Our Next Presentation: The Salesman
THE CRAMPHORN THEATRE, CHELMSFORD – Tuesday 19th June @ 8PM
Winner of Best Screenplay and Best Actor, for Shahab Hosseini, at Cannes, and Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, our final film of the season is the story of Emad and Rana, a married couple working in the theatre, currently starring in Death of a Salesman. Rana is attacked by an intruder while alone in a new apartment, leading to a crisis in Emad’s acting career and their marriage as he tries to find the perpetrator. A gripping domestic drama from the director of A Separation. (Read more…)
Our last presentation ‘El Sur’
There were 18 Audience Reaction slips returned after the showing of this film the breakdown from these slips were as follows:
‘Excellent’: 9 votes- ‘Very Good’: 5 votes
- ‘Good’: 2 vote
- ‘Satisfactory’: 1 vote
- ‘Poor’: 1 vote
If you want to add further comments on this film, you are welcome to do so by joining in on our “El Sur” discussion forum.
Films for Next Season
On Tuesday 1st May, the Selection Committee met to decide on the 16 films for the 2018/19 season (subject to availability). The Committee’s choices were:
- Happy End (France, dir. Michael Haneke, 2017)
- Call Me By Your Name (Italy, dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
- L’Amant Double (France, dir. François Ozon, 2017)
- Lady Bird (USA, dir. Greta Girwig, 2017)
- Phantom Thread (USA/UK, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
- In Between (Israel, dir. Maysaloun Hamoud, 2016)
- The Beguiled (USA, dir. Sofia Coppola, 2017)
- Loveless (Russia, dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2017)
- The Square (Sweden, dir. Ruben Östlund, 2017)
- The Breadwinner (Ireland, dir. Nora Twomey, 2017)
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Jeune Femme (France, dir. Léonor Serraille, 2017)
- Under The Tree (Iceland, dir. Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, 2017)
- Loving Vincent (Poland/UK, dirs. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, 2017)
- The Place (Italy, dir. Paolo Genovese, 2017)
- The Nun (France, dir. Jacques Rivette, 1966)
- Summer 1993 (Spain, dir. Carla Simón, 2017)
Two reserves were also chosen (should any of the above not be available):
- I Am Not A Witch (UK, dir. Rungano Nyoni, 2017)
- Let The Sunshine In (France, dir. Claire Denis, 2017)
Full details of next season’s programme will appear here over the summer as details are confirmed.
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Recently restored and re-released by the BFI, this is, like Erice’s debut feature, Spirit of the Beehive, one of the greatest Spanish films ever made, albeit that a story intended to be 3 hours long ended up only half of that: but all the more intriguing and just as perfect! A young girl finds clues to her family’s poisoned past, which lies in the mysterious ‘South’, a landscape, as with so many of the key protagonists, which lies always off-screen. 
‘Excellent’: 19 votes
Here is a new, refreshing take on the road movie and coming-of-age tale. Based on Barry Crump’s novel – about a wayward boy who finds his place in the world after embarking on an adventure with a curmudgeonly guardian, the film has all of Waititi’s distinctive brand of humour. Visual gags and broad jokes come loose and fast: Julian Dennison is a real comic performer as the problem child, Ricky, while Sam Neil is admirable as the grumpy carer. 
‘Excellent’: 4 votes