05 Apr - 02 May - Filmhouse Cinema Edinburgh

12 Daniel Day-Lewis: Presented by Drambuie (continued)
THE CRUCIBLE GANGS OF NEW YORK THERE WILL BE BLOOD
Gangs of New York
Sun 12 May at 5.15pm
Martin Scorsese • USA/Italy 2002 • 2h48m • 35mm
18 – Contains strong, bloody violence
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim
Broadbent, John C Reilly.
The violent rise of gangland power in New York City
at a time of massive political corruption and the city’s
evolution into a cultural melting pot set the stage for this
lavish historical epic, which director Martin Scorsese finally
brought to the screen almost 30 years after he first began
to plan the project.
In 1846, as waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New
York neighbourhood of Five Points, citizens of British and
Dutch heritage who were born in the United States began
making an open display of their resentment toward the
new arrivals. William Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), better
known as ‘Bill the Butcher’ for his deadly skill with a knife,
bands his fellow ‘Native Americans’ into a gang to take on
the Irish immigrants; the immigrants in turn form a gang
of their own, ‘The Dead Rabbits’, organised by Priest Vallon
(Liam Neeson). After an especially bloody clash between
the Natives and the Rabbits leaves Vallon dead, his son
goes missing; the boy ends up in a brutal reform school
before returning to the Five Points in 1862 as Amsterdam
(Leonardo DiCaprio), bent on revenge.
There Will Be Blood
Sun 19 May at 5.15pm
Paul Thomas Anderson • USA 2007 • 2h38m • 35mm
15 – Contains strong violence
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J O’Connor, Ciaran
Hinds, Dillon Freasier.
Day-Lewis won his second Oscar for his astonishing and
terrifying portrayal of a turn-of-the-century California oil
man, in Paul Thomas Anderson’s magnificently strange
character study. When Daniel Plainview gets a mysterious
tip-off that there’s a little town out West where an ocean
of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads there with his
son, HW, to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston.
In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement
centres around the Holy Roller church of charismatic
preacher Eli Sunday, Plainview and HW make their lucky
strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes,
nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and
every human value – love, hope, community, belief,
ambition, and even the bond between father and son – is
imperilled by corruption, deception, and the flow of oil.