Film Group screenings
One of the undisputed pinnacles of silent cinema, this lyrical masterpiece from the director of Nosferatu, and Faust, is a study of betrayal, love and reconciliation. Seduced by a vamp from the city, a man from a small fishing village plans to murder his wife during a boat trip to town. However, both reach their […]
In this documentary the late French director Agnès Varda, and the photographer and muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship. [I am showing this as a tribute to one of our long -standing members, the late Brian Westcott who died earlier this year and was a great fan of Varda’s work].
This classic film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals. [I urge U3AC readers to read/re-read the great […]
Truffaut’s hugely popular French New Wave classic sees the late Jeanne Moreau at her most ebullient as Catherine, a Parisian beauty caught up in a complex ménage à trois with the two friends of the title – one Austrian, the other French – just before World War 1. A romantic roller-coaster of a movie, it’s […]
Directed and co-written by Deep End Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, EO is a strikingly beautiful and mesmerising vision of modern Europe through the eyes of a donkey who embarks on an epic journey experiencing cruelty and kindness, while bearing witness to the follies and triumphs of humanity. Inspired by the great French film director Robert […]
The Fifties-Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad, Dickie Greenleaf, chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie to return home. In Italy Tom […]
Thelma and Louise – a bored housewife and a straight-laced waitress at a coffee shop – are best friends who are sick of what they’ve settled for. Deciding to escape the tedium of their everyday lives, the pair sneak off in Louise’s ’66 T-bird convertible for a three-day trip with no husbands, no boyfriends and […]