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2009-2010 Season
This is now the confirmed programme for 2009-2010
All films will be shown at The Blandford School starting at 7:45 p.m.
Attendance at B.F.F.S screenings is limited to members and their guests.
Screening Dates this season can be found here.
(Click on the title for more details on each film)
| Lemon Tree Etz Limon | |
| Il y a Longtemps Que Je T’aime | |
| Emma's Gluck (Emma's Bliss) | |
AGM + Mystery Film tba |
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UK/USA, 2008 Cert: 15 120 minutes Dir: Danny Boyle. Winner of 8 Oscars and over 70 awards world-wide “Slumdog” is undoubtedly the most talked-about and unexpectedly successful film of the year. It concerns a Mumbai teenager who is arrested for cheating as a contestant in the Indian version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” |
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UK, 2008 Cert: 15 122m Dir: Stephen Daldry Post WW2 Germany. Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. Kate Winslet won this year’s Oscar for Best Actress in this film. (Winner Best Actress, Oscars 2009) |
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The Band’s
Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret)
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Israel, 2007 Cert: PG 87m Dir: Eran Kolirin Cannes Film Festival award-winner, this is an exquisite slow-paced comedy about the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra’s arrival in Israel for a ceremonial occasion. Nobody is there to meet them and they spend a bizarre 24 hours getting to their final destination. (postponed from last season because of non-theatrical distribution problems). |
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USA/ 2008 Cert:15 128m Dir: Gus Van Sant The story of Harvey Milk and his struggles as a gay activist. Milk became California’s first openly elected gay official. Sean Penn won this year’s Oscar for Best Actor for his role as Milk. |
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UK/USA, 2008 Cert: 18 107m Dir: Martin McDonagh Searing black comedy with some violent scenes about two hit men holed up in Bruges awaiting instructions for their next job. BAFTA Best Original Screenplay. |
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France, 2008 Cert: 15 128m Dir: Laurent Cantet Based on an autobiographical novel by former teacher François Bégaudeau about working at a tough multi-ethnic school in the Paris suburbs, this film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. |
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Israel/Germany/France, 2008 Cert: PG 106m Dir: Eran Riklis A parable about the Middle East conflict in which a Palestinian widow takes her neighbour, the Israeli Defence Minister, to court when he threatens to cut down her lemon trees. Winner of the Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. |
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The Pope's Toilet (El baño del Papa)
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Uruguay/France/Brazil, 2007
9 Dir: César Charlone Bittersweet comedy about the inhabitants of Melo, a Uruguayan town , awaiting a visit by the Pope in 1988. They all believe the visit will make them rich, but Beto, a petty smuggler, thinks he has the best idea, to build a WC outside his house and charge for its use. Won the International Jury Prize at Sao Paulo Int. Film Festival. |
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USA, 1959 Cert: 12 131m Dir: Alfred Hitchcock This season’s retrospective, the society’s first screening of a Hitchcock film and first appearance of Grant (shame!) is “North By Northwest” on its 50th anniversary. Everyone knows the plot – hapless New York advertising exec. is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies and is pursued across country while he tries to survive. |
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Spain/USA, 2008 Cert: 12A 96m Dir: Tamara Jenkins Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain fall in love with the same painter unaware that his ex-wife is about to re-enter the frame. Penelope Cruz won this year’s Oscar and BAFTA awards for Best Supporting Actress in this film. |
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UK, 2008 Cert: 12A 96m
Dir: Shane Meadows Shot in black-and-white (apart from the final scene) Somers Town is a study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy. A gentle, tender and funny gem. There will be a short before this film. |
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Let The Right One In
(Låt den rätte komma in)
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Sweden, 2008 Cert: 15 98m Dir: Tomas Alfredson Much-fêted film from Sweden about Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, who finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but strange girl who turns out to be a vampire! The film has won over 40 awards around the world.
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France/Germany, 2008
1 Dir: Philippe Caludel Two sisters who haven’t seen each other for 15 years gradually rediscover common ground. Why have they not seen each other for so long? A quite brilliant film with a magnificent performance from Scott-Thomas. BAFTA Best Foreign Language Film and 2 major awards at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Cert: 15
120m
Dir: Just about everyone!
This most unusual film comprises 18 vignettes by
18 different directors, by no means all of them French. The common theme
is the city of Paris where each miniature is set in a different
arrondissement. By turns funny, sad and romantic, this film is a ‘must’
for all lovers of Paris.
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Germany, 2006 Cert: 15 99m
Dir: Sven Taddicken
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AGM at 7.15pm, followed by the final film of the season to be announced early in the New Year.
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