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Welcome to our exciting Autumn Programme of great movies!
The Grassmarket Community Project and Greyfriars Kirk love movies . We have come
together to organise the showing of films at least once a week for the benefit of our
members and the wider public. We have already shown over 50 movies free of charge
including powerful dramas, documentaries, family movies and classics as well as
hosting discussions.
Grassmarket Picture House encourages local film makers, groups and the general
public to hire our facility at excellent rates or suggest people who may wish to get
involved in or support our community cinema.
The Grassmarket Picture House, based in the Grassmarket Community Project is a
cosy community screening facility open to everyone. Everyone receives a warm
welcome. Our movies are shown for FREE though we strongly encourage donations
towards our Film Licence and overheads.
Grab a drink and snuggle down into our wonderful venue and enjoy!
Jonny Kinross
Chief Executive, Grassmarket Community Project
Membership
Become a Member for £20 (£5 concession) and
Get a 20% discount at the GCP Café
Help choose members’ screening
No need to donate at each screening
Why not volunteer? If you
volunteer we’ll give you free
membership. We need café
staff, people to set rooms up
and ushers. It’s a great for you
and helps sustain our cinema
Autumn Calendar
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Mon 7th 7pm Kind Hearts & Coronets
Mon 14th 7pm Last Orders
Mon 21st 7pm Glasgow Film Festival Animated Shorts
Sat 26th 2pm Glasgow Film Festival Animated Shorts (Kids’ Screening)
Mon 28th 7pm Gospel of Us
Mon 5th 7pm Selma
Mon 12th 7pm Do the Right Thing
Mon 12th-Fri
16th
Free Family Films throughout the Half Term holiday —
to be confirmed
Mon 19th 7pm Edinburgh Short Film screening then Quiz
Mon 26th 7pm Bride of Frankenstein (Halloween Special)
Mon 2nd Blueberry Soup Gather Film Festival Screening & Quiz
Mon 9th Paths of Glory
Mon 16th Amelie—LOVE Film Screening
Mon 23rd Persepolis
Sat 28th Secret of Kells (Kids’ Screening
Mon 30th Secret of Kells
Mon 7th 7pm Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Fri 11th– Sun
13th
Star Wars I—VI Weekend (Fri 7pm, Sat 11am, 3pm,
7pm, Sun 11am & 3pm.
Mon 14th 7pm Harvey
Mon 21st 7pm *Cinema Members’ Choice*
Tues 22nd 2pm Muppet’s Christmas Carol
Mon 28th 7pm Whisky Galore
Tues 29th 2pm Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Weds 30th 2pm Laurel & Hardy
“Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) should be heir to a dukedom but his family, the snobbish D’Ascoynes, have cut Louis off because his mother married badly. Vengeful and hate-filled, he sets out to regain his rightful place by killing everyone in the way. Everyone in ‘the way’ is played by Alec Guinness. All of them. He’s every member of the D’Ascoyne family and while each role is quite small, Guinness makes them all memorable. He’s helped by Dennis Price’s Louis devising increasingly wild ways with each of Guinness’ deaths being a fresh and horribly funny thrill.
It’s a treat to have a comedy as involving as a drama. You care about Louis and his cause even though it’s a tale of class differences that was dated even on release (made in 1949, it’s set around 1900). Louis should be hateful: he’s one of the cinema’s first serial killers. But as would not happen for another 50 years until “The Talented Mr Ripley”, “Kind Hearts and Coronets” is a film where you want the murderer to escape.” BBCi Films
Director: Robert Hamer Writers: Roy Horniman (novel), Robert Hamer (screenplay) Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness & Valerie Hobson
CERTIFICATE U | RUNNING TIME 106 mins
Kind Hearts & Coronets Monday 7th September | 7PM
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, ‘Last Orders’, that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife
Director: Fred Schepisi Writers: Graham Swift (novel), Fred Schepisi
Stars: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins & Tom Courtenay
“Makes for one of the most rewarding and authentic depictions of or tributes to the Cockney way of life in recent years.” Time Out
CERTIFICATE 15|RUNNING TIME 109 mins
Last Orders Monday 14th September 7pm
Grassmarket Picture House is delighted to showreel 11 short animated films featured in this years Glasgow Short Film Festival
Zebra
Julia Ocker | Germany | 2013 | 3 min One day a zebra ran into a tree.
