Film, Drama, Edinburgh

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The Bad Sleep Well
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Kurosawa's most socially responsible film - the first he made for his own production company - deals with corruption, graft and bribery at the public level.
25 Aug–26 Aug Mon 3.00; Tue 8.25 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Brief Encounter
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Stiff upper lips and emotionally charged brushes of the hands are all that Johnson and Howard will allow themselves as their extra-marital 'affair' doesn't develop much beyond unspoken longings at a railway station. For some, the tears will still flow; for others, the ungiving morality is exasperating. Given the rigidity of this English romance, the Rachmaninov soundtrack is unfittingly sweet.
22 Aug Fri 5.15 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
City Of God
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The international resurgence of Latin American cinema shows no signs of slowing down. Following 'Central Station', 'Amores Perros', 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and 'Nine Queens' comes an exhilarating Brazilian drama, 'City of God'. Based on Paulo Lins's sprawling novel and spanning three decades, it's an epic account of the growth of organised drug-dealing in a slum housing project, the so-called City of God in Rio de Janeiro.
31 Aug 7.00 ACE, Edinburgh
The Flight of the Red Balloon
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Suzanne (Binoche), a busy puppeteer, hires Song (Song), a Chinese film student, to look after her young son. Hsiao-Hsien's film intricately weaves together compassionate insights into the pressures felt by a single parent with studious examinations of the methods of storytelling. Partly inspired by Albert Lamorisse's warming Parisian short 'The Red Balloon', Hsiao-Hsien's narrative ultimately draws a particularly fine portrait of the French capital.
22 Aug–28 Aug Fri & Sat 12.50; Mon–Thu 1.20 Cameo, Edinburgh
The Hidden Fortress
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During the civil wars of 16th century Japan, Mifune's samurai escorts a princess and two peasants through enemy territory. Kurosawa's classic mixes Noh theatre with elements of Shakespeare and the westerns of John Ford.
27 Aug Wed 8.30 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Hobson's Choice
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This working-class comedy charts the descent into alcoholism of Henry Hobson (Laughton), a boot maker in 19th century Salford. Delightful screen version of Harold Brighouse's popular play.
29 Aug–30 Aug Fri 3.30; Sat 5.45 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
I Live In Fear
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Very fine early Kurosawa movie, made between 'Seven Samurai' and 'Throne Of Blood', 'I Live in Fear' tells the intimate story of a Tokyo family facing the threat of nuclear war. The father (Mifune, uncomfortably playing a character twice his age) wants to emigrate to a farm in Brazil, his family don't want to and try to have him incarcerated. This is a little nugget of a movie, a time capsule from the Atomic Age.
22 Aug–23 Aug Fri 9.00; Sat 3.30 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Ikiru
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Gentle comedy about a terminally ill bureaucrat who seeks to give his dreary life vibrancy and meaning.
27 Aug–28 Aug, 29 Aug–30 Aug Fri 2.15 & 6.00; Sat 6.00 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Lawrence Of Arabia
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Lean's mammoth desert epic, restored to its director's original cut and the big screen, where filmmaking on this scale belongs. O'Toole's debut as the enigmatic adventurer still impresses, but apart from the majestic action sequences, it's the disturbing sense of clinical and cold-blooded violence hanging over the highly literate characterisation that today seems especially striking.
24 Aug Sun 1.00 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Marnie
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Hedren (in a role intended for Grace Kelly) is the glacial blonde heroine in this most florid of Hitchcock's psychological melodramas. After her boss Connery catches her robbing his safe, he becomes attracted to her and the two marry, but her frigidity in the bedroom hides a much darker secret. The usual late Hitch mixture of carelessness (those backdrops!) and technical virtuosity. A playground for veteran Freudians.
28 Aug Thu 2.30 & 8.30 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
The New World
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Malick's epic is quickly recognisable as the story of Pocahontas, the Native American girl who risked her life to show mercy to intruder John Smith when he faced certain death at the hands of her tribe. Filmed 25 years after he originally wrote the script, this is an exquisitely realised past look but the casting is pure folly. Despite its winning heroine, the male stars offer barely a spark between them, leaving a gaping hole where there should be an authentic romantic heart.
3 Sep Wed 8.25 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
A Passage To India
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Meticulous adaptation of E.M. Forster has Australian Judy Davis cast as the young woman travelling through the sub-continent with her fiancé's stuffy mother (Ashcroft). Overlong and over-rated, for all its attention to detail, this numbingly slow latter-day Lean seriously fudges the crucial scene in the Malabar Caves. A disappointment.
3 Sep–4 Sep Wed 2.15; Thu 5.45 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Rancho Notorious
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Another of Lang's heroes whose lives are arbitrarily transformed by fate, Vern Haskell is a cowhand who sets out to revenge the murder (and likely rape) of his fiancée. His best clue to their whereabouts is a ranch run by former bar-room singer Altar Keane. Performances are excellent, particularly Dietrich who copes admirably with a more mature role.
27 Aug, 28 Aug Thu 6.00 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Rashomon
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Responsible for introducing Japanese cinema to the world market, this extraordinary film recounts four people's versions of a violent incident involving a nobleman and a bandit.
24 Aug–25 Aug Sun 9.00; Mon 2.30 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Ryan's Daughter
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Well staged, acted, written (by Robert Bolt) and directed romantic drama with a huge budget that's so verrrrrrrrry long. Set in a rural Irish community in 1916, Miles is the schoolmaster's wife who falls for an English army officer which causes all kinds of problems in the community.
30 Aug–31 Aug Sat 1.30; Sun 7.30 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Seven Samurai
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A group of timid villagers seek protection against the excesses of a brutal warlord by hiring seven heroic samurai. Seminal Japanese action picture, with a slow-building dignity matching the best of John Ford, and in its stylishly aesthetic handling of screen violence, a profound influence on everyone from Peckinpah to Eastwood. Highly recommended.
22 Aug Fri 7.15 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
The Sound Barrier
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Playwright Terence Rattigan's Oscar-nominated script sees aircraft designer Richardson realise his ambition to break the sound barrier, at the expense of his friends and family.
27 Aug–28 Aug Wed 5.45; Thu 3.00 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Stray Dog
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Classic police thriller in which Kurosawa describes a storm brewing in the Tokyo underworld.
28 Aug Thu 6.00 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Throne Of Blood
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It's Shakespeare's Scottish play, Japanese-style, as samurai Mifune is spurred on by his wife and the spirits to murder his best friend and then his master. Although the barest plot and striking images remain from the original, Kurosawa's atmospheric settings in mist-shrouded forests give the film a brooding power.
25 Aug–26 Aug Mon 8.40; Tue 6.00 Filmhouse, Edinburgh

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