celebrating forty years of films worth talking …...studio 54 (p 8) and get a half price ticket for...

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CELEBR ATING FOR T Y YEARS OF FILMS WORTH TALKING ABOUT

4 MAY 18 5 JUL 18

mATINEES (shows starting prior to 5pm)

Mon - Thu: £8.00 / £6.00 concessionsFri: £6.00 / £4.50 concessions Sat - Sun: £10.00 / £8.00 concessions

EvENING SCREENINGS (starting 5pm and later) £10.00 / £8.00 concessions

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Ticket Prices FILmhOuSE juNIOR SCREENINGS Under 12s are £4.50 for any screening.

CONCESSIONS Children (under 15s), Students (with matriculation card), Young Scot card, Senior Citizens, Disability (carers go free), Claimants (Jobseekers Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit), NHS employees (with proof of employment).

63 days, 123 films, 642 screenings + 1 international film festival…

...are, miraculously, all contained within the 56 pages of this programme. (Though, admittedly, if you want to know anything about the aforementioned film festival beyond simply its dates, you’ll need to go to www.edfilmfest.org.uk on or after 10am on the 23 May!)

Yes, it’s our annual Bumper [early] Summer Double Issue, packed with more films than I care to mention (again). There’s a lot in it for sure. It’s a bit daunting, I know. Take it slow. Take an hour. Savour it, one page of great films at a time. There’s so much in it, I had to apologise to the staff for giving them so much work to do. But, don’t tell them, I couldn’t really care less… your cinematic pleasure comes first! (It’s OK, they think that too.) But, it’s like the fella said, quantity is never a substitute for quality – that’s why we’ve got that covered too. You will, of course, want to find that out for yourself…

We’re entering the second half of our significant Bergman retro (that is, Ingmar), and I’m very hopeful we can continue attracting such healthy audiences (though one or two of you did look a little peaky, if I’m honest) as the season progresses. So far audience numbers have been very encouraging indeed. Also inside is a timely season of films dealing with events in Europe in 1968, our Sergio Leone retro concludes, British New Wave mainstay Woodfall Films are celebrated, G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box gets reissued (and we’ve thrown in a few others of his as well), 40 Years of Filmhouse countdown to 1978 hits the golden years of 1999 to 1992, sax legend Tommy Smith takes up the programming reins as our latest House Guest, and our Italian Film Festival returns in its 25th edition! And I’ve not even mentioned any of the new releases – Lean on Pete, On Chesil Beach, Edie, Jeune Femme, Redoubtable, Filmworker, That Summer, Studio 54… Rod White, Head of Programming

BUY A TIcKET FOR...Redoubtable (p 5) and get a half price ticket for Jeune Femme (p 5) or any film in Ingmar Bergman (p 20-21) or 1968 (p 38-40)

Pandora’s Box (p 50) and get a half price ticket for a film in G.W. Pabst (p 50-51) Studio 54 (p 8) and get a half price ticket for Arcadia (p 9)

Edie (p 7) and get a half price ticket for any film in Woodfall Films (p 48-49) Half price ticket purchase must be made within the same transaction - at Box Office, by phone or online. Tickets subject to availability. The half price offer only applies to full price tickets. Filmhouse Explorer ticket deal cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. The 50% discount is not valid for Friday matinee screenings.

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ACCESS/AuDIO DESC./CAPTIONED 54BABY & CARER SCREENINGS 54SCREENING DATES AND TImES 28-32

40 Years of Filmhouse 26-351968 38Aces High 12The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the... 34Alien 47Arcadia 9The Blair Witch Project 18The Breadwinner 7La cérémonie 33chinese Visual Festival 37La Chinoise 39The Ciambra 8 + 44Cobra Verde 16The Color Purple 47The Colossus of Rhodes 17Cries and Whispers 21Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 19The Darjeeling Limited 36Degree Shows 52Departures 47Don’t Look Now 19The Double Lover 6The Dreamers 40Eat Drink Man Woman 46Eddie the Eagle 14Edie 7Education and Learning 45The English Patient 27Erase and Forget 10Far From Vietnam 39La Femme Nikita 46Filmhouse Junior 22-23Filmworker 7The Firemen’s Ball 39A Fistful of Dynamite (Duck, You Sucker) 17Folk Film Gathering 24Funny Games 27G.W. Pabst 50A Gentle Creature 8Ghost World 10The Guernsey Literary and Potato... 4Hail, Caesar! 15Herzog of the Month 16House Guest: Tommy Smith 46Howards End 35I, Daniel Blake 12If.... 38Ingmar Bergman 20-21Italian Film Festival 41-44

Ivan’s Childhood 15Jeune Femme 5Journey’s End 12The Kid with a Bike 10Lean on Pete 4Lek and the Dogs 13Let the Sunshine In 4The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 36The Magic Flute 21Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts 9Milou in May 40Never Steady, Never Still 6No Country for Old Men 11The Old Dark House 10On Chesil Beach 6Once Upon a Time in the West 17Pandora’s Box 50Persona 21Redoubtable 5La Reine Margot 33 Look Back in Anger 48A Report on the Party and the Guests 38Rescue Dawn 16The Royal Tenenbaums 36 Senior Selections 14-15Sergio Leone 17The Silence 20Something in the Air 40The Sound of Music 13The Straight Story 26Studio 54 8Sweet Bean 14That Summer 6Three Colours: Blue 34Through a Glass Darkly 20Through Our Eyes 13Total Recall 18Tremors 19Tully 7Uncanny Valley 18-19The Virgin Spring 20Wayne’s World 19Wes on 35mm 36Western 5Where the Green Ants Dream 16The Wild Boys 9Winter Light 20Wonderstruck 5Woodfall Films 48The World’s Fastest Indian 47The Wound 11Write Shoot Cut 11The Young Karl Marx 9


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Claire Denis • France/Belgium 2018 • 1h35m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex, sex references. Cast: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine.

Isabelle (Juliette Binoche) is a divorced mother of one, searching for another shot at love, but refusing to settle for the parade of all-too-flawed men who drift in and out of her life. After a series of unsatisfying affairs - including a fellow artist, a handsome actor, and a banker (who, like many of her lovers, happens to be married), Isabelle begins to ponders just what she’s seeking, and whether sex and companionship are the keys to fulfilment. The great Claire Denis (Beau travail) injects black humour into this witty journey through indecision, idealism and sexual dissatisfaction.

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ThE GuERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETYFri 20 Apr to Thu 10 May

Mike Newell • USA/UK 2018 • 2h4m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate bloody images, sex references. • Cast: Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Jessica Brown Findlay, Matthew Goode.

Based on the best-selling novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, this period drama from Mike Newell follows writer Juliet Ashton (Lily James) who, upon receiving a fan letter, travels to the island of Guernsey. The letter told her of a beloved book club - the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - whose love of literary fiction kept them going through the repressive occupation. With World War II just behind them, Juliet decides to write about the club’s experiences, gaining a deeper understanding of how the islanders survived Nazi rule.

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LEAN ON PETEFri 4 to Thu 17 May

Andrew Haigh • UK 2017 • 2h1m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, brief strong violence. • Cast: Charlie Plummer, Steve Buscemi, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Travis Fimmel, Thomas Mann.

15 year old Charley (Charlie Plummer) and his single father Ray (Travis Fimmel) arrive in Portland, Oregon - the latest in a long series of moves across the Pacific Northwest. Faced with yet another ‘new start’, Charley craves something secure, something definite - something stable. Taking a summer job with a grizzled horse trainer (Steve Buscemi) down at the local track, he quickly forms a bond with one of the veteran horses, Lean on Pete. Following the EIFF award winner 45 Years, director Andrew Haigh returns with this compassionate, at times heart-wrenching adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s acclaimed novel. “Despite the increased budget and scope, Andrew Haigh’s artistry remains low-key and deeply intimate.” - Jamie Dunn, The Skinny

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WESTERNTue 15 to Thu 17 May

Valeska Grisebach • Germany/Bulgaria/Austria 2017 • 2h1m • Digital German, Bulgarian and English with English subtitles 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex, violence. Cast: Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Veneta Fragnova, Viara Borisova.

A group of German construction workers find themselves out on a job in rural Bulgaria - following the work, chasing the money, out on the modern-day frontier. While they find they’re not particularly welcome with the locals, it’s among themselves where the real hostility quietly lurks. With an unsentimental approach and an array of impressive performances from non-professional actors at its forefront, Valeksa Grisebach’s film is a piercingly human and natural portrait of the toxic side of masculinity and the complexity of identity.

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REDOuBTABLE LE REDOUTABLEFri 11 to Thu 24 May

Michel Hazanavicius • France 2016 • 1h42m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, sex, nudity. • Cast: Louis Garrel, Stacy Martin, Bérénice Bejo, Gregory Gadebois.

The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius returns with this ‘60s set biopic featuring Louis Garrel as French New Wave trailblazer Jean-Luc Godard. As the iconic director becomes more interested in politics he begins to alienate his friends and the cinema-going public, who preferred his zestful early films such as Breathless. In charting the brief relationship between Godard and Anne Wiazemsky (following the filming of La Chinoise, their marriage, and the May 1968 riots in Paris), Hazanavicius gives his subject a thorough going over, liberally sprinkled with irony, humour and affection. Le Chinoise screens as part of our 1968 season - see pages 38-40.

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WONDERSTRuCkFri 18 to Thu 24 May

Todd Haynes • USA 2017 • 1h56m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild threat. • Cast: Millicent Simmonds, Julianne Moore, Oakes Fegley, James Urbaniak, Damian Young, Patrick Murney, Cory Michael Smith.

Following the death of his mother, young Ben (Oakes Fegley) runs away from home and heads for New York City, searching for his father. Meanwhile, 50 years previously, Rose (Millicent Simmonds) also goes to New York City in search of her favourite actress, fleeing her neglectful father. Both hearing impaired, their stories mysteriously intertwine across the decades. Todd Haynes (Carol) expertly weaves dual narratives whilst switching between time periods in this adaptation of Brian Selznick’s illustrated novel.

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jEuNE FEmmEFri 18 to Thu 31 May

Léonor Serraille • France 2017 • 1h37m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, sexual threat. • Cast: Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Grégoire Monsaingeon.

Having found herself on the wrong end of a break-up, Paula (Laetitia Dosch) returns to Paris with only a white, fluffy cat to her name. 31 years old and in total emotional free-fall, she quickly learns that making a fresh start will be a trickier task than first thought - particularly if her sharp tongue continues to get her into hot water with everyone she encounters. Léonor Serraille’s snappily edited tale - featuring a strangely endearing powerhouse lead turn from Dosch - won the Camera d’Or at Cannes last year and is bursting with infectious eccentricity.

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Kathleen Hepburn • Canada 2017 • 1h52m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language, strong sex, drug misuse. • Cast: Shirley Henderson, Théodore Pellerin, Mary Galloway, Nicholas Campbell.

Set in the rugged and unforgiving rural north of British Columbia, Canada, Never Steady, Never Still is the story of Judy (Shirley Henderson), a woman who has lived with Parkinson’s disease for almost two decades. She is faced with the heightened challenges of daily life when her husband and primary caregiver dies of a sudden heart attack. Meanwhile, her teenage son Jamie (Pellerin), pushed by his father to get a job on the oil fields, grapples with the daunting task of becoming a man in a world that has no apparent room for weakness.

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ON ChESIL BEAChFri 25 May to Thu 7 Jun

Dominic Cooke • UK 2017 • 1h45m • Digital • 15 - Contain strong sex, sex references. • Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Bebe Cave, Adrian Scarborough, Samuel West.

England in 1962 - newly-married Edward (Billy Howle) and Florence (Saoirse Ronan) are young, educated and from vastly different backgrounds. Arriving on the Dorset coast for their honeymoon, they soon discover that their approaches to sex greatly differ, with fumbling tragicomic results. As things come to a head, they are yet to discover that this awkward scene will have profound consequences for the rest of their lives. Based on Ian McEwan’s Booker Prize winning novella, On Chesil Beach announces Dominic Cooke as a new director to watch.

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ThAT SummERFri 1 to Thu 7 Jun

Göran Olsson • Sweden/USA/Denmark 2017 • 1h20m • Digital • cert tbc • Documentary.

Directed by acclaimed Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson, That Summer centres on the film project artist Peter Beard initiated together with the incandescent Lee Radziwill about her relatives: the Beales of Grey Gardens. Lost for decades, this extraordinary footage re-emerges in Olsson’s documentary, which focuses on Peter Beard and his family of friends, who formed a vibrant and profoundly influential creative community in Montauk (Long Island) in the 1970s.

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ThE DOuBLE LOvER L’AMANT DOUBLEFri 8 to Thu 14 Jun

François Ozon • France 2017 • 1h47m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset, Myriam Boyer, Dominique Reymond.

François Ozon’s erotic thriller, about a woman Chloé (Marion Vacth) who falls in love with Paul, her psychoanalyst (Jérémie Renier) but discovers there’s more to him than meets the eye... When Chloé and Paul move into their new apartment she discovers a box containing Paul’s past, including a passport bearing a different surname. A web of secrets are about to be unleashed... Loosely based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel Lives of the Twins and with distinct shades of Brian De Palma and Hitchcock on the side.


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ThE BREADWINNERFri 8 to Thu 14 Jun

Nora Twomey • Ireland/Canada/Luxembourg 2017 • 1h34m • Digital 12A - Contains moderate threat, violence. • With the voices of Saara Chaudry, Soma Chhaya, Noorin Gulamgaus, Laara Sadiq, Ali Badshah.

Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in in Kabul, Afghanistan, which is under Taliban rule. When her father is arrested for being an intellectual, Parvana’s mother is left alone to care for their three children. As women are banned from going out in public without a man, Parvana must cut her hair and disguise herself as a boy so that she can venture out and earn money for her family - all the while keeping their spirits up with a fantastical story of bravery that she invents and recounts to them. This is just the start of the adventure in Nora Twomey’s Oscar-nominated animation.

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TuLLYFri 8 to Thu 14 Jun

Jason Reitman • USA 2018 • 1h34m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sex references, sex. • Cast: Mackenzie Davis, Charlize Theron, Mark Duplass, Ron Livingston, Emily Haine, Elaine Tan.

Marlo (Charlize Theron), a exhausted mother of three (including a newborn), is gifted a night nanny by her brother (Mark Duplass). Hesitant towards the extravagance at first, Marlo gradually comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully (Mackenzie Davis). The latest collaboration between Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody (following Juno and Young Adult), Tully is an endearing and honest look at modern-day motherhood.

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EDIEFri 8 to Wed 20 Jun

Simon Hunter • UK 2017 • 1h42m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Sheila Hancock, Kevin Guthrie, Paul Brannigan, Amy Manson, Wendy Morgan.

Sheila Hancock stars in the title role as Edie, an elderly woman who, in the aftermath of her controlling husband’s death, decides to fulfil a long-held dream of climbing a mountain in Scotland. Against her daughter’s wishes, she heads north and employs Jonny (Kevin Guthrie) to train her for the gruelling ascent. As the pair talk, bicker and have fun, they reveal more about their lives to each other, all set against the stunning backdrop of the Scottish Highlands. Edie had its World Premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017.

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FILmWORkERFri 8 to Mon 11 Jun

Tony Zierra • USA 2017 • 1h34m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, nudity, sex references, bloody images. • Documentary.

