Filmhouse Brochure - January/February 2019

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FILMS WORTH TALKING ABOUT

H O M E O F T H E E D I NB U RG H I N T E R N AT I O N A L F I L M F E S T I VA L


Resolve with me… See More Films in 2019! As I’m sure most of you are aware… it is, or is soon to be, 2019! And, as I’m sure at least a few of you are aware, that’s us now in the year in which Blade Runner is set. That gives us twelve months to witness attack ships off the shoulder of Orion or watch C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate for that film’s predictions to be realised. Unlikely I know, but perhaps it will all come to pass some time after the year it was conjectured as a possible future, you know, like 1984 did… There is actually a proper reason for mentioning Blade Runner, for it will take its place as part of a four-month season we’re doing in partnership with the National Museum of Scotland (where the film will screen) to tie in with their awesome ‘Robots’ exhibition, which will kick off this month with a special screening of Fritz Lang’s silent masterpiece, Metropolis, with DJ soundtrack by Le Vangelis (no, not The Vangelis). So, the museum has a replica of Maria, the robot in the film, and we have the film! (Wait a minute, didn’t The Vangelis do the score for Blade Runner? Oh, the weird interconnectedness of things…) In other news, this Jan/Feb double issue is so bung-fu’ of Oscar hopefuls I’m not sure where to start! Watch these titles figure hugely come the time: The Favourite, Stan & Ollie, Colette, Beautiful Boy, Mary Queen of Scots, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Green Book, If Beale Street Could Talk… Because this is a double issue, I would normally get to guess the Oscar winners with the knowledge of who’s nominated, but this year I’m going to have to do it stone cold. Here goes, with the usual heart over head: Roma will win best film and best director, and there will be acting Oscars for Glenn Close, John C. Reilly, Rachel Weisz and Richard E. Grant – if there’s any justice in this world whatever, that is. Rod White, Head of Programming

Filmhouse Explorer Buy A TICKET FOR... The Favourite (p 4) and get a half price ticket for any other film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (p 18-19) Stan & Ollie (p 4) and get a half price ticket for The Lady Eve (p 11) Mary Queen of Scots (p 5) and get a half price ticket for Colette (p 5) Green Book (p 7) and get a half price ticket for If Beale Street Could Talk (p 8) Half price ticket purchase must be made within the same transaction - at Box Office, by phone or online. Tickets subject to availability. The half price offer only applies to full price tickets. Filmhouse Explorer ticket deal cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. The 50% discount is not valid for Friday matinee screenings.

Ticket Prices matinees (shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thu: £8.00 / £6.00 concessions Fri: £6.00 / £4.50 concessions Sat - Sun: £10.00 / £8.00 concessions

evening screenings (starting 5pm and later) £10.00 / £8.00 concessions 3D SCREENINGS add £2 to ticket price.

filmhouse junior screenings

Tickets cost £4.50 per person, big or small! (£5.50 for 3D screenings)

CONCESSIONS

Young person aged under 16 (£4.50 for all screenings), people aged 16-25, Students (with matriculation card), Young Scot card, Senior Citizens (65 and over), Disability (carers go free), Claimants (Jobseekers Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit), NHS employees (with proof of employment).


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ACCESS/AUDIO DESC./CAPTIONED BABY & CARER SCREENINGS SCREENING DATES AND TIMES

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Nanook of the North

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Nicolas Roeg

16-17

Over the Rainbow

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1945

10

The Passenger

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3 Days in Quiberon

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Performance 16

Alps

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The Raft

Bad Timing

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Return of the Hero

Robots 32-33

6 4

Beautiful Boy

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Bent

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The Seventh Seal

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Bergman: A Year in a Life

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Screening Europe

34-35 14-15

Billy Elliot

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Senior Selections

Blues Brothers

37

Short Courses (Uni of Edinburgh)

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Body Double

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Silent Running

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Born in Flames

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Stan & Ollie

Burning

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Tampopo 36

Call Me By Your Name

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The Terminator

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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Terminator 2: Judgement Day

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The 12th Man

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Casablanca 11

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Colette

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Theatre of Blood

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The Day The Earth Stood Still

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The Wild Boys

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Dogtooth 18

Uncanny Valley

40-41

Drifting Shadows

30-31

Walkabout 16

Education and Learning

26-27

Eureka 17 The Favourite

Wild Strawberries

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Yorgos Lanthimos

18-19

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February Animation Workshops

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Filmhouse Junior

38-39

Green Book

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Growing Pains

13

Herzog of the Month

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House Guest: The Skinny

36-37

I, Robot

33

If Beale Street Could Talk

8

Island of the Hungry Ghosts

4

I Wish

13

Khrustalyov, My Car!

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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Kinetta 18 The King of Comedy

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The Lady Eve

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The Last Movie

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The Lobster

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Mary Queen of Scots

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Metropolis 32

Index

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The Favourite

Stan & Ollie

Tue 1 to Thu 31 Jan

Fri 11 to Thu 24 Jan

Yorgos Lanthimos • UK/Ireland/USA 2019 • 1h59m • Digital • 15 Contains very strong language, strong sex. • Cast: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Mark Gatiss, Joe Alwyn.

Jon S. Baird • UK/Canada/USA 2018 • 1h38m • Digital • PG Cast: John C. Reilly, Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda, Danny Huston, Rufus Jones.

The early 18th century; England is fighting the French and a frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) sits on the throne; though due to her poor health she relies on her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) to govern on her behalf. A new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) steps into the breach; beginning a rapidly burgeoning friendship with the Queen. Soon the balance of power shifts between the women as they jockey for influence with the Queen and the court... We’re celebrating the work of Yorgos Lanthimos with a season of his films - see pages 18-19.

Starring Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as Laurel and Hardy, Stan & Ollie is the heart-warming true story of Hollywood’s greatest comedy double act. With their golden era long behind them, they embarked on a variety hall tour of British seaside towns and music halls. Accompanied by their wives Lucille (Shirley Henderson) and Ida (Nina Arianda), the pair’s love of performing, as well as for each other is tested by the rigours of what would become their farewell tour.

NEW RELEASE

Return of the Hero

Le Retour du héros Fri 11 to Tue 15 Jan

DIRECTOR Q&A

Island of the Hungry Ghosts Fri 11 to Thu 17 Jan

Laurent Tirard • France 2018 • 1h30m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate sex, sex references. • Cast: Jean Dujardin, Mélanie Laurent, Noémie Merlant.

Gabrielle Brady • Germany/UK/Australia 2018 • 1h34m • Digital English, French, Farsi, Mandarin and Hokkien, Cantonese with English subtitles • 12A - Contains upsetting scenes, references to suicide and self-harm. • Documentary.

A charming comedy romp starring the ever-amusing Jean Dujardin as a swashbuckling swindler who tries to take advantage of an aristocratic family. Captain Neuville (Dujardin) vanished during one of Napoleon’s wars while engaged to Elisabeth’s (Mélanie Laurent) sister. Elisabeth forged letters from Neuville to cheer her sister up, but when a cowardly and dishevelled Neuville returns, both are caught up in the lies. Neuville wants to make money while Elisabeth tries to protect her family, so a classic catand-mouse game ensues.

Christmas Island is famous for one of the largest annual land migrations - that of forty million red crabs. It also houses a high-security detention facility, in which those seeking asylum in Australia are detained indefinitely. Contrasting lush nature with enforced isolation, this stunning documentary follows trauma counsellor Poh Lin as she attempts to support detainees. The screening at 2.30pm on Sun 13 Jan will be followed by a Q&A with director Gabrielle Brady and protagonist Poh Lin, hosted by Tamara Van Strijthem (Executive Director of Take One Action Film Festival).


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Mary Queen Of Scots

Colette

Fri 18 Jan to Thu 7 Feb

Fri 25 Jan to Thu 7 Feb

Josie Rourke • UK 2018 • 2h4m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong violence, sex, sexual violence. • Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, David Tennant, Jack Lowden, Gemma Chan, Guy Pearce.

Wash Westmoreland • UK/USA 2018 • 1h51m • Digital • 15 - Contains sexual scenes, nudity. • Cast: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aiysha Hart, Fiona Shaw, Dickie Beau.

Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary Stuart (Saoirse Ronan) rejects the expectations for her to remarry and returns to Scotland to claim her rightful throne, but Scotland and England fall under the rule of the defiant Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie). Determined to rule as much more than a figurehead, Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth’s sovereignty and throwing the idea of a peaceful kingdom into turmoil. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each court imperil both thrones - and change the course of history.

At the turn of the 20th century, country girl SidonieGabrielle Colette (Keira Knightley) has married a charismatic publisher 14 years her senior, known simply as Willy (Dominic West). She is introduced into the fecund world of artistic Paris where her creative appetite is sparked. The opportunistic Willy permits Colette to write novels only if she does so in his name. The success of her Claudine series brings them fame, but no recognition of her talents, and so a wedge is driven between them, as Colette begins to truly discover herself.

NEW RELEASE

Can You Ever Forgive Me? Fri 1 to Thu 21 Feb Marielle Heller • USA 2018 • 1h46m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language, drug misuse. • Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Gregory Korostishevsky, Jane Curtin.

Melissa McCarthy stars as Lee Israel, the best-selling celebrity biographer (and cat lover) who made her living in the 1970s and 80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estée Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee found herself unable to get published because she had fallen out of step with the marketplace, she begins a lucrative scam with her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant) by forging hundreds of letters purportedly written by luminaries, then selling her “memorabilia” to dealers across the country.

“McCarthy’s performance, which is paired with an equally rewarding turn by British actor Richard E. Grant, anchors this bizarre, compelling true story” - Hollywood Reporter

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Bergman: A Year in a Life

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The Raft Flotten Fri 8 to Mon 11 Feb

Jane Magnusson • Sweden/Norway 2018 • 1h57m • Digital • Swedish, English and German with English subtitles • 15 - Contains scenes of strong violence, self-harm. • Documentary.

Marcus Lindeen • Sweden/Denmark/USA/Germany 2018 • 1h37m Digital • English, German, French, Japanese, Swedish and Spanish with English subtitles • cert tbc • Documentary

Jane Magnusson’s unflinching documentary centres on 1957, a pivotal year in which Ingmar Bergman released two of his most acclaimed features alongside juggling four plays, a TV movie and a complicated private life. Using a wealth of unseen archive material, interviews and a selection of clips from Bergman’s body of work, we get a unique insight in his working methods, his violent temper, his passions and his doubts. Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal, both released in 1957, will be screening to celebrate the release of Bergman: A Year in a Life - see page 12.

In the summer of 1973, five men and six women embarked on a 101-day adventure on a raft drifting across the Atlantic. In a experiment initiated by anthropologist Santiago Genovés, the group set out to explore the origins of violence and the dynamics of sexual attraction. Genovés handpicked each crew member with the aim of maximising friction on board. Through extraordinary archive material and a reunion of the surviving members of the expedition, this film tells the hidden story behind what has been described as ‘one of the strangest group experiments of all time.’

NEW RELEASE

Beautiful Boy Fri 8 to Thu 14 Feb Felix Van Groeningen • USA 2018 • 2h • Digital • 15 - Contains drug misuse, frequent drug references, strong language, sex. • Cast: Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan, Christian Convery, Oakley Bull.

Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet star in Felix Van Groeningen’s English language debut. When Nic (Chalamet) begins experimenting with marijuana, his relaxed father David (Carell) isn’t alarmed, but soon becomes so when Nic’s initially casual interest in drugs spirals into an urgent addiction to crystal meth. As he transforms from his father’s beloved ‘beautiful boy’ into an unhappy and chaotic addict, their relationship is challenged to its core. Based on a true story, Beautiful Boy is adapted from the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, chronicling the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.


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Burning Beoning Fri 8 to Thu 14 Feb Lee Chang-dong • South Korea 2018 • 2h28m • Digital • Korean and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence, sex, nudity, drug misuse. • Cast: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jeon Jong-seo.

An isolated young man, Jong-soo (Yoo Ah-in) is living in Seoul as a delivery driver when he bumps into Hae-mi (Jeon Jong-seo), an old childhood friend. They begin a relationship, but when she returns from a trip she’s accompanied by the mysterious and wealthy Ben (Steven Yeun) - with whom she is apparently involved. Adapted from Haruki Murakami’s short story Barn Burning, this epic masterpiece from Lee Chang-dong (Poetry, Green Fish) won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes 2018.

NEW RELEASE

Green Book Fri 15 to Thu 28 Feb Peter Farrelly • USA 2018 • 2h10m • Digital • English, Italian, Russian and German with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate violence, discriminatory behaviour. Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini.

Based in 1962, Green Book follows Italian-American Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) who is hired to chauffeur African-American pianist Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) as he goes on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South. Aware of the racism he may encounter in the region, Shirley relies on the ‘Negro Motorist Green Book’, a guide for safe travel through America’s racial segregation. With Tony having his own problematic racial views, the pair are forced to set aside their differences in order to work together.

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The 12th Man

Den 12. mann

Fri 15 to Mon 18 Feb Harald Zwart • Norway 2017 • 2h13m • Digital • English, Norwegian, German and Sámi with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence, injury detail, threat. • Cast: Thomas Gullestad, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Marie Blokhus.

Norway, 1943: after a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud (Thomas Gullestad) finds himself on the run from the Gestapo through the reaches of Scandinavia led by Kurt Stage (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). It’s a harrowing journey across unforgiving, frozen wilderness that will stretch on for months - and force Jan to take extreme action in order to survive. With gut-punching realism and vivid psychological immediacy, director Harald Zwart pays tribute to one man’s extraordinary courage.

NEW RELEASE

3 Days in Quiberon 3 Tage in Quiberon Mon 18 to Wed 20 Feb

Emily Atef • Germany/Austria/France 2018 • 1h56m • Digital • German, French and English with English subtitles • 12A - Contains suicide references. • Cast: Marie Bäumer, Birgit Minichmayr, Charly Hübner.

One year before her death, famous actress Romy Schneider retreats to a spa hotel in the town of Quiberon, Brittany. Despite her fragile state and having previously been burned by the German press, she agreed to an interview with Stern magazine. It would prove to be incendiary and it would be her last. This handsome, carefully crafted drama explores the charged encounter between the actress, the writer, the photographer and the childhood friend who tries to protect Romy from the questions and from herself.

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If Beale Street Could Talk Fri 22 Feb to Thu 7 Mar Barry Jenkins • USA 2018 • 1h59m • Digital • 15 - Contains infrequent very strong language, strong sex. • Cast: KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris, Michael Beach.

In early 1970s Harlem, 19-year-old Tish (KiKi Layne) and her artist fiancé Fonny (Stephan James) dream of their future together, but their plans are derailed when Fonny is accused of a crime he didn’t commit. As he awaits trial, Tish tries desperately to get him released while her mother (a heartbreaking performance by Regina King) must decide how far she will go to secure her daughter’s future. Based on the novel of the same name by James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk honours the author’s prescient words. The follow-up to his ground-breaking, Oscar Best-Picture-winning Moonlight, Barry Jenkins returns with this timeless love story, rich with stunning imagery and emotional performances.

Coming SOON

Capernaum

Capharnaüm Fri 8 to Thu 21 Mar

Nadine Labaki • Lebanon/USA 2018 • 2h • Digital • Arabic and Amharic with English subtitles • Cast: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Yousef, Haita ‘Cedra’ Izzam.

Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is a young boy living with his family in an impoverished Beirut neighbourhood. Wise and street-smart beyond his years, Zain’s resentment towards his parents builds and, following a series of tragic events, he finds himself compelled to sue them for bringing children into such a world. Winner of the Jury Award at Cannes Film Festival 2018, director Nadine Labaki crafts a viscerally powerful and thought-provoking tale of hope, charting the journey of children on the edges of society who find hope in spite of the challenges of their everyday lives.



Herzog of the Month/1945

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HERZOG OF THE MONTH

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle Sun 13 Jan at 6.05pm Werner Herzog • West Germany 1974 • 1h49m • Digital • German with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild violence and an autopsy scene. Cast: Bruno S, Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge.

The best by far of the various films about the full-grown man who turned up out of the blue in 19th-century Germany, barely able to walk or talk, and became a figure of fame and controversy. Wisely, Herzog hardly bothers about Hauser’s origins and mysterious fate, choosing instead to compare Kaspar - an innocent at the mercy of a society too sure of itself - with liberal but blinkered rationalists who determine to shape his new life.

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY

1945 Sun 27 Jan at 3.40pm & 8.35pm Ferenc Török • Hungary 2017 • 1h31m • Digital • Hungarian and Russian with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex. • Cast: Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel.

12 August 1945. The inhabitants of a village in rural Soviet-occupied Hungary are preparing for the town clerk’s son’s wedding, when two Orthodox Jewish men arrive at the railway station with two large trunks. As they silently make their way to town, a growing panic spreads amongst some of the more prominent townsfolk… Ferenc Török’s striking monochrome drama - reminiscent of Fred Zinnemann’s masterful High Noon, no less - is a tense, chilling, beautifully nuanced take on a difficult, transitional period in Hungarian history.

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Scream of Stone

Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein Sun 24 Feb at 6.00pm Werner Herzog • Germany/France/Canada/Italy/Argentina 1991 1h45m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Mathilda May, Stefan Glowacz, Donald Sutherland.

Donald Sutherland stars as Ivan, a journalist who instigates a rivalry between Roccia (Vittorio Mezzogiorno), a professional mountain climber, and Martin (Stefan Glowacz), a champion athlete of indoor climbing walls. But Roccia doesn’t need a reporter to fuel a rivalry, since Katharina (Mathilda May), Roccia’s lover, is attracted to Martin. Ivan arranges for a TV special chronicling their efforts to conquer the peak of Cerro Torre, one of the most dangerous mountains in the world.


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Call Me By Your Name

The Lady Eve

Thu 14 Feb at 8.30pm

Thu 14 to Sun 17 Feb

Luca Guadagnino • Italy/France/Brazil/USA 2017 • 2h12m • Digital English, Italian, French and German with English subtitles • 15 Contains strong sex.• Cast: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel.

Preston Sturges • USA 1941 • 1h34m • Digital • U - Contains mild horror. • Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demares, Eric Blore.

It’s northern Italy in the summer of 1983, and precocious Italian-American teenager Elio (Timothée Chalamet) spends his days in the family villa engorged on classical music and scholarly pursuits. Intellectually, Elio is a fully-fledged adult, but when a charming American student (Armie Hammer) arrives in their midst - awakening desires beyond his immediate understanding - it will change both of their lives forever. Sun-dappled, erudite and sensual, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name is a trascendent tale of first love.

VALENTINE’s Day

Casablanca Thu 14 Feb at 1.15pm & 6.10pm Michael Curtiz • USA 1942 • 1h42m • Digital • U - Contains mild violence. • Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet.

The world’s favourite Hollywood love story. Humphrey Bogart is at his best as Rick, an American opportunist in 1940 French Morocco with a gruffly cynical exterior that belies his wary idealism and wounded heart. Ingrid Bergman is luminous as Ilsa, who arrives in Casablanca with resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), but clearly has a history with Rick. Cynicism and self-interest contend with idealism and self-sacrifice as Rick and Ilsa’s past weighs against the world’s future.

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A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune - a wealthy but naïve snake enthusiast - and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her golddigging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart. One of Sturges’s most clever and beloved romantic comedies, The Lady Eve balances broad slapstick and sophisticated sexiness with perfect grace.

NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION

The Passenger

Professione: Reporter Fri 22 to Sun 24 Feb Michelangelo Antonioni • Italy/Spain/France 1975 • 2h6m • Digital 12A - Contains strong language • Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry, Steven Berkoff.

The last in a trio of English-language films Antonioni made for MGM, The Passenger opens in the heat of the North African desert. David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a television reporter at the end of his tether. When he finds his fellow hotel guest, a Brit named David Robertson, dead in his bed, he takes strange advantage of the situation. He swaps shirts, passport photos and hotel rooms and assumes Robertson’s identity, an identity which brings with it a whole host of new dangers…

Valentine’s Day/The Passenger

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Khrustalyov, My Car!

Хрусталёв, машину! Sat 23 Feb at 2.00pm & 5.15pm

Aleksey German • Russia/France 1998 • 2h27m • Digital • Russian with English subtitles • 18 - Contains sexual violence. • Cast: Yuriy Tsurilo, Nina Ruslanova, Mikhail Dementyev, Aleksandr Bashirov.

A military surgeon, General Klenski (Yuriy Tsurilo), finds himself caught up in the infamous ‘Doctor’s Plot’, in which a group of predominately Jewish Moscow doctors were branded as members of a conspiracy to assassinate Soviet leaders. After being pursued, abused and marked for the gulag, Klenski is freed in a final effort to save Stalin from his date with destiny. German brilliantly conveys all the madness, paranoia and absurdity that pervaded Moscow during the final days of Stalin’s regime.

INGMAR BERGMAN

The Seventh Seal

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The Last Movie Wed 27 & Thu 28 Feb Dennis Hopper • USA 1971 • 1h49m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex, sex references. Cast: Dennis Hopper, Julie Adams, Daniel Ades, Richmond Aguilar.

Following on from the success of Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper directed and starred in this hallucinatory meditation on Hollywood. The film follows a movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. When production wraps, Hopper, as stuntman Kansas, remains, attempting to find redemption in the arms of a former prostitute. Meanwhile, the local Indians have taken over the abandoned set and begun to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production - with Kansas as their sacrificial lamb.

INGMAR BERGMAN

Wild Strawberries

Det Sjunde Inseglet Sun 17 Feb at 1.35pm

Smultronstället Sun 17 Feb at 3.50pm

Ingmar Bergman • Sweden 1957 • 1h36m • Digital • Swedish with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild violence, threat and language Cast: Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Bengt Ekerot.

Ingmar Bergman • Sweden 1957 • 1h33m • Digital • Swedish with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild threat, infrequent mild sex references, language. • Cast: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin.

This searing morality tale functions on many levels as a recreation of medieval life, as a desperate debate on religious belief, and as a vision of romantic love. Bergman provides no answers; it’s the questions that enthral. Max von Sydow and Bibi Andersson relished their first starring roles, and Gunnar Fischer’s cinematography was never better.

