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THU 17 November Doors open at 10am and film starts at 10.45am. BRING A BABY Tue 22 November Doors open at 12.30pm and film starts at 1pm. ACCESS CINEMA Access Cinema is suitable for anyone with any disability who would enjoy seeing a film in a low sensory environment. TUE 8 November Doors open at 12.30pm and film starts at 1.00pm. Tickets cost £3.70 Anyone who needs to bring along a helper to assist them in any way, will receive a complimentary ticket. 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 15 November Doors open at 1pm, film starts at 1.30pm. |
Tuesday 1 (7.30) and Thursday 3 (7.30) November TROLL HUNTER – Dir. André Øvredal
5 days of Halloween Horror at RBCFT! ‘Given that the cast improvised all the scenes live
on set, the dialogue has a surprising ring of truth,
and is shot through with an unexpected, often
unsettling, humour. ’ POST MORTEM – Dir. Pablo Larrain
TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL – Dir. Eli Craig
5 days of Halloween Horror at RBCFT! ‘Typical expectations are upended in the horrorcomedy
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. Eli Craig's feature
directorial debut is an endearingly cheeky tribute
to suspense and slasher classics.’ Saturday 5 (7.30) and Monday 7 (6.30 ) November DRIVE – Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
‘Buckle up; it’s quite a ride.
Tuesday 8 (1.00 and 7.30) and Thursday 10 (7.30) November CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE – Dir. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
TOMBOY – Dir. Céline Sciamma
Friday 11 (7.30), Saturday 12 (7.30), Monday 14 (6.30 ), Tuesday 15 (1.30 and 7.30) and Thursday 17 (10.45 and 7.30) November TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY – Dir. Tomas Alfredson
‘A superb adaptation of John le Carré's brilliant,
intricate Cold War spy novel, the film is a triumph.’
THE YELLOW SEA – Dir. Hong-jin Na
Friday 18 (7.30), Saturday 19 (7.30) and Tuesday 22 (1.00 and 7.30) November THE THREE MUSKETEERS (2D version) – Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson
THE INTERRUPTERS – Dir. Steve James
‘It tears at your heart with its depiction
of the intractability of the problem. But it
simultaneously insists, and makes you believe,
that change is possible one person at a time.’
AMELIE – Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love. ‘Irresistibly endearing, with a visual verve all its
own.’ ALBATROSS – Dir. Niall MacCormick
Friday 25 (7.30) and Saturday 26 (7.30) November REAL STEEL – Dir. Shawn Levy
Monday 28 (6.30 ) November and Thursday 1 (7.30) December MIDNIGHT IN PARIS – Dir. Woody Allen
‘Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d write again:
Woody Allen has made a wonderful new picture, “Midnight in Paris,” and it’s his best, most enjoyable
work in years.’
SEX TRAFFIC: where there’s demand, there's always
supply... – Dir. David Yates
Following this film there will be an opportunity
for discussion. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender
Violence A CAT IN PARIS /
Une vie de chat – Dir. Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol
Recommended for children in A CAT IN PARIS - Adults Go Free For St Andrew’s Day TOP FLOOR, LEFT WING /
Dernier étage, gauche, gauche – Dir. Angelo Clanci
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Troll Hunter is the story of a group of Norwegian film
students who set out to capture real-life trolls on camera
after learning that their existence has been covered up
for years by a government conspiracy. This thrilling and
wildly entertaining film delivers fantastic images of giant
trolls wreaking havoc on the countryside with darkly
funny adherence to the original Norwegian folklore.
In Santiago in 1973 Mario Cornejo works at a morgue,
typing out reports on autopsies performed by the
coroners. During the military coup, he becomes involved
in a love affair with a dancer from the cabaret Bim Bam
Bum. This is the story of an apparently insignificant
and charmless couple and it is also the story of Chile
during the military coup. Mario's ideal of conquering the
impossible love of a woman is also the ideal of a nation
trying to conquer a noble but unattainable political model.
Drive is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day (Ryan
Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a topnotch
getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld.
He finds himself a target for some of LA’s most dangerous
men after agreeing to help the husband of his beautiful
neighbour, Irene (Carey Mulligan). When the job goes
dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her
son alive is to do what he does best - drive.
Film Club - 6.30pm on Monday 7th November
At fortysomething, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell)
is living the dream - good job, nice house, great kids and
marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns
that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and
wants a divorce, his "perfect" life quickly unravels. Worse,
in today's single world, Cal, who hasn't dated in decades,
stands out as the epitome of un-smooth. Now spending
his free evenings sulking alone at a local bar, the hapless
Cal is taken on as wingman and protégé to handsome,
thirtysomething player Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling).
