old FILM COURSES

As well as running regular courses for Cinemaplus at Cinema City and for the Picturehouse in Cambridge, Sue also leads film appreciation sessions for King’s Lynn Community Cinema Club.   All are welcome to these sessions, details below:

Evening Film Close-Ups are £5 for members of the King’s Lynn Community Cinema Club & their guests. Otherwise there is a charge of £6. This can be paid on the door but you must secure your place in advance by e-mailing email hidden; JavaScript is required as these events are very popular.

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Saturday 9thApril 10-4.30pm

DAY COURSE — BRITISH FILM IN THE 1960S
A DAY OF NOSTALGIA, A DECADE OF RADICAL CHANGE

Friend’s Meeting House, Bridge Street, King’s Lynn PE30 5AB
Led by Sue Burge

Fee: £20 tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided — please bring along something towards a shared lunch.

At the beginning of the 60s British cinema was in transition in a country ready for change. We will explore a wide range of films in order to gain a greater understanding of the different forces at play both politically and socially. The New Wave films of the 1950s continued into the early 60s depicting the Angry Young Men of Britain’s working class while blacklisted American Joseph Losey brought his outsider’s eye to bear on the British class system in the The Servant, Julie Christie became a screen icon in Darling and Dirk Bogarde highlighted the perils of oppression and discrimination in Victim.

This decade also saw the beginning of Bond with Sean Connery blasting onto the screen in Dr No. David Lean reached his peak with Lawrence of Arabia and Michael Powell scuppered his career with Peeping Tom. Taboos were being broken, change was in the air, Beatlemania was getting into its stride, and London was ready to swing.

The buzz about all things British attracted many directors to the UK, with Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up reflecting the “swinging London” scene while Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, released in 1971, showed a nightmare vision of future London. As the sixties drew to an end the Carry On team carried on doing what they did best in Carry on up the Khyber, Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers starred in the madcap experimental The Magic Christian and Nicolas Roeg’s Performance with its psychedelic dream turned nightmare brought the decade to a thought-provoking end.

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Thursday 26thMay 7.30-9.30pm

CITIES ON SCREEN: BERLIN

The Great Hall, Thoresby College, King’s Lynn PE30 1HX
(please use entrance parallel to the river)
Led by Sue Burge

A cinematic exploration of post-war Berlin from Rossellini’s controversial “rubble” film Germany, Year Zero to Cold War paranoia in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Lives of Others. There’ll be a chance to wallow in “ostalgia” in Good Bye Lenin and Sonnenallee and to marvel at the modernist architecture which pervades the sci-fi action of Aeon Flux.

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Thursday 16thJune 7.30-9.30pm

DIRECTOR IN FOCUS: FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT

The Great Hall, Thoresby College, King’s Lynn PE30 1HX
(please use entrance parallel to the river)
Led by Sue Burge

Francois Truffaut was one of the most popular and accessible directors of the French New Wave. His first feature film “Les Quatre Cents Coups” introduced Jean-Pierre Leaud as Antoine Doinel and this fictional character appears in five of Truffaut’s films and acts as his alter-ego. From 1959-1979 we see Antoine maturing on-screen as he searches for his ideal woman. This session focuses on how Truffaut’s life is shown through these films as well as exploring the ethics of autobiography and how Truffaut, innovative Nouvelle Vague pioneer, was also a great commercial success.

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Thursday 14thJuly 7.30-9.30pm

COMMEMORATING SHAKESPEARE ON SCREEN

The Great Hall, Thoresby College, King’s Lynn PE30 1HX
(please use entrance parallel to the river)
Led by Sue Burge

As we remember the Bard in the 400th year since his death it seems a fitting moment to review screen adaptations of the plays. Come along to this overview of Shakespeare on Screen from the silent era to the present day with insights into the importance of the screen adaptations of Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles and many more.

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Thursday 20thOctober 7.30-9.30pm

CITIES ON SCREEN: LONDON

The Great Hall, Thoresby College, King’s Lynn PE30 1HX
(please use entrance parallel to the river)
Led by Sue Burge

Explore London on screen from the early days of film to the present day. Meet cockney sparrows, criminals, lovers, toffs and toughs. Clips will include Underground, Once A Jolly Swagman (very early Dirk Bogarde!), The Small World of Sammy Lee, Notting Hill, Sapphire and other rarities and delights!

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Saturday 26thNovember 10-4.30pm

DAY COURSE — FROM THE DAWN OF TIME TO STARDATE 2016 – A DAY OF SCIENCE FICTION

Friend’s Meeting House, Bridge Street, King’s Lynn PE30 5AB
Led by Sue Burge

Fee: £20 tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided — please bring along something towards a shared lunch.

Modern fairy tales, Russian propaganda, Shakespearian robots, Cold War fears of alien invasion, feminist mothers in outer space and a rocket through the eye of the Moon… There’s much more to science fiction than meets the eye. This course explores how this genre reflects our inner fears, hopes and desires. Clips from the early days of film, including the extraordinary story behind Fritz Lang’s Woman in the Moon (1929), rich pickings from the heyday of the sci-fi B-movie and the rise of the sci-fi epic, right up to the present day with Scarlett Johansson’s extraordinary performance in Under the Skin and the endearingly quirky Co-dependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2015).

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