Suggest a film for 2012-13
What do you think we should screen next season? Every year we’re keen to get your input into our programming, and would like your input.
We’re looking for excellent, non-mainstream films that could attract a hundred people, so let us know your ideas and why you think it would be a good choice. Our programme is a mix of recent and classic films from all over the world, including some little-known films; we’re also on the look-out for great shorts as well, or films with some sort of local interest. As a rule, we don’t tend to show films that have been screened locally in the recent past, or which have have been on TV recently, though that’s not a hard and fast rule.
You may also like to look at the list of films that were suggested last year or for the 2009-10 season. We do keep reviewing the lists of previously-suggested films too; just because we haven’t shown them yet doesn’t mean we never will!
Suggestions from Marie-Claire, with links to the Movie Review Query Engine:
After the French weekend, Steffi and I thought an East European film weekend would be a good idea. A beautiful film that we both like is Karoly Makk’s Love (Szerelem), which you can read about in notcoming.com, and watch a clip:
Intouchables, French film by Eric Toledano
Kaos The Taviani Brothers
Burnt by the Sun by Nikita Mikhalkov
The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius, avec Jean Dujardin, France 2011
La Dolce Vita, Fellini, Italy
L’important c’est d’aimer Andreij Zulawski with Romy Scheiner, France
Polisse by Maiwen le Besco, France 2011
Les Bien Aimés 2011 de Christophe Honore with Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni her daughter
I suggest we do a Marcello Mastroianni weekend; he is such a great actor and all his films are masterpieces.
Great suggestions. And what about Ma saison préférée (1993), directed by André Téchiné, and also starring Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni, and with Daniel Auteuil?
Films with a Pygmalion theme with introduction, could include: Vertigo or Lars and the Real Girl. Or one of several other options.
yes Ma saison preferee ok and as Ken Russell just dies what about Women in Love or Tommy; he made lots of cult films although he was not so much loved by the critics!
We were talking about doing some late night cult films when we were in the pub the other night. Here’s the trailer:
yes I saw them all excellent!
Also I suggest we do a special MELIES silent week end as it is the 150 anniversary this year ( 2012)
Le voyage dans la Lune is a must!
I suggest an animation weekend:
Yuri Norstein: Tale of tales, 1979 (clip)
Piit Pärn: Breakfast on the grass, 1987 (film)
Paul Fierlinger: Still life with animated dogs, 2001 (film)
Lutz Dammbeck: The tailor of Ulm, 1979 or: The moon 1975…
Jan Svankmeier: …
Other ideas for the new season:
Michelangelo Frammartino, Le quattro volte, 2010 (trailer)
Andrej Tarkovski, The Mirror, 1974 (trailer)
Mike Nichols: Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?,1966 (trailer)
Michelangelo Antonioni (centenary, Sept. 2012): Blow up, 1966 [trailer] – or The Passenger, 1975 (trailer)
Milos Forman: Goya’s Ghosts, 2006 (trailer)
Jasujiro Ozu: Tokyo Story, 1953 (trailer)
Raoul Ruiz…
Robert Wiene, Das Cabinett des Dr. Caligari, (Lil Dagover’s 15.birthday), 1920 (clip)
Satyajit Ray: Apu trilogy, 1955-59
Patrice Leconte: The Girl on the Bridge, 1999 (clip)
Bernhard Wicki: Die Brücke (The Bridge), 1959 (trailer)
Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg, 2007 (trailer)
Chris Marker, La Jetée, 1962 (clip)
Michael Haneke: Das Schloß (The Castle), 1997
Andreas Dresen: Cloud 9, 2008 (trailer)
Ingmar Bergman: The Seventh Seal, 1957 (trailer), Wild Strawberries, 1960 (clip), Cries and Whispers, 1972 (trailer)
Another one for the Estern European weekend could be:
Heiner Carow: Die Legende von Paul und Paula (The Legend of Paul and Paula), 1973 – the most successful (and fairly unusual) film of the GDR) [clip]
in terms of Pygmalion maybe:
Massimo Dallamano: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1970 (with the young Helmut Berger)
Another one for an Eastern European weekend: Marta Meszaros’ beautiful and moving Diary for my Children (1982), and interview with her in Senses of Cinema
I see “The Ladykillers” is suggested, any of the other Ealing comedies would also be welcome. Perhaps something like “Titfield Thunderbolt” for an afternoon viewing would bring a good audience.
