Filmhouse January 2014

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The Railway Man August: Osage County The Armstrong Lie Saving Mr Banks The Patience Stone All is Lost Kiss the Water Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie Dark Visions 10 from 13 Screening Irish History Introduction to European Cinema

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INDEX 14-15 25 27

10 from 13 10-11 12 Years a Slave 6 Alice in the Cities 21 All Is Lost 6 The Armstrong Lie 7 August: Osage County 7 Bad Education 21 Beau travail 22 La Belle et la Bête 18 Besa: The Promise 22 Bicycle Thieves 20 Blancanieves 10 Blue is the Warmest Colour 11 Blue Jasmine 11 The Border 9 Brigadoon 12 The Brothers 12 Closely Observed Trains 21 Come and See...

19 Dancer in the Dark 22 Dark Visions 16-19 Daughters of Darkness 18 Day of Wrath 18 Dead of Night 16 Les Demoiselles de Rochefort 20 Education and Learning 26 Elena 22 Faust 19 Filmhouse Cafe Bar & Quiz 26 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Membership 28 Frances Ha 10 Frankenstein + Bride of Frankenstein 17 From the Archives: Scotland on Film 12 Frozen 25 Gaslight 17 Goin’ South 9 Gone with the Wind 5 Good Vibrations 24 Gravity 11 Hunger 25 The Illusionist 12

Introduction to European Cinema 20-22 Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie 8-9 Journey to Italy 21 Kings 25 Mary Poppins 5 The Masque of the Red Death 17 Morgiana 18 Mud 10 The Night of the Hunter 19 No 11 Nothing But a Man 10 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 9 The Patience Stone 5 The Pledge 9 The Railway Man 6 Retrieving Scotland’s Slavery Past: A Lecture by Professor Tom Devine 7 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 20 Saving Mr Banks 5 Scotland Galore!

12 Screening Irish History 24-25 The Selfish Giant 11 The Stoker 11 Turbo 25 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders 18 Wake in Fright 19 Weans’ World 25 The Wind That Shakes the Barley 24 The Witches of Eastwick 8 Wolf Children 25

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AUDIODESCRIPTIONANDSUBTITLES In all three screens we have a system which enables us, whenever the necessary digital files are available, to show onscreen subtitles 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 Saving Mr Banks, Blue Jasmine, Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, All Is Lost, August: Osage County and The Armstrong Lie will have audio description, and the following screenings will also have subtitles: Saving Mr Banks: Sun 5 Jan, 1.20pm 12 Years a Slave: Sun 19 Jan, 2.00pm All Is Lost: Mon 20 Jan, 6.10pm August: Osage County: Sun 26 Jan, 2.45pm The Armstrong Lie: Sat 1 Feb, 1.05pm

FORCRYINGOUTLOUD Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Babychanging, bottle-warming and buggy parking facilities are available.

Saving Mr Banks: Mon 6 Jan, 11am Blancanieves: Mon 13 Jan, 11am All Is Lost: Mon 20 Jan, 11am Blue Jasmine: Mon 27 Jan, 11am The Night of the Hunter: Mon 3 Feb, 11am

We are currently undergoing some essential remedial works to upgrade our boilers, water supply, heating control systems and back room facilities. These works will result in significant improvements in energy and operational efficiency for Filmhouse. There may be some occasional noise disruption and access issues to Cinemas 2 and 3 during these works. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience, and be assured we are working with our contractors to keep this to a minimum.

Introduction

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

THE ARMSTRONG LIE

12 YEARS A SLAVE

THE RAILWAY MAN

Happy New Year, fellow film lovers…

You may have noticed this document is a little lighter than the last few editions. Well that’s awards season for you. The release schedules get so crammed with awards hopefuls that we know you’ll all be keen to see, it leaves us little room for the usual plethora. In the run up to the season, film distributors can be seen jockeying for the best position for their films, that being defined, in part, by them considering their film to be the best released that week for its particular demographic. The prime spot would appear to be the second week of January – the ‘King’s Speech’ date as I’ve heard it called, 10 January this year – which had been occupied but subsequently vacated by George Clooney’s The Monuments Men (which was put back to February to give, reportedly, the film more time in post-production) but which was quickly and shrewdly pounced upon by the distributor of 12 Years A Slave. The Railway Man had been dated for 1 January, but very late in the day (so late in the day we already had our screenings on sale!) its distributor decided to move away from a clash with Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, presumably – and I’m guessing here – in response to world events being assessed to have some influence on the box office potential of that film. It’s a crazy time – there have been a good few other ‘movers’ too – but hopefully they’ll now all stay where they are!

We’ve plumped for Steve McQueen’s extraordinary 12 Years A Slave (Best Film Oscar? I reckon so…), which tells the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a New York State citizen who was kidnapped and made to work on a plantation in New Orleans in the 1800s; The Railway Man, which stars Colin Firth as Eric Lomax (on whose best-selling autobiography the film is based), a Berwick man traumatised by his experiences in a Japanese POW camp in WWII; August: Osage County is the film of Tracy Lett’s play set around a disastrous family reunion, which features a host of acting masterclasses led by Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts; and Alex Gibney’s The Armstrong Lie details the disgraced, performance-enhancing drug-taking, former 7-times Tour de France winner’s spectacular fall from grace. We haven’t got on all the films we would want to (we simply don’t have the room!) but rest assured we’ll bring you the best of the rest of the season in the coming months.

There’s a chance to catch up on the films that I [rather self-importantly] consider to be the best 10 released in 2013, and our Dark Visions and Jack Nicholson seasons conclude, and include a very rare 35mm screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Unmissable, I would think…

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse P.S. - Check overleaf for Filmhouse Explorer, a new way for you to see more films for less money!

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Filmhouse Explorer

12 YEARS A SLAVE

THE RAILWAY MAN

DARK VISIONS - DAY OF WRATH

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.

At the risk of merely stating the obvious, here’s an example: you excitedly buy your ticket for 12 Years a Slave, and with that ticket comes a voucher telling you about the ticket deal. You scour our programme and spot that One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which you love but have never seen in a cinema before, is screening as part of our Jack Nicholson season on 21 January.

You hand your voucher in at the Box Office, and see the film for half the cost of a full price ticket, in this case £4.10. Voilà!

We’ve marked the films and seasons involved with a wee logo to make them easier to spot, and you can also find them on our website at www.filmhousecinema.com/tickets Happy Exploring!

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12 Years a Slave (page 6)

Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie (pages 8-9)

The Railway Man (page 6)

Dark Visions (pages 16-19)

August: Osage County (page 7)

10 from 13 (pages 10-11)

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

SAVING MR BANKS

MARY POPPINS

MAYBEYOUMISSED

GONE WITH THE WIND

RESTOREDCLASSIC

THE PATIENCE STONE

NEWRELEASE

Saving Mr Banks

Gone with the Wind

The Patience Stone Syngue Sabour

Wed 1 to Thu 9 Jan

Sun 29 Dec at 1.00pm & Fri 3 Jan at 1.00pm + 6.00pm

Mon 6 to Thu 9 Jan

John Lee Hancock • USA/UK/Australia 2013 • 2h5m DCP • PG – Contains scenes of emotional upset Cast: Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti.

In his quest to obtain the film rights to Mary Poppins, Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) invites curmudgeonly author PL Travers (Emma Thompson) to LA in order to sell her the Disney vision. Despite Disney’s charm offensive, Mrs Travers has no intention of letting her book undergo a Hollywood makeover, and she becomes increasingly immovable. It is only when Disney reaches into Travers’ own past that he discovers how to make Mary Poppins become a reality.

RESTOREDCLASSIC

Mary Poppins Sat 11 & Sun 12 Jan Robert Stevenson • USA 1964 • 2h19m DCP • U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Jones, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber.

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

Victor Fleming • USA 1939 • 3h53m plus 15-minute intermission DCP • PG – Contains mild violence and dated discriminatory terms Cast: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Thomas Mitchell, Hattie McDaniel.

Now the beneficiary of a 4K digital restoration, David O Selznick’s production of Margaret Mitchell’s best-seller remains the pinnacle of polished Hollywood storytelling and craftsmanship. Despite a lengthy genesis which involved several directors and numerous writers, the completed film is a remarkably coherent account of the novel, and successfully balances the larger backdrop – the seismic changes affecting the South at the time of the American Civil War – with the more intimate story of Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh), a petulant belle wreaking havoc on others in her pursuit of Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) and her dealings with Rhett Butler (Clark Gable). The cast – which also boasts Olivia de Havilland as Ashley’s wife Melanie – does an excellent job; but it is as a sumptuous historical romance that the film most impresses, with superlative art direction, music and lush Technicolor camerawork. With so many big-name collaborators, one wonders who should take credit for the film’s enduring success: Selznick? Fleming? Leigh? (All three were among the film’s ten Oscar-winners.) Frankly, my dears, I don’t give a damn... - Geoff Andrew, BFI

Atiq Rahimi • Afghanistan/France/Germany/UK 2012 1h42m • DCP • Persian with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong sex references and occasional gore Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Hassina Burgan, Massi Mrowat, Mohamed Al Maghraoui.