The Little Cousteau Jakub Kouřil | Czech Republic | 2013 | 8 min A little boy longs for deep-sea adventures in a snow-covered city. An homage to Jacques Cousteau.
Hopfrog Leonid Shmelkov | Russia | 2012 | 5 min Non-scientific observations of a creature who just can’t stop jumping.
Grump Lise Cordellier | France | 2014 | 4 min Oscar is a very brave 9 year old boy. Encouraged by his two sisters Lucille and Garance, he begins a new adventure. What can he do to save their house from falling down the cliff? Thanks to Josette the seagull, he may have found a solution.
Choir Tour
Edmunds Jansons | Latvia | 2012 | 5 min
A world famous boys’ choir goes on tour. In the hands of their conductor they are an obedient
musical instrument. But left alone without supervision they are just playful children.
Polar Where? Terry Thomas | UK | 2013 | 2 min A polar bear searches for his missing friend.
Frenemy Vera Lalyko | Germany | 2014 | 6 min A cat and dog are just about poised to get one over on the other. A mysterious incident occurs which results in them swapping voices. All attempts to reverse are in vain. Finally enemies become friends.
New Species Kateřina Karhánková | Czech Republic | 2013 | 7 min This is a story about three kids who find a mysterious bone and their journey in trying to find the creature the bone belongs to.
Avocado Bear Thomas Fraser | UK | 2014 | 5 min A particularly over-ripe Avocado Bear experiences a hollow feeling when he suddenly finds himself without the precious stone set in his belly. However, a fresh encounter may uncover what he’s truly been missing all along…
Macropolis Joel Simon | UK | 2012 | 8 min Two broken toys are discarded from a factory production line. They rebel and chase the factory delivery van in the hope of rejoining their friends.
Silent Limbert Fabian, Brandon Oldenburg | USA | 2014 | 3 min Two street performers dream of bringing their Picture and Sound Show to life. When they discover a magical contraption inside an old theatre, they embark on a cinematic adventure of sight and sound, traveling through movie history to find the audience they always wanted. CERTIFICATE U | RUNNING TIME 56 MINS
Monday 21st September | 7PM
Saturday 26th September | 2PM
Gospel of Us Monday 28th September
Dave McKean presents The Gospel of Us, the film adaptation of the ground-braking
theatre events starring Michael Sheen, taking inspiration from one of the defining
narratives of our times, this contemporary re-telling of the Passion story took place
across the town with the people of Port Talbot as its cast and crew and heroes.
The scene is set during Easter in Port Talbot which is in a battle against the sinister
authoritarian forces of ICU—a merciless corporation depleting the town of its re-
sources and scant regard for the residents. The atmosphere is explosive and re-
sistance is inevitable. When a company man and suicide bomber clash on the
beach, catastrophe is only averted by the intervention of a softly spoken man who
had disappeared 40 days earlier. Revealed later as the Teacher (Michael Sheen), he
attracts followers and becomes a focus for the Resistance. His influence quickly
draws the attention of ICU who perceive him as a threat to be removed at all
costs…
UNRATED | RUNNING TIME 120 mins
Selma Monday 5th October | 7PM
This week we begin a two-part celebration of black history with Selma, director
Ava Duvernay’s portrayal of Martin Luther Kings involvement and organisation
of the historic protest march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama in 1965.
Starring David Oyelowo as Dr King struggling to galvanise the recent success of
the Civil Rights Act and extend it to voting rights for black people in the South
who were being turned away from voter registration booths by prejudice.
Oyelowo’s performance was deemed ‘charismatic, commanding, complicated
and utterly credible, his portrayal of Dr King is surely the stuff of which awards
are made’ by The Oberserver’s Mark Kermode.
Though the film begins with the apparent success of the Civil Rights battle with
King receiving the Novel Peace Prize, what follows is a battle between the will
of the people and the billy-clubs of the authorities.
