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Margin Call 

Tatsumi 

Surviving Life 

A Useful Life 

Hugo 

Margaret 

Dreams of a Life 

L’Atalante 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 

Introduction to European Cinema 

China on the Move 

British Animation Awards 2012 

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INDEX INDEX 

AUDIODESCRIPTION/SUBTITLES 

SCREENING DATES AND TIMES 12-13 

TICKET PRICES & INFORMATION 13 

GENERAL INFORMATION 23 

50/50 8 

Las acacias 7 

Accident 14 

Another Earth 7 

Apart Together 19 

The Artist 21 

L’Atalante 8 

Azur & Asmar: The Princes’ Quest 9 

BAA Programmes 1-3 10 

Bande à part 14 

British Animation Awards 2012 10 

Carnage 21 

Casablanca 21 

China on the Move 18-19 

Come and See... 20 

Cría cuervos 15 

Dreams of a Life 6 

L’Eclisse 14 

Fear Eats the Soul 15 

Filmhouse Café Bar 20 

Filmhouse Membership & Loyalty Cards 24 

Filmhouse Quiz 20 

Gallivant 4 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 8 

The Great White Silence 9 

Happy Feet Two 9 

Holocaust Memorial Day 19 

Hugo 6 

Inside Hana’s Suitcase 19 

Intimate Lighting 14 

Introduction to European Cinema 14-16 

Killing Zoe 20 

The King is Alive 16 

Koktebel 16 

Last Train Home 18 

Learning Events 22 

Magic Trip 7 

Manufactured Landscapes 19 

Margaret 6 

Margin Call 5 

Mr Tree 18 

Psychotronic Cinema 20 

Shame 4 

Surviving Life 4 

Tatsumi 5 

The Thing (1982) 20 

This Our Still Life 4 

Times and Winds 16 

The Tin Drum 15 

A Useful Life 5 

Vendredi soir 16 

Weans’ World 9 

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This issue: 

Hugo – all screenings will have audio description, 

and the 2.30pm screening on Sunday 8 January will 

also have subtitles. 

Shame – all screenings will have audio description, 

and the 1.00pm screening on Sunday 29 January will 

also have subtitles. 

FORCRYINGOUTLOUD 

Screenings for carers and their babies! 

Hugo Mon 9 Jan at 11am 

Margin Call Mon 16 Dec at 11am 

L’Atalante Mon 23 Jan at 11am 

50/50 Mon 30 Jan at 11am 

Baby changing, bottle warming and buggy parking 

facilities are available.Tickets cost £3.50/£2.50 

concessions per adult. Screenings limited to babies 

under 12 months accompanied by no more than 

two adults. Screenings sponsored by Bepanthen. 

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MARGARET MARGIN CALL 

L’ATALANTE SHAME 

Thank you, thank you, thank you... 

Introduction 

Well, it’s looking mighty likely that 2011 will go down as the most successful year in Filmhouse history – in terms of your bottoms on our seats 

– and I’d like to sincerely thank you all for helping us make it so. It’s a hoary old chestnut I know, but never less than completely true – we could 

not do lm (which I 

occasionally get to do), it would be way less fun without you – not to mention rather less practical! 

If I seem a little obsessed by the numbers at times, I apologise, but the fact of the matter is that every time you visit us and buy a cinema ticket, a cup 

of tea, a glass of wine, a fine ale, a chickpea curry (my personal favourite) or a DVD, every penny we make goes straight back into the business 

of bringing you the finest world cinema in an environment conducive to the appreciation of the world’s favourite art form, and allows us to 

continue all the educational and community work at the very heart of our venture. If you like, The King’s Speech pays for a season of realist cinema 

from Weimar Germany. So, thanks again... and thanks, Colin Firth! 

Steve McQueen’s Shame is undoubtedly one of the highlights of our January programme. His stunning, compelling, uncompromising follow 

up to 2008’s Hunger stars Michael Fassbender, who delivers a bold, fearless performance as a man forced to confront his sex addiction upon the 

arrival in town of his messed-up sister, played with equal conviction by Carey Mulligan. Margin Call is a superbly crafted financial thriller set the 

day before the 2008 crisis and stars an awesome cast of amongst others, Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons and Paul Bettany; it’s very much in the David 

Mamet/Glengarry Glen Ross mould, and worthy of the comparison. The middle-aged employee of an arthouse cinema is forced to confront 

the real world when his workplace closes, in wee Uruguayan gem A Useful Life (bit close to the bone for some of us round here, that one!). And 

brilliant Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer returns to our screens after a five-year absence with Surviving Life, an autobiographical tale told using his 

customary, and dazzling, combination of live action and animation. 

Never very far away from critics’ and filmmakers’ top ten lists, the BFI are re-releasing Jean Vigo’s masterpiece, L’Atalante, now in a form as close 

to that which the filmmaker originally intended – you can read more about that on page 8! 

I’m holding up the printing of this now [Get on with it! - Ed.], so best go... I look forward to welcoming you all through our doors throughout 2012! 

Rod White, Head of Filmhouse 

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SURVIVING LIFE THIS OUR STILL LIFE 

NEWRELEASE NEWRELEASE 

Surviving Life 

Prezít svuj zivot (teorie a praxe) 

Fri 6 to Wed 11 Jan 

Jan Svankmajer • Czech Republic/Slovakia/Japan 2010 

1h49m • Digital projection • Czech with English subtitles 

15 – Contains infrequent strong sex, nudity and suicide references 

Cast: Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Krónerová, Daniela 

Bakerova, Emília Doseková. 

After a five-year break from filmmaking following the 

death of his wife, Eva, surrealist Jan Svankmajer ventures 

into pseudo-autobiographical territory with this so-called 

‘psychoanalytical comedy’. 

Eugene falls in love with a woman from his dreams, 

whose name – starting with ‘E’ – eludes him upon waking. 

He approaches a therapist for help and together their 

investigations begin to unpick what it is that’s locked deep 

in Eugene’s subconscious. 

Combining live-action backdrops with photo cut-outs of 

the actors, Surviving Life delves into a world where reality 

is as obscure as the dreams it presents. 

This Our Still Life 

Wed 11 & Thu 12 Jan 

Andrew Kötting • UK • 2011 • 59m • Digital projection 

U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm 

Cast: Eden Kötting, Leila McMillan. 

A new film by Andrew Kötting is always cause for celebration, 

and his deliciously eccentric latest is a lovely portrait of the 

artist’s daughter as a young woman in their tumbledown 

Pyrenean farmhouse. Last seen in Gallivant (1996, also 

screening) as a plucky kid touring the coastline of Britain with 

her Big Granny, Eden, now 23, is here shown painting still lifes 

and singing along to the radio as the seasons ebb and flow 

around her. Reminiscent of Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man, 

this lo-fi marvel features music by Scanner’s Robin Rimbaud. 

PLUS SHORT 

Hoi-Polloi Andrew Kötting • UK • 1990 • 10m • Digital projection • U 

ALSOSCREENING 

Gallivant 

Mon 9 & Tue 10 Jan 

Andrew Kötting • UK 1997 • 1h44m • 35mm • 15 

Cast: Andrew Kötting, Eden Kötting, Gladys Morris. 

A delightfully offbeat road movie in which director Andrew 

Kötting, his grandmother Gladys, and his daughter Eden, who 

has learning difficulties and communicates by sign language, 

travel around the coast. A warm, enlightening and often very 

funny look at Britain and what it means to be British. 

SHAME 

NEWRELEASE 

Shame 

Showing from Fri 13 Jan 

Steve McQueen • UK 2011 • 1h41m • Digital projection 

18 – Contains strong sex and sex references 

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

Amy Hargreaves, Nicole Beharie. 

Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan star in Steve 

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

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

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

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

also has a compulsive sexual need that sees him caught 

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

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

managing him is open to question, but his world seems 

self-contained and ordered, free of any messy emotional 

ties. However, when his wayward younger sister Sissy 

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

Brandon’s control starts to slip... 

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

confident and complex second feature about the nature 

of need and desire. Michael Fassbender, working with 

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

near-obsessive behaviour hints at some hidden past; and 

Carey Mulligan is a well-chosen sparring partner, bringing 

emotional depth to the flaky and clearly damaged Sissy. 

– Sandra Hebron, LFF programme 


See page two for details.

MARGIN CALL TATSUMI 

NEWRELEASE NEWRELEASE 

Margin Call 

Fri 13 to Thu 26 Jan 

JC Chandor • USA 2011 • 1h46m • Digital projection 

15 – Contains frequent strong language, once very strong 

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, 

Demi Moore. 

A large investment bank on New York’s Wall Street, the 

day before the 2008 financial crisis. Alarm bells start 

ringing in the head of up-and-coming banker Peter Sullivan 

(Zachary Quinto) when, searching through files late at 

night, he discovers that the bank’s mortgage business is 

worth a fraction of its book value. That same evening, the 

bank’s directors are gathered together to come up with a 

bail-out plan – but it’s already too late. 

This gripping and superbly-crafted financial thriller offers 

an insight into the world behind the mirrored facade of a 

major New York bank, and analyses the group dynamics of 

a small clique forced to make decisions of huge significance 

under enormous pressure. The cast are uniformly 

excellent, with Kevin Spacey in particular delivering his 

meatiest, most enjoyable performance in years. 

Tatsumi 


Eric Khoo • Singapore 2011 • 1h36m • Digital projection 

Japanese with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong sex 

With the voices of Tetsuya Bessho, Motoko Gollent, Yoshihiro 

Tatsumi, Mike Wiluan. 

Filmmaker Eric Khoo adapts for the screen the spellbinding 

work of Yoshihiro Tatsumi, father of the gekiga comic-art 

movement of the late 50s. 

Five animated stories – ‘Hell’, ‘Beloved Monkey’, ‘Just 

a Man’, ‘Occupied’ and ‘Good-bye’ – are intercut with 

scenes from Tatsumi’s own life, narrated by the artist 

himself. Tatsumi’s dark tales of a post-war Japan are still 

as radical and haunting as the day they were written, with 

their adult content and themes of alienation. 

A USEFUL LIFE 

NEWRELEASE 

New releases 

A Useful Life La vida útil 

Fri 27 Jan to Thu 2 Feb 

Federico Veiroj • Uruguay/Spain 2010 • 1h7m 

Digital projection • Spanish with English subtitles • cert tbc 

Cast: Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martinez Carril, Paola Venditto. 

After twenty-five years, Cinemateca Uruguaya’s most 

devoted employee, Jorge (played by real-life Uruguayan 

critic Jorge Jellinek), still finds inspiration in caring for the 

films and audiences that grace the seats and screen of his 

beloved arthouse cinema. But when dwindling attendance 

and diminishing funding force the theatre to close its 

doors, Jorge is sent into a world he knows only through 

the lens of art – and suddenly forced to discover a new 

passion. 

Stylishly framed in black-and-white with brilliantly 

understated performances, Federico Veiroj’s sly and loving 

homage to the soul of cinema is a universally appealing gem. 

Matinee Special! 

If you’re a Senior Citizen you can now go to a matinee 

screening and get either soup of the day OR a cup of 

tea or coffee and a traycake for only £6! 

Offer runs from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive and 

only applies to screenings starting before 5.00pm. Ask 

for the Matinee Special deal at the box office and you’ll 

receive a voucher which can be exchanged in the café 

bar between 1.30pm and 5.00pm that day only. Offer is 

subject to availability and only available in person. 

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6 Maybe you missed... 

HUGO MARGARET 

MAYBEYOUMISSED 

Hugo 


Martin Scorsese • USA 2011 • 2h6m • Digital projection 

U – Contains mild scenes of danger 

Cast: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron 

Cohen, Ray Winstone. 

“The movies are our special place,” remarks Hugo’s title 

character, and his words go a long way towards explaining 

how Martin Scorsese, with his well-documented and 

infectious passion for the history of cinema, came to make 

a children’s fantasy. 

Adapted from an award-winning book by Brian Selznick, 

Hugo tells the story of an orphan (Asa Butterfield) who 

lives inside the walls of a Parisian train station in the 

early 1930s, tending to its giant clock and scheming to 

rehabilitate an antiquated automaton his father left him. 

The boy’s quest leads him to the angry old proprietor 

of a little toy shop, who turns out to be none other than 

the pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès (A Trip to the 

Moon). Scorsese transforms this innocent tale into an 

ardent love letter to cinema and a moving plea for film 

preservation. 


See page two for details. 


Margaret 


Kenneth Lonergan • USA 2011 • 2h30m • Digital projection 

15 – Contains very strong language, strong sex, a gory accident 

scene and drug use 

Cast: Anna Paquin, Mark Ruffalo, Jean Reno, Kieran Culkin, Matt 

Damon. 

Shot in 2005, Kenneth (You Can Count On Me) Lonergan’s 

film has spent six years in legal and editorial limbo. It’s a 

powerfully involving exploration of guilt and self-discovery, 

packed with astonishingly complex moral maze of 

characters and situations. 

Lisa (Anna Paquin in an extraordinary performance) is a 

Manhattan teenager living with her single mother Joan, 

an actress starring in her breakout stage role while seeing 

a new man. One day Lisa distracts a bus driver, who hits 

a woman in the street, an accident that sends Lisa into a 

spiral of sublimated guilt, as she lashes out in different 

ways at a nice classmate, her teachers and mostly her 

mother. And she doesn’t stop there, meddling in people’s 

lives in her effort to achieve a sense of justice. 

Lisa’s real problem is that she hasn’t yet developed an 

adult sense of isolation and interdependence. So this is 

actually an intricate coming-of-age movie, even though it 

doesn’t feel like one. We watch in horrified recognition as 

we see ourselves in every character, even as each one goes 

through moments in which they are hugely unlikeable, 

reacting badly and/or doing things that are intensely 

selfish. Messy and overambitious, perhaps, but also an 

endlessly fascinating study on the things we do and why 

we do them. 

DREAMS OF A LIFE 


Dreams of a Life 


Carol Morley • UK 2011 • 1h35m • Digital projection 

12A – Contains brief moderate sex references and references to 

domestic abuse 

Documentary featuring Zawe Ashton, Neelam Bakshi, Jonathan 

Harden, Daren Elliott Holmes, Cornell John. 

Joyce Vincent died in her bedsit above a shopping mall 

in North London in 2003. Her body wasn’t discovered 

until three years later, surrounded by the Christmas 

presents she had been wrapping, and with the TV still on. 

Newspaper reports offered few details of her life – not 

even a photograph. Filmmaker Carol Morley, shocked 

and intrigued by Joyce’s story, set out to find out how this 

awful, sad thing could happen to a seemingly popular, wellliked 

young woman without anyone noticing. 

Interweaving interviews with imagined scenes from Joyce’s 

life, Morley tells her story with imagination and care, 

making us question the society we live in and how much 

attention we pay to those around us.

ANOTHER EARTH LAS ACACIAS 


Another Earth 

Fri 6 to Sun 8 Jan 

Mike Cahill • USA 2011 • 1h32m • Digital projection 

12A – Contains moderate sex and one scene of bloody accident injury 

Cast: William Mapother, Brit Marling, Matthew-Lee Erlbach, DJ 

Flava, Meggan Lennon. 

