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The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock.
Sahara after the rainy season. a young | waiter and forestry engineer begins a long ' journey in search of a healing plant.
I FILMHOUSE1 eiuebeard‘s Castle (Michael Powell. Germany. 1969) 7pm. Powell creates an intense expressionist psychodrama from the only opera written by 2()th century Hungarian composer. Bela Bartok. Also shown is Derek Jarman‘s short promo for The Smiths. The Queen Is Dead.
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Truly. Madly, Deeply (Anthony Minghella. UK. 1991 ) 7pm. in what is described as ‘the thinking person‘s Ghost‘. Alan Rickman is the spirit who refuses to rest in . peace. and instead becomes reinvolved in ‘ the life of his ex-lover. Juliet Stevenson.
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US. 1955) 7. 15pm. Hitchcock's superb black comedy revolves around a corpse which everybody in the village thinks was their responsibility.
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Triple Bogey on a Per Five Hole (Amos Poe. , US. 199(1) 8.30pm. A French writeris hired by a Japanese-owned studio to write a screenplay based on three orphaned children who live on a motor yacht. All he has to work on are their memories and the I home movies shot the summerthcir parents were killed.
I CAMEOi ; New British Shorts 8.45pm. The programme of five films begins with The Day The World Changed. directed by Gerry Troy na and narrated by Steven Berkoff. who also co-wrote the script. 1 I FlLMHDUSEt 1 Cross My Heart (Jacques Fanstcn. France. ‘ 1991)) 9pm. When a young boy‘s mother 1 dies. he conceals her death to avoid being sent to an orphanage. Hisfricnds helpout. ! but the deceptions become more and more difficult to sustain.
I CAME02 Naked Tango (Leonard Schrader. US. i 199(1) 9pm. The roots ofthe Argentinian tangoliein knife fights and male i domination. and this provides the starting i point for Schrader's excursion into the ; legaliscd brothels of 1920‘s Argentina.
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Thus Spake Believista (Luciana De Crescenzo.1taly.198-1)9.15pm.Aseries
of humorous sketches about Naples and its philosophy . directed by and starring best-selling writer-historian Dc
Crescenzo.
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The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock. US. 1963) 11.15pm. A small community on the
Pacific coast of America is terrorised when .1” the birds in the area start killingpeople. Hitchcock finds true horror in the
.nnocent figures of tiny sparrows and gulls.
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f lFlLMHDUSEt - Gaelic Animation 11.15am. Aspecial
programme of ten animated films made by children at Gaelic-speaking schools. working under the guidance ofthree professional animators from the
Edinburgh Film Workshop.
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Getting Animated in Edinburgh 12.30pm. A second programme of works created
under the auspices of the Edinburgh Film Workshop. this time by people ofall ages.
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Umbrellas oi Cherbourg (J acqucs Dcmy. France/Germany. 1964) 2pm. The storyof . ill-fated lovers is treated in full cinematic opera terms. with music by Michel Legrand.
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charts the social aspects affecting homosexuals in the changing society of Czechoslovakia. Paris Is Burning centres on a group of500 or so New Yorkers- ‘The Children‘ — who live in their own fantasy world fuelled by media images of Dallas and Dynasty.
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Young Filmmaker ot the Year Programme 11 2.30pm. Five short films from New York and Athens.
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Confidence (lstvan Svabo. Hungary. 1979) 4.30pm. Confidence acts as a bridge between Svabo‘s earlier picaresque works and the larger scale productions ofmore recent years. A man and a woman. on the run in wartime Budapest. find their relationship ripening.
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Fillplna Dreamgirls (Les Blair. Philippineslb'K. 1991 ) 4.45pm. Five lonely men from Wales (including comedian Charlie Drake) go on a dodgy package tour to Manila to meet mail-order brides. Written by House ofCards author Andrew Davis.
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A Captive In the Land (John Berry. USSR/US. 1990) 6.30pm. Alexander Potapov is the Russian survivor ofan Arctic plane crash and Sam Killing Fields Waterston the American parachutist who goes to his rescue. Cultures and personalities come into conflict in this adventure yarn.
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On the Wire (Elaine Proctor. UK. 1990) 6.45pm. South African born filmmaker Proctor uses the hidden psychological pressures of her native land as the background to this portrait ofa marriage breakdown.
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Obsession (Brian De Palma. US. 1976) 7pm. Cliff Robertson — whose Masterclasses form an integral part ofthe Film Festival - stars as a man whose wife and daughter have been kidnapped by his ex-partncr. De Palma. never one to hide his Hitchcock references. here makes bold borrowings from the classic Vertigo.
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Dakota Road (Nick Ward. UK. 1990) 7pm. Acclaimed playwright Ward makes an assured transition to the director‘s chair with this tragic tale ofsuffering and desire in the English countryside.
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Funny Face (Stanley Doncn. US. 1957) 7.15pm. A wonderful musical. peppered with Gershwin songs. starring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn asa photographer and his discovery. whose love affair goes through various peaks and troughs.
