Robert Burns Centre FILM THEATRE BOX OFFICE 01387 264808 MAY to JULY 2011
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Robert Burns Centre FILM THEATRE BOX OFFICE 01387 264808 WWW.RBCFT.CO.UK MAY to JULY 2011 29APRIL 07MAY 2011 INCLUDING DUMFRIES FILM FESTIVAL in local cinemas across the region PIRATES OF THE PROGRAMME CARIBBEAN Submarine Source Code Armadillo Essential Killing The African Queen 13 Assassins The Conspirator Welcome Welcome to the fifth Dumfries Film Festival – an intense week of film across Dumfries and Galloway with local cinema screenings in Dumfries, Moffat, Annan and the Isle of Whithorn. We’ve been on a diet since last year’s bumper food themed festival and have slimmed down a bit (less funding these days). Focussing on quality rather than quantity we have a fantastic array of films, quizzes and events to entertain all ages with a special youth strand running though the week – young programmers, young characters, young production companies and films for young people (and for all of us still young at heart too). We hope that you will you will spring into film and enjoy! Fiona Wilson (Film Officer) and Darren Connor (Guest Programmer) …….filling in for Film Officer Alice Stilgoe who while on maternity leave enjoying quality time with baby girl Bonnie, still managed to do sterling work programming most of this festival for your enjoyment. 29APRIL 07MAY 2011 Young Programmers’ Forum Spring 2011: Alex Bryant • Cameron Forbes • Luke Maloney • Connor McMorran • Ruth Swift-Wood • David Barker • Tom Archer • Lauren Halliday • Beth Ashby • Danielle Welsh • James Pickering Four Young Programmer’s Choice screenings at RBCFT are the culmination of a six-week course for young people aged 16-24 that explored film programming. The theme of Youth and the films themselves have been specially selected and will be introduced by members of the forum. Funded by Regional Screen Scotland. If you would like to know more please talk to one of our young programmers at the end of the screenings. Photo credit: Alec Barclay D&G film festival diary APRIL BURIED IN THE DARK FRI 29 Friday 29 April (6.00) RBCFT Buried in the dark 6.00 Dumfries’ film making club Scene1take1 present their RBCFT Went the Day Well 7.30 first short horror film 'Buried In The Dark'. The film is 12 SAT 30 RBCFT Animations for Families + Mini workshop 3.00 minutes and production was aided by local company SAT 30 Haphazard Media and boasts a score written by John RBCFT ANUVAHOOD (15) 5.00 Whitener of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. SAT 30 The film was written by a 15 year old and directed by RBCFT Haphazard media showcase U/C 15+ 7.30 a 12 year old. Club members also acted, produced and SAT 30 assisted with camera and sound recording. Scene1take1 Moffat Movies Burke & Hare 7.30 filmmakers will introduce their film. MAY Tickets free, but please reserve seats in advance. SUN 1 RBCFT Patagonia (12A) 6.00 WENT THE DAY WELL MON 2 RBCFT Family quiz 3.00 Friday 29 April (7.30) RBCFT Adult quiz (families welcome) 5.00 Alberto Cavalcanti, UK 1942 (restored 2010), 1h33m, PG RBCFT Walkabout (12A) 6.30 On the wedding day of our future king we celebrate all TUES 3 things British with Cavalcanti’s wartime film based on a Lonsdale Cinema The Wildest Dream 1.45 + 8.00 RBCFT BBFC Workshop 7.30 story by Graham Greene. WED 4 Disguised as British soldiers, the invading Germans RBCFT Scotland's Reel Past: insinuate themselves into a pretty village inhabited by A Scottish Screen Archive Event cc 10.45 British character players so familiar to wartime audiences RBCFT Akira (15) 7.30 that they must have seemed like family members. THU 5 Always the mischievous foreign observer, Cavalcanti RBCFT Fluffville Films 5.30 RBCFT Benda Bilili (PG) 7.30 kicks away their usual charm, letting them kill and be Lonsdale Cinema The Kids are all right (15) 8.00 killed in a violent battle for their green, pleasant land. Catstrand Speaking the Land by Dalziel Critics’ reactions at the time were mixed but now we can & Scullion 8.00 properly relish this visionary film, as jolting and quizzical FRI 6 about British life as anything by Powell and Pressburger. RBCFT Submarine (15) 6.00 RBCFT We Are What We Are 8.00 RBCFT ticket prices £6.10 (£4.50 conc) SAT 7 RBCFT The Be All And End All 7.30 Machars Movies Another Time, Another Place 7.30 HOW TO BUY TICKETS Tickets can be pre-booked through the individual venues or bought on the door, unless otherwise stated. DUMFRIES TICKET FilmFestival Please contact venues direct with 29APRIL 07MAY 2011 any specific access requirements. ANIMATIONS FOR FAMILIES + HAPHAZARD MEDIA SHOWCASE MINI WORKSHOP Saturday 30 April (7.30) Saturday 30 April (3.00) 1hr 45m, N/C 15 + 1hr 15m, N/C 8+, some subtitles Family Haphazard