On the night a duplicate planet is discovered in our solar 

system, Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling) makes a momentary 

lapse of judgement which results in a devastating car 

accident that takes the life of a mother and her son, leaving 

only the husband (William Mapother) behind to deal with 

the aftermath. After paying her debt to society, Rhoda 

attempts to put her life back together, but is still haunted 

by the events of that tragic evening. Finding solace in 

the other earth that is visible in the sky, she imagines 

that everything might be different, maybe better, on that 

parallel planet. Determined to atone for her actions, Rhoda 

develops a relationship with the widower, only to find that 

forgiveness does not come without a price. 


Las acacias 

Mon 9 to Thu 12 Jan 

Pablo Giorgelli • Argentina/Spain 2011 • 1h26m 

Digital projection • Spanish with English subtitles 

12A – Contains one use of strong language 

Cast: Germán de Silva, Hebe Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani. 

Pablo Giorgelli’s feature debut unfolds almost entirely 

along the fifteen hundred kilometres of highway that links 

Asunción, Paraguay, to Buenos Aires, a route that Rubén 

(Germán de Silva), a trucker with thirty years under his 

belt, knows well. Yet Las acacias disregards the pervading 

road-movie convention of decorating its journey with 

predictably unpredictable characters and instead detours, 

focusing its energies on the exchanges that transpire within 

the confines of Rubén’s cab – conversations that quietly 

accumulate into something tremendously moving. 

After picking up a load of timber, Rubén meets up with 

Jacinta (Hebe Duarte), the friendly but unobtrusive woman 

whom Rubén’s boss has arranged for him to transport from 

Paraguay’s capital to Argentina’s, where Jacinta hopes to 

find work with the help of relatives. What the boss failed to 

mention was that Rubén’s human cargo would also include 

Anahí, Jacinta’s five-month-old daughter. The chilly, 

reticent Rubén, accustomed to the solitude of the road, 

might be able to ignore an adult, but Anahí’s persistent 

gaze threatens to wear down his stoic armour. 

Maybe you missed... 

MAGIC TRIP 


Magic Trip 

Fri 13 to Sun 15 Jan 

Alison Ellwood & Alex Gibney • USA 2011 

1h47m • Digital projection 

15 – Contains strong language, hard drug use and drug references 

Documentary, narrated by Stanley Tucci 

Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters set out from 

La Honda, California to Tomorrowland, New York in a 

psychedelic school bus named Furthur. The trip began 

Kesey’s transformation from celebrated author (‘One 

Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’) to lightning rod for the 

counterculture. From town to town, Kesey and friends 

explicitly challenged conformity and, upon their return, 

courted government scrutiny by publicly advocating 

the use of psychotropic drugs with the Acid Tests in San 

Francisco. The bus trip was heavily documented in 16mm 

footage, audio tapings and photographs. These incredibly 

rich primary recordings were recently unearthed and 

edited by co-directors Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood, 

providing the basis for their transporting documentary. 

While there are wonders to behold – including the 

constant, frenetic speed-induced tour guide rap from Neal 

Cassady (inspiration for Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s 

‘On the Road’), and extended discussion and depiction of 

acid trips (of course) – the film does another great service 

to the legend: It grounds it in reality. We see the mundanity 

of the trip along with the fun. And, as with so much 

documentation of that pivotal period in American history, 

we see the vast and celebratory potential for change sadly 

co-opted, corrupted and stunted. 

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8 Maybe you missed.../Restored classic 

50/50 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO 


50/50 

Fri 27 to Tue 31 Jan 

Jonathan Levine • USA 2011 • 1h40m • Digital projection 

15 – Contains strong language, once very strong, strong sex and 

sex references 

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Philip 

Baker Hall, Anjelica Huston. 

As far as movie formulas go, cancer and comedy shouldn’t 

mix. Find the right balance between gallows humour and 

compassion, however, and the honesty is preserved. Such 

is the case with Jonathan Levine’s latest feature, which 

tackles its grim subject matter in a manner as hilarious as it 

is sincere. 

The film follows Adam (Joseph Gordon- Levitt), a 27year-old 

nice guy who’s been diagnosed with a rare form 

of cancer. He’s immediately rolled into chemotherapy 

treatments and given a fifty-fifty odds of survival. Adam 

doesn’t have to face this dark voyage alone: by his side are 

his best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen), his doctor (Philip Baker 

Hall) and a therapist-in-training (Anna Kendrick). As Adam 

comes to terms with the possibility that he may be living his 

last days, he and Kyle decide to make the most of a dismal 

situation. 


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 

Fri 27 Jan to Thu 2 Feb 

David Fincher • USA/Sweden/UK/Germany 2011 • 2h38m 

18 – Contains strong sex and sexual violence 

Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan 

Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff. 

Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel 

conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) 

retreats to a remote island in Sweden’s far north, where the 

unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist 

uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island 

where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist’s investigation 

draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and 

powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally 

– tattooed punk hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). 

David Fincher’s adaptation of the first part of Stieg 

Larsson’s bestselling trilogy is very much a Fincher 

film, with shades of his previous crime thrillers Se7en 

and Zodiac. Dark, stylish, bleak and atmospheric, with 

impeccable storytelling and an appropriately reserved 

performance from Craig matched by an appropriately 

forceful one from Mara. 

L’ATALANTE 

RESTOREDCLASSIC 

L’Atalante 


Jean Vigo • France 1934 • 1h29m • Digital projection 

French with English subtitles 

PG – Contains brief nudity and infrequent sex references 

Cast: Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis. 

Jean Vigo’s first and only full-length feature is one of the 

cinema’s greatest masterpieces. The story is very simple: 

newly-weds Jean Dasté and Dita Parlo find living on a 

cramped Seine barge brings tension to their relationship; 

their naivety falls prey to the volatile eccentricity of second 

mate Père Jules, the temptations of a flirtatious pedlar, 

and their own unreadiness to compromise. But to this 

stark narrative Vigo brings a rich array of moods (comic, 

suspenseful, heart-rendingly romantic) to explore the 

nuances of every single emotion. 

It is not clear if Vigo was ever well enough to view the cut 

made by his editor Louis Chavance (he died of tuberculosis 

soon after shooting the film). The distributors, however, 

regarded the finished film as worthless and demanded 

that it be trimmed, reducing its running time from 89 to 65 

minutes. L’Atalante was also re-titled Le Chaland qui passe 

after a sentimental ballad of the time which was dubbed 

over the credits to add popular appeal. It was not until 

1989 that a 35mm print of the original 1934 version (before 

the cuts), which had found its way into the BFI National 

Archive, was used to form the basis of a full restoration 

by Gaumont. This new high-definition digital transfer 

(by Criterion) was made from the 2001 Gaumont 35mm 

restoration negative (a revision of the earlier restoration) 

and aims to be as true as possible to the original version.

THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE HAPPY FEET TWO 

AZUR & ASMAR: THE PRINCES’ QUEST 

SPECIALEVENT 

The Great White Silence 

Tue 17 Jan at 8.30pm 

Herbert G Ponting • UK 1924 • 1h48m • Digital projection 

U – Contains no material likely to offend or harm 

In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition led by Captain 

Scott set out on its ill-fated race to the South Pole. Joining 

Scott on board the Terra Nova was official photographer 

and cinematographer Herbert Ponting, and the images that 

he captured have fired imaginations ever since. 

Ponting filmed almost every aspect of the expedition: 

the scientific work, life in camp and the local wildlife. 

