Filmhouse April 2014

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The Past Twenty Feet from Stardom The Lunchbox A Story of Children and Film Under the Skin Visitors The King and the Mockingbird Tom at the Farm James Dean The Cinema of Childhood Alec Guinness: Presented by Drambuie Iberodocs Edinburgh Spy Week: Fictions of Espionage Dead by Dawn Filmhouse Junior

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The 39 Steps 33 Alec Guinness: An Introduction 14 Alec Guinness: Presented by Drambuie 14-17 As the Palaces Burn 8 Bag of Rice 23 Baraka 31 Barnacle Bill 17 Blue 17 The Boot + Ten Minutes Older 24 Box of Delights Programme 1 18 Box of Delights Programme 2 19 The Card 16 Children in the Wind 25 The Cinema of Childhood 22-26 City of God 29 City of God - 10 Years Later 29 Come and See...

11 The Consequences of Love 34 Crows + Palle Alone in the World 25 Dead by Dawn 36 Derek Jarman: Presented by Drambuie 17 The East 34 East of Eden 12 Edinburgh Spy Week 32-33 Education and Learning 38 Emil and the Detectives 18/32 Father Brown 15 Filmhouse Cafe Bar & Quiz 11 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Junior 18-19 Filmhouse Membership 40 Filmhouse Player 27 Filmosophy 34 Forbidden Games 25 Giant 12 The Great Explainers 37 Grizzly Man 31 The Horse’s Mouth 17 Hugo and Josephine 25 I Am Still Here 29 Iberodocs 28-29 The Incredibles 19 Into the Wild 31 The Ipcress File 33 The Iron Giant 19 James Dean 12

The John Muir Festival 31 Khumba 19 Kind Hearts and Coronets 15 The King and the Mockingbird 7/18 The King of Masks 25 Kirikou and the Sorceress 19 Koyaanisqatsi 11 The Lady Vanishes 32 The Ladykillers 16 The Lavender Hill Mob 15 The Lego Movie 18 Little Fugitive 26 Long Live the Republic 26 The Lunchbox 6 Magic Magic 8 The Man in the White Suit 15 Maria and I 28 McLaren 2014 - Free Workshops 26 Modern Playing 37 Moon 34 Moving 24 The Mudlark 15 Muppets Most Wanted 19 Nymphomaniac Vols I & II 10 Oliver Twist 14 Only Lovers Left Alive 11 Our Man in Havana 17 The Past 5 The Pit 28 Rebel Without a Cause 12 The Shepherd’s Oasis + The Stone 29 The Spy in Black 32 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 33 A Story of Children and Film 5 Three Days of the Condor 33 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) 16 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) 32 Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy 18 Tom at the Farm 8 Tomka and His Friends 26 Tracks 10 Tunes of Glory 17 Twenty Feet from Stardom 5 Under the Skin 7 The Unseen + The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun 24 Visitors 7 The White Balloon 24 Who’s Your Dandy?

37 Willow and Wind 23 Wrinkles 10

AUDIODESCRIPTIONANDSUBTITLES In all three screens we have a system which enables us, whenever the necessary digital files are available, to show onscreen subtitles for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing, and provide audio description (via infra-red headsets) for those who are sight-impaired.

This issue, all screenings of Under the Skin and Only Lovers Left Alive will have audio description, and the following screenings will also have subtitles:

Under the Skin: Sun 13 Apr, 1.10pm Only Lovers Left Alive: Thu 1 May, 6.00pm

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

The Past: Mon 7 Apr, 11am The Lunchbox: Mon 14 Apr, 11am East of Eden: Mon 28 Apr, 11am Please note there will be no screening on Monday 21 April.

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Introduction

THE CINEMA OF CHILDHOOD - PALLE ALONE IN THE WORLD

TRACKS

THE LUNCHBOX

Guinness is good for you…

Around this time last year, chiefly for my own interest, I decided to give my latent OCD free rein and keep a list of all the films I’d seen in the year – for business, pleasure, and both – and report back once the year was through. Well, the results are in: from 1 March 2013 to 28 February 2014 I saw a total of 375 feature films, which represents some 600 hours, ie. 25 entire days, or 75 8-hour working days. It’s slightly less than I thought it would be – I had guessed it would be more like 450 – but I guess it’s quite a lot all the same. There’s a lot of ace films amongst those 375, but, oh my, there’s a lot of dross as well. (I watched them to spare you any possibility of having to do so… here, at any rate!) I sometimes think how nice it would be to go back to simply watching cinema purely for pleasure again, and limit my viewing to those films I really wanted to watch, but I’ll stop there before I start to sound like someone who doesn’t realise he has one of the best jobs he could actually imagine…

April sees the culmination of a project we’ve been working on for quite some time, a season of films we have called The Cinema of Childhood. This season takes as its inspiration Mark Cousins’ wonderful new documentary, A Story of Children and Film (screening from 4 April), which unearths an international treasure trove of little-known films with the childhood experience at their core. We asked Mark to chose his favourites, and with the help of funding from the British Film Institute (awarding funds from the National Lottery), have licenced 17 films that will play here at Filmhouse, and all around the country as well, over the coming months. I can’t tell you how pleased and proud we are to be presenting this season.

The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra’s witty, intimate and perceptive romantic drama will, I boldly predict, charm your socks off. It tells the story of the epistolary romance between a withdrawn widower and a neglected wife that begins when the lunch she makes daily for her husband is mistakenly couriered (there are, apparently, 5000 lunch couriers in Mumbai!) to the aforementioned widower. (A word of warning: you WILL want an Indian meal after seeing this film.) Tracks is based on the bestselling book by Robyn Davidson and tells the incredible true story of her trek across the Australian desert (from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean) back in 1977 with only four camels and her dog for company. Stunningly photographed, with an equally stunning central performance from Mia Wasikowska.

The centenary of the birth of one of Britain’s true acting greats, Alec Guinness, seemed like all the excuse that was needed to put on some of his finest films, supported by our friends at Drambuie – look out for a new, specially-themed cocktail to accompany the season! All three of James Dean’s feature films have been given the full restoration treatment and all screen this month, and our annual horror festival, Dead By Dawn, returns in its (occasionally bloodsoaked) 21st incarnation.

And as if there wasn’t enough going on around these parts, the Filmhouse family is growing, with the Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen joining the fold from 1 April. We look forward hugely to working with the marvellous venue staff there to give the good people of Aberdeen the great cinema they deserve!

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

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Filmhouse Explorer

JAMES DEAN - REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE

THE PAST

THE CINEMA OF CHILDHOOD - HUGO AND JOSEPHINE

EDINBURGH SPY WEEK - THE IPCRESS FILE

Filmhouse Explorer We’re really keen to encourage your deeper engagement with the great cinema we screen. We know going to the cinema a lot can be quite expensive, so we’ve devised a ticket deal to make it cheaper to see films beyond the big new releases.

Here’s how it works: buy a ticket for a film in the left hand column below, and you will receive a voucher that will entitle you, on handing it in at the Box Office, to 50% off a full price ticket to any film (or any film in any season) listed in the right hand column.

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

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The Past (page 5) The Lunchbox (page 6) Tracks (page 10)

James Dean (page 12) Alec Guinness: Presented by Drambuie (pages 14-17) The Cinema of Childhood (pages 22-26) Edinburgh Spy Week: Fictions of Espionage (pages 32-33)

All tickets subject to availability. The half price voucher only applies to full price tickets. The Filmhouse Explorer ticket deal cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.

The 50% discount is not valid for Friday matinee screenings.

Main features

THE PAST

NEWRELEASE

TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM

NEWRELEASE

A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM

NEWRELEASE

The Past Le passé

Twenty Feet from Stardom

A Story of Children and Film

Showing until Thu 10 Apr

Showing until Sun 13 Apr

Fri 4 to Thu 10 Apr

Asghar Farhadi • France/Italy 2013 • 2h10m DCP • French and Persian with English subtitles 12A – Contains infrequent strong language and references to suicide Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet, Elyes Aguis.

Morgan Neville • USA 2013 • 1h31m • DCP 12A – Contains infrequent strong language • Documentary

Mark Cousins • UK 2013 • 1h46m • DCP English, Japanese, Russian, Swedish, Polish, Czech and Persian with English subtitles PG – Contains mild language and scenes of emotional upset Documentary

Academy award-winning Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) returns with another expertly constructed dissection of the fraying lines of love, commitment and detachment between a couple on the verge of divorce – this time set in Paris.

Returning from Tehran after several years apart, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) arrives in France to finalise divorce proceedings from his wife, Marie (The Artist’s Bérénice Bejo). Despite his resolve to remain detached, he’s soon drawn back into fresh emotional turbulence with the revelations that Marie is on the point of marrying again, to another immigrant, Samir (Tahar Rahim, A Prophet), and her teenage daughter from a previous liaison is adamantly opposed to the union.

For all the new film’s obvious similarities to A Separation (not least in the way it reveals how conversation and communication are two entirely different things), The Past pulls us inexorably deeper into the lives of half-a-dozen individuals tied to each other by blood or marriage, struggling to break free but caught up in their own neuroses and conflicted emotions. For all the pain and anguish on display here, this is multifaceted, compassionate, humanist filmmaking of the highest order.

Millions know their voices, but hardly anyone knows their names. In this compelling Oscar-nominated documentary, award-winning director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century.

Triumphant and heartbreaking in equal measure, the film is both a tribute to the unsung voices who brought shape and style to popular music and a reflection on the conflicts, sacrifices and rewards of a career spent harmonising with others.

Along with rare archival footage and a peerless soundtrack, Twenty Feet from Stardom includes intimate interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and Mick Jagger, among many others. However, these world-famous figures take a back seat to the backup singers whose lives and stories take centre stage for once.

A rich and delightful examination of the way films have viewed children. Filmmaker Mark Cousins draws on 53 films from around the world and from throughout the history of cinema to demonstrate the affinity between film and childhood. It’s a passionate, poetic portrait of the adventure of childhood: its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and stroppiness, and his reflections are anchored in a real-life situation: his own niece and nephew at play.

“Entirely distinctive, sometimes eccentric, always brilliant: a mosaic of clips, images and moments chosen with flair and grace, both from familiar sources and from the neglected riches of cinema around the world. Without condescension or cynicism, Cousins offers us his own humanist idealism, as refreshing as a glass of iced water.” The Guardian See pages 22 - 26 for The Cinema of Childhood, a season of films inspired by A Story of Children and Film, curated

by Mark Cousins.

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The Lunchbox Dabba Fri 11 to Thu 24 Apr Ritesh Batra • India/France/Germany/USA 2013 1h45m • Hindi and English with English subtitles PG – Contains infrequent references to suicide and one use of mild language Cast: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Denzil Smith, Bharati Achrekar.

Irrfan Khan (Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire) stars alongside the radiant Nimrat Kaur in Ritesh Batra’s delightful feature debut, in which a mistaken lunchbox delivery paves the way for an unlikely romance.

In Mumbai, home to over 18 million people, more than 5,000 famously efficient dabbawallas – lunchbox couriers – navigate chaotic streets to deliver lunches, lovingly prepared by housewives, to working men across the city. Ila (Kaur) is a housewife living in a middle-class neighbourhood with a husband who ignores her. Saajan (Khan) is a beaten down widower about to retire from his number-crunching job. After Ila realises that Saajan is receiving the meals meant for her husband, the two begin sending each other letters through the lunchbox. What starts as an innocent exchange about Ila’s cooking gently develops into something more, and, outside the space of their daily lives, Ila and Saajan feel free to express themselves in new ways, leading them both to question how they might find happiness.

The Lunchbox paints a nuanced portrait of life in contemporary Mumbai, effortlessly weaving themes of gender values, social class, and generational differences into its core love story.