Somewhere in the Middle East, a young woman tends to her comatose husband in their bomb-shelled bedroom.

Fighting rages outside while she clings to the hope – embodied by the film’s vivid, transformative hues – that he will wake up and recover consciousness.

From this deceptively simple but richly metaphorical premise, director Atiq Rahimi’s Oscar-tipped adaptation of his own novel gradually turns the table on the patriarchal society into which the wife – in a spectacular performance

by Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani – was born. Free to speak openly for the first time, she begins to reveal her deepest secrets and desires, setting the stage for a breathless climax that will leave audiences surprised and hopeful.

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Main features

12 YEARS A SLAVE

NEWRELEASE

THE RAILWAY MAN

NEWRELEASE

ALL IS LOST

NEWRELEASE

12 Years a Slave

The Railway Man

All Is Lost

Showing from Fri 10 Jan

Showing from Fri 10 Jan

Fri 17 to Thu 23 Jan

Steve McQueen • USA/UK 2013 • 2h14m • DCP 15 – Contains strong violence, injury detail, sex, nudity and racist terms Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Kelsey Scott.

Jonathan Teplitzky • Australia/UK 2013 • 1h56m • DCP 15 – Contains a scene of torture and moderate violence Cast: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård, Hiroyuki Sanada, Jeremy Irvine.

JC Chandor • USA 2013 • 1h46m • DCP 12A – Contains one use of strong language Cast: Robert Redford.

Steve McQueen (Hunger, Shame) confirms his directorial prowess with a film of momentous importance and expanded cinematic scope in which he tackles head-on the long-untouchable subject of slavery.

Solomon (an extraordinary performance from Chiwetel Ejiofor) is an accomplished violinist living as a free man in New York who is conned into joining a travelling show then brutally abducted and sold as a slave. When his comparatively benevolent first owner Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) sells him to abusive, demented plantation boss Epps (Michael Fassbender), any chance to prove the illegitimacy of his situation seems lost.

After the 5.40pm screening on Monday 20 January there will be an open discussion on the issues raised by the film, led by a representative of the Humanist Society of Scotland. Humanism is an ethical stance which asserts that we can lead good lives guided by compassion and reason, rather than religion or superstition. Humanists are vitally concerned with issues that affect our world.

See page 7 for ‘Retrieving Scotland’s Slavery Past’, a free lecture by Professor Tom Devine, OBE, on Sun 19 Jan.

Based on Eric Lomax’s extraordinary autobiography, The Railway Man is a powerful tale of survival, love and redemption.

Eric (Colin Firth) is a quiet, middle-aged radio and railway enthusiast. He meets kind, sunny Patti (Nicole Kidman) one afternoon on a Scottish train. A whirlwind courtship and wedding follow, but on their wedding night, and for many nights to come, Eric succumbs to graphic, paralysing nightmares. He provides Patti no explanation.

Confused and hurt by her new husband’s remoteness, Patti turns to Eric’s friend Finlay (Stellan Skarsgård), who finally discloses her husband’s harrowing secret: along with thousands of other British soldiers captured by the Japanese during the Second World War, Eric was forced to work on the construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway – the so-called Death Railway.

Please note the release date of this film was changed after tickets for screenings from 1-9 January went on sale. If you bought tickets for screenings on these dates, please contact the box office to exchange them.

The first time we meet Robert Redford’s nameless protagonist in JC Chandor’s masterful All Is Lost (his follow-up to the Oscar-nominated Margin Call), his sailboat is flooding, the result of a collision with a stray shipping container in the middle of the Indian Ocean. From that straightforward introduction unfolds a remarkable tale of survival in the face of maritime misfortune – for, as the title suggests, it only gets worse from there.

For the audience, this a rare gift: a masterclass in minimalist acting from one of the true icons of cinema. In a virtually wordless, tour-de-force performance, Redford reminds us that he’s always been one of film’s greatest listeners – keenly observant and enormously expressive with the subtlest of gestures. And so it is here, as he conveys resourcefulness, resilience and primal fear in supple, understated strokes.

Main features

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

NEWRELEASE

THE ARMSTRONG LIE

NEWRELEASE

August: Osage County

The Armstrong Lie

Showing from Fri 24 Jan

Showing from Fri 31 Jan

John Wells • USA 2013 • 2h10m • DCP 15 – Contains strong language, once very strong Cast: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Dermot Mulroney, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Sam Shepard.

Alex Gibney • USA 2013 • 2h4m • DCP 15 – Contains strong language • Documentary

Based on the award-winning play by Tracy Letts, and featuring an extraordinary cast on top form, August: Osage County tells the dark, hilarious, and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house in which they grew up, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

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 coffee and a traycake for only £7!

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 5.00pm that day only. Offer is subject to availability and only available in person.

Heroes rarely fall from grace with the velocity of Lance Armstrong. Aiming to capture the cancer survivor’s inspirational bid for an eighth Tour de France title, Oscarwinning director Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks) instead found himself dedicating four years to documenting a scandal that the US Anti-Doping Agency would ultimately deem “the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.” However, it’s not just the elaborate nature of Armstrong’s deception that renders Gibney’s film so fascinating. It’s also the insight it affords us into a guarded figure who has previously admitted his guilt but otherwise revealed nothing. The director’s unprecedented access to Armstrong and characteristic rigour culminate in a compelling investigation of the ethics of winning.

“Alex Gibney delivers not just a detailed, full-access account of his subject, in all his defiance, hubris and tentative self-reckoning, but also a layered inquiry into the culture of competitiveness, celebrity, moral relativism and hypocrisy.” - Variety

PROFESSOR TOM DEVINE

SPECIALEVENT

Retrieving Scotland’s Slavery Past: A Lecture by Professor Tom Devine Sun 19 Jan, 4.00pm - 5.00pm Traditionally the Scots have denied their involvement in the British slave trade and economic systems in the Americas and the Caribbean. This lecture will present a dramatically different perspective on the historical reality and try to explain the nation’s amnesia on this dark aspect of the Scottish past.

Filmhouse is delighted to welcome Professor Tom Devine, OBE, to deliver this lecture during our run of 12 Years A Slave (see page 6).

Professor Tom Devine is the leading authority on the history of modern Scotland, and has written or edited around three dozen books on the subject. His main research interest is the history of the Scottish nation since c.1600 and its global connections and impact, and Professor Devine is currently Personal Senior Research Professor of History, University of Edinburgh.

This event is free, tickets available from the box office.

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Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie

THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK

GOIN’ SOUTH

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST

Drambuie brings you A Taste of the Extraordinary...

The Witches of Eastwick

Jack Nicholson

George Miller • USA 1987 • 1h58m • 35mm • 18 Cast: Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright, Richard Jenkins.

Jack Nicholson is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director who is not only one of three men to win a record three Oscars, but is also the most nominated male actor ever, with twelve Oscar nominations in total. We are delighted to present this retrospective, which includes films that explore the depths of Nicholson’s extraordinary career spanning over five decades (amongst his records, he is also one of only two actors to receive Oscar nods in every decade from the 1960s-2000s). The season will showcase the complex and memorable characters that he has created and portrayed over the years.

This is the seventh special season of films showcased in partnership with Drambuie, who, we are delighted to announce, have recently renewed their partnership with Filmhouse through to at least September 2014. Drambuie’s ongoing financial support allows Filmhouse to screen unique cinematic programmes that showcase extraordinary filmmakers, actors and actresses that have made a lasting impact on cultural society as well as film history. Alongside these extraordinary films, audiences can experience Drambuie’s unique blend of Scotch whisky, spices and heather honey in an array of bespoke cocktails at our Café Bar, created to celebrate each season. And over the cold winter months, look out for the special Drambuie Hot Apple Toddy!

For updates and giveaways on Drambuie’s ‘A Taste of the Extraordinary’ cinema seasons here at Filmhouse, visit facebook.com/UKDrambuie or @Drambuie.

Mon 6 Jan at 3.10pm & Tue 7 Jan at 6.10pm

Three bored, sexually repressed New England women – Alex (Cher), Jane (Susan Sarandon), and Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer) – accidentally conjure up a mysterious stranger after they spend an evening drinking martinis and fantasising about their ideal man. The next day, Daryl Van Horne (Jack Nicholson), filthy rich, wild-eyed Devil incarnate, arrives in town, and strange things begin to happen...

Filmhouse, in partnership with Drambuie, will be hosting a panel discussion following the screening of The Witches of Eastwick on Tuesday 7 January. Guests will enjoy complimentary Drambuie cocktails as well as a discussion on Jack Nicholson’s acting styles and character development throughout his career. Panellists will include Pasquale Iannone from the University of Edinburgh and Alan Morrison from The Herald.

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.

Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST

THE BORDER

Goin’ South

The Border

Wed 8 Jan at 3.15pm & Thu 9 Jan at 8.45pm

Mon 27 Jan at 6.00pm & Tue 28 Jan at 3.15pm

Jack Nicholson • USA 1978 • 1h48m • 35mm • PG Cast: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Veronica Cartwright.

