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PREVIEWS/“SINGS
KIT AND THE WIDOW AT THE CAFE ROYAL 1989
After playing the Official Festival last year, KIT AND THE WI DOW return to this elegant watering hole with their brand new show.
‘Not since Michael Flanders met Donald Swan 40 years ago has there been an act of such intelligence, wit and charm’ International Herald Tribune.
Aug 21—Sept 2 (not Sun) 6.15pm 8. 8.15pm, £5 (£4.50 concs)
DAY BY DAY DIARY
I All tickets available lrom the Film Festival box office at Filmhouse, Lothian Road. 228 2688. Anytickets remaining unsold tor screenings at the Cameo Cinema, Home Street, 228 4141. will go on sale immediately betore the relevant pertormances. Filmhouse 1. Cameo screenings betore 7pm: £4 (£1.50)
Filmhouse 2, screenings betore 7pm: £3.50 (£1.50) No concessions after 7pm.
FRIDAY 18
I FILMHOUSE 1 Lunchtime Animation - Brothers Ouay 2pm. The Street of Crocodiles and others.
I FILMHOUSE 2
Poison Pen (Paul L. Stein. UK. 1939) 2pm. Asmall English village is disrupted when someone starts writing letters to members of the community. letters which result in suicide. murder. . . and worse.
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Bert Bigby. You're a Fool (Carl Reiner. Canada. 1989) 2.30pm. ()ne-time ‘Citizen Smith‘ Robert Lindsay shines in this all-singing. all-dancing spectacular about an all-singing. all-dancing er. miner.
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Maurice Binder, The Man Behind the Titles. .. 2.30pm. The title designer for the James Bond pics amongst others with a special presentation about his work.
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Comic Book Conlidential (Ron Mann. Canada. 1988) b.3()pm. Documentary on America‘s cartoonists. focusing on the rise ofthe underground comics since the 60s.
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Venus Peter ( Ian Sellar. UK. 1989) 7pm. A young boy brought up by his grandfather in a seaside village becomes obsessed
by the sea and the fishing boat ofthe title. Shot on location on ()rkney last autumn this is a striking and evocative Scottish film in competition for the Chaplin award.
I CAMEO
Angry Earth (Karl Francis. Wales. 1989) 7pm. The oldest woman in Britain attracts media attention to a small mining community but. ironically. the villagers have to sift through old letters and newspapers to find out more about her.
I FILMHOUSE 2
OBOIDOS RBX (Pier Paolo Pasolini. Italy. 1967) 8.30pm. Pasolini‘s retelling of the ()edipal legend takes place in a strikingly barren prehistoric North African landscape.
I FILMHOUSEI Sisters (Michael
Fields and company discard with unemployment by putting everyone into re- armamentprogrammes. I FILMHOUSEi
A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieslowski. Poland. 1987) 2.30pm. Is capital punishment the right answer for a man who murders a taxi- driver'.’ Kielowski's harrowing exploration of the capital punishment issue won the l988 European Film Award.
I FILMHOUSE 2
Derek Jarman. Know Whatl
‘ Mean (Laurens C.
l’ostma. UK. I989)
i b.3tipm. Documentary g coveringthelife and
increasingly striking work ofour Del. one of England‘s most amiable film-makers.
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Franta (Mathias Allary. W.(ier. 1989) 7pm. David Robinson personally recommends this darineg expressionist tale of life in post-WWI Germany for a traumatised soldier. Look
out for aquite extraordinary use of
Hoffman. US. 1988)9pm.
An eccentric family living in a castle in Quebec have their extraordinary lifestyle disrupted by a Christmas visit from a student.
I CAMEO
Sex, Lies and Videotape (Steven Soderbcrgh. US. l989)9pm. A married woman goes to a psychoanalyst: her husband is having an affair with her nymphomaniac sister: his friend makes films ofpeople talking about sex. The winner of this year's Palmc d‘()r at Cannes is likely to stir up just as much excitement and controversy in Edinburgh.
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The Fly ll (Chris Walas. US. 1989) 11.30pm. Martin Brundle's son is born inside a shell. and develops at a staggering rate. From an early age he decides to improve upon his father's telcportation machine. Until he mutates. that is. . .
SATURDAY 19
I FILMHOUSE1 Lunchtime Animation— Chuck Jones lpm. \Vhat‘s up Doc'.’
I FILMHOUSE 2
Shipyard Sally ( Monty Banks. L'K. 1939) 2.30pm. From the opening rendition of Rule Britannia. this is British patriotic cinema at its most explicit. (iracie
colour.
I CAMEO
Shirley Valentine (Lewis (iilbert. UK. 1989) 7pm. From the same writer-director team that brought us Educating Rita in 1983. this isanother film about a woman's self-discovery. Pauline Collins abandons her family and sets off for something more than a holiday to (ireece.
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Medea (l’asolini. Italy/France’W.(ier. 1969) 8.30pm. l’asolini cast opera star Maria Callas in this adaptation of the Greek legend. filmed in a style that combines the mythic and primitive with the realistic and contemporary.
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Rosalie Goes Shopping (Percy Adlon. “C(ier. l989) 9pm. After Bugtlud Cafe. Adlon tackles the American consumer dream head-on. with the charismatic .‘vlariane Sagebrecht in an ongoing shop-till-you-drop situation that leaves her tussling with the credit Companies.
I CAMEO A Short Film About Love (Krzysztof Kieslowski.
OO'l'he List 18— 24 August 198‘)