Film screening on 1961's The Hustler Paul Newman's career-defining turn as Fast 'Eddie' Felson in a film from the writer of The Queen's Gambit, Walter Tevis.
Dir: Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi 12A, US, Doc Film start 7:15pm (doors 7pm), running time 100mins An extraordinary documentary, that was one of the surprise box-office hits of 2018. Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi follow the free-climbing exploits of Alex Honnold—the first person to ever free solo climb El apitan—an infamous sheer mountain climb [...]
Dir: Gurinder Chadha 12A, UK / US, Musical, Film start 7:15pm (doors 7pm), running time 118mins Javed (Viveik Kalra) is a British-Pakistani growing up in dour and provincial Luton at the height of of the Thatcherite 1980s. A talented writer Javed is an enigma to his hardworking mother and father, who simply want him to [...]
Start 7:15pm (doors 7pm) The Grassmarket’s InterSci Conversation Group will be hosting a special documentary screening this week. InterSci engages top scientists working on ground breaking and insightful subject matters with top audience members at the Grassmarket Community Project—come along and be blown away (not literally!) www.facebook.com/InterSciEd/ Please consult the Grassmarket website www.grassmarket.org and Facebook [...]
Dir: Pedro Almodovar 15, Spain, Drama, Film starts 7:15pm (doors 7pm), running time 113mins Spanish maestro Pedro Almodovar returns to the big screen and reunites with old muse Antonio Banderas for a deeply self-reflexive and highly personal take on ageing and loss. Banderas plays Salvador Mallo, a film director crippled by self doubt and a [...]
Dir: Carlos Lopez Estrada 12, US, Crime Comedy, Film starts 7:15pm (Doors 7pm), running time 95mins A backhanded love letter to Oakland, California this crime caper – written by its two stars—follows Colin Hoskins (Daveed Diggs) as he struggles to complete his probation, while trying to look after his hot-tempered best friend Miles (Rafael Casal). [...]
Dir: John McPhail 15, UK, Comedy Film starts 7:15pm, running time 93mins A Xmas Zombie Apocalypse threatens the sleepy Scottish town of Little Haven. Armed with hockey sticks, fireworks and full on singing voices, Anna and her school buddies fight for survival at the end of the world. John McPhail’s hugely entertaining second feature is [...]
Dir: Naziha Arebi TBC, UK / Libya, Documentary, 97mins This engrossing Scottish Documentary Institute release has played well to audiences across the globe, so we are really pleased to be bringing it to the Grassmarket community. Filmed over five years, Arebi and her team follow three young female football players, playing for their team in [...]
“Stubbornness, selfishness… madness drives me”, this is how the subject of legendary British filmmaker Jack Bond (Vibration, Anticlock, It Could Happen Here, Dali in New York, The Blue-Black Hussar ) describes the creative impulse that spurs him on in his work. The subject in question is Chris Moon, a brilliant young British painter utterly devoted [...]
We couldn’t resist programming this award-winning Sally Field vehicle for International Worker’s Day. Not only is it one of my personal favourite Hollywood films, it is also the original and the best in a sub-genre of films that includes the likes of Silkwood and Erin Broko-vich. Norma Rae (Sally Field) is a young North Carolinan [...]