Main features

UNDER THE SKIN

MAYBEYOUMISSED

VISITORS

NEWRELEASE

THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD

RESTOREDCLASSIC

Under the Skin

Visitors

Fri 11 to Thu 17 Apr

Fri 11 to Mon 14 Apr

Le roi et l’oiseau

Jonathan Glazer • UK 2013 • 1h48m • DCP 15 – Contains infrequent strong sex and frequent nudity Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Brannigan, Jessica Mance, Krystof Hádek.

Godfrey Reggio • USA 2013 • 1h28m • DCP • No dialogue U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm

Fri 18 & Sun 20 Apr - English language version Sat 19 & Mon 21 Apr - French with English subtitles

Famous for the Qatsi trilogy of Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, and Naqoyqatsi, Godfrey Reggio has made another exquisite visual poem in Visitors, his first film in over a decade.

Paul Grimault • France 1980 • 1h24m DCP • U – Contains mild threat

Fans of Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast and Birth have been anticipating Under the Skin with a yearning usually reserved for superhero franchises. Based on Michel Faber’s acclaimed novel, the story’s premise is perfectly suited to a director known for compression, focus, and cool shocks.

On Scotland’s lonely back roads, a beautiful woman (Scarlett Johansson) stalks unwitting men. Her identity and her motives unclear, her eyes deadened but alert, she prowls night streets and deserted locales in a white van, seeking male victims. More could be said about the plot, but it’s best to allow Under the Skin to reveal itself...

Matinee Special!

If you’re a Senior Citizen you can go to a matinee screening and get either soup of the day OR a cup of tea or coffee and a traycake for only £7!

Offer runs from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and only applies to screenings starting before 5.00pm. Ask for the Matinee Special deal at the box office and you’ll receive a voucher which can be exchanged in the café bar between 1.30pm and 5.00pm that day only. Offer is subject to availability and only available in person.

Shot in dazzling black and white, and featuring a score from Reggio’s regular collaborator Philip Glass, the wordless film calls upon its audiences to find their own meaning in the piece. More akin to music than narrative storytelling, Visitors creates moods and tones, allowing each of us to explore potential connections and associations. At times we enter an almost dreamlike state – notably with Reggio’s meditation on human hands, as expressive as faces, interacting with technological tools (touchscreens, keyboards) that have been removed from the frame. The effect is mesmerising, and Glass’s score is a perfect complement.

Koyaanisqatsi is screening on 24 April – see page 11.

The King and the Mockingbird

This masterpiece of French animation has been cited

by Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata as a profound influence on their work. A collaboration between director Paul Grimault and French poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert (Les Enfants du Paradis), it’s adapted from a fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson about a tyrannical King ruling over the kingdom of Takicardia. He is viewed with fear by his subjects, and it’s only the spirited, brightly feathered Mr Bird who, from his nest near the King’s secret chambers in his gigantic palace, dares to make fun of him.

It’s a story told with wit, imagination and a piquant charm, and the animation is a marvel – beautifully designed sets and backgrounds, wondrous caverns, towers, arches, Venetian canals, squares and vast palaces with Escher-like staircases.

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Main features

TOM AT THE FARM

NEWRELEASE

MAGIC MAGIC

NEWRELEASE

AS THE PALACES BURN

NEWRELEASE

Tom at the Farm Tom à la ferme

Magic Magic

As the Palaces Burn

Fri 18 to Mon 21 Apr

Mon 21 to Thu 24 Apr

Wed 23 & Thu 24 Apr

Xavier Dolan • Canada/France 2013 • 1h43m DCP • French with English subtitles 15 – Contains very strong language, strong sex references, drug misuse Cast: Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy, Evelyne Brochu, Manuel Tadros.

Sebastián Silva • Chile/USA 2013 • 1h37m DCP • English and Spanish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, sex and sex references Cast: Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Agustín Silva.

Don Argott • USA/Colombia/India/Israel/Venezuela 2014 • 2h1m DCP • 15 – Contains strong language • Documentary

A gripping psychological thriller from actor/director Xavier Dolan, one of Canada’s most provocative filmmakers.

Dolan plays the grief-stricken Tom, who ventures into the bucolic Quebec countryside for his lover’s funeral, only to become a pawn in a sadistic game perpetrated by the deceased’s savage, sexually repressed brother (Pierre-Yves Cardinal).

Nimbly juggling elements of noir, suspense and melodrama, Dolan demonstrates equal technical bravura as he daringly narrows his film’s aspect ratio as the narrative progresses, cleverly conveying precisely how inescapable Tom’s circumstances have become.

A relaxing vacation turns into a supernatural nightmare when Alicia (a typically glowing star turn from the excellent Juno Temple) travels to a remote Chilean island to join her cousin and friends for a relaxing break. Feeling bullied and ostracised by the tight-knit group of friends, Alicia can’t sleep and very soon begins to mentally unravel.

Meanwhile the superstitions of the local community are brought to bear and the situation quickly spirals out of control towards its utterly compelling and mysterious denouement.

“Meticulously acted, gorgeously shot and hilariously insightful about the strange, inarticulable ways people can get on one another’s nerves, this psychological thriller takes its premise to surprising, darkly comic extremes.” Variety

A feature documentary that originally sought to follow the band Lamb of God and their fans throughout the world, to demonstrate how music ties us together when we can’t find any other common bond. However, during filming, the story abruptly took a dramatic turn when lead singer Randy Blythe was arrested on charges of manslaughter, blamed for the death of one of their young fans in the Czech Republic. What followed was a Kafkaesque nightmare for the band and a gripping courtroom drama that left fans, friends, and curious onlookers around the world on the edge of their seats.

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11 APRIL - 3 AUGUST 2014 Celebrating the Centenary of Animator Norman McLaren Screenings, Exhibitions, Workshops, Performances around the UK

Stirling • Glasgow • Edinburgh and across the UK www.mclaren2014.com @mclaren2014

/mclaren2014

The McLaren 2014 Programme is produced by the Centre for the Moving Image in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada. www.mclaren2014.com

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Main features

TRACKS

NYMPHOMANIAC

NEWRELEASE

MAYBEYOUMISSED

WRINKLES

NEWRELEASE

Tracks

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Wrinkles Arrugas

Showing from Fri 25 Apr

Mon 28 & Tue 29 Apr

Wed 30 Apr & Thu 1 May

John Curran • Australia 2013 • 1h52m • DCP • cert tbc Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Emma Booth, Jessica Tovey, Melanie Zanetti.

Lars von Trier • Denmark/Germany/France/Belgium/UK 2013 1h57m • DCP • 18 – Contains strong real sex and very strong language Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Uma Thurman.

Ignacio Ferreras • Spain 2011 • 1h29m DCP • Spanish and Galician with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language With the voices of Tacho González, Alvaro Guevara, Mabel Rivera, Raúl Dans, Montse Davila.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I begins as Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, is discovered badly beaten in an alley by an older bachelor, Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), who takes her into his home.

As he tends to her wounds, she recounts the erotic story of her adolescence and young-adulthood (portrayed in flashback by newcomer Stacy Martin).

If animated films are still most commonly associated with children’s fare, the balance shifts decisively to the other end of life in this remarkably dignified film about ageing.

Starring Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre, Stoker) and Adam Driver (HBO’s Girls, Frances Ha) and directed by John Curran, Tracks is based on the inspirational and iconic true story of Robyn Davidson.

Robyn’s phenomenal solo trek from Alice Springs to Uluru and on to the Indian Ocean saw her traverse 2700km of spectacular yet unforgiving Australian desert accompanied only by her loyal dog and four unpredictable camels.

Charismatic young New Yorker and National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan travelled from the other end of the earth to capture, at intervals, this epic and remarkable journey into one of the world’s last great wildernesses.

Robyn reluctantly agreed to a visiting photographer in return for much-needed trip funding and saw Rick’s visits as intruding on her solitude and compromising everything the journey meant to her. However, this uneasy relationship between two very different people would slowly develop into an unlikely and enduring friendship.

Set against one of the wildest and most breathtaking backdrops on the planet, this unprecedented journey pushed Robyn to her physical and emotional limits and taught her that sometimes we have to detach from the world to feel connected to it.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II Mon 28 & Tue 29 Apr Lars von Trier • Denmark/Belgium/France/Germany/UK 2013 2h4m • DCP • 18 – Contains strong violence, strong real sex and strong sex references Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth, Jean-Marc Barr.

Vol. II picks up with the story of Joe’s adulthood, where her journey of self-discovery leads to darker complications.

See volumes I and II and save 25%. Tickets must both be bought at the same time.

Increasingly lost in his own memories, as well as a growing burden to his son, Emilio finds himself set adrift in the new world of a ‘facilitated care unit’ – an old people’s home. His roommate, the fast-talking Miguel, daily transforms their stark landscape into one of magic surrealism, and Emilio is introduced to a fantastical cast of fellow life-travellers on one last great journey. Buoyed by their friendship and camaraderie, Emilio’s memories nonetheless continue to overtake his reality, increasing his fears of being sent to the upper floor, reserved for those ‘beyond recovery’.

Main features/Come and See.../Filmhouse Cafe Bar

ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE

MAYBEYOUMISSED

Only Lovers Left Alive Wed 30 Apr & Thu 1 May Jim Jarmusch • UK/Germany/France/Cyprus/USA 2013 • 2h3m DCP • English, French and Arabic with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Anton Yelchin.

Idiosyncratic indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch returns with an unconventional tale of undying love between two centuries-old bohemian vampires. Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton) have been together for ever: well, a few centuries at least. Adam, a depressed rock musician, has his perfect companion in the spirited, art-loving Eve, but when Eve’s sister, Ava (Mia Wasikowska), crashes back into their lives, trouble follows close on her heels.

Jim Jarmusch’s stylish take on the vampire genre is a hyper-literate mélange of science, literature, music, history and deadpan humour. Languid, seductive and underscored by a characteristically eclectic soundtrack, Jarmusch’s film breathes new life into the vampire genre.

KOYAANISQATSI

Come and See...

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

Koyaanisqatsi Thu 24 Apr at 6.15pm Godfrey Reggio • USA 1983 • 1h26m • DCP • No dialogue • U

FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR

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

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

All our dishes are prepared on the premises using fresh ingredients.

We have an extensive vegetarian range with a variety of daily specials.

Godfrey Reggio’s astounding vision of man versus nature rarely gets seen on the big screen, although with such breathtaking cinematography – combining sweeping wilderness, industrial complexity and churning cityscape – it’s impossible to see how it could belong anywhere else.

A glass of wine? Choose from nine! The bar has real choice in ales, beers and bottles.

Without a story, dialogue or characters, but with stunning visuals and an intense score by Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi (the film’s title is a Hopi word roughly translated into English as ‘life out of balance’) deftly illustrates humankind’s devastating impact on the planet.

Opening hours:

“Perfect filmmaking in harmony with all its creative elements.” (The List).

Sunday: 10am - 11.30pm

Godfrey Reggio’s latest film, Visitors, screens from 11 - 14 April – see page 7.

Film Quiz

A special event? Just ask, we can probably help.

Or just come and relax in the ambience!

Monday to Thursday: 8am - 11.30pm Friday: 8am - 12.30am Saturday: 10am - 12.30am 0131 229 5932

cafebar@filmhousecinema.com

Sunday 13 April Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and rather tricky) monthly quiz. Free to enter, teams of up to eight, to be seated in the cafe bar by 9pm.

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James Dean

REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE

James Dean New restorations of the three feature films in which James Dean starred before his untimely death, on 30 September 1955, at the age of 24.

Rebel Without A Cause Fri 18 to Thu 24 Apr Nicholas Ray • USA 1955 • 1h51m DCP • PG – Contains moderate violence Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran.

Nicholas Ray’s juvenile-delinquent film (originally a vehicle for Marlon Brando) opened a month after the death of its star James Dean in a car crash, and turned him into an icon of rebellion. The story, much imitated since, might sound like nothing much – unsettled adolescent from good home can’t keep himself out of trouble, and gets involved with bad sorts until tragedy takes over – but what makes the film so powerful is both the sympathy it extends to all the characters (including the seemingly callous parents) and the precise expressionism of Ray’s direction. His use of light, space and motion is continually at the service of the characters’ emotions, while the trio that Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo form as a refuge from society is explicitly depicted as an ‘alternative family’. Still one of the best movies about teenagers ever made.

