Forest Row Film Society

Next season we will have about 23 films, including some on Saturday nights, and a few Sunday matinees. From our short list below, please let us know which films you most like the sound of and help us decide. You can select as many as you like. We haven’t got our matinee shortlist yet, and we will almost certainly add a few other titles before we finalise the programme for next season.

Please add any other comments or suggestions in the Comments box at the bottom

Thank you for all your support.

• Alice in the Cities: Wim Wenders classic
• Anything for Her: New French thriller
• Cherry Blossom: New German drama; very moving
• A Cottage on Dartmoor: Stunning British silent
• Couscous: French-Tunisian man opens restaurant on a barge. Big hit from last year
• Dersu Uzala: Kurosawa (1975) in Mongolia
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Encounters at the End of the World: New Herzog documentary about Antarctica
• L’Esquive: Earlier film from director of Couscous set in the banlieues as a group of young people rehearse a Marivaux play
• Fugitive Pieces: New film based on Anne Michaels book, starring Stephen Dillane
• Gomorrah: Visceral Italian gangsters
• In the Mood for Love: Wong Kar-Wai
• Into Great Silence: Meditative documentary about Carthusian monks
• I’ve loved you so long: Emotional and powerful drama starring Kristin Scott-Thomas
• Katerina Ivanovna
• The Leopard: Visconti’s masterpiece starring Burt Lancaster
• Let’s Talk about the Rain: Recent Agnes Jaoui film
• The Page Turner: Amazing French psychological drama (2006)
• Piccadilly: “one of the truly great films of the silent era” (Martin Scorsese)
• Summer Hours: Recent Olivier Assayas film starring Juliette Binoche
• Tabu: F.W. Murnau’s last film (1930)
• A Throw of Dice: Spectacular indian silent (1929)
• Tilai: From Burkina Faso, and the director of Yaaba
• Two Days in Paris: Julie Delpy writes, directs, stars etc
• U-Carmen eKhayelitsha: The companion to Son of Man
• La Vie en Rose: Piaf
• Volver: Almodovar, starring Penelope Cruz
• Waltz with Bashir: Recent Israeli animation about the massacres at Sabra and Chatila

We were delighted to see such a big crowd at last week’s film. About a hundred people turned up to see the astonishing Danish drama After the Wedding. We knew it was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, but everyone we spoke to afterwards was extremely positive. One of the emails we got said it was “definitely one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time”.

Our new sound system in the village hall was shown off to good effect too, and over the summer we’ll be adding to it since we’ve just taken delivery of a new subwoofer to improve all the low frequencies. For anyone interested in the gory details, it is a JBL JRX118S. I must admit that it is a little bigger than I was expecting, especially since the marketing material describes it as “compact”. With that and a centre speaker we will have completed the refitting of the system. Thanks again to all our funders and donors this year.