Rusthall Community Cinema
Films we all choose, watch, then discuss. A charitable entertainment hub run by volunteers.
Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become quite time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen's companion. Their burgeoning friendship gives her a chance to fulfill her ambitions and she will not let woman, man, politics or rabbit stand in her way.
Attired in urban cowboy garb, Joe Buck is a naive Texas hayseed newly arrived in New York City to make it big as a gigolo, solely to his preferred clientèle of rich, attractive women. His belief in his appeal to the female persuasion has been reinforced his entire life by every female he has ever encountered: family, friends, and lovers past and present. But life in New York City disappoints: he's out-hustled by most of the people he meets, and he lacks the fortitude to hustle them right back to get what was originally due to him. With nowhere to turn, he eventually befriends one of those hustlers: Enrico Salvatore Rizzo, a sickly man with a gimp leg. Some call him Rizzo, a nickname he dislikes. Joe ends up squatting with Ratso in a room he has found in a condemned, thus otherwise-empty building. As they lean on each other for support, they work together for their mutual benefit and survival. But as Ratso's health deteriorates over the winter, Joe changes his focus to achieving Ratso's dream of moving to Miami.
Date: 2pm Sunday 29th September 2019
Director: John Schlesinger
Certificate: 18
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles
Awards: Won 3 Oscars in 1970
Ridley Scott's cult classic is set in a neon noir version of 21st Century Los Angeles, whose look set the template for subsequent futuristic films. Ex-cop Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is hired to track down a group of androids who have escaped from a satellite colony. As two of the AWOL 'replicants' (Rutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah) seek refuge in a geneticist's house, Deckard takes his investigation to the Tyrell Corporation, where he falls in love with Rachael (Sean Young), herself an android, but with a memory chip that convinces her she is human. An adaptation of Philip K Dick's bestselling novel, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?'.
Date: 7pm Saturday 5th October 2019
Director: Ridley Scott
Certificate: 15
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Rose-Lynn Harlan, played by BAFTA Rising Star nominee Jessie Buckley (Beast), is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mum Marion (Julie Walters) has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house (Sophie Okonedo). Directed by Tom Harper, Wild Rose is an uplifting story with an original soundtrack about family, dreams and reality, and three chords and the truth.
Date: 7pm Saturday 19th October 2019
Director: Tom Harper
Certificate: 15
Genre: Drama, Music
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Stars: Jessie Buckley, Matt Costello, Jane Patterson
Date: 2pm Sunday 27th October 2019
Director: John Schlesinger
Certificate: PG
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Cast: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Awards: Nominated for 6 BAFTAs
To her friends, Halla (Halldora Geirharosdottir) leads a quiet and routine life. But her happy and upbeat exterior hides a secret double life as a committed environmental activist. Known to others as 'The Mountain Woman', she wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry to protect the stunning highland landscape that is under threat. Just as she begins planning her biggest and boldest operation yet, she receives an unexpected letter that will change everything. She will be forced to choose between her environmental crusade and the chance of fulfilling her dream of becoming a mother. Funny, moving and utterly unique, WOMAN AT WAR follows Halla as she juggles the adoption of a beautiful little girl whilst planning her final act of industrial sabotage.
Date: 7pm Saturday 2nd November 2019
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Certificate: 12
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Stars: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson
A fast-living, cynical London music executive (Danny Mays) heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he's pranked by his boss (Noel Clarke) into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen (led by James Purefoy). He becomes the ultimate 'fish out of water' as he struggles to gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band and their families (including Tuppence Middleton) who value friendship and community over fame and fortune. As he's drawn deeper into the traditional way of life he's forced to re-evaluate his own integrity and ultimately question what success really means.
Date: 7pm Saturday 16th November 2019
Director: Chris Foggin
Certificate: 12A
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Stars: James Purefoy, Meadow Nobrega, David Hayman
Director Guido Anselmi's working on his latest film; part science fiction, part commentary on Catholicism, but primarily, autobiography. Despite Guido declaring this movie should be an easy one to make, he's having problems with his artistic vision. Specifically, he doesn't want to tell a lie on screen. From the stresses - both professional and personal - he's checked himself into a spa to help relax. As he works through these problems, he reminisces about his childhood and fantasises how he sees things playing out or how he hopes they'll play out.