GIANT

EAST OF EDEN

Giant

East of Eden

Fri 25 to Mon 28 Apr & Thu 1 May

Sun 27 to Wed 30 Apr

George Stevens • USA 1956 • 3h21m DCP • PG – Contains mild violence, sex references and language Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Mercedes McCambridge.

Elia Kazan • USA 1955 • 1h55m DCP • PG – Contains mild violence and sex references Cast: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos.

Nominated for 10 Oscars, George Stevens’ epic stars Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (in his last role) and Rock Hudson in a sweeping saga of jealousy, racism and a clash of cultures set in the vast Texas oilfields.

Based on John Steinbeck’s novel and directed by Elia Kazan, 1955’s East of Eden is the first of three films that make up James Dean’s movie legacy, all of which have now been fully digitally restored.

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict (Hudson) and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink (Dean) both woo Leslie Lynnton (Taylor), a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the white Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Meanwhile, Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land and becomes hugely rich.

The 24-year-old idol-to-be plays Cal, a wayward Salinas Valley youth who, along with his competitive brother Aron (Richard Davalos), vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey).

Playing off the haunting sensitivity of Julie Harris, Dean’s performance earned one of the film’s four Academy Award nominations.

TICKETDEAL

Filmhouse Explorer Get a half-price ticket to any of the films in this season with Filmhouse Explorer – see page 4 for details!

Buy tickets to all three films in this season and get 15% off This offer is available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

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Alec Guinness: Presented by Drambuie

OLIVER TWIST

KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS

Drambuie brings you A Taste of the Extraordinary...

Alec Guinness Alec Guinness was born in London on 2 April 1914. Brought up by only his mother, he supported himself by working as an advertising copywriter while studying acting as a teenager, and made his debut on the stage at the age of twenty. He gained experience and reputation with the Old Vic, where he played much Shakespeare, Shaw and Chekhov from 1936 onwards. He began appearing regularly in films after the war (having made only one previous appearance on screen as an extra, in 1934). He soon became noted for his versatility and penchant for subtle disguises, playing eight different parts, including a woman, in Kind Hearts and Coronets! He gained wide popularity in a string of Ealing comedies, and also worked regularly with David Lean, appearing in six of the director’s films. His role in a certain sci-fi trilogy brought him to the attention of a new generation of filmgoers in 1977, and provided him with financial security for the rest of his life.

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

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

THE MUDLARK

Alec Guinness: An Introduction Sun 6 Apr at 4.30pm 1h

Alec Guinness liked to remark that he could walk along a crowded street without anyone recognising him.

One of the finest British screen actors was also the least flamboyant, prized for his ability to disappear within a character and shape a performance through the smallest detail and the briefest gesture. Film critic Allan Hunter, author of Alec Guinness On Screen, will give an illustrated talk on a career defined by Guinness’s working relationship with David Lean, his long and productive association with Ealing Studios and his emergence as an unlikely icon of the blockbuster era as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars.

A free, ticketed event.

Oliver Twist Mon 7 Apr at 6.00pm & Tue 8 Apr at 3.20pm David Lean • UK 1948 • 1h55m • 35mm • U Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies, Anthony Newley, Francis L Sullivan.

David Lean’s second magnificent adaptation of a classic Dickens novel, made hard on the heels of Great Expectations and shot through with black humour. It features a bravura performance from Alec Guinness as Fagin (reluctantly cast by an initially disbelieving Lean), basing his appearance on the original novel’s illustrations

by George Cruikshank.

Alec Guinness: Presented by Drambuie

THE LAVENDER HILL MOB

THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT

FATHER BROWN

Kind Hearts and Coronets

The Lavender Hill Mob

The Man in the White Suit

Wed 9 Apr at 3.10pm & Thu 10 Apr at 8.20pm

Tue 15 Apr at 8.55pm, Thu 17 Apr at 3.15pm & | Sat 19 Apr at 3.25pm

Fri 18 Apr at 1.20pm & Sat 19 Apr at 6.05pm

Robert Hamer • UK 1949 • 1h46m • DCP • U Cast: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson, Audrey Fildes.

The gentle English art of murder in Ealing’s blackest comedy, with Dennis Price in perfect form as the ignoble Louis, killing off a complete family tree (played by Alec Guinness throughout) in order to take the cherished d’Ascoyne family title.

The Mudlark Tue 15 Apr at 3.15pm & Thu 17 Apr at 6.10pm Jean Negulesco • UK/USA 1950 • 1h39m • 35mm • U Cast: Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Andrew Ray, Beatrice Campbell, Finlay Currie.

A street urchin, having seen a portrait of Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne), sneaks into Windsor Castle to try to catch a glimpse of her in the flesh. She has been holed up there since the death of her beloved Prince Albert, despite the best efforts of her Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli (Guinness) to persuade her that the country needs her. A sweet and whimsical film with terrific performances.

Charles Crichton • UK 1951 • 1h21m • DCP • U Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James, Alfie Bass, Marjorie Fielding.

One of the most successful Ealing films, and one of the most delightful genre comedies of all time. Alec Guinness is Henry Holland, an unassuming transporter of gold bullion who, after working for twenty years with no rewards in sight for his faithful service to his company, decides to steal a million pounds worth of gold.

Together with his friend Pendlebury (Stanley Holloway), a manufacturer of paperweights and an amateur sculptor, and a couple of Cockney crooks, they abscond with the gold and Henry melts it into a collection of souvenir Eiffel Towers, which he then ships off to Paris. But, of course, things don’t go exactly to plan...

Alexander Mackendrick • UK 1951 • 1h25m • 35mm • U Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger.

Mackendrick’s plague-on-all-your-houses industrial satire may be the most cynical Ealing film of all. Guinness delivers his most complex comic performance as the unworldly genius Sidney, whose invention of an indestructible, dirt-proof fabric terrifies textile barons and trade unions alike.

Father Brown aka The Detective Fri 18 Apr at 6.05pm Robert Hamer • UK 1954 • 1h33m • 35mm • PG Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee.

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Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Entertaining and polished comic mystery based on the eponymous amateur detective created by novelist GK Chesterton. The Bishop (Cecil Parker) entrusts full-time priest and part-time sleuth Father Brown (Guinness) with transporting St Augustine’s Cross to Rome, but notorious international thief Flambeau (Peter Finch) has designs on the precious religious artefact...

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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Alec Guinness: Presented by Drambuie (continued)

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

THE LADYKILLERS

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)

The Ladykillers

Sun 20 Apr at 1.30pm

Mon 21 Apr at 6.15pm & Tue 22 Apr at 3.30pm + 8.35pm

6h25m • PG

A special screening of this classic TV series, based on the novel by John Le Carré and starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley.

Smiley, an intelligence agent who has been forced into retirement, is called back to uncover the identity of a Russian mole who is believed to have infiltrated MI6.

Brilliantly intelligent television.

Screening in three parts with breaks in between: Part I (Episodes 1 - 3, 2h15m) - 1.30pm Part II (Episodes 4 & 5, 1h30m) - 5.00pm

Alexander Mackendrick • UK 1955 • 1h37m • DCP • PG Cast: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Katie Johnson.

One of the blackest comedies to come out of Ealing Studios. A little old lady (Katie Johnson) lives in a tumbledown house near St Pancras Station, and takes in as a lodger a strange ‘professor’ with prominent dentures (Guinness in one of his most vivid disguises). He has four odd friends who visit regularly for the purpose, she is told, of playing chamber music. In fact they are plotting a robbery and intend to use the house as their HQ...

Part III (Episodes 6 & 7, 1h30m) - 6.45pm Ads and trailers will only be shown at the very beginning – parts II and III will begin sharp at the advertised time.

The Card

Tickets £10/£8

Ronald Neame • UK 1952 • 1h31m • 35mm • U Cast: Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Petula Clark, Edward Chapman.

Tue 22 Apr at 6.20pm & Sat 26 Apr at 1.15pm

In this delightful comedy a charming and ambitious young man (Guinness) finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain somewhat predatory woman...

Filmhouse Explorer Get a half-price ticket to any of the films in this season with Filmhouse Explorer – see page 4 for details!

THE CARD

Alec Guinness: Presented by Drambuie/Derek Jarman

OUR MAN IN HAVANA

Barnacle Bill aka All At Sea

Wed 23 Apr at 6.20pm & Sat 26 Apr at 5.35pm Charles Frend • UK 1957 • 1h25m • 35mm • U Cast: Alec Guinness, Irene Browne, Maurice Denham, Percy Herbert, Victor Maddern.

A proud man from a long line of sailors is so prone to seasickness that even the slightest movement makes him unbearably ill. To preserve his family’s name and his own honour, he opens up a hotel for sailors on an amusement pier. It is a great success and this inspires the jealousy of the local residents who try to destroy his new empire.

Our Man in Havana

THE HORSE’S MOUTH

The Horse’s Mouth Thu 24 Apr at 3.00pm & Fri 25 Apr at 9.00pm Ronald Neame • UK 1958 • 1h34m • Digital • PG Cast: Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Renee Houston, Mike Morgan, Robert Coote.

This riotous comedy stars Guinness as Gulley Jimson, a rowdy painter with a penchant for disrupting the lives of everyone he encounters. He’s masterful at his craft, but his friends and patrons grow tired of his shenanigans, so he comes up with a plan to win them back. Guinness, who also wrote the screenplay, has a lot of fun with the role, making Jimson a cross between a drunken fool and an expert unparalleled in his field.

Drambuie brings you A Taste of the Extraordinary...

Derek Jarman Filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman died in 1994, aged just 52, but his legacy lives on. In the twenty years since his death his films have lost none of their relevance and remain massively influential. This is the final screening in the eighth special season of films showcased in partnership with Drambuie, showcasing the work of this extraordinary filmmaker.

Blue

Wed 23 Apr at 3.00pm & Fri 25 Apr at 6.40pm

Tunes of Glory

Carol Reed • UK 1959 • 1h47m • 35mm • PG Cast: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O’Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward.

Sun 27 Apr at 12.50pm, Mon 28 Apr at 9.10pm & Wed 30 Apr at 3.00pm

Jim Wormald (Alec Guinness) is an unassuming Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent, is looking for information on Cuban affairs, and recruits Jim to act as a spy. Jim has no experience in espionage and no useful knowledge to pass along, but Hawthorne is willing to pay, so he decides to play along, with unexpected results.

TUNES OF GLORY

Ronald Neame • UK 1960 • 1h46m • Digital • PG Cast: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, Kay Walsh, John Fraser.

A powerful and highly effective tale of military life during peacetime, Tunes of Glory follows two very different officers in a Scottish Highland regiment in the aftermath of WWII. Rough and ready Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair (Guinness) is the interim commander, a lifetime military man who expects respect and loyalty from his men. Enter Lieut. Col. Basil Barrow (John Mills), an Oxbridge type and a veteran of a Japanese POW camp. The two men become locked in a fierce battle for control of the regiment and the hearts and minds of its men.

Wed 9 Apr at 6.00pm Derek Jarman • UK 1993 • 1h19m • 35mm • 15

Removing the use of images completely, a luminous blue glow is the backdrop for this evocative and emotionally resonant collage of sound, music and speech, during which Jarman contemplates his encroaching blindness and threatened mortality.

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

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Filmhouse Junior

THE LEGO MOVIE

Filmhouse junior Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £3.50 (£4.50 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!

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

Emil and the Detectives

TINKERBELL AND THE PIRATE FAIRY

The Lego Movie

Tinkerbell and the Pirate Fairy

Sun 13 Apr at 11.00am

Sun 27 Apr at 11.00am

Phil Lord & Christopher Miller • USA/Denmark/Australia 2014 1h40m • DCP • U – Contains mild fantasy violence and very mild language With the voices of Christopher Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Will Ferrell, Will Arnett.

