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plus The Ghost Vincere Double Take I Am Love The Time That Remains Four Lions Black Death Revanche Dogtooth Bananas!* Eyes Wide Open Lebanon American: The Bill Hicks Story City of Life and Death Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Pandora and the Flying Dutchman Psycho The Manchurian Candidate Rashomon Woody Allen: An Introspective Nordic Noir Himalaya Agnès Varda Refugee Week Scotland Degree Shows Karel Zeman Jack Cardiff: Cameraman

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Whatever Works A Woody Allen film

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2 INDEX SCREENING DATES AND TIMES 18-19 TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION 19 GENERAL INFORMATION 35 24 City 7 Agnès Varda 22-23 American: The Bill Hicks Story 6 Annie Hall 14 The Ape 25 Baarìa 31 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 9 Bananas!* 7 The Beaches of Agnès 23 Bill Hicks: Relentless & Revelations 6 Black Death 9 Black Narcissus 21 Le bonheur 22 Broadway Danny Rose 15 Cameraman: The Life & Work of Jack Cardiff 21 Caught Short 33 Cinévardaphoto 23 City of Life and Death 6 Cleo from 5 to 7 22 Co-operative Film Festival 33 Courses, Workshops and Events 34 Crimes and Misdemeanors 16 The Cup 30 La Danse 4 Delamu 31 Dogtooth 7 Double Take 4 Edinburgh College of Art - Animation 28 Edinburgh College of Art - Film & TV 28 Edinburgh Napier University 28 Edinburgh’s Telford College 28 An Education 11 Exhibition 34 Eyes Wide Open 5 The Fabulous Baron Munchausen 29 Filmhouse Café Bar 34 Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 36 Filmhouse Quiz 34 Follow Me + The Collective 29 Four Lions 7 The Ghost 4 The Girl by the Lake 25 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 24 The Gleaners and I 22 The Graduates! 28 Hachi: A Dog’s Tale 26 Hannah and Her Sisters 16 Himalaya (festival) 30-31 Himalaya (film) 30 Howl’s Moving Castle 26 Husbands and Wives 16 I Am Love 11 In Search of Beethoven 23

INDEX In Search of Mozart 23 Insomnia 24 Interiors 15 An Invention for Destruction 29 Jack Cardiff: Cameraman 21 Jar City 25 Just Another Love Story 25 Karel Zeman 29 Kekexili: Mountain Patrol 30 Kick-Ass 11 Lebanon 9 Love and Death 14 The Man on the Roof 24 The Manchurian Candidate 12 Manhattan 14 Manhattan Murder Mystery 16 A Matter of Life and Death 21 The Milk of Sorrow 10 Moving to Mars 32 Nordic Noir 24-25 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman 12 Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief 26 Planet 51 26 The Princess and the Frog 26 Psycho 12 The Purple Rose of Cairo 15 Radio Days 15 Rashomon 12 The Red Shoes 21 Refugee Week Scotland 32-33 Revanche 5 Run Lola Run 31 Science and Film 31 A Single Man 11 Sleeper 14 Stardust Memories 15 Stevenson College Edinburgh 28 Sweet and Lowdown 16 The Tale of John and Marie 29 Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion 31 The Time That Remains 6 Travellers and Magicians 30 Trouble Sleeping 33 Unveiled 32 Vagabond 22 Varg Veum – Bitter Flowers 25 Venue Hire 34 Vicky Cristina Barcelona 16 Videocracy 10 Vincere 5 Wallander Double Bill 25 Weans’ World 26 Welcome 33 Whatever Works 10 Who is Kurt Wallander? 24 Woody Allen: An Introspective 14-16 Zelig 15

AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLES We have now installed a system in all three screens which enables us, whenever the necessary discs are available, to show onscreen subtitles for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing, and provide audio description (via our infra-red headsets) for those who are sight-impaired. This month:

Kick-Ass – all screenings will have audio description, and the 6.00pm screening on Monday 28 June will also have subtitles. Tickets can be booked online for these or any of our other screenings – www.filmhousecinema.com FORCRYINGOUTLOUD Screenings for carers and their babies, on Monday mornings at 10.30am. This issue: Pandora & the Flying Dutchman on Mon 17 May An Education on Mon 31 May The Purple Rose of Cairo on Mon 14 June Whatever Works on Mon 28 June Baby changing, bottle warming and buggy parking facilities are available.Tickets cost £3.50/£2.50 concessions per adult. Screenings limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. For Crying Out Loud is sponsored by Bepanthen. See page 26 for details of Weans’ World, our regular screenings for a younger audience.

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Introduction

ANNIE HALL

VINCERE

PSYCHO

WHATEVER WORKS

Welcome to our ‘The Beano’-style ‘Bumper’ almost-Summer Double Issue! A few weeks ago, some of the ‘twittering’ japesters (I know, I know, it’s called ‘tweeting’!) in the office decided it would be a good idea to post a quote from me by way of an April Fool, something to the effect that we were fed up showing ‘arthouse’ cinema to a handful of people and were going to adopt a more commercial programme, you know, along the lines of your local multiplex. We were mightily impressed by the number of subsequent commentators who KNEW we were kidding (a vote of confidence in our commitment to the cause if ever I heard one) but it got us thinking... what if there were no Filmhouse in Edinburgh? Notwithstanding I’d have no job, how much of the shine of living in our magnificent city would be taken off? For me, an awful lot I’d have to say. Filmhouse has been a huge part of my life since I arrived in Edinburgh and practically all my formative viewing happened here. I know many of you out there feel the same – I’m getting all emotional now – and you should know, our very existence is ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON YOU! So keep coming, bring your friends, expand your cinematic horizons, use us, it’s what we’re here for. And if you do, there’s every chance Filmhouse will be around for quite some time yet! And so to the films... Vincere is Marco Bellocchio’s completely stunning telling of a story that only surfaced fairly recently, that of the existence of a former wife (Ida Dalser, beautifully played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and child that ‘Il Duce’ Mussolini (a powerhouse performance from Filippo Timi) denied an� nation in turbulent times. Elia Suleiman (Divine Intervention) returns to our screens with The Time That Remains, his sweeping, comic, intensely moving account of 60 years in the life of a Palestinian family (his) in Israel. It’s official, Woody Allen really is back on top form, what with last year’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona and now, in a return to his native New York, the very funny and downright uplifting Whatever Works, starring Larry David, the nigh-perfect mouthpiece for some of Woody’s best one-liners in many a year. To celebrate, we’ve put together a season of arguably his 16 best films we have entitled Woody Allen: An Introspective (clever, eh?). [And was it your idea Rod? No, I didn’t think so. It was thought up by one of our marvellous Facebook followers. - Ed.] I’m not just being lazy, as there really are too many other films to mention, but suffice to say Werner Herzog, Bill Hicks, Mozart, Chris Morris, Agnès Varda, Tilda, the Himalayas, the Black Death, Hitchcock, the Rape of Nanking, Ludwig van, Jack Cardiff, Kurt Wallander, James Mason, (a fully restored) Rashomon and our Cinema 2 (also restored!) all figure in it somewhere. Turn the page to find out exactly how... There’s also the small matter of our better-looking [? - Ed.] older sister, the Edinburgh International Film Festival. I took a sneak look at their programme when they’d all gone home (strictly 9-5 that lot) and, between me and thee, it’s looking very good indeed! Rod White, Head of Programming

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New releases

LA DANSE

THE GHOST

NEWRELEASE

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DOUBLE TAKE

NEWRELEASE

The Ghost

La Danse

Double Take

Showing until Thu13 May

Showing until Sun 9 May

Fri 7 to Thu 13 May

Roman Polanski • France/Germany/UK 2010 • 2h8m • 35mm 15 – Contains strong language, once very strong Cast: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams.

Frederick Wiseman • USA/France 2009 • 2h39m Digital projection • French and English with English subtitles PG – Contains mild language and a moderately bloody scene Documentary

Johan Grimonprez • Belgium/Germany/Netherlands 2009 • 1h23m 35mm • 12A – Contains disturbing images and moderate horror Cast: Ron Burrage, Mark Perry, Delfine Bafort.

The controversy surrounding Roman Polanski could have threatened to overshadow the release of his latest film, but the sheer impeccable intensity and stylishness of this noir thriller are undeniable. When a successful British ghostwriter, ‘The Ghost’ (Ewan McGregor), agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), his agent assures him it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start – not least because his predecessor on the project died in mysterious circumstances. The Ghost flies out to work on the project, to a house on an island off the US Eastern seaboard. But the day after he arrives, a former cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorising the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA – a war crime. The controversy brings reporters and protesters swarming to the island mansion where Lang is staying. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA – and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind. Resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and suspenseful political thriller is a story of deceit and betrayal executed with the panache of Hitchcock in his prime. There’s no showing off here, just the quiet competence of a man who knows how to be scary, subversive and satirical all at once.

Frederick Wiseman, one of the world’s greatest documentary makers, films the Paris Opera Ballet, one of the world’s greatest ballet companies, and the result is an impressively fluid and insightful glimpse inside one of France’s foremost cultural institutions. Wiseman wastes no time in taking us behind the scenes into rehearsals, placing dance itself at the heart of the film, and in sum we see preparations for and/or performances of seven ballets, including ‘The Nutcracker’ by Rudolf Nureyev, ‘Medea’ by Angelin Preljocaj, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Sasha Waltz and ‘Orpheus and Eurydyce’ by Pina Bausch. He also shows us how the company functions at every level, from administration and fundraising to the selection of the dancers and their pastoral care. The relationship between the beauty of the pieces and the sheer hard work that lies behind them is keenly but subtly drawn, and the struggle to maintain creative integrity in the face of commercial reality has a resonance far beyond the specific context.

An ingenious hybrid, Double Take is part mockdocumentary, part conceptual provocation, and altogether a thought-provoking, hugely entertaining piece that does for Alfred Hitchcock what Orson Welles did for himself in his myth-making F for Fake. Using a zippy assemblage of TV and newsreel material, artist/filmmaker Johan Grimonprez muses on Hitchcock’s persona and humour, reading his films of the late 50s and early 60s against the climate of Bomb-era political anxiety. The film especially mulls on Hitchcock’s preoccupation with doubles, a theme that recurs not just in his films but in the portly auteur’s jokey intros to the vintage TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents; the theme is further expanded on in an apocryphal story about the maestro meeting his own future self. Interwoven with all this is a mass of newsreel material, dealing largely with US-USSR Cold War relations, and focusing on America’s relationship with that other famous Hitchcock lookalike Nikita Krushchev. Grimonprez leaves viewers to draw their own conclusions about identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia, but the film’s love of Hitchcock – artist, public face, TV clown – is unmistakeable and very infectious.

New releases

REVANCHE

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VINCERE

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EYES WIDE OPEN

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Revanche

Vincere

Eyes Wide Open Einaym Pkuhot

Wed 12 to Sun 16 May

Fri 14 to Thu 27 May

Mon 24 to Sat 29 May

Götz Spielmann • Austria 2008 • 2h2m • Digital projection German and Russian with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong sex and sex references Cast: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust, Ursula Strauss, Johannes Thanheiser.

Marco Bellocchio • Italy/France 2009 • 2h5m • Digital projection Italian and German with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong sex and nudity Cast: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Corrado Invernizzi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon.

Haim Tabakman • Israel/Germany/France 2009 • 1h33m Digital projection • Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Zohar Strauss, Ran Danker, Tinkerbell, Tzahi Grad, Isaac Sharry.

At once a gripping thriller and a tragic drama, Revanche is the stunning, Oscar–nominated, international breakthrough film from Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann.

Mussolini’s early life is the subject of Marco Bellocchio’s tough-edged but brilliantly directed film. Choosing to focus on Mussolini as a young man, before he became Il Duce, allows Bellocchio to grapple with some little-known details about the dictator’s life, indeed the great secret of his past: early on, he had a wife and a son, both written out of the historical record and denied recognition. She was the fiery, erotic Ida Dalser, a woman Mussolini met in 1907 when he was a young socialist provocateur. Seven years later, they became lovers, and her overwhelming passion for the young journalist helped him start his own newspaper, ‘Il Popolo d’Italia’. In 1915, she bore him a son, also named Benito, and the couple married. But within a very short time, she discovered to her shock that her husband had married another woman.

In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex (the mesmerising Johannes Krisch) works as an assistant in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara (Irina Potapenko). Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop (Andreas Lust) and his seemingly content wife (Ursula Strauss). With meticulous, elegant direction, Spielmann creates a tense, existential and surprising portrait of vengeance and redemption, and a journey into the darkest forest of human nature, in which violence and beauty exist side by side.

Bellocchio superbly dramatises this story while skilfully weaving astounding archival footage into his narrative, moving from the intimate, hot-blooded relationship between Ida and Mussolini to the stirring newsreels of the period as their relationship disintegrates. The film has been a revelation for Italians, not only confronting them with the image of the Duce – seen strutting in full-screen bravado – but also provoking comparisons, vigorously denied by Bellocchio, between Mussolini and Italy’s current prime minister, Berlusconi.