It’s a rare person who would give up fame and fortune to toil in obscurity for someone else’s creative vision. Yet, that’s exactly what Leon Vitali did after his acclaimed performance in Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. The young actor surrendered his thriving career to become Kubrick’s loyal right-hand man. For more than two decades, Leon played a crucial role helping Kubrick make and maintain his legendary body of work. In Filmworker, Leon’s candid, often funny, sometimes shocking experiences in the company of Kubrick are woven together with rich and varied archive materials.


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Sergey Loznitsa • France/Germany/Russia/Lithuania/Netherlands/Ukraine/Latvia 2017 • 2h23m • Digital • Russian with English subtitles 18 - Contains sexual violence. • Cast: Vasilina Makovtseva, Valeriu Andriutã, Liya Akhedzhakova, Boris Kamorzin.

One day, a woman receives the parcel she sent to her incarcerated husband some time earlier - marked ‘return to sender’. Confused and deeply concerned, she travels out to the prison, in a remote area of Russia, to seek an explanation. A journey rife with humiliations and violence - Sergey Loznitsa’s Palme d’Or nominee A Gentle Creature begins as a naturalistic drama and gradually morphs into the surrealistic, politically-charged story of an absurd battle against an impenetrable fortress.

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STuDIO 54Fri 15 to Wed 20 Jun

Matt Tyrnauer • USA 2018 • 1h38m • Digital • cert tbc • Documentary.

Studio 54 was the epicentre of ‘70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolise an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years later, Matt (Citizen Jane: Battle for the City) Tyrnauer’s new candid documentary - bursting with incredible archive footage and insight from key figures and misty-eyed revellers - tells the real story behind one of the most notorious clubs of all time.

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ThE CIAmBRAA cIAMBRAFri 15 to Wed 20 Jun ( + Mon 4 Jun at 2.30pm & 8.35pm as part of Italian Film Festival)

Jonas Carpignano • Italy/Brazil/Germany/France/Sweden/USA 2017 • 1h58m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, scene of sexual abuse. • Cast: Pio Amato, Koudous Seihon, Damiano Amato, Francesco Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato.

The outskirts of Gioia Tauro, a coastal town in the southern Italian region of Reggio Calabria is the setting for Jonas Carpignano’s second feature, the middle film of a planned trilogy which began with 2015’s Mediterranea. Romani teenager Pio (Pio Amato), one of the supporting characters in the first picture takes centre stage in a riveting coming-of-age story.

Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, A Ciambra won Best Director and Best Editor awards at the 2018 David di Donatello (Italy’s equivalent of the Academy Awards).

Screening on Mon 4 June as part of Italian Film Festival, see pages 41-44 for full programme.

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ARCADIAMon 2 to Thu 5 Jul

Paul Wright • UK 2017 • 1h18m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, bloody images, moderate threat.

Scouring 100 years of archive footage, BAFTA-winner Paul Wright constructs an exhilarating study of the British people’s shifting and contradictory relationship to the land. The film goes on a sensory, visceral journey through the contrasting seasons, taking in folk carnivals and fetes, masked parades, water divining, and harvesting. Set to a grand, expressive new score from Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp) alongside folk music from the likes of Anne Briggs, Wright’s captivating film essay captures the beauty, brutality, magic and madness of rural Britain.

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ThE WILD BOYS LES GARçONS SAUVAGESMon 2 to Thu 5 Jul

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

In the early 20th century on Réunion Island, five teenage boys, the offspring of wealthy families, commit a heinous crime. They will be sentenced to serve the Dutchman (Sam Louwyck), a captain whose ship will become their penitentiary. After many adventures, they will reach a wild, supernatural island, where Dr Séverine (Elina Löwensohn) lives. There, everything will change forever. French experimental artist Bertrand Mandico’s first feature length film work is best described as something from a lucid and lurid dream - stark, enigmatic and ecstatically cinematic.

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ThE YOuNG kARL mARxLE JEUNE KARL MARXMon 2 to Thu 5 Jul

Raoul Peck • France/Belgium/Germany 2017 • 1h58m • Digital • German, French and English with English subtitles • cert tbc • Cast: August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Olivier Gourmet.

At 26, Karl Marx (August Diehl) embarks with his wife Jenny (Vicky Krieps) on the road to exile. In 1844 they meet young Friedrich Engels (Stefan Konarske), son of a factory owner, who has studied the sordid beginnings of the English proletariat. Together, between censorship and police raids, riots and political upheavals, they preside over the birth of the labour movement, which until then had been mostly makeshift and unorganised. Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) directs this bracing period biopic.

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mARLINA ThE muRDERER IN FOuR ACTSMARLINA SI PEMBUNUH DALAM EMPAT BABAKMon 2 to Thu 5 Jul

Mouly Surya • Indonesia/France/Malaysia/Thailand 2017 • 1h33m Digital • Indonesian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains sexual violence, strong violence, injury detail. • Cast: Marsha Timothy, Egy Fedly, Dea Panendra, Yoga Pratama, Haydar Salishz.

Mouly Surya’s third feature is a deftly crafted and wholly uncompromising feminist Western. It follows Marlina (Marsh Timothy), a widow threatened by an unscrupulous gang at her remote Indonesian homestead. This dangerous encounter sets Marlina on a journey to face the consequences of her sternly efficient response to sexual violence in a male-dominated society. Beautifully shot and scored, with motifs of the classic Western, the film updates and adapts a classic genre.

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James Whale • USA 1932 • 1h12m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, scary scenes, sex references. • Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger.

Caught in a storm whilst journeying through a remote region of Wales, a group of travellers take refuge in a sinister mansion inhabited by the bizarre Femm family and their mute butler, Morgan (Boris Karloff ). Trying to make the best of a bad situation, the group settles in for the night, but the Femm family have a few skeletons in their closet, and one of them is on the loose... The Old Dark House is one of the best and most entertaining horror films of the 1930s - considered lost for many years, but now being presented from a stunning new digital restoration.

ERASE AND FORGETSun 13 May at 4.00pm

Andrea Luka Zimmerman • UK 2017 • 1h28m • Digital • 18 - Contains graphic images of real dead bodies and injury. • Documentary.

Charting the deep bonds between Hollywood’s fictionalized conflicts and America’s ‘hidden wars’, this new investigative documentary charts the extraordinary life and times of Bo Gritz, one of America’s highest decorated veterans and the ‘inspiration’ for Rambo and Brando’s Colonel Kurtz. Using never before seen archive footage of covert operations and interviews filmed over a ten year period, it provides a complex perspective of an individual and a country in crisis. Director Andrea Luka Zimmerman will be in post-film discussion with Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow).

GhOST WORLDSat 19 May at 1.15pm

Terry Zwigoff • USA/UK/Germany 2000 • 1h47m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Brad Renfro.

Best friends Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) are high school graduates with razor-sharp wits but no direction in life. Their plans to live together are foiled when Enid is forced to attend summer school, while Rebecca’s interest in boys, especially in the girls’ mutual crush, Josh, drives a wedge between their friendship. More complications arise when they answer a desperate lonely hearts newspaper ad as a joke... A wry, yet compassionate, take on teenage friendship in small-town America. Growing Pains shows classic and contemporary films dealing with some of the more complex aspects of childhood. Followed by an informal chat with Jessie Moroney, a member of the programming team who attended the Practical Programming course with the Independent cinema Office.

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Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne • Belgium/France/Italy 2011 1h27m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A - Contains one use of strong language and moderate violence • Cast: Thomas Doret, Cécile De France, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione, Egon Di Mateo.

Finding himself abandoned at a children’s home, 11-year-old Cyril (Thomas Doret) escapes, determined to track down his father. Failing that, he hopes to recover his cherished bicycle. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser, Samantha (Cécile De France), agrees to foster the boy on weekends, surprising herself in her resolve to help him. In a story of innocence betrayed and befriended, Cyril risks losing Samantha with his wild behaviour in his search for father figures. However, Samantha won’t be giving up on Cyril without a fight...

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NO COuNTRY FOR OLD mENWed 23 May at 8.30pm

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen • USA 2007 • 2h2m • Digital • English and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong bloody violence. Cast: Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Kelly Macdonald.

Every now and again, a great film quietly becomes available (again) to cinemas in a brand new print or in a new digital version. These we will showcase in our irregular and ongoing come and See series.

A hunter (Josh Brolin) near the Rio Grande accidentally stumbles across the bloody scene of a drug deal gone bad, making off with $2 million in a briefcase. What he doesn’t figure on is that his chief pursuer will be human Terminator of a man Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), followed in turn by weathered sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones). The Coens’ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel is quite rightly lauded as something of a modern classic.

WRITE ShOOT CuTThu 24 May at 6.15pm

2h7m • Digital • 15

Write Shoot Cut is a programme dedicated to celebrating and showcasing independent and undiscovered filmmaking talent. Since 2011, it has supported and showcased Scottish filmmakers and buillt a vibrant independent filmmaking community here in Edinburgh. These quarterly screenings, offer filmmakers a platform to showcase their work, take part in Q&As and network with potential collaborators after the screening. Write Shoot Cut is managed and facilitated by SEE Youth - a committee of young filmmakers aged 18 - 25 years old. For news and more info, visit Screen Education Edinburgh’s Facebook, or e-mail [email protected] - £7/£5

ThE WOuND INXEBAFri 25 to Mon 28 May

John Trengove • South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France 2017 1h28m • Digital • Xhosa, Afrikaans and English with English subtitles 15 - Contains strong sex, language, drug misuse. • Cast: Nakhane Touré, Bongile Mantsai, Niza Jay, Thobani Mseleni, Gabriel Mini.

An exploration of tradition and sexuality set amid South Africa’s Xhosa culture, The Wound has courted controversy for its revealing insight into the ulwaluko initiation ritual. Xolani, a quiet factory worker, is assigned to guide Kwanda, a city boy from Jo’burg, through this rite of passage into manhood. As Kwanda negotiates his queer identity within this environment, he quickly recognises the nature of Xolani’s relationship with fellow guide Vija. The three men begin a dangerous dance, and soon the threat of exposure elevates the tension to breaking point...

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James Whale • UK/USA 1930 • 2h2m • 35mm • PG • Cast: Colin Clive, Ian Maclaren, David Manners, Billy Bevan, Anthony Bushell.

In 1918, new officer Raleigh (David Manners) arrives on the front to join the company of Captain Stanhope (Colin Clive), only to discover that his boyhood hero is now a deeply troubled man, wracked with alcoholism. Made just two years after R.C. Sheriff’s original stage play, Journey’s End was the first official director credit for James Whale - who was also ‘assisting’ Howard Hughes with directing Hell’s Angels during the same year. Having recently directed a London run of the play, he was perfectly placed to take charge of this screen adaptation, at a time when ‘talkies’ were still new-fangled cinematic experiences.

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Jack Gold • UK/France 1976 • 1h54m • Digital • English, French and German with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild language, war horror and sex references. • Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, David Wood, John Gielgud.

Shifting Sheriff’s play from the trenches to the skies, Aces High follows the story of naive young officer Croft (Peter Firth) who, fresh out of school, arrives on the Western Front ready to join the airborne fight against the Germans. Arriving in the squadron of struggling alcoholic Major Gresham (Malcolm McDowell) - his former House Captain at school and the boyfriend of his older sister - Croft soon learns the harsh realities of life on the front and the intense pressures placed on his commanding officer.

jOuRNEY’S ENDWed 6 Jun at 5.45pm

Saul Dibb • UK 2017 • 1h47m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate violence, infrequent strong language. • Cast: Sam Claflin, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, Toby Jones, Stephen Graham, Tom Sturridge.

A piercing adaptation of Sheriff’s anti-war play. In the trenches of World War I, new recruit Lieutenant Raleigh (Asa Butterfield) has pulled strings to join his childhood hero Captain Stanhope (Sam Claflin) on the front line. However, in the dugout they are anticipating a massive German advance, and Stanhope is horrified by Raleigh’s arrival. Altered almost beyond recognition by his years at the front, Stanhope is sustained only by one thought: that when the war is over he can return to his beloved, Raleigh’s sister Margaret...

I, DANIEL BLAkETue 5 Jun at 5.50pm

Ken Loach • UK/France/Belgium 2016 • 1h40m • Digital • 15 - Contains very strong language • Cast: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires.

Shelter Scotland, the national housing and homelessness charity, is turning 50 this year, however they’re not celebrating. Last year more people than ever before had to come to them for help, so half a century on, they’re still fighting to ensure no one has to face bad housing or homelessness alone. This screening is part of Shelter Scotland’s 50th year activity and they invite you buy a ticket and come along and watch Ken Loach’s award-winning film I, Daniel Blake. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion to discuss the film, the current housing crisis and how people are being affected.

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LEk AND ThE DOGSSun 10 Jun at 3.45pm

Andrew Kötting • UK 2017 • 1h32m • Digital • Russian and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains disturbing scenes.

Experimental artist and auteur Andrew Kötting creates a groundbreaking crossover between narrative film and contemporary art piece, based on the award-winning play by Hattie Naylor. The film is inspired by the true story of Ivan Mishukov, who walked out of his apartment at the age of four and spent two years living on the city streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs. In a recession-ravaged city, the child’s world was dominated by deprivation and violence; his only hope was to turn to feral dogs for company, protection and warmth. Followed by a Q&A with director Andrew Kötting.

ThROuGh OuR EYESTue 19 Jun at 6.15pm

Samir Mehanovic • UK/Bosnia and Herzegovina 2018 • 1h10m Digital • 15 • Documentary.

In sequences filmed over four years, director Samir Mehanovic gives us a wholly fresh and personal insight into the human catastrophe of the Syrian conflict. A Muslim refugee himself, Mehanovic fled Bosnia in the 1990s and settled in the UK. Drawing on his own experiences, he meets refugees in camps, on trains and in their new countries of exile, to understand the lives of these fleeing families. Featuring music written and performed by refugees, the film is a vivid examination of the consequences of war and displacement, which western media often fail to convey. Followed by a Q&A with director Samir Mehanovic.

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Robert Wise • USA 1965 • 2h54m • 70mm • English and German with English subtitles • U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm. • Cast: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson.

Young Maria (Julie Andrews), after proving too high-spirited for the Mother Abess and other nuns, is sent off to work as a governess to seven unruly children. The Von Trapp family is run military style by Captain Von Trapp (Christopher Plummer), a lonely widowed naval officer. It seems bliss for the family - except for the cloud looming over Austria...

One of the most memorable scores ever written and wonderful performances make this a true cinema classic - screening from a beautiful new 70mm print. There is an additional £2 charge for 70mm.

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Naomi Kawase • Japan/France/Germany 2015 • 1h53m • Digital Japanese with English subtitles • PG - Contains upsetting scenes. Cast: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida.

A street food vendor (Masatoshi Nagasi) encounters an eccentric 76 year-old woman (Kirin Kiki) when he advertises a job. Initially rejecting her application due to her advancing years, he is soon swayed when he samples her home-made bean paste - superior in every way to the factory-made equivalent. Naomi Kawase’s skilful, tender-hearted film follows the changing relationship between the middle-aged baker, older woman and a local teenager (Kyara Uchida), while turning a critical eye towards how marginalised members of society are treated.

EDDIE ThE EAGLETue 22 May at 1.20pm

Dexter Fletcher • UK/USA/Germany 2016 • 1h45m • Digital • English and German with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild sex references, mild bad language • Cast: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman.

Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle is a feel-good story about Michael “Eddie” Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach (Hugh Jackman), Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

We love talking about films and so do our audiences. Senior Selections invites older audiences to enjoy classic and contemporary cinema and share their thoughts about the film over a cuppa after the film. Discover new films and make new friendships in the comfortable surroundings of Filmhouse. Senior Selections films are chosen by our Senior Volunteers, who will be on hand to welcome you and have a chat after the film.

