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INDEX 

SCREENING DATES AND TIMES 14-15 

TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION 15 

GENERAL INFORMATION 27 

About Her Brother 23 

All Around Us 23 

Almanya 16 

Amélie 7 

The Artist 5 

Ashes of American Flags: Wilco Live 21 

BAA Programme 3 20 

Bad Company 22 

Blue Velvet 10 

Cairo Exit 19 

Carnage 4 

Casablanca 6 

Close Up Kurdistan 18 

Come and See... 7 

Cría cuervos 25 

Crimes of Passion 21 

The Dark Harbour 22 

Dear Doctor 22 

Dune 9 

L’Eclisse 24 

The Elephant Man 9 

Eraserhead 9 

Exhibitions 26 

Fear Eats the Soul 24 

Filmhouse Café Bar 26 

Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 28 

Filmhouse Quiz 26 

Fotograf 17 

Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando 18 

Goodbye 19 

Grandma, a Thousand Times 17 

Hejar 17 

Hisham Zaman: 3 Films 19 

I Just Didn’t Do It 22 

Inland Empire 10 

Into a World: The Films of David Lynch 8-10 

Introduction to European Cinema 24-25 

Jiyan 18 

INDEX 

Journey to the Sun 16 

Kick Off 20 

The King is Alive 25 

Koktebel 25 

Lady Windermere’s Fan 12 

Laura 6 

LGBT History Month 11 

Lost Highway 10 

Memento 21 

Middle Eastern Film Festival 16-20 

Milk 11 

Min Dit: The Children of Diyarbakir 18 

Mourning 17 

Mulholland Dr. 10 

My Beautiful Laundrette 11 

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 18 

The Princess Bride 7 

Psychotronic Cinema 21 

Puss in Boots 7 

Red Heart 20 

SciScreen 21 

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 12 

Shame 4 

The Straight Story 10 

A Stranger of Mine 23 

Talk: Dickens on Screen 6 

This Is Not a Film 19 

Times and Winds 25 

The Times of Harvey Milk 11 

The Tin Drum 24 

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls 12 

Transit Cities 17 

Turtles Can Fly 18 

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 10 

We Were Here 11 

Weans’ World 7 

Weekend 11 

Whose Film Is It Anyway? 22-23 

Wild at Heart 9 

The Woman in the Fifth 4 

Vendredi soir 25 

AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLES 

We have installed a system which enables us, 

whenever the necessary digital files are available, 

to show onscreen subtitles for customers who 

are deaf or hard of hearing, and provide audio 

description (via infra-red headsets) for those who 

are sight-impaired. 

This issue: 

Shame – all screenings will have audio description. 

Carnage – all screenings will have audio description, 

and the 6.15pm screening on Tuesday 21 February 

will also have subtitles. 

FORCRYINGOUTLOUD 

Screenings for carers and their babies! 

Carnage Mon 6 Feb at 11am 

Casablanca Mon 13 Feb at 11am 

The Artist Mon 20 Feb at 11am 

Laura Mon 27 Feb at 11am 

Baby changing, bottle warming and buggy parking 

facilities are available. Tickets cost £3.50/£2.50 

concessions per adult. Screenings limited to 

babies under 12 months accompanied by no more 

than two adults. 

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Introduction 

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THE ARTIST BLUE VELVET 

CASABLANCA CARNAGE 

“David is happy to authorize these screenings...” 

Last month in this column I wrote about how every penny that you spend here, whether it be on films, food, DVDs or G&T-in-a-can, goes right back 

into the business of putting our films on our screens. A lot of what we do costs us more to put on than we could ever hope to make at the Box Office, 

so the reliance on new releases and the income that comes with them is very great indeed. There’s a lot of cinemas in Edinburgh, it’s a competitive 

environment, and though you’d think film distributors would want their films to play in as many cinemas as they could get them in, it is never, or at 

least rarely, that simple – not for us, anyway. For a whole host of reasons, some of which, admittedly, remain unfathomable by me, they don’t work 

that way. It’s a constant frustration, not just from a financial point-of-view, but also thwarts us when trying to bring you all the films we know you’d 

like, or would expect us to be showing, on their release. Please be assured, we’ll continue to bring you those films as soon as we are able! 

One film we have been able to secure on its release is Roman Polanski’s brilliant ‘comedy of no manners’, Carnage, based on the polite society, 

upper-middle-class mores-skewering theatre sensation, Yasmina Reza’s ‘God of Carnage’, which features four ‘nomination-worthy’ performances 

from John C Reilly, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and our own Kate Winslet. And one we didn’t (much to the consternation of many of you!), the 

fantastic, French homage to silent-era Hollywood, The Artist, finally gets on our screens here at Filmhouse on 3 Feb. And we’ve The Woman in the 

Fifth, Pawel Pawlikowski’s long-awaited follow-up to My Summer of Love, an intricate, mysterious, Paris-set puzzler starring Ethan Hawke and 

Kristin Scott Thomas. 

The quote at the top of the page was the visual equivalent of music to our ears when Mr Lynch’s assistant gave us his permission to screen some 

of the films in our almost-entire retrospective of the great man’s work. There’s much excitement in the office over this season... Wild at Heart (on 

Valentine’s Day), Dune (in 70mm), Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr. .... Every one so-very-rarely seen on the big screen these days. 

Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (in this its 70th anniversary year) and Otto Preminger’s exemplary film noir, Laura (1944), get the full restoration/ 

reissue treatment; our annual Middle Eastern Film Festival comes around again, with a focus on films from Kurdish practitioners; and ‘Whose Film Is 

It Anyway?’, a short season of films from contemporary Japanese auteurs, is our annual collaboration with the Japan Foundation. 

And Valentine’s Day this year? Whether you like your love stories passionate, star-crossed, just plain old-fashioned romantic or a subtle 

combination of all three, I think you’ll find there’ll be something for everyone come the 14th. And to think I’ve been accused of being ‘dead 

inside’ before... 

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

4 New releases 

CARNAGE 

SHAME 

THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH 

NEWRELEASE NEWRELEASE NEWRELEASE 

Carnage 

Showing from Fri 3 February 

Roman Polanski • France/Germany/Poland 2011 • 1h20m 

Digital projection • 15 – Contains strong language 

Cast: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C Reilly. 

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 


See page two for details. 

Shame 

Showing until Thu 9 February 

Steve McQueen • UK 2011 • 1h41m • Digital projection 

18 – Contains strong sex and sex references 

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badger Dale, 

Amy Hargreaves, Nicole Beharie. 

Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan star in Steve 

McQueen’s frank study of a man’s sexual compulsion. 

Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is in his thirties, living and 

working in New York. He’s single, smart, and attractive, 

has his own flat and a job in a glossy corporate office. He 

also has a compulsive sexual need that sees him caught 

up in a repetitive cycle of pick-ups, prostitutes and online 

encounters. Whether he’s managing his sex life or it’s 

managing him is open to question, but his world seems 

self-contained and ordered, free of any messy emotional 

ties. However, when his wayward younger sister Sissy 

(Carey Mulligan) arrives at his apartment begging to stay, 

Brandon’s control starts to slip... 

In Shame, director Steve McQueen (Hunger) has made a 

confident and complex second feature about the nature 

of need and desire. Michael Fassbender, working with 

McQueen for a second time, is perfect as a man whose 

near-obsessive behaviour hints at some hidden past; and 

Carey Mulligan is a well-chosen sparring partner, bringing 

emotional depth to the flaky and clearly damaged Sissy. 

– Sandra Hebron, LFF programme 


See page two for details. 

The Woman in the Fifth 

La femme du Vème 

Fri 17 Feb to Thu 1 Mar 

Pawel Pawlikowski • France/Poland/UK 2011 

1h25m • Digital projection 

15 – Contains strong language and infrequent gory images 

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas, Joanna Kulig, Samir 

Guesmi, Delphine Chuillot. 

Although the radiant and, in this instance, manifestly 

mysterious Kristin Scott Thomas is the titular woman in 

Paris’ fifth arrondissement, this intriguing psychological 

thriller from Pawel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love) really 

belongs to Ethan Hawke as Tom Ricks, a blocked novelist 

who’s returned to the city to make amends to his ex-wife 

and reconnect with his six-year-old daughter. His ex slams 

the door in his face and calls the police, alerting us to the 

fact that we may not be getting the whole story just yet, a 

feeling that only grows after Tom is robbed, forced to take 

refuge in a seedy hotel, and offered shady employment by 

the fleapit’s proprietor. Reality slips another notch when 

the stylish Margit (Scott Thomas), a translator who beds 

Tom and encourages his writing, begins to play a more 

sinister role in the increasingly unhinged novelist’s life. 

Pawlikowski films the underbelly of Paris with a precision 

that makes the much-photographed city appear wholly 

new and much less than enticing, a vision perfectly aligned 

to a story that is as dark as it is disquietingly menacing.

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MAYBEYOUMISSED 

The Artist 

Showing from Fri 3 February 

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.

6 Restored classics/Dickens on Screen 

CASABLANCA 

LAURA 

DICKENS ON SCREEN –OLIVER! 

RESTOREDCLASSIC 

Casablanca 

Fri 10 to Thu 16 Feb 

Michael Curtiz • USA 1942 • 1h42m • Digital projection • 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. 

A film in which everything came together with magical 

rightness – the wittily cynical dialogue, 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. 

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. 

RESTOREDCLASSIC 

Laura 

Fri 24 Feb to Thu 1 Mar 

Otto Preminger • USA 1944 • 1h28m • Digital projection 

U – Contains mild violence and threat 

Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, 

Judith Anderson. 

“I shall never forget the weekend Laura died...” So begins 

Otto Preminger’s masterpiece about erotic obsession, 

jealousy, deceit and deadly betrayal, now newly – and 

beautifully – restored. The narrator welcoming us into the 

pleasingly perverse upper-crust New York of the film is 

Waldo Lydecker (Clifton Webb), a columnist who writes 

“with a goose quill dipped in venom”, first encountered 

at work in his bath by Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews), 

the detective investigating the recent murder of beautiful 

advertising executive Laura (Gene Tierney). But Waldo’s 

not the sole suspect; there’s Laura’s fiancé Shelby (Vincent 

Price), and Shelby’s somewhat older lover Ann Treadwell 

(Judith Anderson). And can McPherson’s judgement really 

be trusted anyway, given that he too appears to have fallen 

for the dead woman he’s hearing about? 