Isak Borg, a distinguished professor in his late 70s, must travel to Lund to receive an honorary degree. During the journey he finds himself forced to confront the tribulations and failings of his early years. Bergman explores like a surgeon what Jung called the ’dark cellar of the subconscious’, emerging finally into the light and, in so doing, reconciling himself with his own parents.

Screening to celebrate the release of Bergman: A Year in a Life (page 6), buy a ticket for both The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries for £12/£10 concession.


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GROWING PAINS

I Wish Kiseki Mon 14 Jan at 5.45pm Hirokazu Kore-eda • Japan 2011 • 2h8m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild language and scenes of smoking• Cast: Koki Maeda, Ohshiro Maeda, Ryoga Hayashi.

12-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents’ divorce, has one wish: for his family to be reunited. He learns that a new bullet train line will soon open, linking his home town with the one his father and brother have moved to. On hearing a rumour about how a miracle will take place when these new trains first pass each other at top speed, Koichi sets out to witness this moment, and make his wish come true.

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Billy Elliot Thu 21 Feb at 6.10pm Stephen Daldry • Britain 2000 • 1h51m • 35mm • 15 • Cast: Julie Walters, Jamie Bell, Jamie Draven, Stuart Wells, Gary Lewis.

11-year-old Billy Elliot is the son of a coal-miner, living in County Durham during the UK miners’ strike in 1984. One day, when he stumbles upon a ballet class during his weekly boxing lesson, Billy discovers a talent he never knew he had. In order to chase his dream to be a dancer, Billy finds himself, with the help of his fiery dance instructor, Mrs. Wilkinson, challenging his family’s expectations around what it means to be a young working-class male, and risks raising the wrath of his father and brother.

Growing Pains shows classic and contemporary films dealing with some of the more complex aspects of childhood. All films followed by an informal chat and introduced by Jessie Moroney, a member of the programming team who attended the Practical Programming course with the Independent Cinema Office.

OVer the rainbow

OVer the rainbow

Bent

The Wild Boys Les garçons sauvages

Sat 26 Jan at 3.30pm & Sun 27 Jan at 6.10pm

Sat 16 Feb at 3.30pm & Sun 17 Feb at 5.50pm

Sean Mathias • UK/Japan 1997 • 1h45m • 35mm • 18 - Contains strong violence and sex. • Cast: Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Mick Jagger, Rachel Weisz.

Bertrand Mandico • France 2017 • 1h51m • Digital • French and English with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Pauline Lorillard, Vimala Pons, Diane Rouxel, Anaël Snoek, Mathilde Warnier.

Max (Clive Owen) - an openly gay man in 1930s Berlin - finds himself brutally persecuted by the newly reigning Nazi regime. Escaping the city during the Night of the Long Knives, he is eventually captured and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau. Forcibly denying his sexuality to the Nazi officers, he is assigned a yellow Star of David instead of a pink triangle. Max’s life changes irrevocably, however, when he meets fellow inmate Horst (Lothiare Bluteau), who wears his pink triangle with pride...

The debut feature from Bertrand Mandico tells the tale of five adolescent boys (all played by actresses) enamoured by the arts, but drawn to crime and transgression. After a brutal crime committed by the group and aided by TREVOR - a deity of chaos they can’t control - they’re punished to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming their ferocious appetites. After arriving on a lush island with dangers and pleasures abound the boys start to transform in both mind and body.

Growing Pains/Over the Rainbow

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Senior Selections

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We love talking about films and so do our audiences. Senior Selections invites older audiences to enjoy classic and contemporary cinema and share their thoughts about the film over a cuppa after the film. Senior Selections films are chosen by our Senior Volunteers, who will be on hand to welcome you and have a chat after the film. These fortnightly film screenings are for audiences who are over-60. They screen where possible with on-screen captions/subtitles. Tickets are £3 each and include tea, coffee and biscuits after the film. Places are limited, booking essential!

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The Party Tue 15 Jan at 1.30pm Sally Potter • UK 2017 • 1h11m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, drug misuse. • Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Emily Mortimer, Cherry Jones, Cillian Murphy, Kristin Scott Thomas.

Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) has just been appointed to a key ministerial position in the shadow cabinet the crowning achievement of her political career. She and her husband Bill (Timothy Spall) plan to celebrate this with a few close friends. As the guests arrive at their home in London the party takes an unexpected turn when Bill suddenly makes some explosive revelations. Love, friendships and political convictions are soon called into question in this hilarious comedy of tragic proportions from writer/director Sally Potter (Ginger & Rosa, Orlando).

Pan’s Labyrinth

El Laberinto del Fauno Tue 29 Jan at 12.55pm

Guillermo del Toro • Mexico/Spain/USA 2006 • 2h • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language and bloody violence. • Cast: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú.

During the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl named Ofelia journeys with her mother to the countryside to join Ofelia’s new stepfather, Captain Vidal. While the sadistic Vidal hunts members of the republican resistance that remain hidden in the nearby mountains, Ofelia encounters a faun who claims that her true identity is that of a legendary lost princess. Challenged to complete three tasks in order to return to her underground kingdom, Ofelia oscillates between the menacing natures of both reality and fantasy.


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Le sens de la fête

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Ethel & Ernest

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Tue 26 Feb at 1.00pm

Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache • France/Belgium/Canada 2017 1h57m • Digital • French and Tamil with English subtitles • 15 Contains strong language. • Cast: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Paul Rouve, Gilles Lellouche, Eye Haidara, Vincent Macaigne.

Roger Mainwood • UK 2016 • 1h34m • Digital • U - Contains mild innuendo, threat, mild bad language. • With the voices of Jim Broadbent, Pam Ferris, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway.

Co-directors Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache gained attention thanks to their sublime film Intouchables (2011). With C’est la vie! they tell the delightfully sprawling story of a day in the life of an ageing Parisian wedding caterer (beautifully played by Jean-Pierre Bacri) driven to frustrated distraction as a complex wedding in a 17th-century chateau unravels. This is a sophisticated comedy with a broad multi-ethnic and multi-generational cast, all driven by a breezy score that delivers real, irreverent pleasure.

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Based on the award-winning graphic novel by The Snowman creator Raymond Briggs, Ethel & Ernest, a funny and touching tribute to his parents. This is an enchantingly animated film adaptation of a heartwarming true story of two people (with voices provided by Pam Ferris and Jim Broadbent) who fall in love against the background of immense social change in the mid 20th Century - the Depression, the Second World War, post-war prosperity and cultural upheaval. One love, forty years, and always a cup of tea.

Senior Selections

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Nicolas Roeg

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| 11 JAN 19 - 28 FEB 19

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NICOLAS ROEG We celebrate the life and work of Nicolas Roeg, the iconoclastic and visionary filmmaker who died in November, at the age of 90. Born in London in 1928, Roeg was a skilled cinematographer, working on the likes of Lawrence of Arabia and Fahrenheit 451, who moved into directing with the controversial Mick Jagger-starring Performance in 1968, an explosive film whose reputation has grown every year since release.

Performance began a run of classics as strong as any in cinema: Walkabout (1971), in which two schoolchildren are abandoned in the Australian outback; Bad Timing (1980) – a lurid, controversial thriller in which Art Garfunkel stars as an American psychiatrist living in Vienna – and the Gene Hackman-starring murder mystery Eureka (1983) both flopped on release, but are now widely regarded as fellow masterpieces.

Performance Wed 16 & Thu 17 Jan Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell • UK 1970 • 1h45m • 35mm • 18 - Contains strong violence and drugs use. • Cast: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton, Ann Sidney.

Roeg’s debut as a director is a virtuoso juggling act which begins as a straight thriller before deviating into more provocative terrain. A ‘60s gangster (James Fox), on the run from his gangland colleagues, seemingly finds refuge in the Notting Hill basement of a reclusive rock star (a perfectly cast Mick Jagger), who is looking for the right spark to rekindle his faded talent. An elliptical, absorbing puzzle exploring notions of identity and sexuality.

Walkabout Fri 25 to Thu 31Jan (screening on select dates only) Nicolas Roeg • UK 1971 • 1h40m • Digital • 12A - Contains nudity, animal killing and infrequent strong language. • Cast: Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, David Gulpilil, John Meillon, Robert McDarra.

A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they meet a young aborigine on his ‘walkabout’, a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone. A thrilling adventure as well as a provocative rumination on time and civilisation.


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Eureka

Wed 20 & Thu 21 Feb

Wed 27 & Thu 28 Feb

Nicolas Roeg • UK 1980 • 2h1m • Digital • English, German, Czech and French with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey.

Nicolas Roeg • UK/USA 1983 • 2h9m • 35mm • 18 - Contains strong violence. • Cast: Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Jane Lapotaire, Mickey Rourke.

Vienna is used to similar effect as Venice was in Don’t Look Now in the masterful and much maligned Bad Timing, one of Nicolas Roeg’s most elusive and complex pictures. Examining in flashback the consuming relationship between two Americans in the city of Klimt, Roeg has described Bad Timing as an apt summation of his career, believing himself to have often been ahead of time, instead of simply being of it.

Eureka unpicks the life of a prospector (Gene Hackman) who, after striking gold, lives out his life in a luxurious exile polluted by vicious battles with business competitors and members of his own family. A violent, uncompromising work, the film, scripted by Paul Mayersberg, has parallels with both Citizen Kane and There Will Be Blood in its observations on how wealth often comes at huge personal cost.

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YOUNG PROGRAMMERS’ PICKS Our Young Programmers meet weekly to watch, discuss and help select films for Filmhouse and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. They recommend these upcoming films as essential viewing for 15-25 year olds.

MARY Queen of Scots

METROPOLIS

CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

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“I am hugely fascinated by the story of Mary Queen of Scots and am looking forward to seeing how two actresses of the calibre of Saoirse Ronan (as Mary) and Margot Robbie (as Elizabeth I) face off against each other in this dramatic and atmospheric movie.” Chloe Ainslie

“One of the most influential films ever made, Fritz Lang’s ambitious dystopian epic truly illustrates the potential of cinema. It portrays a stylized future through masterful set design, cinematography and lighting. It is a true classic that I can’t wait to see on the big screen, along with a dynamic DJ soundtrack.” Lachlan Rowley

“Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant have both been nominated for Golden Globes for their performances in this movie, based on the true story of writer Lee Israel, who decides to commit literary fraud when her career starts to go downhill. The film promises to be a comedy, drama and a crime story all wrapped up in one.” Angelica Petherick

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Yorgos Lanthimos

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YORGOS LANTHIMOS With his delightfully salacious The Favourite (see page The Killing of a Sacred Deer 4) still fresh in our minds, it seems a perfect time to Sat 12 & Wed 16 Jan cast our eyes over the remarkable career-to-date of Yorgos Lanthimos - a director who has become a firm Yorgos Lanthimos • UK/Ireland 2017 • 2h1m • Digital • 15 - Contains favourite himself in these parts. Now an established voice in European cinema, over the past thirteen years the Athens-born director has mastered the art of balancing dark themes and elements of profound absurdity. From 2005’s peculiar Kinetta, his cinematic route has taken some sharp turns along the way - via Dogtooth’s dysfunctional family, the Hitchcockian Alps, the surreal fantasy of The Lobster and brooding revenge thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Whether you’re new to Yorgos or an avid fan, this retrospective promises deadpan hilarity, discomfort and moments of unexpected emotional release in abundance - and isn’t that the core of why we love cinema?

strong violence, sex, nudity. • Cast: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Alicia Silverstone, Raffey Cassidy, Barry Keoghan, Bill Camp.

