gft brochure - july / august 09

Spend the summer with

Stanley Kubrick, Brad Pitt,

Coco Chanel, François Tru�aut,

Johnny Depp, James Brown, Dr Strangelove,

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mohammed Ali,

Jean-Luc Godard, Coraline, Penelope Cruz,

Jack Nicholson, Quentin Tarantino,

fugitives, astronauts, smugglers, families,

notorious bank robbers,

musicians, surfers,

and an ice cold beer?divas, dreamers

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DIARY 2 - 435 Shots of Rum 14Am I Black Enough For You 13Antichrist 26Anything for Her 26Broken Embraces 18Coco Before Chanel 15Comrades 9Cloud 9 22Fermat’s Room 8Fireflies in the Garden 26French Film 26Frozen River 10Fugitive Pieces 9Inglourious Basterds 17Just Another Love Story 22Katyn 22Kisses 13Lake Tahoe 10Looking For Eric 26Mesrine: Killer Instinct 16Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 16Moon 15On the Day: The Story of the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band 35Public Enemies 7Rudo & Cursi 8s. Darko 9Shirin 13Sin Nombre 22Soul Power 14Sunshine Cleaning 21Waveriders 8The Yes Men Fix the World 21CINE CUBAThe Awkward Age 25Diary of Mauricio 25Omertà 24Personal Belongings 23Strawberry and Chocolate 24Up to a Certain Point 24

CONTENTS

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DIRECTORS FOCUS: KUBRICK2001: A Space Odyssey 20Barry Lyndon 20A Clockwork Orange 20Dr. Strangelove 19The Shining 20Spartacus 19TRIBUTE TO JOSEPH LOSEY Accident 32The Go-Between 32The Hide 32The Servant 31LA NOUVELLE VAGUEThe 400 Blows 27Black Orpheus 28Breathless 29Chronicle of a Summer 30François Truffaut, une autobiographie 28Hiroshima mon amour 28Paris nous appartient 29Pierrot le fou 30ONE SMALL STEP2001: A Space Odyssey 11In the Shadow of the Moon 12Moon 11The Right Stuff 12GFT REGULARSAccess Take 2: Free Saturday Films For Children 34GFT Learning 33Film Discussion Group 36Silver Screen 35Take 2: Free Saturday Films For Children 34SEAT DEDICATIONS 36USEFUL INFORMATION 37-38

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Wednesday 8 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 2.15 / 5.10 / 8.00Rudo & Cursi (15) p8 4.00Fireflies in the Garden (15) p26 8.30Hiroshima mon amour (PG) p28 6.15Film Discussion Group p36 6.30 F

Thursday 9 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 2.15 / 5.10 / 8.00Rudo & Cursi (15) p8 6.30 / 8.45

Friday 10 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 2.15 / 5.10 / 8.00Lake Tahoe (12A) p10 4.45 / 8.45Waveriders (PG) p8 2.45 / 6.45

saTurday 11 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 2.15 / 5.10 / 8.00Lake Tahoe (12A) p10 6.45Waveriders (PG) p8 4.45 / 8.45Anything for Her (15) p26 2.30Take 2: Whistle Down the... (U) p34 11.30 F

sunday 12 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 1.00 / 7.00Lake Tahoe (12A) p10 3.45Waveriders (PG) p8 1.45 / 5.45Anything for Her (15) p26 7.452001: A Space Odyssey (U) p20 4.00

Monday 13 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 2.00 / 5.10 / 8.00Lake Tahoe (12A) p10 8.45 Black Orpheus (PG) p28 6.30

Tuesday 14 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 2.30 / 5.10Lake Tahoe (12A) p10 8.45Breathless (PG) p29 6.452001: A Space Odyssey (U) p20 8.00 French Film (15) p26 12.45

Wednesday 15 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 2.15 / 5.10 / 8.00Lake Tahoe (12A) p10 4.00Breathless (PG) p29 8.45French Film (15) p26 6.45

Wednesday 1 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 3.00 / 8.00The 400 Blows (PG) p27 5.50Rudo & Cursi (15) p8 4.30 / 8.45Fermat’s Room (12A) p8 2.30 / 6.45

Thursday 2 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 2.15 / 5.40The 400 Blows (PG) p27 8.30Rudo & Cursi (15) p8 2.30 / 6.45Fermat’s Room (12A) p8 4.45 / 9.00

Friday 3 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 12.15 / 5.10 / 8.00The 400 Blows (PG) p27 3.15 Rudo & Cursi (15) p8 1.45 / 4.00 / 6.15s. Darko (15) p9 8.30saTurday 4 July

Public Enemies (CTBC) p7 2.00 / 5.10 / 8.00Rudo & Cursi (15) p8 2.15 / 6.30 / 8.45Dr Strangelove (PG) p19 4.30Take 2: An American Tale (U) p34 11.30 F Access Take 2: An American Tale (U) p34 12.30 F

sunday 5 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 4.00 / 7.00Rudo & Cursi (15) p8 5.15 / 7.30Comrades (PG) p9 1.30 Dr Strangelove (PG) p19 2.00

Monday 6 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 2.15 / 5.10 / 8.00Rudo & Cursi (15) p8 4.00 / 8.45François Truffaut, une autobiographie (N / C 12+) p28 6.30 £

Tuesday 7 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 3.00 / 6.00Rudo & Cursi (15) p8 6.30 / 8.45Dr Strangelove (PG) p19 9.00Fireflies in the Garden (15) p26 12.45

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Thursday 16 JulyPublic Enemies (CTBC) p7 2.15 / 5.10 / 8.00Lake Tahoe (12A) p10 6.45 / 8.45

Friday 17 JulyMoon (15) p11 2.00 / 4.15 / 6.30 / 8.45Frozen River (CTBC) p10 1.45 / 4.00 / 6.15 / 8.30

saTurday 18 JulyMoon (15) p11 2.00 / 4.15 / 6.30 / 8.45Frozen River (CTBC) p10 1.45 / 4.00 / 6.15 / 8.30Take 2: Hannah Montana: The Movie (U) p34 11.30 F C

sunday 19 JulyMoon (15) p11 1.30 / 6.45Frozen River (CTBC) p10 2.30 / 4.45 / 7.00A Clockwork Orange (18) p20 3.45

Monday 20 JulyMoon (15) p11 3.00 / 6.15 / 8.30Frozen River (CTBC) p10 3.45 / 8.45Paris nous appartient (12A) p29 6.00

Tuesday 21 JulyMoon (15) p11 3.00 / 6.00Frozen River (CTBC) p10 6.15 / 8.30A Clockwork Orange (18) p20 8.15Fugitive Pieces (15) p9 12.45

Wednesday 22 JulyMoon (15) p11 3.00 / 6.30 / 8.45Frozen River (CTBC) p10 4.00 / 8.30Chronicle of a Summer (U) p30 6.15

Thursday 23 JulyMoon (15) p11 4.00 / 6.30 / 8.45Frozen River (CTBC) p10 6.15 / 8.30Shirin (PG) p13 2.00

Friday 24 JulySoul Power (12A) p14 8.30Moon (15) p11 3.00 / 6.30 / 8.45Shirin (PG) p13 1.30 Looking For Eric (15) p26 3.30 / 6.00

saTurday 25 JulySoul Power (12A) p14 6.15Moon (15) p11 1.45 / 6.30 / 8.45Shirin (PG) p13 4.00In the Shadow of the Moon (U) p12 4.15Looking For Eric (15) p26 1.30 / 8.30Take 2: Asterix and the Vikings (U) p34 11.30 F C

sunday 26 JulySoul Power (12A) p14 2.00Moon (15) p11 12.30 / 7.30In the Shadow of the Moon (U) p12 5.15The Servant (15) p31 2.45Fugitive Pieces (15) p9 4.15The Shining (18) p20 6.30

Monday 27 JulySoul Power (12A) p14 8.45Moon (15) p11 3.00 / 6.15The Servant (15) p31 8.30Pierrot le fou (15) p30 6.30

Tuesday 28 JulySoul Power (12A) p14 3.30 / 8.50Moon (15) p11 6.30 / 8.45Pierrot le fou (15) p30 12.45 The Shining (18) p20 6.00

