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Alien, the Terror from Beyond Space: The Making of a Legend
Date Location
In 1979 the film 'Alien' burst onto our screens, filled with gore and edge-of-the-seat tension. Ripley and her extra-terrestrial nemeses have now become legend, but what of the B movies and comic book culture that started it? Cinephile James McKenzie examines the influences of films such as 'It! The Terror from Beyond Space' as well as cult artists and filmmakers on the Oscar-winning franchise. Please book in advance.
8 Dec 1.30 City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Appaloosa (Senior Screening)
Date Location
Based on Robert B Parker's Western novel, 'Appaloosa' charts two young men's attempt to police a small town lorded-over by a rancher. The arrival of a beautiful widow complicates matters further. Traditional but powerful western which relies on narrative psychology and fine performance work rather than special effects. Following on from 2000's 'Pollock' Harris proves himself to be a more than interesting filmmaker.
26 Nov Wed 11.30am Vue Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Date Location
Based on the Stefan Aust's 'Der Spiegel', this is a compelling and engrossing attempt to explain the trajectory and the political position of arguably the most incoherent post-war European terrorist group - The Red Army Faction. Intelligently adapted, the film chronicles the personal and political progressions of gang members Andreas Baader ( Bleibtreu), Ulrike Meinhof (Gedeck) and crucially Gudrun Ensslin (Wokalek). A strong, thought-provoking political thriller.
21 Nov–25 Nov 2.10 & 8.05 Cineworld Edinburgh, Edinburgh
21 Nov–26 Nov, 21 Nov–27 Nov Fri & Mon 2.00 & 8.15; Sat, Tue & Thu 2.00, 5.10 & 8.15; Sun 5.10 & 8.15; Wed 2.00 & 8.30 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Bicycle Thieves
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An unemployed Italian workman has his bicycle stolen, and badly needs it for a new job, so he and his small son search the busy streets of Rome for it. The best-loved and most famous film to emerge from the Italian neo-realist movement is essential viewing for cinema lovers. De Sica's masterful film is vividly sketched, compellingly natural and unbearably moving. Essential.
23 Nov Sun 8.45 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Big Clothes Swap-O-Rama
Date Location
Bring along your unwanted clothes and swap them! also featuring live music, a fair trade cafe, short films and a DIY tailoring station to modify your clothing selections.
14 Dec 2.00 Out Of The Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh
Blindness
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Brazilian filmmaker Meirelles' adaptation of José Saramago's novel about the impact of a blindness epidemic on a city. Meirelles has reduced the story to be more about the plight of a doctor and his wife (Ruffalo and Moore) who are forced quarantine when the doctor loses his sight. Stark and flawed attempt at fin de siècle sci-fi.
21 Nov–27 Nov 12.30, 3.15, 6.00 & 8.45; Sun 3.15, 6.00 & 8.45 Vue Edinburgh Omni, Edinburgh
21 Nov–27 Nov 12.40, 3.30 & 9.00 Cameo, Edinburgh
Body of Lies
Date Location
CIA operative Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) is trying to track down terrorist mastermind Al Salim (Abutbul). His investigations take him from Iraq to Jordan with stop offs at any other Islamic country possibly capable of harbouring terrorist cells. Overlong, unnecessarily convoluted thriller adapted from a novel by David Ignatius.
21 Nov–27 Nov 11.10am, 2.20, 5.20 & 8.15; Fri & Sat 11.10am, 2.20, 5.20, 8.15 & 11.15 Cineworld Edinburgh, Edinburgh
21 Nov–27 Nov 2.10, 5.10 & 8.10; Mon & Tue 5.10 & 8.10 Dominion, Edinburgh
21 Nov–27 Nov 2.15, 5.15 & 8.15 Odeon Wester Hailes, Edinburgh
21 Nov–27 Nov Sat 11.15am, 2.20, 5.20, 8.30 & 11.30; Fri 2.20, 5.20, 8.30 & 11.30; Sun 11.15am, 2.20, 5.20 & 8.30; 2.20, 5.20 & 8.30 Vue Edinburgh Omni, Edinburgh
21 Nov–27 Nov 2.30, 5.15 & 8.00 Odeon, Edinburgh
21 Nov–27 Nov 2.45, 5.45 & 8.45; Sat & Sun 11.45am, 2.45, 5.45 & 8.45 Vue Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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Bruno (Butterfield) is the nine-year old son of a Nazi Commandant (Thewlis). When his father is seconded to manage a concentration camp, the lonely Bruno makes a new friend, Schmuel (Scanlon), beyond the high wire. Badly acted and clumsily directed, this liberal-guilt-monger-sweeping-cod-historical-nonsense is simply unnecessary.