Heart surgeon Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) and his ophthalmologist wife Anna (Nicole Kidman) are parents to two children and live a pristine, comfortable life in the suburbs. Steven has also surreptitiously taken teenager Martin (Barry Keoghan), whose late father was a patient of his, under his wing. The Killing of a Sacred Deer hops between genres, unfolding and revealing more, as Martin’s behaviour becomes more erratic... and more sinister.

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The Lobster Sat 26 & Mon 28 Jan Yorgos Lanthimos • Ireland/UK/Greece/France/Netherlands 2015 1h58m • Digital • English and French with English subtitles • 15 Contains strong language, sex, sex references, bloody images. Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, John C. Reilly.

In a dystopian near future, single people are rounded up and taken to a hotel, where they are obliged to find a mate within 45 days, or are transformed into animals and released into the woods. David (Colin Farrell) is one such singleton, who quickly finds that finding love is far from easy. Yorgos Lanthimos’ surreal satire holds a mirror up to our own practices concerning love and relationships in the 21st century.


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Alps Alpeis Tue 12 & Wed 13 Feb Yorgos Lanthimos • Greece 2011 • 1h34m • Digital • Greek and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex, threat and a scene of attempted hanging. • Cast: Stavros Psyllakis, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris, Ariane Labed, Aggeliki Papoulia.

Lanthimos’ warped vision of lives on the periphery of a society in decay. Alps follows a secret club whose members are paid to act as replacements for the recently deceased - going into their homes, impersonating them, getting uncomfortably intimate with the bereaved. It’s part therapy, part theatre, with more than a hint of prostitution. Aggeliki Papoulia plays a young member who takes her awkward roleplaying perhaps too seriously, while quietly rebelling against the group’s sadistic leader (Aris Servetalis).

Kinetta Tue 26 to Thu 28 Feb Yorgos Lanthimos • Greece 2005 • 1h35m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 15 - Contains sexualised nudity, strong violence references. • Cast: Evangelia Randou, Aris Servetalis, Costas Xikominos, Youlika Skafida, Hector Kaloudis.

Lanthimos studies the cryptic activities of an inscrutable trio in a desolate Greek resort town, inhabited during the off-season by migrant workers. A policeman investigates a series of recent murders. He enlists the help of a photo-store clerk, a loner who is a part-time videographer, and a young hotel maid, who performs the role of the female victims. The oddball trio engage in a succession of murder re-enactments, directed by the cop with exhaustive attention to detail but questionable scientific purpose...

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Dogtooth

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Tue 19 & Wed 20 Feb Yorgos Lanthimos • Greece 2009 • 1h37m • Digital • Greek with English subtitles • 18 - Contains incest theme and infrequent real sex. Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia.

A patriarch leaves his house on the outskirts of town each day to go to work in a factory, though his family remain home, barred from going outside its grounds. His son and two daughters remain completely unaware of what’s going on in the outside world, while their mother is complicit in never allowing them out. Recognising that his son has reached an age where he may have certain needs to be catered for, father brings Christina into the household to solve this issue. Christina’s interaction with the family provokes a bizarre and vicious chain of events.

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Nanook of the North

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| 11 JAN 19 - 28 FEB 19

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SPECIAL EVENT

Nanook of the North With live score by S!nk Sun 10 Mar at 4.00pm Robert J. Flaherty • USA 1922 • 1h18m • Digital • Silent • U

Centred on the lifestyle of the titular Inuk and his family, Nanook of the North is of the most pivotal films in history, Robert Flaherty’s filmic examination of Inuit culture in the icy Canadian Arctic frontier came at a time before the concept of ‘documentary’ had even been solidified. Flaherty embarked on this most challenging shoot with just three weeks of cinematography training under his belt, and while the film has attracted fair criticism for his staging of events - particularly the depiction of archaic hunting practices - the film remains a enduringly fascinating watch today. This screening will feature a live performed score by S!nk, who have previously accompanied screenings of other silent classics like The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and The Adventures of Prince Achmed at Filmhouse. Tickets £15/£10 concession.


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Fri 11 Jan

12.30/8.20 3.10 (captioned) 6.00 11.00pm 1.00/3.15/8.25 5.45 1.30/3.45/6.10 8.15

Fri 1 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) 18 1 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Jan 2 The Favourite (AD) 2 The Favourite (AD) 3 Stan & Ollie (AD)

12.15/3.00 5.45/8.25 12.45/3.20 6.00/8.35 1.00/3.15/6.10/8.30

Sat 1 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) 19 1 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Jan 2 The Favourite (AD) (C) 2 The Favourite (AD) 3 Stan & Ollie (AD)

12.15/3.00 5.45/8.25 3.20 (captioned) 6.00/8.35 1.00/3.15/6.10/8.30

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The Favourite (AD) The Favourite (AD) (C) Stan & Ollie (AD) The Hunger (UV) Stan & Ollie (AD) The Favourite (AD) Return of the Hero Island of the Hungry Ghosts

Sat 1 The Favourite (AD) 12.30/3.10 12 1 The Favourite (AD) 5.45/8.30 Jan 2 Stan & Ollie (AD) 1.00/3.15/6.00/8.15 3 Return of the Hero 1.10/6.10 3 Island of the Hungry Ghosts 3.30 3 The Killing of a Sacred... (YL) (AD) 8.20 Sun 13 Jan

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Jurassic Park (FJ) Stan & Ollie (AD) Island of the Hungry Ghosts The Enigma of Kaspar... (HZ) The Favourite (AD) Return of the Hero The Favourite (AD)

11.00am 2.00/4.15/6.30/8.45 2.30 + Q&A 6.05 8.30 1.10/8.25 3.15/5.50

Mon 1 The Favourite (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.35 14 2 Stan & Ollie (AD) 1.00/3.15/8.40 Jan 2 I Wish (GP) 5.45 + Discussion 3 Return of the Hero 1.30/8.25 3 Island of the Hungry Ghosts 3.45 3 Stan & Ollie (AD) 6.10 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 42 Tue 15 Jan

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Wed 1 16 2 Jan 3 3 3 Thu 17 Jan

1 2 3 3 3

The Favourite (AD) The Favourite (AD) (C) Stan & Ollie (AD) The Party (SR) (C) Return of the Hero Island of the Hungry Ghosts

2.30/6.00 8.35 (captioned) 1.00/3.15/6.10/8.25 1.30 (over-60s only) 3.45/8.25 6.05

The Favourite (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.35 Stan & Ollie (AD) 1.00/3.15/6.10/8.25 The Killing of a Sacred... (YL) (AD) 1.05/6.05 Island of the Hungry Ghosts 3.45 Performance (NR) 8.45 The Favourite (AD) Stan & Ollie (AD) The Favourite (AD) Performance (NR) Island of the Hungry Ghosts

2.30/6.00/8.35 1.00/3.15/6.10/8.25 1.10 3.45/6.05 8.30

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Song of the Sea (FJ) 11.00am Stan & Ollie (AD) 1.10/3.30 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) 5.45/8.25 Finland’s Enchanted Cinema (DS) 1.15 (free + ticketed) The Worthless (DS) 3.15 The Favourite (AD) 6.00/8.35 The Favourite (AD) 1.00 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) 3.35 Stan & Ollie (AD) 6.15/8.30

Mon 1 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) 2.30/5.45 21 1 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) (C) 8.25 (captioned) Jan 2 The Favourite (AD) 12.45/3.20 2 The Favourite (AD) 6.00/8.35 3 Stan & Ollie (AD) 1.00/3.15/6.15/8.30 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 42

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Stan & Ollie (AD) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Metropolis (RB) The Favourite (AD) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Stan & Ollie (AD) The Favourite (AD)

12.30 2.45 7.30 12.40/3.15 5.50/8.30 12.35 3.15/8.40 6.00

Wed 1 23 2 Jan 2 3

Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) The Favourite (AD) Stan & Ollie (AD)

3.00/5.45/8.25 12.45 3.25/6.00/8.35 1.00/3.15/6.10/8.30

1 2 2 3

Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) The Favourite (AD) Stan & Ollie (AD)

3.00/5.45/8.25 12.45 3.25/6.00/8.35 1.00/3.15/6.10/8.30

Tue 22 Jan

Thu 24 Jan

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All screenings in 2D unless marked (3D) (3D) - £2 charge for 3D

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(AD) Audio Description (see p 42) (C) Captioned for deaf or hard of hearing (see p 42) SCREENING TIMES

Fri 25 Jan

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Colette (AD) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Tenebrae (UV) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) (C) Colette (AD) Walkabout (NR) The Favourite (AD)

12.30 3.00/5.40/8.20 11.00pm 12.45 (captioned) 3.30/6.00/8.30 1.00/8.35 3.15/5.55

Sat 26 Jan

1 1 2 2 2 3 3

Colette (AD) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Bent (OR) Colette (AD) The Favourite (AD) The Lobster (YL)

12.30 3.00/5.45/8.25 12.45 3.30 6.00/8.30 2.30/8.00 5.15

Sun 27 Jan

1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

My Life as a Courgette (FJ) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) 1945 (HM) Colette (AD) Bent (OR) 1945 (HM) Walkabout (NR) The Favourite (AD) Colette (AD)

11.00am 1.00/5.50/8.30 3.40 12.50/3.30 6.10 8.35 1.05 3.20/8.25 5.55

Mon 1 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) 2.30/5.45/8.25 28 2 Colette (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00 Jan 2 The Way You Wanted Me (DS) 8.30 3 The Lobster (YL) 12.40/8.35 3 The Favourite (AD) 3.20/5.55 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 42

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Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Colette (AD) The National Health (SE) Pan’s Labyrinth (SR) The Favourite (AD) Colette (AD)

2.30/5.45/8.25 1.00/3.30/8.30 6.05 + Intro 12.55 (over-60s only) 3.35/8.40 6.10

Wed 1 30 2 Jan 2 2 3 3 3

Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Colette (AD) Colette (AD) (C) The Unknown Soldier (DS) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) The Favourite (AD) Colette (AD)

3.00/5.45/8.25 12.10/2.40 5.10 (captioned) 7.40 12.45 3.25/6.05 8.40

Tue 29 Jan

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Thu 31 Jan

1 2 3 3 3

Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Colette (AD) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) The Favourite (AD) Walkabout (NR)

3.00/5.45/8.25 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 12.45 3.25/8.20 6.05

Fri 1 Feb

1 1 2 2 3 3

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Colette (AD) (C) Colette (AD)

12.35 3.00/5.45/8.25 12.55 3.40/6.05/8.35 1.00 (captioned) 3.30/6.00/8.30

Sat 2 Feb

1 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 1 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) 2 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) 2 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 3 Colette (AD) 3 Colette (AD)

12.35 3.00/5.45/8.25 12.55 3.40/6.05/8.35 1.00/3.30 6.00/8.30

Sun 3 Feb

1 The King and... Mockingbird (FJ) 1 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) 2 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 2 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 3 Colette (AD) 3 Colette (AD)

11.00am 2.00/5.00/7.40 1.10/3.35 6.05/8.35 1.00/3.30 6.00/8.30

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Mon 1 Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) 2.30/5.45 4 1 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 8.25 Feb 2 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 1.10/3.35 2 Can You Ever Forgive... (AD) (C) 6.05 (captioned) 2 Women of Niskavuori (DS) 8.35 3 Colette (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 42

