Filmhouse Brochure May/June 2017

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FILMS WORTH TALKING ABOUT

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

The D word...

One word you hear an awful lot of these days is Diversity. It’s a huge word and it means a great deal to us here at Filmhouse. Make no mistake, it is our diversity – one of many points of difference – that makes us both necessary and viable. Viable in that programming a broad range of films that appeal to a broad audience means we can make the numbers stack up; necessary in that it is our duty to reflect the diverse world around us and bring different voices and stories to you, particularly in an industry that is regularly accused of not being diverse enough.

One of the many ways in which we are diverse, is in the range of cultures and languages our programmes of films cover, and I want to make a special plea for those here. Occasionally, it can be a frustration for us that we haven’t managed to attract audiences on a scale we believe the films deserve. At the risk of overstating it, it’s sometimes hard not to feel we’ve let the film and its audience down in some way. Two recent examples might be The Salesman and Graduation from last month – simply two of the best films of the year so far, both fascinating insights into different cultures with meaty moral dilemmas, and really nothing like them or as good as them is being made in the English language at the moment. I’d love to see that reflected in bums on seats. Any help (such as bringing a friend!) anyone can give us would be greatly appreciated!

Luckily, there’s plenty opportunity to help us through this period of gloomy introspection as this early summer pre-EIFF bumper (2 month) issue runs its course, as it’s as multilingual as an episode of Mind Your Language (oops, showing my age there…). Oh, and there’s some great English language films too!

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

Filmhouse Explorer Buy A TICKET FOR...

Their Finest (p 4) Frantz (p 4) My Cousin Rachel (p 7) Mindhorn (p 11)

GET A HALF PRICE TICKET for Lady Macbeth (p 5) The Other Side of Hope (p 5) La Strada (p 13) Jacques Becker (p 36)

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.

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

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

filmhouse junior screenings Under 12s are £4.50 for any screening.

CONCESSIONS

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

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ACCESS/AUDIO DESC./CAPTIONED 38 BABY & CARER SCREENINGS 38 SCREENING DATES AND TIMES 20-23 A Man Called Ove 8 Ada for Mayor 30 After the Storm 8 The Age of Shadows 10 Amadeus - Director’s Cut 14 Ama-San 33 Another Time, Another Place 28 Aquarius 5 Beauty and the Beast 24 Berlin Syndrome 12 The BFG 25 Bicycle Thieves 17 The Big Parade 15 Bitter Rice 28 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 34 The Boss Baby 25 Casque d’Or 36 Certain Women 10 Cinema Novo 31 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 5 Crimes and Misdemeanors 15 Culloden 16 Degree Shows 37 The Demi-Paradise 19 Despair 35 Destiny (Der Müde Tod) 13 Double Bill: The Man Without a Past + Le H... 27 Double Bill: Radio Days + Love and Death 27 The Duke of Burgundy 15 ECA Animation Degree Show 37 ECA Film & TV Degree Show 37 Edinburgh College Broadcast Media...

37 Education and Learning 26 Effie Briest 35 El Dorado XXI 31 Elle 11 Encounters at the End of the World 9 Fear Eats the Soul 34 Filmhouse Junior 24-25 Folk Film Gathering 28 Fox and His Friends 35 Frantz 4 Fresh Cutz 33 Girls Like Us 18 Harmonium 6 Heal the Living 10 Herzog of the Month 9 IberoDocs 30-33 In Which We Serve 18 Jacques Becker 36

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La Belle et La Bête 12 Lady Macbeth 5 Land of Silence and Darkness 9 Land of Songs 29 La Strada 13 Latcho Drom 29 Le Trou 36 Letters from Baghdad 7 The Levelling 4 LIAF Animated Shorts 2016 (4-12 yrs) 25 Machines 6 Manhattan 13 The Marriage of Maria Braun 35 Mary Poppins 24 McLaren 6 The Milk of Sorrow 29 Millions Like Us 19 Mindhorn 11 Miss Sloane 11 My Cousin Rachel 7 My Life as a Courgette 8 Once Upon a Time in the West 15 The Other Side of Hope 5 Over the Rainbow 15 Personal Shopper 11 Phase IV 13 Pizarro 32 The Pretty Ones 32 Pride 17 The Princess Bride 25 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 34-35 Raw 10 The Red Turtle 7 Rest in Peace, Mr Hopper 31 Ricardo Íscar Retrospective 31 The Scar 28 The Selfish Giant 16 Senior Selections 17 Somers Town 14 Song 29 Stilles Land 14 Still Here 33 Stockholm My Love 7 Suddenly My Thoughts Halt 32 Sunday Double Bills 27 Sunshine on Leith 17 Swallows and Amazons 24 Theeb 16 Their Finest 4 Touchez Pas au Grisbi 36 Went the Day Well?

18 The Wild Blue Yonder 9 Writing Ensemble: An Experiment in...

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Their Finest Fri 5 to Thu 18 May Lone Scherfig • UK 2016 • 1h57m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex, injury detail. • Cast: Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Bill Nighy, Jack Huston.

Set in a WWII London populated by the women, old men and children who remained at home, Their Finest is a witty and thoughtful wartime charmer from Lone Scherfig (An Education) with a screenplay based on Lissa Evans’ novel Their Finest Hour and a Half. Young Welsh woman Catrin (Gemma Arterton) lands a job writing dialogue for propaganda filmmakers looking for “a woman’s touch”. Crossing paths (and swords) with dashing producer Tom Buckley (Sam Claflin) and eccentric old thesp Ambrose Hilliard (Bill Nighy, on top form) as bombs drop all around them, Catrin discovers there’s just as much drama, comedy and passion behind the camera as there is on-screen.

Their Finest is inspired by the people behind the wartime propaganda films that were significantly shaped by and targeted at the women of Britain. See page 18 for Girls Like Us - a season of real films from the time.

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Frantz

The Levelling

Fri 12 to Thu 25 May

Fri 12 to Thu 18 May

François Ozon • France/Germany 2016 • 1h54m • Digital • German and French with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent moderate violence. • Cast: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stözner.

Hope Dickson Leach • UK 2016 • 1h24m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sex references. • Cast: Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden, Joe Blakemore.

Unpredictable French auteur François Ozon defies labels once again with this sumptuous and striking period drama. In the immediate aftermath of WW1, Anna, a young woman, finds a mysterious Frenchman laying flowers at the grave of her late husband.

Adrien, who claims to be an old friend, is met with resistance, yet he and Anna gradually become closer as she learns of his deep bond with Frantz. An adaptation of Ernst Lubitsch’s Broken Lullaby, Frantz takes a typically Ozon-like direction, switching the perspective of the source material and writing an entirely original second half.

The debut feature of EIFF alumna Hope Dickson Leach, this is an assured drama set against the backdrop of the Somerset floods of 2014, in which an unexpected and tragic suicide forces a father and daughter (Ellie Kendrick) to confront past grievances and festering resentments. With a finely-crafted script and exceptional cinematography, Dickson Leach’s slow-burning film marks her as a new voice to watch.

5.55pm screening on Fri 12 May followed by Q&A with Hope Dickson Leach hosted by Sight & Sound columnist and former EIFF Artistic Director Hannah McGill.

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Aquarius

Lady Macbeth

Mon 15 to Thu 18 May

Fri 19 May to Thu 1 Jun

Kleber Mendonça Filho • Brazil/France 2016 • 2h26m • Digital Portuguese with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong sex. • Cast: Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrão.

William Oldroyd • UK 2016 • 1h29m • Digital • cert tbc • Cast: Florence Pugh, Paul Hilton, Cosmo Jarvis, Naomie Ackie.

A creatively told story with a brilliant central performance from Sonia Braga, Aquarius sees 65-year-old retired music critic Clara (Braga) as the sole remaining tenant of a charming 1940s-built building in coastal Recife - the Aquarius. Surrounded by rapid redevelopment at the hands of a massive, ruthless company. Her intention to only vacate upon death puts her at odds with the developers, and this confrontation tinges every aspect of her routine with underlying tension, as she casts her mind back over her upbringing between these old, familiar walls...

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The Other Side of Hope

Toivon tuolla puolen Fri 26 May to Thu 8 Jun

Aki Kaurismäki • Finland 2017 • 1h38m • Digital • Finnish with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate violence, racist behaviour.

Cast: Sakari Kuosmanen, Sherwan Haji, Tommi Korpela, Kati Outinen.

Aki Kaurismäki’s superb new film is a humane, funny and compassionate study of that most pressing of global issues: the plight of the refugee. With trademark doleful wit, the director focuses on the unlikely alliance between Wikstrom, a poker-playing restauranteur, and Khaled, a Syrian refugee, newly arrived in Finland and seeking asylum. Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at this year’s Berlinale, The Other Side of Hope is the second in Kaurismäki’s planned trilogy about the European migrant crisis, following 2011’s sublime Le Havre (see page 27).

A quiet yet audacious period tale from theatre director William Oldroyd based on Nikolai Leskov’s Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk, Lady Macbeth’s title reveals plenty but will still surprise and engross. Rural North East England, 1865. Katherine (Florence Pugh, one to watch) is stifled by her loveless marriage having been sold off to a bitter man twice her age.

When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young stablehand (Cosmo Jarvis), a force is unleashed inside her so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants...

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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Fri 26 to Mon 29 May Matt Tyrnauer • USA 2016 • 1h32m • Digital • PG - Contains infrequent racist language, drug references. • Documentary.

In 1960, architectural journalist and urban activist Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a hugely influential work which argued against urban renewal programmes and presented a revolutionary new way of thinking about the construction of a city - one which began with people, not buildings. Matt Tyrnauer’s timely documentary takes as its central point the Davidand-Goliath battle between Jacobs and ruthless city planner Robert Moses as she harnessed the power of the people to save historic neighbourhoods.

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McLaren Thu 25 to Sat 27 May Roger Donaldson • New Zealand 2016 • 1h32m • Digital 12A - Contains moderate injury detail. • Documentary.

In the footsteps (tyre tracks?) of films like Senna, a new, definitive documentary about one of New Zealand’s most treasured sons and the father of a cherished motor racing empire. Born in Auckland in 1937, Bruce McLaren’s determination to make it to the summit of global motor racing circles saw his name become synonymous with the sport. Revealing the challenges and adversities faced along the way, including a serious childhood illness, McLaren is the story of one man’s unfaltering commitment to his vision, told with incredible archive footage and the memories of those who knew him best.

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Machines Fri 2 to Thu 8 Jun Rahul Jain • India/Germany/Finland 2016 • 1h15m • Digital • Hindi and English with English subtitles • cert tbc • Documentary.

Moving through the corridors and bowels of an enormous textile factory in Gujarat, India - Rahul Jain’s discerning camera takes us on a descent down to a dehumanised place of physical labour and intense hardship. Machines observes the life of the workers, their intense labour and the environment they can hardly escape from. With strong visual language, memorable images and carefully selected interviews of the workers themselves, Jain tells a story of inequality, oppression and the huge divide between rich, poor and the perspectives of both.

