Our Next Presentation: Lady Bird

THE CRAMPHORN THEATRE, CHELMSFORD – Monday 8th October @ 8PM

All the ingredients of a traditional American teen coming-of-age film are here, a la John Hughes (Pretty In Pink, 1986), but the young Gerwig looks past the surface to the depths of her characters and explores the inner lives of girls and women, particularly the relationship between mother and daughter.  Oscar nominated, this is a joyous, uplifting narrative about a teenager on the cusp of change.  (Read more…) 

AGM

Before the screening of Lady Bird, we will be holding a brief AGM, including the formal Election of Officers.  The position of Vice Chairman is currently vacant, if anyone is interested in assuming this role.  Additionally, we have a few vacancies on the Selection Committee – this is not an onerous undertaking, most discussions are via email and we meet once or twice each year to select the films for the following season and discuss the running of the club.

The Agenda for the AGM can be downloaded here:

Our last presentation ‘Happy End’

There were 27 Audience Reaction slips returned after the showing of this film the breakdown from these slips were as follows:

• ‘Excellent’: 2 votes
• ‘Very Good’: 13 votes
• ‘Good’: 5 votes
• ‘Satisfactory’: 2 votes
• ‘Poor’: 2 votes
• + 2 comments (1 via twitter) without a score

Feedback comments.

If you want to add further comments on this film, you are welcome to do so by joining in on our “Happy End” discussion forum.

Your opinion counts

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See what Chelmsford Film Club is showing this season on the 2017/18 season page,

Our Next Presentation: Happy End

THE CRAMPHORN THEATRE, CHELMSFORD – Tuesday 25th SEPTEMBER @ 8PM

The new season’s schedule

We now have the dates for the 16 films agreed with Chelmsford Theatres, and have confirmed with the distributors which film will be shown on which date.  The new programme is in the process of being printed and will be published as soon as possible and will be sent out before the first film.  Meanwhile I will be working to add content on the website for each of the selected films.

The programme for the season is:

• Tuesday 25th September – Happy End (France, dir. Michael Haneke, 2017)
• Monday 8th October – Lady Bird (USA, dir. Greta Girwig, 2017)
• Tuesday 23rd October – In Between (Israel, dir. Maysaloun Hamoud, 2016)
• Monday 12th November – Call Me By Your Name (Italy, dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
• Tuesday 27th November – Loving Vincent (Poland/UK, dirs. Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, 2017)
• Monday 3rd December – The Square (Sweden, dir. Ruben Östlund, 2017)
• Tuesday 29th January – L’Amant Double (France, dir. François Ozon, 2017)
• Tuesday 12th February – The Beguiled (USA, dir. Sofia Coppola, 2017)
• Tuesday 26th February – Loveless (Russia, dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2017)
• Tuesday 5th March – The Breadwinner (Ireland, dir. Nora Twomey, 2017)
• Tuesday 26th March – The Nun (France, dir. Jacques Rivette, 1966
• Tuesday 9th April – I Am Not A Witch (UK, dir. Rungano Nyoni, 2017)
• Tuesday 23rd April – Under The Tree (Iceland, dir. Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, 2017)
• Tuesday 7th May – Phantom Thread (USA/UK, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017)
• Tuesday 21st May – Jeune Femme (France, dir. Léonor Serraille, 2017)
• Tuesday 4th June – Summer 1993 (Spain, dir. Carla Simón, 2017)

One thing you will notice is that this coming season almost all the films are being shown on a Tuesday (except a few in the first half of the season, which are on Mondays).

Our last presentation ‘The Salesman’

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’: 6 votes
• ‘Good’: 2 votes
• ‘Satisfactory’: 1 vote
• ‘Poor’: 0 vote

Feedback comments.

If you want to add further comments on this film, you are welcome to do so by joining in on our “The Salesman” discussion forum.

Your opinion counts

As well as filling in the Response Slips following the showing of each film, you can leave comments for any of the films we have shown via the Discussion page.

CFC on Twitter and Facebook

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