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Ginger & Rosa A film by Sally Potter

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80 Million 32 About Elly 6 Africa in Motion 2012 8-15 African Films for Children 10 African Science Fiction 9 African Storytelling 11 After School Midnighters 24 AiM Short Film Competition 12 Anime Mirai Project 26 Anime Shorts 24 Anna Karenina 6 Arab Spring Documentaries 11 Arrietty 17 Arsenic and Old Lace 23 Barbara 4 Belle de jour 30 Berberian Sound Studio 6 Berserk: The Golden Age Arcs 1 & 2 25 The Birds 20 Blood-C: The Last Dark 25 The Blue Angel 31 Call Me Kuchu 33 The Canadian Dresses 32 Cécile Corbel: Composing for Studio Ghibli 16 Cry of Love 14 Dali in New York 28 Dear Mandela 13 Death for Sale 12 Dimanche à Brazzaville 14 The Dwarf Magician 16 The Dying Swan 30 Elles 32 Elmina 10 Essaha 10 F for Fake 7 Family Plot 21 Fear of Falling 32 Filmhouse Cafe Bar & Quiz 29 Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 36 From Up on Poppy Hill 24 The Genius of Hitchcock 20-23 Ginger & Rosa 5 Der Golem 30 The Gruffalo’s Child and Other Stories 17 Holy Motors 4 Hope Springs 6 Husbands 7 I, Anna 28 Introduction to European Cinema 30-31 Joanna 32

La kermesse héroïque 31 Kinyarwanda 13 Learning Events 34 MAAMi 13 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) 20 Marnie 22 Miracle in Milan 31 Mr and Mrs Smith 20 Nerawareta Gakuen 25 Night and the City 31 Ninja Scroll 26 The Northern Lights Film Project... 29 October 30 Otelo Burning 14 ParaNorman 17 Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney 24 Play Poland 32 Le Point de Vue du Lion 15 Psycho 21 Quartier Mozart 12 Rear Window 22 Restless City 15 Room 237 5 Rope 22 Rupture: A Matter of Life or Death 28 Les Saignantes 9 Santa Sangre 26 Scotland Loves Anime 24-26 Scottish International Storytelling Festival 16 Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Fest 28-29 Serious Drugs 28 Shadow of a Doubt 21 The Shining 7 Shorts for Wee Ones 17 The Singing Ringing Tree 16 The SMHAFF International Film Awards 2012 29 Snow White 16 Spellbound 22 Stocktown X South Africa 14 Strangers on a Train 20 Surprise Screening: Take One Action... 33 Suspicion 23 Swandown 5 Tey 11 To Catch a Thief 21 The Trouble with Harry 22 Twigson 17 Uhlanga 9 Under Capricorn 22 Untouchable 4 Weans’ World 17 The Winner 32 Wolf Children Ame and Yuki 26

AUDIODESCRIPTIONANDSUBTITLES We have installed a system which enables us, whenever the necessary digital files are available, to show onscreen subtitles for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing, and provide audio description (via infra-red headsets) for those who are sight-impaired. This issue, all screenings of Hope Springs will have audio description, and the following screening will also have subtitles:

Hope Springs – Sat 27 Oct at 3.25pm

FORCRYINGOUTLOUD Screenings for carers and their babies!

Barbara – Mon 8 Oct at 11am Anna Karenina – Mon 15 Oct at 11am Ginger & Rosa – Mon 22 Oct at 11am Hope Springs – Mon 29 Oct at 11am Screenings are limited to babies under 12 months accompanied by no more than two adults. Baby changing, bottle warming and buggy parking facilities are available. Tickets £3.40/£2.50 concessions per adult.

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Introduction

THE SHINING

AFRICA IN MOTION – DIMANCHE A BRAZZAVILLE

GINGER & ROSA

Did Stanley Kubrick really fake the moon landing...? At the risk of incurring the wrath of at least the anonymous correspondent who last year let me know, in no uncertain terms, that neither he (I suspect it’s a he) nor anyone else was interested in my international film festival travels (prone, as I am, to write about them in this column), and making the bold assumption that someone out there actually might be, I’m writing this standing in a queue for a screening of the film version of David Mitchell’s novel, ‘Cloud Atlas’, at the Toronto Film Festival. His suggestion was that the money spent on sending me here could be better spent letting folks (including him, I assume) into our cinema for less, and whilst he may have a point of some kind or another, the truth is if I didn’t come here I’d be having to go down to London every other week to see the films I need to see by way of ensuring we bring only the best new cinema to our screens. So, with all those trips south as the alternative, it actually turns out to be financial prudence that brings me here. QED. (Not that I’m on the defensive or anything.) I’m especially keen to see Cloud Atlas, mainly because a friend of mine, an Edinburgh-based actor, is in it. He’s told me not to blink or I may miss him, so I’ll need to be alert for the full 2h43m despite it being my 5th film of the day. (I’ve just come out of it... mmm... I’ll refrain from saying too much about this hugely ambitious film, suffice to say my friend gives a great account of himself. Oh, and there are some beautiful scenes shot in our fair city too, including up our very own Scott Monument.) Another film screening here now, and there in October, is Sally Potter’s marvellous Ginger & Rosa, a largely autobiographical coming-of-age tale set in Britain against the backdrop of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the new freedoms and possibilities of the 1960s. A must-see for all you baby-boomers out there, and no mistake. Our Hitchcock season heats up considerably with some of the great man’s very best-known films, including The Birds, Marnie and Psycho; and Untouchable, Holy Motors and Barbara continue through the first half of the month. 26 October sees the release of the brilliant and hilarious documentary Room 237, which introduces us to a whole host of obsessives who have spent an awful lot of time ‘deciphering’ the secret codes and hidden meanings they have found in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. It’s great stuff, and in what can only be described as a programming coup, we also have the re-released/remastered original 144-minute US version (it was originally released in the UK in a 119-minute version, so it’s really more like a ‘release’) of the aforementioned horror masterpiece, with a preview on Halloween and a short run from 2 November. We’ve festivals galore for you too – Africa in Motion, now in its 7th edition, Scotland Loves Anime, and the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival, to name but three. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy... Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

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New releases

HOLY MOTORS

NEWRELEASE

UNTOUCHABLE

NEWRELEASE

BARBARA

NEWRELEASE

Holy Motors

Untouchable Intouchables

Barbara

Showing until Thu18 Oct

Showing until Thu 18 Oct

Showing until Thu 11 Oct

Leos Carax • France/Germany 2012 • 1h56m • Digital projection French, English and Chinese with English subtitles 18 – Contains strong nudity Cast: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue, Elise Lhomeau.

Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano • France 2011 • 1h52m Digital projection • French with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language and soft drug use Cast: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot.

Christian Petzold • Germany 2012 • 1h45m Digital projection • German with English subtitles • cert tbc Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke.

French filmmaker Leos Carax (Les amants du Pont-Neuf, Pola X) took Cannes by storm this year with this cyclone of cinematic invention, receiving rapturous praise from critics and audiences alike and making a dark-horse charge at the Palme d’Or. An intoxicating blend of science fiction, song and dance, romance and carnival funhouse dada pranksterism, Holy Motors is confounding and dazzling in equal measure, earning comparisons to David Lynch, Lewis Carroll, Tron and Metropolis. With vaudevillian genius (and the help of elaborate costumes and makeup), French character actor Denis Lavant inhabits no less than eleven roles as he is driven about a digitally transformed fantasy Paris by his chauffeur (the brilliant Edith Scob) in an odyssey that is both espionage and performance, and overtly a metaphor for our ever-changing online existences. Gorgeously shot by Caroline Champetier, with an inspired supporting cast including Kylie Minogue and Eva Mendes, Holy Motors enchants with its stunning imagery, entertains like a cyberpunk cabaret act, and provokes with its howl of rage against our enslavement to technology.

Move over Jean Dujardin and The Artist: France’s most talked-about performance and film this year comes in the shape of this fuse-lighting comedy that’s become the country’s second-biggest box-office hit of all time with its portrait of friendship across the racial and economic divide.

In the paranoiac nightmare of East Germany, 1980, Barbara, a physician from Berlin, has been sent to a small country town as punishment for a crime against the state. Tormented by the Stasi, she dreams of escape to the West but finds herself being drawn inexorably, disastrously into a relationship with a fellow doctor.

Paralysed from the neck down after an accident, gloomy millionaire Philippe (François Cluzet) finds little in life worth living for, until the arrival of his new assistant, Driss (Omar Sy), a Senegalese rowdy from the downtrodden banlieues. Not quite on doctor’s orders, Driss takes Philippe as far out of his comfort zone as possible and into a world he never knew existed – or rather always tried to avoid.

Subtly drawn and impeccably acted, Barbara is the assured new offering from German master Christian Petzold, who deservedly won the Best Director award at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. A film of glancing moments and dangerous secrets, Barbara paints a haunting picture of a young woman being slowly crushed between the irreconcilable needs of desire and survival.

A slapstick, gleefully politically incorrect throwback to ’80s culture-clash comedies like Trading Places, only played out across contemporary France’s ever-palpable racial and class tensions, Untouchable hit a nerve with French audiences, critics hailing it as a cultural milestone.

After the 5.50pm screening on Monday 8 October there will be an open discussion on the issues raised by the film, led by a representative of the Humanist Society of Scotland. Humanism is an ethical stance which asserts that we can lead good lives guided by compassion and reason, rather than religion or superstition. Humanists are vitally concerned with issues that affect our world.

New releases

GINGER & ROSA

NEWRELEASE

SWANDOWN

NEWRELEASE

ROOM 237

NEWRELEASE

Ginger & Rosa

Swandown

Room 237

Fri 19 Oct to Thu 1 Nov

Tue 23 Oct only

Fri 26 Oct to Thu 8 Nov

Sally Potter • UK/Denmark/Canada/Croatia 2012 • 1h30m Digital projection • 12A – Contains infrequent strong language and moderate sex and suicide references Cast: Christina Hendricks, Elle Fanning, Annette Bening, Alessandro Nivola, Alice Englert.

Michael Kötting • UK 2012 • 1h38m • Digital projection 12A – Contains one use of strong language • Documentary

Rodney Ascher • USA 2012 • 1h42m • Digital projection 15 – Contains strong violence, horror and nudity Documentary

Best friends forever, Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert) have grown up together and are now on the brink of adulthood, strutting their bathtub-shrunk jeans and flaunting their own brand of teenage existentialism. One fears annihilation, the other invites it. Ginger is preoccupied with the Cold War and the mounting threat of nuclear devastation. Rosa is defiant – her revolution is sexual – a form of protest that will irrevocably impact on their families, her future and ultimately, the girls’ friendship. While Sally (Orlando, The Tango Lesson) Potter’s intoxicating coming-of-age drama is historically specific in its 1960s London setting, its relevance to the current era of ill-defined protest and the question of generational legacy is palpable. The left-leaning adults – Ginger’s carefree bohemian father (Alessandro Nivola), her frustrated mother (Christina Hendricks) and her mother’s politically active friends (Annette Bening, Timothy Spall and Oliver Platt) all give lessons on freedom and responsibility that prove flawed and hypocritical when turbulent reality encroaches on idealism. Carlos Conti’s understated design and Robbie (Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights) Ryan’s moody cinematography amplify the sense of claustrophobic intimacy and underscore Potter’s choice to evoke the 60s through mood and sensibility rather than by overt design. (Clare Stewart, LFF programme)

Swandown is a travelogue and odyssey of Olympian ambition; a poetic film-diary about encounter, myth and culture. It is also an endurance test and pedal-marathon in which Andrew Kötting (the filmmaker) and Iain Sinclair (the writer) pedal a swan-shaped pedalo from the seaside in Hastings to Hackney in London, via inland waterways. With a nod to Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and a pinch of Dada, Swandown documents their epic journey, on which they are joined by invited guests including comedian Stewart Lee, writer Alan Moore and actor Dudley Sutton.

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

“One of the great movies about movies.” – Variety Room 237 dissects Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining in amazing and unexpected ways, looking at a host of conspiracy theories around secret codes and messages supposedly hidden within the film. Director Rodney Ascher has uncovered a thriving subculture of Kubrick fans, critics and film theorists – ranging from semi-obsessive to paranoid delusional – who ascribe a plethora of interpretations to The Shining. Is it about the Holocaust? Or the plight of the American Indians? Or is it a confession of Kubrick’s involvement with faking the moon landing? Screened at Sundance and Cannes, the film itself is about so much more than just obsessive fandom; it gets to the heart of what it is to find meaning in a film, and there, to discover one’s secrets. Catch the new restoration of The Shining at our special Halloween preview on 31 October (see page 7), or when it returns for a short run from 2 November.

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Maybe you missed...

