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20An Edinburgh New YearONE DAYTHE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIETHE 39 STEPSTRAINSPOTTINGAn EdinburghNew YearAs part of this year’s Edinburgh’sHogmanay celebrations, a short season offilms set in and around our beautiful city!One DayFri 30 Dec at 1.30pm & Sat 31 Dec at 6.30pmLone Scherfig • USA 2011 • 1h48m • Digital projection12A – Contains moderate sex references and violence, and one useof strong languageCast: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Romola Garai, Rafe Spall, KenStott.After one night together – 15 July 1988, the day they bothgraduate from Edinburgh University – Emma and Dexterbegin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a workingclassgirl of principle and ambition who dreams of makingthe world a better place; he is a wealthy charmer whodreams that the world will be his playground.TICKETDEALSSee any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% offSee all six films in this season and get 25% offThese packages are available online, in person and on thephone, on both full price and concession price tickets.Tickets must all be bought at the same time.The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieFri 30 Dec at 3.45pm & Sun 1 Jan at 6.30pmRonald Neame • UK 1969 • 1h56m • 35mm • 12Cast: Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, GordonJackson, Celia Johnson.This Oscar-winning classic is set in a private school in1930s Edinburgh, where Maggie Smith’s headstrongteacher ignores the curriculum and influences herimpressionable young charges with her over-romanticisedworld view.The 39 StepsFri 30 Dec at 8.45pm & Sat 31 Dec at 1.30pmAlfred Hitchcock • UK 1935 • 1h27m • 35mmU – Contains very mild language and violenceCast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, GodfreyTearle, Peggy Ashcroft.Other English Hitchcocks may be more provocative, butfew offer such a ripping good yarn. Donat’s smooth andupright Richard Hannay flees from London in pursuit of aspy ring, responsible for leaving a murdered woman in hisflat; the police inevitably take him for the murderer, andthe spies are after him too... A bit of a cheeky inclusion inan Edinburgh-set film season but watch out for our iconicrail bridge.The Battle of the SexesFri 30 Dec at 6.30pm & Sat 31 Dec at 3.45pmCharles Crichton • UK 1959 • 1h25m • 35mm • UCast: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, JamesonClark, Donald Pleasence.A delightful Ealing-style comedy set in Edinburgh.Mr Martin (Peter Sellers) works as an accountant for atextile company. A quiet and nervous man, he keepshimself to himself and wishes to be left alone. But thenAngela Barrows (Constance Cummings), an AmericanEfficiency Expert, arrives to evaluate his performance...TrainspottingSat 31 Dec at 7.00pm & Sun 1 Jan at 1.30pmDanny Boyle • UK 1996 • 1h33m • 35mm • 18Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Robert Carlyle, Jonny LeeMiller, Kevin McKidd, Kelly Macdonald.A shocking, painfully subjective trawl through the Edinburghheroin culture of the 1980s, Irvine Welsh’s cult novel washardly an obvious choice for the team who made ShallowGrave, yet the film’s a triumph. Audaciously punching up thepitch-black comedy, juggling parallel character strands andjuxtaposing image, music and voice-over with a virtuosityworthy of Scorsese on peak form, Trainspotting the moviecaptures precisely Welsh’s insolent, amoral intelligence.Edinburgh from the ArchivesSun 1 Jan at 4.00pm1h30m • PGA programme of short archive films of Edinburgh as you’veprobably never seen it before.