Just a reminder that we at WFC are off on our summer holidays. Rest assured we will be back in September with another terrific WFC screening.
Monday, 27 June 2022
Friday, 20 May 2022
JUNE SCREENING: Monday 13th June - Vortex -
Connaught Cinema
Date: Monday 13th June 2022
Place: Connaught Cinema
Time: 8.00pm
Free for members
Non-members: £7.50/Students £6.50
Membership is £35 per year for 10 screenings
We here at WFC are super excited to bring you the latest from France's renowned enfant terrible director Gasper Noe - Vortex. A change in pace for the usually frenetic director it promises to still have all his hallmark intensity. A painfully bleak portrait of an elderly couple at the end of their lives, Vortex is brutally matter-of-fact about the indignities of old age. The film’s one concession to Noé’s normally showy directing style is a split-screen device, used to convey the disengagement and disorientation of dementia – the wife (Françoise Lebrun) struggles to recognise her husband and anxiously prowls their labyrinthine Parisian apartment, hoping to find an anchor of familiarity. The husband (neither character is named) is a petulant intellectual, played by the writer-director Dario Argento. Here death is the vortex: the dark focus, whose gravitational pull gets stronger – and harder to avoid thinking about – with every passing year. Vortex is arguably more devastating than Noé’s former provocations because it is firmly grounded in the world as we know it.
Dark devastating and quietly profound we think it really isn't a screening to be missed so hope to see you there.
'Vortex steers away from much of the shocking violence of Noé’s previous films, it still retains a particular kind of cold horror that burrows deep and takes hold.' CAITLIN QUINLAN - Empire
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L-ZcCFePAs
Friday, 15 April 2022
MAY SCREENING: Tuesday 17th May - The 400 Hundred Blows -
Connaught Cinema
Date: TUESDAY 17th May 2022
Place: Connaught Cinema
Time: 8.15pm
Free for members
Non-members: £7.50/Students £6.50
Membership is £35 per year for 10 screenings
‘Jean-Pierre Léaud dazzles at the heart of an autobiographical opus that invites new waves of adulation with each viewing’ Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian
'Truffaut's masterful debut is one of the all-time-great coming-of-age movies and concludes with the most expressive freeze-frame in the history of the medium.’ Time Out
Tuesday, 15 March 2022
MARCH SCREENING: Tuesday 5th April: A Banquet - Connaught Studio
A BANQUET (2021)
Date: TUESDAY 5TH APRIL 2022
Place: Connaught Studio
Time: 8.30pm
Free for members
Non-members: £7.50/Students £6.50
Membership is £35 per year for 10 screenings
This dark and engaging British horror film is the debut feature of Scottish director Ruth Paxton. It deals with widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) being radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs. The film is an unnerving and unsettling exploration of what lies below the surface of the supposedly happy family, while raising interesting questions about faith and destiny. A real slow-burner it will be one not to miss.
‘Paxton is in expert control of her film, achieving her effects with economy and force. It really is unnerving.’ Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian
‘The film’s slow-burn magic lies in the many questions it raises’ The NYTimes
Watch the trailer here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVZfglJ6bS0
Thursday, 10 February 2022
MARCH SCREENING: Monday 14th March : FLEE : Connaught Studio
FLEE
Bafta nominated animated documentary
Date: MONDAY 14th MARCH 2022
Place: Connaught Studio
Time: 8.15pm
free for members
non members £7.50/£6.50
Membership is £35 per year for 10 screenings
An animated documentary telling the true story about a man’s need to confront his past in order to truly have a future. Amin arrived as an unaccompanied minor in Denmark from Afghanistan. Today, at 36, he is a successful academic and is getting married to his long-time boyfriend. A secret he has been hiding for over 20 years threatens to ruin the life he has built for himself. For the first time, he is sharing his story with his close friend.
Here;s the trail to whet your apetitte:
★★★★★ Flee is a remarkably humanising and complex film The Guardian
★★★★★ An unfortunately timely film, Flee uses animation primarily to sharpen the dangerous edges of its refugee story Observer
★★★★★ Flee morphs from a tale of dispossession to a testament to the power of narrative – to overtake a life, and to liberate it. The Washington Post
Monday, 17 January 2022
FEBRUARY: Dario Argento's BIRD WITH A CRYSTAL PLUMMAGE (1970) remastered
BIRD WITH A CRYSTAL PLUMMAGE
>8.15pm
Tickets: £7.5/6.5 non members
members FREE / membership £35 for 10 screening/year
A rare treat to see this stunning genre-defining cult classic in 4K!!!!
Sunday, 19 December 2021
JANUARY Tuesday 11th: DRIVE MY CAR - Connaught Cinema
'A thoughtful and tearful ride in which the destination is a spiritual confrontation with oneself, “Drive My Car” devastates and comforts through its vehicular poetry of the sorrow from which we run, the collisions that awaken us, and the healing gained from every bump in the road.' Carlos Aguilar - Robert Ebert.com
We really hope to see you all soon. Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year from Caroline, Mary and Christian!