Filmhouse May/June 2015

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Timbuktu Phoenix The New Girlfriend The Falling The Tribe Samba Dior and I The Tale of the Princess Kaguya A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence While We’re Young Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance Only Angels Have Wings Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema Filmhouse Junior IberoDocs Folk Film Gathering Over the Rainbow Vera Chytilová Graham Greene Spy Stories on Screen Degree Shows

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8 1/2 8 Alentejo, Alentejo 27 Appropriate Behavior 29 Argerich 7 Arraianos 27 Ashes and Diamonds 21 Austeria 24 Blind Chance 24 Bugsy Malone 12 Bypass 16 Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari 15 Cinderella 12 Citizen Kane 31 Cloudy Times 28 Come and See...

31 Coming Soon 10 The Constant Factor 23 Cry of the City 10 Cuernavaca: A Journey in Search of...

31 Dark Horse: The Incredible... Dream Alliance 7 Degree Shows 33 Dior and I 6 Dream On 14 Education and Learning 34 The Falling 8 Fantastic Mr. Fox 12 Far from the Madding Crowd 6 Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) 13 Filmhouse Cafe Bar + Quiz 34 Filmhouse Explorer 4 Filmhouse Junior 12-13 Filmhouse Loyalty Card 4 Filmhouse Membership 36 Folk Film Gathering 14-15 The Fruit of Paradise 30 Gallipoli 31 German Concentration Camps Factual Survey 10 Graham Greene Spy Stories on Screen 32 Heaven Adores You 6 Hinterland 16 Home 12 The Hourglass Sanatorium 23 IberoDocs 26-29 The Illumination 23 Innocent Sorcerers 22 The Invisible Life 10 Jump 22 Kaos 15 Knife in the Water 21 Knights of the Black Cross 21

The Lady of Chandor 28 Lambert & Stamp 9 Letter from My Village 15 A Letter to Momo 13 Mala Mala 29 Man of Iron 22 Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema 20-24 Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America 27 Ministry of Fear 32 Mother Joan of the Angels 21 My Name Is Salt 9 The New Girlfriend 9 Night Train 21 Only Angels Have Wings 7 Our Man in Havana 32 Over the Rainbow 29 Paradiso 28 Pharaoh 21 Phoenix 6 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence 5 Play Me Something 14 Prefab Story 30 The Promised Land 23 Provincial Actors 23 Quadrophenia 13 The Quiet American 32 The Salvation 9 Samba 5 The Salt of the Earth 28 The Saragossa Manuscript 22 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 15 A Short Film About Killing 24 Something Must Break 29 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 12 Stray Dogs 7 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 6 The Tales of Hoffmann 8 Tarzan 13 Tess 13 Timbuktu 8 To Kill This Love 22 Tommy 13 Traps 30 The Tribe 7 Up the Junction 14 Vera Chytilová 30 Vikingland 28 Walkover 22 The Wedding 23 When I Saw You 15 While We’re Young 5 Write Shoot Cut 16

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

This issue, all screenings of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), The Falling and The Salvation will have audio description, and the following screenings will have onscreen captions: Sun 3 May at 1.00pm While We’re Young Sun 17 May at 1.10pm Far from the Madding Crowd Sun 7 Jun at 3.50pm The Falling Tue 9 Jun at 6.15pm The Salvation FORCRYINGOUTLOUD Screenings for carers and their babies! Tickets £4.50/£3.50 concessions per adult. Screenings are limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Babychanging, bottlewarming and buggy parking facilities are available.

Mon 4 May at 11am A Pigeon Sat on a Branch...

Mon 11 May at 11am Dior and I Mon 18 May at 11am Far from the Madding Crowd Mon 25 May at 11am Only Angels Have Wings Mon 1 Jun at 11am Far from the Madding Crowd Mon 8 Jun at 11am Timbuktu Mon 15 Jun at 11am Cry of the City

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Introduction

A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH...

TIMBUKTU

THE NEW GIRLFRIEND

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

“Ed. is ‘dead’. Long live Ed.!”

This issue of our programme is a watershed. It’s era ending. Paradigm shifting. Nay, epoch shattering. All those things and more. For this publication has been put together by the same member of staff for the last 9+ years, 116 editions (not to mention a handful or two for our ‘sister’ cinema, the Belmont Filmhouse in Aberdeen), but she’s moving on. She’s not moving very far, granted, just to a different department of this organisation, but far enough to no longer be working on the brochure. It’s a sad day for sure, and I suspect I’m just about to find quite how hugely I took her contribution to it for granted. I asked her if she wanted to write something on this page, but she declined, being happier to contribute from the wings, only having been lured out once or twice over the years to make the odd withering aside as ‘Ed.’. So, with an admittedly heavy heart, it’s goodbye Jenny, and thanks for everything! Thanks for every correctly placed apostrophe, judiciously chosen exclamation mark, and for helping me keep my sentences to a readable length, though I notice she dropped the ball right at the last when she omitted to curtail this one which seems to show no sign of ending any time soon, and indeed looks set to change tack somewhat and start talking about how important it may or may not be to list in this publication what format (35mm, digital etc) a film might be screening in, for the inclusion of which she was always a tireless crusader. And without meaning to put too much pressure (yeah, right!) on those charged with sustaining the most excellent standards she has set, they are big shoes to fill – especially those glittery Doc Martens. [It’s been an honour. And in the unlikely event that there are any mistakes in future editions, I promise not to point them out... - Ed.] Our big film this month (well, I say month, it’s more like two, what with this running to mid June when a rather awesome looking EIFF is set to take place) is the new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd, with Carey Mulligan in the Bathsheba/Julie Christie role, and Matthias Schoenaerts in the Gabriel Oak/Alan Bates one. Not many novels get the two adaptation treatment, and even fewer get two brilliant adaptations – thankfully, ‘Madding Crowd’ is one. We’ve thrown in a screening of the original film too, and Polański’s excellent Tess for good Hardy measure.

Rattling through the rest of this monster programme, it looks like we’ve gone all ‘art house’, with a whole host of critically acclaimed foreign language meisterwerks: quite possibly my favourite film from the Cannes competition last year, Abderrahmane Sissako’s brilliant and timely Timbuktu; Christian (Barbara) Petzold’s Nina Hoss-starring post WWII Vertigo-ish drama Phoenix; from Ukraine, the intense, harrowing, all Ukrainian sign language (no dialogue, no subtitles) The Tribe; and, from the undisputed master of Scandi-style deadpan oddness, Roy (Songs from the Second Floor) Andersson, the wonderfully titled A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence.

Francois (Potiche) Ozon’s latest, The New Girlfriend, gets a release, and we’ve a trio of great new restorations: Howard Hawks’ Only Angels Have Wings, Fellini’s 8½, and film noir par excellence, Cry of the City. The 100th anniversary of Orson Welles’ birth sees a couple of special screenings of his magnum opus, Citizen Kane, and we’ll have a few more of his films along in early July too.

And if you’re a fan of The Who (and really you ought to be), check out 14 June…

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

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Filmhouse Explorer

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

PHOENIX

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

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

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While We’re Young (page 5) Dior and I (page 6) Far from the Madding Crowd (page 6) Dark Horse: The Incredible... Dream Alliance (page 7) The Falling (page 8) The New Girlfriend (page 9)

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting... (page 5) Phoenix (page 6) Timbuktu (page 8) 8 1/2 (page 8) My Name Is Salt (page 9) Cry of the City (page 10) Martin Scorsese Presents: Masters of Polish Cinema (pages 20-24) Vera Chytilová (page 30)

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.

MY NAME IS SALT

Main features

SAMBA

A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE

NEWRELEASE

Samba Showing from Fri 1 May Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano • France 2014 • 1h58m • Digital French, English, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian and Arabic with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Izïa Higelin.

Following the huge international success of their 2011 film Untouchable, writing-directing duo Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache reunite with magnetic star Omar Sy to tell the story of a cross-cultural romance against the backdrop of France’s immigration challenges. Samba (Sy) is a Senegalese dishwasher who dreams of being a chef. Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a stressed immigration caseworker, Samba’s only hope to stay in France. Both struggling to change their lives, the two find themselves drawn together.

NEWRELEASE

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron Showing from Fri 1 May Roy Andersson • Sweden/Germany/Norway/France 2014 1h40m • Digital • Swedish and English with English subtitles 12A – Contains disturbing images Cast: Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Viktor Gyllenberg, Lotti Törnros, Jonas Gerholm.

Swedish master Roy Andersson (Songs from the Second Floor) returns with this absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy.

The film presents a series of darkly comic vignettes organised around two narrative strands. In one, two hapless novelty salesmen wander around town trying to sell their inventory of vampire fangs and rubber masks, all the while bickering like an old married couple; in the other, Charles XII, Sweden’s most belligerent king, reappears in modern times to carry on his series of disastrous defeats.

Shifting between nightmare, fantasy, reverie, and even an impromptu musical number, the film culminates with a blistering indictment of what Andersson presents as humanity’s stunning lack of empathy.

WHILE WE’RE YOUNG

MAYBEYOUMISSED

While We’re Young Fri 1 to Tue 5 May Noah Baumbach • USA 2014 • 1h37m Digital • 15 – Contains strong language, drug use Cast: Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts, Amanda Seyfried, Adam Driver, Charles Grodin.

The latest beautifully observed comedy from Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale) stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as Josh and Cornelia, a childless New York couple in their mid-forties. As their other friends all start having children, the pair become friends with a young hipster couple, Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried). The older two enjoy the energy they feel hanging out with the younger generation, but eventually Josh begins to suspect Jamie might not be as straightforward and trustworthy as he thought.

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PHOENIX

DIOR AND I

NEWRELEASE

THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA

MAYBEYOUMISSED

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

NEWRELEASES

Phoenix

Dior and I

Heaven Adores You

Showing from Fri 8 May

Showing from Fri 8 May

Sat 9 & Sun 10 May

Christian Petzold • Germany/Poland 2014 • 1h38m Digital • German and English with English subtitles 12A – Contains infrequent moderate bad language Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, Imogen Kogge.

Frédéric Tcheng • France 2014 • 1h30m • Digital English, French and Italian with English subtitles 12A – Contains infrequent strong language • Documentary

Nickolas Dylan Rossi • USA 2014 • 1h45m • Digital 15 – Contains strong language • Documentary

Following the success of his previous film, Barbara, director Christian Petzold returns with another story of a fiercely determined woman – and the deeply divided society to which she belongs – caught between a tragic past and an uncertain future.

Emerging from a concentration camp at the end of World War II, Nelly Lenz (played by the formidable Nina Hoss, Petzold’s regular star) undergoes significant reconstructive surgery to repair a serious facial injury caused by a bullet wound. Nelly wants everything to be exactly the way it was before the war – including her appearance – but it isn’t. Presumed dead by her friends and relatives, fixated on the memories of her former life and unable to accept the shattered reality before her, Nelly returns to Berlin to fulfil the dream that sustained her throughout her imprisonment: reuniting with her husband, Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld, Hoss’s co-star in Barbara). But will Johnny recognise her? And what of the terrible, whispered rumours that it was Johnny himself who betrayed her to the Nazis?

Designer Raf Simons arrived at the House of Dior in 2012 with a reputation for minimalism, and accompanied by a dedicated and personable right-hand man. They had just eight weeks to create a collection that had to not only please house loyalists, but also announce a vision for the future. This entertaining documentary from Frédéric Tcheng (who previously co-directed Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) follows that collection from concept through to the most florid catwalk you are ever likely to see.

A bittersweet look at the rise to fame and untimely death of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith. While the ‘90s may be remembered for the rise of grunge’s roaring guitars, the former punk rocker developed a cult following with his quietly beautiful acoustic songs and candid lyrics. But as Smith reached new heights in his career – including an Academy Award nomination and a contract with a major label – he was struggling with depression, alcoholism and drug abuse.

