65RETROSPECTIVESHINJI SOMAIWait and See(Ah, haru)Shinji Somai/Japan/1998/100 minCast: Koichi Saito, Yuki Saito, Tsutomu YamazakiSAT 30 JUNE 14:15 FILMHOUSE 2PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC)A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.Print courtesy of Shochiku.RETROSPECTIVESHINJI SOMAITokyo Heaven (Tokyo joku irasshaimase) Shinji Somai/Japan/1990/109 minCast: Kiichi Nakai, Riho Makise, Tsurube ShofukuteiFRI 29 JUNE 15:30 FILMHOUSE 2PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC)A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who is trying to cover up her death. A blend of fantasy and trenchant realism in which Somai uses the ethereal glow of advertising images to comment on the transience of life.Print courtesy of Shochiku.RETROSPECTIVESHINJI SOMAIRETROSPECTIVESHINJI SOMAISailor Suit and Machine Gun(Sera-fuku to kikanju) Shinji Somai/Japan/1981/112 minCast: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Tsunehiko Watase, Rentaro MikuniSUN 1 JULY14:00 FILMHOUSE 1PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC)A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organisation, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership. This mixture of deadpan comedy and outlandish action was a smash hit in Japan. A generation of young Japanese women grew up reciting lines of dialogue from this movie.Print courtesy of Kadokawa Shoten Co. Ltd.PP Rider(Shonben raida)Shinji Somai/Japan/1983/118 minCast: Tatsuya Fuji, Michiko Kawai, Masatoshi NagaseTHU 21 JUNE 15:30 FILMHOUSE 1PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC)Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped. Their bizarre, distinctively Somai-esque journey involves some of the director's most astonishing long takes.Print courtesy of The National Film Center of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.RETROSPECTIVESHINJI SOMAIThe Terrible Couple(Tonda kappuru)Shinji Somai/Japan/1980/122 minCast: Shingo Tsurumi, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Mieko HaradaTHU 28 JUNE 16:00 FILMHOUSE 3PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC)Through a clerical error, a studious tenth-grade boy is forced to share a house with the prettiest girl in school - an arrangement that could mean expulsion if it's found out. In his first film, Shinji Somai turns a popular boys' manga into a vigorous and bittersweet study of the fears and longings of adolescence.Print courtesy of The National Film Center of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.RETROSPECTIVESHINJI SOMAITyphoon Club(Taifu kurabu)Shinji Somai/Japan/1985/115 minCast: Yuichi Mikami, Youki Kudoh, Tomokazu MiuraSAT 23 JUNE 15:15 FILMHOUSE 1PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC)One of Somai's masterpieces. As a typhoon approaches their small Tokyo suburb, a group of high-school students confront issues of sexuality, mortality and their place in the world. A riveting work with a rich and beguiling atmosphere, showing the director's full dynamic range.Print courtesy of The National Film Center of The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. reTroSPecTive SHinji SomAi:20 June - 1 July

66reTroSPecTive gregorY lA cAvARETROSPECTIVEGREGORY LA CAVAMy Man GodfreyGregory La Cava/USA/1936/93 minCast: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Eugene Pallette, Mischa AuerSAT 30 JUNE 17:35 FILMHOUSE 1PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC)An evergreen classic of Depression-era screwball comedy. On a "scavenger hunt" for "forgotten men," spoiled socialite Carole Lombard picks up homeless William Powell and gives him a job as her family's butler.Print courtesy of The Library of Congress.RETROSPECTIVEGREGORY LA CAVAGabriel over the White HouseGregory La Cava/USA/1933/86 minCast: Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot ToneTHU 28 JUNE 16:15 FILMHOUSE 1PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC)In this outrageous political fantasy made at the bottom of the Depression, a political hack is elected President of the United States. After suffering a near-fatal car accident, he is inspired by the angel Gabriel to seize dictatorial powers in order to lead the nation out of its woes.Print courtesy of The Library of Congress.RETROSPECTIVEGREGORY LA CAVAFeel My PulseGregory La Cava/USA/1928/63 minCast: Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen, William PowellWED 27 JUNE 16:10 FILMHOUSE 3PRICE: £7.00 (£6.00 CONC)A hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium to find that it is a front for bootleggers. This manic comedy is often regarded as La Cava's best silent film. With live piano accompaniment by Forrester Pyke.in cinemas August 2012© 2012 Disney/PixarEnter at www.visitscotland.com/braveEilean Donan Castle, HighlandsGABRIEL OvER THE WHITE HOUSEGregory La Cava was one of the great innovators of American film comedy. His career took him from the print cartoon to animation, from animation to live action and from silent to sound cinema. With the success of My Man Godfrey in 1936, La Cava won a degree of autonomy rarely achieved by any Hollywood director, receiving full creative control over his films, including the freedom to improvise extensively on the set.The shifting tonalities of his films, the freedom of his approach to narrative and his taste for strong female characters mark La Cava as a strikingly modern director. This retrospective includes both La Cava's most celebrated films and some of his neglected triumphs.Edinburgh International Film Festival 2012reTroSPecTive gregorY lA cAvA: