015, Ice and the Sky marks a return to Antarctica for director Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins). He returns with life-long explorer Claude Lorius, The follow-up to Nicholas Vanier’s 2013 adaptation of Cécile Aubry’s novel sees the 1940s French boy/dog duo now 82 years old, who first embarked on an Antarctic expedition in 1955 - after simply responding to an advert. return for more Alpine escapades. Retracing his steps in an effort to piece the puzzle of his life September 1945, everybody is celebrating the end of back together, Lorius shares his experiences and research, the war. Young Sebastian (Félix Bossuet), now ten years while reflecting on the state of the planet and the effect of old, waits with faithful Belle for Angelina’s (Margaux Châtelier) return. When news reaches the village that her humanity on this wondrous icy land. One of the first to warn plane crashed deep in the Transalpine forest, Sebastian’s of the ravages of climate change, his life and work have been geared around a genuine love for the region, and in him the grandfather knows a man who can help them find her. On their mission to locate Angelina, Belle and Sebastian director has found both a subject and a kindred spirit. must face peril, risk their lives and confront a secret - the Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict adventure continues... Wed 6 & Thu 7 Jan Lisa Immordino Vreeland • USA 2015 • 1h36m • Digital • 15 – Contains strong sex references Documentary featuring Peggy Guggenheim, Samuel Beckett, Marina Abramovic, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, Robert De Niro.
Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) became a central figure in the cultural upheavals of the 20th century as she doggedly maintained her vision to build up one of the world’s most important collections of modern art. Lisa Immordino Vreeland follows up her acclaimed debut documentary, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel, with a portrait of this artistic icon, who was not only ahead of her time but was also a major influence upon it.
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The Hateful Eight Showing from Fri 8 Jan Quentin Tarantino • USA 2015 • 2h48m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong bloody violence Cast: Kurt Russell, Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen.
Quentin Tarantino follows the pulpy and provocative Django Unchained with this edgy ensemble period piece - his eighth film in the director’s chair. Set in the rural wilds of Wyoming shortly after the Civil War, The Hateful Eight sees John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) escorting his prisoner Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Red Rock to be tried and hanged for murder. Happening upon a bounty hunter (Samuel L Jackson) and a man claiming to be Sheriff of Red Rock (Walton Goggins), they are forced to seek refuge in a stagecoach passover cabin when a blizzard hits. Sharing accommodation with four other strangers, and with a $10,000 bounty brought to light, a game of suspicion and deadly intrigue is set into motion...
Main Features/Blade Runner: The Final Cut
SONG OF THE SEA
MAYBEYOUMISSED
Song of the Sea Mon 4 to Wed 6 Jan Tomm Moore • Ireland/Denmark/Belgium/Luxembourg/France 2014 • 1h34m • Digital • PG – Contains mild threat With the voices of Lucy O’Connell, Brendan Gleeson, David Rawle, Lisa Hannigan, Fionnula Flanagan.
Following their mother’s mysterious disappearance, Saoirse and her brother, Ben, live with their distraught father by the sea. With Saoirse still yet to utter her first word, Ben’s frustrations give way to wonder as he discovers that his sister is a selkie – a mythical changeling who can turn into a seal. A stunningly beautiful animated feature based on ancient Celtic myths.
A WAR
NEWRELEASE
BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT
HAPPYBIRTHDAYROYBATTY
Krigen Showing from Fri 8 Jan
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Tobias Lindholm • Denmark 2015 • 1h55m • Digital • Danish with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong injury detail, strong language Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, Dar Salim, Søren Malling.
Ridley Scott • USA 1982/2007 • 1h57m • Digital • 15 – Contains strong violence Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos, M Emmet Walsh.
From Tobias Lindholm - director of A Hijacking - comes this stirring and thoughtful war drama, which is Denmark’s entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards©. Company commander Claus M Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) and his men are stationed in the Helmand province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria (Tuva Novotny) is trying to hold everyday life together, with a husband at war and three children missing their father. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences for him and his family back home.
Adapted from Philip K Dick‘s novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’, Ridley Scott‘s iconic dystopian classic is unquestionably one of the greatest sci-fi films ever made. The year is 2019, and LA is playing unwitting host to a group of escaped synthetic humans called replicants. Bred for slavery on off-world colonies and outlawed on earth, these illegal immigrants are hunted by Blade Runners, and Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) has the task of ‘retiring’ them. What follows is a visually stunning and thematically dense future noir that delves deep into what it means to be human. Everything – from neon-daubed streets to the scorched sky itself – looks gorgeous, and no amount of TV re-runs could ever compete with seeing this on the big screen.
A War
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.
Fri 8 Jan at 9.30pm
This special screening is scheduled for 8 January 2016 to coincide with Roy Batty’s ‘incept’ date - the day on which he was activated by the Tyrell Corporation. COMPETITION - Design a special birthday card and send it to Roy Batty c/o Filmhouse for your chance to win free Filmhouse entry for a month! Entries close on Friday 8 January at 12.00pm, terms and conditions apply, prize cannot be exchanged.
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TANGERINE
MAYBEYOUMISSED
FUTURE SHOCK! THE STORY OF 2000AD
MAYBEYOUMISSED
THE REVENANT
NEWRELEASE
Tangerine
Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD
The Revenant
Tue 12 to Thu 14 Jan
Fri 15 to Sun 17 Jan
Showing from Fri 15 Jan
Sean Baker • USA 2015 • 1h28m • Digital • 15 – Contains strong language, sex, sex references, drug use Cast: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O’Hagan, Alla Tumanian, James Ransone.
Paul Goodwin • UK 2014 • 1h45m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language, strong violence • Documentary
Alejandro González Iñárritu • USA 2015 • 2h36m • Digital • 15 – Contains strong violence, bloody injury detail, strong language Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Paul Anderson.
Set entirely on a very eventful Christmas Eve, Tangerine is a rip-roaring odyssey through the myriad neighbourhoods of Hollywood, as captured entirely on modified iPhone 5s. Sin-Dee, a transgender sex worker who has just been released from a short prison stint, learns that her boyfriend/pimp, Chester, has been cheating on her with a cisgender woman. Accompanied by her best friend, Alexandra, an aspiring singer and fellow trans sex worker, Sin-Dee sets out to confront Chester and wreak vengeance upon the girl he cheated on her with. Filmed with remarkable immediacy and warmth by outsider director Sean Baker (Starlet, co-creator of Greg the Bunny), the film hinges on the two extraordinary performances of Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor (both making their cinematic debuts), whose real-life experiences also formed the starting point for its story.
Future Shock! is a long overdue document of the magazine that kick-started the careers of Alan Moore (‘Watchmen’) and Grant Morrison (‘All-Star Superman’), created Judge Dredd and inspired Hollywood (RoboCop, Alien). Featuring interviews with 2000AD creator Pat Mills, writers Neil Gaiman and Dave Gibbons and Dredd screenwriter Alex Garland, this fascinating documentary is packed with anecdotes and interspersed with brilliant animation sequences in that distinctive 2000AD style.
Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman, Amores perros) directs this visceral story of one man’s survival against both betrayal and the elements, which casts Leonardo DiCaprio in a role entirely apart from his previous work. Set in the then-uncharted American wilderness of the 1820s, frontiersman Hugh Glass (DiCaprio) is mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. Having barely survived, Glass must then endure a vicious winter as, guided by sheer will and the love of his family, he struggles homeward in single-minded pursuit of those who abandoned him.
Main Features
SHERPA
NEWRELEASE
LE MÉPRIS
CLASSICRE-RELEASE
BOLSHOI BABYLON
NEWRELEASE
Sherpa
Le mépris
Bolshoi Babylon
Showing from Mon 18 Jan
Contempt Fri 22 to Mon 25 Jan
Mon 25 to Thu 28 Jan
Jennifer Peedom • Australia/UK 2015 • 1h36m • Digital • English, Sherpa and Nepali with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong language • Documentary
Following reports of unrest between visiting mountaineers and the local Sherpa guides on Everest, filmmaker Jennifer Peedom arrived in the region to make a film on the 2014 climbing season. Little did she know that the worst tragedy in the recorded history of the mountain would soon take place, as a catastrophic avalanche claimed the lives of sixteen Sherpa climbers. The disaster provoked intense scrutiny on the role of Sherpas in the mountaineering industry at the forefront, as the entire local community united in grief and anger. Sherpa goes far beyond merely showcasing the spectacular beauty of these mountains and the challenge of the climb, as Peedom expertly captures the raw and conflicting emotions of mourning Sherpas, disappointed tourists and concerned tour operators. Strikingly shot and with an incredible access, this is an urgent, morally complex, deeply humane account of the darker side of mountaineering.
Jean-Luc Godard • France/Italy 1963 • 1h43m • Digital • French, English, German and Italian with English subtitles • 15 – Contains nudity, sex, infrequent strong language Cast: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, Fritz Lang.
Godard‘s undisputed masterpiece is one of the finest works of post-war European cinema. A young woman (Brigitte Bardot) is gradually possessed by an overwhelming contempt for her husband (Michel Piccoli), a writer beset by doubts when he is called in as script-doctor to a film of ‘The Odyssey’, being made by an ageing director (Fritz Lang playing himself) who wants to capture the reality of Homer’s world, and a crass producer (Jack Palance) who just wants more mermaids.... Our Godard-themed Sunday Double Bill on Sunday 31 January features Vivre sa vie and Bande à part (see page 19).
Nick Read & Mark Franchetti • UK 2015 • 1h27m • Russian with English subtitles and unsubtitled English • Digital • PG – Contains mild bad language, sex references, injury detail Documentary
On 17 January 2013, Sergei Filin, Ballet Director of the Bolshoi Theatre, was targeted in a brutal acid attack which left him with third-degree burns and the loss of sight in one eye. This documentary – for which backstage access was granted to film crews for the first time in the company’s history – covers the extraordinary season which followed, as Filin’s interim replacement stepped in and as conspiracies, internal rivalries and tensions between performers and managers threatened the existence of a nearly 250-year-old national institution.
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Room Showing from Fri 29 Jan Lenny Abrahamson • Ireland/Canada 2015 • 1h58m • Digital 15 – Contains strong language, abduction theme Cast: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Wendy Crewson.
Young Jack (Jacob Tremblay) lives with Ma (Brie Larson) in Room - a small locked space containing a kitchen, a bath, a bed and a television. As it is all he has ever known, Jack believes that Room is all that exists. Their only visitor is Old Nick (Sean Bridgers), who is their captor. When, shortly after Jack’s fifth birthday, Ma discovers that Old Nick is out of work and in danger of foreclosure, she hatches a plan to finally secure their escape. Lenny Abrahamson (Frank, What Richard Did) directs this profound adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s Man Booker shortlisted novel of the same name. Quite extraordinary performances from Larson and Tremblay are the focal point of an emotionally-charged experience that manages to both wrench and warm the heart.
Holocaust Memorial Day/Main Features
FATELESS
HOLOCAUSTMEMORIALDAY
THE ASSASSIN
NEWRELEASE
THE DANISH GIRL
NEWRELEASE
Fateless
The Assassin
The Danish Girl
Sorstalanság Wed 27 Jan at 5.45pm
Nie yinniang Showing from Fri 29 Jan
Showing from Fri 29 Jan
Lajos Koltai • Hungary/Germany/UK 2005 • 2h20m • Digital Hungarian, English and German with English subtitles • 12A – Contains strong language and moderate Holocaust imagery Cast: Marcell Nagy, Béla Dóra, Bálint Péntek, Áron Dimény.
Hou Hsiao-Hsien • Taiwan/China/Hong Kong/France 2015 1h45m • Digital • Mandarin with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate violence Cast: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki.
Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész‘s screen adaptation of his semi-autobiographical novel is a major addition to the cinema of the Holocaust. Since Hungary was nominally a German ally, it wasn‘t until 1944 that deportations began to affect Budapest‘s largely assimilated Jewish population, which in part explains 14-year-old Gyuri Köves‘ initial disbelief as he‘s packed into a train for Auschwitz. He‘s soon forced to adjust his perspective, given the daily round of endurance that becomes his lot, yet, amid the suffering, there‘s also comradeship, allowing him to retain a precarious grip on his humanity.
The magnificent fruit of seven years work for director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, The Assassin enthralled audiences at Cannes - picking up two awards (including Best Director). The Taiwanese master’s beautiful cinematic vision of 9th Century China sees him turn his patient, detailed approach to the wuxia genre. Nie Yinniang (Qi Shu) - the daughter of a general - is abducted at 10 years old by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, through which she grows up to become an expert assassin. Tasked with eliminating the cruel and corrupt, she is sent back to the land of her birth to kill the man with whom she was betrothed to be wed (Chen Chang). After 13 years, she must return to face her family, her memories, long-repressed feelings and the choice between assassinating the man she cares for or forever breaking away from the sacred order which has raised her.
Holocaust Memorial Day provides an opportunity for everyone to learn lessons from the Holocaust and subsequent genocides and apply them to the present day to create a safer, better future. On HMD we share the memory of the millions who have been murdered in the Holocaust and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur in order to challenge hatred and persecution in the UK today. For more information on HMD and related events, visit hmd.org.uk
Tom Hooper • UK/Germany/USA 2015 • 2h • Digital • 15 – Contains sexualised scenes Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Ben Whishaw, Sebastian Koch, Amber Heard, Matthias Schoenaerts.
