Cinema Calendar 2008

Session 1 - Tati – March 28
Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) 96 mins – Tati
Comedy.

Session 2 – April 18
La Strada (1954) 104 mins – Fellini
Ultimate road move ?

Session 3 – May 16
Le Diaboliques (1955) 117 mins – H G Clouzot
Bizarre thriller. Inluences still felt today.

Session 4 – June 20
Les 400 Coups (1959) 95 mins - Truffault
One of the premier Cahiers du Cinema critics. Beginning of Nouvelle Vague.

Session 5 – July 11
Le Samurai (1967) minimalist French noir. John-Pierre Melville's influence cannot be undersitmated. The crime genre reduced to its simplest.

Session 6 – August 8
Seventh Seal (1956) 92 mins – Ingmar Bergman.
Influence. Indulgence. Senses.


Session 7 – September 12
Bad Luck (1959) Andrez Munk. Lamentably short lived director. Famous for Eroica which is now seemingly difficult to obtain. Instead this incredibly rare wonderful film.
Alt - Generation (1954) Andrez Wajda. First of his war trilogy.
Unique Polish post war cinema.

Session 8 - October 24
Belle de Jour (1967) 100 mins col – Luis Bunuel
Alt – Virdianna (1961) 88 mins
Alt – Exterminating Angel (1963)


Session 9 – November 28
Les Biches (1968) - 94 mins col - Claude Chabrol.
Seminal Cahiers du Cinema critic with Truffault. Specialist at analysing the novueau riches lifstyle.

Session 10 – December 12 [special date because Xmas]
Day for Night (1973) 120 mins col - Truffault
Alt
Senso (1953) 100 / 115 mins – col - Visconti
Salute to film making.