filmedinburgh guild PROGRAMME 2016/2017 filmedinburgh guild The Edinburgh Film Guild, established in 1930, 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. Our 30 seat cinema has a state-of-the-art www.edinburghfilmguild.com digital projector and a 5.1 sound system. Membership: You can enjoy a drink and a chat in the Guild Full Membership...........£60 Clubrooms before a screening. (complete 2016/17 season of films) Basic Membership.........£20 (admission to any 5 films) Top-Up Subscription......£20 (admission to any 5 films). Members can purchase additional ‘top-ups’ until they reach a total of £60, when they automatically become Full Members with access to the full 2016/17 season of films. 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. PROGRAMME OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2016 The Samurai Trilogy 04 2016/2017 The Emigrants & The New Land 05 Costa-Gavras 06 Larisa Shepitko 07 Alien-Ation 08 Heroic Bloodshed: Ringo Lam & Chow Yun-Fat 09 Special Screening: Hallowe’en 30 NOVEMBER — DECEMBER 2016 Antonio Pietrangeli 10 Court Martial 11 Screwball Comedy 12 Nasties II / II Nasties 14 Sci-Fi: Time Travel 15 Special Screening: Christmas 30 Film Calendar: 16 JANUARY — FEBRUARY 2017 World Cinema 18 Samuel Fuller 20 Alejandro Jodorowsky 22 Pinky Violence with Meiko Kaji 23 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2017 The Gamblers 24 Matarazzo Melodramas 25 Imagining 18th Century Europe 26 Going Underground 28 Sergio Corbucci’s West 29 THE Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto The Samurai Trilogy is “a rousing, emotionally SAMURAI gripping tale of combat and self-discovery. Sunday, 9 October 2016 at 4.30pm Based on a novel that’s often called Japan’s TRILOGY Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan 1954 | 93 min | Japanese with English subtitles ‘Gone with the Wind’, this sweeping saga... is a passionate epic that’s equal parts tender Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple love story and bloody action.” (Blu-ray.com) Sunday, 16 October 2016 at 4.30pm Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan 1955 | 103 min | Japanese with English subtitles Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island Sunday, 23 October 2016 at 4.30pm Hiroshi Inagaki | Japan 1956 | 105 min | Japanese with English subtitles The Samurai Trilogy depicts the ascension of the legendary ronin Musashi Miyamoto from confused but talented youth to Master Samurai. At the heart of The Samurai Trilogy is the brilliant performance by Toshiro Mifune as the legendary swordsman. Awards: Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. “Portraying the traditional quest for honor and self-possession as a noble pursuit that can so easily become one’s own funeral pyre, The Samurai Trilogy attains timelessness by finding a perfectly tuned 4 balance between the glories of the past and the great hindsight of the present.” (Slant Magazine) OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2016 | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2016 “Troell’s epic film is infinitely The Emigrants absorbing and moving.” (Roger Ebert) The New Land “It’s a tale with as many clashing realities as there are multi-dimensional characters, and it stands in The Emigrants (Utvandrarna) all its grandeur as Troell’s Sunday, 30 October 2016 at 3.00pm* defining accomplishment.” | Jan Troell | Sweden 1971 | 191 min | Swedish with (Slant Magazine) AFTERNOONS SUNDAY English subtitles 8:00PM AT FRIDAYS The New Land (Nybyggarna) Sunday, 6 November 2016 at 3.00pm* Jan Troell | Sweden 1972 | 202 min | Swedish with English subtitles The monumental mid-nineteenth-century epic The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972) charts, over the course of two films, a poor Swedish farming family’s voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann give remarkably authentic performances as Karl-Oskar and Kristina, a couple who meet with one physical and emotional trial after another on their arduous journey. Awards: The Emigrants won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress (Liv Ullmann). In Sweden it won the Guldbagge Awards for Best Film and Best Actor (Eddie Axberg). It received five Academy Awards nominations including: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress. 5 (*Please note earlier 3.00pm start.) Costa-Gavras A trilogy of films from the master of the political thriller Z The Confession (L’Aveu) State Of Siege (Etat de Siège) Sunday, 9 October 2016 at 7.00pm Sunday, 16 October 2016 at 7.00pm Sunday, 23 October 2016 at 7.00pm Costa-Gavras | France, Greece 1969 | 127 min | Costa-Gavras | France, Italy 1970 | 138 min | French Costa-Gavras | France 1972 | 121 min | French with French with English subtitles with English subtitles English subtitles Costa-Gavras’ landmark feature about an incorruptible Based on a harrowing true story from the era of Costa-Gavras puts the United States’ involvement in judge (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who investigates the Stalinist Soviet bloc show trials, the film stars Yves Latin American politics under the microscope in this killing of a reformist politician (Yves Montand) at a Montand as a Czechoslovak Communist Party official arresting thriller. An urban guerrilla group, outraged peace demonstration. who, in the early fifties, is abducted, imprisoned, at the counter-insurgency and torture training and interrogated over a frighteningly long period, clandestinely organised by the CIA in their country, “With democracy disappearing in a fog of dirty tricks, and left in the dark about his captors’ motives. Also abducts a U.S. official (Yves Montand) to bargain for conspiracy and cover-up, ‘Z’ was an indictment of the starring Simone Signoret and Gabriele Ferzetti, the the release of political prisoners. The kidnapping US-backed coup in Greece. With dark humour, a faux- film is an unflinching, intimate depiction of one of the soon becomes a media sensation, leading to violence. documentary style...it made Gavras' name as master of a twentieth century’s darkest chapters, told from one Co-written by Franco Solinas, State of Siege piercingly genre that married the pace and suspense of the action bewildered man’s point of view. critiques the American government for supporting thriller with political critique.” (Maya Jaggi, The Guardian) foreign dictatorships, while also asking difficult Awards: Jury Prize and Best Actor award (Jean-Louis questions about the efficacy of radical violent acts to 376 Trintignant), Cannes Film Festival. Academy Award for oppose such regimes. Best Foreign-Language Film. OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2016 Larisa Shepitko | SUNDAYS, 7.00PM SUNDAYS, The career of Larisa Shepitko, an icon of sixties and seventies Soviet cinema, was tragically cut short when she was killed in a car crash in 1979, aged forty, just as she was Wings The Ascent Sunday, 30 October 2016 at 7.00pm Sunday, 6 November 2016 at 7.00pm emerging onto the international scene. The Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union 1966 | 85 min | Larisa Shepitko | Soviet Union 1976 | 111 min | body of work she left behind, though small, is Russian with English subtitles Russian with English subtitles For her first feature after graduating, Larisa Shepitko Shepitko’s emotionally overwhelming final film masterful, and her genius for visually evoking trained her lens on the fascinating Russian character won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival characters’ interior worlds is never more actress Maya Bulgakova, who gives a marvellous and has been hailed around the world as the finest performance as a once heroic Russian fighter pilot now Soviet film of its decade. Set during World War II’s striking than in her two finest works. living a quiet, disappointingly ordinary life as a school darkest days, The Ascent follows the path of two principal. Subtly portraying one woman’s desperation peasant soldiers, cut off from their troop, who trudge with elegant, spare camera work and casual, fluid through the snowy backwoods of Belarus seeking storytelling, Shepitko, with Wings, announced herself refuge among villagers. Their harrowing trek leads as an important new voice in Soviet cinema. them on a journey of betrayal, heroism, and ultimate 7 transcendence. Alien-AtionAlien-Ation They’re cheap, gory and a lot of fun. Two B-movies inspired by Ridley Inseminoid Scott’s Alien... (aka Horror Planet) Friday, 21 October 2016 at 8.00pm Norman J. Warren | UK/Hong Kong 1981 | 93 min A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members (Judy Geeson), causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one. Inseminoid “stands out above many low budget sci-fi Contamination pictures of the era thanks to strong production values... (aka Alien Contamination) recommended to fans of the more obscure sci-fi space Friday, 14 October 2016 at 8.00pm movies and British exploitation.” (Mondo Esoterica) Luigi Cozzi | Italy 1980 | 95 min A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones. Branded as a ‘video nasty’ in the UK, director Luigi Cozzi’s Contamination takes the premise of Ridley Scott’s classic Alien and peppers it with exploding “First it’s an Italian sci-fi which means low budget, guts galore and a dangerously infectious soundtrack corny dialog, bad dubbing, and the ripping off of some from the celebrated Italian prog-rockers Goblin.