Tony Richardson • USA 1982 • 1h48m • 35mm English and Spanish with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates, Elpidia Carrillo.

Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the while to escape at the first possible opportunity. But Tate insists that he honour his end of the bargain, and puts him to work on the gold mine that she has on her property. A beguiling, offbeat comedy Western with Nicholson taking on the role of director as well as star.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Tue 21 Jan at 8.45pm Milos Forman • USA 1975 • 2h14m • 35mm • 18 Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, Christopher Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Danny De Vito.

Ken Kesey’s grim satire of institutionalised authority, bracingly filmed by Milos Forman and featuring a bravura performance from Jack Nicholson that earned him his first Best Actor Oscar. Wisecracking Randle P McMurphy (Nicholson) escapes the rigours of prison life by pretending to be crazy. Shipped to a mental asylum, he becomes the prisoner of a much more hateful system, presided over by a quietly sadistic head nurse (Louise Fletcher).

With thanks to the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.

Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) is an El Paso border guard, saddled with an avaricious wife. Hoping to stifle her nagging about money matters, Charlie begins accepting payoffs to allow Mexican aliens to cross the border without interference. This leads to a relationship with a young Mexican woman (Elpidia Carrillo). Harvey Keitel and Warren Oates lend strong support to this atmospheric drama.

N.B. This 35mm print, the only one available to us, is somewhat faded and pink in colour but in otherwise good condition.

The Pledge Wed 29 Jan at 5.50pm & Thu 30 Jan at 3.05pm Sean Penn • USA 2001 • 2h3m • 35mm 15 – Contains strong violence, child abuse and crime scene images Cast: Jack Nicholson, Patricia Clarkson, Benicio Del Toro, Robin Wright-Penn, Aaron Eckhart.

Reno policeman Jerry Black (Nicholson) is middle-aged, twice-divorced, and ready to take up his fishing rod and settle into retirement. But his hopes are disturbed by the grisly discovery in the Nevada mountains of a 7-year-old girl’s violated corpse. With heavy heart, Black elects to carry the dreadful news to the girl’s parents, and finds himself making a solemn pledge to her mother (Patricia Clarkson) that he will hunt down the killer.

THE PLEDGE

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10 from 13

NOTHING BUT A MAN

MUD

10 from 13 What, no Alpha Papa?

It’s a lot of fun looking back over the year and picking your top ten, in what has, as the following pages attest, been a very good year.

Lots of arguing, sorry, heated discussion in the office too…

Enjoy!

Rod White Head of Filmhouse

BLANCANIEVES

Nothing But a Man

Blancanieves

Fri 3, Sat 4 & Tue 14 Jan

Sat 4, Sun 5, Tue 14 & Wed 15 Jan

Michael Roemer • USA 1964 • 1h32m DCP • 12A – Contains racism theme and language Cast: Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster, Yaphet Kotto.

Pablo Berger • Spain/France 2012 • 1h42m DCP • Spanish with English subtitles 12A – Contains bullfighting scenes and infrequent moderate sex references Cast: Maribel Verdú, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ángela Molina, Pere Ponce, Macarene García.

A cheeky addition to the list in that it is, in fact, 50 years old… but what the heck, it’s new to us (and, actually, had never been released in the UK before) and is that rare thing these days – a genuine discovery, and undoubtedly a landmark of American Cinema. It tells the story, simply and powerfully, of a young black man trying to navigate his way through employment, marriage and fatherhood in the Deep South of the 1960s. That its director is of white Jewish-German descent makes its realism and poignancy even more remarkable.

TICKETDEALS

Pablo Berger’s thrilling and joyously cinematic ‘silent’ retelling of the Brothers Grimm Snow White story was always likely to struggle with audiences in the wake of The Artist, but that it’s a better film there is no doubt. Berger’s love for silent cinema can be seen in every frame.

Frances Ha Sat 4, Wed 8, Sat 11 & Sun 12 Jan

Mud Fri 3 & Sun 5 Jan

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.

BLUE JASMINE

Jeff Nichols • USA 2012 • 2h10m DCP • 12A – Contains moderate violence and sex references Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Shannon, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland.

Reminiscent of a kind of American cinema prevalent in the 1970s entwined with the Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn stories of Mark Twain, Jeff Nichols’ third feature (Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter) is a brilliant, slow-burning, suspenseful, expansive, Mississippi-set thriller in which two young boys discover a charismatic outlaw hiding out on a deserted river island... The McConaughey Renaissance continues apace – watch out for Dallas Buyers Club later in the year.

Noah Baumbach • USA 2012 • 1h26m DCP • 15 – Contains strong language and sex references Cast: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver.

All indications prior to viewing this film told me it would annoy me. It’s about a naïve (dare I say, ‘kooky’) young woman who really hasn’t found her place in life beyond her student days, and whose dreams of becoming a dancer have not yet been troubled by thoughts she may not quite have the talent for it… But it turns out she’s completely endearing, and the film is blessed with such a brilliantly insightful script (by director Noah Baumbach and Frances herself, Greta Gerwig) and spot-on characterisation, any fears I may have had simply vanished. I met them during EIFF as it happens. They seemed very nice.

10 from 13

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BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR

Blue Jasmine

THE SELFISH GIANT

Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Sat 4, Fri 10, Sun 12, Mon 13 & Tue 14 Jan

La vie d’Adèle

Woody Allen • USA 2013 • 1h38m • DCP 12A – Contains infrequent strong language and moderate references to sex and suicide Cast: Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Peter Sarsgaard.

Sun 5 & Mon 6 Jan

For years and years we’ve been heralding new Woody Allen films as returns to form; how marvellous to finally get to say it without any fear of contradiction! Sure-to-beOscar-nominated Cate Blanchett stars as a Park Avenue socialite whose life takes a dive when the deceptions of her crooked financier husband come to light. This elegant, witty, and compassionate tragicomedy sees Woody at the absolute top of his game.

Well, it wouldn’t do for me to go against the Cannes Palme d’Or jury or the [almost] entire UK critical establishment and not pick this one, now would it? Abdellatif Kechiche’s masterful ‘intimate epic’ tells the tale of the homosexual awakening (and subsequent first love) of a young French girl with astonishing and refreshing openness and honesty, and is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking.

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The Selfish Giant

Sat 4 & Mon 13 Jan

Abdellatif Kechiche • France 2013 • 3h • DCP • French with English subtitles • 18 – Contains strong sex and very strong language Cast: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Jérémie Laheurte, Catherine Salée.

THE STOKER

The Stoker Kochegar Mon 6 & Thu 16 Jan Alexey Balabanov • Russia 2010 • 1h27m DCP • Russian with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong sex, violence and sexual violence Cast: Mikhail Skryabin, Yuri Matveev, Alexander Mosin, Aida Tumutova, Anna Korotayeva.

Ex-Army Major Skryabin tends a furnace in the basement of a block of flats, and turns a blind eye to what his former colleagues-turned-gangsters throw into it. That is, until…

I’ll be honest, the first time I watched this film, at roughly the half hour point, I was still utterly bemused by it. The repetitive score, the stilted dialogue, the acting… but by the end, it all made sense and I was hooked! Given that Alexey Balabanov’s film repped Filmhouse’s first foray into UK film distribution, and the director died tragically at 54 the day after we released it, The Stoker will always have a special place in our hearts.

Sun 5, Wed 8, Wed 15 & Thu 16 Jan

Pablo Larraín • Chile/France/USA 2012 • 1h58m DCP • Spanish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Luis Gnecco.

Clio Barnard • UK 2013 • 1h31m DCP • 15 – Contains strong language, once very strong Cast: Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder, Lorraine Ashbourne, Ian Burfield.

I’ve had to stretch my memory all the way back to February 2013, when Pablo Larrain’s brilliant Oscar®-nominated drama was released. In 1988, President Pinochet arranged a plebiscite (I remember this event introduced me to the word at the time) aimed at having him re-elected for a further eight years by means of popular vote, and the film tells the fascinating story of the attempts of the ‘No’ campaign (led by a reluctant, previously apolitical ad man played by Gael García Bernal) to circumnavigate the State’s considerable attempts to stop them.

Enigmatically based on the short story of the same name by Oscar Wilde (and most likened to Ken Loach’s seminal Kes in reviews on its release), Clio Barnard’s fiction film debut is a tough, uncompromising, devastatingly affecting slice of British realism set amidst the unemployed underclass in Bradford, and tells the story of two young, very different boys and their dealings with a ruthless scrap metal dealer. The best British film of the year, by some margin.

Gravity (3D) Tue 7 & Thu 9 Jan Alfonso Cuarón • USA/UK 2013 • 1h31m • DCP 12A – Contains sustained moderate threat, disturbing images and strong language Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney.

Unaccustomed as I am to raving about films with Sandra Bullock in them, it would be churlish to exclude from this list Alfonso Cuarón’s brilliant piece of mainstream cinema, one of only a handful films that can be said to be truly enhanced by the 3D medium. An astronaut and a scientist (Clooney and Bullock) working on the space shuttle struggle to survive in the aftermath of a catastrophic accident...

