Film Fans

This group meets regularly to watch a film together and, whenever possible, discuss it afterwards. The films will be in the original language (more often than not in English, but not exclusively), and may include both new releases and classic movies.

Film Fans: Casablanca

Don’t miss the opportunity to see this great classic on the beautiful big screen of the Modernissimo.  If you love Ingrid Bergman and these two films she starred in, join me also for Hitchcok’s Notorious the day after.

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Film Fans: Quand Vient L’Automne (Sotto le foglie)

Our next film is a darkly funny French drama Quand Vient L’Automne (Italian title is Sotto le foglie and the English When the Fall is Coming) by François Ozon (Eight Women, Swimming Pool, In the House).  Observer’s critic thought that “this spry little French-language picture, which delights in subverting our expectations and leaves us with teasing questions about culpability and a crime, shows the director at his most understated, the better to foreground the excellent, intriguingly layered performance from Hélène Vincent.”

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Film Fans: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

If you’re concerned, bewildered or enraged by the state of global politics, join me for a wonderful tale of how the world should be as opposed to how it is. Directed by incomparable Frank Capra in 1939, and starring James Stewart, this movie definitely deserves a second viewing (or the very first one if you haven’t seen it before).

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Film Fans: No Other Land

Join me for this documentary made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, which is incredibly topical and has already won praise at a number of film festival and has been nominated for an Oscar.

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Hello Ladies, I hope everyone is doing fine. I’m sure many of you follow sites where one can can find many suggestions on how to spend so time with list

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