Suggest a film for 2011-12
Just like last year, we’d like some suggestions for what to screen next season.
We’re looking for ideas that could entice a hundred people to the village hall, so please let us know why you think any films you suggest might fit the bill. A good portion of the ideas for films in this year’s programme came from people outside the committee, so we do listen!
We’re looking to finalise the programme by April, though hope to have most of it mapped out sell before then, so now’s the time to get thinking.
One that has already been recommended to us is Robinson in Ruins, which one member “highly recommend[s] for your next film list. It juxtaposes very still and meditative photography with commentary about the financial crisis and the ecological situation. It is philosophical and yet very down to earth. It is unusual and I think the Forest Row community would like it.”
There was a long piece about the film in the Guardian, and also an interview with Patrick Keiller.
and Of Gods and Men is essential
Highly recommend La Antena
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Antena
And another recommendation: Undertow, available from BFFS
More recommendations, mostly from over on Facebook:
Tim Robinson: Connemara
The Battle of Algiers
The Portuguese Nun
Rabbit Proof Fence
The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner
The Dark Glow of the Mountains
The White Diamond
Lars and the Real Girl
The Holy Mountain
Wasteland
Poetry
What I did last summer
Milk of Sorrow
Of Gods and Men
Made in USA
White Material
Truce
Few that come to mind…
The Innocents
The Collector
Performance
Privilege
Gimme Shelter
Bronco Bullfrog
Best
Si
Two more interesting-sounding films:
Zen Noir
The Examined Life: Philosophy is in the Streets
How about this one:
http://www.omgmovie.com/gallery/videos
…and one of my favourite films ever: The Company
This looks interesting:
Emerson: The Ideal in America is the first documentary about the life and work of the great thinker, whose belief in “the infinitude of the private man” is embedded in contemporary concepts ranging from spirituality to spirit of entrepreneurship to ideals of individualism and personal agency. The film is available both online in its entirety and on DVD, and is very much a must-see.
Amazing films: Don’t Move, Cracks, Death and the Maiden, She’s So Lovely 🙂
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I suggest The Hairdresser’s Husband. Slightly mad but wonderful music and a crazy, fanciful story but close to the cultural collective demand of ‘making your dreams come true’.