FILM | Index
Scottish warrior hero William Wallace. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Mon 23 Jun. Le Cercle Rouge (PG) ●●●●● (Jean-Pierre Melville, France/Italy, 1970) Alain Delon, André Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté. 140min. Melville transposes Huston’s ‘The Asphalt Jungle’ into the complex disingenuous world of Gallic long macs, con men and hard faced police chiefs. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 22 Jun. Dirty Dancing (15) ●●●●● (Emile Ardolino, US, 1987) Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Orbach. 100min. Bad boy Johnny meets good girl Baby and teaches her hip grinding. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 22 Jun. Dirty Harry (18) (Don Siegel, US, 1971) Clint Eastwood, Andy Robinson, Harry Guardino. 102min. Iconoclastic cop Harry Callaghan will stop at nothing to track down a deranged psycho. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 15 Jun. Dragnet Girl (tbc) (Yasujirô Ozu, Japan, 1933) Kinuyo Tanaka, Joji Oka, Sumiko Mizukubo. 100min. A gangster tries to find redemption with the inadvertent help of an innocent shop girl and his jealous girlfriend will do anything to keep him. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 13 Jun. Edinburgh Short Film Festival Ten events over two weekends, showcasing a selection of the best shorts by filmmakers from across the globe. Summerhall, Edinburgh, Fri 13– Sun 15 Jun; The Granary, Edinburgh, Sat 14 Jun. edinburghshortfilmfestival. com. Frozen (PG) ●●●●● (Chris Buck, US, 2013) Voices of Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Idina Menzel. 108min. Sing- along screening of the most successful animated film ever made. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 28 Jun. LIVE SCREENING Glyndebourne Opera: Don Giovanni (tbc) (2014) A screening of the opera’s performance of Mozart’s tale of dissolution and retribution. Cineworld IMAX, Glasgow, Sun 6 Jul; Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 6 Jul. The Godfather (15) ●●●●● (Francis Ford Coppola, US, 1971) Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan. 175min. Coppola’s gangster classic. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 15 Jun. A Hard Day’s Night (U) (Richard Lester, UK, 1964) John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison. 87min. Classic Beatles film. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Mon 7 Jul. Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty (tbc) (A R Murugadoss, India, 2014) Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Govinda. 170min. Bollywood action thriller about an army officer. Odeon at the Quay, Glasgow, Thu 12 Jun; Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh, Thu 12 Jun; Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Thu 12 Jun. In Bloom (15) (Chris Michael Birkmeier, USA, 2013) Kyle Wigent, Tanner Rittenhouse, Adam Fane. 87min. A young couple’s relationship falters when an alluring newcomer comes to Chicago. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 13–Sun 15 Jun. The Incredibles (PG) (Brad Bird, USA, 2004) Voices of Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L Jackson. 120min. Astounding, witty and funny Pixar animated adventure film. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Sun 15 Jun. Jason and The Argonauts (U) (Don Chaffey, UK/US, 1963) Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Gary Raymond. 104min. Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion effects remain among the best of his career. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 21 Jun. The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (15) (Djibril Diop Mambety, Senegal/ France/Switzerland/Germany, 1999) Lissa Balera, Aminata Fall, Tayerou M’Baye. 45min. A luminous portrait of a young handicapped girl and her 64 THE LIST 12 Jun–10 Jul 2014
BANNAN Produced by Chris Young, the man behind The Inbetweeners, this is the first original Gaelic language drama by BBC Alba. Mairi ran away from her island community at 18 but when she returns briefly years later she finds that the bannan – or ‘the ties that bind’ – prove stronger than she expects. Given the success of Nordic dramas like The Killing, the makers of Bannan are hopeful there is a market for other subtitled series. The three half-hour episodes premiering at the EIFF will be the first test. (Lia Sanders) ■ Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Sat 28 Jun.
