 |
|
 |
Programmes
Evenings of cinema, conversation and conviviality with a special guest speaker after each screening.
Venue: Rochester Independent College's Gainsborough Conference Centre, 254 St Margarets Bank, High Street, Rochester, Kent, ME1 1HY. Opposite Rochester Train Station (see map)
Cost:
£5 / £4.50
Membership £1
Each screening will be followed by a discussion on the film (approx 45 minutes). Refreshments are available. There is a bar. Space limited - get there early!
 |
Wednesday 26 November 2008 7.30pm (doors: 7pm)
Director: Miklós Jancsó
A profound influence on filmmakers from Sergio Leone to Béla Tarr, The Round-Up is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of world cinema. Set in a detention camp in Hungary 1869, at a time of guerrilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians. |
 |
Wednesday 17 December 2008 7.30
Director: Preston Sturges
This masterpiece is perhaps the finest movie-about-a-movie ever made. Hollywood director Joel McCrea, tired of churning out lightweight comedies, decides to make O Brother, Where Art Thou - a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering. |
 |
Wednesday 28 January 2009 7.30
Director: Juraj Herz
Juraj Herz’s The Cremator has been described in many ways - as surrealist-inspired horror, as expressionist fantasy and as a dark and disturbing tale of terror. |
 |
Wednesday 25 February 2009 7.30
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
One of Aki Kaurismaki’s most accomplished films, this extremely minimalist take on the universal misery that is unemployment and recession manages to discover hope even amongst the despair. |
 |
Wednesday 25 March 2009 7.30
Director: Hal Ashby
Black comedies don't come much blacker than this cult favourite, and they don't come much funnier, either. |
^ page top
|
 |

El Topo
23 July 2008 |
 |