21 Nov–27 Nov Fri, Wed & Thu 2.00 Dominion, Edinburgh
21 Nov–27 Nov 2.30 Odeon, Edinburgh
Burn After Reading
Date Location
Foul-mouthed CIA analyst Osbourne (Malkovich) quits his job after being demoted. Across town at Osbourne's gym, slow-witted employees Chad (Pitt) and Linda (McDormand) happen upon one of his discs. A shaggy, punctured tyre blackmail thriller entails with the requisite outbreaks of shock tactic violence and absurdist plotting.
21 Nov–27 Nov 3.50 & 8.50; Fri & Sat 3.50, 8.50 & 11.10 Vue Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh
21 Nov–27 Nov 4.00 & 9.15; Sun 9.15; Wed & Thu 3.25 Cameo, Edinburgh
21 Nov–25 Nov Fri–Tue 6.00 Odeon, Edinburgh
21 Nov–25 Nov Fri–Tue 9.30 Vue Edinburgh Omni, Edinburgh
Changeling
Date Location
Inspired by actual prohibition-era Los Angeles events, Eastwood's 'Changeling' tells the story of a mother driven to confront a corrupt police department after her son is kidnapped.
26 Nov–27 Nov Wed & Thu 11.00am, 1.50, 4.45 & 8.25 Cineworld Edinburgh, Edinburgh
26 Nov–27 Nov Wed & Thu 11.40am, 2.20, 5.10 & 8.15 Vue Edinburgh Omni, Edinburgh
26 Nov–27 Nov Wed & Thu 3.10, 6.10 & 9.10 Vue Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh
26 Nov–27 Nov Wed & Thu 8.45 Cameo, Edinburgh
Choke
Date Location
Unrepentant sex addict Victor (Rockwell) cons money in restaurants by pretending to choke on his food. His only act of charity is to visit his dementia-besieged mother (Huston) at a private clinic. One day Dr Marshall (MacDonald) suggests a radical new treatment for his mother, one that will force Victor to face up to his past. A respectfully offensive adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's hilarious and sordid 2001 novel.
21 Nov–27 Nov 12.05, 3.30, 6.10 & 8.45; Fri & Sat 12.05, 3.30, 6.10, 8.45 & 11.05 Cineworld Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Conversations with My Gardener
Date Location
Successful Parisian painter (Auteuil) returns to the rural childhood home he has inherited in southern France and places an advert for a gardener. The first applicant (Darroussin) turns out to have been an old school friend and they talk freely about their respective life experiences. Adapted from Henri Cueco's novel, this intimate two-hander might seem slight on paper, but it's a surprisingly moving study of male friendship.
21 Nov–27 Nov Fri–Sun & Thu 3.30 & 8.30; Mon–Wed 3.30 & 6.00 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Desert of the Tartars (Il Deserto dei Tartari)
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Zurlini's final film, an adaptation of Dino Buzzati's novel, was shot entirely within the two thousand year-old Persian citadel of Bam. Focusing on periods of inaction and conflated bureaucracy mostly neglected by filmmakers in the examination of war, Zurlini's 1907-set film stars Jacques Perrin as Drogo, a lieutenant assigned to an isolated fortress on the edge of the desert. This enigmatic, slow, bombastic and unforgettable film is a fitting swan song for this unique director.
27 Nov Thu 8.15 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Dostana
Date Location
Bollywood film featuring two young lads who pretend to be gay in order to secure a Miami apartment.
21 Nov–27 Nov 4.20 & 7.40; Wed & Thu 4.20 Cineworld Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Easy Virtue
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England, the 1920s. Dashing young socialite Whittaker (Barnes) returns to his ancestral pile with his spunky new American wife Larita (Biel). Their family home is a hotbed of dysfunction, xenophobia and bankruptcy, and it's not long before all hell breaks out in this loose and disappointing adaptation of Noel Coward's little known 1924 play.
21 Nov–27 Nov Fri & Sun 1.15 & 6.00; Sat 6.00; Mon–Wed 1.15 & 8.30; Thu 1.15 & 6.15 Filmhouse, Edinburgh
21 Nov–27 Nov 1.20 & 6.20 Vue Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh
21 Nov–25 Nov 4.30, 7.00 & 9.05 Dominion, Edinburgh
Easy Virtue (Gold Class)
Date Location
England, the 1920s. Dashing young socialite Whittaker (Barnes) returns to his ancestral pile with his spunky new American wife Larita (Biel). Their family home is a hotbed of dysfunction, xenophobia and bankruptcy, and it's not long before all hell breaks out in this loose and disappointing adaptation of Noel Coward's little known 1924 play.
