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Thursday 14 Nov Thursday 28 Nov Doors open at 10am and film starts at 10.45am.  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 £7.10 (£5.40 conc). Tuesday 12 Nov Tuesday 19 Nov Tuesday 26 Nov Doors
open at 12.30pm, film
Wednesday 13 Nov Doors open at 12noon and film starts at 12.30pm.
A service for partially-sighted or blind people. Headphones are available from the Box Office. Captioning is a service for hearing-impaired or deaf people who rely on subtitling to enable them to follow the film’s dialogue. This issue all screenings of ‘Sunshine On Leith’, ‘Blue Jasmine’, ‘Filth’, ‘Turbo’, ‘Captain Phillips’, ‘The Fifth Estate’, ‘One Chance’, ‘Philomena’, ‘Gravity’, ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’, ‘The Counsellor’, ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2’, ‘Saving Mr. Banks’, ‘Young and Beautiful’, ‘Enough Said’, ‘Nebraska’, ‘Frozen’, ‘Gloria’, ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’, ‘The Angels’ Share’, ‘The Wicker Man’, ‘The Harry Hill Movie’ and others TBC. The following screenings will also have captioning: Tuesday 12 November at 6pm |
Sunshine on Leith
This is set to be one of the most popular films we've ever shown so get those tickets booked!
Blue Jasmine
We’re fortunate to be showing one of Allen’s earlier classics ‘Annie Hall’ on Sunday.
Fri 15 - Sat 16 November (8.00pm) Filth
Annie Hall
It is a touching romantic comedy, with great performances by then-couple Allen and Diane Keaton, yet also one of the funniest comedies ever made, packed with gags and one-liners. Le Week-end
This portrait of a marriage stars Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, with a memorable turn by Jeff Goldblum. Fri 22 & Sat 23 November (5.00pm) Turbo
Fri 22 & Sat 23 November (7.00pm) Prisoners
Driven mad by desperation and frustrated by the inadequacy of the legal system, he kidnaps the man he believes to be responsible for the little girls' disappearance, which raises the question: how far is too far in the quest for justice? Also starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano. Wild Foods of Galloway -
An Interactive Presentation
Followed by cookery demonstration. Local primary teacher and experienced forest education practitioner, Cecilia Franklin, is leading outdoor learning and play sessions for 5 - 12 year olds during the talk. The children will be in the park near the centre, but their adventure is all outdoors so dress for the weather. Some waterproofs and wellies for free loan. Cost £2. Pre-booking essential. Project Wild Thing
The film will be followed by a Q&A session Local primary teacher and experienced forest education practitioner, Cecilia Franklin, is leading outdoor learning and play sessions for 5 - 12 year olds during the film. The children will be in the park near the centre, but their adventure is all outdoors so dress for the weather. Some waterproofs and wellies for free loan. Cost £2. Pre-booking essential. Sun 24 - Thu 28 November - sold out on Wed 27th and limited availability on Thurs 28th Captain Phillips
The film focuses on the relationship between Captain Phillips and his Somali counterpart, Muse. Both men will find themselves paying the human toll for economic forces outside their control. 'Captain Phillips' is simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalisation.
Like Father Like Son /
Soshite chichi ni naru
Sext Up Kids: How Children
are Becoming Hypersexualized In this astonishing new documentary, award-winning film-maker Maureen Palmer explores what the current radical hypersexualisation of the culture means for young people, parents and society. Palmer interviews researchers who have been tracking how the accelerating pressure to be sexy – and sexual – is changing young people’s behaviour, undermining their health, and contributing to the normalisation of violence towards women. The result is a stunning exploration of the sexualisation of young people and a startling wake-up call for parents. The screening will be followed by a discussion. FREE SCREENING To book a free place, contact Tea/coffee available from 5.30pm | Film: 6.00pm | Discussion: 6.45pm InRealLife
Quietly building its case, ‘InRealLife’ asks if we can afford to stand by while our children, trapped in their 24/7 connectivity, are being outsourced to the net? CABN New Work presents: A training and networking event with David Griffith.
David Griffith is a multi-talented film-maker with a number of award-winning short films under his belt: ‘Paw’, ‘Bye- Child’, ‘All Over Brazil’ and ‘Head On Backwards’. As well as writing, directing and producing ‘TimeLock’, a microbudget feature film released this year, he also teaches courses in Writing for Film and Advanced Screenwriting at the University of Strathclyde. This is a free event, though booking is advised. To book a place contact the RBC Film Theatre Box Office. TimeLock
Mark Kerr is a jaded hotel manager with a gambling addiction, sleepwalking through his life until he is targeted by criminals and forced to participate in a jewellery heist at the conference hotel where he works. Waiting in the CCTV control room through the night for the time lock on the safe to open, his captor realises that he met Mark many years before, when their situations were reversed, and events take an unexpected and deadly turn. Fri 29 & Sat 30 November (6.00pm) How I Live Now
Fri 29 & Sat 30 November (8.00pm) The Fifth Estate
'The Fifth Estate' is a truly 21st-century saga of technology, politics and civic responsibility. |
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Dexter Fletcher's hugely engaging
adaptation of the popular Stephen
Greenhorn stage musical is a soaring,
big-hearted delight, transforming the
songs of Scottish duo The Proclaimers
into a joyous salute to love, loyalty
and the pursuit of happiness. Set
wholly in Edinburgh, it follows the
lives of two Scottish soldiers upon
returning home from Afghanistan
and the ups and downs of family
life. 