Far from the Madding Crowd Showing from Fri 15 May

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Sat 9 to Thu 14 May Isao Takahata • Japan 2013 • 2h17m • Digital U – Contains mild violence, natural nudity

Studio Ghibli anime master Isao Takahata bows out with a tender, joyful and exquisitely crafted folk tale for all ages.

Discovered inside a stalk of bamboo, a magical newborn lights up the lives of a childless couple. Kaguya bestows such bounty on the family that they move to a city mansion.

However, the role of ‘princess’ is not to her liking, and she yearns for the countryside and the carefree life she once knew.

Some screenings will be in Japanese with English subtitles and some will be dubbed into English – see the grid on page 17 for details.

Thomas Vinterberg • USA/UK 2015 • 1h59m • Digital 12A – Contains moderate violence, sex references Cast: Carey Mulligan, Juno Temple, Michael Sheen, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tom Sturridge.

A new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel, directed

by Thomas Vinterberg (Festen, The Hunt). Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching wilfulness; Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge), a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), a prosperous and mature bachelor.

See page 13 for screenings of two more Thomas Hardy adaptations.

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THE TRIBE

DARK HORSE: THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF DREAM ALLIANCE

NEWRELEASE

The Tribe Plemya Showing from Fri 15 May Miroslav Slaboshpitsky • Ukraine/Netherlands 2014 • 2h12m Digital • No dialogue – in Ukrainian Sign Language without subtitles 18 – Contains strong sex, nudity, violence, abortion scene Cast: Grigoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Alexander Dsiadevich, Yaroslav Biletskiy.

Winner of the Critics Week Grand Prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s confrontational drama uses only (unsubtitled) sign language and the actors’ body language to propel the story.

Somewhere in Ukraine, Sergey enters a specialised boarding school for the deaf. He quickly encounters the Tribe, a student gang dealing in crime and prostitution.

After passing their hazing rituals and being inducted into the group, he takes part in several robberies, works his way up, and becomes pimp/protector for two girls who turn tricks at the local truck stop, only to find himself falling for one of them.

ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS

MAYBEYOUMISSED

STRAY DOGS

NEWRELEASES

Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance

Stray Dogs Jiao you

Showing from Fri 22 May

Tsai Ming-liang • Taiwan/France 2013 • 2h18m Digital • Mandarin with English subtitles PG – Contains infrequent natural nudity Cast: Lee Kang-sheng, Lu Yi-ching, Lee Yi-cheng, Lee Yi-chieh.

Louise Osmond • UK 2014 • 1h26m • Digital PG – Contains mild bad language, injury references • Documentary

The astonishing true story of a champion racehorse, raised on an allotment in one of the poorest mining valleys in Wales. The story begins in 2000, when Jan Vokes, the barmaid of the local working men’s club, hears a regular talking about the time he owned a share of a racehorse.

Walking home that night, Jan has an idea. She’d bred pigeons and whippets before, she thought. How hard could it be? Jan convinces a handful of locals to part with ten pounds a week, finds a thoroughbred mare with a terrible racing record for £300, a stallion past his best, puts them together and – against all the odds – breeds a winner.

Fri 22 & Sun 24 May

A single father earns his meagre living as a human billboard while his young son and daughter scrounge for food samples in a giant supermarket. At night, the three sleep in an abandoned building.

A heartfelt and formally daring work that attacks the bleakness of the contemporary world while praising the strength and vulnerability of those who still feel emotion.

Acclaimed director Tsai Ming-liang (Goodbye Dragon Inn) has announced that Stray Dogs may be his farewell to cinema.

Argerich RESTOREDCLASSIC

Only Angels Have Wings Showing from Fri 22 May Howard Hawks • USA 1939 • 2h1m • Digital • U Cast: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell.

In a South American port city swathed in perpetual fog, a daredevil band of mail pilots, led by Geoff Carter (Cary Grant), struggle daily to get their planes through a treacherous mountain pass. Then Carter’s cool is tested by the arrival of a wisecracking blonde (Jean Arthur) and an ex-mistress (Rita Hayworth)...

Sat 23 & Sun 24 May Stéphanie Argerich • France/Switzerland 2012 • 1h40m • Digital French, English, Spanish and Japanese with English subtitles PG – Contains mild bad language • Documentary

A warm, intimate and often funny portrait of worldrenowned pianists Martha Argerich and Stephen Kovacevich, two giants of classical music, made by their daughter Stéphanie, now in her thirties and a mother herself. Argerich explores with great subtlety the joys and difficulties of combining motherhood with an artistic career. It’s a remarkable journey into the Argerich galaxy, with all its eccentricities, idiosyncrasies, problems, and, most importantly, love of music.

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TIMBUKTU

THE FALLING

NEWRELEASE

8 1/2

MAYBEYOUMISSED

THE TALES OF HOFFMANN

RESTOREDCLASSICS

Timbuktu

The Falling

8 1/2

Showing from Fri 29 May

Showing from Fri 5 Jun

Fri 5 to Mon 8 Jun

Abderrahmane Sissako • Mali/Mauritania/France 2014 1h36m • Digital • French with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate violence, injury detail Cast: Abel Jafri, Kettly Noël, Toulou Kiki, Hichem Yacoubi.

Carol Morley • UK 2014 • 1h42m • Digital 15 – Contains strong sex Cast: Maxine Peake, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh, Anna Burnett, Greta Scacchi.

Set in the early days of the jihadist takeover of northern Mali in 2012, director Abderrahmane Sissako’s compelling drama delivers a beautiful and deeply humane condemnation of religious intolerance.

When the multicultural city of Timbuktu is invaded by militant Islamic rebels, they ban music, soccer and virtually any form of pleasure, and insist that all women must cover their bodies. The local imam calmly argues against their narrow, ultra-orthodox dogma, but he has little influence over the rag-tag bunch of religious intruders.

Beautifully filmed and directed with remarkable control and restraint, Timbuktu confirms Sissako’s status as one the true humanists of contemporary cinema.

It’s 1969 at an English girls school full of seething hormones and turbulent emotions; Lydia and Abbie are best friends, existing largely in a universe of two.

Abbie (newcomer Florence Pugh, a real discovery) is the undisputed leader, with natural charisma and magnetism, and Lydia (Maisie Williams, Game of Thrones) is fixated on her friend, having long been emotionally abandoned by her single mum (Maxine Peake), an agoraphobe who hasn’t ventured outside for years and who barely acknowledges her daughter’s presence. Lydia’s fragile world starts to unravel when her white magic-obsessed brother and Abbie sleep together, and a tragedy and ensuing mysterious delirium overtake the school.

Director Carol Morley returns to some of the bigger themes of her acclaimed Dreams of a Life: human connection, isolation, identity, female experience. And here again she employs a refreshingly unique, stylised narrative approach, delivering a beguilingly distinctive film about the peculiar, feverish realm of teenage girls.

Federico Fellini • Italy/France 1963 • 2h18m • Digital Italian, English, French and German with English subtitles 15 – Contains moderate sex references, hanging scene Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk.

A famous movie director (Fellini’s alter ego Mastroianni), unable to find the inspiration to start his new film and harried by people in the industry, his wife and his mistress, retreats into personal recollections, dreams and fantasies.

Fellini’s seventh solo effort (plus three collaborations counting a half each) is one of the most celebrated creations about the inability to create. Visually stunning, exhilarating and surprising, it remains a compendium of every Fellini theme and stylistic device.

The Tales of Hoffmann Fri 5 to Sun 7 Jun Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger • UK 1951 • 2h13m Digital • U – Contains mild violence Cast: Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tchérina, Ann Ayars, Pamela Brown, Léonide Massine, Robert Helpmann, Robert Rounseville.

Revealed afresh in this remarkable Technicolor restoration, Powell and Pressburger’s 1951 musical phantasmagoria is the stuff of beautiful nightmares. A balletic adaptation of Offenbach’s opera about the German Romantic author ETA Hoffmann, and adapted from three of his gothic tales ‘on the folly of love’, this intensely composed film rivals even The Red Shoes for its cinematic daring, and its avowed belief in the transcendence of art over death.

Main features

LAMBERT & STAMP

THE SALVATION

NEWRELEASE

THE NEW GIRLFRIEND

MAYBEYOUMISSED

MY NAME IS SALT

MAYBEYOUMISSED

Lambert & Stamp

The Salvation

My Name Is Salt

Mon 8 to Fri 12 June & Sun 14 Jun

Tue 9 to Thu 11 Jun

Fri 12 to Sun 14 Jun

James D Cooper • USA 2014 • 1h57m • Digital German, French and English with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, drug references • Documentary

Kristian Levring • Denmark/UK/South Africa/Sweden/Belgium 2014 1h32m • Digital • English, Spanish and Danish with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong violence Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Cantona, Mikael Persbrandt, Douglas Henshall, Jonathan Pryce.

Farida Pacha • Switzerland 2013 • 1h32m Digital • Gujarati with English subtitles U – Contains infrequent very mild bad language • Documentary

The remarkable story of Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, aspiring filmmakers from opposite sides of the tracks who set out to find a subject for their underground movie, leading them to discover, mentor and manage the iconic band that would become known as The Who. Featuring Roger Daltrey, Pete Townsend and some wonderful archive footage, Lambert & Stamp is a gloriously entertaining concoction of noise, love, rebellion, artistry and hilarity.

Buy a ticket for any screening of Lambert & Stamp plus both Tommy and Quadrophenia (screening on Sunday 14 June, see page 13) and save 25%.

(Tickets must all be bought at the same time. Offer is valid for both full price and concession tickets, but cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount.)

In this faithful tribute to the classic American Western, Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt, Casino Royale) stars as a peaceful European settler who sets out to avenge the murder of his family and cleanse the black heart of his community. With majestic desert landscapes, a ruthless, black-hatted bad guy, and a duplicitous lass (Eva Green), The Salvation miraculously deploys familiar conventions in exciting new ways.

The New Girlfriend

Filmhouse’s latest release as a distributor, winner of the Award for Best Documentary at last year’s EIFF, is a strikingly beautiful portrayal of an extraordinary world.

Every year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujarat, India, where they will stay for the next eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Director Farida Pacha and cinematographer Lutz Konermann spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives and crafting an exquisite, lyrical film in the process.

Une nouvelle amie Fri 12 to Wed 17 Jun

François Ozon • France 2014 • 1h45m Digital • French with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Romain Duris, Anaïs Demoustier, Raphaël Personnaz, Isild Le Besco, Aurore Clément.

François Ozon’s latest is a superb psychological drama that investigates grief and identity with intelligence and humour, and effortlessly fuses the best of Hitchcock and Almodóvar.

Claire (Anaïs Demoustier) is grieving the loss of her lifetime best friend, who has left behind a husband, David (Romain Duris), and a newborn baby. On an unannounced visit, Claire is shocked to discover David dressed in the clothes of his dead wife.

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GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS FACTUAL SURVEY

NEWRELEASE

CRY OF THE CITY

THE INVISIBLE LIFE

NEWRELEASE

RESTOREDCLASSIC

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

Cry of the City

The Invisible Life

Mon 15 to Wed 17 Jun

Tue 16 & Wed 17 Jun

Sat 13 to Mon 15 Jun

Robert Siodmak • USA 1948 • 1h35m Digital • 12A – Contains moderate violence Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters.

Vítor Gonçalves • UK/Portugal 2013 • 1h43m Digital • Portuguese with English subtitles PG – Contains mild violence Cast: Filipe Duarte, João Perry, Maria João Pinho, Pedro Lamares, Susana Arrais.

