This September, we present THE MAESTRO OF FILM! Ennio Morricone is perhaps best known for defining the sound of the Spaghetti Western, but his music stretches far beyond the frontier. This month long series explores three films that reveal the extraordinary breadth of his work as a composer.
Danny Boyle's decade-defining adaptation of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2026, and is heading back to Filmhouse from 21 August in a 4K restoration as part of our Music In Film showcase!
Ewan McGregor stars as Mark Renton, the most reflective member of a group that also includes the compulsive womaniser, Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and the hapless Spud (Ewen Bremner). Renton, Spud and Sick Boy's issues with drugs alternatively irritate and amuse their friend, Begbie (Robert Carlyle), a periodic psychopath whose outbursts of violence are one of the many factors that convince Renton to leave for London in the hope of starting a new life. Renton enjoys some success remoulding himself as an estate agent in the English capital, but it isn't long before his Edinburgh friends catch up with him. Begbie and co. need the money Renton has saved from his job to finance the drug deal that could make them all rich...
In English.
Rated R21 for Drug Use and Sexual Scenes
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
In English with Mandarin Subtitles
Rated PG13 for Some Coarse Language
Roy Payamal is the wildest busker of a country ranked the world’s most emotionless society. He takes his undermined line of work as a serious art- but is his faith impossible idealism or an admirable conviction? Singapore Minstrel is an invitation into his beautiful mind, a magical, trying universe where art and life dialogue in a tropical dream.
In English with English subtitles.
Rated PG.
Join us for a live Q&A with director Salty Xi Jie Ng and artist Roy Payamal on Sat 5 September.
Salty Xi Jie Ng is an artist, performer, educator, and mystic based between Singapore and Portland, Oregon. Her transdisciplinary practice is a collaborative, alchemical site intimately exploring the erotic, ancestry, ageing, the inner worlds of older women, the end-of-life, unseen worlds, and spirit realms, while examining artistic labour and what gets to be called art. Salty is the 2024 recipient of the Chamberlain Award for social practice artists from the Headlands Centre for the Arts and the 2025 Arts Research Scholar-in-Residence at Nanyang Academy of Fine Art - University of the Arts Singapore.
Set across the shifting landscape of colonial Singapore and wartime Malaya, two musically gifted childhood friends—Fei and Kai—are bound together by their shared devotion to the violin. When the brutal onset of World War II and the Japanese Occupation tears them apart, Fei embarks on a decades-long journey across a changing Southeast Asia, holding onto memory, resilience, and the power of music as she searches for her lost friend.
A landmark achievement for local cinema, co-directors Ervin Han and Raúl García’s hand-drawn feature made history by winning the prestigious Cristal Award for Best Feature at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, alongside the SACEM Award for Best Original Soundtrack. Blending meticulous traditional craft with an evocative score by Ricky Ho, the film transforms regional history into a deeply human, universally resonant story that demands to be experienced on the big screen
Director Q&A, Friday 11 Sep
Join us for an in-person Q&A with Producer and Co-Director Ervin Han
In English with English and Mandarin subtitles.
Rated PG for Some Violence
Set against the sweeping wheat fields of the 1916 Texas Panhandle, Terrence Malick’s romantic masterpiece follows Bill (Richard Gere) and Abby (Brooke Adams), lovers posing as brother and sister while fleeing a turbulent past in Chicago. When a wealthy, ailing farmer (Sam Shepard) falls for Abby, a desperate scheme for survival spirals into a tragic love triangle. Narrated through the perspective of Bill’s younger sister Linda (Linda Manz), Days of Heaven is an intoxicating fable of desire, fate, and human frailty.
Supervised by Malick, this 4K restoration restores the film’s world famous "magic hour" cinematography—shot almost exclusively during twilight by Néstor Almendros and Haskell Wexler—to pure painterly brilliance. Paired with Ennio Morricone’s bittersweet, haunting score, it remains an unmatched sensory triumph
In English.
Rated PG.
Spanning four turbulent decades of friendship, betrayal, and memory on New York’s Lower East Side, Sergio Leone’s final cinematic monument follows David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his tight knit crew from street level hustlers to Prohibition era kingpins. Fluidly weaving through time via an opium fogged haze of nostalgia, this hypnotic tale of ambition and lost youth pairs Tonino Delli Colli’s lush visual compositions with Ennio Morricone’s most melancholic, haunting score. Digitally restored frame-by-frame from the original camera negative by the Cineteca di Bologna and Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation, Leone’s sweeping crime saga remains an unmatched theatrical experience—a tragic, haunting myth that demands the immersive scale of the cinema
In English.
Rated M18 for Violence.
The ultimate love letter to moviegoing comes to Filmhouse in luminous 4K!
Set in a sun-drenched Sicilian village, Giuseppe Tornatore’s timeless masterpiece follows young Salvatore as he discovers the magic of cinema inside his local picture house, guided by the wise and grumpy projectionist Alfredo (Philippe Noiret). Presented as the Oscar-winning International Theatrical Cut—gloriously restored in 4K—this quintessential ode to youth, lost love, and silver-screen magic features Ennio Morricone’s most heart-swelling, immortal score.
In Italian with English subtitles.
Rated M18 for Sexual References.