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Scotland Galore!

THE ILLUSIONIST

Scotland Galore!

The final screenings in this season of great films set in Scotland, part of the 21st anniversary celebrations of Edinburgh’s 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 BROTHERS

The Brothers

From the Archive: Scotland on Film

Sun 29 Dec at 8.45pm & Sun 5 Jan at 3.30pm

Sun 5 Jan at 4.00pm

David MacDonald • UK 1947 • 1h38m • 35mm • PG Cast: Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe, Maxwell Reed, Finlay Currie, John Laurie, Duncan Macrae.

1h30m • U

The McFarishes and the Macraes are lifelong enemies living on a remote island in the Western Isles. When the McFarishes take on a new servant girl, she forms an attachment to young Fergus Macrae with tragic consequences. David MacDonald’s adaptation of Leonard Strong’s novel perfectly captures the quality of the Scottish ballad, with its air of malevolence, its heartfelt romanticism, lyrical beauty and unbearably tragic climax.

Brigadoon The Illusionist L’illusionniste

Sat 28 Dec at 4.00pm & Fri 3 Jan at 6.30pm Sylvain Chomet • UK/France 2010 • 1h20m • DCP 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.

BRIGADOON

Thu 2 Jan at 6.15pm & Sat 4 Jan at 3.30pm Vincente Minnelli • USA 1954 • 1h48m • 35mm • U Cast: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart.

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 (Cyd 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...

A specially-curated programme from the Scottish Screen Archive – a poetic and entertaining mix of documentary, experimental film and amateur drama.

Films will include Hebridean Highway (back by popular demand after we screened it last year) Calypso and The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo by Margaret Tait, and other gems.

Please note there are no silent films in this programme, although we had previously stated that there would be.

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

1 January - 6 February 2014

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Wed 1 1 1 Jan 2 2 3 3

Saving Mr Banks (AD) Captain Phillips* (AD) The Jungle Book* Nebraska* (AD) Sunshine on Leith* (SG) Captain Phillips* (AD)

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

1.00/3.40 7.00 2.15 4.15/6.45 1.45/7.15 4.00

Mon 1 6 1 Jan 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Thu 2 Jan

1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Saving Mr Banks (AD) 12.45/8.30 The Prime of Miss J. Brodie* (SG) 3.30/6.00 Nebraska* (AD) 1.10/8.45 Saving Mr Banks (AD) 3.35 Brigadoon (SG) 6.15 The Jungle Book* 1.05 Captain Phillips* (AD) 3.00/8.25 Nebraska* (AD) 5.50

Fri 3 Jan

1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Gone with the Wind Wolf Children (WW) Saving Mr Banks (AD) Mud (10) Saving Mr Banks (AD) Nothing But a Man (10) The Illusionist (SG) Dead of Night (DV)

1.00/6.00 12.40 3.00/5.40 8.20 1.10 4.00 6.30 8.45

Sat 4 Jan

1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 3

Wolf Children (WW) Frankenstein + Bride of... (DV) Blancanieves (10) Blue Jasmine (10) (AD) Saving Mr Banks (AD) Frances Ha (10) Nothing But a Man (10) Brigadoon (SG) No (10) Saving Mr Banks (AD)

12.40 3.00 6.15 8.30 1.00/3.40/6.20 9.00 1.15 3.30 6.00 8.35

Sun 5 Jan

1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Wolf Children (WW) Blancanieves (10) From the Archive... (SG) Mud (10) The Masque... Red Death (DV) Saving Mr Banks (AD) + (S) Saving Mr Banks (AD) Blue Is the Warmest Colour (10) Dead of Night (DV) The Brothers (SG) Blancanieves (10) The Selfish Giant (10)

11.00am 1.30 4.00 6.00 8.45 1.20 (subtitled) 4.15 7.00 1.15 3.30 5.45 8.15

* Because the release date of The Railway Man changed after we had gone to print with our previous programme, we have republished the schedule for 1 and 2 January, as some screenings of other films have been added in its place. Films marked with an asterisk on this grid are not listed in this brochure, but information about them can be found in our December brochure or at www.filmhousecinema.com

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SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Saving Mr Banks (B) Saving Mr Banks (AD) La Belle et la Bête (DV) Blue Is the Warmest Colour (10) Blue Is the Warmest Colour (10) Saving Mr Banks (AD) The Stoker (10) The Witches of Eastwick (JN) Gaslight (DV) The Patience Stone

11am (babies/carers) 3.00 5.45 7.55 2.50 6.20 9.00 3.10 6.10 8.30

Tue 14 Jan

Saving Mr Banks (AD) Gravity [3D] (10) (AD) The Patience Stone The Witches of Eastwick (JN) Gaslight (DV) The Patience Stone La Belle et la Bête (DV)

3.00/6.00 8.50 3.15 6.10 + discussion 3.10 6.30 8.45

Wed 1 8 1 Jan 2 2 2 3 3 3

Saving Mr Banks (AD) La Belle et la Bête (DV) Goin’ South (JN) The Selfish Giant (10) Frances Ha (10) La Belle et la Bête (DV) Day of Wrath (DV) The Patience Stone

3.00/6.00 8.45 3.15 6.15 8.25 3.10 6.10 8.30

Thu 9 Jan

1 1 2 2 3 3 3

Saving Mr Banks (AD) Gravity [3D] (10) (AD) The Patience Stone La Belle et la Bête (DV) Day of Wrath (DV) La Belle et la Bête (DV) Goin’ South (JN)

3.00/6.00 8.50 3.15/6.15 8.30 3.10 6.10 8.45

Fri 10 Jan

1 2 3 3

12 Years a Slave (AD) The Railway Man The Railway Man Blue Jasmine (10) (AD)

2.30/5.40/8.30 3.45/6.15/8.45 3.00/8.00 5.45

Sat 11 Jan

1 1 2 2 3 3 3

12 Years a Slave (AD) Daughters of Darkness (DV) Mary Poppins The Railway Man The Railway Man Frances Ha (10) 12 Years a Slave (AD)

1.00/4.00/7.00 10.00 12.45 3.45/6.15/8.45 1.10/5.45 3.40 8.30

Sun 12 Jan

1 2 2 3 3 3

12 Years a Slave (AD) Mary Poppins The Railway Man The Railway Man Blue Jasmine (10) (AD) Frances Ha (10)

2.30/5.40/8.30 1.00 3.45/6.15/8.45 1.10/8.00 3.40 6.00

Tue 21 Jan

Mon 1 13 1 Jan 2 3 3

Blancanieves (10) (B) 12 Years a Slave (AD) The Railway Man No (10) Blue Jasmine (10) (AD)

11am (babies/carers) 2.45/5.40/8.30 3.15/6.15/8.45 3.00/6.00 8.40

Wed 1 22 2 Jan 3 3

Tue 7 Jan

1 1 2 2 3 3 3

1 2 3 3 3

Wed 1 15 2 Jan 3 3 3 Thu 16 Jan

1 2 3 3 3

SCREENING TIMES

12 Years a Slave (AD) The Railway Man Blue Jasmine (10) (AD) Blancanieves (10) Nothing But a Man (10)

2.45/5.40/8.30 3.15/6.15/8.45 3.00 6.00 8.20

12 Years a Slave (AD) The Railway Man Blancanieves (10) Bicycle Thieves (EC) The Selfish Giant (10)

2.45/5.40/8.30 3.15/6.15/8.45 3.00 6.00 + intro 8.15

12 Years a Slave (AD) The Railway Man The Selfish Giant (10) The Stoker (10) Valerie and Her Week... (DV)

2.45/5.40/8.30 3.15/6.10/8.40 3.00 6.00 8.45

Fri 1 12 Years a Slave (AD) 17 2 The Railway Man Jan 3 All Is Lost (AD)

2.45/5.40/8.30 3.00/6.00/8.45 3.15/6.15/8.50

Sat 18 Jan

Turbo (WW) 12 Years a Slave (AD) The Wind That Shakes... (IH) The Railway Man All Is Lost (AD) The Railway Man

1.00 3.00/5.50/8.40 2.30 + discussion 6.15/8.45 1.10/6.20/8.50 3.45

Sun 1 19 1 Jan 1 2 2

3 3

Turbo (WW) 12 Years a Slave (AD) + (S) 12 Years a Slave (AD) The Railway Man Retrieving Scotland’s Slavery Past: A Lecture by Prof Tom Devine All Is Lost (AD) The Railway Man

11.00am 2.00 (subtitled) 5.00/8.00 1.15/5.30/8.15

Mon 1 20 1 Jan 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

All Is Lost (B) 12 Years a Slave (AD) 12 Years a Slave (AD) All Is Lost (AD) The Railway Man All Is Lost (AD) + (S) 12 Years a Slave (AD) All Is Lost (AD) The Railway Man

11am (babies/carers) 2.45 5.40 + discussion 9.00 3.00 6.10 (subtitled) 8.30 3.15 6.00/8.45