Produced by Sidney L Bernstein • UK 1945/2014 • 1h28m • Digital 18 – Contains graphic footage of atrocities • Documentary

When British troops liberated the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in April 1945, their horrific discoveries were documented by army and newsreel cameramen. So powerful and damning was their footage that propagandists quickly determined that it should be used – alongside Soviet and American footage – to create a documentary which would condemn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into acceptance of Allied occupation. At the Ministry of Information in London, Sidney Bernstein assembled an expert team that included Alfred Hitchcock, who worked as treatment adviser. By September 1945, however, British priorities for Germany had evolved from de-Nazification to reconstruction and so the film was shelved, unfinished.

Following the original filmmakers’ directions and drawing on seventeen hours of rushes, this brilliant and thoughtprovoking film has now been restored and completed by Imperial War Museums.

A vivid depiction of life in New York’s Little Italy, Siodmak’s fast-paced crime thriller anticipates the films of Martin Scorsese.

An electrifying variation on the theme of a hoodlum (Richard Conte) and a cop (Victor Mature) who knew one another as kids, it opens with the former seriously wounded in hospital but determined to escape the police watching over him; he needs to clear the name of his fiancée, who’s suspected of a jewel robbery. While Conte, all insolent, menacing charm, is especially magnificent, and Mature invests the detective’s pursuit with unsettling hints of obsession, the movie fields a glorious gallery of shady figures, from a lawyer oozing corruption to a memorably sadistic masseuse.

Wandering through an abandoned flat with dark rooms inhabited by ghosts, a man tries to remember the final days of a lost friend and the last time he saw the woman he loved.

This broodingly melancholy and rigorously composed film is a journey to the past that equally lauds the beauty of life, and marks the long-awaited return to the screen by Vítor Gonçalves after 27 years of silence that followed the masterful A Girl in Summer.

COMING SOON Slow West An aristocratic young Scot travels to America to track down his lost love with the help of an outlaw guide (Michael Fassbender) in this acclaimed Western which has already drawn comparisons to Dead Man.

Les combattants Easy-going Arnaud signs up for an army training course in the hope of getting to know enigmatic Madeleine better, in this crowd-pleasing comedy.

Touch of Evil From one of the most arresting opening shots in film history to one of its most memorable

final exchanges, Orson Welles’ transformation of a forgettable pulp novel into a cinematic silk purse may well rival Citizen Kane as his greatest achievement.

The Misfits Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift star in John Ford’s elegaic drama.

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Filmhouse junior Films for a younger audience, weekly on Sundays at 11am. Tickets cost £4.00 (£5.00 for 3D screenings) per person, big or small!

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

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

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

Sun 10 May at 11.00am

Sun 24 May at 11.00am

Tim Johnson • USA 2015 • 1h34m • Digital U – Contains mild threat, slapstick With the voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Matt Jones.

Wes Anderson • USA/UK 2009 • 1h27m • Digital PG – Contains mild violence and scary scenes With the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky.

Eleven-year-old Tip must learn to fend for herself after her mother is abducted during the invasion of Earth by aliens calling themselves the Boov. But when she meets a Boov called Oh, they form an unlikely friendship, and join together in Tip’s quest to find her missing mother, all the while evading formidable Boov leader Captain Smek.

Based on the children’s book by Roald Dahl, this quirky animation tells the story of Mr. Fox, who promised his wife that he would give up a life of henhouse robbery when their son was born. However, after years of going straight, Mr. Fox longs for the thrill of the perfect crime, and begins planning one last job...

Cinderella

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Sun 17 May at 11.00am Kenneth Branagh • USA 2015 • 1h53m • Digital U – Contains very mild scenes of emotional upset Cast: Lily James, Richard Madden, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Hayley Atwell.

Bugsy Malone Sun 3 May at 11.00am Alan Parker • UK 1976 • 1h34m • Digital U – Contains mild parody of gangland scenes Cast: Scott Baio, Jodie Foster, Florrie Dugger, John Cassisi, Paul Murphy.

In 1929 New York, Bugsy Malone’s life gets complicated when he becomes involved in a turf war between rival gangsters Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Alan Parker’s spoof gangster movie – acted by kids and featuring singing and dancing and guns that shoot custard pies – is a delight.

FANTASTIC MR. FOX

Kenneth Branagh directs this beautiful live-action retelling of the classic tale. When Ella’s mother dies and her father remarries, she tries her best to fit in with her new family, but finds herself at the mercy of a cruel and jealous stepmother and stepsisters. When she meets a handsome stranger in the woods, she feels her fortunes have changed, but how can she get to meet him again?

Sun 31 May at 11.00am Paul Tibbitt • USA 2015 • 1h33m • Digital U – Contains mild slapstick violence, toilet humour Cast: Tom Kenny (voice), Bill Fagerbakke (voice), Antonio Banderas, Rodger Bumpass (voice), Clancy Brown (voice).

When the secret formula for delicious Krabby Patty burgers goes missing, loveable chef SpongeBob SquarePants falls into disgrace, and the citizens of Bikini Bottom go mad from hunger. But, with help from a magic book and a cosmic dolphin, SpongeBob and his pals band together to save the formula from the clutches of underhanded rival Plankton and nefarious pirate Burger-Beard.

Filmhouse Junior/Thomas Hardy/The Who

A LETTER TO MOMO

TESS

Tarzan

THOMASHARDY

Sun 7 Jun at 11.00am Reinhard Klooss • UK/Germany 2013 • 1h28m Digital • PG – Contains mild violence, threat With the voices of Kellan Lutz, Robert Capron, Spencer Locke.

A teenage boy, raised by gorillas in Africa since he was a toddler, falls for a pretty conservationist following a chance meeting in the jungle, but finds their romance threatened by a menacing Silverback and a scheming capitalist in search of a new energy source.

A Letter to Momo Momo e no tegami Sun 14 Jun at 11.00am Okiura Hiroyuki • Japan 2011 • 2h1m Digital • English language version PG – Contains infrequent mild bad language

A heartwarming animated fantasy from director Okiura Hiroyuki that was seven years in the making. An 11-year-old girl named Momo moves to a tiny island in the Seto Inland Sea. She continues to cling to the memory of her late father who left her an unfinished letter, and finds herself unable to adjust to her new lifestyle or make friends. Then one day, she is visited by three bizarre creatures.

Join our new families email list to receive regular information about family screenings and events, as well as details of competitions, offers and loads of other exciting stuff for the whole family! Email families@filmhousecinema.com to sign up.

Special screenings of two more Thomas Hardy adaptations, to tie in with the release of the new version of Far from the Madding Crowd (see page 6).

Tess Tue 5, Thu 7 & Fri 8 May Roman Polanski • France/UK 1979 • 2h51m • Digital 12A – Contains a discreet scene of sexual violence Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Leigh Lawson, Peter Firth, John Collin.

Tess Durbeyfield is a beautiful peasant girl whose derelict father discovers the family is descended from once noble Norman ancestry, the d’Urbervilles. Learning of the existence of a rich family bearing this name, Tess’ parents send the girl to present herself as a distant relatve, in the hope of reaping profit from the family tree..

Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Sat 6 Jun at 2.00pm John Schlesinger • UK 1967 • 2h45m • Digital U – Contains very mild violence, nudity and language Cast: Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates.

Bathsheba (Julie Christie) unexpectedly inherits a large farm in rural Dorset. Struggling to manage the farm herself, she captivates the hearts and minds of three very different men: an honest and hardworking sheep farmer, a wealthy but tortured landowner, and a reckless and violent swordsman.

But as emotions become entangled, free spirited and innocent folly soon leads to devastating tragedy.

TOMMY

THEWHO

Tommy Sun 14 Jun at 6.15pm Ken Russell • UK 1975 • 1h48m • Format TBC 15 – Contains moderate violence and sex references Cast: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, Jack Nicholson.

Ken Russell’s wonderfully excessive version of The Who’s rock opera. Young Tommy shuns the rest of the world after the death of his father. His mother and stepfather take him to see a doctor, but nothing seems to help – that is, until Tommy discovers pinball.

Quadrophenia Sun 14 Jun at 8.45pm Franc Roddam • UK 1979 • 2h • 35mm 15 – Contains very strong language Cast: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Philip Davis, Mark Wingett, Sting.

In 1964 London, Jimmy (Phil Daniels) and his pals are Mods, dividing their time between dancing and brawling with Rockers. Adapted from a double album written by Pete Townshend and performed by the Who (who also acted as executive producers for the film), Quadrophenia is one of the best films about youth ever made, beautifully illustrating the frustrations of being young and bright but still having no future.

Buy a ticket for any screening of Lambert & Stamp (page 9) plus both Tommy and Quadrophenia and save 25%.

(Tickets must all be bought at the same time. Offer is valid for both full price and concession tickets, but cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount.)

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Folk Film Gathering

PLAY ME SOMETHING

UP THE JUNCTION

Folk Film Gathering The Folk Film Gathering is the world’s first folk film festival. Our inaugural programme explores the use of folk tale and storytelling in film (Kaos, Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari, Play Me Something, The Fisherman’s Daughter), rhapsodic mixes of cinema and song (Up the Junction, When the Song Dies), and a particular focus on women’s stories and perspectives (Dream On, Letter from My Village, Celestial Wives..., Up the Junction, Copycat).

Each feature will also be preceded by a related short by a contemporary Scottish filmmaker. www.folkfilmgathering.com www.tracscotland.org/festivals/tradfest

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network.

DREAM ON

SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS

Play Me Something

Dream On

Fri 1 May at 8.40pm

Sun 3 May at 8.10pm

Timothy Neat • UK 1989 • 1h12m • 15 Cast: John Berger, Tilda Swinton, Charlie Barron, Hamish Henderson, Lucia Lanzarini.

Amber Collective • UK 1991 • 1h55m • 15 Cast: Maureen Harold, Amber Styles, Anna-Maria Gascoigne, Pat Leavy, Ray Stubbs.

Featuring Hamish Henderson, Tilda Swinton, Liz Lochhead and Margaret Bennett, Play Me Something is one of the great, unsung gems of Scottish cinema. Beginning with the arrival of a mysterious stranger at Barra airport, Timothy Neat’s film stages a playful celebration of oral storytelling and international solidarity that roots Scottish folk tradition within a truly global perspective.

Tyneside’s Amber Collective are a hugely underappreciated force in British cinema, creating images of working class and subaltern life that are startling in their rare, hard-won sense of integrity and authenticity. Combining aspects of magical-realism and fantasy with documentary realism, Dream On charts the fortunes of three women on a pub darts team in North Shields amidst the shake-up when a mysterious stranger comes to town.

PLUS SHORT When the Song Dies

Jamie Chambers • UK 2013 • 15m

PLUS SHORT Copycat Sumaiya Alim, Viktoria Karbowniczek, Megan Thomson • UK 2014 • 14m

Up the Junction Sat 2 May at 6.00pm Ken Loach • UK 1965 • 1h12m • 12A Cast: Carol White, Geraldine Sherman, Vickery Turner, Tony Selby, Michael Standing.

One of Ken Loach’s early films for the BBC, Up the Junction is a ‘breathless’ celebration of working class culture old and new, set in 60’s Clapham. Mixing cinéma-vérité style docudrama with Loach’s staple social commentary, the film places the lives of a group of young women within the stories of their wider community, amidst an exuberant evocation of oral culture and popular music.

PLUS SHORT The Shutdown

Adam Stafford • UK 2010 • 10m

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Amber Collective members Ellin Hare (director) and Peter Roberts (cinematographer).

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

Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Folk Film Gathering

KAOS

CELESTIAL WIVES OF THE MEADOW MARI

WHEN I SAW YOU

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari

Mon 4 May at 5.45pm

Wed 6 May at 8.30pm

When I Saw You Lamma shoftak

Sergei Parajanov • Soviet Union 1965 • 1h32m • Ukrainian with English subtitles • 12 – Contains moderate nudity and violence Cast: Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili, Nikolai Grinko.