Peggy Holmes • USA 2014 • 1h18m DCP • U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm With the voices of Mae Whitman, Tom Hiddleston, Jane Horrocks, Anjelica Huston, Christina Hendricks.

Emmet is a perfectly ordinary, generic construction worker.

He spends his days following the instructions and building whatever is desired of him. That is until he discovers the Piece of Resistance, a relic which heralds the coming of ‘The Special’. As the prophesy has foretold, The Special will save the world from ultimate destruction. Emmet goes on a wild adventure through all the Lego realms, from The Wild West to Cloud Cuckoo Land, on a quest to save the world and ultimately discover what is truly special about himself.

Emil und die Detektive Sun 6 Apr at 11.00am

Franziska Buch • Germany 2001 • 1h51m • 35mm German with English subtitles • PG Cast: Tobias Retzlaff, Anja Sommavilla, Jürgen Vogel, Maria Schrader, Kai Wiesinger.

When his father is hospitalised after a car crash, 12-year-old Emil is sent to stay with his teacher’s sister in Berlin. But, during the journey, he makes the mistake of talking to a friendly stranger, who then robs him. When Emil arrives in Berlin he meets Pony and her intrepid gang of street-savvy kid detectives, who help him track down the villain and recover his money.

Part of Spy Week Edinburgh – see pages 32-33.

BOX OF DELIGHTS PROGRAMME 2 - AKBAR’S CHEETAH

The King and the Mockingbird Le roi et l’oiseau

Sun 20 Apr at 11.00am (Also screening Fri 18 to Mon 21 Apr, see page 7) Paul Grimault • France 1980 • 1h24m DCP • English language version • U – Contains mild threat

This masterpiece of French animation has been cited by Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata as a profound influence on their work. It’s adapted from a fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson about a tyrannical King ruling over the kingdom of Takicardia. He is viewed with fear by his subjects, and it’s only the spirited, brightly feathered Mr Bird who, from his nest near the King’s secret chambers in his gigantic palace, dares to make fun of him. It’s a story told with wit, imagination and a piquant charm, and the animation is a marvel.

When Pixie Hollow’s all important Blue Pixie Dust is stolen, it’s up to Tinkerbell and her fairy friends to retrieve the dust and return it to its rightful place. However, Tinkerbell’s adventure becomes complicated when the fairies’ talents get switched around. And then there’s the pirates...

Box of Delights Programme 1 Sun 4 May at 11.00am Various • Germany/Denmark/France/UK/Portugal 2012 • 43m Digital • U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm

A programme of eight award-winning short films from the British Animation Awards, specially selected for 4-7s.

A more cheerful collection of stories from around Europe you will not find, full of music, colour and character but no dialogue.

A Sunny Day Gil Alkabetz, Germany 2007, 6 min Whistleless Siri Melchior, Denmark 2010, 5 min Fouding or Not Fouding Youlia Rainous, France 2008, 5 min The Little Red Plane Charlotte Blacker, UK 2010, 4 min Dodu the Cardboard Boy: The Balloon Moon José Miguel Ribeiro, Portugal 2010, 5 min

Trim Time Gil Alkabetz, Germany 2002, 2’30 min Calamity Island David Johnson, UK 2011, 9 min Mobile Verena Fels, Germany 2010, 6’30 min

Filmhouse Junior

MUPPETS MOST WANTED

KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS

THE INCREDIBLES

Khumba

Muppets Most Wanted

Sun 11 May at 11.00am

Sun 25 May at 11.00am

Kirikou et la sorcière

Anthony Silverston • South Africa 2013 • 1h25m DCP • U – Contains mild threat and infrequent mild violence Cast: Jake T Austin, Liam Neeson, Steve Buscemi, Richard E Grant.

James Bobin • USA 2014 • 1h53m • DCP • U – Contains mild comic violence and infrequent very mild language Cast: Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Steve Whitmire (voice), Eric Jacobson (voice), Ty Burrell.

Sun 8 Jun at 11.00am

A zebra born half-striped and half-white is rejected by his superstitious herd, who blame him for a drought. As he goes in search of a magic watering hole, he is joined by a pair of wandering outcasts – loving wildebeest Mama V and flamboyant ostrich Bradley.

Featuring star turns from Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Ty Burrell, and packed with celebrity cameos, Muppets Most Wanted takes the entire gang on a global tour including stops in Berlin, Madrid, Dublin and London. Along the way they find themselves embroiled in a jewel heist, and Kermit gets replaced by a doppelganger...

Box of Delights Programme 2 Sun 18 May at 11.00am Various • Denmark/France/UK/Germany 2012 • 1h14m Digital • U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm

A programme of nine award-winning short films from the British Animation Awards, specially selected for 8-12s. An amazing variety of animation techniques from filmmakers around Europe, telling stories with creativity and humour.

Office Noise

Mads Johansen, Torben Søttrup, Karsten Madsen, Lærke Enemark, Denmark 2009, 4 min

Between Two Crumbs Sylvain Ollier, France 2005, 5 min What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks Sarah Wickens, UK 2009, 4’30 min

Akbar’s Cheetah Iain Gardner, UK 1999, 6 min Nicolas and Guillemette Virginie Taravel, France 2008, 9’30 min Inukshuk Camillelvis Thery, France 2008, 9 min Rabbit Rabbit Daniel Greaves, UK 2006, 2 min Lifeline Angela Steffen, Germany 2009, 6 min Flatworld Daniel Greaves, UK 1997, 28 min

Kirikou and the Sorceress Michel Ocelot • France/Belgium/Luxembourg 1998 • 1h14m 35mm • U – Contains mild peril and natural nudity

This animated elaboration of a Senegalese folk tale brings us surely cinema’s smallest hero – Kirikou, a walking, talking newborn. After learning that his parents’ village is being threatened by a sorceress with a taste for human flesh, tiny Kirikou leaps into action to save the day, encountering friends and foes along the way, including a monster who can drain waterfalls and lakes with his enormous thirst and a wise man living on a magic mountain.

The Iron Giant Sun 1 Jun at 11.00am Brad Bird • USA 1999 • 1h26m • 35mm U – Contains some mild language and animated action violence With the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr, Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, M Emmet Walsh.

As entertaining as it is intelligent, this delightful animation is adapted from Ted Hughes’ anti-Cold War children’s book.

In a small town in Maine in 1957 (the year of the Sputnik launch), young adventurer Hogarth, son of single mother and waitress Annie, is obsessed with things extra-terrestrial.

Due in part to his school’s nuclear-protection TV sessions, he’s especially concerned about the Red Invader. He’s the only one to take seriously a fisherman’s frantic reports of the landing of a metal giant, and his search is rewarded by the sighting of a metal-crunching, electricity-immune 50-footer in the forest. A friendship between boy and giant grows, but all the while government agents close in...

The Incredibles Sun 15 Jun at 11.00am Brad Bird • USA 2004 • 1h55m • 35mm U – Contains mild action violence and peril Cast: Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L Jackson, Jason Lee, Dominique Louis.

Bob Parr (AKA Mr Incredible) is an overweight insurance clerk living in suburbia, but this wasn’t always the case.

Once upon a time he was a popular superhero, as was his wife Helen (AKA Elastigirl). But one night something went wrong and all superheroes had to be reassimilated into society through a kind of witness protection scheme.

The Parrs now have an average family life with some very un-average kids, but someone is about to test this family’s unity to the max...

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

4 April - 1 May 2014

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Fri 4 Apr

1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Twenty Feet from Stardom The Past Tinker Tailor... (2011) (SW) A Story of Children and Film Twenty Feet from Stardom The Past The Past The Pit (ID) A Story of Children and Film

3.30 5.45 8.30 3.15 6.05 8.25 3.00 6.00 8.55

Tue 8 Apr

Sat 5 Apr

1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

The Past The Lady Vanishes (SW) City of God (ID) City of God - 10 Years Later (ID) A Story of Children and Film Twenty Feet from Stardom The Past Twenty Feet from Stardom Maria and I (ID) A Story of Children and Film The Past

1.00 3.45 6.00 8.50 + intro 1.10 3.35/8.45 5.50 1.20 3.50 + Q&A 6.15 8.35

Wed 1 9 1 Apr 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Sun 6 Apr

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

Emil and the Detectives (FJ) Twenty Feet from Stardom The Lady Vanishes (SW) A Story of Children and Film The Past The Past Alec Guinness: An Intro (AG) The Spy in Black (SW) A Story of Children and Film The Shepherd’s Oasis + ... (ID) I Am Still Here... (ID) Twenty Feet from Stardom

11.00am 1.15 3.45 6.00 8.35 1.00/5.45 4.30 (Free) 8.30 + intro 1.10 3.30 + Q&A 6.15 + intro 8.45

The Past (B) Twenty Feet from Stardom The Past Three Days of the Condor (SW) A Story of Children and Film The Past The Past Oliver Twist (AG) Twenty Feet from Stardom

11am (babies/carers) 3.00 5.45 8.30 3.30/6.15 8.35 3.10 6.00 8.45

Mon 1 7 1 Apr 1 1 2 2 3 3 3

1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

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SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Twenty Feet from Stardom The Past The Ipcress File (SW) Oliver Twist (AG) The East The Past The Past Twenty Feet from Stardom A Story of Children and Film

3.00 5.45 8.30 3.20 5.50 + intro/disc.

8.35 3.10 6.00 8.20

Tue 15 Apr

Twenty Feet from Stardom The Great Explainers The Past A Story of Children and Film Blue The 39 Steps (SW) Kind Hearts and Coronets (AG) Twenty Feet from Stardom A Story of Children and Film

3.00 6.15 (£10/£8) 8.35 3.20 6.00 8.30 + intro 3.10 5.50 8.20

Thu 10 Apr

1 1 2 2 3 3

Twenty Feet from Stardom 3.00/6.10 Kind Hearts and Coronets (AG) 8.20 A Story of Children and Film 3.20/8.40 The Past 5.50 The Past 3.00/8.30 The Spy Who Came in from... (SW) 6.00 + intro

Fri 11 Apr

1 2 3 3

The Lunchbox Under the Skin (AD) Twenty Feet from Stardom Visitors

3.25/6.15/8.45 3.30/6.00/8.35 3.00/8.25 6.25

Sat 12 Apr

1 2 3 3

The Lunchbox Under the Skin (AD) Twenty Feet from Stardom Visitors

1.00/3.25/6.15/8.45 1.10/3.30/6.00/8.35 1.20/8.25 3.45/6.25

Sun 13 Apr

1 1 2 2 3 3

The Lego Movie (FJ) The Lunchbox Under the Skin (AD) + (S) Under the Skin (AD) Twenty Feet from Stardom Visitors

11.00am 1.05/3.25/6.15/8.45 1.10 (subtitled) 3.30/6.00/8.35 1.20/8.25 3.45/6.25

The Lunchbox (B) The Lunchbox Under the Skin (AD) Visitors Modern Playing Visitors Under the Skin (AD)

11am (babies/carers) 3.25/6.15/8.45 3.20 5.50 8.50 3.45 6.00/8.35

Mon 1 14 1 Apr 2 2 2 3 3

1 1 2 3 3 3

The Mudlark (AG) The Lunchbox Under the Skin (AD) The Lunchbox Willow and Wind (CC) The Lavender Hill Mob (AG)

Wed 1 The Lunchbox 16 2 Under the Skin (AD) Apr 3 Willow and Wind (CC)

SCREENING TIMES

3.15 6.15/8.45 3.30/6.00/8.35 3.00 6.10 + Q&A 8.55 3.15/6.15/8.45 3.30/6.00/8.35 3.00/6.10/8.30

Thu 17 Apr

1 1 2 2 3 3 3

The Lavender Hill Mob (AG) The Lunchbox Under the Skin (AD) The Mudlark (AG) The Lunchbox Baraka (JM) Willow and Wind (CC)

