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26 June 2020
Recently, we carried out a survey of its members and regular attenders to understand the many complex issues and concerns that we would have in returning, but which has also unlocked a huge...
26 June 2020
Recently, we carried out a survey of its members and regular attenders to understand the many complex issues and concerns that we would have in returning, but which has also unlocked a huge...
26 March 2020
We're adapting our scheduled pre-planning public consultation in light of the social distancing and other advice issued by the UK and Scottish Governments in response to Coronavirus. Our bold new...
12 March 2020
We would like to assure you that we’re doing everything required to look after the health and safety of our valued customers and staff. Following Government guidance both Filmhouse and Filmhouse...
10 March 2020
Visionary eye on the world captured in bold new landmark project to deliver the future of Filmhouse, home to Edinburgh International Film Festival We're delighted to reveal our bold new...
21 February 2020
We're delighted to announce Scottish brewer Innis & Gunn as Filmhouse's latest House Guest, who will be curating a programme of truly original films that will run from 6 March until 2 April 2020....
20 November 2019
On Saturday 30th November Filmhouse will be taking part in St Andrew's Fair Saturday, a movement for thousands of artists and cultural organisations to get together to support social causes through...
14 November 2019
The Centre for the Moving Image, which incorporates Edinburgh International Film Festival, Filmhouse Cinema and Café Bar (Edinburgh) and Belmont Filmhouse (Aberdeen) is now an accredited Real Living...
18 October 2019
We are now a few days into this year’s Scotland Loves Anime festival and the big weekend blow out is fast approaching. As an avid fan of Japan’s unique take on the animated medium I can’t wait...
10 September 2019
Take One Action Returns to Filmhouse – we take a sneak peek at this year’s programme... With the state of our planet – and the interactions between some of its inhabitants – sending many...
15 August 2019
As Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece celebrates with a newly restored 'Final Cut' version, we look at some things you might not have know about this cult classic... Celebrating its 40th...
1 August 2019
Following its UK Premiere at Cinema Rediscovered (Bristol, 25 - 28 July 2019), Robert Bresson’s newly restored French classic Une Femme Douce opens at ICA in London before touring to Filmhouse and...
29 July 2019
Find joy, love and wonder at Filmhouse this season. To compliment Edinburgh's August festivals, we've got a great month of screenings and special events to break up your summer. If you've got guests...
22 July 2019
We're thrilled to see that Trafalgar Releasing have unveiled the official film trailer for Roger Waters Us + Them, filmed in Amsterdam on the European leg of his highly successful and critically...
9 August 2018
As an independent cinema that - each and every month - simultaneously looks forward to new cinema releases and casts our mind back into cinema history, we often find ourselves trying to trace the arc...
2 August 2018
There’s a particular feeling of satisfaction that comes with reprising a film that’s enjoyed success here during Edinburgh International Film Festival – like opening the door and seeing a...
6 July 2018
There’s a few mentions in this document of the term “4K”, and before you dive in I‘d like to just take a moment to explain what it actually means. I don’t want to insult anyone on the one...
29 May 2018
For a film set almost entirely in broad daylight, it’s ironic that cult horror comedy Tremors works so well as a late night staple of cable channels and as part of Filmhouse’s twisted Uncanny...
24 May 2018
One of the first non-English language films I saw at the cinema was Ricky Tognazzi’s La Scorta. I was 13 and it was the 1994 Italian Film Festival at Filmhouse. Tognazzi was in attendance, as was...
4 May 2018
...are, miraculously, all contained within the 56 pages of our latest programme. (Though, admittedly, if you want to know anything about the aforementioned film festival beyond simply its dates,...
5 April 2018
New Releases We've got an exciting line up this week here at Filmhouse, beginning with 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute), Robin Campillo's moving and exhilarating new film which follows Paris...
5 March 2018
In his Cave Allegory (Republic, c.360 BCE), Plato presents a strikingly visual account of the distinction between knowledge and belief and, in doing so, provides us with what may be considered the...
27 February 2018
Huge thanks to a number of you out there who sent me a link to the BBC News article that finally puts the issue I’ve been bleating on about for months (see Filmhouse December and February monthly...
22 February 2018
New Releases New to our screens is the latest from Steven Spielberg, The Post which is based on the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep), and...
15 February 2018
New Releases Fresh on to our screens this week is The Shape of Water, a gorgeous new tale by master story teller, Guillermo del Toro. A lonely cleaner working in a secret government facility,...