A brilliantly witty, tortuous script (including, very 

memorably, Lydecker’s mordantly egotistical commentary) 

and Preminger’s cool, sharp-sighted direction ensure that 

the film succeeds gloriously as both social satire and taut 

suspense. One of the subtlest, most sophisticated and 

most invigoratingly acerbic Hollywood crime movies ever 

made. - Geoff Andrew 

SPECIALEVENT 

Talk: Dickens on Screen 

Mon 27 Feb at 6.30pm - TICKETS £5 

1h30m 

An introductory talk, liberally interspersed with film and 

television clips, from Film London CEO Adrian Wootton. 

Adrian will give an overview of the rich and varied history 

of Dickens film and TV adaptations from 1898 to 2012, 

taking in both the classics and neglected curios. 

In March and April Filmhouse will screen 

a number of Dickens adaptations to mark 

200 years since the celebrated writer’s 

birth. Full details will appear in next 

month’s programme, but the season will 

include David Lean’s adaptations of Great 

Expectations and Oliver Twist, a compilation 

of early silent shorts, George Cukor’s 1935 

film of David Copperfield, starring the great 

WC Fields, and a sing-along screening of 

Oliver!.

Weans’ World/Come and See... 

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PUSS IN BOOTS 

Weans’ World 

Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost 

£2.50 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! 

Puss in Boots 

Sat 4 Feb at 1.00pm & Sun 5 Feb at 11.00am 

Chris Miller • USA 2011 • 1h30m • Digital projection 

U – Contains mild comic fight scenes and innuendo 

With the voices of Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach 

Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris. 

Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover 

and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets 

off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty 

Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his 

town. Having appeared in three previous Shrek outings, 

Puss In Boots finally gets to take centre stage in this fun 

family film. 

THE PRINCESS BRIDE 

The Princess Bride 

Sat 18 Feb at 1.00pm & Sun 19 Feb at 11.00am 

Rob Reiner • USA 1987 • 1h38m • 35mm 

PG – Contains mild fantasy violence and language 

Cast: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, 

Peter Falk. 

When the one true love of her life, Westley, is killed by the 

Dread Pirate Roberts, Buttercup blindly agrees to the Royal 

command that she marry Prince Humperdinck. But the 

Prince is planning to incite war between his country and its 

neighbour – by murdering Buttercup and blaming foreign 

agents. Yet even as the Prince’s men kidnap Buttercup, a 

mysterious man in black is in pursuit... 

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AMELIE 

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. 

Amélie 

Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain 

Thu 1 Mar at 8.15pm 

Jean-Pierre Jeunet • France/Germany 2001 • 2h3m 

Digital projection • French with English subtitles 

15 – Contains frequent moderate sex references 

Cast: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, 

Serge Merlin. 

Amélie Poulain was destined to be a lonely dreamer: her 

overprotective parents isolated her from the world, her 

neurotic mother was killed in a bizarre accident and even 

her beloved goldfish was suicidal, repeatedly leaping 

from its bowl. As a shy young woman, the gamine Amélie 

(Audrey Tautou) lives in the Paris neighbourhood of 

Montmartre and waits tables at the cafe Les Deux Moulins. 

Disappointed by her first forays into the world of dating, 

Amélie devotes herself to cultivating life’s small pleasures 

– skipping stones on the Canal Saint Martin, cracking 

the glaze on a crème caramel, observing inconsequential 

details in the background of old movies – and waits for her 

purpose in life to be revealed...

Into a World: The Films of David Lynch 

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THE ELEPHANT MAN 

WILD AT HEART 

DUNE 

Into a World: 

The Films of 

David Lynch 

“It’s so magical – I don’t know why – to 

go into a theater and have the lights 

go down. It’s very quiet, and then the 

curtains start to open. Maybe they’re 

red. And you go into a world. It’s 

beautiful when it’s a shared experience. 

It’s still beautiful when you’re at home 

and your theater is in front of you, 

though it’s not quite as good. It’s best 

on a big screen. That’s the way to go 

into a world.” David Lynch 

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. 

Eraserhead 

Fri 10 Feb at 8.15pm & Sat 11 Feb at 3.45pm 

David Lynch • USA • 1976 • 1h29m • Digibeta 

15 – Contains strong gore and disturbing surreal imagery 

Cast: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, 

Laurel Near. 

Lynch’s early films owe more to the traditions of the 

European avant-gardes than to the guerrilla style adopted 

by the American underground filmmakers of the 1960s. 

He took five years to produce his legendary cult horror, 

about an anxious young man struggling with his crushing 

industrial environment and the premature birth of his 

mutant child. 

PLUS SHORTS 

The Alphabet David Lynch • USA 1968 • 4m 

The Grandmother David Lynch • USA 1970 • 34m 

The Amputee David Lynch • USA 1974 • 5m 

The Elephant Man 

Sun 12 Feb at 6.00pm 

David Lynch • USA 1980 • 2h3m • 35mm • PG 

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud. 

The true story of John Merrick – a man with a congenital 

disease that covered his body with deforming tumors 

– is approached here with great respect for the subject 

matter. It is indeed the humanist element that triumphs, 

but Lynch again showed his skill for creating contained, 

expressionistic worlds. Through the black and white 

cinematography of Freddie Francis, the film superbly 

invokes the bleak mood of an industrial Victorian England. 

Wild at Heart 

Tue 14 Feb at 8.30pm 

David Lynch • USA 1990 • 2h4m • 35mm • 18 

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Diane Ladd, Harry 

Dean Stanton. 

Wild at Heart, adapted from Barry Gifford’s book, follows 

Sailor (Nicolas Cage) and Lula (Laura Dern), lovers on the 

run from a hit man enlisted to kill Sailor by Lula’s ‘wicked 

witch’ mother. With liberal references to The Wizard of Oz 

and Elvis, and an iconic role for Sailor’s treasured snakeskin 

jacket – which symbolises his “individuality and belief in 

personal freedom” – the film won the Palme d’Or for best 

film at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. 

Dune 


David Lynch • USA 1984 • 2h16m • 70mm • PG 

Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Sting, Jürgen Prochnow, 

Brad Dourif. 

Given the producers’ demands that he stay true to the 

spirit of Frank Herbert’s 1960s million-selling novel, 

Lynch has all but disowned this medieval science fiction 

blockbuster. Yet the film retains something that is 

conspicuously Lynchian. Fans of the novel would agree 

that the story suffers from the need for compression, but 

the look of the film is like nothing seen before or since in 

the science fiction genre. 

Screening from 70mm. 

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

10 Into a World: The Films of David Lynch 

TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME 

LOST HIGHWAY 

MULHOLLAND DR. 

INLAND EMPIRE 

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 

Mon 20 Feb at 8.15pm & Tue 21 Feb at 2.30pm 

David Lynch • France/USA 1992 • 2h14m • 35mm • 18 

Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Kiefer Sutherland, Harry Dean 

Stanton, Chris Isaak. 

The prequel to the seminal 1990s television event depicted 

the seven days leading up to the murder of homecoming 

queen Laura Palmer and, as an even more menacing 

affair than the TV show, divided critics over its alleged 

unpleasantness and self-indulgence. There is little doubt 

amongst his supporters, though, that Fire Walk with Me is 

an indispensable Lynch text. 

Lost Highway 

Thu 23 Feb at 8.15pm & Fri 24 Feb at 1.20pm 

David Lynch • France/USA 1997 • 2h14m • 35mm • 18 

Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Loggia, 

Robert Blake. 

Lost Highway tells the story of jazz saxophonist Fred 

Madison (Bill Pullman), who is found guilty of murdering 

his wife Renee (Patricia Arquette). On death row, Fred 

inexplicably morphs into a younger man, a car mechanic 

named Pete Dayton (Balthazar Getty), and becomes 

involved with a gangster’s moll, Alice Wakefield (also 

played by Arquette). Lynch’s remarkable multi-faceted LA 

noir experiments with a narrative structure without obvious 

entry or exit points. 

Blue Velvet 


David Lynch • USA 1986 • 2h • 35mm 

18 – Contains strong sex, violence and language 

Cast: Kyle McLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Isabella Rossellini, Laura 

Dern, Dean Stockwell. 

Kyle MacLachlan’s discovery of an ant-infested human 

ear in the Lumberton undergrowth initiates the teenage 

sleuth’s journey into the perilous unconscious of the 

suburban American dream – and 80s cinema is redefined. 

Lynch’s ambiguous moral stance on murder, mutilation 

and sadomasochism would not meet with everyone’s 

approval, but Blue Velvet was a bona fide cultural event 

and mainstream American cinema had a new auteur to 

celebrate. 

The Straight Story 

Sun 4 Mar at 6.00pm 

David Lynch • France/UK/USA 1999 • 1h51m • 35mm • U 

Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton, 

Everett McGill, Jane Galloway Heitz. 

No-one was surprised when word reached the media that 

Lynch was planning to adapt the true story of a 73 year-old 

man, Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), who travelled 

across America on a lawnmower, in search of his estranged 

brother. Yet Lynch’s slow, ‘straight’ treatment of this 

material wrong-footed most, even as it marked a return to 

the humanist qualities that had distinguished his handling 

of The Elephant Man. 

Mulholland Dr. 


David Lynch • France/USA 2001 • 2h26m • 35mm 

15 – Contains strong language and moderate sex and violence 

Cast: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin 

Theroux. 

After The Straight Story, Lynch returned to more familiar 

subject matter. Betty (Naomi Watts), a plucky aspiring 

actress, and Rita (Rita Harring), a mysterious amnesiac 

who has stumbled from a car crash with several thousand 

dollars in her purse, search LA for clues to Rita’s identity. 

Dense with his customary doppelgangers, dream imagery 

and loose ends, Lynch’s film has an extra melancholic 

fascination with the destructive power of erotic desire. 

Inland Empire 

Sun 11 Mar at 5.00pm 

David Lynch • France/Poland/USA 2006 • 3h • 35mm 

English and Polish with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong 

language and moderate violence, sex and sex references 

Cast: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean 

Stanton, Grace Zabriskie. 

