Short list for 2009-2010 season
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
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- 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
For a bit of light relief, what about Tony Hancock’s classic- “The Rebel”?
Any body heard of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ? There’s a song too.
Love Umbrellas of Cherbourg, but I don’t think it is available from a distributor at the moment, though Les Demoiselles de Rochefort is (Jacques Demy’s follow up, which also stars Gene Kelly). Maybe it’s a good option for a matinee?
http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/1998/1198/11248.html
suggestion: Drama:-
The Edge of Heaven (Auf der Anderen Seite).
1998 Director Faith Akin
Turkish/German
“A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father’s former girlfriend.
Cast: Nurgul Yescalay, Baki Davral, Tuncel Kurtiz and Hanna Schygulla.
Highly recommend.
An excellent list to which I have responded. I would also like to suggest THE EDGE OF HEAVEN. GERMANY 1998 DRAMA described above.
Any chance of adding The Lives of Others to next years line-up?
Would love to see some Bette Davis/Joan Crawford films.Any chance of getting any of those?
Bette Davis et al would be good for Sunday matinees. Maybe All About Eve?