12 Years a Slave (AD) One Flew Over the... (JN) The Railway Man All Is Lost (AD) 12 Years a Slave (AD) All Is Lost (AD) The Railway Man

2.45/5.40 8.45 3.00 6.10 8.30 3.15 6.00/8.40

12 Years a Slave (AD) The Railway Man All Is Lost (AD) Saturday Night & Sunday... (EC)

2.45/5.40/8.30 3.00/6.00/8.45 3.15/8.40 6.15 + intro

1 1 2 2 3 3

1 1 2 2 2 3 3

4.00 (FREE) 1.10/6.20/8.50 3.45

WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Thu 23 Jan

1 2 3 3

12 Years a Slave (AD) The Railway Man All Is Lost (AD) Morgiana (DV)

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

2.45/5.40/8.30 3.00/6.00/8.40 3.15/6.15 8.45

Sun 2 Feb

Fri 1 August: Osage County (AD) 24 2 12 Years a Slave (AD) Jan 3 The Railway Man

3.35/6.10/8.45 2.45/5.40/8.30 3.15/6.00/8.40

Sat 1 August: Osage County (AD) 25 2 12 Years a Slave (AD) Jan 3 The Railway Man

1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45 2.45/5.40/8.30 1.10/3.40/6.15/8.50

August: Osage County (AD) Faust (DV) Wake in Fright August: Osage County (AD) + (S) August: Osage County (AD) 12 Years a Slave (AD) The Railway Man 12 Years a Slave (AD)

1.00/9.00 4.00 6.40 2.45 (subtitled) 5.30 8.15 1.10/3.40/8.55 6.10

Mon 1 27 1 Jan 2 2 3 3

Blue Jasmine (10) (B) August: Osage County (AD) 12 Years a Slave (AD) The Border (JN) The Railway Man Besa: The Promise

11am (babies/carers) 3.10/5.45/8.40 3.00/8.30 6.00 3.15/8.45 6.15

1 2 2 3

August: Osage County (AD) The Border (JN) 12 Years a Slave (AD) The Railway Man

3.10/6.00/8.40 3.15 5.40/8.30 3.00/6.10/8.45

Wed 1 29 2 Jan 2 3 3

August: Osage County (AD) 12 Years a Slave (AD) The Pledge (JN) The Railway Man Les Demoiselles de... (EC)

3.10/5.45/8.40 3.00/8.30 5.50 3.15/8.45 6.00 + intro

Thu 30 Jan

1 2 2 3

August: Osage County (AD) The Pledge (JN) 12 Years a Slave (AD) The Railway Man

3.10/6.00/8.40 3.05 5.40/8.30 3.15/6.10/8.45

Fri 31 Jan

1 1 2 2 3 3

12 Years a Slave (AD) August: Osage County (AD) August: Osage County (AD) 12 Years a Slave (AD) The Armstrong Lie (AD) The Railway Man

3.00/8.25 5.50 3.10/8.40 5.45 3.15/8.30 6.00

Sat 1 Feb

1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Frozen (WW) 12 Years a Slave (AD) August: Osage County (AD) Good Vibrations (IH) 12 Years a Slave (AD) August: Osage County (AD) The Armstrong Lie (AD) + (S) The Railway Man The Armstrong Lie (AD)

1.00 3.10/8.35 6.00 2.30 + discussion 5.50 8.40 1.05 (subtitled) 3.40/6.10 8.45

Sun 26 Jan

Tue 28 Jan

1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

1 January - 6 February 2014

1 1 1 2 2 3 3

Mon 1 3 1 Feb 1 2 2 3 3

Frozen (WW) August: Osage County (AD) 12 Years a Slave (AD) 12 Years a Slave (AD) August: Osage County (AD) The Armstrong Lie (AD) The Railway Man

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

11.00am 3.10/8.35 5.45 2.00/7.45 5.00 1.05/6.10 3.40/8.45

TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION

The Night of the Hunter (DV) (B) 11am (babies/carers) August: Osage County (AD) 3.10/8.35 12 Years a Slave (AD) 5.45 12 Years a Slave (AD) 3.00/8.30 August: Osage County (AD) 5.55 The Railway Man 3.15/8.45 The Armstrong Lie (AD) 6.00

1 1 2 2 2 3 3

August: Osage County (AD) 12 Years a Slave (AD) 12 Years a Slave (AD) August: Osage County (AD) The Night of the Hunter (DV) The Armstrong Lie (AD) The Railway Man

3.10/8.35 5.45 3.00 5.55 8.45 3.15/6.00 8.40

Wed 1 5 1 Feb 2 2 3 3 3

12 Years a Slave (AD) August: Osage County (AD) August: Osage County (AD) The Night of the Hunter (DV) The Armstrong Lie (AD) Closely Observed Trains (EC) The Railway Man

3.00/8.25 5.50 3.10/8.40 6.15 3.15 6.00 + intro 8.20

1 1 2 2 3 3

12 Years a Slave (AD) August: Osage County (AD) August: Osage County (AD) The Night of the Hunter (DV) The Railway Man The Armstrong Lie (AD)

3.00/5.45 8.40 3.10/5.50 8.45 3.15/6.00 8.30

Tue 4 Feb

Thu 6 Feb

KEY (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2) (S) – Subtitled (see page 2) All screenings in 2D unless marked [3D] SEASONS: (JN) – Jack Nicholson: Presented by Drambuie (8-9) (10) – 10 from 13 (10-11) (SG) – Scotland Galore! (12) (DV) – Dark Visions (16-19) (EC) – Intro to European Cinema (20-22) (IH) – Screening Irish History (24-25) (WW) – Weans’ World (25) Full index of films on page 2

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME SCREENING TIMES

MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thu: £6.50 full price, £4.50 concessions Friday Matinees: £5.00/£3.50 concessions Sat - Sun: £8.20 full price, £6.00 concessions EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later) £8.20 full price, £6.00 concessions All tickets to Weans’ World screenings (marked WW on grid) are £3.50. Tickets for children under 12 are £3.50 for any screening.

For screenings in 3D add £2 to ticket price.

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

We participate in the Orange Wednesdays 2 for 1 scheme.

There are usually ticket deals available on film seasons.

All performances are bookable in advance, in person, online at www.filmhousecinema.com or by phone on 0131 228 2688. We do not charge a fee for bookings made by telephone or on the website. Tickets may also be reserved without payment, in which case they must be collected no later than 30 minutes before the performance starts.

Tickets cannot be exchanged nor money refunded except in the event of a cancellation of a performance.

Screenings are subject to change, but only in extraordinary circumstances.

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

Double bills are shown in the same order as indicated on these pages. Intervals in double bills last 10 minutes.

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Dark Visions

DEAD OF NIGHT

FRANKENSTEIN

Dark Visions A season exploring representations of witchcraft and gothic horror in cinema, Dark Visions is part of the BFI season Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film, a celebration of film and television’s ability to reveal our darkest fears and desires, and conjure the creatures of the night into being. Over the coming months, the BFI and a host of UK partners lift the lid on Gothic’s dark storehouse of horror and romance tales, with over 150 titles and around 1,000 screenings, and spectacular and terrifying special events to thrill every corner of the land. Featuring restorations from the BFI National Archive, new BFI publications, DVD releases, an education programme, and some very special guests, we look forward to welcoming you to the dark heart of film.

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Dead of Night Fri 3 Jan at 8.45pm & Sun 5 Jan at 1.15pm Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden & Robert Hamer • UK 1945 • 1h43m • DCP • PG Cast: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Frederick Valk, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes.

This superb Ealing chiller is still the most effective example of the portmanteau style: five separate ghost stories embedded in a framework of a country house party, where an architect is experiencing sinister sensations of déjà vu.

The ghost stories are related in turn by the other guests, and events gradually move into total nightmare territory.

You’ll never look at a ventriloquist’s dummy in the same way again...

For our season here at Filmhouse, we have chosen to focus primarily on the rare and the restored films that feature in the BFI’s wider Gothic season, bringing in many prints from European archives and including many titles newly available in digital restorations.

Part of the BFI Gothic season.

For more information, visit bfi.org.uk/gothic 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.

Dark Visions

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

THE TELL-TALE HEART

GASLIGHT

DOUBLE BILL Frankenstein + Bride of Frankenstein

The Masque of the Red Death

Gaslight

Sun 5 Jan at 8.45pm

Mon 6 Jan at 6.10pm & Tue 7 Jan at 3.10pm

Sat 4 Jan at 3.00pm (includes 15-minute interval)

Roger Corman • USA/UK 1964 • 1h29m DCP • 15 – Contains moderate horror and violence Cast: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Patrick Magee.

Thorold Dickinson • UK 1940 • 1h24m Digital • PG – Contains mild violence and psychological threat Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton.

In Roger Corman’s wonderfully stylish horror, the always wonderful Vincent Price is Prince Prospero, a 12th-century Italian despot who lives for his one true love...Satan! After jailing two locals, Ludovico and Gino, for defying his harsh tax laws, Prospero meets the beautiful Francesca (Jane Asher), the daughter of Ludovico and the fiancee of Gino. She comes to him to plead for mercy, but Prospero tells her that only one will be spared and toys with her emotions for his private amusement. When Prospero learns that the Red Death is sweeping the village, he locks himself and his followers in his castle where they continue their decadent parties. But soon a mysterious figure dressed in red robes arrives...