After the death of his father, Aaron, a respectably married butcher working in Jerusalem’s Orthodox community, hires a nomadic young student to assist with his business. Aaron teaches the handsome Ezri the rules of his trade, and lets him stay in the empty room at the back of his shop, but it is not long before the pair recognise that their relationship is much more than simply master and apprentice, and they cautiously embark on a love affair which must be kept hidden at all costs. Delicately handled by first time director Haim Tabakman, Eyes Wide Open is at heart a beautifully affecting love story, which, despite the emotional intensity of the subject matter, remains impeccably restrained throughout.

Matinee Special! If you’re a Senior Citizen you can now go to a matinee screening and get either soup of the day OR a cup of tea or coffee and a traycake for only £6! Offer runs from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and only applies to screenings starting before 5.00pm. Buy your Matinee Special ticket at the box office and you’ll receive a voucher which can be exchanged in the café bar between 1.30pm and 5.00pm that day only. Offer is subject to availability and only available in person.

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New releases

THE TIME THAT REMAINS

NEWRELEASE

AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY

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CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH

NEWRELEASE

The Time That Remains

American: The Bill Hicks Story

City of Life and Death

Fri 28 May to Thu 10 Jun

Sat 29 May to Tue 1 Jun

Nanjing! Nanjing!

Elia Suleiman • UK/Italy/Belgium/France 2009 • 1h49m Digital projection • Hebrew, Arabic and English with English subtitles cert tbc Cast: Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri, Samar Qudha Tanus, Nati Ravitz, Amer Hlehel.

Matt Harlock & Paul Thomas • UK 2009 • 1h47m • DigiBeta 15 – Contains strong language, sex and drug references Documentary

Sun 30 May to Thu 3 Jun

Elia Suleiman delivers his masterpiece with this sweeping, comic and ultimately heartbreaking account of sixty years in the life of a Palestinian family. Beginning in 1948, on the day Suleiman’s hometown of Nazareth officially surrendered to the Israeli army, and continuing through to the most recent Intifada, the film skilfully interweaves the personal and the political. Just as with his earlier works Chronicle of a Disappearance and Divine Intervention, The Time That Remains features many of the aesthetic characteristics viewers have come to associate with Suleiman: the surreal, blackly comic vignettes; a fractured dramatic narrative and, of course, Suleiman himself playing a silent, impassive observer. What does stand out this time round is the sense of emotional depth which the film is rooted in. Suleiman used his own parents’ diaries for inspiration while writing the screenplay, and the film is as much an emotional testament to them as it is a defiant reminder of Palestinian history.

Libertarian, outlaw, shaman, philosopher, romantic, preacher, genius…Bill Hicks was always something other than a comedian. His death from cancer in 1994 deprived the world of arguably the most iconic and probing voice in American culture of the period. Cleverly shunning a conventional talking-heads approach, American: The Bill Hicks Story uses an innovative animation technique, some rare and previously unseen performance footage, and testimonies only from the people who knew him best, his family and close friends, to create a deeply perceptive, fittingly honest celebration of the man occasionally known as Goatboy.

ALSOSCREENING

Bill Hicks: Relentless & Revelations Wed 9 & Thu 10 Jun Various • UK 1992 • 1h30m • Beta SP • 18

Hicks was an extraordinary talent whose premature death robbed the world of one of its most charismatic performers. Thankfully his performances were filmed a number of times, notably by Tiger Aspect Television for Channel Four with these two electrifying shows: Relentless and Revelations.

Lu Chuan • China/Hong Kong 2009 • 2h15m Digital projection Mandarin with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong battle violence and sexual violence Cast: Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi, Fan Wei, Liu Bin.

Nanjing (previously known as Nanking) was China’s capital in the 1930s, until the government and army withdrew to inland areas at the end of 1937 as the invading Japanese Imperial Army advanced. Over the following three months, countless Nanjing civilians were massacred; there were also many sexual assaults and the city was laid to waste. To this day, some in Japan are in denial about what happened. There have been several earlier Chinese movies about ‘the rape of Nanjing’, all full of tears, indomitable bravery and nationalist rhetoric. Lu Chuan’s stunning film is the long overdue corrective. As you’d expect from the director of Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (also screening this month, see page 30), the approach is unorthodox. There’s no overarching story, except for the fall of the city itself; the film is built from vignettes which alternate the broader picture with close-ups of individual lives and deaths. Lu lets faces tell much of the story. The tone, inevitably, is elegiac.

New releases

DOGTOOTH

24 CITY

NEWRELEASE

FOUR LIONS

NEWRELEASES

BANANAS!*

NEWRELEASE

Dogtooth Kynodontas

24 City Er shi si cheng ji

Bananas!*

Wed 2 to Sat 5 Jun

Fri 4 to Tue 8 Jun

Mon 7 to Thu 10 Jun

Giorgos Lanthimos • Greece 2009 • 1h37m • Digital projection Greek with English subtitles 18 – Contains incest theme and infrequent real sex Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michelle Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis.

Jia Zhang-Ke • China/Hong Kong/Japan 2008 • 1h52m Digital projection • Mandarin and Shanghainese with English subtitles U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Joan Chen, Tao Zhao, Jianbin Chen, Liping Lu.

Fredrik Gertten • Sweden 2009 • 1h27m • DigiBeta English and Spanish with English subtitles • cert tbc • Documentary

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, in their late teens or early twenties, 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 (Anna Kalaitzidou) into the household so that she might have sex with the lad. Christina’s interaction with the family provokes a bizarre and vicious chain of events. This unique feature from talented Greek provocateur Giorgos Lanthimos was awarded the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes last year. Dark and violent, certainly, it’s also original and ingenious filmmaking, with a sense of humour and satirical bite that prevent it from ever being an endurance test.

A masterful film from Jia Zhang-ke, the renowned director of Unknown Pleasures, 24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned aeronautics factory in Chengdu, a city in Southwest China, and its conversion into a luxury apartment complex. Bursting with poetry, pop songs and striking visual detail, the film weaves together unforgettable stories from three generations of workers – some real, some played by actors – into a vivid portrait of the human struggle behind China’s economic miracle.

Four Lions Fri 4 to Thu 10 Jun Christopher Morris • UK 2010 • 1h41m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Alex Macqueen, Julia Davis, Kayvan Novak, Chris Wilson.

In Northern England, four would-be jihadis – Omar, Waj, Faisal and Barry, a nihilistic white Islamic convert – embark upon a mission to strike a decisive blow for Muslims around the world. To do so they must first transform themselves into soldiers. Urged on by Barry, Omar and his bumbling pals blunder onwards into an ever-spiralling farce of epic proportions. With a fearless script from writer/director Christopher (Brass Eye) Morris, Four Lions is simultaneously a hilarious comedy thriller and a heartfelt tragedy.

Juan ‘Accidentes’ Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a groundbreaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? In this suspenseful documentary, filmmaker Fredrik Gertten sheds new light on the global politics of food. Beyond the screen What connects us to the characters in the film, and what can we do to make a difference on issues like this? The 6.15pm screening on Monday 7 June will be followed by audience discussion with speakers from Scotland’s trade and international development community. Led by Take One Action, Scotland’s global action cinema project. To hear about similar events visit takeoneaction.org.uk and twitter.com/takeoneaction

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New releases

BLACK DEATH

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Black Death Fri 11 to Wed 16 Jun Christopher Smith • UK/Germany 2010 • 1h42m Digital projection • 15 – Contains strong violence Cast: Sean Bean, Carice Van Houten, Kimberley Nixon, Eddie Redmayne, David Warner, Tim McInnerny, John Lynch.

Not a film you might readily expect to see gracing a Filmhouse screen, but Christopher (Creep, Severance, Triangle) Smith’s intelligent and mature film reaches far beyond the genre norm and is well worthy of inclusion here. England, 1348, the height of the bubonic plague. Rumours abound of a remote group of people untouched by the lethal scourge decimating Europe. The local Abbot (David Warner) despatches knight Ulric (a splendidly phlegmatic Sean Bean) and his mercenary band to investigate if necromancy is indeed holding the pestilence at bay. Their guide, plucked from a local monastery, is conflicted novice monk Osmund (Eddie Redmayne), whose forbidden love for a fair maiden means his faith will be put to the ultimate test... Deftly alluding to such contemporary hot potatoes as religious intolerance/delusion and global pandemic, as well as the age-old matters of the nature of evil, faith, paganism, superstition and the Crusades, it’s a perfectly grottily designed, tremendously miasmic evocation of medieval times, and very much in the glorious tradition of the likes of The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General.

BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Fri 11 to Wed 16 Jun Werner Herzog • USA 2009 • 2h2m • 35mm English and Spanish with English subtitles 18 – Contains frequent hard drug use, sex and very strong language Cast: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Alvin ‘Xzibit’ Joiner, Fairuza Balk.

When it was announced that one of cinemas great iconoclasts, Werner Herzog, would be ‘re-imagining’ the work of another by spinning Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant into something new, its fair to say that eyebrows, not to mention a few hackles, were raised. Yet Herzog is right to insist this is not a remake, and moving the action from New York to New Orleans is indicative of how far apart the films are from each other. Nicolas Cage is on electrifying form as Terence McDonagh, one of the few cops left in town after a post-Katrina exodus, which is enough to get him promoted. Crippled by a back injury he sustained during the hurricane, the prescription drugs do little to ease his pain, so he turns to the hard stuff, often having a snort with Frankie (Eva Mendes), a high class hooker he thinks he’s protecting, though, more often than not, she ends up looking out for him. When McDonagh is put in charge of the investigation into the brutal murder of a family, his moral compass gets lost and his behaviour becomes ever more erratic. Is he out of his depth or out of his mind? The film’s audacious humour is its trump card, and while Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant was truly daring and brilliant, it would be hard to argue that it was ever this much fun.

LEBANON

NEWRELEASE

Lebanon Sat 12 to Wed 16 Jun Samuel Maoz • Germany/Israel/France/Lebanon 2009 • 1h33m Digital projection • Hebrew, Arabic, French and English with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong language and violence Cast: Itay Tiran, Michael Moshonov, Oshri Cohen, Yoav Donat.

Reminiscent of Wolfgang Petersen’s classic U-boatset war film Das Boot, Israeli director Samuel Maoz’s claustrophobic Lebanon this time confines the action almost entirely to a tank. Based on Maoz’s own experiences as a young soldier, Lebanon once again finds an Israeli director – after Ari Folman with Waltz With Bashir – analysing his country’s ill-fated 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Where Folman’s animated documentary tested the boundaries of memory and reality with dazzlingly surreal imagery, Maoz ratchets up the tension by remaining largely within the suffocating metal confines of his platoon’s armoured tank. Inside the tank are four soldiers: Asi the officer, Yigal the driver, Hertzel the ammunition loader, and Shmulik the gunner. Initially the group conforms to the war film stereotypes of stoic leader, scared novice, petulant brat, and conflicted silent type. But as the film progresses, the characters develop a deeper complexity and their power structure becomes ambiguous. Largely leaving the wider politics to one side, the director instead etches a human portrayal of soldiers and civilians alike. The horrors of modern urban warfare are made all the more visceral through the lens of a gun sight, as Maoz creates a haunting examination of young men caught out of their depth in a situation they do not understand.

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New releases

WHATEVER WORKS

NEWRELEASE

THE MILK OF SORROW

NEWRELEASE

VIDEOCRACY

NEWRELEASE

Whatever Works

The Milk of Sorrow La teta asustada

Videocracy

Showing from Mon 28 Jun

Mon 28 Jun to Thu 1 Jul

Mon 28 Jun to Thu 1 Jul

Woody Allen • USA/France 2009 • 1h32m • 35mm 12A – Contains moderate sex references and suicide references Cast: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley Jr.

Claudia Llosa • Spain/Peru 2009 • 1h35m • Digital projection Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Bárbara Lazón, Delci Heredia.

Erik Gandini • Sweden/Denmark/UK/Finland 2009 • 1h25m DigiBeta • English and Italian with English subtitles • cert tbc Documentary

Has old age turned Woody Allen into an optimist? Whatever Works, Allen’s first movie in five years set in New York City (and all the better for it!), is also among his most upbeat and hopeful – despite centring on a protagonist who addresses the audience early on to say “Let me tell you right now: I’m not a likeable guy.” His name is Boris Yelnikoff. He’s a retired genius physicist who was “’almost” nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and he has a permanent limp after trying to commit suicide by jumping out a window decades earlier. In a role he would have played himself at one time (although he actually wrote it for Zero Mostel 30 years ago), Allen has wisely cast Larry David, who essentially turns Boris into a meaner, more contemptuous version of his Curb Your Enthusiasm persona. Boris makes a living teaching kids how to play chess, and spends most of his time hanging out at a coffee shop with old pals. But when he reluctantly takes in Melody (Evan Rachel Wood), a naïve teenage runaway from Mississippi, this sets in rotation a wheel of characters (chiefly Melody’s parents, played with great relish by Clarkson and Begley) who have more to learn from Boris’ world than they might ever have suspected... Don’t expect realism, for this is more morality play than psychological study, but do expect a whole host of characteristically hilarious one-liners. And if the film threatens to career off the rails at times, it’s to Allen’s great credit that it never actually does.