Wednesday 29 JulySoul Power (12A) p14 6.15 Moon (15) p11 2.30 / 5.00Pierrot le fou (15) p30 8.30Barry Lyndon (PG) p20 7.15

Thursday 30 JulySoul Power (12A) p14 6.15 / 8.30Moon (15) p11 3.00 / 6.30 / 8.45Barry Lyndon (PG) p20 2.30

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Friday 31 JulyCoco Before Chanel (12A) p15 1.00 / 3.30 / 6.10 / 8.3035 Shots of Rum (12A) p14 3.00 / 8.45Barry Lyndon (PG) p20 5.10

saTurday 1 augusTCoco Before Chanel (12A) p15 1.30 / 3.45 / 6.10 / 8.3035 Shots of Rum (12A) p14 3.00 / 6.30 / 8.45Take 2: Bolt (PG) p34 11.30 F C

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sunday 2 augusTCoco Before Chanel (12A) p15 7.3035 Shots of Rum (12A) p14 3.00Accident (12A) p32 1.30 The Right Stuff (15) p12 3.45Personal Belongings (N/C 15+) p23 1.00Mesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 5.15 £

Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 (15) p16 17.45 £

Monday 3 augusTCoco Before Chanel (12A) p15 1.00 / 3.30 / 8.3035 Shots of Rum (12A) p14 4.30 / 8.45Accident (12A) p32 6.15Kisses (15) p13 6.45

Tuesday 4 augusTCoco Before Chanel (12A) p15 1.00 / 3.30 / 6.1035 Shots of Rum (12A) p14 2.45 / 8.45Accident (12A) p32 8.30Kisses (15) p13 12.45 / 6.45

Wednesday 5 augusTCoco Before... (12A) p15 1.00 / 3.30 / 6.10 / 8.3035 Shots of Rum (12A) p14 6.30Kisses (15) p13 8.45

Thursday 6 augusTCoco Before... (12A) p15 1.00 / 3.30 / 6.10 / 8.3035 Shots of Rum (12A) p14 8.45Kisses (15) p13 6.45

Friday 7 augusTMesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 1.15 / 3.40 / 6.00 / 8.20Coco... (12A) p15 1.00 / 3.30 / 6.10 / 8.30

saTurday 8 augusTMesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 3.00 / 6.00 / 8.20Coco Before... (12A) p15 1.15 / 3.30 / 6.10 / 8.30Take 2: Paul Blart: Mall Cop (PG) p34 11.30 F

sunday 9 augusTMesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 2.15 / 6.30Coco Before Chanel (12A) p15 4.30 / 7.00Omertà (N / C 12+) p24 4.45The Go-Between (PG) p32 2.00

Monday 10 augusTMesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 3.30 / 8.20Coco Before Chanel (12A) p15 4.00 / 8.30The Go-Between (PG) p32 6.15Am I Black Enough For You (12A) p13 6.15

Tuesday 11 augusTMesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 3.00 / 6.00 / 8.20Coco Before Chanel (12A) p15 3.45 / 6.10The Go-Between (PG) p32 8.30Am I Black Enough For You (12A) p13 12.45

Wednesday 12 augusTMesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 1.45 / 6.20Coco Before... (12A) p15 3.45 / 6.00 / 8.30Am I Black Enough For You (12A) p13 4.15 / 8.45Film Discussion Group p36 6.30 F

Thursday 13 augusTMesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 3.00 / 6.00 / 8.20Coco Before Chanel (12A) p15 3.45 / 6.10 / 8.30

Friday 14 augusTMesrine: Killer... (15) p16 3.00 / 6.00 / 8.20Coco Before Chanel (12A) p15 2.30 / 8.00On The Day: The Story Of The Spirit Of Scotland Pipe Band (N/C 6+) p35 5.30

saTurday 15 augusTMesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 6.00 / 8.20Coco Before... (12A) p15 1.15 / 3.30 / 6.10 / 8.30The Hide (15) p32 3.45Take 2: Genevieve (U) p34 11.30 F

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sunday 16 augusTMesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 7.20Coco Before Chanel (12A) p15 1.00 / 5.30The Hide (15) p32 5.15Antichrist (18) p36 3.15 / 7.45Strawberry and Chocolate / Up To A Point (18) p24 1.00

Monday 17 augusTMesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 3.00 / 6.15Coco Before Chanel (12A) p15 8.30Antichrist (18) p26 6.15Sunshine Cleaning (15) p21 8.45

Tuesday 18 augusTMesrine: Killer... (15) p16 3.00 / 6.00 / 8.20Coco Before Chanel (12A) p15 6.10Antichrist (18) p26 8.30Sunshine Cleaning (15) p21 12.45

Wednesday 19 augusTMesrine: Killer Instinct (15) p16 3.00 / 8.20Coco Before... (12A) p15 1.15 / 3.30 / 6.10 / 8.30Sunshine Cleaning (15) p21 6.15

Thursday 20 augusTMesrine: Killer... (15) p16 3.00 / 6.00 / 8.20Coco Before... (12A) p15 1.15 / 3.30 / 6.10 / 8.30

Friday 21 augusTInglourious Basterds (18) p17 2.00 / 5.00 / 8.00Just Another Love Story (CTBC) p22 1.30 / 6.30The Yes Men... (CTBC) p21 3.45 / 8.45

saTurday 22 augusTInglourious Basterds (18) p17 2.00 / 5.00 / 8.00Just Another Love Story (CTBC) p22 3.30 / 8.30The Yes Men... (CTBC) p21 1.30 / 6.30Take 2: Around the World in 80 Days (PG) p34 11.30 F

sunday 23 augusTInglourious Basterds (18) p17 1.00 / 4.00 / 7.00Just Another Love Story (CTBC) p22 1.30 / 8.15The Yes Men Fix the World (CTBC) p21 3.45Diary of Mauricio (N/C 12+) p25 5.45

Monday 24 augusTInglourious Basterds (18)p17 2.00 / 5.00 / 8.00Just Another Love Story (CTBC) p22 3.30 / 6.00Katyn (15) p22 8.15

Tuesday 25 augusTInglourious Basterds (18) p17 2.00 / 5.00 / 8.00Just Another Love Story (CTBC) p22 3.15 / 8.30Katyn (15) p22 12.45 / 6.00

Wednesday 26 augusTInglourious Basterds (18) p17 2.00 / 5.00 / 8.00Just Another Love Story (CTBC) p22 3.45 / 8.30Katyn (15) p22 6.00

Thursday 27 augusTInglourious Basterds (18) p17 2.00 / 5.00 / 8.00Just Another Love Story (CTBC) p22 3.45 / 6.00Katyn (15) p22 8.15

Friday 28 augusTBroken Embraces (15) p18 3.00 / 5.45 / 8.20Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 (15) p16 2.45 / 5.30 / 8.10

saTurday 29 augusTBroken Embraces (15) p18 2.00 / 5.45 / 8.20Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 (15) p16 2.45 / 5.30 / 8.10Take 2: Coraline (PG) p34 11.30 F

sunday 30 augusTBroken Embraces (15) p18 3.00 / 7.45Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 (15) p16 1.30 / 6.30Sin Nombre (CTBC) p22 1.00 / 5.40The Awkward Age (N/C 12+) p25 4.15

Monday 31 augusTBroken Embraces (15) p18 3.00 / 5.45 / 8.20Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 (15) p16 2.45 / 8.10Sin Nombre (CTBC) p22 1.00Cloud 9 (CTBC) p22 6.00

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Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) is back on top form, directing Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger – the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J Edgar Hoover’s fledgling FBI, and a folk hero to much of the downtrodden public.

No one could stop Dillinger (Depp) and his gang. No jail could hold him. His charm and audacious jailbreaks endeared him to almost everyone – from his girlfriend Billie Frechette (Cotillard) to an American public who had no sympathy for the banks that had plunged the country into the Depression. But while the adventures of Dillinger’s gang thrilled many, Hoover (Billy Crudup) hit on the idea of exploiting the outlaw’s capture as a way to elevate his Bureau of Investigation into the national police force that became the FBI. He made Dillinger America’s first Public Enemy Number One, and sent in Melvin Purvis (Bale), the dashing ‘Clark Gable of the FBI’.