ANNA KARENINA

MAYBEYOUMISSED

ABOUT ELLY

MAYBEYOUMISSED

HOPE SPRINGS

MAYBEYOUMISSED

Anna Karenina

Berberian Sound Studio

Hope Springs

Sun 14 to Thu 18 Oct

Fri 19 to Wed 24 Oct

Fri 26, Sat 27, Mon 29, Tue 30 Oct & Thu 1 Nov

Joe Wright • UK/France 2012 • 2h10m • Digital projection 12A – Contains moderate sex, language and brief bloody images Cast: Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Kelly Macdonald, Jude Law, Matthew Macfadyen.

Peter Strickland • UK 2012 • 1h32m Digital projection • English and Italian with English subtitles 15 – Contains sustained psychological threat and references to sexual violence Cast: Toby Jones, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Cosimo Fusco, Susanna Cappellaro, Eugenia Caruso.

David Frankel • USA 2012 • 1h40m • Digital projection 12A – Contains frequent moderate sex references Cast: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Jean Smart.

A society woman is torn between loyalty to her husband and the desires of her heart in this sweeping drama about love and desire, compromise and adultery, social mores and self-realisation. Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece of realist fiction has been adapted for the screen more than a dozen times, yet it is safe to say that it has never before been realised with anything close to the imaginative brio of this latest incarnation from British director Joe Wright. With a script by playwright and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Tom Stoppard, glorious cinematography by EIFF patron Seamus McGarvey and a stunning performance by Keira Knightley (collaborating with Wright for the third time) in the title role, this Anna Karenina is both a faithful rendering of Tolstoy’s novel and a brilliant piece of conceptually audacious showmanship.

In the 1970s, a British sound technician (Toby Jones) is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past. Berberian Sound Studio is many things: an anti-horror film, a stylistic tour de force, and a dream of cinema.

Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) are a devoted couple, but decades of marriage have left Kay wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears of a renowned couples specialist in the small town of Great Hope Springs, she attempts to persuade her sceptical husband, a steadfast man of routine, to get on a plane for a week of marriage therapy. A warm and very funny comedy with two marvellous performances at its heart. Screening in association with Relationships Scotland.

About Elly Darbareye Elly Fri 19 to Tue 23 Oct & Thu 25 Oct Asghar Farhadi • Iran 2009 • 1h58m • Digital projection Persian and German with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate violence and threat Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Merila Zare’i, Mani Haghighi.

A superb drama from the director of the multiple-awardwinning Iranian feature A Separation. Over a weekend at the seashore, a group of well-to-do young Teheranians tries to set up their freshly-divorced friend Ahmad with an amiable yet aloof kindergarten teacher Elly, whom none of them knows very well. But their relaxed weekend suddenly takes a dramatic turn when Elly disappears, and various lies – casual and serious, necessary and unnecessary – come back to haunt the characters.

Relationship counselling helps people with their relationships. We can help you to work through problems in current relationships, explore the effects of past relationships or look at how to improve and enrich relationships for the future. We can do this whether you are in a couple or on your own, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity. What’s important to us is your relationship. If sex (or lack of it) is the specific problem, sex therapists can help you look at your sexual relationship and work on how to explore what is not working and what needs fixing. Visit www.relationships-scotland.org.uk for details of counselling services in all parts of Scotland, or phone 0845 119 2020.

Restored classics

HUSBANDS

RESTOREDCLASSIC

F FOR FAKE

RESTOREDCLASSIC

THE SHINING

RESTOREDCLASSIC

Husbands

F for Fake

The Shining

Fri 12 to Tue 16 Oct

Fri 12 to Sun 14 Oct

Wed 31 Oct only

John Cassavetes • USA 1970 • 2h11m • Digital projection 12A – Contains domestic violence and moderate sex references Cast: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Jenny Runacre, Jenny Lee Wright.

Orson Welles • France/Iran/West Germany 1973 1h28m • Digital projection English, French and Spanish with English subtitles PG – Contains infrequent nudity

Stanley Kubrick • UK/USA 1980 • 2h24m • Digital projection 15 – Contains strong violence and language Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson.

The deceptively simple tale of three men’s nihilistic attempts to deal with the death of a friend, Husbands is a dissection of middle class suburban ennui like few others. Three friends – Gus (Cassavetes), Archie (Peter Falk) and Harry (Ben Gazzara) use the funeral of their friend as a jumping off point for a European bender to end all benders. There’s drunkenness, singing, basketball, gambling, picking up girls and making complete fools of themselves aplenty, but this is no ageing frat pack flick. For Husbands is actually a powerfully intuitive re-evaluation of male values (their instability and stupidity) in the age of change that was the end of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Part essay, part prank, and one of the most inventive and invigorating non-fiction features ever made. At its heart are two of the world’s great fakers – Elmyr De Hory, a man who could dash off a Picasso in the time it takes to finish a cup of tea, and Clifford Irving, the crime author who claimed he’d been hired to write the biography of Howard Hughes. Rather than looking down his nose at the forgers, director Orson Welles dares to wonder whether what they do isn’t itself a form of art. He also contemplates the less noble moments of his own career – principally the infamous ‘War Of The Worlds’ radio broadcast – leads us on a tour of great restaurants, and introduces us to everyone from his long-time partner and collaborator Oja Kodar to celebrity friends like Joseph Cotten and Laurence Harvey.

A stunning new digital transfer of the longer, US cut of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of modern horror.

Long overdue re-evaluation, Husbands is an important work by a major American filmmaker.

As cheerfully subversive as Welles’ film is (he constantly refers to elisions at the request of his lawyers), it’s not a glib statement for the sake of irony itself, but a personal meditation on the nature of art and art’s audience, and the capricious nature of fame and fortune. Simply dazzling.

Hired as caretaker for a mountain hotel cut off from civilisation by winter snowfall, struggling author Jack Torrance is haunted by his frustrated creative ambitions and fears of failure both as a husband and an artist. Nurtured by the claustrophobia and isolation of his surroundings, his underlying insanity gradually evolves into rampant madness. Nicholson’s startling performance, beginning with the overdone charm at his job interview already showing signs of inherent insanity, to the final maniacal beast on the rampage, is perfectly realised. A special Halloween preview of this new restoration, which will return for a short run from 2 November. And don’t miss the brilliant and entertaining documentary Room 237, also screening this month (see page 5).

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Africa in Motion 2012

UHLANGA

AFRICAN SCIENCE FICTION – THE LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY

AFRICAN SCIENCE FICTION – HASAKI YA SUDA

Africa in Motion 2012: Modern Africa Welcome to the seventh edition of the Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival, the biggest celebration of African cinema in Scotland. Over the past seven years, our strong belief in the brilliance of African film and the need for it to be seen by audiences in a public space has led us to share over 200 films to audiences totalling around 15,000 people. In response to growing demand from our audiences in Glasgow, we are expanding this year to Scotland’s biggest city. We are delighted to be working with the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) and look forward to welcoming our new Glasgow audience to AiM. The theme of Africa in Motion 2012 is Modern Africa. We invite you too to take a close look at the new, provocative, innovative and experimental artistic work being produced on the continent; which makes evident the important role Africa is playing in today’s global society. Alongside this positive outlook, it is clear that African filmmakers continue to reflect on the contemporary challenges that persist to trouble the continent, such as poverty, drainage of resources – natural and intellectual, diasporic and migratory movements, peacebuilding and reconciliation, and economic development. Overall, we have prepared an extensive and diverse programme of over 20 UK premieres; we have the 5th edition of our much loved Short Film Competition, and guest filmmakers from the continent such as Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Cameroon) and Ndaba ka Ngwane (South Africa) will be in attendance. As always, our film programme is accompanied by a wide range of exciting complementary events such as directors’ Q&As, seminars and masterclasses, workshops, music performances and visual arts exhibitions, and an academic symposium dedicated to ‘African Popular Arts in the 21st Century’. Of special interest are our two opening nights: one in Edinburgh (Cargo Bar) and for the first time, one in Glasgow (The Lighthouse)! It is with gratitude that we recognise the dedicated work of our team of staff and volunteers and the support of our funders, sponsors and partners, notably Filmhouse and GFT. We hope you enjoy the programme we prepared for you, and we’ll see you when the lights come up! Much love, Isabel Moura Mendes and Natalia Palombo

Main funders: Creative Scotland; Awards for All; Regional Screen Scotland (Africa in Motion Rural Scotland and Schools Tour) Sponsors: Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI), University of Edinburgh; School of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling; Division of Literature and Languages, University of Stirling; Scottish Documentary Institute; Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies; Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh; Rwandan High Commission; Rwanda Scotland Alliance; Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh; British Council; The Africa Channel (Short Film Competition); Buni TV (Short Film Competition); Wines for South Africa; Spoilt for Choice; Divine Chocolate; The Co-operative; Tropical Wholefoods; Café Ecosse Partners: Filmhouse; Glasgow Film Theatre; Edinburgh College of Art; Toto Tales; Film Africa; African and Caribbean Network (A&CN); School of Culture & Creative Arts (SCC), University of Glasgow Media partners: The Africa Channel; Buni TV; See Africa Differently; The Skinny


LES SAIGNANTES

Uhlanga The Mark

ELMINA

UK Premiere African Science Fiction

ELMINA

Les Saignantes The Bloodettes

Thu 25 Oct at 8.30pm

Fri 26 Oct at 5.45pm


Ndaba ka Ngwane • South Africa 2012 • 1h30m MiniDV • Zulu with English subtitles • 15

1h42m • Various languages with English subtitles • 15

Jean-Pierre Bekolo • France/Cameroon 2005 • 1h37m Digibeta • French with English subtitles • 15

This beautiful and thought-provoking debut feature film from South African filmmaker, author and playwright Ndaba ka Ngwane follows three young teenagers in rural KwaZulu-Natal through their daily struggles of poverty, abuse and prejudice. With stunning cinematography by first-time director of photography and film editor Khulekani Zondi, Uhlanga features a cast of young amateur actors, stirring poetry and an original and engaging soundtrack of South African music. We are excited to host the UK premiere of Uhlanga and delighted to have the director Ndaba ka Ngwane and cinematographer Khulekani Zondi in attendance. The film recently scooped five awards at the Zanzibar International Film Festival – including the Golden Dhow Award for best feature. Ndaba ka Ngwane and Khulekani Zondi are presenting a masterclass at Edinburgh College of Art, Friday 26 October at 10.00am. Their attendance was made possible by the generous support of Film Africa in London. After the screening everyone is warmly invited to an opening reception at Cargo Bar (129 Fountainbridge) featuring live African music, African canapés and South African wine. Thanks to Spoilt for Choice for generously sponsoring the canapés!

African sci-fi might sound like an unusual concept, but in fact this genre is increasingly being explored by African artists, writers and filmmakers. Adopting and reinterpreting the genre of science fiction allows these artists to imagine possible futures for Africa while drawing on the past, to speculate about scientific and technological innovation and environmental change, and to create counternarratives to persisting stereotypes of Africa as the ‘Dark Continent’. In this collection of films, we look at different manifestations and interpretations of the genre from various parts of the continent as well as from the African diaspora. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Cameroonian director Jean-Pierre Bekolo, whose feature film Les Saignantes, hailed as one of the first African sci-fi films, will be screened later the same evening. The films in this programme are: The Last Angel of History John Akomfrah · Ghana/UK 1995 · 45m

Yaounde, Cameroon 2025: Two femme fatales, Majolie and Chouchou, use their beauty to win favour from powerful men in Cameroon. When one of these men dies, it sets in motion a plot involving a severed head, a secret society of women and the fate of a struggling nation.

Les Saignantes has been hailed as one the first science fiction films to come out of Africa. An experimental scifi/action/horror hybrid, the film aims to expose the deep social crises that according to the filmmaker, Cameroon in particular and Africa in general, suffer from. The avantgarde feel of the film, its stylised aesthetic and superb acting earned the film second prize for Feature Film and Best Female Actresses awards at FESPACO (2007). We are delighted to have Jean-Pierre Bekolo in attendance for a Q&A session following the screening. Bekolo is an award-winning filmmaker, script writer, author and scholar. His first film Quartier Mozart (screening on Sun 28 Oct) was awarded the Prix Afrique en Création at Cannes Film Festival (1992). Bekolo’s visit is generously funded by the University of Stirling.

