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1 NOV 19 5 DEC 19 1 | 1 NOV 19 - 5 DEC 19 88 LOTHIAN ROAD | FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM FILMS WORTH TALKING ABOUT HOME OF THE EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL You’ll remember, remember, this month of November... Every month we have a staff meeting where my colleagues in the programming department and I meet with the other departments essential to the communication of our monthly programme to those we would hope to engage with it (that last group is you, by the way, dear reader!). Much of that meeting is, I guess, me prattling on about what’s coming up and them listening (one hopes, whilst occasionally being asked the names of films and directors that I am unable to mentally access in the heat of the moment), but I do get a sense of how much anticipation there is in the room for the upcoming programme, which in turn gives me an idea of how it might go down with you, our audience. It always goes down well with the staff... but, suffice to say, this particular programme went down particularly well, which now has me full of expectation as to the most important thing: what y’all might make of it. But what was it got them so enthusiastic? Was it the brilliant Joker, screening here exclusively (in Edinburgh) on a 70mm print? Was it our latest celebrations/festivals of French and German cinema, cleverly juxtaposed with the very month the UK exits the EU*? Or Ken Loach’s searing, righteous ode to the zero-hours worker, Sorry We Missed You? Was it the inclusion of the absolute stonewall EIFF 2019 staff favourite, the marvellous The Biggest Little Farm? Or perhaps it’s the fact that, exclusively again in Edinburgh, we’ll be showing a number of brilliant Netflix titles - David Michôd’s Timothée Chalamet- starring The King; Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited epic The Irishman; Noah Baumbach’s stunning Marriage Story - on or ahead of their respective ‘bows’ on the streaming platform. I guess it could have been one or all of those things, or indeed any of the myriad other things I haven’t space to speculate on here! *Correct at time of going to print; and you’re right, there wasn’t anything clever about it, they are always in November! Rod White, Head of Programming Filmhouse Explorer BUY A TICKET FOR... By The Grace of God (p 4) and get a half price ticket for La Belle Epoque (p 7) (excluding French Film Festival UK screening) Joker (p 5) and get a half price ticket for Monos (p 6) The Irishman (p 6) and get a half price ticket for any film in our Noirvember season (p 14-15) Marriage Story (p 7) and get a half price ticket for The Biggest Little Farm (p 7) Half price ticket purchase must be made within the same transaction - at Box Office, by phone or online. Tickets subject to availability. The half price offer only applies to full price tickets. Filmhouse Explorer ticket deal cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. The 50% discount is not valid for Friday matinee screenings. Ticket Prices MATINEES (shows starting prior to 5pm) CONCESSIONS Young person aged under 16 (£5.00 for all Mon - Thu: £9.00 / £7.00 concessions screenings), people aged 16-25, Students Fri: All tickets £5.00 (with matriculation card), Young Scot card, Sat - Sun: £11.00 / £9.00 concessions Senior Citizens (65 and over), Disability (carers EVENING SCREENINGS go free), Claimants (Jobseekers Allowance, (starting 5pm and later) Disability Living Allowance, Housing Benefit), £11.00 / £9.00 concessions NHS employees (with proof of employment). 3D SCREENINGS add £2 to ticket price. Index BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688 | PROGRAMME INFO 0131 228 2689 1 NOV 19 - 5 DEC 19 | 3 ACCESS/AUDIO DESC./CAPTIONED 30 BABY & CARER SCREENINGS 30 Noirvember 14-15 SCREENING DATES AND TIMES 16-18 Out of the Past 15 Over the Rainbow 9 After the Wedding 5 Phoenix 5 Bait 4 The Report 6 The Biggest Little Farm 7 Saboteur 15 The Big Heat 14 Scarlet Street 14 Blue Black Permanent 10 Senior Selections 11 By The Grace of God 4 Shooting the Mafia 8 Corpus Christi 7 Sorry We Missed You 6 Criss Cross 15 A Star is Born 8 The Day Shall Come 4 Taxi Driver 9 Depeche Mode: SPIRITS in the Forest 9 The Third Man 8 Double Indemnity 15 Transplants & HIV on Screen 9 Driven 8 UK Jewish Film Festival 23 Edinburgh Short Film Festival 10 Uncanny Valley 28 Education and Learning 24-25 Fokus: Films from Germany 26-27 Filmhouse Junior 29 French Film Festival UK 20-22 Herzog of the Month 5 In a Lonely Place 14 The Irishman 6 Joker 5 Judy Garland 8 The King 4 The King of Comedy 9 La Belle Epoque 7 Laura 15 London Korean Film Festival 19 The Maltese Falcon 14 Marriage Story 7 Meeting Gorbachev 5 Monos 6 Night and the City 15 4 | 1 NOV 19 - 5 DEC 19 88 LOTHIAN ROAD | FILMHOUSECINEMA.COM NEW RELEASE MAYBE YOU