As stylish and thrilling a film as you would expect from Mann – the bank robbery scenes in particular are superbly done – with great performances from its leads and supporting cast. Filmhouse Edinburgh

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The screening on Wednesday 15 July (5.10) will be introduced by Dr David Archibald, journalist and lecturer at The University of Glasgow.

PUBLIC ENEMIES CTBCWednesday 1 – Thursday 16 July

Director Michael MannCast Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard

USA 2009, 2h23m


Stars Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna and producers Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men), Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth), and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel) present a splendid, riotous film about a pair of stepbrothers whose rivalry takes them from their jobs on a small-town banana ranch to star spots on opposing soccer teams.

Four strangers, who are all mathematicians, are invited to spend a weekend together where they will be challenged to solve a great enigma. They only know their mysterious host by a pseudonym: Fermat. But the room in which they find themselves turns out to be a death trap that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.

The screening on Wednesday 1 July (6.45) will be introduced by Dr David Archibald, journalist and lecturer at The University of Glasgow.12A: Contains strong language

RUDO & CURSI 15Friday 26 June – Thursday 9 July

Director Carlos CuarónCast Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna

Mexico 2008, 1h38m, subtitles

FERMAT’S ROOM La habitación de Fermat 12AFriday 26 June – Thursday 2 July

Directors Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo SopenaCast Santi Millán, Lluis Homar, Federico Luppi

Spain 2007, 1h28m, subtitles

Waveriders is the previously untold story of the unlikely Irish roots of the worldwide surfing phenomenon and today’s pioneers of Irish big wave surfing. The journey reaches a spectacular climax when the surfers conquer the biggest swell ever to have been ridden in Ireland.

www.waveridersthefilm.com

Preceded by short film Xtreme Luggaging by director Christian Welsh (9 mins)

WAVERIDERS PG Friday 10 – Sunday 12 July

Director Joel Conroy

Documentary, UK/Ireland 2008, 1h18m

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s. Darko is the captivating tale based in the surreal world first seen through the eyes of Donnie Darko. Set seven years after the cult classic, we follow Donnie’s sister Samantha as she struggles with the trials and tribulations of teenage life. s. Darko enters a surreal world of time travel set against the imminent end of the universe, whilst our protagonists deal with the equally complicated realities of life, love, friendships and family relationships.

Athos is directing an archaeological dig in Nazi-occupied Poland when he discovers a little boy hiding. After witnessing the massacre of members of his family, seven-year-old Jakob does not know the fate of his beloved sister Bella – a mystery that will haunt him for the rest of his life. As Jakob grows into a man, he becomes progressively more consumed by his family’s tragedy.

S. DARKO 15Friday 3 July (8.30)

Director Chris FisherCast Daveigh Chase, Briana Evigan, James Lafferty

USA 2009, 1h43m

FUGITIVE PIECES 15 Tuesday 21 (12.45) & Sunday 26 July (4.15)

Director Jeremy PodeswaCast Rosamund Pike, Robbie Kay

Canada 2007, 1h44mBill Douglas’ little-seen, visionary “poor man’s epic”. In the 1830s a group of six Dorset farm workers formed a union in an attempt to win a fair wage for a fair day’s work. They called a strike and were arrested and sentenced to be transported to Australia for seven years. They became known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The film is one of Peter Bradshaw’s (The Guardian) top 10 picks for EIFF 2009.

This screening will be introduced by Professor Grahame Smith. Please join Grahame for discussion in the upstairs bar after the screening. Tea and coffee will be provided.

COMRADES PGSunday 5 July (1.30)

Director Bill Douglas Cast Keith Allen, Dave Atkins, Stephen Bateman, Katy Behean

UK 1986, 3h2m


The second feature from Duck Season director Fernando Eimbcke is an expert exercise in quirky, minimalist wit that suggests a strong affinity with Aki Kaurismaki. Juan crashes the family car. His search for a replacement distributor harness is the start of a long, hot afternoon punctuated by quirky encounters with aging mechanic Don Heber and his dog, martial-arts fanatic David and young mother Lucia. Dry wit and a sharp eye mark this sleepy, well-observed insight into a life that is just as stalled as the car. GFF09

12A: Contains infrequent strong language and moderate nudity

FROZEN RIVER CTBCFriday 17 – Thursday 23 July

Director Courtney HuntCast Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott

USA 2008, 1h37m

Ray Eddy is buying her family a house when her husband takes off with the money. She meets a Mohawk girl who provides her with a plan for earning quick cash. But the risks are high: smuggling immigrants on the frozen Saint Lawrence. At first the ice is still thick, but as the deals go on and the river gets thinner, they discover that easy money comes at a cost.

One of the most exciting thrillers I’ve seen this year... It took my breath away and then somewhere around the last hour, it put my heart in a vice and proceeded to twist that vice until the last frame Quentin Tarantino

LAKE TAHOE ¿te acuerdas de Lake tahoe? 12AFriday 10 – Thursday 16 July

Director Fernando EimbckeCast Diego Catano, Hector Herrera, Daniela Valentina

Mexico 2008, 1h21m, subtitles

To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing on 20 July 1969, GFT presents a short season of Moon related films.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small Neil Armstrong

Frequently named by many polls as one of the great films of all time, 2001: A Space Odyssey remains an unforgettable physical and intellectual experience.

Showing as part of the Kubrick Season – see pages 19 - 20 for more details.

Mr Cosmo will be opening the pod bay doors during this performance thanks to New Media Scotland.

MOON 15Friday 17 – Thursday 30 July

Director Duncan Jones Cast Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey as the voice of “Gerty”

USA 2009, 1h37m

70MM PRINT 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY USunday 12 (4.00) & Tuesday 14 July (8.00)

Director Stanley Kubrick Cast Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood

USA 1968, 2h21m

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A thoughtful character study wrapped in a hi-tech sci-fi flic, Moon stars Sam Rockwell as the sole operator of a lunar mining base, living with only a computer robot (voiced by Kevin Spacey) to keep him company. Three years living on the surface of the Moon, far from the touch of his wife and young daughter, has taken its toll—he’s starting to hallucinate, touching off a thrilling chain of events that will shake his sense of identity to the core.

www.moonthemovie.com

One Small Step

70MM PRINT THE RIGHT STUFF 15Sunday 2 August (3.45)

Director Philip KaufmanCast Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid

USA 1983, 3h13m

Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. In the Shadow of the Moon brings together for the first time surviving crew from every single Apollo mission which flew to the Moon, and allows them to tell their story in their own words.

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IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON USaturday 25 (4.15) & Sunday 26 July (5.15)

Director David Sington

Documentary, UK 2006, 1h40m

Kaufman’s magnificent epic is the modern equiva-lent of the Western - laconic heroes venturing skyward, leaving the tired arguments of politicians behind. Beginning with legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager’s attempts to break the sound barrier, the film follows the progress of the seven astronauts chosen for America’s first space programme.


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Shirin is the heroine of a 12th-century Persian poem, a princess courted by two men. And Shirin is a film-within-this-film which we hear but do not see; as dramatic dialogue, epic music and echoing sound-effects chart the princess’s fate, we see in a cinema, separately in a flowing montage of close-ups, around 100 women responding to the fiction we’re listening to. bfi

A feast for the bedazzled eye Variety

SHIRIN PGThursday 23 – Sat 25 July

Director Abbas KiarostamiCast Golshifteh Farahani, Mahnaz Afshar

Iran 2008, 1h31m, subtitles

KISSES 15Monday 3 – Thursday 6 August

Director Lance Daly Cast Kelly O’Neill, Shane Curry, Paul Roe

Ireland 2008, 1h15m

This fascinating documentary tells the story of 70s Philly soul music artist Billy Paul, the city of Philadelphia and the lifelong companionship between Billy and his wife Blanche. Billy Paul, now in his early seventies is best known for the silky-smooth ballad of infidelity Me & Mrs Jones. Yet the film is so much more than a music documentary as it looks into what makes Paul tick. GFF09

12A: Contains infrequent strong language, sexualised nudity and drug references

AM I BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU 12AMonday 10 – Wednesday 12 August

Director Göran Hugo Olsson

Documentary, USA 2008, 1h30m

Kisses is the captivating story of two children on the run from their drab lives outside of Dublin. Dylan has had enough of his father’s abuse. After an altercation, he runs away to the city with his neighbour Kylie, a tough-but-sweet girl who clearly has a bit of a crush on Dylan. As the pair get closer to the city the black-and-white of their lives turn into beautiful colour. Writer and director Lance Daly’s fairytale is a story about youth, poverty, fear and Bob Dylan.

