ScreenList: July 2026
ScreenList recommends can’t-miss screenings coming soon to Edinburgh’s Filmhouse. We’ve got Raymah Tariq, programme manager for Filmhouse, highlighting a few choice selections from the We’ve Got a Cinema And We’re Not Afraid To Use It strand and a special Harry Dean Stanton Centenary
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Drunken Master
In June, I highlighted that we were playing Umbrellas Of Cherbourg as part of our Big Birthday programme. Serendipitously, a video that always puts a smile on my face appeared on my feed shortly after – Malcolm and John David Washington in the Criterion Closet. Malcolm discusses Umbrellas... and about ‘artists in dialogue,’ referring to Agnes Varda and Spike Lee. Then John says: ‘Jackie Chan boxset, you know what I’m saying!’. It lives rent free in my mind. An opportunity to double bill them as part of the We’ve Got A Cinema And We’re Not Afraid To Use It strand could not pass me by!
Drunken Master is screening on Sunday 5 July.
Paris, Texas
Beautifully crafted in every sense, from its performances, photography and soundtrack, Paris, Texas is a tragic modern Western which captures melancholy like no other.
Playing as part of our Harry Dean Stanton Centenary, this film will be on Screen One on Stanton’s birthday. And whilst I’m at it, don’t miss the chance to catch Lucky, the actor’s swan song, which has now fallen out of UK distribution, meaning chances to watch this in a UK cinema will be quite rare.
Paris, Texas is screening on Tuesday 14 July; Lucky is screening on Sunday 19 July.
Address Unknown
One of my biggest pleasures as a programmer is watching a film at home that knocks my socks off, then immediately finding a way to programme it. In fact, we conceived of We’ve Got A Cinema… for this purpose, and would recommend checking out this strand for more of the Filmhouse staff team’s picks.
Address Unknown is a haunting anti-fascist noir from 1944 which follows a friendship being driven apart at great cost due to the rise of the Nazi regime. Directed by William Cameron Menzies (who was more well known for being a pioneer of production design) and photographed by one of the all-time greats, Rudolph Maté, this film is surprisingly a bit of an obscurity but has some of the most striking imagery I’ve seen in a noir.
Address Unknown is screening on Wednesday 29 July and Sunday 2 August.
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