International Cinema Club 国際映画クラブ

I would like to inform you the programme of the Welcoming International Cinema Club  which is for the period from January to March 2010.

ウェルカミング国際映画クラブの２０１０年１月から３月までの時期のプログラムをご紹介いたします。

They meet every Thursday from 6 to 9pm at the Tollcross Community Centre. Unfortunately the Japanese Singing Group is held on Thursday as well, but only fortnightly. As I informed earlier, a Japanese film will be watched on 4 March hosted jointly by the Welcoming International Cinema Club and the Film Group.

このクラブは、トルクロス・コミュ二ティ・センターで毎週木曜日午後６時から９時まで集まっています。残念なことに、日本語合唱団が木曜日には、一週おきですが、開かれています。以前にお知らせしたように、ウェルカミング国際映画クラブと映画の会が主催して３月４日には、日本映画を見ます。

Please look at the whole programme below. 

全体プログラムについては、以下をご覧ください。

21^st January                   Still Life

(Chinese: 三峡好人; pinyin: Sānxiá hǎorén; literally "Good people of the Three Gorges") is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke. Shot in the old village of Fengjie, a small town on the Yangtze River which is slowly being destroyed by the building of the Three Gorges Dam, Still Life tells the story of two people in search of their spouses. Still Life is a co-production between the Shanghai Film Studio and Hong Kong-based Pictures. The film premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival and was a surprise winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Film.^[2] The film premiered at a handful of other film festivals, and received a limited commercial release in the United States on January 18, 2008 in New York City. Like The World, Jia Zhangke's previous film, Still Life was accepted by Chinese authorities and was shown uncensored in both mainland China and abroad.

28^th January                La pelota vasca:

                          la piel contra la piedra

 (English: The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone; Basque: Euskal pilota: larrua harriaren kontra) is a 2003 documentary film written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Julio Médem. The film's purported intention is to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the Basque Country. In order to do so, Medem edits the interviews giving a sense of dialogue between parties that refused to sit down and talk.

4^th February               Jean de Florette

is a 1986 French historical drama film directed by Claude Berri, based on a novel by Marcel Pagnol. It is part of a duology, and is followed by Manon des Sources. The film takes place in rural Provence, where two local farmers scheme to trick a newcomer out of his newly inherited property. The movie starred three of France's most prominent actors – Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, who won a BAFTA award for his performance, and Yves Montand in one of the last roles before his death.

11^th February              Central Station

(Portuguese: Central do Brasil) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning 1998 drama film set in Brazil. It tells the story of a young boy's friendship with a jaded middle-aged woman. The movie was adapted by Marcos Bernstein and João Emanuel Carneiro from a story by Walter Salles and it was directed by Salles. It features Fernanda Montenegro and Vinícius de Oliveira in the major roles. It was an international co-production between Brazil and France. The film's title in Portuguese, Central do Brasil, is the name of Rio de Janeiro's main railway station. The film premiered at the 1998 Berlin International Film Festival. ^[1]

18^th February          When Father Was Away on

                      Business

(Serbo-Croat: Otac na službenom putu, Отац на службеном путу) is a 1985 Yugoslavian film by Serbian director Emir Kusturica. The screenplay was written by the Bosnian dramatist Abdullah Sidran. Its subtitle is A Historical Love Film. Set in post-World War II Bosnia during the Informbiro period, the film tells the story through the eyes of a young boy Malik whose father Meša (played by Miki Manojlović) has been suspected of working for Cominform and sent to a labour camp after a careless remark about a political newspaper cartoon.

25^th February                        Man of Aran (1934)

is a documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty, a fictional documentary on life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters who live in premodern conditions and their hardships, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil, and hunting for huge basking sharks to win their liver oil for lamps.

4^th March                     Tony Takitani

This film is based on the same name short story written by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. It won three awards at Locarno International Film Festival in 2004. The director Jun Ichikawa was born in1948 and loved Murakami's novels belonging to the same generation, although Mr. Ichikawa died in 2008. 

      The music score was made by Mr. Ryuichi Samamoto. The film depicts loneliness of a Japanese man called Tony Takitani, who was given an American-like first name by his father just after the World War II.   

      This meeting is jointly hosted with the Film Group of the Japanese Institute of Scotland in preparation (http://japaneseinstitute.jimdo.com), for which Atsuko Betchaku is responsible.

11^th March                            Whisky

is an Argentine-German-Spanish-Uruguayan tragicomedy film directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll and released in 2004. The film stars Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, Ana Katz, and Daniel Hendler. It has very sparse dialogue and the three principal actors play very straight roles showing little emotion. It was premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where it won a Regard Original Award.

18^th March     Cinema Club Party night

        with live music from Many Lands

A chance to review the club and plan the next series of films