These fortnightly film screenings are for audiences who are over-60. They screen where possible with on-screen captions/subtitles. Tickets are £3 each and include tea, coffee and biscuits after the film. Places are limited, booking essential!


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Tue 5 Jun at 1.30pm

Andrei Tarkovsky • USSR 1962 • 1h35m • Digital • Russian and German with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Kolya Burlyaev, Irina Tarkovskaya, Valentine Zubkov, Yevgeny Zharikov.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s first feature is in many ways an orthodox Russian film of its period. Ivan (Kolya Burlyaev) is a teenage Soviet spy on the German front in World War II who undertakes dangerous missions behind enemy lines, until the inevitable mission from which there is no return. Many of Tarkovsky’s later images and themes are already present and correct: Ivan silently wading through still water, eerily immanent forestscapes, the poetry of forbidden zones, and life-and-death struggles played out in slow motion.

hAIL, CAESAR!Tue 3 Jul at 1.15pm

Joel Coen & Ethan Coen • USA/UK 2016 • 1h46m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent moderate sex references • Cast: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton.

It’s a busy day at Capital Pictures Studios for fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin). Production has been halted on sword-and-sandals epic Hail, Caesar!, as star Baird Whitlock (George Clooney) goes missing, bringing rival gossip columnists Thessaly Thacker (Tilda Swinton) and Thora Thacker (Tilda Swinton) onto the scene. In the Coen brothers’ entertaining studio-era caper, other on-set hijinks include a cowboy actor Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich) struggling to acclimate to his new career in drawing-room drama and an aquatic musical in danger of running aground...

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Our next three monthly Herzog of the Month offerings are mapped out here at Filmhouse - from the Christian Bale-starring prisoner-of-war adventure Rescue Dawn, through to the final Werner Herzog/Klaus Kinski collaboration Cobra Verde, via his first fully English language feature, Where the Green Ants Dream. It’s our great pleasure to host a screening each month as we continue to explore the work of this idiosyncratic and unpredictable filmmaker. We’ll keep freely hopping around his filmography too, just to keep things interesting...

RESCuE DAWNSun 13 May at 5.50pm

Werner Herzog • USA/Luxembourg 2006 • 2h5m • 35mm • English, Lao and Vietnamese with English subtitles • 12A - Contains strong language and moderate violence • Cast: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Marshall Bell, Brad Carr, Francois Chau.

Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) is shot down over Laos during a top-secret mission. Taken hostage, he endures unimaginable conditions at the hands of cruel captors in a POW camp. Dengler’s astonishing will to survive guides him and fellow prisoners in a meticulously planned, death-defying escape, only to discover the harsh realities of an unforgiving jungle beyond the camp’s walls. A thrilling adventure tale based on the extraordinary true story of American pilot Dieter Dengler, the subject of Werner Herzog’s 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly.

COBRA vERDESun 22 Jul at 6.05pm

Werner Herzog • West Germany/Ghana 1987 • 1h51m • German, Ewe and Portuguese with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild nudity, sex references, violence and bad language. • Cast: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy, Salvatore Basile, Peter Berling.

The final collaboration in that most combustible of cinematic partnerships - director Werner Herzog and leading actor Klaus Kinski - is a typically wild adventure. Kinski plays ‘Cobra Verde’, a fearsome South American bandit hired to negotiate a new slave route with an African tribal king. Once there he inspires a mutiny, enlisting and training an army of female natives to overthrow the despot. The air of ever-present conflict and mania marks a fitting conclusion to the series of collaborations between two of cinema’s great eccentrics.

WhERE ThE GREEN ANTS DREAmSun 10 Jun at 6.15pm

Werner Herzog • West Germany/Australia 1984 • 1h40m • Digital • 15 Cast: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett, Tony Llewellyn-Jones.

A contemporary environmental morality tale, with flashes of Herzog’s idiosyncratic flair, Where the Green Ants Dream was the director’s first film after Fitzcarraldo. Aboriginal people battle to protect their sacred ancestral sites from a mining company that wants to start exploratory digging. Shot in Australia and inspired by a real court case, this contains one of Werner Herzog’s most conventional narratives and was his first entirely in English - yet it is full of striking photography and compelling performances by local Aboriginal people.


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ThE COLOSSuS OF RhODESIL cOLOSSO DI RODISun 6 May at 2.00pm

Sergio Leone • Italy/France/Spain 1961 • 2h7m • 35mm • Italian with English soft-titles • 12A • Cast: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Conrado San Martín, Ángel Aranda.

Leone’s first feature film credit is a splendid ‘sword and sandals’ adventure starring Hollywood journeyman Rory Calhoun. While visiting his uncle on Rhodes, Dario (Calhoun) - an Athenian war hero - falls in with a band of rebels who plan to overthrow the King. Meanwhile, foreign agents are conspiring to invade Rhodes, and have secretly occupied the giant statue of Apollo that guards the harbour. Safe to say, it’s a film built around impressive set-pieces, thousands of extras and glorious melodrama.

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Sergio Leone • Italy/USA 1968 • 2h45m • Digital • English, Italian and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains moderate sex and sexual threat. • Cast: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards.

The opening minutes of this masterpiece of western mythology are some of the most truly audacious in film history. A stakeout at a deserted railroad station, Jack Elam, a fly, Woody Strode and a constantly squeaking wind pump. The arrival of the man with the harmonica, the enigmatic exchange of words, the shoot-out... With one of the greatest film scores ever by Ennio Morricone, wonderful countercasting (Henry Fonda) and spectacular locations, this is pure cinema, a truly essential big screen experience.

A FISTFuL OF DYNAmITEDUCK, YOU SUCKERSun 20 May at 5.15pm

Sergio Leone • Italy/Spain 1971 • 2h42m • 35mm • English language version • 15 - Contains strong language and moderate sex and violence. • Cast: Rod Steiger, James Coburn, Romolo Valli.

Rod Stieger and James Coburn star in this Mexican Revolution-set caper about an Irish explosives expert (Coburn) who is coerced by mercenary Juan Miranda (Stieger) to help him blast into a bank - an act that inadvertently makes them both heroes of the Revolution. Leone’s sly wit and attention to detail shine through once again, and with Morricone also on board there’s a case to be made for A Fistful of Dynamite (or the much preferable Duck, You Sucker) being one of Leone’s most entertaining films. Due to a rights issue, we will sadly not be able to screen Once Upon a Time in America in this season.

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Uncanny Valley is a place for dreams as well as nightmares. The hope here is to shine a lantern on the nocturnal neo-classics lurking in the shadows.

The unsung heroes of grungy science-fiction, Lovecraftian terrors by modern horror masters, social commentary in the form of farce comedies and, most importantly, strange and uncanny tales that evade definition. Be it a journey into the darkest depths of the world we live in or whimsical flights of hysteria and cringe-worthy dilemmas, we hope to showcase the flicks of decades now adrift and ones best shown at night. As we head into the future with borrowed ideas and twisted dreams, we have our own fiction to craft, and it’s about movies. Uncanny Valley screenings are fortnightly on Friday nights and cost £8/£6 concessions (£5 students).

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ThE BLAIR WITCh PROjECTFri 4 May at 11.15pm

Daniel Myrick/Eduardo Sanchez • USA 1999 • 1h21m • 35mm • 15 Cast: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard.

In 1994, three students set off into the backwoods of Maryland to shoot a film project on a local urban legend - the Blair Witch incidents. They were never seen again. A year later, their footage was recovered and assembled into the film you are about to watch. Shot on a tiny budget and edited down from over nineteen hours of footage, The Blair Witch Project was a true pioneer of the ‘found footage’ horror genre that exploded again in recent years with the unexpected success of Paranormal Activity. A turn-of-the-millennium cultural icon - join us if you dare.

TOTAL RECALLFri 18 May at 11.10pm

Paul Verhoeven • USA 1990 • 1h53m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language and violence. • Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside.

It is 2084 and Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) dreams of Mars. Using implanted memories, Rekall promise to make his dream a reality, but Quaid soon finds he is unlocking more than he bargained for in this action sci-fi hit. Paul Verhoeven’s (Robocop, Starship Troopers) uncanny thriller is packed with heart-pumping violence and enough classic Arnie one-liners to make it a fun ride. Based on the short story by Phillip K Dick - Total Recall gives Mars a grungy edge in this high-concept, interplanetary adventure.


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Ron Underwood • USA 1990 • 1h36m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate threat, gore, infrequent strong language • Cast: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire.

Welcome to Perfection Valley, Nevada! Val (Kevin Bacon) and Earl (Fred Ward) work as handymen around town - a town that has all dried up. But as people start disappearing, something beneath the desert’s surface doesn’t want them to leave. With the aid of a visiting seismology student (Finn Carter), they discover their desolate town is infested with gigantic man-eating creatures and they all had better get to higher ground if they’re going to survive! The monster movie and the West explosively collide in this 1990 cult film.

DON’T LOOk NOWFri 15 Jun at 11.10pm

Nicolas Roeg • UK/Italy 1973 • 1h50m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong sex, violence and injury detail. • Cast: Donald Sutherland, Julie Christie, Hilary Mason, Clelia Mantania, Massimo Serato.

The Man Who Fell to Earth director Nicholas Roeg crafted this spine-tingling chiller in which everything might not be what it seems and memories can haunt as as much as ghosts. Art restorer John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie) are grieving their daughter’s drowning. They visit Venice so John can work on restoring a chapel there, and two ominous women convince Laura their daughter is sending warning’s from the other side. John remains sceptical, but he begins to fear he might be wrong - as the red hooded figure of a young girl begins appearing on the dark canals...

CROuChING TIGER, hIDDEN DRAGONWO HU cANG LONGFri 13 Jul at 10.55pm

Ang Lee • Taiwan/Hong Kong/USA/China 2000 • 2h • Digital Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate violence and sex. Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Lung Sihung, Cheng Pei-Pei.

A distinct homage to the Taiwan set, wuxia classics of King Hu. Two martial-arts masters, Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) and Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) are pushed to their physical and emotional limits as the legendary, mythical sword the Green Destiny is stolen by a¬† mysterious young warrior.At its heart Crouching Tiger showcases tough, heroic women and stands its ground as an exciting, thought-provoking and beautiful ode to the kickass epics that came before it.

WAYNE’S WORLDFri 27 Jul at at 11.10pm

Penelope Spheeris • USA 1992 • 1h34m • Digital • English and Cantonese with English subtitles • PG - Contains very strong language. • Cast: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere.

Eclectic rock classics drive this zany, pop-culture satire from Mike Myers (Austin Powers) in his breakthrough role as Wayne Campbell whose underground tv show ‘Wayne’s World’ soon finds itself prey to corperate ambitions. Wayne and his best-friend/co-host Garth (Dana Carvey) scramble to save their beloved show as Wayne simultaneously stumbles upon the woman of his dreams. A hilariously eccentric portrait of Gen X in the early 90s... NOT!

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ThE vIRGIN SPRING JUNGFRUKäLLANFri 4 to Tue 8 May (select dates only)

Ingmar Bergman • Sweden 1960 • 1h27m • Digital • Swedish and German with English subtitles • 15 - Contains one scene of sexual violence and sexual assault. • Cast: Birgitta Pettersson, Birgitta Valberg, Max von Sydow, Gunnel Lindblom, Axel Düberg.

Bergman’s second foray into medieval Sweden boasts a majestic performance from Max von Sydow as the father bent on avenging the rape and murder of his daughter. It’s also a fascinating contest between paganism (in the shape of Gunnel Lindblom’s earthy sister) and a Christian ethic that would become Lutheranism with a vengeance.

ThROuGh A GLASS DARkLYSåSOM I EN SPEGELTue 8 to Fri 11 May (select dates only)

Ingmar Bergman • Sweden 1961 • 1h31m • Digital • Swedish and Latin with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Harriet Andersson, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Lars Passgård.

Brought by her family to a remote island to supposedly recuperate from a nervous breakdown, Karin (Harriet Andersson) is unwittingly confronted with the frailties and self-absorption of her loved ones. Visually spare, stark, and metaphoric, Bergman’s broodingly personal film is a portrait of loneliness, alienation and mental disintegration.

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WINTER LIGhT NATTVARDSGäSTERNASat 12 to Tue 15 May (select dates only)

Ingmar Bergman • Sweden 1963 • 1h20m • Digital • Swedish with English subtitles • PG - Contains suicide theme and mild language. Cast: Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin, Allan Edwall, Max von Sydow.

Often mentioned among the greatest films ever made, Winter Light deals again with man’s relationship with God, as a pastor of a small rural community attempts to deal with his own loss of faith following the death of his wife. Gunnar Björnstrand gives the performance of a lifetime as the struggling clergyman, wrestling with his demons and contending with the advances of Marta (Ingrid Thulin) - the wife of a local fisherman (Max von Sydow).

ThE SILENCE TYSTNADENTue 15 to Thu 17 May

Ingmar Bergman • Sweden 1963 • 1h35m • Digital • Swedish, English, German, French and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten, Håkan Jahnberg.

The relationship between two sisters Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and Anna (Gunnel Lindblom) reaches breaking point when they arrive in a strange country and move into a large, near-empty hotel. Ester is suffering from a terminal disease and has become overly protective of Anna and, to escape, Anna goes out into the world to find a man. The Silence unfurls in a bizarre, alien city, racked by decrepitude and rumours of war. One of Bergman’s most fluent films, with a soundtrack alive with Bach and the moaning of sirens off-screen.


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PERSONAFri 18 to Sun 20 May

Ingmar Bergman • Sweden 1966 • 1h21m • Digital • Swedish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains sex references, nudity, violence. Cast: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand.

Almost as revolutionary as A bout de souffle in technical terms, Persona sparkles as quite simply the richest and most multi-layered achievement of Bergman’s career. It starts with a stunning pre-credits sequence, and explores the tense, competitive relationship between a nurse (Bibi Andersson) and her patient, an actress (Liv Ullmann) who has suddenly stopped speaking for no apparent reason. Their personalities blend and blur in a bizarre osmosis, as the actress sinks her teeth - literally - into the flesh and spirit of her companion.

CRIES AND WhISPERSVISKNINGAR OcH ROPSat 26 to Wed 30 May (select dates only)

Ingmar Bergman • Sweden 1972 • 1h31m • Digital • Swedish, German and Danish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains bloody injury detail, self-harm. • Cast: Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann.

Rural Sweden in the late 1800s, and three sisters are living in isolation from the rest of society. Agnes (Harriet Andersson) is terminally ill and has become a great emotional burden on sisters Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann). Through flashbacks we learn of the emotional resentments and deceits that have marked the sisters lives in interconnecting ways, against the backdrop of Agnes’ painful final days. In contrast to this filial bitterness only the servant Anna (Kari Sylwan) remains truly faithful and openhearted toward the dying woman.

ThE mAGIC FLuTEMon 4 to Thu 7 Jun

Ingmar Bergman • Sweden 1975 • 2h15m • Digital • Swedish with English subtitles • PG - Contains scene of hanging. • Cast: Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård, Elisabeth Erikson.

One of the greatest screen operas ever made. Shooting on a set replicating a lovely 18th-century theatre, Bergman begins his wonderfully warm, witty and sensuous movie by focusing on the faces of a rapt audience (momentarily including his own) enjoying the overture. Thereafter, as the tale proceeds, he highlights the piece’s exuberant theatrical illusionism, at the same time deploying close-ups to enhance the emotions conveyed by an excellent young cast. An admirably light touch is applied throughout, making for a performance of musical excellence, dramatic vitality and effortless charm.