Not the 1944 George Cukor movie which won Ingrid Bergman a Best Actress Oscar, but an earlier, darker and more chilling adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s play Angel Street.

Frankenstein

James Whale • USA 1931 • 1h10m DCP • PG – Contains mild horror and violence Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye.

Scientist Henry Frankenstein and his hunchbacked assistant embark on a mission to create a new being by stealing a body from a graveyard and a human brain from a medical college... Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley’s classic tale of tragedy and horror, and featuring a beautifully nuanced performance from Boris Karloff as the tortured and bewildered ‘monster’.

PLUS

Bride of Frankenstein

James Whale • USA 1935 • 1h15m DCP • PG – Contains mild horror Cast: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Elsa Lanchester, Ernest Thesiger.

Light on its feet, brisk and full of wicked humour, James Whale’s extravagantly produced sequel to his own Frankenstein still ranks as one of horror’s greatest achievements. Believing the monster he created to be dead at last, Dr Frankenstein swears to never again dabble in the reanimation of dead tissue. But fellow mad scientist Dr Pretorius has other plans, and sets out to build the monster a mate...

PLUS SHORT The Tell-Tale Heart

In one of her finest roles, Diana Wynyard plays wealthy Bella, who marries the urbane but calculating Paul Mallen (Anton Walbrook). They move into her ancestral home, and Bella begins to notice that things aren’t quite right. Is she losing her mind, or is Paul playing tricks on her to make it seem that way?

While the Cukor film was shooting, MGM’s Louis B Mayer ordered all prints of this version to be destroyed, fearing that his lavish production would suffer by comparison.

Fortunately, some prints survived, and this neglected masterpiece can now be seen in a new restoration.

Ted Parmelee • USA 1953 • 8m • DCP

James Mason narrates this imaginative animated telling of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of a deranged boarder compelled to murder his landlord, and thereafter haunted by guilt.

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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Dark Visions (continued)

LA BELLE ET LA BETE

DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS

VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS

MORGIANA

La Belle et la Bête

Day of Wrath Vredens Dag

Mon 6 Jan to Thu 9 Jan

Wed 8 Jan at 6.10pm & Thu 9 Jan at 3.10pm

Valerie a tyden divu

Jean Cocteau • France 1946 • 1h35m DCP • French with English subtitles PG – Contains mild language and scary scenes Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André, Mila Parély, Nane Germon.

Carl Theodor Dreyer • Denmark 1943 • 1h40m 35mm • Danish with English subtitles PG – Contains implied torture, witch burning, and mild language Cast: Lisbeth Movin, Thorkild Roose, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Anna Svierkier, Olaf Ussing.

Thu 16 Jan at 8.45pm

A half-ruined merchant lives in the country with his son and his three daughters. One of his daughters, Belle, is exploited and maltreated by the other two, who are selfish and spiteful. One day, the merchant loses his way in a forest and finds himself in a strange castle. He picks a rose for Belle, causing the castle’s owner to appear – a monster, half human, half beast. The creature says the merchant will die unless he sends Belle to him...

Inevitably seen as an allegory of Nazi occupation, Day of Wrath is set in a Danish village in 1632 against a background of fear, superstition, betrayal and religious cruelty. Anne, a young woman who has married an elderly preacher responsible for sending an old peasant woman to the stake, falls in love with his son and wishes her husband dead. When he obliges, she is accused by her mother-inlaw of witchcraft and condemned to be burnt.

Jaromil Jires’ haunting evocation of a girl’s emergence into womanhood is based on the novel by the surrealist poet, Vítezslav Vezval. A mixture of eroticism and gothic horror, it focuses on the adventures of 13-year-old Valerie, who lives with her austere grandmother. While Valerie’s visions are often nightmarish, she remains curiously innocent.

By pushing film technology to its creative limits and avoiding sentimentality, Jean Cocteau succeeded in creating a work that is both visually entrancing and emotionally rewarding, whilst re-telling a familiar tale in a fresh and innovative way.

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders Jaromil Jires • Czechoslovakia 1969 • 1h16m • 35mm Czech with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anyzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prymek, Jan Klusák.

Morgiana Daughters of Darkness Les lèvres rouges

Sat 11 Jan at 10.00pm Harry Kümel • Belgium/France/West Germany 1971 • 1h35m Digital • 18 – Contains strong horror and sexualised nudity Cast: Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau, Paul Esser.

Holed up in a huge, eerie Ostend hotel, troubled newlyweds Stefan and Valerie become increasingly entangled with the mysterious Countess Bathory and her stunningly beautiful travelling companion.

Harry Kümel’s deliciously offbeat film plays with the traditions of the vampire genre, adding a feminine element to place female desire at the centre of the narrative. It’s stylish, erotic and atmospheric, and features scenes of stomach-turning violence.

Thu 23 Jan at 8.45pm Juraj Herz • Czechoslovakia 1972 • 1h39m • 35mm Czech with English subtitles • 15 – Contains scene of hanging Cast: Iva Janzurová, Josef Abrhám, Nina Divísková, Petr Cepek, Josef Somr.

Sisters Viktoria and Klara (both played by Iva Janzurová) each inherit a house and staff when their father passes away. Viktoria, the older sister, is jealous of Klara’s popularity; to make it worse, Klara is nothing but kind, even trying to have some of her suitors pay attention to her sister. Viktoria has had enough, and obtains a supposedly untraceable poison...

A deliriously gothic adaptation of a short story by Aleksandr Grin, known as the ‘Russian Poe’.

Dark visions/Come and See... Wake in Fright

FAUST

Faust

Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage Sun 26 Jan at 4.00pm F W Murnau • Germany 1926 • 1h56m • 35mm Silent with live music • German intertitles with English soft-titles PG Cast: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard, William Dieterle.

Although F W Murnau’s Faust is not as well known as his Nosferatu (screening on 21 December) or Sunrise, it’s certainly in the same league as those silent classics, displaying the same astonishing use of stylised imagery and his mastery of cinematic technique.

In an attempt to gain control of the Earth, Mephisto the Devil (Emil Jannings) wagers an angel (Werner Fuetterer) that he can destroy the soul of a kind, elderly professor named Faust (Gosta Ekman). Mephisto brings a devastating plague to the town where Faust lives and kills half of its inhabitants. Faust’s attempts to find a cure are unsuccessful, and he loses his faith in God and science when his prayers go unanswered. He invokes the aid of Satan, and Mephisto agrees to help him, but at a cost...

Screening with live musical accompaniment from s i n k. www.theplughole.org

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER

The Night of the Hunter Tue 4 to Thu 6 Feb Charles Laughton • USA 1955 • 1h32m • DCP • 12A Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, James Gleason, Sally Ann Bruce.

The Night of the Hunter – the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed – is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a travelling preacher named Harry Powell, whose nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow, played by Shelley Winters, are uncovered by her terrified young children.

Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humour, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic is cinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle between good and evil.

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WAKE IN FRIGHT

Come and See...

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

Wake in Fright Sun 26 Jan at 6.40pm Ted Kotcheff • Australia/USA 1971 • 1h54m • 35mm 18 – Contains strong scenes of kangaroo hunting and slaughter Cast: Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson.

This legendary Australian cult classic, considered a ‘lost’ film for almost 40 years, tells the story of a young school teacher stranded in a brutal outback town. Martin Scorsese dubbed it “a deeply – and I mean deeply – unsettling movie. It left me speechless,” while Nick Cave calls it “the best and most terrifying film about Australia.”

This screening is one of only three opportunities in the UK to catch this unforgettable masterpiece from a specially imported 35mm print.

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Introduction to European Cinema

BICYCLE THIEVES

SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING

Introduction to European Cinema Now in its ninth year at Filmhouse, Introduction to European Cinema returns for 2013/14 with a completely new programme of films. The only season of its kind in the UK, IEC provides a great opportunity to see some of the classics of European cinema on the big screen, many of which are very rarely shown.

Curated in collaboration with specialists in European cinema from the University of Edinburgh’s Division of European Languages and Cultures, the screenings form part of study programmes in cinema at the University of Edinburgh, but you don’t need to be a student to come along – we are very keen to invite all members of the Filmhouse public to see these masterful and often thought-provoking films! Each screening will be preceded by a short introduction

by Dr Leanne Dawson (Lecturer in German and Film, and IEC Course Organiser for Spring 2014) or Dr Pasquale Iannone (Film Studies).

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

LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT

Bicycle Thieves Ladri di biciclette

CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Wed 15 Jan at 6.00pm

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Vittorio De Sica • Italy 1948 • 1h29m DCP • Italian with English subtitles U – Contains mild language and violence Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci.