Winner of the Golden Bear at last year’s Berlin Film Festival, Claudia Llosa’s second feature focuses on a young Peruvian woman coming to terms with the death of her mother in a country whose recent history has been marked by bloody civil conflict. Fausta, we are told, suffers from ‘the milk of sorrow’, a melancholy transmitted through her mother’s breast milk. For Fausta’s mother, like many in her village, was raped during the years of Peru’s bloody civil conflict in the 1980s, and Fausta still lives with the consequences of the violence. Only Fausta has found a way of protecting herself both physically and emotionally to ensure that she doesn’t suffer the same fate as her mother. Her mother’s death, however, forces Fausta to make decisions that will impact on how she makes sense of her past. With The Milk of Sorrow, Peruvian director Claudia Llosa expertly crafts a film that functions as a tale both of individual trauma and of the wider collective memories and ordeals of a nation.

With his broad forehead, closely cropped dark hair and grey banker’s suit, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is the least flashy character in director Erik Gandini’s high-energy political documentary. Berlusconi may not share the garish clothes and flamboyant public demeanour of the affluent TV producer, cut-throat paparazzo and young females auditioning for spots as TV co-hosts that make up Gandini’s fascinating and fast-paced film, but the controversial Prime Minister is the powerful man behind the curtain, a TV magnate whose reality shows featuring scantily clad women helped create Italy’s chauvinistic media culture, and whose family controls several major newspapers as well as Italy’s largest publishing house. Gandini takes the complex issue of how Italy’s crass media culture led to Berlusconi’s political ascendancy, and makes it utterly fascinating and entertaining.

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I AM LOVE

AN EDUCATION

A SINGLE MAN

MAYBEYOUMISSED

MAYBEYOUMISSED

KICK-ASS

MAYBEYOUMISSED

I Am Love Io sono l’amore

A Single Man

Kick-Ass

Showing until Thu 13 May

Fri 14 to Wed 19 May

Mon 28 Jun to Thu 1 Jul

Luca Guadagnino • Italy 2009 • 1h59m • 35mm Italian, Russian and English with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong sex Cast: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono.

Tom Ford • USA 2009 • 1h41m • 35mm 12A – Contains suicide theme, moderate threat, drug references and nudity Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode.

Matthew Vaughn • USA/UK 2010 • 1h57m • 35mm 15 – Contains strong language, once very strong, and strong bloody comic violence Cast: Nicolas Cage, Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Mark Strong, Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

Exquisitely shot, beautifully paced and conceived, I Am Love moves through the cultivated world of a wealthy and distinguished industrial family. In a massive Milanese mansion, the Recchi family gathers to celebrate the birthday of its patriarch. Handsome grandson Edoardo introduces his new girlfriend to the family; his sister, Elisabetta, presents a painting she has made to her grandfather; a young man who beat the unbeatable Edoardo in a race earlier in the day makes a surprise appearance on the doorstep; and finally, the grandfather announces his succession plan to his family. All of these events mark the beginning of a narrative that sees the carefully controlled, hyper-refined sphere of the Recchis come under increasing strain. Director Luca Guadagnino has made a superb film that touches on many different complexities. While ‘King Lear’ comes to mind, I Am Love also bears a resemblance to Visconti’s The Leopard in more ways than one. Both films depict a world on the cusp of change, the magnificent old order struggling to hold its place against the rowdy new challengers. Sexual and class politics also play a key role, as wonderfully controlled moments of passion and emotion suddenly trouble the surface placidity. Featuring a cast headed by the ever-brilliant Tilda Swinton (here speaking Italian and Russian), this is a stunning work.

Iconic fashion designer Tom Ford makes his directorial debut with the richly detailed and aesthetically brilliant A Single Man. Los Angeles 1962, and 52-year-old British college professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) is struggling to find meaning in his life after the death of his long time partner Jim (Matthew Goode). Through the course of one day, a series of events and encounters cause him to reflect on his past, and consider whether or not he has a future.

An Education Tue 25 to Sun 30 May plus Mon 31 May (babies & carers only) Lone Scherfig • UK 2009 • 1h40m • 35mm 12A – Contains moderate sex references Cast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Cara Seymour, Rosamund Pike.

A standout performance from the enchanting Carey Mulligan is reason alone to see this lively Nick Hornbyscripted adaptation of Lynn Barber’s memoir of growing up in the west London suburbs in the early 1960s. Barber’s schoolgirl alter ego, Jenny (Mulligan), falls into a relationship with the older, more worldly David (Peter Sarsgaard), who offers her a window on a more material world – clubs, champagne, drives in the country, sex – than her Oxbridge ambitions allow...

“How come nobody’s ever tried to be a superhero?” When ordinary New York teenager and rabid comic-book geek Dave Lizewski dons a green-and-yellow internet-bought wetsuit to become the no-nonsense vigilante, Kick-Ass, he soon finds an answer to his own question: because it hurts. But, overcoming all the odds, the eager yet inexperienced Dave quickly becomes a phenomenon, capturing the imagination of the public. However, he’s not the only superhero out there – the fearless and highly-trained father-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy and Hit Girl have been slowly but surely taking down the criminal empire of local Mafioso, Frank D’Amico. And, as Kick-Ass gets drawn into their no-holds-barred world of bullets and bloodletting, with Frank’s son, Chris, now reborn as KickAss’s arch-nemesis, Red Mist, the stage is set for a final showdown between the forces of good and evil, and the DIY hero will have to live up to his name. Or die trying… AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLES See page two for details.

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Restored classics

PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

RESTOREDCLASSIC

PSYCHO

RESTOREDCLASSIC

RASHOMON

RESTOREDCLASSICS

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

The Manchurian Candidate

Psycho

Fri 14 to Thu 20 May

Mon 24 to Wed 26 May

Fri 28 to Mon 31 May

Albert Lewin • UK 1951 • 2h4m • New 35mm print PG – Contains mild violence and references to suicide Cast: James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender.

John Frankenheimer • USA 1962 • 2h6m • Digital projection • 15 Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva.

Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1960 • 1h48m • Digital projection • 15 Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, Martin Balsam.

Albert Lewin’s extraordinary 1951 film is based on the legend about the unfortunate sailor doomed to travel the oceans until he finds a woman who loves him so much that she will sacrifice her own life for his salvation. The legend is updated to a Spanish village in the ‘30s where various men compete for the affections of Pandora, a beautiful young American (Ava Gardner), and where a mysterious yacht puts into harbour... Lewin combines a script of exuberant literacy with a visual splendour often bordering on the surreal; Mason is his usual impeccable self, while Gardner is gloriously believable as a woman for whom any man would be prepared to suffer eternal damnation. Occasionally absurd, always bold, the film tells a lushly romantic story so skilfully that it possesses the inevitability of myth.

Korean War veteran Major Marco (Frank Sinatra) is troubled by a recurring nightmare in which Congressional Medal of Honor hero Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) carries out Communist instructions to shoot fellow American PoWs. Working for Intelligence, Marco unravels a cunning Red plot to brainwash his old platoon and to turn Shaw into an assassin. Who is Shaw’s American control, and when and where are they going to aim him? John Frankenheimer’s version of Richard Condon’s tragically prophetic novel looks even better now than it did on its original release. Its greatest virtue lies in its brilliant balancing acts: political satire and nail-biting thriller, the twin lunacies of the Right and Left, and the outrageously funny dialogue set against the sadness of the unlovable Shaw’s predicament.

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If few filmgoers are now unaware of what befalls Marion Crane at the Bates Motel, Psycho still boasts more than enough richly nuanced details to keep us constantly amused, intrigued and pleasingly ill-at-ease. Full marks to Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins et al for unforgettably fine performances; Bernard Herrmann’s unsettling score and Joseph Stefano’s witty script work wonders, too. In the end, however, demonstrating all his expertise in mischievous audience manipulation, this masterpiece is Hitchcock’s through and through.

Rashomon Mon 28 Jun to Thu 1 Jul Akira Kurosawa • Japan 1950 • 1h28m • Digital projection Japanese with English subtitles 12 – Contains moderate sexual references and violence Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura.

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife. The film is much less formally daring than its literary source, but its virtues are still plentiful: Kurosawa’s visual style at its most muscular, rhythmically nuanced editing, and excellent performances.

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Cast Your Vote! On 2 July 2010, Filmhouse is officially 25 years old! HRH the Duke of Edinburgh officially opened the building on the completion of the final phase of the project, which made Filmhouse a two screen cinema with Cafe/Bar (our third screen was opened in May 1997). Some of you may recall attending Filmhouse in varying states of realisation prior to this date, but the 25th anniversary of the official completion of the project that had begun way back in 1979 seems like the strongest date upon which to hang our celebrations. We have a few other dates we could call an anniversary (for example the Lothian Road entrance and the opening of Cinema One happened on 15 February 1982), though the exact date of the first screening here at Lothian Road remains shrouded in the haar of time... As part of the celebrations, we’re putting together a list of 25 seminal ‘Filmhouse’ films, one a year for each of the 25. We’re making the final touches to that list as we speak and will publish it on our website on 7 May, and what we’d like from you is for you to take a look at that list, and let us know what you think we’ve missed out. The film you think should be on the list but isn’t. It could be the film you remember seeing here most fondly, or one you think simply deserves a place on our list, and though we have stuck to films released within the last 25 years don’t feel you have to constrain yourselves in such a manner. Anything from the entire history of cinema, that you have loved seeing here, is what we’re looking for, and we’ll screen the most-mentioned film at a special event in late July. The voting will be open from 7 May (the day after that other election) to 4 June inclusive, and we very much look forward to receiving your suggestions. We would love it also if you have any special (concise!) memories of any of the films on our list, send them in and we’ll include the best of them in the special 25th Anniversary programme we’re planning for July. P.S. In the meantime, we’re closing Cinema Two for a week from Monday 17 May for a full refurbishment. [About bleedin’ time. - Ed.]

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Woody Allen: An Introspective

LOVE AND DEATH

SLEEPER

Woody Allen: An Introspective Woody Allen is a phenomenon. From his early knockabout comedies (Sleeper, Love and Death), his romantic comedies (Annie Hall, Manhattan), his more serious dramas (Interiors, Stardust Memories), and his later less easily defined dramatic ‘comedies’ (Crimes and Misdemeanors, Hannah and Her Sisters), few in American Cinema have achieved such singularity of voice (characterised by anxiety, neurosis, self-doubt and autoanalysis, one would never mistake the work of Woody Allen for that of anyone else), nor been as prolific (a film a year for 40 years, give or take). And while it could be said his more recent output has not achieved the heights of the earlier work featuring in this timely retrospective, it is encouraging that, at the age of 74, 2008’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona and the upcoming Whatever Works most definitely represent a considerable return to form. TICKETDEALS See any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% off See any six (or more) films in this season and get 25% off See any nine (or more) films in this season and get 35% off These packages are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

MANHATTAN

Sleeper

Annie Hall

Mon 31 May to Wed 2 Jun

Thu 3 to Sat 5 Jun

Woody Allen • USA 1973 • 1h29m • 35mm • PG Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory, Don Keefer.

Woody Allen • USA 1977 • 1h33m • 35mm 15 – Contains drugs use and references Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon.

Allen’s Rip Van Winkle movie, in which his Greenwich Village jazz musician/health food nut awakes from an accidental cryogenic immersion to find that he’s in 2174, cast reluctantly in the role of Little Man against the Fascist State. Plenty of one-liners, and it has the best banana-skin joke in film history.

Love and Death

A bittersweet, autobiographical romantic comedy, Annie Hall is the quintessential Woody Allen movie, featuring all the themes – love, relationships, neuroses, fame, guilt, pessimism, his love of New York (and dislike of LA), death and life – that we have come to expect. Comedian Alvy Singer (Allen playing, well, Allen) relates the story of his failed love affair with Annie (Diane Keaton), interspersing the story with asides about his two failed marriages and his Brooklyn childhood.

Tue 1 to Thu 3 Jun Woody Allen • France/USA 1975 • 1h25m • 35mm • PG Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Olga Georges-Picot, Harold Gould, Jessica Harper, Alfred Lutter, James Tolkan

Woody Allen’s hilarious satire of classic Russian literature might be described as Tolstoy meets the Marx Brothers, as he and Diane Keaton get caught up in an uproariously funny plot to assassinate Napoleon in 1812. In 19thcentury Russia, Boris Grushenko (Woody Allen) falls in love with his beautiful cousin Sonja (Diane Keaton), but she’s in love with his brother Ivan... Love and Death was the first film which truly marked Woody Allen’s growth from a stand-up comic and talented, but amateur, filmmaker, to a mature and original comedic director.

