Source Code - Certificate 12A (1993) 93mins

After the success of "Moon" we are pleased to offer Duncan Jones' second film at Cinema Nairn.

Colter Stevens, a US Army helicopter pilot whose last memory is flying in Afghanistan, wakes up on a commuter train. However, he discovers that he has assumed the identity of another man. 8 minutes later, the train explodes and Stevens finds himself in some kind of pod. He then talks to someone named Goodwin, who tells him he has to go back and find out who the bomber is.

He is sent back to go through the whole thing again and attempts to find who the bomber is but fails. The bomb goes off and Stevens finds himself in the pod again. He is sent back another time, yet still cannot find out anything. When he returns, he asks what is going on. Goodwin and Rutledge, the scientist in charge, tell him that he is part of a project that can put someone in another person's consciousness during the last 8 minutes of their life. Stevens then asks why he cannot just stop the bomb. He is told that...

Altered minds, altered states and bags of style – this sci-fi thriller is a superb follow-up for Duncan Jones The Guardian *****


Friday 30th March at 7.30pm Nairn Community and Arts Centre, King Street (A96), Nairn


Tickets £5.00/U18s £3.00 on the door/Bar from 7.00pm

Even the Rain 2010 (Cert 15)

If you enjoyed "You've Been Trumped" then our next offering may wet your whistle (sic).

Spanish director Sebastián, his executive producer Costa and all his crew are in Bolivia, in the Cochabamba area, to shoot a motion picture about Christopher Columbus, his first explorations and the way the Spaniards treated the Indians at the time. Costa has chosen this place because the budget of the film is tight and here he can hire supernumeraries, local actors and extras on the cheap. Things go more or less smoothly until a conflict erupts over the privatization of the water supply. The trouble is that one of the local actors, is a leading activist in the protest movement.

Being screened in The Little Theatre, King Street, Nairn at 7.30pm


Part of the Take One Action Film Festival Even the Rain 2010 (Cert 15) Spain (Subtitled) 103 mins + discussion afterwards

CINEMA NAIRN COMES UP TRUMPED

Ordinarily you’d expect a documentary about a golf course to go down a treat in the well-heeled seaside resort of Nairn, famous for its two first class links courses.

But the special film screening on Monday 3rd October by community group Cinema Nairn is likely to provoke a heated debate among golfers and non-golfers alike. The film in question is the critically-acclaimed “You’ve Been Trumped”, which looks at American billionaire Donald Trump’s controversial project to create a luxury golf resort on sensitive sand dunes in Aberdeenshire.


The film had its UK premiere in June at the Sheffield Documentary Festival where it won The Green Award. In July it won the Special Jury Prize at the Michael Moore film festival in the US. And it is now scheduled to be screened at select city venues around the UK, as well as Winnepeg in Canada, Bermuda and... Nairn.


The List magazine describes it as “arguably the most important film about Scottish environmental, land and identity rights to surface this year or any year.”


When first proposed, Trump's planning application was decisively rejected by the local authority. But in an unprecedented move the Scottish Government overturned the decision and gave the project the go-ahead – arguing the case for economic development and inward investment. Bulldozers rolled into action, as did the cameras...


Earlier this year we had a great audience for the classic film Local Hero. You’ve Been Trumped basically tells the same story except this is fact not fiction and almost on our doorstep. We’re really lucky to secure the film for our community-run cinema and we’re sure it will be of great interest to many.”


The film has also been acclaimed for its musical score, provided by Jonsi, the frontman of best-selling Icelandic band Sigur Ros. Check out the trailer on our video bar above...


You’ve Been Trumped is being screened by Cinema Nairn on Monday 3rd October at 8.30pm in Nairn Community & Arts Centre on King Street in Nairn. Tickets are priced at £4.00 (£3.00 for under-18s and loyalty card holders) and the 95-minute film is a Certificate 12.


Synopsis: In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on a celebrity tycoon.   At stake is one of Britain's very last stretches of wilderness.   


American billionaire Donald Trump has bought up hundreds of acres on the northeast coast of Scotland, best known to movie-lovers as the setting for the 1983 classic film Local Hero.  And like the American oil tycoon played by Burt Lancaster, he needs to buy out a few more locals to make the deal come true.  In a land swimming with golf courses, Trump is going to build two more – alongside a 450-room hotel and 1,500 luxury homes.  The trouble is, the land he has purchased occupies one of Europe’s most environmentally sensitive stretches of coast, described by one leading scientist as Scotland’s Amazon rain forest.  And the handful of local residents don't want it destroyed.  


After the Scottish Government overturns its own environmental laws to give Trump the green light, the stage is set for an extraordinary summer of discontent, as the bulldozers spring into action.  Water and power is cut off, land disputes erupt, and some residents have thousands of tonnes of earth piled up next to their homes.  Complaints go ignored by the police, who instead arrest the film's director, Anthony Baxter.   Local exasperation comes to a surreal head as the now  “Dr”  Trump scoops up an honorary doctorate from a local university, even as his tractors turn wild, untouched dunes into fairways.   


Told entirely without narration, You've Been Trumped captures the cultural chasm between the glamorous, jet-setting and media savvy Donald Trump and a deeply rooted Scottish community.  What begins as an often amusing clash of world views grows increasingly bitter and disturbing.  For the tycoon, the golf course is just another deal, with a possible billion dollar payoff.  For the residents, it represents the destruction of a globally unique landscape that has been the backdrop for their lives.   


Funny, inspiring and heartbreaking in turns, You’ve Been Trumped  is both an entertaining, can't-believe-it's-true tale and an environmental parable for our celebrity driven times.  A moving score features music from jónsi, the internationally acclaimed musician and frontman of Sigur Ros.  The film also offers a rare and revealing glimpse of the unfiltered Donald Trump, as he considers standing as a candidate for President of the United States.  

Singing In The Rain - perhaps one of the most famous songs from a movie ever!

Singing In The Rain performed by Gene Kelly come along to Cinema Nairn, join the crowd to see and hear it in all it's Technicolor glory... You can't really say much more about a great classic such as this film - just brilliant!


Another classic song routine in this movie is Make 'Em Laugh Apologies but I could not embed this clip


Showing at the Nairn Community & Arts Centre on Monday 14th February at 2.00pm - all ages welcome, tickets on the door £2.00 - Teas and Homebaking too...

Check out the Trailer Bar...

Hi folks

I have finally worked out how to get trailers of each of our forthcoming films (courtesy of YouTube) embedded into the blog. So now you can have a wee preview of the film before you come along to the screening...

Cheers

Phil M Buff