May

Showcasing the very best in emerging and local musical talent, every Tuesday and Thursday evening.

Noah Baumbach / USA 2007 / 1h33m. Contains strong language and sex references. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jack Black, John Turturro, Ciaran Hinds. The wedding of the title is between Pauline and her oafish boyfriend Malcolm. The eponymous Margot is Pauline’s estranged sister, a surprise arrival who’s on the run from her own disintegrating marriage to a fellow author back in New York. From the beginning, there’s a war of attrition between Margot and Pauline, with occasional truces to remember happy moments of shared experience and to offer barbed compliments. A sharply observed portrait of a family in distress. Tickets £5 (£4) available online @ www.thebooth.co.uk or on the night at the VisitScotland box office counter. Tickets subject to availability. Doors open half an hour before screening.

Auction sale of household furniture, bric-a-brac, tools and car boot items. Older items of interest to all. Viewing on Friday 2nd May 11am - 6pm and from 9am on the 3rd.

Exhibition and sale of artworks and jewellery by acclaimed designers and artists, visiting from Coburg House Studios in Edinburgh. Complimentary glass af wine or cider at Friday evening preview. Open every weekend through May, entre free.

Jimmy Hayward & Steve Martino / USA 2008 / 1h26m. Contains no material likely to offend or harm. With the voices of Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen. A wonderful animated feature based on the best-selling Dr Seuss book, from the makers of the Ice Age films. Horton is an imaginative elephant who hears, with his enormous ears, a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck, and despite a surrounding community which thinks he’s lost his mind, Horton is determined to help. A delightful film for all the family.

Roland Emmerich / USA/New Zealand 2008 / 1h49m. Contains moderate violence and sustained threat. Cast: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Affif Ben Badra. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter D’Leh has found his heart’s passion: the beautiful Evolet. But when a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and kidnap Evolet, D’Leh leads a small group of hunters to pursue the warlords to the end of the world to save her. As they venture into unknown lands for the first time, the group discovers there are civilizations beyond their own and that humankind’s reach is far greater than they ever knew...

Light supper. Bring a bottle. Pay at the door. Adults £3 and children £2.

Presentation and disco night at the Hawick YM. Tickets £10 available from Brian Smail newsagents.

Alternate Thursdays, local folk session nights. Informal with performers especially welcome. Entry free.

Tamara Jenkins / USA 2007 / 1h54m. Contains strong language and sex references. Cast: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, David Zayas. Lenny Savage has begun showing the signs of approaching dementia when his partner dies and her family turfs him out, forcing responsibility onto his estranged grown-up children. Subjects seldom aired in American cinema – ageing, compromise, death – take centre stage in director Tamara Jenkins’ sharp, witty script, which captures well the short-cuts to affection and irritation that intimacy brings, and the performances, in particular from Philip Seymour Hoffman and Oscar-nominated Laura Linney, are wonderful.

Mark Waters / USA 2008 / 1h36m. Contains scary moments and moderate fantasy violence. Cast: Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, Nick Nolte, Mary-Louise Parker, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn. Peculiar things start to happen the moment the Grace family (Jared, his brother Simon, his sister Mallory and their mum) leaves New York and moves into the secluded old house owned by their great, great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be occurring, the family blames Jared. When he, Simon, and Mallory investigate what’s really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate, as well as the creatures that inhabit it.

Ride-out to Bonchester Bridge, leaving from Backdamgate, behind Drumlanrig’s Tower, Hawick. Returns to Tower Knowe at 8.30pm.

Ride-out to Philhope Brig, leaving from Backdamgate, behind Drumlanrig’s Tower, Hawick. Returns to Tower Knowe at 8.30pm.

Pete Travis / USA 2008 / 1h30m / English and Spanish with English subtitles. Contains moderate violence and one use of strong language. Cast: Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Fox, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt. In this action-packed thriller, eight strangers try to unlock the truth behind an assassination attempt on the President of the United States. When President Ashton is shot moments after he arrives in Spain for a summit on the war on terror, in the crowd is an American tourist who thinks he’s captured the shooter on his camcorder. Also there is American TV news producer Rex Brooks. As they and others reveal their stories, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place.

Mike Newell / USA 2007 / 2h18m / 35mm. Contains strong sex. Cast: Javier Bardem, Benjamin Bratt, Gina Bernard Forbes, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Marcela Mar. Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’ novel, this is surely one of the world’s most romantic stories. No sooner is recently deceased society doctor Juvenal Urbino laid in his coffin than riverboat magnate Florentino Ariza appears before Dr Urbino’s widow, Fermina Daza, with the message he’s been waiting more than 50 years to deliver: He vows everlasting love. Fermina throws him out, leaving him to look back to the year 1879 when he first caught a glimpse of her.

Ride-out to Roberton, leaving from Backdamgate, behind Drumlanrig’s Tower, Hawick. Returns to Tower Knowe at 8.15pm.

