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Thu 8 Nov Doors open at 10am and films start at 10.45am.
Wed 7 Nov Doors open at 10am and films start at 10.30am.
At time of going to press the following films have audio description: Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Leave No Trace, Mary Shelley, BlacKKKlansman, The Little Stranger, The Wife, 2001: A Space Odyssey |
The Little Stranger
The Wife
Local connection: Although set in Sweden and the USA much of ‘The Wife’ was filmed in Dumfries& Galloway in 2016 and many RBC customers appears as extras. Wed 31 Oct + Sat 3 Nov + Mon 17 Dec
Anna and the Apocalypse
Local connection: The film’s producer, Naysun Alae-Carew, grew up in Dumfries; the film is based on Ryan McHenry’s short film, ‘Zombie Musical’, which was filmed in the town in 2010.
Faces Places / Visages villages
Johnny English Strikes Again
Columbus
EVENT CINEMA: Troilus & Cressida – RSC Live
Broadcast live from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon- Avon.
Nae Pasaran
Smallfoot
Relaxed Performance:
Tue 2 Oct + Sat 10 - Fri 16 Nov
Leaning Into The Wind: Andy Goldsworthy
We are delighted that artist Andy Goldsworthy will join us for a short Q&A after the screenings on 2 Oct and 16 Nov. The screening on 2 Oct is in association with the local branch of the Art Fund. Local connection: Andy Goldsworthy has made his home in the region.
First Man
PLEASE NOTE: 'First Man' contains a sequence of flashing lights which might affect customers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. Local connection: Neil Armstrong is the first (and only) Freeman of the town of Langholm.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Trainspotting (BookWeek Scotland)
Experience the full-on adrenaline rush of Danny Boyle's brutally funny drama about 90s heroin addicts on the big screen.
"This film does not glorify drugs it glorifies film" Empire
Becoming Animal
King of Thieves
Black 47
“Daly delivers a resonant, beautifully performed Irish Western that benefits from the exotic sound of Irish Gaelic spoken as a living language”, Variety
Crowdie and Cream / Gruth is Uachdar
Screened in association with Gàidhlig Dumgal https://gaidhligdumgal.org (Gaelic language interest group for D&G) who will provide a post film discussion.
Calamity Jane
Dementia Friendly Screening: The screening is open to all members of the public.
Custody / Jusqu'à la garde
This screening is free to the public and has been sponsored by the Dumfries and Galloway Public Protection Partnership. The screening features as part of their 16 Days of Action Against Gender Based Violence, 25 November – 10 December. There will be a short introduction to the film followed by a post-film discussion and Q&A. For more information please contact: domesticabuse@dumgal.gov.uk
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
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Summer, 1948, Dr Faraday, a country doctor, is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries but it is now in decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. Faraday has no idea how closely, and how disturbingly, the family’s story is about to become entwined with his own.
Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) has spent forty years sacrificing her ambitions to support her husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his stellar literary career. Ignoring infidelities and excuses made in the cause of his art, she has put up with his behaviour. On the eve of Joe’s Nobel Prize for Literature Joan will confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and some long-buried secrets.
Bring a baby - 10.30am on Wed 7 November
Coffee Club - 10.45am on Thu 8 November
Join us for a very special Halloween sneak preview of ‘Anna and the Apocalypse’ (released on 30 Nov). At Christmas, a zombie apocalypse threatens the fictional Scottish town of Little Haven forcing teenage Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones.
88 year-old film director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR, boasting over a million followers on Instagram, have more in common than one might imagine. Both share a lifelong passion for images and how they are created, displayed, and shared. When JR, a long-time fan, went to meet Agnès, they both knew immediately they wanted to work together. The film documents their heartwarming journey through rural France and the unlikely, tender friendship they formed along the way.
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After a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all of the active undercover agents in Britain, Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) is forced to come out of retirement to find the mastermind hacker.
Troilus and Cressida swear they will always be true to one another. But in the seventh year of the siege of Troy their innocence is tested, and exposed to the savage corrupting influence of war, with tragic consequences. Virtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie collaborates with RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran to create a satirical futuristic vision of a world resounding in battle.
In East Kilbride in 1974, workers at the Rolls Royce factory took action and refused to carry out repairs on warplane engines used in the violent military coup in Chile. Four years pass before the engines, left to rust in factory yard, mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night. The documentary reunites the Scottish workers to reveal the impact of their act of solidarity.
Animated adventure that turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti (Channing Tatum) finds something he thought didn't exist - a human! News of this "smallfoot" (James Corden) throws the simple Yeti community into an uproar over what else might be out there in the big world beyond their snowy village.
An award-winning, globally celebrated artist, Andy Goldsworthy OBE is known for creating unique work that combines materials from everyday surroundings. Some of his pieces are monumental works of land art, others exist only briefly before being altered or erased by natural processes. The film follows Goldsworthy from his home in Dumfriesshire to France, Brazil and the USA as he creates stunning works of art from the world around him.
Drama about astronaut Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling), focussing on the years 1961 to 1969, which culminated in the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Director Damien Chazelle returns with his first film since the multi award winning ‘La La Land’.
A 50th anniversary re-release of one of the most influential science fiction films ever made. Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer HAL 9000, sets off on a quest to discover its origins.
An inspired collaboration between filmmakers Peter Mettler and Emma Davie (‘I Am Breathing’) and radical writer and philosopher David Abram. ‘Becoming Animal’ is an urgent and immersive audiovisual quest, forging a path into the places where humans and animals meet, where we pique our senses to witness the so-called natural world—which in turn witnesses us, prompting us to reflect on the very essence of what it means to inhabit our animal bodies.
A crew of retired crooks pull off a major heist in London's jewellery district. Comedy drama based on the Hatton Gardens bank robbery and starring Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Jim Broadbent.
Ireland, 1847. Feeney, an Irish soldier who has abandoned his post with the British Army to return home to Ireland, finds his mother starved to death, his brother hanged, and his sister in law and her children starving. As Feeney sets out for revenge, a violent British soldier is sent to track him down.
A rare chance to see the Gaelic BBC TV drama on the big screen. The true-life story from childhood of author, Findlay J McDonald, who was born and brought up on the Isle of Harris. Set in the 1930s until he left the island after the Second World War to further his education on the mainland.
Dementia Friendly screening of the classic musical western. Deadwood, South Dakota, is largely the abode of men, but frontier scout Calamity Jane is as hard riding, boastful and handy with a gun as any… Starring Doris Day as Calamity Jane and Howard Keel as Wild Bill Hickok.
French drama in which a young boy becomes caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between his estranged parents. “A terrifying study of a father’s destructive rage”, The Guardian Contains strong threat, language, domestic abuse theme.
‘It's Christmas Eve. A time of mystery, expectations, who knows what might happen?’ The latest Disney live action reimagining of a classic fairy tale is the story of a young girl transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice.