Cinema celebration month Scalarama takes place again this September and aims to encourage patrons to discover new places to watch films and connect audiences with features in new ways. With more than 500 events taking place across the UK, here’s a look at just a few taking place here in Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Film Guild – Italian thrillers season
For Scalarama, the Edinburgh Film Guild will be presenting a selection of three 'giallo' thrillers from Italy (basically a catch-all term for surreal, arty horror films). They've already screened Giulio Questi’s ‘Death Laid an Egg’ (a 1968 feature focused on a love triangle involving a trio who are all involved with a hi-tech chicken farm), but you can still catch ‘Don’t Torture a Duckling’, a Lucio Fulci film from 1978 where a local reporter aims to discover the truth behind a murder killing off boys in a small Italian town, and ‘Footprints on the Moon’, which follows a translator trying to recall the events of a past few days. Released in 1975 and by Luigi Bazzoni, the film follows protagonist Alice as she’s drawn towards a near-empty seaside town whose inhabitants seem to recognise her.
Filmhouse. ‘Don’t Torture a Duckling’, Friday September 18, 8pm. ‘Footprints on the Moon’, Friday September 25, 8pm. Tickets £3 for each screening.
‘Tremors’
A 1990s film paying homage to 1950s B movies, this cult classic featuring Kevin Bacon sees two handymen attempting to save the small town of Perfection, Nevada from giant underground worms. This 25th anniversary screening will include a live Skype Q&A with director Ron Underwood afterwards and an introduction by author Jonathan Melville, the author of new book ‘Seeking Perfection: The Unofficial Guide to Tremors’.
Filmhouse, September 20, 8.30pm. Tickets from £9.
KinoKlub presents 'Valerie and her Week of Wonders'
Edinburgh's film club for the appreciation of arty cult wonders has a reputation for both an impeccable taste in films as well as a canny eye for an immersive screening experience (surgical thriller 'Eyes Without a Face' in Summerhall's Anatomy Theatre; Jan Švankmajer's stop-motion 'Alice' in a charity shop basement). This time round, they're screening surrealist Czech Freudian folk-horror 'Valerie and her Week of Wonders'. If you like your films ethereal, beautifully shot and ever so slightly erotic, this one's for you.
Grassmarket Community Project, September 30, 7pm. Tickets £4-£5.
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