Manhattan Fri 4 to Mon 7 Jun Woody Allen • USA 1979 • 1h36m • Digital projection 12A – Contains infrequent strong language Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep.

Isaac is a television comedy writer nervously contemplating the complexities of his life – the triviality of his work, his ambitions, his disastrous relationships with women, and the imminent betrayal of his best friend. As if these private machinations weren’t enough, his lesbian ex-wife is about to publish a book about their marriage and divorce... An edgy social comedy framed as a loving tribute to neurotic New York, overlaid with an evocative Gershwin score, it’s funny and sad in exactly the right proportions.

Woody Allen: An Introspective

STARDUST MEMORIES

ZELIG

BROADWAY DANNY ROSE

Interiors

Zelig

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Sat 5 & Sun 6 Jun

Tue 8 & Wed 9 Jun

Woody Allen • USA 1978 • 1h31m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Diane Keaton, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton, EG Marshall, Mary Beth Hurt.

Woody Allen • USA 1983 • 1h19m • 35mm • PG Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Buckwalter, Martin Chatinover, Stanley Swerdlow.

Thu 10 & Fri 11 Jun plus Mon 14 Jun (babies & carers only)

In a spectacular change of direction, Allen put together this beautifully acted, lyrically written exploration of a middle class American family whose three grown-up daughters are thunderstruck when their father trades in his elegant depressive wife for a lively, but jarringly vulgar, divorcee. The film has moments of humour, but they are integrated into a totally serious structure which isolates the family’s countervailing tensions with a scalpel-like penetration.

Leonard Zelig (Allen) becomes a minor celebrity of the Depression era when his desperate need to be accepted by others manifests itself as an ability to morph to match whoever he’s with. Allen’s character is seamlessly blended with archival footage from the 1930s: he appears waiting in the on-deck circle as Babe Ruth is batting, among a crowd of Nazis cheering Hitler, and growing a beard to become a Hassidic rabbi. His case captures the imagination of America, as well as the attentions of a psychiatrist (Mia Farrow) who falls in love with him.

Stardust Memories Sat 5 & Sun 6 Jun Woody Allen • USA 1980 • 1h29m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault, Tony Roberts.

Considered by some to be an homage to Fellini’s 8 1/2, Stardust Memories is shot in black-and-white in the style of Fellini’s surrealist films of the 1960s, and examines the semi-autobiographical story of a famous filmmaker, played by Allen, who is plagued by fans who prefer his “earlier, funnier movies” to his more recent artistic efforts, while he tries to reconcile his conflicting attraction to two very different women, the mercurial and unstable Dorrie (Charlotte Rampling), and the earnest, intellectual Daisy (Jessica Harper).

Woody Allen • USA 1985 • 1h22m • 35mm • PG Cast: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman, Dianne Wiest.

During the Depression, downtrodden housewife Farrow so inflames a film’s leading man that he climbs down from the screen and entices her into a chaotic but charming love affair. Allen’s deft script investigates every nook and cranny of the couple’s bizarre relationship, the irate reactions of the characters left up on the screen, and the bewilderment of the actor whose movie persona has miraculously gone walkies. As the star-struck couple, Farrow and Daniels are wonderful, while Allen’s direction invests enough care, wit and warmth to make the film genuinely moving.

Radio Days Broadway Danny Rose Wed 9 & Thu 10 Jun Woody Allen • USA 1984 • 1h24m • 35mm • PG Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte, Sandy Baron, Corbett Monica.

A delightful comedy that sees Allen as a no-hope theatrical agent (his clients include balloon twisters, wine-glass players and bird trainers, who all leave him when the Big Time beckons) who gets involved with a brassy Mafia widow (Farrow, unrecognisable). The jokes are firmly embedded in plot and characterisation, and the film, shot by Gordon Willis in harsh black-and-white, looks terrific; but what makes it work so well is the unsentimental warmth pervading every frame.

Fri 11 & Sat 12 Jun Woody Allen • USA 1987 • 1h28m • 35mm • PG Cast: Jeff Daniels, Mia Farrow, Seth Green, Julie Kavner, Dianne Wiest.

A warm and nostalgic piece with a wonderful soundtrack that flits between the Brooklyn of Allen’s youth and uptown Manhattan. Joe (Green) is the youthful protagonist who lives with his parents and extended family. In voice-over, Allen (who doesn’t appear in the film) relates stories about members of this household. While life goes on in Brooklyn, Allen intercuts stories about radio and its personalities, many of the tales focusing on Sally White (Farrow), a cigarette girl with a dreadful accent who dreams of radio stardom. SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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Woody Allen: An Introspective (continued)

HANNAH AND HER SISTERS

SWEET AND LOWDOWN

VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA

Hannah and Her Sisters

Husbands and Wives

Manhattan Murder Mystery

Fri 11 & Sat 12 Jun

Sun 13 & Mon 14 Jun

Tue 15 & Wed 16 Jun

Woody Allen • USA 1986 • 1h47m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, Michael Caine, Dianne Wiest, Max von Sydow.

Woody Allen • USA 1992 • 1h48m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis, Sydney Pollack, Juliette Lewis.

Woody Allen • USA 1993 • 1h47m • 35mm • PG Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Jerry Adler.

Essentially three separate tales that intertwine at times, Hannah and Her Sisters is one of Allen’s most complex films. Hannah (Farrow) is married to Elliot (Caine), a business manager for rock stars, but used to be married to Mickey (Allen), a TV producer. Hannah’s sisters are Lee (Hershey) – who’s living with Frederick (von Sydow), a bitter and domineering artist – and Holly (Wiest), an actress who’s a bundle of nerves and jealous of Hannah’s supposedly perfect life. The plot could easily have been a soap opera, but Allen infused it with wit, a superb cast and his usual “the best direction is the least direction” style, so that the camera never calls attention to itself.

When Sally and Jack announce their amicable break-up, their friends Gabe and Judy start looking at their own marriage more critically. Do they keep secrets from each other? Why have they never had kids? Would Lit lecturer Gabe follow Jack’s example and fall for a woman half his age – student Rain, for example? Why is Judy so keen to get Sally together with her eligible colleague? To put it another way, what is this thing called love? So vividly drawn are all the characters that one becomes wholly caught up in their tangled whirl of emotional/psychological confusion, and the film is engrossing from start to finish, with humour that’s all the more effective thanks to its dark, edgy context.

Book editor Larry Lipton is married to Carol, who’s bored with her life and thinking about opening a restaurant. Larry is also deflecting the advances of exotic writer Marcia Fox, while Carol flirts half-heartedly with longtime friend Ted. The death of an elderly neighbour, Lillian House, provides the excitement Carol has been yearning for: she suspects Paul House of murder, drawing Ted, Marcia, and even the sceptical Larry into her clumsy snooping.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Crimes and Misdemeanors

Wed 16 Jun only

Sat 12 to Mon 14 Jun Woody Allen • USA 1989 • 1h44m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston.

In the first of two loosely interwoven stories, rich, philanthropic ophthalmologist Judah Rosenthal, afraid his lover will reveal all to his wife, decides to dispose of the former with the help of a hit-man. In the second, more comic, story, earnest, impoverished documentarist Clifford Stern falls for the producer of a TV tribute he has reluctantly agreed to make about the brother-in-law he hates, a conceited, successful maker of sitcoms. Judah and Clifford meet only in the final scene: what links them throughout is guilt, stemming from an obsessive interest in matters of faith and ethics.

Sweet and Lowdown Tue 15 & Wed 16 Jun Woody Allen • USA 1999 • 1h35m • 35mm • PG Cast: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman, Antony LaPaglia, Woody Allen.

Allen’s pseudo-biopic about fictional 1930’s jazz guitarist Emmet Ray (Penn) is a personal tribute by the director to a period of musical history that has inspired and influenced him greatly. Penn immerses himself into the role of the boozing, womanising Ray with his usual intensity (this time, with a comic slant), while Samantha Morton quietly steals the show as his silently suffering wife.

Woody Allen • Spain/USA 2008 • 1h36m • 35mm Catalan, English and Spanish with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate sex references and implied sex Cast: Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Patricia Clarkson.

Two young American women, Vicky and Cristina, come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, they’re drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), a charismatic painter, who’s still involved with his tempestuous ex-wife Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz). Allen’s best film in years is a funny, sexy and open-minded celebration of love in all its configurations.

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

DAY DATE

7 May - 1 July 2010

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Fri 1 The Girl... Dragon Tattoo (NN) 7 1 The Man on the Roof (NN) May 2 La Danse 2 I Am Love 3 Double Take 3 The Ghost

2.30/8.25 6.00 2.00/5.15 8.30 1.30/6.15 3.30/8.15

Sat 1 I Am Love 8 1 The Girl... Dragon Tattoo (NN) May 1 Insomnia (NN) 2 La Danse 2 I Am Love 3 Double Take 3 The Ghost

2.30 5.00 8.45 2.00/5.15 8.30 1.30/6.15 3.30/8.15

Sun 1 Planet 51 (WW) 9 1 I Am Love May 1 The Girl... Dragon Tattoo (NN) 1 The Girl by the Lake (NN) 2 The Ghost 2 La Danse 2 I Am Love 3 Who is Kurt Wallander? (NN) 3 Wallander Double Bill (NN) 3 Double Take 3 The Ghost

1.00 3.00 5.30 8.45 2.30 5.15 8.30 1.00 (£5.40/£3.50) 2.30 6.15 8.15

Mon 1 Planet 51 (WW) 10 1 The Girl... Dragon Tattoo (NN) May 1 I Am Love 2 I Am Love 2 Varg Veum – Bitter Flowers (NN) 2 The Ghost 3 The Ghost 3 Double Take 3 Caught Short

10.30am 2.30/8.15 5.45 3.00 6.15 8.30 1.30 4.15/8.45 6.30

Tue 1 The Girl... Dragon Tattoo (NN) 11 1 Edinburgh Napier Uni (DS) May 2 I Am Love 2 Jar City (NN) 3 The Ghost 3 Double Take

2.30/8.15 6.00 3.00/8.30 6.00 1.30/8.15 4.15/6.15

Wed 1 I Am Love 12 1 The Girl... Dragon Tattoo (NN) May 2 Revanche 2 The Ape (NN) 3 The Ghost 3 Double Take

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1.00 3.20/6.00/8.40 3.30/8.30 6.15

Sat 1 An Education 29 1 Psycho May 2 The Fabulous Baron M. (KZ) 2 The Time That Remains 2 Eyes Wide Open 3 In Search of Mozart 3 American: The Bill Hicks Story 3 Le bonheur (AV)

1.00/6.00 3.15/8.15 1.30 3.30/8.30 6.00 1.00 3.50/8.15 6.15

Sun 1 An Education 30 1 Psycho May 1 City of Life and Death 2 The Tale of John and Marie (KZ) 2 The Time That Remains 2 Cameraman... Jack Cardiff (JC) 3 In Search of Beethoven 3 American: The Bill Hicks Story 3 Vagabond (AV)

1.00 3.15/8.30 5.45 1.30 3.15/8.35 5.45 1.00 3.50/8.45 6.15

Mon 1 An Education (B) 31 1 Psycho May 1 Sleeper (WA) 2 The Time That Remains 2 City of Life and Death 3 Vagabond (AV) 3 American: The Bill Hicks Story

10.30am (babies only) 3.15/8.30 6.15 3.15/8.45 6.00 3.30/8.10 5.45

Tue 1 Sleeper (WA) 1 1 Black Narcissus (JC) Jun 1 Love and Death (WA) 2 The Time That Remains 2 City of Life and Death 3 American: The Bill Hicks Story 3 The Gleaners and I (AV)

2.30 6.30 8.45 3.15/6.00 8.25 3.30/8.15 6.15

Wed 1 Love and Death (WA) 2 1 Black Narcissus (JC) Jun 1 Sleeper (WA) 2 The Time That Remains 2 City of Life and Death 3 The Gleaners and I (AV) 3 Dogtooth 3 Cinévardaphoto (AV)

2.30 6.30 8.45 3.15/6.00 8.25 3.30 6.15 8.45

Thu 1 Black Narcissus (JC) 3 1 Love and Death (WA) Jun 1 Annie Hall (WA) 2 The Time That Remains 2 City of Life and Death 3 Dogtooth 3 Cinévardaphoto (AV)

3.00 6.30 8.30 3.30/6.00 8.25 3.30/8.45 6.15

Fri 1 Annie Hall (WA) 4 1 A Matter of Life & Death (JC) Jun 1 Manhattan (WA) 2 24 City 2 The Time That Remains 3 Dogtooth 3 Four Lions

1.30 3.45/6.00 8.15 1.00/6.00 3.30/8.30 1.45/6.30 4.00/8.45

Wed 1 Vincere 2.30/6.00/8.40 19 3 Pandora & the Flying Dutchman 3.30/8.30 May 3 A Single Man 6.15 Thu 1 Vincere 2.30/6.00/8.40 20 3 Pandora & the Flying Dutchman 3.30/8.30 May 3 Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (H) 6.15 Fri 1 Vincere 21 3 Cleo from 5 to 7 (AV) May 3 Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (H) 3 Delamu (H)

