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1 APR 11 5 MAY 11films worth talking aboutHOME OF THE EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL88 LOTHIAN ROAD EDINBURGH EH3 9BZ WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688 PROGRAMME INFO 0131 228 2689Muppets ’TMMusic & Magic:Jim Henson’s Legacy© Photography courtesy of The Jim Henson Company, The Muppets Studio, LLC, and Sesame WorkshopplusOranges and SunshinePinaMeek’s CutoffYou Will Meet a Tall Dark StrangerL’Affaire FarewellCave of Forgotten DreamsEssential KillingThe Last Picture ShowMan of AranThe New Objectivity: Realism in Weimar CinemaItalian Film FestivalEdinburgh International Science FestivalNew Europe Film Festival3 CINEMAS CAFE BAR

2INDEXSCREENING DATES AND TIMES 18-19TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION 19GENERAL INFORMATION 3520000 Leagues Under the Sea 159:06 29The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland 13L’Affaire Farewell 5The Art of Puppetry and Storytelling 12Atlantis 15The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu 28Before the Revolution 23Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 25Bernardo Bertolucci 23Between Fathers & Sons: An Introductionto Bernardo Bertolucci 23Between the Folds 15The Big Blue 15The Blue Angel 26Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2D) 6Chernobyl Heart 31The Christening 29Come and See... 8Commercials and Experiments 12Comradeship 27The Conformist 23Cooking History 30Courses, Workshops & Events 34The Dark Crystal 13The Dark House 29Day for Night 8Dead By Dawn 33Diary of a Lost Girl 26The Double Hour 21Eastern Plays 30Edinburgh Int. Science Festival 15-16L’Elisir d’amore 31Erratum 28Essential Killing 6Filmhouse Café Bar 34Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 36Filmhouse Quiz 34The Films of Jean Painlevé 16Finding Nemo 9The First Beautiful Thing 20The Four Times 20General Della Rovere 20The Girl By the Lake 21The Great Muppet Caper 12Italian Film Festival 20-22Jim Henson and Friends... 13Honeymooner 32The Joyless Street 24The Karamazovs 28Katka 29Kiss Me Again 22Kuhle Wampe 27Labyrinth 12INDEXThe Last Picture Show 7Made in Poland 29Man of Aran 7The Man Who Will Come 21Meek’s Cutoff 5Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness 26Muppet Fairytales 13Muppet History 101 14Muppet History 201... 14The Muppet Movie 13Muppet Music Moments 14Muppet Treasure Island 14Muppets from Space 14Muppets, Music & Magic:Jim Henson’s Legacy 10-14The Muppets Take Manhattan 12New Europe Film Festival 28-30The New Objectivity:Realism in Weimar Cinema 24-27The Night of the Hunter 8The Nurture Room 31Oceans 16One Man Up 22Oranges and Sunshine 4Pandora’s Box 25The Passing of the Third Floor Back 32The Passion Play 21Passione 21La peau douce 8People on Sunday 25Pina (2D) 5The Portuguese Nun 4Projecting the Archive 32Protector 29Puskás Hungary 30A Quiet Life 20Roeg’s Gallery 9Route Irish 7Sesame Street at 40... 12The Sicilian Girl 22Sing: The Music of Sesame Street 14A Small Act 5The Street 24Tangled 9The Tempest 6Term of Trial 32The Threepenny Opera 27Twosome 30Varieté 25WALL•E 9We Can Do That 22Weans’ World 9Westfront 1918 27What a Beautiful Day 21The Witches 9Wonders of the Universe 15You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger 4A Zed & Two Noughts 16AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLESWe have now installed a system in all threescreens which enables us, whenever thenecessary discs are available, to show onscreensubtitles for customers who are deaf or hard ofhearing, and provide audio description (via ourinfra-red headsets) for those who are sightimpaired.This issue:You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger – allscreenings will have audio description, and the8.45pm screening on Monday 4 April will alsohave subtitles.FORCRYINGOUTLOUDScreenings for carers and their babies.This issue:Oranges and Sunshine Mon 4 Apr at 11amA Small Act Mon 18 Apr at 11amPina (2D) Mon 2 May at 11amBaby changing, bottle warming and buggyparking facilities are available.Tickets cost£3.50/£2.50 concessions per adult. Screeningslimited to babies under 12 months accompaniedby no more than two adults. Screeningssponsored by Bepanthen.KEEPINTOUCHFilmhouse email list For a weekly emailcontaining screening times, news andcompetitions, join our email list atwww.filmhousecinema.com/email/subscribeFilmhouse mailing list To have this monthlyprogramme sent to you for a year, send £6(cheques payable to Filmhouse Ltd) with yourname and address and the month you wish yoursubscription to start, or subscribe in person at thebox office or by phone on 0131 228 2688.Facebook Join our Facebook page for news,updates and competitions: search for ‘Filmhouse’Twitter Follow @Filmhouse for news and updates

Introduction3PINA THE GREAT MUPPET CAPERMEEK’S CUTOFF ORANGES AND SUNSHINEPopcorn: Another Cautionary TaleAvid readers of this column (stop sniggering) may remember a story about a man (the memorably named Wofford Lomax) who was shot in acinema in Philadelphia for letting his son eat popcorn too loudly. A story has reached me from Riga, Latvia, that a man was shot dead (yes, dead!) bya fellow audience member during the closing credits of Black Swan for the same offence. I have felt real anger at nearby ‘scoffers’ and ‘troughers’myself, but have so far managed to limit the expression of my ire to an indiscriminate ‘tut’. Here at Filmhouse, it’s a subject of much debate...We are in constant (of associated noise, mess and smell) but who would also have us ban all forms of eating in our auditoria. Food for thought... Or not, as the casemay be. And, whilst the debate rages on, a word to the wise: if you have to eat in the cinema, please do it quietly, it’s only fair. And your personalsafety may well depend on it!Oranges and Sunshine is surely-proud dad Ken Loach’s laddie Jim’s first big screen foray, which tells the incredible, heartbreaking, true story ofa Nottingham social worker (played brilliantly by Emily Watson), who uncovered the heinous social scandals of the forced migration of childrenfrom the UK to Australia. The toast of the recent Berlinale, Pina is Wim Wenders’ astonishing tribute to dance legend Pina Bausch; L’AffaireFarewell is a Moscow-set, French Cold War spy thriller par excellence; Meek’s Cutoff is Kelly (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy) Reichardt’s spin on theWestern, as three families hit the Oregon Trail in 1845; and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Before the Revolution, Robert Flaherty’s Man of Aran and PeterBogdanovich’s seminal The Last Picture Show all get the glorious restoration treatment.Latvia... that reminds me... our annual New Europe Festival comes around again (though having said that, that Baltic state is not represented thisyear!). Romania is though, and if you see one film in the festival see The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu... it’s stunning. There’s a mightyfine edition of our annual Italian Film Festival taking its usual April slot, and this month also sees the beginning of our ‘The New Objectivity: Realismin Weimar Cinema’ season, featuring a host of silent films with musical accompaniment (both with our almost resident pianist, Forrester Pyke,and the amazing Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra), that ties in with the National Galleries of Scotland’s August Sander exhibition.And almost finally... It’s time to play the music, It’s time to light the lights, It’s time to meet The Muppets with ‘Muppets, Music & Magic: JimHenson’s Legacy’! We’re delighted to bring you, for the first time in the UK, this unique celebration of the work of the great man. Sensational.Inspirational. Celebrational. Muppetational!And actually finally, did you notice how many Oscar® predictions I got right last month. Of course you didn’t, so I’ll tell you. Just all of them,that’s all! [Sigh. - Ed.]Rod White, Head of Filmhouse

4New releasesORANGES AND SUNSHINEYOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGERTHE PORTUGUESE NUNNEWRELEASEOranges and SunshineFri 1 to Thu 21 AprJim Loach • UK/Australia 2010 • 1h45m • Digital projection15 – Contains strong language and references to child sex abuseCast: Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving, David Wenham, RichardDillane, Lorraine Ashbourne.Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of MargaretHumphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, whouncovered one of the most significant social scandals inrecent times: the organised deportation of children in carefrom the United Kingdom to Australia.Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds andwith little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunitedhundreds of families, brought authorities in both countriesto account and worldwide attention to an extraordinarymiscarriage of justice.With a wonderful performance from Emily Watson at itsheart, this is a sensitive and extremely assured featuredebut from Jim (son of Ken) Loach.After the 6.00pm screening on Monday 18 April there willbe an open discussion on the issues raised by the film, ledby a representative of the Humanist Society of Scotland.Humanism is an ethical stance which asserts that wecan lead good lives guided by compassion and reason,rather than religion or superstition. Humanists are vitallyconcerned with issues that affect our world.NEWRELEASEYou Will Meet a Tall Dark StrangerFri 1 to Sun 10 AprWoody Allen • USA/Spain 2010 • 1h38m • 35mm12A – Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sexreferences and violenceCast: Anthony Hopkins, Naomi Watts, Antonio Banderas, JoshBrolin, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch.Woody Allen’s latest comic ensemble piece follows a groupof Londoners struggling with failing marriages, restlesslibidos and the perils of aging.The fragile and wispy Helena (Gemma Jones) takes tovisiting a psychic after being abandoned by her husbandAlfie (Anthony Hopkins), who has decided to refresh hislife by falling madly in love with a buxom blonde decadeshis junior (Lucy Punch). Their grown daughter, the longsufferingSally (Naomi Watts), dreams of starting a familyand opening her own art gallery, but is stymied by thereality of supporting her self-centred American husbandRoy (Josh Brolin), who is busy bashing away at a novel withlittle success. His eye soon wanders to a beautiful youngguitar player (Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto), withwhom he falls madly in love.This comic concoction moves effortlessly between farceand frolic, with hints of Molière and ‘A Midsummer Night’sDream’ sprinkled throughout. Human follies are shown tobe ridiculous but understandable, and it is not long beforethe bloom fades from every rose. Allen’s uncanny ability tosend up all of his characters while remaining in love withtheir every misstep is a marvel to behold.NEWRELEASEThe Portuguese NunA Religiosa PortuguesaMon 11 to Thu 14 AprEugène Green • Portugal/France 2009 • 2h7m • 35mmPortuguese and French with English subtitles • cert tbcCast: Leonor Baldaque, Francisco Mozos, Diogo Dória, AnaMoreira, Eugène Green.A precise yet mischievous exercise in poetic minimalismfrom award-winning French director Eugène Green, whosework over the last decade has won international acclaimbut little in the way of UK distribution. This is a chanceto catch up with a film that The Guardian placed top oftheir ‘best obscure films of 2009’, a film that sits firmly inthe classic European arthouse tradition while displaying aunique and highly distinctive filmmaking voice.Displaying Green’s distinctive minimalist style, the filmfollows a young French actress (Leonor Baldaque) visitingLisbon for the first time. She is there to act in a film inspiredby Guilleragues’ ‘Letters of a Portuguese Nun’, and is soonfascinated by a nun who comes to pray every night at theNossa Senhora do Monte Chapel on Graça Hill. Duringher stay, the young woman has a number of encounters,which, much like her previous existence, seem ephemeraland without consequence. But one night, after finallyspeaking with the nun, she glimpses her destiny and themeaning of her life.

6 Maybe you missed...THE TEMPESTCAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMSESSENTIAL KILLINGMAYBEYOUMISSEDMAYBEYOUMISSEDMAYBEYOUMISSEDThe TempestFri 22 to Mon 25 AprJulie Taymor • USA 2010 • 1h50m • 35mmPG – Contains scary scenes, natural nudity and mild sex referencesCast: Helen Mirren, David Strathairn, Felicity Jones, Ben Whishaw,Tom Conti.Renowned for her wonderfully inventive works for bothstage and screen, Julie Taymor, the visionary director ofTitus and Frida and the mastermind behind the Broadwayreimagining of Disney’s ‘The Lion King’, has appliedher considerable talents to this fascinating rendering ofShakespeare’s late, great mystical romance.Exiled on a remote island, Prospera (the extraordinaryHelen Mirren in a gender bending role), the duchess ofMilan, conjures up a storm to lure a swath of charactersfrom her past to her island kingdom, revealing in theprocess a cross-section of human frailties, illusions,kindness and nobility.Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2D)Fri 29 Apr to Thu 5 MayWerner Herzog • Canada/USA/France/Germany/UK 20101h35m • 35mm • English and German with English subtitlesU – Contains no material likely to offend or harm • DocumentaryWerner Herzog is a wizard at conjuring unforgettablevisions, from the ship dragged over the mountain inFitzcarraldo to the Antarctic landscape in Encounters atthe End of the World. Now he brings us the earliest knownvisions of mankind: the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc cave art ofsouthern France, created more than thirty thousand yearsago.Since Chauvet’s discovery in 1994, access has beenextremely restricted due to concerns that overexposure,even to human breath, could damage the pricelessdrawings. Herzog and his crew therefore have a strictlylimited time-frame to get their footage, are heavilyrestricted in terms of lighting, and are in any case confinedto a narrow metal walkway constructed to link thenumerous cave chambers. But Herzog is nothing if notused to adversity, and makes something of a virtue of allthis in his gravelly voiceover, pointing up the difficulty withwhich the footage is obtained. Moreover, the bobbingtorch-beams and minimal battery-lights are in fact perfectfor illuminating the underground images, giving somesense of how the originals would have been seen whenthey were first made and helping the horses, lions andrhinoceroses almost surge off the cave wall.Essential KillingFri 29 Apr to Thu 5 MayJerzy Skolimowski • Poland/Norway/Ireland/Hungary 20101h24m • 35mm • English, Polish and Arabic with English subtitles15 – Contains strong violence and language, once very strongCast: Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner, David L Price, ZachCohen, Iftach Ophir.Captured in Afghanistan by US forces, Mohammed(Vincent Gallo), is subject to interrogation and rendition. Inthe course of his journey through an unnamed Europeancountry, he escapes across a snow-covered landscape,where he attempts to live off the land, eventuallyhaving his wounds tended by a deaf and mute woman(Emmanuelle Seigner).An allegorical tale amplified by striking mise-en-scène anda compelling music score, Essential Killing won a SpecialJury award at the Venice film festival last summer. Despitehaving no dialogue for the entire film, lead actor VincentGallo won the Best Actor award.