Those things he was unable to film he boldly recreated 

back home. Most importantly, Ponting recorded the 

preparations for the assault on the Pole – from the trials 

of the caterpillar-track sledges to clothing and cooking 

equipment – giving us a real sense of the challenges faced 

by the expedition. 

Ponting used his footage in various forms over the years 

and in 1924 he re-edited it into this remarkable feature, 

complete with vivid tinting and toning. The BFI National 

Archive – custodian of the expedition negatives – has 

restored the film using the latest photochemical and digital 

techniques and reintroduced the film’s sophisticated use 

of colour. This restoration has a new score by composer 

Simon Fisher Turner. 

This screening marks the 100th anniversary of Scott’s party 

reaching the South Pole, on 17 January 1912. 

The Great White Silence/Weans’ World 

Weans’ World 

Films for a younger audience. Tickets cost 

£2.50 per person, big or small! 

Please note: although we normally disapprove of people 

talking during screenings, these shows are primarily for 

kids, so grown-ups should expect some noise! 

Happy Feet Two 

Sat 7 Jan at 1.00pm & Sun 8 Jan at 11.00am 

George Miller • Australia 2011 • 1h43m • Digital projection 

U – Contains mild threat and fight scenes 

With the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Pink. 

Happy Feet Two returns audiences to the magnificent 

landscape of Antarctica. Mumble the penguin has a 

problem: his son Erik, is reluctant to dance. Erik runs away 

and encounters The Mighty Sven – a penguin who can 

fly! And when the world is shaken by powerful forces, the 

penguin nations and their allies join forces to set things right. 

Azur & Asmar: The Princes’ Quest 

Sat 21 Jan at 1.00pm & Sun 22 Jan at 11.00am 

Michel Ocelot • Spain/Italy/Belgium/France 2006 • 1h39m 

35mm • U – Contains mild fantasy violence 

Two boys, blue-eyed Azur, the son of a French nobleman, 

and Asmar, the son of his African nurse, are brought up 

together as brothers but are separated in a cruel twist of 

fate. Years later they are reunited as adults in a magical quest 

to rescue a fairy princess. A glorious, Arabian Nights-style 

fairytale with stunningly beautiful and vibrant animation. 

Startling manifestations. 

Amazing revelations. Dark secrets. 

www.voxmotus.co.uk 

World Première 

19 January – 11 February 2012 

(then touring) 

BOX OFFICE: 0131 248 4848 

ONLINE: www.lyceum.org.uk/davenport 

TWITTER: #davenport 

Royal Lyceum Theatre is a Registered Company No. SC062065. 

Scottish Charity Registered SC010509. Vox Motus is a Registered Company 

No. SC262949. Scottish Charity Registered SC039522. 

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BAA PROGRAMME 1 – BERTIE CRISP BAA PROGRAMME 2 – OUT ON THE TILES 

BAA PROGRAMME 3 – ERNESTO 


Your chance to vote for winners in the British Animation Awards 2012! Three programmes containing a mix of animated shorts, music videos and 

commercials offer an opportunity to see the cream of a fantastic range of animation films made over the past two years – on the big screen. 

Voting forms will be handed out at the start of each screening. 

BAA Programme 1 


1h5m • 15 

Bare Helen Dallat, 3’ 

Matter Fisher David Prosser, 7’30” 

The Squirrel and the Penguin Jens Blank & Anna Benner, 5’ 

Tchaikovsky – An Elegy Barry JC Purves, 13’ 

Slow Derek Daniel Ojari, 8’ 

Get Well Soon: Zoe Kim Alexander, 2’ 

Gorillaz: Stylo Pete Candeland & Jamie Hewlett, 5’ 

Big Scary: Mix Tape Alice Dupre, 3’ 

TV on the Radio: Second Song Mikey Please, 4’30” 

Spin Matt Hattler, 4’ 

Bertie Crisp Francesca Adams, 6’ 

Toyota: Auto Biography Julia Pott, 1’ 

Kia Soul: This or That Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, 1’ 

Intel: The Chase Smith & Foulkes, 2’ 

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1h11m • 15 

Wallpaper Fiona Geilinger, 4’ 

The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Lion Alois Di Leo, 8’30” 

Remembering Formby Sue Elliott, 5’ 

Being Bradford Dillman Emma Burch, 10’30” 

Loose Fit: Table Beggar Abbie Stephens, 3’30” 

DeVotchKa: 100 Other Lovers Chloe Rodman, 4’ 

London Elektricity: Round the World in a Day 

David Gilbert & Maxim Lucas, 4’ 

Robots of Brixton Kibwe Tavares, 5’30” 

Get Well Soon: Tarrant Bill Elliott, 2’ 

Out on the Tiles Anna Pearson, 3’ 

Tempo: Bike Vida Vega, 30” 

Knife Crime Animation Vicky Haworth & Harriet Buckley, 2’ 

Radioshack: Big Trip 12foot6, 30” 

Nokia: Dot Sumo Science, 1’30” 

Eagleman Stag Mike Please, 9’ 

A Morning Stroll Grant Orchard, 7’ 


Mon 6 Feb at 6.30pm 

1h12m • 15 

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

Moxie Stephen Irwin, 6’ 

Thursday Matthias Hoegg, 7’ 

Get Well Soon: Impaled Leg Phoebe Boswell, 4’ 

The Henhouse Elena Pomares, 7’ 

You May Now Daniel Keeble & Dane Winn, 1’30” 

Liz Green: Displacement Kate Anderson, 4’ 

Lukid: Stripes David Gilbert & Maxim Lucas, 4’ 

Get Well Soon: Bob Darren Walsh, 2’20” 

I’m Fine Thanks Eamonn O’Neill, 4’30” 

Architeq: Into the Cosmos Darren Robbie, 3’ 

Dry Riser: Tangerine Thomas Hicks, 4’ 

Nokia: Gulp Sumo Science, 1’30” 

Statoil: Goodnight David Prosser, 1’ 

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FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME 6 January - 2 Febuary 2012 BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688 

DAY 

DATE 

SCREEN NO. & 

FILM TITLE 

SHOW 

TIMES 

Fri 1 Hugo (AD) 2.30/5.30 

6 1 Margaret 8.10 

Jan 2 Surviving Life 1.30/6.15 

2 Dreams of a Life 4.00/8.45 

3 Another Earth 1.00/6.20/8.30 

3 Margaret 3.10 

Sat 1 Happy Feet Two (WW) 1.00 

7 1 Hugo (AD) 3.10/5.50 

Jan 1 Margaret 8.30 

2 Surviving Life 1.30/6.15 


3 Another Earth 1.00/6.20/8.30 


Sun 1 Happy Feet Two (WW) 11.00am 

8 1 Hugo (AD) + (S) 2.30 (subtitled) 

Jan 1 Hugo (AD) 5.30 


2 Surviving Life 1.30/6.15 


3 Another Earth 1.00/6.20/8.30 


DAY 

DATE 

SCREEN NO. & 

FILM TITLE 

SHOW 

TIMES 

Mon 1 Hugo (B) (AD) 11am (babies & carers) 

