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HOME OF THE EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 

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Abby Cornish 

Ben Whishaw 

A film by Jane Campion 

Welcome 

The White Ribbon 

Starsuckers 

Séraphine 

Tales from the Golden Age 

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno 

An Education 

O for Orson 

French Film Festival UK 

Totally Tati 

Jean Eustache 

Diversions 

Introduction to European Cinema 

and much, much more! 

3 CINEMAS CAFE BAR

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INDEX 

SCREENING DATES AND TIMES 16-17 

TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION 17 

GENERAL INFORMATION 31 

Another Man 21 

Anthony Horowitz Event 7 

The Audible Picture Show 13 

Autumn Spring 27 

Bad Company 24 

The Beautiful Person 19 

Bellamy 21 

The Best of Czech Cinema 1999-2009 26-27 

BFI Mediatheque On Tour 11 

Bonjour tristesse 20 

Bored in Brno 26 

Bright Star 4 

Citizen Kane 9 

Confidential Report 10 

Cosi fan tutte 28 

Courses, Workshops and Events 30 

Crime is Our Business 22 

A Dirty Story 25 

Diversions 12-14 

Divided We Fall 27 

An Education 6 

Eldorado 22 

Eugenics: Science Fiction or Future Reality? 29 

Jean Eustache 24-25 

Experimental Films & Videos from Finland 12 

F for Fake 10 

The Fall of the Wall 27 

The Father of My Children 19 

Filmhouse Café Bar 30 

Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 32 

Filmhouse Quiz 30 

French Film Festival UK 18-22 

A French Gigolo 19 

Gattaca 29 

The Gentle Art of Superimposition 12 

Germany Year Zero 28 

The Gift 14 

The Girl from Monaco 18 

Grown-Ups 20 

Wojciech Has 25 

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno 5 

Homo Sapiens 1900 29 

The Hourglass Sanatorium 25 

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster 21 

I Want to See 6 

Introduction to European Cinema 28 

Jour de fête 23 

Journey into Fear 9 

The Joy of Singing 21 

Just One Kiss 13 

The Karamazovs 26 

King Coal 11 

INDEX 

Lads & Jockeys 18 

The Lady from Shanghai 10 

Lady Jane 19 

Light Cone Essentials 14 

Little Otik 26 

Lost and Found 7 

Louise-Michel 21 

Macbeth 10 

Made in Edinburgh 11 

Magic! 18 

The Magnificent Ambersons 9 

The Magnificent Tati 23 

Mon Oncle 23 

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday 23 

The Mother and the Whore 24 

My Little Loves 25 

My Sister’s Keeper 29 

Neuilly sa mère! 19 

Numéro zéro 24 

O for Orson 8-10 

Opera On Screen 28 

Playtime 22 

Parade 23 

The Pig 24 

Please, Please Me! 21 

Pleasing Ourselves: Artisan Films in Scotland 13 

A Prophet 18 

Return of the Idiot 26 

Sagan 20 

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes 24 

The Saragossa Manuscript 25 

Séraphine (French Film Festival UK) 20 

Séraphine (new release) 6 

Shorts for Wee Ones 7 

Special Correspondents 20 

The Spirit of the Beehive 28 

St Nicholas Church 27 

Starsuckers 5 

Stormbreaker 7 

The Stranger 9 

The Sublime is Now 14 

Tabarly 20 

Tabu 28 

Tales from the Golden Age 4 

Tati Shorts 23 

Totally Tati 22-23 

Touch of Evil 10 

Traffic 22 

The Trial 10 

Versailles 19 

The Wall 27 

Weans’ World 7 

Welcome 4 

The White Ribbon 5 

Who’s Afraid of Designer Babies? 29 

William McLaren – An Artist Out of Time 11 

AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLES 

We have installed in Cinema One a system 

which enables us, whenever the necessary 

discs are available, to show onscreen subtitles 

for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing, 

and provide audio description (via our infra-red 

headsets) for those who are sight-impaired. 

This month: 

Bright Star – all Cinema One screenings 

will have audio description, and the 1.00pm 

screening on Saturday 21 November will also 

have subtitles. 

FORCRYINGOUTLOUD 

Screenings for carers and their babies, on 

Monday mornings at 10.30am. This issue: 

Bright Star on Monday 16 November 

An Education on Monday 23 November 

Séraphine on Monday 30 November 

Baby changing, bottle warming and buggy 

parking facilities are available.Tickets cost 

£3/£2 concessions per adult. Screenings limited 

to babies under 12 months accompanied by no 

more than two adults. For Crying Out Loud is 

sponsored by CBeebies. 

See page 7 for details of Weans’ World, our 

regular screenings for a younger audience. 

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Introduction 

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THE WHITE RIBBON FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL: JOUR DE FETE O FOR ORSON: MACBETH BRIGHT STAR 

Filmhouse calling Orson. Come in, Orson 

In this column last month I promised an Orson Welles retrospective and here it is, duly delivered. Othello and Chimes at Midnight have 

eluded us, but apart from that it’s looking pretty good... A particular highlight is Welles’ version of ‘The Scottish Play’, which will screen 

from a ‘restored’ print held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, in which the original Scottish ‘brogue’ used by the actors, and 

subsequently removed by the studio, has been restored. Och aye, the noo...! 

Jane Campion, that erstwhile doyenne of ‘arthouse’ film directors, won’t remain erstwhile for too much longer after the release of her 

sumptuous latest, the story of the romance between 19th century romantic poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie 

Cornish), Bright Star. Starsuckers is a marvellously entertaining doc from Chris Atkins, the man who brought us the Blair-baiting Taking 

Liberties a few years back – this time our fascination with fame and the famous comes under his illuminating spotlight; Tales From 

The Golden Age is a wryly amusing compendium of shorts from the leading young directors of present day Romania, poking fun at the 

Ceaucescu era; and Michael Haneke’s Palme d’or winner, the brilliant The White Ribbon, tells the story of the sinister goings-on in a 

village in pre-WWI Germany. The ever-watchable Vincent Lindon stars as a swimming coach who gets involved training a would-be illegal 

immigrant to Britain to swim the Channel, in the authentic, powerful and moving French hit of earlier in the year, Welcome. 

And Welcome is just the tip of the French iceberg this month: featuring a stunning central performance by César-winning Yolande 

Moreau, Séraphine beautifully tells the story of ‘naive’ artist Séraphine de Senlis; the dazzling new documentary Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 

Inferno opens a window on the great man’s unfinished film, L’Enfer, and it’s enough to make you mourn for this masterpiece that 

never was; and the French Film Festival is back, in its 17th edition! All the best new titles from the land of the Gauls PLUS a Jacques Tati 

retrospective AND a rare-as-anything Jean Eustache retrospective. Zut alors! 

And if anyone is sad/old (or both) enough to remember who is being paraphrased by the six words at the top of the page, email the 

name to competitions@filmhousecinema.com and if you’re first out of the hat (on Monday 2 November) you can come see all our Orson 

Welles films for absolutely nothing! 

As Orson himself once nearly said: “Probably... the best cinema... in the world.” 

Rod White, Head of Programming

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New releases 

BRIGHT STAR 

WELCOME 

TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE 

NEWRELEASE 

Bright Star 

Showing from Fri 6 Nov 

Jane Campion • UK/Australia/France 2009 • 1h59m 

Digital projection • PG – Contains infrequent mild sex references 

and one suicide reference 

Cast: Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, Thomas 

Sangster, Samuel Barnett, Kerry Fox. 

The Jane Campion embraced by 1990s arthouse audiences 

but who’s been missing of late makes an impressive return 

with Bright Star. Breaking through any period-piece 

mustiness with piercing insight into the emotions and 

behaviour of her characters, the writer-director examines 

the final years in the short life of 19th-century romantic 

poet John Keats (the wonderful Ben Whishaw) through the 

eyes of his beloved, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish in an 

outstanding performance). Campion brings to this story an 

unfashionable, unapologetic reverence for romance and 

romantic love, and she responds to Keats’ life and work 

with intelligence and grace. 

NEWRELEASE 

Welcome 

Fri 6 to Thu 19 Nov 

Philippe Lioret • France 2009 • 1h49m • 35mm 

French, Kurdish and English with English subtitles 

15 – Contains strong language 

Cast: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Derya Ayverdi, 

Thierry Godard. 

In Calais, illegal immigrant Bilal (Firat Ayverdi), a 17-yearold 

Kurd from Iraq, phones London to tell his girlfriend 

Mina that he’ll soon be crossing the Channel to join her. 

He has already made an arduous three-month journey 

to France, and believes that the final leg will be easy. But 

he finds himself stuck amid crowds of illegals in Calais 

and desperate to get to England at any price. After an 

unsuccessful crossing as a stowaway on a lorry, Bilal 

conceives the desperate notion that perhaps he can swim 

to his goal. 

Enter swimming instructor Simon (Vincent Lindon); he’s 

in the throes of a divorce from teacher Marion (Audrey 

Dana), who works for an organisation that provides aid for 

refugees. Simon agrees to give Bilal swimming lessons, 

then becomes increasingly involved with, and protective 

of, the boy – initially, it appears, in the hope of impressing 

Marion, but eventually for more complex emotional 

reasons. 

NEWRELEASE 

Tales from the Golden Age 

Amintiri din epoca de aur 

Fri 20 to Mon 23 Nov 

Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin 

Popescu & Ioana Uricaru • Romania/France 2009 • 2h11m 

Digital projection • Romanian with English subtitles 

12A – Contains two uses of strong language 

Cast: Tania Popa, Liliana Mocanu, Alexandru Potocean, Teodor 

Corban, Emanuel Parvu. 

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days director Cristian Mungiu 

proves equally adept in a much lighter register by writing 

and co-directing this highly enjoyable omnibus film, in 

which five filmmakers present their takes on urban legends 

popular in the waning years of the Ceaucescu regime. 

Ill-fated efforts to entertain visiting officials, doctor a 

photograph and discreetly murder a pig all yield much 

wry humour, though it’s the final story about a young 

woman’s new career as a con artist that strikes the most 

quintessentially Romanian balance of comedy and tragedy.

New Releases 

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STARSUCKERS 

THE WHITE RIBBON 

HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO 

NEWRELEASE 

Starsuckers 

Fri 20 to Tue 24 Nov 

Chris Atkins • UK 2009 • 1h40m • Digital projection • cert tbc 

Documentary 

The latest film from Chris Atkins, the BAFTA-nominated 

director of the Blair-baiting documentary Taking Liberties, 

takes on the celebrity-obsessed media, pulling down its 

wizard’s curtain to reveal the machinations and deceit 

involved in selling the notion that fame comes with 

credibility, money and power as its natural accessories. 

Starsuckers probes various aspects of celebrity culture with 

a scathing wit and sense of mischief, from the pushy parents 

who seek recognition for their children to the established 

public figures who use their position to gain political 

influence. Using a combination of exclusive footage, real-life 

stories, animation and undercover reportage, Atkins delivers 

an intelligent, revelatory polemic for our time. 

Take One Action, Scotland’s social action cinema 

project, heads up the following audience-led 

discussions to mark the release of Starsuckers: 

‘Enjoy Poverty’, with key organisers of the Make 

Poverty History campaign including John Hilary (UK 

Director, War on Want) – Fri 20 Nov at 6.00pm 

Q&A with director Chris Atkins – Sat 21 Nov at 8.15pm 

‘The Media We Deserve’, with leading Scottish 

journalists – Sun 22 Nov at 5.45pm 

NEWRELEASE 

The White Ribbon Das weiße Band 

Fri 27 Nov to Thu 10 Dec 

Michael Haneke • Austria/Germany/France/Italy 2009 • 2h24m 

Digital projection • German with English subtitles 

15 – Contains child abuse references 

Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar, Josef Bierbichler, Mercedes 

Jadea Diaz, Burghart Klaußner. 

With this new film, which won him his first Palme d’or at 

this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Michael Haneke returns 

to his classic themes of guilt, denial and violence as the 

mysterious symptom of mass dysfunction. The White 

Ribbon is a period film set in a secluded northern German 

village on the eve of the First World War, impeccably acted, 

shot in monochrome, and directed with the filmmaker’s 

icily exact rigour and severity. 

An isolated community is shaken by unpleasant, 

inexplicable events: a razor trip-wire fells the local doctor on 

his horse, and he is badly injured. The landowning baron’s 

son is found, bound and whipped. A boy with Down’s 

syndrome is horribly abused. Like Haneke’s earlier film 

Hidden (Caché), this is to some degree about the return 

of the repressed. Unlike that movie, however, The White 

Ribbon is not about the repercussions of a single buried 

event, but a continuous diseased process, in which those 

without power – children and disenfranchised adults – are 

in a permanent state of futile rebellion against authority. 