3.15 6.15/8.45 3.30/8.35 6.10 3.00 6.00 8.30

Fri 18 Apr

1 1 2 2 3 3 3

The King and the Mockingbird The Lunchbox Tom at the Farm Father Brown (AG) The Man in the White Suit (AG) Rebel Without A Cause (JD) Father Brown (AG)

1.30 (English version) 3.45/6.15/8.50 1.10/5.55/8.40 3.35 1.20 3.25/8.30 6.05

KEY (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2) (S) – Subtitled (see page 2) All screenings in 2D unless marked [3D] SEASONS: (AG) – Alec Guinness: Presented by Drambuie (pages 14-17) (CC) – The Cinema of Childhood (pages 22-26) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 18-19) (ID) – Iberodocs (pages 28-29) (JD) – James Dean (page 12) (JM) – The John Muir Festival (page 31) (SW) – Edinburgh Spy Week: Fictions of Espionage (pages 32-33) Full index of films on page 2

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4 April - 1 May 2014

FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Sat 19 Apr

1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

The King and the Mockingbird The Boot + Ten Minutes... (CC) The Lunchbox Bag of Rice (CC) The Lunchbox Tom at the Farm Rebel Without A Cause (JD) The Lavender Hill Mob (AG) The Man in the White Suit (AG)

1.30 (subtitled version) 3.35 6.15/8.50 1.15 3.15 5.55/8.40 1.00/8.30 3.25 6.05

Fri 25 Apr

2 3 3 3

Tracks Giant (JD) Our Man in Havana (AG) The Horse’s Mouth (AG)

3.20/6.10/8.40 2.45 6.40 9.00

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Sun 20 Apr

1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3

The King & the Mockingbird (FJ) The Boot + Ten Minutes... (CC) The Lunchbox Bag of Rice (CC) Rebel Without A Cause (JD) Rebel Without A Cause (JD) Tom at the Farm The Lunchbox Tinker Tailor... (1979) (AG) The Lunchbox

11am (English version) 1.15 3.40 6.15 8.30 1.00 3.30/8.40 6.00 1.30 (£10/£8) 8.45

Sat 26 Apr

2 2 3 3 3 3

The Unseen + The Little Girl... (CC) Tracks The Card (AG) The Boot + Ten Minutes... (CC) Barnacle Bill (AG) Giant (JD)

1.00 3.20/6.10/8.40 1.15 3.40 5.35 7.35

Sun 27 Apr

2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Tinkerbell & the Pirate Fairy (FJ) Bag of Rice (CC) Tracks Tunes of Glory (AG) East of Eden (JD) Bag of Rice (CC) Giant (JD)

11.00am 1.10 3.20/6.10/8.40 12.50 3.10 5.40 7.35

Mon 1 21 1 Apr 1 2 2 3 3 3

The King and the Mockingbird The Ladykillers (AG) The Lunchbox Tom at the Farm The Lunchbox Magic Magic Into the Wild (JM) Rebel Without A Cause (JD)

3.15 (subtitled version) 6.15 8.45 3.30/8.40 6.00 3.00 5.45 8.50

Mon 1 28 1 Apr 2 2 3 3 3

East of Eden (JD) (B) Tracks Nymphomaniac: Vol. I Nymphomaniac: Vol. II Giant (JD) East of Eden (JD) Tunes of Glory (AG)

11am (babies/carers) 3.20/6.10/8.40 3.10/6.00 8.35 2.45 6.40 9.10

The Lunchbox The Ladykillers (AG) The Card (AG) Magic Magic Rebel Without A Cause (JD) The Ladykillers (AG)

3.15/6.05/8.45 3.30 6.20 8.25 3.00/6.00 8.35

Tue 29 Apr

Tracks Nymphomaniac: Vol. II Nymphomaniac: Vol. I East of Eden (JD) The Unseen + The Little Girl... (CC)

3.20/6.10/8.40 3.10/8.35 6.00 3.00/8.30 6.20

Tracks East of Eden (JD) Wrinkles Tracks Tunes of Glory (AG) Only Lovers Left Alive (AD)

3.20/6.10 8.40 3.30/6.20 8.50 3.00 6.00/8.35

Tue 22 Apr

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Wed 1 23 2 Apr 2 2 3 3 3

The Lunchbox Magic Magic Barnacle Bill (AG) As the Palaces Burn Our Man in Havana (AG) Grizzly Man (JM) Rebel Without A Cause (JD)

3.15/6.05/8.45 3.30 6.20 8.25 3.00 6.00 8.35

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Rebel Without A Cause (JD) Koyaanisqatsi The Lunchbox The Lunchbox As the Palaces Burn Magic Magic The Horse’s Mouth (AG) The Lunchbox Rebel Without A Cause (JD)

3.15 6.15 8.15 3.30 5.50 8.25 3.00 6.00 8.35

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Tracks 2.40/5.05 Giant (JD) 7.35 Wrinkles 3.30/6.20 Tracks 8.50 Only Lovers Left Alive (AD) 3.00/8.35 Only Lovers Left Alive (AD) + (S) 6.00 (subtitled)

SCREENING TIMES

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The Cinema of Childhood

THE WHITE BALLOON

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The Cinema of Childhood

WILLOW AND WIND

BAG OF RICE

The Cinema of Childhood A season of 17 rare masterpieces about kids from all over the world, curated by Mark Cousins and inspired by his latest feature documentary, A Story of Children and Film (screening 4 - 10 April).

“These are some of the best films you’ve never had a chance to see,” Cousins says. “Films about childhood take us on fantastic voyages. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was a magical bike ride across the moon. The Jungle Book showed us the bare necessities. A boy in The Red Balloon stole our hearts. But beyond these mainstream and arthouse classics, there’s a world of great cinema about kids which is hardly known, but just as brilliant. Welcome to that world. Jump into it. Fly to the moon on gossamer wings with the little boy in Astrid Henning-Jensen’s Palle Alone in the World from 1949. Get close to the flame of life with Renko, in Shinji Somai’s 1993 masterpiece, Moving. Body-swerve the bullies in Karel Kachyna’s Czech cinematic wonder, Long Live the Republic, from 1965. See Little Fugitive, the American film from 1953 which helped inspire the French New Wave. Discover the work of one of the world’s greatest movie-makers, Mohammad-Ali Talebi from Iran, with three of his best films – The Boot, Bag of Rice and his poetic masterpiece Willow and Wind.”

Mohammad-Ali Talebi will visit the UK for the first time in April, as a guest of the British Council to launch the season with Mark Cousins at Filmhouse, BFI Southbank and other venues to be confirmed. The season, managed by Filmhouse which has licensed the films for a year, will tour the UK, and many titles will also be available to watch online at www.filmhousecinema.com/player Emotionally engaging with audiences from 8 to 80, the Cinema of Childhood invites filmgoers to go on a global adventure, to discover previously unknown movie masterpieces and to see the world anew through young eyes.

For more information on the project and screenings at other venues, go to www.cinemaofchildhood.com With the support of the BFI Programming Development Fund, awarding funds from The National Lottery.

TEN MINUTES OLDER

Willow and Wind Beed-o Baad Tue 15 to Thu 17 Apr Mohammad-Ali Talebi • Iran/Japan 1999 • 1h17m DCP • Persian with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Hadi Alipour, Amir Janfada, Majid Alipour.

A school window is broken, and kids can’t concentrate because the rain is getting in. The culprit isn’t allowed back into class until he mends it. He carries a large pane of glass across the countryside in a gale. The wind blows; but will he crack? In the hands of writer Abbas Kiarostami and director Mohammad-Ali Talebi, this simplest of stories becomes an epic quest, poetic and breathtakingly beautiful. It has big-hearted humanism, but Hitchcockian tension too. An edge-of-seat masterpiece. Unmissable.

The screening on Tuesday 15 April will be followed by a Q&A with director Mohammad-Ali Talebi, hosted by Mark Cousins.

Bag of Rice Kiseye Berendj Sat 19, Sun 20 & Sun 27 Apr Mohammad-Ali Talebi • Japan/Iran 1998 • 1h20m DCP • Persian with English subtitles • U Cast: Jairan Abadzade, Shirin Bina, Masume Eskandari.

Four-year-old Jairan is ignored at home, and is itching for something to do. She convinces her neighbour, an old lady who is partially blind, that the two of them should travel across one of the world’s busiest cities, Tehran, to buy rice. What could possibly go wrong? A gentle take on Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Talebi’s disarming film starts as an odd-couple adventure, then opens out into something profound and unforgettable.

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The Cinema of Childhood (continued)

THE BOOT

THE LITTLE GIRL WHO SOLD THE SUN

MOVING

CROWS

The Boot Chakmeh

DOUBLE BILL

Moving Ohikkoshi

Sat 19, Sun 20 & Sat 26 Apr

Sat 26 Apr at 1.00pm & Tue 29 Apr at 6.20pm

Sat 10 May at 3.30pm & Wed 14 May at 5.45pm

Mohammad-Ali Talebi • Iran 1993 • 1h DCP • Persian with English subtitles • U – Contains mild threat Cast: Samaneh Jafar-Jalali, Raya Nasiri, Ali Atashkar.

The Unseen Nespatrené

A little girl, Samaneh, pesters her mother to buy her red boots, then loses one, then tries to find it. The story is fairytale simple, but the emotions swell, like in Bicycle Thieves.

Director Mohammad-Ali Talebi had been working with children for years, and it shows. He makes Samaneh one of the most vivid characters in the movies.

Shinji Sômai • Japan 1993 • 2h4m DCP • Japanese with English subtitles PG – infrequent bloody images Cast: Tomoko Tabata, Kiichi Nakai, Shinobu Chihara, Mariko Sudo.

At a school for blind children in the Czech Republic, the pupils exuberantly show off their remarkable talents – as musicians, as radio announcers, as daredevil bike riders and, most extraordinary of all, as photographers. Why take pictures of a world you can’t see? To capture memories, of course, that sighted people can describe back to them.

Miroslav Janek’s documentary is a true eye-opener about the resilience, adaptability and creativity of children, faced with whatever challenge the world throws at them.

PLUS SHORT Ten Minutes Older Par desmit minutem vecaks Herz Frank • Latvia 1978 • 10m • DCP • U

Herz Frank’s seminal short film has to be seen on the big screen. Storms of emotion sweep across a child’s face as he watches a show that we never see. Ten minutes last a small lifetime, and tell us everything about why children are so mesmerised by cinema, and why cinema is so mesmerised by children.

TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off Buy any nine (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 35% off These offers are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Miroslav Janek • Czech Republic 1997 • 53m DCP • Czech with English subtitles • cert tbc

Renko’s mum and dad are splitting up, and she feels like her life is coming apart. She plays with fire, tears up the rule book, holds herself hostage, even starts talking to the weird girl in school who’s the only other one with divorced parents.

When her dreams of a family reunion go up in flames, Renko gazes deep into the embers of her own burning heart. Shinji Sômai is Japan’s equivalent of John Hughes, a poet of ‘90s adolescence. Moving is an extraordinary account of divorce from the child’s point of view.

PLUS

The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun La petite vendeuse de soleil

Djibril Diop Mambéty • Senegal/Switzerland/France/Germany 1999 • 45m • DCP • French and Wolof with English subtitles cert tbc Cast: Lissa Balera, Aminata Fall, Tayerou M’Baye.

Sili, a crippled Senegalese girl, decides to do a boy’s job, selling newspapers on the streets of Dakar. She’s great at it, but the boys aren’t happy. Sili doesn’t care, and dances in a dress the colour of sunflowers. Djibril Diop Mambety’s little film is a big-hearted odyssey about daring to imagine what you can be, and to hell with what anyone else thinks.

The White Balloon Badkonake sefid Thu 15 May at 6.00pm & Sun 18 May at 4.00pm Jafar Panahi • Iran 1995 • 1h25m DCP • Persian with English subtitles • U Cast: Aida Mohammadkhani, Mohsen Kafili, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy.