Sweetheart - UK Premiere Michael Matthews · South Africa 2012 · 26m

Kichwateli (TV-Head) - UK Premiere Bobb Muchiri · Kenya 2011 · 7m

Hasaki Ya Suda (Swords) Cédric Ido · Burkina Faso 2010 · 24m · Lingala with English subtitles

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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Africa in Motion 2012 (continued)

ESSAHA

AFRICAN FILMS FOR CHILDREN – ABEBA AND ABEBE

AFRICAN FILMS FOR CHILDREN – MWANSA THE GREAT

Elmina

Essaha The Square

Sat 27 Oct at 6.00pm


Sun 28 Oct at 11.00am

Emmanuel Apea Jr • Ghana 2010 • 1h44m • Digibeta • 15

Dahmane Ouzid • Algeria 2010 • 1h53m 35mm • Arabic with English subtitles • 15

1h3m • PG

Elmina brings together two worlds that don’t often intersect - the Western art world and the African popular cinema industry - in a unique hybrid that turns conventional notions of globalisation on their head. The film depicts the journey of a small-town Ghanaian farmer fighting government and corporate corruption to protect his land and family from a Chinese oil company against all odds. It’s an intriguing melodrama full of witchcraft, murder and sex which chronicles a man’s struggle against the system. In an unusual casting choice, Doug Fishbone, a white American from New York City, portrays a character that would traditionally be played by a black actor from Ghana. No reference is ever made to this irregular casting, which in a quietly subversive way challenges our ideas of fiction and tests the acceptable limits of role and representation in film. Kindly supported by Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, the screening will be followed by a discussion with researchers and anthropologists working in Africa.

UK Premiere African Films for Children

Essaha is the first-ever Algerian musical comedy! A group of juveniles defend ‘the Square’, the place where they live, against a company which plans to build a shopping mall in its place. None of them has a job nor any chance of getting one. Violence, drugs and illegal immigration are everywhere, and the threat of an acquisition of their living space generates huge concern. Dahmane Ouzid has created a humorous musical where the youths’ hopes and dreams for a better life, love, and a visa end up being the catalyst to move a mostly silent community into action.

A programme of exciting films and animations, designed especially for our younger audience members and their families. The screening will be introduced by Ogova Ondego, director of Lola Kenya Screen based in Nairobi, an audiovisual media festival, skills development programme and market for children and youth in eastern Africa. The first two films in this programme were made in collaboration with the African children and youth who took part in Lola Kenya’s creative and cultural entrepreneurship mentoring scheme. Subtitles will be narrated for younger viewers. The films are: Little Knowledge is Dangerous - UK Premiere Karama Ogova/Samora Michel Oundo/Adede Hawi Nyodero · Kenya 2010 5m · English and Swahili with English subtitles · Animation

Vanessa’s Dream - UK Premiere Adede Hawi Nyodero/Daki Mohamed · Kenya 2011 · 2m · Documentary

Bino and Fino: A Big Birthday Party 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.

Adamu Waziri · Nigeria 2011 · 6m · Animation

Abeba and Abebe: The Pepper Merchant - UK Premiere Danny Gebeyehu & Bisrat Amare · Ethiopia 2011 · 7m Amharic with English subtitles · Animation

Le Parrain (The Godfather) - UK Premiere Lazare Sie Pale · Burkina Faso 2011 · 20m French with English subtitles · Animation

Mwansa the Great Rungano Nyoni · Zambia/UK 2011 · 23m · Nyanja with English subtitles


EXHIBITION – INFLUENCE

ARAB SPRING DOCUMENTARIES – ROUGE PAROLE

TEY

African Storytelling

Arab Spring Documentaries

Tey Today

Sun 28 Oct at 1.00pm



1h • PG


Kenyan/Scottish storyteller Mara Menzies from Toto Tales is back! A fine and fantastical afternoon for children and their families of brand new stories and songs from across the African continent exploring the transition from old to new. With plenty of opportunity for audience participation, this promises to be storytelling at its best.

Beginning in December 2010 a wave of popular uprisings and demonstrations swept through the Arab World, civil protests that resulted in the toppling of decades-long oppressive regimes and the beginnings of a new era of democracy for those countries. Rulers in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya were forced from power, and uprisings and protests have erupted in many other countries since, reaching as far as sub-Saharan Africa. While these young democracies are finding their feet, their artists are embracing a new-found freedom of creative expression which is having a positive effect on the cinema industries in these countries.

Alain Gomis • France/Senegal 2012 • 1h26m Digibeta • French and Wolof with English subtitles • 15

A FREE ticketed event, suitable for children and families.

Exhibition The exhibition in the Filmhouse cafe bar is one of the central events of the AiM film festival every year. This year two artists – Luis Dourado (Portugal) and Willem Venter (South Africa) – offer visual interpretations of what ‘Modern Africa’ might signify.

Influence by Luis Dourado explores, through a variety of mediums, ideas of territory and history, and investigates the possibility of a new reality for a new Africa. Sieberiana by Willem Venter focuses on the pod of the Acacia Sieberiana var. woodii, often associated with the portrayal of the African savannah landscape, to become the site through which a different aspect of African identity is explored.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Noe Mendelle (producer of the Tripoli and Rabat Stories) and other experts on the Arab Spring revolutions. The films in this programme are: Rouge Parole - UK Premiere Elyes Baccar · Tunisia/Switzerland/Qatar 2011 · 1h36m English, Arabic and Turkish with English subtitles

Graffiti (Tripoli Stories) - UK Premiere

He is a strong, healthy man, yet today is the last day of his life. Satché (played by African American musician, poet, writer and actor Saul Williams) recounts his past as he ambles through the familiar streets of his Senegalese home town for the last time. As if on a quest to leave his relationships in peace, he journeys from his parents’ house to his first love, to the friends of his youth, to his wife and children. Satché experiences his concluding moments full of fear, yet exuding serenity. Followed by a congregation of admirers, he weaves through the streets with an unwavering focus on his death foretold. Meditative and exotic, French/Senegalese director Alain Gomis’ film tells the story of a man who leaves America to return to the land of his birth. It is a poetic and experimental narrative that prompts the audience to contemplate their own mortality. This screening is sponsored by the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies.

Anas El Gomati/Ibrahim El Mayet · Libya/UK 2012 · 4m Arabic with English subtitles

Granny’s Flags (Tripoli Stories) Naziha Arebi · Libya/UK 2012 · 5m • Arabic with English subtitles

The Secret Room (Tripoli Stories) Ibrahim Y. Shebani · Libya/UK 2012 · 5m • Arabic with English subtitles

Bitter Return (Rabat Stories) - UK Premiere Mohamed Benabou · Morocco/UK 2012 · 5m • Arabic with English subtitles

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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QUARTIER MOZART

AiM SHORT FILM COMPETITION – MKHOBBI FI KOBBA

DEATH FOR SALE

Quartier Mozart

AiM Short Film Competition

Death for Sale


Mon 29 Oct at 5.30pm


Jean-Pierre Bekolo • France/Cameroon 1992 • 1h20m Digibeta • French with English subtitles • 15


Faouzi Bensaïdi • Belgium/France/Morocco 2011 • 1h57m Digibeta • Arabic with English subtitles • 15

Told over a 48-hour period in a working-class neighbourhood in Yaounde, capital of Cameroon, Quartier Mozart is the story of a young schoolgirl known as Queen of the ‘Hood, and her education on the sexual politics of the male quarter. Maman Thekla, the local sorceress, enables Queen of the ‘Hood’s spiritual acquisition of the body of the young man My Guy, allowing her to satisfy her curiosity about men. She then becomes a boy suitor competing for the amorous attentions of a policeman’s daughter. Maman Thekla herself assumes the shape of Panka, a familiar comic figure in Cameroonian folklore with the ability to make a man’s genitals disappear when he shakes hands with him. Awarded the Prix Afrique en Création at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival, Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s humour-filled film and its colourful cast of characters has delighted film festival audiences from across the world, and we know you are in for a treat in Edinburgh as well!

The Short Film Competition is part of AiM’s commitment to nurturing young African filmmaking talent. From the dozens of submissions, eight films have been shortlisted, comprising a diverse and captivating collection from across the continent. The winner is selected by our jury of acclaimed film practitioners/academics and will be announced immediately after the screening. The audience will also have the opportunity to vote for their favourite film, with the Audience Award winner announced at the closing screening of the festival on 2 November. Our thanks go to The Africa Channel and Buni TV for sponsoring the prize money for the Short Film Competition. The shortlisted films are: Le Parrain (The Godfather) - UK Premiere Lazare Sie Pale · Burkina Faso 2011 · 20m

Dog - UK Premiere

We are delighted to have Jean-Pierre Bekolo in attendance to talk to the audience, in a Q&A session following the screening.

Amil Shivji · Tanzania/Canada 2012 · 15m

This screening is sponsored by the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling.

Leyla Bouzid · Tunisia/France 2011 · 22m

Askia Traoré · France/Chad 2010 · 26m

Mkhobbi Fi Kobba (Turbulence) Kichwateli (TV-Head) - UK Premiere Bobb Muchiri · Kenya 2011 · 7m

Salam Ghourba (Farewell Exile) - UK Premiere Lamia Alami · Morocco/USA/Switzerland 2011 · 16m

Mwansa The Great

Award-winning director Faouzi Bensaïdi’s third feature is an open invitation to dive into a visually playful neo-noir tale of ordinary people who, as Bensaïdi describes, “are suffocated by a political, economic and religious system.”

Jaco Minnaar · South Africa 2012 · 12m

Who Killed Me - UK Premiere Nola - UK Premiere

In the port city of Tetouan, Morocco, there is a permanent low, heavy sky. Malik, 26, is out of a job and madly in love with Dounia, a prostitute at the La Passarella nightclub. Malik and his two friends, all small time crooks, conceive a plan to rob the city’s biggest jewellery store in the hope of escaping from an inevitably bleak future. Malik is in on the heist so that he can take Dounia out of prostitution and create a new life for them. Allal needs cash so he can fry bigger fish in the drugs trade. Soufiane, the youngest of the three, has left school and is looking for direction. When the plan falls apart, the three friends must face their own separate destinies alone.

Rungano Nyoni · Zambia/UK 2011 · 23m

AiM 2012 in partnership with Filmhouse Knowledge & Learning Department is organising a Secondary School Screening of the UK premiere of the Kenyan/South African film Inside Story on Monday 29 October at 10.00am. Learn more about this screening on AiM and Filmhouse’s websites. Interested schools can book directly with Filmhouse box office. Tickets: £2.60 per pupil, teachers free.


KINYARWANDA

DEAR MANDELA

MAAMi

Kinyarwanda

Dear Mandela

MAAMi

Tue 30 Oct at 5.45pm

Tue 30 Oct at 8.30pm

Wed 31 Oct at 6.15pm

Alrick Brown • USA/France/Democratic Republic of the Congo 2011 • 1h40m • Digibeta English and Kinyarwanda with English subtitles • 15

Dara Kell & Christopher Nizza • South Africa/USA • 2011 • 1h33m HD-Cam • English and Zulu with English subtitles • 15

Tunde Kelani • Nigeria 2011 • 1h32m Digibeta • Yoruba with English subtitles • 15

Destroyed homes, threats at gunpoint and high-court action; this battle by three young people to stand up for their rights is a testimony to people power. When the South African government promises to ‘eradicate the slums’ and begins to evict shack dwellers far outside the city, three friends who live in Durban’s vast shantytowns refuse to be moved. Dear Mandela follows their journey from their shacks to the highest court in the land, as they invoke Nelson Mandela’s example and become leaders in a growing social movement.

MAAMi is an enthralling story of a poor, devoted single parent’s struggles to raise her only child, Kashimawo, who goes on to become an international star in an English football club, and consequently, a national hero. Set over a two-day period in the southern Nigerian town of Abeokuta leading up to the 2010 World Cup, the film retrospectively accounts Kashimawo’s childhood through his own thoughts, addressing his turbulent childhood and unresolved issues with his absent father. MAAMi is a film about love, fate, hard work and goodwill.

By turns inspiring, devastating and funny, the film offers a new perspective on the role that young people can play in political change and is a fascinating portrait of South Africa coming of age.

Tunde Kelani is a highly acclaimed Nigerian filmmaker, part of the hugely popular and prolific Nollywood industry, and has been making popular Nollywood films for over twenty years.

The screening is kindly sponsored by the Rwandan High Commission and the Rwanda Scotland Alliance, and will be followed by a discussion with a representative from the Rwandan High Commission. The discussion will be preceded by the screening of a pre-recorded message from the director of Kinyarwanda, Alrick Brown.

PLUS SHORT

Nigerian film academic and Nollywood expert Onookome Okome will introduce the screening.

AiM is also partnering with the Rwanda Scotland Alliance in presenting the visual arts exhibition ‘KIGALI, KIGALI - Contemporary Art from young Rwandan Artists’, featuring work by Rwandan artists from the Ivuka Arts group in Kigali. The exhibit runs from 30 October to 7 November at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall (30-36 Dalmeny Street).

These two documentaries are screened in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI) project on ‘Peace-building through Media Arts’.