Access Cinema - 1.00pm on Tuesday 8th November
Ten year old Laure isn’t like most girls. She prefers
football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure,
her parents and little sister Jeanne move to a new
neighbourhood family life remains much the same until
local girl Lisa mistakes Laure for a boy. Indulging in this
exciting new identity Laure becomes Michael and so
begins a summer of long sunny afternoons, playground
games and first kisses. Yet with the school term fast
approaching, and with suspicions arising amongst friends
and family, Laure must face up to an uncertain future.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is based on the John Le Carré Cold
War spy novel. Set in the 1970s, George Smiley, a recently
retired MI6 agent, is doing his best to adjust to a life outside
the secret service. However, when a disgraced agent reappears
with information concerning a mole at the heart of the Circus,
Smiley is drawn back into the murky field of espionage.
Sneaky Cinema - 1.30pm on Tuesday 15th November
Coffee Club - 10.45am on Thursday 17th November
Gu-nam is a cab driver who leads a pitiful life in Yanji City
in Yanbian prefecture, a region between North Korea, China
and Russia, where about 800,000 Korean-Chinese known
as Joseonjok reside. His wife went to Korea to earn some
money 6 months ago, but he hasn’t heard from her since.
He plays mah-jong to make some extra cash, but his life
only becomes more complicated and pathetic. One day he
meets a hitman named Myun-ga who offers to turn his life
around by repaying his debt, and reuniting him with his
wife. All for the price of one ‘hit’.
The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman),
along with three former legendary but now down on
their luck Musketeers, must unite and defeat a beautiful
double agent and her villainous employer from seizing
the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.
In this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story they must stop
the evil Richlieu and face-off Buckingham (Orlando
Bloom) and the treacherous Milady.
Baby Friendly Screening - 1pm on Tuesday 22nd November
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories
of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their
Chicago communities from the violence they once used
themselves. From acclaimed director Steve James and
bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this documentary is an
unusually intimate journey into the stubborn persistence
of violence in our cities. The film's main subjects work for
an innovative organization, CeaseFire, which believes that
the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious
diseases, and so the treatment should be similar: go after
the most infected, and stop the infection at its source.
Happy Birthday Amelie!
Studious teenager Beth meets newcomer and aspiring
writer Emelia, who has been bought up by her
grandparents under the impression that she is the great
granddaughter of renowned novelist Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, and decides to take her along on a visit to Oxford
University with hilarious results. As Emelia’s confidence
and free-spirit help Beth learn to enjoy life, Emelia too
is inspired by Beth’s determination to focus and she
begins to see a way to break through her self-destructive
tendencies. However, when Emelia and Beth’s father begin
an illicit affair, the girls’ friendship is threatened. 
A gritty, white-knuckle action ride set in the near-future
where the sport of boxing has gone high-tech. Real Steel
stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter
who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall
steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time
promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together
low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground
boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he
reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and
train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal,
no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against
all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.
This is a romantic comedy set in Paris about a family, who
move there because of business, and two young people
engaged to be married who have experiences there that
change their lives. It’s about a young man’s great love
for a city, Paris, and the illusion people have that a life
different from theirs would be much better. It stars Owen
Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Kathy Bates,
Carla Bruni, among others.
This film focuses on the global business of trafficking
young women into forced prostitution in European and
American cities. Elena and Vara, two sisters from Europe’s
poorest country Moldova, leave their village together
with Vara’s fiancé Alex to start a better life in London.
Some days later, they realize the bitter reality - they have
been sold to traffickers who force the young women
to work as prostitutes in several states in the Balkans. The reverberations of their story show the involvement
of big business in America and corrupt international
peacekeepers in Europe...
Dino the cat leads a double life - by day he is the loyal
tabby to little Zoe, by night, he joins the nocturnal
adventures of cat burglar Nico. Hand-drawn in a cheerful
picture book style, this is a warm and humorous film,
great for young French language-learners.
When a planned hostage-taking turns in to a botched
job the quirky sparks start to fly in this oddly compelling
comedy drama. An ingenious script bends genres in its
pursuit of laughs and tension in more or less the same
measure.
The film’s hold comes from the entertaining twists in
the relationship between the three men who end up
barricaded in a suburban council flat together and
from spot-on casting and bravura no-holds-barred
performances.