Maybe you missed.../Restored classics7ROUTE IRISHMAN OF ARANTHE LAST PICTURE SHOWMAYBEYOUMISSEDRoute IrishTue 26 to Thu 28 AprKen Loach • UK/France/Italy/Belgium/Spain 2010 • 1h49m35mm • 15 – Contains very strong language and scenes of tortureCast: Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop, Trevor Williams,Stephen Lord.Ken Loach and regular screenwriter Paul Laverty turntheir attention to the human cost of the privatisation andcommercialisation of the war in Iraq in this gripping storyof an ex-soldier trying to uncover the circumstances of hisbest friend’s death.Fergus and Frankie met on the first day of school andthe pair stayed close from then on. Both had a career inthe military, and when Fergus left the SAS and landed alucrative job with a private security firm in Baghdad, hepersuaded Frankie to join him. By 2007 when the filmbegins, Fergus is back home in Liverpool, and learns thatFrankie has been killed on Route Irish, the dangerous roadrunning between Baghdad airport and the city’s GreenZone. Raging with grief and highly suspicious of the officialexplanation of events, Fergus begins his own investigationwith the help of Frankie’s widow, Rachel.Driven by Mark Womack’s forceful depiction of a manwrestling to come to terms with the fall out of war and hisown complicity in it, this intricately plotted thriller is one ofLoach’s most accessible films to date. It is also one of hisdarkest, appropriately so.RESTOREDCLASSICMan of AranFri 1 to Thu 7 AprRobert J Flaherty • UK 1934 • 1h16m • Digital projection • UCast: Colman ‘Tiger’ King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane,Pat Mullin, Patch ‘Red Beard’ Ruadh.Robert Flaherty’s first sound film uses stunning locationphotography and brilliant montage editing to build aforceful dramatised documentary of life on the Aran Islands.Situated among the frequent and violent storms that slaminto its barren landscape, the islands are “three wastes ofrock” off the western coast of Ireland. With a small crew,Flaherty spent nearly two years shooting, developing, andassembling footage of the islanders’ Herculean efforts tosurvive in unbearably harsh conditions.RESTOREDCLASSICThe Last Picture ShowFri 15 to Thu 21 AprPeter Bogdanovich • USA 1971 • 2h6m • Digital projection • 15Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson,Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn.Forty years after it helped to initiate a golden age ofAmerican movies made by a generation of cinephiles,Bogdanovich’s finest film returns in a digitally restoredversion of his director’s cut.Set in a small Texan town in the early 1950s, it centres ontwo friends – popular Duane (Jeff Bridges), who’s datingwealthy Jacy (Cybill Shepherd), and the sensitive Sonny(Timothy Bottoms), who embarks on an affair with theschool coach’s wife. Adapted by Bogdanovich and LarryMcMurtry from the latter’s novel, it succeeds both as afunny, touching, psychologically astute coming-of-agetale and, thanks partly to Robert Surtees’ magnificentmonochrome camerawork, as a wonderfully vividevocation of period and place.At times the direction feels as invigoratingly fresh as theiconoclasm of the nouvelle vague, but it’s also imbuedwith a deep love for the classicism of Hawks and Ford(note Ben Johnson as Sam the Lion). Meanwhile, theterrific performances of a then mostly unknown cast rightlybrought awards and celebrity. A gem.

8 Restored classics/Come and See...LA PEAU DOUCERESTOREDCLASSICLa peau douceSun 24 & Mon 25 AprFrançois Truffaut • France/Portugal 1964 • 1h57m • 35mmFrench, Portuguese and English with English subtitlesPG – Contains references to sexual experienceCast: Jean Desailly, Françoise Dorléac, Nelly Benedetti, DanielCeccaldi, Laurence Badie.A superb tragicomedy of adultery in which a middle-agedintellectual ducking out from under a demanding wifetries to turn a casual affair with an air hostess into the loveof his life, but succeeds only in triggering a calamitouscrime passionel. Wry, disenchanted, directed with anastonishingly acute eye for the disruptions of modernurban living (the film is punctuated by gears changingin cars, lights being switched on and off), it is rather asthough the airily fantastic triangle of Jules et Jim had beensubjected to a cold blast of reality.DAY FOR NIGHTRESTOREDCLASSICDay for Night La nuit américaineSun 1 & Mon 2 MayFrançois Truffaut • France/Italy 1973 • 1h56m • 35mmFrench and English with English subtitles12A – Contains moderate sex referencesCast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart,Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut.One of Truffaut’s most captivating sentimental comedies,built around his obvious love for cinematic illusionism.What story there is concerns the various emotional upsets,logistical difficulties, and moments of sheer elation duringthe shooting of a rather silly-looking feature called MeetPamela. Basically it’s all just an excuse for a marvellousseries of delicately observed gags about how things arereally done behind the scenes on a film set: grande dameCortese infuriates everyone by forgetting her lines, acat awkwardly refuses to drink its milk, Léaud throwsadolescent fits every few hours. Coupled with GeorgesDelerue’s uplifting score and some superb performances(none more so than the director himself), it’s a must foranyone besotted with the glamorous trivialities of thecinematic medium.THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTERCome and See...A monthly one-off screening of a greatfilm we simply thought you might like tosee, again or for the first time, on the bigscreen.The Night of the HunterThu 28 Apr at 2.30pm & 8.00pmCharles Laughton • USA 1955 • 1h32m • 35mm • 12Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin,James Gleason, Sally Ann Bruce.The Night of the Hunter – the only film the great actorCharles Laughton ever directed – is truly a stand-alonemasterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimmfairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as atravelling preacher named Harry Powell, whose nefariousmotives for marrying a fragile widow, played by ShelleyWinters, are uncovered by her terrified young children.Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense ofhumour, this ethereal, expressionistic American classic iscinema’s most eccentric rendering of the battle betweengood and evil.Film geeks will note with pleasure that Carter Burwellquoted the melody of the hymn sung by both RobertMitchum and Lillian Gish in this film in his score for theCoens’ True Grit.

Weans’ World/Roeg’s Gallery9TANGLEDFINDING NEMOWALL•ETHE WITCHESWeans’ WorldFilms for a younger audience. Tickets cost£2.50 per person, big or small!Please note: although we normally disapprove of peopletalking during screenings, these shows are primarily forkids, so grown-ups should expect some noise!TangledFri 8 Apr at 3.45pm, Sat 9 Apr at 1.00pm &Mon 11 to Thu 14 Apr at 3.30pmNathan Greno & Byron Howard • USA 20101h40m • Digital projectionPG – Contains mild violence, threat and brief sight of bloodWith the voices of Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy,Ron Perlman, M C Gainey.When charming bandit Flynn hides out in a mysterioustower, he’s taken hostage by Rapunzel, a feisty maidenwith 70 feet of magical, golden hair. Rapunzel, who’slooking for her ticket out of the tower where she’s beenlocked away for years, strikes a deal with the handsomethief, and the unlikely duo sets off on an action-packedadventure.Finding NemoSun 10 Apr at 1.00pm & Mon 11 Apr at 11.00amAndrew Stanton • USA 2003 • 1h44m • 35mmU – Contains mild perilWith the voices of Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, AlexanderGould, Willem Dafoe, Allison Janney.Finding Nemo follows Marlin, an overprotective clownfish father, as he desperately searches the sea for hismissing son, Nemo. Marlin’s journey leads him beyondthe Great Barrier Reef into deeper and darker waters,where he meets Dory, a forgetful yet optimistic blue tang,and a number of not-so-friendly – and often very hungry– aquatic creatures. Meanwhile, little Nemo finds himselfin a dentist’s fish tank in Sydney, Australia, along with otherunderwater captives, including Gill, the group’s leader. AsNemo works with his new friends on a plan to escape theirtank, Marlin and Dory swim closer, but they’ll need morethan just fins to get into the dentist’s office...WALL•ESun 24 Apr at 1.00pm & Mon 25 Apr at 11.00amAndrew Stanton • USA 2008 • 1h43m • 35mmU – Contains very mild threat and violenceWith the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Sigourney Weaver.In the far future, the last robot left on an abandoned Earthis a clunky, box-shaped trash compactor droid namedWALL•E. On his own for centuries, he’s still carrying outhis programming and processing all the rubbish he finds,but over the years he’s become terribly lonely. His solitudeis abruptly ended with the arrival of a gigantic spacecraftand a sleek, beautiful robot named EVE... Another classicPixar animation – beautiful, energetic, intelligent andgenuinely heartwarming.Roeg’s GalleryThe final screening in our season of filmsby Nicolas RoegRoeg’s visionary spirit has produced anendlessly fascinating series of works inwhich taboos are embraced and explored.Challenging preconceptions aboutcivilisation and the capabilities of themoving image, Roeg is one of cinema’smost influential mavericks.The WitchesSat 2 Apr at 1.00pmNicolas Roeg • UK/USA 1990 • 1h31m • 35mm • PGCast: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, RowanAtkinson, Bill Paterson.One of Roeg’s rare commercial successes (allegedly madeto appease his family), this tale of a young boy confrontinga coven of witches who have plans to turn all children intomice weaves a deliciously dark spell. Featuring splendideffects by Jim Henson and a marvellously malevolent turnfrom Anjelica Huston, it failed to gain the seal of approvalfrom author Roald Dahl, but charmed and delightedaudiences of all ages.

10© Photography courtesy of The Jim Henson Company, The Muppets Studio, LLC, and Sesame Workshop

Muppets , Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy11© Photography courtesy of The Jim Henson Company, The Muppets Studio, LLC, and Sesame WorkshopLABYRINTHMuppets , Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s LegacyJim Henson started performing with puppets in high school, and had his first television appearance during the summer before college. From the beginning, hedecided to refer to his puppets as Muppets. Henson’s interests soon turned to film and in 1964 he made the Academy Award®-nominated short Time Piece, whichhe wrote, directed, produced and starred in. Around this time he also made The Cube and Youth ‘68 (cited by Variety as one of the year’s best films), which wereaired in segments on NBC’s Experiments in Television. By 1969 the Muppets had firmly established themselves after guest spots on various variety shows andhundreds of commercials. Henson received his big break when his company signed a deal to provide puppetry services to PBS’ Sesame Street.The success of his puppetry on Sesame Street led to the opportunity to create The Muppet Show, which became the most widely watched variety show in the world duringthe 1970s. Henson went on to make three feature films starring the Muppets: The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper and Muppets Take Manhattan. Time magazinesaid of his creations: “The beauty of the Muppets, on both Sesame Street and their own show, was that they were cuddly (but not too cuddly), and not only cuddly. Thereis satire and sly wit; Bert and Ernie quarrel; Miss Piggy behaves unbecomingly; Kermit is sometimes exasperated. By adding just enough tartness to a sweet overall spirit,Henson purveye, delight, optimism.”By the early 80s Henson turned his attention to his other interests and stopped producing The Muppet Show. In 1982 he released The Dark Crystal, an ambitiousfantasy film that showcased the further developments he was making in puppetry and animatronics. He had not, however, completely turned his back on the Muppets,and continued to produce numerous television specials. In the early 80s he started two more ongoing television series, Fraggle Rock and the animated cartoon MuppetBabies. In 1986 Henson released Labyrinth, a fantasy film in the same mould as The Dark Crystal that combined live actors with puppets. In 1987 Henson launched thetelevision show The Storyteller, an ambitious programme that showed a more dramatic use of puppetry and special effects than his previous television work.Tragically in 1990, while working on the effects for Nicholas Roeg’s The Witches (also screening this month, see page 14), Henson died of a rare bacterial infection.The Jim Henson Company, now run by Henson’s five children, continues his legacy of innovative entertainment that inspires and delights audiences around the world.We are delighted to welcome Martin Baker to Filmhouse to introduce some of these screenings. Mr Baker spent twenty years working with The Jim HensonCompany, from 1979 to 1999, and is currently working as Executive Producer on the new feature film, The Muppets.This series is produced by The Jim Henson Legacy and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Tour Executive Producer Irena Kovarova.THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTANwww.JimHensonLegacy.orgwww.BAM.orgMUPPET, MUPPETS and the Muppets Characters are registered trademarks of The Muppets Studio, LLC. All rights reserved. © The Muppets Studio, LLC.Sesame Street ® and associated characters, trademarks and design elements are owned and licensed by Sesame Workshop. © 2011 Sesame Workshop. All rights reserved.TM & © 2011 The Jim Henson Company. JIM HENSON’s mark & logo, characters and elements are trademarks of The Jim Henson Company. All rights reserved.

12Muppets , Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy (continued)© Photography courtesy of The Jim Henson Company, The Muppets Studio, LLC, and Sesame WorkshopTHE GREAT MUPPET CAPERLabyrinthMon 18 Apr at 1.30pm &Sat 23 Apr at 8.00pm + introduction by Martin BakerJim Henson • UK/USA 1986 • 1h41m • 35mm • UCast: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, ShelleyThompson, Christopher Malcolm.Henson returns to the land of fantasy, this time creating amodern-day Alice in Wonderland (with conceptual designby illustrator Brian Froud). Jennifer Connelly plays Sarah,a young girl who must travel through the Labyrinth to saveher baby brother from the Goblin King (David Bowie).Full of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop’s typically imaginativecreature design, the film’s eye-popping sets, including theMC Escher inspired castle, create a wholly believable worldexisting just behind the facade of reality.The Muppets Take ManhattanMon 18 Apr at 3.45pm & Sun 24 Apr at 8.15pmFrank Oz • USA 1984 • 1h34m • 35mm • UCast: Jim Henson (voice), Frank Oz (voice), Dave Goelz (voice),Steve Whitmire (voice), Art Carney.When the Muppets’ college show is a big hit, they decideto take it to Broadway, which brings adventures that couldhappen only in the Big Apple. Cameos include MayorKoch, Gregory Hines, Liza Minnelli and others. The movieends with a wedding between Kermit and his porcine love,which is part of the show within a show – or could it befor real?Commercials and ExperimentsMon 18 Apr at 6.15pm & Thu 21 Apr at 8.30pm1h • PGA collection of experimental shorts, crazy commercials andother rarities from the Henson vault. Highlights include: alegendary commercial and industrial film for Wilson’s Meatthat must be seen to be believed; excerpts from Henson’sexperimental television programmes The Cube and Youth68: Everything’s Changing...Or Maybe it Isn’t; and TimePiece, an 8-minute experimental masterpiece from 1965that showcased Henson’s talent for making music out ofeveryday sounds.The Art of Puppetry and StorytellingTue 19 Apr at 1.30pm & Wed 27 Apr at 8.00pm1h10m • PGGo behind the scenes to witness the magic of theMuppets in this compilation of rare footage of the varietyof puppetry created by Jim Henson. See a classic episodeof The Muppet Show (1979), directed by Philip Casson.Harry Belafonte sings an African song with puppetsderived from traditional masks. Another kind of puppetryis used in The Storyteller: The Heartless Giant (1989),directed by Jim Henson. In this episode of the remarkableTV series based on classic folk tales, an evil giant – who hashidden his heart so he will feel no emotion – tricks youngprince Leo into releasing him from his dungeon. Consumedwith guilt, Leo searches for the heart and learns aboutfriendship and betrayal.Sesame Street at 40:Milestones on the StreetTue 19 Apr at 3.45pm & Sat 23 Apr at 1.00pm1h21m • UThis ‘best of’ compilation features dozens of classicmoments from the forty-year history of the show, includingexcerpts from the first episode, celebrity guests and someof the best bits from Ernie and Bert, Big Bird, Snuffy andthe rest of the gang.The Great Muppet CaperTue 19 Apr at 6.15pm & Tue 26 Apr at 2.30pmJim Henson • UK 1981 • 1h37m • 35mm • UCast: Jim Henson (voice), Frank Oz (voice), Charles Grodin, DianaRigg, John Cleese.Intrepid reporters Kermit, Fozzie Bear and Gonzo go toLondon to interview fashion designer Lady Holiday (DianaRigg), whose jewels have been stolen. When the jewelthieves strike again and Lady Holiday’s secretary, MissPiggy, is accused of the crime, it’s Kermit and friends to therescue. Wonderful performers like John Cleese and PeterFalk join in the fun, but the scenes with Miss Piggy on amotorcycle steal the show.With thanks to Park Circus Films.

Muppets, Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy13THE MUPPET MOVIE© Photography courtesy of The Jim Henson Company, The Muppets Studio, LLC, and Sesame WorkshopThe Muppet MovieWed 20 Apr at 1.30pm &Fri 22 Apr at 5.45pm + introduction by Martin BakerJames Frawley • UK/USA 1979 • 1h37m • 35mm • UCast: Jim Henson (voice), Frank Oz (voice), Charles Durning, MelBrooks, James Coburn.From Kermit the Frog’s humble origins in a swamp to theentire gang being hired by studio head Orson Welles, TheMuppet Movie is an absolute delight. As Kermit makeshis way to fabled Hollywood, he assembles his team oflike-minded individuals, including Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggyand Gonzo the Great. The movie includes Kermit’s hearttuggingsong ‘Rainbow Connection’ and the film ends on asurprisingly existential note.With thanks to Park Circus Films.The Adventures of Elmo inGrouchlandWed 20 Apr at 3.45pm & Mon 25 Apr at 2.30pmGary Halvorson • USA 1999 • 1h13m • 35mm • UCast: Kevin Clash (voice), Mandy Patinkin, Vanessa Williams, FranBrill (voice), Stephanie D’Abruzzo (voice).Elmo loves his fuzzy blanket so much that he gets into atug-of-war over it with his friend Zoe, losing it in far-offGrouchland. Nothing will deter Elmo from retrieving histreasured possession, and he is plunged into a series ofadventures including a battle of wits with the Queen ofTrash (Vanessa Williams). His Sesame Street buddies cometo the rescue and help him learn a valuable lesson aboutsharing and friendship.Jim Henson and Friends:Inside the Sesame Street VaultWed 20 Apr at 6.15pm & Fri 22 Apr at 3.00pm1h23m • UThis super-entertaining programme highlights thecontributions of Jim Henson and his early Sesame Streetcollaborators Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Fran Brill and CarollSpinney. In addition to old favourites, there are someextremely rare clips from specials and guest appearanceson other television programmes.We are delighted to welcome Martin Baker toFilmhouse to introduce some of these screenings.In twenty years spent working with The JimHenson Company, from 1979 to 1999, MartinBaker was responsible for managing anassortment of projects in television, film, homevideo and theme park productions. He servedas Producer of three Muppet feature films, anAssociate Producer on the feature film Labyrinth,and received an Emmy for his work as produceron the television show Muppets Tonight.Since 2000, Mr Baker has been working as anindependent producer, working with executiveproducers on a variety of projects including Jackand the Beanstalk: The Real Story and Mirrormaskfor The Jim Henson Company, and The MuppetsWonderful Wizard of Oz for the Walt DisneyCompany. He is currently working as ExecutiveProducer on the new feature film, The Muppets.The Dark CrystalThu 21 Apr at 1.30pm &Fri 22 Apr at 8.15pm + introduction by Martin BakerJim Henson & Frank Oz • USA/UK 1982 • 1h33m • 35mm • PGCast: Jim Henson, Kathryn Mullen, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, SteveWhitmire.Mixing Brian Froud’s conceptual design and elements oftraditional fairy tales, Henson and longtime collaboratorFrank Oz create a fantastic world ruled by the hulkingdragon-like Skeksis, where an elf-like orphan must ventureforth to defeat them. Using a mix of puppetry, marionettes,modern special effects and more, Dark Crystal createsa visual world rarely equalled in an fantasy film whileremaining true to its basis in universal myth.Muppet FairytalesThu 21 Apr at 3.45pm & Thu 28 Apr at 6.00pm1h10m • PGThe Frog PrinceJim Henson • USA • 1971 • DigibetaWhat happens when you kiss a frog? No-one can better tellthat classic fairytale than Kermit and his friends.The Elves and the ShoemakerDavid Grossman • USA • 1994 • DigibetaWhat if the elves that come to the aid of the shoemaker areactually Elvises? If Rapunzel appeared on Sesame Street,what twists on the story would you expect?See these classic tales through the eyes of the Muppets inthis programme of rarely seen shorts.SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

14 Muppets , Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy (continued)MUPPET TREASURE ISLAND© Photography courtesy of The Jim Henson Company, The Muppets Studio, LLC, and Sesame WorkshopMuppet Music MomentsThu 21 Apr at 6.15pm & Wed 27 Apr at 6.00pm1h17m • UMusic was always an integral part of The Muppet Show,and here is assembled a collection of some of the classicmusical numbers interpreted as only the Muppets can.This compilation features a wide range of musical genres,and includes performances by guest stars Harry Belafonte,Elton John and Linda Ronstadt.Muppets from SpaceFri 22 Apr at 1.00pm & Mon 25 Apr at 6.00pmTim Hill • USA 1999 • 1h28m • 35mm • UCast: Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Whitmire (voice), Brian Henson (voice),Frank Oz (voice), Andie MacDowell.The plot of Muppets from Space focuses on a questionthat has intrigued Muppet fans for years: exactly what ISGonzo? Gonzo himself feels alone and outcast, he dreamsthat Noah refuses to let him on the ark because there isonly one of him, and Noah wants only pairs. But then hebegins receiving messages that tell him he is an alien, andthat his alien family is coming to meet him...TICKETDEALSSee any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% offSee any six (or more) films in this season and get 25% offSee any nine (or more) films in this season and get 35% 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.Muppet Treasure IslandSat 23 Apr at 3.15pm + introduction by Martin Baker& Sun 24 Apr at 5.45pmBrian Henson • USA 1996 • 1h40m • 35mm • UCast: Tim Curry, Kevin Bishop, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Saunders,Dave Goelz (voice), Steve Whitmire (voice).Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure gets the fullMuppet treatment in this musical version, with Kermit’scaptain pitted against the villainous Long John Silver (TimCurry) and his band of eccentric pirates in a search forburied treasure. Miss Piggy shows up as the island’s lovegoddess.Muppet History 101Sat 23 Apr at 6.15pm + introduction by Martin Baker1h40m • PGThis unique programme of rarities examines the originsof the Muppets. It includes early live TV appearances,unusual commercials, guest spots on the Jimmy Dean andDick Cavett Shows, and much more. Plus, this programmecontains excerpts from the rarely-seen pilot for whatwould become The Muppet Show, The Muppets: Sex andViolence, featuring a tribute to the Seven Deadly Sins.Muppet History 201:More Rarities from the Henson VaultSun 24 Apr at 1.30pm + introduction by Martin Baker& Mon 25 Apr at 8.10pm1h15m • PGJim Henson brought the Muppets to countless televisionvariety and talk shows for several decades. Many of theseappearances were live and have been lost forever, but TheJim Henson Legacy has been working to find the showsthat still exist. This screening is a presentation of recentlyunearthed clips of Muppet television appearances andother special surprises ranging from the 1950s to the1980s.Sing: The Music of Sesame StreetSun 24 Apr at 3.30pm & Tue 26 Apr at 6.00pm1h22m • UA joyous, sometimes hilarious and poignant salute to fortyyears of Sesame Street music, featuring the original showclassics, parodies and special visits from some of the musicindustry’s biggest names.