We don’t suggest a new film, we suggest something else: please hang the screen in the Village Hall higher, e.g. about 50cm!
The Film Society quite often shows foreign films, which are not English spoken. Therefore the subtitles are very important. But you can hardly read them because of the people sitting in front of you.
Dear Brad, it’s wonderful, what you are doing in the Film Society!
Thank you for your comment, and we would do it if we could, I promise. At the moment we have a line of sight problem from the projection box since there is a lighting bar in the way. One of the longer-term plans in the hall is to raise that. Once that happens we can raise the screen. One of the house lights near the projection box is also quite close to the line of sight to the screen so that may need to be raised as well.
For the moment, the only reliable way round this is to get there early and sit near the front (about 4-5 rows back should be perfect. Or bring a cushion.
Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) Dreyer 1943 BFI (clip)
Pranzo di Ferragosto (Mid-August Lunch) Gianni di Gregorio 2008 BFI (trailer)
Goodbye Solo Ramin Bahrani 2008 BFFS (trailer)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Dai Sijie 2005 BFI (trailer)
Kekexili (Mountain Patrol) Lu Chuan 2004 BFFS (trailer)
The Maid Sebastian Silva Chili 2009 BFI (trailer)
Nostalgia for the Light Patricio Gusman Chili 2011
Whale Rider Niki Caro NZ 2002 Filmbank (trailer)
Nostalgia Tarkovsky 1983 BFI (trailer)
La Regle du Jeu Jean Renoir 1939 BFI (trailer)
Rosetta Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne 1999 BFI (trailer)
Fish Tank Andrea Arnold UK 2009 BFI (trailer)
Hamlet or King Lear Grigori Kozintsev Shostakovich’s music & adaptation by Pasternak
and also the already-mentioned “Ma Saison Preferee” and “Le Quattro Volte”
Bound to think of others!
Suggested last night, Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light, which has had fantastic reviews since it screened in Cannes in 2010, though still doesn’t have a UK distributor lined up. See Slant magazine and the Washington Post, for instance.
I’d love to see this film locally:-
http://www.iamthedoc.com/thefilm/
Jane
In response to an email asking for more British films, here’s my list of possibles, though I suspect The Last of England or the Peter Greenaway would possibly decimate our audience…
Went the Day Well (Cavalcanti)
My Childhood (Douglas)
Tommy (Russell)
Almost anything by Powell & Pressburger
The Last of England (Jarman)
Fires were started (Jennings)
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover (Greenaway)
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean)
Deep End (Skolimowski)
A Cottage on Dartmoor (Asquith)
Underground (Asquith)
Private Road (Platts-Mills)
Radio On (Petit)
Land and Freedom (Loach)
+ some Ealing comedies, Joseph Losey, Mike Leigh, Hitchcock
There are lots of lists of films of the year being published at the moment, such as from the US magazine Film Comment, and R4’s The Film Programme. Of those two lists, the following are the ones that I’m most keen on:
Le Quattro Volte – Michelangelo Frammartino
A Separation – Asghar Farhadi (trailer)
Meek’s Cutoff – Kelly Reichardt (trailer)
Las Acacias – Pablo Giorgelli (trailer)
The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius (trailer)
Pina – Wim Wenders (trailer)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia – Nuri Bilge Ceylan (trailer)
A film suggestion: Joanna Hogg’s multi-award winning ‘Unrelated‘. An extraordinary and wonderful British movie. Pitch perfect portrayal of British middle-class holidaying in Tuscany. Stays with me, long after watching.
Trawling around DVD stores and reading end of year lists (se Peter Bradshaw’s in the Guardian (and see his long list) adds these possibilities:
The Salt of Life
Archipelago
Mammuth
A Screaming Man
Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives
and Cathie has just seen Intouchables in Nice and strongly recommended it. It has broken all French box office records so must be due for release here, though I can’t see a date for it yet.
A children s film suggestion: for the 3pm viewing, I recommend Pippi Longstocking from a series of children’s books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series.
I found a short clip from one of the films in Japanese on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arV0QAmkvxM&feature=related
I think some recent foreign films would be great, I recently saw the film ‘I Saw the Devil‘ and thought it would be an excellent suggestion. [trailer]
Here’s the trailer for A Separation, which we MUST show:
The Hedgehog, based on Muriel Barbery’s best-selling novel scored very highly at the BFFS spring preview, is very good, and see also the interview with director Mona Achache:
Tous au Larzac is an extraordinary Franch documentary! [trailer]
Les neiges du kilimandjaro Robert Guedidian [trailer]
Please no Bergman!!!