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Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Left, Right and Centre (SE) Colette (AD) Born in Flames (HG)

2.30/8.25 6.00 1.10/3.35/8.20 6.05+ Intro 1.00/3.30/6.10 8.40

Wed 1 6 1 Feb 2 2 3 3

Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) The King of Comedy (HG) Colette (AD) Bergman: A Year in a Life

2.30/5.45 8.25 1.10/3.35/6.00 8.30 1.00/3.30/8.35 6.00

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(GP) Growing Pains (see p 13) (HG) House Guest: The Skinny (see p 36-37)

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

(HM) Holocaust Memorial Day (see p 10) (HZ) Herzog of the Month (see p 10)

2.30/8.25 6.00 1.10/3.35/8.20 6.30 1.00/3.30/6.00 8.30

Wed 1 13 1 Feb 1 2 2 3 3 3

Burning Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) The Terminator (RB) Beautiful Boy (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Burning Alps (YL)

2.30 6.00 8.30 12.55/3.30/6.05 8.40 1.00/3.25 5.50 8.55

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Casablanca The Terminator (RB) Call Me By Your Name Burning The Lady Eve Beautiful Boy (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Beautiful Boy (AD)

1.15/6.10 3.40 8.30 12.45 3.50/8.45 6.05 1.00/6.00/8.25 3.25

Fri 8 Feb

1 Can You Ever Forgive... (AD) (C) 1 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 1 Dead Man (UV) 2 Beautiful Boy (AD) 2 Beautiful Boy (AD) 3 The Raft 3 Burning

1.00 (captioned) 3.25/6.00/8.25 10.50pm 12.55/3.30 6.05/8.40 12.30/5.55 2.50/8.10

Sat 1 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 9 1 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Feb 2 Beautiful Boy (AD) 2 Inspector Palmu’s Error (DS) 3 The Raft 3 Burning

1.00/3.25 6.00/8.25 12.55/6.05/8.40 3.30 12.30/5.55 2.50/8.10

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The LEGO Batman Movie (FJ) Beautiful Boy (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Beautiful Boy (AD) Burning The Raft

11.00am 2.00 5.00/7.30 1.00/3.25 6.05/8.40 12.30/8.10 3.35/5.55

Mon 1 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.25 11 2 Beautiful Boy (AD) 12.55/3.30 Feb 2 Beautiful Boy (AD) (C) 8.40 (captioned) 2 Tampopo (HG) 6.05 3 Burning 12.25/5.45 3 The Raft 3.30/8.50 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 42 Tue 12 Feb

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Burning Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Alps (YL) Beautiful Boy (AD) Welcome (SE) C’est la vie! (SR) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Alps (YL) Burning

(NR) Nicolas Roeg (see p 16-17) (OV) Over the Rainbow (see p 13)

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Thu 7 Feb

Mary Queen Of Scots (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Helsinki, Forever (DS) Colette (AD) Bergman: A Year in a Life

11 JAN 19 - 28 FEB 19

2.30 6.00/8.25 1.15 3.25/8.40 6.05 + Intro 1.00 (over-60s only) 3.30 5.55 8.10

Thu 14 Feb

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Fri 1 Green Book (AD) 15 1 Green Book (AD) Feb 2 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 2 The Lady Eve 3 The 12th Man 3 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD)

12.15/3.00 5.45/8.30 1.10/3.35/6.00 8.25 12.10/3.00/5.50 8.45

Sat 1 Green Book (AD) 16 1 Green Book (AD) Feb 2 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 2 The Wild Boys (OR) 3 The 12th Man 3 The Lady Eve

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Sun 17 Feb

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Sing (FJ) The Seventh Seal Wild Strawberries Terminator 2: Judgement... (RB) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) The Lady Eve Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Green Book (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) The 12th Man The Wild Boys (OR)

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Robots (see p 32-33) Screening Europe (see p 34-35)

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Green Book (AD) Green Book (AD) (C) Green Book (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Dogtooth (YL) 3 Days in Quiberon

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Green Book (AD) Green Book (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Bad Timing (NR) 3 Days in Quiberon Dogtooth (YL)

2.30/5.45/8.30 12.45 3.35/6.00 8.25 1.00/8.35 3.40/6.10

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Green Book (AD) Green Book (AD) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) Silent Running (RB) Silent Running (RB) Bad Timing (NR) Billy Elliot (GP) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD)

2.30/5.45/8.30 12.45 3.35/6.00 8.25 1.15 3.30 6.10 + Discussion 8.45

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If Beale Street Could Talk (AD) 12.15/3.00/8.10 The Day the Earth Stood Still (RB) 6.00 Brazil (UV) 10.45pm The Passenger 1.00/8.35 The Day the Earth Stood Still (RB) 3.45 If Beale Street Could Talk (AD) 5.55 Green Book (AD) 12.00/5.45/8.30 Green Book (AD) (C) 2.45 (captioned)

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If Beale Street Could Talk (AD) The Passenger Khrustalyov, My Car! The Passenger Green Book (AD) If Beale Street Could Talk (AD)

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Mon 1 Terminator 2: Judgement... (RB) 2.30 18 1 Green Book (AD) 5.45/8.30 Feb 2 The 12th Man 12.45 2 Can You Ever Forgive Me? (AD) 3.35/6.00 2 Theatre of Blood (HG) 8.25 3 Green Book (AD) 12.25/3.10 3 The 12th Man 5.55 3 3 Days in Quiberon 8.45 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 42 Tue 19 Feb

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11.00am 2.00 5.40/8.15 12.50/3.25 6.00 8.25 12.00/2.45 5.45/8.30

Mon 1 If Beale Street Could Talk (AD) 2.00/6.00/8.35 25 2 I, Robot (RB) 1.10/6.15 Feb 2 If Beale Street Could Talk (AD) 3.40 2 Body Double (HG) 8.45 3 Green Book (AD) 12.00/2.45 3 Green Book (AD) 5.45/8.30 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 42 Tue 26 Feb

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If Beale Street Could Talk (AD) 2.30/6.00 If Beale Street Could Talk (AD) (C) 8.35 (captioned) Green Book (AD) 12.50/8.30 If Beale Street Could Talk (AD) 3.35 The Other Side of Hope (SE) 6.10 + Intro Ethel & Ernest (SR) (AD) (C) 1.00 (over-60s only) Green Book (AD) 3.10/5.55 Kinetta (YL) 8.45

Wed 1 27 2 Feb 2 3 3 3

If Beale Street Could Talk (AD) Green Book (AD) The Last Movie Kinetta (YL) Green Book (AD) Eureka (NR)

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If Beale Street Could Talk (AD) The Last Movie Green Book (AD) Blues Brothers (HG) Green Book (AD) Eureka (NR) Kinetta (YL)

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Education and Learning

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Education and Learning 2019 at FIlmhouse

We have something for everyone, with screenings to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and special film events to celebrate Scots Language & Culture, World Book Day and more!

INSIDE HANA’S SUITCASE

1945 HOLOCAUSt MEMORIAL DAY

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

Tue 15 Jan at 10.30am

Wed 16 Jan at 10.30am

Thu 24 Jan at 10.30am

1h28min • £3/free for teachers • PG • suitable for P6-S3 • English, Czech and Japanese with some English subtitles • Social Studies - History, RMPS

1h31min • £3/free for teachers • 12A • suitable for S5-S6 • Hungarian with English subtitles • Social Studies: History, RMPS, English: Literacy, Media Studies • Advisory: infrequent strong language, moderate sex, suicide (suggested by dangling feet).

2h4min • £3/free for teachers • 15 • suitable for S5S6 • Advisory: strong violence, sex, sexual violence • Literacy: English, Social Studies: History, Scots Language and Culture.

The poignant story of two children, Hana and George Brady, who were singled out as Jews and sent away by the Nazis. Seventy years later a class of Japanese children receive a package from the Holocaust museum in Germany. It contains what appears to be Hana’s suitcase, and the children and their teacher begin to unravel Hana’s story.

Come along to see Scottish History In the aftermath of the Holocaust, adapted to the big screen in this 1945 tells the story of one day in the new release. Widowed at 18, Mary lives of a group of Hungarian villagers. Stewart (Saoirse Ronan) returns to As the locals prepare for a wedding, her native Scotland. As she attempts two mysterious strangers arrive. The to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, townspeople fear the two men are Queen of England (Margot Robbie), she Jews, who have returned to claim finds herself condemned to years of back what is rightfully theirs. imprisonment before facing execution.

SCIENCE FAIR

MY LIFE AS A COURGETTE

WONDER WORLD BOOK DAY

Tue 29 Jan at 10.15am

Ma Vie De Courgette

Thu 7 Mar at 10.30am

1h30min • £3/free for teachers • PG • suitable for P6-S6 • English, Portuguese and German with some English subtitles • Science, Technologies, Maths, STEM, Career Advice.

This hugely entertaining documentary follows a group of high school students as they compete for the top prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (IISEF), known as ‘the Olympics of Science Fairs’. Our guest speaker will outline how your students could follow in their footsteps and compete at the next IISEF. Not to be missed for students of STEM subjects. This screening will be introduced by Wendy Findlay from Engineering UK & Big Bang Science Fair.

Thu 21 Feb at 10.30am 1h6min • £3/free for teachers • PG • suitable for P5-S6 • French with English subtitles • Modern Languages: French, Health & Wellbeing: MESP • Advisory: mild sex references, references to traumatic childhood experiences.

1h53min • £3/free for teachers • PG • suitable for P5-S4 • Literacy: English, Health & Wellbeing: MESP • Advisory: mild bad language, violence, scenes of emotional upset.

Based on R.J. Palacio’s best-selling book, Wonder is the stirring and A charming French animation about heart-warming story of August ‘Auggie’ a young boy nicknamed Courgette Pullman, a young boy born with facial who is sent to live in a children’s home differences that have stopped him following the death of his mother. from being able to go to mainstream Learning to fit in with the other school - until now. Over the course children – each of whom carry scars of of a remarkable year, he and his new their own difficult pasts – the film is a school peers learn about compassion, gentle exploration of the thoughts and empathy and understanding, with feelings a young person might have Auggie becoming an unlikely hero. when going through a difficult period.


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CLPL for Teachers Into Film Curricular FILMMAKING WORKSHOP Fri 18 Jan from 2.00pm - 4.00pm 120min • £15 • Suitable for all teachers, especially Literacy & English, Arts and Technologies • Filmhouse Guild Rooms

This practical session will help you use filmmaking to improve curricular learning, assessment and attainment. Step-by-step guidance will be provided on how to use a range of techniques and equipment, along with advice on how to adapt these to suit your classroom environment, specific learners’ needs and assessment objectives. For more information and to book your place please visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/curricular-filmmaking-tickets-52087320578. If you have any questions, please email edinburgh@intofilm.org.