Edinburgh International Science Festival1520000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA THE BIG BLUEWONDERS OF THE UNIVERSEEdinburghInternationalScience FestivalEdinburgh International Science Festival isScotland’s biggest and best annual celebrationof science and technology. From 9-22 April we’llbe holding special events, talks and interactiveactivities for all ages, all over Edinburgh. Highlightsfor 2011 include ‘Atomise’, celebrating theInternational Year of Chemistry with demonstrationsof chemical wizardry at the Royal Botanic GardenEdinburgh, Dr Bunhead in ‘Pyromania’ at the UsherHall and seven floors of fun for the whole familyat City Art Centre. Our adult programme featuresunique nights out in some of Edinburgh’s mostinspirational venues; talks and workshops withappearances by Richard Dawkins, Robin Ince,Richard Wiseman and Prof Lord Robert Winston.In partnership with Filmhouse, the Science Festivalwill be screening classic cinema, award-winningdocumentary and some fascinating and rarely seenbig screen explorations of the world around us.Look out for the post-screening Q&A’s.To view the full programmeand buy tickets visit:www.sciencefestival.co.ukAtlantisSat 9 Apr at 6.15pm & Sat 16 Apr at 4.00pmLuc Besson • France/Italy 1991 • 1h18m • 35mm • ULuc Besson’s awe-inspiring celebration of the beauty andwonder of the world beneath the sea. Explore the thrillingand mysterious world of ocean life as you’ve never seen itbefore. Atlantis’ graceful images of mantas, whales, dolphinsand sharks at play will stay with you long after the film ends.20000 Leagues Under the SeaSun 10 Apr at 1.00pmRichard Fleischer • USA 1954 • 2h7m • 35mm • UCast: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre.Climb aboard the Nautilus and enter a strange underwaterworld of spellbinding adventure in Disney’s adaptation of theJules Verne novel. Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas and Peter Lorrestar as shipwrecked survivors kidnapped by the mysteriousCaptain Nemo, portrayed by James Mason. He has launcheda deadly crusade across the seven seas, but can the crew ofcaptives expose him before he destroys the world?The Big Blue Le grand bleuSun 10 Apr at 3.45pm & Sun 17 Apr at 8.30pmLuc Besson • France/USA/Italy 1988 • 2h48m • 35mmEnglish, French and Italian with English subtitles • 15Cast: Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Shenar.A rare screening of Luc Besson’s cult classic. This beautifuland contemplative love story, starring Jean-Marc Barr,Rosanna Arquette and Jean Reno, tells the story of a man tornbetween life on land and the intense and perilous underwaterworld of free diving. Will he choose his earthly love, or willthe aquatic paradise of his dreams call him to the sea?Wonders of the UniverseMon 11 Apr at 6.15pm - TICKETS £10/£8UK 2011 • 1h • Digibeta • 12A • DocumentarySee a special one-off screening from this fascinatingseries and listen to Professor Brian Cox describe how thelaws of nature, freed from earthbound constraints, carvespectacular sights through the solar system.Plus introduction and post-screening Q&A with AndrewCohen, BBC Head of Science.Between the FoldsTue 12 Apr at 6.15pmVanessa Gould • USA • 2008 • 56m • Digibeta • PGDocumentaryDiscover the remarkable artistic and scientific creativitythat fuels the art of origami and fuses science andsculpture, form and function, and ancient and modern.Ten provocative characters converge on the art of paperfoldingand discover the ingenious and expressive ways itcan enhance our understanding of the world around us.PLUS SHORTAdagio Garri Bardin • Russia/France 2001 • 10m • No dialogue • PGA stunning stop-motion film from Russian master animatorGarry Bardin.Plus introduction and post-screening Q&A.SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

16Edinburgh International Science Festival (continued)THE FILMS OF JEAN PAINLEVE – THE SEA HORSE OCEANSTHE WELLCOME IMAGE AWARDS 2011The Films of Jean PainlevéWed 13 Apr at 6.00pmJean Painlevé • 1h46m • 35mm • PGJean Painlevé was one of the first filmmakers to shootunderwater. He began his pioneering work in the 1920s,documenting and dramatising the private lives of animalsin the coastal waters of his native France. This programmefeatures highlights from his long career as a poeticobserver of underwater life.Plus introduction and post-screening Q&A.Hyas and StenorhynchusFrance 1927 • 10m • Silent with French intertitles (and English subtitles)The Sea HorseFrance 1933 • 14m • French with English subtitlesSea UrchinsFrance 1954 • 11m • French with English subtitlesHow Some Jellyfish Are BornFrance 1960 • 14m • French with English subtitlesThe Love Life of the OctopusFrance 1967 • 14m • French with English subtitlesAcera, or The Witches’ DanceFrance 1972 • 13m • No dialogueTICKETDEALSSee any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% offSee any six (or more) 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.A Zed & Two NoughtsThu 14 Apr at 6.00pmPeter Greenaway • UK/Netherlands 1986 • 1h57m • 35mm • 15Cast: Andréa Ferréol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber.From controversial director Peter Greenaway, this is thedark and perversely comic story of twin zoologists and theirsearch for the meaning of life. When both their wives diein a freak accident, their resulting obsession with evolutionand decomposition becomes a series of exquisitely crafted,time-lapsed films on the process of decay.Plus an introduction and post-screening Q&A with FrankHepburn of BBC Scotland’s project Afterlife: The Scienceof Decay.UK PREMIEREOceans OcéansFri 15 Apr at 6.15pm, Sat 16 Apr at 1.00pm &Mon 18 Apr at 6.00pmJacques Perrin • France/Switzerland/Spain 2010 • 1h44mDigital projection • French with English subtitles • 12AJacques Perrin and Jacques Culzaud’s ecologicaldocumentary-drama, filmed in underwater locations acrossthe globe. Part thriller, part meditation, this film brings thevanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world to our attention.Plus introduction and Q&A following the screening onFriday 15 April.EXHIBITIONThe Wellcome Image Awards201127 March - 24 AprilFilmhouse Café BarThese amazing images demonstratea picture’s ability to communicate thewonder and fascination of science.“Images are one of the cornerstonesof science, but are often neglected asan obvious means of communicatingcomplex ideas. Throughout the historyof science and discovery, key ideashave been best described and sharedthrough diagrams. How much easier is itto understand the double helix structureof DNA when you can picture it? Andcrucially, that structure itself is key tounderstanding its function.” Dr AdamRutherford.This year’s winning images range froma stunning SEM of a honeybee to a lightmicrograph of bacteria found in thehuman mouth.

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18FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME 1 April - 5 May 2011 BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688DAYDATESCREEN NO. &FILM TITLESHOWTIMESDAYDATESCREEN NO. &FILM TITLESHOWTIMESDAYDATESCREEN NO. &FILM TITLESHOWTIMESFri 1 The Nurture Room 1.00 + discusion1 1 Oranges and Sunshine 3.45/6.15/8.35Apr 2 Oranges and Sunshine 1.452 Man of Aran 4.00/6.002 The Autobiog... Ceausescu (NE) 8.003 You Will Meet a Tall Dark... (AD) 1.30/3.45/6.153 The First Beautiful Thing (IFF) 8.30Sat 1 The Witches 1.002 1 Oranges and Sunshine 3.45/6.15/8.35Apr 2 Man of Aran 1.45/6.002 The Nurture Room 3.402 The Four Times (IFF) 8.303 You Will Meet a Tall Dark... (AD) 1.30/6.303 The Karamazovs (NE) 3.453 Erratum (NE) 8.45Sun 1 Oranges and Sunshine3 1 A Quiet Life (IFF)1.15/3.45/8.356.15Apr 2 Man of Aran 1.45/8.202 Katka (NE) 3.402 Oranges and Sunshine 6.003 You Will Meet a Tall Dark... (AD) 2.30/6.303 Between Fathers and Sons... 5.00 (£5.60/£3.60)3 The Christening (NE) 8.45Mon 1 Oranges and Sunshine (B) 11am (babies only)4 1 Oranges and Sunshine 2.30/6.15/8.35Apr 2 Man of Aran 3.15/6.002 General Della Rovere (IFF) 8.00 + intro3 You Will Meet a Tall Dark... (AD) 3.303 You Will Meet a Tall... (AD) + (S) 8.45 (subtitled)3 The Dark House (NE) 6.15Tue 1 Oranges and Sunshine 2.30/6.15/8.355 2 Man of Aran 3.15Apr 2 Honeymooner6.00 + Q&A2 Passione (IFF) 8.303 You Will Meet a Tall Dark... (AD) 3.30/8.453 Made in Poland (NE) 6.15KEY:(AD) – Audio Description (see page 2)(B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2)(S) – Subtitled (see page 2)SEASONS:(IFF) – Italian Film Festival (pages 20-22)(JH) – Muppets, Music & Magic: Jim Henson’sLegacy (pages 10-14)(NE) – New Europe Film Festival (pages 28-30)(NO) – The New Objectivity: Realism in WeimarCinema (pages 24-27)(PA) – Projecting the Archive (page 32)(SF) – Edinburgh International Science Festival(pages 15-16)(WW) – Weans’ World (page 19)Full index of films on page 2Wed 1 Oranges and Sunshine 2.30/6.15/8.356 2 Man of Aran 3.15Apr 2 The Conformist6.00 + intro2 The Man Who Will Come (IFF) 8.303 You Will Meet a Tall Dark... (AD) 3.30/8.453 Protector (NE) 6.15Thu 1 Oranges and Sunshine 2.30/6.15/8.357 2 Man of Aran 3.15Apr 2 The Conformist 6.002 The Girl by the Lake (IFF) 8.303 You Will Meet a Tall Dark... 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(AD) 12.30/8.453 Cooking History (NE) 6.30Mon 1 Oranges and Sunshine 2.30/8.3511 1 Wonders of the Universe (SF) 6.15 + Q&A (£10/£8)Apr 2 Finding Nemo (WW)11.00am2 Tangled (WW) 3.302 Oranges and Sunshine 6.152 One Man Up (IFF) 8.303 The Portuguese Nun 3.15/8.153 Twosome (NE) 6.00Tue 1 Oranges and Sunshine 2.30/6.15/8.3512 2 Tangled (WW) 3.30Apr 2 Between the Folds (SF)2 We Can Do That (IFF)6.15 + Q&A8.303 The Portuguese Nun 3.15/8.153 The Passing of the Third... (PA) 6.00Wed 1 Oranges and Sunshine 2.3013 1 The Films of Jean Painlevé (SF) 6.00 + Q&AApr 1 The Street (NO) 8.152 Tangled (WW) 3.302 Oranges and Sunshine 6.15/8.353 The Portuguese Nun 3.15/5.453 The Sicilian Girl (IFF) 8.45Thu 1 Oranges and Sunshine 2.30/6.0014 1 Kiss Me Again (IFF) 8.20Apr 2 Tangled (WW) 3.302 A Zed & Two Noughts (SF) 6.00 + Q&A2 Oranges and Sunshine 8.553 The Portuguese Nun 3.15/5.45/8.25Fri 1 The Last Picture Show 1.0015 1 Before the Revolution 3.45Apr 1 Oceans (SF)6.15 + Q&A1 Meek’s Cutoff 8.552 Meek’s Cutoff 1.20/3.30/6.002 The Last Picture Show 8.203 A Small Act 1.45/6.253 Oranges and Sunshine 3.45/8.30Sat 1 Oceans (SF) 1.0016 1 Atlantis (SF) 4.00Apr 1 Meek’s Cutoff 6.001 The Last Picture Show 8.302 The Last Picture Show 1.202 Meek’s Cutoff 4.00/8.452 Before the Revolution 6.203 A Small Act 1.45/6.253 Oranges and Sunshine 3.45/8.30Sun 1 The Last Picture Show 1.0017 1 Meek’s Cutoff 3.40/6.00Apr 1 The Big Blue (SF) 8.302 Before the Revolution 1.00/3.302 The Last Picture Show 6.002 Meek’s Cutoff 8.453 A Small Act 1.45/6.253 Oranges and Sunshine 3.45/8.30Mon 1 Labyrinth (JH) 1.3018 1 The Muppets... Manhattan (JH) 3.45Apr 1 Oceans (SF) 6.001 The Last Picture Show 8.302 The Last Picture Show 1.002 Meek’s Cutoff 3.40/8.452 Commercials & Experiments (JH) 6.153 A Small Act (B) 11am (babies only)3 A Small Act 1.10/9.003 Oranges and Sunshine 3.453 Oranges and Sunshine 6.00 + discussionTue 1 The Art of Puppetry... (JH) 1.3019 1 Sesame Street at 40... (JH) 3.45Apr 1 The Great Muppet Caper (JH) 6.151 The Last Picture Show 8.302 The Last Picture Show 1.002 Meek’s Cutoff 3.40/8.452 Before the Revolution 6.003 A Small Act 1.10/8.303 Oranges and Sunshine 3.45/6.10

WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM 1 April - 5 May 2011 FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME19DAYDATESCREEN NO. &FILM TITLESHOWTIMESWed 1 The Muppet Movie (JH) 1.3020 1 The Adventures of Elmo... (JH) 3.45Apr 1 Jim Henson and Friends... (JH) 6.151 The Last Picture Show 8.352 The Last Picture Show 1.002 Meek’s Cutoff 3.40/8.452 Before the Revolution 6.00 + intro3 Oranges and Sunshine 3.45/8.553 The Joyless Street (NO) 6.00Thu 1 The Dark Crystal (JH) 1.3021 1 Muppet Fairytales (JH) 3.45Apr 1 Muppet Music Moments (JH) 6.151 The Last Picture Show 8.302 The Last Picture Show 1.002 Meek’s Cutoff 3.40/6.00/8.453 Oranges and Sunshine 3.45/6.153 Commercials & Experiments (JH) 8.30Fri 1 Muppets from Space (JH) 1.0022 1 Jim Henson and Friends... (JH) 3.00Apr 1 The Muppet Movie (JH) 5.45 + intro1 The Dark Crystal (JH) 8.15 + intro2 Pina (2D) 1.30/3.50/6.15/8.453 The Tempest 1.20/3.40/6.05/8.30Sat 1 Sesame Street at 40... (JH) 1.0023 1 Muppet Treasure Island (JH) 3.15 + introApr 1 Muppet History 101 (JH) 6.15 + intro1 Labyrinth (JH) 8.00 + intro2 Pina (2D) 1.30/3.50/6.15/8.453 The Tempest 1.20/3.40/6.05/8.30Sun 1 WALL•E (WW) 1.0024 1 Sing: The Music of Sesame St (JH) 3.30Apr 1 Muppet Treasure Island (JH) 5.451 The Muppets... Manhattan (JH) 8.152 Muppet History 201... (JH) 1.30 + intro2 Pina (2D) 3.50/6.15/8.453 La peau douce 1.00/6.003 The Tempest 3.30/8.30Mon 1 WALL•E (WW)11.00am25 1 The Adventures of Elmo... (JH) 2.30Apr 1 Muppets from Space (JH) 6.001 Muppet History 201... (JH) 8.102 Pina (2D) 1.15/3.50/6.15/8.453 La peau douce 1.00/6.003 The Tempest 3.30/8.30Tue 1 The Great Muppet Caper (JH) 2.3026 1 Pina (2D) 6.15/8.45Apr 2 Pina (2D) 3.152 Chernobyl Heart 6.302 Route Irish 8.303 Route Irish 3.303 Sing: The Music of Sesame St (JH) 6.003 Term of Trial (PA) 8.00Wed 1 Pina (2D) 2.0027 1 Muppet Music Moments (JH) 6.00Apr 1 The Art of Puppetry... (JH) 8.002 Pina (2D) 3.45/6.15/8.453 Route Irish 3.30/8.303 Varieté (NO) 6.00DAYDATESCREEN NO. &FILM TITLESHOWTIMESThu 1 The Night of the Hunter 2.30/8.0028 1 Muppet Fairytales (JH) 6.00Apr 2 Pina (2D) 3.15/6.15/8.453 Route Irish 3.30/6.00/8.30Fri 1 L’Affaire Farewell 1.00/3.30/8.3029 1 Pina (2D) 6.00Apr 2 Essential Killing 1.452 Pina (2D) 3.45/8.452 L’Affaire Farewell 6.103 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2D) 2.00/6.153 Essential Killing 4.15/8.30Sat 1 L’Affaire Farewell 1.00/3.30/8.3030 1 Pina (2D) 6.00Apr 2 Essential Killing 1.452 Pina (2D) 3.45/8.452 L’Affaire Farewell 6.103 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2D) 2.00/6.153 Essential Killing 4.15/8.30Sun 1 L’Affaire Farewell 1.00/8.451 1 L’Elisir d’amore 3.30 (£15/£10)May 1 Pina (2D) 6.252 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2D) 1.302 Pina (2D) 3.45/8.452 L’Affaire Farewell 6.103 Essential Killing 1.15/8.303 Day for Night 3.303 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2D) 6.15Mon 1 Pina (2D) (B)11am (babies only)2 1 Pina (2D)May 1 L’Affaire Farewell8.452.30/6.002 Pina (2D) 3.30/6.102 L’Affaire Farewell 8.303 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2D) 2.003 Essential Killing 4.15/8.453 Day for Night 6.15Tue 1 L’Affaire Farewell 2.30/6.003 1 Pina (2D) 8.45May 2 Pina (2D) 3.30/6.102 L’Affaire Farewell 8.303 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2D) 2.00/6.153 Essential Killing 4.15/8.45Wed 1 L’Affaire Farewell 2.304 1 Pandora’s Box (NO) 6.00May 1 Pina (2D) 8.452 Pina (2D) 3.302 L’Affaire Farewell 6.00/8.303 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2D) 2.00/6.153 Essential Killing 4.15/8.45Thu 1 L’Affaire Farewell 2.30/6.005 1 Dead by Dawn (see May prog) Late!May 1 Pina (2D) 8.452 Pina (2D) 3.30/6.102 L’Affaire Farewell 8.303 Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2D) 2.00/6.153 Essential Killing 4.15/8.45TICKET PRICES & INFORMATIONMATINEES (Shows starting prior to 5pm)Mon - Thur £5.60 full price, £3.60 concessionsFriday Bargain Matinees £4.20/£2.60 concessionsSat - Sun £7.50 full price, £5.50 concessionsEVENING SCREENINGS (Starting 5pm and later)£7.50 full price, £5.50 concessionsAll tickets to Weans’ World screenings (markedWW on grid) are £2.50. 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20Italian Film FestivalTHE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THINGA QUIET LIFEGENERAL DELLA ROVEREBenvenuti to the Italian Film Festival in Scotland, curatedby Allan Hunter and Richard Mowe and supportedby the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Edimburgo andthe Consolato Generale d’Italia, as well as sponsorsValvona & Crolla VinCaffè and Zucca Edinburgh. Our2011 edition highlights a diverse line-up of new andclassic Italian cinema, including comedies, dramas,thrillers and classics from award-winning directors andactors, a spotlight on actor Toni Servillo, a screeningof Roberto Rossellini’s long-unavailable 1959 wartimedrama, General Della Rovere, and debut films fromexciting new talent. In some instances this is your onlychance to see these latest and greatest Italian movies inEdinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow.www.italianfilmfestival.org.ukTICKETDEALSSee any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% offSee any six (or more) films in this season and get 25% offSee any nine (or more) films in this season and get 35% 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 First Beautiful ThingLa prima cosa bellaFri 1 Apr at 8.30pmPaolo Virzì • Italy 2010 • 2h4m • 35mmItalian with English subtitles • 15Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Micaela Ramazzotti, Stefania Sandrelli,Claudia Pandolfi, Marco Messeri.Paolo Virzi’s bittersweet comedy The First Beautiful Thingwas selected as Italy’s candidate for the best foreign filmOscar. Set in both 1971 and in the present day, the filmfocuses on a young man returning home to say goodbyeto his mother, a former beauty queen who is now dying ofcancer.The Four Times Le quattro volteSat 2 Apr at 8.30pmMichelangelo Frammartino • Italy/Germany/Switzerland 20101h28m • 35mm • Italian with English subtitles • PGCast: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano.Hailed as “a genre-defying work of cinematictranscendence”, The Four Times was one of the greatdiscoveries of the last Cannes Film Festival, a spellbindingfusion of languidly beautiful imagery and bracingphilosophical rumination. In this virtually wordless filmshot in the countryside of Calabria, an elderly shepherdundergoes a journey from human to animal, vegetable andmineral. A work of great originality and poise, The FourTimes is also playful, tender and surprisingly poignant.Valvona & Crolla VinCaffè ChoiceA Quiet Life Una vita tranquillaSun 3 Apr at 6.15pmClaudio Cupellini • Italy/France/Germany 20101h45m • Digital projectionItalian, German, Neapolitan and English with English subtitles • 15Cast: Toni Servillo, Marco D’Amore, Francesco Di Leva, Juliane Köhler.Toni Servillo gives another masterful, award-winningperformance in this gripping, expertly executed thriller.Servillo stars as Rosario, an Italian hotelier who now runs aquiet roadside inn near Wiesbaden with his German wifeRenate. One day two young Neapolitan men check in, andRosario is confronted by the ghosts of his past and theconsequences of a long-abandoned life.General Della RovereIl Generale della RovereMon 4 Apr at 8.00pm + introRoberto Rossellini • Italy/France 1959 • 2h11mDigital projection • Italian and German with English subtitles • PGCast: Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli.General Della Rovere won the Golden Lion at Venice andreceived an Oscar nomination for its screenplay. Set inwartime Genoa, it is based on true events, and features asuperb performance from Vittorio De Sica as ‘the colonel’,an inveterate gambler, charmer and consummate swindlerwho preys on the vulnerable. When his crimes and betrayalsbegin to catch up with him, a Nazi officer offers him a chanceof freedom if he will perform the most dangerous deceptionof his career and impersonate a murdered resistance leader.This screening will be introduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone(University of Edinburgh).

Italian Film Festival21THE MAN WHO WILL COMEWHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAYTHE PASSION PLAYPassioneTue 5 Apr at 8.30pmJohn Turturro • Italy/USA 2010 • 1h30m • DigibetaItalian, English and Neapolitan with English subtitles • PGDocumentaryActor and director John Turturro is devoted to the city ofNaples and the unique musical culture that it has inspired.“There are places that you go to and once is enough andthen there is Napoli,” he declares. In Passion, Turturro is tourguide, narrator and seductive enthusiast as he walks thecobbled streets of the city, chatting to the locals about theirfavourite singers and paying tribute to a vast range of musicalgreats from Angela Luce to Sergio Bruni and Massimo Ranieri.The Man Who Will ComeL’uomo che verràWed 6 Apr at 8.30pmGiorgio Diritti • Italy 2009 • 1h57m • 35mm • Italian, German andLatin with English subtitles • 15Cast: Maya Sansa, Alba Rohrwacher, Eleonora Mazzoni, ClaudioCasadio, Greta Zuccheri Montanari.In the autumn of 1944, on the slopes of Monte Sole,south of Bologna, Fascism showed its face in one of theworst massacres on Italian soil. As a reprisal against localvillagers for their support of partisan activity, German SStroops systematically murdered nearly 800 people, most ofthem women, children and elderly. Director Giorgio Dirittiilluminates the incident in a very specific way, creating analmost elegiac portrait of peasant life as seen through theeyes of an eight-year-old child. The film won the audienceprize at the Rome Film FestivalThe Girl by the Lake La ragazza del lagoThu 7 Apr at 8.30pmAndrea Molaioli • Italy 2007 • 1h35m • 35mmItalian with English subtitles • 15Cast: Toni Servillo, Denis Fasolo, Nello Mascia, Giulia Michelini.Based on the Norwegian novel ‘Don’t Look Back’ byKarin Fossum, this tense murder mystery unfolds amidstthe rugged beauty of the Italian Dolomites. A peaceful,provincial town is shocked by the murder of a beautifulyoung woman whose body is found naked on the shoreof a lake. Inspector Giovani Sanzio (Servillo) is sent toinvestigate the murder, but as he digs deeper into the girl’slife and death he uncovers more questions than answers. Asubtle, absorbing tale handled with supreme confidence.What a Beautiful Day Che bella giornataFri 8 Apr at 8.30pmGennaro Nunziante • Italy 2011 • 1h37m • 35mmItalian with English subtitles • 12ACast: Checco Zalone, Nabiha Akkari, Mehdi Mahdloo, IsabelleAdriani, Luigi Luciano.This outrageous comedy has taken the Italian box-officeby storm since its release in January. TV comic CheccoZalone stars as a Southerner who dreams of joining themilitary police. Instead, he works as a security guard atMilan cathedral. He is not the sharpest knife in the cutlerydrawer, which makes him the perfect dupe for a brotherand sister team of Islamic terrorists who are planning tobomb the cathedral...The Double Hour La doppia oraSat 9 Apr at 8.30pmGiuseppe Capotondi • Italy 2009 • 1h35m • 35mmItalian and Spanish with English subtitles • 15Cast: Kseniya Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Antonia Truppo, GaetanoBruno, Fausto Russo Alesi.Sonia has recently arrived in Italy from Slovenia. She worksas a chambermaid in a plush hotel and meets securityguard Guido at a speed dating club. Out to impress his newgirl, Guido takes her to a remote country mansion filledwith priceless art treasures, but a shocking event marksthe beginning of a horrifying nightmare for Sonia. This firstfeature from director Giuseppe Capotondi is a fiendishlyclever thriller.The Passion Play La passioneSun 10 Apr at 8.30pmCarlo Mazzacurati • Italy 2010 • 1h46m • 35mmItalian with English subtitles • 12ACast: Silvio Orlando, Stefania Sandrelli, Cristiana Capotondi, KasiaSmutniak, Giuseppe Battiston.Gianni is a filmmaker who hasn’t completed a project infour years. When a flat he rents out in Tuscany suffers amajor plumbing malfunction, destroying a historic frescoin an adjacent church, Gianni is forced by the local judgeto direct the upcoming annual amateur production of thePassion of Christ. A warm, Capra-esque comedy, full ofin-jokes about movie-making and creativity.SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