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Harmonium Fachu ni tatsu Mon 29 May to Thu 1 Jun Kôji Fukada • Japan/France 2016 • 1h58m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A - Contains moderate sex, injury detail. Cast: Kanji Furutachi, Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui.

Kôji Fukada (Au Revoir L’Ete) directs this quietly explosive family drama, in which children, as ever, must suffer the sins of their fathers. Toshio (Kanji Furutachi) and Akié (Mariko Tsutsui) live in apparent domestic banality and calm with their daughter Hotaru (Momone Shinokawa), a novice student of the reed organ (harmonium). When an acquaintance - recently released from prison - arrives abruptly to work for Toshio as a live-in employee and begins to infiltrate every aspect of their day-to-day, the layers of their settled family life begin, painfully, to peel away...

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Letters from Baghdad

My Cousin Rachel

Fri 2 to Thu 8 Jun

Showing from Fri 9 Jun

Zeva Oelbaum, Sabine Krayenbühl • USA/UK/France 2016 • 1h33m Digital • English and Arabic with English subtitles • PG - Contains brief images of dead bodies, suicide references. • Documentary.

Roger Michell • UK/USA 2017 • 1h46m • Digital • cert tbc • Cast: Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Holliday Grainger, Iain Glen, Andrew Knott.

Voiced by exec producer Tilda Swinton, this fascinating documentary uses personal correspondence, performance roles and extraordinary archive footage to explore the life of English writer, archaeologist, diplomat and spy Gertrude Bell whose post-WW1 exploits saw her often described as the ‘female Lawrence of Arabia’. Through her letters and journals, we hear her eerily prescient observations on the culture and politics of the Middle East in the early 20th century, as well as the relationships she forged as she navigated the Arabian desert and the all-male halls of colonial power.

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The Red Turtle

Roger Michell (Le Week-end) adapts and directs this thrilling mystery based on Daphne Du Maurier’s novel, previously adapted with Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton in 1952. Set on the spectacular Cornish coastline, young Philip (Sam Claflin) has his suspicions about his cousin Rachel (Rachel Weisz) when her husband, his guardian, dies overseas. When a deeply incriminating letter emerges, Philip vows to find out once and for all. Despite stern warnings from those close to him, his feelings begin to cloud his judgement - his feelings for the beautiful, notorious Rachel... See next brochure for an upcoming Du Maurier Double Bill of Rebecca and The Birds.

NEW RELEASE La tortue rouge

Stockholm My Love

Fri 9 to Thu 15 Jun

Fri 16 to Wed 21 Jun

Michaël Dudok de Wit • Japan/France/Belgium 2016 • 1h20m • Digital No dialogue • PG - Contains mild threat.

Mark Cousins • Sweden/UK 2016 • 1h24m • Digital • English and Swedish with English subtitles • PG - Contains brief bloody images.

Although there is no dialogue, the big questions this exquisite film asks - about ambition, acceptance and the beauty of companionship - ring loud in every frame. A man is shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by turtles, crabs and birds. When he builds a wooden raft, he is confronted by the titular turtle.

The story then follows the milestones in his life on the island which include meeting a woman and starting a family. Animator Michael Dudok de Wit co-wrote the story for this first international co-production for Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli.

Haunted by the anniversary of a senseless accident, Swedish architect Alva (Neneh Cherry, who provides original music) finds herself walking - haunting the districts of Stockholm. We hear her personal, meandering thoughts, and the more she muses, the more we learn about her immigrant father, her youth and the incident that has set her on this journey. Mark Cousins skilfully, sensitively explores the life and traces the roots of a city once more.

8.15pm screening on Mon 19 June will be followed by a Q&A with Mark Cousins and Neneh Cherry.

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After the Storm

My Life as a Courgette

Fri 16 to Mon 19 Jun

Mon 3 to Thu 6 Jul

Hirokazu Koreeda • Japan 2016 • 1h57m • Digital • Japanese with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild bad language, sex references.

Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi, Lily Franky.

Ryota (Hiroshi Abe), a former novelist now working for a private detective agency in a Tokyo suburb, claims his spying on cheating couples is research for a new book, but instead he is sucked back into gambling addiction and the lies that broke his family in two. Getting back in touch with his funny, spry mother Yoshiko (Kirin Kiki), he begins to think about reconciliations... By turns funny, melancholy and prescient, Our Little Sister director Koreeda’s drama is gorgeously photographed and performed, revealing moments of unanticipated beauty thrown into relief by everyday life.

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A Man Called Ove

En man som heter Ove Mon 3 Jul to Thu 13 July

Hannes Holm • Sweden 2015 • 1h56m • Digital • Swedish and Persian with English subtitles • cert tbc • Cast: Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg, Ida Engvoll.

This irresistible adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s bestseller is the funny, moving, heart-warming story of how even the most short-tempered and stubborn of men can slowly be won over. Oscar® nominated, a massive success in its home territory and a hit at EIFF 2016, it’s elevated by a wonderfully complex lead performance by Rolf Lassgård, who patrols/terrorises his suburban neighbourhood with the utmost vigilance. Things change, when he meets pregnant new neighbour Parvaneh (Bahar Pars) and her family...

Screening both subtitled and dubbed versions, see page 23 Claude Barras • Switzerland/France 2016 • 1h6m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild sex references, references to traumatic childhood experiences.

A genuinely touching stop-motion animated feature with dark themes that will call to mind the likes of Coraline or the heyday of Tim Burton, My Life as a Courgette is at times funny and heartbreaking in the same frame. Nine year old Icare, nicknamed ‘Courgette’ by his late mother, is taken to a foster care centre by a kindly policeman and struggles to fit in.

With the help of brash tough kid Simon and fellow new arrival Camille, however, he soon learns that all of them have been through a lot in their young lives.

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Filmhouse will screen a film by Werner Herzog every month. This will continue for as long as possible.

See these films.

The Wild Blue Yonder Sun 21 May at 6.00pm Werner Herzog • Germany/France/Austria/UK 2005 • 1h21m • Digital • PG - Contains one suicide reference. • Cast: Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Shannon Lucid.

Most of Herzog’s lead characters could plausibly tell you “Where I come from is the wild blue yonder”, but this one (played by Brad Dourif ) means it literally. As on-screen narrator of this ‘science fiction fantasy’, Dourif offers a rueful, embittered and often very funny account of his species’ journey from their dying planet in the Andromeda system to Earth, where the establishment of a new civilisation foundered.

Land of Silence and Darkness

Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit Sun 18 Jun at 6.20pm

Werner Herzog • West Germany 1971 • 1h25m • German with English subtitles • U • Documentary.

Herzog’s profound fascination with the human experience is well demonstrated in this early documentary. It centres around and hinges upon the work of deaf-blind 56-year-old Fini Straubinger.

Dedicated to helping others, Straubinger introduces us to a community of people and reveals the intricacies of basic daily life, including touch-based communication. Rather than trying to surmise or simulate what their experience might be like, Herzog watches, waits and learns.

Encounters at the End of the World Tue 18 Jul at 6.10pm Werner Herzog • USA 2007 • 1h39m • English and Spanish with English subtitles • U - Contains mild sex references • Documentary.

Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science Foundation and home to eleven hundred people during the austral summer, which runs from October to February. He examines human nature and Mother nature, juxtaposing breathtaking locations with the profound, surreal experiences of those who choose to form a society as far away from society as one can get. And, of course, there’s that penguin.

Herzog of the Month

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The Age of Shadows

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Raw

Fri 5 to Mon 8 May

Fri 5 to Tue 9 May

Jee-woon Kim • South Korea 2016 • 2h20m • Digital • Korean, Japanese, Mandarin and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong bloody violence, injury detail, scenes of torture. • Cast: Byunghun Lee, Yoo Gong, Kang-ho Song, Ji-min Han, Hee-soon Park.

Julia Ducournau • France/Belgium 2016 • 1h39m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 18 - Contains strong gory images, injury detail. • Cast: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Joana Preiss, Bouli Lanners.

The effortless style of Jee-woon Kim (A Bittersweet Life) inhabits this epic-scale, utterly engrossing thriller set in Japanese-occupied 1920s Seoul. A Koreanborn captain in the Japanese police (Kang-ho Song), is tasked with infiltrating the Korean independence movement, and initiates his mission by getting close to resistance leader Kim Woo-jin (Yoo Gong).

Integrated into a band of his rebel compatriots, his mind is clouded by doubt as their cat-and-mouse game veers towards disaster in the form of a train with explosive cargo rumbling towards Seoul...

One of the the most notorious films of 2016, Raw is a truly outrageous and undeniably original horror-psychodrama about coming-of-age, sibling rivalry and carnal desire. Lifelong vegetarian Justine (Garance Marillier) joins her older sister at veterinary school and is soon engaged in a carnivorous hazing ritual - the gateway to a dangerously seductive world of raw meat consumption. Raw meat of every kind...

Socially inexperienced Justine’s life plunges into an adult world of experimentation, wild parties, violence and this newly-awakened craving...

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Certain Women

Heal the Living

Mon 8 to Thu 11 May

Fri 19 to Thu 25 May

Kelly Reichardt • USA 2016 • 1h47m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language. • Cast: Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone.

Katell Quillévéré • France/Belgium 2016 • 1h44m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A - Contains surgical detail, moderate sex references. • Cast: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval.

Adapting a short story collection by Maile Meloy, the award-winning Certain Women subtly explores the marginally intersecting stories of four women, and in doing so turns a mirror to the nuances of independent womanhood. Impeccably shot, Kelly Reichardt’s film benefits from an ensemble cast that includes Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and excellent newcomer Lily Gladstone, who inhabit the central roles in these intimate, unravelling tales set in smalltown Montana. A quiet, deft film that adds to Reichardt’s distinguished filmography.

At daybreak, three young surfers ride the raging seas.

On their way home, a catastrophic road accident occurs. Now on life-support in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon’s existence seems little more than an illusion, leaving his parents with the most torturous decision of their lives. Meanwhile, in Paris, a woman awaits the organ transplant that will give her a new lease on life... Comprising of three interconnected stories, Katell Quillévéré’s well-woven medical drama is an elegant, engrossing and compassionate meditation on the sorrow of loss and the quiet beauty of living.

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Personal Shopper

Elle

Fri 26 to Sun 28 May

Fri 2 to Thu 8 Jun

Olivier Assayas • France/Germany 2016 • 1h45m • Digital • English, French and Swedish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language, threat, infrequent bloody images. • Cast: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie.

Paul Verhoeven • France/Germany/Belgium 2016 • 2h10m • Digital French with English subtitles • 18 - Contains sexual violence.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Virginie Efira.

Reuniting Olivier Assayas with his Clouds of Sils Maria star Kristen Stewart, the eerie Personal Shopper is an intriguing fusion of supernatural chills and muted psychological drama. Maureen (a brilliant, understated Stewart) finds little fulfilment in her job as personal shopper for a wealthy client. Having recently lost her twin brother to a congenital heart condition, Maureen is a lonely soul desperate for any flicker of meaning from beyond the grave. This search for a sign quietly begins to consume her, as mysterious text messages arrive on her phone...

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A powerhouse performance from Isabelle Huppert leads this devastating psychological thriller from Paul Verhoeven, rich with wholly unexpected moments of black humour and twisted menace. Michèle (Huppert) has overcome a turbulent childhood to become head of a successful video game company, and brings the same ruthless attitude to her personal life - juggling numerous romantic entanglements and the endless foibles of her naïve son (Jonas Bloquet).

A brutal attack in her home by an unknown assailant will change her life forever - and his.

Not for the faint hearted.

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Mindhorn

Miss Sloane

Fri 2 to Thu 8 Jun

Fri 9 to Thu 15 Jun

Sean Foley • UK 2016 • 1h29m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, drug misuse. • Cast: Julian Barratt, Andrea Riseborough, Essie Davis, Simon Farnaby, Richard McCabe, Russell Tovey.

John Madden • France/USA 2016 • 2h12m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, brief strong sex. • Cast: Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sam Waterston, Alison Pill, John Lithgow, Mark Strong.

Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh) is on top form in this daft but earnest comedic caper. In his 80s glory days as the robotic-eyed star of Isle of Man detective series Mindhorn, Richard Thorncroft (Barratt) was a household name. Thirty years later, he finds himself in a dingy London flat, clinging to fading looks and still looking for work. An unusual career opportunity comes up when an unhinged criminal demands to negotiate only with Mindhorn, which brings him back to his old stomping ground - and the people he left behind when he swanned off to Hollywood...

In the world of political power-brokers, Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain) is the most sought after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. Known for her ruthless cunning and a track record of success, she has always done anything and everything to secure victory.

When she switches firms to work against a powerful campaign to encourage gun possession among women, she finds that winning may come at too high a price... Thick with twists, brinkmanship and haunting moral questions, this is a sharply-scripted, characterdriven political thriller to savour.

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THE CLASSIC ALTERNATIVE

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Berlin Syndrome

La Belle et la BÊte

Mon 3 to Thu 13 Jul

Fri 5 to Sun 7 May

Cate Shortland • Australia 2017 • 1h56m • Digital • English, German and Russian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong threat, violence, injury detail, sex, sexualised nudity. • Cast: Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt, Lucie Aron, Matthias Habich.

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

Cate Shortland, the Australian filmmaker behind the impressionistic Lore and Somersault, directs this taut, sensual and disturbing thriller based in a beautifully shot Berlin. Australian photojournalist Clare (Teresa Palmer) embarks on a passionate holiday romance with Andi (Max Riemelt), a charismatic local. Their affair suddenly changes pace, however, when Clare wakes up in Andi’s apartment to discover he’s gone to work and left her locked inside. At first it seems like a mistake anyone could make; however, it soon becomes evident that Andi has no intention of letting her leave...

In the wake of the recent live-action musical version (see page 24), a chance to enjoy Jean Cocteau’s classic original, cinematic vision.

A lowly merchant lives in the country with his son and three daughters. One of his daughters, Belle, is exploited by the other two. When the merchant loses his way in a forest and finds himself in a strange castle. He picks a rose for Belle, causing the castle’s half-human, half-beast owner to tell him he will die unless he sends Belle to him... Pushing film technology of the time to its creative limits, this is sumptuous, innovative cinema.

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5 MAY 17 - 6 JUL 17

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Manhattan

Phase IV

Fri 19 to Thu 25 May

Tue 30 May to Thu 1 Jun

Woody Allen • USA 1979 • 1h36m • Digital • 12A - Contains infrequent strong language • Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep.

Saul Bass • USA 1973 • 1h24m • Digital • PG • Cast: Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford.

A magnificent digital restoration. Isaac (Woody Allen) is a comedy writer contemplating the complexities of his life - the triviality of his work, his ambitions, his disastrous relationships, and the imminent betrayal of his best friend. As if these weren’t enough, his lesbian ex-wife is about to publish a book about their marriage... An edgy social comedy framed as a loving tribute to neurotic New York, overlaid with an evocative Gershwin score. See page 27 for a Woody Allen Double Bill of Radio Days and Love and Death.

Classic re-release

Destiny Der müde Tod Fri 9 to Mon 12 Jun Fritz Lang • Germany 1921 • 1h45m • Digital • Silent • PG • Cast: Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke, Hans Sternberg.

When a young woman realises that Death has taken her lover she attempts suicide, but is stopped at the entranceway to the afterlife by Death. She begs him to let her beloved go, and Death offers to do so if she can save at least one of three lives in danger of being extinguished in the exotic settings of Persia, Venice and ancient China. A wonderfully atmospheric and compelling metaphysical drama from the great Fritz Lang (Metropolis). This definitive presentation recreates the original German intertitles and simulates the historic colour tinting and toning of its initial release. It also features a newly recorded score by Cornelius Schwehr which was originally performed at Berlinale 2016.

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In this eerie slice of science fiction, mankind’s individualistic nature comes under threat from an evolving species of super-intelligent, super-resistant ant. The film marked the directorial debut of noted title designer Saul Bass (Vertigo, Psycho), and has all the hallmarks of his distinct visual style. Also notable is the amazing cinematography and the articulation of a species alien to mankind, tiny in size, but infinitely superior in numbers, with a collective self-sacrificing sociological behaviour, its own language and an advanced knowledge of geometry...

Classic re-release

La Strada Fri 16 to Wed 21 Jun Federico Fellini • Italy 1954 • 1h48m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • PG • Cast: Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere, Livia Venturini.

Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) - a simple-minded girl - loves the drunken, boorish circus strongman Zampano (Anthony Quinn), who bought her for a few lire, put her to work as a clown, and has since ignored and neglected her. When she finds a kindred spirit in gentle tightrope walker (Richard Basehart), she begins to question this life she was sold into.

Well over sixty years since it won the first Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film, Federico Fellini’s magnificent La Strada returns to our screens.

Classic Re-releases

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Growing Pains

Somers Town Sat 13 May at 3.40pm Shane Meadows • UK 2008 • 1h11m • 35mm • English, Polish and French with English subtitles • 12A - Contains one use of strong language, moderate sex references and violence • Cast: Thomas Turgoose, Piotr Jagiello, Elisa Lasowski, Ireneusz Czop, Kate Dickie.

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

Runaway Tomo escapes troubles at home in the North of England only to find himself in London without a roof over his head. Through a newfound friendship with teenage Marek, they find ways to keep fed and sheltered, as well as running moneymaking scams to fund methods to charm a local cafe waitress. A compassionate portrayal of brotherly friendship, born out of a lack of parental care and guidance.

Writing Ensemble: An Experiment in Theatre Sun 14 May at 1.10pm

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Amadeus The Director’s Cut Sun 14 May at 7.30pm Milos Forman • USA/France 1984/2002 • 3h • Digital • English, Italian, Latin and German with English subtitles • PG Cast: F Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge.

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

An extended Director’s Cut. Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), one of the most competent composers of his age, finds himself in competition with Mozart (Tom Hulce). This begins to turns him into a hatefilled monster whose only aim in life is to ruin his more talented colleague. Nonetheless Salieri emerges as a tragic and sympathetic character, partly because he alone can appreciate this almost perfect music, and because he is a symbol all of us whose talents fall short of our desires.

Stilles Land

Silent Country Sun 14 May at 4.05pm

Susan Kemp • UK 2016 • 1h42m • Digital • 15 • Documentary.

Andreas Dresen • Germany 1992 • 1h35m • Digital • German with English subtitles • 15 • Cast: Thorsten Merten, Jeannette Arndt.

The very recent history of the former GDR has much to tell us about how to understand the world today.

In this closed, authoritarian society, theatre played a significant role. This documentary follows Scottish playwright Peter Arnott as he tackles the subject of East German theatre censorship for a commissioned play. Introduced by director Susan Kemp, and Q&A with Professor Laura Bradley of the University of Edinburgh and Peter Arnott, playwright.

Andreas Dresen grew up as part of a theatrical family in the former GDR and so it is no surprise then that the theatre is the setting for this, his first feature, made shortly after the fall of the wall. The film was commended for its nuanced portrayal of everyday life and won the Hessian Film Prize and the German Film Critics’ Prize in the year of release.

Introduced by Professor Laura Bradley of the University of Edinburgh. £6.50/£5.50

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FILMOSOPHY

5 MAY 17 - 6 JUL 17

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Crimes and Misdemeanors

The Duke of Burgundy

Wed 24 May at 5.50pm

Sat 27 May at 3.50pm & Sun 28 May at 6.10pm

Woody Allen • USA 1989 • 1h44m • 35mm • 15 • Cast: Martin Landau, Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston, Sam Waterston.

Peter Strickland • UK 2014 • 1h44m • Digital • 18 - Contains sexual fetish theme. • Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D’Anna, Eugenia Caruso, Monica Swinn, Fatma Mohamed.

Judah (Martin Landau) is a respected ophthalmologist and family man, who fears that the revelation of his affair with flight attendant Dolores (Anjelica Huston) may threaten his comfortable life. Featuring an all-star cast, Woody Allen’s existential comedy forces us to consider how far we would go to protect what is ours, and whether our moral choices reflect anything more than our fear of being punished.

Preceded by a short introduction and followed by an informal post-screening discussion, hosted

by James Mooney, Short Courses lecturer at The University of Edinburgh.

THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN CINEMA

The Big Parade Sun 28 May at 2.00pm King Vidor • USA 1925 • 2h31m • 35mm • Silent with soundtrack • U Cast: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Robert Ober, Tom O’Brien.

One of the earliest films produced by a newly formed MGM, The Big Parade was a huge box office smash and cemented King Vidor as a prestige filmmaker.

The story of an idle American (John Gilbert), who is deployed to Europe when the USA join WWI, its plot was heavily borrowed from Broadway play What Price Glory?. Centred around his romance with a French local (Renée Adorée), it is full of strange, wonderful moments and impressive scenes of battle.

Screening as part of The First World War in Cinema, a four-year series of films programmed in association with The University of Edinburgh.

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Taking its title from a rare species of butterfly, The Duke of Burgundy chronicles the increasingly intimate relationship between wealthy amateur lepidopterist Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and her housekeeper, Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna). As Cynthia’s demands begin to betray a sadomasochistic streak, Evelyn dutifully submits with surprising relish. In another director’s hands, this might easily have tipped into the severe. Strickland, however, demonstrates a gift for tone. An intoxicating cinematic curiosity.

See page 34 for Rainer Werner Fassbinder season.

Come and see

Once Upon a Time in the West C’era una volta il West Wed 31 May at 7.55pm Sergio Leone • Italy/USA 1968 • 2h45m • Digital • English, Italian and Spanish with English subtitles • 15 - Contains moderate sex and sexual threat. • Cast: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards.