The White Ribbon has an absolute confidence and mastery 

of its own cinematic language, and the performances 

Haneke elicits from his first-rate cast, particularly the 

children, are eerily perfect. 

NEWRELEASE 

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno 

L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot 

Fri 27 to Mon 30 Nov 

Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea • France 2009 • 1h40m 

Digital projection • French with English subtitles 

15 – Contains sexualised nudity 

Documentary 

In 1964, as the nouvelle vague threatened to edge out 

the old guard, French filmmaking legend Henri-Georges 

Clouzot decided to play the upstarts at their own game 

by unveiling a long-treasured personal project. ‘Inferno’ 

was inspired by Clouzot’s own battles with depression 

and insomnia, and would employ all the latest psychedelic 

in-camera visual effects to portray its jealous hero’s inner 

torment. Utilising Clouzot’s striking unfinished footage 

and new interviews with cast and crew, Bromberg and 

Medrea’s documentary explores the reasons behind 

the film’s ignominious collapse, a haunting story of 

self-indulgence and experimentation gone astray, and a 

fascinating cautionary tale for budding filmmakers. 

Warning: this film contains flashing images and may affect 

people with photosensitive epilepsy.

6 New releases/Maybe you missed... 

SERAPHINE 

I WANT TO SEE 

AN EDUCATION 

NEWRELEASE 

Séraphine 

Fri 27 Nov to Thu 10 Dec 

Martin Provost • France/Belgium 2008 • 2h5m • 35mm 

French and German with English subtitles • PG – Contains 

infrequent mild sex references and scenes of emotional distress 

Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève 

Mnich, Nico Rogner. 

This period drama bested Laurent Cantet’s The Class and 

Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale to win the César 

for best film in February, with the best actress award also 

going to its lead performer, Yolande Moreau. Born in 1864, 

Séraphine Louis was a lowly domestic with an earthy, 

eccentric manner and a talent for painting. Devoutly 

religious, she credited her skill to her guardian angel. 

Though she attracts the support of the influential dealer 

Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), her career is scuppered by 

the Great Depression, her increasingly lavish habits and 

her own mental instability. Martin Provost’s biopic conveys 

her story with admirable empathy and precision, yet it’s 

Moreau who brings her to life, doing great justice to an 

artist whose status as an outsider was anything but a pose. 

NEWRELEASE 

I Want to See 

Je veux voir 

Tue 1 to Thu 3 Dec 

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige • France/Lebanon 2008 

1h15m • DigiBeta • French, Arabic and English with English 

subtitles • cert tbc 

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Rabih Mroué, Emile Slailati, Manuel 

Carmona, Wael Dib. 

This ghostly, semi-improvised guided tour through the 

shell-damaged streets of Beirut and the countryside of 

southern Lebanon soon after the bombings of summer 

2006 offers a candid précis on the human cost of war. It 

also weighs up the relative merits of documentary and 

fiction filmmaking within such a sensitive context. 

Playing herself, Catherine Deneuve is the guest of honour 

at a gala dinner in Beirut, but first she asks if she can be 

driven around the area to witness the devastation firsthand. 

She strikes up a fond rapport with French-speaking 

Lebanese actor Rabih Mroué, who is her chauffeur as they 

travel through the rubble. 

Husband-and-wife team Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil 

Joreige capture their meandering conversations but also 

ensure the wider tragedy is present, whether in glassy 

shots of the sprawling wreckage or as reflections in the car 

windows. 

A fascinating and intensely intimate film in which 

Deneuve’s disorientation comes to stand for that distance 

we all feel in the West when forced to think about the 

reality behind the headlines and news reports. 

MAYBEYOUMISSED... 

An Education 

Fri 20 to Thu 26 Nov 

Lone Scherfig • UK 2009 • 1h40m • 35mm 

12A – Contains moderate sex references 

Cast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Cara 

Seymour, Rosamund Pike. 

A standout performance from the enchanting Carey 

Mulligan is reason alone to see this lively Nick Hornbyscripted 

adaptation of Lynn Barber’s memoir of growing 

up in the west London suburbs in the early 1960s. 

Barber’s schoolgirl alter ego, Jenny (Mulligan), falls into 

a relationship with the older, more worldly David (Peter 

Sarsgaard), who offers her a window on a more material 

world – clubs, champagne, drives in the country, sex 

– than her Oxbridge ambitions allow. He also charms 

her wide-eyed parents with his apparent wealth and wit. 

Often very funny, the film is also sensitive to how we can 

often see before our eyes only that which we want – or are 

trained – to see.

Stormbreaker + Anthony Horowitz Event/Weans’ World 

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STORMBREAKER ANTHONY HOROWITZ 

SHORTS FOR WEE ONES LOST AND FOUND 

SPECIALEVENT 

In association with Edinburgh International 

Book Festival, a special screening and talk from 

author Anthony Horowitz. 

See both Stormbreaker and 

the Anthony Horowitz Event 

for only £8! 

Stormbreaker 

Thu 12 Nov at 4.00pm 

Geoffrey Sax • Germany/USA/UK 2006 • 1h33m • 35mm 

PG – Contains moderate action violence 

Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Mickey Rourke, Bill Nighy, 

Sophie Okonedo. 

Alex Rider is a normal teenager who lives with his uncle, a 

nondescript bank manager. Or so it seems, until his uncle 

disappears under mysterious circumstances. Alex soon 

learns that his uncle was a spy for Britain’s secret intelligence 

service, and he is recruited to take on a dangerous mission 

for them. Within days he’s gone from schoolboy to super 

spy – but will Alex’s first assignment be his last? 

Anthony Horowitz Event 

Thu 12 Nov, 6.15pm - 7.15pm – Tickets £6 

Spend an hour in the company of hugely popular author 

Anthony Horowitz as he launches ‘Crocodile Tears’ – the 

eighth book in his action-packed, ridiculously exciting 

Alex Rider series – in this exclusive event for children and 

families. A brilliantly entertaining speaker, Anthony will 

chat about his life and work and take questions from the 

audience, so come prepared with some good ‘uns! 

Weans’ World 

Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost 

£2.10 per person, big or small! 

Please note: although we normally disapprove of people 

talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for 

kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise! 

Lost and Found 

Sun 8 Nov at 1.00pm 

Philip Hunt • UK 2008 • 40m • DigiBeta • U 

A magical tale of friendship and loneliness, based on the 

popular picture book by Oliver Jeffers. A little boy finds a 

penguin on his doorstep and makes it his mission to return 

it to its home. 

PLUS SHORT 

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (9 min) 

Shorts for Wee Ones 


Various • Various • 1h • DigiBeta • U 

This brand new collection of imaginative short films is a 

perfect introduction to film for the very young. Always a 

highlight of the Discovery film festival, these short films, 

mostly without dialogue, are full of wonderful characters 

and great storytelling from around the world. 

This month’s Weans’ World 

screenings are in association 

with the Discovery Film Festival 

UP, UP and AWAY 

to a LAND of MAGIC 

and ADVENTURE! 

27 November 2009 – 3 January 2010 

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THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI 

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O for Orson

O for Orson 

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CITIZEN KANE 

O for Orson 

Has there ever been a more stunning directorial 

debut than Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane? Probably 

not. The then 26-year-old actor, theatre director, 

impresario, writer, radio broadcaster and ‘wonder 

boy’ had been lured to Hollywood by an RKO 

looking to cash in on Welles’ growing reputation, 

gained primarily from his burgeoning Mercury 

Theatre and the Mercury Theatre On The Air’s 

infamous radio version of HG Wells’ ‘War of the 

Worlds’. Though Kane was a resounding critical 

success, its commercial failure coloured the rest 

of Welles’ career, as never again was a studio to 

grant him the total artistic control he had on his 

debut. Working (mostly) outside the studios to get 

the artistic freedom he craved, his later films were 

predominantly made in Europe and shot in spurts 

when time and money allowed, and were financed 

largely by his numerous acting assignments. From 

this body of work it is easy to see why his reputation 

as a master filmmaker – albeit a frustrated one 

– remains intact, and why he is still widely regarded 

as the greatest film director the world has yet seen. 

TICKETDEALS 

See any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% off 

See any six (or more) films in this season and get 25% off 

See any nine (or more) films in this season and get 35% off 

These packages 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. 

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS 

Citizen Kane 

Screening until Sun 8 Nov 

Orson Welles • USA 1941 • 1h59m • New 35mm print 

U – Contains infrequent mild violence 

Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead. 

A fictional biography of media magnate Charles Foster Kane 

(Orson Welles) – a thinly veiled William Randolph Hearst 

that brought Welles and RKO all kinds of problems – that 

recreates a life in flashback. Beginning with Kane’s lonely 

death at his crumbling and ornate Xanadu mansion, the film 

details the destruction of Kane’s childhood, when his mother 

unwittingly inherits a legacy, and his resulting adolescent 

realisation that part of the legacy includes a newspaper, which 

Kane decides to run personally. From there, Kane builds a 

media empire, dabbles in politics and women, and eventually 

starts to alienate all those around him. Regularly cited as 

the greatest movie ever made, there’s no doubting its pure 

brilliance and status as a contender for so lofty a claim. 

The Magnificent Ambersons 

Mon 9 & Tue 10 Nov at 3.15pm + 8.30pm 

Orson Welles • USA 1942 • 1h28m • 35mm • U 

Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt. 

Hacked about by a confused RKO, Welles’ second film still 

looks a masterpiece, astounding for its almost magical recreation 

of a gentler age when cars were still a nightmare of 

the future and the Ambersons felt safe in their mansion on the 

edge of town. Right from the wryly comic opening, detailing 

changes in fashions and the family’s exalted status, Welles 

takes an ambivalent view of the way the quality of life would 

change under the impact of a new industrial age, stressing the 

strength of community as evidenced in the old order while 

admitting to its rampant snobbery and petty sense of manners. 

JOURNEY INTO FEAR 

Journey Into Fear 

Wed 11 Nov at 3.15pm + 8.30pm & 


Norman Foster & Orson Welles (uncredited) • USA 1943 

1h11m • DigiBeta • U 

Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Everett Sloane. 

Although credited to director Norman Foster, this is an 

Orson Welles film all the way; a wonderfully murky study 

of espionage, realistically portrayed in all its mayhem and 

confusion, and a strange, obsessive and often brilliant 

work. Howard Graham (Joseph Cotten) is a US Navy 

engineer who is to return to the US with his beautiful wife 

Stephanie (Ruth Warrick) after a business conference in 

Istanbul. Graham soon realises that someone is trying to 

kill him, and is taken by Turkish agent Kopeikin (Everett 

Sloane) to secret police headquarters where intelligence 

chief Haki (Welles) explains that Nazi agents are after him. 

The Stranger 

Fri 13 Nov at 3.30pm + 6.00pm & 

Sun 15 Nov at 1.15pm + 8.30pm 

Orson Welles • USA 1946 • 1h35m • 35mm • PG 

Cast: Edward G Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip 

Merivale, Richard Long. 

Welles’ third film is a hugely enjoyable thriller, as Wilson 

(Edward G Robinson) from the Allied War Crimes 

Commission patiently stalks a former top Nazi (Welles), now 

ensconced as a prep school teacher in a small Connecticut 

town and newly married to the innocent Mary (Loretta 

Young). Studded with great scenes like the stranger’s 

furtive flight through the dockyards and the murder in the 

woods with boys streaming by on a paperchase.

10 O for Orson (continued) 

THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI 

CONFIDENTIAL REPORT 

TOUCH OF EVIL 

F FOR FAKE 

The Lady From Shanghai 

Sat 21 & Sun 22 Nov at 6.30pm 


Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders. 

Don’t attempt to follow the plot too closely (studio boss 

Harry Cohn offered a reward to anyone who could explain 

it to him), just revel in Welles’ tongue-in-cheek approach to 

storytelling. Welles plays an Irish sailor who accompanies 

a beautiful woman (Hayworth, then Mrs Welles) and her 

husband on a sea cruise, and becomes a pawn in a game 

of murder. One intriguing reading of the movie is that it’s 

a commentary on Welles’ marriage to Hayworth – the 

impossibility of the ‘boy genius’ maintaining a relationship 

with a mature woman – and the scene in the hall of mirrors, 

where the temptress’ face is endlessly reflected back at 

him, stands as a brilliant expressionist metaphor for sexual 

unease and its accompanying loss of identity. Complex, 

courageous, and utterly compelling. 

Macbeth 

Mon 23 Nov at 6.00pm & Thu 26 Nov at 8.30pm 


Cast: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O’Herlihy, Roddy 

McDowall, Edgar Barrier. 