Davis Guggenheim / USA 2006 / 1h37m / 35mm. Contains images of ecological disasters. Documentary. The ‘truth’ the title refers to is the brute fact of climate change and global warming – the onset of which (and its likely impact upon our civilisation) becomes harder to deny with each passing year. The conscience here – the speaker of this particular truth – is former US Vice-President and Presidential candidate Al Gore, whose crusade to raise awareness of the situation forms the focus of this impassioned, forceful documentary. An important film that should be seen by everyone. This film is being shown as part of the “Green Heart of Hawick” environmental event. After the film, at 8.15pm, there will be a talk and discussion about the issues raised in the film. The event continues on Saturday with an exhibition, displays, talks and more.

Jon Chu / USA 2008 / 1h37m / 35mm. Contains one scene of moderate violence and mild language. Cast: Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Adam G Sevani, Cassie Ventura, Will Kemp. When rebellious street dancer Andie lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds herself fighting to fit in while trying to hold onto her old life. When she joins forces with the school’s hottest dancer, Chase, to form a crew of classmate outcasts to compete in Baltimore’s underground dance battle ‘The Streets’, she ultimately finds a way to live her dream while building a bridge between her two separate worlds.

Ride-out to Lilliesleaf, leaving from Backdamgate, behind Drumlanrig’s Tower, Hawick. Returns to Tower Knowe at 8.15pm.

Juan Antonio Bayona / Mexico/Spain 2007 / 1h46m / Spanish with English subtitles. Contains strong psychological horror and disturbing injury detail. Cast: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla. Laura, her husband and young son Simon move into an abandoned orphanage where she spent her childhood. But Simon soon begins seeing – and then playing with – a group of malicious children, who may or may not be in his imagination... A movie made scary through atmosphere, pacing and storytelling, rather than sudden violence, needless gore and random shocks. Produced by Guillermo (‘Pan’s Labyrinth’) del Toro, it bears some of his visual style and restraint, as well as an abiding interest in the terrors of childhood.

Ride-out to Mosspaul, leaving from Backdamgate, behind Drumlanrig’s Tower, Hawick. Returns to Tower Knowe at 8.15pm.

Mark Palansky / UK/USA 2007 / 1h29m / 35mm. Contains one use of mild language. Cast: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O’Hara, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Dinklage. Poor Penelope. Her mother wants to marry her off, but men aren’t so much throwing themselves at her, as out of the nearest window. Born to aristocratic parents, the young Penelope is stricken by a family curse that has left her, rather unfortunately, sporting a pig’s snout for a nose. Only if she weds a fellow ‘blue blood’ can the curse be broken. A charming family film about learning to love yourself despite your flaws.

George Clooney / USA 2007 / 1h53m. Contains mild language and comic violence. Cast: George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski George Clooney’s tribute to screwball comedies of yore - the likes of The Philadelphia Story and His Girl Friday - is a beautiful recreation of the era when pro American footballers couldn’t give up their day jobs. Jimmy Connelly’s beloved team are broke, but hope comes in the form of college footballer Carter Rutherford, cute as pie and a war hero to boot. Renee Zellweger plays the journalist dispatched to dig behind Rutherford’s hero persona but wreaks a little in-team fighting when both he and Connelly fall head over heels for her.

Ride-out to Mosspaul, leaving from Backdamgate, behind Drumlanrig’s Tower, Hawick. Returns to Tower Knowe at 8.15pm.

Steven Brill / USA 2008 / 1h42m. Contains moderate violence, language, and drug and sex references. Cast: Owen Wilson, Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile, Ian Roberts, Casey Boersma, Dylan Boersma. The latest film from Hollywood’s new king of comedy, Judd Apatow. Friends Ryan and Wade are excited about beginning high school... until they meet up with Filkins, a psychopathic school bully. They decide to seek out some protection by hiring a professional bodyguard. Unfortunately, the only one they can afford is Drillbit Taylor, a homeless con artist. He enrolls them in some physical and mental training, including ‘Kung pow, which involves a lot of grappling and pulling of hair, and ‘Mexican judo’.

Martin Scorsese / USA/UK 2008 / 2h2m / 35mm. Contains infrequent strong language and drug references. Documentary. Shot with an electric energy, ‘Shine a Light’ is longtime fan Martin Scorsese’s film of a Rolling Stones concert in a small New York theatre. Scorsese captures a band performing their extraordinary repertoire with incredible spark and zest – Jagger indulges in his idiosyncratic bursts of go-go dancing, preening and wailing, Keith Richards wields his guitars like lances, and guest players Jack White, Buddy Guy and Christina Aguilera underscore the Stones’ timelessness.

Ride-out to Denholm, leaving from Backdamgate, behind Drumlanrig’s Tower, Hawick. Returns to Tower Knowe at 8.15pm.

John Musker & Ron Clements / USA 1992 / 1h30m. Cast: With the voices of Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, Jonathan Freeman. Poor Aladdin looks longingly at the Sultan’s luxurious castle, and dreams of living inside, but Princess Jasmine wants only to escape that pampered life. Finally, she does run away, only to discover how hard life on the streets can be. Aladdin comes to her rescue, and soon the two have fallen in love. But how can a beggar marry the sultan’s daughter? His only hope lies in a magic lamp from the Cave of Wonders and a wisecracking genie who can grant wishes.

Tam White, Scottish Blues icon and one of the most acclaimed blues singers in mainland Europe, brings his latest set to the Heart of Hawick. Special guests: The Set Up. Tickets £12 (£10 in advance).