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2008/09 Season

Film Strip


Screenings

 

September 12 • Couscous
After years of the world's film festivals snubbing French offerings as
pretentious and boring, ‘Couscous’ won a standing ovation at the Venice film festival and took home three prizes. It opened to ovations in France and won the Louis Delluc prize for film of the year. “This is the great political film we were missing. It both takes your breath away and suddenly makes the air around you easier to breathe”.



 

October 10 • Savages
Wendy is a struggling playwright, living in Manhattan. Her brother John
is a moderately successful academic, living in Buffalo. They are not a particularly close family; having escaped their domineering father, the siblings are firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. And then their father, the man they have long avoided, is diagnosed with dementia and they have to care for him. Suddenly not only do they have to spend time with their father, but also with each other.


November 14 • Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi, the feisty Iranian heroine of the marvelous animated
movie Persepolis, is animated in more ways than one. The young woman - the autobiographical creation of actual feisty Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi is sketched in the same bold illustration style that characterizes Satrapi's internationally adored graphic novels about her life during Iran's Islamic revolution. The movie sparkles with witty selfawareness.


December 12 • Still Life
‘Still Life’ won the grand prize at the 2006 Venice Film Festival. The movie
takes place amid the clatter and disruption of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world, and a site of great cultural and political strife because of both environmental and humanitarian concerns. This may sound like a prescription for social cinema, but the film’s interest lies in visual ideas and human behaviour, not agendas.
   
   

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The dates for film meetings this season:

September 12th
October 10th
November 14th
December 12th
January 9th 2009
February 13th
March 13th
April 17th
May 8th (our AGM)
June 12th and
July 10th.

Our long list
We had a really interesting ‘long list’ to choose from and only made our choices after a lot of debate. We
anticipate showing some of the following titles later in the season:

And When Did You Last See Your Father; California Dreaming; Transylvania; Son of Rambow; Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber; Lars and the Real Girl; The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; The Orphanage; Under the Bombs; Son of Man; Nim’s Island; 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days; Juno; Happy-Go-Lucky; There will be blood; Little Red Flowers;Red Road; Lust; Caution; Into the Wild; Killer of Sheep; Garage.

Information
Unless otherwise stated, films are on Friday evenings starting at 7.30pm, in Lecture Theatre A, Somerset College, Wellington Road, Taunton. Doors open 30 mins earlier.   The screenings are only open to Members or their guests. 
There’s no pre-booking - there should be plenty of space for all. Please see our Membership page for further information. Subtitles will always be shown when possible, even on English speaking films. Films shown are subject to availability and substitutions will be made - you can confirm the film by contacting David Ross on
07927 401 410  a few days beforehand.
 

TFS Directors Chair