Suggest a film for 2016-17
We’re always looking for ideas for films that we could show in the future, so appreciate any input you can give us. Ideally, we’d like to attract a hundred people to our screenings, which means that a film shouldn’t be too obscure and inaccessible, and should appeal to our audience, though we’re happy to include films that might be a bit challenging from time to time.
We tend not to show films that are totally mainstream, and like to have a reasonable balance from the history of world cinema, plus some comedies as well as more serious dramas
We also re-visit the suggestions from previous years as well, since there are always good ideas in those lists. You might want to have a look at them:
It would be ideal if you can also add a short note about why you think we should screen it, and how long ago you last saw it.
After screening We are the best! last year, we should also show Lukas Moodysson’s earlier film Together, which is even better. And funny.
For silents, I’d strongly recommend King Vidor’s Show People (1928), which is funny and charming and a provides a fantastic view of Hollywood at the end of the silent era.
Could also do one of Phil Grabsky’s music or exhibition films. He is based in Brighton and we could get him here for Q&A.
I missed together first time around and regretted it since.
Show people sounds great.
Last look interesting. Van Gogh and / or Beethoven would be my bet. They look really interesting. Gonna keep a note of the site!
A suggestion from Facebook: Vincent the Dutchman (1972) by John Bulmer, 50 min doc on Van Gogh, BBC 1970: http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/film-biography/vincent-the-dutchman.html
Beautiful. Do you ever do double bills? With the brighton guy van gogh?
Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould (1993) by Francois Girard.
Richter:The Enigma (1998) by Bruno Monsaingeon
both look interesting! second most so for me. would be lovely to experience in the cinema.
Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue (2002) by Dorian Supin – a Documentary covering three years in the life of composer Arvo Pärt.
Kurosawa’s magnificent version of King Lear is about to be re-released
Wow. Yes.
We could screen this early in the season so that it falls in the quatercentenary year?
We need to show some Paolo Sorrentino.
Either The Consequences of Love:
Or The Great Beauty:
Beauty. I want more. I started off feeling a bit uncomfortable and thinking no no no but by the end of the trailer I was desperate to know more. looks fascinating.
We’ve never screened a martial arts film, but if we were to do so, it surely would have to be the new film by Hou Hsiao-hsien, The Assassin
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Tehran is also wonderful, from what I’ve heard
Looks great
It’s years since we have screened anything starring Isabelle Huppert, so could perhaps show the new film by Mia Hansen-Løve: Things to Come
Looks lovely and she is amazing
We need more African cinema. A double bill of the early films of Ousmane Sembène: Black Girl and Borom Sarret
Wow yes
Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre has had good reviews
The first Estonian film to be nominated for a Best Foreign Language Oscar, Tangerines has also garnered lots of great reviews, mostly in US, where it had a bigger release then here. It was a Cinema For All selection at last summer’s screening weekend
THIS LOOKS IMPORTANT. Wonderful. Looks staggering.
Brazilian comedy-drama, The Second Mother
The films of Hirokazu Kore-eda have often been well received in Forest Row, so his new film Our Little Sister from Cannes last year looks a great contender
Top tip from the film society in Hurstpierpoint is Wild Tales
Sunset Song, moving and beautifully filmed.
Suggested by member: The Last Emperor, 1987, Bernardo Bertolucci
Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015, 97min
Turkish film about 5 young Turkish orphaned sisters growing up suppressed in a conservative society. Many awards and nominations.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/mustang-features-beguiling-stars-in-a-dynamic-and-well-crafted-story/2016/01/14/721f7d7c-ba14-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html
This looks very good.
There are already enough asian, african, exotic films,
there needs to be more focus on the european other, especially
Central and Eastern Europe, presently undercatered for, despite the fact many people from these cultures live and work amongst us. Folks seem to know more about the other side of the world than say Latvia. I recommend Polish Classics such
as Pan Tadeush or Potop. Great lively characters, romantic and action packed, historically informative, heroic, funny and romantic, full blooded acting, beautiful costumes & rolling
wild landscape.Could be nicely introduced to place them in
context.
Russian Ark (Russkij Kovcheg) is a 2002 historical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. It was filmed entirely in the Winter Palace of the Russian State Hermitage Museum using a single 96-minute Steadicam sequence shot. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J–TDEHizVA
Francofonia by Alexander Sokurov. It was screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival and in the Masters section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Variety defined it as a “dense, enriching meditation on the Louvre and specifically the museum’s status during WWII.