During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, when neighbours killed neighbours and friends betrayed friends, some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other. The Mufti of Rwanda, the most respected Muslim leader in the country, issued a fatwa forbidding Muslims from participating in the killing of the Tutsi. As the country became a slaughterhouse, mosques became places of refuge where Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis came together to protect each other. Kinyarwanda is based on true accounts from survivors who took refuge at the Grand Mosque of Kigali and the madrassa of Nyanza. It recounts how the Imams opened the doors of the mosques to give refuge to the Tutsi and those Hutu who refused to participate in the killing.

Peace Wanted Alive: Kenya at the Crossroads Stephen Marshall • Kenya/USA • 2010 • 18m • Digibeta • 15

This short tells the story of the courageous Kenyan peacebuilders who saved their country from descending into genocide during the 2008 election crisis.

To learn more about Africa’s video-film industries, don’t miss Birgit Meyer’s seminar on Friday 26 October, Onookome Okome’s seminar on Wednesday 31 October, and the Africa in Motion Symposium on Saturday 27 October. All events taking place at Centre for African Studies, Edinburgh University. More information at www.africa-in-motion.org.uk SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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OTELO BURNING

STOCKTOWN X SOUTH AFRICA

DIMANCHE A BRAZZAVILLE

Otelo Burning

DOUBLE BILL

Cry of Love


Thu 1 Nov at 6.00pm

Thu 1 Nov at 8.15pm

Sara Blecher • South Africa 2011 • 1h35m DCP • English and Zulu with English subtitles • 15

Shot in Durban and set in 1989, in the final years of the crumbling apartheid system, Otelo Burning tells the story of a group of township kids who discover the joy of surfing. When 16-year-old Otelo Buthelezi takes to the water for the first time, it is clear that he was born to surf. But then tragedy strikes. On the day that Nelson Mandela is released from prison, Otelo is forced to choose between surfing and justice. This beautiful, insightful and entertaining film captures a turbulent time in South Africa’s history. The film will be introduced by South African director Sarah Blecher, who will be in attendance.

A double bill of documentaries depicting cutting-edge contemporary culture in Africa’s urban centres through street fashion, hip hop, graffiti and more.

Stocktown X South Africa Teddy Goitom • Sweden/South Africa • 2011 • 29m • Digibeta • 15

Beyond the stereotypical daily reporting on violence, AIDS and safari tours, Swedish directors Teddy Goitom and Benjamin Taft set out to capture the creative street vibes of South Africa. On their trip to Cape Town and Johannesburg, they meet up with the heavy metal band Ree-burth, the Soweto style-setters Smarteez with their colourful street savvy fashion, video gamers label 2bop, and limpop music genre innovator Gazelle. PLUS

Documentary Screenings: African Popular Arts Thu 1 Nov from 10.00am to 5.00pm Room 1.18, Evolution House (Edinburgh College of Art) Free and non-ticketed A full day of free documentary screenings exploring contemporary popular African art forms, accompanied by discussions. We journey through Morocco, Egypt, Senegal, South Africa and Kenya to see musicians, poets and visual artists at work. More information at www.africa-in-motion.org.uk

Dimanche à Brazzaville

UK Premiere

Adrià Monés & Enric Bach • Republic of the Congo 2011 • 51m Digibeta • French, Lingala and Kitouba with English subtitles • 15

In his weekend show, a young radio talk show host, Carlos La Menace, unveils three figures from Congo’s capital, Brazzaville. The Sapeur Yves Saint Laurent, surrounded by extreme poverty, chooses elegance as a way of life. Cheriff Bakala is not a usual rapper. He mixes hip hop with Congolese folk, and uses local instruments such as selfcrafted drums. Finally, Palmas Yaya, Brazzaville’s wrestling champion is relying on voodoo to defend his throne at a crucial moment of his life.

UK Premiere

Faith Isiakpere • South Africa 2012 • 2h • HD-Cam • 15

Cry of Love follows the lives of young and talented teens who explore their musical gifts in Johannesburg’s African Performing Arts Centre school. Set against the city’s vibrant cosmopolitan backdrop, this film brings together characters from across Africa. Despite their differences, each character finds solace in ‘The Sanctuary’, a place of common ground where people are united through music and the celebration of Ubuntu - the African expression for “I am what I am because of who we all are.” In Cry of Love, Nigerian-born director Faith Isiakpere delivers an uplifting Fame-style musical starring legendary South African songbird Yvonne Chaka Chaka. This ‘faction’ (fact and fiction) film distinguishes itself by combining a compelling narrative with music and contemporary human rights issues. This film is screened in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI) project on ‘Peace-building through Media Arts’. The screening will be followed by a discussion on issues of peacemaking and reconciliation in film.


CRY OF LOVE

Le Point de Vue du Lion

LE POINT DE VUE DU LION

UK Premiere Restless City

The Lion’s Point of View

Fri 2 Nov at 8.30pm

Fri 2 Nov at 6.00pm

Andrew Dosunmu • USA • 2011 • 1h20m • HD-Cam English, French, Wolof and Yoruba with English subtitles • 15

Didier Awadi & Vincent Vallet • Senegal 2011 • 1h12m • Digibeta English, French and Spanish with English subtitles • 15

50 years of independence. A promise of happiness and prosperity. But nowadays young Africans climb into simple wooden boats, and cross the desert and the sea towards El Dorado. Why? What are the deeper reasons? And how could it come this far? These were the starting questions from Senegalese director and hip-hop star Didier Awadi. For several years he interviewed ex-presidents and ministers, important UN officials, writers, artists, historians, activists and lay migrants and refugees: 44 people who have analysed the situation of their continent and do not mince their words. The result is a decidedly Pan-African, deliberately subjective and revolutionary documentary with an undoubted power of impact. This screening is kindly sponsored by Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh and will be followed by a discussion hosted by experts in African history and development.

For full programme details and additional screenings and events, see the Africa in Motion website, www.africa-in-motion.org.uk, or pick up an Africa in Motion brochure in Filmhouse foyer.

Djibril (Alassane Sy) is a young African immigrant whose life can only go upward. Leaving a past of hardship behind, he arrives in New York. After living in the City for a while he begins to believe that he can achieve his dreams. Djibril wants to be a musician, a pop star, and one-day return to Africa where his mother and father still toil for a meagre living. By day he sells merchandise on Canal Street for the small income that keeps him going, and at the same time he seeks a way to succeed as a singer. During his searches he meets the beautiful and fragile Trini; an encounter that changes his life forever.

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Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2012

ARRIETTY

THE SINGING RINGING TREE

SNOW WHITE

Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2012

The Dwarf Magician

Folk tales are a universe of dream, humour, fantasy, fear and wisdom. They power ancient cultures and new media alike. Their fascination remains because they touch our humanity in places that reason fails to plumb or language cannot always fathom. Where better to experience this art than in Scotland, the ancient home of storytelling, and of Celtic hospitality. Sit at the hearth of stories and be transported into other worlds. The 2012 Scottish International Storytelling Festival celebrates the art and humanity of folk tales across Europe, tracing the way in which the publication of the Brothers Grimm Tales 200 years ago, sparked a revival of interest in nations and regions across the continent and influenced every art form.

Because of miller Kunz’s boastfulness, his daughter Marie is imprisoned in the castle. Kunz claimed that she could spin straw into gold and now she is supposed to fill the king’s empty coffers. Suddenly, a dwarf appears to the desperate Marie, offering to spin all the straw into gold if she will promise him her first-born child...

Filmhouse’s EISF events this year include a session with renowned Breton harpist and composer Cécile Corbel, who will be performing her beautiful compositions for the Studio Ghibli animated film Arrietty, and three films based on Grimm fairytales, made by the famous DEFA studios in the former East Germany. Many thanks to the Goethe-Institut in Glasgow for their support with these screenings.

Snow White Schneewittchen

For details of more EISF events, go to www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk/festival/scottish_storytelling_festival.asp

Cécile Corbel: Composing for Studio Ghibli

The Singing Ringing Tree



1h • U

The renowned Breton harpist and composer introduces and performs her compositions for Arrietty, the beautiful animated film. Cécile Corbel originally sent her second album to Studio Ghibli as a gift, and, after listening to it, producer Toshio Suzuki invited her to compose the film’s score.

Arrietty is screening on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 October.

Das Singende, klingende Bäumchen Francesco Stefani • East Germany 1957 • 1h15m Digibeta • German with English subtitles • U Cast: Christel Bodenstein, Charles Hans Vogt, Eckart Dux.

Princess Thousandbeauty learns kindness and humility when her scornful treatment of a princely suitor renders him victim to a cruel spell and transforms her into an ugly hag. Only the legendary singing ringing tree has the power to save her, and will mark the event with a tune.

Das Zaubermännchen Sat 27 Oct at 1.30pm Christoph Engel • East Germany 1960 • 1h13m Digibeta • German with English subtitles • U Cast: Karl-Heinz Rothin, Karin Lesch, Reinhard Michalke.

Sun 28 Oct at 1.30pm Gottfried Kolditz • East Germany 1961 • 1h3m Digibeta • German with English subtitles • U Cast: Doris Weikow, Marianne Christina Schilling.

Everyone is fond of Snow White because of her kindness, friendliness and readiness to help. But her stepmother, tormented by jealousy and envy, pursues her with hatred. When Her Royal Majesty’s magic mirror tells her one day that it is Snow White who is the fairest of all, she is out for blood, but Snow White manages to reach the seven dwarfs, who give her a warm reception… TICKETDEALS Buy any three (or more) tickets for films in this season and get 15% 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.

Weans’ World

PARANORMAN

Weans’ World Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost £2.50 (£4.50 for 3D shows) per person, big or small! This month, we’re featuring some of the highlights of the Discovery Film Festival in Dundee – delightful Norwegian family film Twigson and three fantastic programmes of shorts. For more information go to www.discoveryfilmfestival.org.uk Please note: although we normally disapprove of people talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!

SHORTS FOR WEE ONES

ParaNorman

Twigson Knerten

Mon 15 to Thu 18 Oct at 1.00pm

Sun 21 & Mon 22 Oct at 2.00pm

Chris Butler, Sam Fell • USA 2012 • 1h33m • Digital projection PG – Contains mild comic horror and violence, frightening sequences and innuendo With the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Tucker Albrizzi, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

Åsleik Engmark • Norway 2009 • 1h15m Digibeta • Norwegian with English subtitles • U Cast: Adrian Grønnevik Smith, Asleik Engmark, Pernille Sørensen, Jan Gunnar Røise, Petrus Andreas Christensen.

A spooky stop-motion comedy for all the family! A small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman, who is able to speak to the dead. In addition to the zombies, he’ll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst, of all, grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse.

Shorts for Wee Ones Arrietty Sat 13 Oct at 1.00pm & Sun 14 Oct at 11.00am Hiromasa Yonebayashi • Japan 2010 • 1h34m Digital projection • English language version U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm With the voices of Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong, Tom Holland, Geraldine McEwan, Phyllida Law.

Beneath the floorboards of a sprawling mansion set in a magical, overgrown garden in the suburbs of Tokyo, tiny 14year-old Arrietty lives with her equally tiny parents. Arrietty’s parents have always warned her: “Never let humans see you.” But the adventurous Arrietty doesn’t listen, and is spotted by a 12-year-old boy. The two begin to confide in each other and, before long, a friendship begins to blossom. See left for details of an event with Arrietty composer Cécile Corbel.

TWIGSON

Poor Junior has plenty of time to play, but no-one to play with. His family has just moved to a ramshackle old house in the country and he doesn’t know anyone. He’s pretty lonely until he finds a special twig called ‘Twigson’ – a twig who can talk! Before long they’re getting into all kinds of scrapes in the woods with the oddball neighbours.

The Gruffalo’s Child and Other Stories Sat 27 Oct at 12 noon

Sat 20 Oct at 12 noon

45m • U

1h • U

The wonderful thing about great books is that they can be made into great films too! Following on the heels of the hugely enjoyable film version of Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo is this beautiful adaptation of the next chapter, The Gruffalo’s Child. Once again we venture into the deep, dark wood and encounter Snake, Owl and Fox, who are on their way to a showdown with Mouse. But is he as big and bad as everyone says? The Gruffalo’s child is about to find out.

Once again Discovery Film Festival have searched high and low to bring you a new mix of the best short films for the very young. All the films are either in English or have no dialogue, so they’re suitable for even the youngest children and form an ideal introduction to the big screen experience. In this year’s selection you’ll meet a most determined bull, a duck on a mission and an ant with a dream. There are brilliant colours, fantastic soundtracks and a huge range of animation styles: hand-drawn, computer generated and even one that’s made with tea leaves! Shorts for Middle Ones, for those aged 8 and above, will screen next month.