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Miserables) reunites with fellow Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne for The Danish Girl, inspired by the true story of transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, the first person to undergo what could be termed a form of recognisable gender confirmation surgery. Living in 1920s Copenhagen, Lili (Redmayne) is a relatively prosperous landscape artist happily married to fellow painter Gerda (Alicia Vikander). Assigned male at birth, Lili becomes increasingly aware of her true gender identity, which begins to create rifts in her relationship with Gerda – who is herself beginning to come into her own as a successful portraitist. Featuring sumptuous cinematography by Danny Cohen and a sensitive screenplay by Lucinda Coxon, The Danish Girl is a fascinating look into one woman’s brave attempts to confront both societal norms and her own inner demons.
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BRAVE
TALES OF THE NIGHT
Filmhouse junior Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.50 (£5.50 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!
For these shows we choose to screen dubbed versions where these are available, but some films will be in their original language with subtitles – these are marked on individual film descriptions. Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!
PAPER PLANES
THE JUNGLE BOOK
Brave
Paper Planes
Sun 3 Jan at 11.00am
Sun 17 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.
Robert Connolly • Australia 2014 • 1h37m • Digital U - Contains infrequent very mild bad language Cast: Sam Worthington, Ed Oxenbould, Deborah Mailman, Nicholas Bakopoulos-Cooke.
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.
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.
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.
Get more information on upcoming Education and Learning events at Filmhouse - including screenings for schools - on page 30.
Filmhouse Junior
THE THE GOOD DINOSAUR GOOD DINOSAUR
FINDING NEMO FINDING NEMO
THE PRINCESS BRIDEBRIDE THE PRINCESS
SNOOPY AND CHARLIE BROWN: THE PEANUTS MOVIE SNOOPY AND CHARLIE BROWN: THE PEANUTS...
The Good Dinosaur
The Princess Bride
My Neighbour Totoro
Sun 31 Jan at 11.00am
Sun 14 Feb 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.
Rob Reiner • USA 1987 • 1h38m • Digital • PG - Contains mild fantasy violence and language Cast: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Peter Falk.
Tonari no Totoro Sun 28 Feb at 11.00am
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.
When the one true love of her life, Westley, is killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts, Buttercup blindly agrees to the Royal command that she marry Prince Humperdinck. But the Prince is planning to incite war between his country and its neighbour - by murdering Buttercup and blaming foreign agents. Yet even as the Prince’s men kidnap Buttercup, a mysterious man in black is in pursuit...
Finding Nemo Sun 7 Feb at 11.00am Andrew Stanton • USA 2003 • 1h44m • Digital • U - Contains mild peril • With the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Allison Janney.
Marlin, an overprotective clown fish father, desperately searches the sea for his missing son, Nemo. His journey leads him beyond the Great Barrier Reef into deeper and darker waters, where he meets Dory, a forgetful yet optimistic blue tang, and a number of other aquatic creatures. Meanwhile, Nemo finds himself in a dentist’s fish tank in Sydney, Australia, along with other underwater captives. As Nemo works with his new friends on a plan to escape their tank, Marlin and Dory swim closer, but they’ll need more than just fins to get into the dentist’s office...
Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie Sun 21 Feb at 11.00am Steve Martino • USA 2015 • 1h33m • Digital • U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm With the voices of Noah Schnapp, Mariel Sheets, Alexander Garfin.
Remaining faithful to the look and vision of Charles M Schulz, The Peanuts Movie is set to demonstrate that there’s hope for everyone, even beloved underdog Charlie Brown and his faithful beagle Snoopy. In this big-screen adventure, Charlie Brown embarks on an epic quest, while Snoopy takes to the skies in pursuit of his arch-nemesis, the Red Baron.
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Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 1988 • 1h27m • Digital • English language version • U - Contains infrequent mild scary scenes With the voices of Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Frank Welker.
This superbly animated children’s tale is directed by Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japan’s most beloved animators. The story follows Satsuke and Mei, two young girls who find that their new country home is in a mysterious forest inhabited by a menagerie of mystical creatures named totoros. The eldest of these creatures becomes their friend, and, as their mother lies sick in the hospital, he takes the sisters on a magical adventure while also helping them to understand the realities of life.
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10 from 15
TIMBUKTU
45 YEARS
FORCE MAJEURE
THE SALT OF THE EARTH
10 from 15
45 Years
The Salt of the Earth
Albeit a rather enjoyable pastime, it’s always quite a tricky one narrowing the year’s films down into a top ten, and I imagine for each and every one of you there’s one or two films that simply ought to have been on the list but aren’t. But, anyway, here’s mine! A few films that might have made the list on another day would be the likes of Love & Mercy, Wild Tales, Amy and my guilty pleasure The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson. Carol would likely have made the list too, but was released too late in the day for inclusion.
Sat 2 Jan at 1.05pm + 8.20pm & Sun 3 Jan at 6.15pm
Le sel de la terre Mon 4 Jan at 8.20pm & Wed 6 Jan at 1.10pm
Andrew Haigh • UK 2015 • 1h35m • Digital • 15 – Contains strong language, sex Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James.
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado & Wim Wenders • France/Brazil/Italy 2014 • 1h50m • Digital • French, Portuguese and English with English subtitles • 12A – Contains images of real dead bodies Documentary
Enjoy! Rod White, Head of Programming Filmhouse and Belmont Filmhouse
Timbuktu Fri 1 Jan at 1.05pm & Sat 2 Jan at 8.45pm
This deserved EIFF Michael Powell Award winner tells the subtly devastating story of a couple whose apparently happy 45 years together is rocked when a long-buried secret is revealed. What really sets this film apart is the total believability of the central relationship; and the way the two individuals, separately, deal or don‘t deal with the emerging truth, carries the full power that comes with authenticity. The film confirms Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 2011) as a major new voice in British cinema.
Force Majeure Turist Sun 3, Tue 5 & Thu 7 Jan
Abderrahmane Sissako • Mali/Mauritania/France 2014 • 1h36m • Digital • French, Arabic, Bambara, English and Songhay with English subtitles • 12A – Contains moderate violence, injury detail • Cast: Abel Jafri, Kettly Noël, Toulou Kiki, Hichem Yacoubi.
Ruben Östlund • Sweden/France/Norway 2014 • 1h59m • Digital • Swedish, English, French and Norwegian with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Vincent Wettergren, Clara Wettergren, Kristofer Hivju.
Abderrahmane Sissako‘s humanist masterpiece took a while to hit these shores, gracing, as it did, the Cannes Film Festival competition back in 2014, but in doing so lost precisely none of its timeliness. Set in the early days of the jihadist takeover of northern Mali in 2012, director Abderrahmane Sissako‘s utterly compelling drama delivers a beautiful and deeply humane condemnation of religious intolerance.
Swedish director Ruben Östlund has been quietly, wittily dissecting the mores of middle class western society for many a film now (Involuntary, Play) but the film world finally sat up and took a proper look at this blistering dissection of bourgeois complacency, gender stereotypes and human frailty through an incident at a ski resort when a father, who, faced with an oncoming avalanche, legs it for safety before thinking of his family.
