21 The Arsenal Stadium Mystery 2 Comradeship 22 Native Land EDINBURGH FILM GUILD Sep Investigations into the death of a star player a in Nov German miners put differences aside to rescue Gian Feb A series of dramatizations depict the activities of 2014 this fascinating document of football culture. 2014 french co-workers in the aftermath of World War I. 2015 union busting corporations in 1930s America. 4.30 • Thorold Dickinson • UK • 1939 4.30 • G. W. Pabst • Germany • 1931 Maria 4.30 • Leo Hurwitz / Paul Strand • USA • 1942 4 pm In Sporting Lives we present 5 films which 4 pm Volonté use sports to explore wider conflicts within 28 Hoop Dreams 9 The Proud Valley society. Including the highly rated Sep Two inner-city basketball players fight to make it Nov An American sailor undertakes a suicide mission 2014 2014 in a Welsh mining village. documentaries Hoop Dreams and The Trials to the top in this gripping tale of race, class, A Bullet for the General 4.30 education... and sport. 4.30 • Penrose Tennyson • UK • 1940 11 Sundays of Muhammad Ali, un-missable! Jan A Mexican bandit becomes politically aware in • Steve James • USA • 1994 2015 this critique of US imperialism. Blacklisted Our 7pm slot kicks off with Scotland on The Life and Times of Hank 4.30 • Damiano Damiani • Italy • 1966 4 pm 5 Greenberg Mines, 4.30pm + 7pm Screen, a provocative selection of films, Oct Bandits in Milan The Sound of Fury 2014 1 representing (and mis-representing) More than just a baseball superstar, Greenberg Miners 18 In 1933 the peace-loving citizens of San Jose 4.30 was an icon for Jewish Americans in the 1930s Jan Volonté plays the flamboyant, egomaniac leader of Mar Scotland, drawing upon insider and outsider 2015 2015 form a mob and lynch two accused kidnappers. Enjoy Sunday and 40s. and Mining a gang of bank robbers in this gripping thriller. 4.30 4.30 • Cy Endfield • USA • 1950 perspectives, from Laurel and Hardy to • Aviva Kempner • USA • 1998 • Carlo Lizzani • Italy • 1968 afternoons and Michael Powell, faniciful history to class The Molly Maguires We Still Kill the Old Way Salt of the Earth clash. 16 25 8 +The Hollywood Ten (documentary) evenings with Nov A detective finds his loyalties tested when he Jan Opposed by the Mafia, Church and politicians, a Mar Join us at the coal face as we explore the 2014 infiltrates a violent society of Irish mine workers. 2015 professor seeks the truth behind two killings. 2015 Mexican-American workers, strike for equality Edinburgh Film Guild. 4.30 • Martin Ritt • USA • 1970 4.30 • Elio Petri • Italy • 1968 4.30 with their Anglo-American counterparts. fate of Mines, Miners and Mining Sporting • Herbert J. Biberman • USA • 1954 communities in the quest for equality and Lives 23 Harlan County USA 1 Sacco and Vanzetti Documentary: • Herbert J. Biberman • USA • better conditions, battling exploitation and Nov Brookside colliery miners’ fight the Eastover Feb Two Italian-born US-emigrant anarchists are tried, repressive authority which will stop at 2014 Mining Company for union recognition. 2015 convicted, and sentenced to death. Tell them Willie Boy is Here Lagaan: 4.30 15 nothing to ensure the coal reaches the 4.30 • Barbara • Kopple USA • 1976 • Giuliano Montaldo • Italy • 1971 Mar A contemporary Western focusing on the manhunt 12 Once Upon a Time in India 2015 for an Indian accused of a crime. surface. +19 Germinal Operation Ogre 4.30 Nov A village will pay no taxes for 3 years if they can • Abraham Polonsky • USA • 1969 defeat a team of British soldiers at cricket. 30 8 From 1945 until dictator Francisco Franco’s 2014 Nov Depicting a miner’s strike and repression by the Feb The audacious plan to assassinate Spanish 4.30 • Ashutosh Gowariker • India • 2001 2014 authorities in mid-19th century France. 