| Robert Burns Centre FILM THEATRE |
SEPTEMBER 2011 @ RBCFT |
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| Tel: 01387 264808 | September Quick View - click on film for full film details: |
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Thu 1 September Doors open at 10am and film starts at 10.45am. |
Thursday 1 (10.45 and 7.30) September BEGINNERS – Dir. Mike Mills
The upheavals of Hal's new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they'd ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humor, and hope that his father taught him.
Friday 2 (7.30) and Saturday 3 (7.30) September THE TREE – Dir. Julie Bertuccelli
The family is initially comforted by its presence, but then the tree's enormous roots slowly begin to encroach on the abode and threaten their fragile existence.... RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK – Dir. Steven Spielberg
‘The stunts are incredible and the effects astonishing,
but it's Harrison Ford's effortlessly charming
performance as the original tomb raider that makes
his globetrotting quest for the Ark of the Covenant so
appealing.’
Tuesday 6 (7.30) and Thursday 8 (7.30) TREACLE JR. – Dir. Jamie Thraves
POETRY – Dir. Chang-dong Lee
Lee Chang-dong's follow-up to his acclaimed Secret Sunshine is a masterful study of the subtle empowerment and moral compass of an elderly woman. Winner of Best Screen Play, Cannes 2010 Friday 9 (7.30), Saturday 10 (7.30) and Thursday 15 (7.30) September SUPER 8 – Dir. J.J. Abrams
Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. Student Special Monday 12 (6.30 ) and Wednesday 14 (7.30) September HONEY
Bal – Dir.Semih Kaplanoglu
PROJECT NIM – Dir. James Marsh Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling. Friday 16 (7.30) and Saturday 17 (7.30) September CAPTAIN AMERICA:
THE FIRST AVENGER – Dir. Joe Johnston
Monday 19 (6.30 ) and Tuesday 20 (7.30)September TRUST – Dir. David Schwimmer ‘Schwimmer directs with intelligence and a minimum of
hysteria, deftly handling the shifts in atmosphere this
creepy story requires.’
Wednesday 21 (7.30) and Thursday 22 (7.30) September INCENDIES – Dir. Denis Villeneuve This deeply moving story brings the extremism and violence of today’s world to a starkly personal level, delivering a powerful and poetic testament to the will to survive. Friday 23 (7.30) and Saturday 24 (7.30) September SARAH'S KEY – Dir. Gilles Parquet-Brenner Monday 26 (6.30 ) and Tuesday 27 (7.30) September THE SKIN I LIVED IN – Dir. Pedro Almodovar ‘I can only say that it kept me gripped from first to
last.’
Wednesday 28 (7.30) and Thursday 29 (7.30) September THE RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES – Dir. Rupert Wyatt COWBOYS AND ALIENS (tbc) – Dir. Jon Favreau As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the aliens. |
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Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion,
and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness
of Oliver (Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent
and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal
(Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love
floods Oliver with memories of his father who - following
44 years of marriage - came out of the closet at age 75
to live a wonderfully tumultuous gay life. 
Coffee Club - 10.45am on Thursday 1 September
Blindsided with anguish after her husband's sudden
death, Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her four young
children struggle to make sense of life without him.
Eight-year-old Simone (unforgettable newcomer Morgana
Davies) becomes convinced that her father is whispering
to her through the leaves of the gargantuan fig tree that
towers over their house. 
Thirty years after it was first
released, an opportunity to see this
classic film on the big-screen. Gold
idols, booby traps (complete with an over-sized rolling
boulder), arch rivals and swashing buckling adventure– what more could you want to launch the week?
Film Club - 6.30pm on Monday 5th September
One morning, for no clear reason, Tom (Tom Fisher)
leaves his home in Birmingham, abandoning his wife
and kids to make his way to London where he lives on the streets. After a run-in with a gang of teenage thugs,
Tom ends up in a hospital emergency room, where he
meets Aidan, an eccentric man who seems determined
to befriend Tom whether he likes it or not. Aidan invites
Tom to stay at his apartment, where Tom meets Aidan's
girlfriend but he soon learns they have a severely
dysfunctional relationship and Linda treats Tom like a
verbal and physical punching bag. Tom also finds himself
looking after Aidan's cat, which he has to hide from
Linda since she's allergic to felines.
A sixty-something woman, faced with a crippling medical
diagnosis and the discovery of a heinous family crime,
finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry
class.
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio
town witness a catastrophic train crash while making
a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an
accident. 
Young boy Yusuf's best friend is his father, who supports
his family's modest life with the honey he collects from
tall trees in the forests of the remote Turkish countryside.
Yusuf is a quiet boy, and his mother is concerned for his
future. Perhaps he will follow in his father's footsteps, or
perhaps school will offer him other opportunities. But the
honey crop is failing, and Yusuf has trouble learning how
to read. Fear strikes when Yusuf's father doesn't return
home from the forest.
From the Oscar-winning team behind Man on a Wire
comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the
1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which
aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate
with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.
In the early days of the Marvel Universe Steve Rogers
(Chris Evans) volunteers to participate in an experimental
program that turns him into the Super Soldier known
as Captain America. As Captain America, Rogers joins
forces with Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Peggy
Carter (Hayley Atwell) to wage war on the evil HYDRA
organization, led by the villainous Red Skull (Hugo
Weaving).
A psychological drama in which a family is shaken to the
core after a 14-year-old girl is targeted by an online sexual
predator. Like many modern teenagers, Annie (Liana
Liberato) meets her first boyfriend online. But after months
of exchanging online chat, phone calls and text messages,
Annie arranges to meet her new friend (Chris Henry
Coffey) in person - and is shocked to discover that he is
not what he appeared to be. Clive Owen and Catherine
Keener co-star as Annie’s parents, Will and Lynn.
Twins Jeanne and Simon Marwan make a life-altering
discovery following the death of their mother. Upon learning
that their absentee father is still very much alive and they
also have a brother they have never met, the pair travel to
the Middle East on a mission to uncover the truth about
their mystery-shrouded past. 
Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), an American journalist
married to a Frenchman, is commissioned to write an article
about the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place
in Paris in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret. Julia
learns that the apartment she and her husband Bertrand
plan to move into was acquired by Bertrand's family when
its Jewish occupants were dispossessed and deported 60
years before. She resolves to find out what happened to the
former occupants including 10-year-old Sarah and four-yearold
Michel. The more Julia discovers, the more she uncovers
about Bertrand's family, France and finally, herself.
Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert
Ledgard, an eminent plastic surgeon, has been interested
in creating a new skin with which he could have saved
her. After twelve years, he manages to cultivate a skin that
is a shield against every assault. In addition to years of
study and experimentation, Robert needed a further three
things: no scruples, an accomplice and a human guinea
pig. Scruples were never a problem, Marilia, the woman
who looked after him from the day he was born, is his most
faithful accomplice, and as for the human guinea pig...
An origin story in the true sense of the word, Rise of the
Apes is set in present day San Francisco. The film is a
reality-based cautionary tale, a science fiction/science-fact
blend where mankind's hubris leads to the development of
intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.
Oscar-winning visual effects house WETA Digital,
employing the groundbreaking technologies developed
for "Avatar", render photo-realistic apes rather than
costumed actors for the first time ever in the film series.
It’s 1875 in New Mexico Territory. A stranger (Daniel
Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard
desert town of Absolution where people don't welcome
strangers and nobody makes a move unless ordered to
do so by iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford).
It's a town that lives in fear but Absolution is about to
experience more fear than it can comprehend as the
desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Now,
the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation.