Upcoming Films

[Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre]

Hi all, 

sorry I missed some of you last night.

Here's a rundown of upcoming films (and a few prospective ones for next year).

If anyone would like to introduce one let me know otherwise I can cover it.

THE APPRENTICE - Monday 18 November

Ali Abbasi's drama about the early business career of criminal-in-chief Donald Trump. I'm doing this one.

MY FAVAOURITE  CAKE - Monday 25 November

An elderly Iranian widow finds sweet rebellion in this gentle romantic comedy and one of the best reviewed films of the year. I'm happy to do the intro.

DOG ON TRIAL - Monday 2 December JULIE

Swiss-French comedy film about a lawyer who defends a dog on trial and is loosely based on a real case in France.

ANORA -  Monday 9 December.

I'm on leave this week but don't want to miss this (happy to introduce if no-one else can).

A young sex worker from Brooklyn meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled. From director Sean Baker (Florida Project and Red Rocket).

CONCLAVE - Monday 16 December

Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with one of the world's most secretive and ancient events -- participating in the selection of a new pope. Surrounded by powerful religious leaders in the halls of the Vatican, he soon uncovers a trail of deep secrets that could shake the very foundation of the Roman Catholic Church. It's received some great reviews ahead of its release later this month.

BIRD - Monday 6 January

The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank), is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalized life in the fringes of contemporary society.

SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE - Monday 13 January

In 1985, Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy), a devoted father, uncovers disturbing secrets at the local convent; as he investigates, he discovers shocking truths about his own past and life.

QUEER - Monday 20 January

1950. William Lee (Daniel Craig), an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody. From director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name).

NICKEL BOYS - Monday 27 January

Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young African American men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

PROSPECTIVE FILMS - let us know your thoughts:

SEPTEMBER 5 - During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (possibly for the Monday closest to International Women's day in March) - In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.

THERE'S STILL TOMORROW (another possibility for the Monday closest to International Women's Day) - Set in postwar 1940s Italy, it follows Delia breaking traditional family patterns and aspiring to a different future, after receiving a mysterious letter. Released in 2023 and it was the most popular Italian cinema release of the year (ahead of Barbie and Oppenheimer).

NOSFERATU - the latest film from Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse, The Northman) is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. 

THE BRUTALIST (3 hours 35 minutes long - too long???) - Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost....

See you soon,

John 

[Julie McMorran]

Hi John

Yes to There's Still Tomorrow please, and if no one else would like to, I'll introduce it.

All the others I'd be happy to see, except The Brutalist - a bit too long for me.

I'm looking forward to The Apprentice!

Julie

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[Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre]

Hi Julie,

that's great thank you. I'll try and get a few more 2025 films booked soon.

We have been given a list of the films for next year's Fokus, Films from Germany Film Festival (we showed Afire as part of this year's festival). We hope to book The Universal Theory as part of that:

  1962. Johannes Leinert, together with his doctoral advisor, travels to a physics congress in the Swiss Alps, where an Iranian scientist is set to reveal a “groundbreaking theory of quantum mechanics”. But when the physicists arrive at the five-star hotel, the Iranian guest is nowhere to be found. In the absence of a new theory to be discussed, the physics community patiently turns to skiing. Johannes remains at the hotel, but soon finds himself developing a special fascination with Karin, a young jazz pianist. Something about her seems strange, elusive. She seems to know things about him – things that he thought only he knew about. When one of the German physicists is found dead one morning, two inspectors arrive on the scene, investigating a homicide case. As increasingly bizarre cloud formations appear in the sky, the pianist disappears without a trace – and Johannes finds himself dragged into a sinister story of false memories, real nightmares, impossible love and a dark, roaring mystery hidden beneath the mountain.