FEBRUARY 2010 @ RBCFT

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Lynn Shelton’s Sundance hit is a wildly funny and daring take on the thirtysomething buddy movie. Ben (Mark Duplass) is just settling into married life with Anna (Alycia Delmore), when he falls back in with old friend Andrew (Joshua Leonard), and Andrew’s bohemian, sexually experimental party crowd. Can Anna and Ben’s marriage survive the “art project” which Ben and Andrew dream up together – a project that takes male bonding to its ultimate extreme?

Film Club, 6.30m on Monday 22nd February

Take One Action is Scotland's global action cinema project, inspiring shared solutions to global problems through film and post-screening discussions with campaigners, filmmakers and communities.

These events coincide with the start of Fair Trade Fortnight (22 Feb to 7 March) and there will be an opportunity to connect with Dumfries Fairtrade Group in the cinema.

Speakers will be confirmed at www.takeoneaction.org.uk nearer the time.

HOME (U) - Tue 23 Feb, 5.30pm
Yann Arthus-Bertrand,France 2009, 1h35m
This extraordinarily film, shot from the air in more than fifty countries, simply has to be seen on the big screen. Filled with unforgettable views of life on planet Earth, the film bears witness to the balance created by four billion years of evolution, now at risk from just a few centuries of human industrial development. The price to pay is high, but ‘Home’ reveals with extraordinary beauty the opportunities and the purpose for reversing the trend.
"Quite simply, awesome viewing" The Ecologist.

Followed by audience discussion "Where do we go from here?"

School Screening, 10am on Tuesday 23 February - FREE of charge.

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD (12A) - Tue 23 Feb, 8pm
Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, USA 2009, 1h29m
In the follow up to ‘The Yes Men,’ troublemaking duo Andy and Mike take up the case of the 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster, which saw thousands killed as a result of corporate mismanagement. The activists pretend to be spokesmen for plant owner, the US multinational Dow Chemicals, going on the BBC and pledging to pay large compensation for the accident. As a result, billions of dollars are knocked from Dow's share price, but the Yes Men realise that Dow's escape from legitimate justice is just the tip of the iceberg.
"Outrageously entertaining....This movie is glorious testimony to the moral power of satire"
New York Magazine.

Followed by audience discussion "Building justice out of crisis"

CRUDE (12A) - Wed 24 Feb, 6.00pm
Joe Berlinger, USA 2009, 1h45m
The epic story of the controversial $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, ‘Crude’ is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, multinational business and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Intrinsically cinematic...
"The most urgent film at Sundance this year” LA Weekly

Followed by audience discussion"Cleaning up investment".

A biography of Ian Dury who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founder of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s. After studying painting at the Royal Academy with Peter Blake the pop artist working with The Who and The Beatles, Dury went into music and rose to fame during the 70s, as a founder of punk and New Wave.

With his razor blade earring, clothes and powerful stage persona he was the trailblazer that many would follow. ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’ stars Andy Serkis in the role of the punk legend and follows his rise to fame as he battles his debilitating disease and the after effects of fame on his relationships.

Funny, anarchic and, above all, moving confessional drama about modern family life – complicated, fractured but still with great possibilities for love and joy.

Clive Owen is Joe Warr, a wisecracking sportswriter whose beloved second wife dies, leaving him to bring up their six-year-old son alone. He struggles with grief and singleparenting, challenges compounded by the arrival on the scene of Harry, Joe’s teenage son from his first marriage. Joe decides the best way forward is least-resistance parenting, and introduces a ‘just say yes’ maxim. In a house devoid of feminine influence, with a cultivated lack of rules and deep emotion swirling below the surface, life becomes exhuberant, reckless .. and potentially disastrous.

In a dynamic new portrayal of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous characters, ‘Sherlock Holmes’ sends Holmes and his stalwart partner Dr John Watson on their latest challenge.

Revealing fighting skills as lethal as his legendary intellect, Holmes will battle as never before to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy the country.