Preceded by short film Night School by director Ben Soper (10 minutes)


While editing the 1996 Rumble in the Jungle documentary, When We Were Kings, director Jeffrey Levy-Hinte became fascinated with the three-day concert that preceded the 1974 Ali-Foreman bout in Zaire. From a wealth of footage, he’s assembled one of the most energetic music docs in years, featuring not only great performances from the likes of James Brown and Miriam Makeba, but also Celia Cruz and the Fania All-Stars entertaining passengers on the long flight to Kinshasa; Spinners lead singer Philippé Wynne duking it out with the Greatest; and Sister Sledge, barely out of their teens, grooving backstage.

The film is a rollicking documentary... The sound quality is remarkable, the energy infectious and the music outstanding The Observer

www.soulpowerfilm.co.uk

The screening on Wednesday 29 July (6.15) will be introduced by Dr David Archibald, journalist and lecturer at The University of Glasgow.

12A: Contains one use of strong language

SOUL POWER 12AFriday 24 – Thursday 30 July

Director Jeffrey Levy-HinteCast Muhammad Ali, James Brown, Don King, BB King

USA 2008, 1h32m

Known for her sensual and contemplative body of work, which includes Beau Travail and Vendredi Soir, Claire Denis here crafts a tender, subtle family drama about the close connection between a Parisian widower, his university student daughter, and the friends, neighbours and romantic interests that circle them. With a wordless interdependence and easy rhythm within the small family unit, the film explores a kind of rite of passage as father and daughter must face up to the fact it’s time for her to live her own life. Eloquent performances from a fine ensemble cast, including Denis regulars Alex Descas and Grégoire Colin, anchor this delicate celebration of love.

One of the finest pieces of ensemble acting I have seen in a long time The Times

12A: Contains infrequent strong language and moderate horror

35 SHOTS OF RUM 12AFriday 31 July – Thursday 6 August

Director Claire DenisCast Ingrid Caven, Julieth Mars Toussaint, Jean-Christophe Folly, Adele Ado

France 2008, 1h39m, subtitles

COCO BEFORE CHANEL coco avant chaneL 12AFriday 31 July – Thursday 20 August

Director Anne FontaineCast Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola


Born poor in 1883 in rural France, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel overcame her lack of breeding via a keen eye, forthright manner and revolutionary approach to women’s tailoring that, incredibly, transformed a gruff peasant girl into the embodiment of chic. The iconic innovator lived to be 87 but this film wisely concentrates on the stretch of time specified in the title, as Chanel struggles to get by, absorbs visual inspiration from her surroundings (the nuns’ habits, military buttons, a fisherman’s knit shirt, etc.) and unabashedly uses men to get closer to Paris.

Bearing a striking resemblance to the real woman, Audrey Tautou communicates Chanel’s emancipated, fearless approach to life and her steely resolve while letting subtle layers of hurt, humiliation and grief show through her pride.

The film is a lavishly beautiful and convincing portrait of the designer’s journey from her humble beginnings as a provincial seamstress to the halls of Parisian haute couture.

Tautou’s performance is one of her finest to date, revealing her character’s headstrong personality through smart delivery and a permanent but attractive pout Variety

The screening on Wednesday 12 August (6.00) will be introduced by Dr David Archibald, journalist and lecturer at The University of Glasgow.

12A: Contains moderate sex references

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Mesrine (Vincent Cassel) returns home from the army and embarks upon a life of violent crime. Expertly handled by director Jean-François Richet, this is the first half of a double bill of epic proportions, executed with an explosive flair and a brutal realism that Hollywood can only dream of. Gérard Depardieu excels as grotesque mob boss Guido, but it’s the dangerous, unpredictable charisma that Cassel brings to the central role that mesmerises. EIFF 2009

MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT 15 mesrine: L’instinct de mort Preview Sunday 2 August (5.15)Friday 7 – Thursday 20 August

Director Jean-Francois RichetCast Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu


Preview Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1Be the first to see both films at a special preview on Sunday 2 August (5.15) £ Double bill price £10/£8

MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 15mesrine - L'ennemi pubLic no. 1 Preview Sunday 2 August (7.45)Friday 28 August – Thursday 10 September

Director Jean-Francois RichetCast Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Samuel Le Bihan,



Part two of the César-winning modern gangster classic.

As Mesrine continues to evade and frustrate the law, he becomes increasingly burdened by his own bloated celebrity, and begins to question his thrilling but lonely existence. In a continuation of his Raging Bull-style metamorphosis, Cassel concludes the world class performance that propels Richet’s ultra-stylish films into the same league as benchmark gangster classics such as Once Upon a Time in America and The Godfather 1 and 2. EIFF 2009

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Watch Bond blow up buildings and woo the ladies in these restored and remastered digital prints. This mini-season of films celebrates the centenary of Albert R. Broccoli, the man who brought Bond to the big screen.

Ticket offer – see all four films for £20/£16

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS 18Friday 31 July – Thursday 20 August

Director Quentin TarantinoCast Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender

USA 2009, 2h34m , subtitles

Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France...

One of GFT’s favourite directors (and he loves us too!) returns to form with his Second World War fantasy inspired by Enzo Castellari’s 1978 film, Inglorious Bastards.

In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish-American soldiers to perform swift, shocking acts of retribution. Later known to their enemy as “The Basterds,” Raine’s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Fates converge in a cinema, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own....

I was at the first screening in Cannes. It was a fight to get in and was it worth it? Yes, great cast, great dialogue and memorable set pieces can’t wait to see it again Allison Gardner, GFT


Pedro Almodóvar reunites with Penélope Cruz for a sensuous film-within-a-film that is a moviegoer’s delight. A lavish, noirish melodrama sparkling with Almodovar’s trademark humour, Broken Embraces is devilishly clever and shrewdly cast with a stable of Almodovar regulars. Penélope Cruz stars as an actress struggling to escape the suffocating constraints of the aging millionaire lover who has bankrolled her career. The film is awash with references to the noir genre, Italian neo-realism and even to Almodovar’s own quirky oeuvre. Stylistic nods to films including Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place and Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful form part of Almodovar’s valentine to cinema.

Almodóvar has always managed to combine elegance and exuberance, and his latest movie is no exception: a richly enjoyable piece of work, slick and sleek, with a sensuous feel for the cinematic surfaces of things and, as ever, self-reflexively infatuated with the business of cinema itself.

BROKEN EMBRACES Los abrazos rotos 15From Friday 28 August

Director Pedro AlmodovarCast Cast Penélope Cruz, Jose Luis Gomez, Lluis Homar

Spain 2009, 2h8m, subtitles

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Stanley Kubrick is probably a unique case in the history of cinema. He is the heir to no one and, unlike his contemporaries Bergman, Antonioni or Godard, has no direct inheritor. Entirely self-taught, he was first, at the age of 17, a professional and brilliant photographer, working for Look for five years. He also earned his living by playing chess in Washington Square and played drums in a jazz band. These three activities are early demonstrations of his visual talent, rigorous mind and sense of rhythm.

Always supported by the audience, he puzzled the critics by refusing to be pigeonholed and avoiding a recognisable signature. Always controversial, often attacked, he moved from genre to genre as if wanting to reach an unattainable perfection that no one could rival. The son of a doctor from the Bronx, he tried in his films to diagnose the human predicament without sentimentality, and to study civilisation and its discontents. In that sense he was, besides being a great showman, a philosophical director, weaving cautionary tales that were painstakingly documented before entering the world of imagination and fantasy. bfi Southbank

Limited edition Kubrick season Mr Cosmo screenprints by Erin McGrath are available to buy from GFT box office. See above left.