Wim Wenders should perhaps stick to the documentaries on the evidence of this wonderful homage – co-directed with his subject‘s son – to 40-year veteran photographer Sebastião Salgado, and his remarkable life. Salgado has been witness to and documenter of some of the world‘s most astonishing and harrowing events – the Ethiopian famine in 1984, the Kuwaiti oil fires in 1991 – and is a man of great dignity and tremendous empathy for the human condition. And then there‘s the photographs...
Filmhouse Explorer Get a half-price ticket to any of the films in this season with Filmhouse Explorer – see page 4 for details! 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.
10 from 15
WHITE GOD
WHIPLASH
NIGHT TRAIN
Theeb
Whiplash
Tue 5 Jan at 6.20pm & Thu 7 Jan at 3.45pm
Wed 6 Jan at 8.35pm & Thu 7 Jan at 1.10pm
Naji Abu Nowar • United Arab Emirates/Qatar/Jordan/UK 2014 • 1h40m • Digital • Arabic with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong injury detail, violence Cast: Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen, Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh, Jack Fox, Marji Audeh.
Damien Chazelle • USA 2014 • 1h46m • Digital • 15 – Contains very strong language, strong sex references Cast: Miles Teller, JK Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell.
Judging by the numbers who came to see this on release back in August, there‘s loads of you out there who haven‘t seen it. You‘ll want to put that right, because this is simply one of the top 3 films of 2015. Set in the same time and place as was Lawrence of Arabia, it tells the tale, brilliantly, of a young Bedouin boy who follows his older brother, a guide, into the desert and the world of soldiers and bandits. A “classic adventure of the best kind” (Variety), Theeb was, for me, the discovery of the year.
White God Fehér Isten Wed 6 at 3.35pm & Sun 10 Jan at 6.15pm Kornél Mundruczó • Hungary/Germany/Sweden 2014 • 2h1m • Digital • Hungarian and English with English subtitles • 15 Contains strong language, bloody injury detail Cast: Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horváth, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Lili Monori.
Surely the ‘marmite’ title on our list this year, loved and not loved as it was in approximately equal measure. Needless to say, I fell massively into the former group. Unclassifiable (though I guess I’m about to try), it sort of plays like Lassie Come Home meets Spartacus, as a (albeit quite dark) family pooch drama morphs into political allegory as our canine hero, Hagen, liberates the oppressed and caged canine masses. On top of everything else, how on earth did they film it...?
I recently watched this again at home and would have to report it‘s equally as impressive the third time around as it was the first and second! An ambitious student jazz drummer (a particularly committed performance from Miles Teller) is put through the mill by his elite NY music school‘s jazz instructor (JK Simmons on Oscar-winning form) who believes, like no one ever believed, that there is no easy route to the top.
Mad Max: Fury Road Wed 6 Jan at 8.40pm (3D) & Thu 7 Jan at 6.05pm (2D) George Miller • Australia/USA 2015 • 2h • Digital • 15 – Contains strong violence, threat Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh KeaysByrne, Josh Helman, Nathan Jones.
Probably the most pure adrenaline fun to be had at the cinema in 2015, I saw this for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival with 2281 other folks, who erupted into an involuntary cheer and applause when the film finally lets up on the action, slightly, half an hour in. Beautiful in its simplicity, and awesome in its scale and design, this franchise reboot could have gone either way, but it went both: out, and back, pursued by all manner of individuals in or on all manner of vehicles! Please note there is an additional charge of £2 for tickets to 3D screenings at Filmhouse.
MY NAME IS SALT
Night Train Pociag Sat 9 at 6.10pm & Sun 10 Jan at 1.05pm Jerzy Kawalerowicz • Poland 1959 • 1h39m • Digital • Polish with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate language and suicide references Cast: Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielówna, Zbigniew Cybulski, Helena Dabrowska.
Again, I’m allowing a certain self-indulgence to creep into my choices (see My Name Is Salt), as this magnificent film was one of the Scorsese-curated 24 Masterpieces of Polish Cinema we toured the nation with in mid-2015. In this great wee film that I, ashamedly, had not seen before the Scorsese tour - a sleeper train rockets through the night, among its passengers, possibly, a murderer...
My Name Is Salt Mon 11 at 3.45pm + 6.00pm & Tue 12 Jan at 3.45pm Farida Pacha • Switzerland 2013 • 1h32m • Digital • Gujarati with English subtitles • U - Contains infrequent very mild bad language • Documentary
OK, OK, I admit a fair amount of vested interest in this one, given we also distributed the film in the UK! It won the Award for Best Documentary at EIFF 2014 and is a strikingly beautiful portrayal of an extraordinary world, that of salt harvesters in a bleak desert in Gujarat, India. Director Farida Pacha spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives and crafting an exquisite, lyrical film in the process.
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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
1 January - 4 February 2016
DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
Fri 1 Joy 1 2 Belle and Sebastian - The... Jan 2 The Cheviot, the Stag... (SG) 2 Brigadoon (SG) 3 Timbuktu (10) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
1.00/3.35/6.15 1.10 3.45 6.00 1.05
Sat 1 Belle and Sebastian - The... 2 1 Joy (AD) Jan 2 Joy (AD) 2 Local Hero (SG) 2 Whisky Galore! (SG) 2 45 Years (10) 3 45 Years (10) 3 Timbuktu (10) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
1.10 3.25/6.00/8.40 1.00 3.45 6.15 8.20 1.05 8.45
Wed 1 Song of the Sea 1.00 6 1 Joy (AD) 3.15/6.00 Jan 1 Mad Max: Fury Road (3D) (10) 8.40 2 The Salt of the Earth (10) 1.10 2 White God (10) 3.35 2 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 6.10 2 Joy (AD) 8.20 3 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 3.40 3 Whiplash (10) 8.35 *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
Sun 1 Brave (FJ) 3 1 Theeb + Timbuktu (SDB) Jan 1 Joy (AD) 2 Belle and Sebastian - The... 2 Brigadoon (SG) 2 The Prime of Miss Jean... (SG) 2 Force Majeure (10) 3 Joy (AD) 3 45 Years (10) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
11.00am 1.30 (£12/£10) 5.50/8.40 1.15 3.35 6.00 8.30 1.05 6.15
Mon 1 Song of the Sea 1.00 4 1 Joy (AD) 3.15/5.50/8.40 Jan 2 Joy (AD) 1.10 2 The Illusionist (SG) 4.00 2 What We Did on Our... (SG) 6.00 2 The Salt of the Earth (10) 8.20 3 Ice and the Sky 1.05/6.10 *Plus films and times TBC (see below) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 1 Song of the Sea 5 1 Joy (AD) Jan 2 Joy (AD) 2 Force Majeure (10) 2 Theeb (10) 2 Ice and the Sky 3 Ice and the Sky *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