2015 dictator Francisco Franco’s successor. Johnny Got His Gun death in 1975, politically engaged Spanish 22 4.30 • Claude Berri • France • 1993 4.30 • Gillo Pontecorvo • Spain / France / Italy • 1979 Mar A WWI soldier is left limbless, blind, deaf and filmmakers were in a unique position to 26 The Trials of Muhammad Ali 2015 mute, if mentally intact by a shell explosion. reflect on Spain and Spanish society – Oct Ali’s decisions to convert to Islam and to refuse to Blind Shaft Open Doors 4.30 • Dalton Trumbo • USA • 1971 2014 7 15 assuming, of course, that they could get serve in the Vietnam War leave him banned from Dec Extortion and murder underground in this film Feb A judge mounts an unlikely defence for a clerk 4.30 boxing and facing a five-year prison sentence. 2014 shot illegally inside Chinese government mines. 2015 who confesses to three murders. The Front their critiques past the censors. 29 • Bill Siegel • USA • 2014 4.30 • Li Yang • China / Germany / Hong Kong • 2003 4.30 • Gianni Amelio • Italy • 1990 Mar A comedy about the relationship between blacklist 2015 We begin 2015 with Italian star Gian-Maria victims and ‘fronts’, who present their work. 4.30 • Martin Ritt • USA • 1976 Volonté. Volonté, one of the finest actors of his generation, first attracted international attention with his appearances in Sergio Leone westerns. Here we present six of his 21 Bonnie Scotland 2 Welcome Mr Marshall! 11 Bombshell 22 Le Ring most interesting performances. Sep Laurel and Hardy head for Scotland and are Nov The citizens of Villar del Río prepare themselves Jan A sexpot film star seeking a new image tries all Feb A determined young boy uses wrestling to escape 2014 enlisted in a Scottish regiment posted to India. 2014 to welcome North American visitors. 2015 sorts of schemes which go awry. 2015 from his chaotic family life. Iconic and captivating, Jean Harlow is the 7.00 • James W. Horne • USA • 1935 7.00 • Luis García Berlanga • Spain • 1953 7.00 • Victor Fleming • USA • 1933 7.00 • Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay • Canada • 2007 4 pm pm epitome of the 1930s Hollywood sex 4 4 pm Edge of the World The Girl from Missouri It’s Not Me I Swear! symbol. Famed for her signature bleached 28 29 Sep +Return to the Edge of the World (Documentary) 18 A love story, dark comedy, family drama and blonde hair and revealing gowns, she Jan A chorus girl is determined to marry a millionaire Feb 2014 An isolated Scottish island readies for evacuation. 2015 without sacrificing her virtue. 2015 tragedy all in one. established herself in a series of comic 7.00 Resonant drama, inspired by real events. Spanish Cinema 7.00 • Jack Conway • USA • 1934 7.00 • Philippe Falardeau • Canada • 2008 performances and dramas until her untimely • Michael Powell • UK • 1937 + Documentary Under Franco Reckless The Necessities of Life death in 1937. 25 8 Wealthy admirer and agent compete for the An Inuit Eskimo hunter leaves home and family to Jan Mar “Are you now or have you ever been a Death of a Cyclist 2015 attentions of a musical stage star. 2015 recuperate from tuberculosis in a city sanatorium. 9 7.00 • Victor Fleming • USA • 1935 7.00 • Benoît Pilon • Canada • 2008 Communist?” In post WW2 America Nov Two ilicit lovers are blackmailed after they flee a politicians Richard Nixon and Joe McCarthy 2014 hit-and-run incident on an isolated country road. Curling Scotland 7.00 declared Hollywood figures who had joined • Juan Antonio Bardem • Spain • 1955 15 on Screen Mar Sinister occurrences threaten to destabilise an the communist party to be un-American and Main Street 2015 obsessive father and daughter relationship. 7.00 deserving of blacklisted status. 16 Jean • Denis Côté • Canada • 2010 The Gorbals Story Nov A couple of friends play with the affections of an 5 2014 unmarried woman. Harlow Quebec province, in eastern Canada, is the Oct A successful artist recalls his early life in a 7.00 • Juan Antonio Bardem • Spain • 1956 Contemporary only region in North America with a 2014 Glasgow slum. 7.00 Quebecois French-speaking majority. This has resulted • David MacKane • UK • 1950 23 The Wheelchair 1 Riffraff in a unique and fascinating contemporary Nov A seventy-something retired minister, becomes Feb A fisherman quits his poorly paid job to Cinema Brigadoon 2014 obsessed with owning a motorized wheelchair. 2015 cinema culture which we explore here. 12 concentrate on getting better working conditions Oct A ghost village appears once every hundred years, 7.00 • Marco Ferreri • Spain • 1960 7.00 as a union leader. 2014 on this occasion to a couple of US tourists. • J Walter Ruben • USA • 1936 Special Screenings 7.00 Vincente Minnelli • USA • 1954 The Executioner Wetlands This year we are showing something seasonal, but a little bit different, for 30 22 Nov An undertaker gets married to an executioner’s Suzy Mar Exploring themes of sexual identity, grief, and Christmas and at Hallowe’en. Tunes of Glory 2014 daughter must continue the father-in-laws 8 2015 rural life through dysfunctional family relations. 19 Feb A newly-wed showgirl goes on the run after her 7.00 Oct Two military men contrasting vye for control of a 7.00 profession after his retirement. 2015 inventor husband is murdered. • Guy Edoin • Canada • 2011 Jigoku Holiday Affair 2014 Scottish regiment in the aftermath of WWII. • Luis García Berlanga • Spain • 1963 7.00 • George Fitzmaurice • USA • 1936 The Salesman 1 A corrupted philosophy student is 14 A sales clerk loses his job over a 7.00 Ronald Neame • UK • 1960 29 Nov plunged into hell. From startling opening Dec Christmas-season romance. With Robert Cousin Angelica Saratoga Mar The attempts of a car salesman to stay afloat in a 2014 credits to the finale, Jigoku is an 2014 Mitchum and Janet Leigh. Up the MacGregors! 29 A middle-aged man is reunited with his cousin 15 2015 down turn affect an entire community. 8.00 unforgettable experience. 4.30 26 Oct Feb Comedy, the engaged daughter of a horse breeder Don Hartman USA 1949 Oct Seven Scottish brothers court seven Irish sisters 2014 and first love, and recalls his childhood in times of 2015 falls for a bookie. Harlow died during the shoot. 7.00 • Sebastien Pilote • Canada • 2012 Nobuo Nagakawa Japan 1960 2014 in this Italian western oddity. 7.00 the Spanish Civil War. 7.00 • Jack Conway • USA • 1937 7.00 Frank Garfield / Franco Giraldi • Italy • 1967 • Carlos Saura • Spain • 1974

Albanian Cinema Lon Chaney the Krimi join us www.edinburghfilmguild.comStranger than Fiction Anthony Mann 24 Skanderbeg 5 He Who Gets Slapped 14 Culloden + The War Game 25 Desperate Sep The first feature film made in Albania; a historical Nov Chaney plays a scientist whose patron takes his Jan 1st film: a news team covers the 1745 Battle of Feb A truck driver finds himself on the run from the 2014 epic about its national hero, Skanderbeg. 2014 wife and the credit for his work. 2015 Culloden as if it were today. 2nd film: the effects 2015 authorities and gangsters after a heist. 7.00 • Sergei Jutkević • Albania/USSR • 1953 7.00 7.00 of a nuclear strike near a small British town. 7.00 • Anthony Mann • USA • 1947 Wednesdays • Victor Sjostrom • USA • 1924 Both Films • Peter Watkins • UK • 1964/1965 + 1969 The Second November T-Men We kick off our mid-week screenings with a 1 12 The Monster 3 selection of Albanian films. Sponsored by an Oct Albania’s patriots overcome many obstacles to win Nov An early horror-comedy. Chaney is the mad doctor Stranger than Mar Noir based on a real case from the US Treasury. 2014 the country’s independence from the Ottomans. 2014 intent on discovering the secret of eternal life. 2015 • Anthony Mann • USA • 1947 insular communist dictatorship, Albanian 7.00 7.00 • Viktor Gjika • Albania • 1982 7.00 • Roland West • USA • 1925 Fiction Cinema was rarely translated or seen in the 8 He Walked by Night West, until the demise of the Eastern Bloc in 8 Tale From the Past 19 The Unholy Three Mar The LAPD hunts down a cop-killer who always A comedy about a young woman’s revenge on 2015 seems to be one step ahead. the late eighties. Oct Nov 3 circus performers use their talents to form an 7.00 2014 those who arranged her marriage. 