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

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

Filmosophy/Over the Rainbow/WWI in Cinema/Come and See

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Growing Pains/WWI in Cinema/Culloden

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The Selfish Giant

Theeb

Tue 13 Jun at 6.10pm

Thu 6 Jul at 6.10pm

Clio Barnard • UK 2013 • 1h31m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, once very strong • Cast: Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas.

Naji Abu Nowar • United Arab Emirates/Qatar/Jordan/UK 2014 1h40m • Digital • Arabic with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong injury detail, violence • Cast: Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh.

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

When teens Arbor and Swifty are excluded from school, their position as outsiders in their neighborhood becomes evident. Like the children of Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant, they find themselves cast out. Determined to break into the adult world, they begin working for local scrap dealer Kitten.

A stark, keenly observed tale detailing childhood friendship under harsh circumstances, centering on young figures who are neither bad nor good - just desperate, hoping for a better future.

1916, the Ottoman Empire. a young Bedouin boy, Theeb (Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat), and his brother Hussein (Hussein Salameh) act as guides to a British Officer (Jack Fox) and his companion. When - suddenly and abruptly - their plans go awry, the brothers must adapt and survive. We had planned to screen Lawrence of Arabia in this slot (for the centenary of the Battle of Aqaba), but will instead screen it later in the year (from a newly-restored 70mm print!).

This gave us just the excuse we needed to screen the wonderful Theeb, which is set, though it is never stated, around the same time and place.

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Culloden Tue 15 Aug at 6.00pm Peter Watkins • UK 1964 • 1h9m • Digital • English and Scottish Gaelic with English subtitles • 12 • Cast: Tony Gosgrove, George McBean, Don Fairservice, Robert Oates.

In his debut feature, Peter Watkins imagines a documentary film crew covering the Battle of Culloden. This ground-breaking film conveys an incredible amount of political and historical information within a humanistic, gripping narrative. A detailed study of the 1746 battle and the ensuing brutal suppression of the Highland Scots, Culloden draws much of its analysis and voice-over narration from the history book of the same name

by John Prebble, and presented a radical political statement at the time - particularly in the shadow of the ongoing Vietnam War. The screening will be introduced by David Forsyth, Principal Curator of Medieval-Early Modern Collections and curator of the Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland (23 June-12 November 2017). Visit www.nms.ac.uk/jacobites for details.

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

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

Bicycle Thieves

Ladri di biciclette

Sunshine on Leith Tue 9 May at 1.00pm Dexter Fletcher • UK 2013 • 1h40m • Digital • PG - Contains mild language, violence and sex references • Cast: George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Peter Mullan, Jason Flemyng, Jane Horrocks.

A hugely enjoyable adaptation of the successful stage musical featuring the songs of The Proclaimers. Home is where the heart is for Davy and Ally (George McKay, Kevin Guthrie). Returning home to Leith from duty in Afghanistan, the lads kindle romances old and new: Ally with Davy’s sister Liz (Freya Mavor), and Davy with Yvonne (Antonia Thomas). Meanwhile, Davy’s parents Rab (Peter Mullan) and Jean (Jane Horrocks) are planning their 25th wedding anniversary. Plain sailing, until a revelation from Rab’s past threatens to tear the family and all three couples apart... £3 (over-60s only)

Pride

Tue 23 May at 1.30pm

Tue 4 Jul at 1.00pm

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

Matthew Warchus • UK 2014 • 2h • Digital • 15 - Contains strong language, sex references • Cast: Bill Nighy, Andrew Scott, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, George MacKay.

A classic of cinema, Vittorio De Sica’s extraordinary drama of desperation and survival in Italy’s post-war depression earned a special Academy Award® for its affecting power. Shot in the streets and alleys of Rome, De Sica used a real-life environment and cast non-professional actors to frame this moving drama of desperation. The impoverished Antonio’s new job delivering cinema posters is threatened when a street thief steals his bicycle. Too poor to buy another, he and his son take to the streets in an impossible search for the bike... £3 (over-60s only)

A warm, witty, joyous drama inspired by an extraordinary true story of two worlds banding together for a common cause. It’s the summer of 1984 - Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decide to raise money to support the families of the miners. But there’s a problem - the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support. Undeterred, the plucky activists set off for a mining village in rural Wales to make a donation in person... £3 (over-60s only)

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Girls Like Us

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This selection of distinguished wartime shorts and features embraces the everyday reality of a besieged and battered Britain. Contemplating a future of either Nazi occupation or a utopian idyll of a classless and sexually equal Britain gave inspiration to emergent women writers, producers and stars, and resulted in some astonishing propaganda movies which, with a female bias, merged stark reality with fiction and fantasy. This is a small selection of them.

Short film prints courtesy of Imperial War Museum and the British Film Institute.

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Went the Day Well?

Tue 9 May at 6.15pm Alberto Cavalcanti • UK 1942 • 1h34m • 35mm • PG - Contains moderate violence. Cast: Leslie Banks, C V France, Valerie Taylor.

This unique WWII Ealing production shows women taking on the disguised vanguard of a German invasion with a variety of weapons (most memorably a hatchet!). Graham Greene’s short story, co-adapted

by Ealing’s only female resident writer, Diana Morgan, is almost supernatural in its telling - Cavalcanti, well known as a documentary filmmaker, was also schooled as a surrealist in Paris. It’s a gripping tale that feels groundbreaking even today.

PLUS SHORT Miss Grant Goes to the Door

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Brian Desmond Hurst • UK 1940 • 7m • 35mm • U

In Which We Serve Thu 11 May at 5.45pm Noël Coward, David Lean • UK 1942 • 1h54m • Digital • U • Cast: Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Richard Attenborough, Celia Johnson.

Coward and Lean reinforce the status quo in this celebration of the British class system. Celia Johnson makes her feature debut as a dutiful wife - a role she played earlier in Carol Reed’s propaganda short Letter From Home. No other actor epitomised the upper-middle class British woman more convincingly or beautifully than Johnson, and American audiences agreed in droves. ‘[The film] set a new standard in English cinema,’ said Dilys Powell.

PLUS SHORT We Serve

Carol Reed • UK 1941 • 30m • 35mm • U

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Millions Like Us

5 MAY 17 - 6 JUL 17

The Demi-Paradise

Tue 16 May at 5.45pm

Thu 18 May at 5.40pm

Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder • UK 1943 • 1h43m • Digital • U Cast: Patricia Roc, Anne Crawford, Gordon Jackson, Megs Jenkins.

Anthony Asquith • UK 1943 • 1h52m • 35mm • U Cast: Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford.

A heartwarming and heartbreaking story of a young Londoner sent to an arms factory in the Midlands, where she encounters a supportive world of women from across the class system. Gilliat and Launder were experienced comedy writers making their directorial debut, so it’s no surprise to find Caldicott and Charters, the bumbling Englishmen they created for The Lady Vanishes, appearing here as characters pointing out the absurdities and hilarities of wartime austerity.

PLUS SHORT Night Shift

Jack Chambers • UK 1942 • 14m • 35mm • U

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Penelope Dudley-Ward lights up the screen as a spirited industrialist’s daughter who educates a Russian engineer (Laurence Olivier) on the mysteries and charms of the English psyche and class system before and after the outbreak of the war. A thinly disguised propaganda film to promote better relations with the Soviets, this is also a genuinely funny romantic comedy.

PLUS SHORT Lady Be Kind

Rodney Ackland • UK 1941 • 8m • 35mm • U

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Screenings and Times

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(AD) Audio Description (see p 38) (CS) Come and See (p 14-15) (C) Captioned for deaf or hard of hearing (F) Filmosophy (p 15) (see p 38) (FB) Rainer Werner Fassbinder (p 34-35)

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(FF) Folk Film Gathering (p 28-29) (FJ) Filmhouse Junior (p 24-25) (GL) Girls Like Us (p 18-19)

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE

Fri 1 5 2 May 2 2 2 3 3 3

Their Finest (AD) Their Finest (AD) La Belle et la Bête Raw The Age of Shadows The Age of Shadows Bitter Rice (FF) Raw

1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45

Fri 12 May

Sat 1 6 2 May 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Their Finest (AD) Their Finest (AD) La Belle et la Bête Raw The Age of Shadows The Age of Shadows La Belle et la Bête Another Time, Another... (FF) Raw

1.00/3.35/6.10/8.45

Sat 1 13 2 May 2 2 3 3 3 3

Frantz 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 Their Finest (AD) 11.00am/6.05 The Levelling 1.35/8.40 Somers Town (GP) 3.40 +Discussion Suddenly My Thoughts Halt (ID) 1.10 +Discussion Pizarro (ID) 3.50 The Pretty Ones + Short (ID) 6.10 +Q&A Ama-San (ID) 8.40

Sun 1 7 1 May 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3

Swallows and Amazons (FJ) La Belle et la Bête Raw Their Finest (AD) Their Finest (AD) The Age of Shadows The Scar (FF) Raw La Belle et la Bête Their Finest (AD) The Age of Shadows

11.00am 1.30 3.40 6.10/8.45 11.30am 2.15 5.30 +Q&A 8.50 11.05am/6.10 1.15/3.45 8.20

Sun 1 14 1 May 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Beauty and the Beast (FJ) (AD) Frantz Amadeus - Director’s Cut (CS) Writing Ensemble Stilles Land The Levelling Their Finest (AD) Ada For Mayor (ID) Fresh Cutz (ID) Still Here + Short (ID) Frantz

11.00am 1.35/6.00 3.45 8.15 2.30 5.40 +Q&A 8.50

11.00am 1.35/6.00 3.45 8.15 12.30 3.30 5.45 +Live Music 8.35

Mon 1 Their Finest (AD) 2.00/6.10/8.45 8 2 The Age of Shadows 11.10am/2.15/8.15 May 2 Certain Women 5.50 3 Their Finest (AD) 1.00 3 Raw 3.40/8.35 3 Land of Songs (FF) 6.00 +Q&A For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 38 Tue 1 9 1 May 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Their Finest (AD) Their Finest (AD) (C) Their Finest (AD) Went the Day Well + Short (GL) Certain Women Sunshine on Leith (SR) (over 60s) Certain Women Song (FF) Raw

2.00/8.45 6.10 (captioned) 11.00am/3.00 6.15 8.40 1.00 (£3) (captioned) 3.25 6.00 8.35

Wed 1 10 2 May 2 3 3 3

Their Finest (AD) Their Finest (AD) Certain Women Certain Women The Milk of Sorrow (FF) Ada For Mayor (ID)

2.00/6.10/8.45 11.00am/3.00 6.15/8.40 1.00/3.25 5.50 8.35 +Q&A

Thu 1 11 2 May 2 2 3 3 3

Their Finest (AD) 2.00/6.10/8.45 Their Finest (AD) 11.00am/3.00 In Which We Serve + Short (GL) 5.45 Certain Women 8.50 Certain Women 1.00/3.25 Rest In Peace, Mr Hopper (ID) 6.00 +Q&A Latcho Drom (FF) 8.35 +Live Music

SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

Frantz The Levelling The Levelling Their Finest (AD) Their Finest (AD) Ricardo Íscar Retrospective (ID) Cinema Novo (ID) El Dorado XXI (ID)

SCREENING TIMES

1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30

11.00am/1.05 5.55 +Q&A 3.15/8.35 1.10 3.45 +Q&A 6.30 8.45

11.00am 2.00/5.00 7.30 1.10 +Q&A 4.05 (£6.50/£5.50) 6.20 8.35 1.15 3.40 5.55 8.40

Mon 1 Frantz 2.30/8.30 11.05am (captioned) 15 2 Their Finest (AD) (C) May 2 Frantz 1.35/6.05 2 The Levelling 4.05 2 Their Finest (AD) 8.35 3 The Levelling 1.20/6.20 3 Aquarius 3.20/8.20 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 38 Tue 1 16 2 May 2 2 3 3 3

Frantz Frantz Their Finest (AD) The Levelling Their Finest (AD) Aquarius Millions Like Us + Short (GL)

2.30/6.05/8.35 11.05am 1.35/6.10/8.45 4.10 11.00am 1.45/8.20 5.45

Wed 1 17 2 May 2 2 3 3 3

Frantz Frantz Their Finest (AD) The Levelling Their Finest (AD) Aquarius The Levelling

2.30/8.35 11.05am/6.10 1.35/8.45 4.10 11.00am 1.45/5.40 8.40

Thu 1 18 2 May 2 2 3 3 3

Frantz Their Finest (AD) Frantz The Levelling The Levelling Aquarius The Demi-Paradise + Short (GL)

2.30/6.00/8.35 11.00am/6.10/8.45 1.35 4.05 11.05am 1.10/8.20 5.40

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(GP) Growing Pains (p 14 + 16) (HZ) Herzog of the Month (p 9) (ID) IberoDocs (p 30-33)

5 MAY 17 - 6 JUL 17

(JB) Jacques Becker (p 36) (OR) Over the Rainbow (p 15) (SDB) Sunday Double Bill (p 27)

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

DATE

Fri 1 19 2 May 2 3

Lady Macbeth (AD) Manhattan Heal the Living Frantz

1.30/3.45/6.15/8.45

Lady Macbeth (AD) Heal the Living Manhattan Frantz

1.30/3.45/6.15/8.45

The Other Side of Hope Lady Macbeth (AD) Personal Shopper (AD) Citizen Jane: Battle for the City McLaren

1.45/4.00/6.15/8.30

Sat 1 20 2 May 2 3

Fri 1 26 2 May 2 3 3

Mary Poppins (FJ) Double Bill: Radio Days + Love and Death (SDB) Manhattan Lady Macbeth (AD) Manhattan Heal the Living Lady Macbeth (AD) The Wild Blue Yonder (HZ) Lady Macbeth (AD) Frantz

11.00am

The Other Side of Hope Lady Macbeth (AD) Personal Shopper (AD) McLaren Citizen Jane: Battle for the City The Duke of Burgundy (OR)

1.45/4.00/6.15/8.30

Sun 1 21 1 May 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3

Sat 1 27 2 May 2 3 3 3 Sun 1 28 1 May 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

LIAF Animated Shorts 2016 (FJ) The Big Parade (WW) The Other Side of Hope The Other Side of Hope Lady Macbeth (AD) Personal Shopper (AD) Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Personal Shopper (AD) The Duke of Burgundy (OR)

11.00am 2.00 6.15/8.30 11.15am/3.40 1.30/6.00 8.15 1.40/8.40 3.50 6.10

11.15am/3.50/8.30 1.30/6.10

11am/2.15/6.00/8.35

11.15am/3.50/6.10 1.35/8.30

11am/2.15/6.00/8.35

2.30 (£12/£10) 6.30 8.45 11.15am 1.30/8.15 3.50 6.00 1.25 3.30/6.00/8.35

Mon 1 Frantz 2.30 22 1 Lady Macbeth (AD) 6.15 May 1 Manhattan 8.25 2 Lady Macbeth (AD) 11.15am/8.30 2 Heal the Living 1.30/6.10 2 Manhattan 3.50 3 Lady Macbeth (AD) 1.25/3.40 3 Frantz 6.00/8.35 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 38 Tue 1 23 1 May 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Frantz Lady Macbeth (AD) (C) Manhattan Lady Macbeth (AD) Manhattan Heal the Living Frantz Bicycle Thieves (SR) (over 60s) Lady Macbeth (AD)

2.30 6.15 (captioned) 8.25 11.15am/8.30 1.30 3.50/6.10 11.00am/6.00/8.35 1.30 (£3) (subtitled) 3.40

Wed 1 24 1 May 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3

Frantz Manhattan Lady Macbeth (AD) Manhattan Lady Macbeth (AD) Heal the Living Crimes and Misdemeanors (F) Frantz Heal the Living Lady Macbeth (AD)

2.30 6.15 8.45 11.10am 1.25 3.30/8.30 5.50 +Discussion 11.00am/6.00/8.35 1.30 3.50

Thu 1 25 1 May 1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Frantz Lady Macbeth (AD) McLaren Heal the Living Lady Macbeth (AD) Manhattan Frantz Heal the Living Lady Macbeth (AD)

2.30 6.15 8.25 11.10am/6.10 1.35 3.40/8.30 11.00am/6.00/8.35 1.30 3.50

SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

SCREENING TIMES

11.15am/3.45/8.45 1.25/6.10 11.30am/3.50/6.00 1.40/8.20 11.15am/3.45/8.45 1.25/6.10 11.30am/8.40 1.40/6.20 3.50

Mon 1 The Other Side of Hope 2.30/8.30 29 1 ECA Film & TV Degree Show 5.00 (£6) May 2 Lady Macbeth (AD) 1.30/8.25 2 The Other Side of Hope 3.40/6.00 3 Citizen Jane: Battle for the City 1.20/8.40 3 Harmonium 3.30/6.05 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 38 Tue 1 30 2 May 2 3 3

The Other Side of Hope The Other Side of Hope Lady Macbeth (AD) Phase IV Harmonium

2.30/8.30 11.15am/3.40/6.00 1.30/8.25 1.25/8.40 3.30/6.05

Wed 1 31 1 May 1 2 2 2 3 3

The Other Side of Hope Lady Macbeth (AD) Once Upon a Time... West (CS) Lady Macbeth (AD) (C) The Other Side of Hope Lady Macbeth (AD) Harmonium Phase IV

2.30 5.45 7.55 11.15am (captioned) 1.30/6.00/8.15 3.45 1.25/8.20 4.00/6.10

Thu 1 Jun

1 2 2 3 3

The Other Side of Hope Lady Macbeth (AD) The Other Side of Hope Phase IV Harmonium

2.30/6.15/8.45 11.15am/3.45/6.00 1.30 1.25/6.10 3.30/8.20

Fri 2 Jun

1 2 2 3 3 3

The Other Side of Hope Machines Elle (AD) Letters from Baghdad Mindhorn The Bitter Tears of Petra...(FB)

1.30/3.45/6.00/8.15

11.00am/3.50/6.15 1.00/8.10 11.15am/1.45 4.00/8.50 6.10

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

Sat 3 Jun

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The Other Side of Hope Machines Elle (AD) The Other Side of Hope Letters from Baghdad Mindhorn The Bitter Tears of Petra... (FB)

Sun 4 Jun

1 1 2 2 3 3

The Princess Bride (FJ) The Other Side of Hope Machines Elle (AD) Letters from Baghdad Mindhorn

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

1.30/3.45/6.00/8.15

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2 3 3

11.00am/1.00/6.15 3.00/8.10 11.15am 1.45 4.00/8.50 6.10 11.00am

1.30/3.45/6.00/8.15

11.05am/6.35 1.00/3.50/8.25 1.45/6.10 4.00/8.30

Mon 1 The Other Side of Hope 2.30/6.00/8.15 5 2 Elle (AD) 11.05am/3.40 Jun 2 Elle (AD) (C) 8.25 (captioned) 2 Machines 1.50/6.35 3 Letters from Baghdad 1.45/6.10 3 Mindhorn 4.00/8.30 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 38

1 2 2 3 3 3

The Other Side of Hope Machines Elle (AD) The Other Side of Hope Letters from Baghdad Mindhorn

2.30/6.00/8.15 11.00am/3.50/8.50 1.00/6.05 11.15am 1.45/8.20 4.00/6.10

Wed 1 7 2 Jun 2 2 3 3 3

The Other Side of Hope Machines Elle (AD) Mindhorn Letters from Baghdad Mindhorn Fear Eats the Soul (FB)

2.30/6.00/8.15 11.00am/3.50/6.15 1.00 8.10 11.15am/4.00/8.20 1.45 6.10

Thu 8 Jun

1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3

The Other Side of Hope

2.30/8.15

Machines Elle (AD) Mindhorn Mindhorn Letters from Baghdad The Other Side of Hope Fear Eats the Soul (FB)

11.00am/3.50/6.15 1.00 8.10 11.15am/4.00 1.45 6.10 8.30

Fri 9 Jun

1 1 2 2 3 3

My Cousin Rachel 11.00am/1.25 My Cousin Rachel 3.50/6.15/8.40 The Red Turtle 1.30/6.10 Destiny 3.45/8.10 Casque d’or (JB) 11.15am/6.05 Miss Sloane (AD) 3.00/8.25

Sat 10 Jun

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My Cousin Rachel 11.00am/1.25 My Cousin Rachel 3.50/6.15/8.40 The Red Turtle 11.30am/1.30/6.10 Destiny 3.45/8.10 Miss Sloane (AD) 12.50/8.25 Casque d’or (JB) 3.40/6.05

Tue 6 Jun

Edinburgh College Degree Show 6.00 (£6)

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The Boss Baby (FJ) (AD) My Cousin Rachel Destiny Double Bill: The Man Without a Past + Le Havre (SDB) The Red Turtle Miss Sloane (AD) Effie Briest (FB)

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11.00am

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11.25am/8.10

1.45 (£12/£10) 6.10 2.15/8.00 5.00

Mon 1 My Cousin Rachel 2.30/6.00/8.30 12 2 Destiny 11.25am/3.45/8.55 Jun 2 The Red Turtle 1.45 2 Miss Sloane (AD) 6.05 3 Miss Sloane (AD) 2.15 3 The Red Turtle 6.10 3 Effie Briest (FB) 8.20 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 38 Tue 13 Jun

1 2 2 2 3 3 3

Wed 1 14 2 Jun 2 3 3

My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel The Red Turtle The Selfish Giant (GP) (AD) Miss Sloane (AD) Miss Sloane (AD) (C) Fox and His Friends (FB)

2.30/6.00/8.30 11.20am 1.45/3.45/8.25 6.10 +Discussion 11.15am/2.15 5.45 (captioned) 8.35

My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel The Red Turtle Miss Sloane (AD) Fox and His Friends (FB)