Lynch’s three-hour digital opus – composed on his ‘unified 

force’ principle, whereby ‘the ocean is the unity’ on which 

scenes ‘float’ – stars Laura Dern as actress Nikki Grace, 

working on a remake of an unfinished Polish film called 

47. Real and film worlds intersect and Lynch’s audience is 

left to wonder if Nikki has succumbed to the curse that is 

thought to have stopped production of the original film.

LGBT History Month 

11 

WE WERE HERE 

MILK 

MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE 

WEEKEND 

LGBT 

History Month 

A short season of films marking Lesbian 

Gay Bisexual Trans History Month. 

For information on other events during 

February, go to lgbthistorymonth.org.uk 

We Were Here 

Fri 3 to Sun 5 Feb 

David Weissman • USA 2011 • 1h30m • Digibeta • 15 

Documentary 

The first film to take a deep and reflective look back at the 

arrival of AIDS, We Were Here focuses on a small number 

of interviewees, all of whom lived in San Francisco before 

the epidemic hit in the early 1980s. The stories they tell 

are not only intensely personal, but also address the 

much larger political and sexual complexities of that era. 

Though this is a San Francisco-based story, the issues it 

addresses extend not only beyond San Francisco but also 

beyond AIDS itself. It speaks to our societal relationship to 

death and illness, our capacity as individuals to rise to the 

occasion, and the importance of community in addressing 

unimaginable crises. 

The Times of Harvey Milk 


Rob Epstein • USA 1984 • 1h30m • Digibeta • 15 • Documentary 

Rob Epstein’s Oscar-winning documentary about the first 

openly gay man to be elected to a prominent political 

position in California. Epstein focuses on Milk’s brief 

political career and structures the film as a contrast between 

the outspoken flamboyant crusader for human rights and 

freedom, and his quiet assassin Dan White, described as a 

conservative all-American working class guy. 

Milk 

Thu 9 Feb at 6.00pm 

Gus Van Sant • USA 2008 • 2h8m • 15 – Contains strong 

language and sex references 

Cast: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco. 

This superb biopic, with a brilliant performance from Sean 

Penn at its centre, covers the final years of Harvey Milk’s 

life, starting when he leaves New York for San Francisco. 

He faces bigotry based on his sexual orientation, but 

responds with serious action, spearheading a campaign 

of activism that organises the gay community into a group 

with genuine financial strength – a strength that Milk 

translates into political muscle. 

TICKETDEALS 





My Beautiful Laundrette 

Sat 18 Feb & Sun 19 Feb at 3.45pm 

Stephen Frears • UK 1985 • 1h37m • 35mm • 15 

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan 

Seth, Shirley Anne Field. 

Omar (Gordon Warnecke) is sent by his widower father 

to work for his adulterous wheeler-dealer uncle (Saeed 

Jaffrey). Omar grasps the opportunity to manage his uncle’s 

dilapidated laundrette with the intention of turning it into a 

glittering palace of commercial success. When he employs 

boyhood friend and ex-National Front member Johnny 

(Daniel Day-Lewis) they become lovers as well as working 

partners. However, complications soon arise, as the anger 

of Johnny’s discarded fascist gang begins to build and Omar 

is forced to face increasingly difficult family issues. 

Weekend 

Sat 25 & Sun 26 Feb at 3.45pm 

Andrew Haigh • UK 2011 • 1h37m • Digital projection 

18 – Contains strong sex, sex references and hard drug use 

Cast: Tom Cullen, Chris New. 

Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s account of an intense 

Friday-to-Sunday affair is a moving and intelligent 

romance. After a casual Friday night dinner with his straight 

friends, the semi-closeted Russell sets off for a gay club. 

Feeling that his life needs to be kick-started, he hooks up 

with Glen, a feisty, artsy type. The intended one night 

stand develops into something more, and the two continue 

on through the weekend, hanging out in bars, having sex, 

taking drugs and telling endless stories as they get to know 

each other better. But the end is already in sight, since 

Glen is about to leave for America.

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Special Events 

THE TOPP TWINS: UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS 

LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN 

SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS 

SPECIALEVENT 

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls 

Wed 15 Feb at 8.15pm 

Leanne Pooley • New Zealand 2009 • 1h24m • 35mm • 12A 

Documentary 

The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls tells the story of 

the world’s only singing, yodelling lesbian twin sister 

comedians, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism 

and unique brand of entertainment has helped change 

New Zealand’s social landscape. 

As well as rarely seen archive footage and home movies, 

this wonderfully engaging and entertaining film features 

interviews with some of the Topp’s infamous comedy 

alter-egos, including candid chats with the two Kens, Camp 

Mother and Camp Leader, the bowling ladies and the posh 

socialite sisters, Prue and Dilly. 

We are delighted that the Topp Twins will join us for a Q&A 

after the screening, and might even be persuaded to give 

us a song or two! 

SPECIALEVENT 

Lady Windermere’s Fan 

Wed 22 Feb at 8.30pm - TICKETS £9/£7 

Ernst Lubitsch • USA 1925 • 1h29m • DV-Cam • Silent • PG 

Cast: Ronald Colman, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Irene Rich, Edward 

Martindel. 

To keep Mrs Erlynne’s identity as the long-lost mother of 

upper-crust beauty Lady Windermere under wraps, Lord 

Windermere agrees to help finance her infiltration into 

London aristocracy. But when tongues start clicking over 

her husband’s involvement with the scandalous older 

woman, the young socialite gambles with her good family 

name by entertaining an affair of her own with cad Lord 

Darlington. 

It was brave of Ernst Lubitsch to attempt to translate Oscar 

Wilde’s play into a silent movie, given that – by virtue of 

the format – he was unable to incorporate much of Wilde’s 

lauded verbal repartee. The resulting film is evidence of 

Lubitsch’s visual creativity, and was an enormous hit at the 

time. 

This silent screening will be accompanied by a newlycommissioned 

score, performed live by critically-acclaimed 

composer Yati Durant and an ensemble of the Edinburgh 

Film Music Orchestra (www.efmo.co.uk). 

SPECIALEVENT 

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 

Tini zabutykh predkiv 

Sun 4 Mar at 8.30pm - TICKETS £11/£9 

Sergei Parajanov • Soviet Union 1965 • 1h32m • Format TBC 

Ukrainian with English subtitles • 12 

Cast: Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, 

Spartak Bagashvili, Nikolai Grinko. 

New Mexico’s widescreen roving folk duo A Hawk and 

A Hacksaw (accordionist/drummer Jeremy Barnes and 

violinist Heather Trost) present a brand new live re-score of 

Soviet director Sergei Parajanov’s classic film Shadows of 

Forgotten Ancestors. The idea is not to accompany a silent 

film but to work with the existing dialogue and score to 

create a new blend of live music and pre-recorded sound 

that accompanies, comments on, and sometimes overtakes 

the original soundtrack and dialogue. The border between 

live instrumentation and film score becomes blurred, just 

as Parajanov’s film masks the boundaries between realism 

and magic. 

Set high up in the Carpathian mountains, the film tells 

the age-old tale of a peasant’s love and loss in a preindustrial 

age where magic and ritual are as much a part of 

existence as back-breaking work and violent family feuds. 

The colour, grandeur and gut-wrenching romance of A 

Hawk and A Hacksaw’s music is the perfect counterpoint 

to Parajanov’s visionary blend of folklore, sorcery and 

religious symbolism. 

www.ahawkandahacksaw.net

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The Hippodrome 

Festival of 

Silent Cinema 

Friday 16th March - 

Sunday 18th March 2012 

20% OFF 

YOUR TOTAL A LA CARTE FOOD BILL 

105-109 Lothian Rd, Edinburgh EH3 9AN 

Reservations: 0131 229 7747 

www.kamasutrarestaurants.com 

Image: Courtesy of Photoplay Productions 

A galaxy of stars. 

Three jam-packed days. 

One unique cinema. 

It’s back! Scotland’s only silent film 

festival returns for a very special 

weekend of classic and rare silent 

movies in Bo’ness. 

The Hippodrome cinema is 100 years 

old this year and we’re celebrating with 

live performances by internationally 

renowned musicians and special 

events for all the family. Enjoy a 

warm welcome and a unique cinema 

experience in Scotland’s original 

picture palace. Tickets now on sale. 

10 Hope Street, Bo’ness EH51 0AA 

Box office: 01324 506850 

www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org/ 

silentcinemafest 

 

 

fire and ice 

photography exhibition 

by john reiach 

The Hot Furniture Company 

wood-burning stoves 

25-27 Jeffrey Street, EH1 1DH 

Tel 0131 558 3344 

www.thehotfurniturecompany.com 

Open Tue-Sat 11am-4pm 

Follow us on 

@FalkirkCultural

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME 3 February - 1 March 2012 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 Carnage (AD) 1.45/3.45/6.15/8.30 

3 2 The Artist 1.30/3.45/6.00/8.15 

Feb 3 Shame (AD) 1.20/8.45 

3 We Were Here (LGBT) 3.40/6.30 

Sat 1 Puss in Boots (WW) 1.00 

4 1 Carnage (AD) 3.45/6.15/8.30 

Feb 2 The Artist 1.30/3.45/6.00/8.15 

3 Shame (AD) 1.20/6.30/8.45 

3 We Were Here (LGBT) 3.40 

Sun 1 Puss in Boots (WW) 

11.00am 

5 1 Carnage (AD) 1.00/3.45/6.15/8.30 

Feb 2 The Artist 1.30/3.45/8.15 

2 Ashes of American Flags... 6.15 

3 Shame (AD) 1.20/8.45 

3 We Were Here (LGBT) 3.40 

3 The Artist 6.00 

Mon 1 Carnage (AD) (B) 

11am (babies & carers) 

6 1 Carnage (AD) 2.30/6.15/8.30 

Feb 2 The Artist 3.15/8.15 

2 BAA Programme 3 6.30 

3 Shame (AD) 3.30/8.45 

3 Almanya (ME) 6.15 + intro 

Tue 1 Carnage (AD) 2.30/6.15/8.30 

7 2 The Artist 3.15/8.15 

Feb 2 The Times of H. Milk (LGBT) 6.00 

3 Shame (AD) 3.30/8.45 

3 Journey to the Sun (ME) 6.15 + intro 

Wed 1 Carnage (AD) 2.30/6.15/8.30 

8 2 The Artist 3.15/8.50 

Feb 2 L’Eclisse (EC) 