Jafar Panahi’s masterpiece about a little girl who won’t take no for an answer. Razieh wants a new goldfish to celebrate the Iranian New Year, even though she’s already got several. But when her mum caves in and gives her the money, that’s only the start of her adventure. What’s a white balloon got to do with it? You’ll have to wait to the end to find out. Utterly real, quietly hilarious, totally brilliant. One of the most honest films ever made.

The Cinema of Childhood

CHILDREN IN THE WIND

Crows Wrony

THE KING OF MASKS

Children in the Wind

Sat 17 May at 4.00pm & Wed 21 May at 6.00pm

Kaze no naka no kodomo

Dorota Kedzierzawska • Poland 1994 • 1h3m DCP • Polish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Karolina Ostrozna, Kasia Szczepanik, Malgorzata Hajewska, Anna Prucnal, Ewa Bukowska.

Sat 24 May at 4.00pm & Wed 28 May at 6.00pm

Wrona (which means crow in Polish) is neglected by her feckless mother, laughed at by her classmates, and furious with the world. So she steals a cute little girl to become her surrogate mother. But she soon discovers just how hard being a parent really is. Dorota Kiedzerawska’s remarkable film about a damaged girl trying to heal herself is tough yet tender, elevated by gorgeous cinematography and ultimately exhilarating.

PLUS SHORT

Hiroshi Shimizu • Japan 1937 • 1h28m DCP • Japanese with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Jun Yokoyama, Masao Hayama, Reikichi Kawamura, Mitsuko Yoshikawa.

FORBIDDEN GAMES

Forbidden Games Jeux interdits Sat 31 May at 4.00pm & Wed 4 Jun at 6.00pm René Clément • France 1952 • 1h26m DCP • French with English subtitles • 12A – Contains emotionally intense scenes and one use of moderate language Cast: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie, Suzanne Courtal.

Sampei is a little rascal who leads his village gang with the Tarzan cry of his hero Jonny Weissmuller. But when his father is falsely imprisoned for fraud, his idyllic life falls apart. Sent to stay with his uncle, Sampei runs away any chance he gets – up a tree, down the river, to the circus.

If only his father can clear his name, everything will be all right again. Hiroshi Shimizu’s luminous masterpiece is nearly 80 years old, but still shines brightly.

German fighter planes massacre a column of middle-class refugees fleeing Paris on a country road. A dazed little orphaned girl is left wandering the fields clutching her dead dog. She’s adopted by a peasant boy who brings her into his eccentric family. The children retreat into a fantasy world, but they cannot hide from reality forever. Rene Clement’s angry masterpiece blends tragedy and farce into a heart-breaking account of children caught in a war they can’t possibly understand.

The King of Masks Bian Lian

Hugo and Josephine Hugo och Josefin

Palle Alone in the World Palle alene i verden Astrid Henning-Jensen • Denmark 1949 • 25m DCP • Danish with English subtitles • U Cast: Lars Henning-Jensen.

A boy wakes up to find that he’s alone in the world.

A deserted, silent Copenhagen becomes his giant playground. He drives a steamroller, and flies a rocket to the moon. Adapting a famous novel, Astrid HenningJensen, one of the greatest directors of children, makes an all-time classic of charm and wonder.

Sun 25 May at 4.00pm & Thu 29 May at 6.00pm Wu Tiang-ming • China/Hong Kong 1996 • 1h31m DCP • Mandarin with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Zhang Zhigang, Zhao Zhigang, Zhou Renying, Zhu Xu.

An old illusionist in China needs an heir to pass on the secret of his mask tricks – so he buys himself a grandson from a needy peasant. But the child is hiding a secret.

When the magician finds out, there’s hell to pay, and only spectacular action can save the day. Swooping emotional drama about a kid who wants to be loved, and an old man who learns how to open his heart.

Sun 1 Jun at 4.00pm & Thu 5 Jun at 6.00pm Kjell Grede • Sweden 1967 • 1h22m DCP • Swedish with English subtitles • U Cast: Fredrik Becklén, Marie Öhman, Beppe Wolgers, Inga Landgré, Helena Brodin.

The lonely daughter of a rural pastor makes friends with a wild boy who lives in the woods. The mysterious giant who tends the garden seems sinister, but is really a big teddy bear. The darkness of the world beyond childhood lingers at the edge of the frame, but never intrudes. Kjell Grede delivers a Swedish summer classic, blond and gorgeous and heart-breakingly innocent. A pure pleasure.

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The Cinema of Childhood (continued)/McLaren 2014

LITTLE FUGITIVE

Little Fugitive

TOMKA AND HIS FRIENDS

Tomka and His Friends

MCLAREN 2014 WORKSHOPS

MCLAREN2014

Sat 7 Jun at 4.00pm & Wed 11 Jun at 6.00pm

Tomka dhe shokët e tij

Morris Engel, Ray Ashley & Ruth Orkin • USA 1953 • 1h20m DCP • U Cast: Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams, Will Lee.

Sat 14 Jun at 4.00pm & Mon 16 Jun at 6.00pm

McLaren 2014 – Free Workshops

Xhanfise Keko • Albania 1977 • 1h18m • DCP Albanian, German and Italian with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Sotiraq Çili, Pavlina Oça, Zehrudin Dokle, Xhelal Tafaj, Enea Zhegu.

Sat 19 Apr • 1h

After their mother leaves them home alone in New York for the weekend, 7-year-old Joey is tricked into thinking he’s killed his older brother with an air rifle. So he runs away, to the funfair at Coney Island, to get lost in the rides, the spectacle. Filmmaker Morris Engel and his team see so much in him: a cowboy, the boy in Shane, the kid in Chaplin’s The Kid. A film this fresh could not have been made in America in the 50s, and yet somehow it was – the first true indie movie, real life captured wild in the streets. Truffaut credited this film with inspiring the French New Wave.

When the Nazis occupy an Albanian village after the withdrawal of the Italian army from WW2, Tomka and his gang are furious – because the Germans set up camp on their football pitch. The local partisans recruit the boys to spy on the invaders, and help to set an ambush. Who knew war could be this much fun? Albania’s greatest female director Xhanfise Keko spins a classic boys’ own adventure yarn, but in a style as raw and authentic as anything from the Italian neo-realists. Never before seen in the UK, freshly restored, this is a rare discovery.

Learn about the filmmaking techniques of pioneering Scottish born animator Norman McLaren in these free fun workshops open to all aged 7+. Using the McLaren Workshop app created by the National Film Board of Canada and led by a professional animator you will create your own animated film. All films will be uploaded to the website – www.mclaren2014.com There are several workshops for various age groups. Tickets can be reserved in advance at the box office.

10am (Families: 7 & 8 yr old with adult) 11.30am (9-12 yrs) 1.30pm (13-17yrs)

Long Live the Republic At’ zije republika

3pm (18+)

Thu 12 Jun at 5.45pm & Sun 15 Jun at 3.30pm Karel Kachyna • Czechoslovakia 1965 • 2h14m DCP • Czech with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Zdenek Lstiburek, Vlado Müller, Nadezda Gajerová.

Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they can’t defeat. The village is in turmoil, because the Nazi occupiers have just retreated and the Red Army is advancing upon them. Oldrich dodges amid the mayhem and panic, taking his share of blows but always managing to stay one step ahead. Beautifully shot and darkly ironic, Karel Kachyna’s forgotten masterpiece jumbles reality, memory and fantasy to capture the intensity and confusion of childhood in a war zone. Brilliant.

Filmhouse Explorer Get a half-price ticket to any of the films in this season with Filmhouse Explorer – see page 4 for details!

An official Culture 2014 event and part of the Year of Homecoming Scotland 2014 celebrations.

This project is part of McLaren 2014 Programme, produced by the Centre for the Moving Image, in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada. www.mclaren2014.com

Filmhouse Player

THE SELFISH GIANT

STRANGER BY THE LAKE

Museum Hours

Stranger by the Lake L’inconnu du lac

This beguiling low-key drama takes you to the Vienna behind the tourist clichés, defying cinema stereotypes and combining unconventional romance with an enchanting reflection on the role of art in our lives. A foreigner called to Vienna by a medical emergency, Anne wanders the streets in limbo, broke and unable to speak the language.

Whiling away the hours in the Art History Museum, she encounters Johann, a guard who warily offers to be her guide.

A brilliantly observed, sharply insightful and refreshingly frank meditation on sex and desire. In a secluded cruising spot tucked away on a picturesque lake, Franck notices the muscular Michel and quickly falls for him. Franck’s desire continues to grow even as he witnesses Michel commit a terrible, violent act. Aware of the potential danger, possibly even excited by it, Franck ignores the advice of his wary friend Henri and indulges his passion.

Jem Cohen • Austria/USA 2012 • 1h47m German and English with English subtitles • 12A – Contains infrequent moderate sex references and natural nudity Cast: Mary Margaret O’Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Piplits.

Our online viewing platform allows you to enjoy a selection of Filmhouse-curated films whenever suits you and wherever you are. New films are being added all the time, but here’s a small selection of what’s currently available, with prices starting from only £2.99! www.filmhousecinema.com/player The Filmhouse Player is a pilot project, in collaboration with GFT and video-on-demand providers Distrify, supported by NESTA’s Digital R&D Fund, Scotland.

TOMBOY

Celebrated indie director Jem Cohen’s cerebral film is a warm tale of two lonely souls brought together by art and chance. Parallels with Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy will be noted, but Cohen’s film is an original work. As in a museum, viewers aren’t told where to look or what to think; we’re encouraged to make our own discoveries.

The Selfish Giant

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

Sound It Out

This contemporary fable, partially based on Oscar Wilde’s story of the same name, is about the friendship of two troubled 13-year-old boys of strikingly different temperaments, who fall under the influence of a shady scrap metal dealer. Exciting, tough and superbly acted by a mix of non-professional and recognisable character actors, this is a bracing addition to the British cinema tradition of heightened realism.

Tucked just off the high street in Stockton-on-Tees, Sound It Out Records is one of the last surviving vinyl record shops struggling to keep afloat in the face of recession and changes in technology. A cultural haven in one of the most deprived areas in the UK, this is a distinctive, funny and intimate portrait of the North, its men and the irreplaceable role music plays in our lives.

Jeanie Finlay • UK 2011 • 1h18m 12A – Contains infrequent strong language • Documentary

Alain Guiraudie • France 2013 • 1h40m French with English subtitles • 18 – Contains strong real sex Cast: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d’Assumçao, Jérôme Chappatte, Mathieu Vervisch.

Tomboy

Céline Sciamma • France 2011 • 1h22m French with English subtitles U – Contains mild violence and occasional natural nudity Cast: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani, Mathieu Demy.

An achingly tender and sweetly funny coming-of-age movie, Tomboy tells the story of ten year-old Laure, who moves to a new Paris suburb with her family. It’s the summer holidays, and all the local kids are running riot around the neighbourhood. Boyish Laure, when first meeting with the gang, introduces herself as Michael.

The other kids don’t even blink: Michael it is. And so the summer fun begins, with Laure, now Michael, doing everything she can to keep her new identity secret. But as the holidays draw to an end, and the threat of school looms, things start to get complicated.

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Iberodocs

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THE PIT

MARIA AND I

Iberodocs Documentary filmmaker Mar Felices and Spanish film collective Cinemaattic have joined forces to share their passion for Ibero-American documentary film by introducing Iberodocs, the first showcase of Ibero-American culture in Scotland, focused on documentary films by Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American filmmakers.

For our inaugural edition we have programmed a selection of works from both emerging and award-winning documentary filmmakers which will focus on the topics of mental health, migration and integration, and rural landscapes. Spanish director Félix Fernández de Castro’s moving Maria and I and I Am Still Here (Kachqaniraqmi)

by Javier Corcuera are only two of the masterful films we have in store for you. Also be sure to mark City of God -10 Years Later special evening with after-party in your diary, as well the UK Premiere of The Pit by acclaimed author Ricardo Íscar. Both unmissable!