Aleksey Fedorchenko • Russia 2012 • 1h46m Russian and Mari with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Yuliya Aug, Yana Esipovich, Vasiliy Domrachyov, Darya Ekamasova, Olga Dobrina.

Sun 7 Jun at 3.30pm

A one-of-a-kind cinematic folk rhapsody, a dizzying portrayal of the ancient people’s culture of the Carpathian mountains.

The story of star-crossed lovers Ivan and Marichka accounts for only half of the film, which moves outwards to encompass the multi-layered perspective of the onlooking folk. Costume, dance, song and gossipy orality combine with some of the most spectacular imagery ever caught on camera to create an unmissable slice of pure cinema.

The second feature from Aleksey Fedorchenko and Denis Osokin, Celestial Wives plays as a series of cinematic folk tales, each focusing on a woman whose name begins with ‘O’. Equal parts absurd, hilarious, tragic and surreal, Celestial Wives is a joyous and profound celebration of the feminine as filtered through folk tale.

Tini zabutykh predkiv

PLUS SHORT The Fisherman’s Daughter

Tom Chick • UK 2011 • 7m

Kaos Tue 5 May at 7.40pm Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani • Italy/France 1984 • 3h8m Digital • Italian with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Margarita Lozano, Orazio Torrisi, Carlo Cartier, Biagio Barone, Laura Mollica.

Based on the short stories of Pirandello, Kaos marries Italian cinematic neorealism with the lyricism of folk tales, among them the story of the bride who discovers her husband is a werewolf on their wedding night, and the hapless landlord who becomes stuck in an enormous clay pot. Effortlessly combining the comic, the tragic, the uncanny and the profound, Kaos is a rich, kaleidoscopic work of folk cinema.

Nebesnye zheny lugovykh mari

PLUS SHORT Cailleach Rosie Reed Hillman • UK 2015 • 14m

Letter from My Village Kaddu Beykat Thu 7 May at 5.45pm Safi Faye • Senegal 1975 • 1h30m Serere and French with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Maguette Gueye, Assane Faye.

An artful fusion of the political and the poetic, Safi Faye’s first film focuses on the daily lives of community members from the director’s Senegalese hometown, Fad’jal. The first feature by a Sub-Saharan African woman to gain international distribution, Letter from My Village mounts a powerful critique on colonial administration, looking outwards from individual lives and livelihoods in Fad’jal to the wider issues which overshadow them.

PLUS SHORT No Hope for Men Below

Adam Stafford • UK 2014 • 11m

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Annemarie Jacir • Occupied Palestinian Territory/Jordan/ Greece/United Arab Emirates 2012 • 1h38m • Digital Arabic and English with English subtitles 12A – Contains infrequent strong language, moderate threat Cast: Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal, Saley Bakri, Anas Algaralleh.

1967. The world is alive and ripe with possibility – new music, style, hope. But in Jordan, thousands of refugees from Palestine are waiting for their right to return to their homeland. Among them, a young boy, yearning to be reunited with his father, secretly sets out on his own and attaches himself to a group of young freedom fighters who take him under their wing. Together, they embark on a journey of adventure, driven by an unshakeable resolve to be free.

This heartfelt and moving film, Palestine’s entry for the 2013 Academy Awards, is suffused with a distinct sense of this revolutionary time and place.

A special screening as part of Refugee Festival Scotland, now in its fifteenth year, which runs from Wednesday 3 to Sunday 21 June 2015. For more information go to www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk

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Bypass/Hinterland/Write Shoot Cut

BYPASS

HINTERLAND

SPECIALSCREENING

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WRITE SHOOT CUT - BOAT

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Bypass

Hinterland

Write Shoot Cut

Thu 7 May at 6.00pm

Wed 13 May & Thu 14 May at 6.10pm

Mon 18 May at 6.15pm

Duane Hopkins • UK 2014 • 1h45m • Digital 15 – Contains very strong language, strong violence Cast: George MacKay, Benjamin Dilloway, Arabella Arnott, Chanel Cresswell, Matt Cross.

Harry Macqueen • UK 2015 • 1h21m Digital • 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Harry Macqueen, Lori Campbell.

1h30m • 15

The second feature from director Duane Hopkins follows Tim (George MacKay, Pride, Sunshine on Leith), a young man pushed into responsibility after his older brother is sent to jail. With an absent father, a surly younger sister and a pregnant girlfriend, Tim finds himself being dragged deep into the criminal underground in order to try and keep the pieces of his fragmented life together. But when he starts feel ill, some sort of escape looks increasingly impossible.

Hopkins transcends the clichés often associated with social realism, bringing a number of effective stylistic touches to this portrait of a generation without hope.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with producer Samm Haillay.

Harry Macqueen’s debut film is a poetic journey of selfdiscovery and heartbreak in contemporary Britain.

When Harvey hears that his old friend Lola has been forced to return home after years abroad, he arranges to take her away for a weekend, to the seaside cottage where they spent much of their youth. What follows is a touching and beautiful story of an old friendship rekindled within a new context.

The screening on Wednesday 13 May will be followed by a Q&A with director and star Harry Macqueen.

Presented by Screen Education Edinburgh in partnership with Filmhouse, the Write Shoot Cut platform is dedicated to celebrating and showcasing short independent film from Scotland.

This month we have five short films either made by or featuring Scottish-based talent. Everything from surreal comedy to political documentary to post apocalyptic Edinburgh and beyond.

Each film will be followed with a Q&A with the filmmakers involved, giving the audience the chance to enjoy what they see and gain an insight into the creative process.

If you are a filmmaker, or someone with an interest in Scottish film and a desire to see something out of the ordinary, then this is an excellent opportunity to connect with the local scene, watch some great films, network afterwards in the bar and meet potential collaborators.

The Lost Purse Colin Ross Smith • 12min Hexagon Justin Chenn • 12min Yes Gran, No Gran Fergus Cruickshank • 11min Boat David Lumsden • 15min Last Exit to Ricklesburgh Russell Miller & Chris Miller • 21min Tickets £6/£5

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Fri 1 While We’re Young 1 2 Samba May 2 While We’re Young 2 Play Me Something + short (F) 3 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch... * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

1.00/8.45 1.05/6.00 3.40 8.40 3.50/6.10

1.00/6.00 3.20 1.10 (subtitled) 4.00/8.40 6.15 8.35

Sat 1 While We’re Young 2 1 Cuernavaca: A Journey...

May 2 Samba 2 Up the Junction + short (F) 3 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch... * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

1.00/6.10 4.00 1.05/8.40 6.00 3.50/8.45

Fri 1 Phoenix 8 1 Dior and I May 2 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 2 Phoenix 2 Night Train (PC) 3 Dior and I * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

2.30 6.00/8.40 1.10 3.20 (dubbed) 6.20 8.20 + Skype Q&A 8.35

Sun 1 Bugsy Malone (FJ) 3 1 While We’re Young (C) May 1 While We’re Young 2 Samba 2 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch...

2 Dream On + short (F) 3 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch...

3 Samba * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

11.00am 1.00 (captioned) 3.15/8.45 1.05 5.55 8.10 + Q&A 3.50 6.05

Sat 1 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 9 1 Phoenix May 2 Knights of the Black Cross (PC) 2 Mother Joan of the Angels (PC) 2 Phoenix 3 Heaven Adores You 3 Dior and I * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

1.00 (dubbed) 3.50/6.10 2.00 6.00 8.40 3.30 8.35

Thu 1 Man of Iron (PC) 14 1 Phoenix May 2 Phoenix 2 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 2 Hinterland 2 Mercedes Sosa: The Voice... (ID) 3 Dior and I * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

Mon 1 While We’re Young 4 2 While We’re Young May 2 Samba 2 Shadows of Forgotten... + sh. (F) 3 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch... * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

6.10 1.00 3.10/8.15 5.45 3.50/8.45

Sun 1 Home (FJ) 10 1 Phoenix May 1 Mother Joan of the Angels (PC) 2 Dior and I 2 Phoenix 2 Pharaoh (PC) 3 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 3 Heaven Adores You * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

11.00am 1.00/8.40 3.15 1.10 3.30/5.45 8.00 + intro 6.00 (dubbed) 8.50

Tue 1 While We’re Young 5 2 While We’re Young May 2 Samba 2 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch...

2 Kaos (F) 3 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch...

3 Samba * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

8.45 12.45 2.55 5.25 7.40 3.50 6.05

Mon 1 Knife in the Water (PC) 11 1 Phoenix May 2 Dior and I 2 Phoenix 2 Knife in the Water (PC) 3 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

2.30 6.00 1.10 3.30/8.40 6.15 8.25 (subtitled)

Wed 1 Citizen Kane (CS) 6 2 Samba May 2 Celestial Wives of the... + sh. (F) 3 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch...

3 The Fruit of Paradise (VC) * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

2.30/8.30 1.00/5.55 8.30 3.50/8.45 6.15 + intro

Tue 1 Jump (PC) 12 1 Phoenix May 2 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 2 Phoenix 2 Jump (PC) 3 Dior and I * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

2.30 8.40 1.00 (subtitled) 3.50/6.00 8.45 6.15

Thu 1 Ashes and Diamonds (PC) 7 2 Samba May 2 Bypass 3 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch...

3 Letter From My Village + sh. (F) * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

2.30 1.00/8.40 6.00 + Q&A 3.30/8.15 5.45

Wed 1 Walkover (PC) 13 1 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya May 1 Phoenix 2 Phoenix 2 Dior and I 2 Hinterland 2 Walkover (PC) 3 Prefab Story (VC) * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

2.30 5.45 (dubbed) 8.40 1.10 3.30 6.10 + Q&A 8.45 + intro 6.15

Fri 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 12.50/3.25/6.00/8.40 15 2 Innocent Sorcerers (PC) 1.00 May 2 The Tribe 3.10 2 Alentejo, Alentejo + short (ID) 6.05 2 Arraianos + short (ID) 8.30 + Q&A 3 The Tribe 8.35 * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18) Sat 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 12.50/3.25/6.00/8.40 16 2 Vikingland + short (ID) 3.10 + Q&A May 2 The Lady of Chandor (ID) 6.15 + Q&A 2 The Salt of the Earth (ID) 8.45 3 The Tribe 1.00/8.35 * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18) Sun 1 Cinderella (FJ) 11.00am 17 1 The Saragossa Manuscript (PC) 2.00 May 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 6.00/8.40 2 Far from the Madding... (AD) + (C) 1.10 (captioned) 2 Paradiso (ID) 3.45 2 Cloudy Times (ID) 5.45 + Q&A 2 Mala Mala + short (ID) 8.35 + intro 3 The Tribe 1.00/6.05 * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18) Mon 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 3.00/6.00/8.40 18 2 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 1.00 May 2 Write Shoot Cut 6.15 + Q&A (£6/£5) 2 Ministry of Fear (GG) 8.30 + intro 3 The Tribe 3.15/6.05 * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18) Tue 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 3.00/6.00/8.40 19 2 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 1.00 May 2 The Tribe 5.55 2 To Kill This Love (PC) 8.45 + intro 3 The Tribe 3.15 3 The Quiet American (GG) 8.30 + intro * Plus films and times TBC (see page 18)

