Braidwood Film Club Inc.
Film Screenings for 2016
In 2016 we will be screening just one film a month on a Saturday evening, excepting for the Saturdays April 16, July 16, September 17 and November 19 when there will be an additional afternoon film. There will be no Friday evening films for the year.
Each monthly Saturday evening screening will be preceded by a pot-luck dinner to which everyone is welcome (bring something to share) about two hours before the film screening. As usual... Braidwood Film Club reserves the right to make programme changes when we can’t source films or obtain screening rights.
January 16 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Starring: Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, David Strathairn, Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Penelope Wilton, Richard Gere, Ronald Pickup
February 20 Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo
March 19 Little Miss Sunshine
Director: Jonathon Dayton & Valerie Faris
April 16 Afternoon - Searching for Sugar Man
Sweden,UK,Finland 2012 music, biography documentary 86mins
In the early 1970’s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who has a short-lived recording career with only two well received by non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero.
Director: Malik Bendjelloul
Stars: Rodriguez, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman, Dennis Coffey
Evening - Germinal
In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
Director: Claude Berri
Stars: Renaud, Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou
May 21 Wah Wah
Set at the end of the 1960’s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from Great Britain, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents’ traumatic separation, until he’s 14. True events from Richard E Grant’s childhood.
Director: Richard E Grant
June 18 Nebraska (2013)
115 min Adventure, Comedy, Drama
An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million- dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
Director: Alexander Payne
Stars: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb
July 16 Afternoon – Rebecca
director Alfred Hitchcock
A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Evening – The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
Crime, Drama, Romance
The wife of an oafish restaurant owner becomes bored with her husband and considers an affair with a regular patron.
Director: Peter Greenaway
Stars: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren
(Xmas in July dinner)
August 20 Monsieur Ibrahim
In Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens. He offers the boy guidance and suggests he reads the Koran. Together they embark on a long journey that has a profound effect on both their lives.
Director: François Dupeyron
Starring: Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Gilbert Melki
September 17 Monty Python festival
Afternoon - Life of Brian
Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
Director: Terry Jones
Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin |
Evening - Meaning of Life
The comedy team takes a look at life in all its stages in their own uniquely silly way.
Directors: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam
Stars: John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle
October 22 Locke
Leaving the construction site on the eve of a major project, construction manager Ivan Locke receives news that sends him driving the two hours from Birmingham to London, but even further from the life he once knew. Making the decision that he has to make, he then calls his wife, his sons, his co-workers and boss telling them the secret that he is bearing and trying to keep his job and family intact. But even more importantly, he will have to face himself and the choices he has made.
director: Steven Knight
stars: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson
November 19 Afternoon - Women He's Undressed
Aclaimed documentary about Australia's most prolific costume designer Orry-Kelly. During the boom years of Hollywood he was the costume designer on an astonishing 282 motion pictures. He designed for the stars like Marilyn Munroe, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Rosalind Russell, Errol Flynn and many more of the immortals. His films included Some Like It Hot, Casablanca, An American in Paris and Now, Voyager.
director Gillian Armstrong
Evening - The Narrow Margin
A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
December 17 The Commitments
When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house. Fast moving enjoyable comedy and musical.
Director: Alan Parker
Writers: Roddy Doyle (novel), Dick Clement (screenplay)
Stars: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball