Film Five

Film: The Man without a Past

Director: Aki Kaurismaki

Menu: Smoked Salmon with Lime, Prawn Thai Curry, Cheese Selection, Baklava, Fudge and Truffles

Film Four

Film: Shadow of a Doubt

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Menu: Fish Pie, Basil, Mozzarella and Tomato Salad, Caviar on Toast

Film Three

Film: Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Director: Sophie Fiennes

Menu: Sweet and savoury crepes followed by dim-sum at Charlie Chan

Film Two

Film: Festen (The Celebration)

Director: Thomas Vinterberg

Menu: Olinda's Favouritte Cheese, Caviar on Toast, Spanish Omelette, Olives, Crab Salad, Rasperry Ripple Ice-cream

Film One

Saturday 2nd October

Film: Hable con Ella (Talk to Her)

Director: Pedro Almodovar

Menu: Vegetarian Chinese Noodles, Mussels in Madras sauce and Strawberry Cheesecake Ice-cream

Press Release by Gary A.

The Cambridge Film Society, also to be referred to as TCFS, announces its inception to the Steiner School Community and East Anglia. Long in desperate need of a non-commercial conglomeration of dedicated film scholars and connoisseurs, TCFS arrives in a nick of Time with the trick of the eye that is the frame per second of the rolling film stock. Organised by playrights and painters, photographers and cooks, the selection of films will have more taste and flavours for the aesthetic palate than an East-Indian buffet in a London restaurant. This social club of cinematic particulars will honour the vision of directorial authors that created an imaginative narrative landscape for much of the 20th Century. Since this was unfortunately lost, like a Grail falling into an abyss, in the 21st Century, we will be showing little or non of the dreck and wrecks of the last ten years which have masqueraded as the Film Experience. In other words, Entertainment will be secondary, so as not to spoil the palette with empty, nutritionless white sugar bombombast of sorry spectacle. This will eliminate 99.6 % of all American commercial film releases. England won't fare much better. Arthur Penn and Lindsay Anderson as well as Hitchcock, are dead.

But, you don't have to know who Arthur Penn or Lindsay Anderson are to join the social club of cinematic particulars. Nor will the club necessarily show Bonnie & Clyde or IF. Distinctions between High Art and Low Brow Trash will be blurred depending on the curating directors whims and dreams the night before scheduling a film for viewing.  The subtitles will always be in either English or Dutch. It can often be a very cultivated experience to see a film in a foreign language you don't know. In some ways it is the ultimate test of the film and it's expressive range. Cambridge fancies itself highbrow and aware, but Wittgenstein would finish a philosophy lecture to his Trinity College sychophants and rush off to the local cinema to see whatever was playing, sit in the front row and let the reflected light bath wash away mental effluvia. Wittgenstein unhappily explored the Limits of Knowledge. TCFS will happily explore the explosion of limits by inspired actors, writers, directors, cinematographers and musical composers.
We are friendly, unpretentious artists and scholars who also do not mind being called elitist.
Trust us.
We will provide ice-cream.

For more information Dial M for Murder.