Ginger & Rosa - Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh

Restored classics
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HUSBANDS F FOR FAKE THE SHINING
RESTOREDCLASSIC
Husbands
Fri 12 to Tue 16 Oct
John Cassavetes • USA 1970 • 2h11m • Digital projection
12A – Contains domestic violence and moderate sex references
Cast: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Jenny Runacre,
Jenny Lee Wright.
The deceptively simple tale of three men’s nihilistic
attempts to deal with the death of a friend, Husbands
is a dissection of middle class suburban ennui like few
others. Three friends – Gus (Cassavetes), Archie (Peter
Falk) and Harry (Ben Gazzara) use the funeral of their
friend as a jumping off point for a European bender to
end all benders. There’s drunkenness, singing, basketball,
gambling, picking up girls and making complete fools of
themselves aplenty, but this is no ageing frat pack flick. For
Husbands is actually a powerfully intuitive re-evaluation
of male values (their instability and stupidity) in the age of
change that was the end of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Long overdue re-evaluation, Husbands is an important
work by a major American filmmaker.
RESTOREDCLASSIC
F for Fake
Fri 12 to Sun 14 Oct
Orson Welles • France/Iran/West Germany 1973
1h28m • Digital projection
English, French and Spanish with English subtitles
PG – Contains infrequent nudity
Part essay, part prank, and one of the most inventive and
invigorating non-fiction features ever made. At its heart are
two of the world’s great fakers – Elmyr De Hory, a man who
could dash off a Picasso in the time it takes to finish a cup
of tea, and Clifford Irving, the crime author who claimed
he’d been hired to write the biography of Howard Hughes.
Rather than looking down his nose at the forgers, director
Orson Welles dares to wonder whether what they do isn’t
itself a form of art. He also contemplates the less noble
moments of his own career – principally the infamous
‘War Of The Worlds’ radio broadcast – leads us on a tour of
great restaurants, and introduces us to everyone from his
long-time partner and collaborator Oja Kodar to celebrity
friends like Joseph Cotten and Laurence Harvey.
As cheerfully subversive as Welles’ film is (he constantly
refers to elisions at the request of his lawyers), it’s not a
glib statement for the sake of irony itself, but a personal
meditation on the nature of art and art’s audience, and the
capricious nature of fame and fortune. Simply dazzling.
RESTOREDCLASSIC
The Shining
Wed 31 Oct only
Stanley Kubrick • UK/USA 1980 • 2h24m • Digital projection
15 – Contains strong violence and language
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman
Crothers, Barry Nelson.
A stunning new digital transfer of the longer, US cut of
Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of modern horror.
Hired as caretaker for a mountain hotel cut off from civilisation
by winter snowfall, struggling author Jack Torrance is haunted
by his frustrated creative ambitions and fears of failure both as
a husband and an artist. Nurtured by the claustrophobia and
isolation of his surroundings, his underlying insanity gradually
evolves into rampant madness.
Nicholson’s startling performance, beginning with the
overdone charm at his job interview already showing signs of
inherent insanity, to the final maniacal beast on the rampage,
is perfectly realised.
A special Halloween preview of this new restoration,
which will return for a short run from 2 November. And
don’t miss the brilliant and entertaining documentary
Room 237, also screening this month (see page 5).