For the Film Club’s 9th season there is a great selection of films from around the world, being screened in Broughton Village Hall.
First up, on October 1st is the UK period comedy/drama Made in Dagenham. It is a bitter-sweet tale of industrial relations and sex (in)equality at the Ford factory in Essex in the 1960’s. The beautiful French animation, set in Edinburgh and the Highlands, The Illusionist is one of two French films in the programme. On a more serious vein is Mýrin, the club’s first Icelandic film. It seems that the colder the climate the better the thriller at the moment (The Killing, Wallander) and this is no exception.
Impeccably scripted, beautifully directed, and filled with fine performances, The Social Network, being shown in February is a riveting, ambitious example of modern filmmaking at its finest. The excellently regarded family/crime drama Animal Kingdom is the club’s first Australian offering. Finally, back to industrial relations and sexual politics with Potiche. This is an adaptation of a hit comic play starting Catherine Deneuve is as a ‘trophy housewife' (or ‘potiche’), who steps in to manage her husband’s umbrella factory after an industrial relations crisis.
Membership at just £18 (£30 for a couple) gives admission to six screening together with a complimentary drink. For more information or to join contact Joe Logan (01899 830551) or Mark Gillham (01721 720910), or join up at the first screening. Guests are welcome to pay on the door but regulars are encouraged to join; this helps the club and gives members a good discount.
Films for 2011/12
HOT OFF THE PRESS!! Films for the new sesaon - more detail to follow.
October 1st Made in Dagenham
November 6th The Illusionist (Sunday)
December 3rd Mýrin (Jar City)
December 29th Psycho or Cassablanca (Wednesday) (Club fund raiser - admission charged)
February 4th The Social Network
March 3rd Animal Kingdom
March 31st Potiche
October 1st Made in Dagenham
November 6th The Illusionist (Sunday)
December 3rd Mýrin (Jar City)
December 29th Psycho or Cassablanca (Wednesday) (Club fund raiser - admission charged)
February 4th The Social Network
March 3rd Animal Kingdom
March 31st Potiche
Saturday 26th February
Upper Tweed Cinema at Skirling
The February film The Ghost Writer, will be at Skirling Hall, doors open at 7:30pm with the main film at 8:15pm. Guests are welcome to pay on the door.
A ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) hired to complete the memoirs of a former prime minister (Pierce Brosnan) uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy. The deliciously unsettling The Ghost Writer is a dark pearl of a movie whose great flair and precision make it Polanski's best work in quite a while. The Ghost Writer is an intelligent thriller wrapped around contemporary politics mixed with Polanski's perennial blanket cynicism about the helplessness of individuals against the entrenched strength of the powerful. His effortless blending of personal preoccupations with audience preferences recalls, as so much of this film does, the classic work of Alfred Hitchcock
The February film The Ghost Writer, will be at Skirling Hall, doors open at 7:30pm with the main film at 8:15pm. Guests are welcome to pay on the door.
A ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) hired to complete the memoirs of a former prime minister (Pierce Brosnan) uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy. The deliciously unsettling The Ghost Writer is a dark pearl of a movie whose great flair and precision make it Polanski's best work in quite a while. The Ghost Writer is an intelligent thriller wrapped around contemporary politics mixed with Polanski's perennial blanket cynicism about the helplessness of individuals against the entrenched strength of the powerful. His effortless blending of personal preoccupations with audience preferences recalls, as so much of this film does, the classic work of Alfred Hitchcock
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