Discovery Film Festival have also included two more short films in this compendium. Based on a Tibetan folk tale, Rumours shows just how quickly a story can get out of hand and distort the truth. In Gus, a cave boy with chronic flatulence and his father live a cold life in the Alps, until the boy is sent outside and changes their lives forever.

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME

5 October - 1 November 2012

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DATE SCREEN NUMBER & FILM TITLE

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SCREENING TIMES


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Fri 1 The Birds (H) 5 1 Untouchable Oct 2 Barbara 2 The Man Who Knew... (1934) (H) 2 The Birds (H) 2 Call Me Kuchu (TOA) 3 Holy Motors 3 Barbara

1.00 3.35/6.05/8.30 1.10 4.00 5.50 8.25 + discussion 1.20/8.40 3.50/6.15

Fri 1 To Catch a Thief (H) 12 1 Untouchable Oct 1 Shadow of a Doubt (H) 2 Untouchable 2 Holy Motors 2 To Catch a Thief (H) 3 Husbands 3 F for Fake 3 Untouchable

1.00 3.15/8.30 6.00 1.10 3.30/8.25 6.10 1.05/8.20 3.45 5.50

Thu 1 Anna Karenina 18 1 Psycho (H) Oct 1 Marnie (H) 2 ParaNorman (WW) 2 Holy Motors 2 Spellbound (H) 3 Untouchable 3 80 Million (PP)

2.30 6.00 8.20 1.00 3.15/8.40 6.10 3.30/6.20 8.45

Sat 1 The Birds (H) 6 1 Untouchable Oct 2 Barbara 2 Surprise Scr: TOA Aud Award (TOA) 3 The Man Who Knew... (1934) (H) 3 Holy Motors 3 The Birds (H)

1.00 3.35/6.05/8.30 1.10/3.30/8.45 6.00 1.30 3.20/8.40 5.50

Sun 1 The Birds (H) 7 1 Untouchable Oct 2 Barbara 2 Strangers on a Train (H) 2 Shadow of a Doubt (H) 3 Mr & Mrs Smith (H) 3 Holy Motors 3 Barbara

1.00 3.35/6.05/8.30 1.10/3.30 6.00 8.25 1.20 3.25/8.40 6.10

Sat 1 Arrietty (WW) 13 1 Untouchable Oct 1 Psycho (H) 2 Holy Motors 2 Family Plot (H) 2 To Catch a Thief (H) 3 Husbands 3 F for Fake 3 Untouchable

1.00 3.30/8.30 6.00 1.10/6.20 3.40 8.50 1.05/8.20 3.45 5.50

Fri 1 Ginger & Rosa 19 1 Psycho (H) Oct 1 After School Midnighters (SLA) 1 Berserk: The Golden Age 1 (SLA) 2 Rear Window (H) 2 Ginger & Rosa 3 Berberian Sound Studio 3 About Elly 3 The Trouble With Harry (H)

1.00 3.15 6.00 + intro 8.30 + Q&A 1.20 3.50/6.15/8.20 1.30/8.40 3.40 6.30

Mon 1 Barbara (B) 8 1 Untouchable Oct 2 Barbara 2 Barbara 2 Dali in New York + short (MH) 3 Holy Motors 3 Arsenic and Old Lace + short

11am (babies & carers) 2.15/6.05/8.25 3.20 5.50 + discussion 8.30 + disc. (£4/£2) 3.15/8.40 5.45

Sun 1 Arrietty (WW) 14 1 Anna Karenina Oct 1 Untouchable 1 The Man Who Knew... (1934) (H) 2 Holy Motors 2 To Catch a Thief (H) 2 Under Capricorn (H) 3 F for Fake 3 Husbands 3 Untouchable

11.00am 1.00/8.00 3.45 6.10 1.10/6.00 3.40 8.30 1.05 3.05 5.50/8.15

Sat 1 Berserk: The Golden Age 2 (SLA) 20 1 Cécile Corbel: Composing... (SF) Oct 1 Nerawareta Gakuen (SLA) 1 Blood-C: The Last Dark (SLA) 2 Shorts for Wee Ones (WW) 2 Ginger & Rosa 3 Rear Window (H) 3 Berberian Sound Studio 3 Suspicion (H) 3 About Elly

1.00 + Q&A 4.00 6.00 + intro 8.30 + intro 12 noon 1.30/4.10/6.15/8.20 1.15 3.40 5.50 8.40

Tue 1 Untouchable 9 2 Barbara Oct 2 Serious Drugs (MH) 3 Holy Motors 3 Mr & Mrs Smith (H)

2.15/6.05/8.25 3.20/8.30 5.45 + disc. (£4/£2) 3.15/8.15 6.00

Mon 1 Anna Karenina (B) 15 1 Anna Karenina Oct 1 The Trouble With Harry (H) 1 Phoenix Wright... (SLA) 2 ParaNorman (WW) 2 Holy Motors 2 Anna Karenina 3 Untouchable 3 Husbands

11am (babies & carers) 2.30 6.00 8.15 1.00 3.15/8.40 5.55 3.30/8.50 6.05

Wed 1 Untouchable 10 2 Barbara Oct 2 Rupture: A Matter of... (MH) 3 Holy Motors 3 The Dying Swan + shorts (EC)

2.15/6.05/8.25 3.20/8.30 5.45 + disc. (£4/£2) 3.15/8.15 6.00 + intro

Tue 1 Anna Karenina 16 1 Anime Shorts (SLA) Oct 2 ParaNorman (WW) 2 Holy Motors 2 Family Plot (H) 3 Untouchable 3 Husbands

2.30/6.00 8.45 1.00 3.15/8.40 6.05 3.30/8.50 5.55

Sun 1 Ginger & Rosa 21 1 Ninja Scroll (SLA) Oct 1 Anime Mirai Project (SLA) 1 Wolf Children Ame & Yuki (SLA) 2 Twigson (WW) 2 The Singing Ringing Tree (SF) 2 Ginger & Rosa 3 Rear Window (H) 3 About Elly 3 Berberian Sound Studio 3 Spellbound (H)

1.15 3.30 + intro 6.00 8.40 + intro 2.00 4.00 6.15/8.20 1.00 3.40 6.20 8.30

Thu 1 Untouchable 11 2 Barbara Oct 2 Strangers on a Train (H) 3 Holy Motors 3 Joanna (PP)

2.15/6.05/8.25 3.20/8.30 6.00 3.15/6.10 8.45

Wed 1 Anna Karenina 17 1 From Up on Poppy Hill (SLA) Oct 2 ParaNorman (WW) 2 Holy Motors 2 Rope (H) 3 Untouchable 3 Der Golem + live music (EC)

2.30 8.30 1.00 3.15/8.15 6.25 3.30/8.45 6.15 + intro

Mon 1 Ginger & Rosa (B) 22 1 Marnie (H) Oct 1 Ginger & Rosa 1 Santa Sangre (CS) 2 Twigson (WW) 2 Ginger & Rosa 2 I, Anna (MH) 3 Berberian Sound Studio 3 About Elly 3 Under Capricorn (H)

11am (babies & carers) 2.30 6.00 8.15 2.00 3.45/8.20 5.45 + Q&A 3.30 6.05 8.40

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Tue 1 Rear Window (H) 23 1 Marnie (H) Oct 2 Ginger & Rosa 2 Swandown 3 Berberian Sound Studio 3 Ginger & Rosa 3 About Elly

2.30/8.45 6.00 3.45/8.30 6.10 3.30 6.20 8.20

Mon 1 Hope Springs (B) 29 1 Ginger & Rosa Oct 2 Hope Springs (AD) 2 AiM Short Film Competition (AiM) 2 Death for Sale (AiM) 3 Room 237

11am (babies & carers) 2.30/6.10/8.20 3.15 5.30 8.45 3.30/6.00/8.15

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Wed 1 Northern Lights Film Proj (MH) 24 1 The SMHAFF Awards 2012 (MH) Oct 1 Berberian Sound Studio 2 Ginger & Rosa 2 October (EC) 3 Marnie (H) 3 Ginger & Rosa 3 Rope (H)

3.30 - FREE 5.45 - FREE 8.40 3.45/8.20 6.00 + intro 3.00 6.15 8.30

Tue 1 Ginger & Rosa 30 2 Hope Springs (AD) Oct 2 Kinyarwanda (AiM) 2 Dear Mandela + short (AiM) 3 Room 237

2.30/6.10/8.20 3.15 5.45 + discussion 8.30 3.30/6.00/8.15

EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later) £7.50 full price, £5.50 concessions

2.30 5.45 8.30 + intro 3.45/6.20 8.25 3.30 6.15 8.50

2.30/6.10 8.15 3.15 6.15 + intro 8.20 + intro 3.30/8.30 6.00 + intro

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

Thu 1 Rear Window (H) 25 1 Marnie (H) Oct 1 Uhlanga (AiM) 2 Ginger & Rosa 2 Suspicion (H) 3 About Elly 3 Fear of Falling (PP) 3 Ginger & Rosa

Wed 1 Ginger & Rosa 31 1 The Shining Oct 2 Belle de jour (EC) 2 MAAMi (AiM) 2 Otelo Burning (AiM) 3 Room 237 3 Belle de jour (EC)

Fri 1 Ginger & Rosa 26 2 Hope Springs (AD) Oct 2 African Science Fiction (AiM) 2 Les Saignantes (AiM) 3 Room 237

1.00/3.15/6.10/8.20 1.10/3.25 5.45 + discussion 8.30 + Q&A 1.15/3.30/6.05/8.15

Thu 1 Ginger & Rosa 1 2 Hope Springs (AD) Nov 2 Stocktown X.../Dimanche à... (AiM) 2 Cry of Love (AiM) 3 Room 237 3 The Winner (PP)

2.30/6.10/8.20 3.15 6.00 8.15 + discussion 3.30/6.15 8.45

Sat 1 Ginger & Rosa 27 2 The Gruffalo’s Child and... (WW) Oct 2 The Dwarf Magician (SF) 2 Hope Springs (AD) + (S) 2 Elmina (AiM) 2 Essaha (AiM) 3 Room 237

1.00/3.15/6.10/8.20 12 noon 1.30 3.25 (subtitled) 6.00 + discussion 8.45 1.15/3.30/5.45/8.15

Sun 1 Snow White (SF) 28 1 Ginger & Rosa Oct 2 African Films for Children (AiM) 2 African Storytelling (AiM) 2 Arab Spring Documentaries (AiM) 2 Tey (AiM) 2 Quartier Mozart (AiM) 3 Room 237

1.30 3.45/6.10/8.20 11.00am + intro 1.00 - FREE 3.15 + discussion 6.15 8.30 + Q&A 1.15/3.30/6.00/8.15

KEY: (AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) (B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2) (S) – Subtitled (see page 2) All screenings in 2D unless marked [3D] SEASONS: (AiM) – Africa in Motion 2012 (pages 8-15) (CS) – Come and See... (page 26) (EC) – Intro to European Cinema (pages 30-31) (H) – The Genius of Hitchcock (pages 20-23) (MH) – Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival (pages 28-29) (PP) – Play Poland (page 32) (SF) – Scottish Int. Storytelling Festival (page 16) (SLA) – Scotland Loves Anime (pages 24-26) (TOA) – Take One Action Film Festival (page 33) (WW) – Weans’ World (page 17) Full index of films on page 2

SCREENING TIMES

MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm) Mon - Thu: £5.60 full price, £3.60 concessions Friday Bargain Matinees: £4.20/£2.60 concessions Sat - Sun: £7.50 full price, £5.50 concessions

All tickets to Weans’ World screenings (marked WW on grid) are £2.50. Tickets for children under 12 are £2.50 for any screening. Filmhouse Members get £1.50 off every ticket (excludes Friday matinees and Weans’ World) Concessions available for: children (under 15); students (with valid matriculation card); school pupils (15-18 years); Young Scot cardholders; senior citizens; people with disability or invalidity status (carers go free); claimants (Jobseekers Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit); NHS employees (with proof of employment).

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The Genius of Hitchcock

THE BIRDS

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN


The Birds

One of the world’s greatest directors, Alfred Hitchcock excelled in a variety of genres during his early British career, before moving to Hollywood in 1939. It was here he became known as the ‘Master of Suspense’, producing some of the most analysed works in the history of cinema.

By the time of his last du Maurier adaptation, Hitch was so established (and sure of himself ) that he readily relocated her story about a Cornish farm labourer’s family responding to avian attacks to wealthy northern California. Though Evan Hunter’s script expands the tale, the film drops the novelist’s tentative explanation for the apocalyptic events, becoming Hitchcock’s most rigorously abstract study of the psychology of fear – a quality enhanced by the non-musical electronic score supervised by Bernard Herrmann.

See next month’s programme for more Hitch! We would like to thank Julie Pearce and her team at BFI Southbank for their invaluable help with this season.