2014 unusual team of jewel thiefs. It Happened Here • Anthony Mann •USA • 1948 7.00 7.00 21 Lon Chaney was a key player in the silent era of • Dhimitër Anagnosti • Albania • 1987 • Tod Browning • USA • 1925 Jan An image of 1944 UK occupied by the Nazis. Devil’s Doorway horror cinema, famed for his 'tortured 2015 • Kevin Brownlow • UK • 1965 15 Concert in 1936 7.00 Mar An Indian returning from the Civil War runs into characterisations’ and pioneering make up 15 2015 opposition when he tries to establish a Oct A pianist and a singer tour Albania’s villages, to a Man Bites Dog effects. But for his untimely death in 1930 from 28 7.00 homestead. 2014 mixed reception. Lon Jan Three student filmmakers documenting a criminal 7.00 • Anthony Mann • USA • 1950 aggravated lung cancer, Chaney would surely • Saimir Kumbaro • Albania • 1978 2015 move from observers to participants in his crimes. have reigned supreme in the horror 'talkies' to Chaney 7.00 • Rémy Belvaux/André Bonzel/Benoît Poelvoorde The Furies come. • Belgium • 1992 22 Mr Wu Mar Part melodrama and part epic, this Western is a 2015 genuine oddity. 26 Forgotten Silver Documentaries usually concern real people, Nov Chaney is the titular Chinese patriarch, whose 4 + Behind the Bull (Documentary) 7.00 • Anthony Mann • USA • 1950 places and events, woven into an interesting 2014 grand-daughter is dishonoured by an Englishman. Feb 7.00 2015 Documentary style drama exploring the exploits of narrative. In Stranger than Fiction however, we • William Nigh • USA • 1927 Albanian cinema 7.00 a ficticious(!) New Zealand film pioneer. explore how film makers have used the intrinsic 3 Laugh Clown Laugh • Peter Jackson/Costa Botes • New Zealand 1996 'truth' of the documentary framework to blur Tomka and his Friends Dec Chaney’s clown raises an abandoned child, only to Documentary: • Jackson/Botes • New Zealand 2000 the boundary between fact and fiction with 22 2014 develop feelings for her as she matures. Oct Set during World War II; Albanian children resist 7.00 American Movie dramatic results. 2014 the German occupation of their football pitch. Herbert Brenon • USA • 1928 11 Anthony Mann 7.00 Feb The incredulous attempts of a filmmaker to raise • Xhanfise Keko • Albania • 1977 The Unknown 2015 In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Anthony finances for his dream project. Winchester ’73 10 +Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (Documentary) 7.00 • Chris Smith • USA • 1999 Mann made seminal contributions to the Film Face To Face Dec 29 29 2014 Alonzo’s passion for his circus partner Nanon Mar A cowboy embarks on a quest to regain a prized Noir, Epic and Western genres. Here we present Oct Based on a novel by Ismail Kadare; Albania and 7.00 leads him to have his arms amputated. Brothers of the Head 2015 Winchester 73 rifle stolen from him. 2014 the USSR fall out over submarines. 7.00 3 each of Mann’s best noirs and westerns. • Tod Browning • USA • 1927 18 Chronicling the rise and fall of conjoined twins • Anthony Mann • USA • 1950 7.00 • Kujtim Cashku, Piro Milkani • Albania • 1979 Feb +Documentary: • Kevin Brownlow • USA • 2000 2015 fronting a 70s rock band. 7.00 • Keith Fulton/Luis Pepe • UK • 2005

The Old Dark House Face of the Frog Sorority Girl Crimes of the Future 21 5 travellers are in for a terrifying night when they 7 16 2227 26Sep Nov An amateur sleuth and Scotland Yard confront the Jan An alienated schoolgirl is outcast when a boarding Feb A dermatologist disappears following the outbreak Sep seek shelter from a storm with the Femm family. 2015 2014 2014 criminal mastermind known as the Frog - 2015 school stunt nearly drives a girl to suicide. 2015 of a killer plague caused by cosmetics. 4.308.00 • James Whale • USA • 1932 8.00 inaugurating the krimi boom. 8.00 • Roger Corman • USA • 1957 4.308.00 • David Cronenberg • Canada • 1970 4 pm Fridays • Harald Reinl • West Germany • 1959 The Black Cat Roger Corman Shivers 283 6 High-rise residents, infected by parasites, turn There is much to celebrate in Boris Karloff’s SepOct A couple are trapped with a Satan-worshipping Mar near forty-year career. Shot to stardom by 2014 priest after seeking help following an accident. Directs 2015 into sex-crazed fiends out to infect others. 