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AtterAii . . . (Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs. Hungary. 1991) 8.30pm. The first feature film to deal with the psychological traumas caused by the collapse of the Berlin Wall also examines the system that created it. I CAMEO1
Let Him Have It (Pctcr Mcdak.UK.1991) 8.45pm.1n 1952. an attempted robbery went wrong when a policeman was killed in a roof~top shoot-out. Medak. director of The Krays. reconstructs the trial and execution of 19-year-old Derek Bentley and reignitcs the controversy surrounding the capital punishment debate.
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Evenings (Rudolph van den Berg. Netherlands. 1990) 9pm. A rather peculiar young clerk is tormented by the
feature. which has enraged the American moral lobby.
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Ratatapian (Maurizio Nichetti. ltaly. 1979) 9.15pm. Nichetti's nonsense comedy takes shots at evcybody in today's poor—rich society. capturing all the spirit and energy of youth.
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Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leonc.1taly. 1968) 11.15pm. One ofthe most beautifully photographed and elegiac ofall Westerns. Leone‘s masterpiece finally allowed Henry Fonda to play a villain. the ice-cold Frank. a man whom Charles Bronson is dedicated to tracking down.
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Propaganda and Agitation 12.30pm. A programme examining how animation. often used to carry messages in advertising. is sometimes used to convey outright political propaganda.
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Cablri (Michael Kohier. UK/Kenya. 1990) 2pm. The multiplicity ofdreams stemming from mythology. Jung and comparative religions are expressed in Kohler's very personal film. acted out by the Samburu tribe of Kenya.
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Eyes of the Worlo2.15pm. Man Without Pigs follows the return of a Binandere man to his New Guinean village after receiving a doctorate in philosophy. Damned in the USA. on the other hand. examines censorship in contemporary America. with running commentary from one ofthe country's sharpest comedians.
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Young Filmmaker ot the Year Programme 12 2.30pm. Two films from Athens and. closer to home. three from Harrow.
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Eight Men Dut (John Sayies. US. 1988) 4.30pm. in 1919 American sport suffered one of its greatest disillusionments when it was discovered that the Chicago White Sox baseball team had taken bribes to throw the World Series. But the players were only the tip of a corrupt iceberg.
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Focus Scotland 4pm. A seminar on the current state of filmmaking in Scotland. its political support and the need for a Scottish Film School.
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Oh. What a Lovely Wor(Richard Attenborough. UK. 1969) 6.20pm. Attenborough's directorial debut was based on the popular musical play. and works well as a stylised condemnation of the waste ofwar.
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Cross My Heart (Jacques Fanstcn. France. 1990) 6.30pm. When his mother dies. a young boy conceals her death to avoid being sent to the orphanage. Despite his friends' help. the deception becomes more and more difficut to sustain.
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Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock. US. 1958) 6.45pm. Neurotic detective James Stewart cracks up when the woman he has been following commits suicide. But then he
. sees someone who is her double . . .With
boredom of his life and so he constructs his
own surreal fantasies.
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Poison (Todd Haynes. US. 1991 )9pm. Three stories shot in distinctly different
one of the master's best set-piece climaxes.
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La Stallone (Sergio Rubini. ltaly. 199(1) 6.45pm. The sleepy atmosphere of a rarely used train stop is shattered by the arrival of a tempestuous couple and the onset ofa claustrophobic cat and mouse game.
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The Object ot BeaumMichacl Lindsay-Hogg. UK. 1991)) 7pm. John Malkovich and Andie MacDowcH star as a
and social standing diminishing as their cocoa crop rots in South America. Their only salvation lies in selling a small Henry Moore statue. which suddenly goes missmg.
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Kasha (Kumar Shahani. india. 199(1) 8.30pm. Chekhov‘s brutal novella is translated to the Kangra Valley. where it becomes a tragi-comedy ofgreed. frustration and passion involving an unscrupulous merchant and his daughter-in-iaw.
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Journey to Knock (David Wheatlcy. UK. 1991 ) 8.45pm. John Hurt starsin thistale of a wheelchair-bound trio who make a journey to the West of Ireland where the Virgin Mary once put in a miraculous appearance.
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ii Portaborse (Danielle Lucchelli. ltaly. 1991 ) 9pm. A young literature teacher supplements his income by ghost-writing for a dried-up novelist. but is then called to Rome to write speeches for a corrupt politician. A scathing attack on the ltaiian Socialist Party.
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Nothing Left To Do But Cry (Massimo Troisi/Robcrto Benigni. ltaly. 1984)
9. 15pm. Another in the seriesoffilms by Italian comedians-turned-directors. this time telling of two friends who stumble back in time to 1492 and try to stop Columbus from discovering America.
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Social Suicide Lawrence D. Foldes. US. 1991) 11.15pm. This satire on American snobbery uses as its point of reference the age-old tradition of the debutante bail. Anarchic. chaotic and very funny.
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The Edinburgh Festival
BO0K AIR
5th -3lst August, Adam House,Chambers Street Edinburgh.
First day open 12 noon, Then 10am to 6pm Monday to Saturday
4 Festive weeks of a wide selection of 0. sum], Secondhand, ,s‘ & Antiquarian g ‘ Books Maps and Prints.
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Admission Free
Eyes of the World 2.15pm. Forbidden Love style are intertwined in Hayncs' first
. jet-setting couple who find their fortune
The List 16— 23 August 199153