6.00 + intro 

3 Shame (AD) 3.30/6.10 

3 Hejar (ME) 8.30 + intro 

Thu 1 Carnage (AD) 2.30/6.15/8.30 

9 2 The Artist 3.15/8.50 

Feb 2 Milk (LGBT) 6.00 

3 Shame (AD) 3.30/6.10 

3 Mourning (ME) 8.30 + intro 

Fri 1 Carnage (AD) 2.00/4.00/6.15/8.30 

10 2 The Artist 1.30/3.45/6.00 

Feb 2 Eraserhead + shorts (DL) 8.15 

3 Casablanca 1.45/4.00/8.25 

3 Fotograf + shorts (ME) 6.30 + intro 

Sat 1 Carnage (AD) 1.30/6.30/8.30 

11 1 Eraserhead + shorts (DL) 3.45 

Feb 2 The Artist 1.30/6.00/8.15 

2 Carnage 3.45 

3 Transit Cities + Grandma... (ME) 1.15 + intro 

3 Casablanca 4.00/6.15 

3 Gitmek: My Marlon... (ME) 8.30 + intro 

Sun 1 Carnage (AD) 2.00/4.00/6.15/8.30 

12 2 The Artist 1.30/3.45/8.45 

Feb 2 The Elephant Man (DL) 6.00 

3 Once Upon... Anatolia (ME) 1.00 + intro 


3 Jiyan (ME) 6.15 + intro 

Mon 1 Carnage (AD) 2.30/6.15/8.30 

13 2 Casablanca (B) 11am (babies & carers) 

Feb 2 The Artist 3.30/6.00/8.15 


3 Min Dit... + short (ME) 6.10 + intro 

Tue 1 Carnage (AD) 2.30 

14 1 Casablanca 6.00 

Feb 1 Wild at Heart (DL) 8.30 

2 The Artist 3.30/8.15 

2 Carnage (AD) 6.15 

3 Casablanca 3.15 

3 Turtles Can Fly (ME) 6.10 + intro 


Wed 1 Carnage (AD) 2.30/6.15/8.30 

15 2 The Artist 3.30/5.45 

Feb 2 The Topp Twins: Untouchable... 8.15 + Q&A 


3 Fear Eats the Soul (EC) 6.00 + intro 

Thu 1 Carnage (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.00 

16 1 Crimes of Passion (Psy) 10.00pm + intro 

Feb 2 The Artist 3.30/6.00/8.15 


3 Close Up Kurdistan (ME) 8.00 + Q&A 

Fri 1 Carnage (AD) 1.00/3.00/6.15/8.30 

17 2 The Artist 1.30/3.45/8.15 

Feb 2 The Woman in the Fifth 6.00 

3 The Woman in the Fifth 1.45/4.00/8.45 

3 Cairo Exit + short (ME) 6.10 + intro 

Sat 1 The Princess Bride (WW) 1.00 

18 1 Carnage (AD) 3.00/6.15/8.30 


2 My Beautiful Laundrette (LGBT) 3.45 

2 The Woman in the Fifth 8.15 

3 Hisham Zaman: 3 Films (ME) 1.45 + intro 

3 The Woman in the Fifth 4.00/6.10 

3 Goodbye + short (ME) 8.20 + intro 

Sun 1 The Princess Bride (WW) 11.00am 

19 1 Carnage (AD) 1.00/2.55/4.30/6.30 

Feb 1 Dune (DL) 8.30 

2 The Artist 1.30/8.15 

2 My Beautiful Laundrette (LGBT) 3.45 


3 This Is Not a Film + shorts (ME) 1.00 + discussion 


3 Kick Off (ME) 6.10 + intro 

Mon 1 The Artist (B) 


20 1 Carnage (AD) 2.30/6.15 

Feb 1 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk... (DL) 8.15 

2 The Artist 3.15/6.00 



3 Red Heart (ME) 8.20 + intro

WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM 3 February - 1 March 2012 FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME 

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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) 

SHOW 

TIMES 

Tue 1 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk... (DL) 2.30 

21 1 Carnage (AD) + (S) 6.15 (subtitled) 

Feb 1 Carnage (AD) 8.30 

2 The Artist 3.15/8.15 



3 Memento (Sci) 6.00 + discussion 

Wed 1 Carnage (AD) 2.30/6.15 

22 1 Lady Windermere’s Fan + EFMO 8.30 (£9/£7) 


2 The Tin Drum (EC) 5.45 + intro 



Thu 1 Carnage (AD) 2.30/6.15 

23 1 Lost Highway (DL) 8.15 



3 The Woman in the Fifth 3.30/6.10/8.20 

Fri 1 The Artist 1.00/3.30/8.15 

24 1 Laura 6.00 

Feb 2 Lost Highway (DL) 1.20 

2 Carnage (AD) 4.10/6.10/8.30 


3 Laura 3.30 

3 The Dark Harbour (J) 6.15 

SEASONS: 

(CS) – Come and See... (page 7) 

(DL) – Into a World: The Films of David Lynch (pages 

8-10) 

(EC) – Intro. to European Cinema (pages 24-25) 

(J) – Whose Film Is It Anyway? Contemporary Japanese 

Auteurs (pages 22-23) 

(LGBT) – LGBT History Month (page 11) 

(ME) – Middle Eastern Film Festival (pages 16-20) 

(Psy) – Psychotronic Cinema (page 21) 

(Sci) – SciScreen (page 21) 

(WW) – Weans’ World (page 7) 

Full index of films on page 2 

DAY 

DATE 

SCREEN NO. & 

FILM TITLE 

SHOW 

TIMES 

Sat 1 The Artist 1.00/6.00/8.15 

25 1 Carnage (AD) 3.30 

Feb 2 Laura 1.40 

2 Weekend 3.45 

2 Carnage (AD) 6.10/8.30 


3 Dear Doctor (J) 3.30 

3 Laura 6.15 

Sun 1 The Artist 1.00/6.00/8.15 

26 1 Carnage (AD) 3.30 

Feb 2 Laura 1.40 

2 Weekend 3.45 

2 Carnage (AD) 6.10/8.30 


3 Bad Company (J) 3.30 

3 Laura 6.15 

Mon 1 Laura (B) 


27 1 Laura 8.15 



2 Talk: Dickens on Screen 6.30 (£5) 



3 I Just Didn’t Do It (J) 6.00 

Tue 1 The Artist 2.30/6.00 

28 1 Blue Velvet (DL) 8.15 

Feb 2 Carnage (AD) 3.15/8.30 

2 Laura 6.10 


3 All Around Us (J) 8.20 

Wed 1 The Artist 2.30/8.15 

29 1 Laura 6.00 

Feb 2 The Artist 3.15 

2 Cría cuervos (EC) 6.00 + intro 



3 About Her Brother (J) 8.20 

Thu 1 The Artist 2.30/6.00 

1 1 Amélie (CS) 8.15 

Mar 2 The Artist 3.15 

2 Laura 6.10 



3 A Stranger of Mine (J) 6.15 

TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION 

MATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm) 

Mon - Thur £5.60 full price, £3.60 concessions 

Friday Bargain Matinees £4.20/£2.60 concessions 

Sat - Sun £7.50 full price, £5.50 concessions 

EVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later) 

£7.50 full price, £5.50 concessions 

Filmhouse Members get £1.50 off every ticket 

(excludes Friday matinees and Weans’ World). 

All tickets to Weans’ World screenings (marked 

WW on grid) are £2.50. Tickets for children 

under 12 are £2.50 for any screening. 

Concessions available for: Children (under 15); Students 

(with valid matriculation card); School pupils (15-18 years); 

Young Scot card holders; Senior Citizens; Disability or 

Ivalidity status (Carers go free); Claimants (Jobseekers 

Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit); 

NHS employees (with proof of employment). 

There are ticket deals available on film seasons, these 

are detailed on the same page as the films. 

All performances are bookable in advance. Tickets may be 

reserved for performances and must be collected no later 

than 30 minutes before the performance starts. Tickets may 

be booked by credit card on the number below or online at 

www.filmhousecinema.com. We no longer charge a fee for 

bookings made by telephone or on the website. 

Tickets cannot be exchanged nor money refunded 

except in the event of a cancellation of a performance. 

Programmes are subject to change, but only in 

extraordinary circumstances. 

All seats are unreserved. If you require seats together 

please arrive in plenty of time. Cinemas will be open 

15 minutes before the start of each screening. The 

management reserves the right of admission and will 

not admit latecomers. Children under the age of 12 

must be accompanied by an adult. 

Double Bills are shown in the same order as indicated 

on these pages. Intervals in Double Bills last 10 

minutes. 

BOX OFFICE: 0131 228 2688 

Open from 10.00am - 9.00pm daily 

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BOOK ONLINE: www.filmhousecinema.com

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Middle Eastern Film Festival 

ALMANYA 

JOURNEY TO THE SUN 

HEJAR 

MOURNING 


This year’s Middle Eastern Film Festival boasts the strongest line-up of films yet, with new releases by Nuri Bilge 

Ceylan, Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof appearing alongside the work of rising filmmakers such as Morteza 

Farshbaf, Hesham Issawi and Leyla Bouzid, and a succinct retrospective on Kurdish cinema which, despite the groundbreaking 

efforts of Yilmaz Guney in the seventies, only really came to prominence over the last decade and half. This 

retrospective takes as its starting point Yesim Ustaoglu’s poetic masterpiece, Journey to the Sun, a film that announced 

the arrival of a new Kurdish cinema, then takes its own journey through a remarkable selection of works that places 

Kurdish filmmakers within the context of Middle Eastern cinema and the broader diaspora. At its best Kurdish cinema 

not only evokes the sufferings and travails of its people, but also contains moments of great lyricism, humour and 

humanism, and it is these qualities that have struck such a resonant chord with moviegoers and critics alike. 

Complementing the Kurdish season will be a day workshop, facilitated by Mustafu Gundogdu, one of the preeminent 

authorities on Kurdish cinema, and a personal appearance and masterclass by acclaimed documentary 

filmmaker Yuksel Yavuz. 