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Wed 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 3.00/8.40 20 1 Edinburgh Napier University...(D) 6.00 May 2 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 1.00/5.55 3 The Tribe 3.15/8.40 3 Traps (VC) 6.00 + intro * Plus films and times TBC (see below) Thu 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 3.00/6.00/8.40 21 2 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 1.00 May 2 Our Man in Havana (GG) 6.15 + intro 2 The Wedding (PC) 8.45 3 The Tribe 3.15/6.05 * Plus films and times TBC (see below) Fri 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 12.50/3.25/6.00/8.40 22 2 Dark Horse... Dream Alliance 1.10 May 2 Only Angels Have Wings 3.10/5.45 2 Stray Dogs 8.20 * Plus films and times TBC (see below) Sat 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 12.50/3.25/6.00/8.40 23 2 Pharaoh (PC) 2.00 May 2 Argerich 5.45 2 Only Angels Have Wings 8.15 3 Dark Horse... Dream Alliance 1.00 3 Appropriate Behavior (OR) 3.00 * Plus films and times TBC (see below) Sun 1 Fantastic Mr. Fox (FJ) 11.00am 24 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 1.00/6.00/8.40 May 1 Dark Horse... Dream Alliance 4.00 2 Argerich 1.10 2 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 3.25 2 Only Angels Have Wings 6.10 2 Appropriate Behavior (OR) 8.45 3 Stray Dogs 3.10 * Plus films and times TBC (see below) Mon 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.40 25 2 Dark Horse... Dream Alliance 1.30 May 2 Only Angels Have Wings 3.40/8.30 2 The Illumination (PC) 6.15 * Plus films and times TBC (see below)

* The majority of our screenings are scheduled well in advance, and times published in this monthly brochure and on our website. Most weeks we leave some spaces in the schedule in order to allow us to keep on films that are proving popular for a little longer; these late-scheduled screenings will be added to our website from midday at the latest on the Tuesday preceding the start of the new cinema week on Friday, and listed in our weekly screenings email – sign up at www.filmhousecinema.com/news

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Tue 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.40 26 2 Only Angels Have Wings 1.10 May 2 Dark Horse... Dream Alliance 3.45 2 Edinburgh Napier Uni TV... (D) 6.00 2 The Hourglass Sanatorium (PC) 8.30 + intro 3 Dark Horse... Dream Alliance 6.15 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Wed 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.40 27 2 Only Angels Have Wings 1.10 May 2 Dark Horse... Dream Alliance 3.45/8.45 2 Gallipoli (WW) 6.10 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Thu 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.40 28 2 Only Angels Have Wings 1.10 May 2 Dark Horse... Dream Alliance 3.45/5.55 2 The Promised Land (PC) 8.00 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Fri 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 12.50/3.25/8.40 29 2 Timbuktu 1.00/8.35 May 2 Provincial Actors (PC) 6.15 3 Provincial Actors (PC) 3.45 3 Timbuktu 6.10 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Sat 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 12.50/3.25/6.00 30 2 Timbuktu 1.00/5.50 May 2 Man of Iron (PC) 8.00 3 Night Train (PC) 3.35 3 Timbuktu 8.35 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Sun 1 The SpongeBob Movie... (FJ) 11.00am 31 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 3.25/8.40 May 2 Timbuktu 1.00/8.35 2 The Constant Factor (PC) 6.15 3 The Promised Land (PC) 2.00 3 Timbuktu 5.45 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Mon 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 2.20/8.40 1 2 Timbuktu 1.00/8.35 Jun 2 Austeria (PC) 6.00 3 Austeria (PC) 3.40 3 Timbuktu 6.10 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Tue 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 2.20/8.40 2 1 ECA Film and Television... (D) 6.30 Jun 2 Timbuktu 1.00/6.00/8.35 3 The Wedding (PC) 3.40 * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

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Wed 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 2.20/8.40 3 2 Timbuktu 1.00/8.35 Jun 2 Blind Chance (PC) 6.00 3 Blind Chance (PC) 3.30 3 Timbuktu 6.10 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Thu 1 Far from the Madding Crowd (AD) 2.20/8.40 4 2 Timbuktu 1.00/8.35 Jun 2 A Short Film About Killing (PC) 6.15 + intro 3 A Short Film About Killing (PC) 3.45 3 Timbuktu 6.10 * Plus films and times TBC (see left) Fri 1 Tess 5 1 8 1/2 Jun 1 The Tales of Hoffmann 2 The Falling (AD) 2 To Kill This Love (PC) 3 Timbuktu 3 To Kill This Love (PC) 3 The Falling (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.00 5.30 8.25 3.50 6.15 1.00/8.40 3.15 6.10

KEY (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (C) – Captioned for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing (see page 2) All screenings in 2D unless marked [3D] Information about For Crying Out Loud screenings for babies and carers can now be found on page 2.

SEASONS: (CS) – Come and See... (page 31) (D) – Degree Shows (page 33) (F) – Folk Film Gathering (pages 14-15) (FJ) – Filmhouse Junior (pages 12-13) (GG) – Graham Green Spy Stories... (page 32) (ID) – IberoDocs (pages 26-29) (OR) – Over the Rainbow (page 29) (PC) – Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema (pages 20-24) (VC) – Vera Chytilová (page 30) Full index of films on page 2

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

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TICKET PRICES AND INFORMATION

Sat 1 Far from the Madding... (1967) 6 1 The Tales of Hoffmann Jun 1 8 1/2 2 The Falling (AD) 2 The Wedding (PC) 3 Timbuktu 3 8 1/2 3 The Falling (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.00 5.20 8.15 3.50 8.45 1.00/6.10 3.15 8.25

Thu 1 The Salvation (AD) 11 1 Lambert & Stamp Jun 2 The Falling (AD) 2 Provincial Actors (PC) 3 Timbuktu 3 The Constant Factor (PC) 3 The Falling (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

2.30/6.15 8.30 3.40 6.00 1.00/8.40 3.15 6.20

MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thu: £7.20 full price, £5.70 concessions Friday Matinees: £5.50/£4.00 concessions Sat - Sun: £9.00 full price, £7.20 concessions

11.00am 1.30 4.45 7.45 3.50 (captioned) 6.15 1.00/8.40 3.30 6.00

1.00 3.15/6.00 1.05 3.30 6.15 8.35 8.30

For screenings in 3D add £2 to ticket price.

Sun 1 Tarzan (FJ) 7 1 The Tales of Hoffmann Jun 1 8 1/2 1 Tess 2 The Falling (AD) +(C) 2 The Illumination (PC) 3 Timbuktu 3 When I Saw You 3 The Falling (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

Fri 1 My Name Is Salt 12 1 The New Girlfriend Jun 2 The New Girlfriend 2 Lambert & Stamp 2 The Constant Factor (PC) 2 My Name Is Salt 3 The New Girlfriend * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

Jun 1 Tess 8 1 Lambert & Stamp Jun 1 8 1/2 2 The Falling (AD) 2 The Hourglass Sanatorium (PC) 3 Timbuktu 3 8 1/2 3 The Falling (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see left)

2.15 5.50 8.20 1.10 8.30 1.00/6.10 3.15 8.40

Tue 1 The Salvation (AD) 9 1 The Salvation (AD) + (C) Jun 1 Lambert & Stamp 2 The Falling (AD) 2 Timbuktu 2 The Promised Land (PC) 3 Timbuktu 3 The Hourglass Sanatorium (PC) 3 The Falling (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

2.30 6.15 (captioned) 8.30 1.00 5.50 8.00 1.00 3.15 8.40

Wed 1 The Salvation (AD) 10 1 Spliced: Edinburgh College... (D) Jun 2 The Falling (AD) 2 Lambert & Stamp 3 Timbuktu 3 The Illumination (PC) 3 The Falling (AD) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

2.30/8.30 6.00 3.40 6.05 1.00/8.40 3.15 6.15

Sat 1 The New Girlfriend 1.15/3.40/6.00 13 2 My Name Is Salt 1.05/5.45 Jun 2 German Concentration Camps... 3.30 2 Man of Iron (PC) 8.10 3 Something Must Break (OR) 3.45 3 The New Girlfriend 8.30 * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite) Sun 1 A Letter to Momo (FJ) 11.00am 14 1 My Name Is Salt 1.30 Jun 1 Lambert & Stamp 3.40 1 Tommy 6.15 1 Quadrophenia 8.45 2 German Concentration Camps... 1.15 2 The New Girlfriend 3.20/8.30 2 Austeria (PC) 6.00 3 Something Must Break (OR) 8.40 * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite) Mon 1 The New Girlfriend 2.30 15 1 Cry of the City 6.15 Jun 1 ECA Animation Degree Show (D) 8.30 2 Cry of the City 3.30 2 German Concentration Camps... 6.00 2 The New Girlfriend 8.15 * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite) Tue 1 The New Girlfriend 16 1 Cry of the City Jun 2 The Invisible Life 2 Blind Chance (PC) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

2.30/8.30 6.15 3.30/8.40 6.00

Wed 1 The New Girlfriend 17 1 Cry of the City Jun 2 Cry of the City 2 The Invisible Life 2 A Short Film About Killing (PC) * Plus films and times TBC (see opposite)

2.30/6.15 8.40 3.30 6.00 8.45

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Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema

ASHES AND DIAMONDS

NIGHT TRAIN

KNIGHTS OF THE BLACK CROSS

Polish cinema seemed to come out of nowhere. After a painful period of reconstruction post-WWII and the abolition of a creatively stifling policy of Socialist Realism, the country’s filmmakers were more than ready to spread their wings. They did so to spectacular effect from the late 50s onwards, exploring Poland’s war-torn landscapes, the fantastical worlds of the imagination and, as the cracks began to show towards the end of the 70s, the ‘moral anxiety’ of existing within a corrupt Communist society.

Every film in this season, curated by Martin Scorsese and screening in pristine digital restorations, is regarded as a classic in Poland. Some already enjoy that status here, but others are undeservedly little-known; we’re hoping to change that. (Introduction and film synopses by Michael Brooke) More information can be found here: www.mspresents.com/uk Filmhouse are proud to be working with our Polish, US and UK partners to bring this season to the UK. TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% off Buy any six (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 25% off Buy any nine (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 35% off These offers are available online, in person and on the phone, on both full price and concession price tickets. Tickets must all be bought at the same time.

Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema

MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS

PHARAOH

KNIFE IN THE WATER

Ashes and Diamonds Popiól i diament

Knights of the Black Cross Krzyzacy

Pharaoh Faraon

Thu 7 May at 2.30pm

Sat 9 May at 2.00pm

Sun 10 May at 8.00pm & Sat 23 May at 2.00pm

Andrzej Wajda • Poland 1958 • 1h44m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate violence and language Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski.

Aleksander Ford • Poland 1960 • 2h53m • Digital • Polish with English subtitles • PG – Contains mild violence and language Cast: Urszula Modrzynska, Grazyna Staniszewska, Andrzej Szalawski.

Jerzy Kawalerowicz • Poland 1966 • 2h33m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • 12A Cast: Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska.

One of Poland’s biggest hits, this lavish widescreen epic was based on Henryk Sienkiewicz’s much-loved novel, The Teutonic Knights. Set at the turn of the 15th century, it depicts the tension between the Poles and Lithuanians and their Teutonic neighbours, culminating in a thrilling reconstruction of the 1410 Battle of Grunwald (a pivotal event in Polish history) which featured thousands of extras.

Kawalerowicz spent three years making what was once Poland’s most expensive film, a huge widescreen epic about the struggle between Ramesses XIII and his high priests. Previously released internationally only in a severely truncated version, Pharaoh has now been restored to its spectacular original form.

The screening on 10 May will be introduced by Dr Malgorzata Bugaj (University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling).

Wajda’s superb film vividly captures the turbulence and confusion immediately following the Second World War, as a former resistance hero turns anti-Communist assassin.

Audiences were supposed to empathise with his intended victim, but Zbigniew Cybulski gave such a charismatic performance as the conflicted killer it seemed to crystallise the fears and uncertainties of a generation.

Mother Joan of the Angels Night Train Pociag Fri 8 May at 6.15pm & Sat 30 May at 3.35pm Jerzy Kawalerowicz • Poland 1959 • 1h39m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate language and suicide references Cast: Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielówna, Zbigniew Cybulski, Helena Dabrowska.

