| Robert Burns Centre FILM THEATRE |
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THU 9 February THU 23 February Doors open at 10am and film starts at 10.45am. BRING A BABY WED 15 February Doors open at 12.30pm and film starts at 1pm. SNEAKY CINEMA! Treat yourself to a lazy afternoon at the RBC; settle into a film and then digest over tea and cake afterwards. Tickets cost £6.60 (£5.00 conc). TUE 21 February Doors open at 1pm, film starts at 1.30pm. |
7pm showings on Tuesday 7, Wednesday 8, Thursday 9, Saturday 11, Tuesday 14, Wednesday 15, Thursday 16, Thursday 9 (10.45), Wednesday 15 (1pm ) February War Horse – Dir. Steven Spielberg
When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he survives through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets - British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter - before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land.
Local Hero – Dir. Bill Forsyth Texas billionaire Felix Happer would rather gaze at the stars than worry about his multi-national oil company. Happer dispatches Mac MacIntyre and Danny Oldsen to the small Scottish fishing village of Ferness to negotiate buying the entire town so Happer can drill for oil in the North Sea. A wrinkle appears in the deal when an old man who lives in a shack on the beach which has been owned by his family for centuries, refuses to sell. The deal stalls and Happer travels to Ferness to oversee negotiations but is unprepared for the charm of the Scottish town. This screening of the Classic Bill Forsyth Film Local Hero has been organised in collaboration with Glasgow University and will be introduced by Dr Jonathan Murray.
Writer/director Bill Forsyth is the most
important filmmaker that Scotland has to
date produced. Forsyth was a vital figurehead
for the tentative late-1970s/early-1980s
emergence of an indigenous Scottish cinema.
Moreover, the distinctive and subtle nature
of his directorial style, one capable of making
comedy and a profound melancholy coexist
on the cinema screen, has, arguably, not been
matched since by any Scottish filmmaker
before or since. This presentation explores
the key characteristics of Forsyth's writing
and directing practice, and argues that the
enduring significance of this filmmaker's
work extends far beyond his native shores. Dr Jonathan Murray lectures in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art. Among many publications on the subject of Scottish cinema, he is the author of the book Discomfort and Joy: the Cinema of Bill Forsyth (Peter Lang, 2011). Pom Wonderful Presents: The
Greatest Movie Ever Sold – Dir. Morgan Spurlock
Friday 17 (7.30), Saturday 18 (5.45), Tuesday 21 (1.30 and 7.30), Thursday 23 (10.45am) February The Iron Lady – Dir. Phyllida Lloyd
Featuring a high calibre cast led by Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent and Richard E. Grant.
Saturday 18 (8.15) and Monday 20 (6.30 ) February Shame – Dir. Steve McQueen (III)
Distinctive and exploratory… grasps you from beginning to end. Time Out
Wednesday 22 (7.30) and Thursday 23 (7.30) February Mother And Child – Dir. Rodrigo Garcia
Rodrigo Garcia skilfully interweaves the rich and complex stories of these three women into a single narrative that runs deep with emotion. Thursday 23 February at 1.30pm Special Art Fund film screening
Modigliani – Dir. Mick Davis
This is the story of the great conflicts of passion Modigliani has to face. This is the story of the greatest love tragedy in art history and the role that destiny plays in shaping their lives for the rest of time... Tickets for this special Art Fund Screening of Modigliani cost £12.50 and this includes tea, coffee and cakes served upstairs in Hullabaloo, which will be served after the film screening. Ticket bookings can be made by calling the RBCFT on 01387 264808 Friday 24 (8.00), Saturday 25 (6.00 and 8.00) Monday 27 (6.30 ) February The Artist – Dir. Michel Hazanavicius
At first, their shared stardom is bliss for them both, but with the advent of the ‘talkies’, George refuses to adapt and fades from the limelight, while Peppy enjoys a meteoric rise through the Hollywood firmament. Golden Globes 2012 winner.
Tuesday 28 (7.30) and Wednesday 29 (7.30) February Haywire – Dir. Steven Soderbergh
It also introduces Mixed Martial Arts superstar Gina Carano as Mallory Kane, in a demanding lead role that has her performing her own high-adrenaline stunts. Mallory Kane is a highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor in the dirtiest, most dangerous corners of the world. After successfully freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, she is double crossed and left for dead by someone close to her in her own agency. Suddenly the target of skilled assassins who know her every move, Mallory must find the truth in order to stay alive. |
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Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and
Europe during the First World War, "War Horse" begins
with the remarkable friendship between a horse named
Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and
trains him. 
Film Club, 6.30pm on Monday 6th February
Coffee Club - 10.45am on Thursday 9th February
Bring a Baby - 1.00pm on Wednesday 15th February
Boundary-pushing Oscar-nominated
filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me, 30 Days)
explores the world of product placement, marketing
and advertising in a film that was fully financed through
product placement from various brands, all of which are
integrated transparently into the film. With humour and insight, this film unmasks the marketing
process to bring audiences behind closed doors directly
into the pitch meetings and marketing presentations which
ultimately inform our everyday entertainment decisions.
"The Iron Lady" is a surprising and intimate portrait
of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime
Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th
century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher
came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender
and class to be heard in a male dominated world.
Sneaky Cinema - 1.30pm on Tuesday 21st February
British director Steve McQueen reunites with the Michael
Fassbender (Fish Tank, Jane Eyre) for his first feature
since “Hunger”. Fassbender plays Brandon, an affluent
Manhattan-based thirty-something who plans his life
around relentless sexual encounters and conquests – a
compulsion that keeps him isolated from any kind of
intimacy. The compulsive Casanova finds his style cramped
by the abrupt arrival of his unstable sister (Carey Mulligan),
whose insecurities crack open issues of his own.
The moving story of three women and the power of the
unbreakable bond between mother and child. Karen is
a bitter, unhappy spinster coping with the death of her
mother and the lifelong feelings of loss and regret over
the child she gave up for adoption when she was 14.
Elizabeth is the grown up daughter she’s never met, now
an ambitious lawyer who has trouble making emotional
connections, and Lucy is an infertile wife who turns to
adoption as the key to the maternity she passionately
craves. 
It is Paris 1919 and two
men - artists, Modigliani
(Andy Garcia) and Picasso
have a bitter rivalry
fuelled by brilliance,
arrogance and passion.
However, Modigliani also
has another passion in his
life - Jeanne Hebuterne
- a beautiful Catholic girl
whose only fault in her
father's eyes was to fall
in love with Modigliani,
a Jew.
