Suggest a film for 2018-19
What should we screen next season? As usual the committee is keen to gather ideas for film events for the year ahead. 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 useful if you can also add a short note about why you think we should screen it, and how long ago you last saw it.
Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear (1953), one of the most terrific thrillers ever. Newly restored
The Guardian
Roger Ebert
Meyerowitz Stories
Mudbound
Jane
I haven’t seen any of them and would like to.
Stalker (1979)
Film Stars don’t die in Liverpool (2017) – Jamie Bell, Annette Benning, Julie Walters – Director Paul McGuigan. Annette Benning delivers a stunning performance as the ageing film star Gloria Graham who a young actor (Jamie Bell) falls in love with. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw gave the film 4 stars and described how there was ‘a great spark between Bell and Bening, and I think these are the most relaxed performances I have seen from either of them’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_zpvLAnOaM
Risk (2016) – Oscar winning documentary maker Laura Poitras spent six years filming this documentary about Julian Assange. The film follows Assange from his house arrest in Ellingham Hall, Norfolk to when he sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy. As Rotten Tomatoes describes: “Capturing this story with unprecedented access, Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=021PuzHG_YA
These are all available from Cinema for All:
I Am Not A Witch
The Film Programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098nc6w
Other reviews :
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/22/i-am-not-a-witch-review-magical-surrealism-margaret-mulubwa-rungano-nyoni
https://www.timeout.com/london/film/i-am-not-a-witch
http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/i-am-not-a-witch-2017-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson
More recent international films, a few comedies included!
In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts), Fatih Akin, 2017
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UyjnzhXJlHU
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/movies/in-the-fade-review-diane-kruger.html
Stefan Zweig. Farewell to Europe, Maria Schrader, Germany 2017
Goethe Institut
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/de/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21092107
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/farewell-to-europe-suicide-shocked-the-world-maria-schrader-on-her-oscar-nominated-film-about-stefan-zweig
The Florida Project, Sean Baker, USA 2017
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lh9vpqcIczI
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/12/the-florida-project-review-sunshine-state-of-mind
Call me by your name, Luca Guadagnino 2017
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9AYPxH5NTM
http://berlinfilmjournal.com/2017/02/berlinale-2017-review-call-me-by-your-name-by-luca-guadagnino/
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/call-me-by-your-name-2017
Western, Valeska Griesbach, Germany 2017
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p8f8zHDwv_c
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/western-valeska-grisebach-german-labourers-bulgaria
Faces Places, Anes Varda, France 2017
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2rKZcAiLHlY
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/faces-places-travers-on-the-years-best-most-beguiling-doc-w507267
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/05/faces-places-review-agnes-varda-jr-documentary-cannes-2017-1201830084/
Maudie, Aisling Walsh (canada, Ireland 2016) about Maude Lewis
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ_guQTGNw
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/movies/maudie-review.html
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/maudie-2017
Lost in Paris, Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel, France/Belgium 2017
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_3O7C6fcOv4
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/24/lost-in-paris-review-emmanuelle-riva-beguiles-funny-little-gem
This has also been suggested: Generation Zapped
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s ‘The Assassin’ was suggested last year for the current season – the cinematography looks gorgeous and the story pretty compelling. It also collected some excellent reviews, particularly from Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/20/the-assassin-review-enigmatically-refined-martial-arts-tale-baffles-beautifully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=CKFtNsQ78oI
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s ‘Loveless’ got some great reviews (Zvyagintsev also directed ‘Leviathan’) and is worth considering. Again Bradshaw in the Guardian gave it a 5 star review describing it as ‘an eerie thriller of hypnotic, mysterious intensity’.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/17/loveless-review-leviathan-director-andrei-zvyagintsev-cannes-2017
http://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi294762521?playlistId=tt6304162&ref_=tt_ov_vi
In Between – an eye opening look at life for 3 Palestinian women in modern Tel Aviv
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/24/in-between-review-maysaloun-hamoud-female-muslim-flatmates-tel-aviv?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.timeout.com/london/film/in-between
Audrey also suggested The Double 2014 based on a novella by Dostoyevsky?
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/03/the-double-review-richard-ayoade?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-double-2014
Two from Marc:
– The Party
– Abacus: small enough to jail
From Anna:
Matrimonio all’italiana (1964)
Vittorio De Sica
with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni
from the play Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo
it’s a great film under so many levels
Two from Anne:
As it is in Heaven
Willkommen bei den Hartmanns
The Double 2014 based on a novella by Dostoyevsky – has this already been show?
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-double-2014
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/apr/03/the-double-review-richard-ayoade?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
My Feral Heart, which was popular at Saffron Screen
From an email from Denise Rathbone
“A QUEST FOR MEANING” – SPECIAL FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH SATISH KUMAR
From Anna Rigano
La Grande Bouffe (Italian: La grande abbuffata; English: The Grande Bouffe and Blow-Out) is a 1973 French–Italian film directed by Marco Ferreri. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and Andréa Ferréol. The film centers on a group of friends who plan to eat themselves to death. It satirizes consumerism and the decadence of the bourgeoisie and was therefore controversial upon its release. It has become a cult film.
Saw this at Borderlines and it is terrific, if a bit tough at times:
I Still Hide to Smoke (Algeria) [review]
I d like to suggest DREAMS by Akira Kurosawa, 1999. I think that’s when I saw it and it left a deep impression in me. It touches important themes like Death, Spirituality, Childhood, .. it left me a profound sense of joy and peace and awe at the mystery of life. It was his first film in 45 years on which he was the sole author of the screenplay. It was made five years after Ran, with assistance from George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, and Steven Spielberg, and funded by Warner Bros.
“A Fantastic Woman” – brilliant performances, fabulous writing. I loved it.
“Human Flow” – Ai Wei Wei’s film about the international refugee crisis. Haven’t seen it yet, but it has excellent reviews.
The Old Dark House – looks like great fun!
Just remastered and released – could be good for Halloween.
Something by the Taviani brothers, eg Caesar Must Die
Ruben Östlund’s ‘The Square’ won the Cannes Palm D’Or at Cannes last year. The film is a surreal comedy as well as satire on the modern art world starring Elisabeth Moss, Claes Bang and Dominic West. I haven’t seen it myself however its had some great reviews and its surreal humour may go down quite well. Worth a review copy perhaps?
https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-square-2017
and here’s the trailer
https://www.curzonartificialeye.com/the-square/
Agnès Jaoui’s new Aurore
Olmi The Night of San Lorenzo
Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail – Silent version with live piano accpt.
Reason – well, it’s Hitchcock! This version is generally considered the better one. Haven’t seen it yet.