2.30/6.00/8.40 1.45/8.45 3.45 6.15

Sat 1 Vincere 22 3 Co-operative Film Festival May 3 Cleo from 5 to 7 (AV) 3 Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (H)

2.30/6.00/8.40 1.00 - Free event 3.00/8.45 6.15

Sun 1 Howl’s Moving Castle (WW) 23 1 Vincere May 3 Cleo from 5 to 7 (AV) 3 Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (H)

1.00 3.20/6.00/8.40 2.00/4.00/8.45 6.15

2.30/5.45 8.15 3.00/8.30 6.30 1.30/8.15 4.15/6.15

Mon 1 Howl’s Moving Castle (WW) 24 1 Vincere May 2 The Manchurian Candidate 2 Eyes Wide Open 3 Cleo from 5 to 7 (AV) 3 Run Lola Run

10.30am 2.30/6.00/8.40 3.15/8.30 6.15 3.30/6.00 8.15 + intro

Thu 1 I Am Love 13 2 Revanche May 2 Just Another Love Story (NN) 3 The Ghost 3 Double Take

2.30/8.30 3.00/5.45 8.30 1.30/8.15 4.15/6.15

Tue 1 Vincere 25 2 Eyes Wide Open May 2 The Manchurian Candidate 3 Cleo from 5 to 7 (AV) 3 An Education

2.30/6.00/8.40 3.15/6.15 8.30 3.30/8.45 6.30

Fri 1 Vincere 14 2 Revanche May 2 Himalaya (H) 3 A Single Man 3 Pandora & the Flying Dutchman

2.30/6.00/8.40 1.00/6.10 3.45/8.45 1.15/6.15 3.30/8.30

Wed 1 Vincere 26 2 Eyes Wide Open May 2 The Manchurian Candidate 3 Cleo from 5 to 7 (AV) 3 An Education

2.30/6.00/8.40 3.15/6.15 8.30 3.30/8.45 6.30

Sat 1 Vincere 15 2 Revanche May 2 Travellers and Magicians (H) 3 A Single Man 3 Pandora & the Flying Dutchman

2.30/6.00/8.40 1.00/6.10 3.45/8.45 1.15/6.15 3.30/8.30

Thu 1 Vincere 27 2 An Education May 2 Eyes Wide Open 3 Cleo from 5 to 7 (AV) 3 In Search of Mozart

2.30/6.00/8.40 3.15/8.30 6.15 3.30/9.00 5.45 + Q&A

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Sat 1 Interiors (WA) 5 1 Stardust Memories (WA) Jun 1 A Matter of Life & Death (JC) 1 Annie Hall (WA) 2 An Invention for Destruction (KZ) 2 The Time That Remains 2 24 City 3 Dogtooth 3 The Beaches of Agnès (AV) 3 Four Lions

1.30 3.45 6.00 8.15 1.30 3.30/8.30 6.00 1.45/6.30 4.00 8.45

Sun 1 Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (WW) 6 1 Manhattan (WA) Jun 1 Interiors (WA) 1 Stardust Memories (WA) 2 24 City 2 The Time That Remains 3 The Beaches of Agnès (AV) 3 Four Lions

1.00 3.45 6.00 8.15 1.00/6.00 3.30/8.30 1.30/6.15 4.00/8.45

Mon 1 Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (WW) 7 1 The Red Shoes (JC) Jun 1 Manhattan (WA) 2 The Time That Remains 2 24 City 3 Four Lions 3 Bananas!*

10.30am 2.30/8.15 6.00 3.30/8.30 6.00 3.15/9.00 6.15 + discussion

Tue 1 The Red Shoes (JC) 8 1 Zelig (WA) Jun 2 The Time That Remains 2 24 City 3 Bananas!* 3 Four Lions

2.30/6.00 8.45 3.30/8.30 6.00 3.15/6.15 8.45

Wed 1 Zelig (WA) 9 1 Edinburgh’s Telford Coll. (DS) Jun 1 Broadway Danny Rose (WA) 2 The Time That Remains 2 Bill Hicks: Relentless/Revelations 3 Bananas!* 3 Four Lions

2.30 6.00 8.30 3.30/8.30 6.00 3.15/6.15 8.45

Thu 1 Broadway Danny Rose (WA) 10 1 Stevenson Coll. Edinburgh (DS) Jun 1 The Purple Rose of Cairo (WA) 2 The Time That Remains 2 Bill Hicks: Relentless/Revelations 3 Four Lions 3 Bananas!*

2.30 6.00 8.30 3.30/8.30 6.00 3.15/8.45 6.15

Fri 1 The Purple Rose of Cairo (WA) 11 1 Hannah and Her Sisters (WA) Jun 2 Follow Me + The Collective 1 Radio Days (WA) 2 Radio Days (WA) 2 Black Death 2 Hannah and Her Sisters (WA) 3 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call N.O.

1.00 3.00 6.15 8.40 1.30 3.45/8.30 6.00 1.00/3.30/6.10/8.45

Sat 1 Radio Days (WA) 12 1 Crimes and Misdemeanors (WA) Jun 1 Hannah and Her Sisters (WA) 2 Lebanon 2 Black Death 3 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call N.O.

3.00 6.00 8.30 1.30/6.00 3.45/8.30 1.00/3.30/6.10/8.45

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Sun 1 Black Death 13 1 Husbands and Wives (WA) Jun 1 Baarìa 1 Crimes and Misdemeanors (WA) 2 Lebanon 2 Black Death 3 Moving to Mars + short (RW) 3 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call N.O.

1.00 3.15 5.45 8.45 1.30/6.00 3.45/8.30 1.00 + Q&A 6.10/8.45

Mon 1 The Purple Rose of Cairo (B) 14 1 Crimes and Misdemeanors (WA) Jun 1 Husbands and Wives (WA) 1 ECA - Animation (DS) 2 Black Death 2 Lebanon 3 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call N.O. 3 Unveiled (RW)

10.30am (babies only) 2.30 6.00 8.30 3.30/8.45 6.15 3.15/8.15 6.00

Tue 1 Sweet and Lowdown (WA) 15 1 Manhattan Murder Mystery (WA) Jun 1 ECA - Film & TV (DS) 2 Black Death 2 Lebanon 3 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call N.O. 3 Trouble Sleeping (RW)

2.30 6.00 8.30 3.30/8.45 6.15 3.15/8.30 5.45 + Q&A

Wed 1 Manhattan Murder Mystery (WA) 16 1 Sweet and Lowdown (WA) Jun 1 Vicky Cristina Barcelona (WA) 2 Black Death 2 Lebanon 3 Vicky Cristina Barcelona (WA) 3 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call N.O.

2.30 6.00 8.15 3.30/8.45 6.15 3.15 5.45/8.30

Thu 17 - Sun 27 June – Edinburgh International Film Festival Mon 1 Whatever Works (B) 28 1 Whatever Works Jun 2 The Milk of Sorrow 2 Rashomon 3 Kick-Ass (AD) 3 Kick-Ass (AD) + (S) 3 Videocracy

10.30am (babies only) 3.00/6.15/8.30 3.45/6.30 8.45 3.30 6.00 (subtitled) 8.30

Tue 1 The Princess & the Frog (WW) 29 1 Whatever Works Jun 2 Rashomon 2 The Milk of Sorrow 3 Videocracy 3 Kick-Ass (AD)

1.00 3.00/6.15/8.30 3.45/8.45 6.30 3.30/8.30 6.00

Wed 1 The Princess & the Frog (WW) 30 1 Whatever Works Jun 2 The Milk of Sorrow 2 Rashomon 3 Kick-Ass (AD) 3 Videocracy

1.00 3.00/6.15/8.30 3.45/6.30 8.45 3.30/8.00 6.00

Thu 1 The Princess & the Frog (WW) 1 1 Whatever Works Jul 2 Rashomon 2 The Milk of Sorrow 3 Videocracy 3 Kick-Ass (AD)

1.00 3.00/6.15/8.30 3.45/8.45 6.30 3.30/6.00 8.00

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thur £5.40 full price, £3.50 concessions Friday Bargain Matinees £4.00/£2.50 concessions Sat - Sun £6.90 full price, £5.20 concessions EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later) £6.90 full price, £5.20 concessions All tickets to Weans’ World screenings (marked WW on grid) are £2.50. Tickets for children under 12 are £2.50 for any screening. Concessions available for: Students (with current matriculation card); School pupils (15 - 18 years); Claimants (Income Support/Family Credit payment book); Senior Citizens; Disability or Invalidity status; Children (under 15). There are ticket deals available on film seasons, these are detailed on the same page as the films. All performances are bookable in advance. Tickets may be reserved for performances and must be collected no later than 30 minutes before the performance starts. Tickets may be booked by credit card on the number below or online at www. filmhousecinema.com. A £1.50 booking charge will be made for each transaction, unless you are a Filmhouse Member, in which case booking is free. Tickets cannot be exchanged nor money refunded except in the event of a cancellation of a performance. Programmes are subject to change, but only in extraordinary circumstances. All seats are unreserved. If you require seats together please arrive in plenty of time. Cinemas will be open 15 minutes before the start of each screening. The management reserves the right of admission and will not admit latecomers. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Double Bills are shown in the same order as indicated on these pages. Intervals in Double Bills last 10 minutes.

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KEY: (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2) (S) – Subtitled (see page 2)

SEASONS:

(AV) – Agnès Varda (pages 22-23) (DS) – The Graduates! Degree Shows (page 28) (H) – Himalaya (pages 30-31) (JC) – Jack Cardiff: Cameraman (page 21) (KZ) – Karel Zeman (page 29) (NN) – Nordic Noir (pages 24-25) (RW) – Refugee Week Scotland (pages 32-33) (WA) – Woody Allen: An Introspective (pages 14-16) (WW) – Weans’ World (page 26)

Full index of films on page 2

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Jack Cardiff: Cameraman

CAMERAMAN...

BLACK NARCISSUS

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH

THE RED SHOES

Jack Cardiff: Cameraman

Black Narcissus

A Matter of Life and Death

Tue 1 to Thu 3 Jun

Fri 4 & Sat 5 Jun

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger • UK 1947 • 1h41m Digital projection • PG Cast: Deborah Kerr, Kathleen Byron, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, Sabu.

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger • UK 1946 • 1h40m 35mm • U – Contains mild war horror Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, Marius Goring.

A short season celebrating the work of one of the finest cinematographers this country has ever produced, who died last year at the age of 94.

Powell and Pressburger’s spellbinding film follows the tortuous emotional journey of a group of Anglican nuns as they set up a remote convent among the bleak ruins of an abandoned Himalayan harem. It’s a first taste of authority for Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr). As the nuns’ leader, her struggles to maintain moral order and a sense of Christian mission are set against the extremes of the environment, the doubts of her charges, and the beguiling amorality of the local inhabitants. Finding themselves disturbed by all manner of natural phenomena, it’s only a matter of time before hardship and temptation gradually draw the women away from their vocation, and they descend into doubt, jealousy and madness.

See also Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (page 12).

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff Sun 30 May at 5.45pm Craig McCall • UK 2010 • 1h30m • DigiBeta • PG • Documentary

A celebration of the life and work of cinematographer Jack Cardiff, whose career spanned an incredible ninety years and more than one hundred films, including A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes and The African Queen.

Cameraman features exclusive behind the scenes footage and contributions from Martin Scorsese, Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston and many more.

Smouldering with hysteria and brooding eroticism, Black Narcissus is a masterly exploration of the dangers of ambition, British reserve, and unbridled emotion.

TICKETDEALS See any three (or more) films in this season (including Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, page 12) and get 15% off These packages are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

In this delightful, delirious fantasy, David Niven plays an RAF pilot whose plane is shot down over the English coast; ejecting, he leaps to safety – without a parachute. Or does he? Before long, he finds himself standing in a celestial court, where a jury will decide his fate: to go to Heaven, or remain on Earth. And all the while, he yearns for the American radio operator with whom he fell in love, mere minutes before...

The Red Shoes Mon 7 & Tue 8 Jun Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger • UK 1948 • 2h15m Digital projection • U – Contains mild threat, injury and smoking Cast: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine.

The Red Shoes is perhaps the definitive ballet movie, but don’t let that put you off if you’re not generally a fan of dance – there’s plenty here to keep you utterly spellbound. Moira Shearer stars as Victoria Page, an aspiring dancer who gets a chance to work with the great ballet director Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), who soon develops a maniacal obsession to mould Vicky into a truly great dancer... A professional ballerina in real life, Moira Shearer gives a sublime performance as the eager young Vicky. Walbrook’s Lermontov is equally magnetic, with his refined mannerisms that mask an inhuman drive for perfection. But the true genius of the film lies elsewhere, in the stunning use of colour, and the terrific, purely visual imagination of its creators.