2.30/6.00/8.30 11.20am

1.45/3.45/6.10/8.10

11.15am/2.15/8.25 5.45

Thu 15 Jun

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My Cousin Rachel ECA Animation Degree Show My Cousin Rachel The Red Turtle The Red Turtle Touchez Pas au Grisbi (JB) Miss Sloane (AD)

2.30/8.30 5.30 (£6) 11.20am/6.00 1.45/3.45/8.35 11.15am 1.10/6.10 3.20/8.20

Fri 16 Jun

1 2 2 2 3 3

My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel Stockholm My Love La Strada Touchez Pas au Grisbi (JB) After the Storm

1.25/3.50/6.15/8.40

Sat 17 Jun

1 2 2 2 3

My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel Stockholm My Love La Strada After the Storm

1.30/3.50/6.15/8.40

Sun 18 Jun

1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3

The BFG (FJ) (AD) 11.00am Stockholm My Love 1.40 My Cousin Rachel 3.45/6.10/8.35 My Cousin Rachel 11.05am/1.30 La Strada 3.55 Land of Silence... Darkness (HZ) 6.20 Stockholm My Love 8.20 After the Storm 12.50/6.05 The Marriage of Maria... (FB) 3.30/8.40

11.00am 1.45/6.20 3.50/8.30 11.15am/4.00/6.10 1.25/8.25 11.00am 1.45/6.20 3.50/8.30 3.00/5.40/8.15

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Mon 1 My Cousin Rachel 3.30/5.50 19 1 Stockholm My Love 8.15 +Q&A Jun 2 Stockholm My Love 1.45 2 La Strada 3.50/6.15 2 My Cousin Rachel 8.45 3 My Cousin Rachel 1.05 3 After the Storm 3.30/8.40 3 The Marriage of Maria... (FB) 6.05 For Crying Out Loud Baby & Carer screening - see page 38

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My Cousin Rachel Stockholm My Love Le trou (JB) Le trou (JB) Despair (FB) La Strada

3.30/6.00/8.30 3.45/8.45 5.55 3.10 6.00 8.40

Wed 1 21 2 Jun 2 3 3 3

My Cousin Rachel Stockholm My Love Le trou (JB) Le trou (JB) La Strada Despair (FB)

3.30/6.00/8.30 3.45/5.55 8.00 3.20 6.15 8.40

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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 filter coffee and a traycake for the special discounted price of £8 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 5.30pm that day only.

Offer is subject to availability and only available in person.

Edinburgh International Film Festival - 21 Jun - 2 Jul 2017 Mon 1 3 2 Jul 2 2 3 Tue 4 Jul

1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3

Wed 1 5 2 Jul 2 2 2 3

My Cousin Rachel Berlin Syndrome My Life as a Courgette My Life as a Courgette A Man Called Ove

2.30/6.00/8.30 1.25/8.15 4.00 (dubbed) 6.15 (subtitled) 1.00/3.30/6.05/8.40

My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel Berlin Syndrome My Life as a Courgette My Life as a Courgette My Life as a Courgette Pride (SR) (AD) (over 60s) A Man Called Ove

2.30/6.00/8.30 11.00am 1.25/8.15 4.00 (dubbed) 6.15 (subtitled) 11.15am (dubbed) 1.00 (£3) (captioned) 3.35/6.05/8.40

My Cousin Rachel My Cousin Rachel My Life as a Courgette My Life as a Courgette Berlin Syndrome A Man Called Ove

2.30/6.00/8.30 11.00am 1.30 (dubbed) 6.15 (subtitled) 3.30/8.15

Thu 1 My Cousin Rachel 6 1 Theeb (WW) Jul 2 My Life as a Courgette 2 My Life as a Courgette 2 Berlin Syndrome 3 Berlin Syndrome 3 A Man Called Ove

11.30am/3.00/6.05/8.40

2.45/8.30 6.10

11am/12.45/2.30 (dubbed) 6.45 (subtitled)

4.15/8.35 11.30am 3.00/6.05/8.40

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Programming Change After an in-depth trial period of two years, we have decided not to continue with programming our monthly schedule with free ‘holdover ‘ slots, which we have used to extend the run of certain films. From this brochure forward, we will publish a full monthly schedule as we had done before.

Weekly times leaflets will still be available from Box Office.

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

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

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

Swallows and Amazons Sun 7 May at 11.00am Philippa Lowthorpe • UK 2016 • 1h37m • Digital PG - Contains mild threat, infrequent mild violence.

Based on Arthur Ransome’s classic children’s novel, the latest adaptation of Swallows and Amazons brings the timeless story of four children on an English island adventure back to the big screen for new audiences to enjoy. Set against the stunning Lake District and with a fine supporting cast, Philippa Lowthorpe’s version adds a mystery twist to the familiar tale.

Beauty and the Beast Sun 14 May at 11.00am

Mary Poppins Sun 21 May at 11.00am

Bill Condon • USA 2017 • 2h9m • Digital • PG - Contains mild violence, threat.

Robert Stevenson • USA 1964 • 2h19m • Digital U - Contains no material likely to offend or harm

A splendid re-telling of Disney’s animated classic which refashions classic characters while staying true to the original. Beauty and the Beast is the journey of Belle (Emma Watson), a bright and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast (Dan Stevens) in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond Beast’s exterior and realise the kind heart and soul within...

Mr and Mrs Banks decide to advertise for a nanny to care for their rowdy children, Michael and Jane.

The children write their own ad, and when their father tears it up and burns it in the fireplace, the pieces miraculously reassemble and go up the chimney. Next day, Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) appears, gliding down from on high with an umbrella as her parachute... One of the greatest family films of all time - on the big screen!

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LIAF Animated Shorts 2016 (4-12 year-olds) Sun 28 May at 11.00am

The Princess Bride Sun 4 Jun at 11.00am

1h24m • U

Rob Reiner • USA 1987 • 1h38m • Digital • PG - Contains mild fantasy violence and language

The following programme has been created by kids, for kids. There’ll be talking animals, seriously fun adventures and tales that spark all those little imaginations. Animation is the most imaginative and engaging of all art forms and is the perfect platform to enthral and inspire the wide-open imaginations of kids. Carefully selected with our youngest audience in mind, loads of fun!

In this quotable classic, a man reads a story to his sick grandson, who occasionally interrupts to skip the bits he doesn’t like... When the one true love of her life is killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts, Buttercup blindly agrees to marry Prince Humperdinck. But the Prince is planning to incite war. As a trio of oddballs kidnap Buttercup, a mysterious man in black is in pursuit...

The Boss Baby Sun 11 Jun at 11.0am

The BFG Sun 18 Jun at 11.00am

Tom McGrath • USA 2017 • 1h37m • Digital • U - Contains very mild comic threat, rude humour.

Steven Spielberg • UK/Canada/USA 2016 • 1h55m • Digital PG - Contains mild threat.

The Boss Baby is an animated caper about a new baby’s impact on a regular family. This particular newborn secretly has the wit and intellect of a high-level CEO. After discovering that puppies have overtaken babies in the adoration market, he teams up with his wildly imaginative big brother Tim in a mission to outwit PuppyCo’s unhinged CEO Francis E. Francis (Steve Buscemi) and get BabyCorp back on top!

Young orphaned Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) befriends a gentle, kind giant (Mark Rylance, vividly animated with motion-capture) who has been ostracised by his fellow giants due to his refusal to eat humans. When the others threaten to devour more people, Sophie and the BFG resolve to stop them once and for all, travelling from Giant Country to London to seek help from Buckingham Palace...

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Education and Learning Youth Hub at Edinburgh International Film Festival 23-26 June Essential for 15-25 year olds with a passion for cinema or trying to get into the creative industries, Youth Hub provides a packed programme of filmmaker masterclasses, careers advice and workshops. Youth Hub passes are ÂŁ5 and also give a discount on most EIFF tickets . Passes are available from www.edfilmfest.org.uk/learning/youth-hub The full programme will be available on 9 June. You can follow updates on www.facebook.com/EdFilmFestYouthHub/

EIFF Student Critics If you have ever wanted to experience the Edinburgh International Film Festival and want to develop your skills in film criticism, then this is for you. Open to all students over 18 years old currently attending Scottish and Polish colleges and universities. Applicants should submit a 500 word, or 3 minute vlog review by 26 May. To apply visit www.edfilmfest.org.uk/learning

EIFF Media Days EIFF’s popular Media Days take place on Monday 26 and Thursday 29 June, from 10.00am-3.30pm at Filmhouse. Aimed at secondary pupils studying Media and English, these study days offer insight into the film industry from directors, writers, cinematographers and many others. Each day includes new short and feature films with filmmaker Q&As, as well as guest speakers from the creative industries. For more information and to book please contact education@cmi-scotland.co.uk

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Double Bill: Radio Days + Love and Death Sun 21 May at 2.30pm 3h8m • PG

Experience Woody Allen at these twin peaks of his powers. Radio Days is better described as a series of amusing vignettes. A nostalgic trip through Allen’s 1940s childhood - the golden age of radio - it’s packed with references from that era of the American airwaves. Love and Death, on the other hand, is ‘Tolstoy meets The Marx Brothers’, with Allen playing a cowardly 19th century Russian who has fallen for his beautiful, intelligent cousin Sonja (Diane Keaton).

After he inadvertently becomes a war hero, they’re soon embroiled in a uproarious plot to assassinate Napoleon... £12/£10 I recently re-watched most of Woody Allen’s films, and these two emerged as my current favourites!

- Rod White Radio Days

Woody Allen • USA 1987 • 1h28m • Digital • PG

Love and Death

Woody Allen • France/USA 1975 • 1h25m • Digital • PG

SUNDAY Double bill

Double Bill: The Man Without a Past + Le Havre Sun 11 Jun at 1.45pm 3h25m • 12A

Aki Kaurismäki is a rare breed. Few filmmakers could deftly combine the drole, deadpan wit of Nordic culture with the strength and resonance of political and social comment as he does. In honour of his excellent The Other Side of Hope (see page 5), here we present a pair of his best. Both stories of outsiders trying to build and make sense of their lives - in The Man Without a Past it’s a man in Helsinki with amnesia; in Le Havre it’s a young African boy in France. Both films are funny, distinctive, beautifully framed and, in true Kaurismäki style, both feature excellent dogs. £12/£10 The Man Without a Past (Mies Vailla Menneisyyttä)

Aki Kaurismäki • Finland/Germany/France 2001 • 1h37m • Digital Finnish with English subtitles • 12A - Contains infrequent moderate violence.

Le Havre

Aki Kaurismäki • Finland/France/Germany 2011 • 1h33m • Digital French with English subtitles • PG - Contains infrequent mild language

Sunday Double Bills

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Folk Film Gathering

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Our programme of folk cinema this year revolves around a dual theme of Songs and Labour, showcasing the many instances in Scottish and world cinemas where filmmakers have explored the complex ties between communities, music and labour. Given recent world events, Folk Film Gathering also voices political solidarity with those experiencing new degrees of vulnerability. As such, we have given particular focus to the experience of black communities, to communities experiencing the dislocations of emigration and diaspora, to women’s perspectives and the work of female directors, and to communities battling austerity and exploitative labour practices. www.folkfilmgathering.com

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Another Time, Another Place Sat 6 May at 5.45pm Michael Radford • UK 1983 • 1h42m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Phyllis Logan, Giovanni Mauriello, Denise Coffey, Tom Watson, Gianluca Favilla.

