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12 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
13 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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Page 3 and 4: Introduction 3 THE ARTIST BLUE VELV
Page 5 and 6: 5 MAYBEYOUMISSED The Artist Showing
Page 7: Weans’ World/Come and See... 7 PU
Page 10 and 11: 10 Into a World: The Films of David
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Page 16 and 17: 16 Middle Eastern Film Festival ALM
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Page 20 and 21: 20 Middle Eastern Film Fest (contd.
Page 22 and 23: 22 Whose Film Is It Anyway? Contemp
Page 24 and 25: 24 Introduction to European Cinema
Page 26 and 27: 26 Learning Events/Exhibitions/Cafe
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