Unlike so many adaptations of the Bard, Welles’ Macbeth 

is pure cinema: moodily magnificent photography by 

John L Russell reinforces the sense of a nightmarish world 

before time, where primitive emotions hold sway with 

absolute, compelling simplicity. Adventurous filmmaking 

that takes risks, and is full of imaginative flourishes. 

Print courtesy of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. 

Preservation Funded by the Film Foundation. 

Confidential Report aka Mr Arkadin 

Wed 25 Nov at 3.15pm + 6.15pm & 


Orson Welles • France/Spain/Switzerland 1955 • 1h42m • Beta SP • PG 

Cast: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina. 

Welles’ flawed but fascinating noir, in which he also stars, 

centres on young smuggler Guy (Robert Arden) who, 

fresh out of jail, finds himself working for the mysterious 

Arkadin (Welles), an amnesiac who wants him to find out 

everything he can about his past life. However, when all 

those associated with the man begin dying in mysterious 

circumstances, Guy begins to question the true purpose 

of his task... Of the thirteen finished, released films that 

Orson Welles directed, only two were written directly for 

the screen and not based on other material, Citizen Kane 

and Confidential Report. Many critics have noticed the 

connection between the two: a flashback structure, a third 

party snooping around in the past life of a great figure. 

But the two are markedly different: Confidential Report is 

pulpier and more deliberately flashy, and technically less 

brilliant. Nonetheless it’s still completely and utterly an 

Orson Welles film, with his unique fingerprints all over it. 

Touch of Evil 

Fri 4 Dec at 8.45pm & Sat 5 Dec at 5.45pm 

Orson Welles • USA 1958 • 1h51m • 35mm • 12 

Cast: Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich. 

Self-righteous Mexican narcotics cop Vargas (Charlton 

Heston) hits the border hell-hole of Los Robles, and goes 

up against Welles’ local colossus of law enforcement, 

Hank Quinlan – a cop who won’t stop short of fabricating 

evidence to back up his (invariably correct) intuition. 

Morally ambiguous, flawed, and quite, quite brilliant. 

The Trial 

Sat 5 Dec at 8.45pm & Sun 6 Dec at 5.45pm 

Orson Welles • France/Italy/West Germany/Yugoslavia 1962 

1h58m • 35mm • PG 

Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles. 

The blackest of Welles’ comedies, an apocalyptic version 

of Kafka that renders the grisly farce of K’s labyrinthine 

entrapment in the mechanisms of guilt and responsibility as 

the most fragmented of expressionist films noirs. Perkins’ 

twitchy ‘defendant’ shifts haplessly through the discrete 

dark spaces of Welles’ ad hoc locations (Zagreb and Paris, 

including the deserted Gare d’Orsay), taking no comfort 

from Welles’ fable-spinning Advocate, before contriving the 

most damning of all responses to the chaos around him. 

F for Fake 

Tue 8 & Thu 10 Dec at 6.15pm 

Orson Welles • France/Iran/West Germany 1973 • 1h29m 

35mm • PG 

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, Welles 

dares to wonder whether what they do isn’t itself a form 

of art. He also contemplates the less noble moments of his 

career – principally the infamous ‘War Of The Worlds’ radio 

broadcast. As cheerfully subversive as Welles’ film is, 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.

Made in Edinburgh/BFI Mediatheque On Tour 

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WILLIAM MCLAREN – AN ARTIST OUT OF TIME 

KING COAL 

KING COAL 

Made in 

Edinburgh 

Made In Edinburgh invites you to enjoy Edinburgh’s 

finest moments on the big screen, showcasing work 

from local moving image industry talent alongside 

productions shot on location in and around the city. 

William McLaren – 

An Artist Out of Time 

Wed 2 Dec at 6.00pm 

Jim Hickey • UK 2009 • 51m • DigiBeta • U • Documentary 

This film is the first to document the life and work of the 

Scottish painter, illustrator and decorative artist, William 

McLaren. From humble beginnings in the 1920s in 

Cardenden, a mining town in Fife, McLaren went on to 

produce work in some of the finest private houses and 

public buildings in the UK, including Hopetoun House near 

Edinburgh and the King’s and Lyceum Theatres. 

The filmmakers have traced hundreds of works by 

McLaren and many of these are included in this 

documentary, together with testimony from those who 

knew him. He died in 1987 aged 64, leaving behind a 

range of work that will surprise and delight many people. 

PLUS SHORT 

And So Goodbye Jim Hickey, UK 2005, 24 min, DigiBeta 

BFI Mediatheque 

On Tour 

In homage to the touring picture shows of the past, 

specially curated programmes from the new BFI 

Mediatheque offer unique insights into Britain and 

Britons during the 20th century. 

King Coal 

Mon 23 Nov at 6.15pm 

1h18m • Beta SP • PG 

Launching in conjunction with the BFI’s Britain’s Industrial 

Heritage project, this programme offers a remarkable 

insight into an industry which came to define 20th century 

Britain, from precious early films such as A Day in the Life 

of a Coal Miner (1910) to 1940s animation and 1980s 

documentary footage shot during the turmoil of the 

Miners’ Strike. 

Warning: King Coal, the first film in this programme, 

contains flashing images and may affect people with 

photosensitive epilepsy. 

This screening will be introduced by a curator from the BFI 

Archive. 

Director Jim Hickey will take part in a Q&A session 

following this screening.

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Diversions 

THE GENTLE ART... – AT THE ACADEMY 

EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND VIDEOS FROM FINLAND – POPCORN 

PLEASING OURSELVES: ARTISAN FILMS IN SCOTLAND – AH, LIBERTY! 

Diversions 

A festival of experimental film and video 

Now in its second year, Diversions returns to Filmhouse 

for a weekend experimental extravaganza combining 

screenings of historical and contemporary works, talks, 

Q&As and live performances. 

Diversions celebrates and promotes the rich history of 

experimental filmmaking, offering a rare opportunity to 

experience an entirely different approach to cinema. 

Working on the margins of traditional film production, these 

artist-filmmakers rigorously explore the formal possibilities 

of the medium, creating striking, surprising and poetic 

effects that appeal to both the eye and the mind. 

In order to create a diverse programme reflecting a range 

of different perspectives on experimental film, Diversions is 

guest curated by filmmakers, distributors and programmers 

from around the world. This year’s programme features a 

special focus on Artists Film in Scotland to coincide with the 

Dean Gallery of Modern Art’s current exhibition ‘Running 

Time’. This includes a collaborative Study Day ‘Focus on 

Film’ to be held on 7 November at the National Gallery 

Complex (see details right). 

For more information on the Diversions programme and the 

Study Day please visit: www.diversionsfilmfestival.co.uk 

Kim Knowles (Festival Director) 

The Gentle Art of Superimposition 

Fri 6 Nov at 6.30pm 

1h6m • Various formats • 15 

A diverse programme looking at the history of 

superimposition over 80 years of filmmaking. Often 

created ‘in camera’ and as the result of complex 

calculations without any chance to preview the results, 

these highly crafted films show artists at their most daring 

and experimental – mimicking chains-of-thought and 

dream-states, exploring the limits of visual perception and 

the chemistry of the celluloid strip, and composing multilayered 

abstract images as ‘visual music’. 

Curated and presented by David Curtis, Research Fellow at 

Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, and author 

of ‘A History of Artists’ Film & Video in Britain’ (BFI 2003) 

Easyout (Pat O’Neill, USA 1965-67, 6 mins, 16mm), 

Diagonal Symphony (extract) (Viking Eggeling, 

Sweden/Germany, 1921, 2mins30, 16mm), Light 

Rhythms (Francis Bruguiere / Oswell Blakeston, 

UK, 1930, 6mins, DVD), Film Exercise No. 5 (John 

& James Whitney, USA, 1945, 6mins, 16mm), 

Bliss (Gregory Markopoulos, Greece, 1967, 6mins, 

16mm), Bells Of Atlantis (Ian Hugo / Anaïs Nin / 

Len Lye, USA, 1952, 9mins, 16mm), The Dead (Stan 

Brakhage, France / USA, 1960, 10mins, 16mm), 

Shapes (Annabel Nicolson, UK, 1970, 7mins, 16mm), 

At the Academy (Guy Sherwin, UK, 1974, 4mins, 

16mm), Colour Separation (Chris Welsby, UK, 1974, 

2mins30, 16mm), Les Coquelicots (Rose Lowder, 

France, 2000, 3mins, 16mm), Antologia Della 

Materia: Fuoco (Giovanna Puggioni, Italy, 2006-08, 

3mins30, 16mm) 

Experimental Films and Videos 

from Finland 



This programme of films from Finland explores the 

creative depths of celluloid and analogue video. Narrative, 

repetition and perspective are examined through a 

combination of structural filmmaking influences and 

rigorous experimental approaches such as pinhole serial 

cameras, emulsion manipulation, signal degradation, image 

mosaics and flicker effects. 

Curated and presented by filmmaker Sami van Ingen. 

HYPPY (The Jump) (Eino Ruutsalo, Finland, 1965, 

5mins, 16mm), Kaksi Kanaa (2 hens) (Eino Ruutsalo, 

Finland, 1963, 4mins, 16mm), The Price of Our 

Liberty (Seppo Renval, Finland, 1990, 8 mins, 

BetaSP), (Dis)Integrator (Juha van Ingen, Finland, 

1992, 4mins, BetaSP), ME/WE (Eija-Liisa Ahtila, 

Finland, 1993, 1min40, 35mm), OKAY (Eija-Liisa 

Ahtila, Finland, 1993, 1min40, 35mm), GRAY (Eija- 

Liisa Ahtila, Finland, 1993, 1min40, 35mm), Popcorn 

(Liisa Lounila, Finland, 2001, 5mins, BetaSP), 

Routemaster (Ilppo Pohjola, Finland, 2000, 16mins, 

35mm), A Physical Ring (Mika Taanila, Finland, 2002, 

5mins, 35mm), Optical Sound (Mika Taanila, Finland, 

2005, 7mins, 35mm), Exactly (Sami van Ingen, 

Finland, 2008, 8mins, 35mm)

Diversions 

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JUST ONE KISS 

LIGHT CONE ESSENTIALS – LOUDTHINGS 

LIGHT CONE ESSENTIALS – CONTRE-JOUR 

Focus on Film: Study Day 

Sat 7 Nov, 9.30am - 4.30pm 

Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Gallery Complex 

Organised in collaboration with the National Galleries of 

Scotland. 

This one-day event will examine recent developments in 

artists’ film and video in Scotland. It celebrates two filmbased 

events in Edinburgh: Running Time: Artist Films in 

Scotland 1960 to Now at the Dean Gallery and Diversions 

Film Festival, at Filmhouse Cinema. Speakers will explore 

the richness and diversity of filmmaking in Scotland in a 

series of lively talks, screenings and discussions. This is 

a free event. To register please contact Emma.Giles@ed. 

ac.uk with your name, organisation, email address and 

telephone number. 

10.10.09–31.01.10 

New Work Scotland Programme 

Rachel Adams | Louise Briggs | Jennifer Grant | 

Katharina Kiebacher | PLACE Projects | 

Anna Tanner | Michael White | Nicola Wright 

22 – 28 Cockburn Street 

Edinburgh 

EH1 1NY 

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mail@collectivegallery.net 

www.collectivegallery.net 

Pleasing Ourselves: Artisan Films 

in Scotland 

Sat 7 Nov at 6.30pm 


Responding to the Dean Gallery’s current exhibition 

‘Running Time’, this programme features filmmakers 

whose work traverses the self-defined boundaries of both 

commercial film and visual art. They are practitioners 

trained in and dedicated to cinematic form, more akin to 

craftspeople or artisans than to visual artists. 

Curated by The Magic Lantern, introduced 

by Matthew Lloyd. 

www.themagiclantern.org 

Portrait of Ga (Margaret Tait, UK, 1952, 4 mins, 

16mm), Petrol (Enrico Cocozza, UK, 1957, 2mins30, 

16mm), Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers, UK, 2006, 19 min, 

16mm), 7 Primary School Spaces (Ben Ewart-Dean, 

UK, 2008, 12 min, DVD), Faces (Eddie McConnell, 

UK, 1959, 15min, 16mm), Move Mood (Sarah Tripp, 

UK, 2009, 8min, DVD), On Returning (Matt Hulse, 

UK, 1990, 21min, DVD), Garden Pieces (Margaret 

Tait, UK, 1998, 12 mins, 16mm) 

TICKETDEALS 






Just One Kiss 


Sami van Ingen • Finland 2009 • 45m • 35mm • 15 

An ‘expansive cinema work’ with live sound performance. 