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Agnès Varda

CLEO FROM 5 TO 7

LE BONHEUR

Agnès Varda Now acknowledged as a true pioneer of the New Wave (with La Pointe Courte, 1954), Agnès Varda firmly takes her place among the major post-war French filmmakers. This short season represents the perfect introduction to this most innovative, original and enduring of filmmakers (she is still working at a feisty 82), featuring three of her best known fiction films and three of her documentary essays, the genre in which she is perhaps better known. DIGITAL RESTORATION

VAGABOND

Le bonheur

The Gleaners and I

Fri 28 & Sat 29 May

Les glaneurs et la glaneuse

Agnès Varda • France 1965 • 1h20m French with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Olivier Drouot, Sandrine Drouot.

Tue 1 & Wed 2 Jun

The blissfully married François (French television star Drouot, acting with his own wife and children) starts an affair with Émilie (Boyer) with varied consequences. Under the guise of an apparently banal story of love and adultery, and idyllic surface prettiness, Varda’s third feature film trenchantly explores the myth of romance and the underside of the ‘perfect’ family in 1960s France, with its unthinking misogyny.

Cleo from 5 to 7 Cléo de 5 à 7 Fri 21 to Thu 27 May Agnès Varda • France/Italy 1962 • 1h30m • Digital projection French with English subtitles PG – Contains mild language and infrequent natural nudity Cast: Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray, Dorothée Blank, Michel Legrand.

Agnès Varda’s second feature remains a highlight of the extraordinary outpouring of French movies in the early 60s. It’s almost a film about nothing, with French chanteuse Cléo (Corinne Marchand) spending 90 minutes (not quite the 2 hours of the title) wandering around Paris before she gets the results of a medical test which will confirm whether or not she has cancer. Cléo spends the time going to a fortune teller, running an errand with a friend, playing her latest song on a cafe jukebox and hoping someone will recognise her. She gets no pity from her friends – only a stranger in the park seems to offer much consolation. And in the end, Cléo has figured out how to face an uncertain future.

THE GLEANERS AND I

Agnès Varda • France 2000 • 1h22m French with English subtitles • U • Documentary

Varda’s groundbreaking and hugely successful documentary explores the idea of ‘gleaning’, from the ancient practice enshrined in paintings such as JeanFrançois Millet’s 1857 ‘Des Glaneuses’, to the victims of late capitalism who scavenge in supermarket bins both to survive and to denounce consumerist excess. Mixing documentary reportage and interviews with art and photography, Varda’s investigation ranges widely across France, offering a poignant yet heart-lifting discourse on her relationship to others, her practice as a filmmaker and her own ageing.

Vagabond Sans toit ni loi Sun 30 & Mon 31 May Agnès Varda • France 1985 • 1h46m • 35mm French, Arabic and English with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Setti Ramdane, Francis Balchère, JeanLouis Perletti.

Deservedly one of Varda’s best known films, Vagabond is among the most powerful portraits of a woman in modern cinema. Mosaic-like, the film reconstructs the last weeks of rebellious and nihilistic vagrant Mona (the young Sandrine Bonnaire, in a career-defining performance), inspired by a real case. Mona’s identity emerges from her impact on others, many played by non-professionals. Set in a bleak, wintry South of France, Vagabond embeds Mona’s fate in the region’s landscape and customs.

TICKETDEALS See any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% off See all six films in this season and get 25% off These packages are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Agnès Varda/In Search of...

THE BEACHES OF AGNES

Cinévardaphoto Wed 2 & Thu 3 Jun Agnès Varda • France • 1h34m English and French with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary

Three Varda films reflecting on some extraordinary photography. Salut les Cubains (France 1963, 30min) A montage of photographs taken in Cuba gives an exuberant portrait of the country, set against Cuban music. Ulysse (France 1982, 22min) Varda reflects on a photograph she took in 1954 of a young Spanish boy. Ydessa, les ours et etc (France, 2004, 42min) Reflections on Ydessa Hendeles’s extraordinary ‘Teddy Bear Project’, in which thousands of photographs, all including a teddy bear, were exhibited in Munich, inspired by the photo of a young cousin who died in Auschwitz.

The Beaches of Agnès Les plages d’Agnès Sat 5 & Sun 6 Jun Agnès Varda • France 2008 • 1h53m • Digital projection French with English subtitles 18 – Contains strong sexualised nudity • Documentary

Varda’s enchanting self-portrait is at once emotional, incisive and self-deprecating. Through a wonderful array of images and sounds, living tableaux, interviews and art installations, Varda takes the viewer from her childhood home in Brussels to her 80th birthday in Paris, via extracts from her films and views of her friends, her late husband Jacques Demy, her collaborators and her children.

IN SEARCH OF MOZART

IN SEARCH OF BEETHOVEN

In Search of... Filmmaker Phil Grabsky’s two hugely successful documentaries make a welcome return to Filmhouse, accompanied by the director himself. In Search of Mozart

In Search of Beethoven

Thu 27 & Sat 29 May

Fri 28 & Sun 30 May

Phil Grabsky • Britain 2005 • 2h8m • DigiBeta • U Documentary

Phil Grabsky • UK 2009 • 2h18m • DigiBeta • 12A Documentary

To mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth in 2006, In Search of Mozart was the first ever major feature-length documentary on Mozart’s life. Produced in association with some of the world’s leading orchestras, opera houses and musicians, this is a journey 25,000 miles through Europe in search of the real story of Mozart. The film is narrated by Juliet Stevenson, and features key performances and interviews with over 70 of the world’s most significant artists – including Renée Fleming, Magdalena Kozená, Angelika Kirchschlager, Louis Langrée, Julian Rachlin, Roger Norrington, Imogen Cooper and many others. Providing a refreshing and in-depth look at Mozart’s life, it charts his musical career from first piece to last, exposing the many myths and exploring his real world.

Following the success of In Search of Mozart, director Phil Grabsky goes looking for the truth about Beethoven...

The 5.45pm screening on Thursday 27 May will be followed by a Q&A with director Phil Grabsky.

The 5.45pm screening on Friday 28 May will be followed by a Q&A with director Phil Grabsky.

No other composer has been so often quoted, written about, adopted for political and revolutionary causes (ranging from Marxism to fascism) and painted, but who was the real Beethoven? Who was the man behind the romantic image of the tortured artist with the unruly hair, unhinged personality and furrowed brow? This new film explores the truth behind the many layers of myth and legend surrounding a man hailed not only as the world’s first truly independent composer, but also the most important. Featuring exclusive interviews and performances, this is an absorbing and entertaining journey.

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Nordic Noir

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

WALLANDER: THE SECRET

INSOMNIA

WALLANDER: FACELESS KILLERS

Nordic Noir

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Insomnia

Män som hatar kvinnor

Sat 8 May at 8.45pm

It’s impossible to ignore the publishing phenomenon that is Nordic Noir. Crime fiction from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden is being translated and published internationally. Although successful at home, with a few notable exceptions, the film and television thrillers (both adaptations and original screenplays) haven’t enjoyed the same level of attention. But with the critical acclaim for Jar City and the popular successes of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and the BBC’s Wallander, is that about to change? This season offers the perfect opportunity to take stock before the next crime (fiction) wave crests.

Fri 7 to Wed 12 May Niels Arden Oplev • Sweden/Denmark/Germany/Norway 2009 2h33m • 35mm • Swedish with English subtitles 18 – Contains scenes of sexual violence Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber.

Erik Skjoldbjærg • Norway 1997 • 1h36m • 35mm Norwegian and Swedish with English subtitles 15 – Contains infrequent moderate sex Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Mathiesen, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Gisken Armand, Kristian Figenschow.

The film version of part one of Stieg Larsson’s bestselling ‘Millennium Trilogy’ is a dark-hearted tale full of twists and turns. Disgraced investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired by the patriarch of a family of wealthy industrialists to solve the mystery of his niece’s disappearance 40 years earlier, and, with the help of anti-social hacker Lisbeth Salander, uncovers a complex series of brutal slayings that may or may not involve other relatives.

“Christopher Nolan’s American remake was perfectly fine, but it couldn’t capture the gut-twisting oppressiveness of Erik Skjoldbjærg’s original. Anchored by Skarsgård’s impeccable portrayal of a man drowning in his own sins, this is the neo-noir that truly turned noir on its head: darkness becomes something you pray for, while light is a straight razor that’s found entrance to your brain.” (Novelist Dennis Lehane)

This season originated at ScreenLit Festival of Film, TV & Writing, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham. With thanks to Linda Pariser.

Print courtesy of Norwegian Film Institute

The Man on the Roof Mannen på taket Fri 7 May at 6.00pm Bo Widerberg • Sweden 1976 • 1h50m • 35mm Swedish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Carl-Gustaf Lindstedt, Sven Wollter, Thomas Hellberg, Håkan Serner, Ingvar Hirdwall.

TICKETDEALS See any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% off See any six (or more) films in this season and get 25% off See any nine (or more) films in this season and get 35% off These packages are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Widerberg made several stylish policiers with political messages, of which this was the most successful. Based on ‘The Abominable Man’ by Sjöwall & Wahlöö, it finds Martin Beck organising a vast manhunt for the murderer of a corrupt and brutal policeman. The film culminates in a spectacular set piece, allegedly inspired by The French Connection. Apparently, this is the only one of the Beck adaptations that Sjöwall rates. Check it out for yourself in this rare screening. Print courtesy of The Swedish Institute.

Who is Kurt Wallander? Sun 9 May at 1.00pm - Tickets £5.40/£3.50 Elaine Donnelly Pieper • UK 2008 • 1h • DigiBeta • 15 Documentary

John Harvey presents a documentary about internationally bestselling Swedish writer Henning Mankell, creator of the Kurt Wallander series. By examining Mankell’s anti-hero, it reveals the hidden angst affecting present-day Sweden and attempts to discover how his books inform the rest of the world about Scandinavia’s largest country.

Nordic Noir

THE GIRL BY THE LAKE

VARG VEUM – BITTER FLOWERS

JAR CITY

JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY

Wallander Double Bill

Varg Veum – Bitter Flowers

The Ape Apan

Sun 9 May at 2.30pm

Varg Veum – Bitre blomster

Wed 12 May at 6.30pm

3h • DigiBeta • 18

Mon 10 May at 6.15pm

A double bill of Wallander TV adaptations, one from Sweden and one from the UK.

Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen • Norway/Sweden/Germany 2007 • 1h36m 35mm • Norwegian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Trond Espen Seim, Bjørn Floberg, Kathrine Fagerland, Endre Hellestveit, Anders Dale.

Jesper Ganslandt • Sweden 2009 • 1h21m • DigiBeta Swedish with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Olle Sarri, Françoise Joyce, Sean Pietrulewicz, Eva Rexed, Thore Flygel.

The Secret (Hemligheten) Stephan Apelgren, Sweden 2005, 1h30m, Swedish with English subtitles Cast: Krister Henriksson, Johanna Sällström, Ola Rapace.

A boy’s body is discovered in an abandoned barn. The murder shocks Kurt, Linda and Stefan, but the crime and the suspects don’t seem to match... Thanks to BBC Information & Archives / AB Svensk Filmindustri

PLUS Faceless Killers

Hettie Macdonald, UK 2010, 1h30m Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Jeany Spark, Asher Ali, David Warner.

A man vanishes without a trace. His lover, a married, successful politician, discreetly contacts Private Investigator Varg Veum for assistance. When he discovers a body, the case becomes a complicated murder enquiry that implicates the police and branches out far beyond the Norwegian borders. Bitter Flowers is the first in a series of six Varg Veum films, adapted from Gunnar Staalesen’s novels. With thanks to the Norwegian Film Institute.

Sun 9 May at 8.45pm Andrea Molaioli • Italy 2007 • 1h35m • 35mm Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Toni Servillo, Denis Fasolo, Nello Mascia, Giulia Michelini.

Andrea Molaioli’s feature debut is an excellent adaptation of Karin Fossum’s ‘Don’t Look Back’, translating the Norwegian setting to the Italian Dolomites and Inspector Sejer into Inspector Sanzio. In an idyllic village, the nude body of a beautiful young girl is discovered at the side of the lake. Inspector Giovanni Sanzio is summoned from the city to aid in the investigation, but the victim proves as mysterious as the crime itself. Meanwhile, Sanzio has his own problems to solve.

Just Another Love Story Kærlighed på film

Wallander investigates the brutal slaying of an elderly couple.

The Girl by the Lake La Ragazza del lago

A man awakes on the bathroom floor, covered with blood. He carries on with his day, but he’s irritable and hypersensitive. Slowly, we learn what’s behind it all. The Ape is spare and taut in its rigorous aesthetic. Ganslandt directs with icy precision, creating a mood of brooding, implacable threat. “An enigmatic and ferocious piece of Nordic noir which takes a classic thriller blueprint and fearlessly creates something new and very disturbing from it.” (ICA website)

Jar City Myrin Tue 11 May at 6.00pm Baltasar Kormákur • Iceland/Germany/Denmark 2006 • 1h35m 35mm • Icelandic with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong violence, sex references & one use of very strong language Cast: Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson, Agústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Olafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir, Atli Rafn Sigurdsson.