Certificate 12A | RUNNING TIME 128 mins
Do the Right Thing Mon 12th October | 7PM
For our second week celebrating and exploring black American history, Spike Lee
delivers in splendid form with a pacy, punchy ensemble piece set in Brooklyn during
one stiflingly hot 24 hours. Lee himself plays Mookie, pizza delivery-man for Sal
(Aiello) and his two sons; though selfishly neglectful of his Hispanic lover and child,
Mookie is mostly Mr Nice Guy, ever ready to lend his calming influence to the storm
of insults that fly between the local blacks, Italians, Koreans and white cops.
Eventually, however, the heat takes its toll, and petty disagreements escalate into a
full-scale riot. Effortlessly moving from comedy to serious social comment, eliciting
excellent performances from a large and perfectly selected cast, and making superb
use of music both to create mood and comment on the action, Lee contrives to see
both sides of each conflict without falling prey to simplistic sentimentality. Best of
all, the film -- at once stylised and realistic - buzzes throughout with the sheer, edgy
bravado that comes from living one's life on the streets. It looks, sounds, and feels
right: sure proof that Lee's virtuoso technique and righteous anger are tempered by
real humanity.
CERTIFICATE 18 | RUNNING TIME 120 mins
Monday 19th October | 7PM
Short Film Screening and Quiz
Join us for a special evening for members of the
Grassmarket Picturehouse to test their knowledge of film!
A team of film fanatics will be putting together their
favourite questions to challenge and entertain fellow film
lovers!
FILM QUIZ
Bride of Frankenstein Monday 26th October | 7PM
This macabre, satirical film is generally considered one of the greatest horror films
of all time - a spectacular, bizarre, high-camp, excessive, humorous, farcical and
surrealistic film. Both Frankenstein films were produced by Carl Laemmle, Jr. (the
head of Universal) and directed by horror master James Whale, at a time when
monster films were diminishing. The film reunited Colin Clive (as Dr. Frankenstein)
with Boris Karloff as the Monster, but brought two new characters to the fore-
front: Ernest Thesiger as a necromancer who has miniaturized and imprisoned
various human beings in glass jars, and Elsa Lanchester as the Monster's Bride.
CERTIFICATE U | RUNNING TIME 73 mins
Blueberry Soup
Get a taste of Gather Film Festival (GFF)
GFF launched in March 2015 and explores life-changing and horizon-widening experiences, on a local and global level. Sample what GFF has
to offer with this one-off film screening – full details available soon.
GFF is part of Gather festival - an annual celebration of culture, community, and global citizenship; a week-long blend of events from
film, art and dance to food, sports and language organized by students, staff and the community at EUSA and the University of Edinburgh.
GATHER 20 – 28 February 2016
Find out more about Gather Festival online:
www.gatheruoe.wordpress.com
Special Gather Film Screening Monday 2nd November | 7PM
All Quiet on the Western Front Monday 9th November | 7PM
“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death,
fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are
set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently,
innocently slay one another.”
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
To mark remembrance day this year we have decided to show a film that shows the
brutal devastation of war as well as being a magnificent film adaptation of one of its
survivor’s stories. The book was banned by the Nazis as it was deemed pacifist and
dangerously anti-German and therefore subversive of Hitler’s militarist regime.
The film faithfully adapts Remarque’s tale of a group of young patriotic men who
eagerly enlist in the army to fight for their country. It then follows them as their
trauma unravels their patriotic fervour and forces them to realise the full horror of
war and its destruction of a generation.
The film was made only a dozen years following the end of the Great War, and the
memories of the war were still fresh however for modern
audiences its power and meaning can be re-applied to our
understanding of recent and current conflicts. As a piece of
artistic reflection on the senselessness of violence we can
join in on meditating on the need for peace and the
imperative of learning moral lessons from warfare.
CERTIFICATE PG | RUNNING TIME 136 mins
This evening’s screening is brought to us by the BFI as part of their Love Season. The
power of love is cinema’s most seductive illusion, making our hearts beat faster and
shaping our dreams and longings. BFI Love re-kindles audience passions for film and
television’s most enduring love stories, celebrating big screen romance, our most
cherished romantic comedies, and the darkest tales of obsession and betrayal.
"Amélie" is a fanciful comedy about a young woman who discretely orchestrates the
lives of the people around her, creating a world exclusively of her own making. Shot in
over 80 Parisian locations, acclaimed director Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Delicatessen"; "The
City of Lost Children") invokes his incomparable visionary style to capture the exquisite
charm and mystery of modern-day Paris through the eyes of a beautiful ingenue.