“One can say that every narrative feature film has been 

essentially the same since 1906 and the self-standardising 

storyline has become a language in itself which we expect 

to read in any sequence of moving images. In Just One 

Kiss – The Fall Of Ned Kelly I have attempted to invoke 

our interpretive faculties to construct this meta story out of 

unrelated found footage images.” (Sami van Ingen) 

The screening will be accompanied by a specially 

composed live electronic soundtrack by Martin Parker 

(tinpark.com) and Owen Green (owengreen.net). 

The Audible Picture Show 


1h • 15 

The Audible Picture Show is an international touring show 

of short audio works created for cinema by a diverse range 

of people including visual artists, filmmakers, animators, 

radio makers, audio artists, sound designers, writers 

and musicians. Including a specially commissioned new 

Audible Picture from Scotland. 

Full programme TBC. 

Curated and presented by Matt Hulse. 

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

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Diversions (continued)/The Gift 

THE SUBLIME IS NOW – OBSERVANDO EL CIELO 

THE SUBLIME IS NOW – ECLIPSE 

THE GIFT 

Light Cone Essentials 



French experimental film distributor Light Cone proposes 

a selection of the most representative works that have 

entered its catalogue in the two past years: from films 

made by well known artists such as Patrick Bokanowski 

or Christophe Girardet/Mathias Müller to beautiful 

discoveries made by young filmmakers. An anthology 

of films from all over the world (France, Germany, 

Japan, Australia, etc.) offering an insight into the state of 

contemporary experimental film and video. 

Curated and presented by Emmanuel 

Lefrant and Christophe Bichon, 

Light Cone Distribution, Paris. 

Into Daylight (SJ Ramir, Australia, 2009, 5mins, 

mini-DV), Pasajeros Peregrinos Pilotos (Thomas 

Köner, 2008, Germany, 3mins30, mini-DV), Scope 

(Volker Schreiner, Germany, 2008, 5mins, BetaSP), 

Prolegomena (Cédric Gaul-Berrard, France, 2008- 

2009, 10mins, 16mm), The Place Where We Were 

(Naoyuki Tsuji, Japan, 2008, 6mins, 16mm), Parties 

Visible et Invisible d’un Ensemble Sous Tension 

(Emmanuel Lefrant, France, 2009, 7mins, 16mm), 

Battements Solaires (Patrick Bokanowski, France, 

2008, 18mins, 35mm), Contre-Jour (Christophe 

Girardet & Matthias Müller, Germany, 2009, 11mins, 

35mm), Mimosas (Olivier Fouchard, France, 2008- 

2009, 2mins, 35mm), Loudthings (Telcosystems, 

Holland, 2008, 13mins, 35mm) 

The Sublime is Now: An Evening 

with Jeanne Liotta 


Jeanne Liotta • 1h23m • Various formats • 15 

A special evening with the American artist and filmmaker 

Jeanne Liotta. Working with both film and video, Liotta 

explores the cosmic landscape at a curious intersection 

of art, science and natural philosophy. From the beautiful 

hand-processed Loretta to her more recent experiments 

with digital video, this special event traces the trajectory 

of her development as one of the most innovative and 

inspiring contemporary film artists. 

The screening will be followed by an extended Q&A 

session. 

What We As Humans Trying Fallibly Forever (USA, 

2006, DVD loop), New Mexico Camera Roll (Land 

Of Enchantment) (USA, 1997, 3mins, video), 

Window (USA, 2001, 6mins, video), Muktikara 

(USA, 1999, 11mins, 16mm), Loretta (USA, 2003, 

4mins, 16mm), Eclipse (USA, 2005, 3mins, 16mm), 

Observando El Cielo (USA, 2007, 20mins, 16mm), 

Haiku (USA, 2007, 2mins, 16mm), Science’s 10 

Most Beautiful Experiments: #2Galileo’s (USA, 

2006, 2mins, video), Science’s 10 Most Beautiful 

Experiments: #10Foucault’s (USA, 2006, 2mins, 

video), Hephaestus of the Airshaft (USA, 2005, 

3mins, video), Sutro (USA, 2009, 2mins, video), 

Sweet Dreams (USA 2009, 3mins, video) 

SPECIALEVENT 

A special screening in association with the Italian 

Cultural Institute in Edinburgh. 

The Gift Il dono 


Michelangelo Frammartino • Italy 2003 • 1h20m • 35mm 

No dialogue • 15 

Cast: Angelo Frammartino, Gabriella Maiolo, Valentino Audino. 

A remote village in Calabria. Most young people have gone 

to seek work in the cities, and those left behind are dying 

out. The film focuses on two very different characters. One 

is a simple-minded 16-year-old girl, who is believed by 

her family to be possessed by evil spirits. The other is an 

old man, living alone in the mountains above the town, his 

routine recently disturbed by the death of his dog and the 

discovery of a pornographic photo, a Polaroid of a naked 

woman from the village, left behind – along with a mobile 

phone – by two boys who came to help bury his pet. 

Director Michelangelo Frammartino will be present to take 

part in a Q&A session following the screening. 

On 5 November, the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh 

will host a talk on how Piedmont’s investments and 

foresight over the past 10 years have created a successful 

‘cinema system’, with its National Cinema Museum, Film 

Festivals, Film Commission, film funds and studios. 

The event is free but booking is essential: 

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME 6 November - 3 December 2009 BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688 

DAY 

DATE 

SCREEN NO. & 

FILM TITLE 

SHOW 

TIMES 

DAY 

DATE 

SCREEN NO. & 

FILM TITLE 

SHOW 

TIMES 

DAY 

DATE 

SCREEN NO. & 

FILM TITLE 

SHOW 

TIMES 

Fri 1 Bright Star (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.35 

6 2 Welcome 1.00/3.30/8.45 

Nov 2 The Gift 

6.15 + Q&A 

3 Citizen Kane (OW) 1.15/3.50 

3 The Gentle Art of... (D) 6.30 + intro 

3 Experimental Films... (D) 8.30 + intro 

Sat 1 Bright Star (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.35 

7 2 Citizen Kane (OW) 2.30/5.30 

Nov 2 Just One Kiss (D) 8.45 

3 Welcome 1.15/3.40/8.45 

3 Pleasing Ourselves... (D) 6.30 + intro 

Sun 1 Lost and Found (WW) 1.00 

8 1 Bright Star (AD) 3.30/6.00/8.35 

Nov 2 The Audible Picture Show (D) 2.00 + intro 

2 Welcome 3.45/6.15/8.45 

3 Citizen Kane (OW) 1.15/8.40 

3 Light Cone Essentials (D) 4.00 + intro 

3 The Sublime is Now... (D) 6.30 + intro/Q&A 

Mon 1 Bright Star (AD) 3.30/6.00/8.35 

9 2 Welcome 3.00/5.30 

Nov 2 The Saragossa Manuscript (WH) 7.50 

3 The Magnificent Ambersons (OW) 3.15/8.30 

3 The Wall (BW) 6.15 

Tue 1 Bright Star (AD) 3.30/6.00/8.35 

10 2 Welcome 3.00/6.00/8.45 

Nov 3 The Magnificent Ambersons (OW) 3.15/8.30 

3 Tabu (EC) 6.15 + intro 

Wed 1 Bright Star (AD) 3.30/6.00/8.35 

11 2 Welcome 3.00/6.15/8.45 

Nov 3 Journey Into Fear (OW) 3.15/8.30 

3 The Karamazovs (Cz) 6.00 

Thu 1 Stormbreaker 4.00 

12 1 Anthony Horowitz Event 6.15 (£6) 

Nov 1 The Girl from Monaco (FFF) 8.00 + Q&A 

2 Bright Star 3.15/6.00/8.35 

3 Welcome 3.30/8.15 

3 Journey Into Fear (OW) 6.15 

Fri 1 Bright Star (AD) 1.00/5.40 

13 1 The Stranger (OW) 3.30 

Nov 1 A Prophet (FFF) 8.15 

2 Lads & Jockeys (FFF) 1.15 

2 Bright Star 3.30/8.35 

2 The Stranger (OW) 6.00 

3 Welcome 1.00/3.45/6.15/8.45 

Sat 1 Magic! (FFF) 1.00 

14 1 Bad Company + Santa... (JE) 3.45 

Nov 1 The Beautiful Person + short (FFF) 6.15 

1 The Father of My Children (FFF) 8.30 

2 Bright Star 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.35 

3 Welcome 1.15/3.45/8.45 

Sun 1 Bright Star (AD) 1.00/8.35 

15 1 Traffic (TT) 3.30 

Nov 1 Lads & Jockeys (FFF) 6.00 

2 The Stranger (OW) 1.15/8.30 


3 Welcome 1.00/3.45/6.15/8.45 

Mon 1 Bright Star (AD) (B) 

10.30am (babies only) 

16 1 Neuilly sa mère! (FFF) 2.30/6.15 

Nov 1 Bright Star 8.35 


2 The Hourglass Sanatorium (WH) 8.40 

3 Welcome 3.30/8.50 

3 St Nicholas Church (BW) 6.00 

Tue 1 Bright Star (AD) 2.30/6.00 

17 1 Versailles (FFF) 8.45 

Nov 2 Welcome 3.15/6.00 

2 Bright Star 8.35 

3 Germany Year Zero (EC) 3.30/6.15 + intro 

3 Welcome 8.45 

Wed 1 Bright Star (AD) 2.30/6.00 

18 1 A French Gigolo (FFF) 8.45 

Nov 2 Little Otik (Cz) 3.00/5.45 


3 Welcome 3.30/8.45 

3 The Pig (JE) 6.15 

Thu 1 Lady Jane (FFF) 2.30/8.45 

19 1 Bright Star (AD) 6.00 

Nov 2 Bright Star 3.15/8.35 

2 Numéro zéro (JE) 6.00 

3 Welcome 6.15/8.45 

Fri 1 Bright Star (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00 

20 1 Séraphine (FFF) 8.35 

Nov 2 Tales from the Golden Age 1.00/8.45 

2 Starsuckers 3.45/6.00 + disc. 

3 An Education 1.15/3.30/8.30 

3 Homo Sapiens 1900 (Eu) 5.45 + discussion 

Sat 1 Bright Star (AD) + (S) 

1.00 (subtitled) 

21 1 Bright Star (AD) 3.30/8.35 

Nov 1 Tabarly (FFF) 

6.00 + Q&A 

2 The Mother and the Whore (JE) 1.15 + intro 

2 Tales from the Golden Age 5.30 

2 Starsuckers 8.15 + Q&A 

3 My Sister’s Keeper (Eu) 1.00 + discussion 

3 An Education 4.00/8.45 

3 The Lady From Shanghai (OW) 6.30 

Sun 1 Shorts for Wee Ones (WW) 1.00 

22 1 Bonjour tristesse (FFF) 3.30 

Nov 1 Sagan (FFF) 6.00 

1 Bright Star (AD) 8.35 


2 Starsuckers 3.30/5.45 + disc. 


3 Gattaca (Eu) 1.00 

3 Who’s Afraid of... + shorts (Eu) 3.45 + discussion 

3 The Lady From Shanghai (OW) 6.30 

3 An Education 8.45 

Mon 1 Bright Star (AD) 2.30/6.00 

23 1 Special Correspondents (FFF) 8.45 

Nov 2 Starsuckers 3.30 

2 Macbeth (OW) 6.00 


3 An Education (B) 10.30am (babies only) 


3 King Coal (MT) 6.15 + intro

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DAY 

DATE 

SCREEN NO. & 

FILM TITLE 

SHOW 

TIMES 

Tue 1 Bright Star (AD) 2.30/6.00 

24 1 Grown-Ups (FFF) 8.45 

Nov 2 Starsuckers 2.00/8.30 

2 My Little Loves (JE) 5.45 + intro 


3 The Spirit of the Beehive (EC) 6.15 + intro 

Wed 1 Bright Star (AD) 2.30/5.45 

25 1 Playtime (TT) 8.45 

Nov 2 Confidential Report (OW) 3.15/6.15 



3 Return of the Idiot (Cz) 6.00 

Thu 1 Bright Star (AD) 2.30/6.00 

26 1 The Joy of Singing (FFF) 8.45 

Nov 2 Bright Star 3.30 

2 The Magnificent Tati (TT) 6.15 + Q&A 

2 Macbeth (OW) 8.30 

3 An Education 3.30/6.00/8.45 

Fri 1 The White Ribbon 2.30/8.30 

27 1 Another Man (FFF) 6.00 + Q&A 

Nov 2 Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno 1.00/6.15 


3 Séraphine 3.00/5.45/8.30 

Sat 1 Cosi fan tutte 1.45 (£15/£10) 