1.00 3.15/6.00/8.40 1.10 3.45 6.20 8.35 1.05/6.10
* 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
SCREENING TIMES
Thu 1 Joy (AD) 3.15/6.00/8.40 7 2 Whiplash (10) 1.10 Jan 2 Theeb (10) 3.45 2 Mad Max: Fury Road (10) 6.05 2 Force Majeure (10) 8.45 3 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 3.40/8.35 *Plus films and times TBC (see below) Fri 1 The Hateful Eight 8 1 Blade Runner: The Final Cut Jan 2 Joy (AD) 2 The Hateful Eight 3 Joy (AD) 3 A War *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
2.00/6.00 9.30 3.00/5.45 8.20 1.00/8.40 3.40/6.10
Sat 1 The Hateful Eight 9 2 Joy (AD) Jan 3 A War 3 Night Train (10) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
1.00/4.30/8.05
Sun 1 Tales of the Night (FJ) 10 1 The Hateful Eight Jan 2 Night Train (10) 2 Joy (AD) 3 Joy (AD) 3 A War 3 White God (10) *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
12.45/3.20/6.00/8.40
1.10/3.40/8.30 6.10
11.00am 1.00/4.30/8.05 1.05 3.20/6.00/8.40 1.10 3.45/8.50 6.15
Mon 1 The Hateful Eight 2.00/8.05 11 1 Joy (AD) 5.30 Jan 2 Joy (AD) 2.30/8.40 2 The Hateful Eight 5.10 3 A War 1.15/8.15 3 My Name Is Salt (10) 3.45/6.00 *Plus films and times TBC (see below) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 1 The Hateful Eight 12 1 Joy (AD) Jan 2 Joy (AD) 2 Joy (AD) (C) 2 The Hateful Eight 3 A War 3 My Name Is Salt (10) 3 Tangerine *Plus films and times TBC (see below)
2.00/8.05 5.30 2.30 8.40 (captioned) 5.10 1.15/6.00 3.45 8.30
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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
Wed 1 The Hateful Eight 13 1 Joy (AD) Jan 2 Joy (AD) 2 The Hateful Eight 3 Tangerine 3 A War *Plus films and times TBC (see left)
2.00/8.05 5.30 2.30/8.40 5.10 1.10/8.30 3.15/6.00
Thu 1 The Hateful Eight 14 1 Joy (AD) Jan 2 Joy (AD) 2 The Hateful Eight 3 Tangerine 3 A War *Plus films and times TBC (see left)
2.00/8.05 5.30 2.30/8.40 5.10 1.10/6.00 3.15/8.15
Fri 1 The Revenant (AD) 15 2 The Hateful Eight Jan 3 Future Shock! The Story... *Plus films and times TBC (see left)
1.30/5.00/8.15 1.00/4.30/8.05 1.10/8.45
Sat 1 The Revenant (AD) 16 2 The Hateful Eight Jan 3 Future Shock! The Story... *Plus films and times TBC (see left)
1.30/5.00/8.15 1.00/4.30/8.05 1.10/6.10
Sun 1 Paper Planes (FJ) 17 1 The Revenant (AD) Jan 2 The Hateful Eight 3 Future Shock! The Story...‑ *Plus films and times TBC (see left)
11.00am 1.30/5.00/8.15 1.00/4.30/8.05 1.10/8.45
Mon 1 The Revenant (AD) 18 2 Sherpa Jan 2 The Hateful Eight 3 The Hateful Eight *Plus films and times TBC (see left)
1.45/5.00/8.15 3.40 8.15 1.30/5.10
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: (10) – 10 from 15 (pages 14-15) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 12-13) (HMD) – Holocaust Memorial Day (page 11) (OR) – Over the Rainbow (page 22) (SDB) – Sunday Double Bills (page 19) (SE) – Screening Europe -(pages 20-21) (SG) – Scotland Galore! (pages 22-23) (WW) - First World War in Cinema (page 22)
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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
Tue 1 The Revenant (AD) 19 2 Sherpa Jan 2 The Hateful Eight 3 The Hateful Eight *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)
1.45/5.00/8.15 3.40/5.55 8.05 1.30/5.10
Wed 1 The Revenant (AD) 20 2 Sherpa Jan 2 The Hateful Eight 3 The Hateful Eight *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)
1.45/5.00/8.15 3.40/5.55 8.05 1.30/5.10
Thu 1 The Revenant (AD) 21 2 Sherpa Jan 2 The Hateful Eight 3 The Hateful Eight *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)
1.45/5.00/8.15 3.40/5.55 8.05 1.30/5.10
Fri 1 The Revenant (AD) 22 2 Sherpa Jan 2 Le mépris 3 The Hateful Eight *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)
1.30/5.00/8.15 1.30/6.15 3.45/8.30 1.45/8.05
Sat 1 The Revenant (AD) 23 2 Sherpa Jan 2 Victim (OR) 2 Le mépris 3 The Hateful Eight *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)
1.30/5.00/8.15 1.30/6.15 3.45 8.30 1.45/8.05
Sun 1 The Jungle Book (FJ) 24 1 The Revenant (AD) Jan 2 Sherpa 2 Le mépris 2 Victim (OR) 3 The Hateful Eight *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)
11.00am 1.30/5.00/8.15 1.30 3.45/8.30 6.15 1.45/8.05
Mon 1 The Revenant (AD) 1.30/5.00/8.15 25 2 Bolshoi Babylon 1.30/6.15 Jan 2 Le mépris 3.45/8.30 3 The Hateful Eight 1.45/8.05 *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2 Tue 1 The Revenant (AD) 26 1 The Revenant (AD) (C) Jan 2 The Hateful Eight 2 The Tempest (SE) 2 Bolshoi Babylon 3 Bolshoi Babylon 3 The Hateful Eight *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)
1.30/8.15 5.00 (captioned) 1.45 6.00 8.30 1.00 8.05
Wed 1 The Revenant (AD) 27 2 The Hateful Eight Jan 2 Fateless (HMD) 2 Bolshoi Babylon 3 Bolshoi Babylon 3 The Hateful Eight *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)
1.30/5.00/8.15 1.45 5.45 8.40 1.00 8.05
1 January - 4 February 2016
DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE
SCREENING TIMES
Thu 1 The Revenant (AD) 28 2 The Hateful Eight Jan 2 Bolshoi Babylon 2 Oh! What a Lovely War (WW) 3 Bolshoi Babylon 3 The Hateful Eight *Plus films and times TBC (see page 16)
1.30/5.00/8.15 1.45 6.00 8.00 1.00 8.05
Fri 29 Jan
1 2 2 3 3
Room The Revenant (AD) The Assassin The Assassin The Danish Girl (AD)
12.50/3.25/6.00/8.40
Sat 30 Jan
1 2 2 3 3
Room The Revenant (AD) The Assassin The Assassin The Danish Girl (AD)
12.50/3.25/6.00/8.40
Sun 31 Jan
1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3
The Good Dinosaur (FJ) 11.00am Vivre sa vie + Bande à part(SDB) 2.00 (£12/£10) Room 6.00/8.40 The Revenant (AD) 2.30/8.15 The Assassin 5.55 The Assassin 1.00 Room 3.25 The Danish Girl (AD) 5.55/8.35
2.30/5.40 8.50 1.00 3.20/5.55/8.35
2.30/5.40 8.50 1.00 3.20/5.55/8.35
Mon 1 Room 3.25/6.00/8.40 1 2 The Revenant (AD) 2.30/8.15 Feb 2 The Assassin 5.55 3 The Assassin 1.00 3 The Danish Girl (AD) 3.20/8.35 3 The Danish Girl (AD) (C) 5.55 (captioned) For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer Screening - see page 2
1 2 2 2 3 3 3
Room The Revenant (AD) Macbeth (SE) The Danish Girl (AD) The Assassin The Danish Girl (AD) The Revenant (AD)
3.25/6.00/8.40 2.30 6.05 8.45 12.45/8.50 3.05 5.40
Wed 1 3 2 Feb 2 3 3
Room The Revenant (AD) The Assassin The Assassin The Danish Girl (AD)
3.25/6.00/8.40 2.30/5.40 8.50 1.00 3.20/5.55/8.35
1 2 2 3 3
Room The Revenant (AD) The Assassin The Assassin The Danish Girl (AD)
3.25/6.00/8.40 2.30/8.15 5.55 1.00 3.20/5.55/8.35
Tue 2 Feb
Thu 4 Feb
FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME
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Mark Cousins Presents: Romanian Cinema/EAMIF
OPERATION ‘MONSTER’
FLEETING LOVES
EDINBURGH ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL
Sunday Double Bills
THEEB
TIMBUKTU
Sunday Double Bills A regular, though not weekly, double bill, always on a Sunday afternoon. Double Bill tickets cost £12/£10 concs. Films in our Sunday Double Bills will be separated by a 15 minute break.