21 Nov–27 Nov 1.00 & 6.00 Vue Edinburgh Omni, Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009
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The Festival's 63rd year. Programme still to be announced, see website for updates.
17 Jun 2009–28 Jun 2009 (Times vary) Various Venues, Edinburgh
Das Experiment (Double Bill with The Wave)
Date Location
Although Hirschbiegel's film is adapted from Maria Giordano's novel 'Black Box', its basis lies in true fact - the infamous 1971 Stanford University psychology department experiment in which a group of men became guinea pigs in a prison simulation scenario. With shocking speed they lose their sense of identity and assume the role of guards and prisoners, the former abusing the latter and the latter accepting their lot. Hirschbiegel's film finds a disturbing parallel in the rise to power of…
23 Nov Sun 1.30 Cameo, Edinburgh
Film Screening: The South Bank Show - Gerhard Richter
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A profile of the influential German pop artist, in which he talks about growing up in East Germany, attending Dresden Art Academy and escaping to the west just before the Berlin Wall was built. The documentary also considers the success of his work. No booking required.
4 Dec 12.45–1.45 Weston Link, Edinburgh
5,000 Fingers of Dr T
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A nine-year-old boy imagines his piano teacher as an authoritarian madman. On one level, the musical numbers and fantasy structure make it an acceptable kids' movie; on another, it's a fascinating blend of surreal dream imagery that would have had Freud tinkling at the ivories.
23 Nov–24 Nov Sun 1.00; Mon 10.30am Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Four Christmases
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A couple attempt to visit all four of their separated parents on Christmas day.
26 Nov–27 Nov Wed & Thu 11.20am, 1.20, 3.15, 5.40 & 7.50 Cineworld Edinburgh, Edinburgh
26 Nov–27 Nov Wed & Thu 1.00, 3.45, 6.30 & 9.30 Vue Edinburgh Omni, Edinburgh
26 Nov–27 Nov Wed & Thu 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 & 8.20 Vue Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh
26 Nov–27 Nov Wed & Thu 2.45, 5.30 & 8.10 Odeon, Edinburgh
26 Nov–27 Nov Wed & Thu 3.30, 6.00 & 8.30 Odeon Wester Hailes, Edinburgh
26 Nov–27 Nov Wed & Thu 4.30, 7.00 & 9.05 Dominion, Edinburgh
Four Christmases (Parent & Baby Screening)
Date Location
A couple attempt to visit all four of their separated parents on Christmas day.
26 Nov Wed 11.30am Vue Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh
The Four Feathers
Date Location
Rousing period melodrama about patriotism and cowardice in a time of colonial conquest (the Battle of Omduran in the Sudan). This is by far the best version of AEW Mason's much-filmed novel.
23 Nov 8.00 Scotsman Screening Room, Edinburgh
Ghost Town
Date Location
For this Manhattan-set interpretation of 'A Christmas Carol' Gervais plays middle-aged smock-wearing tooth jockey' (dentist) Bertram Pincus, a hateful runt of a man. After going into hospital for an endoscopy, Bertram starts to see dead people, one of whom, Frank (Kinnear), is about to change Bertram's life by introducing him to widower Gwen (Leoni). The results are predictably bland but not without their merits.
21 Nov–27 Nov 12.25, 3.00 & 8.35; Wed & Thu 8.35; Tue 12.25, 3.00, 5.50 & 8.35; Sun 3.00, 5.50 & 8.35; Mon 12.25, 3.00 & 8.35 Cineworld Edinburgh, Edinburgh
21 Nov–27 Nov 3.00, 5.30 & 8.15; Wed & Thu 8.15 Odeon Wester Hailes, Edinburgh
21 Nov–25 Nov 3.20, 5.40 & 8.10 Vue Edinburgh Ocean, Edinburgh
21 Nov–27 Nov 3.25, 6.10 & 8.25; Sat & Sun 3.25 & 8.25 Dominion, Edinburgh
Ghost Town (Gold Class)
Date Location
For this Manhattan-set interpretation of 'A Christmas Carol' Gervais plays middle-aged smock-wearing tooth jockey' (dentist) Bertram Pincus, a hateful runt of a man. After going into hospital for an endoscopy, Bertram starts to see dead people, one of whom, Frank (Kinnear), is about to change Bertram's life by introducing him to widower Gwen (Leoni). The results are predictably bland but not without their merits.
21 Nov–27 Nov 3.30 & 8.30 Vue Edinburgh Omni, Edinburgh

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