Wed 29 Jan at 6.00pm

Vittorio De Sica’s extraordinary drama of desperation and survival in Italy’s post-war depression earned a special Academy Award for its affecting power. Shot in the streets and alleys of Rome, De Sica used a real-life environment and cast non-professional actors to frame this moving drama of desperation.

In Jacques Demy’s ultra-stylish musical Catherine Deneuve and her real-life sister Françoise Dorleac play twin sisters.

Delphine is a dancer, Solange a composer, and both have dreams that stretch beyond the boundaries of their small hometown of Rochefort – first and foremost being finding true love. Little do they know that their perfect matches are also wandering the local streets: poet/artist/sailor Maxence (Jacques Perrin) and American composer Andy Miller (Gene Kelly), respectively.

The impoverished Antonio’s new job delivering cinema posters is threatened when a street thief steals his bicycle.

Too poor to buy another, he and his son take to the streets in an impossible search for the bike.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Wed 22 Jan at 6.15pm Karel Reisz • UK 1960 • 1h29m • 35mm PG – Contains some mild language and sex references Cast: Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts, Shirley Anne Field, Hylda Baker, Norman Rossington.

Albert Finney gives a wonderfully fresh and magnetic performance as the young Nottingham factory worker lashing blindly out at the bleak working class horizons to which he has been bred by parents “dead from the neck up”. Trying to grab what life can offer with both hands, without regards for consequences or for anybody else, he sows his seeds in every direction until he’s finally trapped into conformity and marriage on a new housing estate.

Jacques Demy • France 1967 • 2h6m • 35mm • French and English with English subtitles • PG – Contains mild language Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Françoise Dorléac, Gene Kelly, Danielle Darrieux, Jacques Perrin.

As well as being a love story in itself, the film is a musical love letter to the idea of musicals, to the notion that people can suddenly be so overcome with their feelings that they burst into song on the street, or pirouette across a city square.

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Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Introduction to European Cinema

JOURNEY TO ITALY

BAD EDUCATION

Closely Observed Trains Ostre sledované vlaky Wed 5 Feb at 6.00pm Jirí Menzel • Czechoslovakia 1966 • 1h32m • 35mm • Czech and German with English subtitles • 15 – Contains moderate sex Cast: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodsky, Vladimír Valenta, Alois Vachek.

A real charmer from the heyday of the Czech New Wave, set during the German occupation but totally immersed in the pubescent problems of a youth, who takes up his first job as an apprentice railway platform guard with the anti-social resolve to do as little work as possible while others slave. Wonderfully funny observation of the sleepy little backwater depot where nothing ever happens, but where there is a whole universe of frustration, eroticism, adventure and romance.

Journey to Italy Viaggio in Italia

ALICE IN THE CITIES

Bad Education La mala educación

Alice in the Cities Alice in den Städten

Wed 19 Feb at 6.00pm

Wed 26 Feb at 6.00pm

Pedro Almodóvar • Spain 2004 • 1h45m 35mm • Spanish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, sex references and hard drug use Cast: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Maestre.

Wim Wenders • West Germany 1974 • 1h52m • 35mm German, English and Dutch with English subtitles U – Contains one use of mild language Cast: Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Elisabeth Kreuzer, Edda Köchl, Ernest Boehm.

A noirish Hitchcockian thriller which enhanced Almodóvar’s reputation as one of the world’s most consistent and interesting directors. Two men, one of whom is a film director, meet up in the 1980s, twenty years after they attended a Catholic school together during Franco’s rule. Their stories are told using flashback sequences, both to the sixties and the seventies, and with a film within the film, a semi-autobiographical account of two teenage boys, falling in love and having to contend with sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest. Visually sumptuous, with an intricate plot and excellent performances all round.

As a German photojournalist attempts to develop a project on America, he finds his pictures differing from his ideas of what the country is about. Frustrated, he decides to return home, but is lumbered with an independent-minded nine-year-old girl whose mother has let her down. The pair travel across Europe in search of the missing parent, and an unlikely friendship is formed. Wenders approaches his subject with telling obliqueness, taking it – and us – continually by surprise, allowing his themes to surface gracefully from the tale, documenting and questioning the seductive overlay of American culture.

Wed 12 Feb at 6.15pm Roberto Rossellini • Italy/France 1954 • 1h26m DCP • English and Italian with English subtitles PG – Contains mild sex references Cast: Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Maria Mauban, Paul Muller.

Journey to Italy has been hailed as one of Rossellini’s most masterful works, a film with little plot but with a profound understanding of the human condition. Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders are a quiet English couple who travel to Naples seeking a buyer for a property that has been left to them by a relative. Separated from the social whirl and hectic days of their life in London, they are forced to confront a relationship that has crumbled into weariness, mistrust and mutual disdain.

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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Intro to European Cinema (continued)/Besa: The Promise

DANCER IN THE DARK

BEAU TRAVAIL

BESA: THE PROMISE

Dancer in the Dark

Beau travail

Wed 5 Mar at 5.45pm

Wed 19 Mar at 6.15pm

Lars von Trier • Spain/Argentina/Denmark/Germany/ Netherlands/Italy/USA/UK/France/Sweden/Finland/Iceland/ Norway 2000 • 2h20m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare.

Claire Denis • France 1999 • 1h33m • 35mm French, Italian and Russian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet, Nicolas Duvauchelle.

A special screening to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.

Lars von Trier won the Palme d’Or for this postmodern musical melodrama featuring a stunning performance from Björk. Washington State, 1964. Selma, a Czech immigrant, lives with her son Gene in a shabby caravan and works at a metal plant. One day, her landlord Bill confesses to her that the bank will soon repossess his house; Selma reveals she is going blind from a hereditary condition and saving for an operation to rescue Gene’s sight. After Selma refuses to loan him money, Bill discovers where she hides her savings.

Claire Denis and her near-constant collaborator, screenwriter Jean-Pol Fargeau, reimagine Herman Melville’s ‘Billy Budd’ as a tale of jealousy and homoerotic desire amongst a company of French Legionnaires. Exercising their muscular torsos under the blaring sun, they engage in a hypnotically choreographed daily routine of military drills, chores, and mock battles. Sergeant Galoup (Denis Lavant) runs the troupe like a well-oiled machine, until jealousy gets in the way. With the haunting suspense of a Greek tragedy, Galoup’s uncontrollable urge to destroy young recruit Sentain ultimately leads to his own downfall.

Rachel Goslins • USA 2012 • 1h30m • DCP Various languages with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary

Elena Wed 12 Mar at 6.00pm Andrey Zvyagintsev • Russia 2011 • 1h49m DCP • Russian with English subtitles 12A – Contains infrequent strong language and moderate violence Cast: Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Elena Lyadova, Aleksey Rozin, Evgeniya Konushkina.

A gripping, modern twist on a Dostoevsky-style exploration of human nature, Elena’s conflict revolves around a coveted inheritance, cruel class differences, and the misdeeds of a tenuous marriage. Middle-aged spouses Vladimir and Elena uneasily share his large Moscow apartment – he’s a still-virile, wealthy businessman; she’s his former nurse and recent wife. Estranged from his own wild-child daughter, Vladimir despises Elena’s freeloading son and family. When Vladimir becomes ill and draws up a hotly contested will, the likeable Elena is pushed beyond her limits.

SPECIALEVENT

Besa: The Promise Mon 27 Jan at 6.15pm

Norman Gershman is a renowned Jewish-American photographer on a mission to document first-person accounts of the Albanian Muslims who rescued Jews during the Holocaust. Rexhep Hoxha is an Albanian Muslim, determined to fulfil the promise made to a Jewish family his father rescued during the Holocaust, and return to them a set of Hebrew books they left behind. And Rexhep’s promise is more than words – it’s part of his ‘besa’, an honour code that, among other things, means Albanians offer safe harbour to refugees.

With Norman’s help, Rexhep embarks on a journey to Bulgaria and Israel. His quest brings about an epiphany that he is part of this Jewish family – even as his Islamic faith, long suppressed under decades of communism, is affirmed. Through the stories of Rexhep and his fellow Muslims, we discover a nation of everyday heroes far removed from the narrative of violent Islam and antiSemitism that’s so often portrayed in media today. And, through the experiences of Norman Gershman and the first-person accounts of Jewish survivors, we hear stories of gratitude to Muslim rescuers that have gone unheard for almost seventy years.

Open Studies Courses

Open Studies Courses Open Studies courses in Film, Media and Contemporary Cultures, run by the Office of Lifelong Learning at the University of Edinburgh.

To book, go to www.coursebookings.lifelong.ed.ac.uk, or for further information please contact the Course Organiser: m.pierquin@ ed.ac.uk

Magnificent Obsessions: A Century of Film Melodrama

A Short History of World Cinema: Post War and Beyond

Tutor: David M Wingrove AB (Magna) MA BFI Cert

Tutor: Rolland Man BA MA MSc

Adored by audiences but often scorned by critics, the melodrama or ‘women’s picture’ may be the most popular genre in film history. From the divas and Latin Lovers of the silent screen to the glamour of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, from the lush Technicolor of the 50s to the postmodern pastiche of today, melodramas tell stories of suffering, passion and heartbreak. Come and explore them with clips from around the world!