For the first time the festival will also be showcasing visual artists with a connection to the region, in a programme 

of works curated in association with the internet channel The Agent Ria:registeredinart (www.youtube.com/ 

registeredinart). Featured artists will be Hakan Akcura and Erkan Ozgen. 

Rounding the festival off will be an exhibition in the cafe bar of works by the Palestinian-born artist Leena Nammari 

– see page 26 for details. 

This project is organised by Neill Walker (on behalf of MESP), James McKenzie, and Filmhouse, and is managed 

by Neill Walker (on behalf of the Edinburgh International Centre for Spirituality and Peace, EICSP, Scottish Charity, 

SC038996). Middle East Festival Website: www.mesp.org.uk 

Almanya 

Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland 

Mon 6 Feb at 6.15pm 

Yasemin Samdereli • Germany 2011 • 1h37m • Digital projection 

German and Turkish with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Vedat Erincin, Fahri Ogün Yardim, Aylin Tezel, Lilay Huser, 

Demet Gül. 

A charming cross-cultural comedy about three generations 

of German-Turks, Almanya is the story of a Turkish family 

living in Germany who set off together for their homeland. 

Moving across the past and present, the journey is full of 

memories, arguments and reconciliations, until the family 

trip takes an unexpected turn... 

Journey to the Sun 

Günese yolculuk 


Yesim Ustaoglu • Turkey/Netherlands/Germany 1999 • 1h44m 

35mm • Turkish, Kurdish and Dutch with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Nazmî Kirik, Newroz Baz, Mizgin Kapazan, Ara Güler, Lucia 

Marano. 

FOCUS ON 

KURDISH CINEMA 

Turkish Mehmet and Kurdish Berzan are two lonely souls 

trying to keep their heads above water. Mehmet comes 

from the west of Turkey and Berzan’s village is far away 

in the southeast, near the Iraqi border. They meet in the 

threatening urban environment of Istanbul, where Mehmet 

is working for the water department and Berzan is selling 

music cassettes on the street. Mehmet’s hopes for a new 

life come to an abrupt end when he is mistakenly arrested 

as a terrorist suspect when a package containing a gun is 

found next to him on the bus.


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FOTOGRAF 

TRANSIT CITIES 

GRANDMA, A THOUSAND TIMES 

Hejar 

Büyük adam küçük ask 


Handan Ipekci • Turkey/Greece/Hungary 2001 • 2h • 35mm 

Turkish and Kurdish with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Sükran Güngör, Dilan Erçetin, Füsun Demirel, Yildiz Kenter, 

Ismail Hakki Sen. 

FOCUS ON 


This controversial film was unanimously nominated to 

represent Turkey at the Academy Awards in the Best 

Foreign Film category. At the film’s heart is the relationship 

between a nationalist, authoritarian judge and a five-yearold 

Kurdish orphan. The judge, who is the girl’s neighbour, 

takes her in following a botched police raid that results in 

the death of her guardian. Hejar was the winner of several 

awards, including Best Picture, at Turkey’s prestigious 

Golden Orange Film Festival (2001). 

Mourning 

Soog 


Morteza Farshbaf • Iran 2011 • 1h25m • Digital projection 

Persian with English subtitles • 12A 

Cast: Kiomars Giti, Sharareh Pasha, Amir Hossein Maleki, Sahar 

Dolatshahi, Peyman Maadi. 

A dark comedy chronicling a road trip through Iran’s 

countryside to attend the funeral of a young boy’s 

parents, who are killed in a tragic accident following an 

argument in the middle of the night. The now orphan is 

escorted by his two deaf relatives, who choose to keep the 

death of his parents a secret. Mourning is a successfully 

unconventional exploration of the road trip as a vehicle for 

grieving. 

Fotograf 

Fri 10 Feb at 6.30pm 

Kazim Oz • Turkey • 2001 • 1h6m • 35mm 

Turkish and Kurdish with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Feyyaz Duman, Nazmî Kirik, Zulfiye Dolu, Muhlis Asan, 

Mehmet Ali Oz. 

An imaginatively shot and revealing film following the 

stories of two young men travelling to Turkish Kurdistan 

by bus. They sit next to each other, each of them hiding 

the reason for his journey from the other. Who are they? 

Where are they going? And why? 

PLUS SHORTS 

Kurdish Lessons 1-3 Hakan Akçura • 2010 • 3m 

The Agent Ria:registeredinart 

FOCUS ON 


Lyndsey Mann, who runs Agent Ria (an internet 

channel screening artist’s films), has curated two 

works to be screened in the cinema – Hakan 

Akcura’s Kurdish Lessons 1-3 and Erkan Ozgen’s 

Breath – and a longer work by Hakan Akcura, 

Phuket: Two Sides of the Islands, to be shown 

online at www.youtube.com/registeredinart and to 

be presented in person by the artist at Stills Gallery, 

23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh, on Saturday 18 

February from 4 - 6pm. 

DOUBLE BILL 

Sat 11 Feb at 1.15pm 

Transit Cities 

Mohammed Hushki • Jordan • 2010 • 1h10m • Digibeta 

Arabic with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Saba Mubarak, Mohammad Al-Qabbani, Shafika Al Til, Ashraf 

Farah, Manal Seihmeimat. 

Divorced after 14 years of marriage in the US, a 36-yearold 

Jordanian woman returns to Amman but finds her 

hometown, family and friends much changed. Hoping to 

rebuild her former life, Laila arrives at her parents’ home 

without warning – and without mentioning her divorce. She 

finds her once active, intellectual father is now a broken man 

who practically refuses to talk to her, her mother and sister 

are wearing hijab and frown upon her Western clothing, 

and her MA degree doesn’t seem to mean anything to her 

former university when she goes to apply for a job. The 

last straw comes when she finds she can’t even do as she 

pleases in her own rented apartment. An atmospheric and 

affecting drama about cultural estrangement. 

PLUS 

Grandma, a Thousand Times 

Mahmoud Kaabour • United Arab Emirates/Qatar/Lebanon 

2010 • 50m • Digibeta • Arabic with English subtitles • 12A 

Documentary 

Teta Fatima is the 83-year old matriarch of the Kaabour 

family and the sharp-witted queen bee of an old Beiruti 

quarter. With great intimacy, this playful magic-realist film 

documents her larger-than-life character, as she struggles 

to cope with the silence of her once-buzzing house and 

imagines what awaits her beyond death. 


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Middle Eastern Film Festival (continued) 

GITMEK: MY MARLON AND BRANDO 

ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA 

TURTLES CAN FLY 

CLOSE UP KURDISTAN 

Gitmek: My Marlon 

and Brando 

Gitmek: Benim Marlon ve Brandom 


Huseyin Karabey • Turkey 2008 • 1h33m • Digibeta 

English, Kurdish and Turkish with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Ayca Damgaci, Hama Ali Kahn, Nesrin Cevadzade, Omer 

Sahin, Cengiz Bozkurt. 

FOCUS ON 


Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando follows the long-distance 

love affair between Ayca, an actress from Turkey, and 

Hama Ali, an actor from Iraq. When Americans invade Iraq 

and the country is engulfed in with hellish violence, Ayca 

decides to go on a dangerous and seemingly futile journey 

to Iraq, in search of her lover. 

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 

Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da 


Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Turkey/Bosnia and Herzegovina 2011 

2h30m • 35mm • Turkish with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel, Ahmet 

Mümtaz Taylan, Firat Tanis. 

A haunting journey into the heart of darkness and into the 

heart of Anatolian identity. A murder has been committed 

and a man has confessed; all that remains is for him to 

lead police to the body, but it soon becomes clear that 

the killer can’t locate the place where he left his victim. 

Unsurprisingly, master director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes 

prize-winner is no ordinary police investigation thriller. 

Nothing significant may seem to happen but things are not 

always as they appear to be. People, emotions and events 

develop in unexpected ways until the grand design of this 

subtle, rich and audacious film comes gradually into focus. 

Jiyan 

FOCUS ON 



Jano Rosebiani • Iraq/USA 2002 • 1h39m 

35mm • Kurdish with English subtitles 

12A – Contains moderately distressing scenes 

Cast: Kurdo Galali, Pirshang Berzinji, Choman Hawrami, Derya Qadir. 

Five years after the chemical and biological bombing of 

Halabja, Diyari, a Kurdish-American architect returns to his 

homeland, intending to build an orphanage in what is left 

of the town. He finds himself in a community where daily 

burials of the dead are a regular occurrence, even years 

after the attack. In the midst of this situation he discovers 

two children, cousins Jiyan and Sherko, who prove that it is 

still possible to salvage something from this destruction. 

Min Dit: The Children 

of Diyarbakir 


Miraz Bezar • Germany/Turkey • 2009 • 1h42m • 35mm 

Kurdish and Turkish with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Senay Orak, Muhammed Al, Hakan Karsak, Suzan Ilir. 

Ten-year-old Gulistan and her younger brother Firat live 

happily with their parents in Diyarbakir, the heart of Turkish 

Kurdistan. When they are suddenly orphaned, Gulistan, 

Firat and their infant sister are cared for their young, 

politically active aunt Yekbun, who is trying to arrange for 

her and the children to move to Sweden. Before she is 

able to complete the process, however, Yekbun disappears 

without a trace, and the children are left alone. 

PLUS SHORT 

Breath Erkan Ozgen • Turkey 2008 • 6m 

FOCUS ON 


Turtles Can Fly 

Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand 


Bahman Ghobadi • Iran/Iraq/France 2004 • 1h37m 

35mm Kurdish with English subtitles 

15 – Contains implied sexual assault and war trauma 

Cast: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh 

Feysal Rahman, Abdol Rahman Karim. 

FOCUS ON 


The first film to be made in Iraq after the fall of Saddam 

Hussein, Turtles Can Fly is set in a Kurdish refugee camp 

on the Iraqi-Turkish border just before the US invasion in 

spring 2003. Director Bahman Ghobadi concentrates on a 

handful of orphaned children and their efforts to survive 

the appalling conditions. Using an entirely non-professional 

cast, Ghobadi vividly immerses the viewer in the nightmarish 

realities of daily existence in this makeshift community. 

