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Sunday night is film night!

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).

Programme: Autumn 2009

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.
August 30th  My Childhood (1972) 46 min.  My Ain Folk (1973) 55 min.  My Way Home (1978) 71 min.
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"
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.
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
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.
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.
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."
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'.
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.
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.
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.

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