22Italian Film Festival (continued)WE CAN DO THATTHE SICILIAN GIRLKISS ME AGAINOne Man Up L’uomo in piùMon 11 Apr at 8.30pmPaolo Sorrentino • Italy 2001 • 1h43m • 35mmItalian with English subtitles • 15Cast: Toni Servillo, Andrea Renzi, Nello Mascia, AntoninoBruschetta, Angela Goodwin.Two men learn first hand about the cruel twists of fameand fortune. In the early ‘80s, Tony Pisapia (Servillo) andhis younger brother Antonio have each risen to the peakof their chosen professions. Tony is a nightclub singer whoafter years of struggle has achieved nationwide fame, andAntonio is a soccer player who becomes a star after scoringthe game-winning goal in the European championshipmatch. However, a few years down the line both men areexperiencing a sharp reversal of their good fortune...We Can Do That Si può fareTue 12 Apr at 8.30pmGiulio Manfredonia • Italy 2008 • 1h51m • 35mmItalian with English subtitles • 15Cast: Claudio Bisio, Anita Caprioli, Giuseppe Battiston, GiorgioColangeli, Andrea Bosca.Nominated in nine categories at the Donatello awards, WeCan Do That is a clever, caustic comedy with echoes ofOne Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Nello, a former tradeunionist, is appointed to care for a group of former mentalpatients released back into the community. Two of the menhave an amazing talent for installing parquet floors, andsoon Nello has established a cooperative laying flooring forrich clients...The Sicilian Girl La siciliana ribelleWed 13 Apr at 8.45pmMarco Amenta • Italy/France 2009 • 1h55m • 35mmItalian with English subtitles • 18Cast: Veronica D’Agostino, Gérard Jugnot, Giulia Andò, RobertoBonura, Paolo Briguglia.This gripping crime drama was inspired by the true story ofa young girl who broke ranks to testify against the Mafia.On a November morning in 1991, 17-year-old Rita Atriaapproached the chief prosecutor of Palermo, intent onvindicating her father and brother’s Mafia-related deaths.Using meticulously recorded information from years ofdiary-keeping, Rita’s testimony was invaluable in securingconvictions of many figures in the Sicilian mob.Kiss Me Again Baciami ancoraThu 14 Apr at 8.20pmGabriele Muccino • Italy/France 2010 • 2h19m • 35mmItalian with English subtitles • 15Cast: Stefano Accorsi, Vittoria Puccini, Pierfrancesco Favino, ValeriaBruni Tedeschi, Claudio Santamaria.Set ten years after the box-office hit The Last Kiss, GabrieleMuccino’s sequel returns to the lives of Carlo and hisfriends as they enter their forties and reflect on theirdisappointments with life, love and relationships. Carlo isdevoted to his daughter but separated from wife Giulia,whom he had assumed would be the love of his life.Older but clearly no wiser, he still acts like an adolescent,frantically searching for a happiness that remains elusive.Traverse Theatre CompanyPandasBy Rona MunroA romantic-comedy-thrillerset in Edinburgh and China... maybe.19 April - 7 MayPreviews 15 - 17 Aprilwww.traverse.co.uk 0131 228 1404

Bernardo Bertolucci23THE CONFORMISTTHE CONFORMISTBEFORE THE REVOLUTIONBernardoBertolucciTwo newly-restored films from thecelebrated director, plus a talk fromDr Pasquale Iannone (University ofEdinburgh).Between Fathers and Sons:An Introduction toBernardo BertolucciSun 3 Apr, 5.00pm - 6.00pm – TICKETS £5.60/£3.60Bernardo Bertolucci will forever be associated with hissixth feature, the 1972 succès de scandale Last Tango inParis, the film that established the Parma-born director’sinternational reputation. Bertolucci’s early work – up to andincluding Last Tango – is intensely autobiographical, withcharacters’ Oedipal struggles in the pro-filmic mirrored bythe director’s own complex relationships with cinematicpadri such as Godard and Pasolini.Focusing on Bertolucci’s first six films – andcomplementing Filmhouse screenings of Before TheRevolution and The Conformist – this illustrated talk byDr Pasquale Iannone (University of Edinburgh) is an idealopportunity to learn more about the fascinating earlycareer of one of the great European auteurs.The ConformistIl conformistaWed 6 to Sat 9 AprBernardo Bertolucci • Italy/France/West Germany 1970 • 1h53mDigital projection • Italian and French with English subtitles15 – Contains moderate sex, sex references, nudity and violenceCast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin,Enzo Tarascio, Fosco Giachetti.A brilliant blend of thriller, psychological portrait andpolitical parable, The Conformist found BernardoBertolucci on peak form, working with cinematographerVittorio Storaro, designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti andcomposer Georges Delerue to create a stylistic tour deforce that would influence and pave the way for the likes ofScorsese, Schrader and Michael Mann.Adapting a novel by Alberto Moravia, Bertolucci centredhis film on Marcello Clerici (Trintignant), who, to impresshis Fascist friends, embarks on a mission to assassinatehis former professor, now considered a subversive threat.Suspense and psychological analysis are interwoven asthe film flashes back and forth in time to explore Clerici’sbehaviour, rooted in sexual unease and obsession – he’sattracted to the professor’s young wife – and repressedemotions.The 6.00pm screening on Wednesday 6 April will beintroduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone.Before the RevolutionPrima della rivoluzioneFri 8 to Wed 20 Apr (screening on select dates only)Bernardo Bertolucci • Italy 1964 • 1h52m • Digital projectionItalian with English subtitles • 15Cast: Francesco Barilli, Adriana Asti, Allen Midgette, MorandoMorandini, Cristina Pariset.Bertolucci’s brilliantly assured second film is very looselyinspired by Stendhal’s ‘The Charterhouse of Parma’,a novel the director adored. The story centres on theemotional and political conflicts within a young man,Fabrizio, who is contemplating joining the CommunistParty. But his personal life is even more unresolved, ashe breaks away from his planned marriage to a perfectbourgeoise and becomes incestuously involved with hisalluring aunt (Adriana Asti). Bertolucci’s obsession forpolitics and cinema is openly expressed through this alteregoand in the extraordinary freedom of his cameraworkand editing.The 6.00pm screening on Wednesday 20 April will beintroduced by Dr Pasquale Iannone.TICKETDEALSSee both films and the talk in this season and get 15% offThis offer is 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.

24 The New Objectivity: Realism in Weimar CinemaTHE STREET THE JOYLESS STREET VARIETEThe NewObjectivity:Realism inWeimar CinemaAlongside the National Galleries of Scotland’sexhibition of August Sander’s photography,Filmhouse presents an overview of vérité cinemafrom Weimar Germany.Sander’s bracingly realist oeuvre fits in thebroader context of the ‘Neue Sachlichkeit’, or‘New Objectivity’, a movement that saw manyartists – including filmmakers – react against thepoetic devices of the Expressionists in favour ofa crisply focused realism exposing the seamierside of life. This vibrant chapter in Germancinema came to an abrupt end with the rise ofNazism in the early thirties, but the films remaingripping today – a testament to the curiosity andinnovation of these groundbreaking filmmakers.Thanks to the Goethe-Institut, Glasgow.The Street Die StrasseWed 13 Apr at 8.15pmKarl Grune • Germany 1923 • 1h14m • 35mmSilent with German intertitles (and live English translation) • 12ACast: Anton Edthofer, Aud Egede Nissen, Leonhard Haskel, LucieHöflich, Max Schreck.A middle-class man, in a rut at home, dreams of theexcitement of ‘the street’. One evening, foregoing dinner,he leaves wife and apartment to pursue his dream butis lured into misadventure by a prostitute. Karl Grune’sextraordinary film captivates with its vision of Parisiannight life, largely dispensing with title-cards to achieve anuninterrupted flow of images.Print courtesy of Deutsche Kinemathek.With live piano accompaniment by Forrester Pyke.A keen musician, Forrester Pyke began studying classical piano atthe age of 7 and went on to study at the London College of Musicand London University, specializing in piano, voice, compositionand history of music. As a child, he joined the Children’s OperaGroup in London, which gave him the opportunity to sing aswell as act (BBC TV, Royal Shakespeare Co, Royal Opera Houseand many more). After he moved to Scotland, Forrester wentto Moray House, Edinburgh and subsequently, spent 2 yearssinging with Scottish Opera and the SNO chorus, before goingback to teaching. Aside from his teaching posts, Forrester hasundertaken many musical directorships as well as being Organistand Choirmaster of Bridge of Allan Parish Church. In the last 15years, he has provided improvised piano accompaniment for silentmovies at Filmhouse and other venues. Forrester is also Principal ofCentrescene Stage School (Stirling) which he founded.The Joyless Street Die freudlose GasseWed 20 Apr at 6.00pmGW Pabst • Germany 1925 • 2h5m • 35mmSilent with German intertitles (and English subtitles) • 12ACast: Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen, Valeska Gert, Werner Krauss,Einar Hansen.Pabst’s record of the process of destitution in the middleclasses of Vienna in the ‘20s, starring Greta Garbo as ayoung beauty who starts working in a brothel in order tofeed her family, was banned in Britain when first released.Its squalid realism is given conviction by a sureness oftechnique and a sensuousness of imagery, continuallycreating contrasts between the misery of the have-nots andthe uncaring gaiety of the champagne-swilling affluent.With live piano accompaniment by Forrester Pyke.

The New Objectivity: Realism in Weimar Cinema25PANDORA’S BOXPEOPLE ON SUNDAYBERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITYVarietéWed 27 Apr at 6.00pmEA Dupont • Germany 1925 • 1h12m • 35mmSilent with German intertitles (and live English translation) • 12ACast: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti, Warwick Ward,Alice Hechy.Dupont’s most celebrated film unfolds in a long seriesof flashbacks. The story itself is a simple melodrama:a trapeze duo in the Berlin music-hall becomes a trio,and the lady switches gentlemen, driving the cuckold tomurder his rival. The treatment, though, is something elseagain – impressionistic lighting, lingering expressionistimagery, and giddily mobile camerawork are all pushed tounprecedented extremes.With live piano accompaniment by Forrester Pyke.Pandora’s Box Die Büchse der PandoraWed 4 May at 6.00pmGW Pabst • Germany 1928 • 2h12m • 35mm • Silent • PGCast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Karl Goetz, AliceRoberts.Pabst’s tragic portrait of sexual obsession, with Americanactress Louise Brooks giving a genuinely iconicperformance as the prostitute Lulu, a femme fatale whounleashes uncontrollable desires in the men and womenshe encounters. Pandora’s Box is a richly atmosphericwork – Pabst is equally at home in Berlin high society orin London’s impoverished East End – and it remains astrikingly bleak vision of human relationships.With live piano accompaniment by Forrester Pyke.People on Sunday Menschen am SonntagSun 15 May at 2.00pmCurt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann &Rochus Gliese • Germany 1930 • 1h14m • 35mm • Silent • PGCast: Erwin Splettstosser, Wolfgang von Waltershausen, BrigitteBorchert, Christl Ehlers, Annie Schreyer.One of the earliest movies to renounce stars, drama and theother paraphernalia of commercial cinema in favour of a nonprofessionalcast and an unmomentous, everyday storyline.Most of it centres on a Sunday excursion from the bustleof Berlin to a countryside lake, where a bachelor and hismarried friend drift in and out of flirtations with two youngwomen. Hardly anything happens, but the play of gazes,emotions and counterpoints becomes deeply engrossing.You end up not only learning a lot about life in 1929, but alsorealising how little sexual mores have changed.With live accompaniment by Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra is a large ensemble of around20 musicians from diverse artistic backgrounds such as freeimprovisation, jazz, classical, folk, pop and experimentalmusics as well as performance art. Since its inaugural project inOctober 2002 the Orchestra has established a reputation, bothlocally and internationally, for innovative projects and criticallyacclaimed improvised music. A slew of collaborations withworld renowned improvisers have helped expand the band’sartistic horizons. Today, Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra performat venues around the UK and Europe, collaborate with leadingimprovising musicians and have established their own annualfestival in Glasgow which provides a platform for like-mindedmusicians and artists. They work in education and outreachsettings, create, perform and record new works, and developperformances in collaboration with film and visual artists.Berlin: Symphony of a Great CityBerlin: Die Sinfonie der GrosstadtSun 15 May at 6.45pmWalter Ruttmann • Germany 1927 • 1h5m • 35mm • Silent • PGA visual poem on the bustling metropolis of Berlin duringits post-depression period, just prior to its takeover by theNazis. It follows the everyday life of the Berliner from earlymorning to midnight (going to work, shopping, dancing,going to the cinema). Ruttmann was influenced by theRussians, in particular the montage theories of DzigaVertov.With live accompaniment by Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