Les Intouchables Fantastic!
Various remarkable films culled from reading through many issues of Sight & Sound. First, some lighter ones:
French Cancan (Renoir, 1954) Trailer
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Demy, 1968) Trailer
The Shop Around the Corner (Lubitsch, 1940) Trailer
Next, some vaguely mainstream ones and recent(ish) world cinema releases:
Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga, 2011) Trailer
Princess of Montpensier (Tavernier, 2010) Trailer
The Kid with the Bike (Dardennes, 2011) Trailer
Outside the Law (Rachid Bouchareb, 2010) Trailer
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (France, 2010) Trailer
Howl (USA, 2010) Trailer
and some brilliant older films:
Lola Montes (Ophuls, 1955) Trailer
The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa, 1956) Trailer
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) Trailer
A Blonde in Love (Milos Forman, 1965) Trailer, Sight & Sound review
and some less well-known:
Marketa Lazarova (Czech, 1967) Clip, more
Cria cuervos (Carlos Suara, 1976) Trailer
Before the Revolution (Bertolucci, 1964) Clip
and some slightly more marginal, perhaps:
A Useful Life (Uruguay, 2011) Trailer
Patience (After Sebald) (UK, 2011) Trailer
Cold Fever (Iceland, 1994)
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984) trailer
The Shop around the Corner is fantastic i suggested it last year already it would please everyone it is a gem.
The Artist has been seen by a lot now so not worth it and not so good anyway.
Les demoiselles de Rochefort is a classic as well as Les parapluies de Cherbourg (more tragic). I adored Cria Cuervos at the time, may I suggest Like Water for Chocolate a gem as well. I think no Bergman Peter Greenaway yes all of them are good ….
Great suggestions among the many above. Here are a few more:
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand
Almanya: Welcome to Germany
Albatross
The Princess of Montpensier France 2010
Melancholia 2010 Denmark
Norwegian Wood Japan 2011
In a Better World Denmark 2011
Pina 2011
Life Above All 2010
Biutiful 2010
Oranges and Sunshine 2010 UK/Austalia 104 mins. Jim Loach
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 US
House of Mirth 2000 UK
The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days 2005 Germany
Arsene Lupin 2004 France
The Night of the Sunflowers (La Noche De Los Girasoles) 2006 Spain
The Counterfeiters (Die Falscher) 2006 Germany
Linha de Passe [Line of Passage] 2008 Brazil
The Gospel According to St Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini 1964
The Conformist Bernado Bertolucci 1970 Italy
L’Atalante Jean Vigo 1934 France
Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray 1955 India
Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jaques Demy 1964
Gone To Earth Powell/Pressburger (1950)
The Boy who Turned Yellow 1972 Powell
The Third Man
A few more suggestions which are not on the lists above, either from last week’s committee meeting, or suggested after Friday’s film, a high proportion of which are much lighter in tone than most of the above:
And God Created Woman
The Party
The Barbarian Invasions
Children of Heaven, Majid Majidi
The Great Dictator
The Fireman’s Ball
Departures
The Cloud-capped Star (Ghatak)
The Wind
Taming of the Shrew
The Long Goodbye (Altman)
The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe
Mostly Martha
Good Morning (Ozu)
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Babette’s Feast
Mahanagar (Ray)
The Company
Venus
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Harold and Maude
Don Juan de Marco
Othello (1965)
Angel-A
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing
Reincarnation
Hi Brad,
I would like to recommend the screening of an incredible new documentary by East Sussex film maker Steven Ben Cole. It is called R-Evolution
Here is an eight minute trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=z47Tyy0aR7o
Best regards
Nigel
Another one suggested last Friday: Priest, screenplay by Jimmy McGovern
Cinéma français. The Kid with a Bike, des frères Dardenne : grand prix du festival de Cannes.
http://www.londonmacadam.com/culture-voy..
ok the link does not work but the film is at the moment in London with subtitles called The kid with a Bike by the Dardenne brothers . Won last year a big prize at the cannes film festival. Excellent.
Jimmy McGovern’s The Priest
very thought provoking
I saw this some time ago at Steyning film society
Hello! The Great Dictator would be great! And also…. Hows about The Adventures of Baron Munchausen???
And my last suggestion/request is Let George Do It, the best antics of the late and magnificently great George Formby!!!