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20 Come and See... The Thing/Psychotronic Cinema THE THING KILLING ZOE FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR Come and See... A monthly one-off screening of a great film we simply thought you might like to see, again or for the first time, on the big screen. The Thing (1982) Tue 31 Jan at 8.30pm John Carpenter • USA 1982 • 1h49m • 70mm • 18 Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, TK Carter, David Clennon, Keith David. An isolated Antarctic scientific base is infiltrated by an alien shape-shifter, which takes over the identities of its occupants one by one. Underlining every frame of The Thing is an anticipating dread: the characters – and the viewer – sense the potential menace of an enemy they cannot see. It’s an eerily nightmarish and wonderfully enthralling film, featuring some of the most gruesome special effects you’ll ever see. Screening from glorious 70mm! Killing Zoe Thu 12 Jan at 9.30pm Roger Avary • France/USA 1993 • 1h36m • 35mm English and French with English subtitles • 18 Cast: Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gary Kemp, Salvator Xuereb. The directorial debut of Tarantino co-writer Roger Avary is a pulsating, hyper-kinetic early 90s joy ride of drugs, mayhem and ultra-violence. Revolving around a bank heist gone very very wrong, Killing Zoe was criminally underrated on release but has since garnered a serious underground cult following. From the first frame Avary’s movie launches its audience into a drug-fuelled and demented cinematic world of excess, refusing to pull its punches and finally descending into utter carnage. Psychotronic Cinema presents this neglected classic on 35mm. Filmhouse Cafe Bar Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea and enjoy one of our superb cakes. Our full menu runs from noon to 10pm seven days a week! All our dishes are prepared on the premises using fresh ingredients. We’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 0131 229 5932 cafebar@filmhousecinema.com Film Quiz Sunday 8 January Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and rather tricky) monthly quiz. Free to enter, teams of up to eight to be seated in the cafe bar by 9pm.
THE ARTIST CARNAGE CASABLANCA COMINGSOON COMINGSOON COMINGSOON The Artist Michel Hazanavicius • France/Belgium 2011 • 1h40m PG – Contains scene of mild threat Cast: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller. An honest-to-goodness black-and-white silent picture made by modern French filmmakers in Hollywood, The Artist is a spirited, hilarious and moving delight. A sensation in Cannes, Michel Hazanavicius’ playful love letter to the movies’ early days spins on a variation on an A Star Is Born-like relationship between a dashing Douglas Fairbanks-style star (Jean Dujardin, who won the best actor prize in Cannes), whose career wanes with the coming of sound, and a dazzling young actress (Bérénice Bejo), whose popularity skyrockets at the same time. Meticulously made in the 1.33 aspect ratio with intertitles and a superb score, The Artist has great fun with silent film conventions just as it rigourously adheres to them, turning its abundant love for the look and ethos of the 1920s into a treat that will be warmly embraced by movie lovers of every persuasion. Carnage Roman Polanski • France/Germany/Poland 2011 • 1h20m 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C Reilly, Elvis Polanski. Polanski turns his attention to the satirical skewering of the hypocrisies of the middle classes with this crisp adaptation of playwright Yasmina Reza’s ‘The God of Carnage’. Following a fight between their children, two New York couples come together to discuss the unfortunate event. Zachary, the son of Nancy and Alan (Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz) has bashed his schoolmate Ethan with a stick, breaking a couple of his teeth. Ethan’s parents Penelope and Michael (Jodie Foster and John C Reilly) have called the tête-à-tête at their home, but what starts out as a civilised attempt at resolution turns uglier by degrees. As coffee and cobbler give way to hard liquor, surface niceties start to slip, the couples get to sniping, then to arguing and worse, and soon the fractures in their own relationships are showing. Watching the foursome descend into behaviour far worse than that of their children is horrible and funny, often both at the same time. Tightly scripted and confidently directed, with resonances that go beyond its Brooklyn walls, Carnage is also a terrific showcase for the remarkable performances of its heavyweight ensemble cast. – Sandra Hebron, LFF programme Coming soon Casablanca Michael Curtiz • USA 1942 • 1h42m • U Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet. The world’s favourite Hollywood love story is all the more romantic because it doesn’t exalt romantic love above all. Bogey is at his best as Rick, an American opportunist in 1940 French Morocco with a gruffly cynical exterior that belies his wary idealism and wounded heart. Ingrid Bergman is luminous as Ilsa, who arrives in Casablanca with resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), but clearly has a history with Rick. Cynicism and self-interest contend with idealism and self-sacrifice as Rick and Ilsa’s past weighs against the world’s future. Made under a studio system that cranked out a film a week, this just happened to be one film in which everything came together with magical rightness – the wittily cynical dialogue, spare, effective storytelling, a vivid sense of time and place, sharply drawn characters, a first-rate cast, great cinematography and score, and classic wartime melodrama that hasn’t lost a thing as time goes by. Screening in a new digital restoration. 21
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