Teachers Advisory group meetings Tue 22 Jan from 4.30pm - 6.00pm or Fri 1 Feb from 2.00pm - 3.30pm 90min • Free • Filmhouse Guild Rooms

Become a member of our Teacher Advisory Group (TAG). We meet regularly to discuss ideas and shape what we offer to local schools and teachers. From CLPL sessions to film-making workshops or bespoke screenings linked to your next topic, we want your input in shaping our programme for 2019 and beyond. Come along for coffee, cake, chat and even some comp tickets! To book your place, please contact Chloé Berger at education@cmi-scotland.co.uk

Edinburgh & Lothians schools film competition 2019

Teacher information session Thu 31 Jan from 4.30pm - 6pm 90min • Free • Filmhouse Guild Rooms

Do you have a class of film fans? The Edinburgh & Lothians Schools Film Competition is open to all Lothian and City of Edinburgh Council nursery, primary, secondary and special schools. It is FREE to enter and no experience is necessary. To find out more, come along to one of our Teacher Information Session, where you can meet the team, including members of the Youth Jury and teachers who have been successful at previous competitions. Successful films will be screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2019 and there are special prizes up for grabs! To book your place contact dina@screen-ed.org You can find out more at screen-ed.org/edinburgh-schools-film-competition Edinburgh & Lothians Schools Film Competition is a partnership between Screen Education Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh Council, Arts & Creative Learning, Communities & Families, Centre for the Moving Image and Edinburgh International Film Festival.

When making a booking please include: Film Title/ Event name · Date of screening/ event · Name of school · Lead teacher email and mobile number · Number of students · Number of adults This will help us process your request quickly and efficiently.

For more information or to book places at any of these events please contact Chloé Berger at education@cmi-scotland.co.uk or call 0131 228 6382, or visit www.filmhousecinema.com/learning

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February Animation Workshops

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February Animation Workshops Animated Android Mix-up! (11-14 years) Wednesday 13th February 2019, 10.30am to 3.15pm • 4h45m • £35

Join Animation Jam for a day of cartoon and creature craziness! Make your own 2D cartoon in the morning and then animate in 3D with plasticine in the afternoon. Mix up your ideas with the other animators and watch all your films online any time you want. The theme this time is robot mayhem! * Please bring a packed lunch

2D Robo-Motion (8-12 years)

Thursday 14th February 2019, 10.30am to 12.45pm • 2h15m • £17.50 At this animation workshop you can make your own robot worker or warrior. Give it a job and make its body parts move around in your own cartoon that will go online. Will it work or go hilariously wrong??!!

3D Robot Animation (8-12 years)

Thursday 14th February 2019, 1.45pm to 4pm • 2h15m • £17.50 Robots are taking over! Build your own from lovely squashy plasticine and bring them to life with animation we’ll put online. Your robots can move about fixing stuff or throw a spanner in the works as a Bad Robot!

More details can be found at: filmhousecinema.com/learning/workshops Book your place now at Filmhouse Box Office At 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh or call 0131 228 2688


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ITALIAN CINEMA Mondays from 14 Jan 2019 • 10 Weeks • 6.30pm - 9.20pm • Guild Cinema • Pasquale Iannone PhD • £138.00

Understand the development of Italian cinema across more than a century through the works of Rossellini, Fellini, Moretti and many more. Each session includes a screening and a tutor-led discussion. More information - https://edin.ac/2rAaRVq

Through oscar’s Eyes:

American values in the academy awards Tuesdays from 15 Jan 2019 • 10 Weeks • 2.20pm - 5.00pm • Guild Cinema • Derek Wilson MA • £138.00

Explore America’s culture, ideology and history through the ages and let ten key ‘Best Picture’ titles provide a social and political context to key moments in America’s history. Includes screenings of Moonlight (2016), Forrest Gump (1994) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). More information - https://edin.ac/2FVRro6

FORGOTTEN GEMS OF WORLD CINEMA

The Cinema of the cold war

Tuesdays from 15 Jan 2019 • 10 Weeks • 6.30pm - 9.20pm • Guild Cinema • Rolland Man MA • £168.00

Thursdays from 17 Jan 2019 • 10 Weeks • 6.30pm - 9.20pm • Guild Cinema • James Dunnigan MA • £138.00

The history of cinema is often a history of reExplore the cinematic legacy of the Cold War discovery. Many films now held as classics were through examination of popular film genres from neglected for years by critics and audiences. both sides of the Iron Curtain. Includes screenings of Sometimes they were too obscure or daring, or Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), For Your Eyes they seemed out of fashion. Come and explore Only (1981) and The Woman on Pier 13 (1949). some forgotten gems that will amaze you by their More information - https://edin.ac/2G0UOKE modernity! More information - https://edin.ac/2G0T8Rm Missed these screenings? You can now also book the Female Filmmakers in Focus course starting in April 2019. More information is available on the University of Edinburgh Short Courses website: www.ed.ac.uk/short-courses

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Drifting Shadows

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Drifting Shadows:

Masterpieces of Finnish Cinema Curated by Antti Alanen and Ehsan Khoshbakht

Cinema in Finland got off to a flying start with a visit by the Lumière company in 1896. It was not until 1907, however, that the production of feature films began. The The Worthless Arvottomat new art form would go on to meet with great success among domestic audiences but for a long time this Sun 20 Jan at 3.15pm national cinema remained a local treasure. While decades later the Kaurismäkis put Finland on the map of international film culture, their success did little to stimulate wider interest in some of the earlier Finnish masters and masterworks, which deserve to be known by every cinephile. This programme presents some of the greatest films from the golden age of the studio system in Finland, as well as a foundational work of the Kaurismäki phenomenon (The Worthless, directed by Mika Kaurismäki), and a wonderful city symphony by the grand master of Finnish (and international) film culture, Peter von Bagh (Helsinki, Forever).

Finland’s Enchanted Cinema Sun 20 Jan at 1.15pm 1h10m • Free talk • Ticketed

Join film historian and programmer of the Finnish Film Archive, Antti Alanen, as he walks us through the rich history of one of the most overlooked Nordic national cinemas, looking at the golden days of studio filmmaking, as well as notable contemporary figures. Discussing in detail the films which will be showing as part of this season, this illustrated talk is the perfect accompaniment to the Finnish masterpieces programme.

Mika Kaurismäki • Finland 1982 • 1h50m • Digital • Finnish with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Matti Pellonpää, Pirkko Hämäläinen, Juuso Hirvikangas.

This story of three down and out characters in search of some kind of freedom, all the while being pursued by a bunch of gangsters, this is the first feature directed by the eldest of the Kaurismäki brothers. Full of Finnish deadpan humour, and at the same time a tender, humane depiction of marginalised wanderers, it features Matti Pellonpää in the leading role, as well as Aki Kaurismäki, who co-scripted the film, playing the cool and troubled Ville Alfa (an homage to Godard’s Alphaville). A playful mishmash of different genres, The Worthless (and its imaginary Finland) is a joy from beginning to end.

The Way You Wanted Me

Sellaisena kuin sinä minut halusit Mon 28 Jan at 8.30pm

Teuvo Tulio • Finland 1944 • 1h42m • Digital • Finnish with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Marie-Louise Fock, Ture Ara, Kunto Karapää.

Teuvo Tulio (1911-2000), the master of Finnish melodrama, made all his films outside the major companies, including this one, which was filmed in 1943 while the war was ongoing. First presented in late 1944, when the war had ended, this powerful drama works as a metaphor for Finland: the leading female character, a prostitute, is defeated and crushed by life, a shadow of her former self - but she has preserved an ideal image of peace and happiness.


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The Unknown Soldier

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Women of Niskavuori

Tuntematon sotilas Wed 30 Jan at 7.40pm

Niskavuoren naiset Mon 4 Feb at 8.35pm

Edvin Laine • Finland 1955 • 3h • Digital • Finnish with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Kosti Klemelä, Heikki Savolainen, Reino Tolvanen, Veikko Sinisalo, Åke Lindman.

Valentin Vaala • Finland 1938 • 1h25m • Digital • Finnish with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Olga Tainio, Tauno Palo, Sirkka Sari, Hugo Hytönen, Lea Joutseno.

The most popular film in Finland by a wide margin, The Unknown Soldier is also a cult movie in the strict sense: its dialogue has entered Finnish folklore, although it is often difficult to distinguish whether this originated with the movie or the book by Väinö Linna, which formed the basis for two other adaptations. One of the greatest war films ever made, it is a demonstration of how far Finnish cinema could go when the inspiration was genuine and shared by all involved.

Adapted from a play by novelist Hella Wuolijoki (who initially wrote under a male pseudonym) this is Vlantin Vaala’s pivotal work of the 1930s and the first in a series of five films chronicling the life of a wealthy farm household across decades and generations. Compared to an equally successful series of “provincial comedy-dramas” made by Marcel Pagnol in France, Vaala’s work proves to be visually more adventurous with its camera movements and faster pace.

Helsinki, Forever Helsinki, ikuisesti Thu 7 Feb at 6.30pm Peter von Bagh • Finland 2008 • 1h14m • Digital • Finnish with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.

A fabulous, rather Markeresque, and lovely city symphony which is also a history of Helsinki (and incidentally, Finland, Finnish cinema, and Finnish pop music) recounted with film clips and paintings by three voices. At separate stages we’re introduced to the best-ever Finnish camera movement and the best Finnish musical, are invited to browse diverse neighbourhoods and eras (and to ponder contrasts in populations and divorce rates), and are finally forced to admit that a surprising amount of striking film footage has emerged from this country and city. - Jonathan Rosenbaum

Inspector Palmu’s Error

Komisario Palmun erehdys Sat 9 Feb at 3.30pm

Matti Kassila • Finland 1960 • 1h49m • Digital • Finnish with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Joel Rinne, Elina Pohjanpää, Matti Ranin.

An indisputable classic, and the first adaptation to feature the fictional detective created by the esteemed Finnish author Mika Waltari, best known for his historical books. The story revolves around the murder of a member of upper class, only to reveal a complicated web of blackmail and corruption. Known for its splendid documentary images of Helsinki, the film mixes “elements of comedy with scenes that would fit in more with the most intense of expressionist horror”. Due to its unprecedented success, three sequels followed throughout the 1960s.

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Robots

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ROBOTS DJ SOUNDTRACK This special season of films is programmed in partnership with the National Museum of Scotland to celebrate the new Robots exhibition. Developed by the Science Museum, this major exhibition reveals the 500-year quest to make machines human and presents the most significant collection of humanoid robots ever assembled.

Metropolis Tue 22 Jan at 7.30pm Fritz Lang • Germany 1927 • 2h25m • Digital • Silent • PG - Contains mild horror and violence. • Cast: Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp.

In the titular futuristic city of Fritz Lang’s reconstructed and restored silent classic, Freder Fredersen is lured from his Edenic existence by the saintly Maria, and, after witnessing the misery of the working class, vows to persuade his despotic father to change the system. But Joh has no qualms about the status quo, and works with a loony scientist to create Robots £5 ticket offer a robotic ‘Evil Maria’, who they hope will turn the Ticket holders for Robots film season screenings workers from revolutionary thoughts... This screening can take advantage of a special £5 ticket offer for will be accompanied by a live DJ soundtrack by Le the Robots exhibition at the National Museum of Vangelis. Tickets £12/£10 concession. Scotland. Present your Filmhouse ticket in person when booking at the museum. This season will continue throughout March and April, with our selection of films including A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Robot & Frank, Robocop, Star Trek: First Contact, and Alien, among many more!