Nov 1 Please, Please Me! (FFF) 8.30 

2 Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno 1.00/6.15 

2 The White Ribbon 3.15/8.30 

3 Tati Shorts (TT) 2.00/4.00 

3 Séraphine 5.45/8.40 

Sun 1 Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (TT) 6.00 

29 1 Bellamy (FFF) 8.30 

Nov 2 Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno 1.00/6.00 


2 The White Ribbon 8.15 


3 A Dirty Story (JE) 4.00 

3 Confidential Report (OW) 6.15 

Mon 1 Bright Star (AD) 2.30/6.00 

30 1 Louise-Michel (FFF) 8.45 

Nov 2 The White Ribbon 2.30/8.15 

2 Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno 6.00 

3 Séraphine (B) 10.30am (babies only) 

3 Séraphine 3.00/5.45/8.30 

DAY 

DATE 

SCREEN NO. & 

FILM TITLE 

KEY: 

(AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) 

(B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2) 

(S) – Subtitled (see page 2) 

SEASONS: 

(BW) – The Fall of the Wall (page 27) 

(Cz) – The Best of Czech Cinema 1999-2009 

(pages 26-27) 

(D) – Diversions (pages 12-14) 

(EC) – Introduction to European Cinema (page 28) 

(Eu) – Eugenics: Science Fiction or Future 

Reality? (page 29) 

(FFF) – French Film Festival UK (pages 18-22) 

(JE) – Jean Eustache (pages 24-25) 

(OW) – O for Orson (pages 8-10) 

(TT) – Totally Tati (pages 22-23) 

(WH) – Wojciech Has (page 25) 

(WW) – Weans’ World (page 7) 

Full index of films on page 2 

SHOW 

TIMES 

Tue 1 The White Ribbon 2.30 


Dec 1 I Always Wanted... + short (FFF) 8.45 


2 I Want to See 6.00 


3 Séraphine 3.00/5.45/8.30 

Wed 1 The White Ribbon 2.30 


Dec 1 Crime is Our Business (FFF) 8.45 


2 William McLaren... + short 6.00 + Q&A 



3 Bored in Brno (Cz) 5.45 

Thu 1 Bright Star (AD) 2.30/6.00 

3 1 Eldorado + short (FFF) 8.45 

Dec 2 The White Ribbon 2.30/8.15 


3 Séraphine 3.00/5.45/8.30 

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THE GIRL FROM MONACO 

A PROPHET 

MAGIC! 

THE BEAUTIFUL PERSON 

Your annual fête of French cinema is back in its 

regular November slot. Besides delivering the best 

of contemporary cinéma français from established 

auteurs to new talents, the 2009 selection of the 

17th edition of the French Film Festival UK features 

tributes to two diverse but legendary figures: 

Jacques Tati and Jean Eustache. 

We are delighted to welcome the following guests, 

who will take part in Q&A sessions after their films 

are screened: Louise Bourgoin, star of The Girl from 

Monaco, on Thu 12 Nov; Pierre Marcel, director of 

Tabarly, on Sat 21 Nov; and Lionel Baier, director of 

Another Man, on Fri 27 Nov. Tati biographer David 

Bellos, on whose work The Magnificent Tat is based, 

will be here for that film’s screening on Thu 26 Nov; 

and Eustache scholars Keith Reader and Jérôme 

Game will introduce the screenings of The Mother 

and the Whore and My Little Loves respectively, on 

Sat 21 and Tue 24 Nov. 

The Girl from Monaco La fille de Monaco 

Thu 12 Nov at 8.00pm + Q&A with Louise Bourgoin 

Anne Fontaine • France 2008 • 1h35m • 35mm 

French, Italian and Russian with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Louise Bourgoin, Roschdy Zem, Gilles Cohen. 

Middle-aged defence lawyer Bertrand (Fabrice Luchini) is 

summoned to Monaco to defend a 70-year-old woman in 

a high-profile murder case. The woman’s family has hired 

him a bodyguard, the brooding and taciturn Christophe 

(Roschdy Zem), whose zealousness Bertrand quickly finds 

suffocating. After a few comic episodes, however, the two 

begin to develop a mutual respect and even a tentative 

friendship. That is, until Bertrand meets the uninhibited 

Audrey, who happens to be Christophe’s ex. A dazzling 

and sexy mixture of comedy, thriller and tragedy from 

Anne (Coco Before Chanel) Fontaine. 

Lads & Jockeys 

Fri 13 Nov at 1.15pm & Sun 15 Nov at 6.00pm 

Benjamin Marquet • France 2008 • 1h40m • 35mm 

French with English subtitles • PG • Documentary 

A lushly filmed and moving equestrian documentary 

from debut director Benjamin Marquet, looking at the 

strict regime and dedication of those involved in a school 

designed to train aspiring jockeys. It is September 2006 

and a new school year has begun. Thirty 14-year-old boys 

and girls in Chantilly enter a boarding school specialising in 

the education of jockeys and stable lads and girls. Most of 

them have in common first loves, mobiles, mp3 players and 

dreams of fame and fortune, and we watch them develop 

until the final race at the end of the school year. 

A Prophet Un prophète 


Jacques Audiard • France/Italy 2009 • 2h30m • 35mm 

French, Arabic and Corsican with English subtitles • 18 

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Reda Kateb. 

Another outstanding drama from Jacques Audiard, 

director of The Beat That My Heart Skipped and Read 

My Lips. Made with the filmmaker’s trademark emotional 

intensity and ability to elevate traditional genre material to 

exceptional heights, it tells the complex story of a young 

Arab man’s coming of age and into power during six years 

inside a corrupt, brutal prison. It’s a closed society which 

Audiard portrays in unflinching realist terms, indulging with 

impressive detail in the numbing rituals and rhythms of life 

in a high-security modern jail. Winner of the Grand Prize of 

the Jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. 

Magic! Magique! 


Philippe Muyl • France/Canada 2008 • 1h31m • 35mm 

French with English subtitles • PG 

Cast: Marie Gillain, Cali, Antoine Dulery, Louis Dussol, Holly O’Brien. 

A wonderfully old-fashioned family musical. Betty is raising 

her ten-year-old son Tommy alone on an isolated farm. The 

boy has never known his father and imagines him to be 

an astronaut. Each night, Tommy watches the sky, waiting 

for his father’s return – Betty hasn’t the heart to tell him 

the truth as she has problems of her own: Indeed, she 

struggles to earn enough money, while her online attempts 

to find a male companion have so far been in vain. Tommy 

plans to use his own brand of magic to bring his mother 

out of her sad state, and finds the perfect opportunity to do 

just that when the circus comes to town.


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THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN NEUILLY SA MERE! VERSAILLES 

LADY JANE 

The Beautiful Person La belle personne 


Christophe Honoré • France 2008 • 1h30m • 35mm 

French with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, 

Esteban Carvajal-Alegria, Simon Truxillo. 

Director Christophe Honoré has taken the 17th century 

novel ‘La Princesse de Clevès’ and transplanted the action 

from a royal court to a modern-day high school. Enigmatic, 

pouty Junie is the new girl in class. She is an instant hit 

with the boys but takes the safe route, picking relative 

wallflower Otto, only to secretly fall hard for her less-thanchoirboy 

teacher, Nemours (Louis Garrel). A lightweight yet 

beguiling concoction that flits between reality and fantasy. 

PLUS SHORT: The Baker’s Daughter (Fille du 

boulanger) Claudine Bourbigot, France 2008, 8 min, DVD 

The Father of My Children 

Le père de mes enfants 


Mia Hansen-Løve • France/Germany 2009 • 1h50m • 35mm 


Cast: Chiara Caselli, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de 

Lencquesaing, Alice Gautier, Manelle Driss. 

Based on the true story of a film producer whose worsening 

financial woes caused him to take his own life, Mia Hansen- 

Løve’s modest but quietly affecting drama charts the 

before and after of a tragedy which comes to seem both 

incomprehensible and inevitable. Louis-Do De Lencquesaing 

gives a superb performance as Gregoire, a much-admired 

movie-business figure who hides the strain until it’s too late. 

Hansen-Løve presents his wife and children’s attempts to fill 

the space he leaves behind with great clarity and insight. 

Neuilly sa mère! 

Mon 16 Nov at 2.30pm + 6.15pm 

Gabriel Laferrière • France 2009 • 1h30m • DigiBeta 

French with English subtitles • 12A 

Cast: Samy Seghir, Denis Podalydès, Rachida Brakni, Jérémy Denisty. 

A bittersweet coming-of-age French comedy that mocks 

President Sarkozy’s pompous hometown of Neuilly-sur- 

Seine, the rudely titled Neuilly sa mère! (which roughly 

translates as Neuilly Yo Mama!) stars Samy Seghir as Sami, 

a fourteen-year old who enjoys running amok with his 

buddies in the hard-knocks banlieue of Chalon-sur-Saone, 

but who is otherwise a rather sweet and studious kid. When 

his mum gets a job on a cruise ship, he’s forced to stay with 

his aunt and uncle in the swanky Parisian suburb of Neuilly... 

Versailles 

Tue 17 Nov at 8.45pm 

Pierre Schöller • France 2008 • 1h42m • 35mm 


Cast: Guillaume Depardieu, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Judith 

Chemla, Aure Atika, Patrick Descamps. 

Nina (Judith Chemla) is a homeless single mother 

who is deeply devoted to her son, five-year-old Enzo 

(Max Baissette de Malglaive). One day, she happens 

to meet Damien (Guillaume Depardieu in a wonderful 

performance, sadly one of his last), who lives in an isolated 

shack in the forests of Versailles. Nina leaves Enzo there 

and runs away, planning to get her life back on track 

and reclaim Enzo once she has a job and a place to stay. 

However, Damien is a former criminal with a short temper 

and little use for others, and while he feels genuine 

compassion for Nina and Enzo, he’s convinced he’s not cut 

out to be the child’s guardian. 

A French Gigolo 

Cliente 

Wed 18 Nov at 8.45pm 

Josiane Balasko • France 2008 • 1h44m • 35mm 


Cast: Nathalie Baye, Eric Caravaca, Isabelle Carré, Josiane Balasko, 

Catherine Hiegel. 

Nathalie Baye gives a classy, nuanced performance as a 

successful divorced woman who pays young male escorts 

for sex. When she answers Patrick’s ad, she’s charmed by 

the sensitive fellow in the classic suit; it’s as if he stepped 

right out of the nouvelle vague films of her youth. But power 

dynamics and his private life soon begin to muddy their 

arrangement. Writer, director and co-star Josiane Balasko’s 

intelligent take on how the need for money and/or sex 

dictates human behaviour is consistently engaging and 

strikes a perfect balance between drama and comedy. 

Lady Jane 

Thu 19 Nov at 2.30pm + 8.45pm 

Robert Guédiguian • France 2008 • 1h44m • 35mm 


Cast: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Yann 

Trégouët, Frédérique Bonnal. 

Muriel (Ariane Ascaride) is an outwardly respectable 

fiftysomething, but she has a secret and shady past. Decades 

before, she was part of a criminal gang motivated partly by 

avarice, partly by a spirit of anti-authoritarian rebellion. The 

past refuses to stay buried, however, and when her teenage 

son is taken hostage by an unseen kidnapper, the hardbittenbut-vulnerable 

Muriel must regroup the ‘old gang’ and face 

up to her younger self’s misdeeds. 


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SERAPHINE 

BONJOUR TRISTESSE 

SAGAN 

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS 

Séraphine 


Martin Provost • France/Belgium 2008 • 2h5m • Digital projection 

French and German with English subtitles • PG – Contains 

infrequent mild sex references and scenes of emotional distress 

Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Geneviève 

Mnich, Nico Rogner. 

This period drama bested Laurent Cantet’s The Class and 

Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale to win the César 

for best film in February, with the best actress award also 

going to its lead performer, Yolande Moreau. Born in 1864, 

Séraphine Louis was a lowly domestic with an earthy, 

eccentric manner and a talent for painting. Devoutly 

religious, she credited her skill to her guardian angel. 

Though she attracts the support of the influential dealer 

Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), her career is scuppered by 

the Great Depression, her increasingly lavish habits and 

her own mental instability. Martin Provost’s biopic conveys 

her story with admirable empathy and precision, yet it’s 

Moreau who brings her to life, doing great justice to an 

artist whose status as an outsider was anything but a pose. 

Tabarly 

Sat 21 Nov at 6.00pm + Q&A with Pierre Marcel 

Pierre Marcel • France 2008 • 1h30m • 35mm 

French with English subtitles • PG • Documentary 

A Gallic naval officer born in 1931, Eric Tabarly set a 

remarkable string of speed and distance records in his 

sailboats, each of which he christened ‘Pen Duick.’ In June 

1998 he went missing in the Irish Sea en route to the Fife 

Regatta, and authorities later found his body in the ocean. 

With Tabarly, documentarist Pierre Marcel charts the 

sailor’s incredible life story. 