It is so hard to make a nimble, charming comedy. So hard to get the tone right and find
actors who embody charm instead of impersonating it. It takes so much confidence to
dance on the tightrope of whimsy. "Amelie" takes those chances, and gets away with
them.
CERTIFICATE 15 | RUNNING TIME 122 mins
Amélie Monday 16th November | 7pm
Persepolis Monday 23rd November | 7 PM
Superbly elegant and simple, Persepolis is based on the comic-book series by the
Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi, a coming-of-age story that I can only de-
scribe as an auto-graphic-novel-ography. Satrapi has co-written and co-directed
the movie version, and what a treat: funny and moving with a bracingly authentic
feel, reproducing the graphic work with broad, bold strokes and a depth-of-field
effect achieved with a recessive series of two-dimensional planes, like the ocean
waves at the back of a panto set. Muted colour tones are introduced for sequences
happening in the present, and deploying the cartoonist's classic skill, Satrapi cre-
ates witty and sympathetic facial expressions with hardly more than a squiggle.
This is one of those rare things in the cinema: a movie with an urgent new story to
tell and an urgent new way of telling it.
It is the story of Marjane, a little girl growing up in pre-revolutionary Iran in the
1970s. Her hero is Bruce Lee, and she is always scampering under the grown-ups'
legs at parties, baffling one and all by striking ferocious martial arts poses. She is
the indulged and adored daughter of well-to-do secular leftists who campaign
ceaselessly against the Shah, and find family members harassed and imprisoned.
CERTIFICATE 12 | RUNNING TIME 96 mins
The Secret of Kells Monday 30th November | 7pm
& Saturday 28th November | 2pm
Young Brendan lives in the Abbey of Kells, a remote medieval outpost under
siege from raising barbarians. One day a celebrated master illuminator arrives
from foreign lands carrying an ancient but unfinished book, brimming with se-
cret wisdom and powers. To help complete the magical book, Brendan has to
overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the en-
chanted forest, where mysthical creatures hide. It is here that he meets the fairy
Aisling, a mysterious young wolf-girl, who helps him along the way. But with the
barbarians closing in, will Brendan’s determination and artistic vision illuminate
the darkness and show that enlightenment is the best fortification against evil?
Magic, fantasy, and Celtic mythology come together in a riot of color and detail
that dazzle the eyes, in a sweeping story about the power of imagination and
faith to carry humanity through dark times.
CERTIFICATE PG | RUNNING TIME 75 mins
Hedwig & the Angry Inch Monday 7th December | 7pm
Is the world ready for Hedwig? After all, this allegorical semi-drag show that calls itself a ''post-punk neo-glam rock musical'' bears an uncomfortably subversive message about the fluidity of sexual roles, disguise and self-invention in rock music.
One way of looking at this clever, funny, wildly innovative film tricked out with surreal pop embellishments and Day-Glo colors is to see it as the kind of movie David Bowie might have made had he pushed his early-70's gender-bending persona to its logical limit.
Written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell, who turns in a spectacular lead performance, ''Hedwig'' follows the travails of the title character, a would-be rock star and survivor of a botched sex-change operation that has left her encumbered with an unwanted and embarrassing vestige of masculinity. Strutting through the movie in a dazzling assortment of wigs, and baring gams whose sleek, tapering curves rival those of Marlene Dietrich and Tina Turner, Mr. Mitchell is as imperiously charismatic on the screen as he was on the stage. His embittered but plucky title character, who makes her way from East Berlin to
Kansas and subsequently across America on a no-budget rock tour of tacky seafood
restaurants, often suggests Mr. Bowie as a chilly German dominatrix. But Hedwig's
hauteur only partly camouflages the vulnerability of a desperately lonely, expatriate
girlie boy snared in a sexual limbo in the American heartland while hopelessly pursuing
his/her artistic doppelgänger, the rock idol Tommy Gnosis (Michael Pitt).