ThE TOuCh BERöRINGENMon 21 to Wed 23 May

Ingmar Bergman • Sweden/USA 1971 • 1h55m • Digital • English, Swedish and French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains sexualised nudity, infrequent very strong language. • Cast: Elliott Gould, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Sheila Reid.

Karin (Bibi Andersson), a happily married mother of two, surprises herself by responding in-kind to an unforeseen profession of love from David (Elliott Gould), an archaeologist visiting Sweden, whom her doctor husband (Max von Sydow) has befriended. But love, however toxically exhilarating, is seldom simple, and deceit and David’s volatile temperament take their toll. Too often overlooked in Ingmar Bergman’s canon, The Touch marked the first time the director worked with an established Hollywood star.

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

For these shows we choose to screen dubbed versions where these are available, but some films will be in their original language with subtitles – these are marked on individual film descriptions.

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

PETER RABBITSun 13 May at 11.00am

Will Gluck • UK/Australia/USA 2018 • 1h35m • Digital • PG - Contains mild threat, comic violence.

Peter Rabbit, the mischievous and adventurous hero who has captivated generations of readers, now takes on the starring role of his own irreverent, contemporary comedy - with attitude! Peter’s feud with Mr. McGregor escalates to greater heights than ever before as they rival for the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door.

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David Alonso, Enrique Gato • Spain 2017 • 1h25m • Digital English and Spanish with English subtitles • U - Contains mild threat, comic violence.

Hapless explorer Tad Jones returns for a new adventure! This time he must try and rescue his friend Sarah - a brilliant archaeologist who has discovered the location of King Midas’ necklace. The greedy kidnapper wants the necklace to use its mysterious powers for evil - can Tad and his band of oddball friends stop him in time?

BuGSY mALONESun 6 May at 11.00am

Alan Parker • UK 1976 • 1h34m • Digital • U - Contains mild parody of gangland scenes.

In 1929 New York, Bugsy Malone’s life gets complicated when he becomes involved in a turf war between rival gangsters Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Alan Parker’s spoof gangster movie - acted by kids and featuring singing and dancing and guns that shoot custard pies - is still a delight 42 years on from its release in the mid 1970s!

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A WRINkLE IN TImESun 3 Jun at 11.00am

Ava DuVernay • USA 2018 • 1h49m • Digital • PG - Contains mild threat.

Directed by Ava Duverney and starring an all-star cast including Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine, A Wrinkle in Time is an epic adventure through one girl’s transformative journey led by three celestial guides. We discover the strength comes from individuality and that the best way to triumph fear is to travel by one’s own light.

DuCk DuCk GOOSESun 27 May at 11.00am

Christopher Jenkins • China/USA 2018 • 1h31m • Digital • English and Mandarin with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild threat, rude humour.

Peng is a free-spirited goose who spends all his time attempting wild stunts... at even wilder speeds. In one such stunt, Peng hits a flock of ducklings and separates brother and sister, Chao and Chi, from the rest. In this unlikely meeting, Peng will begin a journey that will teach him about the value of responsibility and the power of unconditional love...

mONSTER FAmILYSun 10 Jun at 11.00am

Holger Tappe • Germany/UK 2017 • 1h33m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, infrequent mild bad language.

The bickering Wishbone family get turned into monsters when mum Emma falls foul of an evil witch. Dad becomes a flatulent Frankenstein, daughter Fay mutates into a mummy, son Max is bitten by a werewolf bug, while Emma is transformed into a vampire. To reverse the curse and return to human form they must show they can happily get along... but Dracula has other ideas...

LONG WAY NORThSun 17 Jun at 11.00am

Rémi Chayé • France/Denmark 2015 • 1h21m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, threat

1892, Saint Petersburg. Sasha, a teenage girl from a Russian aristocratic family, has always been fascinated by her grandfather’s life as an adventurer. A renowned explorer, he captains a magnificent Arctic ship, but hasn’t returned from his last expedition to the North Pole. To save her family’s honour, Sasha runs away. Headed towards the Great North, she follows her grandfather’s trail in search of his famous ship.


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PENDA’S FENFri 4 May at 6.00pm

Alan Clarke • UK 1974 • 1h30m • Digital • 12A • Cast: Spencer Banks, John Atkinson, Georgine Anderson, Ron Smerczak, Ian Hogg.

One of the first folk horror films, Penda’s Fen is a startling evocation of the deep echoes of the past within Worcestershire’s Malvern Hills. Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons and England’s pagan past, Stephen (a pastor’s son) begins to question his religion and politics whilst coming to terms with his sexuality.

The screening will be introduced by a special 30-minute set from celebrated Scots folk musician Alasdair Roberts.

ILL FARES ThE LANDSat 5 May at 5.55pm

Bill Bryden • UK 1983 • 1h42m • Digital • PG • Cast: Rob Donachie, James Ellis, Roy Hanlon, Morag Hood, Fulton Mackay.

A rare chance to see Bill Bryden’s poetic portrait of the last days of life upon St Kilda. Ill Fares the Land sensitively charts the daily lives of the last five families remaining on the island - through funerals, weddings and rites of passage - as they edge closer to the decision that will change their lives forever...

The film will be introduced with traditional Scots/Scandinavian folk songs from Rona Wilkie and Marit Fält.

Transgressive North are proud once again to present the world’s first festival of folk cinema, in partnership with Filmhouse and TradFest.

The Folk Film Gathering is a celebration of the myriad ways in which world cinema has engaged with folk culture in different places and times. Whether that’s ‘folk’ as a living tradition, as people’s history, as working class /subaltern culture, as political movement or as a ‘come-all-ye’ sense of community, the Folk Film Gathering will explore how cinema has engaged with different notions of folk in the course of world history. Our programme of folk cinema this year centres upon ‘a sense of place’; showcasing films from Scotland, England, Italy, France, Alaska and Scandinavia, which explore deep connections between the experiences of communities and the landscapes in which they live. Each screening this year will be introduced with a live traditional arts performance. www.folkfilmgathering.com



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BYkER + TODAY I’m WITh YOuSun 6 May at 5.45pm

Amber Collective • 2h32m • Digital • 12A

Amber return to the Folk Film Gathering with two documentaries about the Byker estate in Newcastle, based upon the work of celebrated photographer Sirkka-Liisa Kontinnen. Featuring a highly topical exploration of the lives of immigrants to the UK, Amber’s films fuse memory, portraiture and music to document the changing experiences facing communities in inner city Newcastle. BYkER UK • 53m • Digital

TODAY I’m WITh YOu UK • 54m • Digital

Introduced with North England folk songs from Sean Paul Newman, followed by a Q&A with Sirkka-Liisa Kontinnen and Peter Roberts.

kAISA’S ENChANTED FORESTMon 7 May at 8.40pm

Katja Gauriloff • Finland 2016 • 1h20m • Finnish, Sámi, French, English and German with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary.

An enchanting documentary about the life-long friendship between Swiss author Robert Crottet and spritely community matriarch Kaisa Gauriloff in Northern Scandinavia, celebrating the rich oral traditions of the Skolt Sámi community in Finland.Directed by her great-granddaughter, Kaisa’s magical storytelling counterpoints the historical account of the Skolt Sámi community fortunes in 20th century Europe.

The film will be introduced with Finnish folk music from Mike Ferrie.

LA vILLE EST TRANQuILLETue 8 May at 8.15pm

Robert Guédiguian • France 2000 • 2h12m • French, English, Italian and German with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Ariane Ascaride, Gerard Meulan, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Pascale Roberts.

A powerful, timely exploration of immigration and the rise of European right, La Ville Est Tranquille masterfully weaves a narrative tapestry from the lives of a diverse group of Marseilles individuals. Set within the working class neighbourhood of L’Estaque, the paths of Michelle (a fish market worker), Paul (a dockworker turned cabdriver) and Abderamane (a young North African man just out of prison) converge on a journey through the lives and daily struggles of an entire city. The film will be introduced with folk songs from Steve Byrne.

NIGhT OF ThE ShOOTING STARSLA NOTTE DI SAN LORENZOThu 10 May at 5.40pm

Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani • Italy 1982 • 1h48m • Italian with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli, Miriam Guidelli, Massimo Bonetti.

In Tuscan folklore, the Night of San Lorenzo (shooting stars) is when dreams come true. Set in 1944, this Taviani Brothers’ masterpiece documents the fortunes of a community one fateful night as they attempt to flee the Nazis. A powerful, deeply magical and surprisingly funny account of a community fighting for life. The film will be introduced with Tuscan folk songs from Simone caffari and followed by a discussion hosted by Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).


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David Lynch • France/UK/USA 1999 • 1h51m • 35mm • U • Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton, Everett McGill, Jane Galloway Heitz.

David Lynch’s The Straight Story is a road movie with a difference based on strange but true events. In 1994, 73 year-old Alvin Straight set out on a cross-country trip to visit his ailing brother in an attempt to repair their relationship. The pair had not seen or spoken to each other for ten years. What was remarkable about the journey, which took more than six weeks and covered several hundred miles, was that Straight made it on his John Deere lawnmower.

The film takes in his preparations, under the watchful eye of his daughter, and his on-the-road encounters and experiences. It is held together by an extraordinary performance by Richard Farnsworth, who plays Straight as tenacious, self-determined, infuriating and vulnerable by turns, and completely wins our respect for the cussed old man. A pleasure too, to see Sissy Spacek as the anxious but resigned daughter, who knows better than to try and prevent his foolhardy expedition. The Straight Story may confound fans of the director’s darker, more surreal works, but it will win many hearts.

Matinee: £3.20/£1.80, Evening:£5.20/£3.80

1999

There’s been a variety of dates we’ve used in the past to celebrate landmarks in the story of Filmhouse. What exists on this site today is a result of a number of changes over a number of years. Cinema 3 came on line on 2 May 1997, and Cinema 1 on 15 February 1982, and the Café/Bar on 2 June 1985.

But you need to go back to 1978 when what is now Cinema 2 began the whole thing, with the cinema first used in earnest for the film festival of that year, in August 1978. It wasn’t until two months later in October – the 9th to be precise – that the Edinburgh Film Guild launched an entity called Filmhouse, at 88 Lothian Road, and held its first public screenings. And that’s the date, in 2018, that we’re officially declaring our 40th birthday!

To mark our first 40 years, we’ve put together a programme of films, one plucked from the programmes of each of the years since 1978.

Back in 1978 and for many years after, distribution for the kinds of films we show today was a very different affair – Filmhouse often had to wait weeks for the one or two 35mm prints that had been made of the film for this country to reach this ‘northern outpost’, and the ‘new films released nationally on a Friday’ model simply had not been established for the kinds of films we show. This may become apparent the further back we go when the films that represent those years were made much earlier than the years they represent.

We’ve started in reverse, with 2016, one year per week – toward a special selection from the first ever public programme in October 1978 – with all tickets costing the same price as they did when we screened them for the first time. As the season runs on, you’ll see, it gets rather cheap!

We’ll also be giving you the option of paying today’s prices, the difference being a donation that’ll go straight back into our charity, putting on great films from around the world and investing in our next 40 years! Thanks for your support.

Rod White Head of Programming

All 40 Years of Filmhouse film blurbs are taken directly from their original Filmhouse brochure entries.


40 Years of Filmhouse

FuNNY GAmESWed 16 May at 1.30pm & 6.00pm

Michael Haneke • Austria 1997 • 1h49m • 35mm • German and French with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe.

Ostensibly, this is another of the family in peril flicks, a genre which we know we have seen over and over again to the point that we know the rules and regulations by heart. But here Haneke asks what is the drive that keeps us skewered to our seats in the dark when up on screen others are being skewered. Though importantly, in Funny Games, we witness nothing graphic. The camera lingers on the participants faces to register the horror and in that we might wriggle with the tension of whether we are going to be allowed a peep too. And Haneke plays on that sickeningly clammy, but addictive suspense right from the start, pushing us all to observe with a sense of shivery, sterile detachment, with the film taking a few stunning formal turns that underscore this. A moral maze with a cerebral centre, Funny Games is not easily forgotten. - Lizzie Francke Matinee: £2.90/£1.60, Evening: £4.90/£3.60

ThE ENGLISh PATIENTTue 22 May at 2.15pm & 5.40pm

Anthony Minghella • USA 1996 • 2h42m • 35mm • English, German, Italian and Arabic with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, violence and moderate sex • Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth.

From their green, damp, congested homelands, Europeans come to the North African desert and fall in love - as if into quicksand - with the dry vastness. Like T.E. Lawrence, they are awed by the womanly contours of the great desert dune. Soon their faces are bronzed, their limbs burnished, their hair bleached, until they are the colour of sand. These nomads-by-choice have become the Sahara. The English Patient, the keenly rapturous film that Anthony Minghella has made of Michael Ondaatje’s novel, burrows into these feelings even as it flies above them like a plane full of surveyors. This is a big film, serious and voluptuous. It hopscotches through time, from 1937 to 1944, and over two continents. It probes issues of betrayal and forgiveness. It borrows Lawrence of Arabia’s epic intellect for a tale of potent romance. (blurb abridged, full version on Filmhouse site)

Matinee: £2.50/£1.50, Evening: £4.50/£3.50

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All screenings in 2D unless marked (3D) (3D) - £2 charge for 3D 70mm - £2 charge for 70mm

(AD) Audio Description (see p 54)(c) captioned for deaf or hard of hearing

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(40) 40 Years of Filmhouse (p 26-35) (68) 1968 (p 38-40)(cS) come and See (p 11)

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES

Fri 1 The Virgin Spring (IB) 1.00 4 1 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 3.10/5.50/8.30 May 1 The Blair Witch Project (UV) 11.15 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 12.00/3.15/5.55 2 The Virgin Spring (IB) 8.40 3 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 11.10am 3 Let the Sunshine In 1.40/3.50/8.35 3 Penda’s Fen (FF) 6.00 +Live Music

Sat 1 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 2.30/5.50/8.30 5 2 The Virgin Spring (IB) 1.00 May 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 3.15/6.00 2 Let the Sunshine In 8.40 3 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 12.30 3 Let the Sunshine In 3.30 3 Ill Fares the Land (FF) 5.55 +Live Music 3 Lean on Pete (AD) 8.35

Sun 1 Bugsy Malone (FJ) 11.00am 6 1 The Colossus of Rhodes (SL) 2.00 +Intro May 1 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 5.50/8.30 2 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 1.10 2 The Virgin Spring (IB) 3.50 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 6.00/8.35 3 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 12.30 3 Let the Sunshine In 3.30/8.45 3 Byker + Today I’m... (FF) 5.45 +Live Music

Mon 1 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 2.30/5.50 7 1 Lean on Pete (AD) 8.30 May 2 The Straight Story (40) 1.20/6.00 2 The Virgin Spring (IB) 3.50 2 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 8.30 3 The Guernsey... (C)(AD) 11.05am (captioned) 3 Let the Sunshine In 1.45/3.50/6.15 3 Kaisa’s Enchanted... (FF) 8.40 +Live Music For crying Out Loud Baby & carer screening - see page 54

Tue 1 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 2.30/5.50 8 1 Through a Glass Darkly (IB) 8.40 May 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 12.30/3.20/8.35 2 Lean on Pete (AD)(C) 5.55 (captioned) 3 Sweet Bean (SR) 1.15 3 Let the Sunshine In 3.50/6.00 3 La ville est tranquille (FF) 8.15 +Live Music

Wed 1 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 2.30/5.50 9 1 Lean on Pete (AD) 8.35 May 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 12.30/3.20 2 The Truman Show (F) 6.10 2 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 8.30 3 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 1.10 3 Let the Sunshine In 3.50/8.45 3 Lean on Pete (AD) 6.00

