Film Group screenings
Miserly Victorian businessman Ebenezer Scrooge is persuaded to change his ways one Christmas by visitations from the ghost of his former business partner and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet-To -Come. Dir: Brian Desmond Hunt: UK 1951 (86 mins)
Many Critics consider The General to be the last great comedy of the silent era, and it consistently ranks as one of the greatest comedies of all time on international critics’ polls. Set during the American Civil War and based on a true incident, the film is also an authentic looking period piece. The title […]
A writer meets a young socialite on board a train. The two fall in love and are married soon after, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of both of them and everyone else around them. Dir: John M Stahl: USA 1945 (110 mins)
When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions threaten to break her. Dir: Ilker Çatak: Germany 2023(99 mins)
The director’s own favourite of his films set in late 19th – century Bengal, boasts a marvellously Victorian heroine: Charulata, spellbindingly portrayed by Madhabi Mukherjee, is beautiful, intellectual and dangerously bored. Charulata’s household, a vast ornate mansion, is one of seething suppressed emotions, subtly revealed by Subrata Mittra’s eloquent camera. Dir: Satyajit Ray: India 1964 […]
The Zone of Interest is a 2023 historical drama film written and directed by Jonathan Glazer. Loosely based on the 2014 novel by the late Martin Amis, the film focuses on the life of the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hӧss and his wife Hedwig who live with their family in the “Zone of Interest” next to […]
Cabaret brings 1931 Berlin inside and outside the Kit Kat Klub. There starry- eyed American Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the call for decadent fun, while in the street the Nazi Party is beginning to grow into a brutal political force. Into this heady world arrives British language teacher Brian Roberts who falls […]
Hirayama works as a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo’s upscale Shibuya ward, across town from his modest home in an ungentrified neighbourhood east of the Sumida River. He repeats his structural, ritualized lifestyle every day starting at dawn. He dedicates his free time to his passion for music which he listens to in his van […]