Fri 5 to Sun 7 Oct

DAPHNE DU MAURIER

Afred Hitchcock • USA 1963 • 1h59m • Digital projection 15 – Contains moderate threat and horror Cast: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright.

Mr & Mrs Smith Sun 7 & Tue 9 Oct

Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1941 • 1h35m • 16mm • U Cast: Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale.

Revisiting the ‘be careful what you wish for’ conceit of Rich and Strange, this has a comfortably volatile Manhattan couple informed, three years into their marriage, that it isn’t actually legal. Cue a crisis of confession and criticism, suspicion and separation, as the wife, unexpectedly, refuses to renew the relationship. Hitch reworks his customary concerns about marital trust to fit in with the sleek conventions of sophisticated comedy; Lombard, Montgomery and Raymond respond with the requisite brio.

Strangers on a Train The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

FAMILY PLOTS

Fri 5, Sat 6 & Sun 14 Oct 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.

Alfred Hitchcock • UK 1934 • 1h15m • Digital projection • U Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Nova Pilbeam, Pierre Fresnay.

Vintage Hitchcock, with sheer wit and verve masking an implausible plot that spins out of the murder of a spy in Switzerland, with a pair of innocent bystanders left to track his secret – and their kidnapped daughter – in a dark and labyrinthine London. Pacy, exciting, and with superb settings, it also has nice villainy from a scarred, leering Peter Lorre (here making his British debut).

DEAD FUNNY

Sun 7 & Thu 11 Oct

FAMILY PLOTS

Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1951 • 1h43m • 35mm • PG Cast: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock.

Again, we have doubles, deceptions, flawed family relationships and a play with symmetry, darkness and light, as Hitchcock’s love of bitter irony shades an adaptation (by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde) of Patricia Highsmith’s novel. A tennis champ and a charming if eccentric fan joke about ridding one another of unwanted intimates: a perfect (since seemingly unmotivated) crime, in theory... Hitchcock’s abiding fascination with structural patterns – both narrative and visual – produces several unforgettable set-pieces.


SHADOW OF A DOUBT

Shadow of a Doubt Sun 7 & Fri 12 Oct

TO CATCH A THIEF

FAMILY PLOTS

Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1943 • 1h48m • 35mm • PG Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers, Hume Cronyn.

In several respects Hitchcock’s first fully American drama, this Thornton Wilder-scripted look at smalltown life (set and shot in Santa Rosa, California) has a girl’s doubts about her beloved visiting uncle gnawing away at a family’s somewhat complacent happiness. Might Uncle Charlie be, as a cop warns her, quite literally a lady-killer? Hitch weaves a tangled web of doubles, dreams, deceptions and ill-defined desires into one of his darkest, subtlest and most unsettling films.

FAMILY PLOT

Family Plot

FAMILY PLOTS

Sat 13 & Tue 16 Oct

Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1976 • 2h • 35mm • PG Cast: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane.

Further family secrets and distorting reflections as the parallel lives of two very different couples – one involved in fake spiritualism, the other more seriously in kidnapping and jewel theft – become inextricably and dangerously linked. Thanks to spirited performances and a witty script by Ernest (North by Northwest) Lehman, Hitchcock’s final comedy thriller – a tale of greed, hatred and deadly criminality undertaken in response to familial injustice – is a mischievously cynical delight.

Psycho To Catch a Thief Fri 12 to Sun 14 Oct

DEAD FUNNY

Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1955 • 1h37m • Digital projection • PG Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel.

Again the world of rich sophisticates – this time on the French Riviera – is a source of comedy, as a retired cat burglar (Cary Grant) seeks to clear his name of a series of jewel thefts, even though one victim (Grace Kelly) finds his criminality, be it past or present, deeply alluring. Brisk, bright and breezy, unremittingly scenic and sexual, the film shows Hitch at his most relaxed, revelling in visual and verbal innuendo and the easy inconsequentiality of the story.

PSYCHO

Sat 13, Thu 18 & Fri 19 Oct

Be careful what you wish for. It may just come true…

THE TROUBLE WITH SEX

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

Hitchcock’s one full-on foray into Grand Guignol territory is a milestone in cinema history; in various ways it changed how people made, watched and thought about movies. If few filmgoers are now unaware of what befalls Marion Crane at the Bates Motel, the film still boasts more than enough richly nuanced details to keep us constantly amused, intrigued and pleasingly ill-at-ease. Full marks to Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins et al for unforgettably fine performances; Bernard Herrmann’s unsettling score and Joseph Stefano’s witty script work wonders, too; and Hitchcock demonstrates all his expertise in mischievous audience manipulation. SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM By William Shakespeare Directed by Matthew Lenton

19 October – 17 November 2012 BOX OFFICE: 0131 248 4848 www.lyceum.org.uk/dream

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The Genius of Hitchcock (continued)

UNDER CAPRICORN

Under Capricorn Sun 14 & Mon 22 Oct

MARNIE


Alfred Hitchcock • UK 1949 • 1h57m • 35mm • PG Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker.

Set in 1830s Australia, with echoes of Rebecca, Suspicion and Notorious, this tells of the colonial governor’s nephew (Wilding) visiting his adored cousin (Bergman), only to find her an alcoholic at the mercy, he suspects, of her husband (Cotten), a nouveau riche with a brisk manner and murky history. Using (courtesy Jack Cardiff ) exquisite colour and long tracking shots, Hitch creates a treacherous world of unspoken, barely repressed passions, all-infecting guilt and destructive class divisions.

The Trouble With Harry Mon 15 & Fri 19 Oct

DEAD FUNNY

Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1955 • 1h40m • 35mm • PG Cast: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock, Shirley MacLaine.

The trouble with Harry is that he’s dead, won’t stay buried, and won’t give the inhabitants of a small Vermont village any peace: an elderly sea captain, an old maid, an artist, and the deceased’s young widow get involved in the problem of disposing of him, because they all feel guilty about his demise. Hitchcock loved the project’s potential for macabre understatement, so he has the group reacting with cool, callous detachment toward death.

Rope Wed 17 & Wed 24 Oct

REAR WINDOW

THE WATCHFUL EYE

Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1948 • 1h20m • 35mm • PG Cast: James Stewart, Farley Granger, John Dall, Dick Hogan.

Hitchcock’s experiment with the 10-minute take has two young men killing a friend for the intellectual ‘thrill’ of it, and attempting to prove their superiority by hiding the body in a trunk and inviting guests round to dinner (including James Stewart, their college professor, whose ideas have inspired their act) to see if they suspect anything. The technique inevitably does slow things down, but the beautifully constructed set and the black wit and strong performances all round make for a provocative and perverse entertainment.

Marnie Thu 18 & Mon 22 to Thu 25 Oct


Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1964 • 2h10m Digital projection • 15 – Contains domestic and sexual threat Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham.

At once one of Hitchcock’s bad-marriage movies and a development of themes from both Vertigo (‘love’ as a form of manipulation) and Psycho, this sees a wealthy publisher (Connery) decide to marry the kleptomaniac (Hedren) who stole from his company – even though, by her own admission, she’s frigid. A dark, unsettling examination of the painful encounter of two differently troubled individuals; as in Under Capricorn, the truth is murkier than anything envisaged by the investigating lover’s mind’s eye.

Spellbound Thu 18 & Sun 21 Oct


Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1945 • 1h54m • 35mm PG – Contains mild threat, horror and descriptions of violence Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G Carroll, Rhonda Fleming.

Again, a woman with an interest in psychology – this time a doctor at a psychiatric hospital (Bergman) – falls for a colleague (Peck) brought in to replace the retiring director, but the newcomer’s behaviour raises doubts as to his true identity. Famously, Hitch had Dalí work on a surreal dream sequence for what he regarded as ‘the first picture on psychoanalysis’, while Ben Hecht’s script neatly weaves Freudian motifs into what is both a psychological detective mystery and a troubled love story.

Rear Window

THE WATCHFUL EYE Fri 19, Sat 20, Sun 21, Tue 23 & Thu 25 Oct Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1954 • 1h54m Digital projection • PG – Contains mild violence Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter , Raymond Burr, Wendell Corey.

James Stewart, immobilised in his apartment by a broken leg and aided by his girlfriend (Grace Kelly at her most vogue-coverish), takes to watching the inhabitants across the courtyard, first with binoculars, later with his camera. He thinks he witnesses a murder... Quite aside from the violation of intimacy, which is shocking enough, Hitchcock has nowhere else come so close to pure misanthropy, nor given us so disturbing a definition of what it is to watch the ‘silent film’ of other people’s lives, whether across a courtyard or up on a screen.

The Genius of Hitchcock/Luminate

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Suspicion Sat 20 & Thu 25 Oct

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE


Alfred Hitchcock • USA 1941 • 1h39m • 35mm • PG Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce, Cedric Hardwicke, May Whitty.

With its British source (a Frances Iles novel), setting and mostly British cast, this was a return to the territory explored in Rebecca. About an intellectually bright but blinkered, even naive woman (Fontaine again) coming to wonder whether the playboy she impetuously agreed to wed (Grant) – a dishonest, penniless wastrel, it transpires – might be planning to murder her, the film is notable for its probing of Grant’s dark, suave charm and for its brave, fittingly pitch-black opening. To help you find your way through this Hitchcock retrospective, we’ve split the films into categories: DAPHNE DU MAURIER The writer whose work was most frequently adapted by Hitch. FAMILY PLOTS Family life, Hitch style. DEAD FUNNY Brace yourself for Hitch’s macabre humour, jokes and pranks. THE TROUBLE WITH SEX Grapple with Hitch’s often disturbing visions of sex and sexuality. THE WATCHFUL EYE Take a closer look at how Hitchcock understands, and manipulates, our desire to see. More to come in the next programme!

MA BAR

Luminate A special screening as part of Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing festival celebrating and profiling our creative lives as we age. This brand new festival taking place across Scotland throughout October 2012 offers an exciting and high quality programme of arts events and activities with and for older people, as well as events that attract audiences and participants across the generations.

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Arsenic and Old Lace Mon 8 Oct at 5.45pm Frank Capra • USA • 1944 • 1h58m • 35mm • PG Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson.

On the eve of his wedding, theatre critic Mortimer Brewster discovers that his eccentric aunts are hiding a sinister secret...they murder the lonely gentlemen who visit their Brooklyn boarding house. Mortimer tries to conceal their crimes by blaming the harmless Teddy – who thinks he’s Theodore Roosevelt and is digging the Panama Canal in the cellar – but his plans are scuppered by the arrival of another sinister relative... PLUS SHORT Ma Bar Adrian McDowall & Finlay Pretsell • UK 2008 • 11m • Digibeta • PG

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Scotland Loves Anime

PHOENIX WRIGHT - ACE ATTORNEY

FROM UP ON POPPY HILL

Scotland Loves Anime Back for a third year and there’s no sign of us losing steam here at Scotland Loves Anime! We’ve picked up more premieres than ever before, including a coup for us – a world premiere before general distribution even in Japan, in the form of Nerawareta Gakuen! We’re equally excited about the Anime Mirai Project that showcases new talent from Japan, and Wolf Children Ame & Yuki – the latest film from Mamoru Hosoda. We’ve not scrimped on guests either this year – both the character designer of the two Berserk films and the President and founder of 4C (Berserk Films, Genius Party and even Thundercats), as well as another strong panel of judges looking for the top film from SLA 2012! As ever we’d like to thank everyone who makes this festival possible – including Creative Scotland, the Japan Foundation, Kaze, Manga UK, The Skinny, Neo Magazine and all the film companies who help us out.

AFTER SCHOOL MIDNIGHTERS

Phoenix Wright - Ace Attorney

From Up on Poppy Hill


Scottish Premiere

Takeshi Miike • Japan 2012 • 2h15m Digibeta • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A


Phoenix Wright, a junior lawyer working under the skilled Mia Fey, comes back to find his boss is murdered. Arrested for the murder, a spirit medium in training, sister Maya Fey. Phoenix believes in Maya’s innocence and takes the case where he meets Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth, a level-headed prodigy and childhood friend. An intense courtroom battle unfolds as testimony and evidence are presented that lead back to a 15-year-old case that resulted in the murder of Miles’s father. Live action adaptation of the Nintendo DS videogame – take a look at one of the most faithful adaptations around!

Goro Miyazaki • Japan 2012 • 1h31m Digital projection • Japanese with English subtitles • PG

In 1960s Japan, just before the Olympics, Umi is a hardworking young girl looking after her family whilst her mother is in America. One day she comes across a poem in the school newspaper, apparently directed at her. Not long after she meets Shun, a daring young lad who is part of a school movement to help save the local clubhouse from demolition. The movement is mostly led by lively boys from the school, but when Umi agrees to help, she and Shun grow closer together but are suddenly torn apart by a shocking secret.