Thu 1 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 2.30/5.50 10 1 Lean on Pete (AD) 8.35 May 2 Through a Glass Darkly (IB) 11.05am 2 Through a Glass Darkly (IB) 3.55/8.40 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 1.20/6.05 3 The Guernsey Literary...(AD) 12.45 3 Let the Sunshine In 3.25/8.50 3 Night of the Shooting... (FF) 5.40 +Live Music

Fri 1 Redoubtable 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 11 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 11.00am May 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 2.30/6.05 2 Through a Glass Darkly (IB) 8.45 3 Redoubtable 11.15am 3 The Old Dark House 2.00/4.00/8.25 3 Somewhere Beyond... (CV) 6.10

Sat 1 Redoubtable 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 12 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 11.00am May 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 2.30/6.05 2 Winter Light (IB) 8.45 3 Redoubtable 11.15am 3 The Old Dark House 2.00/4.00/8.25 3 Old Beast (CV) 5.50

Sun 1 Peter Rabbit (FJ) (AD) 11.00am 13 1 Redoubtable 2.30/5.30 May 1 Once Upon... West (SL) 8.00 +Intro 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 1.10 2 Winter Light (IB) 3.50 2 Rescue Dawn (HZ) 5.50 2 Redoubtable 8.30 3 Redoubtable 11.15am 3 The Old Dark House 2.00/6.30 3 Erase and Forget 4.00 +Q&A 3 Lean on Pete (AD) 8.20

Mon 1 Redoubtable 2.30 14 1 Winter Light (IB) 6.00 May 1 Lean on Pete (AD) 8.00 2 A Report on the Party... (68) 6.30 +Intro 2 Royal Tenenbaums (WA) 8.35 3 The Old Dark House 11.10am/3.45 3 Lean on Pete (AD)(C) 1.00 (captioned) 3 Redoubtable 6.10 3 Mrs. Fang (CV) 8.30 For crying Out Loud Baby & carer screening - see page 54

Tue 1 Western 1.00 15 1 Redoubtable 3.40/8.45 May 1 If.... (68) 6.05 2 Western 6.00 2 The Silence (IB) 8.40 3 Redoubtable 11.10am/6.15 3 Winter Light (IB) 1.30 3 Lean on Pete (AD) 3.25/8.35



(cV) chinese Visual Festival (p 37)(FF) Folk Film Gathering (p 24-25) (FJ) Filmhouse Junior (p 22-23)

(GP) Growing Pains (p 10)(GWP) G.W. Pabst (p 50-51)(HG) House Guest: Tommy Smith (p 46-47)

(HZ) Herzog of the Month (p 16)(IB) Ingmar Bergman (p 20-21) (IT) Italian Film Festival (p 41-44)

Screenings and Times

Wed 1 Funny Games (40) 6.00 16 1 The Life Aquatic... (WA) 8.15 May 2 The Silence (IB) 11.00am 2 Redoubtable 1.10/6.10 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 3.30 2 Western 8.30 3 Redoubtable 11.10am/8.50 3 Funny Games (40) 1.30 3 The Silence (IB) 4.00 3 Lean on Pete (AD) 6.15

Thu 1 Redoubtable 6.00/8.30 17 2 The Silence (IB) 11.00am/6.10 May 2 Lean on Pete (AD) 1.10 2 Redoubtable 3.50 2 Western 8.25 3 Redoubtable 11.10am 3 The Fireman’s Ball (68) 1.30/8.45 +Intro 3 Western 3.20 3 Lean on Pete (AD) 6.05

Fri 1 Jeune Femme 1.00/6.15/8.40 18 1 Wonderstruck (AD) 3.15 May 1 Total Recall (UV) 11.10 2 Jeune Femme 11.00am/3.35 2 Redoubtable 1.15/8.30 2 Persona (IB) 6.20 3 Wonderstruck (AD) 11.10am/8.35 3 Persona (IB) 1.45 3 Redoubtable 3.45/6.10

Sat 1 Wonderstruck (AD) 1.00 19 1 Jeune Femme 3.35/8.40 May 1 Redoubtable 6.00 2 Jeune Femme 11.00am 2 Ghost World (GP) 1.15 +Discussion 2 Persona (IB) 4.15/6.20 2 Redoubtable 8.30 3 Redoubtable 1.05 3 Never Steady, Never Still 3.25/6.05 3 Wonderstruck (AD) 8.35

Sun 1 Tad the Lost... (FJ) (AD) 11.00am 20 1 Wonderstruck (AD)(C) 2.30 (captioned) May 1 A Fistful of Dynamite (SL) 5.15 +Intro 1 Jeune Femme 8.40 2 Redoubtable 1.00/5.30/7.50 2 Persona (IB) 3.20 3 Never Steady, Never Still 1.05/8.35 3 Jeune Femme 3.45 3 Wonderstruck (AD) 6.00

Mon 1 Wonderstruck (AD) 2.30/6.05 21 1 Jeune Femme 8.40 May 2 Jeune Femme 11.00am/3.35 2 Redoubtable 1.15/8.30 2 The Touch (IB) 6.00 3 Far from Vietnam (68) 6.10 +Intro 3 The Darjeeling... (WA) 8.45 For crying Out Loud Baby & carer screening - see page 54

Tue 1 The English Patient (40) 2.15/5.40 22 1 Jeune Femme 9.00 May 2 Redoubtable 11.00am 2 Redoubtable 6.00/8.30 2 Eddie the Eagle (SR)(C) 1.20 (£3 - over-60s) 2 Jeune Femme 3.45 3 Wonderstruck (AD) 6.05 3 The Touch (IB) 8.40

Wed 1 Jeune Femme 2.30/6.15 23 1 No Country for Old... (CS) 8.30 May 2 Jeune Femme 11.00am 2 Redoubtable 1.15/8.40 2 The Touch (IB) 3.35/6.05 3 Wonderstruck (AD)(C) 11.10am (captioned) 3 Wonderstruck (AD) 2.15/8.35 3 La Chinoise (68) 6.00 +Intro

Thu 1 Sicilian Ghost Story (IT) 2.30/8.30 +Intro 24 2 Jeune Femme 11.00am/3.35 May 2 Redoubtable 1.15/8.40 2 Write Shoot Cut 6.15 (£7/£5) 3 Wonderstruck (AD) 11.10am 3 Wonderstruck (AD) 2.15/8.20 3 Jeune Femme 6.00

Fri 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 25 2 On Chesil Beach (AD) 11.10am May 2 The Wound (OR) 1.40/3.45/6.15 2 Equilibrium (IT) 8.25 3 Jeune Femme 11.00am/1.20 3 Jeune Femme 3.35/6.10/8.35

Sat 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 1.15/3.40/6.05/8.30 26 2 On Chesil Beach (AD) 11.10am May 2 The Wound (OR) 1.40/3.45/8.45 2 Fortunata (IT) 6.15 +Intro 3 Jeune Femme 11.00am/1.20 3 Jeune Femme 3.35/8.35 3 Cries and Whispers (IB) 6.00

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE SCREENING TIMES


Sun 1 Duck Duck Goose (FJ) 11.00am 27 1 Jeune Femme 1.30/4.00/6.15 May 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 8.40 2 The Wound (OR) 1.40/3.50 2 On Chesil Beach (AD) 6.00 2 Pure Hearts (IT) 8.35 3 Jeune Femme 11.05am/8.45 3 On Chesil Beach (AD) 1.20 3 On Chesil Beach (AD) (c) 3.45 (captioned) 3 Milou in May (68) 6.10 +Intro

Mon 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 28 2 On Chesil Beach (AD) 11.10am May 2 The Wound (OR) 1.40/3.45/8.45 2 The Passionate Thief (IT) 6.15 +Intro 3 Jeune Femme 11.00am 3 Jeune Femme 1.15/8.45 3 The Dreamers (68) 3.30/6.05

Tue 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 29 2 La cérémonie (40) 1.10/6.15 May 2 On Chesil Beach (AD) 3.45 2 The Intruder (IT) 8.45 3 Jeune Femme 11.00am 3 Jeune Femme 1.15/6.10 3 Cries and Whispers (IB) 3.30/8.35

Wed 1 Eat Drink Man Woman (HG) 2.30 30 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 6.00/8.30 May 2 On Chesil Beach (AD) (C) 11.00am (captioned) 2 On Chesil Beach (AD) 1.25/3.50 2 Stories of Love... (IT) 6.15 2 Eat Drink Man Woman (HG) 8.35 3 Jeune Femme 11.10am 3 Jeune Femme 3.45/8.55 3 Cries and Whispers (IB) 1.30 3 Something in the Air (68) 6.05 +Intro

Thu 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 3.30/6.00/8.30 31 2 On Chesil Beach (AD) 11.00am/1.25 May 2 Piazza Vittorio (IT) 4.00/8.45 +Intro 2 Journey’s End (WW) 6.05 3 Jeune Femme 11.10am/1.30 3 Jeune Femme 3.45/6.15/8.35

Fri 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 1 1 Tremors (UV) 11.15 Jun 2 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 11.00am 2 Look Back in Anger (WF) 1.50/6.15 2 That Summer 4.10 2 Lorello and Brunello (IT) 8.45 3 That Summer 11.10am/6.10 3 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 2.30/8.10


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Sat 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 2 2 Look Back in Anger (WF) 11.00am/8.25 Jun 2 That Summer 1.15 2 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 3.10 2 Rainbow: A Private... (IT) 6.15 +Intro 3 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 11.10am/8.10 3 Look Back in Anger (WF) 2.00 3 That Summer 4.15/6.10

Sun 1 A Wrinkle in Time (FJ) (AD) 11.00am 3 1 La Reine Margot (40) 2.00 Jun 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 5.30/8.20 2 That Summer 1.15 2 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 3.10 2 Look Back in Anger (WF) 6.00 2 Veleno (IT) 8.15 +Intro 3 Look Back in Anger (WF) 11.10am/1.25 3 That Summer 3.45/8.35 3 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 5.45

Mon 1 The Ciambra (IT) 2.30/8.35 4 2 The Magic Flute (IB) 2.15 Jun 2 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 5.45 2 That Summer 8.40 3 On Chesil Beach (AD) 11.00am/3.30 3 On Chesil Beach (AD) 6.00/8.25 3 That Summer 1.30 For crying Out Loud Baby & carer screening - see page 54

Tue 1 The Magic Flute (IB) 2.30 5 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 6.00 Jun 1 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 8.25 2 That Summer 11.10am/1.05 2 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 3.00 2 I, Daniel Blake (AD) 5.50 +Discussion 2 La Femme Nikita (HG) 8.45 3 On Chesil Beach (AD) 11.00am 3 On Chesil Beach (AD) 3.45/8.15 3 Ivan’s Childhood (SR) 1.30 3 That Summer 6.10

Wed 1 La Femme Nikita (HG) 2.30 6 1 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 5.50 Jun 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) (C) 8.40 (captioned) 2 The Magic Flute (IB) 11.10am/8.20 2 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 2.45 2 Journey’s End (WW) (AD) 5.45 3 On Chesil Beach (AD) 11.00am 3 On Chesil Beach (AD) 3.30/6.00 3 That Summer 1.30/8.25


(OR) Over the Rainbow (p 11)(SL) Sergio Leone (p 17)(SR) Senior Selections (p 14-15) (over-60s)

(UV) Uncanny Valley (p 18-19)(WA) Wes on 35mm (p 36) (WF) Woodfall Films (p 48-49)

(WW) WWI in cinema (p 12)


Screenings and Times

Thu 1 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 2.30/8.25 7 1 On Chesil Beach (AD) 6.00 Jun 2 Pandora’s Box (GWP) 11.10am 2 The World’s Fastest... (HG) 2.15/8.25 2 The Magic Flute (IB) 5.30 3 On Chesil Beach (AD) 11.00am 3 On Chesil Beach (AD) 1.30/8.15 3 That Summer 4.00/6.10

Fri 1 The Double Lover 1.00/8.35 8 1 Edie (AD) 3.30/6.00 Jun 2 Edie (AD) 11.00am 2 The Loneliness of the...(WF) 1.30/6.10 2 Filmworker 3.40/8.25 3 The Breadwinner (AD) 11.10am 3 The Breadwinner (AD) 3.35/6.15 3 Tully (AD) 1.25/8.30

Sat 1 The Double Lover 1.00/8.35 9 1 Edie (AD) (C) 3.30 (captioned) Jun 1 Edie (AD) 6.00 2 Edie (AD) 11.00am 2 Filmworker 1.30/6.10 2 Saturday Night and... (WF) 3.40/8.25 3 The Breadwinner (AD)(C) 11.10am (captioned) 3 The Breadwinner (AD) 3.35/6.15 3 Tully (AD) 1.25/8.30

Sun 1 Monster Family (FJ) 11.00am 10 1 Edie (AD) 1.30/6.20 Jun 1 The Double Lover 3.50/8.45 2 Edie (AD) 11.05am 2 Filmworker 1.30/8.40 2 Lek and the Dogs (C) 3.45 +Q&A 2 Where the Green... (HZ) 6.15 3 The Breadwinner (AD) 11.10am 3 The Breadwinner (AD) 3.35/6.10 3 Tully (AD) 1.25/8.30

Mon 1 Filmworker 1.40 11 1 The Double Lover 3.50/8.45 Jun 1 Edie (AD) 6.20 2 Edie (AD) 1.20/3.40 2 A Taste of Honey (WF) 6.10 2 Filmworker 8.25 3 Tully (AD) (C) 11.10am (captioned) 3 Tully (AD) 3.35/6.15 3 The Breadwinner (AD) 1.25/8.30 For crying Out Loud Baby & carer screening - see page 54

Tue 1 Edie (AD) 1.10/3.30/6.00 12 1 Alien (HG) 8.25 Jun 2 Edie (AD) 11.00am 2 The Double Lover 1.20/6.10/8.35 2 A Taste of Honey (WF) 3.45 3 Tully (AD) 11.10am 3 Tully (AD) 3.35/8.30 3 The Breadwinner (AD) 1.25 3 The Breadwinner (AD)(C) 6.15 (captioned)

Wed 1 Diary of a Lost Girl (GWP) 1.00 13 1 Edie (AD) 3.30 Jun 1 ECA Animation Degree... 6.00 (£6) 1 The Breadwinner (AD) 8.25 2 Edie (AD) 11.00am 2 Priscilla, Queen of the... (40) 1.20/6.10 2 The Double Lover 3.45/8.35 3 The Breadwinner (AD) 11.10am/3.35 3 Tully (AD) 1.25 3 Tully (AD) (c) 8.40 (captioned) 3 Edie (AD) 6.15

Thu 1 Edie (AD) 1.10/3.30 14 1 Ed. College Spliced Awards 6.00 (£6) Jun 1 Diary of a Lost Girl (GWP) 8.30 2 Edie (AD) 11.00am 2 Edie (AD) (c) 5.40 (captioned) 2 The Double Lover 2.30 2 The Color Purple (HG) 8.00 3 The Breadwinner (AD) 11.10am 3 The Breadwinner (AD) 3.35/6.15 3 Tully (AD) 1.25 3 The Double Lover 8.35

Fri 1 Edie (AD) 1.15/3.35/6.00 15 1 Tom Jones (WF) 8.20 Jun 1 Don’t Look Now (UV) 11.10 2 A Gentle Creature 11.00am/5.45 2 Tom Jones (WF) 2.15 2 Studio 54 8.45 3 The Ciambra 12.55/5.50/8.30 3 Studio 54 3.30