The selection of films will be complemented by exhibitions and events to celebrate Ibero-American culture.

Only one other ingredient is needed… you! Alongside Festival partner Filmhouse we invite you to embark on this journey through film to the distant waters of the Iberian Peninsula and on towards Latin America, to find what unites us and differentiates us as global citizens. We can promise it’ll be an unforgettable journey.

For more information on the full Festival programme, visit www.iberodocs.co.uk

¡Nos vemos en el cine! Nos vemos no escurinho do cinema!

This Festival has been produced by Xose-Ramón Rivas on behalf of Cinemaattic Productions CIC, Community Interest Company registered in Scotland (SC464771).

CITY OF GOD - 10 YEARS LATER

The Pit El Foso

UK Premiere

Fri 4 Apr at 6.00pm Ricardo Íscar • Spain 2012 • 1h52m • Digital • Spanish, Catalan, English, Italian, Chinese and Albanian with English subtitles 12A • Documentary

Hidden in the pit, homogenised by their black suits, dozens of musicians from around the world, with different experiences and skills, combine to serve a common purpose: to become one through the power of music. But who are they? The Pit follows the orchestral musicians of The Gran Teatre Liceu opera of Barcelona, their lives, their work, their fears and their passions.

Maria and I María y yo Sat 5 Apr at 3.50pm Félix Fernández de Castro • Spain 2010 • 1h20m • Digital Spanish and Catalan with English subtitles • PG • Documentary

Maria lives with her mother May in the Canary Islands, 3000 km from Barcelona, where Miguel lives. Sometimes Miguel and Maria go on holiday together, spending a week at a resort in Gran Canaria South, an unusual setting which doesn’t often have among its guests a single father and his fourteen-year-old autistic daughter. This is the story of one of their journeys, but above all it’s an original tale about living with a disability, one full of humour, irony and sincerity.

After the screening there will be a live Skype Q&A with the director of the film, Félix Fernández de Castro.

Iberodocs

THE SHEPHERD’S OASIS

THE STONE

I AM STILL HERE (KACHQANIRAQMI)

UK Premieres I Am Still Here

City of God Cidade de Deus

DOUBLE BILL

Sat 5 Apr at 6.00pm

Sun 6 Apr at 3.30pm

Fernando Meirelles • Brazil/France 2002 • 2h10m • 35mm Portuguese with English subtitles • 18 – Contains strong language, drug use, and violence Cast: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen.

The Shepherd’s Oasis El oasis del Pastor

A stunningly realised exploration of organised crime in the sprawling shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro, narrated by young African-Brazilian Rocket, who looks back on the kids he grew up with and their journeys into drug dealing and racketeering. Visually, it’s a triumph, and anchored by remarkable performances, developed over a year’s improvision, with many performers resident in the neighbourhood and acting for the first time.

City of God - 10 Years Later UK Premiere Cidade de Deus - 10 Anos Depois Sat 5 Apr at 8.50pm Cavi Borges and Luciano Vidigal • Brazil 2013 • 1h15m DCP • Portuguese with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary

Ten years after Rio de Janeiro’s slums burst into the world’s consciousness with the hit film City of God (also screening), very little has changed for the residents or the actors who took part. The people who portrayed Dadinho, Bené, and Li’l Zé, actress Alice Braga and musician/actor Seu Jorge reveal the mixed fortunes they’ve experienced since the film’s release in 2002.

There will be a video introduction by the film’s codirector ‘Cavi’ Borges. Official after-party at Boteco do Brasil from 10.00pm with free admission for filmgoers (wristbands will be handed out). More info at www.iberodocs.co.uk

Mar Felices • Spain 2012 • 53m • Digital Spanish and Arabic with English subtitles • PG • Documentary

Solitude is the shepherd’s eternal companion, a truth as old as the thousand-year-old tree that he sits beneath alongside his flock. Yet, the leaves rustling in the passing wind may be an omen of change in Antonio Roja’s life. The arrival of Karim, a Moroccan who has managed to cross the sea to come to a new land, may be disquieting for them both.

PLUS

The Stone La piedra

Victor Moreno Rodríguez • Spain 2013 • 47m • Digital Spanish with English subtitles • PG • Documentary

To a minimalist symphony composed of the sounds of the wind and blows of metal upon stone, a man tackles a rock formation with a sledgehammer.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Mar Felices, director of The Shepherd’s Oasis, and Guillermo Carnero, producer of several of Victor Moreno’s films.

City of God RE-VISITED 23 Mar - 9 Apr, Filmhouse Cafe Curated by Isabel Moura Mendes Photographs by Daniela Cantagalli

26 photographs documenting the Rio de Janeiro slum which, until Fernando Meirelles’ iconic 2002 film, was considered a non-entry drug war zone to cameras. A decade later, beyond the prevailing drug trafficking, the militias, and the violence, there is a sense of a community of people bonded by the hope of a better future.

(Kachqaniraqmi)

UK Premiere

Sigo siendo (Kachqaniraqmi) Sun 6 Apr at 6.15pm Javier Corcuera • Peru 2012 • 1h50m • DCP • Quechua Chanka, Shipibo Conibo and Spanish with English subtitles • PG Documentary

A film about musicians, their stories, the stories they tell with their music, and their relationship with the vast and spectacular Peruvian territory. It is a celebration of life through music. Director Javier Corcuera travels with these musicians, reconstructing the journeys that have been crucial in their lives and showing the complexities, fissures and beauty of diverse Peruvian cultures and identities.

Before the screening there will be a video introduction by director Javier Corcuera.

After the film there will be an official closing reception for the festival at All Bar One (50 Lothian Rd – Festival Square) from 8.00pm. More info at www.iberodocs.co.uk TICKETDEALS See both City of God and City of God - 10 Years Later and save 25% (offer only available in person or by phone) OR Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off These offers are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets.

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The John Muir Festival

BARAKA

The John Muir Festival The Brunton, Musselburgh presents a festival of films celebrating John Muir’s legacy, working in partnership with other cinemas along the John Muir Way, the new national coast to coast pathway. The films portray Muir’s passion for wild places and the environment and celebrate all of the talents of this extraordinary Scotsman – as a naturalist, writer, artist, explorer and founder of the modern conservation movement.

For details of all events in the festival, go to www.johnmuirfestival.com

INTO THE WILD

GRIZZLY MAN

Baraka

Into the Wild

Thu 17 Apr at 6.00pm

Mon 21 Apr at 5.45pm

Ron Fricke • USA 1992 • 1h37m • DCP PG – Contains images of factory farming and human cremation Documentary

Sean Penn • USA 2007 • 2h28m DCP • 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener.

Taking the ancient Sufi word ‘baraka’ (which translates as blessing, breath, or the essence of life), the director of photography, co-editor and co-writer for Koyaanisqatsi takes on directorial and cinematographer duties in this breathtaking New Age tone poem that captures images from 24 countries that transcend geographical and language barriers.

The basic message evoked by the sometimes stunning and sobering images is one which suggests that, over the course of the evolutionary process, humans have lost touch with the significance of nature in their lives and, as a result, have lost touch with their sense of spirituality in the modern world. Loss of individuality, poverty, war, and the wholesale destruction of nature are the heavy prices that humans have paid for this spiritualistic decline.

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Writer/director Sean Penn’s powerful and moving adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction account of the wanderings of Chris McCandless, a young man who leaves behind his friends, family and possessions in search of a greater spiritual knowledge and communion with nature.

Grizzly Man Wed 23 Apr at 6.00pm Werner Herzog • USA 2005 • 1h44m • 35mm 15 – Contains strong language • Documentary

Filmmaker Werner Herzog, perenially fascinated by obsession, here takes on the strange case of Timothy Treadwell, who spent 13 summers in Alaska living among grizzly gears and chronicling their lives on video. The animals he loved, however, were to be his downfall.

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Edinburgh Spy Week: Fictions of Espionage

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

THE LADY VANISHES

Edinburgh Spy Week: Fictions of Espionage Edinburgh Spy Week is a series of events exploring the fascinating world of espionage fiction in literature and film, organised by members of the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh in partnership with Filmhouse, the National Library of Scotland, and Blackwell Bookshop.

As well as these screenings of classic spy films, introduced by authors and academics, there will be a discussion on ‘John Buchan and the Scottish Spy Story’ at the National Library of Scotland, talks on the history of the genre by members of the English Department, and a spy-themed quiz at Blackwell’s.

In addition to a round-table discussion with spy fiction writers including Charles Cumming, Jeremy Duns and Tim Stevens, author and former director of MI5 Dame Stella Rimington will give a special keynote lecture on espionage in fact and fiction.

For more information visit www.spyweek.llc.ed.ac.uk

EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

THE SPY IN BLACK

Emil and the Detectives

Fri 4 Apr at 8.30pm

Emil und die Detektive

Tomas Alfredson • UK/France 2011 • 2h7m • DCP • 15 – Contains strong language, sex, violence and bloody injury detail Cast: Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Ciarán Hinds, Colin Firth, John Hurt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Toby Jones.

Sun 6 Apr at 11am (Tickets £3.50)

Tomas (Let the Right One In) Alfredson’s superbly atmospheric adaptation of John le Carré’s best-selling novel. Set at the height of the Cold War, Gary Oldman stars as George Smiley (the role Alec Guinness made his own in the much-loved 1979 TV adaptation, also screening this month), a recently retired British MI6 agent, rehired in secret by his government, which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets.

Franziska Buch • Germany 2001 • 1h51m 35mm • German with English subtitles • PG Cast: Tobias Retzlaff, Anja Sommavilla, Jürgen Vogel, Maria Schrader, Kai Wiesinger.

When his father is hospitalised after a car crash, 12-year-old Emil is sent to stay with his teacher’s sister in Berlin. But, during the journey, he makes the mistake of talking to a friendly stranger, who then robs him. When Emil arrives in Berlin he meets Pony and her intrepid gang of street-savvy kid detectives, who help him track down the villain and recover his money.

The 1979 television adaptation of Tinker Tailor... is also screening this month – see page 16.

The Lady Vanishes Sat 5 & Sun 6 Apr at 3.45pm Alfred Hitchcock • UK 1938 • 1h37m DCP • U – Contains mild violence Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker.

One of Hitchcock’s finest British films, a classic mystery that manages to combine humour with a genuine sense of menace. The plot is set into motion when a seemingly innocuous old woman, Miss Froy, disappears while on board a train which is crossing Europe, bound for England.

Iris, an acquaintance, searches everywhere, but Miss Froy cannot be found. Even more mysteriously, no one else seems convinced that she ever really existed...

The Spy in Black Sun 6 Apr at 8.30pm Michael Powell • UK 1939 • 1h22m • 35mm • U Cast: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring.

Michael Powell’s first collaboration with Emeric Pressburger (who wrote the screenplay, and with whom he would collaborate on a further 20 features) was a massive commercial hit on its release. Conrad Veidt plays a surprisingly sympathetic German spy at the height of WWI, slinking through the Scottish landscape on a covert mission of espionage.

The screening will be introduced by Penny Fielding, Professor and Head of the Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Spy Week: Fictions of Espionage

THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR

THE IPCRESS FILE

THE 39 STEPS

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

Three Days of the Condor

The 39 Steps

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Mon 7 Apr at 8.30pm

Wed 9 Apr at 8.30pm

Thu 10 Apr at 6.00pm

Sydney Pollack • USA 1975 • 1h57m • Digital • 15 Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman.

Alfred Hitchcock • UK 1935 • 1h27m • DCP U – Contains very mild language and violence Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft.

Martin Ritt • UK 1965 • 1h52m • 35mm PG – Contains mild violence, language and sex references Cast: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, George Voskovec.

Swept from a London music hall to the Scottish Highlands and back to the Palladium, Robert Donat’s Richard Hannay is the archetypal wrongly accused man, embarking on a quest to find the villain and prove his innocence. The model for many subsequent films, this amazingly pacy version of John Buchan’s novel is one of Hitchcock’s most fully satisfying achievements: tense, witty, effortlessly stylish and emotionally direct, it’s his warmest, most touching movie.