determination to be a street vendor of Le Soleil, the national newspaper of Senegal. Double bill with Palle Alone in the World. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 14 Jun. Long Live the Republic (At’ zije Republika) (tbc) ( Karel Kachyna, Czechoslovakia, 1965) Frank Argus, Josef Barta, Eduard Bredun. 134min. Czech war drama about a young child caught up in the horrors of war. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Thu 12–Sun 15 Jun. Mad Max Double Bill (R) (George Miller, Australia, 1979/1981) Mel Gibson. 88/95min. A double dose of leather-jacketed Mel Gibson. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sat 5 Jul. Moving (Ohikkoshi) (PG) (Shinji Somai, Japan, 1993) Shinobu Chihara, Kiichi Nakai, Junko Sakurada. 124min. A young girl must adjust to her new life after the divorce of her parents. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 21 Jun. LIVE SCREENING National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (tbc) (Marianne Elliott, UK, 2012) Luke Treadaway, Nicola Walker, Una Stubbs. See the National Theatre’s adaptation of Mark Haddon’s best-selling book on a big screen near you. Vue Ocean, Edinburgh, Mon 16 Jun; Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 15 Jun. Nicky’s Family (tbc) (Matej Minac, Slovakia/Czech Republic/UK/USA/ Israel/Cambodia, 2011) 96min. The story of Englishman Nicholas Winton, who organised kindertranports for 669 Czech and Slovak children just before WWII began and never spoke of it to anyone for more than half a century. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Tue 17 Jun.
On Golden Pond (PG) (Mark Rydell, UK/US, 1981) Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda. 109min. A couple’s annual pilgrimage to their New England summer cottage is interrupted when their daughter persuades them to look after her fiancée’s son. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Tue 17–Wed 18 Jun. Rear Window (PG) ●●●●● (Alfred Hitchcock, US, 1954) James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey. 112min. One of Hitch’s darkest movies, with an intense, unrelenting claustrophobia derived from confining the lens to the apartment set. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 29 Jun. Russian Dolls (15) (Cédric Klapisch, France/UK, 2005) Romain Duris, Kelly Reilly, Audrey Tautou. 125min. Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 22 Jun. LIVE SCREENING Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen: Henry IV Part II (PG) (Dominic Dromgoole, UK, 2011) Roger Allam, Jamie Parker, Sam Crane. The second part of Shakespeare’s epic play from The Globe Theatre. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 18 Jun. LIVE SCREENING Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen: The Tempest (tbc) (2014) Ageless wisdom from Shakespeare in this live performance of his comedy. Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh, Mon 30 Jun; Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Mon 30 Jun. Sweet Smell Of Success (15) (Alexander Mackendrick, US, 1957) Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison. 96min. Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman scripted this brilliant study of the destructive effect of power. Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sun 29 Jun. Tomka dhe shokët e tij (PG) (Xhanfise Keko, Albania, 1977) Sotiraq Çili, Pavlina Oça, Zehrudin Dokle. 78min. The Nazis occupy an Albanian village, infuriating Tomka and his gang by setting up camp on their local football pitch. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Sat 14–Mon 16 Jun; Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, Sat 28 Jun. West End Festival Glasgow’s largest cultural event, now in its 19th year. Featuring screenings of Shall We Dance (the first film shown in Bathgate), The Wicker Man and Chariots of Fire. Various venues, Glasgow, until Sun 29 Jun. westendfestival.co.uk. LIVE SCREENING West End Theatre: From Here to Eternity – The Musical (tbc) (UK, 2014) Tim Rice and Stuart Brayson’s musical beamed live from London’s West End. Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh, Thu 3 Jul; Cineworld Parkhead, Glasgow, Thu 3 Jul; Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Thu 3 Jul. LIVE SCREENING West End Theatre: Ghosts (tbc) (UK) 2014min. Screening of a live production of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, performed at the Trafalgar Studios and starring Lesley Manville as the widow Helene Alving. Odeon Lothian Road, Edinburgh, Thu 26 Jun; Cineworld Fountainpark, Edinburgh, Thu 26 Jun; Cineworld Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Thu 26 Jun. West Side Story (PG) ●●●●● (Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, US, 1961) Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn. 152min. Romeo And Juliet revisited against a background of New York gangs. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 6 Jul.