Sat 1 Edie (AD) 2.30/5.00/7.30 16 2 Studio 54 11.00am Jun 2 Studio 54 3.45/6.00 2 The Kid with a Bike (GP) 1.30 +Discussion 2 A Gentle Creature 8.15 3 The Ciambra 12.15/8.30 3 A Gentle Creature 2.55 3 Aces High (WW) 5.55

Sun 1 Long Way North (FJ) 11.00am 17 1 Edie (AD) 1.15/5.55 Jun 1 Edie (AD) (C) 3.35 (captioned) 1 A Gentle Creature 8.15 2 Kes (WF) 12.55/6.20 2 A Gentle Creature 3.20 2 Studio 54 8.45 3 The Ciambra 1.10/6.00 3 Studio 54 3.45 3 Comradeship (GWP) 8.35



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Tue 1 Edie (AD) 3.35/6.00 19 1 The Ciambra 8.30 Jun 2 Studio 54 3.45/8.35 2 Through Our Eyes 6.15 +Q&A 3 The Ciambra 3.30 3 Westfront 1918 (GWP) 6.10 3 A Gentle Creature 8.00

Wed 1 Edie (AD) 3.35/6.00 20 1 The Ciambra 8.30 Jun 2 Studio 54 3.45/6.05 2 Departures (HG) 8.20 3 Westfront 1918 (GWP) 3.45/8.45 3 A Gentle Creature 5.45

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018

Mon 1 The Sound of Music 70mm 2.00 2 1 Howards End (40) 6.00 Jul 1 Arcadia 8.55 2 Marlina the Murderer... 1.00/6.10 2 The Wild Boys 3.15/8.20 3 The Young Karl Marx 1.15/8.15 3 Arcadia 3.50/6.15

Tue 1 The Sound of Music 70mm 2.00/6.30 3 2 Marlina the Murderer... 1.00/8.35 Jul 2 The Wild Boys 3.15/6.10 3 Hail, Caesar! (SR) (AD) 1.15 (£3 - over-60s) 3 Arcadia 3.50/8.40 3 The Young Karl Marx 6.00

Wed 1 The Sound of Music 70mm 2.00/6.30 4 2 The Wild Boys 1.00/8.20 Jul 2 Marlina the Murderer... 3.25/6.10 3 The Young Karl Marx 1.15/6.00 3 Arcadia (C) 3.50 (captioned) 3 Arcadia 8.40

Thu 1 The Sound of Music 70mm 2.00 5 1 Arcadia 6.15 Jul 1 QMU Degree Show 8.30 (£6) 2 The Wild Boys 1.00/6.10 2 Marlina the Murderer... 3.25/8.35 3 Arcadia 1.15 3 The Young Karl Marx 3.15/6.00/8.40




LA CéRémONIE JUDGEMENT IN STONETue 29 May at 1.10pm & 6.15pm

Claude Chabrol • France/Germany 1995 • 1h52m • 35mm • French with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacqueline Bisset, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen.

Chabrol is in fine form in this very successful adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s thriller. Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) is Madame Lelievre’s new housekeeper and a wonderful addition to the household. Jeanne is the village postmistress. Both, we discover, have a past which is best hidden, but, where Sophie is silent and distant, Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert) is extrovert, pushy and decidedly anti the family in the manor house. The friend-ship between these two outsiders in French provincial life begins to bubble and Chabrol’s unhurried enun-ciation of character, incident and class is superb in its subtlety. Inevitably the friendship of the two women begins to intrude on the good running of the Lelievre household, ending in a bizarre and unexpected finale. Terrific stuff. - Sheila Whitaker, LFF programme. Matinee: £2.20/£1.50, Evening: £4.20/£3.50

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Patrice Chéreau • France/Italy/Germany 1994 • 2h25m • Digital • French and Italian with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi.

Patrice Chéreau’s sumptuous historical drama, which centres on the intrigues to the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacres, work best as a thundering good yarn, full of dastardly plots, familial hatred, ill-starred romance, and lashings of gore. Basically, the complex storyline charts the rivalry between Catholics and Huguenots at the time of the arranged marriage of Henri of Navarre (Daniel Auteuil) to Margot (Isabelle Adjani), sister of Henri III of France and daughter of Catherine de Medici, who rules her depraved clan with a will of iron. It’s spectacular to look at, enhanced by Chéreau’s imaginative use of music and performed with considerable brio by the starry cast.

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Stephan Elliott • Australia 1994 • 1h43m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sex references and threat. Cast: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, Sarah Chadwick.

A pink coach rushes through Australia’s red desert to the sound of Verdi. Standing on the roof is an outrageously dressed creature - her long silk train flapping defiantly over the bleak landscape. A cross-pover cross-dressing comedy, Stephan Elliot’s brash, liberating and poignant road-movie follows three drag queens as they risk laddered stockings, damaged nails and bruised egos by driving Priscilla - their tastefully converted bus - from Sydney to a mystery gig in the armpit of Australia, Alice Springs. ‘Le Girls’ in question are ageing Bernadette (Terence Stamp), sharp tongued Felicia (ex-Neighbours star Guy Pearce) and sensitive flower Mimi (Hugo Weaving from Proof), and this visually extraordinary, aurally offensive celebration of campness takes them where no lip-synching queens have ever been before. Matinee: £2.20/£1.50, Evening: £4.00/£3.20

1994

ThREE COLOuRS: BLuE TROIS cOULEURS: BLEUMon 18 Jun at 6.00pm

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

Following the Polish director’s highly acclaimed Dekalog and The Double Life of Veronique, Krzysztof Kieslowski’s new project is a trilogy of feature length films. In the first film Blue, a psychological drama, Julie (Juliette Binoche) loses her husband Patrice, a composer, and their young daughter Anna in a car accident. Julie tries to begin a new life, anonymous, independent, cutting herself off from her friends, love and music - everything she had in abundance before but now has lost. A music journalist suspects Julie of being the author of her husband’s work. Julie denies it, perhaps a bit too abruptly... Step by step, we follow Julie’s life as she avoids the traps which threaten her new freedom. Music and the gift to create it is the trap into which Julie finally falls. (blurb abridged, full version on Filmhouse site) £3.90

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hOWARDS ENDMon 2 Jul at 6.00pm

James Ivory • UK/Japan/USA 1992 • 2h20m • Digital • English and German with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild sex references, infrequent mild violence. • Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Joseph Bennett, Emma Thompson.

This is the third Merchant/Ivory/E.M. Forster adaptation, and by far their best: visually charming as expected, finely detailed, mature and well cast... It is a tale of conflicting values, the Schlegel family versus the Wilcoxes. The former care about civilised living, music, literature and conversation, whereas the latter are concered with the business side of life, distrusting emotion and imagination - Marcin Miller, City Limits. Howards End is not a celebratory, nostalgic film: on the contrary, like E. M. Forster’s source novel, it’s a complex, unsentimental, intellectually meaty piece. And while its debates are of their period (1910), you’re constantly reminded of how topical and contested they continue to be. - The Independent £2.50/£2.00

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Wes Anderson • USA 2001 • 1h50m • 35mm • English and Italian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains bloody images. • Cast: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bill Murray.

The Tenenbaums are New York high society gone to seed. Scandalous Royal (Gene Hackman) separated from wife Etheline (Anjelica Huston) two decades ago, and kept his distance as his once prodigious offspring’s fortunes slumped: business whizz Chas (Ben Stiller) has become a paranoid father; Richie (Luke Wilson) is a tennis star whose career has been lost to love; adopted daughter Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) is a closed book of a playwright. Meticulously framed and lovingly soundtracked, his third feature is in many ways the quintessential Wes Anderson film.

ThE LIFE AQuATIC WITh STEvE ZISSOuWed 16 May at 8.15pm

Wes Anderson • USA 2004 • 1h59m • 35mm • 15 - Contains strong language. • Cast: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Anjelica Huston, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Gambon.

In Wes Anderson’s typically stylish ocean tale, renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned (Owen Wilson), a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane (Cate Blanchett), a pregnant journalist. They travel the seas, encountering pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou’s past, including his estranged wife (Anjelica Huston).

ThE DARjEELING LImITEDMon 21 May at 8.45pm

Wes Anderson • USA 2007 • 1h44m • 35mm • English, Hindi, German and Tibetan with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language and moderate sex references. • Cast: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan, Waris Ahluwalia.

A year after their father’s sudden passing, three estranged American brothers - Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody) and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) - leave their myriad responsibilities at home and set off on a soul-searching train journey across India, which naturally goes abruptly and dramatically off-course. This entertaining yarn features loving homages to legendary Indian director Satyajit Ray, a few subtle barbs towards western commodification of ‘enlightenment’ and Anderson’s signature, arch approach to production design and storytelling.


The arcane art of film programming...

Three Wes Anderson films on 35mm? What’s the occasion? Well, we’re having our digital projectors replaced and can only show film if we’re to keep the cinemas open on one night in each screen in May.

So, we thought long and hard about what to put on, until some bright spark spotted Isle of Dogs was currently on and suggested Wes.

Occasionally, it’s just that simple! Rod White, Head of Programming

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chinese Visual Festival

SOmEWhERE BEYOND ThE mISTLANTIAN BAIYUNFri 11 May at 6.10pm

Cheung King-wai • Hong Kong 2017 • 1h26m • Digital • Cantonese with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Stephy Tang, Rachel Leung.

A pregnant policewoman is assigned to investigate the case of a teenage girl who has killed her parents. Her interactions with the girl and the search for the truth revive the secret living inside her. Best known for his documentaries, Cheung King-wai presents a much darker side of today’s troubled youth with his first feature-length narrative film. This grim and engrossing ‘whydunnit’ is a disturbing shocker about redemption, and the lengths we go in our search of a better life...

OLD BEAST LAOSHOUSat 12 May at 5.50pm

Zhou Ziyang • China 2017 • 1h50m • Digital • Mandarin with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Tumen, Wang Chaobei, Yi Danna.

Lao Yang, a businessman from Ordos in Inner Mongolia has been struggling with debts following the local economy’s decline. He finds solace in gambling and meeting his mistress, neglecting his sick wife. When she is admitted to hospital, he steals the money his children have painstakingly gathered. A family conflict ensues exposing the misunderstandings between different generations. In his debut feature, Zhou Ziyang’s does not impose moral judgement on his characters, positioning the viewer as observer of their attitudes.

mRS. FANG FANG XIUYINGMon 14 May at 8.30pm

Wang Bing • China 2017 • 1h26m • Digital • Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary.

In a quiet village in southern China, Fang Xiuying is sixty-seven years old. Having suffered from Alzheimer’s for several years, with advanced symptoms and ineffective treatment, she was sent back to live at home. Now, bedridden, she is surrounded by her relatives and neighbours, as they witness and accompany her through her last days. Internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker Wang Bing gives us a view into a countryside family’s life. Well aware of their family duties, Mrs Fang’s relatives nonetheless struggle in accompanying her in her last moments.

Based in London, the chinese Visual Festival is a cultural event showcasing new and quality works from the Chinese independent cinema and art scene since 2011. Featuring documentaries, fiction and experimental art from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tibet and beyond, CVF brings audiences a carefully curated selection of the cutting-edge and challenging works from new and established artists and directors alike. It is our great pleasure to invite you to the first Scottish tour of the festival with a selection of two features and a documentary from this year’s edition.

The chinese Visual Festival is supported by The confucius Institute for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh.



A REPORT ON ThE PARTY AND ThE GuESTS O SLAVNOSTI A HOSTEcHMon 14 May at 6.30pm

Jan Nemec • Czechoslovakia 1966 • 1h11m • 35mm • Czech with English subtitles • U - Contains infrequent mild threat. • Cast: Ivan Vyskocil, Jan Klusák, Jiri Nemec, Pavel Bosek, Karel Mares.

In Jan Nemec’s surreal and controversial fable, featuring his cousin Jiri and a cast of non-professional actors, a picnic is rudely transformed into a lesson in political hierarchy when a handful of mysterious authority figures show up. This allegory about oppression and conformity was banned in its home country but would become an international success after it premiered at the New York Film Festival. The screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa (University of Edinburgh)

IF....Tue 15 May at 6.05pm

Lindsay Anderson • UK 1968 • 1h51m • Digital • English and Latin with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong violence. • Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan.

If.... is a British classic. Malcolm McDowell heads the cast as Mick, a teenager who leads his classmates in a revolution against the stifling conformity of boarding school. Anderson captures the spirit of youthful rebellion beautifully, linking it with the sweeping political changes that were dominating headlines through the photos of Mao, Che Guevara, and Vietnam that adorn the walls. Indeed, as the playground revolution slowly kicks into gear, the film itself begins to disintegrate - switching between colour and sepia and the narrative becoming increasingly elliptical, as reality and fantasy merge.


May 1968 was not just a tumultuous period in modern French history, but a key moment in what was a turbulent decade across the world, both culturally and politically. Even the Cannes Film Festival was affected that year, after several leading directors withdrew their films. As a way of marking the fiftieth anniversary of les événements,

In partnership with the University of Edinburgh, Filmhouse is proud to present a short season of films that reflect the time in a variety of ways.

Thus Far From Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise and two classics from the Czech New Wave Cinema together represent the ongoing cultural ferment of the 1960s, while more recent works such as The Dreamers, Milou en Mai, and Something in the Air demonstrate the continuing attraction for filmmakers of the events themselves.

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Mon 21 May at 6.10pm

Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouche, Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais • France 1967 • 1h55m • 16mm • French with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.

Initiated and edited by Chris Marker, the searing Far from Vietnam is an epic 1967 collaboration between cinema greats Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch and Resnais in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam - made, per Marker’s narration, “to affirm, by the exercise of their craft, their solidarity with the Vietnamese people in struggle against aggression.” It brings together an array of stylistically disparate contributions, under a unified editorial vision. The screening will be introduced by Dr claire Boyle (University of Edinburgh).

ThE FIREmEN’S BALL HORí, MÁ PANENKOThu 17 May at 1.30pm & 8.45pm

Milos Forman • Czechoslovakia/Italy 1967 • 1h13m • Digital • Czech with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild language and sex references. • Cast: Jan Vostrcil, Jsoef Sebánek, Josef Valnoha.

The last film made in Czechoslovakia by the late, great Milos Forman, The Firemen’s Ball tells the story of a provincial volunteer fire department throwing a disastrous celebration. In this parable about a community where one person’s failure can decide the fate of others, Forman’s sarcasm doesn’t spare anybody or anything. It spontaneously and warmly explores human stupidity, dullness and arrogance, as well as the empty rhetoric of questionable authority. The 8.45pm screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa (University of Edinburgh)

LA ChINOISEWed 23 May at 6.00pm

Jean-Luc Godard • France 1967 • 1h35m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild language, nudity and violence. Cast: Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Juliet Berto, Michel Semeniako.

Paris, 1967. Five students, led by Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky) and Guillaume (Jean-Pierre Léaud), spend their summer vacation holed up in an apartment borrowed from a friend’s wealthy parents. They spend their time studying political texts, delivering lectures to each other, and discussing how they can apply the teachings of Mao Tse-tung to their own lives. After reading a series of texts advocating violence in the cause of revolution, the group agree to carry out a political assassination. Jean-Luc Godard’s swift and vibrant La Chinoise feels like an authentic slice of the zeitgeist of the time. Michel Hazanavicius’ biopic Redoubtable (page 5) explores Godard’s life and work at the time of this film.

The screening will be introduced by Dr Julian Ward (University of Edinburgh).


