The Edinburgh Film Guild and Grassmarket Community Picture House present ‘Cinema Italiano’, four classic Italian films. Tickets are free. Donations are welcome.
Wednesday, 19th August 2026 at 7:00pm
La Chimera
Alice Rohrwacher | Italy, 2023 | 132m | Italian with English subtitles | Rated 15
Just out of jail, crumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of grave-robbers who survive by looting Etruscan tombs and fencing the ancient treasures they dig up. “Italian social realism heightened by myth and magic..” (Time Out)
Trailer: La Chimera / > TICKETS
Monday, 24th August 2026 at 2:30pm
Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times)
Michelangelo Frammartino | Italy, 2010 | 88 min | Italian with English subtitles | Rated U
A study of the circle of life as an old man struggles to maintain his goat herd in the mountains of Calabria. This quirky, wordless account of rural Calabrian life is elegant, touching and funny, a philosophical poem to enduring tradition. “A wonderful film about life, the universe and everything. It’s captivating, touching, wryly humorous, mysterious, intriguing and uplifting.” (Time Out)
Trailer: Le Quattro Volte / TICKETS
Wednesday, 26th August 2026 at 7:00pm
Amarcord (I remember)
Federico Fellini | Italy 1973 | 124 minutes | Italian with English subtitles | Rated U
“Federico Fellini’s Amarcord takes us back to the small Italian town of his birth and young manhood, and gives us a joyful, bawdy, virtuoso portrait of the people he remembers there. It’s not only a great movie, it’s a great joy to see.” (Roger Ebert)
One of Fellini’s best-loved productions, weaving together Giuseppe Rottuno’s colourful cinematography, Danilo Donati’s extravagant costumes and sets and Nino rota’s nostalgia-tinged score.
Thursday, 27th August 2026 at 2:30pm
The Great Silence
Sergio Corbucci | Italy, 1968 | 105 min | Italian with English subtitles | Rated 15
On an unforgiving, snow swept western frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. Only a mute gunslinger named Silence stands between the innocent refuges and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent.
“Sergio Corbucci’s The Great Silence is rightfully considered one of the greatest European westerns ever made.” (Blu-ray.com)
Trailer: The Great Silence / TICKETS
LOCATION:
The Grassmarket Community Picture House Located in the heart of the Edinburgh’s historic Grassmarket:
- Grassmarket Community Project, 86 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh EH1 2QA
- Coffee Saints Café offers a wide range of coffees, cold drinks and food.
- The reception, main hall, cinema and café areas are all wheelchair accessible.