Images: BLUE COLLAR (main) and (left to right) AUTUMN SONATA, THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, THE LACEMAKER
THE SEASON. The Edinburgh Film Guild celebrated its 50th Anniversary during its 1979-1980 season. This was the second year of screenings at ‘Filmhouse’, having opened in 1978.
THE SCREENINGS took place in the single screen of the recently opened ‘Filmhouse’, 88 Lothian Road, EH3 9BZ.
PROGRAMME NOTES The Guild Council expressed its confidence that the Edinburgh Film Guild would “play an important part in the realisation of the enormous potential of the Filmhouse in the promotion of Film Culture in Scotland.”
FILMS were AUTUMN SONATA (West Germany) Ingmar Bergman. TIREZ SUR LE PIANISTE (France, 1960) Francois Truffaut. RED RIVER (U.S.A., 1964) Howard Hawks. HESTER STREET (U.S.A, 1974) Joan Micklin Silver. BEWARE AUTOMOBILE (U.S.S.R., 1966) Eldar Ryazanov. CARWASH (U.S.A., 1976) Michael Schultz. LA REGLE DU JEU (France, 1939) Jean Renoir. HELL IN THE PACIFIC (U.S.A., 1968) John Boorman. GREAT EXPECTATIONS (UK, 1946) David Lean. ACCATONE (Italy, 1961 ) Pier-Paolo Pasolini. CASANOVA (Italy, 1976) Federico Fellini.
ASHES AND DIAMONDS (Poland, 1958) Andrej Wajda. BLUE COLLAR (U.S.A., 1978) Paul Schrader. BLACK AND WHITE lN COLOUR ( France/Switzerland, I 978) Jean-Jacques Annaud. BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE (U.S.A., I97O) Sam Peckinpah. LA BELLE ET LA BETE (France, 1945) Jean Cocteau. ALLEGRO NON TROPPO (Italy” 1976) Bruno Bozzetta. Animated feature that parodies Disney’s “Fantasia”. WOMAN OF THE DUNES (Japan, 1964) Hiroshi Teshigahara. CUL-DE-SAC (U.K., 1966) Roman Polanski. PADRE PADRONE (Italy, 1977) Paola & Vittoria Taviani.
THE CHESS PLAYERS (lndia, 1977) Satyajit Ray. L’INNOCENTE (Italy, 1976) Luchino Visconti. Visconti’s last film. OPENING NIGHT (U.S.A., 1977) John Cassavetes. CAPRICIOUS SUMMER (Czechoslovakia, I968) Jiří Menzell. ALL ABOUT EVE (U.S.A., I95O) Joseph L. Mankiewicz. MORGAN, A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT (U.K., 1966) Karel Reisz. THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH (Australia, l978) Fred Schepisi. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PRINCESS (U.K.,1975) James lvory. PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (France, 1974) Luis Bunuel. THE LACEMAKER (Switzerland/France, I 976) Claude Goretta, with lsabelle Huppert. NEWSFRONT (Australia, 1978) Philip Noyce. BLACK HOLIDAY ( ltaly, 1973) Marco Leto. GIRLFRIENDS (U.S.A., I 978) Claudia Weill.
- Note: Quotations are from the Edinburgh Film Guild Season Programme 1979-1980.
Below: Programme of the 1979-1980 Season (click on image to enlarge)