ThE DREAmERSMon 28 May at 3.30pm & 6.05pm

Bernardo Bertolucci • UK/France/Italy 2003 • 2h • Digital • English and French with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong sex. • Cast: Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel, Eva Green, Robin Renucci.

“Only in Paris...” begins this sensuous, intoxicating story of three young people who meet through their passion for cinema, and who share an intense relationship during the turbulent summer of 1968. A young American student, Matthew (Michael Pitt) is befriended by Isabelle (Eva Green) and her twin brother Theo (Louis Garrel), and with their parents away on holiday and the apartment to themselves, the siblings invite Matthew to stay. Here they make up their own rules as their experiments grow increasingly charged with erotic subtexts...

SOmEThING IN ThE AIR APRèS MAIWed 30 May 6.05pm

Olivier Assayas • France 2012 • 2h2m • Digital • French, English and Italian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong sex, nudity and drug use • Cast: Clément Métayer, Lola Créton, Felix Armand.

Celebrated French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’ 2012 film is a lovely, loosely autobiographical tale about a young aspiring artist, Gilles (Clément Métayer), who is caught up in a whirlwind of politics, art and sex in the fervid French youth scene of the early 1970s - when the events of 1968 still echoed among them. Smart, sensitive and sophisticated, Assayas’ at times sentimental film both celebrates and interrogates the idealism of the time, with beautiful camerawork and tenderly realised characters that feel lived-in. The screening will be introduced by Dr claire Boyle.

mILOu IN mAYMILOU EN MAISun 27 May at 6.10pm

Louis Malle • France/Italy 1990 • 1h47m • Digital • French and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains moderate sex references and nudity. • Cast: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Michel Duchaussoy, Bruno Carette, Paulette Dubost, Harriet Walter.

Louis Malle’s homage to those pleasures we think of as particularly French takes place in the month that the revolution seemed poised to overthrow bourgeois society in Paris. In the country though, it was quieter, and this wonderfully mellow yet spirited film takes place on a small family farm. The recently departed matriarch, much loved and also feared, ruled the household. Her children have moved away - all except for Milou, a genial man who likes to go fishing and ride his bicycle. As the clan gathers for her funeral, Milou’s world teeters as precariously on the edge of revolution as the rest of the country...

The screening will be introduced by Dr claire Boyle (University of Edinburgh).


Italian Film Festival

SICILIAN GhOST STORYThu 24 May at 2.30pm & 8.30pm

Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza • Italy/France/Switzerland 2017 2h2m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Julia Jedlikowska, Gaetano Fernandez, Corinne Musallari, Andrea Falzone.

Directors Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia follow up their formally dazzling 2013 debut - hitman thriller Salvo - with an adaptation of a Marco Mancassola short story, itself based on true events. It tells of the mysterious disappearance of 13-year old Giuseppe (Gaetano Fernandez), the son of a local mafioso. With unmistakable echoes of the films of Guillermo Del Toro, Sicilian Ghost Story features the fairy-tale like cinematography of Luca Bigazzi (The Great Beauty). The 8.30pm screening will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).


EQuILIBRIum L’EQUILIBRIOFri 25 May at 8.25pm

Vincenzo Marra • Italy 2017 • 1h30m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Mimmo Borrelli, Roberto del Gaudio, Lucio Giannetti, Giuseppe D’Ambrosio, Francesca Zazzera.

Writer-director Vincenzo Marra (Sailing Home, The Trial Begins) had long been interested in making a documentary on the work of anti-mafia priests in his native Campania but found that the story was best told in fiction form. The director’s lean, fittingly stark fourth feature sees Giuseppe (Mimmo Borelli) return to his hometown to replace fellow priest Antonio (Roberto Del Gaudio). Once he finds out about the impact of organised crime on the local community, Giuseppe cannot help but intervene.

Scotland’s annual showcase of the best in Italian cinema returns for 2018 with an exciting, wide-ranging selection from the past twelve months. The Italian Film Festival includes new work from several generations of filmmakers, including established auteurs such as Paolo and Vittorio Taviani and Abel Ferrara as well as young talents such as Roberto De Paolis and Jonas Carpignano.

Moving from Sicily to rural Tuscany, from inner-city Rome to Calabria, the programme explores the landscape of il bel paese in all its diversity. We will also pay tribute to Totò and Anna Magnani, two of the giants of Italian cinema with a very special screening of Mario Monicelli’s 1960 comedy Risate di Gioia, recently restored by Cineteca di Bologna.

The Italian Film Festival is programmed by Dr Pasquale Iannone, in partnership with the Italian cultural Institute and Filmhouse.



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ThE PASSIONATE ThIEFRISATE DI GIOIAMon 28 May at 6.15pm

Mario Monicelli • Italy 1960 • 1h46m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Anna Magnani, Totò, Ben Gazzara.

Screened to mark the 120th and 110th birthdays of two undisputed icons of 20th century Italian culture, Risate di Gioia unites Neapolitan comic actor Totòand Roman acting legend Anna Magnani in a fizzy comic caper set against the backdrop of New Year celebrations in the Italian capital. Director Mario Monicelli (I soliti ignoti) shot the film over the course of forty nights between May and July 1960, and it also features an early role for John Cassavetes regular Ben Gazzara. The screening will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

ThE INTRuDER L’INTRUSATue 29 May at 8.45pm

Leonardo Di Costanzo • Italy/Switzerland/France 2017 • 1h35m • Digital • Italian and Neapolitan with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Raffaella Giordano, Valentina Vannino, Martina Abbate, Anna Patierno, Flavio Rizzo.

Leonardo Di Costanzo’s second fiction film was described by critic Claudia Catalli as ‘the most topical Italian film currently in circulation’ and was a success at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. In only her second major film role, distinguished dancer and choreographer Raffaella Giordano plays Giovanna, a middle-aged woman who runs an after-school club for children in an underprivileged area of Naples only to find her efforts hampered by local criminality.

FORTuNATASat 26 May at 6.15pm

Sergio Castellito • Italy 2017 • 1h43m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Stefano Accorsi, Alessandro Borghi, Edoardo Pesce, Nicole Centanni, Hanna Schygulla.

Built around a powerhouse, multi-award-winning central performance by Jasmine Trinca, Fortunata is the latest collaboration between writer-director husband and wife team Margaret Mazzantini and Sergio Castellito. Trinca plays a straight-talking single mother who plans to open her own hair salon in Rome. Both Trinca and Castellito have spoken of Anna Magnani’s character in Pasolini’s Mamma Roma as a key influence and the film also features a memorable performance from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s muse Hanna Schygulla.The screening will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

PuRE hEARTS cUORI PURISun 27 May at 8.35pm

Roberto De Paolis • Italy 2017 • 1h54m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Selene Caramazza, Simone Liberati, Barbora Bobulova, Stefano Fresi, Edoardo Pesce.

After her strict Catholic mother confiscates her phone, seventeen-year-old Agnese (Selene Caramazza) steals another one, only to be apprehended by young security guard Stefano (Simone Liberati). Rather than turn Agnese in, Stefano lets her go. They go their separate ways, but soon their paths cross once more and a strong attraction develops. In the best tradition of Italian humanist cinema, Roberto De Paolis’ unassuming Rome-set romantic drama was one of the strongest European debuts of 2017.


STORIES OF LOvE ThAT CANNOT BELONG TO ThE WORLDAMORI cHE NON SANNO STARE AL MONDO Wed 30 May at 6.15pm

Francesca Comencini • Italy 2017 • 1h32m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Lucia Mascino, Thomas Trabacchi, Valentina Bellè, Iaia Forte, Carlotta Natoli.

Filmmaking siblings Cristina and Francesca Comencini - daughters of celebrated Italian director Luigi - have long been active in both literature and cinema and both have adapted their own books for the big screen. The latest film from younger sister Francesca sees her adapt her own 2013 novel, a story inspired by her romantic relationships and those of her female friends. Lucia Mascino (recently seen in Netflix series Suburra) plays a middle-aged woman struggling to get over a break up.

PIAZZA vITTORIOThu 31 May at 4.00pm & 8.45pm

Abel Ferrara • Italy 2017 • 1h16m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.

Acclaimed Italian-American filmmaker Abel Ferrara (King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, Pasolini) has made a handful of eye-catching documentaries over the past decade, including two about his native New York (Chelsea on the Rocks and Mulberry Street) and one about the city of Naples (Napoli, Napoli, Napoli). With Piazza Vittorio, we find Ferrara back in Italy, this time to take in the sights and sounds of the eponymous square in Rome, famous for its ethnic diversity.

The 8.45pm screening will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).


LORELLO AND BRuNELLOLORELLO E BRUNELLOFri 1 Jun at 8.45pm

Jacopo Quadri • Italy 2017 • 1h26m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.

Although best known as one of Italian cinema’s most prolific film editors of the past two decades - working with directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci (Besieged, The Dreamers, Me and You), Gianfranco Rosi (Sacro Gra, Fire and Sea) - Jacopo Quadri has recently carved out a career in documentaries. His most recent, Lorello and Brunello, is a meditative portrait of two middle-aged twin brothers and their struggle to make ends meet as farmers in the south of Tuscany.


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ThE CIAmBRA A cIAMBRAMon 4 Jun at 2.30pm & 8.35pm

Jonas Carpignano • Italy/Brazil/Germany/France/Sweden/USA 2017 • 1h58m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, scene of sexual abuse. • Cast: Pio Amato, Koudous Seihon, Damiano Amato, Francesco Pio Amato, Iolanda Amato.

The outskirts of Gioia Tauro, a coastal town in the southern Italian region of Reggio Calabria is the setting for Jonas Carpignano’s second feature, the middle film of a planned trilogy which began with 2015’s Mediterranea. Romani teenager Pio (Pio Amato), one of the supporting characters in the first picture takes centre stage in a riveting coming-of-age story. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, A Ciambra won Best Director and Best Editor awards at the 2018 David di Donatello (Italy’s equivalent of the Academy Awards).

vELENOSun 3 Jun at 8.15pm

Diego Olivares • Italy 2017 • 1h43m • Digital • Italian and Neapolitan with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Massimiliano Gallo, Luisa Ranieri, Salvatore Esposito, Nando Paone.

Writer-director Diego Olivares’ drama is the story of Cosimo and Rosaria (Massimiliano Gallo and Luisa Ranieri), a married couple whose family work as farmers on the so-called ‘land of fires’, an area in the Campania region used by the Camorra to illegally dispose of toxic waste. The film features a strong supporting turn from Salvatore Esposito, who recently shot to international fame for his starring role as young mob boss Genny Savastano in Gomorrah: The Series. The screening will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

RAINBOW: A PRIvATE AFFAIR RAINBOW: UNA QUESTIONE PRIVATA Sat 2 Jun at 6.15pm

Paolo Taviani • Italy 2017 • 1h24m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Lorenzo Richelmy, Luca Marinelli, Valentina Bellè, Alessan-dro Sperduti, Francesca Agostini.

Thirty-five years after their 1982 masterpiece The Night of Shooting Stars, Tuscan filmmakers Paolo and Vitto-rio Taviani return to the subject of WWII with a characteristically intelligent adaptation of a 1963 novel by Be-ppe Fenoglio, one of Italy’s most important chroniclers of the anti-fascist resistance. Shot largely in Piedmont, the film tells of two partisans - Milton (Luca Marinelli) and Giorgio (Lorenzo Richelmy) - and their love for the same woman, Fulvia (Valentina Bellè).

The screening will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).


Education and Learning

Education and Learning Teachers Advisory Group MeetingsWednesday 9 May, 4.30-5.30pm (Filmhouse Guild Rooms) OR Friday 11 May 1.30-2.30pm (Filmhouse Guild cinema) - FREE including refreshments

Ever wanted to use film and film making more in your classroom? We will be re-establishing our Teacher Advisory Groups (TAGS) for primary and secondary to help shape what we offer local schools, teachers and pupils. Whether it’s CLPL sessions, film-making workshops or bespoke screenings linked to your next topic – we want your input in shaping our programme for 2018-19. Come along for coffee, cake and chat – and even some comp tickets! Advance booking required.

A Wrinkle in TimeWednesday 2 May, 10am • £3 / free for teachers • 110 minutes, Certificate PG, suitable for P5 – S1, Literacy, STEM, Health & Wellbeing Based on Madeleine L’Engle’s hugely popular novel, this live-action Disney tale tells the story of a teenager, Meg, who teams up with her friends to save her father, who is being held prisoner on a distant planet. The film combines extraordinary visuals with a progressive narrative and the chance to explore universal themes of good and evil, the importance of human creativity and individuality, and the ultimate triumph of love.

Black PantherWednesday 9 May, 10am • £3/free for teachers, 134min, 12A, suitable for S1 upwards, Media Studies, Modern Studies Marvel’s box-office smash, the eighteenth installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is a landmark film in the history of representation on screen, and fuses an action-packed, entertaining story with thought-provoking references to colonialism, foreign aid, diplomacy and race relations. As Time magazine summarised: ‘Marvel’s newest film is about what it means to be black in both America and Africa - and, more broadly, the world.’

Love, SimonThursday 24 May, 10am • £3 / free for teachers, 110min, Certificate 12A, Health & Wellbeing A special screening to commemorate the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. Fairly certain that he’s the only gay student at his high school, 17-year-old Simon Spier keeps his sexuality under wraps from his friends and family. Things get complicated when an anonymous classmate - ‘Blue’ - comes out online. Exchanging messages, a tentative relationship begins to develop between them....but will Simon ever discover Blue’s true identity? A heartfelt and charming exploration of LGBT teenagers coming out in the modern world.

To book places at any of the events please contact Flip Kulakiewicz in the Education & Learning team by emailing [email protected] or by calling 0131 228 6382


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Ang Lee • Taiwan/USA 1994 • 2h4m • Digital • Mandarin and French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild bad language, brief implied sex. • Cast: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Tang, Yu-Wen Wang.

Mr Chu, a retired chef, would like his girls to leave home, but is too repressed and stubborn to communicate frankly, relying instead on the ritual Sunday dinners he serves up to preserve a sense of family. They, however, feel guilty about their own needs; Jia-Jen, a Christian teacher, nursing a broken heart; Jia-Chien, a career woman still sleeping with her ex; and Jia-Ning, who works in a burger joint and gets on uncomfortably well with a friend’s boyfriend. Which daughter, if any, will stay with Dad?

LA FEmmE NIkITATue 5 Jun at 8.45pm & Wed 6 Jun at 2.30pm

Luc Besson • France/Italy 1990 • 1h57m • Digital • French, Italian and English with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana, Alain Lathière, Laura Chéron.

Fulfilling a promise he had made to her years earlier, Luc Besson wrote La Femme Nikita with the reinvention of Anne Parillaud firmly in mind. In preparation for her role as the punk misfit turned high-class assassin, Parillaud underwent a transformative process similar to that of her character, training intensively in martial arts, shooting, singing and dancing. The resulting performance would change the public perception of her image as an actress, and provide Besson’s explosive action thriller with the perfect lynchpin.

TOMMY SMITHOur latest guest programmer is world-renowned jazz musician and The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra founder, Tommy Smith.

Only six movies, and not the same antediluvian but phenomenal cliché repertoire like Chinatown, Schindler’s List, Citizen Kane, The Big Blue, Jean de Florette, and The Shawshank Redemption, but more sentimental gems that resonate with my own life. Movies that reside out there in the exosphere, shining less truistically in human minds but nonetheless, movies that have hearts and souls of magnesium and ice.