CERTIFICATE 15 | RUNNING TIME 95 mins
STAR WARS I-VI WEEKEND Friday 11th—Sunday 13th
December
Just before the much anticipated Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens is
released on December 18th re-acquaint yourself with all 6 legendary movies that
created the most well known successful and inter-generational following of any
movie. Or perhaps you haven’t seen any or all of these and you’d like to see what
the fuss about? Feel free to dress up at the closing Return of the Jedi when we
will be awarding prizes to under 14’s in the best costume.
Times of screenings:
Friday 11th Dec 7pm—Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, (released May 19, 1999)
Saturday 12th Dec— 11am Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, (released May 16, 2002)
Saturday 12th Dec 3pm — Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, (released May 19, 2005)
Saturday 12th Dec—7pm Star Wars, (released May 25, 1977)
Sunday 13th Dec 11am —The Empire Strikes Back, (released May 21, 1980)
Sunday 13th Dec 1pm — Return of the Jedi, (released May 25, 1983) + fancy dress competition
Harvey Monday 14th December | 7pm
“Years ago my mother used to say to me, she’d say, “In this world Elwood, you must be”—she always called me Elwood—”In this world , Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.” Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.”
James Stewart in Harvey
Of course, it depends a great deal upon what you have in mind in the way of entertainment by which you would be amused. But if you're for warm and gentle whimsey, for a charmingly fanciful farce and for a little touch of pathos anent the fateful evanescence of man's dreams, then the movie version of "Harvey" is definitely for you.
As a matter of fact, we'll even wager that, if you're not in a mood for all of these, an hour and three-quarters with "Harvey" will do you a world of good. And if it does not—if a visit to the Astor, where it opened yesterday, does not send you forth into the highways and the byways embracing a warm glow—then the fault will be less with "Harvey," we suspect, than it will be with you.
Adapted from Mary Chase’s play, Harvey is a charming comedy about a good
natured drunk (James Stewart) who has an imaginary six-foot rabbit as his best
friend. The film is gentle and funny, and full of fine performances, including
Josephine Hull’s Academy Award-winning turn.
CERTIFICATE UNRATED| RUNNING TIME 104 mins
Monday 21st December—7pm
PICTURE HOUSE MEMBERS’ CHOICE
If you have a membership you will be able to
suggest a movie for this night. A week before we
will vote of them using a first preference system.
Suggestions welcome anytime—
What will you choose?
Introduce your children to a classic re-telling of Dickens’ Christmas carol by the
Muppets. Join in with the singing and bask in the comedy genius of a host of
familiar characters.
The plot follows Charles Dickens’ original 1843 novel closely, complete with the
omniscient narrator Dickens himself (played by The Great Gonzo, aided by Rizzo
the rat), stars Sir Michael Caine—in, frankly, a brilliant performance— as
Ebenezer Scrooge. Caine tears into the role and is, unlike plenty of Muppet movie
guest stars, never upstaged by Kermit the Frog or Miss Piggy.
The film was made just after the death of creator Jim Henson in 1990 and his
absence is clearly felt by all involved and though there’s a lightness of touch
running throughout, this is probably one of the darkest Muppet film yet. But
somehow, it’s also the one most filled with love.
CERTIFICATE U | RUNNING TIME 85 mins
The Muppet Christmas Carol Tuesday 22nd December | 2PM
Whisky Galore Monday 28th December | 7pm
Basil Radford plays a flustered Englishman sent to command a Home Guard force
on a remote Scottish island during the second world war. He is pop-eyed with
indignation to find that his men, along with the entire civilian population –
maddened by a wartime alcohol shortage – are secretly intent on plundering
50,000 cases of whisky from a shipwreck. This tale of an outsider failing to come
to grips with a tight-knit community could be screened as a triple bill with Local
Hero ("Oil-money galore") and The Wicker Man ("Occult conspiracy galore").
Insouciantly, the film finally reveals that the mass pilfering drove whisky prices up,
and eventually caused another booze famine. So victimless crime doesn't pay?
Well, this looks like mere lip-service being paid to the moral justice of the free
market. The film's sympathies are entirely with the drinkers. Perhaps it couldn't
be made in today's sober times.
A classic film to watch just before Scotland celebrates Hogmanay!
CERTIFICATE UNRATED | RUNNING TIME 83 mins
Grassmarket Picture House FREE
Family Films for Christmas at 2pm Tuesday 29th December Miracle on 34th St
Wednesday 30th December Laurel & Hardy