A welcome return for this critically acclaimed adaptation of Arnaldur Indridason’s eponymous novel. Two apparently different deaths, the brutal murder of an old pervert and the loss of a beloved young daughter to a rare neurological condition, form the central puzzle that Reykjavik detective Erlendur must solve. Iceland’s dramatic landscape and contemporary events create a chilling context for this gripping police procedural.

Thu 13 May at 8.30pm Ole Bornedal • Denmark 2007 • 1h44m • 35mm Danish with English subtitles 18 – Contains very strong violence and strong sexualised nudity Cast: Anders W Berthelsen, Rebecka Hemse, Nikolaj Lie Kaas.

Contrived excess is rarely as entertaining as it is in the ironically titled Just Another Love Story, a frenzied noirish romantic thriller from Danish writer-director Ole Bornedal. The film kicks off with three ‘love scenes’, played in rapid succession: In the first, a man lies bleeding to death while a woman weeps over him. In the second, a husband and wife enjoy some playful pillow talk, and in the third, two young lovers are involved in a tense standoff with a gun. The connection between these three snapshots – as well as the implicit connection between passionate romance and violence – will be made clear by the film’s end...

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Weans’ World

PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE

Weans’ World Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost £2.50 per person, big or small! Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!

Planet 51

HACHI: A DOG’S TALE

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief Mon 17 May at 1.00pm & Tue 18 May at 1.00pm Chris Columbus • Canada/USA 2010 • 1h59m • Digital projection PG – Contains moderate fantasy violence and threat Cast: Logan Lerman, Uma Thurman, Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Steve Coogan.

New York teenager Percy Jackson discovers that he’s the son of Greek God Poseidon, and that his best friend Grover is actually his satyr protector, complete with goat’s legs! When Percy’s uncle Zeus suspects him of stealing his lightning bolt, Percy has to track down the real lightning thief and return the bolt before it causes a meteorological catastrophe on Earth.

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

Hachi: A Dog’s Tale Sun 6 Jun at 1.00pm & Mon 7 Jun at 10.30am Lasse Hallström • USA/UK 2009 • 1h33m • Digital projection U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm Cast: Richard Gere, Sarah Roemer, Joan Allen, Jason Alexander, Robert Capron.

Parker, a university professor, finds a lost puppy at a train station and takes it home, much to the annoyance of his wife, who had banned him from having another dog. However, Parker and the dog develop such a remarkable bond that Cate is forced to relent, and Hachi becomes a devoted member of the family and the local community.

Sun 9 May at 1.00pm & Mon 10 May at 10.30am Jorge Blanco • Spain/UK/USA 2009 • 1h30m • Digital projection U – Contains mild comic violence With the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Gary Oldman, John Cleese.

American astronaut Captain Charles ‘Chuck’ Baker lands on Planet 51 thinking he’s the first person to set foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that the planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world reminiscent of 1950s America, whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders... like Chuck!

Howl’s Moving Castle

The Princess and the Frog

Sun 23 May at 1.00pm & Mon 24 May at 10.30am

Tue 29 Jun to Thu 8 Jul

Hayao Miyazaki • Japan 2004 • 1h59m • 35mm Japanese with English subtitles • U – Contains mild peril Featuring the voices of Emily Mortimer, Christian Bale, Jean Simmons, Lauren Bacall, Blythe Danner.

Ron Clements & John Musker • USA 2009 • 1h37m Digital projection • U – Contains mild scary scenes With the voices of Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard, John Goodman.

In a land of witches, wizards and war, Sophie is a young milliner befriended by Howl the wizard. The jealous Witch of the Waste loves Howl, and puts a spell on Sophie, turning her into an old lady. Sophie runs away so her friends can’t see the transformation and ends up working as a cleaning woman in Howl’s Moving Castle, the remarkable, magical contraption that walks the land.

From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes a modern twist on a classic tale, featuring a beautiful girl named Tiana, a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, and a fateful kiss that leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana.

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The Graduates!

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The Graduates! The cream of this year’s crop of dramas, documentaries and animation from Edinburgh’s graduating students. Edinburgh Napier University Tue 11 May at 6.00pm Various • Scotland 2010 • 2h • Various formats • 15

What is the secret power exerted by the red doll? Why does Mikey need to leave Muirhouse in the middle of the night? Is it wise to go so far with your boss? What are the perfect ingredients for an authentic German café? Why is Luke being told to follow the lady in the red coat? The answers to these and many more questions will be revealed in these Honours year films from Edinburgh Napier undergraduate students. There are tales of mystery and imagination here to satisfy all tastes.

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

STEVENSON COLLEGE EDINBURGH

ECA - ANIMATION

ECA - FILM & TV

Edinburgh’s Telford College

Edinburgh College of Art - Animation

Wed 9 Jun at 6.00pm

Mon 14 Jun at 8.30pm

Various • Scotland 2010 • 2h • Various formats • 15

Various • Scotland 2010 • 2h • Various formats • 15

Phwoar! Check out the talent (by the way).

A family sets out for the beach and a jockey crosses the finishing line. Two men starve in a tent while a fly tries to feed a grub. A coyote gazes at the stars and a telescope looks back in time. A slapper staggers into a toilet. A Viking stumbles in the dark. There’s a fumbling explanation of sex and a schoolboy crush. Stick-men follow their noses and an old lady sticks her nose in. Three craws sit on a wall. A walker takes the pulse of a city while stockings are pulled from the ground, a band lets rip and a boy finds more than he bargained for in a game of hide-and-seek. Add to this some television – pre-watershed and post-apocalyptic – and you have some essential viewing from the awardwinning Animation Department of Edinburgh College of Art

Edinburgh’s Telford College is proud to present this years crop of hot young things from the HND Television course. Come along and cop an eyeful of what these local beauties can show you while they’re still relatively unsullied. See a solitary swimmer battling against the odds, discover the secret life of a foul-mouthed Glasgow postie (is there any other kind?), hear the hunt for a hidden hamster, enjoy the pain of a father undergoing a midlife crisis, witness a sniper’s moral dilemma and admire a couple of guys who build their own still. Caution: bad language (plenty of it) but no nudity (at time of going to press).

Stevenson College Edinburgh

Edinburgh College of Art - Film & TV

Thu 10 Jun at 6.00pm

Tue 15 Jun at 8.30pm

Various • Scotland 2010 • 2h • Various formats • 15

Various • Scotland 2010 • 2h • Various formats • 15

A diverse range of films, from short animations to further ambitious offerings on the themes of passions and obsessions, space, and rhythms and cycles … oh yes, and a cheery look at post-apocalyptic Britain! Edging up on the outside straight are a collection of story adaptations of works ranging from ‘Oedipus’ and ‘Von Ryan’s Express’ to ‘Dante’s Inferno’. Eying up the winners enclosure come a variety of comedies to tickle your funny bone, and documentaries on sundry themes from ‘Under the Burka’ to forbidden love, with a touch of urban mythology and gothic horror along the way.

A vintage year of shorts from graduating students at Edinburgh College of Art’s Film & Television department. Among the dramas are tales of love, loneliness, surreal sexual dysfunction and malevolent flatscreen TVs. The documentaries, meanwhile, span hugely contrasting visions of the world, ranging from the dilemma of a young man in Malawi who wonders whether to emigrate, to the magical world of make believe which children discover in the woods at an outdoor nursery in Fife.

Karel Zeman/Follow Me + The Collective

THE FABULOUS BARON MUNCHAUSEN

THE TALE OF JOHN AND MARIE

Karel Zeman

The Tale of John and Marie

A celebration of the centenary of the birth of the great Czech animator Karel Zeman (1910 – 1989). Zeman, along with Jiri Trnka, is considered the father of Czech animation, with his marvellously inventive and influential mix of animation and live action. Zeman’s pioneering work set the standard for Czech animation and almost certainly influenced contemporary filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton.

Karel Zeman • Czech Republic 1980 • 1h7m • 35mm English language version • PG

This brief season features three of his films: An Invention for Destruction (loosely based on Jules Verne’s ‘Facing the Flag’); The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (based on the Rudolph Erich Raspe novel, with animation inspired by Gustav Dore’s original illustration for the book); and the charming The Tale of John and Mary.

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen Baron Prasil Sat 29 May at 1.30pm Karel Zeman • Czech Republic 1961 • 1h23m • 35mm English language version • PG

An enchanting blend of fantasy and humour, Zeman’s film is based on the story of the legendary liar, Baron Munchausen. The film’s mix of stop motion animation, live action, and special effects – beautifully depicting the Baron’s adventures on the moon, fighting the Turks, in the belly of the whale or riding a cannonball – achieve a timeless quality.

FOLLOW ME

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Pohádka o Honzíkovi a Marence Sun 30 May at 1.30pm

Zeman’s final film, inspired by Czech fairy tales and illuminated manuscripts, tells the story of shepherd boy John who sets off on a journey to find happiness and success as a knight. Three elves, his advisors and guardians, help him whilst testing his character with magic. Falling in love with beautiful fairy Marie, John has to overcome many obstacles to prove that love is stronger than magic and offers the greatest happiness.

DOUBLE BILL Fri 11 Jun at 6.15pm

Follow Me The Collective • Canada 2010 • 55m • DVD • PG • Documentary

Vynález zkázy

Following the sold out premiere of Seasons here at Filmhouse in 2008, the multi-award-winning team behind The Collective series of mountain bike films are back with their latest feature, Follow Me. Combining the world’s most talented mountain bikers at the very top of their game with stunning locations, cinematography and soundtrack, Follow Me is a must for film fans and bike fans alike. Be among the first in Europe to see it on the big screen. Find out more at www.anthillfilms.com

Sat 5 Jun at 1.30pm

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Karl Zeman • Czech Republic 1958 • 1h21m • 35mm English language version • PG

The Collective - a Mountain Bike Film

An Invention for Destruction

Zeman’s 1958 feature An Invention for Destruction (aka The Fabulous World of Jules Verne) charmingly blends cartoon, puppets and live action with a style modelled on the steel engravings in Verne’s original novels. Zeman retells the story of a mad scientist who seeks to misuse a dangerous invention, involving submarines, balloons and a giant octopus. TICKETDEALS See all three films in this season and get 15% off This package is available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

The Collective • Canada 2005 • 40m • DVD • PG • Documentary

A unique opportunity to see the multi-award-winning film that redefined the concept of what a mountain bike film should be. Taking the world’s best riders, adding ground breaking filming techniques and coupling them with strong narrative and soundtrack, The Collective has earned the title of a modern classic. Find out more at www. thecollectivefilm.com N.B. Patrons are advised to purchase tickets in advance as demand for this event is expected to be high.

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Himalaya

HIMALAYA

TRAVELLERS AND MAGICIANS

Himalaya Filmhouse and Satsang Productions are proud to present Scotland’s first festival of Himalayan film and culture, following its hugely successful debut in London in February. Celebrating the diversity of the world’s mightiest mountain range, the festival will also feature photography, art and food at venues across Edinburgh. For more information visit www.himalayafest.org.uk

There will be a Himalaya Exhibition in the Corridor Gallery at Filmhouse from 2-30 May, featuring work by Allan McNally, Sam Kang Li and Magda Rakita.

TICKETDEALS See any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% off See all six films in this season and get 25% off These packages are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

KEKEXILI: MOUNTAIN PATROL

Himalaya

The Cup Phörpa

Fri 14 May at 3.45pm + 8.45pm

Sun 16 May at 1.15pm + 6.15pm

Eric Valli • France/UK/Switzerland/Nepal 1999 • 1h49m • 35mm Tibetan and German with English subtitles • PG Cast: Thilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Karma Wangel, Karma Tensing.

Khyentse Norbu • Bhutan/Australia 1999 • 1h33m • 35mm Hindi and Tibetan with English subtitles • PG Cast: Jamyang Lodro, Orgyen Tobgyal, Neten Chokling, Lama Chonjor, Lama Godhi.

High in the mountainous Dolpo region of Nepal, Tinle, an elderly chieftain, learns that his son Lhakpa has died on an expedition with Karma and other members of the tribe. Stricken with grief, this aged and weather-worn leader decides that he will take charge of the animal yak caravan, an arduous journey over the mountains to exchange salt for grain. An involving human drama, played out on a spectacular stage.

In a remote part of Northern India, two soccer mad young boys are inducted into a Tibetan monastery in exile. However, the boys’ passion for the game and their desire to watch the 1998 World Cup Finals on TV soon disturbs the tranquility and rigid order of the monks’ lives. An unusual and highly engaging comedy that manages to use its gentle tone and uncomplicated story line to great effect.

Travellers and Magicians

Kekexili: Mountain Patrol

Sat 15 May at 3.45pm + 8.45pm

Thu 20 May at 6.15pm & Fri 21 May at 3.45pm

Khyentse Norbu • Australia/ Bhutan 2003 • 1h48m • DigiBeta Dzongkha with English subtitles • PG Cast: Tsewang Dandup, Sonam Lhamo, Lhakpa Dorji, Deki Yangzom, Sonam Kinga.