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Dr Strangelove definitively established Kubrick as a key artist of his time. A nightmare comedy about nuclear holocaust, it exemplifies the director’s sense of contrasting sets (the Burpleston base, B-52 bomber and the War Room, wonderfully designed by Ken Adam). The bravura performance of Peter Sellers in three different roles matches Kubrick’s audacity and sombre expressionism.

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Director Stanley KubrickCast Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Lawrence Olivier

USA 1960, 3h16m

Despite being the only film on which he did not have complete control, Kubrick took advantage of a superb cast to craft one of the finest Roman epics ever made. Kirk Douglas stars as the mythical slave turned general who reluctantly led a revolution against the oppressive Roman state, it explores one of Kubrick’s obsessions: the plan of action that goes wrong.

DR STRANGELOVE PGSaturday 4 (4.30), Sunday 5 (2.00) & Tuesday 7 July (9.00)

Director Stanley KubrickCast Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

USA 1964, 1h34m


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A landmark in science fiction film, 2001 is still unique in capturing the feeling of being in outer space, due to its extraordinary realism. But equally impressive is the poetic fantasy, shrouded in mystery, from the Dawn of Man episode to the black monolith, from the Star Gate sequence to the 18th century room.

With gothic novelist Diane Johnson, Kubrick freely adapted Stephen King’s book into his personal vision. While keeping the horror film elements, he transformed it into a case study of claustrophobia, madness, Oedipal relationship and artistic block. The larger-than-life performance of Jack Nicholson and the huge studio-built Overlook Hotel as a luminous décor for a ghost story make it an unforgettable experience.

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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY USunday 12 (4.00) & Tuesday 14 July (8.00)

Director Stanley KubrickCast Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood

USA 1968, 2h30m

THE SHINING 18Sunday 26 (6.30) & Tuesday 28 July (6.00)

Director Stanley KubrickCast Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

USA 1980, 2h23m

Quickly shot and set in a near future, this is probably the Kubrick film most in tune with the spirit of its time. The settings, costumes, art works and music suggest a nightmarish vision of a swinging London turned ultra-violent. Adapted from Anthony Burgess’ novel, it is a vindication of free will – an anarchistic and scathing attack on the state’s politics – and offers an extraordinary performance by Malcolm McDowell.

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE 18Sunday 19 (3.45) & Tuesday 21 July (8.15)

Director Stanley Kubrick Cast Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates

USA 1971, 2h16m

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BARRY LYNDON PG Wednesday 29 (7.15), Thursday 30 (2.30) & Friday 31 July (5.10)

Director Stanley KubrickCast Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger

UK 1975, 3h7m

This supremely elegant version of Thackeray’s novel chronicles the progress of Barry Lyndon as he makes his way through the battlefields and boudoirs of 18th-century Europe. Boasting stunning cinematography, wonderfully droll narration, perfectly pitched performances and a judiciously assembled musical soundtrack, the film combines cruel irony, dry wit, and a proper sense of moral outrage at the injustices of the world.

Andrzej Wajda vividly and movingly tells the story of one of the last major crimes of World War II to be acknowledged. This was the mass execution of 15,000 to 20,000 Polish officers by Joseph Stalin’s secret police in the spring of 1940. It is a film about the continuing struggle over history and memory, and an uncompromising exploration of the Russian cover up of the massacre that prevented the Polish people from commemorating those that had been killed.

The screening on Wednesday 26 August (6.00) will be introduced by Dr David Archibald, journalist and lecturer at The University of Glasgow.

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KATYN 15Monday 24 - Thursday 27 August

Director Andrzej WajdaCast Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska

Poland 2007, 1h58m, subtitles

SUNSHINE CLEANING 15 Monday 17 – Wednesday 19 August

Director Christine JeffsCast Amy Adams, Emily Blunt

USA 2009, 1h42m

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD CTBC Friday 21 – Sunday 23 August

Directors Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr

Documentary, France/USA 2009, 1h30m

The new film from the producers of Little Miss Sunshine is another family centred and darkly toned comedy with a mid-western setting. Surprisingly moving, this subtle black comedy deals with cleaning up the mess that life dishes out. Megan Holley’s script weaves together a complex tale about survival, demons and family.

This screwball true story follows a couple of gonzo political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet. Along the way the duo discover the culprits behind the cult of greed, and in a wildly uplifting ending, they find a way for everyone to defeat the cult and save civilization from its own worst excesses.

It shines with raw wit and originality Newsweek


JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY kaerLiGhed pa FiLm CTBC Friday 21 – Thursday 27 August

Director Ole BornedalCast Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska

Denmark 2007, 1h40m, subtitles

Just Another Love Story is about Jonas, a likeable family man with a wife and two kids. Jonas’ life takes an unexpected twist when he inadvertently causes Julia to crash her car. The next day, Julia wakes up in a hospital with amnesia and Jonas comes to visit. In a grotesque mix-up, Julia and her family mistake Jonas for her exotic new boyfriend Sebastian, whose return from abroad they had all been expecting. Jonas assumes the other’s identity, and a boundless world opens up to him. But one day, truth comes knocking at the door.

CLOUD 9WoLke neun 15 Monday 31 August – Wednesday 2 September

Director Andreas DresenCast Ursula Werner, Horst Rehberg, Horst Westphal, Steffi Kühnert

Germany 2008, 1h38m, subtitles

SIN NOMBRE CTBCSunday 30 August – Tuesday 1 September

Director Joji FukunagaCast Anders Berthelsen, Rebecka Hemse, Nikolai Lie Kaas, Charlotte Fich

USA/Mexico 2008, 1h36m, subtitles

This intense movie from director Andreas Dresen tells the story of a love triangle involving a woman in her 60s and two men in their 70s. Cloud 9 is an ageless tale of passion.

Bursting onto the screen in an explosion of blazing colours and sweeping vistas, with a rich cast of fascinating characters, Cary Joji Fukunaga’s stunning debut feature is a glorious assault on the senses. Honduran teenager Sayra is forced into a frantic race for her life after she meets El Casper, a dangerous gang member on the run. Part fascinating road movie, part brutal gangster study, this deeply absorbing feature has at its heart a tender, tragic love story. EIFF 2009

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Following the revolution in 1959, Cuban cinema emerged as a unique phenomenon, with directors creating films which reflected their revolutionary ideals and innovative ideas.

Combining work from the Havana archives, outstanding new works and films celebrating Cuba’s musical heritage, Cine Cuba seeks out the heart of Cuban cinema.Thanks to Ann Cross, ICAIC, Barbican Cinema, Cuban Solidarity Campaign and Hollick Trust.

£ See all five programmes for £20/£15

www.cuba-solidarity.org

The plot centers on Ernesto, a young man desperate to leave Cuba, but not so much that he’s willing to board a raft. Instead, he visits various foreign embassies, using fictitious stories to persuade officials to grant him a visa. In the meantime, he falls in love with a medical student who watched her entire family flee on a makeshift boat, but who refuses to attempt the same journey.

PERSONAL BELONGINGS N/C 15+objetos personaLes Sunday 2 August (1.00)

Director Alejandro Brugués Cast Caleb Casas, Heidi García

Cuba 2006, 1h35m, subtitles

Cine Cuba: 50 Years of Revolution on Film

Winner of a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and the first Cuban film to feature an openly gay character, Strawberry and Chocolate is a delightfully provocative and heart-warming story about naïve but committed communist David at Havana University, who after breaking up with his girlfriend runs into cultured gay artist Diego.

STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE Fresa y chocoLate 18 Sunday 16 August (1.00)

Directors Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos TabíoCast Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz


UP TO A CERTAIN POINT hasta cierto punto 18 Sunday 16 August (3.00)

Director Tomás Gutiérrez AleaCast Oscar Alvarez, Mirta Ibarra Amalric, Samuel Le Bihan,



Sexual politics is the theme of Gutiérrez Alea’s introspective comedy. While researching a documentary on Cuban machismo, Oscar, a married, middle-aged Cuban filmmaker, meets Lina, an independent young dockworker. Their ensuing romance recalls Memories of Underdevelopment in that it wittily dissects what it means to be liberated and the nature of the bourgeois intellectual.