Bonjour tristesse 


Otto Preminger • USA 1958 • 1h33m • 35mm 

PG – Contains mild sex references 

Cast: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg, Myène Demongeot. 

A special screening celebrating the work of playwright, 

novelist and screenwriter Françoise Sagan (see also Sagan, 

below). In flashback, Cecile (Jean Seberg) recalls her last 

summer on the Riviera with her hedonistic father Raymond 

(David Niven) and his newest mistress. Into this racy 

melange comes Anne (Deborah Kerr), a lovely but morally 

repressed woman who would soon be teetering between 

two worlds – the conventional society she comes from and 

the Bohemian lifestyle of Cecile and Raymond. 

Screening from Sony Pictures Releasing archival print 

courtesy of Park Circus Films. 

Sagan 


Diane Kurys • France 2008 • 1h59m • 35mm 


Cast: Sylvie Testud, Pierre Palmade, Jeanne Balibar, Arielle Dombasle. 

When Françoise Sagan published ‘Bonjour Tristesse’ 

(see above) – an existentialist-inspired treatise of Parisian 

teenage immorality – at the age of 18, she became an 

overnight cultural sensation, garnering a slew of prizes 

and catapulting to the top of the best-seller list. Her life 

afterwards, which this absorbing biopic follows from 

1954 to her death in 2004, is depicted as one long, 

intoxicated downhill ride, marked by scandals, arrests and 

the occasional drug overdose. Sylvie Testud revels in the 

writer’s legendary witty straight talk which she delivers 

with excellent timing and finesse. 

Special Correspondents 

Envoyés très spéciaux 


Frédéric Auburtin • France 2009 • 1h33m • 35mm 


Cast: Gérard Lanvin, Gérard Jugnot, Omar Sy, Valérie Kaprisky. 

A hilarious and intelligent media satire. Radio news star 

Franck (Gérard Lanvin) is sent with sound man Poussin 

(Gérard Jugnot) to cover the war in Iraq, but the two decide 

to lie low in a friend’s Parisian apartment, broadcasting ‘live’ 

from Basrah and Baghdad via a satellite phone and lots of 

cleverly inserted sound effects. Then they pretend to be 

kidnapped, and things get somewhat out of hand... 

Grown-Ups Les grandes personnes 

Tue 24 Nov at 8.45pm 

Anne Novion • France/Sweden 2008 • 1h24m • 35mm 

French, Swedish and English with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Anaïs Demoustier, Judith Henry. 

A single French father and his shy teen daughter each 

discover romance – and deal with a shift in their own 

relationship – during a Swedish summer holiday. Debuting 

director Anna Novion proves an astute observer of human 

interactions in this wistfully charming comic drama. 

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PLEASE, PLEASE ME! 

BELLAMY 

I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A GANGSTER 

The Joy of Singing Le plaisir de chanter 


Ilan Duran Cohen • France 2008 • 1h39m • 35mm 


Cast: Marina Foïs, Lorànt Deutsch, Jeanne Balibar, Julien Baumgartner. 

Delightful, funny and refreshingly unpredictable, The Joy 

of Singing is a sexy comic caper with a labyrinthine plot 

involving intelligence agents, uranium secrets and singing 

lessons. Eve (Evelyne Kirschenbaum) gives voice lessons 

from her home; one of her students, Constance Muller 

(Jeanne Balibar), is a recent widow whose husband, Hans, 

was killed by people wanting the information he stored on 

his USB stick, now missing. French intelligence agents are 

instructed by their chief to infiltrate Eve’s singing lessons 

and find out if Constance knows anything. 

Another Man Un autre homme 

Fri 27 Nov at 6.00pm + Q&A with Lionel Baier 

Lionel Baier • Switzerland 2008 • 1h29m • 35mm 


Cast: Robin Harsch, Natacha Koutchoumov, Elodie Weber. 

One man’s inability to understand contemporary cinema 

leads him into a strange new world in this offbeat comedy 

drama. When his girlfriend gets a job in a small country 

town, François moves with her. He stumbles into a job 

at the tiny local newspaper, and the job of writing movie 

reviews falls to him. François doesn’t know the first thing 

about cinema, and for his first assignment he plagiarises 

a negative review from a highbrow film journal. The 

venomous notice gets François banned from the local 

movie house, so he begins travelling to Lausanne, where 

he attends press screenings with a handful of noted Swiss 

critics, among them the beautiful Rosa. 

Please, Please Me! Fais-moi plaisir! 


Emmanuel Mouret • France 2009 • 1h30m • 35mm 


Cast: Emmanuel Mouret, Judith Godrèche, Déborah François, 

Frédérique Bel, Jacques Weber. 

More offbeat slapstick from writer, director and actor 

Emmanuel Mouret – part Woody Allen, part Buster Keaton 

and 100% certified French! Ariane believes that her partner 

is fantasising about another woman. Hoping to free him 

from his obsession, she asks him to have an affair with the 

woman in question, who turns out to be the daughter of 

the French President... 

Bellamy 


Claude Chabrol • France 2009 • 1h50m • 35mm 


Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin, Marie 

Bunel, Vahina Giocante. 

Parisien detective Bellamy (Gérard Depardieu), on holiday 

in Nimes, is drawn in by local media reports of a burnt out 

car, a charred corpse and a possible insurance scam. In his 

first collaboration with Depardieu, Claude Chabrol sets out 

to tailor a role fit for the preeminent leading man of French 

cinema, and it’s a joy to watch Depardieu slip into it with 

such effortless charm and charisma. 

Louise-Michel 


Gustave de Kervern & Benoît Delépine • France 2008 • 1h34m 

35mm • French with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Yolande Moreau, Bouli Lanners, Benoît Poelvoorde, Albert 

Dupontel, Mathieu Kassovitz. 

In this anarchic black comedy, Louise (Yolande Moreau) 

is an antisocial illiterate who, after the toy factory where 

she works is unceremoniously shut down, convinces her 

fellow co-workers to use their pooled compensation to hire 

a hitman to kill the boss responsible for their predicament. 

However, the man she finds, Michel (Bouli Lanners), is a 

delusional dolt similarly wanting in the brains department, 

and things soon spiral, in a somewhat Coens-esque 

manner, out of control... 

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster 

J’ai toujours rêvé d’être un gangster 

Tue 1 Dec at 8.45pm 

Samuel Benchetrit • France 2007 • 1h53m • 35mm 


Cast: Anna Mouglalis, Edouard Baer, Jean Rochefort, Laurent 

Terzieff, Jean-Pierre Kalfon. 

An anonymous roadside café is the focal point for a 

quartet of comical chapters involving hapless crooks and 

old rogues in this endearingly silly French fancy. Shooting 

in nostalgic black-and-white, writer-director Samuel 

Benchetrit neatly draws together each vignette to create a 

featherlight film noir with bags of Gallic charm. 

PLUS SHORT 

The Barrel of the Danaïdes (Le tonneau des 

Danaïdes) David Guiraud, France 2008, 12 min, 35mm 


22 French Film Festival UK (continued)/FFF UK: Totally Tati 

CRIME IS OUR BUSINESS 

Crime is Our Business 

Le crime est notre affaire 


Pascal Thomas • France 2008 • 1h49m • 35mm 


Cast: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Claude Rich, Chiara 

Mastroianni, Melvil Poupaud. 

Pascal Thomas’ third Agatha Christie adaptation in three 

years resurrects the adorable, culprit-seeking Beresfords 

– Prudence (Catherine Frot) and Bélisaire (André Dussollier) 

– who this time try to nab the killer among a clan of wicked 

siblings visiting their family’s snow-filled chateau for 

Christmas. With Bélisaire now retired from the secret service, 

bored Prudence is just dying for a new crime to solve. Her 

wish is soon granted when visiting Auntie Babette arrives on 

a train, on which she claims to have witnessed a murder... 

Eldorado 

Thu 3 Dec at 8.45pm 

Bouli Lanners • Belgium/France 2008 • 1h25m • 35mm 


Cast: Bouli Lanners, Fabrice Adde, Phillipe Nahon, Didier Toupy. 

Stroppy Belgian car dealer Yvan (Bouli Lanners) comes 

home one night to find scrawny Elie (Fabrice Adde) 

robbing him. Instead of calling the cops, Yvan becomes 

oddly protective of the pathetic felon and offers to 

drive him to his parents’ house near the French border. 

The voyage provides both lovely shots of low-country 

landscapes – which suggest not the starker palette of 

Dardenne Brothers’ territory, but magic-hour prairie 

heartland – and genuinely funny encounters with various 

characters they encounter along the way. 

PLUS SHORT: Vanille Mark Sloss, UK 2009, 17 min, Beta SP 

ELDORADO 

Totally Tati 

The French Film Festival UK’s special tribute 

celebrates the genius of one of cinema’s most 

celebrated comedians and influential icons, 

Jacques Tati (1907-1982) who worked as actor, 

writer and director. 

With the participation of: La Fondation Groupama Gan pour le 

Cinéma, la Fondation Thomson pour le Patrimoine du Cinéma et de 

la Télévision, les Films de Mon Oncle, la Cinémathèque française, 

the British Film Institute and TV5Monde. 

Traffic Trafic 


Jacques Tati • France/Italy 1971 • 1h36m • 35mm 

French, Dutch and English with English subtitles • U 

Cast: Jacques Tati, Marcel Fraval, Honoré Bostel, François 

Maisongrosse, Tony Knepper. 

Traffic rivals Playtime in terms of being both beautifully 

designed and wildly funny. Monsieur Hulot is a car 

designer whose company sends his latest creation, a 

camper car decked out with all manner of ridiculous 

gadgetry, in a convoy from Paris to the Amsterdam 

Motor Show. Pursued by the company’s brash American 

publicist, Hulot heads north into an endless series of 

hilarious accidents and misfortunes. Though Tati intends 

the automobile to signify the impersonality of modern 

life, he is obviously transfixed by the dream-like stream of 

traffic on the highway, or by a gleaming acre of chrome on 

a parking lot. 

TRAFFIC 

Playtime 


Jacques Tati • France 1967 • 2h4m • 70mm • U 

Cast: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Jacqueline Lecomte. 

Tati’s spectacular cinematic art reached its peak in the 

gargantuan achievement of this film. Playtime takes as its 

subject modern technology and its sometimes disastrous 

and always hilarious effects on the people living within 

it. As in most Tati films, a minimal plot (the parallel paths 

of Monsieur Hulot and a group of American tourists) is 

held together by a seamless ballet of visual, aural, and 

conceptual gags. Tati constructed an enormous set, Tativille, 

rendering a high modern contemporary Paris decked 

in chrome, mirrors, and glass within which the surreal 

slapstick of Playtime unfolds. Objects, people and sounds 

vie for the viewer’s attention and all exert equal fascination 

and comedic power in the circus of Tati’s modern life. From 

the airport to the high rise to the nightclub, Hulot weaves in 

and out of view, leaving a trail of bumped heads, offended 

sensibilities and curious glances in his wake. 

Please note that this is a special screening from a restored 

70mm print. It has no subtitles, but the film has a minimal 

amount of dialogue and can be easily understood without 

them. 

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French Film Festival UK: Totally Tati 

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PLAYTIME MONSIEUR HULOT’S HOLIDAY MON ONCLE 

PARADE 

The Magnificent Tati 

Thu 26 Nov at 6.15pm + Q&A 

Michael House • UK/France 2009 • 1h • DigiBeta 

English and French with English subtitles • PG Documentary 

The world premiere of a new factual film on the life and 

work of Jacques Tati. This documentary tells of Tati’s rise and 

fall in the world of cinema. From his origins as a mime on 

the Parisian music-hall stage to his Oscar-winning film Mon 

Oncle, the film then tells how Tati lost it all on his masterpiece 

Playtime. The film includes clips from every Tati film and 

interviews with Tati experts and those who worked with Tati. 

It culminates with clips of contemporary artists paying tribute 

to Tati’s work. Featured are: Sylvain Chomet, Mike Mills, 

Frank Black, Professor David Bellos, Marie-France Siegler, 

Stephane Goudet, Gamarjobat, Craig McKracken, Sparks, 

Macha Makieff, Martine Beugnet and Tati himself. 

Tati Shorts 

Sat 28 Nov at 2.00pm + 4.00pm 

France • 1h8m • 16mm • French with English subtitles • U 

Watch Your Left (Soigne ton gauche) 

René Clement, France 1936, 20 min 

A country bumpkin tries his luck at boxing and becomes an 

overnight success. 

School for Postmen (L’école des facteurs) 

Jacques Tati, France 1947, 18 min 

A post office official instructs three postmen on how to 

deliver the mail. 

Evening Classes (Cours du soir) 

Nicolas Ribowski, France 1967, 30 min 

A comedy professor teaches class. 