A sleeper train rockets through the night; among its passengers might be a murderer. Night Train isn’t quite as overtly Hitchcockian as it sounds, as Kawalerowicz was primarily interested in the quirks that people show in artificial social environments. Leon Niemczyk (Knife in the Water) and the director’s wife, Lucyna Winnicka, are strangers sharing a compartment while studiously hiding personal secrets.

Matka Joanna od aniolów

Sat 9 May at 6.00pm & Sun 10 May at 3.15pm Jerzy Kawalerowicz • Poland 1961 • 1h51m • Digital • Polish and Latin with English subtitles • PG – Contains mild nudity Cast: Lucyna Winnicka, Mieczyslaw Voit, Anna Ciepielewska.

Notionally, this is based on the same historical events that inspired Ken Russell’s The Devils, but Kawalerowicz’s treatment is subtler and more psychologically acute.

Lucyna Winnicka plays an allegedly possessed abbess who’s investigated by a priest, hopelessly out of his depth when confronted with forces he doesn’t understand.

Knife in the Water Nóz w wodzie Mon 11 May at 2.30pm + 6.15pm Roman Polanski • Poland 1962 • 1h36m Digital • Polish with English subtitles PG – Contains mild language, violence, nudity and sex references Cast: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz.

Roman Polanski’s first feature mixed ostensibly simple ingredients: two men; a woman; a yacht; a vast expanse of water, and a haunting jazz score by the great Krzysztof Komeda. It resulted in not just one of the most psychologically gripping films of its era, but also Poland’s first Oscar nominee.

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

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Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema (contd.)

JUMP

WALKOVER

MAN OF IRON

THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT

Jump Salto

Man of Iron Czlowiek z zelaza

The Saragossa Manuscript

Tue 12 May at 2.30pm + 8.45pm

Thu 14 May at 2.30pm, Sat 30 May at 8.00pm & Sat 13 Jun at 8.10pm

Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie Sun 17 May at 2.00pm

Andrzej Wajda • Poland 1981 • 2h34m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 12A – Contains strong language Cast: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Irena Byrska, Wieslawa Kosmalska.

Wojciech Jerzy Has • Poland 1965 • 3h4m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 15 – Contains frequent nudity and moderate violence Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Joanna Jedryka.

Tadeusz Konwicki • Poland 1965 • 1h45m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski.

In this rich and subtle dream-play, a man arrives in a small country town and demands sanctuary from an unspecified threat. But who is he, why do people remember him differently, and can he really perform miracles? Many Poles consider this Cybulski’s greatest performance and he’s certainly on riveting form, especially when performing a ‘salto’ folk dance towards the end.

Walkover Walkower Wed 13 May at 2.30pm + 8.45pm Jerzy Skolimowski • Poland 1965 • 1h15m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Aleksandra Zawieruszanka, Jerzy Skolimowski.

Jerzy Skolimowski’s second feature cemented his status as a one-man Polish New Wave, with the rhythms of his films influenced as much by jazz and (his own) poetry as by more conventional storytelling. Skolimowski himself plays a dropout-turned-amateur boxer who’s distracted from his bouts when Teresa (Aleksandra Zawieruszanka), an old university friend, re-enters his life.

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

As the Solidarity protests swelled in 1980, Wajda grabbed camera and crew, pulled ready-made characters off the shelf (from his earlier Man of Marble) and filmed this story of government-backed espionage against the real backdrop of world-changing history unfolding: even activist and future President Lech Walesa (himself later the subject of Wajda’s Walesa: Man of Hope) has a cameo.

It won both the Palme d’Or and a domestic ban when martial law was declared.

You wouldn’t expect a rip-roaring widescreen Napoleonic adventure crammed with duels, damsels and cryptic manuscripts to be the favourite film of the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia. But this is actually one of the great 1960s ‘head-trips’ – an adaptation of Count Jan Potocki’s legendarily labyrinthine novel into a bewildering but exhilarating lattice of stories within stories within stories.

To Kill This Love Trzeba zabic te milosc Tue 19 May at 8.45pm & Fri 5 Jun at 3.15pm + 6.15pm

Innocent Sorcerers Niewinni czarodzieje Fri 15 May at 1.00pm Andrzej Wajda • Poland 1960 • 1h28m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate violence and sex references Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Krystyna Stypulkowska, Wanda Koczeska, Kalina Jedrusik, Teresa Szmigielówna.

After three successive films about Polish history, Wajda turned his attention to the (then) present, enlisting younger colleagues Roman Polanski and Jerzy Skolimowski to add verisimilitude to this study of disaffected twentysomethings. Newly qualified doctor and jazz fanatic Bazyli (Tadeusz Lomnicki) has so little time for emotional engagement that when he actually falls in love he doesn’t know how to handle it.

Janusz Morgenstern • Poland 1972 • 1h37m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Andrzej Malec, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Barbara Wrzesinska, Alicja Jachiewicz.

Magda and Andrzej (Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak and Andrzej Malec) are young lovers in early 1970s Poland, notionally a socialist paradise, in reality anything but as they find themselves constantly buffeted by official obstacles and supposedly non-existent class barriers as they try to find a place to live together. The film was formally criticised for its pessimism, but the feeling was very much shared by its audience.

The screening on 19 May will be introduced by Dr Malgorzata Bugaj (University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling).

Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema

THE WEDDING

THE PROMISED LAND

The Wedding Wesele Thu 21 May at 8.45pm, Tue 2 Jun at 3.40pm & Sat 6 Jun at 8.45pm Andrzej Wajda • Poland 1973 • 1h48m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Marek Walczewski, Izabela Olszewska, Ewa Zietek, Daniel Olbrychski, Emilia Krakowska.

First performed in 1901, Stanislaw Wyspianski’s play turns the marriage of a poet and a peasant into a state-ofthe-nation allegory about the attractions and pitfalls of national self-determination at a time when independent Poland didn’t exist. Wajda’s splendidly grotesque adaptation pulls out every cinematic stop in emphasising the piece’s phantasmagorical elements as his camera hurtles from reality to fantasy.

PROVINCIAL ACTORS

The Hourglass Sanatorium

Provincial Actors

Tue 26 May at 8.30pm, Mon 8 Jun at 8.30pm & Tue 9 Jun at 3.15pm

Fri 29 May at 3.45pm + 6.15pm & Thu 11 Jun at 6.00pm

Wojciech Jerzy Has • Poland 1973 • 2h5m • Digital Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew and Latin with English subtitles 15 – Contains moderate violence and sexualised nudity Cast: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska.

Agnieszka Holland • Poland 1979 • 1h50m Digital • Polish with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Halina Labonarska, Tadeusz Huk.

Sanatorium pod klepsydra

The Illumination Iluminacja

A hallucinatory head-swiveller of a film, which combines several of Bruno Schulz’s short fantasy works into a floridly baroque journey of a man visiting a mysterious sanatorium. He enters a world based as much on his anxieties and long-buried memories as it is on objective reality, a world crammed with exotic birds, mechanical automata resembling historical figures and haunting images of Poland’s now-vanished Jewish past.

The screening on 26 May will be introduced by Dr Malgorzata Bugaj (University of Edinburgh and University of Stirling).

Mon 25 May at 6.15pm, Sun 7 Jun at 6.15pm & Wed 10 Jun at 3.15pm

The Promised Land Ziemia obiecana

Krzysztof Zanussi • Poland 1973 • 1h33m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 15 – Contains gory surgery and autopsy images, and soft drug use Cast: Stanislaw Latallo, Monika Dzienisiewicz-Olbrychska, Malgorzata Pritulak, Jan Skotnicki, Edward Zebrowski, Wlodzimierz Zonn.

This dazzlingly original film-essay combines an intensely intimate portrait of a young would-be scientist with a quizzical analysis of his sincere (if fumbling and naive) attempts at grasping the very meaning of life, to which end he switches from studying physics to biology. Its frequent scholarly digressions into both art and science anticipated Peter Greenaway by many years.

THE CONSTANT FACTOR

Thu 28 May at 8.00pm, Sun 31 May at 2.00pm & Tue 9 Jun at 8.00pm Andrzej Wajda • Poland 1975 • 2h50m • Digital Polish, German, Yiddish and Russian with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong gory images and sex Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn.

Andrzej Wajda’s viscerally vivid adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner Wladyslaw Reymont’s late-19th-century novel is a ruthlessly clear-eyed anatomising of the industrial revolution from the perspective of three young entrepreneurs vying to be the most ruthless. One of the most outstanding and astonishing works by arguably the greatest of all Polish directors.

Aktorzy prowincjonalni

After an apprenticeship as Andrzej Wajda’s assistant, Agnieszka Holland made her solo debut with this ambitious ensemble piece. The story of a trendy young theatre director attempting a politically controversial reinterpretation of a well-known Polish play provides both an allegorical study of cultural interference and a lacerating portrait of a withering marriage.

The Constant Factor Constans Sun 31 May at 6.15pm, Thu 11 Jun at 3.15pm & Fri 12 Jun at 6.15pm Krzysztof Zanussi • Poland 1980 • 1h31m Digital • Polish and English with English subtitles • PG Cast: Tadeusz Bradecki, Zofia Mrozowska, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Cezary Morawski, Witold Pyrkosz.

A man obsessed by the impending death of his mother and a dream of climbing mountains retreats into mathematics, trying to discover a ‘constant factor’ that will make sense of the world’s apparently random capriciousness. It’s one of Zanussi’s most mordantly cleareyed films about the moral challenges posed by trying to maintain a normal life in a corrupt bureaucracy.

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AUSTERIA

Austeria Mon 1 Jun at 3.40pm + 6.00pm & Sun 14 Jun at 6.00pm Jerzy Kawalerowicz • Poland 1982 • 1h48m • Digital Polish, Hebrew and German with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Franciszek Pieczka, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Szurmiej, Ewa Domanska, Wojciech Standello.

Jerzy Kawalerowicz spent decades trying to realise his most personal project, a tale of anti-Semitic persecution during the First World War that allowed him to suggest, without tackling the Holocaust directly, that the culturallyengendered pacifism and passivity of Poland’s Jews sowed the seeds of their later destruction. This was – to put it mildly – a controversial notion, but Kawalerowicz’s sympathy and sincerity is evident throughout.

Blind Chance Przypadek Wed 3 Jun at 3.30pm + 6.00pm & Tue 16 Jun at 6.00pm Krzysztof Kieslowski • Poland 1987 • 2h3m Digital • Polish with English subtitles 15 – Contains moderate sex and nudity Cast: Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz.

Banned for years for getting too close to the political knuckle, Kieslowski’s three-part narrative hinges on whether medical student Witek (Boguslaw Linda) catches a train, and on what happens afterwards. Will he be recruited by the government, become a political protester, or continue studying in neutral isolation? And can he control these outcomes, or is his life dictated by fate? This newlyrestored version of Blind Chance contains scenes which have never previously been screened in public.

BLIND CHANCE

A Short Film About Killing

A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING

Krótki film o zabijaniu

John Cassavetes’ Cinema of Love

Thu 4 Jun at 3.45pm + 6.15pm & Wed 17 Jun at 8.45pm

Saturday 6 June 2015, 10.00am - 4.00pm

Krzysztof Kieslowski • Poland 1988 • 1h26m • Digital Polish with English subtitles • 18 – Contains very strong violence Cast: Miroslaw Baka, Krzysztof Globisz, Jan Tesarz.

A grimly confrontational study of the protracted process of ending someone’s life, whether through casual murder or meticulously calibrated execution. Kieslowski’s masterpiece contributed to a national debate that ultimately ended capital punishment in Poland – for who could still justify it after seeing it? Cinematographer Slawomir Idziak’s inspired use of bilious coloured filters turns 1980s Warsaw into a living hell.

The screening at 6.15pm on 4 June will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh).