http://variety.com/2015/film/festivals/francofonia-review-alexander-sokurov-venice-film-festival-1201585728/
Good idea, and there’s also the brand new German film Victoria, also shot in a single take. Just about to be released, and has some great reviews
Doris Dörrie’s new feature film
“Greetings from Fukushima”
http://www.dw.com/en/greetings-from-fukushima/a-19103345
One of the most touching films about children and war:
“Forbidden Games”, René Clément, 1952
Roger Ebert:
We must turn to the past for a film as innocent as “Forbidden Games” (1952), because our own time is too cynical to support it. Here is a film about children using their powers of fantasy and denial to deal with death in wartime. A modern film would back away from the horror and soften and sentimentalize it. It would become a “children’s film.” But in all times children have survived experiences that no child should have to endure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_m00tBc1I4
“Mediterranea” by Jonas Carpignano
Documentary-like feature film about African refugees in Italy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaALVBbde_A
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/mediterranea-2015
Macadam Stories (French title: Asphalt), 2015 comedy-drama by Samuel Benchetrit with Isabelle Huppert and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
http://www.cineuropa.org/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&l=en&did=293064
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1ZimujeJzk
Some classics:
Federico Fellini’s “8 1/2”
Pure fantasy. The film about filmmaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmIC9pQ80Fk
Francois Truffaut’s “Fahrenheit 451”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9n98SXNGl8
Keisuke Kinoshita’s “The Ballad of Narayama”, Japan 1958, in colour, in Kabuki style, experimental and utterly beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPoWBgjFn_E
Andrej Wajda’s “Korscak”, Poland 1990
Feature film in episodes about Janusz Korzack and his Jewish orphanage in Warsaw Ghetto. He refused to get rescued and went to Treblinka with all his children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbLSVsngEy4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ser75XlVFtw
“The lives of others” is an incredible tense thriller from director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Released in April 2007 it achieved a 10 of 10 from the Telegraph, 4 / 4 from Roger Ebert as well as 93% from Rotten Tomatoes.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_iLOp6IhM
Telegraph write-up: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/11118803/The-Lives-of-Others-review.html
“Incendies” is a tense French-Canadian film partly set in the Lebanon telling the story of twins travelling to the Middle East to fulfill their mother’s last wishes. Nominated for best Foreign Language film in the 2010 Oscars. The Telegraph described the film as “in essence a family drama, astonishingly intense but impressively poised. It begins in the style of a detective thriller, yet its climax is reminiscent of Greek tragedy.”
Telegraph critique: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/8594989/Incendies-review.html
YouTube trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nycksytL1A
Francois Truffaut’s “Day for Night” was one of Roger Ebert’s favourite films. Described as a ‘comedy-drama, Time Out described “Day for Night” as a “hilarious and informative movie, and in the pantheon of films about filmmaking, it strikes a neat balance between the operatic neuroses of ‘8 1/2’ and the warm, pastel-hued nostalgia of ‘Singin’ in the Rain’.”
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBen19EjYAc
Time Out review: http://www.timeout.com/london/film/day-for-night
“Under the skin” is Scarlett Johanssen pitched into a Glaswegian urban environment. With flashes of Kubrick, Nick Roeg and David Lynch this is a film audiences tend to remember and talk about. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw gave the film 5 stars describing it as “very erotic, very scary”
Guardian review: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/13/under-the-skin-scarlett-johansson-peter-bradshaw
Interview with the Director: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/06/under-the-skin-director-jonathan-glazer-scarlett-johansson
YouTube trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoSWbyvdhHw
“The Third Man” Directed by Carol Reed is one of my all time favourites. A newly restored print came out June last year and it would be great to see.
Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/02/the-third-man-review-philip-french
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9yyDEDGlr0
“Beggers of Life” was the final film Louise Brookes made for Paramount before falling out with the studio and moving to Europe to collaborate with Pabst on “Pandora’s Box”. This is mostly a silent movie although director William Wellman featured one ‘talking’ scene for which he invented the boom microphone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S81cMoSP9OA
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071x876
Actually this looks really interesting. even more so than the other silent.
James Kent’s “Testament of Youth” achieved critical success a year or so ago. With Alice Vikander as Vera Brittain this is a terrific film that I’m sure you would be popular. “ Here she (Vikander) doesn’t so much catch the eye as dazzle it, exuding like Vera an emotional intelligence that far outstrips her years. She is at her brightest when the story gets darker while Kent directs with stylish restraint, both sober-eyed without stinting on the emotion.” Will Lawrence, Empire
http://www.empireonline.com/movies/testament-youth/review/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/11182988/Testament-of-Youth-review-stirring.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3e2nNNJ7-4
well that made me cry and shiver from a trailer. exceptional acting. love this. love.
yes pleas!
The Passing was another top tip from this year’s Borderlines Film Festival. A great bit of film-making and in Welsh:
http://www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/film/passing-15-0
Marie-Claire suggested The Man who Came to Dinner
This has also been suggested. Winter Nomads is a lovely documentary about transhumance in Switzerland. I saw it at LFF a couple of years ago and have loan of a disk if anyone wants to preview it
Sherpa was a huge hit at Lincoln Film Society, and it sounds amazing, and we need a documentary. See reviews:
Guardian
Observer
Time Out
yes please!
definitely looks fascinating. another think about our place in the world and actions reflection biggy.
This suggestion from Xavier Curry…
Pan Tadeush by the great romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz, considered by many to be
the Polish National Epic, is a very lively and entertaining film.
I’d love to see Pan Tadeush and Winter Nomads. Also Barry Lindon (Kubrick) and the 1921? silent The Earth – based on Zola’s ‘La Terre’.