Close Up Kurdistan 


Yüksel Yavuz • Germany 2007 • 1h44m • Digibeta 

Kurdish, Turkish and German with English subtitles • 15 

Documentary 

FOCUS ON 


Reversing the route of refugees fleeing conflict and 

insecurity in Kurdistan, Yüksel Yavuz documents his 

journey from the relative safety of Europe back though 

Turkey to a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan. Through the 

often harrowing stories of those he meets along the way 

– including Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ismail Besikci, 

imprisoned for 17 years as a dissident intellectual – Yavuz’s 

film gives Western audiences an invaluable perspective on 

some of the most pressing political issues facing the Kurds. 

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director 

Yüksel Yavuz.


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CAIRO EXIT 

GOODBYE 

THIS IS NOT A FILM 

Cairo Exit 


Hesham Issawi • Egypt • 2010 • 1h40m • Digibeta 

Arabic with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Mohamed Ramadan, Maryhan, Ahmed Bidder, Safaa Galal. 

A powerful account of life in Cairo, this raw drama about a 

pair of star-crossed lovers shines a powerful spotlight upon 

the social and cultural taboos that riddle the city’s diverse 

population. Amal is an 18-year-old Coptic girl, living in the 

slums of Cairo. Her Muslim boyfriend Tarek is planning to 

leave Egypt on an illegal boat-crossing to Italy. When Amal 

tells Tarek she is pregnant, he gives her an ultimatum – leave 

the country with him, or have an abortion. Despite her love 

for Tarek, Amal rejects both choices, but when she is fired 

from her job her already precarious future looks bleak. 

PLUS SHORT 

Soubresauts Leyla Bouzid • Tunisia/France 2011 • 22m 

Hisham Zaman: 3 Films 


FOCUS ON 


1h25m • 35mm • Kurdish and Norwegian with English subtitles • 15 

Three films by Kurdish-Norwegian director Hisham Zaman. 

Bawke Hisham Zaman • Norway 2006 • 15m 

A father is forced to choose between two evils to provide 

for his son. 

Winterland Hisham Zaman • Norway 2007 • 52m 

A love story about two Kurds in the north of Norway. 

Other Ones (De andre) Hisham Zaman • Norway 2009 • 18m 

A man is driving through a winter landscape. All of a sudden, 

his car hits someone, and he flees the scene in panic. 

Goodbye 


Mohammad Rasoulof • Iran • 2011 • 1h40m • Digital projection 

Persian with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Leyla Zareh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Shahab Hosseini. 

A young Iranian lawyer faces callous bureacratic 

indifference and frightening governmental harassment as 

she attempts to maintain her professional life while seeking 

an exit visa. An overtly critical and thus political – and 

courageous – film, it is also beautifully artistic, with a sense 

of rhythm, framing, lighting, metaphor and symbol that 

is both subtle and communicative. Lacking official state 

approval, it was smuggled out of Iran for its Cannes Film 

Festival appearance last year, where it won Best Director 

in its section. After the events of the Green Revolution, 

the director was arrested along with Jafar Panahi, and both 

now face prison sentences. 

PLUS SHORT 

Into Thin Air Mohammadreza Farzad • Iran 2010 • 26m 

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This Is Not a Film + SDI shorts 


1h45m • 15 

This Is Not A Film will be followed by two short films 

dealing with the Middle East, from graduates of the 

Scottish Documentary Institute, and a discussion, lead by 

Finlay Pretsell, on the importance of film in documenting 

contemporary issues within the region. 

This Is Not a Film 

Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb • Iran • 2010 • 1h15m 

Format TBC • Persian with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary 

Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb’s 

mesmerising documentary depicts a day in Panahi’s life 

as he appeals his conviction for ‘propaganda against the 

system’ – which carries with it a jail sentence and a twentyyear 

ban from writing or directing. This Is not a Film is not 

only a philosophical reflection on the nature of making 

art; it is also an urgent and personal defence of the artist. 

When Panahi’s day ends on the threshold of the outside 

world, we see just what’s at stake. 

PLUS SHORTS 

Road to Damascus Roxana Vilk • 2010 • 2m 

Yemen Uprising Sara Ishaq • 2012 • 28m 


20 Middle Eastern Film Fest (contd.)/British Animation Awards 

KICK OFF 

Kick Off 


Shawkat Amin Korki • Iraq/Iran/Japan 2009 • 1h21m 

35mm • Kurdish with English subtitles • 12A 

Cast: Atug Asu, Hamed Diyar, Hamajaga Hilin, Anwar Sako. 

In Iraq, where thousands of families have seen their homes 

destroyed or confiscated, a ruined football stadium is the 

only refuge many can find. Hundreds of Kurds, Turks, 

Assyrians and Arabs live side by side in makeshift quarters 

inside the vast concrete structure. Aso is a young man who 

is bringing up his younger brother Diyar, who has lost a leg 

in a mine blast, under these frightful conditions. Along with 

his friend Sako, he organises a friendly match with the help 

of Kurdish TV. Comical and poignant, Kick Off conveys the 

reality of life in Iraq better than any news report. 

Red Heart 

Rødt hjerte 


Halkawt Mustafa • Norway/Iraq 2011 • 1h17m 

Digital projection • Kurdish with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Shahen Jamal, Soran Ibrahim, Ali Ahmed. 

FOCUS ON 


FOCUS ON 


Shirin and Soran, two Kurdish teenagers, are secretly 

sweethearts. When Shirin’s mother dies, her father 

decides to remarry, but his new wife demands that Shirin 

has to marry her son. To be together, Soran and Shirin have 

no other choice but to escape. Life on the run is not easy 

– Soran is sent to prison and Shirin is left alone, in a society 

where a young woman without her father or her husband 

becomes fair game. 

RED HEART 

WORKSHOP AND MASTERCLASS 

Please note these events are NOT taking place at 

Filmhouse – see individual event information for details. 

Workshop: The History and Themes of 

Kurdish Cinema 

An opportunity to learn more about cinema from the 

biggest stateless nation in the world 

Facilitator: Mustafa Gündogdu, Co-ordinator of the 

London Kurdish Film Festival 

Venue: Sanctuary, Augustine United Church, 

41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL. 

Date: Saturday 11 February 2012, 9.30am-4pm. 

Cost: £15/£10 (Concessions, Students Free) 

For a Registra tion Form contact: Neill Walker, 

mesp2012@hotmail.co.uk, 0131 331 4469. 

Masterclass with Yuksel Yavuz 

A conversation with Kurdish-German filmmaker Yuksel 

Yavuz. 

Venue: Studio 2, Screen Academy Scotland, A Skillset 

Film and Media Academy, Edinburgh Napier University, 

2A Merchiston Avenue, Edinburgh, EH10 4NU. 

Date: Thursday 16 February 2012, 2pm-4pm 

Cost: Admission Free. Everyone Welcome. 

Contact and Booking: Michele Marcoux: 

M.Marcoux@napier.ac.uk 

BAA PROGRAMME 3 – ERNESTO 

British Animation 

Awards 2012 

Your chance to vote for winners in the British 

Animation Awards 2012! The last of three 

programmes containing a mix of animated shorts, 

music videos and commercials, offering an 

opportunity to see the cream of a fantastic range of 

animation films made over the past two years – on 

the big screen. 

Voting forms will be handed out 

at the start of each screening. 

BAA Programme 3 


1h12m • 15 

Spin Spun Span (Emily Howells & Anne Wilkins, 4’30”), Moxie 

(Stephen Irwin, 6’), Thursday (Matthias Hoegg, 7’), Get Well 

Soon: Impaled Leg (Phoebe Boswell, 4’), The Henhouse 

(Elena Pomares, 7’), You May Now (Daniel Keeble & Dane Winn, 

1’30”), Liz Green: Displacement (Kate Anderson, 4’), Lukid: 

Stripes (David Gilbert & Maxim Lucas, 4’), Get Well Soon: 

Bob (Darren Walsh, 2’20”), I’m Fine Thanks (Eamonn O’Neill, 

4’30”), Architeq: Into the Cosmos (Darren Robbie, 3’), Dry 

Riser: Tangerine (Thomas Hicks, 4’), Nokia: Gulp (Sumo 

Science, 1’30”), Statoil: Goodnight (David Prosser, 1’), Pilsner 

Urquell Legends: The Day Pilsner Struck Gold 

(Chris Randall, 1’), All Consuming Love (Man in a Cat) 

(Louis Hudson, 9’), Ernesto (Corinne Ladiende, 7’)

Ashes of American Flags/Psychotronic Cinema/SciScreen 

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ASHES OF AMERICAN FLAGS: WILCO LIVE 

SPECIALSCREENING 

Ashes of American Flags: Wilco Live 


Brendan Canty & Christopher Green • USA 2009 • 1h27m 

Digibeta • 15 • Documentary 

This award-winning film presents the Chicago band Wilco 

live in concert during their 2008 tour. Filmed and recorded 

at five quintessentially American concert venues – Cain’s 

Ballroom in Tulsa, Tipitina’s in New Orleans, the Mobile, 

AL Civic Center, the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and 

the 9:30 Club in Washington DC – the film captures the 

spirit, energy and poignancy of a Wilco concert and tour. 

Ashes of American Flags intersperses interviews with band 

members and day-in-the-life footage as the band travels 

across the US. 

CRIMES OF PASSION 

Crimes of Passion 


Ken Russell • USA 1984 • 1h47m • 35mm • 18 

Cast: Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, John Laughlin, Bruce 

Davison, Annie Potts. 

The late, great Ken Russell was never a man to shy away 

from controversy, and his eccentric American exploitation 

epic Crimes Of Passion, which features outrageously 

demented performances from Kathleen Turner (a 

prostitute) and Anthony Perkins (a sexually demented 

priest), was censored by almost five minutes for US 

release. 

Back to disgrace the big screen for the first time since the 

mid-80s, Crimes Of Passion employs, even by Russell’s 

standards, a complete no-holds-barred directorial 

approach. The result is an astonishingly obscene, 

disturbing and hilarious black comedy satire of American 

sexual values, and Psychotronic Cinema is proud to present 

an ultra-rare 35mm screening of the (almost completely 

uncut) European version. You won’t have seen the like of 

this barking mad masterpiece in a cinema for quite a while, 

but be warned – it’s definitely not for the easily offended. 

MEMENTO 

SciScreen 

Screenings in association with The British Science 

Association, a registered charity which exists to advance 

the public understanding, accessibility and accountability 

of the sciences and engineering. 