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday 

Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot 


Jacques Tati • France 1952 • 1h27m • Digital projection 

French with English subtitles 

U – Contains no sex, violence or bad language 

Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Michèle Rolla, Valentine Camax. 

Taking a vacation at a seaside resort in Brittany, confirmed 

bachelor Monsieur Hulot creates unintentional havoc 

among the hotel guests with his well-meaning but terribly 

clumsy antics. As with all the best slapstick, Tati’s theme 

is the cruelty of the physical world. Nothing in Monsieur 

Hulot acts quite how it ought to. Every object has a mind 

of its own – from the canoe that folds in half while being 

rowed, to the foxskin rug that attaches itself to Hulot’s 

foot – and each appears to be intent on causing as many 

pratfalls, bumps and bruises as possible. 

Mon Oncle My Uncle 

Sun 6 Dec at 5.45pm 

Jacques Tati • France/Italy 1958 • 1h56m • 35mm • French with 

English subtitles • U – Contains no sex, violence or bad language 

Cast: Jacques Tati, Adrienne Servantie, Jean-Pierre Zola, Lucien Frégis. 

In Tati’s second feature film and first film in colour, we 

find him contrasting the bohemian provincial home life of 

his gangling alter ego Monsieur Hulot with the modern, 

contraption-filled concrete and glass home belonging to 

Hulot’s sister and her family, the Arpels, where Hulot’s 

nephew, Gerard, is drowning in boredom. When Hulot 

comes for a visit, the gadgets get the better of him, in a 

seamless spectacle of electric switches, slamming doors 

and malfunctioning accoutrements. Unforgettably funny, 

wonderfully observed and always technically brilliant. 

Parade 


Jacques Tati • France/Sweden 1974 • 1h10m • 35mm 

French with English subtitles • U 

Cast: Jacques Tati, Karl Kossmayer, Pierre Bramma, Michèle Brabo. 

Tati’s last – and least known – film sees his return to the 

boisterous music hall world in which he began his career as 

a mime artist in the 1930s. Ostensibly nothing more than 

a series of circus acts hosted by Tati and performed for a 

family audience, Parade is in fact a brilliantly conceived 

spectacle which blurs all distinctions between performers 

and audience, accomplished acrobats and children at play. 

Offering gloriously funny visual gags that flow beautifully 

from one act to another – including several of his most 

famous pantomimes – Parade is the perfect stage for Tati’s 

comic genius. 

Jour de fête 


Jacques Tati • France 1948 • 1h20m • 35mm 

French with English subtitles • U 

Cast: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli. 

A joyful, almost silent comedy set in the French 

countryside. François (Jacques Tati), a village postman, 

does his rounds on his bicycle – the old-fashioned 

way. But when a travelling carnival comes to town, its 

proprietors show a film extolling the virtues of modern 

American mail delivery, and soon the townspeople start to 

wonder if François has fallen behind the times... 


24 French Film Festival UK: Jean Eustache 

SANTA CLAUS HAS BLUE EYES THE PIG THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE 

Jean Eustache 

In France he’s regarded as one of the major 

figures in post-nouvelle vague cinema; in this 

country the only film of his that many will have 

heard of is 1973’s The Mother and the Whore. 

Here is a rare opportunity to discover the work of 

this important filmmaker. 

DOUBLE BILL 


Bad Company Du côté de Robinson 

Jean Eustache • France 1963 • 42m • 35mm 

French with English soft-titles • 15 

Cast: Aristide, Daniel Bart, Dominique Jayr, Jean-Pierre Léaud. 

On an idle Sunday afternoon, two working-class and 

penniless youths set about picking up girls on the streets 

of Montmartre. After some persuasion, a girl agrees to 

accompany them to a local dance hall, the Robinson, but 

when things do not go as expected, they take revenge. 

PLUS 

Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes 

Le père Noël a les yeux bleus 



Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Gérard Zimmermann, Henri Martinez. 

Daniel is an unemployed but fashion-conscious youth 

determined to buy himself a trendy duffle-coat. This, he 

reckons, should greatly improve his prospects with girls. 

He takes up a job with a photographer as a street Santa 

and, in disguise, finds a new audacity with women. 

The Pig 

Le cochon 


Jean Eustache & Jean-Michel Barjol • France 1970 • 50m • 16mm 

18 • Documentary 

Shot in a single day, The Pig documents the process by 

which a pig is slaughtered and converted into sausage. 

Yet the film is neither a gruesome exposé nor an exercise 

in detached journalism; instead, Eustache offers an 

appreciation of the farmers’ work and a document of 

their simple way of life. In many ways, The Pig is his most 

beautiful work. 

Please note, this film is deliberately unsubtitled so that the 

(minimal) speech simply becomes part of the sound design 

of the film. 

Numéro zéro 


Jean Eustache • France 1971 • 1h50m • 35mm 

French with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary 

An interview with Eustache’s grandmother, Odette Robert, 

who brought him up after his parents’ divorce, marks a 

reversal of roles, as she is now nearly blind and lives with 

Jean in Paris. The interview takes place in their apartment, 

and Mme Robert speaks about Eustache’s childhood and 

her own difficult life. With this film, Eustache breaks away 

from the observational approach of The Pig; in cinéma 

vérité style, the distance between the ‘objective’ filmmaker 

and his subject dissolves. 

The Mother and the Whore 

La Maman et la Putain 

Sat 21 Nov at 1.15pm + intro 



Cast: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, 

Isabelle Weingarten, Jacques Renard. 

Three-and-a-half hours of people talking about sex 

sounds like a recipe for boredom; in Eustache’s hands, it 

is anything but. There is no ‘explicitness’: the film is about 

attitudes to, and defences against, sex and the body. Using 

dialogue garnered entirely from real-life conversations, 

Eustache has provided us with a ruthlessly sharp-eyed view 

of chic, supposedly liberated sexual relationships, revealing 

them to be no less a disaster area of tragic dimensions than 

their ‘straighter’ counterparts. An icy comment on the New 

Wave, informed throughout by Eustache’s striking visual 

intelligence. 

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MY LITTLE LOVES 

THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT 

THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM 

My Little Loves 

Mes petites amoureuses 

Tue 24 Nov at 5.45pm + intro 



Cast: Martin Loeb, Jacqueline Dufranne, Jacques Romain, Ingrid 

Caven. 

Just one year into high school, Daniel is uprooted from his 

rural country life and transplanted into the city to live with 

his mother and her lover. With a nod to Rimbaud, Eustache 

delivers an unsentimental portrait of a small-town boy’s 

gradual discovery of work and play in the adult world. 

A Dirty Story 

Un sale histoire 




Cast: Michael Lonsdale, Douchka, Laurie Zimmer, Josée Yanne, 

Jacques Burloux. 

A fascinating diptych of a man relating his obsession 

with looking through a peephole into a café ladies room, 

with two diverging accounts. Eustache’s two-part A Dirty 

Story presents documentary and fictional versions of the 

same shameful tale, a dandified account of voyeurism and 

humiliation that works both as a sexual parable and an 

allegory for cinéphilia. 

Wojciech Has 

The final two screenings in this season showcasing 

the films of Wojciech Has. 

Multi-award winning Polish filmmaker Wojciech Has 

(1925 – 2000) put Polish cinema on world cinema 

screens in the 1950s and beyond with his visionary 

works such as How To Be Loved and The Hourglass 

Sanatorium. His often surrealistic and avant-garde 

style of filming drew from literature, contemporary 

politics and art. In the 90s he ran the famous Lodz 

Film School where he had studied 50 years previously. 

Season organised as part of POLSKA!YEAR – see www. 

polskayear.pl for more information. With thanks to the 

Polish Cultural Institute and to the Barbican, London. 

The Saragossa Manuscript 

Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie 


Wojciech Has • Poland 1965 • 3h2m • 35mm 

Polish with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta Czyzewska, 

Gustaw Holoubek, Stanislaw Igar. 

Toward the end of the Napoleonic era, a young officer is 

sent on a fantastic journey by two beautiful princesses as 

a test of his worthiness to woo them. His adventures are 

collected in the Saragossa Manuscript, itself a document of 

rather mysterious provenance... 

The Hourglass Sanatorium 

Sanatorium pod klepsydra 


Wojciech Has • Poland 1973 • 2h4m • 35mm 

Polish with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska, 

Gustaw Holoubek. 

In Has’ oft-referenced masterpiece, young man Jozef 

travels on a strange, almost ghostly train to visit his ailing 

father in a sanatorium, which he discovers exists in a 

microcosm of warped time where his father might actually 

recover from what Jozef believed was impending death. 

At the crumbling hospital, Jozef is invited to rest but rather 

finds himself sliding through portals of fantasy and the 

unconscious to explore the mazes of his own mind and 

confront the people and experiences who made him. 

Winner of the Special Jury Award at Cannes in1973, Has’ 

work is considered a fascinating penetration of the human 

psyche.

26 The Best of Czech Cinema 1999 - 2009 

THE KARAMAZOVS 

LITTLE OTIK 

RETURN OF THE IDIOT 

BORED IN BRNO 

The Best of 

Czech Cinema 

1999 - 2009 

After the fall of Communism in 1989, it took a few 

years for Czech cinema to adjust to a denationalised 

film industry and the new demands of the market. 

But by 2008, Czech films had achieved a domestic 

market share second only to France. Over the past 

twenty years, a generation of new directors has 

emerged, while veterans such as Jan Svankmajer 

have continued to produce highly innovative work. 

This selection includes some of the best films 

from this period, and provides a journey through 

a society in transition, but also one with a strong 

awareness of its cultural traditions. 

Peter Hames 

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The Karamazovs Karamazovi 


Petr Zelenka • Czech Republic/Poland 2008 • 1h50m • 35mm 

Czech, Polish and English with English subtitles • 12A 

Cast: Martin Mysicka, Michaela Badinková, Igor Chmela, Lenka 

Krobotová, David Novotny. 

A Prague theatre company arrives in Krakow with a stage 

adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’, to 

be presented in a local steelworks. As rehearsals progress, 

we observe story lines from the real world, of the cast and 

of a single worker who observes them. Issues of faith, 

immortality, and salvation cross borders as the film moves 

between its alternating perspectives. 

Little Otik Otesánek 

Wed 18 Nov at 3.00pm + 5.45pm 

Jan Svankmajer • Czech Republic 2000 • 2h11m • 35mm 

Czech with English subtitles 

15 – Contains moderate bloody horror 

Cast: Veronika Zilkova, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerova, 

Pavel Novy. 

A comedy horror by surrealist Jan Svankmajer, based 

on the classic Czech fairy tale of the same name but 

transferred to contemporary Prague. A childless couple 

decides to raise a voracious tree stump as a substitute 

for the child they so desire but cannot have. When ‘Otik’ 

comes to life he develops a lethal appetite... A deliciously 

dark satire on parental love combining acted scenes with 

animation full of nightmare visions. 

Return of the Idiot Návrat idiota 


Sasa Gedeon • Czech Republic/Germany 1999 • 1h39m 

35mm • Czech with English subtitles • 12A 

Cast: Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Jirí 

Landmajer, Jirí Machácek. 

Frantisek, the hero of this beautifully observed gentle 

comedy, loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky’s character, 

can’t orientate himself in a world that’s full of love as 

well as hypocrisy and deceit. He has just been released 

from a mental hospital and experiences everything as 

if for the first time. Feeling for everybody and touched 

by everything, he becomes entangled in conflicts and 

revelations between lovers, siblings and parents. 

Bored in Brno Nuda v Brne 


Vladimír Morávek • Czech Republic 2003 • 1h43m • 35mm 

Czech with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Katerina Holánová, Jan Budar, Miroslav Donutil, Martin 

Pechlát, Jaroslava Pokorná. 

Standa doesn’t want to be a virgin any more and is 

preparing for his first real date. A middle-aged psychologist 

meets a local TV soap star, nicknamed General Orgasm, 

but no longer in his sexual prime. Honza secretly loves 

his friend Pavel and there is also likeable Jaroslava, who 

is unlucky in her choice of men. These intertwining, 

sometimes farcical, stories of four couples planning to 

make love on a Saturday night has reached cult status 

amongst Czech audiences.

The Best of Czech Cinema 1999-2009/The Fall of the Wall 

27 

DIVIDED WE FALL THE WALL ST NICHOLAS CHURCH 

Divided We Fall Musíme si pomáhat 


Jan Hrebejk • Czech Republic 2000 • 2h3m • 35mm 

Czech and German with English subtitles • PG – Contains 

infrequent mild language, sexual references and violence 

Cast: Bolek Polívka, Anna Sisková, Csongor Kassai, Jaroslav Dusek, 

Martin Huba. 

An ordinary Czech couple wants to survive the German 

occupation during the WWII as unobtrusively as possible. 