9 1 Hugo (AD) 2.30/6.00 

Jan 1 Dreams of a Life 8.45 

2 Dreams of a Life 3.15 


2 Surviving Life 8.50 


3 Las acacias 6.00 

3 Gallivant 8.00 

Tue 1 Margaret 2.30 

10 1 Hugo (AD) 6.00 


2 Hugo (AD) 3.00 



3 Gallivant 3.30 

3 Las acacias 6.00/8.00 

Wed 1 Margaret 2.30 

11 1 Hugo (AD) 6.00 





3 This Our Still Life + short 3.30/8.00 


Thu 1 Hugo (AD) 2.30 

12 1 Margaret 6.15 

Jan 1 Killing Zoe (Psy) 9.30 


2 Hugo (AD) 6.00 


3 This Our Still Life + short 6.30 


Fri 1 Shame (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 

13 2 Margin Call 1.20/3.45/6.15/8.40 

Jan 3 Magic Trip 1.30/6.10 

3 Tatsumi 4.00/8.30 

DAY 

DATE 

SCREEN NO. & 

FILM TITLE 

SHOW 

TIMES 

Sat 1 Shame (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 

14 2 Margin Call 1.20/3.45/6.15/8.40 


3 Tatsumi 4.00/6.10 

Sun 1 Shame (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 

15 2 Margin Call 1.20/3.45/6.15/8.40 


3 Tatsumi 4.00/8.30 

Mon 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 

16 2 Margin Call (B) 11am (babies & carers) 

Jan 2 Margin Call 3.15/6.15/8.40 

3 Tatsumi 3.30/6.10/8.30 

Tue 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/6.00 

17 1 The Great White Silence 8.30 

Jan 2 Margin Call 3.15/6.15 

2 Shame (AD) 8.30 

3 Tatsumi 3.30/6.10 

3 Margin Call 8.40 

Wed 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 

18 2 Margin Call 3.15/6.15/8.40 

Jan 3 Tatsumi 3.30/8.45 

3 Accident (EC) 6.10 + intro 

Thu 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 

19 2 Margin Call 3.15/6.15/8.40 

Jan 3 Tatsumi 3.30/6.10/8.45 

Fri 1 Shame (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 

20 2 L’Atalante 1.45/4.00/6.10/8.15 

Jan 3 Margin Call 1.30/3.45/6.15/8.40 

Sat 1 Azur & Asmar... (WW) 1.00 

21 1 Shame (AD) 3.30/6.00/8.30 

Jan 2 L’Atalante 1.45/4.00/6.10/8.15 

3 Margin Call 1.30/3.45/6.15/8.40 

Sun 1 Azur & Asmar... (WW) 11.00am 

22 1 Shame (AD) 3.30/6.00/8.30 

Jan 2 L’Atalante 1.45/4.00/6.10/8.15 

3 Margin Call 1.30/3.45/6.15/8.40

WWW.FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM 6 January - 2 February 2012 FILMHOUSE PROGRAMME 

DAY 

DATE 

SCREEN NO. & 

FILM TITLE 

SHOW 

TIMES 

Mon 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/8.45 

23 1 Inside Hana’s Suitcase 6.00 + Q&A 

Jan 2 L’Atalante (B) 11am (babies & carers) 

2 L’Atalante 3.30/8.15 

2 Shame (AD) 6.00 

3 Margin Call 3.15/6.15/8.40 

Tue 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 

24 2 L’Atalante 3.30/8.15 

Jan 2 BAA Programme 1 (BAA) 6.30 

3 Margin Call 3.15/6.15/8.40 

Wed 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 

25 2 L’Atalante 3.30/6.10 

Jan 2 Mr Tree (C) 8.15 + discussion 

3 Margin Call 3.15/8.40 

3 Bande à part (EC) 6.15 + intro 

Thu 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 

26 2 L’Atalante 3.30/6.10 

Jan 2 Last Train Home (C) 8.15 + discussion 

3 Margin Call 3.15/6.15/8.40 

Fri 1 Shame (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 

27 2 A Useful Life 1.30 

Jan 2 50/50 3.15/8.45 

2 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 5.30 

3 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 1.20/8.00 

3 A Useful Life 4.30/6.15 

Sat 1 Shame (AD) 1.00/3.30/6.00/8.30 

28 2 A Useful Life 1.30 

Jan 2 50/50 3.15/8.45 

2 Apart Together (C) 6.00 + discussion 



Sun 1 Shame (AD) + (S) 1.00 (subtitled) 

29 1 Shame (AD) 3.30/6.00/8.30 

Jan 2 A Useful Life 1.30 

2 50/50 3.15/8.45 

2 Manufactured Landscapes (C) 6.00 + discussion 



DAY 

DATE 

SCREEN NO. & 

FILM TITLE 

KEY: 

(AD) – Audio Description (see page 2) 

(B) – Carer & baby screening (see page 2) 

(S) – Subtitled (see page 2) 

SEASONS: 

(BAA) – British Animation Awards 2012 (page 10) 

(C) – China on the Move (pages 18-19) 

(CS) – Come and See... (page 20) 

(EC) – Introduction to European Cinema (pages 

14-16) 

(Psy) – Psychotronic Cinema (page 20) 

(WW) – Weans’ World (page 9) 

Full index of films on page 2 

SHOW 

TIMES 

Mon 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 

30 2 50/50 (B) 11am (babies & carers) 

Jan 2 50/50 3.15/8.15 

2 BAA Programme 2 (BAA) 6.30 



Tue 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/6.00 

31 1 The Thing (1982) (CS) 8.30 

Jan 2 50/50 3.15/5.45 




Wed 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 

1 2 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2.45/8.00 

Feb 2 Intimate Lighting (EC) 6.00 + intro 



Thu 1 Shame (AD) 2.30/6.00/8.30 

2 2 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2.45/8.00 

Feb 2 A Useful Life 6.15 



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ACCIDENT BANDE A PART 

INTIMATE LIGHTING 

Introduction to 

European Cinema 

Now in its seventh year at Filmhouse, 

Introduction to European Cinema returns for 

2011/12 with a completely new programme of 

films. The season provides a great opportunity to 

see some of the classics of European film on the 

big screen, many of which are very rarely shown. 

Curated in collaboration with the Film Studies 

department at the University of Edinburgh, 

the screenings form part of undergraduate 

and postgraduate syllabuses but are equally 

open to regular members of the Filmhouse 

public. All screenings will be preceded by short 

introductions by IEC Course Organiser Dr 

Pasquale Iannone and notes on the season will 

be available to download from the Filmhouse 

website. 

To keep up to date with screening dates 

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

page ‘Introduction to European Cinema at 

Filmhouse’ or follow @Filmhouse on Twitter. 

Accident 

Wed 18 Jan at 6.10pm 

Joseph Losey • UK 1967 • 1h45m • 35mm 

12A – Contains moderate language and sex references 

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael York, Jacqueline Sassard. 

Director Joseph Losey and screenwriter Harold Pinter turn 

Nicholas Mosley’s novel into a sensual and gripping drama. 

Stephen (Dirk Bogarde) is a 40-year-old Oxford philosophy 

lecturer, functionally drunk as often as possible and silently 

resentful of his colleague Charley, whose star is rising as 

a TV pundit. Among Stephen’s students is the casually 

charming young aristocrat William, who has his eye on 

another of Stephen’s charges, Austrian princess Anna. 

Motivated by a dangerous mixture of admiration and envy, 

Stephen facilitates a meeting between William and Anna. 

But his gently magnanimous demeanour conceals a rising 

tide of anxiety, self-centredness and sexual desperation. 

Bande à part Band of Outsiders 


Jean-Luc Godard • France 1964 • 1h35m • 35mm 

French and English with English subtitles 

PG – Contains infrequent mild bad language and violence 

Cast: Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, Louisa Colpeyn. 

Godard at his most off-the-cuff spins a fast and loose tale 

that continues his love affairs with Hollywood and with 

actress Anna Karina. Karina at her most naive is taken up 

by two self-conscious toughs, and they try to learn English, 

do extravagant mimes of the death of Billy the Kid, execute 

some neat dance steps, run around the Louvre at high 

speed, and rob Karina’s aunt, with disastrous consequences. 