Date: 2pm Sunday 24th November 2019
Director: Federico Fellini
Certificate: 15
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale
Awards: Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
The year is 1613, Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground, and a devastated Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationships with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as husband and father. His very personal search for the truth uncovers secrets and lies within a family at war.
Date: 7pm Saturday 30th November 2019
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Certificate: 12A
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen
Classic comedy western starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as Butch and Sundance, two outlaws who are finding it increasingly difficult to make a living in the Wild West. With big business constantly extending its influence, and the law following hot on its heels, the everyday business of robbing banks and trains is becoming more and more of a strain, so much so that Butch and Sundance eventually decide to cut their losses and, accompanied by their friend Etta Place (Katharine Ross), head for a new life in Bolivia. However, when they reach their destination, it seems their problems are only beginning, especially when they discover they now have to rob banks speaking Spanish. The film won several Oscars, including Best Song (for 'Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head'), Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay.
Date: 7pm Saturday 14th December 2019
Director: George Roy Hill
Certificate: PG
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford
In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader, he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French, against enormous odds, at Agincourt. Arranging a treaty with the French court, he woos Princess Katharine to whom he is formally betrothed as part of the peace agreement.
Date: 2pm Sunday 22nd December 2019
Director: Laurence Olivier
Certificate: U
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Runtime: 2 hrs 17 mins
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks
Screen version of the popular Broadway musical. In pre-Revolutionary Ukraine, Jewish fiddler Tevye (Topol) plans to marry off his three daughters. However, none of the girls chooses what their father considers to be a suitable partner. Meanwhile, the Russian Czar and Cossacks begin a campaign of intimidation against Tevye's village. Songs include 'If I Were a Rich Man' and 'Sunrise, Sunset'.
Date: 7pm Saturday 28th December 2019
Director: Norman Jewison
Certificate: U
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Runtime: 3 hr 1 min
Stars: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Pawe Pawlikowski follows his Oscar-winning Ida with the stunning Cold War, an epic romance set against the backdrop of Europe after World War II. Shot in luminous black and white, it s a wistful and dreamlike journey through a divided continent and a heartbreaking portrait of ill-fated love.
Date: 7pm Saturday 11th January 2020
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Certificate: 15
Genre: Drama, History, Music
Runtime: 1 hr 29 mins
Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc
The hopeless Monsieur Hulot once again finds himself affecting people's lives without realizing what he has done. Hulot has taken his young nephew under his wing allowing him to play with other children. The boy's parents live in a ultra-modern house where the boy's overly pretentious mother will barely let him breathe. Concerned that he may be a bad influence on the boy, Hulot's sister and brother-in-law devise a plan to keep him occupied. Their attempt to introduce him to other people at their garden party doesn't work out as planned - with hilarious results for everyone concerned.
Date: 2pm Sunday 19th January 2020
Director: Jacques Tati
Certificate: U
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Cast: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie
Date: 7pm Saturday 25th January 2020
Director: Danny Boyle
Certificate: 12A
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Stars: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Sophia Di Martino
Date: 7pm Saturday 8th February 2020
Director: Martin McDonagh
Certificate: 18
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Stars: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds
When Grand Duke Charles, the Prince Regent of Carpathia, a fictitious Balkan country which could start a European war by switching alliances, visits London for the coronation of the new British King in 1911, and spends his one evening off at the Coconut Girl Club, the reputed stickler for protocol is so charmed by a clumsy American understudy that he orders his British attaché to invite her to the embassy for a private supper. Being overlooked and understanding German, she learns of the repressive attitude of the Regent and the plans of his reformist, pro-German minor son, King Nicholas, to take over power by surprise, but doesn't dodge and tries to reconcile father and son. The Queen Dowager decides to make her lady-in-waiting for the coronation day, so she stays in the picture to everyone else's surprise.
Date: 2pm Sunday 16th February 2020
Director: Laurence Olivier
Certificate: PG
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Richard Wattis
Date: 7pm Saturday 22nd February 2020
Director: Jon Favreau
Certificate: PG
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Stars: Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen
Date: 7pm Saturday 7th March 2020
Director: Wash Westmoreland
Certificate: 15
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins
Stars: Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West
Date: 7pm Saturday 21st March 2020
Director: Dexter Fletcher
Certificate: 15
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Stars: Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden
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