by Altrincham Film Club | Jun 26, 2017 | Previews
Citizen Jane Our main film on Thursday is Citizen Jane, a documentary about that true hero of city-planners: Jane Jacobs. It describes her battle to protect New York’s neighbourhoods in the face of the all-powerful city-boss Robert Moses. Arguably no one did more to...
by Altrincham Film Club | Jun 3, 2017 | Previews
Dominic Smith Our film choices for June have been specially curated as a complementary pair, and we are delighted to announce that the short will be presented by its Director, Dr Dominic Smith. Dominic’s film is entitled ‘Between wind and water’ – the...
by Altrincham Film Club | Apr 19, 2017 | Previews
Toni Erdmann Our next film is “the funniest German comedy you will ever see” ! What more can we say? Nothing. Instead, read the RAVE REVIEWS generated by this almost-3-hours of brilliance. This tender German comedy is a moving, often hilarious portrait of an...
by Altrincham Film Club | Mar 19, 2017 | Previews
Love on the Dole Our next film is “a very sordid story in a very sordid surrounding.” So said the Censors in 1936, illustrating the nervousness about the project on moral and political grounds. Indeed when finally cleared 5 years later, the film was the first...
by Altrincham Film Club | Dec 1, 2016 | Previews
The Shop Around the Corner Only Altrincham Film Club can bring you a Christmas film based on a 1940’s Hungarian play which morphed in to a Broadway musical in the 1960’s (She Loves Me) and ended up as You’ve Got Mail in the 1990’s. So why not come and share our 1960’s...
by Altrincham Film Club | Nov 8, 2016 | Previews
MUSTANG (2015) Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven (Turkish, subtitled) The extraordinary MUSTANG is set in rural Turkey. It tells the story of five orphaned sisters, who live with their grandmother in a large and remote house. The family is not poor, but it is...