One of Godard’s most open and purely enjoyable films. 

Intimate Lighting Intimni osvetleni 

Wed 1 Feb at 6.00pm 

Ivan Passer • Czech Republic 1966 • 1h11m • 35mm 

Czech with English subtitles • PG 

Cast: Zdenek Bezusek, Karel Blazek, Miroslav Cvrk. 

A near perfect little movie about a weekend in the country 

for two muscians, who play and get drunk together. It is 

sometimes too easy to forget the importance of Ivan Passer 

to the Czech New Wave, having co-scripted Competition, 

A Blonde in Love and The Firemen’s Ball with Milos Forman 

and directed and co-scripted this little gem of a picture, 

brimfull of the lyricism and humanity that made his early 

films such a delight. 

L’Eclisse The Eclipse 


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

Italian with English subtitles • PG – Contains moderate language 

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

The conclusion of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal 

trilogy on modern malaise (preceded by L’avventura 

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

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

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

Using the architecture of Rome as a backdrop for the 

couple’s doomed affair, Antonioni reaches the apotheosis 

of his modernist style, returning to his favourite themes: 

alienation and the difficulty of finding connections in an 

increasingly mechanised world.


L’ECLISSE FEAR EATS THE SOUL 

THE TIN DRUM 

CRIA CUERVOS 

Fear Eats the Soul Angst essen Seele auf 


Rainer Werner Fassbinder • West Germany 1974 • 1h33m 

16mm • German and Arabic with English subtitles • 15 

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

Hermann, Karl Scheydt. 

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

also a touching romance and a powerful indictment of 

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

a Munich bar frequented by Arab immigrants and meets a 

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

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

much to the chagrin of her neighbours and grown children. 

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

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

problem: the lovers themselves begin to have their own 

reservations about the relationship. 

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The Tin Drum Die Blechtrommel 


Volker Schlöndorff • West Germany/France/Poland/Yugoslavia 

1979 • 2h22m • 35mm 

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

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

Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski. 

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

intellect beyond his years. As he witnesses the hypocrisy of 

adulthood and the irresponsibility of society, Oskar rejects 

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

Caught in a baffling state of perpetual childhood, Oskar 

lashes out at all he surveys with piercing screams and 

frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the unheeding, 

chaotic world marches onward to the madness and folly 

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

Cannes Film Festival and the 1979 Academy Award for 

Best Foreign Language film, Volker Schlöndorff’s visionary 

adaptation of Nobel laureate Günter Grass’ acclaimed 

novel is an unforgettable fantasia of surreal imagery, 

striking eroticism, and unflinching satire. 

Cría cuervos Raise Ravens 


Carlos Saura • Spain 1976 • 1h49m • Digital projection 

Spanish with English subtitles 

12A – Contains moderate sex references and disturbing scenes 

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

Chico, Mónica Randall. 

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

Carlos Saura’s masterpiece takes its title from a sinister 

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

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

a repressive force in Spanish society, Cría cuervos centres 

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

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

to have poisoned her cold, authoritarian father (Héctor 

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

the death of her adored mother (Geraldine Chaplin). 

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

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

fantasy-imbued reality. Darkly unsettling, deeply touching 

and comic by turns, this landmark of Spanish cinema 

– premiered shortly after the dictator’s death – exposes 

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

largely taboo. 

SEASON CONTINUES OVERLEAF 

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Introduction to European Cinema (continued) 

THE KING IS ALIVE KOKTEBEL TIMES AND WINDS 

VENDREDI SOIR 

The King Is Alive 

Wed 7 Mar at 6.00pm 

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

35mm • English and French with English subtitles 

15 – Contains strong language and moderate sex 

Cast: Miles Anderson, Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, Jennifer 

Jason Leigh, Bruce Davidson. 

This second feature by Dogme co-founder Kristian Levring 

is a cerebral yet unfl inchingly passionate meditation on 

the incongruities of human nature. Eleven tourists are 

travelling by bus through the barren North African desert. 

Hopelessly lost, they eventually fi nd themselves stranded 

in an abandoned mining town. Its only resident, the 

grizzled Kanana, informs them it’s a fi ve-day walk over 

endless sand dunes to the next town. One passenger, Jack, 

offers to take the journey. The others wait anxiously for his 

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

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

situation, their passions are ignited, and noble sentiments 

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

Koktebel 


Boris Khlebnikov & Aleksei Popogrebsky • Russia 2003 

1h47m • 35mm • Russian with English subtitles 

12A – Contains one scene of moderate violence 

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

Sandrykina, Vladimir Kucherenko. 

A portrait of imperilled boyhood that recalls Ratcatcher for 

its emotional sensitivity and stunning cinematography. A 

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

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

the one they have left in Moscow. The unnamed boy is 

smart, stoic and loyal, even if he is increasingly wary of his 

father’s limitations. Sure enough, this journey by foot and 

freight train is interrupted when Dad gets distracted, fi rst 

by booze, then by a woman, but the boy fervently clings 

to his dreams. Beautifully scripted and directed by fi rst 

time directors, Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky, 

the simple account of the journey is given added strength 

through the use of unusual subjective viewpoints and an 

imagery and observation that is genuinely poetic. 

Times and Winds Bes vakit 


Reha Erdem • Turkey 2006 • 1h52m • 35mm 

Turkish with English subtitles • 15 – Contains strong language 

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

With this beautifully photographed, pastoral portrait of the 

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

Erdem adds his name to those of Nuri Bilge Ceylan and 

Fatih Akin in the list of directors heading up the impressive 

recent revival of Turkish cinema. The confl icts of Turkey’s 

poised situation – at a crossroads between Asia and Europe, 

tradition and modernity, secularism and religion – are 

refl ected in the lives of its three pubescent protagonists 

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

and strictures of rural life through their variously troubled 

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

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

hopelessly enamoured of his attractive young schoolteacher. 

Vendredi soir Friday Night 


Claire Denis • France 2002 • 1h30m • 35mm 

French with English subtitles 

15 – Contains strong language and moderate sex 

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

Hélène Fillières, Florence Loiret Caille. 

Claire Denis’ poetic exploration of the pleasures and 

discontents of modern sexuality follows the night-long 

odyssey shared by a woman and a stranger she picks up 

in a Paris traffi c jam. This is wonderfully alert fi lmmaking, 

vividly alive to the constant by-play between inner longings 

and everyday surroundings.

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China on the Move 

MR TREE LAST TRAIN HOME 

China 

on the Move 

Marking Chinese New Year on Film 

Think you know China? Look again. To mark Chinese 

New Year, four award-winning films offer different 

perspectives on the complex transformations taking 

place in contemporary Chinese cinema, society and 

industry, and how they relate to the wider world. 

Presented by Take One Action Film Festivals, all 

screenings will be followed by expert and audience 

discussion. 

Supported by The Confucius Institute, University 

of Edinburgh, Scotland China Education Network, 

Scotland-China Association and The Blackford Trust. 

For more world-changing cinema 

visit www.takeoneaction.org.uk 

Mr Tree Hello! Shu Xian Sheng 


Han Jie • China 2011 • 1h28m • HD-Cam 

Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A 

Cast: Wang Baoqiang , Tan Zhuo. 

This double prize-winner at Shanghai Film Festival is a 

complex reflection on the challenges and questions arising 

from China’s rapidly changing rural economy. The film 

charts a year in the life of Mr Shu (aka Tree), a Chinese man 

with learning difficulties whose life allegorically mirrors 

the social and economic development of his hometown. 