26 The New Objectivity: Realism in Weimar Cinema (continued)MOTHER KRAUSE’S JOURNEY TO HAPPINESSTHE BLUE ANGELDIARY OF A LOST GIRLWESTFRONT 1918Mother Krause’s Journey to HappinessMutter Krausens Fahrt ins GlückWed 25 May at 6.00pmPhil Jutzi • Germany 1929 • 1h56m • 35mmSilent with German intertitles (and live English translation) • PGCast: Alexandra Schmitt, Holmes Zimmermann, Ilse Trautschold,Gerhard Bienert, Vera Sacharowa.Mother Krausen’s Journey to Happiness was the mostsuccessful interwar film production of the GermanCommunist Party. A fusion of melodramatic narrative andSoviet propaganda depicts living conditions of the Germanproletariat, with insertions of documentary footage fromBerlin’s working-class neighbourhoods.Print courtesy of Deutsche Kinemathek.With live piano accompaniment by Forrester Pyke.The Blue Angel Der blaue EngelWed 1 Jun at 6.00pm + introJosef von Sternberg • Germany 1930 • 1h46m • 35mmGerman and English with English subtitles • PGCast: Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti.Marlene Dietrich in her first iconic role as a femme fataleplays a sensual singer at the café Blue Angel. Director Josefvon Sternberg’s use of lighting, composition and of silenceas sound, his overall creation of a world that can seduceand destroy even its most upstanding citizen, attest to hisgreatness.This screening will be introduced by Jim Dunnigan,Chair of Edinburgh Film Guild and Film Studies tutor atEdinburgh University Office of Lifelong Learning.Diary of a Lost GirlTagebuch einer VerlorenenWed 8 Jun at 6.00pm + introGW Pabst • Germany 1929 • 1h44m • 35mmSilent with German intertitles (and live English translation) • 12ACast: Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovensky, Fritz Rasp,Vera Pawlowa.An elegant narrative of moral musical chairs, Pabst’slast silent film not only plays on who holds what kind oflegitimate place in society, but is also a starkly direct viewof inter-war Germany. Feasting the camera on Brooks’radiant beauty, Pabst follows the adventures of innocenceled astray in the shape of Thymian, a pharmacist’sdaughter. Her progress from apple of her father’s eye,through sexual lapse and approved school, to darling ofan expensive brothel and finally to dowager countess,gives Pabst the opportunity to measure the Germany of theWeimar republic against Brooks’ embodiment of a vitalityso exuberant that it equals innocence.With live piano accompaniment by Forrester Pyke.This screening will be introduced by Jim Dunnigan,Chair of Edinburgh Film Guild and Film Studies tutor atEdinburgh University Office of Lifelong Learning.TICKETDEALSSee any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% offSee any six (or more) films in this season and get 25% offSee any nine (or more) films in this season and get 35% 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 New Objectivity: Realism in Weimar Cinema27THE THREEPENNY OPERACOMRADESHIPKUHLE WAMPEWestfront 1918Wed 15 Jun at 6.00pm + introGW Pabst • Germany 1930 • 1h15m • 35mmGerman with English soft-titles • 15Cast: Fritz Kampers, Gustav Diessl, Hans-Joachim Moebis, ClausClausen, Jackie Monnier.Pabst’s first talkie offered a grim, humanitarian perspectiveon trench warfare, not unlike that in the almost contemporaryAll Quiet on the Western Front. Hardly any film since hasgiven such an unremittingly horrific picture of warfare-inaction,from the agonising lulls to the surprise attacks, fromharsh resilience to the release of madness or a death wish.The point is ultimately a simple pacifism, with all the politicallimitations that implies. But Pabst’s brilliant tracking shotsalong the trenches, through ruins, and across no man’s land,remain more haunting than anything in ‘expressionist’ cinema.Print courtesy of Deutsche Kinemathek.This screening will be introduced by Jim Dunnigan,Chair of Edinburgh Film Guild and Film Studies tutor atEdinburgh University Office of Lifelong Learning.August Sander: People of the 20th CenturyThe Threepenny OperaDie 3 Groschen-OperWed 29 Jun at 6.00pm + introGW Pabst • Germany 1931 • 1h52m • 35mmGerman with English subtitles • PGCast: Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel, Fritz Rasp,Lotte Lenya.In Victorian London, womanising gentleman thief Mack theKnife joins, through marriage, both the king of the beggarsand the chief of police in setting up a bank. If Brecht’santi-capitalist sentiments are muted by Pabst’s heavilystylised lyricism, there is no denying either the sheer visualeloquence of the sets and photography or the charismaticpower of the performances.This screening will be introduced by Jim Dunnigan,Chair of Edinburgh Film Guild and Film Studies tutor atEdinburgh University Office of Lifelong Learning.12 February to 10 July 2011 • Dean Gallery • Admission free • www.nationalgalleries.orgAugust Sander (1876-1964) was one of the greatest and most influential photographers of the 20th century.During his whole career he photographed individuals and groups of people that he then classified according totheir occupations and position in society. This lifelong attempt to document the German people resulted in theambitious project entitled People of the 20th Century.The exhibition is taken from a major collection of over 170 modern prints, recently placed on long loan to ARTISTROOMS courtesy of Anthony d’Offay. The prints were produced from the original plates by August Sander’sgrandson, Gerd Sander, who himself is a photographer and master printer. Together the collection of photographsgives a brilliant overview of Sander’s achievements as an artist, photographer and recorder of history.Comradeship KameradschaftWed 6 Jul at 6.00pmGW Pabst • Germany/France 1931 • 1h33m • 35mmFrench and German with English subtitles • 12ACast: Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Ernst Busch, ElisabethWendt, Gustav Püttjer.A coal-mine on the French-German border, where theaftermath of World War I is still being played out: Frenchprosperity and chauvinism hard up against Germaninflation and unemployment. There’s a disaster in theFrench wing of the mine...and the German miners goto the rescue. Both the visual style and the ‘message’ ofsolidarity owe a lot to Soviet Socialist Realism, but Pabstwas a more sophisticated social critic than any of theRussian filmmakers.Kuhle WampeWed 13 Jul at 6.00pmSlatan Dudow • Germany 1932 • 1h11m • 35mmGerman with English subtitles • PGCast: Hertha Thiele, Ernst Busch, Martha Wolter, Adolf Fischer.Bertolt Brecht scripted and participated in the making ofthis film, an unsentimental view of life in Kuhle Wampe,a camp for the dispossessed. Brecht saw its docileinhabitants (who struggled to maintain their dignitythrough an obsessive tidiness and attention to the formsof ‘respectable’ life) as wasting the opportunity for classsolidarity and revolution. What is curiously absent from thefilm is any treatment of the rise of the Nazis; Hitler cameto power only nine months after the premiere of KuhleWampe in May 1932, and wasted little time in banning thischarming and subversive film.

28 New Europe Film FestivalTHE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCUNew EuropeFilm FestivalNew Europe is back with the best ofcontemporary cinema from Eastern andCentral Europe. This year’s films comefrom Poland, Czech Republic, Romania,Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Slovakia.TICKETDEALSSee any three (or more) films in this season and get 15% offSee any six (or more) films in this season and get 25% offSee any nine (or more) films in this season and get 35% 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 KARAMAZOVSThe Autobiography of NicolaeCeausescuAutobiografia lui Nicolae CeausescuFri 1 Apr at 8.00pmAndrei Ujica • Romania 2010 • 3h • Digital projectionRomanian with English subtitles • 15 • DocumentaryNicolae Ceausescu’s megalomania and selfaggrandisementare legendary. As Romania’s tyrannicalPresident from 1974 to 1989, he created a bizarre andseemingly infectious cult of personality. As Romaniaplunged into mass poverty under his draconian austerityprogramme, Ceausescu continued to be fêted the worldover. He received an honour from the Queen of England,was visited by President Nixon and was received warmlyby Charles de Gaulle, Mao Tse-tung and most auspiciouslyby the North Koreans, whose welcoming ceremonies forhim rivalled those of the Beijing Olympics.Four years in the making and culled from one thousandhours of archival footage – both state sanctioned andprivate – this spellbinding adventure unfolds as if from thenostalgic, solipsistic memory of Ceausescu himself.ERRATUMThe Karamazovs KaramazoviSat 2 Apr at 3.45pmPetr Zelenka • Czech Republic/Poland 2008 • 1h50m • 35mmCzech, Polish and English with English subtitles • 12ACast: Martin Mysicka, Michaela Badinková, Igor Chmela, LenkaKrobotová, David Novotny.A Prague theatre company arrives in Krakow with a stageadaptation of Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’, tobe presented in a local steelworks. As rehearsals progress,we observe story lines from the real world, of the cast andof a single worker who observes them. Issues of faith,immortality, and salvation cross borders as the film movesbetween its alternating perspectives.ErratumSat 2 Apr at 8.45pmMarek Lechki • Poland 2010 • 1h35m • 35mmPolish with English subtitles • 15Cast: Tomasz Kot, Ryszard Kotys, Tomasz Radawiec, JanuszMichalowski, Karina Kunkiewicz.34-year-old Michal is sent by his boss to pick up a carfrom his home town, which he left many years before andhasn’t been back to since. An accident forces Michal tolinger longer than he had planned, and, with time on hishands, he strolls through the familiar streets, running intoold friends and hanging out in the same haunts where hehad once played music with his rock band. As bittersweetmemories flood his consciousness, he begins to re-evaluatehis past – and his future

New Europe Film Festival29THE CHRISTENINGMADE IN POLANDPROTECTORKatkaSun 3 Apr at 3.40pmHelena Trestikova • Czech Republic 2010 • 1h30mDigital projection • Czech with English subtitles • 15DocumentaryHelena Trestikova’s remarkable film documents fourteenyears in the life of a young junkie, and her futile battle withdrug addiction. The director records Katka’s descent overthe years into a spiral of theft, prostitution, physical andpsychological deterioration – a spiral that is broken only bybrief flashes of hope and resolutions to stop taking drugs.Will pregnancy help Katka to finally find the strength tokick her habit?The Christening ChrzestSun 3 Apr at 8.45pmMarcin Wrona • Poland 2010 • 1h26m • 35mmPolish with English subtitles • 15Cast: Wojciech Zielinski, Natalia Rybicka, Tomasz Schuchardt.Respectable businessman Michal, realising that hiscriminal past is about to catch up with him, asks hislong-time friend Janek to be godfather to his new-bornson – and, if necessary, to become his surrogate inmarriage and fatherhood. Psychologically intricate andmorally ambiguous in a manner recalling the novels ofPatricia Highsmith, The Christening is also a gripping,uncompromising thrillerThe Dark House Dom zlyMon 4 Apr at 6.15pmWojciech Smarzowski • Poland 2009 • 1h46m • 35mmPolish with English subtitles • 15Cast: Arkadiusz Jakubik, Marian Dziedziel, Kinga Preis, Bartlomiej Topa.A dark crime thriller that switches between the eventsleading up to a murder and the later police investigation,gradually revealing the grim truth of what happened.Combining the emotional depth and complex plotting ofthe popular Swedish Wallander novels and TV series withthe sharp characterisation, deadpan humour and snowysmall-town setting of the Coen Brothers’ Fargo, the filmwas a multi-award-winner in its native Poland, and hasbeen a big hit at festivals across Europe.Made in PolandTue 5 Apr at 6.15pmPrzemyslaw Wojcieszek • Poland 2010 • 1h30m35mm • Polish with English subtitles • 15Cast: Piotr Wawer Jr, Janusz Chabior, Przemyslaw Bluszcz,Magdalena Kuta, Grzegorz Sowa.16-year old Bogus, a former altar boy, acts out hisdisappointment with God. He tattoos obscenities on hisforehead, arms himself with a metal rod and sets out tostart a revolution on his block, in a search for new spiritualguidance. Writer and director Przemyslaw Wojcieszekinitially conceived Made in Poland as a film project, butdecided not to wait for funding and adapted the story for thetheatre in 2004. The play was a spectacular success, stronglypraised by critics and considered one of the most significantPolish plays of the last decade. Wojcieszek is rightlyregarded as one of the formative directors of his generation.Protector ProtektorWed 6 Apr at 6.15pmMarek Najbrt • Czech Republic/Germany 2009 • 1h38m • 35mmCzech with English subtitles • 15Cast: Jana Plodková, Marek Daniel, Klára Melísková, TomásMechácek, Tomás Zatecka.Notable for its fresh approach and unusual art direction, thisfateful love story is set in Prague during the late 1930s andsubsequent Nazi occupation. It focuses on radio journalistEmil, who is deeply in love with his glamorous Jewishmovie star wife Hana. When the ‘Protectorate of Bohemiaand Moravia’ is established, Hana’s career is cut short andEmil’s radio station put under German control. Emil choosesto collaborate with the occupiers in order to survive andprotect his wife. Ironically, this choice threatens to destroythe very thing he’s trying to protect: Hana.9:06Thu 7 Apr at 6.15pmIgor Sterk • Slovenia/Germany 2009 • 1h15m • 35mmSlovenian with English subtitles • 15Cast: Gregor Bakovic, Silva Cusin, Labina Mitevska, PavleRavnohrib, Igor Samobor.A coolly elegant one-man police procedural which slowlydevelops into a beguiling psychological mystery. A policeinspector investigating a suicide becomes obsessed withthe dead man’s life, and gradually assumes his identity.SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF

30 New Europe Film Fest (continued)EASTERN PLAYSCOOKING HISTORYTWOSOMEEastern PlaysFri 8 Apr at 6.30pmKamen Kalev • Bulgaria/Sweden 2009 • 1h29m • 35mmTurkish, Bulgarian and English with English subtitles • 15Cast: Christo Christov, Ovanes Torosian, Saadet Aksoy, NikolinaIancheva, Ivan Nalbantov.Two estranged brothers are suddenly reunited whenthey unwittingly find themselves on opposite sides in aracially-motivated beating: Georgi, who’s recently joined aNeo-Nazi gang, participates in the violence, while Itso, anartist who takes methadone and struggles with addiction,witnesses the act and comes to the aid of the victims. Onlyby coming together will the two brothers find what theywant out of life. Sadly, soon after filming, lead actor ChristoChristov, who plays Itso, died, depriving us of a promisingnew talent. The film uses not only Christov’s actualapartment, but also his drawings and the woodcarvingworkshop where he worked.Puskás HungarySat 9 Apr at 6.00pmTamás Almási • Hungary 2009 • 1h56m • Digibeta • PGDocumentaryThe story of footballer Ferenc Puskás, who began life in theBudapest slums and became an international star. Captainof the legendary Magical Magyars team of the 1950s, heovercame poverty, calamities such as World War II and theHungarian Revolution of 1956, and, after a physical andmental breakdown, returned to the top once again in his30s, playing for Real Madrid.Cooking History Ako sa varia dejinySun 10 Apr at 6.30pmPéter Kerekes • Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Finland 20091h28m • Digibeta • German, Czech, Russian, French, English,Hebrew, Hungarian, Croatian and Serbian with English subtitlesPG • DocumentaryWithout the battlefield cook, there is no war – becausewithout the cook, there is no food. Using the field kitchenas a lens through which to view the major Europeanconflicts of the 20th century, this documentary allowsthe bakers, butchers, and chefs of the great Europeanarmies to recount their versions of history. Cooking Historyfunctions both as a fascinating lesson on the wartimekitchen and a pleasurable glimpse of some of its mostanimated characters.Twosome DvojkaMon 11 Apr at 6.00pmJaroslav Fuit • Czech Republic 2009 • 1h38m • 35mmCzech with English subtitles • 15Cast: Kristyna Nováková, Jakub Wagner, David Máj, Jirí Hána,Vojtech Dyk.A couple have come to a crossroads in their five-yearrelationship. While Michal is thinking about starting afamily, Veronika feels that she has not yet experiencedenough of life, pleasure, and freedom. On holiday inScandinavia, they meet wanderer and petty thief Simon,and are tested in ways that cause them to reflect on theirlives together and apart.

