 | May 4th
La Vie en Rose (2007) 140 min. |
| Telling the life story of the Parisian singer Edith Piaf - the
first and only Leading Lady Oscar awarded to a French actress.
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 | May 18th
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
140 min. |
| Academy award winning film with a Japanese
perspective on the American capture of Iwo Jima, a turning point in
the Pacific War. Acclaimed collaboration between Clint Eastwood and
Steven Spielberg. |
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June 1st Ae Fond Kiss (2004) 104 min. |
| Ken Loach's poignant film of love across the racial divide in Glasgow. |
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| June 15th
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) 98
min. |
| Hilarious ride across America to California by
the dysfunctional Hooker family. |
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 | June 29th
The Leopard (2006) 187 min. |
Luchino Visconti's magnificent period drama starring Burt
Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale telling of the life changes overtaking
the Sicilian aristocracy in the 1860s.
"Arguably the best film
ever made" - The Guardian. |
| August
10th There will be Blood
(2007) 158 min. |
| Daniel Day Lewis won the 2008 Best
Actor Oscar playing a ruthless oil baron's quest for power during the
Southern Californian oil boom of the late 19th and early 20th
century. 7 other Oscar nominations. |
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| Special Weekly Programme for Penicuik Arts Festival: Masters of World Cinema |
 | August 24th
The General (1925) Silent 94 min. |
| One of the greatest comedies of all time has the incomparably
straight-faced Buster Keaton chasing his hijacked locomotive across
the lines of the American Civil War. We re-create the authentic
atmosphere of silent cinema with live piano accompaniment from Graham
McDonald. (Ticket £6, child £4). |
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| August
31st The Leopard (il Geppardo)
(1963) 187 min. |
| This is a rare chance to see a
remastered and unabridged version of the masterpiece that won Luchino
Visconti the Palme d'Or at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. Starring
Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, this magnificent
drama spans the decline of an aristocratic family in the face of the
new-rich property speculators. This is a long film and will start
at 7 pm, doors open at 6.45pm (Ticket £8) |
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| September 7th
Double Bill starts at 7 pm, doors open at 6.45pm. (Ticket
£8) |
| Battleship
Potemkin (1925) Silent 68 min. |
| This
stunning portrayal of a naval mutiny marking the outbreak of the
abortive 1905 Russian Revolution comes from an early pioneer of modern
cinema, Sergei Eisenstein. The infamous crowd scenes on the Odessa
steps are a never-forgotten cinema milestone. |
| Metropolis (1927) Silent 118 min. |
| From the German master Fritz Lang, this can claim to be the
first science fiction film, foreseeing 2024 from 1924 and became an
inspiration for modern films like Bladerunner and Kubrick's 2001 - a
Space Odyssey. Echoed by George Orwell's 1984, it sees a workers
underclass ruled by a decadent elite. Severely cut from its original
210 minutes by its American financiers, most of the film was thought
to have been lost. The version shown here pieced together and
remastered everything known to exist in 2001 to create a lavish and
spectacular vision of another world. |
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