Event categories: Film

Film Group screenings

Wild Strawberries

Dr Borg an elderly emotionally distant professor, travels to Lund University with his daughter-in-law to receive an honorary degree. The trip forces him to re-examine past choices and his future. The film’s original title is Smultonstället which literally means “the wild strawberry patch” but idiomatically signifies a hidden gem of a place, often with personal […]

Chinatown

In a legendary performance, Jack Nicholson stars as private eye Jake Gittes. Hired by a mysterious woman to investigate Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Gittes’ sleuthing brings him into contact with Mulwray’s wife (Faye Dunnaway), a stunning socialite with secrets of her own. As a determined […]

Scrooge

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)

The General

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 […]

Leave Her to Heaven

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)

The Teachers’ Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer)

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)

Charulata (The Lonely Wife)

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

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 […]

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