Generally viewed as a benign but lazy idiot, Shu loses 

his job after a workplace accident, but at the same time 

transcends community hierarchies, giving the viewer a 

unique insight into the ties between local leaders, families, 

workers, businessmen, and even the past and future. 

Although it is never clear whether the dangers associated 

with a changing China are merely a mental disturbance 

or situated more widely, the film nonetheless begs the 

question: where is China going? 

“A satire that bridges the personal and political with fantasy 

and black humour.” The Hollywood Reporter 

Winner – Jury Prize, Best Director, Shanghai International 

Film Festival 

Followed by a discussion on the changing face of China’s 

rural economy and Chinese cinema. 

Last Train Home 

Thu 26 Jan at 8.15pm 

Lixin Fan • Canada/China/UK 2009 • 1h25m • Digibeta 

Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A • Documentary 

Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos, as, 

all at once, a tidal wave of humanity attempts to return 

home by train. It is the Chinese New Year. The wave is 

made up of millions of migrant factory workers, and the 

homes they seek are the rural villages and families they left 

behind to find work in the booming coastal cities. It is an 

epic spectacle that tells us much about China, as it rapidly 

modernises and increases its global economic dominance. 

Last Train Home draws us into the fractured lives of a single 

migrant family caught up in this annual migration. Intimate 

and candid, the film paints a human portrait of the dramatic 

changes sweeping China. 

“An exceptional documentary… stunningly photographed.” 

IndieWire 

Winner – Best Feature Documentary, International 

Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 

Followed by a discussion on urbanisation and the family. 

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China on the Move/Holocaust Memorial Day 

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES 

Apart Together Tuan yuan 

Sat 28 Jan at 6.00pm 

Wang Quan’an • China 2010 • 1h37m • Digibeta 

Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A 

Cast: Lisa Lu, Ling Feng, Xu Cai-gen, Monica Mok, Baiyang. 

In his follow-up to the Berlin Golden Bear winner Tuya’s 

Marriage, director Wang Quan’an has fashioned a 

bittersweet late life romance, reuniting former lovers 

separated some fifty years earlier by the end of China’s 

civil war. 

When a political thaw permits surviving veterans in Taiwan 

to return to Shanghai to visit their families, ex-nationalist 

soldier Liu returns to his native city Shanghai to find the 

first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant five 

decades earlier. In the meantime, Qiao has married and 

built a family, but Liu tracks her down and is determined 

to get the family’s approval to take her away with him. 

Made with support from the Chinese government, Apart 

Together marks a new frontier in representations of China’s 

history and its relationships with the outside world. 

“An engaging chamber piece about autumnal romance, 

bittersweet memory and self-sacrifice.” The Times 

Winner – Best Screenplay, Berlin International Film Festival 

Followed by a discussion on changing political landscapes 

in China. 

Manufactured Landscapes 

Sun 29 Jan at 6.00pm 

Jennifer Baichwal • Canada 2006 • 1h30m • Digital projection 

English, Cantonese and Mandarin with English subtitles • 12A 

Documentary 

In this series of extraordinary visual portraits, renowned 

artist Edward Burtynsky travels through China 

photographing the evidence and effects of its massive 

industrial revolution and the implicit impact on the 

environment. Director Jennifer Baichwal captures the artist 

at work amid some of the most surreal landscapes of the 

21st century: the mountains of ‘ewaste’ in China where 

50% of the world’s computers end up to be recycled; the 

Yangtze Valley where whole towns are being demolished 

to make way for the Three Gorges Dam, and the crowded 

skyline of Shanghai which has recently attracted millions of 

new inhabitants. 

“Powerful... engrossing... unsettlingly beautiful.” LA Times 

Winner – Best Canadian Film, Toronto International Film 

Festival 

Followed by discussion about Chinese industrialisation and 

its social and environmental impacts. 

See page 22 for details of Please Vote For Me, screening for schools on 

Wednesday 25 January at 10.30am, supported by SCEN. 

INSIDE HANA’S SUITCASE 

HOLOCAUSTMEMORIALDAY 

Inside Hana’s Suitcase 

Mon 23 Jan at 6.00pm 

Larry Weinstein • Canada/Czech Republic 2009 • 1h28m 

Digibeta • English, Czech and Japanese with English subtitles 

12A • Documentary 

Hana Brady was just a little girl when she and her brother 

George were singled out as Jews, and sent away from 

home by the Nazis. Seventy years later a class of Japanese 

children received a package from the Holocaust museum in 

Germany. It contained what appears to be Hana’s suitcase 

and from this starting point the children and their teacher 

begin to unravel her story. Blending documentary, archive 

and reconstructions, the film tells Hana’s tragic story, and 

her brother’s more hopeful one. 

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Hana’s 

brother and Holocaust survivor George Brady, Fumika 

Ishioka and filmmaker Larry Weinstein. 

Filmhouse are delighted to work with The Scottish Inter 

Faith Council, The Scottish Government and Holocaust 

Memorial Trust on this very special event to mark 

Holocaust Memorial Day. George Brady is one of the key 

speakers at the National Holocaust Memorial event in 

Dundee on 26 January and it is with great pleasure that 

he, Fumika Ishioka and Larry Weinstein will attend this 

Edinburgh screening. There is also a Filmhouse schools 

screening at 10am on 23 January, for details see page 22. 

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Come and See... The Thing/Psychotronic Cinema 

THE THING KILLING ZOE 

FILMHOUSE CAFE BAR 

Come and See... 

A monthly one-off screening of a great film 

we simply thought you might like to see, 

again or for the first time, on the big screen. 

The Thing (1982) 


John Carpenter • USA 1982 • 1h49m • 70mm • 18 

Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, TK Carter, David Clennon, 

Keith David. 

An isolated Antarctic scientific base is infiltrated by an 

alien shape-shifter, which takes over the identities of its 

occupants one by one. 

Underlining every frame of The Thing is an anticipating 

dread: the characters – and the viewer – sense the 

potential menace of an enemy they cannot see. It’s an eerily 

nightmarish and wonderfully enthralling film, featuring 

some of the most gruesome special effects you’ll ever see. 

Screening from glorious 70mm! 

Killing Zoe 

Thu 12 Jan at 9.30pm 

Roger Avary • France/USA 1993 • 1h36m • 35mm 

English and French with English subtitles • 18 

Cast: Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gary Kemp, 

Salvator Xuereb. 

The directorial debut of Tarantino co-writer Roger Avary 

is a pulsating, hyper-kinetic early 90s joy ride of drugs, 

mayhem and ultra-violence. Revolving around a bank 

heist gone very very wrong, Killing Zoe was criminally 

underrated on release but has since garnered a serious 

underground cult following. From the first frame Avary’s 

movie launches its audience into a drug-fuelled and 

demented cinematic world of excess, refusing to pull its 

punches and finally descending into utter carnage. 

Psychotronic Cinema presents this neglected classic on 

35mm. 

Filmhouse Cafe Bar 

Drop in for a cappuccino, espresso or herbal tea 

and enjoy one of our superb cakes. 

Our full menu runs from noon to 10pm seven 

days a week! 

All our dishes are prepared on the premises 

using fresh ingredients. 

We’ve an extensive vegetarian range with a 

variety of daily specials. 

A glass of wine? Choose from nine! The bar has 

real choice in ales, beers and bottles. 

A special event? Just ask, we can probably help. 

Or just come and relax in the ambience! 

Opening hours: 

Sunday – Thursday 10am till 11.30pm 

Friday – Saturday 10am till 12.30am 

0131 229 5932 cafebar@filmhousecinema.com 

Film Quiz 

Sunday 8 January 

Filmhouse’s phenomenally successful (and 

rather tricky) monthly quiz. Free to enter, teams 

of up to eight to be seated in the cafe bar by 

9pm.

