ABCD (Abingdon College & District) Film Society

Programme for 2009 - 2010

24 Sep - free show Little Miss Sunsine	1 Oct Cherry Blossoms	8 Oct The Fortune Cookie	Katyn
15 Oct - special event * Ugetsu Monogatari	22 Oct The Reader	5 Nov The Fourth Man
12 Nov * Of Time And The City	19 Nov Waltz With Bashir	26 Nov - special event Don Quixote
3 Dec Juno	10 Dec Three Monkeys	17 Dec Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
7 Jan The Eclipse	14 Jan - special event Quai Des Brumes	21 Jan Jar City	28 Jan The Four Feathers
4 Feb - special event * Katyn	11 Feb Rachel Getting Married	25 Feb Hunger	4 Mar - special event * Il Divo
11 Mar - special event * The Film Music Of Arthur Benjamin	18 Mar - special event at St. Nicholas Church * The Golem - silent classic		28 Apr Looking For Eric

SPECIAL EVENTS

• UGETSU MONOGATARI - Oct 15th - introduced by Alex Jacoby, of Oxford Brookes film studies department, a regular contributor to Sight and Sound on Japanese cinema.
• DON QUIXOTE - Nov 26th - the rarely seen Soviet version is introduced by John Riley, expert on Russian and Soviet films.
• QUAI DES BRUMES (PORT OF SHADOWS) - Jan 14th - introduced by Ann Miller of the Leicester University French Department.
• KATYN - Feb 4th - introduced by Dr Hubert Zawadski, co-author of A Concise History of Poland (CUP).
• IL DIVO - Mar 4th - introduced by Alex Marlow-Mann, a specialist in Italian cinema.
• THE FILM MUSIC OF ARTHUR BENJAMIN - Mar 11th - Arthur Benjamin joined the ranks of some of Britain’s finest composing talent, being recruited by Muir Mathieson to write music for films in the 1930s. This illustrated talk by Australian composer and pianist Wendy Hiscocks celebrates Benjamin’s valuable contribution to British Film on the fiftieth anniversary of his death and includes excerpts from Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, Walker’s Turn of the Tide and Mathieson’s Steps of the Ballet. A large section of Conquest of Everest will also be screened.
• SILENT CLASSIC - THE GOLEM (DER GOLEM, WIE ER IN DIE WELT KAM) - Mar 18th - Andrew Youdell returns to accompany on piano our annual silent film. The screening will begin at 7.30 p.m. and take place at St Nicolas Church, Market Place, Abingdon.