Robots is open to the public at the National Museum of Scotland from Fri 18 Jan to Sun 5 May 2019. Visit nms.ac.uk/robots for more information.

The Terminator Wed 13 Feb at 8.30pm & Thu 14 Feb at 3.40pm James Cameron • UK/USA 1984 • 1h47m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, moderate horror, violence. • Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen.

In the year 2029, humanity is all but extinct. Pockets of survivors remain, living either as slaves or as part of the resistance movement fighting to overthrow their cruel robot overlords. From these ruins, two soldiers are sent back in time to 1984, both intent on influencing the outcome of the conflict to come. One is a human guerrilla fighter; the other, an unstoppable (and ripped) T-800 killing machine. The common target they share is Sarah Connor, whose unborn child has the potential to become humanity’s saviour.


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Terminator 2: Judgement Day Sun 17 Feb at 5.50pm & Mon 18 Feb at 2.30pm James Cameron • USA 1991 • 2h17m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong violence, language. • Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick.

Nearly ten years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly Terminator. However, the human resistance have managed to send them an ally, a warrior from the future. Having originally hit British screens in 1991, complete with groundbreaking special effects, this became Arnold Schwarzenegger’s most iconic role, helped by one of the most quotable scripts of the ‘90s.

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Silent Running Thu 21 Feb at 1.15pm & 8.25pm Douglas Trumbull • USA 1972 • 1h29m • Digital • PG - Contains mild bad language, violence, injury. • Cast: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Mark Persons.

The directorial debut of Douglas Trumbull, who had previously worked on special effects for films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Silent Running is one of the most intelligent sci-fi movies of the 1970s. Bruce Dern stars as Freeman Lowell, the caretaker of a greenhouse located on a space station. The Earth has been stripped clean of foliage, and the greenhouse contains the last remaining flora from the planet. When word arrives from the powers that be that the greenhouse is to be destroyed, Lowell ignores the order and fends off all outside attempts to eliminate his ecological paradise.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

I, Robot

Fri 22 Feb at 3.45pm & 6.00pm

Mon 25 Feb at 1.10pm & 6.15pm

Robert Wise • USA 1951 • 1h32m • Digital • U - Contains very mild violence and threat. • Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray.

Alex Proyas • USA 2004 • 1h55m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate violence. • Cast: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood.

Sent by a federation of planets to warn the people of Earth to stop nuclear testing before the planet is destroyed, the Christ-like Klaatu descends into Washington, DC, in his spaceship, accompanied by his massive robot, Gort...

It’s 2035 and robots are programmed to do the jobs that humans don’t want to do. Cyborg-hating detective Del Spooner (Will Smith) is investigating the death of a scientist... and becomes suspicious that the first law of robotics has been broken to cause the first-ever android murder.

Superb performances by all involved, restrained direction by Robert Wise, and a magnificent and innovative score by Bernard Herrmann help keep this 60-year-old film just as relevant today as it was the day it was released.

Based on the scriptures of sci-fi god Isaac Asimov, this super-shiny rollercoaster runs on state-of-the-art visuals and the unstoppable energy of Will Smith.

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Screening Europe

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Screening Europe In the lead up to one of the most momentous events in the history of the European Union, we have a look at films that explore the idea of European unity and Europe’s complex engagement with political and personal identity. We have chosen a programme that engages with the topics of immigration, nationalism, social justice, the welfare state, absurdity and grief. The screenings will be introduced by Film Studies academics from the University of Edinburgh.

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The National Health Tue 29 Jan at 6.05pm Jack Gold • UK 1973 • 1h35m • 35mm • PG • Cast: Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely, Eleanor Bron, Donald Sinden, Bob Hoskins, Jim Dale.

Set in the men’s ward of a nondescript NHS hospital - falling to pieces due to chronic underfunding and bureaucratic indifference, The National Health juxtaposes the ailing patients with the plush fantasy of an American hospital soap opera that airs on their television. Jack Gold’s black comedy - painfully pertinent to modern times - was adapted for the screen by Peter Nichols (from his own play) and would go on to inspire the likes of Lindsay Anderson’s Britannia Hospital (a previous Screening Europe selection). Introduced by Dr David Sorfa.

Left, Right and Centre

Welcome

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Sidney Gilliat • UK 1959 • 1h32m • 35mm • U • Cast: Ian Carmichael, Patricia Bredin, Richard Wattis, Eric Barker, Alastair Sim.

Philippe Lioret • France 2009 • 1h49m • Digital • French, Kurdish and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language. Cast: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Derya Ayverdi.

Television personality Robert Wilcot (Ian Carmichael) is selected as the Conservative candidate for the provincial town of Earndale for an upcoming byelection. His Labour opponent, Stella Stoker (Patricia Bredin), is a local with a penchant for activism. A fierce rivalry in the making takes an unexpected turn when they begin to develop feelings for one another - and now it’s up to two bitterly opposed party electoral agents (Richard Wattis, Eric Barker) to foil this tryst. Sidney Gilliat’s comedy Left, Right and Centre takes cross-party politics to a whole new level... Introduced by Dr David Sorfa.

In Calais, illegal immigrant Bilal (Firat Ayverdi), a 17-year-old Kurd from Iraq, phones London to tell his girlfriend Mina that he’ll soon be crossing the Channel to join her. But he finds himself stuck amid crowds of illegals in Calais and desperate to get to England at any price. Bilal conceives the desperate notion that perhaps he can swim to his goal, and seeks swimming lessons from instructor Simon (Vincent Lindon). Simon soon becomes increasingly involved with, and protective of, the boy. Introduced by Chiara Quaranta, PhD candidate.


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Jupiter holdja

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Aki Kaurismäki • Finland 2017 • 1h38m • Digital • Finnish with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate violence, racist behaviour. Cast: Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji, Tommi Korpela.

Kornél Mundruczó • Hungary/Germany/France 2017 • 2h9m Digital • Hungarian and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence, language, nudity. • Cast: Zsomber Jéger, Merab Ninidze, György Cserhalmi, Mónika Balsai.

Aki Kaurismäki’s superb film is a compassionate study of that most pressing of global issues: the plight of the refugee. The director focuses on the unlikely alliance between Wikstrom, a restauranteur, and Khaled, a Syrian refugee, newly arrived in Finland and seeking asylum. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlinale 2017, The Other Side of Hope is the second in Kaurismäki’s planned trilogy about the European migrant crisis, following 2011’s Le Havre. Introduced by Chiara Quaranta, PhD candidate.

When a young immigrant is shot while attempting to illegally cross the Serbian-Hungarian border, he discovers that he can now mysteriously levitate. Smuggled out of his refugee camp by Dr Stern (Merab Ninidze), the terrified and bewildered Aryan (Zsomber Jéger) must quickly come to terms with his new abilities and life as an ‘other’. Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó returns with this ambitious, visually-inventive supernatural oddity. Introduced by Eszter Simor, PhD candidate.

Mug Twarz Tue 12 Mar at 6.15pm Małgorzata Szumowska • Poland 2018 • 1h31m • Digital • Polish, Romany, Latin and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains very strong language, sexualised nudity. • Cast: Mateusz Kościukiewicz, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Małgorzata Gorol, Roman Gancarczyk.

A deadpan farce tackling the current state of Poland, Mug is the latest film from one of the country’s most talented filmmakers - writer and director Małgorzata Szumowska. The charismatic Mateusz Kościukiewicz stars as Jacek, a free spirited bad boy who works helping to build a massive statue of Christ and gets engaged to the equally carefree Dagmara (Małgorzata Gorol). After an accident, Jacek’s face has to be rebuilt and the film shifts to comedy drama - as friends and family become wary of his new look... Introduced by Eszter Simor, PhD candidate.

Three Colours: Blue

Trois couleurs: Bleu Fri 29 Mar at 8.40pm

Krzysztof Kieslowski • France/Poland/Switzerland/UK 1993 • 1h38m Digital • French, Romanian and Polish with English subtitles • 15• Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel.

After her family is killed in a car crash, Julie (Binoche) tries to build a new life. Leaving her country mansion for a Paris apartment, she soon finds that freedom is not as easy to achieve as she had hoped. Julie is haunted by her composer husband’s unfinished masterpiece, ‘Song for the Unification of Europe’. Kieslowski’s film - the first of three inspired by the ideals of the French Revolution - is an arresting study of notions of freedom in the modern world. Introduced by Dr David Sorfa.

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The King of Comedy Our latest House Guests are The Skinny, Scotland’s largest culture, enterainment and events magazine, based in Edinburgh. Here, each section editor chooses a film and tells us what makes it their favourite. Their selection ranges from Martin Scorsese’s riotous media farce The King of Comedy, Brian De Palma’s exhilarating thriller Body Double, to Jûzô Itami’s mouthwatering comedy Tampopo.

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Wed 6 Feb at 8.30pm Martin Scorsese • USA 1982 • 1h49m • Digital • PG - Contains mild language, sex references. • Cast: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard, Diahnne Abbott.

“For many, The King of Comedy is a farsighted look towards our age of instant celebrity. For anyone who’s worked with comedians, it is more like a documentary. When onstage, comedians are selfeffacing and genial. But this film lets us in on an offstage world. A world where comedy is a serious pursuit that requires a singularly focused madness to make it.” Ben Venables, Comedy Editor, The Skinny

Born in Flames

Tampopo

Tue 5 Feb at 8.40pm

Mon 11 Feb at 6.05pm

Lizzie Borden • USA 1983 • 1h20m • Digital• English and French with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield.

Jûzô Itami • Japan 1985 • 1h54m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong sex, violence. • Cast: Ken Watanabe, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto.

“Radical. Furious. Provocative. Director Lizzie Borden poured herself into this kaleidoscopic, dystopian sci-fi where everything from genre to politics to filmmaking itself intersects. In Intersections we aim to not only reflect the current cultural climate, but mould it, lead it, and most importantly challenge it. The uncomfortable is embraced, so leave convention at the door and come rage with us. Born in Flames is punk rock filmmaking at its finest.” Katie Goh, Intersections Editor, The Skinny

“Soup training montages, etiquette satire, a young Ken Watanabe - Juzo Itami’s ‘ramen western’ has it all. Seriously, this thing’s stuffed to bursting with fourthwall breaks, comic vignettes and saucy asides. At its heart it’s a tale about striving for culinary perfection, but the comically circuitous route it takes to get there is a treat.” Peter Simpson, Food Editor, The Skinny


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Theatre of Blood

Body Double

Mon 18 Feb at 8.25pm

Mon 25 Feb at 8.45pm

Douglas Hickox • UK 1973 • 1h42m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne.

Brian De Palma • USA 1984 • 1h54m • Digital • 18 • Cast: Craig Wasson, Greg Henry, Melanie Griffith, Deborah Shelton.

“I love Theatre of Blood for Vincent Price’s fantastic turn as murderous thespian Edward Lionheart and its multitude of hilarious, over-the-top deaths, but it’s also a love song to theatre itself. Theatre can be a huge source of good, but it can also be pompous, self-important and exclusive. Sure, Lionheart’s twisted plan of bloody, theatrical revenge against London’s media establishment is far-fetched, but it’s a deliciously hammy cinematic dish that’s served ice cold.”