THE ARTIST CARNAGE 

CASABLANCA 

COMINGSOON COMINGSOON 

COMINGSOON 

The Artist 

Michel Hazanavicius • France/Belgium 2011 • 1h40m 

PG – Contains scene of mild threat 

Cast: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James 

Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller. 

An honest-to-goodness black-and-white silent picture 

made by modern French filmmakers in Hollywood, 

The Artist is a spirited, hilarious and moving delight. A 

sensation in Cannes, Michel Hazanavicius’ playful love 

letter to the movies’ early days spins on a variation on 

an A Star Is Born-like relationship between a dashing 

Douglas Fairbanks-style star (Jean Dujardin, who won the 

best actor prize in Cannes), whose career wanes with the 

coming of sound, and a dazzling young actress (Bérénice 

Bejo), whose popularity skyrockets at the same time. 

Meticulously made in the 1.33 aspect ratio with intertitles 

and a superb score, The Artist has great fun with silent film 

conventions just as it rigourously adheres to them, turning 

its abundant love for the look and ethos of the 1920s into 

a treat that will be warmly embraced by movie lovers of 

every persuasion. 

Carnage 

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

15 – Contains strong language 

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

Elvis Polanski. 

Polanski turns his attention to the satirical skewering of the 

hypocrisies of the middle classes with this crisp adaptation 

of playwright Yasmina Reza’s ‘The God of Carnage’. 

Following a fight between their children, two New York 

couples come together to discuss the unfortunate event. 

Zachary, the son of Nancy and Alan (Kate Winslet and 

Christoph Waltz) has bashed his schoolmate Ethan with 

a stick, breaking a couple of his teeth. Ethan’s parents 

Penelope and Michael (Jodie Foster and John C Reilly) have 

called the tête-à-tête at their home, but what starts out as 

a civilised attempt at resolution turns uglier by degrees. As 

coffee and cobbler give way to hard liquor, surface niceties 

start to slip, the couples get to sniping, then to arguing and 

worse, and soon the fractures in their own relationships are 

showing. Watching the foursome descend into behaviour 

far worse than that of their children is horrible and funny, 

often both at the same time. 

Tightly scripted and confidently directed, with resonances 

that go beyond its Brooklyn walls, Carnage is also a 

terrific showcase for the remarkable performances of 

its heavyweight ensemble cast. – Sandra Hebron, LFF 

programme 

Coming soon 

Casablanca 

Michael Curtiz • USA 1942 • 1h42m • U 

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul 

Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet. 

The world’s favourite Hollywood love story is all the more 

romantic because it doesn’t exalt romantic love above all. 

Bogey is at his best as Rick, an American opportunist 

in 1940 French Morocco with a gruffly cynical exterior 

that belies his wary idealism and wounded heart. Ingrid 

Bergman is luminous as Ilsa, who arrives in Casablanca with 

resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), but clearly 

has a history with Rick. Cynicism and self-interest contend 

with idealism and self-sacrifice as Rick and Ilsa’s past 

weighs against the world’s future. 

Made under a studio system that cranked out a film a week, 

this just happened to be one film in which everything 

came together with magical rightness – the wittily cynical 

dialogue, spare, effective storytelling, a vivid sense of time 

and place, sharply drawn characters, a first-rate cast, great 

cinematography and score, and classic wartime melodrama 

that hasn’t lost a thing as time goes by. 

Screening in a new digital restoration. 

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22 Learning Events 

WAR HORSE 

Learning Events 

PLEASE VOTE FOR ME 

THE ROUND UP 

Our Knowledge and Learning team arrange screenings for schools, workshops and learning events for all ages. For further 

information please contact Holly Daniel or Nicola Kettlewood on 0131 228 6382 or email education@filmhousecinema.com 

Schools Screenings FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ONLY 

War Horse Thu 12 Jan, 10am (146 min) •FREE – book with Film Education on 020 7292 7360 

Based on the book by Michael Morpurgo, War Horse is an epic adventure set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. 

Inside Hana’s Suitcase Mon 23 Jan, 10am (88 minutes) • £2.60, teachers free • Contact the Duty Manager on 0131 228 6382 to book 

12A • English, Czech and Japanese with English subtitles • Suitable for Global citizenship 

Screening in support of Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) and George Brady, Hana’s brother and Holocaust Survivor, will answer questions after the film – see 

page 19 for film information. 

Please Vote For Me W 

U • Mandarin with English subtitles • Screening arranged by Take One Action • Suitable for S3-S6, Global citizenship, Modern Studies 

In an elementary school in the city of Wuhan, three eight-year-old children compete for the position of class monitor. Their parents, devoted to their only children, 

take part and start to influence the results. Please Vote For Me is an award-winning film about an experiment with democracy in China. 

Further details and a trailer at http://www.whydemocracy.net/film/3 

The Round Up (La Rafle) Thu 26 Jan, 10.30am (125 minutes) • £2.60, teachers free • Contact the Duty Manager on 0131 228 6382 to book 

12A • French with English subtitles • Suitable for Global citizenship, French 

Based on the true story of a young Jewish boy, the film depicts the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’ d’Hiv), the mass arrest of Jews by French police for the Nazis 

in Paris in July 1942. Screening i 

been produced by Institut Français to support this film. 

Coming Soon... Film Education’s CineSchool 

CineSchool is a new initiative to develop the appreciation and understanding of different types of film in young audiences, aiming to encourage an awareness of 

the breadth and variety of film to be found beyond the blockbuster, and to build an understanding of non-mainstream forms. The CineSchool Festival will be a great 

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

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INFORMATION FOR PATRONS WITH 

DISABILITIES 

Filmhouse foyer and box offi ce are 

reached via a ramped surface from 

Lothian Road. Our café-bar and 

accessible toilet are also at this level. The 

majority of seats in the café-bar are not 

fi xed and can be moved. 

There is wheelchair access to all three 

screens. Cinema one has space for two 

wheelchair users and these places are 

reached via the passenger lift; cinemas 

two and three have one space each 

and to get to these you need to use our 

platform lifts. Staff are always on hand to 

operate them – please ask at the box 

offi ce when you purchase your tickets. 

Advance booking for wheelchair spaces 

is recommended. A second accessible 

toilet is situated at the lower level close 

to cinemas two and three. If you need 

to bring along a helper to assist you 

in any way, then they will receive a 

complimentary ticket. 

There are induction loops and infra-red 

in all three screens for those with hearing 

impairments. Our brochure carries 

information on which fi lms have 

subtitles. 

We regularly have screenings with Audio 

Description and subtitles for those with 

hearing diffi culties – see page two for 

details of these. 

Email admin@fi lmhousecinema.com or 

call the Box Offi ce on 0131 228 2688 if 

you require further information. 

New Bollocks Cinema 

INFORMATION 

Filmhouse 

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Edinburgh 

EH3 9BZ 

www.fi lmhousecinema.com 

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

Recorded Programme Info: 0131 228 2689 

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Interim CEO 

Rod White 

Head of Filmhouse 

Robert Howie 

Customer Experience Manager 

Holly Daniel & Nicola Kettlewood 

Knowledge & Learning 

Administration: 0131 228 6382 

Fax: 0131 229 6482 

email: admin@fi lmhousecinema.com 

Filmhouse is a trading name of Centre 

for the Moving Image (CMI), a company 

limited by guarantee, registered in 

Scotland No. 67087. 

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International Film Festival and the 

Edinburgh Film Guild. 

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