Lu Chuan • China/Hong Kong 2004 • 1h28m • 35mm Mandarin and Tibetan with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong violence and moderate horror Cast: Zhang Lei, Qi Liang, Due Bujie, Zhao Xueying, Ma Zhanlin.

Dondup, a government official in a small village in the mountains of Bhutan, is obsessed with Western culture. When he gets the chance to move to America to make his fortune, he jumps at it – even if he has to become a farmer there, he can make more in a day than his important job in Bhutan pays in a month. But he misses the bus to the nearest city, and is forced to begin a long road trip, collecting travellers as he goes...

An absorbing and spectacular drama inspired by a people’s remarkable mission to prevent the illegal poaching of Tibetan antelope in the region of Kekexili, the largest animal reserve in China. Set against the exquisite backdrop of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, director Lu Chuan tells the tale of brave local Tibetans, who face death and starvation to save the endangered antelope herds from a band of ruthless hunters.

Himalaya/Science and Film/Baarìa

DELAMU

Delamu Cha ma gu dao xi lie Fri 21 May at 6.15pm Tian Zhuangzhuang • China/Japan 2004 • 1h50m • 35mm Mandarin with English subtitles • PG • Documentary

A remarkable documentary that follows the highest and most perilous of the world’s ancient trading routes, the Tea-Horse Road that climbs from Western Yunnan through the Himalayas into Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan. For more than two thousand years tea was carried through the mountains on mules. Delamu follows this traditional route, mixing spectacularly beautiful images of the wild mountains with interviews with the inhabitants of the remote villages along the way.

Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion Sat 22 May at 6.15pm & Sun 23 May at 6.15pm Tom Peosay • USA 2003 • 1h44m • DigiBeta • 15 • Documentary

Since 1950, when China sent troops to subdue the formerly independent state, Tibetans have lived under the shadow of Beijing, subjugated by a military authority that has banned the Tibetan language in schools, banned photos of the Dalai Lama, arrested and tortured monks, killed thousands and repopulated the region with Han Chinese. Using archival footage and previously unseen still photographs, filmmaker Tom Peosay shows us the reality of life in Tibet, and interviews monks who fled Tibet for India and other countries. At times disturbing and often moving, this is a stunning piece of filmmaking.

RUN LOLA RUN

Science and Film Screenings in association with The British Science Association, a registered charity which exists to advance the public understanding, accessibility and accountability of the sciences and engineering. For further details on The British Science Association, see www.britishscienceassociation.org

Run Lola Run Lola rennt Mon 24 May at 8.15pm Tom Tykwer • Germany 1998 • 1h20m • 35mm • German, English and Japanese with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Armin Rohde.

German writer/director Tom Tykwer tells one story three times, varying the outcome each time. The constant is resourceful redhead Lola (Franka Potente), a scruffy beauty with a scream that shatters glass and a boyfriend named Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), who’s messed up a job for a small-time crime lord and better come up with a whole lot of money in 20 minutes or he’s dead meat. Manni calls Lola, and Lola comes running – literally. Unusually clever and gleefully anarchic in its mix of colour, B&W, animation and other techniques, this is highly accomplished filmmaking, rich in humour, energy and inventiveness. Guest speaker Dr Tillmann Vierkant is a Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Edinburgh. In a brief presentation he will discuss free will and mental actions in the context of the film.

BAARIA

SPECIALPREVIEW

Baarìa Sun 13 Jun at 5.45pm Giuseppe Tornatore • Italy 2009 • 2h30m • 35mm Italian with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Made, Angela Molina, Lina Sastri.

Cinema Paradiso director Giuseppe Tornatore returns with an epic valentine to his Sicilian heritage. Baarìa is a lushly romantic tapestry of 20th century Italian life as seen through the eyes of a single individual as he grows up, matures, marries and revisits a collection of sentimental memories. Baarìa is the slang term for Tornatore’s native Bargheria, and the film unfolds in a hot, dusty Sicilian village where the young Peppino’s childhood coincides with the rise of the Fascists, the declaration of war and the liberation by the Allies. The older Peppino joins the Communist Party and falls in love with the beautiful Mannina, events that are to shape and define his adult years. Beautifully photographed by Enrico Lucidi and set to a memorable Ennio Morricone score, Baarìa has been hailed as Tornatore’s Amarcord, and was a Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. Dr Luigino Zecchin retired from his post as Director of the Italian Institute earlier this year. He now plans to spend time between his native Venice and Edinburgh. Filmhouse and the Italian Film Festival (Scotland) would like to dedicate this special preview to him in recognition of his many contributions to the cultural life of Edinburgh. We are grateful to distributor E1 for allowing us to screen Baarìa.

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Refugee Week Scotland

MOVING TO MARS

Refugee Week Scotland From film festivals to football tournaments, comedy nights to carnivals, exhibitions, workshops, parties and much, much more, Refugee Week Scotland (14 - 20 June) is an exciting programme of events happening across the country to celebrate diversity and raise awareness of refugee issues. For more information, visit www.refugeeweekscotland.com Refugee Week Scotland is coordinated by the Scottish Refugee Council www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk For further information about other Reel Festivals events visit www.reelfestivals.org

TICKETDEALS See all three films in this season and get 15% off This package is available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

UNVEILED

UNVEILED

Moving to Mars

Unveiled Fremde Haut

Sun 13 Jun at 1.00pm

Mon 14 Jun at 6.00pm

Mat Whitecross • UK 2009 • 1h23m • DigiBeta English and Burmese with English subtitles • PG • Documentary

Angelina Maccarone • Germany/Austria 2005 • 1h37m • 35mm German, English and Persian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Jasmin Tabatabai, Navíd Akhavan, Bernd Tauber, Majid Farahat, Georg Friedrich.

Moving to Mars follows two refugee families from Burma over the course of a year that will change their lives completely. Forced from their homeland by the repressive military junta, they have lived in a Thai refugee camp for many years. A resettlement scheme offers them the chance of a new life, but their new home, in Sheffield, will be different to everything they have ever known. With intimate access, this documentary from Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo) depicts the families’ moving and sometimes humorous struggles with 21st century Britain. . FOLLOWED BY SHORT Long Way from Home Anna Jones, UK 2008, 15min Produced in collaboration with the IkaZe Theatre Project and the Welcoming (Adult Learning Project), this powerful and moving indictment of the Asylum System in the UK is a welcome return to Edinburgh for filmmaker Anna Jones, who worked with a group of asylum seekers in the city over a 9 month period and produced a wonderful tribute to the integrity and determination of three people from Rwanda, Colombia and the Sudan, who tell their tale of fighting intolerance with dignity and purpose to become accepted citizens. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with guest speakers.

Unveiled begins as the plane carrying Fariba (Jasmine Tabatabai) to Germany leaves Iranian air space. She removes her headscarf and begins a radical process of reinvention. A lesbian fleeing persecution because of her sexuality, Fariba is leaving Tehran to seek asylum. When her neighbour in the internment centre commits suicide, she assumes his identity to escape repatriation. Living in a hostel for men, her refuge in Germany and her physical safety amongst the other migrant workers rest on her ability to pass as a man. This is an uneasy freedom, made worse when she attracts the attention of a popular local woman. Jasmin Tabatabai invests Fariba with a quiet intensity reminiscent of Hilary Swank in Boys Don’t Cry. Her transformation from confident middle-class woman to invisible male immigrant is believable and says as much about the cultural place of strangers as it does about sexuality.

Refugee Week Scotland/Welcome/Co-operative Film Fest/Caught Short

TROUBLE SLEEPING

Trouble Sleeping Tue 15 Jun at 5.45pm Robert Rae • UK 2008 • 1h42m • DigiBeta • 12A Cast: Hassan Naama, Alia Alzougbi, Waseem Uboaklain, Okan Yahsi, Robert Softely, Seham Ali, Fouad Cherif, Nihat Kaya, Maher Sari, Nabil Shaban, Yousaf Khan Shinwary, Alison Peebles, Gary Lewis.

Winner of four International Best Film awards this powerful drama explores the reality of life for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Edinburgh. With an award-winning and heartwrenching performance from Alia Alzougbi and stunning support from the Refugee Community themselves, Trouble Sleeping was described by Mark Cousins as being amongst the films that offered him “ the shock of recognition of something true about the country I have adopted as my home.”

“This first feature from Theatre Workshop burns with relevance. Raw-edged, and crafted by passionate collective effort, it’s inspiring, provocative stuff.” Hannah McGill, Director EIFF The screening will be followed by a Q&A with co-writers Ghazi Hussein and director Robert Rae. Ghazi is also a poet and was himself a Refugee, who now campaigns on behalf of survivors of torture.

WELCOME

SPECIALEVENT

CO-OPERATIVE FILM FESTIVAL

SPECIALEVENTS

Welcome

Co-operative Film Festival

Sun 16 May at 4.00pm - FREE (see below for details)

Sat 22 May at 1.00pm - FREE EVENT

Philippe Lioret • France 2009 • 1h49m • 35mm • French, Kurdish and English with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Derya Ayverdi.

In Calais, illegal immigrant Bilal, a 17-year-old Kurd from Iraq, finds himself stuck amid crowds of illegals in Calais and desperate to get to England at any price. After an unsuccessful attempt at crossing as a stowaway on a lorry, Bilal conceives the desperate notion that perhaps he can swim to his goal. Enter swimming instructor Simon... This screening of Welcome, winner of the European Parliament’s LUX Prize 2009, is hosted by the European Parliament Office in Scotland. It is FREE to attend, but you must register in advance by emailing [email protected] or calling 0131 557 7866. The objective of the European Parliament’s LUX Prize is to promote public debate on European integration and to increase the reach of European films in the European Union. The European Parliament is a champion – and a symbol – of cultural diversity. Its very make-up reflects Europe’s multiplicity of cultures and languages; it has 736 seats and works in 23 languages. One of the main criteria in selecting the films short-listed for the LUX Prize has been their success in showing the process of Europe integration in a different light. It is voted for by Members of the European Parliament and awarded annually; the prize finances the subtitling and the kinescope recording of the winning film in the 23 official EU languages. For more information, please contact the European Parliament Office in Scotland, The Tun, 4 Jackson’s Entry, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH3 6PX or see www.lux-prize.eu.

UK 2009 • 1h45m • DigiBeta • PG

Each year The Co-operative encourages young people to express themselves and make a short film. The result is the Co-operative Film Festival. Join us for this special fun screening of Scottish films made by young people aged 822, which were entered into the Co-operative Film Festival in 2009. There are animations, documentaries and dramas, films that are funny, fantastical, thought-provoking and creative. The screening is supported by Project Ability and The Co-operative Membership Scotland. Screening 1-2pm, free taster workshops 2-2.45pm www.youngfilm-makers.coop www.project-ability.co.uk

Caught Short Mon 10 May at 6.30pm Various • UK • 1h10m • DigiBeta • 15

Curated by students from Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Academy, Caught Short is a showcase of shorts from emerging filmmakers with a Scottish connection. The programme includes a selection of drama, documentary, animation and experimental works. The guest panellist for this season’s selection is Scottish producer Clare Kerr.

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More Than Movies

EXHIBITION: MILK, TWO SUGARS PLEASE

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Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea and enjoy one of our superb cakes.

19 August, 16 September, 21 October, 18 November, 16 December ‘Screenwriters, EH’ holds free monthly meetings for screenwriters and filmmakers. Meetings include talks from film industry professionals, workshopping with actors, and feedback on members’ scripts, and always incorporate time for networking and film-related chat. Meetings are from 7pm - 10pm, free and open to all. More information can be found at www.scottishscreenwriters.ning.com

Exhibition Milk, Two Sugars Please 25 April - 31 May An exhibition of paintings by Ernesto Canovas, current MFA student at Slade School of Fine Art in London. Selected by The Royal Scottish Academy for RSA New Contemporaries Show 2010 (award winner), he has been succesfully exhibiting in London, Berlin and San Francisco. The show brings together a selection of his eye-catching, resin paintings featuring the artist’s diverse influences such as landscape and popular culture.

Venue Hire Looking for a unique way to entertain? Filmhouse cinemas are available for hire for private functions and corporate events. We can accomodate a large variety of events, including: private screenings; corporate functions; conferences and seminars; meetings and presentations; product launches; birthday and surprise parties; film and photo shoots; press conferences; rehearsals; hen and stag nights; children’s parties. For further information about venue hires contact Filmhouse Administration on 0131 228 6382 or admin@filmhousecinema.com

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Graham Wallace Chief Executive Officer

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Richard Moore Cinema Operations Manager

Advance booking for wheelchair spaces is recommended. A second accessible toilet is situated at the lower level close to cinemas two and three. 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. Our brochure carries information on which films have subtitles.

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Edinburgh Film Guild Tel: 0131 623 8027 www.edinburghfilmguild.com

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88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ Nearest car parks: Morrison Street (next to the Conference Centre), Castle Terrace Buses: 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 30, 34, 35