“Cinema doesn’t get more self-reflexive than this wry thriller about a claustrophobic Z-list actor whose voyeurism gets him in a heap of trouble. With its gleeful perversion and baroque violence, Body Double was De Palma’s thinly-veiled provocation to the critics who clutch their pearls at his previous films. But it’s also a paean to filmmaking, from its winking film-within-films to De Palma’s feverish set pieces paying homage to Hitchcock. Cinema has never been so trashy and so intelligent all at once.”

Amy Taylor, Theatre Editor, The Skinny

Jamie Dunn, Film Editor, The Skinny

Blues Brothers Thu 28 Feb at 8.25pm John Landis • USA 1980 • 2h13m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language • Cast: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin.

“This was a favourite in my house growing up, and likely a major catalyst for my love of soul, blues and rock’n’roll. Featuring performances from Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ray Charles and more, join Jake and Elwood on their mission from God as they attempt to get the band back together in order to save the orphanage where they were raised. Cue outrageous car chases, synchronised dancing in the street, a bazooka-toting Carrie Fisher and one heck of a soundtrack.” Tallah Brash, Music Editor, The Skinny

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

Song of the Sea Sun 20 Jan at 11.00am Tomm Moore • Ireland/Denmark/Belgium/Luxembourg/France 2014 • 1h34m • Digital • PG - Contains mild threat.

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.

Jurassic Park Sun 13 Jan at 11.00am Steven Spielberg • USA 1993 • 2h4m • Digital • PG - Contains moderate fantasy horror and mild language.

On a remote island, a wealthy mastermind secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs. Before opening the park to the public, he invites a ‘select’ audience to experience the attraction. However, their park visit soon becomes a race for survival as the park’s security system breaks down, and the ferocious predators break free to go on the hunt...

My Life as a Courgette

Ma vie de Courgette Sun 27 Jan at 11.00am

Claude Barras • Switzerland/France 2016 • 1h6m • Digital English Dubbed Version • PG - Contains mild sex references, references to traumatic childhood experiences.

Nine year old Icare, nicknamed ‘Courgette’ by his late mother, is taken to a foster care centre by a kindly policeman and struggles to fit in. With the help of brash tough kid Simon and fellow new arrival Camille, however, he soon learns that all of them have been through a lot in their young lives.


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Le roi et l’oiseau Sun 3 Feb at 11.00am

Paul Grimault • France 1980 • 1h22m • Digital • English Dubbed Version • U - Contains mild threat.

The tyrannical King of Takicardia is viewed with fear by everyone in his kingdom... apart from the spirited Mr Bird. One day, the King comes across a shepherdess, and falls deeply in love with her - but she loves a chimney sweep. Determined to wed the girl, the King orders the capture of the couple. It falls to Mr Bird to save them from the King’s fury.

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The LEGO Batman Movie Sun 10 Feb at 11.00am Chris McKay • USA/Denmark 2017 • 1h44m • Digital • U Contains mild comic violence, rude humour, very mild bad language.

Batman has a lot on his plate - crime sprees, raising a young orphan boy and trying to get his sweet music career off the ground - and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, he may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up...?

Sing

Mary Poppins Returns

Sun 17 Feb at 11.00am

Sun 24 Feb at 11.00am

Christophe Lourdelet, Garth Jennings • USA/UK/Japan 2016 1h48m • Digital • U - Contains very mild bad language, threat, rude humour.

Rob Marshall • USA 2018 • 2h10m • Digital • U - Contains very mild threat.

Buster Moon is a dapper koala who presides over a once-grand theatre that has fallen on hard times. Now faced with the crumbling of his life’s ambition, he has one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by inviting the animals of the world to the greatest singing competition ever staged!

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After their first adventure with their magical nanny, Jane and Michael Banks have grown up - and Michael has three children. After the family suffer a great personal loss, the enimatic Mary Poppins re-enters their lives. Along with her friend Jack - an optimistic lamplighter - and using her unique magical skills, she helps the family rediscover the joy and magic they once shared.

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The Hunger Fri 11 Jan at 11.00pm Uncanny Valley is a place for dreams as well as nightmares. The hope here is to shine a lantern on the nocturnal neo-classics lurking in the shadows. The unsung heroes of grungy science-fiction, Lovecraftian terrors by modern horror masters, social commentary in the form of farce comedies and, most importantly, strange and uncanny tales that evade definition. Be it a journey into the darkest depths of the world we live in or whimsical flights of hysteria and cringe-worthy dilemmas, we hope to showcase the flicks of decades now adrift and ones best shown at night.

Tony Scott • UK 1983 • 1h37m • Digital • 18 • Cast: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Dan Hedaya.

Beautifully dark and ethereal, the vampire Miriam (Catherine Deneuve) and her lover John (David Bowie) cruise New York nightclubs in search of fresh blood, as illustrated in a stunning opening sequence to the accompaniment of ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ by Bauhaus. When realising his youth and charm might be starting to fade, John desperately seeks help from gerontologist Dr Roberts (Susan Sarandon). This love triangle of beautiful but ageing mortals and seductive immortals is the perfect antithesis and accompaniment to Death Becomes Her, and clearly the inspiration for that one Bonnie Tyler video.

As we head into the future with borrowed ideas and twisted dreams, we have our own fiction to craft, and it’s about movies. Uncanny Valley screenings are fortnightly on Friday nights and cost £8/£6 concessions (£5 students). Uncanny Valley is proudly supported by Bellfield Brewery

Tenebrae Tenebre Fri 25 Jan at 11.00pm Dario Argento • Italy 1982 • 1h38m • Digital • 18 - Contains strong bloody violence. • Cast: Anthony Franciosa, Christian Borromeo, Mirella D’Angelo, Giuliano Gemma, Veronica Lario, Ania Pieroni.

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Set some time in the near future, in a city affected by an unnamed disaster which has left its population wealthier and less crowded, an American writer crosses paths with a deranged serial killer, taking on the role of investigator while teaming up with a detective. Quintessentially Argento, this beautifully brutal flick contains what Tarantino has called his ‘favourite on-screen murder’. But to balance the treatment of women, there is some gloriously graphic male murder by female devices in the mix. And the synth-prog soundtrack by Goblin is a masterpiece on its own.


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Dead Man

Brazil

Fri 8 Feb at 10.50pm

Fri 22 Feb at 10.45pm

Jim Jarmusch • USA/Germany/Japan 1995 • 2h • Digital • 18 - Contains strong language and violence. • Cast: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum.

Terry Gilliam • UK 1985 • 2h22m • Digital • 15 - Contains infrequent bloody injury detail. • Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Robert De Niro.

Stupid White Man and artist William Blake moves to the West to find a future, but finds trouble instead. With bounty hunters on his tracks, the walking Dead Man is lead on his spiritual journey to escape by an outcast native called Nobody. Directed by Jim Jarmusch and scored by Neil Young, this surreal indie meanders through profound themes: a poetic take on the classic Western, a meditation on industrialisation and violence, justice, and the meaning of life and death, in beautifully austere black-and-white photography.

Set in an otherworldly retro-futuristic landscape of Orwellian inspiration, Brazil is an uncannily astute satire of society, featuring a government employee, a terrorist conspiracy, paperwork, repetitive music, a nagging mother, more paperwork, all strewn together with mythology and bizarre daydreams that all blur into each other. Terry Gillam’s film is a unique experience, like a lucid dream turned nightmare, where the plot slips away, unleashing one of the most unforgettable cornucopias ever put on film.

Ringu

Black Sabbath I tre volti della paura

Fri 8 Mar at 11.15pm

Fri 22 Mar at 11.15pm

Hideo Nakata • Japan 1998 • 1h36m • Digital• Japanese with English subtitles • 15 - Contains moderate horror and violence. • Cast: Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani, Yûko Takeuchi.

Mario Bava • Italy/France/USA 1963 • 1h35m • Digital • Italian and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains moderate sexualised threat and violence. • Cast: Michele Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff, Mark Damon, Susy Anderson, Massimo Righi.

An urban legend circulates among teenagers that whoever watches a cursed tape will receive a telephone call foretelling their death within seven days. We have a strict PHONES OFF policy at Filmhouse, so you will be safe from the creepy Japanese girl with long hair. However, you will not be safe from one of the most terrifying and tense horror films on its 20th anniversary. An innovative blend of modern lifestyle and technology with folk tales and curses, Ringu birthed a franchise, Hollywood remakes, and helped bring J-horror to the international mainstream.

Also known as The Three Faces of Fear, Mario Bava’s classic 1963 anthology of three short stories featuring Boris Karloff was so metal on its release, it inspired a certain band in choosing their name. Striking the right balance between genuinely creepy and corny-dated, these tales of the supernatural are brilliantly brought to life in chiaroscuro lighting and vibrant colours, painting an almost comic-book look. Seasoned horror fans will spot how this cult auteur laid the groundwork for the giallo genre and inspired directors such as Argento, Coppola, Scorsese, and Tarantino.

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Access Filmhouse foyer and Box Office are accessed from Lothian Road via a ramped surface and two sets of automatic doors. Our Cafe Bar and accessible toilet are also at this level. The majority of seats in the Cafe Bar are not fixed and can be moved. There is wheelchair access to all three screens. Cinema One has space for two wheelchair users and these places are reached via the passenger lift. Cinemas Two and Three have one space each. Staff are always on hand to help operate lifts – please ask at the box office when you purchase your tickets. A second accessible toilet is situated at the lower level close to Cinemas Two and Three. Advance booking for wheelchair spaces is recommended. If you need to bring along a helper to assist you in any way, then they will receive a complimentary ticket. There are induction loops and infra-red in all three screens for those with hearing impairments. See below for details of captioned screenings and films with Audio Description. Email admin@filmhousecinema.com or call the Box Office on 0131 228 2688 if you require further information or assistance.

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

For Crying Out Loud

In all screens we have a system which enables us, whenever available, to show onscreen captions, and provide audio description (via infra-red headsets) for those who are sight-impaired.

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

All screenings of The Favourite, Stan & Ollie, Mary Queen of Scots, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Colette, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Beautiful Boy, Green Book and If Beale Street Could Talk have audio description.

Mon 14 Jan at 11.00am I Wish Mon 21 Jan at 11.00am Stan & Ollie

The following screenings have captions:

Mon 28 Jan at 11.00am Walkabout

Fri 11 Jan at 3.10pm Tue 15 Jan at 1.30pm Tue 15 Jan at 8.35pm Sat 19 Jan at 3.20pm Mon 21 Jan at 8.25pm Fri 25 Jan at 12.45pm Wed 30 Jan at 5.10pm Fri 1 Feb at 1.00pm Mon 4 Feb at 6.05pm Fri 8 Feb at 1.00pm Mon 11 Feb at 8.40pm Tue 19 Feb at 5.45pm Fri 22 Feb at 2.45pm Tue 26 Feb at 1.00pm Tue 26 Feb at 8.35pm

Mon 4 Feb at 11.00am

The Favourite The Party (over-60s) The Favourite The Favourite Mary Queen of Scots Mary Queen of Scots Colette Colette Can You Ever Forgive Me? Can You Ever Forgive Me? Beautiful Boy Green Book Green Book Ethel & Ernest (over-60s) If Beale Street Could Talk

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Mon 11 Feb at 11.00am The LEGO Batman Movie Mon 18 Feb at 11.00am Casablanca Mon 25 Feb at 11.00am Green Book

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