Season One - Autumn/Winter 2014

Below are a list of films that were viewed and discussed during the first film club season (Autumn/Winter Sesmester 2014) 

Because the film club was established half way through the semester, the first season only ran for four sessions. At the first Committee meeting we came up with abstract and rather arty film themes including;
'Let it Go', 'Scent of a Woman' (there goes that Al Pacino thing again), 'Revenge', 'Family', 'Looking Back' and 'Loss of Innocence'. We rounded up this short first season with a cinema trip at the end of semester to go and see 'The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1. 






                                    1) Ghost World
               To depict the film club theme of: Loss of Innocence

Ghost World is remarkable in that it’s fundamentally about the slow death of a friendship, which expires very gradually over the course of the entire movie without ever quite receiving the last rites. Director Terry Zwigoff co-wrote the screenplay with Daniel Clowes, adapting the latter’s graphic novel, and they make this conceit work by foregrounding other, more conventionally dramatic elements and letting Enid and Becky drift apart in the margins of those adventures. On its surface, the film looks like it’s primarily about Enid (Thora Birch) and the unexpectedly rich relationship she develops with Seymour (Steve Buscemi), the middle-aged, vintage-music collector she meets when she and Becky play a practical joke on him after reading his personal ad in the paper. 

http://www.avclub.com/article/gradually-and-authentically-ghost-world-depicts-an-201353

                     2) Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
                    To depict the film club theme of:Revenge

Lee Geum-ja (Lee Yeong-ae) has spent the last 13 years in prison for a murder she didn't commit. She's fantasized about getting revenge on the various people who wronged her, including the police officer (Nam Il-woo) who forced her to confess and a shady teacher (Choi Min-sik) with whom she has a checkered past. After her release, she teams up with a group of eccentric friends she made while behind bars and sets out to clear her name and find the daughter she was forced to leave behind.

3) The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 

To depict the film club theme of: Family 

In the 1930s, the Grand Budapest Hotel is a popular European ski resort, presided over by concierge Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes). Zero, a junior lobby boy, becomes Gustave's friend and protege. Gustave prides himself on providing first-class service to the hotel's guests, including satisfying the sexual needs of the many elderly women who stay there. When one of Gustave's lovers dies mysteriously, Gustave finds himself the recipient of a priceless painting and the chief suspect in her murder.

                  4) The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part I
              Christmas Cinema Trip - Storm Cinema, Castletroy

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived. She awakens from the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell deep inside the bunkered catacombs of District 13. Separated from some of her closest allies and fearing for their safety in the Capitol, Katniss finally agrees to be the Mockingjay, the symbolic leader of the rebellion. Still uncertain as to whom she can trust, Katniss must help 13 rise from the shadows, all the while knowing that President Snow has focused his hatred into a personal vendetta against her—and her loved ones.