This unsung classic of Scottish cinema explores the tensions in a remote rural community during WWII. A shy housewife constrained by a loveless marriage and a life of hard labour, Janie’s world is turned upside down by the arrival of three Italian prisoners of war, awakening in her a new sense of passion and possibility. Preceded by folk songs from the East Coast of Scotland sung by Steve Byrne (Malinky).

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Fri 5 May at 5.40pm Giuseppe De Santis • Italy 1949 • 1h47m • Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 18 • Cast: Silvana Mangano, Vittorio Gassman, Raf Vallone.

A potent, exhilarating brew of folk song, film noir, and Italian neorealism. On the run from the law, small-time thief Francesca hides amidst a group of female workers in the Po Valley rice fields. Despite the back-breaking work, Francesca finds a new sense of camaraderie and community amongst her coworkers. Will she be able to hold onto her newfound footing when violent boyfriend Walter reappears?

Preceded by live Italian folk song from Simone Caffari. Followed by Q&A with Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh) on the film and director.

Supported by the Italian Cultural Institute.

The Scar Sun 7 May at 5.30pm The Amber Collective • UK 1997 • 1h54m • 35mm • 15

Like many women active during the miners’ strike, May has been left to clean up the mess. Struggling with a failed marriage, two unruly children, and the onset of hot flushes, May is just about holding things together when she meets Roy, the new manager of an open-cast mine. Roy brings a degree of humour and warmth long missing in May’s life, but is he truly the answer to her problems? Preceded by a live performance from the McTaggart Scott Loanhead Brass Band. Followed by Q&A with director Ellin Hare and cinematographer Peter Robert.

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Mon 8 May at 6.00pm

Song Laulu Tue 9 May at 6.00pm

Aldona Watts • USA/Lithuania 2015 • 1h • Digital • Lithuanian with English subtitles • PG

Selma Vilhunen • Finland 2014 • 1h22m • Digital • Finnish with English subtitles • 12A

In a region of Lithuania known as ‘Land of Songs’, five sprightly elderly women have kept their village’s ancient folk singing tradition alive through decades of war, occupation, and desertion. Aldona Watts’ debut feature is a tender record of the lives of these remarkable women, and an eloquent testament to heritage and the universal language of folk music.

Preceded by a live performance of Lithuanian and Polish work songs by Davno. Followed by Q&A with director Aldona Watts.

Oscar®-nominated director Selma Vilhunen’s documentary about the passing on of Finnish oral traditions documents two years in the life of Jussi, the last-surviving Finnish rune singer, and his student Hanneriina, a young woman with a mysterious past.

A lyrical rumination on roots and connections full of humour and mystery, Laulu is a moving testament to the healing power of song as a binding force between people and communities.

The Milk of Sorrow La teta asustada Latcho Drom Wed 10 May at 5.50pm

Thu 11 May at 8.35pm

Claudia Llosa • Spain/Peru 2009 • 1h38m • Digital • Spanish and Quechua with English subtitles • 12A - Contains references to rape Cast: Magaly Solier, Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Bárbara Lazón.

Tony Gatlif • France 1993 • 1h43m • Digital • French, Romany, Turkish, Slovak, Hungarian, Arabic and Spanish with English subtitles • PG

Claudia Llosa’s Golden Bear winner is an audacious testament to female survival full of song, black humour and luminous imagery. Fausta is one of a generation of young women who have received the ‘milk of sorrow’; feelings of terror and desperation after two decades of civil war, rape and persecution.

Nursing her mother on her death-bed, Fausta must confront the inheritance from her generation and decide for herself whether she is a victim or a survivor.

A one-of-a-kind ‘folk musical’, Tony Gatlif’s cinematic masterpiece celebrates Romany music traditions from their roots in Rajasthan and Egypt to their new homes and journeys across Europe. Part road-movie, part rhapsodic community portrait, and all-parts Romany musical show-case, Latcho Drom is one of the great works of cinema: a true epic in its scope, generosity and humanity. Don’t miss it.

Preceded by a live performance of Scots Traveller songs from Jess Smith.

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TICKET OFFER IberoDocs - Ibero-American Documentary Film Festival Scotland is back to celebrate its 4th edition. This year we have chosen 12 screenings whose themes intersect, interconnect and reappear, approaching life from very different perspectives. First, we will encounter social and political Activism, and the pushing of boundaries (Ada for Mayor, Pizarro). This leads us to take a closer look at Women’s Empowerment in different contexts and different stages of women’s lives (Ama-San, Las Lindas). Our Caring theme examines the end of life, retirement, and peace (I’m Not From Here, Still Here), while the festival also provides a distinctive ethnographic perspective which will be present as the Outside Gaze (El Dorado XXI, Fresh Cutz). Then, indulge your curiosity around cinema with Films about Film (Cinema Novo, Rest in Peace).Last but not least, we will experience life through the frame with the retrospective of the great Ricardo Íscar, the master of documentaries.

Join us for our 4th edition, a richer, deeper and exciting journey along with the filmmakers from Ibero-America.

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Ada For Mayor Alcaldessa Wed 10 May at 8.35pm & Sun 14 May at 1.15pm Pau Faus • Spain 2016 • 1h26m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • U • Documentary.

Ada Colau, a well known activist against evictions in Spain, decides to run for Mayor of Barcelona. Surrounded by a team with little experience in institutional politics, Ada speaks to us about her fears and contradictions on this vertiginous journey that could take her from her street level battle to possibly becoming Barcelona’s Mayor in less than a year.

The director Pau Faus will be with us for a Q&A after the film.

Before the screening we invite all ticketholders to celebrate the opening of IberoDocs 2017 with a prereception (more details on iberodocs.org)

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Rest In Peace, Mr Hopper

Descanse en paz, Míster Hopper Thu 11 May at 6.00pm

Daniel García, Aurelio Medina • Spain 2017 • 1h • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 18

In 1970, Dennis Hopper shot The Last Movie in Chinchero (Peru), an enigmatic Western about the possibility of an indigenous rebellion against a Hollywood film crew. 44 years later, two filmmakers arrive at Chinchero with the intention to make a new film with the villagers about Hopper’s legacy.

The directors Daniel García and Aurelio Medina will be with us for a Q&A after the film.

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Ricardo Íscar Retrospective Fri 12 May at 3.45pm 2h7m • U

The work of Ricardo Íscar is an exercise in freedom - born from a need to express himself in moving images. Its appeal is in the pleasure of looking, of framing life. It is family life and family’s absence. It is death. Íscar’s delicate, poetic style reminds us of the things that make us different and what brings us together. Ricardo Iscar will be with us for a Q&A. Before the screening we invite all ticketholders to a Ricardo Íscar Masterclass in partnership with Scottish Documentary Institute at Edinburgh College of Art (more details on iberodocs.org)

Cinema Novo

El Dorado XXI

Fri 12 May at 6.30pm

Fri 12 May at 8.45pm

Eryk Rocha • Brazil 2016 • 1h30m • Digital • Portuguese with English subtitles • U • Documentary.

Salomé Lamas • Portugal/France 2016 • 2h5m • Digital • Spanish, Quechua and Aymara with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary.

Cinema Novo is an immersive film essay that poetically investigates the eponymous Brazilian film movement - the most prominent in Latin America in the past century - through the analysis of its main auteurs: Nelson Pereira do Santos, Glauber Rocha, Leon Hirszman, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Ruy Guerra, Cacá Diegue, Walter Lima Jr, Paulo César Saraceni, among others.

El Dorado is a haunting and mysterious ethnographic reality cut-up. Set in the highest settlement in the world, La Rinconada y Cerro Lunar (5500m) in the Peruvian Andes. A recurring illusion leads men to self-destruction, motivated by the same interests, and equipped only with the same tools now as they had in ancient times. A challenging, sometimes hallucinatory, study of the human condition.

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Suddenly My Thoughts Halt

Pára-me de Repente o Pensamento Sat 13 May at 1.10pm

Jorge Pelicano • Portugal 2014 • 1h38m • Digital • Portuguese with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.

Coffee, a cigarette, another coffee, a coin. Patients cling to their routines in the halls of a psychiatric hospital.

Waiting. Between lucidity and madness. From the outside world an actor arrives in search of his character, diving into the inner world of schizophrenia. Patients are part of the creation of the character. Amidst the haze, the actor finds a former patient’s poem.

In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Week (8-14 May) we will screen this documentary in partnership with Mental Health Foundation. A discussion on issues raised by the film will follow the screening.

Pizarro Sat 13 May at 3.50pm Simón Hernandez • Colombia 2016 • 1h22m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 18 • Documentary.

This award-winning, inspirational film follows Maria, the daughter of Colombian revolutionary leader Carlos Pizarro, on her journey to recover her family identity. 25 years after his death and exiled in Barcelona, she decides to finally find the answers to her questions but discovers her father’s memory shrouded in mystery, between war and peace...

The Pretty Ones

Las Lindas Sat 13 May at 6.10pm

Melisa Liebenthal • Argentina 2016 • 1h17m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary.

“Why is being pretty so important? Why am I mistaken for a man?... Why do looks matter so much to some people?”

Melisa wonders about the construction of femininity in an image-worshipping culture, so she asks her friends what it means to be pretty...

The film will be preceded by the video poem For My Daughter by the Glasgow-based performer Katie Ailes. We hope the film will be followed by Skype Q&A with the director Melisa Liebenthal.

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Fresh Cutz

Sat 13 May at 8.40pm

Sun 14 May at 3.40pm

Claudia Varejão • Spain 2016 • 1h53m • Digital • Spanish with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary.

Emílio Domingos • Brazil 2016 • 1h13m • Digital • Portuguese with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary.

A dive, the midday sunlight filtering down through the water. Without the help of air her whole body is pushed to the limit as she dislodges abalone from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Shot between the silent, underwater world and life on land, Ama-San is a unique portrait of a Japanese tradition that is not expected to survive much longer.

You can see the haircut, but can you see what’s inside? Welcome to the barbershop, the meeting point for the youth of the favelas and suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. Step inside these sanctuaries of the ‘favela aesthetics’ - this is a celebration of life through the dialogues of local barbers and clients, where everyone has a story to tell...

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Deixa na Régua

Still here Sigo aquí Sun 14 May at 5.55pm Lorenzo Hagerman • Mexico 2016 • 1h27m • Digital • Spanish, Catalán, Italian, French, English and Japanese with English subtitles U • Documentary

On an intimate journey around the world, we discover what existence looks like from the perspective of those who have had more than ninety years of life. These stories of ordinary people who for almost a century have loved, laughed, sung and suffered, together make a symphony to life. With determination and humility, they declare to themselves and to the world: I am still here.