Strawberry and Chocolate will be followed by Up to a Certain Point. £ Double bill price £10/£8


OMERTÀ N/C 12+ Sunday 9 August (4.45)

Director Pavel Giroud


Following the success of his first feature La Edad de la Peseta Pavel Giroud returns with this noirish tale of difficult transitions. It’s 60s Cuba and an ageing gangster, now a relic of the Batista years, tries to devise a dignified way of bowing out of the game in a new society that opposes everything he stands for.

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DIARY OF MAURICIO N/C 12+ páGinas deL diario de mauricio Sunday 23 August (5.45)

Director Manuel PérezCast Rolando Brito, Blanca Rosa Blanco, Larisa Vega Alamar


THE AWKWARD AGE La edad de La peseta N/C 12+ Sunday 30 August (4.15)

Director Pavel Giroud Cast Mercedes Sampietro, Ivan Carreira, Susana Tejera Le Bihan,

Cuba/Spain 2006, 1h30m, subtitles

Mauricio finds it difficult to understand and find peace with the last six years of his life as he turns sixty and Cuba enters the 21st century. He has experienced not only personal hardships, such as the unexpected death of his wife, but dramatic social change during the Special Period in Cuba as well. Mauricio opens the window into what has made him the man he is today and life in modern Cuba.

Referring to the not-so-logical years leading up to adolescence, Pavel Giroud’s The Awkward Age is a visually vivid and sharply sardonic rites-of-passage memoir set against the dawning of Fidel Castro’s Cuba. The year is 1958 and 10-year-old Samuel (a perfectly cast Carreira) and his divorced mother, Alicia (Tejera) have arrived at the Havana home of his grandmother (a terrific Mercedes Sampietro), a feisty portrait photographer.

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After the sellout Phèdre, the second National Theatre production to be transmitted to our screen will be Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well starring Clare Higgins, Oliver Ford Davis, Conleth Hill, George Rainsford and Michelle Terry.NT Live is an exciting new initiative to broadcast live performances of National Theatre plays onto cinema screens worldwide.

Evening Standard, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Metro, Sunday Express, The Times

It is so richly conceived, such a pleasure in every detail that I’d love to see it all over again. The Observer Visit www.ntlive.com for more details.

NT LIVE: ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Thursday 1 October (6.45) Now available for booking - £10/£9 CineCard


ANTICHRIST 18Sunday 16 – Tuesday 18 August

Director Lars von TrierCast Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Denmark 2009, 1h44m

With Antichrist, Lars von Trier is in no danger of jeopardizing his reign as the most controversial major director working today. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe are the grieving couple who retreat to their cabin ‘Eden’ in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse…

ANYTHING FOR HER pour eLLe 15 Saturday 11 (2.30) & Sunday 12 July (7.45)

Director Fred CavayéCast Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Olivier Marchal


FIREFLIESIN THE GARDEN 15 Tuesday 7 (12.45) & Wednesday 8 July (8.30)

Director Dennis LeeCast Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Julia Roberts

USA 2008, 1h40m

In this superb and utterly gripping thriller, a high school teacher, with no legal means left to him devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.

In this haunting drama, an already troubled family is further torn apart by a tragic accident. Beleaguered matriarch Lisa’s sudden death brings her entire clan together and triggers a series of flashbacks that reveal how the seeds of today’s discontent were planted years earlier.

LOOKING FOR ERIC 15Friday 24 (3.30/6.00) & Saturday 25 July (2.00/8.30)

Director Ken LoachCast Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop

UK 2009, 1h56m

Ken Loach’s delicious comedy is a great story about Eric a football fanatic postman who receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona.

FRENCH FILM 15Tuesday 14 (12.45) & Wednesday 15 July (6.45)

Director Jackie OudneyCast Hugh Bonneville, Eric Cantona, Douglas Henshall

UK 2008, 1h27m

French Film is a smart romantic comedy comparing British and French attitudes to love. As Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love Thierry Grimandi, he finds his own relationship with Cheryl starts to fall apart and he is forced to re-evaluate the illusive subject.

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Truffaut’s semi-autobiographical first feature stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, an unruly young Parisian whose unhappiness leads him into trouble. Frequently running away from school and home, Antoine spends much of his time playing with his friends on the streets of the city; but events take a more serious turn when an accusation of plagiarism leads him to quit school and the theft of a typewriter lands him in trouble with the police.

The greatest criminal enterprise in cinema history… The New Wave was a crime: that was its beauty. It was an outrage against law, order and aesthetic decency. Nigel Andrews, Financial Times.

The French New Wave or La nouvelle vague was a term coined by critics to refer to work by innovative filmmakers in France whose heyday was between 1958 and 1964. These new directors, who included François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, responded to their experiences of France’s upheaval following the devastation of WWII by creating works of art in deliberate reaction to the old-fashioned, ‘quality’ cinéma de papa (‘Dad’s cinema’). With some of the country’s greatest directors such as Jean Renoir (who represented the old guard of French auteur cinema) in a state of exile due to WWII, there emerged the possibility of a ‘new wave’ of directors to make their presence provocatively known on the French film scene.

This season celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Nouvelle Vague. The event is designed to provide an opportunity to see the key films of the movement alongside those that inspired, or were inspired by, them.

La Nouvelle Vague

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THE 400 BLOWS Les Quatre cents coups PG Wednesday 1 – Friday 3 July

Director François TruffautCast Jean-Pierre Léaud

France 1959. 1h39m, subtitles

FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT, UNE AUTOBIOGRAPHIE N/C 12+ Monday 6 July (6.30)

Director Anne Andreu


HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR PGWednesday 8 July (6.15)

Director Alain ResnaisCast Anders Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada

France/Japan 1959, 1h30m, subtitles

Alain Resnais’ enigmatic first feature film was a watershed in contemporary cinema that was praised by his contemporaries as the first truly modern film: a film free of cinematic references. It centres round a nameless French actress the narrator who is having an affair with a Japanese man during her visit to Hiroshima to appear in a film about peace. Through the use of a loose narrative structure, “flashbacks”, and the woman’s candid confessions, the film reveals itself as a meditation on memory and oblivion, love and catastrophe. It remains one of the most influential films in the history of the medium particularly because of the way in which it deliberately eschewed the conventions of linear construction.

François Truffaut kept everything. He wanted to preserve his tracks. Filmmaker Anne Andreu follows the trail in order to explore the director’s favourite themes as they appear in film after film. Taking full account of his legacy, Andreu uncovers a hidden yet highly present relationship that connects Truffaut to today’s audiences.

This screening will be introduced by author Ewan Morrison.

£ All tickets £3.50

Thanks to Jerome Richalot of Alliance Française de Glasgow

BLACK ORPHEUS PGMonday 13 July (6.30)

Director Marcel CamusCast Marpessa Dawn, Breno Mello

France/Italy/Brazil 1959, 1h47m, subtitles

Winner of the Palme d’or at Cannes and recipient of an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Black Orpheus is a reminder that the Nouvelle Vague at the beginning was a truly wide-ranging movement. At carnival time in Rio, Orpheus, a musician, meets and fall in love with Eurydice. As in the Greek myth, this is a story that cannot end well for the lovers. Truly spectacular. bfi


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THE 400 BLOWS Les Quatre cents coups PG Wednesday 1 – Friday 3 July

Director François TruffautCast Jean-Pierre Léaud

France 1959. 1h39m, subtitles

BREATHLESS a bout de souFFLe PGTuesday 14 (6.45) & Wednesday 15 July (8.45)

Director Jean-Luc GodardCast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg


PARIS NOUS APPARTIENT 12AMonday 20 July (6.00)

Director Jacques Rivette Cast Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prevost, François Maistre


‘Après tout, je suis con.’ So states petty thief Michel at the start of Godard’s film in which a dash of flair and subversive Gallic insouciance are added to the language of American B-movies. Belmondo plays the thief on the run, Seberg his New York Herald Tribune-selling lover. An iconic example of the nouvelle vague that is still sharp and exciting cinema.