MISSED New Releases/Maybe You Missed You New Releases/Maybe BY THE GRACE OF GOD BAIT GRÂCE À DIEU Fri 1 to Thu 7 Nov Screening until Thu 7 Nov Mark Jenkin • UK 2018 • 1h29m • 35mm • 15 - Contains very strong François Ozon • France/Belgium 2018 • 2h18m • Digital • French with language, strong bloody images, sex references. • Cast: Edward English subtitles • 15 - Contains child sexual abuse references, strong Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Giles King, Simon Shepherd. language. • Cast: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud. This remarkable British film is a clash of the old Based on true events surrounding the 2019 worlds and the new. Cornish fisherman Martin Ward conviction of Cardinal Philippe Barbarin for (Edward Rowe) must deal with his brother Steven concealing the crimes of Father Bernard Preynat, (Giles King), who uses their boat for tourist cruises, By the Grace of God is a searing new drama from and the well-off Londoners who have bought his French master François Ozon. Upon one of them childhood home. The cultural clash is represented in discovering that Preynat is still in the priesthood the look of the film, shot with an old Bolex camera and working with children, three men must now in black-and-white 16mm and hand-processed by band together to lift the heavy blanket of shameful Jenkin, which produces a realistic tone and a real silence around the priest’s crimes. And so, they publicly denounce him - a move that puts their lives, sense of depth and history. Screening from a 35mm relationships and very selves at risk. print - the only one in circulation! NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE THE KING THE DAY SHALL COME Fri 1 to Thu 7 Nov Fri 1 to Thu 7 Nov David Michôd • UK/Hungary/Australia 2019 • 2h13m • Digital Chris Morris • UK/USA 2019 • 1h28m • Digital • 15 - Contains strong English and French with English subtitles • 15 - Contains strong gory language, sex references, drug misuse. • Cast: Marchánt Davis , Anna images, violence. • Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Robert Pattinson, Joel Kendrick, Danielle Brooks, Jim Gaffigan, Denis O’Hare. Edgerton, Lily-Rose Depp, Ben Mendelsohn, Sean Harris. The perennially irreverent Chris Morris (Four Lions, In fifteenth century England, a young Prince is Brass Eye) teams up once again with writer Jesse reluctantly taking his place on the English throne Armstrong (Peep Show) for another tall tale that following the death of his tyrannical father. Based pokes fun at homeland security, terrorism and on Shakespeare’s Henriad series, The King follows society at large. Impoverished Miami preacher Prince Hal’s (Timothée Chalamet) transformation Moses (Marchánt Davis) is offered cash by a shadowy from a distracted prince to a disinclined king, in an sponsor, who turns out to be the FBI. The Bureau’s enduring battle of palace politics, reigning chaos darkly farcical plan is to turn Moses into a terror and imminent war. Co-written and directed by David threat by fuelling his madcap revolutionary dreams. Michôd (War Machine, Animal Kingdom, The Rover), An emotionally gripping, laugh out loud thriller this historical drama features breathtaking battle that goes to show - it’s much harder to catch a real scenes and a star-studded cast. terrorist than it is to manufacture your own... New Releases BOX OFFICE 0131 228 2688 | PROGRAMME INFO 0131 228 2689 1 NOV 19 - 5 DEC 19 | 5 NEW RELEASE NEW RELEASE CHAINED FOR LIFE PHOENIX Mon 4 to Thu 7 Nov Mon 4 to Thu 7 Nov Aaron Schimberg • USA 2019 • 1h32m • Digital • 15 - Contains Camilla Strøm Henriksen • Norway 2019 • 1h26m • Digital discrimination theme, injury detail, nudity. • Cast: Jess Weixler, Adam Norwegian with English subtitles • 15 - Contains disturbing scenes, Pearson, Stephen Plunkett, Charlie Korsmo, Sari Lennick. suicide references. • Cast: Maria Bonnevie, Sverrir Gudnason, Ylva Bjørkaas Thedin, Casper Falck-Løvås. The finger-wagging opening of this feature by director Aaron Schimberg sets up a contrast to this Norwegian writer-director Camilla Strøm Henriksen’s story that challenges the glossy perfection of classic semi-autobiographical debut looks at the effects of a child over-burdened with adult responsibility. With Hollywood. Mabel (Jess Weixler) is given the lead role subtle elegance and heavy Scandinavian aesthetic, of a blind woman in a hospital-based horror movie this Olso-set drama tells the story of Jill, a young girl about abnormalities. As shooting progresses, she only days away from her 14th birthday. Forced to care gradually falls for her British co-star Rosenthal (Adam for her mentally ill mother Astrid, as well as younger Pearson), who has neurofibromatosis. Conflicted with brother Bo, Jill bears the weight of her family’s the world she has been nurtured in, Mabel struggles emotional labour.