TUESDAYS- HAMPSTEAD FILM SOCIETY

Join the Hampstead Film Society for regular Tuesday night screenings of world cinema, documentaries and classic movies.

BARBARA (Christian Petzold, Germany, 2012) Tuesday, 16th April @ 7pm

Winner of the Best Director prize at this year's Berlin Film Festival, the latest film from Christian Petzold (Yella, Jerichow) is a simmering, impeccably crafted Cold War thriller, starring the gifted Nina Hoss-in her fifth lead role for the director-as a Berlin doctor banished to a rural East German hospital as punishment for applying for an exit visa. As her lover from the West carefully plots her escape, Barbara waits patiently and avoids friendships with her colleagues-except for Andre (Ronald Zehrfeld) the hospital's head physician, who is warmly attentive to her. But even as she finds herself falling for him, Barbara still cannot be sure that Andre is not a spy. As her defensive wall slowly starts to crumble, she is eventually forced to make a profound decision about her future. A film of glancing moments and dangerous secrets, BARBARA paints a haunting picture of a woman being slowly crushed between the irreconcilable needs of desire and survival. Germany's official Oscar submission for Best Foreign Language Film.
PG-13, 1 hr. 45 min.

See trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l3VRf3enx8

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

(Vittorio De Sica, Italy, 1970), Tuesday, 30th April @7pm

Vittorio De Sica directs the lyrical war drama Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), based on a book by Giorgio Bassani. In Ferrara, Italy, at the beginning of WWII, anti-Semitism is spreading. Mussolini has passed several laws that forbid Jews from going to public schools, joining the army, or marrying non-Jews. While many middle-class Jewish families flee the country, the Finzi-Continis believe it's safe inside their sprawling estate. As a wealthy, aristocraticJewish family, they think their luxurious garden walls will protect them from fascism. Micol Finzi Contini (Dominique Sanda) and her brother (Helmut Berger) invite their Jewish friends to join them in the estate for parties, tennis, and games while the war ravages on. Middle-class Jew Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) attends the parties with his friend Malnate (Fabio Testi). Giorgio and Micol are childhood sweethearts, but she begins to reject him in favor of Malnate. She also refuses to accept that there's a war going on. Eventually they can pretend no longer, and the war closes in on them. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1971.
R, 2 hr.

http://www.reelz.com/trailer-clips/26673/the-garden-of-the-finzi-contini...

Beasts of the Southern Wild

(Benh Zeitlin, USA, 2012), Tuesday, 14th May @7pm

In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards PG-13, 1 hr. 31 min.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA6FFnjvvmg

Next season starts in September 2013

Members £4.00, Day Members £7.00. Cash bar wine/beer £3.00. All profit goes to charity.

Email us: hfs@interchange.org.uk

Members £4.00, Day Members £7.00. Cash bar wine/beer £3.00. All profit goes to charity.
Email us: hfs@interchange.org.uk