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NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: TREASURE ISLAND Fresh from his stint in Once on Broadway and the West End, Arthur Darvill (Doctor Who’s Rory, pictured) now dons a peg-leg to play Long John Silver in this new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic. Bryony Lavery’s take ditches the boys-only atmosphere, turning the adventuring Jim from the innkeeper’s son to the innkeeper’s grandaughter. In April, look out too for NT Live screenings of Ralph Fiennes in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. ■ Selected release from Thu 22 Jan.
old mother Earth after the ravages of nuclear war. When orders come through that the plan is to be ditched, Dern and his team of robots head off into hyperspace in the hope that they can inspire life on another sphere and setting the scene for a tearful finale. Plus short We Give Pink Stamps. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Mon 15 Dec. Sosialismi (Socialism) (15) (Peter von Bagh, Finland, 2014) 60min. Documentary charting the realities of 20th century socialism. Glasgow Film Theatre, Mon 15 Dec. Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) (12) ●●●●● (Dietrich Brüggemann, Germany, 2014) Lucie Aron, Anna Brüggemann, Michael Kamp. 107min. Religious drama about a 14-year- old fundamentalist Catholic and her journey to be closer to Jesus. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Fri 12–Wed 17 Dec.
Steamboat Bill Junior (U) (Charles Reisner, US, 1928) Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron. 76min. Buster’s back with more classic slapstick in another tale of love and mishaps. With live accompaniment specially composed by pianist Jane Gardner, performing alongside Roddy Long on violin, and Hazel Morrison on percussion. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Fri 12 Dec.
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Still the Enemy Within (15) ●●●●● (Owen Gower, UK, 2014) 112min. Documentary on the 1984–85 UK miners’ strike, in which Thatcher’s government went to destroy the power of the trade unions. Gower’s film focuses on ex-miners, their wives and supporters and there’s little sense that things might have happened differently, but the lingering anger is shockingly clear, as is the nostalgia for the solidarity that grew in communities under attack from their own government. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Wed 17–Thu 18 Dec. Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake (E) (Russia, 2011) A version of perhaps the greatest ballet of all time, recorded at the Bolshoi Theatre, with choreography by Yury Grigorovich. Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Sun 25 Jan. The Green Prince (tbc) (Nadav Schirman, Germany/US/UK/Israel, 2014) 101min. The story of how a man whose father was a founding leader in the Palestinian organization, Hamas, became a spy for the Israelis. Glasgow Film Theatre, Fri 12–Thu 18 Dec. The Nut Job (PG) ●●●●● (Peter Lepeniotis, US, 2014) Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Liam Neeson. 100min. An incorrigibly self-serving exiled squirrel finds himself helping his former park brethren raid a nut store to survive, that is also the front for a human gang’s bank robbery. Odeon at the Quay, Glasgow, Sat 13–Sun 14 Dec. To the Arctic (U) (Greg MacGillivray, US, 2012) Meryl Streep. 40min. A tale of survival at the top of the world. Cineworld IMAX, Glasgow, Thu 11 Dec. 2001: A Space Odyssey (U) ●●●●● (Stanley Kubrick, UK, 1968) Keir Dullea, Gary Lockward, Leonard Rossiter. 139min. Kubrick’s gloriously grand architecture sees prehistoric apes timelined into a space ballet featuring a lunar craft docking to the sound of Strauss. This scene prefigures an extended drama aboard a spacecraft bound for Jupiter involving the murderous AI computer and the giant embryo of a space child signifying ... what? The next step in human evolution? An opaque masterpiece, which suggests so much, yet explains so little. Which is why it’s a timeless classic. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Thu 11 Dec; Cameo Cinema, Edinburgh, Tue 30 Dec. Under the Sea (U) (Howard Hall, UK, 2009) 65min. Jim Carrey narrates an underwater 3D look at the impact of global warming upon the diverse coastal regions of Southern Australia, New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific areas. Cineworld IMAX, Glasgow, Thu 11 Dec. Vodoun Gods on the Slave Coast (tbc) (Hisham Mayet, 2012) 50min. Formerly known as the Slave Coast, Benin in West Africa is the birthplace of voodoo and voodoo worship continues to be an integral part of everyday life. Shot in 2010 during the country’s rich Vodoun celebrations this film showcases the intimate observations of a variety of Voodoo ceremonies. Director Hisham Mayet will be present at this screening to discuss his experiences. Nice’n’Sleazy, Glasgow, Wed 17 Dec. White Christmas (U) ●●●●● (Michael Curtiz, US, 1954) Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney. 120min. Christmas staple starring Crosby and Kaye as a song-and- dance troupe who become involved with a sister act. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Mon 22–Wed 24 Dec. Winter Sleep (15) ●●●●● (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey, 2014) Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag. 196min. Aydin (Bilginer) is a former actor turned journalist and landowner, who runs a hotel in the Turkish mountains with his young wife (Sözen). Ceylan’s latest film is an enthralling, achingly sad study of the strategies adopted by the rich to assuage guilt, and how age and isolation can poison a personality. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Thu 11 Dec. 11 Dec 2014–5 Feb 2015 THE LIST 89