Kirkcaldy Film Festival for a Second Successive Year
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onfife.com I’mN absToluRtely OdeligDhtedU to ChaveT beIenO askN ed to be a patron of Kirkcaldy Film Festival for a second successive year. Growing up in Fife, I was gripped by drama, the way it resonates and even changes people’s lives, and I love the idea that a festival like this can help to create a prominent place for cinema back in my old stomping ground. I’m proud to support a festival which brings a diverse programme of independent cinema and true classics to Kirkcaldy, one that shows film can be inspiring and educational as well as entertaining. DOUGRAY SCOTT, Patron, Kirkcaldy Film Festival Three, said De La Soul, is the magic number. As we look forward to the third Kirkcaldy Film Festival, I’m inclined to agree: with another sumptuous selection of classics and the finest new independent cinema, there’s definitely some cinematic magic in the air. We’ll be taking over Kirkcaldy’s Waterfront for an atmospheric 40th anniversary screening of Jaws , and showing two Hitchcock masterpieces, one of which – The 39 Steps – features a link to Kirkcaldy. There’s a special Gala screening of Michael Caine classic The Ipcress File, and we’ll be celebrating the work of Dougray Scott with a hand-picked screening of To Kill a King . The festival is also a showcase for the future of cinema, with shorts made by young filmmakers and a retrospective of work by Tayport-raised John Maclean , whose debut feature Slow West wowed the Sundance Film Festival in January. With animation, action, comedy, drama, horror and thrills by the bucket-load, you’d better make sure you’re sitting comfortably: the show is about to begin… ALAN MORRISON, Artistic Director, Kirkcaldy Film Festival Kirkcaldy Film Festival 2 40th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING JThAurs 17W Sept I 8.3S0pm I FREE Kirkcaldy Waterfront Viewing Platform Dir: Steven Spielberg I US I 1975 I 119 mins I 12A Starring: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss Free ticket must be booked as spaces are limited. Dress for the weather. No alcohol permitted. Tickets should be picked up in advance from Adam Smith Theatre. The modern blockbuster era didn’t kick off with Imperial Stormtroopers and Jedi Knights. It began exactly 40 years ago when a fin sliced through the water and made the world shudder at the thought of ever dipping a toe in the ocean again. Steven Spielberg was only 28 when he made cinema history with a film about a great white shark terrorising the seaside town of Amity Island, and it’s still as scary as it ever was, with John Williams’s famous theme enough in itself to set the heart racing. Kirkcaldy Film Festival will screen this classic in a special outdoor cinema setting on the town’s Waterfront. Was that just a seal in the Forth behind you? Are you sure? Kirkcaldy Film Festival 3 Post-film discussion with Hannah McGill Pand AlaSn MorrisoYn. CHO Fri 18 Sept I 10am Tickets £7.50 (£6.50 conc) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock I US I 1960 109 mins I 15 Starring: Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins Alfred Hitchcock’s horror movie about life – and death – behind closed doors at the Bates Motel is a masterclass in suspense, and a thrillingly potent experience on the big screen. Its terror tricks and shock tactics have been much copied but rarely equalled: try making a stabbing high-pitched violin sound when someone is in the shower, and see how they jump. As in previous years, this schools screening will be open to the general public, and afterwards Hannah McGill – journalist, broadcaster and former Artistic Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival – will join KFF’s Alan Morrison for a discussion of Psycho and Hitchcock’s legacy. Kirkcaldy Film Festival 4 80th ANNIVERSARY SCREENING THE 39 STEPS Post-film discussion with Ursula Buchan, Hannah McGill and Alan Morrison. Fri 18 Sept I 2pm I Tickets £7.50 (£6.50 conc) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock I UK I 1935 I 109 mins I U Starring: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Peggy Ashcroft This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of one of the most famous adventure novels of all time, John Buchan’s The 39 Steps , as well as the 80th anniversary of the release of Alfred Hitchcock’s big screen adaptation. Buchan attended school in Kirkcaldy, and the film features a rather famous Rail Bridge not too far from Adam Smith Theatre… After the screening, John Buchan’s granddaughter Ursula Buchan will discuss both Hitchcock’s adaptation and the original novel with Alan Morrison and Hannah McGill . Ursula is an award-winning journalist and author in her own right, and was