Ginger & Rosa - Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh

New releases
5
GINGER & ROSA SWANDOWN ROOM 237
NEWRELEASE
Ginger & Rosa
Fri 19 Oct to Thu 1 Nov
Sally Potter • UK/Denmark/Canada/Croatia 2012 • 1h30m
Digital projection • 12A – Contains infrequent strong language
and moderate sex and suicide references
Cast: Christina Hendricks, Elle Fanning, Annette Bening,
Alessandro Nivola, Alice Englert.
Best friends forever, Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice
Englert) have grown up together and are now on the
brink of adulthood, strutting their bathtub-shrunk jeans
and flaunting their own brand of teenage existentialism.
One fears annihilation, the other invites it. Ginger is
preoccupied with the Cold War and the mounting threat
of nuclear devastation. Rosa is defiant – her revolution is
sexual – a form of protest that will irrevocably impact on
their families, her future and ultimately, the girls’ friendship.
While Sally (Orlando, The Tango Lesson) Potter’s intoxicating
coming-of-age drama is historically specific in its 1960s
London setting, its relevance to the current era of ill-defined
protest and the question of generational legacy is palpable.
The left-leaning adults – Ginger’s carefree bohemian
father (Alessandro Nivola), her frustrated mother (Christina
Hendricks) and her mother’s politically active friends
(Annette Bening, Timothy Spall and Oliver Platt) all give
lessons on freedom and responsibility that prove flawed and
hypocritical when turbulent reality encroaches on idealism.
Carlos Conti’s understated design and Robbie (Fish Tank,
Wuthering Heights) Ryan’s moody cinematography amplify
the sense of claustrophobic intimacy and underscore Potter’s
choice to evoke the 60s through mood and sensibility rather
than by overt design. (Clare Stewart, LFF programme)
NEWRELEASE
Swandown
Tue 23 Oct only
Michael Kötting • UK 2012 • 1h38m • Digital projection
12A – Contains one use of strong language • Documentary
Swandown is a travelogue and odyssey of Olympian
ambition; a poetic film-diary about encounter, myth and
culture. It is also an endurance test and pedal-marathon
in which Andrew Kötting (the filmmaker) and Iain Sinclair
(the writer) pedal a swan-shaped pedalo from the seaside
in Hastings to Hackney in London, via inland waterways.
With a nod to Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and a pinch of Dada,
Swandown documents their epic journey, on which they
are joined by invited guests including comedian Stewart
Lee, writer Alan Moore and actor Dudley Sutton.
Matinee Special!
If you’re a Senior Citizen you can now go to a
matinee screening and get either soup of the day
OR a cup of tea or coffee and a traycake for only £6!
Offer runs from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and
only applies to screenings starting before 5.00pm. Ask
for the Matinee Special deal at the box office and you’ll
receive a voucher which can be exchanged in the café
bar between 1.30pm and 5.00pm that day only. Offer is
subject to availability and only available in person.
NEWRELEASE
Room 237
Fri 26 Oct to Thu 8 Nov
Rodney Ascher • USA 2012 • 1h42m • Digital projection
15 – Contains strong violence, horror and nudity
Documentary
“One of the great movies about movies.” – Variety
Room 237 dissects Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining in
amazing and unexpected ways, looking at a host of
conspiracy theories around secret codes and messages
supposedly hidden within the film.
Director Rodney Ascher has uncovered a thriving
subculture of Kubrick fans, critics and film theorists
– ranging from semi-obsessive to paranoid delusional
– who ascribe a plethora of interpretations to The Shining.
Is it about the Holocaust? Or the plight of the American
Indians? Or is it a confession of Kubrick’s involvement with
faking the moon landing?
Screened at Sundance and Cannes, the film itself is about
so much more than just obsessive fandom; it gets to the
heart of what it is to find meaning in a film, and there, to
discover one’s secrets.
Catch the new restoration of The Shining at our special
Halloween preview on 31 October (see page 7), or when
it returns for a short run from 2 November.