8 February 2018
New Releases We're delighted to have Andrei Zvyagintsev's new 'blisteringly beautiful' new drama Loveless showing at Filmhouse from today, which tells the story of an estranged Russian couple...
2 February 2018
Paul Thomas Anderson’s films are war films. The war in question is one war, the war of narrative. From Hard Eight through to his latest film Phantom Thread, the director introduces us to a...
1 February 2018
New Releases Arriving at Filmhouse from Friday is the fresh new adaptation of R.C. Sheriff's 1928 anti-war play, Journey's End, which takes us into the trenches of World War I with a group of...
25 January 2018
We're delighted to announce that Filmhouse will be releasing Mouly Surya’s provocative and darkly comic third feature Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, a deftly crafted and wholly uncompromising...
25 January 2018
New Releases Flying onto our screens from today is the visually stunning Jupiter's Moon, in which a young immigrant is shot while attempting to illegally cross the Serbian-Hungarian border....
23 January 2018
Avid readers of this column will remember a few months back I spoke about the folly that was the Autosafe Car Park – a ‘state-of-the-art’ car park behind our offices that, in theory at least,...
18 January 2018
New Releases Arriving today is Darkest Hour, a rousing drama from Joe Wright which stars Gary Oldman as the newly-elected British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who is immediately faced...
11 January 2018
New Releases After sweeping up awards in the past week, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Globes©, we can't wait to see Three Billboards Outside...
4 January 2018
New Releases A Happy New Year from everyone at Filmhouse! We're looking forward to another year of great films, a what better way to kick it off than with Hostiles, a violent, ferocious...
4 January 2018
Ahead of the release of his visionary new feature Rey, director Niles Atallah talks us through his process, inspirations and unique treatment of film stock. Can you talk about the approach that...
20 December 2017
The Gift That Keeps On Giving We're continuing with our festive favourites in the run up to Christmas, with Frank Capra's tear-jerker classic It's a Wonderful Life, which reviews the life of...
15 December 2017
A key sequence in German-based Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei’s globe-trotting refugee documentary Human Flow does something truly fascinating with the drone technology that has infected cinema...
13 December 2017
The True Gifts of Christmas... We're in the mood for giving here at Filmhouse, so we're bringing you a seasonal selection with traditional classics mixed with some not-so-traditional films...
12 December 2017
The magic of the movies has become synonymous with the festive season - nothing quite says Christmas like watching It's a Wonderful Life or The Muppet Christmas Carol with a cup of something mulled,...
6 December 2017
In the moderately unlikely event that you find yourself about to be shipwrecked on a desert island and forced to choose a single year of British cinema to take with you as the sole entertainment for...
6 December 2017
New Releases Showing from Friday we have the Blade of the Immortal, the 100th feature film from Japanese director Takashi Miike, whilst Menashe follows a Jewish widower who must battle for...
1 December 2017
As many of you may be aware (though I’m not sure exactly why you would be) there has, for many years, been a building out the back of our offices (across Chuckie Pend aka Morrison Street Lane) half...
23 November 2017
The Killing of a Sacred Deer mines similarly queasy dystopian material to Yorgos Lanthimos’ first English language film The Lobster, but this time goes for full-blown horror as the overriding tone,...
9 November 2017
Almost sixty years since it was first presented in cinemas Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho still exerts a considerable influence over representations of screen violence. This is the central thesis of an...
26 October 2017
When I tell people I’m a festival director they think it sounds glamorous. When I tell them I’m a horror festival director, they often change their mind. I understand: horror can be a very...
26 October 2017
When I first heard that Sir Kenny Branagh was remaking Sydney Lumet’s 1973 apogee of the All-Star Cast film vehicle (or, perhaps, as he might prefer, reimagining of the 1934 Agatha Christie novel)...
16 October 2017
How rare it is to find a film that touches you quite like Call Me By Your Name does. A queer drama from Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) that’s made all the more remarkable thanks to its universal...
16 October 2017
Is Charlie Kaufman a philosopher? Many believe so. His films are increasingly screened in classrooms and lecture halls (as well as cinemas) and in 2011 philosophers contributed essays to an edited...
6 October 2017
I’m writing this on my way back from the 2017 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, and, whilst it wasn’t perhaps a vintage year, I do return with a head full of many splendid films...
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