VIVRE SA VIE
BANDE À PART
Double Bill: Theeb + Timbuktu
Double Bill: Vivre sa vie + Bande à part
Sun 3 Jan at 1.30pm
Sun 31 Jan at 2.00pm
3h31m • 15
3h14m • 15
A double bill of two of our favourite films from 2015 - Naji Abu Nowar’s stunning debut feature Theeb and the Palme d’Or nominated Timbuktu from Mauritanian master Aberrahmane Sissako. For more information on both films, see our 10 from 15 season on pages 14 and 15.
Screening to accompany Godard’s masterful Le mépris (see page 9), these ‘60s classics starring the infinitely fascinating Anna Karina pair an insightful documentarystyle portrait of a sex worker and a fanciful criminal caper that will have you practicing your dance moves in the Café Bar and running through our corridors at top speed.
Theeb Naji Abu Nowar • United Arab Emirates/Qatar/Jordan/UK 2014 1h40m • Digital • Arabic with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong injury detail, violence
Timbuktu Abderrahmane Sissako • Mali/Mauritania/France 2014 • 1h36m • French, Arabic, Bambara, English and Songhay with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate violence, injury detail
Described by Susan Sontag as a ‘perfect film’, Vivre sa vie plays out in a set of 12 chapters detailing the story of Nana, a woman from the provinces who gradually becomes part of the world of Parisian prostitution. Godard’s uses of interview techniques, direct sound, long takes, quotations and statistics give this thoughtprovoking and dazzling examination the ring of cinéma vérité. Inspired by the world of B-movie Hollywood (and itself an inspiration on everyone from Fassbinder to Tarantino), Bande à part features Karina’s Odile and her two toughbut-self-conscious pals doing extravagant mimes on the death of Billy the Kid, attempting to learn English, executing some neat dance steps, running around the Louvre, and robbing Odile’s aunt (with disastrous consequences). Vivre sa vie Jean-Luc Godard • France 1962 • 1h23m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 -Contains prostitution theme and moderate sex references
Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) Jean-Luc Godard • France 1964 • 1h36m • Digital • French and English with English subtitles • PG - Contains infrequent mild bad language and violence
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Screening Europe
THE TEMPEST
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE
MACBETH
Screening Europe Screening Europe is a new season curated by Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh. We will bring a varied selection of past and contemporary European films to Filmhouse to celebrate and interrogate the history and aesthetics of cinema in Europe. We invite members of the public as well as students to join us for an exciting series that will chart the development of film across Europe. Our first programme of ten films oscillates between the 1980s or thereabouts and today. We will explore the ways in which European cinema has changed over the last twenty-five years and more. All films will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
The Tempest
The Double Life of Veronique
Tue 26 Jan at 6.00pm
La Double vie de Véronique Tue 9 Feb at 6.00pm
Derek Jarman • UK 1979 • 1h35m • Digital • 15 Cast: Heathcote Williams, Toyah Willcox, Jack Birkett, Karl Johnson, Peter Bull, Richard Warwick, Elisabeth Welch.
Following his 1978 Elizabethan punk time travel analysis of the state of nation in Jubilee, Derek Jarman persuaded Toyah Willcox to play Miranda in his louche, carnivalesque adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Duncan Petrie describes the film as questioning“old, essentialist traditions of colonialism” but its anarchic queer sensibility is perhaps more apparent today, especially in Jack Birkett’s ultracamp Caliban. Arch and sumptuous, the film‘s highlight is Elisabeth Welch’s performance of her never more apt 1933 hit “Stormy Weather”.
Macbeth Tue 2 Feb at 6.05pm Justin Kurzel • UK 2015 • 1h53m • Digital • 15 – Contains strong bloody violence Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Sean Harris, Elizabeth Debicki, Paddy Considine.
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.
THE LAST MISTRESS
Shakespeare never seems to go out of style and the many film adaptations of his plays often highlight the concerns of their own time rather than his. Whether the film tells us something about Scotland or about the world more generally, especially given the director’s Australian background, Kurzel’s intensely masculine approach to the Scottish play ruminates on power, corruption and violence in an atmosphere of madness and magic. Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard mesmerise as the ultimate power couple.
Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Norway 1991 • 1h38m • 35mm • French and Polish with English subtitles • 15 – Contains moderate sex Cast: Irène Jacob, Philippe Volter, Claude Duneton, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko.
Having made a number of innovative films in Poland, Kieslowski preceded his Three Colours trilogy with this joint French-Polish production starring Irène Jacob starring as both the Polish Weronika and the French Véronique in an intricate exploration of identity and desire. Music by Zbigniew Preisner is central to the atmosphere of the film while the importance of puppets and acting as oneself looks forward to Charlie Kaufman’s existential obsessions in Being John Malkovich; Synecdoche, New York and Anomalisa.
The Last Mistress Une vieille maîtresse Tue 16 Feb at 5.55pm Catherine Breillat • France/Italy 2007 • 1h54m • 35mm • French with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong sex and nudity, and brief bloody injury Cast: Asia Argento, Fu’ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolande Moreau, Michael Lonsdale.
Catherine Breillat unexpectedly moves beyond the exaggerated sexually violent provocations of her earlier brutalist films to produce a period drama set amongst the upper classes of 19th century Paris. Asia Argento plays the titular mistress who refuses to be relegated to second place by the whims of her lover, who quickly becomes irrelevant as the relationship between mistress and wife begins to take precedence. Look out for Léa Seydoux in one of her first screen roles.