Media is a fledging film production company A special programme of animated films Film with its roots in Dumfries. Despite its youth, Haphazard for families. Suitable for 8-year-olds and Media has many short film productions in its slate upwards, these shorts bring the wonder of animation to and two feature films in development. This is a unique the big screen. Includes films about a family obsessed opportunity to see their work to date, including the with text messages, a journey to Madagascar and the BAFTA winning ‘Zombie Musical’ which was filmed on love between a seal, a walrus and a lobster. Entertaining, location in Dumfries last year, and a chance to put your thought-provoking, colourful and enchanting – questions to the winning team behind Haphazard Media. marvellous stuff for children and adults alike. Tickets free, but please reserve seats in advance. All tickets £4 (includes juice and biscuit break and mini flip book workshop – lasts approx 30min and great fun for all ages) ANUVAHOOD Saturday 30 April (5.00) Adam Deacon, UK 2011, 1h28m, 15 The assured debut of its talented writer-director-star Adam Deacon, this urban comedy sends up Noel Clarke's wave of Young gritty youth films. Anuvahood – is Programmers’ a 'ripe and rowdy satire' on youth Choice culture, hip-hop and failure in Introduced by modern society. Alex Bryant RBCFT ticket prices £6.10 Cameron Forbes (£4.50 conc) BURKE & HARE Showing at PATAGONIA Saturday 30 April (7.30) Moffat Sunday 1 May (6.00) John Landis, UK 2010, 1h30m, 15 Movies, Marc Evans, UK 2010, 1h58m, 15, Welsh/Spanish with subtitles A comedic take on the true story of Old Well the 1828 Edinburgh body-snatchers Theatre, From Victorian Wales families leaving their homeland William Burke (Simon Pegg) and William Moffat set sail for Argentina where they established a Welsh- Hare (Andy Serkis). These two Irish speaking community in Patagonia. Marc Evans’s entrepreneurs, spurred on by a chance gorgeous, dreamily romantic road movie follows two meeting with a gorgeous actress (Isla Fisher), discover parallel stories that examine what was lost and what that a dead body can fetch a hefty price when the was gained in the exodus. In Cardiff Gwen and her demands of the leading medical professors Dr. Knox and boyfriend are having problems. He is about to embark Dr. Monroe reach beyond that of the local supply. on an assignment photographing Patagonian churches, so Gwen goes with him for a trip that will make or break their relationship. In Patagonia elderly Argentinian native Moffat Movies Cerys tricks her introverted young neighbour Alejandro Old Well Theatre, Old Well Road, Moffat DG10 9AP into accompanying her on a pilgrimage to her ancestral Volunteer contact number 01683 220581 homeland. Advance tickets available from Moffat Book RBCFT ticket prices £6.10 (£4.50 conc) Exchange, Well Street or available on the door www.oldwelltheatre.co.uk Ticket price: £5.00 (includes nibbles) We welcome ye all to the Old Well Theatre; Our kirk with the history of action & song; Where stage & cinema growe tears & laughter; Our warm friendship to 'a' they who gae along. Test your film knowledge and win fantastic prizes at the Dumfries? Film? Festival Quiz! ? Monday 2 May Building on last DUMFRIES FILM FESTIVAL QUIZ – year’s success FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES Monday 2 May (3.00) 1h Darren Connor will, As we look forward to the final term at Hogwarts and our once again, test, young wizards battle against sinister forces, find out if tease and torment you're gold-star material or, tsk tsk, not. with a broad set of For ages 5 –11, accompanied by parents, but no cheating! film questions Maximum 6 per team. Entry fee £1.50 for adults, £1 for children and concessions Great prizes to be won, DUMFRIES FILM FESTIVAL QUIZ – including exclusive? use of the FOR ADULTS cinema to host your own film Monday 2 May (5.00) 1h screening, cinema vouchers, Do you know your Peckinpah from your Pixar, your ?posters and other film Bergman from your Batman? Fingers on buzzers for the bumper Dumfries Film Festival quiz to find out whether goodies. Thanks to Cream you're a cinephobe or an Oscar contender. O’Galloway there’s a free ice- For ages 12 upwards. Families most welcome. cream for all participants! Maximum 6 per team. Entry fee £1.50 for adults, £1 for children and ? concessions ? WALKABOUT THE WILDEST DREAM: Monday 2 May (6.30) Showing at CONQUEST OF EVEREST Lonsdale Nicolas Roeg, Australia 1971, 1h40m, 12A - contains ? Tuesday 3 May (1.45pm & 8.00pm) Cinema, nudity, animal killing and infrequent strong language Anthony Geffen, USA 2010, 1h33m, PG Annan Nicolas Roeg’s stunning debut as sole director makes Ticket Price: £5 and £4 breathtaking use of Australian outback locations.