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filmedinburgh guild PROGRAMME 2017/2018 filmedinburgh guild The Edinburgh Film Guild, establised in 1929, is The Guild has its own cinema and clubrooms How to join: the oldest continuously running film society in within the Filmhouse building, which are Becoming a member is easy. You must be aged 18 the world. located next to Screen 3. or over, and you can join in person before any of our screenings or online at: The Guild is run and managed by volunteers. You can enjoy a drink and a chat in the Guild www.edinburghfilmguild.com Clubrooms before a film. Between October 2017 and March 2018 the Guild Membership: will be showing over 60 films, three a week: Our 30 seat cinema has a state-of-the-art Full Membership...........£60 • Sunday afternoon, starting at 4:30pm digital projector and a 5.1 sound system. (complete 2017/18 season of films) • Sunday evening, usually starting at 7pm Basic Membership.........£20 • Friday evening, starting at 8pm (5 tickets - any 5 films) Top-Up Subscription......£20 (5 tickets - any 5 films). Basic Members can purchase addtional ‘top-up’ blocks of 5 tickets until they reach a total of £60, when they automatically become Full Members. THE GUILD ROOMS, FILMHOUSE, 88 LOTHIAN ROAD, EDINBURGH EH3 9BZ www.edinburghfilmguild.org.uk The Edinburgh Film Guild is a Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in Scotland. Scottish Charity Number SC041851. OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2017 PROGRAMME Valario Zurlini 04 2017/2018 Classics of Mexican Cinema 05 Michèle Morgan 06 Contemporary South Korean Cinema 07 ‘Zapata’ Westerns 08 John Woo: Hong Kong Action 09 NOVEMBER — DECEMBER 2017 Brazilian Cinema 10 U.S. Documentaries 11 Preston Sturges’ Screwball Comedies 12 Keith’s 5-Star Favourites 14 Ji-woon Kim: Black Comedy & Psychological Horror 15 Special Screenings: Hallowe’en and Christmas/AGM 30 Screening List (in date order): 16 JANUARY — FEBRUARY 2018 American Fascism 18 Classics of Soviet Cinema 19 Edward Yang: Taiwanese New Wave 20 France Occupée 21 Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman 22 Fernando Di Leo: 70’s Italian Crime Dramas 23 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2018 British Silent Films: Anthony Asquith 24 Reha Erdem: Turkish Cinema 25 Another Face 26 The Makioka Sisters & Our Little Sister 27 Alt. Sci-Fi 28 Red Cliff (Parts 1 & 2) 29 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017 Valerio Zurlini Girl With A Suitcase Sunday, 15 October 2017 at 4:30pm Valerio Zurlini | Italy 1961 | 113 min | Italian with Highly regarded in the 1960s as one of the English subtitles great Italian cinema directors — the films Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin), 16 and born into a wealthy of Valerio Zurlini have since fallen into an family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a undeserved obscurity. showgirl, Aida (Claudia Cardinale), whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and 7.00PM | SUNDAYS, Violent Summer standing up for her and, eventually, falling in love with her, he comes of age. Sunday, 8 October 2017 at 4:30pm Nominated: Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival 1961 Valerio Zurlini | Italy 1959 | 98 min | Italian with English subtitles At the height of World War II in Fascist Italy, spoiled young Carlo Caremoli (Jean-Louis Trintignant) enjoys a beach vacation with his friends, oblivious to world events due to the protection provided by his Fascist bigwig father, Ettore (Enrico Maria Salerno). When Carlo meets older widow and mother, Roberta Violent Summer Violent Summer Parmesan (Eleonora Rossi Drago), he is smitten despite her reluctance to get involved. Carlo persists, and just as he and Roberta find happiness, the brutal reality of the war crashes in upon them. Awards: Best Actress (Eleonora Rossi Drago), Best Score (Mario Nascimbene), Nastro d’Argento 1960 Girl With A Suitcase Girl With A Suitcase 4 OCTOBER Classics of Mexican Cinema Classics of Mexican Cinema / NOVEMBER 2017 Macario | SUNDAYS, 4:30PM SUNDAYS, Macario Black Wind (Viento Negro) Canoa: A Shameful Memory Sunday, 22 October 2017 at 4:30pm Sunday, 29 October 2017 at 4:30pm Sunday, 5 November 2017 at 4:30pm Roberto Gavaldón | Mexico 1960 | 90 min | Spanish Servando González | Mexico 1964 | 127 min | Felipe Cazals | Mexico 1976 | 115 min | Spanish with with English subtitles Spanish with English subtitles English subtitles This dark colonial fairy tale centres on a poor peasant The black wind is a desert dust storm regarded as the One of Mexico’s most highly regarded works of political named Macario (Ignacio López Tarso) whose wife worst enemy of the men building a railroad across cinema, which reimagines a real-life incident that (Pina Pellicer) presents him with the gift of a stolen the Great Altar Desert in Mexico. The film explores had occurred just eight years before the film’s release, turkey on the Day of the Dead. While eating the meal, the dangerous adventures of Manuel Iglesias (David when a group of urban university employees on a Macario is visited by Satan, God