Screening Europe
EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO
JAMÓN JAMÓN
YOUNG SOUL REBELS
NORTHERN SOUL
The Draughtsman’s Contract
Jamón Jamón
Young Soul Rebels
Tue 23 Feb at 6.00pm
Tue 8 Mar at 6.00pm
Tue 22 Mar at 6.00pm
Peter Greenaway • UK 1982 • 1h48m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser, Neil Cunningham.
Bigas Luna • Spain 1992 • 1h34m • 35mm • Spanish with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego, Jordi Mollà.
Isaac Julien • UK/France/Germany/Spain 1991 • 1h45m • 35mm 18 – Contains strong sex Cast: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber, Sophie Okonedo, Jason Durr.
Never one for understatement or for avoiding clichés, Bigas Luna provides an allegory for Spain’s transition from the old to the new via bullfighting, legs of cured pork and a masculinity so deeply in crisis that even Javier Bardem struggles to be man enough for the film’s pseudopsychoanalytical conceits. While Pedro Almodóvar’s cinema gives us a Spain of exuberant optimism, Luna is more gloomily carnivalesque in this vision of battling idiots.
The Screening Europe conference in 1991 actually premiered Isaac Julien’s evocation of black pirate radio Soul Patrol against the backdrop of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. Returning to the time of Derek Jarman’s own Jubilee, Julien presents a portrait of London where the racists of the National Front are in pitched battle with almost everyone else and soul funk provides the soundtrack for a murder mystery of political engagement. Young Soul Rebels is Dick Hebdidge’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style on screen.
Shot in the formal gardens of Groombridge Place in Kent, Peter Greenaway’s metaphysical detective story is set in 1694 as a sexually manipulative artist dandy is commissioned to produce twelve landscape drawings of the house. It soon becomes unclear who is actually in charge. As is usual with Greenaway, the film is cluttered with allusions to art, history and theory while the painstaking attention to detail is undercut by the ludicrous nature of the characters and their farcical pretensions.
Eisenstein in Guanajuato Tue 1 Mar at 6.00pm Peter Greenaway • Netherlands/Mexico/Finland/Belgium 2015 • 1h45m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Elmer Bäck, Luis Alberti, Rasmus Slatis, Jakob Öhrman, Maya Zapata, Lisa Owen, Stelio Savante.
We are extremely proud to present a preview of Peter Greenaway’s new film Eisenstein in Guanajuato as part of the Screening Europe programme. Taking as his subject the revolutionary Soviet filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein, and his trip to Mexico in the early 1930s, the film returns to Greenaway’s obsessions with sex, death and the artifice of cinema. Greenaway’s Eisenstein is also enthusiastically homosexual which has not endeared the film to some parts of contemporary Russia. Special preview screening courtesy of Axiom Films.
Bastards Les salauds Tue 15 Mar at 6.00pm
Northern Soul
Claire Denis • France/Germany 2013 • 1h23m • Digital • French and English with English subtitles • 12A – Contains moderate language Cast: Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille, Michel Subor, Lola Créton.
Tue 29 Mar at 6.00pm
A complicated tale of sexual exploitation and financial collapse in contemporary France, Denis’s noirish grand guignol tale of suicide, unpleasant sex and tawdry prurience divided audiences and critics. Inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well, the film is a pessimistic cry against the strictures of family, and the all pervasive corruption of contemporary capitalism and a society in which only pain and suffering are sources of pleasure. Vincent Lindon as the returning brother is the film’s only source of possible redemption.
In the final film of the Screening Europe season, Northern Soul is an exuberant and unashamedly nostalgic look at the Northern youth club scene of the 1970s galvanised by American soul music and amphetamines. Featuring Steve Coogan and Ricky Tomlinson in supporting parts, the film was extremely and unexpectedly successful during its short release in 2014. Northern Soul is an example of contemporary independent European filmmaking and marketing which raises questions about the future of both Europe
Elaine Constantine • UK 2014 • 1h42m • Digital • 15 – Contains strong language, drug use, sex Cast: Elliot James Langridge, Joshua Whitehouse, Antonia Thomas, Jack Gordon, James Lance, Christian McKay.
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Over the Rainbow/WW1 in Cinema/Scotland Galore!
VICTIM
OVERTHERAINBOW It’s here! It’s queer! Over the Rainbow is Filmhouse’s monthly screening strand for new and classic queer cinema and events.
Victim Sat 23 Jan at 3.45pm & Sun 24 Jan at 6.15pm Basil Dearden • UK 1961 • 1h41m • Digital • PG – Contains mild language and sex references Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, John Barrie, Peter McEnery, Nigel Stock.
A fascinating slice of social history. Bogarde plays a homosexual barrister being blackmailed by a young man who commits suicide when arrested. Bogarde can either shut up or come out, and opts for the latter, putting a strain on his marriage and his reputation. Bogarde, the Rank matinee idol, risked almost everything by playing the role, and he gives an open and sincere performance, with Sylvia Syms also excellent as his appalled but supportive wife. A landmark in British cinema, Victim was the first mainstream English-language film to portray homosexuality sympathetically – something for which it was initially denied US censorship approval. An explicit protest against the laws then outlawing homosexual acts, the film had a significant influence on social attitudes and is said to have led indirectly to the repeal of these laws in England and Wales in 1967. This month, Filmhouse also screens acclaimed indie drama Tangerine and Tom Hooper directs Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl.
OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR
THEFIRSTWORLDWARINCINEMA
Oh! What a Lovely War Thu 28 Jan at 8.00pm Richard Attenborough • UK 1969 • 2h24m • Digital • PG Cast: Joe Melia, Colin Farrell, Paul Shelley, Angela Thorne, Mary Wimbush, Corin Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Michael Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, John Mills.
Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut is a highlystylised musical satire featuring some of Britain’s very finest actors. After an opening that finds Europe’s heads of state choosing up sides when Archduke Franz Ferdinand is killed during a royal photo session, the film traces the First World War through a series of surreal set pieces, alternating between the front lines in France and the English homefront, where generals and diplomats conduct a distant war that is actually waged by the young and poor. But, despite the world forces in play, the film instead focusses on the Smith family – and its sons, who, seduced into the service in the carnival atmosphere of Brighton, find themselves dying for their country one by one. The First World War in Cinema is four-year series of films, programmed in association with the University of Edinburgh, that relate to the First World War, some dated to coincide with the real events of 100 years ago and others which are not tied to specific dates.
THE CHEVIOT, THE STAG AND THE BLACK, BLACK OIL
Scotland Galore! A season of great films set in Scotland, screening as part of the Edinburgh Hogmanay Festival. www.edinburghshogmanay.com
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil Fri 1 Jan at 3.45pm 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.
Scotland Galore!
LOCAL HERO
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
Brigadoon
Whisky Galore!