For more on The British Science Association, 

see www.britishscienceassociation.org 

Memento 


Christopher Nolan • USA 2000 • 1h53m • 35mm 

15 – Contains strong language and violence 

Cast: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Jr. 

Christopher Nolan’s groundbreaking thriller opens with 

reverse action: a Polaroid photo fading and sliding into the 

camera, a corpse returned to life, a gun pulled from the head, 

a bullet sucked into the barrel. The action thereafter plays 

forwards – with Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) out to track 

down and take revenge on whoever raped and killed his 

wife – save that the brief narrative chunks flash ever further 

backwards in time, so that we share Shelby’s confused point 

of view: he suffers from a rare kind of memory loss. 

The screening will be introduced by Professor Sergio 

Della Sala, and followed by a discussion on memory and 

amnesia, with Professor Della Sala giving an academic and 

clinical viewpoint on the film. 

Sergio Della Sala, MD, PhD, FBPsS, FRSE, is Professor of Human 

Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh and an 

Honorary Consultant in Neurology. His field of research is Cognitive 

Neuropsychology, which focuses on the relationship between brain 

and behaviour, with particular reference to memory and amnesia.

22 Whose Film Is It Anyway? Contemporary Japanese Auteurs 

THE DARK HARBOUR 

DEAR DOCTOR 

BAD COMPANY 

I JUST DIDN’T DO IT 

Whose Film Is It 

Anyway? 

Contemporary Japanese Auteurs 

Following on from last year’s successful 

Back to the Future: Japanese Cinema 

Since the Mid-90s season, this year’s 

Japan Foundation annual touring film 

programme looks at narrative creativity 

by contemporary Japanese directors 

in contrast to the recent storm of 

adaptations, and how they express their 

voices through cinema. Ranging from 

the emerging to the established, this 

programme showcases directors who are 

not necessarily well-represented in this 

country, but whose works demonstrate 

their keen creativity. 

This touring film programme is produced and 

organised by the Japan Foundation, and supported 

by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. 

The Dark Harbour Futoko 


Takatsugu Naito • Japan 2009 • 1h41m • 35mm 

Japanese with English subtitles • 12A 

Cast: Kazuki Hiro’oka, Shinya Kote, Akaji Maro, Yuko Miyamoto. 

Lonely fisherman Manzo lives in a small seaside 

community, living and working alone. He longs for a 

relationship, and maybe even a wife, and so when a sign is 

posted advertising a matchmaking party with city women, 

Manzo borrows a camcorder and records a videotape for 

the dating service. But, when he is showing the tape to 

potential dates, he notices that there is a woman and her 

son in one of his closets. Upon this discovery, rather than 

kicking them out, he encourages them to stay, and begins 

to develop a relationship with them. A charming deadpan 

comedy with a bittersweet edge. 

Dear Doctor 


Miwa Nishikawa • Japan 2009 • 2h7m • 35mm 

Japanese with English subtitles • PG 

Cast: Tsurube Shofukutei, Eita, Teruyuki Kagawa, Haruka Igawa. 

Graduating from a Tokyo medical college, Soma elects to 

take a position in a remote mountain village, with a largely 

elderly population, and there assists the local doctor Ito. 

Everything goes smoothly, until a serious medical problem 

arises. A widow in the village is diagnosed with stomach 

cancer, which is probably inoperable, and wants to conceal 

this from her adult daughter who works in a medical centre 

in Tokyo. Ito is able to keep this secret for her, because he 

has one of his own… Director Miwa Nishikawa is an auteur 

in the truest sense, and definitely a director for the next 

generation of Japanese cinema. 

Bad Company Mabudachi 


Tomoyuki Furumaya • Japan 2001 • 1h38m • 35mm 

Japanese with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Yamato Okitsu, Ryosuke Takahashi, Yuta Nakajima, Ken 

Mitsuishi, Asako Yashiro. 

Sadatomo is a middle-school student torn between his desire 

to please his father, Kobayashi, a strict teacher, and the need 

to rebel against him. Sadatomo and his two best friends often 

bunk off from school and sometimes shoplift for amusement. 

When the boys are caught stealing merchandise from a 

local store, Kobayashi is outraged, and, as punishment, 

all three boys are made to write an essay explaining why 

what they did was wrong. Sadatomo’s essay is entered for 

a competition and wins, but he becomes increasingly angry 

with his father’s pride in his winning essay… 

I Just Didn’t Do It 

Soredemo boku wa yattenai 


Masayuki Suo • Japan 2006 • 2h23m • 35mm 


Cast: Ryo Kase, Asaka Seto, Koji Yamamoto, Masako Motai. 

A young man, Kaneko Teppei, is arrested for allegedly 

groping a woman on a train, and forced to sign a statement 

not in his own words. Suddenly thrust into the Japanese 

legal system, he must choose whether to settle the matter 

out of court or to fight the charges. Following the young 

Teppei through his experience with Japanese justice, 

this intricately crafted, earnest drama is another triumph 

for director Masayuki Suo, director of the internationally 

successful Shall We Dance?.

Whose Film Is It Anyway? Contemporary Japanese Auteurs 

23 

ALL AROUND US 

ABOUT HER BROTHER 

A STRANGER OF MINE 

All Around Us Gururi no koto 


Ryosuke Hashiguchi • Japan 2008 • 2h20m • 35mm 


Cast: Lily Franky, Tae Kimura, Ryo Kase, Susumu Terajima. 

Ryosuke Hashiguchi’s wise and deliciously witty film 

chronicles eight years of a marriage. In 1993, shoerepairman 

Kanao ties the knot with Shoko, who works in 

publishing, because he’s got her pregnant. Apart from 

liking each other, they don’t have too much in common. 

She’s a bit of a control freak, complete with firm ideas 

about how often they should make love, and he’s laid 

back and easy-going. But when Kanao gets a new job as 

a courtroom sketch-artist, he soon finds himself exposed 

to – and drawing – some of the most disturbed people in 

Japan, from child murderers to a member of the Aum sect 

which gas-attacked the Tokyo subway. Shoko, meanwhile, 

traumatised by a miscarriage, begins to fall apart. 

Hashiguchi gets right to the heart of what it takes for two 

people to nurture each other and hold it all together. 

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About Her Brother Ototo 


Yoji Yamada • Japan 2010 • 2h6m • 35mm 

Japanese with English subtitles • PG 

Cast: Ryo Kase, Yu Aoi, Yuriko Ishida, Sayuri Yoshinaga. 

Ginko is increasingly frustrated with her younger brother 

Tetsuro, who has never really grown up and dreams of 

becoming a famous singer. His drunken appearance at the 

wedding of Ginko’s daughter is the last straw for her, but 

she can’t quite bring herself to sever ties with him, in part 

blaming herself for his shambolic life. Can the sibling bond 

between them ultimately supersede their differences? 

A truly heart-warming human drama, with real family 

dynamics and thoroughly well-developed characters. 

Released to much critical acclaim, this film was nominated 

for eleven Japanese Academy awards. 

A Stranger of Mine Unmei janai hito 


Kenji Uchida • Japan 2005 • 1h38m • 35mm 


Cast: Yasuhi Nakamura, Reika Kirishima, So Yamanaka, Yuka Itaya. 

This gripping drama follows strait-laced businessman 

Takeshi Miyata over the course of one long Friday evening. 

Six months after splitting from his girlfriend Ayumi, he is 

still getting over her. He meets up with his childhood friend, 

the now detective Yusuke Kanda, who tells him Ayumi is 

getting married. Kanda then invites a random solitary diner 

to join them, before making a hasty exit and leaving the two 

alone. The diner, Maki, whose engagement was called off 

the day before, returns with Miyata to his apartment, but 

soon Ayumi appears wanting some of her things... 

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24 

Introduction to European Cinema 

L’ECLISSE 

Introduction to 

European Cinema 

Now in its seventh year at Filmhouse, 

Introduction to European Cinema returns for 

2011/12 with a completely new programme of 

films. The season provides a great opportunity to 

see some of the classics of European film on the 

big screen, many of which are very rarely shown. 

Curated in collaboration with the Film Studies 

department at the University of Edinburgh, 

the screenings form part of undergraduate 

and postgraduate syllabuses but are equally 

open to regular members of the Filmhouse 

public. All screenings will be preceded by short 

introductions by IEC Course Organiser Dr 

Pasquale Iannone and notes on the season will 

be available to download from the Filmhouse 

website. 

To keep up to date with screening dates 

and times, feel free to ‘Like’ IEC’s Facebook 

page ‘Introduction to European Cinema at 

Filmhouse’ or follow @Filmhouse on Twitter. 

FEAR EATS THE SOUL 

L’Eclisse The Eclipse 


Michelangelo Antonioni • Italy/France 1962 • 2h3m • 35mm 

Italian with English subtitles • PG – Contains moderate language 

Cast: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Louis Seigner. 

The conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal 

trilogy on modern malaise (preceded by L’avventura 

and La Notte) L’Eclisse tells the story of a young woman 

(Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) 

only to drift into a relationship with another (Alain Delon). 

Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the 

couple’s doomed affair, Antonioni reaches the apotheosis 

of his modernist style, returning to his favourite themes: 

alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an 

increasingly mechanised world. 

Fear Eats the Soul Angst essen Seele auf 


Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany 1974 • 1h33m 

16mm • German and Arabic with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm 

Hermann, Karl Scheydt. 

One of Fassbinder’s finest films, a mordant satire that’s 

also a touching romance and a powerful indictment of 

prejudice. 60-year-old German charwoman Emmi goes into 

a Munich bar frequented by Arab immigrants and meets a 

40-year-old Moroccan named Ali. Ali walks her home and 

spends the night at her apartment, then moves in with her, 

much to the chagrin of her neighbours and grown children. 

But then Ali and Emmi decide to take a vacation, and 

when they return, suddenly everyone is nice to them. The 

problem: the lovers themselves begin to have their own 

reservations about the relationship. 

THE TIN DRUM 

The Tin Drum Die Blechtrommel 


Volker Schlöndorff • West Germany/France/Poland/Yugoslavia 

1979 • 2h22m • 35mm 

Hebrew, Italian, German, Polish and Russian with English subtitles • 15 

Cast: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Katharina 

Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski. 