Anne, a student, is sucked into a mystery involving an American political refugee (a victim of McCarthyism), a self-destructive femme fatale and a Spanish activist. Rivette’s disquieting film, suffused with sexual and political tension, is as much about its setting - a long-vanished Paris full of fleabag hotels and corduroy-clad intellectuals - as about its gripping story.

12A: Contains frequent suicide references

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CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER chroniQue d’un été U Wednesday 22 July (6.15)

Directors Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin


NEW DIGITAL PRINT PIERROT LE FOU 15Monday 27 – Wednesday 29 July

Director Jean-Luc GodardCast Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Dirk Sanders, Samuel Fuller

France/Italy 1965, 1h49m, subtitlesChronicle of a Summer is a documentary film made during the summer of 1960 by sociologist Edgar Morin and anthropologist and filmmaker Jean Rouch. The film begins with a discussion between Rouch and Morin on whether or not it is possible to act sincerely in front of a camera. A cast of real life individuals are then introduced and are led by the filmmakers to discuss topics on the themes of French society and happiness in the working class. Filmed in Paris and Saint-Tropez, the film is a structurally innovative example of cinéma vérité.

In this ostensible follow up to Breathless, Belmondo plays the bored husband who runs away from Paris to the South of France with an unpredictable but beguiling young babysitter (Anna Karina) after a corpse is found in her flat. Following an idyllic time at the seaside they hit the road once more and get by on theft, but no matter how far they flee, they cannot escape their fate.


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THE SERVANT 15Sunday 26 (2.45) & Monday 27 July (8.30)

Director Joseph LoseyCast Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Wendy Craig, Sarah Miles

UK 1963, 1h45m

To mark the centenary of the birth of the American theatre and film director Joseph Losey ( January 14, 1909 – June 22, 1984), we are screening his three collaborations with English dramatist and screenwriter Harold Pinter, plus Marek Losey ( Joseph Losey’s grandson’s) The Hide.

Each of the films explores class and the British character: The Servant (1963), Accident (1967) and The Go-Between (1970). All three were highly acclaimed and were nominated for prestigious awards. The Go-Between won the Golden Palm Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. Pinter also wrote an adaptation of Proust for Losey, but the finances were never found to make the film.

John Dankworth wrote the score - and the song ‘All Gone’, performed by his wife Cleo Laine - for Losey’s astute study of class conflict. Taken on as manservant at the upmarket London home of foppish aristocrat Tony (Fox), Barrett (Bogarde) soon exercises a cunning that will undermine his master’s assumptions about who’s the boss. The precision of Harold Pinter’s adaptation of Robin Maugham’s novel is matched by Losey’s eloquent direction.

Tribute to Joseph Losey

Dirk Bogarde and Stanley Baker play contrasted dons, close friends and deadly rivals whose relationship is brought to a critical point by an enigmatic Austrian princess, a doomed British aristocrat and an off-screen accident.Meticulously acted and directed Philip French12A: Contains moderate language and sex references


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Director Joseph Losey Cast Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael York

UK 1967, 1h45m

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THE GO-BETWEEN PGSunday 9 – Tuesday 11 August

Director Joseph LoseyCast Julie Christie, Alan Bates

UK 1970, 1h46m

THE HIDE 15Saturday 15 (3.45) & Sunday 16 August (5.15)

Director Marek LoseyCast Alex MacQueen, Phil Campbell

UK 2008, 1h22m

An innocent boy staying at a grand country house in Edwardian Norfolk is caught up in the socio-sexual tensions in a class-ridden Britain when he becomes the messenger in a clandestine love affair. Winner of the Palme d’Or Cannes 1971.

On the Suffolk mudflats creaks an isolated bird-hide. Inside is Roy Tunt, a birder who, once he sights the elusive plover, will have twitched the entire British List. From this simple beginning develops a crisp thriller, as Roy’s solitude is shattered by the arrival of a bedraggled stranger. With superlative performances from Alex MacQueen and Phil Campbell, director Marek Losey (grandson of Joseph) ensures his minimal means have maximum impact.

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA - AUTUMN RUN

Wednesday 14 October – Wednesday 16 December

The Contemporary World Cinema course will run again from Wednesday 14 October – Wednesday 16 December. This course will be led by Dr Jonathan Murray of Edinburgh College of Art. Booking is now open for this course.

The course comprises five films and five seminars. Seminars take place 6.30 – 8.30pm in the GFT Education Room. Films will be in teatime slots but exact times may vary.

£ The course costs £70/62

LEARNING AT GFTWe offer regular courses and events at GFT for people who want to discover more about film. If you’d like to be kept up to date with courses and events, register online at www.gft.org.uk to receive the GFT e-newsletter.

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GFT Learning relies on a talent pool of academics, journalists and practitioners to deliver its year-round programme of adult learning and participation activities including specialist programme curation, lectures, panel discussions and evening classes. If you have relevant specialist knowledge and teaching experience which can contribute to creating a dynamic adult learning programme for GFT, we would like to hear from you.

To register an interest, please contact Emily Munro, Head of Learning at [email protected] briefly outlining your relevant experience. We also welcome proposals for film courses.

GFT YOUTH GROUP SEEKS NEW MEMBERS!!Want to be part of the GFT and Glasgow Youth Film Festival programming teams? GFT Learning wants to hear from film fans who want to join the GFT Youth Group. The group meets weekly for sessions covering all aspects of independent cinema and film festivals, including programming, marketing and development, coming up with new ideas and creative experiences. If you are aged 15-18 and you’d like to get involved, please get in touch with Emily Munro (Head of GFT Learning) on [email protected] or telephone 0141 352 8604. Places are limited so don’t delay!

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Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in FREE! All other tickets at GFT are £3.50. Each child’s ticket admits one adult free of charge. Take 2 screenings are held at both GFT and Cineworld Parkhead. Children under the age of 8 must be accompanied. For full film details, please pick up a leaflet in the foyer. Take 2 screenings start promptly at 11.30am. Free tickets are only issued on the day of the screening.

AN AMERICAN TAIL USaturday 4 July 11.30am (1h20m)

WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND USaturday 11 July 11.30am (1h39m)

HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE USaturday 18 July 11.30am (1h42m) A C Audio described and captioned at GFT only.ASTERIX AND THE VIKINGS USaturday 25 July 11.30am (1h18m)

BOLT PGSaturday 1 August 11.30am (1h 36m)

A C Audio described and captioned at GFT only.PAUL BLART: MALL COP PGSaturday 8 August 11.30am (1h31m) A C Audio described and captioned at GFT only.GENEVIEVE USaturday 15 August 11.30am (1h26m)

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS PGSaturday 22 August 11.30am (2h)

CORALINE PGSaturday 29 August 11.30am (1h40m) A C Audio described and captioned at GFT only.


ACCESS TAKE 2: AUTISM-FRIENDLY SCREENINGSAccess Take 2 is an extra screening of the Take 2 film at GFT, usually on the first Saturday of the month. The Access Take 2 screenings are for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and their families, and are also suitable for any child with any disability who would enjoy seeing a film in a ‘low sensory environment’. The films have no subtitles, the volume is turned down, the house lights left on low, and children can make noise and move around. GFT encourages families and friends to make it a real family outing. These screenings are not open to others.

Glasgow Young Scot or Kidz Card holders and an accompanying adult get in FREE! Advance booking recommended - call box office on 0141 332 6535. Take 2 terms and conditions apply. Admission to Access Take 2 screenings is at the discretion of GFT managers. If you have any queries (not bookings) about Access Take 2 contact GFT Learning on [email protected] or 0141 352 8604.

Pick up a Take 2 leaflet or go to www.gft.org.uk for full film details.

AN AMERICAN TAIL USaturday 4 July 12.30pm (1h20m)

BOLT PGSaturday 1 August 12.30pm (1h36m)

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SILVER SCREENEvery Tuesday at 12.45pm GFT programmes films for our more discerning viewers! a All tickets are £3.50

FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN (15) – see page 26Tuesday 7 July (12.45)

FRENCH FILM (15) – see page 26Tuesday 14 July (12.45)

FUGITIVE PIECES (15) – see page 9Tuesday 21 July (12.45)

PIERROT LE FOU (15) – see page 30Tuesday 28 July (12.45)

KISSES (15) – see page 13Tuesday 4 August (12.45)

AM I BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU (12A) – see page 13Tuesday 11 August (12.45)

SUNSHINE CLEANING (15) – see page 21Tuesday 18 August (12.45)

KATYN (15) – see page 21Tuesday 25 August (12.45)

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Piping Live! presents the world première of On The Day: The Story of the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band. It’s the World Pipe Band Championships 2008 – with 8,000 musicians from 16 countries. This year a new group joins the battle of the bands. Calling themselves The Spirit of Scotland, the world’s top solo players come together for the first time to attempt the impossible: compete against legendary bands. What are their chances after just six days of practice? All that matters is what happens on the day.

