Films are screened on the last Friday of the month at 8pm.
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30 September 2011
HEAT AND DUST (1982 UK) JAMES IVORY Indian exoticism stirs the English blood of Anne (Julie Christie) who wants to find out about the Raj scandal surrounding her great aunt (Greta Sacchi). Dirty dealings flourish behind a cloak of good manners.
THE FLAVOUR OF GREEN TEA OVER RICE (1952 JAPAN) YASUJIRO OZU One of the best films by the father of Japanese cinema – a funny, moving study of the pros and cons of arranged marriage. Four women deceive their husbands to go drinking at a spa. An understated celebration of love tentatively rekindled.
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN (1970 UK) LIONEL JEFFRIES E Nesbit’s much-loved book transformed into a classic film with a solid-gold cast – Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, Jenny Agutter, Iain Cuthbertson... A family is exiled to genteel poverty on the Yorkshire moors; the children adopt the nearby railway and its passengers. The timeless, magical world of childhood perfectly captured.
MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991 US) GUS VAN SANT An emotionally open-hearted road movie about a narcoleptic gay hustler (River Phoenix) who tries to help the mayor’s son (Keanu Reeves) find his mother. Surreal sequences, and playful variations on Shakespeare’s Henry V; stunning landscapes and a seductive score.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1990 FRA) JEAN-PAUL RAPPENEAU Gerard Depardieu is the nobleman whose big nose inhibits him from confessing his love for Roxane. Instead, his wit is put at the disposal of a more presentable suitor. Subtitles by Anthony Burgess; an Oscar-nominated, extravagantly filmed treat.
STREET ANGEL (1937 CHINA) YUAN MUZHI A revelatory but warmly humorous example of early Chinese left-wing cinema: Shanghai’s street life is given the Hollywood treatment. A street musician, a newspaper seller and a sing-song girl are the main protagonists in the melodrama.
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942 US) ORSON WELLES The follow-up to Citizen Kane is a masterpiece, despite its mauling by RKO, who cut two hours and tacked on a happier ending. A moving creation of a golden age, with a humorous attitude to family values. Agnes Moorehead and Joseph Cotten star.
THE NIGHT OF COUNTING THE YEARS (1969 EGYPT) SHADI ABDEL SALAM Based on real events in 1881: a young tribal leader has to deal with the discovery that his people have has been robbing Pharaoh tombs. One of Egypt’s best, the film has an engrossing, dreamlike pace, with unusual camera angles and striking colour.
BRINGING UP BABY (1938 US) HOWARD HAWKES Perhaps the best screwball comedy ever: Katherine Hepburn is the eccentric socialite who gradually undermines the career and sanity of dry, nervous palaeontologist Cary Grant. Baby is the leopard who drives the action. A barbed satire on romance and wealth.