The Trust runs Sunday night film screenings at 19:30 in Penicuik
Town Hall (doors open 19:00). Tickets are usually £4.00 (at the door
but also the day before at Saturday Open House).
 | August 23rd
u-Carmen e Khayalitsha (2006) 122
min. |
| Arts Festival event: Tickets £8 (£6) |
| Vibrant, colourful setting for Bizet's
Carmen—still a feisty worker in a cigarette factory, but now
tussling with post-Apartheid police in a South African shanty
town. Miriam Malafune's stunning lead and beautiful photography won
this exotic and powerful African entry the prestigious Golden Bear
Award at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival. |
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 | August
30th My Childhood (1972)
46 min. My Ain Folk (1973) 55
min. My Way Home (1978) 71 min.
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| Arts Festival event: Tickets £8 (£6) |
| Bill Douglas' autobiographical trilogy tells of his
childhood in the poverty-stricken mining village of Newcraighall in
the aftermath of the Second World War, abandoned by his father, his
mother unstable … . These pioneering masterpieces of cinema
realism won the highest accolades on the Continent—The Silver Lion
at the Venice Film Festival and specials prizes at the Berlin Film
Festivals—but are rarely seen in Britain. "They are unique—no
other piece of cinema ever showed those quietly shivering landscapes"
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 | September
6th Nosferatu: a Symphony of
Horror (1922) 94 min. |
| Arts Festival
event: Tickets £8 (£6) |
| Murnau's
silent-film adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula pioneered the genre of
horror film. Welcoming back Graham Macdonald's
authentic live piano accompaniment. |
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| September
20th The Reader (2009) 124
min. |
| Kate Winslett won an Oscar for her
lead in this dramatic story of love and a secret past |
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 | October
4th Trainspotting (1996)
94 min. |
| Both devastatingly comic, and
painfully tragic, Danny Boyle's picture of Edinburgh youth culture and
its recreational habits put Irvine Welsh's hard-hitting novel on the
international map. Ewan McGregor is brilliant as smartaleck junkie
Renton, and Robert Carlyle gives a stunning performance as the violent
Begbie. This is a savagely sophisticated work and a landmark British
classic. |
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 | October
18 The Duchess (2008) 110
min. |
| Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley)
married the Duke of Devonshire at the height of the decadence and
political change of the Georgian period. Spirited and adored by the
public she quickly found her marriage disappointing. With constant
public scrutiny and an unfaithful husband, Georgiana falls
passionately in love with a rising young Whig politician. |
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| November
1st The Seventh Seal (1957) 96
min. |
| We mark the recent death of the man
judged by many as the 20th century's greatest filmmaker with Ingmar
Bergman's best known work. Set in mediaeval Europe, a knight returns
from the crusades as plague stalks the land. The film opens in an
iconic scene with the knight Antonius Block (Max von Sydow) gambling
for his life in a chess game with Death. Melvyn Bragg wrote "Somehow
all of Bergman's own past … [is] poured into a series of pictures that
carry … the most mysterious revelation of simply being alive."
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| November
15th Wind that shakes the
Barley (2006) 127 min. |
| Set in
the 1920s during the Irish War of Independence and then the Irish
Civil War, Ken Loach's powerfully tragic film won the Palme d'Or at
the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. A serious and brave film helping
British and Irish people to come to terms with the
'troubles'. |
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| November
29th Jean de Florette (1986)
120 min. |
| Filmed in Vaucluse (in the hills
behind Penicuik's twin town) the film brings together an incomer Jean
(Gerald Depardieu) pitted against Papet the village patriarch (played
by an aging Yves Montand). Coveting their steading, Papet plots to
ruin Jean by cutting off his water supply. |
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| 19:00 on December 13th Fanny & Alexander
(1982) 188 min. |
| Intended to be his last
film, our Christmas screening shows a charmingly different side of
Bergman's genius. Two young children grow up in the Edwardian era
opulence in a large theatrical family. Combining the certain yet
fragile world of adults with the fantastic world of children, the film
won 4 Oscars and worldwide acclaim. |
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| 15:00 on December
27th at Penicuik North Kirk Tales of
Beatrix Potter (1971) 90 min. |
|
Sir Frederick Ashton's masterful choreography, the Royal Ballet and
fabulous costumes bring Peter Rabbit, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and friends to
life in a New Year spectacular bringing delight to Beatrix Potter fans
of all ages. |