Fri 1 Jan at 6.00pm & Sun 3 Jan at 3.35pm
Sat 2 Jan at 6.15pm
Vincente Minnelli • USA 1954 • 1h48m • 35mm • U Cast: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart.
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.
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...
Local Hero Sat 2 Jan at 3.45pm Bill Forsyth • UK 1983 • 1h51m • Digital • PG Cast: Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson, Peter Capaldi.
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.”
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Sun 3 Jan at 6.00pm 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.
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.
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THE ILLUSIONIST
The Illusionist
L’illusionniste Mon 4 Jan at 4.00pm
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-the-hill 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.
What We Did on Our Holiday Mon 4 Jan at 6.00pm 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.
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 heart-warming, uplifting comedy. TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off These offers are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.
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University of Edinburgh Short Courses
University of Edinburgh Short Courses Welcome to the new University of Edinburgh Short Courses starting in January 2016. Italian Cinema offers ten new films in a variety of genres and styles from the 1950s to the present day; Cinema and the Movies looks at how films celebrate the movie theatre in all its forms and shapes; Unsung Heroes of Europeans Cinema invites you to (re) discover masters of cinema that textbooks sometimes forget about and Director in Focus surveys the work of the great Jean Renoir. Join us in the New Year to discuss exciting films and celebrate cinema! Martine Pierquin Course Organiser For course details and how to enrol go to: www.ed.ac.uk/short-courses Contact us: oll@ed.ac.uk; tel 0131 650 4400
Italian Cinema
Unsung Heroes of European Cinema
Pasquale Iannone With a new line-up of films every year, this course offers an exciting overview of one of the world’s most important national cinemas. We will explore a variety of genres and styles (dramas, comedies, westerns and more) while discussing the work of both canonical and lesser known figures in Italian cinema.
Rolland Man Many courses and textbooks on cinema mention only moments of innovation and the main artistic currents. However, the history of cinema is a continuum and the original work of individual filmmakers (some of them seen as “minor masters”) often provides the link between different schools and generations. This course explores the work of several such European directors
Dates: Mondays from 11 January 2016 (10 weeks) Class Times: 18:30 - 21:20 Fee: £110/£73 conc.
Dates: Tuesdays from 12 January 2016 (10 classes) Class Times: 18:30 - 21:20 Fee: £110/£73 conc.
Cinemas and the Movies: An Exploration of the History of Film Exhibition Derek Wilson The nickelodeon, the picture palace, the movie theater, the pictures, the flicks; cinemas in their various forms have had a major influence on individuals, societies and cultures since their humble beginnings. Through extracts, shorts and feature films we explore the relationship between film exhibition and film audience. Dates: Tuesdays from 12 January 2016 (10 weeks) Class Times: 14:10 - 17:00 Fee: £110/£73 conc.
Director in Focus: Jean Renoir Jim Dunnigan An examination of the films of Jean Renoir exploring the ideology of Renoir’s work, its social and political backdrop and his relationship with French and Hollywood Cinema. The course seeks to establish how the social, historical and political context of his films, beyond directorial personality, gave his work a distinct stamp. Dates: Thursdays from 14 January 2016 (10 classes) Class Times: 18:30 - 21:20 Fee: £110/£73 conc.
Education and Learning
PAPER PLANES
BELLE & SEBASTIAN - THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
HE NAMED ME MALALA
ONCE IN A LIFETIME (LES HÉRITIERS)
Education and Learning Filmhouse offers schools the opportunity to engage with a variety of film which support moving image literacy and subjects including modern languages and social studies. For more information email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk or call Nicola Kettlewood or Jenny Leask on 0131 228 6382. Details at www.filmhousecinema.com/learning Screenings for Schools Tickets £3 per pupil, teachers go free. To book email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk or phone 0131 228 2688 and ask for the Duty Manager Paper Planes (1h37m, cert U) Tue 19 Jan, 10am • P3-P7 • Health & Wellbeing, Expressive Arts 12-year-old Dylan might not have the latest phone, but when a teacher shows him how to make the perfect paper plane, his imagination and enthusiasm know no limits. Belle & Sebastian – The Adventure Continues (Belle et Sébastien, l’aventure continue) (1h38m, French with English subtitles, cert PG) Wed 20 Jan, 10am • P4-S3 • Modern Languages (French) 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. He Named Me Malala (1h27m, cert PG) Thu 21 Jan, 10am • S1-S6 • Social Studies, Religious & Moral Education | An inspiring documentary about the remarkable, courageous young activist Malala Yousafzai. Once in a Lifetime (Les héritiers) - Screening for Holocaust Memorial Day (1h44m, French with English subtitles, recommended cert 15) Tue 26 Jan, 10am • S4-S6 • Religious & Moral Education, Modern Languages (French), History | The lives of a group of troubled inner city students are changed forever when their history teacher enters them in a high school competition on the theme of what it meant to be a teenager in a Nazi concentration camp. Inside Hana’s Suitcase - Screening for Holocaust Memorial Day (1h28m, English, Czech and Japanese with English subtitles, recommended cert PG) Wed 27 Jan, 10am • P6-S3 • Religious & Moral Education, History | A group of Japanese schoolchildren unravel the story of Hana Brady, who was just a little girl when she and her brother George were singled out as Jews, and sent away from home by the Nazis.
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Education and Learning (cont.)
What’s the Grey Matter with Gregory? Mon 11 Jan – Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling Tue 12 Jan – Eden Court Theatre, Inverness Mon 18 Jan – Summerhall, Edinburgh An innovative free learning event for S1-S4 pupils studying science and psychology. For more information go to www.filmhousecinema.com/learning/schools-and-teachers/gregory Abronhill High School appears to be undergoing a rather strange outbreak of ‘flirtatiousness’ that the authorities are none too pleased with! The Department for the Investigation of Amorous Disorders (D.I.A.D.) have been called in to help us understand what has befallen those students at Abronhill High. And that is where your students come in! During the course of the day, your students (as scientists from D.I.A.D.) will step into the 1980s and the strange world of Abronhill High, meeting the students, observing their behaviour and taking part in a series of workshops delivered by our partners from universities throughout the UK. Your students will meet and work alongside PhD scientists as they examine the influence that psychology and hormones hold over human behaviour… • What are the key psychological factors that lead to human attraction? • Do we have cognitive control or are we just responding to hormonal influences? • What considerations must we make when managing our relations? Students will develop the key literacy and laboratory skill of observation throughout the day as they devise and regularly revise their hypotheses; and they will gain an appreciation of (and hopefully love for!) the classic British film, Gregory’s Girl. Suitable for S1 - S4, and key benefits are: • Free for students and teachers to attend • Students will work directly with PhD researchers in Psychology and Endocrinology • Opportunity for science department to show cross-curricular approach that embraces the Arts and PSHE • Immersive education approaches have been proven to help students access ‘deep learning’ • Project-based learning approach with workshops developed by ‘outstanding’ teachers
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