Anime Shorts Tue 16 Oct at 8.45pm 1h30m • 12A

A programme of brilliant anime shorts, including Tokyo Marble Chocolate Episodes 1 and 2, plus more surprises! 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.

After School Midnighters Fri 19 Oct at 6.00pm Hitoshi Takekiyo • Japan 2012 • 1h34m HD-Cam • Japanese with English subtitles • PG

St Claire’s Elementary School is a prestigious private school with a long history and tradition. But the school has another face. After school, with no one in the classrooms, the sound of piano comes from a music room. A black shadow appears on the surface of the pool. A blue-white light comes from the digital room, and a scream is heard from the darkness of the toilets. There’s also the matter of the talking anatomy figure in the science room, who is determined to keep people away from the school at night! This screening will be introduced by Jonathan Clements.

Scotland Loves Anime

BERSERK: THE GOLDEN AGE ARC 2 - THE BATTLE FOR DOLDREY

NERAWARETA GAKUEN

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc 1 – The Egg of the King

Nerawareta Gakuen



International Premiere

Toshiyuki Kubooka • Japan 2012 • 1h20m HD-Cam • Japanese with English subtitles • 15

Ryosuki Nakamura • Japan 2012 • 1h50m HD-Cam • Japanese with English subtitles • 12A

A foreboding, medieval European-insired world, where a hundred year war rages on. Lone mercenary Guts travels the land, cutting down his opponents with unrivalled swordsmanship. His ferocity and strength attracts the attention of Griffith, leader of the mercenary group The Band of the Hawk, and Guts is recruited to the unit. But soon Guts begins to question his reasons for fighting for Griffith’s dream.

Spring marks the start of another new school year at a junior high school in Kamakura. A new transfer student, Ryoichi Kyogoku, joins the 8th grade. Kyogoku has a very special proficiency in telepathy and has been ordered by his father to use this ability to scan other people’s minds and take over the school. Only one boy seems unaffected – Seki. Does Seki have what it takes to save everyone from the clutches of mind control?

The film wlll be introduced by one of the producers, Fuko Noda, and the character designer, Naoyuki Onda, with a Q&A afterwards.

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc 2 The Battle for Doldrey European Premiere Sat 20 Oct at 1.00pm Toshiyuki Kubooka • Japan 2012 • 1h35m HD-Cam • Japanese with English subtitles • 18

The second film in the Golden Age Arc trilogy sees the Band of Hawks hired to take back the fortress of Doldrey and end the 100-year war in Midland. With such a bold move towards the Hawks’ leader, Griffith’s goal of a kingdom is finally within his grasp. What does this mean for Guts though? The film wlll be introduced by one of the producers, Fuko Noda, and the character designer, Naoyuki Onda, with a Q&A afterwards.

This screening will be introduced by Jonathan Clements.

Blood-C: The Last Dark Sat 20 Oct at 8.30pm Naoyoshi Shiotani • Japan 2012 • 1h46m HD-Cam • Japanese with English subtitles • 15

Tokyo has enacted the Youth Protection Ordinance: minors are forbidden from being out at night and the internet is strictly policed. Sirrut, an underground rebel organisation, is fighting back against the shadowy ruler of Tokyo, Fumito Nanahara. They scour the internet for information to help their cause and discover something gruesome: records of TOWER, a mysterious organisation rumoured to be conducting experiments involving human beings, and alluding to people being...eaten. This screening will be introduced by Jonathan Clements. SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

BLOOD-C: THE LAST DARK

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NINJA SCROLL

WOLF CHILDREN AME AND YUKI

Ninja Scroll

Wolf Children Ame and Yuki


Scottish Premiere

Yoshiaki Kawajiri • Japan 1993 • 1h34m HDV • Japanese with English subtitles • 18


Set during Japan’s Tokugawa period, Ninja Scroll opens with female ninja Kagero at the mercy of Tessai, a monster of a man who can turn his skin to stone. She is rescued by wandering ronin Jubei Kibagami and together the pair discover that Tessai is one of the Eight Devils of Kimon, a band of super ninja led by Jubei’s old nemesis, who he swears is dead. Tricked into helping Kagero take down the Eight Devils, expert swordsman Jubei must push his swordsmanship to the limit if he is to defeat them... This screening will be introduced by Jonathan Clements.

Mamoru Hosoda • Japan 2012 • 1h57m HD-Cam • Japanese with English subtitles • PG

College student Hana falls in love with a man, only for him to reveal his secret: he’s a wolf man. Hana is not afraid and remains by his side. Eventually they parent two children, Ame and Yuki. To conceal Ame and Yuki’s wolf blood, the family live discreetly in a quiet corner of the city. Their life is simple but happy. But one day, their whole world changes when the children’s father dies. Hana decides to retreat to the countryside where Ame and Yuki can choose: do they want to grow up to be humans or wolves? This screening will be introduced by Jonathan Clements.

Anime Mirai Project Sun 21 Oct at 6.00pm 1h40m • PG

Anime Mirai (‘The Future of Animation’) is a collective project from four Japanese production studios. These studios were specially selected by the Japan Animation Creators Association (JAniCA) under the patronage of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and tasked with training young animators on the job. The four short films in this programme have been worked on by some of the freshest talent in Japanese animation: Juju the Weightless Dugong Pretending Not to See Li’l Spider Girl Buta

Hiroshi Kawamata, Answer Studio

Shinpei Miyashita, Shirogumi

Toshihisa Kaiya, Production I.G.

Kazuhide Tomonaga, Tokyo Telecom

SANTA SANGRE

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.

Santa Sangre Mon 22 Oct at 8.15pm Alejandro Jodorowsky • Mexico/Italy 1989 • 2h3m Digital projection • 18 Cast: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou, Sabrina Dennison.

In the 1970s, his legendary films El Topo and The Holy Mountain redefined movies as both art and entertainment while changing the face of cinema forever. And in 1989, visionary writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky returned with his masterpiece, an epic of surreal genius, now digitally restored. The story of a young circus performer, the crime of passion that shatters his soul, and the macabre journey back to the world of his armless mother, deaf-mute lover, and murder, it’s an odyssey of ecstasy and anguish, belief and blasphemy, beauty and madness, and unlike any movie you have seen before.

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Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival

DALI IN NEW YORK

Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival Now in its sixth year, the Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival is one of Scotland’s most diverse cultural events, covering everything from music, film and visual art to theatre, dance, and literature. The annual festival takes place in venues across Scotland throughout October, aiming to support the arts and challenge preconceived ideas about mental health. This year the festival breaks new ground with previews of unreleased and previously unseen films, accompanied by unique, live discussion with guests, fans and filmmakers alike.

SERIOUS DRUGS

RUPTURE: A MATTER OF LIFE OR DEATH

Dali in New York

Rupture: A Matter of Life or Death

Mon 8 Oct at 8.30pm - TICKETS £4/£2

Wed 10 Oct at 5.45pm - TICKETS £4/£2

Jack Bond • USA/UK • 1965 • 57m • Digibeta • PG • Documentary

Hugh Hudson • UK 2012 • 1h9m • Format TBC • 15 • Documentary

Jack Bond’s film about his relationship with one of the world’s most celebrated artists, Salvador Dali, is a remarkable reflection of the creative process. In a series of meetings in New York around Christmas 1965, Bond creates a wry and amusing portrait of an artist torn between the forces which drive him to create and the pressures of modern living.

A moving documentary from Chariots of Fire director Hugh Hudson. Hudson’s wife is Maryam D’Abo, star of the James Bond film The Living Daylights. She suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage in 2007, and her experience inspired this film, in which individuals who have suffered from brain injuries discuss how it affected them and the long road to recovery.

PLUS SHORT Inside Out Alan Kerr • UK 2012 • 10m • DVD • Documentary A short film featuring the work of Scottish painter Emma Scott Smith, who takes inspiration from the work of Dali. We are delighted to welcome Jack Bond, director of Dali in New York, for a post-screening discussion.

Serious Drugs Tue 9 Oct at 5.45pm - TICKETS £4/£2 Jim Burns • UK 2011 • 1h37m • Format TBC • 15 • Documentary

Our screenings include a visit from Jack Bond with Dali In New York, his celebrated collaboration with Salvador Dali; BMX Bandit Duglas Stewart talking about documentary Serious Drugs; Rupture, Hugh Hudson’s thoughtful documentary about his wife Maryam D’Abo’s recovery from a brain injury; and Charlotte Rampling starring in an advance preview of psychological thriller I, Anna.

Twenty five years of pure popular music greatness, seen through the eyes of BMX Bandit Duglas T Stewart. Serious Drugs deals frankly, but with enormous humour and goodwill, with the difficulties of being a cult pop star. Jim Burns’ film is likely to appeal to fans of Stewart’s music, and features informed comments from his friends and family. It’s a genuine insight into the creative process and vision behind some of pop’s most fiercely adored tunes.

For details of other festival events, go to www.mhfestival.com

We’re delighted that director Jim Burns and Duglas T Stewart will discuss the film in a post-screening event.

Screening with post-film discussion.

I, Anna Mon 22 Oct at 5.45pm Barnaby Southcombe • UK/Germany/France 2012 • 1h33m Digital projection • 15 Cast: Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Marsan, Jodhi May.

An absorbing debut feature from Barnaby Southcombe, featuring a powerful leading performance from Charlotte Rampling (Blow Up, The Night Porter). After meeting a mysterious man at a speed-dating night, Anna finds herself unable to remember the details of her evening. As a dogged policeman (Gabriel Byrne) closes in on her, Anna struggle to reconcile herself to her activities on the previous evening, and with an event in the past which threatens to catch up with her. I, Anna deals with potentially melodramatic subject matter in a compassionate and intelligent way. This screening will be followed by a Q&A, guests TBC.

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I, ANNA

THE NORTHERN LIGHTS FILM PROJECT

The Northern Lights Film Project – Exploring the Process

The SMHAFF International Film Awards 2012



1h30m

2h15m

As part of the Year of Creative Scotland 2012, the Northern Lights project has invited people from all over Scotland to contribute to a unique feature length documentary film. Led by creative director Nick Higgins, a celebrated documentary maker in his own right, the Northern Lights project is a mass participation scheme. For this special event, Nick will show excerpts from the edited feature documentary and discuss the filmmaking process alongside some of the project’s many participants.

The Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival open film submission returns for its sixth year, bringing together from all over the world filmmakers whose work explores the subject of mental health. Since their inception, the awards have aimed to provide a platform for filmmakers to share their ideas with a new audience, challenging perceptions about mental health issues and connecting with like-minded individuals. This year’s competition saw a diverse range of submissions from Scottish, British and European artists, as well as entries from as far afield as Canada, Australia and India. The very best of these films will be honoured at this awards ceremony, promoting greater understanding of mental illness and encouraging the examination of social justice issues through the arts.

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Film Quiz Sunday 14 October Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and rather tricky) monthly quiz. Free to enter, teams of up to eight, to be seated in the cafe bar by 9pm.

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Introduction to European Cinema

THE DYING SWAN

Introduction to European Cinema Now in its eighth year at Filmhouse, Introduction to European Cinema returns for 2012/13 with a completely new programme of films. The only season of its kind in the UK, IEC provides a great opportunity to see some of the classics of European film on the big screen, many of which are very rarely shown. Curated in collaboration with the Film Studies department at the University of Edinburgh, the screenings are part of undergraduate and postgraduate study programmes but are equally open to regular members of the Filmhouse public. Each screening will be preceded by a short introduction by either Dr Claire Boyle (Lecturer in French and IEC Course Organiser) or Dr Pasquale Iannone (Senior Teaching Fellow in Film Studies). To keep up to date with screening dates and times, feel free to ‘Like’ IEC’s Facebook page ‘Introduction to European Cinema at Filmhouse’ or follow @Filmhouse on Twitter. 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.

DER GOLEM

BELLE DE JOUR

The Dying Swan

October Oktyabr



Yevgeni Bauer • Russia 1917 • 49m • Digibeta • Silent • U Cast: Vera Karalli, Aleksandr Kheruvimov, Vitold Polonsky, Andrej Gromov, Ivane Perestiani.

Sergei Eisenstein & Grigori Aleksandrov • USSR 1927 • 1h43m 35mm • Silent • PG Cast: Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Boris Livanov.

A morose and struggling young artist becomes obsessed with capturing the sad image of a mute ballerina in his painting. When her despairing countenance is changed by the return of a lost love, the artist strangles her to achieve the lifeless effect of the dying swan he must have from his unfortunate model.