From the dramatic humour of Ang Lee’s 1994 Taiwanese film Eat Drink Man Woman whose first scene you’ll savour forever; Luc Besson’s 1990 hard hitting hip noir-ish La Femme Nikita; the joyful New Zealand sports drama The World’s Fastest Indian, starring Anthony Hopkins; Ridley Scott’s classic 1979 Alien whose minimal musical score leaves space for the horror of inner and outer worldly fears; Spielberg’s 1985 realistic American period drama The Color Purple, starring Oprah Winfrey in an outstanding performance; and finally Yojiro Takita’s 2008 beautifully filmed Departures which will make you smile and contemplate life and death in a different way. Tommy Smith



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ALIENTue 12 Jun at 8.25pm

Ridley Scott • USA/UK 1979 • 1h56m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, moderate violence and horror • Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton.

Director Ridley Scott’s breakthrough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and has spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Alien centres around the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, which lands on a moribund planet in response to a faint SOS. Inside a crashed ship, the crew members come upon strange pods, one of which spews forth a repellently fleshy creature that locks on to the face of the unlucky Kane. Despite Ripley’s advice, science officer Ash allows Kane to return to the ship...

ThE COLOR PuRPLEThu 14 Jun at 8.00pm

Steven Spielberg • USA 1985 • 2h34m • Digital • 15 - Contains references to child sexual abuse. • Cast: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey.

Steven Spielberg directs this classic American tale, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker. The Color Purple tells the story of Celie Johnson (Whoopi Goldberg) and her thirty-year struggle through life as an impoverished black woman in the Deep South in the early 20th century. Inspiring, profoundly emotional, and at times disturbing - Spielberg’s film boasts a stellar cast including Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover and Margaret Avery.

DEPARTuRES OKURIBITOWed 20 Jun at 8.20pm

Yojiro Takita • Japan 2008 • 2h10m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A - Contains emotionally intense scenes of bereavement Cast: Masahiro Motoki, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ryoko Hirosue.

Raised in a broken family, Daigo (Masahiro Motoki) is a disillusioned cellist who has recently lost his job in a Tokyo orchestra. Moving back to his tranquil hometown, Daigo answers a job ad (‘working with departures’) thinking it’s a travel agency, only to learn that the well-paid task actually refers to the unenviable trade of ‘encoffining’ - the Japanese ritual of cleaning, clothing and applying make-up on a deceased’s body, before sending him or her off to a peaceful departure. A warm and wry film about family, both the flesh and blood kind and the kind Daigo finds through his new profession.

ThE WORLD’S FASTEST INDIANThu 7 Jun at 2.15pm & 8.25pm

Roger Donaldson • New Zealand/USA/Japan 2005 • 2h7m • 35mm 12A - Contains one use of moderate language. • Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Lawford, Bruce Greenwood, Paul Rodriguez, Diane Ladd.

It’s hard to imagine a film for which the term ‘quality crowd-pleaser’ could be more aptly appropriated than this real-life story of New Zealander Burt Munro and his attempt at achieving his lifelong ambition of breaking a land speed record on his ‘somewhat modified’ 1920s Indian Scout motorcycle. Anthony Hopkins plays the eccentric and loveable old codger to perfection in what is a touching, funny and realistic depiction of a man living his dream in the twilight of his years.


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Tony Richardson • UK 1958 • 1h39m • Digital • PG - Contains mild sex references, language and emotionally intense scenes. • Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Edith Evans, Gary Raymond.

Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton at his best), the archetypal ‘angry young man’ is a university graduate living with his wife Allison (Mary Ure) in squalor, reviling society, the upper classes, the State, the Church and everything else that he sees as governed by hypocrisy. Jimmy’s turbulent relationship with middle-class Allison fluctuates between affection and abuse depending on his mood. Allison’s best friend, Helena (Claire Bloom), encourages the downtrodden wife to escape her abusive marriage and leave Jimmy. Now left alone, Helena and Jimmy, in spite of their mutual dislike, become lovers.

ThE LONELINESS OF ThE LONG DISTANCE RuNNERFri 8 Jun at 1.30pm & 6.10pm

Tony Richardson • UK 1962 • 1h34m • Digital • 12 - Contains some moderate violence and bad language. • Cast: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, James Bolam, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen.

A sullen, directionless teen, Colin Smith (Tom Courtenay) refuses to follow his dying dad into a factory job, and rails against bosses who profit from the sweat of the working classes. Instead, he hangs out with his mate Mike (James Bolam), nicking cars, trying to woo women, and knocking off fruit machines. When he’s arrested for burglary and sent to borstal, Colin discovers a talent for cross-country running. He also finds a way to kick back at the system when the institution’s smug governor (Michael Redgrave) picks him to represent them in a prestigious athletics competition against a local public school. Courteney is superb as the cunning and rebellious Colin, while the talented supporting cast is peppered with familiar faces, including a young John Thaw.

Woodfall FilmsAs the 1960s beckoned, a new mood swept through Britain. With anger mounting at an out-of-touch establishment, the era was reflected on screen by the rise of Woodfall Films. Founded in 1958 by director Tony Richardson, writer John Osborne and producer Harry Saltzman, the company pioneered the British New Wave, defining an incendiary brand of social realism.

In films like Look Back in Anger and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, working-class life was spotlit with unheard-of honesty. The same risk-taking spirit led the company to find a new generation of brilliant young actors to star in their films, including Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham. Films like Tom Jones then expanded the Woodfall slate in an irreverent, colourful direction that helped define swinging London – further securing their extraordinary chapter in the history of British film. Danny Leigh, BFI



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Karel Reisz • UK 1960 • 1h29m • 35mm • PG - Contains some mild language and sex references • Cast: Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts, Shirley Anne Field, Hylda Baker, Norman Rossington.

A young Albert Finney gives a wonderfully fresh and magnetic performance as a young Nottingham factory worker lashing blindly out at the bleak working class horizons to which he has been bred by parents. Trying to grab what life can offer with both hands, without regards for consequences or for anybody else, he sows his seeds in every direction. Finney’s Arthur would become one of the most memorable angry young men of 1960s British cinema.

A TASTE OF hONEYMon 11 Jun at 6.10pm & Tue 12 Jun at 3.45pm

Tony Richardson • UK 1961 • 1h39m • Digital • 12A - Contains mature themes, some mild language and sexual references • Cast: Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah.

17-year-old Jo (Rita Tushingham) lives with her promiscuous, alcoholic mother (Dora Bryan). She is gawky, awkward, and desperate to be held. On holiday in Blackpool, she wanders around the docks and meets, and sleeps with, Jimmy (Paul Danquah), a black sailor on a brief shore leave. On returning home, she makes friends with Peter (Murray Melvin), a gentle and kind gay student, and they move in together. Then Jo realises that she’s carrying Jimmy’s child. Adapted from Shelagh Delaney’s acclaimed play, it’s brimming with wry humour.

TOm jONESFri 15 Jun at 2.15pm & 8.20pm

Tony Richardson • UK 1963 • 2h8m • Digital • 12A - Contains moderate sex references, violence, language. • Cast: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Joyce Redman, Rachel Kempson, Peter Bull.

In 18th century England, Tom Jones (Albert Finney) is a cheerful womaniser continually getting into scrapes, entangled with servant girls one minute and wooing his true love Sophie Western (Susannah York) the next. The plot is rudimentary, but it doesn’t matter: there’s so much fun to be had from the film’s mechanics. It starts in the mode of a silent comedy - with slapstick editing, intertitles and plinky-plonk music - and continues with purposely chaotic camerawork and direct addresses to the audience.

kESSun 17 Jun at 12.55pm & 6.20pm

Ken Loach • UK 1969 • 1h51m • Digital • PG • Cast: David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover.

Arguably Ken Loach’s best-known work and regularly cited as one of the best British films of all time, Kes was the first of a series of collaborations with writer Barry Hines. Dealing with an isolated young Barnsley teen’s rapport with a kestrel, the film was shot with a predominantly non-professional cast in a spare observational style that Loach would employ again in his later filmography. Newcomer David Bradley gives a fine performance as the schoolboy let down by the education system, who finds hope in his feathered friend.


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G.W. Pabst • Germany 1929 • 1h44m • Silent • 12A - Contains mild bad language and sex references. • Cast: Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovensky, Fritz Rasp, Vera Pawlowa.

An elegant narrative of moral musical chairs, Pabst’s last silent film not only plays on who holds what kind of legitimate place in society, but is also a starkly direct view of inter-war Germany. Feasting the camera on Brooks’ striking beauty, Pabst follows the adventures of innocence led astray in the shape of Thymian, a pharmacist’s daughter. Her progress from apple of her father’s eye, through sexual lapse and approved school, to darling of an expensive brothel and finally to dowager countess, gives Pabst the opportunity to measure the Germany of the Weimar republic against Brooks’ embodiment of a vitality so exuberant that it equals innocence.

PANDORA’S BOxDIE BücHSE DER PANDORAFri 1 to Thu 7 Jun

G.W. Pabst • Germany 1929 • 2h16m • Digital • Silent • PG - Contains mild violence, threat, sex references. • Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Karl Goetz, Alice Roberts.

G.W. Pabst’s tragic portrait of sexual obsession, with American actress Louise Brooks giving a genuinely iconic performance as the prostitute Lulu, a femme fatale who unleashes uncontrollable desires in the men and women she encounters. A richly atmospheric work - Pabst is equally at home in Berlin high society or in London’s impoverished East End - Pandora’s Box remains a strikingly bleak vision of human relationships. Controversial in its day, and then underappreciated for decades, it now stands as an incredibly modern movie.

G.W. PabstAs we bring his 1929 masterpiece Pandora’s Box back to Filmhouse in a new digital restoration, we have seized the opportunity take things a step further and present three more films by one of German cinema’s greatest directors - Georg Wilhelm Pabst. Spanning just three years, these four inter-war films (two silents, two talkies) stand resolutely as enduringly fascinating historical texts and astute explorations of Pabst’s great fascination - the human psyche. From the stunning, emotive visage of Louise Brooks, to the desolation of the trenches - the director was at times critiqued for inconsistency of style, a trait that now looks more like refusal to be categorically defined.



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G.W. Pabst • Germany/France 1931 • 1h33m • Digital • French and German with English subtitles • 12A - Contains mild threat. • Cast: Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch, Elisabeth Wendt.

A coal-mine on the French-German border, where the aftermath of World War I is still being played out: French prosperity and chauvinism hard up against German inflation and unemployment. There’s a disaster in the French wing of the mine... and the German miners go to the rescue. Both the visual style and the ‘message’ of solidarity owe a lot to Soviet Socialist Realism, but G.W. Pabst was a more sophisticated social critic than any of the Russian filmmakers.

WESTFRONT 1918Tue 19 & Wed 20 Jun

G.W. Pabst • Germany 1930 • 1h15m • Digital • German and French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild war violence, language, sex references. • Cast: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl.

Pabst’s first talkie offered a grim, humanitarian perspective on trench warfare, not unlike that in the almost contemporary All Quiet on the Western Front. Hardly any film since has given such an unremittingly horrific picture of warfare-in-action, from the agonising lulls to the surprise attacks, from harsh resilience to the release of madness or a death wish. The point is ultimately a simple pacifism, with all the political limitations that implies. But Pabst’s brilliant tracking shots along the trenches, through ruins, and across no man’s land, remain more haunting than anything in ‘expressionist’ cinema.


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1h40m • Digital • 12A

Tales are spun in a laundromat while a crab comes out of his shell and the penny drops for a desperate couple. A soldier finds himself out of step, a brush comes clean on what it takes to do the job, an octopus and plane star in a flight of fancy and an inventor has the seed of an idea as an elevator door opens onto childhood and a spiky character bursts forth upon an unsuspecting world. Something lurks in a Warsaw apartment, an umbrella waits in the desert, an art thief takes a tumble, a monster shelves his plans and the spirit of John Muir is glimpsed in the Northern Lights... All this and more as the ECA Animation Degree show plays out to the sound of Indonesian rap and the trip-hop beat of the city. Add some fireworks and a dance to the music of the spheres and a lively night-out is guaranteed... £6

EDINBuRGh COLLEGE BROADCAST mEDIA SPLICED AWARDSThu 14 Jun at 6.00pm

1h50m • Digital • cert tbc

Spliced Showcase Event Awards Night. The final shortlisted Broadcast Media students’ videos will be judged by our panel of experts in the industry and up for a variety of awards. This screening will include films made by students from both Sighthill and Milton Road Campuses. Awards will be presented to the best in each of the following categories Factual, Non-Factual, Videography, Editing and the hotly contested Audience Award! £6

QuEEN mARGARET uNIvERSITY DEGREE ShOWThu 5 Jul at 8.30pm

1h50m • Digital • cert tbc

This event showcases the best short drama and documentary films from Queen Margaret University students. Representing a wide variety of styles and genres, all these works will compete for best film and the audience choice award. Students from previous years have gone on to win Scottish BAFTAs and awards in major festivals so please come along and enjoy the work from these auteurs of the future! £6

Degree ShowsIt’s that time of year again - when we take a tantalising peek at the filmmakers and animators of the future through these student showcases from Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh College and Queen Margaret University. Tickets to Degree Shows at Filmhouse cost just £6, and always promise excitement, entertainment and inspiration.


AccessFilmhouse foyer and Box Office are accessed from Lothian Road via a ramped surface and two sets of automatic doors. Our cafe Bar and accessible toilet are also at this level. The majority of seats in the Cafe Bar are not fixed and can be moved.

There is wheelchair access to all three screens. cinema One has space for two wheelchair users and these places are reached via the passenger lift. cinemas Two and Three have one space each. Staff are always on hand to help operate lifts – please ask at the box office when you purchase your tickets. A second accessible toilet is situated at the lower level close to cinemas Two and Three.

Advance booking for wheelchair spaces is recommended. If you need to bring along a helper to assist you in any way, then they will receive a complimentary ticket. There are induction loops and infra-red in all three screens for those with hearing impairments. See below for details of captioned screenings and films with Audio Description. Email [email protected] or call the Box Office on 0131 228 2688 if you require further information or assistance.

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

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

All screenings of The Guernsey Literary..., Lean on Pete, Wonderstruck, On Chesil Beach, Edie, The Breadwinner, Tully and Journey’s End (2017) and A Wrinkle in Time have audio description. The following screenings have captions:

Mon 7 May at 11.05am The Guernsey Literary...Tue 8 May at 5.55pm Lean on PeteMon 14 May at 1.00pm Lean on PeteSun 20 May at 2.30pm WonderstruckTue 22 May at 1.20pm Eddie the Eagle (over-60s)Wed 23 May at 11.10am WonderstruckSun 27 May at 3.45pm On Chesil BeachWed 30 May at 11.00am On Chesil Beach Wed 6 Jun at 8.40pm On Chesil Beach Sat 9 Jun at 11.10am The BreadwinnerSat 9 Jun at 3.30pm EdieSun 10 Jun at 3.45pm Lek and the DogsMon 11 Jun at 11.10am TullyTue 12 Jun at 6.15pm The BreadwinnerWed 13 Jun at 8.40pm Tully Thu 14 Jun at 5.40pm EdieSun 17 Jun at 3.35pm Edie Tue 3 Jul at 3.50pm Arcadia

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

Mon 7 May at 11.00am The Guernsey Literary...

Mon 14 May at 11.00am The Old Dark House

Mon 21 May at 11.00am Wonderstruck

Mon 4 Jun at 11.00am Pandora’s Box

Mon 11 Jun at 11.00am Edie

Audio Description/Captioned information is correct at time of print, and is subject to change. Check www.filmhousecinema.com or with Filmhouse Box Office for up-to-date AD/captioning information.

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