Film Group screenings
The director’s own favourite of his films set in late 19th – century Bengal, boasts a marvellously Victorian heroine: Charulata, spellbindingly portrayed by Madhabi Mukherjee, is beautiful, intellectual and dangerously bored. Charulata’s household, a vast ornate mansion, is one of seething suppressed emotions, subtly revealed by Subrata Mittra’s eloquent camera. Dir: Satyajit Ray: India 1964 […]
The Zone of Interest is a 2023 historical drama film written and directed by Jonathan Glazer. Loosely based on the 2014 novel by the late Martin Amis, the film focuses on the life of the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hӧss and his wife Hedwig who live with their family in the “Zone of Interest” next to […]
Cabaret brings 1931 Berlin inside and outside the Kit Kat Klub. There starry- eyed American Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the call for decadent fun, while in the street the Nazi Party is beginning to grow into a brutal political force. Into this heady world arrives British language teacher Brian Roberts who falls […]
Hirayama works as a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo’s upscale Shibuya ward, across town from his modest home in an ungentrified neighbourhood east of the Sumida River. He repeats his structural, ritualized lifestyle every day starting at dawn. He dedicates his free time to his passion for music which he listens to in his van […]
Based on Thomas Hardy’s 1891 novel “Tess of the d’Urbervilles”, a young strong -willed peasant girl becomes the affection of two men, in the end tragically falling into the arms of one of them. This film took 3 Oscars for best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design (N.B. the running time of this […]
In the Thirties, car thief Clyde Barrow teams up with Bonnie Parker, the daughter of one of his victims, and together they become notorious bank robbers and Depression – era folk legends. They form a gang with Clyde’s brother Buck, Buck’s wife Blanche, and gas station employee CW, but they find themselves constantly on the […]
In 1930s Marseille, France, gangster Siffredi (Alain Delon) wants to locate his old girlfriend when he gets out of jail. But Siffredi’s old flame is with another gangster, Capella, (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and a fight ensues. After cooling off the two men decide to become partners, and embark on a slow but steady quest to control […]