4.308.00 • Edgar G. Ulmer • USA • 1934 11 8.00 • David Cronenberg • Canada • 1975 his career-defining role in Frankenstein, Jan karoff brought his talents to a wide range of Corridors of Blood The 2015 Fast Company projects across film, stage and television. 4.30 13 A B-movie about drag racing. 10 A surgeon fighting for the use of anaesthetic uses 4 pm Mar We present some highlights here... Uncanny! Oct5 himself as a guinea pig, with tragic consequences. Krimi 2015 • David Cronenberg • Canada • 1979 2014Oct 2014 • Robert Day • UK • 1958 The Intruder 8.00 8.00 18 1 The Brood The Krimi film was a staple of West German 4.30 Dead Eyes of London 23Jan Mar 2015Jan A social reformer unwittingly stirs up trouble in a 2015 popular cinema in the 1960s. Adapted from The Comedy of Terrors 14 A mission for the blind is the focus of an small Southern town on the eve of integration. 20 A husband uncovers the connection between his 150 Nov 20154.30 Mar4.30 the thrillers of British writer Edgar G. A struggling undertaker resorts to murder in order 2014 investigation into a series of mysterious deaths. 8.00 • Roger Corman • USA • 1962 2015 wife’s unconventional therapy and a series of 17 brutal attacks by mutant children... Wallace and set in an exaggerated vision of Oct to pay the bills. 8.00 • Alfred Vohrer • West Germany • 1961 8.00 2014 • Jacques Tourneur • USA • 1963 The Tomb of Ligeia • David Cronenberg • Canada • 1979 London. Its time to disect these forgotten 8.00 The Inn on the River 25 8 30Jan A man’s obsession with his dead wife drives a Mar giallo-precursors in our Friday night slot. 21 2015Jan 2015 The Dead Zone A harpoon-gun toting, wet-suited criminal is 2015 wedge between him and his new bride. Nov 4.30 274.30 2014 terrorizing the London underworld. 8.00 • Roger Corman • USA • 1964 Mar A man awakens from a coma to discover he can Though now best known as a producer, in 8.00 • Alfred Vohrer • West Germany • 1962 2015 see the future, but can he also change it? which capacity he started the careers of The Wild Angels 8.00 • David Cronenberg • USA • 1983 Room 13 1 innumerable directors, Roger Corman also Feb2 Corman’s cycle film, with Peter Fonda and Bruce Boris Karloff 28 Feb2015 directed several films himself, particularly Dancers at the High-Low club are falling victim to 2015 Dern as Hells Angels. Nov 4.30 15 from the mid 1950s to the early 1970s. Here 2014 a straight-razor wielding maniac. 8.00 • Roger Corman • USA • 1966 Mar 12 2015 we showcase the diversity of his work. +19 Mad Monster Party? 8.00 • Harald Reinl • West Germany • 1964 The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre 4.30 Nov Karloff provides the voice of Baron Boris Von The Hunchback of Soho 242014 9 The incredulous attempts of a filmmaker to raise David Known for his forays into body horror, Oct Frankenstein in this delightful animation. 5 Feb 20144.30 Dec In this first colour krimi, a charity mission for Canadian director David cronenberg’s work • Jules Bass • USA • 1967 2015 finances for his dream project. 8.00 2014 wayward schoolgirls is a front for kidnappers. 8.00 • Roger Corman • USA • 1967 Cronenberg has has been surprisingly varied. Here we 8.00 26 Targets • Alfred Vohrer • West Germany • 1966 sample that output, from Shivers and The Oct M. Butterfly The Monk with the Whip 15 Frankenstein Unbound Brood, to the seemingly incongruous 312014 An ageing horror stars’ promotional visit to a 16Feb Caught in a time slide induced by a weapons 03 In this mid-60s story of love and betrayal, a Oct4.30 drive-in coincides with a real killing spree. 12 A deliriously over-the-top entry in the series, as Feb2015 project, a scientist finds himself in 1817 Apr B-movie Fast Company and operatic drama 2014 Dec 2015 2015 French diplomat falls for a singer in the Beijing • Peter Bogdanovich • USA • 1968 4.30 29 M. Butterfly. 8.00 2014 suggested by its titular murderer and girls’ 8.00 Switzerland, where he meets Dr Frankenstein... Mar8.00 Opera. 8.00 boarding school setting. • Roger Corman • USA • 1990 2015 • David Cronenberg • USA • 1993 • Alfred Vohrer • West Germany • 1967 4.30