Danzig, Germany, 1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an 

intellect beyond his years. As he witnesses the hypocrisy of 

adulthood and the irresponsibility of society, Oskar rejects 

both, and, at his third birthday, refuses to grow older. 

Caught in a baffling state of perpetual childhood, Oskar 

lashes out at all he surveys with piercing screams and 

frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the unheeding, 

chaotic world marches onward to the madness and folly 

of World War II. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1979 

Cannes Film Festival and the 1979 Academy Award for 

Best Foreign Language film, Volker Schlöndorff’s visionary 

adaptation of Nobel laureate Günter Grass’ acclaimed 

novel is an unforgettable fantasia of surreal imagery, 

striking eroticism, and unflinching satire. 

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25 

CRIA CUERVOS 

THE KING IS ALIVE 

KOKTEBEL 

VENDREDI SOIR 

Cría cuervos Raise Ravens 


Carlos Saura • Spain 1976 • 1h49m • Digital projection 

Spanish with English subtitles 

12A – Contains moderate sex references and disturbing scenes 

Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Ana Torrent, Héctor Alterio, Florinda 

Chico, Mónica Randall. 

Shot in the summer of 1975 as General Franco lay dying, 

Carlos Saura’s masterpiece takes its title from a sinister 

Spanish proverb: ‘raise ravens and they’ll pluck out your 

eyes’. A subtle yet unmistakable indictment of the family as 

a repressive force in Spanish society, Cría cuervos centres 

on an eight-year-old orphan (the spellbinding Ana Torrent 

from Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive) who believes herself 

to have poisoned her cold, authoritarian father (Héctor 

Alterio), a high-ranking military man whom she blames for 

the death of her adored mother (Geraldine Chaplin). 

Looking forward to Pan’s Labyrinth, Cría cuervos is one 

of cinema’s most hauntingly vivid depictions of a child’s 

fantasy-imbued reality. Darkly unsettling, deeply touching 

and comic by turns, this landmark of Spanish cinema 

– premiered shortly after the dictator’s death – exposes 

a stifling world in which talk of sex or the Civil War is still 

largely taboo. 

The King Is Alive 

Wed 7 Mar at 6.00pm 

Kristian Levring • Denmark/Sweden/USA 2000 • 1h50m 

35mm • English and French with English subtitles 

15 – Contains strong language and moderate sex 

Cast: Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, Jennifer Jason Leigh. 

This second feature by Dogme co-founder Kristian Levring 

is a cerebral yet passionate meditation on the incongruities 

of human nature. Eleven tourists are travelling by bus 

through the barren North African desert. Hopelessly lost, 

they eventually find themselves stranded in an abandoned 

mining town. Its only resident informs them it’s a five-day 

walk over sand dunes to the next town. One passenger 

offers to make the journey. The others wait anxiously for 

his return, and, to pass time and stave off panic, elect to put 

on a desert version of ‘King Lear’. But, fuelled by the bleak 

situation, their passions are ignited, and noble sentiments 

give way to envy, lust and the struggle for power. 

Koktebel 


Boris Khlebnikov & Aleksei Popogrebsky • Russia 2003 

1h47m • 35mm • Russian with English subtitles 

12A – Contains one scene of moderate violence 

Cast: Gleb Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich, Yevgeni Syty, Vera 

Sandrykina, Vladimir Kucherenko. 

A father and his 11-year-old son are travelling to a relative’s 

home in Crimea, where they hope to find a better life than 

the one they have left in Moscow. The boy is smart, stoic 

and loyal, even if he is increasingly wary of his father’s 

limitations. Sure enough, this journey by foot and freight 

train is interrupted when Dad gets distracted, first by booze, 

then by a woman, but the boy fervently clings to his dreams. 

Times and Winds Bes vakit 


Reha Erdem • Turkey 2006 • 1h52m • 35mm 

Turkish with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong language 

Cast: Ali Bey Kayali, Ozkan Ozen, Elit Iscan, Selma Ergeç, Bulent Yarar. 

With this beautifully photographed, pastoral portrait of the 

life, rhythms and seasons of a remote mountain village, Reha 

Erdem adds his name to those of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and 

Fatih Akin in the list of directors heading up the impressive 

recent revival of Turkish cinema. The conflicts of Turkey’s 

poised situation – at a crossroads between Asia and Europe, 

tradition and modernity, secularism and religion – are 

reflected in the lives of its three pubescent protagonists 

– Omer, Yakup and Yildiz – as we experience the hardship 

and strictures of rural life through their variously troubled 

and subtly handled rites of passage. One hates his father, 

or believes he does, and schemes to kill him. Another is 

hopelessly enamoured of his attractive young schoolteacher. 

Vendredi soir Friday Night 


Claire Denis • France 2002 • 1h30m • 35mm 

French with English subtitles 

15 – Contains strong language and moderate sex 

Cast: Valérie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon, Hélène de Saint-Père, 

Hélène Fillières, Florence Loiret Caille. 

Claire Denis’ poetic exploration of the pleasures and 

discontents of modern sexuality follows the night-long 

odyssey shared by a woman and a stranger she picks up 

in a Paris traffic jam. This is wonderfully alert filmmaking, 

vividly alive to the constant by-play between inner longings 

and everyday surroundings.

26 Learning Events/Exhibitions/Cafe Bar 

REMEMBERED PLACES, PLACES REMEMBERED 

FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR 

Learning Events 

Our Knowledge and Learning team arrange screenings for schools, workshops and learning events for all 

ages. For further information please contact Holly Daniel or Nicola Kettlewood on 0131 228 6382 or email ed 

ucation@filmhousecinema.com. If you would like to be kept informed about our wider education programme 

please email admin@filmhousecinema.com to join our education e-mail list. 

Coming Soon... Film Education’s CineSchool 

CineSchool is a new initiative to develop the appreciation and understanding of different types of film in 

young audiences, aiming to encourage an awareness of the breadth and variety of film to be found beyond the 

blockbuster, and to build an understanding of non-mainstream forms. The CineSchool Festival will be a great 

chance for Primary and Secondary students to access the best of European and World Cinema in March. 

Filmhouse wins prestigious European award 

We are delighted to tell you that Filmhouse, along with Dundee Contemporary Arts and Glasgow Film 

Theatre, has triumphed over 1,000 cinemas throughout Europe to recently be awarded the prestigious 

Europa Cinemas Award for Best Young Audience Activities. A huge congratulations should go to our 

hardworking Knowledge and Learning team and all the other Filmhouse colleagues who support them in 

their activities. We must, of course, also thank our regular audiences, without whose financial support our 

education programme simply would not be possible. So, next time you buy a ticket, a meal or a drink at the 

bar you can do so in the knowledge that you are helping to support our wider work! 

Exhibitions 

Remembered Places, Places Remembered 29 January - 19 February 

An exhibition of printmaking and photography, by Palestinian artist, long resident in Edinburgh, Leena 

Nammari. This exhibition comprises images – fragments – memories – thoughts – hidden alleys – secluded 

spots, places not usually looked at, places off the beaten track, beautiful, poignant and haunting. 

Wild at Heart & Weird on Top 20 February - 12 March 

A collaboration between Filmhouse and students of Printmaking at Edinburgh College of Art, this exhibition 

of David Lynch film posters designed and handprinted at ECA will cover all the titles in our David Lynch 

season (see pages 8 - 10). 

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 12 February 

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.

New Bollocks Cinema 

MAILINGLISTS 

ACCESS 

INFORMATION 

To have this monthly brochure sent to 

you for a year, send £6 (cheques payable 

to Filmhouse Ltd) with your name and 

address and the month you wish your 

subscription to start. 

This brochure is also available to 

download as a PDF from our website, 

www.filmhousecinema.com. 

Alternatively, sign up to our emailing list to 

find out what’s on when, and hear about 

special offers and competitions, by going 

to www.filmhousecinema.com. 

There is a large print 

version of the brochure 

available which can be 

posted to you free of 

charge. 

FUNDINGFILMHOUSE 

CORPORATEMEMBERS 

The Leith Agency 

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INFORMATION FOR PATRONS WITH 

DISABILITIES 

Filmhouse foyer and box office are 

reached via a ramped surface from 

Lothian Road. Our café-bar and 

accessible toilet are also at this level. The 

majority of seats in the café-bar are not 

fixed and can be moved. 

There is wheelchair access to all three 

screens. Cinema one has space for two 

wheelchair users and these places are 

reached via the passenger lift; cinemas 

two and three have one space each 

and to get to these you need to use our 

platform lifts. Staff are always on hand to 

operate them – please ask at the box 

office when you purchase your tickets. 

Advance booking for wheelchair spaces 

is recommended. A second accessible 

toilet is situated at the lower level close 

to cinemas two and three. If you need 

to bring along a helper to assist you 

in any way, then they will receive a 

complimentary ticket. 

There are induction loops and infra-red 

in all three screens for those with hearing 

impairments. Our brochure carries 

information on which films have 

subtitles. 

We regularly have screenings with Audio 

Description and subtitles for those with 

hearing difficulties – see page two for 

details of these. 

Email admin@filmhousecinema.com or 

call the Box Office on 0131 228 2688 if 

you require further information. 

Filmhouse 

88 Lothian Road 

Edinburgh 

EH3 9BZ 

www.filmhousecinema.com 

Box Office: 0131 228 2688 (10am - 9pm) 

Recorded Programme Info: 0131 228 2689 

Ken Hay 

Interim CEO 

Rod White 

Head of Filmhouse 

Robert Howie 

Customer Experience Manager 

Holly Daniel & Nicola Kettlewood 

Knowledge & Learning 

Administration: 0131 228 6382 

Fax: 0131 229 6482 

email: admin@filmhousecinema.com 

Filmhouse is a trading name of Centre for the 

Moving Image (CMI), a company limited by 

guarantee, registered in Scotland No. 67087. 

Scottish Charity No. SC006793 

CMI also incorporates Edinburgh International 

Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Guild. 

Edinburgh International Film Festival 

www.edfilmfest.org.uk 

Tel: 0131 228 4051 Fax: 0131 229 5501 

Edinburgh Film Guild 

www.edinburghfilmguild.com 

Tel: 0131 623 8027

FINDINGFILMHOUSE 

88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9BZ 

Nearest car parks: Semple Street, Castle 

Terrace 

Buses: 1, 2, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 

34, 35

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