Their situation is complicated not only by frequent visits 

of their collaborator friend but also by the Jew hidden in 

their larder. In order to divert any suspicion they try to fit 

in and are accused of collaborating. As the war is near its 

end their initial burden becomes their protection. Based on 

true story this is a black comedy full of sympathy for human 

weakness. 

Autumn Spring Babí léto 


Vladimír Michálek • Czech Republic 2001 • 1h35m • DigiBeta 

Czech with English subtitles • 12A 

Cast: Vlastimil Brodsky, Stella Zázvorková, Stanislav Zindulka. 

An uplifting comedy about a retired couple, Fanda and 

his wife Emilie. Fanda and his friend Eda like to spend 

their time playing elaborate practical jokes. From Emilie’s 

viewpoint, he is refusing to accept the realities of his age; 

she is more concerned with the possibility of moving to a 

retirement home and saving up for their funerals. When 

Fanda robs their funeral fund to pay off his debts, they are 

forced to re-evaluate. An actors’ masterclass in the art of 

understated comedy. 

The Fall of 

the Wall 

The final two films in this short season of films 

marking the twentieth anniversary of the fall of 

the Berlin Wall. 

With thanks to Marlies Pfeifer at the Goethe- 

Institut, Glasgow. 

The Wall Die Mauer 


Jürgen Böttcher • Germany 1991 • 1h39m • DigiBeta 

German with English subtitles • 15 • Documentary 

One of the last films produced by DEFA Studios, this 

documentary by acclaimed filmmaker and painter Jürgen 

Böttcher is an enduring record of the deconstruction of the 

Berlin Wall. Images of the tumultuous events following the 

fall of the Wall are juxtaposed with scenes from Berlin’s 

history. By projecting this archive footage directly onto the 

rough, spray-painted surface of the Wall itself, Böttcher 

created a stunning collage of remarkable imagery. 

1991 FIPRESCI Award Berlin Film Festival; Special Mention: 

European Film Awards. 

St Nicholas Church Nikolaikirche 


Frank Beyer • Germany 1995 • 2h18m • 35mm 

German with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Barbara Auer, Ulrich Matthes, Daniel Minetti, Annemone 

Haase, Ulrich Mühe. 

A grippingly realistic account of the dramatic events in the 

final days of the GDR by one of DEFA’s most acclaimed 

filmmakers. Set in Leipzig during the two years of unrest 

that culminated in the Monday demonstrations in the 

autumn of 1989, it tells the story of a family divided over 

the political developments in the GDR. Starring Ulrich 

Mühe (who played the role of the Stasi spy in The Lives 

of Others) as one of the priests who turned St Nicholas 

church into a platform for free speech - a role that 

resonated with the late actor’s own public statements 

during the protests against the GDR regime.

28 Introduction to European Cinema /Opera On Screen 

TABU 

THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE 

COSI FAN TUTTE 

Introduction to 

European Cinema 

An invaluable opportunity to discover or to learn more 

about great classics as well as less known films that 

are representative of key periods and movements in 

European cinema. 

Organised in parallel with the Edinburgh University 

programmes in Film Studies, the screenings are part of 

undergraduate and graduate students’ syllabuses, but 

are equally open to regular members of the Filmhouse 

public. Films are preceded by short presentations by 

Pasquale Iannone from the Film Studies Programme at 

the University of Edinburgh, and followed by question 

and answer sessions, allowing those spectators who 

wish to do so to take part in informal 

discussions and ask specific questions 

about the film they have just seen. 

Tabu A Story of the South Seas 


F W Murnau • USA 1931 • 1h21m • 16mm • U 

Cast: Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge, Hitu, Jean. 

Murnau’s last film was begun as a collaboration with the 

documentarist Robert Flaherty, but resolved itself into 

Murnau’s purest and least inhibited celebration of physical 

sensuality and love. Its plot is a simple Pacific islands folk 

tale: a young man and woman fall in love, thereby violating 

a local taboo, and their romance ends in inevitable tragedy. 

Germany Year Zero Germania anno zero 

Tue 17 Nov at 3.30pm + 6.15pm (+ intro) 

Roberto Rossellini • Italy 1948 • 1h14m • 35mm 

German, English and French with English subtitles • PG 

Cast: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze. 

On the battered streets and inside the crumbling buildings 

of post-war Berlin, a 12-year-old boy struggles for his and 

his family’s survival. Arguably the most harrowing and 

nihilistic instalment of Roberto Rossellini’s Trilogy of War 

(the first two films being Rome, Open City and Paisá), 

Germany Year Zero is a caustic portrait of dehumanisation 

and social disintegration. 

The Spirit of the Beehive 

El Espíritu de la colmena 


Victor Erice • Spain 1973 • 1h38m • 35mm • Spanish with 

English subtitles • PG – Contains mild violence and distress 

Cast: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent. 

After a screening of the 1931 film Frankenstein, young Ana is 

particularly struck by the scene where Boris Karloff’s monster 

accidentally kills a little girl. Her sister Isabel only fuels Ana’s 

sudden obsession with death and the afterlife by concocting 

an elaborate bedtime story about a ‘spirit’ who supposedly 

lives in an abandoned farmhouse nearby. Ana’s quest to 

meet this elusive ‘spirit’ takes an unexpected turn, however, 

when she stumbles upon an injured fugitive. 

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Opera On Screen 

Magnificent international productions of some 

of the world’s favourite operas, filmed live and 

digitally projected onto the big screen. 

Cosi fan tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

Sat 28 Nov at 1.45pm – TICKETS £15/£10 

3h20m • Digital projection • Italian with English subtitles • 12A 

A stunning production of Mozart’s opera, filmed live at the 

Salzburg Festival in August this year and digitally projected 

onto the big screen. 

Don Alfonso, a confirmed bachelor, makes a bet on 

women’s fidelity with Ferrando and Guglielmo, two young, 

engaged officers. If they agree to give him one day and do 

everything he asks, Alfonso will prove their fiancées are 

like all other women – disloyal... 

Conductor: Adam Fischer 

Director: Claus Guth 

Set Design: Christian Schmidt 

Cast includes: Miah Persson, Isabel Leonard, Bo 

Skovhus, Topi Lehtipuu, Florian Boesch 

Please note the opera is in two acts and the running 

time includes a fifteen-minute interval. The screening 

will also be preceded by around fifteen minutes of 

cinema advertising, so the programme will finish at 

approximately 5.20pm.

Eugenics: Science Fiction or Future Reality? 

29 

HOMO SAPIENS 1900 MY SISTER’S KEEPER GATTACA 

Eugenics: Science 

Fiction or Future 

Reality? 

A Biomedical Ethics Film Festival on the topic 

of Eugenics 

Should society create the perfect human race? Is 

this already happening? Why should parents not 

seek to have the perfect child? These are some of 

the questions which will be asked in this three-day 

biomedical ethics film festival. At the end of each 

screening, a discussion will take place between the 

audience and a panel of invited experts in bioethics, 

science, law, medicine and politics. 

The festival is organised in partnership with: the Scottish 

Council on Human Bioethics, Filmhouse, the Edinburgh and 

South-East Scotland Branch of the British Science Association, 

and the ESRC Genomics Forum at the University of Edinburgh. 

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Homo Sapiens 1900 

Fri 20 Nov at 5.45pm + discussion 

Peter Cohen • Sweden 1998 • 1h28m • 35mm • 18 • Documentary 

This documentary reflects the birth and rise of the eugenics 

movement in the early 20th century. At this time, it was 

generally accepted in a number of countries including 

Germany and Russia to justify ‘weeding out’ those individuals 

who were considered as an undesirable burden to society. 

My Sister’s Keeper 

Sat 21 Nov at 1.00pm + discussion 

Nick Cassavettes • USA 2009 • 1h49m • 35mm 

12A – Contains terminal illness theme and one use of strong language 

Cast: Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva. 

Sara and Brian Fitzgerald have just been informed that their 

young daughter Kate will die of leukaemia. Because of this, 

the doctor suggests that the parents try an unorthodox 

medical procedure to create a new child in a test-tube who 

would be a perfect match, as a cell and tissue donor, for 

Kate. However, at age 11, when this new child is asked to 

also give a kidney to her older sister, she decides to sue her 

parents for the right to decide how her body will be used. 

Gattaca 

Sun 22 Nov at 1.00pm + discussion 

Andrew Niccol • USA 1997 • 1h46m • 35mm • 15 

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law, Alan Arkin, Loren Dean. 

In a future society, the wealthy can choose the genetic 

makeup of their children and people are designed to fit into 

whatever role is decided before birth. But one natural, nonimproved 

young man, who has several serious defects, is 

determined to live a better life than his fate decrees. 

Who’s Afraid of Designer Babies? 

Sun 22 Nov at 3.45pm + discussion 

Sean Cousins • UK 2004 • 50m • DigiBeta • PG • Documentary 

What is a ‘designer baby’ and can we really make one 

today? This edition of Horizon aims to cut through the 

hype and distortions to get to the truth. The film looks at 

three techniques often linked to alarmist headlines about 

designer babies: preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), 

gene therapy and cloning. The documentary asks if any of 

these technologies will really give us the ability to handpick 

the genes of our children. 

PLUS SHORTS 

Eugenic Questions Angel-benito Garcia-Anta, 2009, 15 min, DVD 

What are some of the questions being asked by members 

of the general public in Scotland about eugenics? This 

short documentary, made specially for the film festival, will 

seek to understand some of the issues raised. 

AND 

The Gift Tim Mercier, 1995, 38 min, DVD 

Ryan is a carrier for a genetic condition that will kill his big 

sister. When he grows up to become a geneticist, he finds 

that both he and his wife are at risk of having a child with 

a severe genetic disorder. Thus, they decide to choose 

which embryo will develop into their child. However, 

when Ryan selects an embryo free from the debilitating 

gene, he also secretly opts for a child with special athletic 

abilities. Once discovered, Ryan’s actions prompt conflict 

and anger.

30 More Than Movies 

EXHIBITION – FRANCISZEK STAROWIEYSKI 

FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR 

Courses, Workshops and Events at Filmhouse 

The Business of Acting Workshops 3 December 

Run by acting professionals and with plenty of time for questions and answers, these monthly 

workshops will take place in the Guild Rooms at Filmhouse. Each one will be limited to 15 

participants, so book to be sure of a place. 

Age group: suitable for all ages Duration: 6.00pm - 8.00pm Cost: £5 Book: 0131 228 2688 

For more information on Helen Raw and Raw Talent Productions please visit www.rawtalentproductions.co.uk 

Screenwriters Group 19 November, 17 December 

‘Screenwriters, EH’ holds free monthly meetings for screenwriters and filmmakers. Meetings include talks 

from film industry professionals, workshopping with actors, and feedback on members’ scripts, and always 

incorporate time for networking and film-related chat. More information can be found at the Scottish 

Screenwriters website http://scottishscreenwriters.ning.com 

Open to all Duration: 7pm – 10pm FREE 

Exhibition – Posters by Franciszek Starowieyski 

5 - 29 November, Filmhouse Café Bar 

Franciszek Starowieyski (pseudonym Jan Byk) was born on 8th July 1930 in Bratkowka, Poland to a noble 

family using the Biberstein coat of arms. He first studied painting at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts under 

Wojciech Weiss and Adam Marczynski (1949-52), and then at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under 

Michal Bylina, and graduated in 1955. Franciszek specialised in poster, drawing, painting, stage designing, 

and book illustration. He was a member of Alliance Graphique International (AGI). 

Endowed with a baroque imagination, Starowieyski is highly adept at combining sensuous forms with 

intellectual messages, producing unexpected effects and shocking surrealist visions. His art is exquisitely 

ornamental and uses a plethora of unique metaphors and an individual system of signs originating from 

his beloved baroque esthetics. He is one of the most prominent and influential of the artists who have 

contributed to the development of Polish poster art. 

The exhibition of posters by Franciszek Starowieyski is presented by Polish Art Scotland with the kind 

assistance of the University of Zielona Gora in Poland. 

Filmhouse Café Bar 

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and enjoy one of our superb cakes. 

Our full menu runs from noon to 10pm seven 

days a week! 

All our dishes are prepared on the premises 

using fresh ingredients. 

We’ve an extensive vegetarian range with a 

variety of daily specials. 

A glass of wine? Choose from nine! The bar has 

real choice in ales, beers and bottles. 

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

Or just come and relax in the ambience! 

Opening hours: 

Sunday – Thursday 10am till 11.30pm 

Friday – Saturday 10am till 12.30am 

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Film Quiz 

Sunday 8 November 

Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful 

(and rather tricky) monthly quiz. 

Teams of up to eight people to 

be seated in the café bar by 9pm.

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