What’s On

Please note that the programme may change depending on availability. Shorts are shown before the main feature unless a speaker is booked to give a talk.

Autumn Programme

10th September 2010 - HIGH SOCIETY

Director – Charles Walters – 1956

A musical remake of ‘The Philadelphia Story’ featuring Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong with a swinging Cole Porter score.  This is a thoroughly entertaining and ‘must see’ film for all fans of classic musicals. With its witty script and plot surrounding a champagne lifestyle, it is an ideal ‘feel good’ movie to start of our autumn season and topical in view of the recent Grace Kelly exhibition at the V & A.

TALK – Lindsey Moore will introduce this film.

Lindsey  co-ordinates the Screen Studies Department at the NFTS  and contributes to the School’sPassport to Cinema programme, Lindsey also teaches courses on The Musical and The Role of the Designer in Film. A graduate of the Royal College of Art/V&A joint MA in Design History, she has taught extensively on Design History at Sheffield Hallam University, West Surrey College of Art and Design and Brighton Polytechnic, where she was a Research Assistant. An associate lecturer in Film Studies at Middlesex University for four years, she has also taught Television History to Design students at Kingston University.

25th September 2010 – EL BANO DEL PAPA

Directors – César Charlone, Enrique Fernández – 2007

The year is 1988 and a small economically struggling town on the Brazil-Uruguay border awaits the visit of Pope Jean-Paul II. The locals are filled with enthusiasm for not only divine blessings but also commercial benefit from the visit.  A sympathetic and comic story of human dignity and solidarity from award winning Uruguayan cinematographers – to pick up the theme of    Septembers 2010 Palpal visit.

SHORT – Outcasts

8th October 2010 – LE DINER DE CONS

Director – Francis Veber – 1998

Each week, Pierre and his Parisian professional friends organize an “idiot’s dinner” Each competes to produce the dumbest guest they can for the amusement of the group.  Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show but his plan rebounds on him.  This laugh out loud, comedy mocks the French preoccupation with intellectualism.  Scheduled for an American remake!

SHORT – Park Close

23rd October 2010 – MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN

Directors – Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson – 2009

A powerful and moving     independent documentary (recently shown at the     London Film Festival and briefly on TV) about the    efforts of a white family to protect a farming community of 500 black workers from the attempts to take over their farm during the land-grabs by the Mugabe regime, including a pyrrhic     victory in an international court case against President Mugabe.

SHORT – Ela

12th November 2010 – SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE

Director – Víctor Erice – 1973

A classic of Spanish cinema, which tells the story of Spain’s sufferings under the early Franco regime through the eyes of an imaginative child in rural 1940s Spain. This is a delightful back-story to the current economic crisis in modern Spain.

SHORT – Grandmother Olive

27th November 2010 – REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE

Director – Nicholas Ray – 1955

Starring James Dean, this movie marked the introduction of a completely new kind of film in its exploration of teenage angst.  It follows a rebellious young man with a troubled past, who finds ‘teenage kicks’ and new love.  Dennis Hopper, who died recently, also features – another must-see-again classic.

SHORT – Earthquake

COMING SOON….

BAGDAD CAFE

Director – Percy Adlon – 1987

A BOUT DE SOUFFLE

Director – Jean-Luc Godard – 1960

I’M ALRIGHT JACK

Director – John Boulting - 1959

PESEPOLIS

Directors – Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi - 2008

GOODBYE LENIN

Director – Wolfgang Becker - 2003

NEVER ON A SUNDAY

Director – Daniel Gruener - 2006