and Death, each of Reynoso), a rough figure-of-circumstance trapped by hiking trip were viciously attacked by residents of the whom asks for a share of the food. Macario strikes conflicting devotion to his son and his own ambitions, village of San Miguel Canoa who had been manipulated a bargain with Death in exchange for a gift with and the hazards of the construction work. by a corrupt priest into believing the travellers were miraculous healing properties. But this gift turns into Communist revolutionaries. The resulting film is a “An exceptional film...enhanced by its realistic background. a curse for Macario. daring commentary on ideological manipulation, Such a tale depends on its central figure and the religious fanaticism, and mass violence, as well as a Nominations: Best Foreign Language Picture, Academy distinguished actor, David Reynoso, succeeds in giving visceral expression of horror at the specific events. Awards; Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival, 1960 the foreman, Manuel, something of the epic qualities of a modern Job.” (Melborne International Film Festival) 5 Michèle Morgan A mini-retrospective of the work of Michèle Morgan (1920–2016), actress and icon of French cinema. Stormy Waters The Glass Castle The Proud and the Beautiful (Remorques) (Le Château de verre) (Les Orgueilleux) Sunday, 8 October 2017 at 7:00pm Sunday, 15 October 2017 at 7:00pm Sunday, 22 October 2017 at 7:00pm Jean Gŕemillon | France 1941 | 81 min | French with René Clément | France 1950 | 99 min | French with Yves Allégret, Rafael E. Portas | France 1953 | 103 English subtitles English subtitles min | French with English subtitles An idealistic tugboat captain (Jean Gabin) finds Evelyne (Michèle Morgan), an attorney’s young wife, An alcoholic French doctor (Gérard Philipe) meets a himself torn between his wife (Madeleine Renaud) falls in love with Rémy (Jean Marais) during a vacation. guilt-ridden French woman (Michèle Morgan) in Mexico, and mysterious new woman (Michèle Morgan). While Evelyne is profoundly unsettled by the romance, during an outbreak of typhoid. In assisting the local Rémy regards it as a mere distraction. Later, Rémy’s doctor to cope with the epidemic, these two emotional “Michèle Morgan is exactly the kind of exotic femme mistress (Elina Labourdette) teases him about being cripples rediscover reasons to live and to love. fatale that fans of 1930s/40s proto-noir yearn...her an inadequate lover. Hoping to prove something to refined features and delicately arched eyebrows, Filmed primarily in Mexico from a story by Jean-Paul himself, he visits Evelyne once more. By now, however, 6 prove to be utterly irresistible.” (Criterioncast.com) Sartre. Award: Bronze Lion, Venice Film Festival 6 she is suffering pangs of guilt over her infidelity. OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2017 | SUNDAYS, 7:00PM SUNDAYS, Secret Sunshine Right Now, Wrong Then Sunday, 29 October 2017 at 7:00pm Sunday, 5 November 2017 at 7:00pm Lee Chang-dong | South Korea 2007 | 142 min | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea 2015 | 121 min | Korean with English subtitles Korean with English subtitles “An effortless mix of lightness and uncompromising An hour-long love story, told twice – but with tiny darkness, Secret Sunshine (Miryang) stars Cannes variations that send each version on a dramatically best actress winner Jeon Do-yeon as a widowed different emotional course. It’s a playfully structured, piano teacher who moves with her young son from bluffly unglamorous romantic comedy of manners Contemporary South Seoul to her late husband’s provincial hometown for about a filmmaker (Jeong Jae-yeong) and a pretty a fresh start. Quietly expressive, supple filmmaking young woman (Kim Min-hee), an artist he meets Korean Cinema and sublime, subtle performances distinguish this while killing time at a local temple. Its delicately remarkable portrayal of the search for grace amid doubled-up plots are a reminder that trivial tragedy.” (Criterion) differences are often anything but. Awards: Nominated Palme d’Or, winner Best Actress “Korean director Hong Sang-soo gives us two (Jeon Do-yeon), Cannes Film Festival 2007 variations on one love story – both as elegant as they are emotional.” (Robbie Collin, The Telegraph) Secret Sunshine 7 ‘Zapata’ Westerns An offshoot of the Italian Western genre, the term ‘Zapata’ Western denotes a leftist critique of the typical Hollywood handling of Mexican revolutions, and of imperialism in general. The Big Gundown Friday, 20 October 2017 at 8:00pm Sergio Sollima | Italy 1966 | 110 min | Italian with English subtitles A relentless bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef) is on the A Bullet For The General trail of Cuchillo (Tomas Milian), a Mexican outlaw Friday, 13 October 2017 at 8:00pm accused of the rape and murder of a twelve-year-old Damiano Damiani | Italy 1966 | 118 min | Italian girl. Considered one of the best in the Italian Western with English subtitles true freedom be bought with a single bullet? Klaus genre, a genuine cult classic, full of drama, action and mystery.