a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator for many years. Kirkcaldy Film Festival 5 SFri T18 SOept I N 7.30pEm I M TicketsO free –U bookT in aHdvance Dir: Charles Martin I UK I 2015 I 120 mins I 15 Starring: Peter Mullan, Christian Cooke, Brian Gleeson Two years ago, Scotland mourned the loss of one of its greatest literary sons when the celebrated Dunfermline-born novelist Iain Banks died of cancer. BBC Scotland’s two-part dramatisation of his 2012 novel Stonemouth was broadcast earlier this year and, as a tribute to one of our favourite Fifers, Kirkcaldy Film Festival will screen both episodes together as a single feature. It’s a visually stunning adaptation of a typically Banksian tale of friendship, betrayal and simmering violence. Kirkcaldy Film Festival 6 INSIDE OUT Sat 19 Sept I 11am I Tickets £7.50 (£6.50 conc) Dirs: Pete Docter, Ronaldo Del Carmen I US I 2015 I 94 mins I U Starring: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Kaitlyn Dias The latest feature from Disney Pixar, Inside Out is yet another instant classic. Forced to move to San Francisco with her mum and dad, 11-year-old Riley’s life is out of whack. It’s up to the emotions living inside her head – the 5 squabbling characters of Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust – to somehow put everything back in balance. The fantastically clever and witty script pushes all the right emotional buttons even as the digital animation dazzles the eye. A future Oscar-winner, this one plays to the head and the heart... Kirkcaldy Film Festival 7 JOHN MACLEAN RETROSPECTIVE FEATURING SLOW WEST Sat 19 Sept I 2pm I Tickets £7.50 (£6.50 conc) Dir: John Maclean I UK I 2015 I 84mins I 15 Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Mendelson Pitch Black Heist I UK I 2011 I 13 mins Man on a Motorcycle I UK I 2009 I 11 mins Raised in Tayport, John Maclean came to prominence as a member of critically lauded experimental folkies The Beta Band in the mid-90s. But it is as a film director that he is now making waves, as this collected programme of his work emphatically proves. Kirkcaldy Film Festival is proud to screen Maclean’s two short films, Man on a Motorcycle and Pitch Black Heist , plus his acclaimed debut feature Slow West (a “weirdly lyrical portrait of frontier life” full of “gallows humour”, according to Mark Kermode). All three star Michael Fassbender ( Hunger, Prometheus, X-Men ), and we’ll even throw in a couple of Maclean-directed Beta Band videos for good measure. Kirkcaldy Film Festival 8 50th ANNIVERSARY GALA SCREENING THE IPCRESS FILE Sat 19 Sept I 7.30pm Tickets £7.50 (£6.50 conc) Dir: Sidney J Furie I UK I 1965 I 109 min s I PG Starring: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Sue Lloyd At the Scottish National Gallery’s current exhibition, you can see David Bailey’s 1965 portrait of Michael Caine, catching the actor at a major crossroads. That was the year Caine became a star, thanks to his portrayal of the iconic Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File , based on Len Deighton’s novel. Fifty years on, the downbeat depiction of the Cold War era remains impressive, as does John Barry’s seminal music score. The film’s lean style was a deliberate counterpunch to the knowing glitz of the James Bond franchise – but The Ipcress File has a glamour all of its own, and is in no way out of place in the same gala slot that Goldfinger occupied last year. Don your glad rags for a red carpet arrival and enjoy live music from Fife Youth Arts and a glass of bubbly before the screening. Dress Code: Sixties Groovieness Kirkcaldy Film Festival 9 SHORT FILM SELECTION Sun 20 Sept I 12.30pm I Tickets free – book in advance Approx 60 mins I 12A This year, Kirkcaldy Film Festival and Fife Youth Arts put a call out for submissions of short films made by young filmmakers aged 25 or under. We received documentaries and dramas, comedies and thrillers, all bristling with a youthful energy. A few of those films have been selected to screen before some of the festival’s main features, but here we gather together a special selection of the entries as a platform for our stars of the future. TO KILL A KING Sun 20 Sept I 2pm Tickets £7.50 (£6.50 conc) Dir: Mike Barker I UK I 2003 I 102mins I 12A Starring: Dougray Scott, Tim Roth, Olivia Williams Alan Morrison introduces his selection from the work of Festival patron Dougray Scott. Kirkcaldy Film Festival patron Dougray Scott gives arguably the best performance of his career in this period drama, set during the English Civil War. Scott plays Sir Thomas Fairfax, who falls out with his friend and fellow parliamentarian Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth) over the fate of the deposed King Charles I (a moving and elegant turn by Rupert Everett).