One of the finest examples of intellectual montage, consisting of more than 3,200 shots in its 103 minutes, October has been described as a Constructivist poster come to life. Focusing on the crucial events from February through October 1917, Eisenstein treats Lenin (Nikandrov) with hagiographical reverence, while satirising the opponents of the Bolsheviks as obese clowns or idiots, using visual metaphors of an extraordinary variety and richness.

PLUS SHORTS The Runaway Horse

Louis J Gasnier • France 1908 • 7m • Silent • U

AND The Physician of the Castle

France 1908 • 6m • Silent • U

Belle de jour Wed 31 Oct at 3.15pm (no intro) + 6.00pm

Der Golem Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam Wed 17 Oct at 6.15pm Carl Boese & Paul Wegener • Germany 1920 • 1h18m • 35mm Silent with Live Piano Accompaniment by Forrester Pyke • PG Cast: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch, Hanns Sturm.

Sixteenth-century Prague. Rabbi Loew, spiritual leader of the Jewish community, divines from his astrological tables that a disaster is imminent, and decides to summon the dead spirit Astaroth and build the Golem, a huge clay figure which will serve the man who gives it life. A visually impressive, sophisticated and highly atmospheric example of early German cinema.

Luis Buñuel • France/Italy 1967 • 1h40m 35mm • French with English subtitles 18 – Contains strong sexual theme and fetish scenes Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page.

Luis Buñuel’s iconic film tells the story of Séverine, a beautiful, bored upper middle class housewife in a loving but sexually frigid marriage, who acts out her fantasies by becoming a prostitute in a brothel. The film moves back and forth between current reality, flashback, and our heroine’s fantasies, often leaving it to the viewer to determine which is which. Buñuel stays detached from the proceedings, non-judgmental, coolly unemotional, contrasting lush interiors and chic costuming by Yves Saint-Laurent with dark sexual fantasies and the edgy threat of violence.

Introduction to European Cinema

THE BLUE ANGEL

MIRACLE IN MILAN

The Blue Angel Der blaue Engel

Miracle in Milan Miracolo a Milano

Wed 7 Nov at 6.00pm

Wed 21 Nov at 6.00pm

Josef von Sternberg • Germany 1930 • 1h46m • 35mm German & English dual language version • PG Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers.

Vittorio De Sica • Italy 1951 • 1h40m • 35mm Italian and English with English subtitles • U Cast: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo.

Marlene Dietrich in her first iconic role as a femme fatale plays a sensual singer at the café Blue Angel. Director Josef von Sternberg’s use of lighting, composition and of silence as sound, his overall creation of a world that can seduce and destroy even its most upstanding citizen, attest to his greatness.

A quintessential work of Italian neo-realism, De Sica’s post-WWII fable displays his humanistic ideology through the tale of a young boy granted magical powers. When his kind-hearted guardian dies, Toto, an orphan, begins living with a group of beggars. When Toto is given a magic dove by a fairy, he uses its wish-granting powers to help whoever asks, but the dove is eventually stolen, the land on which the beggars live is taken over, and they are jailed.

La kermesse héroïque Carnival in Flanders Wed 14 Nov at 6.00pm Jacques Feyder • France/Germany 1935 • 1h57m 35mm • French with English subtitles 12A – Contains moderate violence and sex references Cast: Françoise Rosay, André Alerme, Jean Murat, Louis Jouvet, Lyne Clevers.

This tongue-in-cheek farce is set in the 1600s, in a Flemish town which is facing invasion by the Spanish army. The men of the town are spineless and the mayor pretends to be dead, but his more courageous and sophisticated wife takes control of the situation and by recognising and appealing to the enemy’s base needs, she and the town’s women avert a catastrophe. Feyder managed to recreate the world of Flemish painters with an incredible accuracy, and La kermesse héroïque portrays his great sense of humour and attention to historical detail.

Night and the City Wed 28 Nov at 6.00pm Jules Dassin • UK 1950 • 1h40m • 35mm • PG Cast: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Herbert Lom.

A dark, brooding noir, with Richard Widmark riveting as Harry Fabian, a hustler who sinks into the quagmire of his own ambitions. The film is set in London, where Harry works for the owner of a sleazy dive where his girlfriend Mary (Gene Tierney) sings. Director Dassin relentlessly displays London without charm and grace, showing only the seamy side where Widmark and his kind live out their unscrupulous lives. Despite the feeling of lonely helplessness that pervades the film, the story proceeds at such a frenetic pace that it’s utterly captivating, and Widmark’s performance is nothing short of remarkable.

NIGHT AND THE CITY

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Play Poland

JOANNA

Play Poland A selection of the best new Polish filmmaking.

Joanna Thu 11 Oct at 8.45pm Feliks Falk • Poland 2010 • 1h45m • Format TBC Polish, French and German with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Urszula Grabowska, Sara Knothe, Stanislawa Celinska, Kinga Preis, Halina Labonarska.

When seven-year-old Rose is separated from her mother in German-occupied Warsaw during a roundup, she seeks refuge in the pews where a young woman, Joanna, goes to pray. Joanna, a piano teacher waiting to hear news of her soldier husband who she has not seen in years, takes the child home. They embark on a relationship that helps to heal their respective losses.

80 Million 80 milionów Thu 18 Oct at 8.45pm Waldemar Krzystek • Poland 2011 • 1h50m Digital projection • Polish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Filip Bobek, Marcin Bosak, Wojciech Solarz, Piotr Glowacki.

Lower Silesia, the autumn of 1981. After a series of provocations by the Security Service, the confrontation of the opposition with the Communists seems to be inevitable. Shortly before the announcement of martial law, young activists of the Solidarity movement withdraw 80 million of federal money from a bank in Wroclaw before the account is blocked. The Security Service is on their heels, and an exciting game begins, involving the clergy and moneychangers…

FEAR OF FALLING

ELLES

Fear of Falling Lek wysokosci

Elles

Thu 25 Oct at 6.15pm

Thu 8 Nov at 8.45pm

Bartosz Konopka • Poland 2011 • 1h27m Format TBC • Polish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Marcin Dorocinski, Krzysztof Stroinski, Dorota Kolak.

Malgorzata Szumowska • France/Poland/Germany 2011 • 1h39m Format TBC • French and Polish with English subtitles 18 – Contains strong nudity, sex, sexual fetish and a scene of sexual violence Cast: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Krystyna Janda.

Tomek leads a comfortable life as a TV anchor and family man when he receives a troubling message from the psychiatric hospital in his hometown: his father, whom he has not seen in years, has just been admitted. Against the advice of friends and family, not to mention his own better judgment, Tomek returns home to face the man he hardly knows.

The Winner Wygrany Thu 1 Nov at 8.45pm Wieslaw Saniewski • Poland/USA 2011 • 1h51m Format TBC • Polish and English with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Pawel Szajda, Janusz Gajos, Grazyna Barszczewska.

A talented young American pianist of Polish origin is under pressure from his mother, his ex-wife, and his agent. Under stress, he suddenly pulls out of a European tour which puts him in a very complicated financial situation. While in Warsaw, he meets a retired mathematics teacher who is a horse-racing enthusiast, and the two hatch a plan to win big money at the races. 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.

Juliette Binoche stars as a journalist researching an article on student prostitution for the French edition of Elle magazine, who finds herself drawn to two young women. The stories these seemingly well-adjusted girls share force the middle-aged writer to examine her own life and family. Director Malgorzata Szumowska places female sexuality, in all its complexity, under a microscope.

The Canadian Dresses Kanadyjskie Sukienki Thu 15 Nov at 5.45pm Maciej Michalski • Poland 2012 • 2h Format TBC • Polish with English subtitles • 15 Cast: Anna Seniuk, Zofia Czerwinska, Ewa Kasprzyk, Piotr Polk, Elzbieta Jarosik.

In a Polish village in the 1980s, Sophia is enjoying her birthday and excitedly awaiting the arrival of her daughter Amelia and her husband, who have lived in Canada for the last ten years. But when Amelia arrives, she is alone. Gradually we discover why Amelia left in the first place, and that her supposed dream life is far from perfect. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Maciej Michalski.

Take One Action Film Festival

WAR WITCH (screened on 3 Oct)

CAPE SPIN (screened on 4 Oct)

Call Me Kuchu Fri 5 Oct at 8.25pm Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall USA/Uganda 2012 • 1h27m • Digital projection • 15 Documentary

“Connects the dots perfectly to show how personal and global struggles are inextricably linked.” - IndieWire

The final two screenings in this year’s edition of the UK’s global change film festival. www.takeoneaction.org.uk

Uganda has become ground zero in the Evangelical church’s war on the ‘homosexual agenda’. Enter David Kato, a veteran activist who’s been working tirelessly to repeal his country’s homophobic laws and liberate his fellow gay and transgendered citizens – called ‘kuchus’ – from persecution. Kato’s mission is intensified when a new antihomosexuality bill proposing death for HIV-positive gay men is introduced. Meanwhile, the country’s newspapers are outing kuchus under headlines such as “HOMO TERROR! We Name and Shame Top Gays in the City.” Kato is one of the few to publicly denounce these actions, insisting “if we keep on hiding, they will say we are not here.” Call Me Kuchu documents the courageous efforts of Kato and his team to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The result is both a hard-won victory and a devastating loss for the international gay community. Followed by discussion about the issues raised in the film with special guest speakers including Ugandan activist John Bosco and the Right Reverend John Armes, Bishop of Edinburgh.

CALL ME KUCHU

Surprise Screening: Take One Action Audience Award Sat 6 Oct at 6.00pm 15

Take the plunge and join us for the final screening of Take One Action 2012 as voted for at the festival by you from our host of critically acclaimed European, UK and Scottish premieres. Followed by music and drinks with the festival team. It could be a Sundance or Berlin winner, a gripping feature drama or an eye-popping comedy. What’s certain is it will have fired the imagination and social spirit of hundreds of festival-goers in the preceding days and weeks: so don’t miss it! Go for £1. Present a ticket stub from another Take One Action 2012 festival film at the Filmhouse box office any time up to Friday 5 October to get your Audience Award Screening ticket for just £1. One reduced price ticket per stub. Tickets can be purchased without a stub at normal Filmhouse prices. All tickets bought for this event are non-refundable.

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Learning Events

BEGINNERS 3D ANIMATION

EXPRESS FILMMAKING

SCREEN MAKEUP - ZOMBIE HORROR WORKSHOP

October Workshops Our Knowledge and Learning team arrange screenings for schools, workshops and learning events for all ages. For further information or to be kept informed, please contact Nicola Kettlewood or Holly Daniel on 0131 228 6382 or email education@filmhousecinema.com More information, including details of schools screenings, can also be found on the Learning page on our website at www.filmhousecinema.com

Beginners 2d Animation Sat 13 Oct • Ages 7-11 from 10am-12pm • Ages 12-15 from 12:30pm-2.30pm • £14.50 Red Kite Animation Studio present this fun way in to the world of animation. Make your own 2D cartoon character and bring it to life with cameras and computers. All films put online....forever!!

Beginners 3D Animation Sat 13 Oct • 3pm-5pm • Ages 7-11 • £14.50 Make a plasticine creature and animate funny scenes with Red Kite Animation. Monsters with tentacles, tigers with two heads or just alien blob beasts....its easy to make them come alive and do what you want. All films are uploaded to the Red Kite website.

Excellent 3D Model Making for Animation Sun 14 Oct • 10.30am-4pm • Ages 12-17 • £40 Make a full animation puppet with a wire skeleton inside, just like the professionals! Master ways to keep your characters light weight using a variety of materials and techniques. Try animating in the day to test how good they work, but keep your expert models to make more films at home.

Express Filmmaking Wed 17-Fri 19 Oct • 10:30am-4pm • Ages 14-17 • £50 Most professional filmmakers start out making shorts, and it also a great way to tell your own stories. Here’s your chance to write, star in, shoot and edit your own short film in just three days. Delivered by Screen Education Edinburgh.

Screen Makeup - Blood & Gore Workshop Sat 20 Oct • 10.30am-12:30pm • Ages 13-16 • £14 An essential workshop for all fans of vampire horror films. Come along and learn how to create screen ‘blood’ and gore for your own horror film effects. This workshop is led by screen and theatre make up artist Tinuviel Shaw.

Screen Makeup - Zombie Horror Workshop Sat 20 Oct • 1.30pm-4pm • Ages 8-12 • £14 Want to look like a Zombie? Come along and learn professional make up artist tricks to create your own screen Zombie look.

Introduction to Animation for Adults Sun 21 Oct • 10.30am-4pm • Ages 18+ • £50 This full day beginner’s workshop gives a practical introduction to a variety of animation techniques including stop frame 2D Cut-Out and 3D model, drawn animation and experimental techniques such as sand on glass or Pixilation. Whether you’re an artist, a teacher or just curious, this informal day will give you the skills and technical knowledge to continue animating with confidence.

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