PLUS SHORT I’m Not From Here (Yo no soy de aquí)

Maite Alberdi, Giedre Zickyte • Chile/Lithuania/Denmark 2016 26m Digital • Spanish and Basque with English subtitles • PG Documentary

Josebe, An 88-year-old Basque country native struggles to connect with the other residents of her nursing home. Even after 70 years in Chile, she still vividly remembers her homeland...

We invite all ticketholders to celebrate the closing of IberoDocs 2017 at Akva (see iberodocs.org)

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder A fearless artist who knew no taboos, Fassbinder combined scathing social criticism with profound psychological insight. After failing to get into film school he turned instead to the theatre, rapidly winning renown as a radical, innovative writerdirector. With ferocious energy he started to make films, building a loyal team of actors and technicians drawn from the theatre (his first 10 features were made in less than two years). An insatiable film addict from early childhood, Fassbinder drew inspiration from the French New Wave and, later, from the Hollywood melodramas of Douglas Sirk and others. But what emerged from his dazzling fusion of style and content was a powerful, personal vision of people imprisoned by social constraints and their own contradictory desires. Provocative, poignant, darkly witty: these are films that could change your life.

(Intro by Margaret Deriaz, season programmer of RW Fassbinder at BFI)

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The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant Fri 2 Jun at 6.10pm & Sat 3 Jun at 6.10pm Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany 1972 • 2h4m • Digital German with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake.

Despite its brilliant all-female cast, this is an intensely autobiographical film in which Fassbinder portrays himself through Petra (Carstensen), a successful but lonely fashion designer who falls in love with a beautiful younger woman (Schygulla) very different from herself. A visual and verbal extravaganza and a profound disquisition on loneliness, love, the compulsion to work, and the impossibility of truly honest relationships.

Fear Eats the Soul Angst essen Seele auf Wed 7 Jun at 6.10pm & Thu 8 Jun at 8.30pm Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany 1974 • 1h33m • Digital • German and Arabic with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann, Karl Scheydt.

Fassbinder’s international breakthrough, this unconventional love story combines lucid social analysis with devastating emotional power. Not a shot is wasted in this bold reworking of Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows, which unfolds with gripping simplicity: one evening in Munich, an elderly cleaning lady (Brigitte Mira) escapes from the rain into a bar frequented by immigrants. To her surprise, the jukebox plays an old German tango and a handsome young Moroccan (El Hedi ben Salem) asks her to dance... So far, so like a fairy tale, but this tenderest of romances is soon exposed to the brutal reality of racism and ageism. Arguably Fassbinder’s best loved film, it is still, 40 years on, burningly relevant.

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Fox and His Friends

Fontane Effi Briest Sun 11 Jun at 5.00pm & Mon 12 Jun at 8.20pm

Faustrecht der Freiheit Tue 13 Jun at 8.35pm & Wed 14 Jun at 5.45pm

Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany 1974 • 2h20m • Digital German with English subtitles • U • Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany 1975 • 2h3m • Digital German, English and French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains nudity, sex references and strong language • Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Rudolf Lenz, Harry Baer.

An exquisitely subtle rendition of Fontane’s great novel of 1896. The plight of 17-year-old Effi (Hanna Schygulla) - forced into a socially advantageous marriage with a much older man - is touchingly depicted, but what really interests Fassbinder is the novelist’s complex attitude to the society of his day.

This is no melodrama, but a meticulous dissection of a literary masterpiece.

The Marriage of Maria Braun Die Ehe der Maria Braun Sun 18 Jun & Mon 19 Jun Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany 1979 • 2h • Digital German and English with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong language and moderate sex • Cast: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Hark Bohm, Gisela Uhlen.

With a blazing star performance from Hanna Schygulla in the title role, this was Fassbinder’s greatest critical and commercial success. It’s the ‘everywoman’ tale of Maria Braun, whose wartime marriage lasts less than one day before her husband is sent to the front. When he fails to return in 1945, she struggles to rebuild her life through a formidable mixture of talent, energy and seductive power.

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Way ahead of its time, this film presents characters who are unproblematically gay. Fox, an ex-fairground worker, wins the lottery and falls in love with ‘posh and prissy’ Eugen (Chatel) but is mocked and exploited by his boyfriend’s family and friends.

Outstanding in the title role, Fassbinder exudes vitality and vulnerability. It’s both savagely funny and desperately sad.

Despair Tue 20 Jun at 6.00pm & Wed 21 Jun at 8.40pm Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany/France 1978 • 1h59m • Digital • 15 • Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch, Volker Spengler, Peter Kern.

Fassbinder’s first film in English was brilliantly adapted

by Tom Stoppard from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel set in 1930s Berlin. With his business about to fail, Hermann Hermann (Bogarde), an exiled Russian chocolate manufacturer, encounters his double and plans the perfect crime. Hypnotically watchable (with cinematography from the late Michael Ballhaus) Bogarde does exquisite justice to the sparkling dialogue, endowing Hermann with complex interior life.

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Jacques Becker

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Three Films From...

Jacques Becker One of the great but unsung French directors of the post-war era, Jacques Becker was an assistant to Jean Renoir in the 1930s and drew from his mentor a commitment to realism and an unwavering sense of human decency.

Casque d’Or is probably his masterpiece. Simone Signoret is radiant in the signature role of a woman who leaves her criminal lover for an honest carpenter, with tragic results. Touchez Pas au Grisbi boasts a relatively familiar story of thieves fighting over the spoils from a robbery, but Becker elevates it by focussing on a rich gallery of characters, dominated by the magisterial Jean Gabin.

Becker’s last film Le Trou is a gripping tale of a prison escape masterminded by four men whose plan is threatened by the arrival of a new inmate. The film had to be completed by his son after Becker sadly died during editing this outstanding parting gift to cinema.

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Casque d’Or Fri 9 Jun & Sat 10 Jun Jacques Becker • France 1952 • 1h38m • Digital • French with English subtitles • PG - Contains mild sex references and violence.

Cast: Serge Reggiani, Simone Signoret , Claude Dauphin, William Sabatier.

A Parisian tale of ill-fated love at the turn of the century, Casque d’Or sees ex-convict carpenter Georges (Serge Reggiani) fall head-over-heels for Marie (the sublime Simone Signoret), who happens to be the moll of a local gangster. Drawn back into the seedy underworld he has tried to escape, Georges’ budding romance with Marie is doomed from the start. When ex-cellmate and crime syndicate leader Félix (Claude Dauphin) takes an interest in their affair, the results are suitably deadly...

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Le trou

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Jacques Becker • France/Italy 1954 • 1h34m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains moderate violence and drugs use.

Cast: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll, Vittorio Sanipoli, Marilyn Buferd.

Jacques Becker • France/Italy 1960 • 2h12m • Digital • French with English subtitles • 12A • Cast: Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Marc Michel, Raymond Meunier.

Based on a popular série noire novel, this re-launched both Jean Gabin’s post-war career and the French gangster film. In Pigalle, Max (Gabin) is a worldweary underworld godfather wishing to retire after one last heist. Nightclubs and plush apartments are his territory, champagne his drink of choice. When Angelo’s rival gang threatens both his loot and his hapless friend Riton (René Dary), Max is forced to rejoin the fray...

A classic prison break scenario - four cellmates plotting their escape and beginning a gradual, meticulous tunnelling campaign - becomes the site of great tension and suspicion when a new inmate (Marc Michel) arrives in their midst. The novel on which Le Trou is based is an account of a true story (of which the author was a part), and Becker’s direction - sadly cut short by his untimely passing emphasises authenticity and our deep involvement in the prisoners’ struggle.

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Degree Shows An excellent opportunity to spot new emerging film talent at these showcases of work by students at Edinbrugh College of Art and Edinburgh College.

All tickets cost just £6.

ECA Film & TV Degree Show Mon 29 May at 5.00pm 2h55m • 12A

Another year of superb graduation films from Edinburgh College of Art’s Award winning Film Department, with an array of styles ranging from comedy to terror to existential tragedy, from classic storytelling to the quirky and experimental. The mundane is transformed into the marvellous in settings which take us from a chippie to a coal mine, and to the interior of the mind itself. £6

Edinburgh College Broadcast Media Spliced Awards Thu 8 Jun at 6.00pm 1h40m • 12A

Come and see the final selection of the best films from Edinburgh College Broadcast media students judged by our panel of experts in the industry. The Filmhouse show will include films made by students from both Sighthill and Milton Road Campuses.

All competing for awards in Factual, non-Factual, Videography, Editing and the hotly contested audience award. The evening will be hosted by Shauna Macdonald who recently starred in Filth. £6

ECA Animation Degree Show Thu 15 Jun at 5.30pm 2h10m • 12A

An astronaut plays a solo and a rabbit finds a planet he can really dig. There’s an underground film with a nail-biting climax, a well-handled piece about a door, a fox-hunt that quickly goes off the rails and a man-hunt where you can’t see the wood for the trees. Add to this an old lady who works her magic on a young friend, a love that blossoms on a river in China, a wolf who’s there one minute and gone the next, a hunger that takes a strange form, a crowd that has to be faced and a war that falls from the skies and tears apart a family, and you have some sense of the wonders in store in this year’s graduation show from the award winning animation department at Edinburgh College of Art. £6

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Access Filmhouse foyer and Box Office are accessed from Lothian Road via a ramped surface and two sets of automatic doors. Our Cafe Bar and accessible toilet are also at this level.

The majority of seats in the Cafe Bar are not fixed and can be moved.

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

Advance booking for wheelchair spaces is recommended. If you need to bring along a helper to assist you in any way, then they will receive a complimentary ticket. There are induction loops and infra-red in all three screens for those with hearing impairments.

See below for details of captioned screenings and films with Audio Description.

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

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

Audio Description and Captions

For Crying Out Loud

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

Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are strictly limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults.

Babychanging, bottle-warming and buggy parking facilities are available.

This issue, all screenings of Beauty and the Beast, The Boss Baby, The BFG, The Selfish Giant, Pride, Their Finest, Lady Macbeth, Personal Shopper, Elle and Miss Sloane have audio description, and the following screenings will have captions:

Mon 8 May at 11.00am Their Finest Mon 15 May at 11.00am Frantz Mon 22 May at 11.00am Heal the Living

Tue 9 May at 6.10pm

Their Finest

Mon 15 May at 11.05am

Their Finest

Mon 29 May at 11.00am The Other Side of Hope

Tue 23 May at 6.15pm

Lady Macbeth

Mon 5 Jun at 11.00am Letters from Baghdad

Wed 31 May at 11.15am

Lady Macbeth

Mon 12 Jun at 11.00am The Red Turtle

Mon 5 Jun at 8.25pm

Elle

Tue 13 Jun at 5.45pm

Miss Sloane

Mon 19 Jun at 11.00am My Cousin Rachel

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

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