Since the end of World War II, cinema has seen drastic changes. A split between commercial and “art” cinema, competition from TV, the growth of a globalised audience – all play a part in shaping today’s world film culture.

New films emerge from new parts of the world, but do audiences really watch what critics tell them? How many new films will stand the test of time?

(code F212) Mondays from 13 January

(10 weeks) 6:30pm – 8:30pm £85/£56 conc.

(10 weeks) 6:30pm – 8:30pm, £85/£56 conc.

Film Guild Cinema, Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road

Time to Hit the Road Tutor: Derek Wilson BA MA An exploration of a genre which carries ideologies as well as people on its journeys. We look at a variety of examples from different countries in their cultural, political, and cinematic contexts. This course involves the introduction and screening of full-length feature films followed by discussion and analysis. (code F213)Tuesdays from 14 January (10 weeks) 2:00pm – 5:00pm, £85/£56 conc.

Film Guild Cinema, Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road

(code F216 )Tuesdays from 14 January Film Guild Cinema,Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road

Film Noir & the British Crime Film Tutor: Jim Dunnigan MA Film Noir was one of the key genres of Hollywood Cinema, a genre which addressed the social and political anxieties of post-WW2 America. Whilst the roots of American Film Noir are well known, the existence of a Noir Cinema in Britain has received much less attention. This course will attempt to examine whether it can really be said that a Noir Cinema existed in the UK. A wide range of films will be examined in order to test the hypothesis that a fullyfledged Noir Cinema existed in Britain. (code F221) Thursdays from 16 January (10 weeks) 6:30pm – 9:30pm £85/£56 conc.

Film Guild Cinema,Filmhouse,88 Lothian Road

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Screening Irish History

THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY

Screening Irish History Ireland’s rich and dramatic history has provided the backdrop for many films and we are delighted to partner with the University of Edinburgh to present Screening Irish History. The years 2012-2023 are hugely important for Ireland’s past and present as they mark the ‘decade of commemorations’, the centenary of the Irish revolution and independence. This series comprises landmark films about Irish society and aims to generate new perspectives and critical debates about Ireland’s past and how it has been represented onscreen.

Each showing will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A featuring filmmakers, historians and other commentators, and chaired

by Dr Niall Whelehan and Dr Enda Delaney of the University of Edinburgh.

Funding from a College of Humanities and Social Sciences Knowledge Exchange Award at the University of Edinburgh provides an additional £2 discount on concession price tickets for all students with a valid matriculation card.

GOOD VIBRATIONS

HUNGER

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Good Vibrations

Sat 18 Jan at 2.30pm

Sat 1 Feb at 2.30pm

Ken Loach • Ireland/UK/Germany/Italy/Spain/France/Belgium/ Switzerland 2006 • 2h7m • 35mm 15 – Contains strong language and violence Cast: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary O’Riordan.

Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn • UK/Ireland 2012 • 1h43m DCP • 15 – Contains strong language, once very strong, and drug use Cast: Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Dylan Moran, Andrew Simpson, Adrian Dunbar.

Director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty once again bring their considerable skills to bear on a thorny political situation, this time the English-Irish conflict. The result is powerfully authentic, gripping and emotionally shattering.

Begrudgingly accepting the title of Ulster’s Godfather of Punk, Terri Hooley was responsible for discovering The Undertones and, through his Good Vibrations record shop and label, along with the gigs he promoted, he enabled alternative music to be heard and to flourish in Belfast during the darkest days of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. His self-promoted legend is a wild mix of naivety, a refusal to compromise and a deep love for rock’n’roll, and it is vividly brought to the screen in this biopic from filmmakers Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn.

Damien (Cillian Murphy) is a young doctor in small-town 1920 Ireland who’s getting more and more involved with his brother Teddy (Padraic Delaney) in resisting the indignities and violence inflicted by the British military. As their movement gains momentum, the British retaliate in vicious ways, eventually blackmailing the entire populace into voting in favour of a treaty. And as the opposing Irish Republican Army grows, things get increasingly ugly.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with screenwriter Colin Carberry, chaired by Dr Alan Gillis.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with screenwriter Paul Laverty and historical advisor Dr Donal O Drisceoil.

TICKETDEALS 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 non-student concession price tickets (see season introduction text for a special student ticket deal). Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Screening Irish History/Weans’ World

KINGS

Hunger Sat 15 Feb at 3.15pm Steve McQueen • UK 2008 • 1h36m • 35mm 15 – Contains strong violence, language and medical gore Cast: Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon.

The last months in the life of Irish Republican Bobby Sands, who starved himself to death in 1981 as a protest against the British government’s refusal to recognise convicted IRA members as political prisoners, is recounted in Steve McQueen’s unflinchingly brutal yet extraordinarily compelling debut feature.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, participants TBC.

Kings Sat 1 Mar at 3.15pm Tom Collins • Ireland/UK 2007 • 1h29m • 35mm English and Irish Gaelic with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, hard drug use and suicide theme Cast: Colm Meaney, Donal O’Kelly, Brendan Conroy, Donncha Crowley, Barry Barnes.

In the mid 1970s, a group of six young men left their homes in the West of Ireland and sailed to England in the hope of making their fortunes and returning home. Thirty years later only one, Jackie Flavin, makes it home – but does so in a coffin. Jackie’s five friends reunite at his wake, where they are forced to face up to the reality of their alienation as long term emigrants who no longer have any real place to call home.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion, participants TBC.

WOLF CHILDREN

Weans’ World Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost £3.50 (£4.50 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!

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

FROZEN

Turbo Sat 18 & Sun 19 Jan David Soren • USA 2013 • 1h36m • DCP • U – Contains mild threat With the voices of Ryan Reynolds, Paul Giamatti, Michael Peña, Samuel L Jackson.

Turbo dreams of winning the fastest race in the world, the Indy 500. The only problem is, he’s a snail. When a freak accident shunts Turbo into super-speed his dream no longer seems so far fetched. Yet even with his newly found speed, can a snail really compete against racing cars?

Frozen Wolf Children Fri 3 to Sun 5 Jan Mamoru Hosoda • Japan 2012 • 1h57m DCP • English language version PG – Contains mild violence and threat

College student Hana falls in love with Kare, but then discovers he has a secret: he’s a wolf man. Hana is not afraid and remains by his side, and eventually they have two children, Ame and Yuki. To conceal the children’s wolf blood, the family live discreetly in a quiet corner of the city. Their life is simple but happy, but one day their whole world changes when Kare dies. Hana decides to retreat to the countryside where Ame and Yuki can choose: do they want to grow up to be humans or wolves?

Sat 1 & Sun 2 Feb Chris Buck & Jennifer Lee • USA 2013 • 1h48m DCP • 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 living snowman called Olaf in a race to save the kingdom.

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Education and Learning/Filmhouse Cafe Bar

BESA: THE PROMISE

THE JUNGLE BOOK

FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR

Education and Learning

Filmhouse Cafe Bar

CMI Education and Learning offers a range of screenings, workshops and events for all ages, year-round at Filmhouse and during the Edinburgh International Film Festival. We arrange schools screenings, supporting a variety of curriculum areas for Primary and Secondary schools. Details of current events can be found at www.filmhousecinema.com/learning, or for further information please email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk

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

Schools Screenings To book tickets, call the box office on 0131 228 2688.

Holocaust Memorial Day Screening - Besa: The Promise Mon 27 Jan, 10am • 90min • S1 - S6 • Tickets £2.60, teachers free This is the never-before-told story of Albania – a small European country which opened its borders to shelter Jewish refugees, even as it endured a brutal Nazi occupation. It’s witnessed through the prism of two men joined together in a remarkable and unexpected quest: Norman H. Gershman, a renowned Jewish-American photographer determined to record the bravery and compassion of the Albanians; and Rexhep Hoxha, a Muslim-Albanian toy shop owner who sets out to return three precious books to the last surviving member of the Jewish family his father sheltered sixty years before. When these two men meet, an extraordinary and utterly unexpected personal drama is set in motion – one that bridges generations and religions...uniting fathers and sons...Muslims and Jews.

The Jungle Book (U) Tue 28 & Wed 29* Jan, 10am • 78min • Suitable for all ages • Tickets £2.60, teachers free Why not bring your class to see Walt Disney’s classic The Jungle Book as a treat? Loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling, the story follows a boy called Mowgli who is found as a baby and raised in the jungle by wolves. When he is ten Bagheera the Panther decides that Mowgli must go to the human village where he will be safe from Shere Khan the Tiger. But Mowgli, who doesn’t want to be sent to the human village, runs away from Bagheera and meets up with funloving Baloo the Bear. *The screening on Wednesday 29 January at 10am is a special sing-a-long screening for you and your class to join in with. The words will be projected along with the film.

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Or just come and relax in the ambience!

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

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

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

Edinburgh International Film Festival www.edfilmfest.org.uk 0131 228 4051 Edinburgh Film Guild www.edinburghfilmguild.com 0131 623 8027

FINDINGFILMHOUSE

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