Coffee Club, 10.45am on Thursday 7 & Thursday 14th November
Sneaky Cinema - 1.00pm on Tuesday 12th November
Woody Allen returns to the kind of films he used to make
in this tragicomic tale of two sisters. Cate Blanchett
delivers an Oscar-tipped performance as Jasmine, a New
York socialite left destitute by her cheating husband’s
financial misdemeanours, who moves in with her adopted
sister (Sally Hawkins) and her boyfriend in San Francisco. 
James McAvoy stars as Detective Sergeant Bruce Robinson
in this exuberant adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel. Bruce
is a bipolar, bigoted junkie cop who wants a promotion
and is clearly the best man for the job. However, there's
been a murder and Bruce's boss wants results. Bruce
solves the case but life isn't that simple and his life begins
to spiral out of control. 'Filth' is funny, tragic and not for
those of a nervous disposition.
To mark the release of Woody Allen's 'Blue Jasmine'
we're delighted to be screening one of his best-loved
films 'Annie Hall' on a recently restored 35mm print. 
Meg and Nick are a middle-aged
couple who travel to Paris for a
weekend break, in the hope of
escaping their humdrum lives in
Birmingham and reviving their
flagging marriage. Over the course
of the weekend the couple enjoy
Parisian life, and occasionally each
other’s company, but their attempts
to get back to the carefree days of
their youth are not without difficulty.
From the makers of 'Madagascar',
'Turbo' is a high-velocity comedy
about a snail who dares to dream
big - and fast. After a freak accident
infuses him with the power of superspeed,
Turbo kicks into overdrive and
embarks on an extraordinary journey
to achieve the seemingly impossible:
competing in the world's fastest race,
the Indianapolis 500. With the help
of his tricked-out streetwise snail
crew, this ultimate underdog puts his
heart and shell on the line to prove
that no dream is too big, and no
dreamer too small.
In crime thriller 'Prisoners', a
Boston dad turns vigilante after his
six-year-old daughter is kidnapped,
embarking on a morally questionable
campaign for answers. Keller Dover
(Hugh Jackman) suffers every
parent's worst nightmare when his
young daughter and her friend are
snatched from under his nose. 
Forager Mark Williams from Galloway Wild Foods will
share his passion for wild foods, including berries, plants,
fungi and shellfish, that can be gathered benignly in
this region, a forager’s paradise. 
David Bond is concerned. His kids' waking hours are
dominated by a cacophony of marketing, and a screen
dependence threatening to turn them into glassy-eyed
zombies. Like city kids everywhere, they spend too
much time indoors. He decides it's time to get back to
nature - literally. In an attempt to compete with the
brands, which take up a third of his daughter's life, Bond
appoints himself Marketing Director for Nature. Like
any self-respecting salesman, he sets about developing
a campaign and a logo. With the help of a number of
bemused professionals, he is soon selling Nature to
British families. His humorous journey unearths some
painful truths about modern family life. His product is free,
plentiful and has proven benefits - but is Nature past its
sell-by date? 
A re-telling of the headline-grabbing events that occurred
on the high seas in April 2009, when cargo ship captain
Richard Phillips surrendered himself to a group of four
Somali pirates to protect the crew onboard the Maersk
Alabama. 
Acclaimed Japanese director Kore-eda continues to
explore the complexities of contemporary family life with
this tale of a couple thrown into torment after receiving
some unexpected news. Ryota’s hard work has earned him
everything he has, and he believes that nothing can stop
him from pursuing the perfect life. Then one day, he and
his wife Midori get an unexpected phone call from the
hospital. Their six-year-old son, Keita, is not their biological
son after all; he was swapped at birth.
‘InRealLife’ asks what exactly is the internet and what
is it doing to our children? Taking us on a journey from
the bedrooms of British teenagers to the world of Silicon
Valley, filmmaker Beeban Kidron suggests that rather than
the promise of free and open connectivity, young people
are increasingly ensnared in a commercial world. Beguiling
and glittering on the outside, it can be alienating and
addictive. 
CABN New Work presents a fantastic training and
networking opportunity for local film-makers. David
Griffith will lead sessions on topics such as micro-budget
film-making and online distribution before introducing
his feature film ‘TimeLock’, a micro-budget feature film
that has enjoyed financial success by being marketed and
distributed online. There will be plenty of opportunities for
networking, and participants get a free ticket to see the
public screening of ‘TimeLock’.
Shot on location in Dumfries and Glasgow, ‘TimeLock’ is an
inventive new thriller from Scottish filmmaker David Griffith. 
Kevin Macdonald’s adaptation of Meg Rosoff’s novel stars
Saoirse Ronan as Elizabeth, who finds herself stranded
on a farm at the outbreak of the Third World War. At first
homesick for New York, she soon settles into life in the
countryside, before the war threatens to destroy the lives
of everyone around her. It is then that she is confronted
with the reality of her surroundings and begins to fight
back. Also starring the ubiquitous George MacKay
('Sunshine On Leith', 'For Those in Peril'.)
You don't disclose three-quarters of a million classified
documents without making a few enemies. So discovers
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 'The Fifth Estate', a
mesmerising, complex portrait of an embattled newmedia
luminary. 'The Fifth Estate' details WikiLeaks's rise
to international notoriety and the subsequent souring of
relations between Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and
his most trusted lieutenant, Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel
Brühl).