2014/2015 season

2014/2015 Season

Here are the new season's films with links to the trailers and reviews. The leaflet is attached at the bottom of the page.

Viewing notes will be attached and emailed to subscribers in the week before each film.

September 5th

Bright Days Ahead Marion Vernoux, France 2013 94m (15)

Caroline's retirement isn't going to be pottery and macrame. Fanny Ardant plays the dentist who embarks on a bittersweet affair with the younger IT tutor at the adult education centre. They do U3A differently in France! Link to trailer here.

Links to reviews here: Guardian Telegraph Independent

October 10th

The Lunchbox Ritesh Batra, India 2013 105m (PG)

A Mumbai lunch is wrongly delivered - highly unusual - sparking an epistolary romance between the neglected housewife who cooked it and the widowed office worker who eats it. Link to trailer here.

Links to reviews here: Guardian Time Out Boston Globe

November 14th

The Innocents Jack Clayton UK 1961 100m (12A)

As close to Halloween as we can - one of cinema's greatest ghost stories: a superlative script, mainly by Truman Capote from the short story from Henry James and one of Deborah Kerr's finest performances. Link to trailer here.

Links to reviews here Guardian Time Out Independent

December 5th

Child's Pose Calin Peter Netzer Romania 2013 112m (15)

Luminita Gheorghiu gives a whirlwind performance as a mother dominating her adult son. Some exquisitely horrible glimpses into bureaucracy and corruption in today's Romania. Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Link to trailer here.

Links to reviews here Guardian Telegraph Washington Post

January 9th

The Long Goodbye Robert Altman USA 1973 112m (12A)

Raymond Chandler's classic private eye story is updated to 1970s California. Elliot Gould is the world weary idealist Philip Marlowe. Link to trailer here.

Links to reviews here Guardian New York Times Time Out

February 6th

Of Horses and Men Benedikt Erlingsson Iceland 2013 81m (15)

A quirky black comedy set in Iceland's horse dominated community. Everyone is watching everyone else. As volcanic as the landscape. Link to trailer here.

Links to reviews here Guardian Telegraph Financial Times

March 7th

The Great Beauty Paolo Sorrentino Italy 2013 141m (15)

Jeb Gambardella (played by Tony Servillo) is our guide to the louche side of Berlusconni's Rome with all "the weary elegance of a vampire". Winner of the Oscar for best Foreign Language Film.

Elm Green will serve a two course meal with wine in the intermission. Link to trailer here.

Links to reviews here Telegraph Guardian New York Times

April 17th

Ida Pawel Pawlikowski Poland 2014 82m (12A)

Set in 1960s Poland, 18 year old Anna, raised in a convent, visits her only remaining relative, Aunt Wanda, before she takes her final vows and uncovers her family's disturbing past. Link to trailer here.

Links to reviews Telegraph Guardian Financial Times

May 8th

Le Jour se Leve Marcel Carne France 1939 93 m (PG)

Restored French classic for its 75th anniversary.Jean Gabin plays a factory worker who reviews his life in three extended flashbacks while barricaded in his lodgings where the police lay siege. Link to trailer here. Link to reviews Guardian Slant Magazine