Opera On Screen/Chernobyl Heart/The Nurture Room31L’ELISIR D’AMOREOpera On ScreenMagnificent international productionsof some of the world’s favourite operas,filmed live and digitally projected onto thebig screen.L’Elisir d’amore Gaetano DonizettiSun 1 May at 3.30pm - TICKETS £15/£10UK 2009 • 2h2m • Digital projectionItalian with English subtitles • UCast: Ekaterina Siurina, Peter Auty, Alfredo Daza, Luciano diPasquale, Eliana Pretorian.Set in an idyllic vision of a southern Italian village square,Donizetti’s delightful opera tells of the romantic rivalrybetween the penniless Nemorino and the bumptiousSergeant Belcore for the love of the beautiful, bookishAdina, whose reading of the tale of Tristan and Isoldemakes poor lovesick Nemorino think that the wonderworkingDr Dulcamara might have just the potion his heartrequires. Witty, charming and ultimately deeply touching,this is Italian opera at its intoxicating best from the worldfamousGlyndebourne Festival.Screening in two acts with a fifteen-minute interval, andpreceded by approximately fifteen minutes of cinemaadvertising, this performance will end at approximately6.00pmCHERNOBYL HEARTSPECIALEVENTChernobyl HeartTue 26 Apr at 6.30pm + discussionMaryann DeLeo • Belarus/ USA 2003 • 39m • 35mm • PGDocumentaryChernobyl Heart examines the continuing impact of theworst nuclear accident in history, which occurred onApril 26 1986. Director Maryann De Leo travels throughUkraine and Belarus with Adi Roche, the Irish founder ofthe Chernobyl Children’s Project International, observingthe effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on the healthof children in the area. In addition to mutations and severeradiation poisoning, many children suffer from a previouslyunknown cardiac degradation condition, so common inthe area it is known as ‘Chernobyl heart’. DeLeo herselfcontracted caesium poisoning during the making of thefilm, although she made a full recovery.The screening will introduced by Bill Kidd MSP, and will befollowed by an extended discussion with Dr Ian Fairlie, aglobal expert on childhood leukemia.Dr Fairlie is the author of ‘Increased leukemias near nuclearpower stations’, and is an independent consultant onradioactivity in the environment. Dr Fairlie worked onoccupational health issues at the Trades Union Congress,and as radiation advisor to Greenpeace Canada. He hasadvised environmental NGOs, the European Parliamentand local and national authorities in a number of countries.Event in association with Edinburgh Peace & JusticeCentre, the Women’s International League for Peaceand Freedom and the Scottish Campaign for NuclearDisarmament.THE NURTURE ROOMSPECIALEVENTThe Nurture RoomFri 1 Apr at 1.00pm + discussion &Sat 2 Apr at 3.40pmMatt Pinder • UK 2010 • 1h30m • Digibeta • 12A • DocumentaryShot over a year, with unprecedented access, Matt Pinder’sfilm follows three troubled Glasgow schoolchildren as theirlives are completely transformed under the careful andpatient nurturing of their dedicated teachers.The Nurture Room is a bridge between home and school,a safe place where children can be children. In these small,special classrooms children can revisit early ‘nurturing’experiences that they missed or didn’t get at home.This beautifully observed and extremely movingdocumentary will be of interest to parents, teachers andanyone with an interest in how our children are cared forand educated.Irene Grant, Assistant Director - Scotland of the NurtureGroup Network (nurturegroups.org) will be present at thescreening on Friday 1 April to discuss the work of NurtureGroups.

32New British Cinema Quarterly/Projecting the ArchiveHONEYMOONERNew BritishCinema QuarterlyNew British Cinema Quarterly is a programme ofdistinctive and original films from British filmmakers.NBCQ showcases and celebrates Britain’s film craft andprovides an opportunity for audiences around the UKto discover new films and hear directly from the talentbehind the camera.www.nbcq.co.ukHoneymoonerTue 5 Apr at 6.00pm + Q&ACol Spector • UK 2010 • 1h14m • Digital projection15 – Contains strong languageCast: Gerard Kearns, Chris Coghill, Al Weaver, Daisy Haggard.At 29, Fran was sure he’s offered his fiancée everything,but she rejected his heart and his two-bedroom flat inKentish Town and in the fortnight he should have been onhis honeymoon, he’s newly single and slouching aroundLondon, entrenched in a bromance with his two bestfriends. Their attempts to piece his life back together lurchfrom one disaster to the next as Fran and his friends navigatethe pitfalls of modern relationships. With music by NickDrake, Graham Coxon and Operator Please, Honeymooneris an Austen-with-a-twist journey through love and loss– and the picking yourself back up part in between.Director Col Spector will take part in a Q&A after thescreening.THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACKProjectingthe ArchiveA collaboration with the British Film Instituteaimed at unearthing and reappraising a wealthof lesser-known British feature films using theBFI National Archive’s holdings, and givingaudiences the opportunity to see and celebrateBritish cinema beyond the usual titles, on thebig screen.The Passing of the Third Floor BackTue 12 Apr at 6.00pmBerthold Viertel • UK 1935 • 1h30m • 35mm • PGCast: Conrad Veidt, René Ray, Frank Cellier, Anna Lee, JohnTurnbull.A mysterious, saintly stranger takes a room in a boardinghouse of quarrelsome lodgers. Under the stranger’sguiding hand – and on a steamer trip to Margate – theyrediscover their better selves. Viertel and Veidt, withfellow emigrés Curt Courant (cinematographer) and OscarWerndorff (art director), lend a subtle Expressionism tothe drama.TERM OF TRIALTerm of TrialTue 26 Apr at 8.00pmPeter Glenville • UK 1962 • 2h10m • 35mm • 15Cast: Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, TerenceStamp, Hugh Griffith.Olivier brings real depth to his portrayal of Graham Weir,a sensitive, idealistic teacher ill-equipped to deal with thebrash teenagers populating the inner-city secondary wherehe works. The precarious balance of his life descends intochaos when his fatherly interest in a female student (Miles,in her film debut) leads to accusations of abuse. The blackand white photography of Oswald Morris depicts a drabpost-war England; the sheeting rain and bombed-outbuildings of an undistinguished northern town underlinethe failure of Weir’s career and, indeed, his life.Filmhouse email list For a weekly emailcontaining screening times, news andcompetitions, join our email list atwww.filmhousecinema.com/email/subscribeFilmhouse mailing list To have this monthlyprogramme sent to you for a year, send £6(cheques payable to Filmhouse Ltd) with yourname and address and the month you wish yoursubscription to start, or subscribe in person at thebox office or by phone on 0131 228 2688.Facebook Join our Facebook group for news,updates and competitions: search for ‘Filmhouse’Twitter Follow us for regular news and updates:@Filmhouse

Coming soon/Dead By Dawn33APOCALYPSE NOWTAXI DRIVERDEAD BY DAWNComing soon...New restorations of two of the most seminal films of the 1970s.Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola • USA 1979 • 2h33mEnglish, French, Vietnamese and Khmer with English subtitles18 – Contains strong bloody violenceCast: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper,Harrison Ford, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne.A new restoration of the original cut of Francis FordCoppola’s epic, transposing Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart ofDarkness’ to midway through the Vietnam War.Troubled US Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), is given aspecial mission, to go far up river into Cambodia. Oncethere, he is to track down renegade Colonal Kurtz (Brando)– a man who is waging his own personal and violent war– and assassinate him.Arriving on location massively overweight and with ashaven head, Brando was not exactly what Coppolahad in mind as the power-crazed Kurtz. But, amid thepsychedelia and barbarism, the brooding presence of theactor glimpsed in half-shadow brought a mythical qualityto the role.Taxi DriverMartin Scorsese • USA 1976 • 1h54m18 – Contains very strong sex references and child prostitution themeCast: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel,Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, Albert Brooks.35 years old and endlessly imitated, Taxi Driver still packsa fearsome punch. Of all the psychos, sociopaths, andscrew-ups that Robert De Niro has played for directorMartin Scorsese, none is more iconic than Travis Bickle,the cabbie on a self-appointed mission to wash the scumoff the streets of New York. From the lush menace ofBernard Herrmann’s score to Jodie Foster’s performanceas a twelve-year-old prostitute, it’s a film that screams to beseen on the big screen.From the instant a yellow cab prowls through a cloud ofsteam, Scorsese has you in his grasp. His portrait of aneon-daubed hell on earth is more frighteningly real thanmost horror movies, yet steeped in cinematic allusion: fromTravis’ noirish narration – more cracked than hard-boiled– to the plot itself, a self-confessed steal from 1956’s TheSearchers (in which another of God’s lonely men growsobsessed with ‘saving’ a young woman). But where JohnFord kept the savagery offscreen, Scorsese lets it all hangout in what was the bloodiest climax to an American moviesince The Wild Bunch. It’s strangely satisfying to find thatthe sequence still shocks 35 years on. Simply magnificent.Four days of utter horrorindulgence with the usualstunning programme of previewsand glorious indie discoveries,complemented by a superbselection of classics, more shortfilm programmes than you canshake a splintered bone at, specialguests, endless give-aways,goodies, a late bar every night andmuch more!The weekend kicks off with a lateshow on Thursday 5 May – seenext month’s programme for full(and gory!) details!

34 Courses, Workshops & Events/Café BarMONSTER IN MY EASTER EGG!CREATE YOUR OWN COMIC BOOKTHE WEE IMP & THE RECYCLING MAGICFILMHOUSE CAFE BARCourses, Workshops and EventsThe Nurture Room Film screening & discussion • Fri 1 Apr at 1.00pm • Tickets for teachers £2.60Of particular interest to teachers and all involved with work with young people. See page 31 for full details of the film.Teachers Advisory Meeting Wed 4 Apr at 5.00pmTeachers are invited to come along to this open meeting (with refreshments) with the Knowledge & Learning team aswe look forward to planning our autumn schools programme. For further information and to reserve your place pleasecontact Nicola Kettlewood on 0131 228 6382 or at nicola.kettlewood@cmi-scotland.co.ukCreate Your Own Comic BookWed 13 Apr, 10.00am - 4.00pm • Ages 10-12 • £18 • Please bring a packed lunchStarting with drawing exercises, each participant will create their own character, which will then be developed into a comicstrip, then all the work will be collated into a finished comic book which the participants can take home with them.The Wee Imp & The Recycling Magic: A Puppet-Making Workshop with Flotsam & JetsamThu 14 Apr, 10.00am - 12.00pm • Ages 5-8, children accompanied by an adult • £10.00 per childThe wee imp hates big people’s rubbish! Children listen to his story then make their own magical people and put on apuppet show! All materials provided.Animated Cartoon Easter Cards – 2D Animation WorkshopMon 18 Apr, 10.00am - 12.30pm • Ages 8-12 • £25Join Red Kite Animation’s speedy animators as they show you how to make your own cartoon characters and bring them to lifewith animation. This is a 2D Cut-Out puppet workshop but you don’t need to be an amazing drawer, just have a good imagination!Your films will be put on the Red Kite website so you can give the link to whoever you want to watch your hilarious cartoon.Monster in My Easter Egg! – 3D Animation WorkshopMon 18 Apr, 1.30pm - 4.00pm • Ages 8-12 • £25Something’s rumbling inside the chocolate eggs this year, and it’s not just jelly babies!! Join the animators from Red Kite Animationincartoon! We have the eggs....you just bring your imagination. All the films are put on Red Kite Animation’s website for ever!Filmhouse Café BarDrop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal teaand enjoy one of our superb cakes.Our full menu runs from noon to 10pm sevendays a week!All our dishes are prepared on the premisesusing fresh ingredients.We’ve an extensive vegetarian range with avariety of daily specials.A glass of wine? Choose from nine! The bar hasreal 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 11.30pmFriday – Saturday 10am till 12.30am0131 229 5932 cafebar@filmhousecinema.comFilm QuizSunday 10 AprilFilmhouse’s phenomenally successful(and rather tricky) monthly quiz.Teams of up to eight people tobe seated in the café bar by 9pm.

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