Tutor: Deirdre Martin

Film Guild Cinema, Filmhouse, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ £35.00 John Cassavetes’ films are renowned for improvisational acting, emotional realism, and intimate narratives of unorthodox characters and complicated love. This intensive one-day course will consist of a lecture and clip-based exploration of the films of John Cassavetes followed by a screening and close study of his film, A Woman Under the Influence.

For further information and enrolment: www.ed.ac.uk/studying/short-courses Email: oll@ed.ac.uk Telephone: 0131 650 4400

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IberoDocs

MERCEDES SOSA: THE VOICE OF LATIN AMERICA

ALENTEJO, ALENTEJO

ARRAIANOS

IberoDocs Welcome to the second edition of IberoDocs, Scotland’s Ibero-American Documentary Film Festival, taking place in Edinburgh 14 to 17 May and – for the very first time! – in Glasgow (CCA) 23 and 24 May. After what was a very successful first edition in 2014, with over a thousand people accepting our invitation to come see our films and take part in our events, IberoDocs is raising the bar in 2015! We’ve more than doubled the number of films in our programme (over 20 titles from 15 countries) and again complemented our programme with a wide range of engaging events, discussions and parties you will not want to miss!

Under the theme of Identity/ies, we invite you to take a closer look at Ibero-American cultures and their stories through the magnifying glass that is the documentary film form. It is our hope that, together and through these filmmakers’ cinematic work, we can form a new vision of the Iberian and Latin American space, and, through this exercise, expand our vision of ourselves. Amongst films coming from all over Ibero-America, in our 2015 programme you will find the first ever Scottish retrospective of Portuguese documentary filmmaker Catarina Mourão, one of the most remarkable directors in the Southern European documentary scene, with three of her films showing in Edinburgh and a masterclass by the director herself. We are also turning our eye to the epicentre of New Galician Cinema, showcasing some of the most thought-provoking work produced in Spain in recent years in our Focus on Galicia strand. And with at least another eight filmmakers and guests coming to Scotland to talk about their films and answer your questions, you will be spoilt for choice on which events to attend this year!

We hope you enjoy the programme we prepared for you as much as we enjoyed creating it, and we look forward to seeing you at Filmhouse!

Mar, Mon, Isa and the IberoDocs Team x IberoDocs 2015 is produced by Cinemaattic Productions CIC.

Please find information on the full festival programme at www.iberodocs.co.uk

IberoDocs

MOUNTAIN IN SHADOW

Scottish Premiere

Mercedes Sosa: The Voice of Latin America

Mercedes Sosa: La voz de Latinoamérica Thu 14 May at 8.20pm Rodrigo H Vila • Argentina 2013 • 1h33m • Digital • Spanish, French, English and Portuguese with English subtitles • 12A Documentary

A documentary on the life, music and achievements of the great Argentinean folk music singer Mercedes Sosa.

Mercedes is the narrator of her own story as we see excerpts from footage of her public and private life. The film is a portrayal of her as an artist, a woman, a mother but also of everything she represented. Every thought and emotion, every struggle and every hope, she expressed in the songs she sang, in the lyrics to which she gave life.

The screening will be followed by a Skype Q&A with director Rodrigo H Vila, and then the festival’s Opening Party (more details at IberoDocs website).

VIKINGLAND

Alentejo, Alentejo

THE LADY OF CHANDOR

Scottish Premiere Focus on Galicia

Fri 15 May at 6.05pm

Arraianos

Sérgio Tréfaut • Portugal 2014 • 1h36m • Digital Portuguese with English subtitles • PG • Documentary

Fri 15 May at 8.30pm

In Alentejo, Portugal, dozens of amateur polyphonic choirs gather regularly to sing traditional songs and new lyrics about present times. This is Cante. Born in the taverns and in the fields, sung by miners and peasants, Cante was transmitted from generation to generation until the recent recognition by UNESCO as Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

This film is a journey into present-day Portugal, discovering Cante and the lives of the performers who seem to express the deep voice of the Earth.

In this portrait of a small village trapped out of time and located on the Galicia-Portugal border, moments of fiction stand alongside the daily life of the Arraianos, now ‘actors’ playing their own selves. Reality, myths and dreams merge together in this film, freely inspired by the local play ‘O Bosque’ (‘The Forest’) by Jenaro Marinhas del Valle. A film about time, memory and the musicality of language.

PLUS SHORT Spaces of Time #2: Porto David Hernandez • Spain 2013 • 15m • Digital • Documentary

A poetic work observing life in the city of Porto, Portugal.

Scottish Premiere

Eloy Enciso • Spain 2012 • 1h10m • Digital Galician with English subtitles • PG

PLUS SHORT Mountain in Shadow (Montaña en sombra) Lois Patiño • Spain 2012 • 14m • Digital • Documentary

A contemplative look towards the vastness of the snowy mountain and the insignificance of the skiers on it.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Arraianos producer Beli Martínez.

EXHIBITION Antonio José Vallejo Rodríguez: Portraits of the Soul 3-17 May, Filmhouse Cafe Bar The face as an identity mirror. The stress on the model’s individual characteristics and the investigation of their emotional expressions take us to images full of emotions and symbols that entail the search of internal psychology.

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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IberoDocs (continued)

CATARINA MOURAO (THE LADY OF CHANDOR)

THE SALT OF THE EARTH

Terra de Vikingos

CLOUDY TIMES

The Lady of Chandor A Dama de Chandor Paradiso

Focus on Galicia

Vikingland

PARADISO

Scottish Premiere Sat 16 May at 6.15pm

Sat 16 May at 3.10pm Xurxo Chirro • Spain 2011 • 1h39m • Digital Galician and German with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary

A found-footage compilation taken from VHS tapes that director Xurxo Chirro stumbled across – tapes containing 16 hours of material shot 20 years ago by a Galician working on a ferry crossing from Denmark to Germany – which he then edited into ‘chapters’ inspired by Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’. The result is an elemental journey into the nature of bygone images, and also a chartless navigation into the meaning of creative authorship.

PLUS SHORT Pettring

Catarina Mourão • Portugal 1999 • 1h30m • Digital Portuguese, English, French, Hindi and Konkani with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary

Thirty-five years after its independence from Portuguese colonial rule, Goa is definitely a state of many contrasts.

Together with a strong migrating Hindu population, there is still a Portuguese speaking minority which seems somewhat frozen in nostalgia and kept in a strange time limbo. Aida, the Lady of Chandor, lives alone in Goa. At 82 years of age she devotes each day to caring for her beautiful old house, a house which has survived three centuries of Portuguese colonial rule.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Catarina Mourão.

A young Galician filmmaker keeps a film diary about his first months as an immigrant in Sweden.

The Salt of the Earth Le sel de la terre

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Vikingland producer Beli Martínez.

Juliano Ribeiro Salgado & Wim Wenders • France/Brazil/Italy 2014 1h50m • Digital • French, Portuguese and English with English subtitles • 12A – Contains images of real dead bodies Documentary

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Omar Al Abdul Razzak • Spain 2014 • 1h15m • Digital Spanish with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary

The Duque de Alba is the last remaining adult movie theatre in Madrid. Even though pornography is mostly consumed online, the theatre works due to a regular clientele. The Duque de Alba is, indeed, more than just an adult movie theatre: it is a shelter, a refuge. Rafael, the projectionist, works hard every day in order to keep the place nice, but now Luisa, the ticket clerk with whom he’s worked for more than thirty years, the only one who helps him make the theatre a better place, is about to retire.

Cloudy Times

El tiempo nublado

Eloy Domínguez Serén • Spain/Sweden 2013 • 20m • Digital Galician and Swedish with English subtitles • Documentary

Sat 16 May at 8.45pm

For the last 40 years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history – international conflicts, starvation and exodus. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of wild fauna and flora, and of grandiose landscapes, as part of a huge photographic project which is a tribute to the planet’s beauty.

UK Premiere

Sun 17 May at 3.45pm

UK Premiere

Sun 17 May at 5.45pm Arami Ullón • Switzerland/Paraguay 2014 • 1h32m • Digital Spanish, English and German with English subtitles • 12A Documentary

Paraguayan director Arami Ullon has lived in Basel, Switzerland, for a number of years. Her mother, who is suffering from epilepsy and Parkinson’s, lives in Asunción.

In recent months, the mother’s health has increasingly deteriorated, and Julia, the woman paid a modest amount to look after her, can no longer cope with the situation and wants to quit her job. Since there is no one except Arami to look after her mother, she must return to Paraguay and face her past.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Arami Ullón.

IberoDocs/Over the Rainbow

MALA MALA

Mala Mala

APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR

Scottish Premiere

Sun 17 May at 8.35pm Antonio Santini & Dan Sickles • Puerto Rico/USA 2014 • 1h27m Digital • Spanish and English with English subtitles • 18 Documentary

A film about the transgender experience and the power of transformation told through the eyes of 9 trans-identifying individuals in Puerto Rico. A vibrant and visually striking immersion into the transgender community, Mala Mala celebrates the breadth of experiences among a diverse and evolving community: from campaigning for government recognised human rights, to working in the sex industry, to performing as part of a drag troupe.

PLUS SHORT High Heels Aren’t Compulsory Annabel Cooper • UK 2015 • 15m • Digital Cast: Jo Clifford.

High Heels... charts trans* lecturer Carolyn’s first day back at work after her transition.

The screening will be preceded by a special performance by Jo Clifford to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, and will be followed by the festival’s Closing Party in Edinburgh.

Over the Rainbow It’s here! It’s queer!

Filmhouse is delighted to announce the launch of Over the Rainbow, our brand new monthly screening strand for new and classic LGBTQIA films and events. Beginning with Appropriate Behavior in May and Something Must Break in June, we look forward to welcoming you to even more of the best queer cinema which Over the Rainbow will bring you, in addition to new releases found elsewhere in the programme.

Appropriate Behavior

SOMETHING MUST BREAK

Something Must Break Nånting måste gå sönder Sat 13 & Sun 14 Jun Ester Martin Bergsmark • Sweden 2014 • 1h24m • Digital Swedish with English subtitles • 18 – Contains strong sex Cast: Saga Becker, Iggy Malmborg, Shima Niavarani, Mattias Åhlén, Daniel Nyström.

Taking its title from a Joy Division B-side, this collaboration between Ester Marin Bergsmark and Eli Levén (both of whom identify as trans*) presents a powerful story of love and longing against a backdrop of shifting gender identity and stylistically daring eroticism. As Sebastian’s female identity, Ellie, begins to emerge, he is encouraged towards transitioning by roommate Lea. But when Sebastian/Ellie falls in love with straight Andreas, the consequences of their violent relationship begin to make decisions about the future much more uncertain.

Sat 23 & Sun 24 May Desiree Akhavan • USA/UK 2014 • 1h26m • Digital 15 – Contains infrequent very strong language, strong sex, sex references, drug use Cast: Desiree Akhavan, Rebecca Henderson, Scott Adsit, Halley Feiffer, Anh Duong.

After a bad breakup with girlfriend Maxine, New York twentysomething hipster Shirin (Desiree Akhavan, who also writes and directs) is trying desperately to get her sex life back into order. As she embarks on a series of (not especially successful) affairs and rakes through the ruins of her relationship with Maxine, the film alternates moments of poignancy with inspired deadpan humour.

“If Woody Allen or Lena Dunham had written a PersianAmerican bisexual breakup comedy, the script might read something like Appropriate Behavior.” - BFI Flare

Also be sure to catch Carol Morley’s The Falling (page 8), François Ozon’s The New Girlfriend (page 9) and Mala Mala, screening as part of IberoDocs (see left).

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Vera Chytilová

THE FRUIT OF PARADISE

Vera Chytilová A rebel, a feminist and a critic of contemporary society – some of many labels attached to the leading lady of 1960s Czech New Wave, Vera Chytilová, who died last year at the age of 85.