ON THE DAY: THE STORY OF THE SPIRIT OF SCOTLAND PIPE BAND N/C 6+Friday 14 August (5.30)

Director John McDonald

Documentary, UK 2008, 1h25m

NEW SEAT DEDICATIONS

C36 Nanette ForsythD61 Ann F MickelD62 John Brown D63 Cameron J RolloE89 Betty Grable and Carmen MirandaE90 Malcolm J PenderF133 Elizabeth and Ralston Andrew, Bill Andrew ‘...Teacher, Writer, Friend...”I193 Inksters SolicitorsI194 Phil OliverJ219 In Loving Memory of Andrew, Nan and Anne CrawfordJ220 Armenio TrevisanJ221 Willie & Isabel Morrison “Tokyo Olympiad” 1965

J248 In Memory Of Miriam Gerber, film enthusiast at GFTJ249 Vera Livinstone A Film LoverK255 Anne C. Baker née FabianK277 Robert G TedfordK278 Ronni RichardsL282 Stuart WilsonL285 In loving memory of Mary SpenceL287 Mathias LedouxL308 Brian NevilleL310 In loving memory of Stewart Maclean, filmgoer at the CosmoM315 Kenny MacleodM316 For my father, Matthew HarvieM337 National Pop League

M338 Marguerite and Desmond MorrowN346 Eileen McDadeN347 Robert InnesN357 James McCluskey - chicN359 Fay, Peter & JackN360 Dave Gilmour, Michael JamesN363 Derek FletcherN364 Yours Always, CO363 John McDonald MillerO377 Albert Bell PrattO383 Brian DolanO384 Brian SternO385 David BlairO386 John McDonald MillerO388 Iain WotherspoonO393 Park Film SocietyO394 Park Film Society


FILM DISCUSSION GROUPWednesday 8 July (6.30pm) FreeWednesday 12 August (6.30pm) Free

This group meets on the second Wednesday of each month in the upstairs bar at GFT to dis-cuss both blockbusters and arthouse movies. Led by film writer Eddie Harrison. Come along to chat about recent releases with other film lovers.

FILM QUIZ Is on holiday! We’ll be back in September.

Next quiz: Tuesday 29 September (8.45) in Café Cosmo

MONORAIL FILM CLUB Is on holiday! We’ll be back in September.

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USEFUL INFORMATIONSUMMER OPENING HOURS:Box Office is open: Saturday from 11amFriday and Sunday from 12noonMonday - Thursday 1/2 hour before the start of the first film

Box Office closes 15 mins after start of final film.

TICKET PRICES: Unless otherwise stated:Full: £6.50 Concessions: £5CineCard holders £1 off every ticketa all tickets £3.50F free but ticketed events

Concessions apply to Children (under 16), full-time students, over-60s, Jobseekers Allowance or Income Support recipients, and registered disabled people. Please produce proof of eligibility when purchasing or collecting tickets.

CINECARDFor a single annual payment of £30, receive 4 free tickets and £1 off every screening.

Join at Box Office or visit www.gft.org.uk

SAVER TICKETSSee 5 Films for £28.25 / £21Tickets valid for 3 months

ADVANCE BOOKINGOnline: www.gft.org.uk

Phone: during Box Office hours call (0141) 332 6535 (at busy times you will be asked to leave a contact number). A £1.50 booking charge is made for each transaction online or by phone.

GIFT VOUCHERSAvailable from Box Office.

CAFé COSMOCafé Cosmo is open:Sunday to Friday from noonSaturday from 11am

Café Cosmo closes 15 mins after start of final film.

GFT’s licensed bar serves excellent home made soup, sandwiches and snacks until 5pm. Snack platters available when the kitchen closes. Drinks may be taken into the cinema – just ask for a ‘take-in’ container.

WEBSITEwww.gft.org.uk features further information on the programme and ticket booking along with ‘Extras’ including programme notes, trailers, and footage of GFT events.

CERTIFICATIONFilms awaiting BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) certification are marked ‘CTBC’ (check the website or call the box office for up-to-date information). Films not being certified by the BBFC are marked N / C and accompanied by an age recommendation i.e. N / C 15 + (suitable for ages 15 and older).

MAILING LIST Join our mailing list for £6.50 per year and receive this guide delivered to your home.

FREE E-LIST Receive regular bulletins of films and activities at GFT visit www.gft.org.uk to subscribe.

EVENTS, CONFERENCES & PRIVATE HIRESA unique venue for a large variety of events. Contact the Manager on (0141) 352 8601 / 8603 or email: [email protected].

SEAT DEDICATIONSFor a minimum donation of £350 you can support GFT by sponsoring a seat in Cinema 1. Contact Marketing on (0141) 352 8613 or email: [email protected].

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ACCESS INFORMATIONGFT accepts the CEA Card. (www.ceacard.co.uk)With the exception of the Balcony Bar and Education Room all public areas of the GFT are fully accessible to people using wheelchairs. Toilet facilities for wheelchair users are available on the ground floor. We have a lift to Cinema 1 for customer use. We can offer an infrared sound facility for the hearing-impaired (please ask at Box Office for a head set). There is disabled badge holders’ parking to the rear of the building in Cambridge Street. If you are a wheelchair user, please inform Box Office when booking. Guide dogs are welcome at GFT.

Please contact our Manager (0141) 352 8601 / 8603 or email [email protected] with your specific access enquiries.

GFT ACCESSIBLE PROGRAMMEGFT offers both Audio Description and Descriptive Subtitling on selected titles and selected screenings in Cinema 1 only. Audio Description A is a service for partially sighted or blind people (AD headphones are available to collect from Box Office when you pick up your tickets prior to the film screening). Descriptive Subtitling C is a service for the hearing-impaired or deaf who rely on subtitling to enable them to follow the film’s dialogue.

This issue:Hannah Montana: The Movie (U) Saturday 18 July (11.30) A C

Bolt (PG) Saturday 1 August (11.30) A C

Paul Blart: Mall Cop (PG) Saturday 8 August (11.30) A C

Coraline (PG) Saturday 29 August (11.30) A C

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we occasionally are unable to provide these accessible screenings. Please check with Box Office.

HOW TO GET HEREIt’s easy to find us. We’re right in the city centre just off Sauchiehall Street.

By Subway: Nearest subway is Cowcaddens. www.spt.co.uk/subway

By Bus: Local bus services stop close to the cinema. www.spt.co.uk

By Train: Glasgow city centre is served by both Central and Queen Street Stations. www.nationalrail.co.uk

Car Parking: Closest public parking is the supervised 24 hour multi-storey car park in Cambridge Street. Parking after 6pm costs £1. There is limited on street metered parking.

Glasgow Film Theatre12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB

Cinema management reserve the right of admission and their decision is final.

Glasgow Film Theatre (known as GFT) is a charity registered in Scotland, No. SCO05932.


GFT’s Getting Greener You may notice that this brochure feels slightly different to previous ones - that’s because we’ve just moved over to 100% recycled from our previous 50% recycled FSC paper stock...

Summer SpecialsGo to www.gft.org.uk/summer for special offers and ticket deals.We’ve relaunched our Movie and a Meal Deal with some new restaurants and a range of prices to suit every budget and we’re offering all sorts of great ticket deals throughout the summer.Enjoy a trip to the GFT, an oasis of calm and culture, just off Sauchiehall street.

GFT encourages responsible drinking

gft brochure - july / august 09

Documents

julypublic enemies ctbc

lake tahoe

waveriders pg p8

french film

breathless pg p29

amour pg p28

blows pg p27

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