Spying is a grim, desperate business that is at once boring and exciting, with dirty work behind the scenes and hardly any derring-do. This superb adaptation of John Le Carre’s novel artfully conveys that sense. Richard Burton is brilliant as a burnt-out British secret agent, sent undercover behind the Iron Curtain for one last mission before he retires.

In Sydney Pollack’s taut conspiracy thriller, CIA researcher Joe Turner (Robert Redford) returns from lunch to find the entire staff of his small New York office assassinated. On the run from the cops and his agency, a desperate Turner resorts to holing up with innocent civilian Kathy (Faye Dunaway), who becomes his only ally.

The Ipcress File Tue 8 Apr at 8.30pm Sidney J Furie • UK 1965 • 1h47m • 35mm PG – Contains mild violence and language Cast: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd, Gordon Jackson.

Michael Caine’s myopic intelligence man underplayed the Bond-style heroics but set a new standard of 60s cool in this, the first and best of his three appearances as Len Deighton’s Harry Palmer. There’s a suitably complex plot involving a missing scientist, an enigmatic piece of recording tape, electronic brainwashing, and top-level treachery; but the best sequences – the encounter in the reading-room, the unsuccessful raid on a mysterious warehouse, the psychedelic torture-chamber – linger in the mind long after the narrative details have been forgotten.

The screening will be introduced by Charles Cumming, author – www.charlescumming.co.uk.

The screening will be introduced by Simon Cooke, Research Fellow, Department of English Literature, University of Edinburgh.

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Filmosophy

THE EAST

Filmosophy Filmosophy is where film meets philosophy. Some films, like philosophy itself, can challenge our preconceived views of ourselves and the world around us. They may provide more questions than answers; yet, in doing so, they will expand our ideas and allow us to view familiar things in an unfamiliar way. They are films that demand to be discussed.

Following on from the success of the inaugural Filmosophy season last year, our second season continues with more original and thoughtprovoking works. Join us as we explore philosophical issues such as: political resistance (The East), memory and identity (Moon), and authenticity (The Consequences of Love). Each screening will be preceded by a short introduction and followed by an opportunity to discuss the philosophical issues raised in an informal and accessible manner.

The screenings will be introduced and discussion sessions hosted by James Mooney (Open Studies lecturer and course organiser at The University of Edinburgh).

Post-screening discussions will be held in the Guild Rooms. Please pick up your ticket for the discussion at the time of booking or on the evening.

MOON

The East

THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE

The Consequences of Love

Tue 8 Apr at 5.50pm

Le conseguenze dell’amore

Zal Batmanglij • UK/USA 2013 • 1h55m DCP • 15 – Contains infrequent strong sex and gory images Cast: Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Toby Kebbell.

Tue 10 Jun at 5.50pm

A suspenseful and provocative espionage thriller starring Brit Marling as former FBI agent Sarah Moss. Handpicked for a plum assignment, Sarah goes deep undercover to infiltrate The East, an elusive anarchist collective seeking revenge against major corporations guilty of covering up criminal activity. Determined, highly-trained and resourceful, Sarah soon ingratiates herself with the group.

But living closely with the intensely committed members of The East, Sarah finds herself torn between her two worlds as she starts to connect with them, and awakens to the moral contradictions of her personal life.

Paolo Sorrentino • Italy 2004 • 1h44m 35mm • Italian with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language and hard drug use Cast: Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini, Raffaele Pisu, Angela Goodwin.

An ice-cool existential thriller from Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty). Titta (Toni Servillo, brilliant as always), an aloof former stockbroker, lives anonymously in an anonymous hotel. His days are spent in the hotel lobby, playing cards, observing the bartender, and taking delivery of suitcases containing millions of dollars.

The plot unfolds itself with such elegance that it would be a crime to give anything more away. Even the genre remains a mystery for almost an hour – and then plays out with a brilliant flair for the unexpected.

Moon Tue 13 May at 5.50pm Duncan Jones • UK 2009 • 1h37m • 35mm 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey (voice).

Duncan Jones’ marvellous debut is a creepy, poignant and funny sci-fi, with a killer lead turn from Sam Rockwell.

Sam has almost reached the end of his three year solo posting mining fuel from the moon for use on Earth.

Connected to his wife and daughter only via videophone conversations, he’s had ample time to reflect on his past – but there’s no denying that his mind has begun to play tricks on him. And as his return date approaches, things in Sam’s contained world take a very startling turn...

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68TH EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

EIFF 2014 JUNE

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28 MAY PROGRAMME LAUNCH

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Dead by Dawn

CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY VANILLA

LES GOUFFRES

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL

Dead by Dawn Dead by Dawn returns to Filmhouse from 24 to 27 April for its 21st edition, with a line-up of dark delights guaranteed to give you goose-bumps on your goose-bumps!

As the finest independent genre event in the country, we have a full programme of the superb feature premieres alongside a handful of classics and lots of short film programmes stuffed full of delicious, twisted, bizarre, dark and unsettling bite-size nightmares, both live action and animation.

Included in this year’s festival are Lesson of Evil from master of madness Takashi Miike, and from Eiji Uchida comes the truly unique Greatful Dead. We’re also screening Stuart Simpson’s Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla, about an ice-cream salesman who’s world is starting to smudge at the edges, and from Antoine Barraud comes Les Gouffres, which should be enough to stop you looking under the bed ever again. Kier-la Janisse presents School of Shock - Pain and Pleasure in the Classroom Safety Film, and from Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills (who brought us Cropsey a few years ago ) comes Killer Legends which is going to make peaceful sleep something that happens to other people. We’re still adding titles to the line-up so please check on the Filmhouse or Dead by Dawn sites for full info.

As the first day of this year’s festival falls on the centenary of the birth of the one and only William Castle we’re celebrating in style with a screening of House on Haunted Hill starring the equally inimitable Vincent Price.

Our classics programme includes Twilight Zone: The Movie and Friday the 13th, with a couple more treats to be announced in coming weeks.

As well as plenty of opportunities to win lots of lovely goodies, there’s also an unrivalled opportunity to offload the most embarrassing dreck from your DVD shelves in our Shit Film Amnesty... the only catch is that if yours is voted the worst, you’ll (ahem) ‘win’ all the other entries!

All-inclusive Passes priced £75 are on sale now.

If you prefer to cherry-pick your viewing, individual tickets for all screenings will go on sale in early April – full information at both Filmhouse and Dead by Dawn sites.

Or if you just want to dip a toe in, there’s also our second event, Spawn of Dawn, which is really an evil mini-me of the main festival, running as an all-night movie marathon in Cinema Two at Filmhouse. It kicks off at midnight on Saturday 26 April and screens five features and up to ten shorts selected from the main festival programme. Tickets for this are priced £25, and are on sale now. www.deadbydawn.co.uk

Modern Playing/The Great Explainers/Who’s Your Dandy?

MODERN PLAYING

WHO’S YOUR DANDY?

SPECIALEVENT

Modern Playing Mon 14 Apr at 8.50pm 1h30m • 15

Modern Playing is going to Japan, and when they get back, they’d like to tell you all about it. Let them take you on a 12,000 mile round trip to the spiritual home of videogames and back again.* Marvel at the heaving shelves of game stores and think back to the empty Zavvi in your high street. Stare in disbelief at the ‘sold out’ signs on the Wii U shelves. But above all, enjoy an evening of talk, music, video and discussion about what we know, what we have learned, and what we still don’t understand about Japanese game development and the cultures of play. modernplaying.com/#quarterly3 A Nottingham Trent University arts and humanities project, GameCity pioneers new ways to interact with videogame culture through art exhibitions and developers’ commentaries as well as playing the latest games from leading developers.

SPECIALEVENT

SPECIALEVENT

A special event as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival (5 - 20 April).

Who’s Your Dandy?

The Great Explainers

1h20m • 15

Wed 9 Apr at 6.15pm 1h30m

In the 1990s, award-winning filmmaker Christopher Sykes made Seven Wonders of the World; a sort of scientific Desert Island Discs in which 14 of the world’s most outstanding scientists shared with him their personal wonders. Join Christopher in conversation with comedian Robin Ince as they reflect on some of the most vivid, entertaining and inspiring of these – from Miriam Rothschild on ‘the jump of the flea’ to Steve Jones on ‘sex’, James Lovelock on ‘standing upright’ and Alison Jolly on ‘lemurs’ – and explain why the ability of these master communicators to share their passion demonstrates that science “only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe” of the world (Richard Feynman).

Suitable for age 14+ Tickets £10/£8

* No passport required For details of other Science Festival events go to www.sciencefestival.co.uk

Sat 17 May at 9.00pm Who’s Your Dandy? is an evening of short film, poetry and music – sometimes all at once! This celebration of International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) will feature shorts from queer and trans* filmmakers, plus stunning live performances from Andra Simons (AMPHIBIA), Lake Montgomery and They They Theys.

Programmed by Sandra Alland (Cachín Cachán Cachunga!) in association with Filmhouse.

BSL interpreted and/or subtitled.

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Education and Learning

CRACKING 2D EASTER ANIMATION

CRACKING 3D EASTER ANIMATION

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

Easter Workshops

Schools Screening - Maria and I

EIFF Media Days

Cracking 2D Easter Animation - Beginners

Wed 30 Apr • 10am • 80min • U S1-S6 • Tickets £2.60, teachers free

Returning to this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival are our popular Media Days, taking place at Filmhouse on 19, 25 and 26 June.

7-12yrs • Sunday 6 April, 10am-12pm • £16 Its Easter time, chocolate, rabbits and crazy animated dinosaurs are destroying the planet! Come to Red Kite Animation’s 2D animation workshop to make your own paper creatures and bring them to life in a cartoon!

Cracking 3D Easter Animation - Beginners 7-12yrs • Sunday 6 April, 3.30pm to 5.30pm • £16 Red Kite Animation studios present a fun-packed introduction to the world of 3D animation. Make your own plasticine cartoon characters and bring them to life in your own film.

Awesome Animated Puppets 12-17yrs • Mon 7 April, 10.30-4.30pm • £40 Design and bring to life an animatable puppet with a wire skeleton inside, just like the professionals! Master ways to keep your characters light-weight and flexible using a variety of materials and techniques. Then try animating in the afternoon to test how they work in front of the camera.

All animations are put online and you can take your eggspert models home with you to make more films.

See page 28 for film information. Book through the box office on 0131 228 2688.

Edinburgh Schools Film Competition We are delighted to once again partner with City of Edinburgh Council and Screen Education Edinburgh to give young people in Edinburgh the chance to have their film selected for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and screened alongside leading filmmakers. Open to all pupils in nursery, primary and secondary education, work is viewed and selected by a Young People’s Jury who also coordinate and present the award ceremony during the Festival in June.

Nursery, Special, Primary & Secondary Schools - Deadline for submitting films is 5pm on Friday 18 April 2014 Higher Media and Higher Art & Design Students Deadline for submitting films is 5pm on Friday 25 April 2014 For more information please contact Neil Rolland on 0131 343 1151 or at neil@screen-ed.org

These events offer an exciting learning experience for students and teachers, allowing an exclusive insight into the Film Industry. Each day includes the screening of a feature film and a short from the main festival programme, as well as the unique opportunity for Q&A sessions with visiting film and media professionals. Previous guests have included directors, producers, games designers, actors and advertising creatives. These events have proved to be hugely enjoyable and worthwhile in the past.

Media Day 1: Thu 19 Jun 10am - 3.30pm Media Day 2: Wed 25 Jun 10am - 3.30pm Media Day 3: Thu 26 Jun 10am - 3.30pm £6 per pupil, accompanying teachers free. Suitable for S5 & S6 students and will be of particular interest to those taking Higher Media Studies or English.

For more information or to make a booking please contact Laura McBride on 0131 228 4051 or at laura.mcbride@ cmi-scotland.co.uk

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