An innovative filmmaker, best known for her experimental farce Daisies, Chytilová focused on women rebelling against a male dominated order while consistently applying her moral vision, earning herself a ban from filming by the Czechoslovak government.

Several screenings will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh and editor-in-chief of the journal Film-Philosophy. He has written on Michael Haneke, Jan Svankmajer and Czech cinema, and has interests in psychoanalysis and phenomenology.

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PREFAB STORY

The Fruit of Paradise

Ovoce stromu rajskych jíme Wed 6 May at 6.15pm Vera Chytilová • Czechoslovakia/Belgium 1969 • 1h35m Digital • Czech with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Jitka Nováková, Karel Novák, Jan Schmid.

In Chytilová’s most experimental work, Zdenek Liska’s music, Jaroslav Kucera’s cinematography and Ester Krumbachová’s design combine in a unique celebration of form. Nominally based on the story of a murderer, the characters symbolise Eve, Adam and the devil, against a background of the Garden of Eden.

This screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa.

TRAPS

Traps Pasti, pasti, pasticky Wed 20 May at 6.00pm Vera Chytilová • Czech Republic 1998 • 2h4m 35mm • Czech with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Zuzana Stivínová, Miroslav Donutil, Tomás Hanák.

Described as a ‘feminist black comedy’, Chytilová’s postcommunist film continues the confrontational approach of Prefab Story with the subject of a woman who is raped by two men. Unfortunately for them, she is a veterinary surgeon practised in techniques of castration. Also a political commentary attacking male power, it shows Chytilová treating capitalist morality with the same enthusiasm previously reserved for ‘socialist’ compromise.

This screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa.

Prefab Story

Panelstory aneb Jak se rodí sídliste Wed 13 May at 6.15pm Vera Chytilová • Czechoslovakia 1979 • 1h36m Digital • Czech with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Lukás Bech, Antonín Vanha, Eva Kacírková.

Chytilová’s multilevel portrayal of contemporary life is a blunt and aggressive confrontation with the ‘normalised’ society in which she lived. Set against the background of a high rise estate, it examines the nature of contemporary morality and the materialist preoccupations of its inhabitants. One of the few genuinely critical works of its time, it received limited release and was denied international exposure.

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Gallipoli/Cuernavaca/Come and See... Citizen Kane

GALLIPOLI

CUERNAVACA: A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF MALCOLM LOWRY

SPECIALEVENT

THEFIRSTWORLDWARINCINEMA

Gallipoli Gelibolu Wed 27 May at 6.10pm Tolga Örnek • Turkey 2005 • 2h3m • Digital English and Turkish with English subtitles PG – Contains moderate references to war horror Documentary

More than 120,000 soldiers lost their lives in the deadly Gallipoli campaign in 1915. To capture the human spirit of the campaign through the experience of the soldiers, this compelling film tells the story simultaneously from both sides, focusing on the diaries and letters of two British, three New Zealand, three Australian and two Turkish soldiers, ordinary men forced by history to do extraordinary things.

Screening as part of The First World War in Cinema, a four-year series of films, programmed in association with the University of Edinburgh, that relate to the First World War, some timed to coincide with the real events of 100 years ago and others which are not tied to specific dates.

Peter Weir’s 1981 drama Gallipoli will screen in August.

Cuernavaca: A Journey in Search of Malcolm Lowry Sat 2 May at 4.00pm 1h15m

Talbot Rice Gallery presents Ross Birrell and David Harding’s film Cuernavaca: A Journey in Search of Malcolm Lowry (2006) (44min) a poetic meditation on Lowry’s novel ‘Under the Volcano’.

The screening will be followed by a live recital by The Da Vinci Trio of two movements from Olivier Messiaen’s ‘Quartet from the End of Time’ (1941), a composition which inspired work by Ross Birrell and David Harding, currently featured in their exhibition, where language ends, at Talbot Rice Gallery.

The Da Vinci Trio: Tony Moffat (violin), Leader of the Orchestra of Scottish Opera Robert Irvine (cello), Head of Chamber Music at the Royal Conservatoire Mario Montore (piano), Leader of the Avos Quartet, Rome The screening will be introduced by Ross Birrell. where language ends | Ross Birrell and David Harding is at the University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery until 2 May.

CITIZEN KANE

Come and See...

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

Citizen Kane Wed 6 May at 2.30pm + 8.30pm Orson Welles • USA 1941 • 1h59m • 35mm U – Contains infrequent mild violence Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead.

A fictional biography of media magnate Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) – a thinly veiled William Randolph Hearst that brought Welles and RKO all kinds of problems – that recreates a life in flashback, Welles’ Citizen Kane was a startling cinematic debut by any standards, and the fact that it was made by a 25-year-old made it nothing short of remarkable.

Beginning with Kane’s lonely death at his crumbling and ornate Xanadu mansion, the film details the destruction of Kane’s childhood after his mother unwittingly comes into possession of a fortune, and his adolescent decision to personally take on the running of a newspaper. From there, Kane builds a media empire, dabbles in politics and women, and eventually starts to alienate all those around him.

Special screenings marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Orson Welles.

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Graham Greene Spy Stories on Screen

MINISTRY OF FEAR

THE QUIET AMERICAN

OUR MAN IN HAVANA

Graham Greene Spy Stories on Screen Novelist, screenwriter, film reviewer and sometime MI6 agent Graham Greene authored some of the most politically acute and psychologically probing spy fictions of the twentieth century, and his darkly prescient visions have inspired startling, sometimes controversial, cinematic expression. As part of Edinburgh Spy Week, this mini-season presents three fascinating examples of Graham Greene’s Spy Stories on Screen. From Fritz Lang’s film noir vision of wartime London in Ministry of Fear (1944), to Joseph Mankiewicz’s controversial pro-US revision of Greene’s portrayal of the French War in Vietnam in The Quiet American (1958), to the reunion of Greene and Carol Reed for the black comedy of Our Man in Havana (1959), we journey across three continents in the political and psychologically tumultuous world of ‘Greeneland’.

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Ministry of Fear

The Quiet American

Our Man in Havana

Mon 18 May at 8.30pm

Tue 19 May at 8.30pm

Thu 21 May at 6.15pm

Fritz Lang • USA 1944 • 1h26m • 35mm • PG – Contains mild violence Cast: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Dan Duryea.

Joseph L Mankiewicz • USA 1958 • 2h2m • 35mm PG – Contains mild violence and language Cast: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll, Bruce Cabot.

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

Fritz Lang’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s angst-ridden 1943 novel downplays the vertiginous play of multiple identities and lost memories that suffuse Greene’s paranoiac wrong man thriller. Lang presents a film noir version of wartime London, replete with stark shadows, nefarious blondes and incessant rain. The film places more emphasis on love and shoot-outs than Greene’s rumination on guilt and pity but, as with any good spy story, missing microfilms are present and correct in both.

The screening will be introduced by Dr David Sorfa (University of Edinburgh).

Greene’s novel caused outrage in the USA for its critique of CIA involvement in the French War in Vietnam, and Mankiewicz’s adaptation provoked equal controversy for its revision of the plot to stress American political idealism.

Thomas Fowler (Michael Redgrave) is the 50-something world-weary English journalist competing with Alden Pyle (Audie Murphy), the young idealistic ‘quiet American’ (and CIA agent?), for possession of the most inscrutable secret in book and film, as nations and ideologies vie for Vietnam.

The screening will be introduced by Dr Simon Cooke (University of Edinburgh).

Wormold (Alec Guinness), a vacuum-cleaner salesman in pre-Revolution Cuba, agrees to act as an agent for the British Secret Service to fund the expensive habits of his daughter. On the advice of a friend, Dr Hasselbacher (Burl Ives), Wormold makes up a network of agents, sending back sketches of invented military installations based on his own vacuum cleaners – until the plot darkens. Greene adapted his own novel to make a film that is both parody of secret bureaucracy (represented by Noel Coward’s insouciant spymaster) and exploration of loyalty and betrayal.

The screening will be introduced by Prof Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh).

Degree Shows

EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY

EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY TV

Degree Shows The best new work from film, TV, media and animation students at Edinburgh’s colleges and universities.

Edinburgh Napier University Graduate Show Wed 20 May at 6.00pm

EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART FILM & TV

SPLICED: EDINBURGH COLLEGE

There is a refreshing emphasis on documentary filmmaking in this compilation of short films from final year Edinburgh Napier undergraduate students. We meet bat conservationists and celebrate their enthusiasm for these fascinating creatures. We take a poetic look at the sea through the eyes of those most in contact with it. By the end of the screening, you may also be hankering after a pint of real ale and a ham sandwich. The strange world of fiction is not to be outdone, however – there are mysterious spirits abroad, not to mention aliens from another world.

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EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART ANIMATION

Edinburgh Napier University TV Graduate Show

Spliced: Edinburgh College Showcase Event

Tue 26 May at 6.00pm

Wed 10 Jun at 6.00pm

1h40m • 15

1h40m • 15

After two years of intensive productions and gruelling classes, Edinburgh Napier’s Television students are ready to display their much anticipated final projects on the big screen. Having spent most of their final years developing and perfecting their ideas will the concepts stand up strong as finished programmes good enough for the highly competitive Television Industry?

Join us for the second annual Edinburgh College Spliced Awards showcase event. The cream of Edinburgh College student filmmakers will vie for the prestigious ‘Best Factual’ and ‘Best Non-Factual’ Awards, voted for by a selected panel of industry judges, and the much-coveted ‘Audience Award’ will be chosen on the night. The screening of shorts includes animations, music videos, comedies, documentaries and dramas. Spliced gives the audience a wonderful opportunity to see the fresh and emerging talent of the next generation of filmmakers.

1h40m • 15

Edinburgh College of Art Film and Television Degree Show Tue 2 Jun at 6.30pm 1h40m • 15

This year’s crop of graduate films from the award-winning Film Department at ECA ranges from a sparky coming of age drama about a young gay teenager growing up in Scotland to experimental work on perception, and a beautifully observed nature documentary gathered from a self-made hide on the water of Leith.

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Edinburgh College of Art Animation Degree Show Mon 15 Jun at 8.30pm 1h40m • 15

This year’s show from the award-winning animation department at ECA features a range of work from across the course. As always, the main emphasis is on the students who are about to graduate, and this time the films touch on such sticky matters as chewing gum and walking sticks, memories you cling to, close family bonds, songs that grab you and won’t let go, ghosts who linger and an attachment to a grandfather who can be relied upon to tell a tall tale. In addition there are films made in a day and films made in 48 hours. More than enough there to keep you glued to your seat…

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Education and Learning

Education and Learning Global Citizenship & Film - CPD event for teachers Thu 21 May • 4.30pm-6.30pm • Free Using a global citizenship approach to explore how film can enrich learning in the classroom, this practical CDP event is delivered in partnership with Scotdec and Take One Action Film Festival.

Supporting Learning for Sustainability, this innovative event includes: a global approach to teaching; using international films to enrich learning; opportunities and resources for schools. Watch films, share ideas and network with colleagues over a glass of wine.

This event is free for teachers but places are limited. Please book by contacting Sabrina Leruste at Filmhouse on 0131 228 6382 or email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk

EIFF Youth Hub If you’re aged 16-26 and passionate about cinema, then EIFF Youth Hub is for you. Youth Hub is part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which takes place from 17-28 June and offers a free programme of filmmaker masterclasses, panel discussions, workshops and careers advice. Whether you just want to learn more about film and hear from some of the international filmmakers visiting the Festival, or you are thinking of working in the film industry, Youth Hub is a great place to start.

EIFF Youth Hub is based at Argyle House thanks to our partnership with Space Club and somewhereto_ Details of the EIFF Youth Hub programme will be available from 8 June. To register for updates, please email education@cmi-scotland.co.uk

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