Film Showing
Peggy Guggenheim Art Addict
USA 2015, 95 minutes, English Director Lisa Vreeland, featuring Peggy Guggenheim Back by popular demand. This film was sold out last season and as many members did not get in, we have given it a second viewing. This documentary film about the life of the art collector Peggy Guggenheim, is constructed around rediscovered audiotapes from … Continue reading Peggy Guggenheim Art Addict
Atomic Falafel
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomWednesday 25th January 2017 at 8.00pm Israel, Germany, UK 2015, 93 mins, English, Hebrew, Farsi (sub-titles) Director Dror Shaul featuring Mali Levi, Michelle Treves, Michelle Treves With Iran threatening to attain nuclear power, anxious Israeli politicians and top brass gather in an underground bunker to debate a response and whether to consider a preemptive … Continue reading Atomic Falafel
Indignation
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomSet against the backdrop of the Korean War, a working-class Jewish student, Marcus (Logan Lerman), leaves Newark, New Jersey, to attend a small college in Ohio. There, he experiences a sexual awakening after meeting the elegant and wealthy Olivia (Sarah Gadon), and confronts the school's dean (Tracy Letts) over the role of religion in academic … Continue reading Indignation
Dough
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomTake an aging white Jewish baker, add a young black Muslim immigrant, and what do you have? The ingredients story in which bridges are built across religious, racial and generations. Nat (Jonathan Pryce), who runs a kosher London bakery is struggling and facing a hostile takeover bid from a cutthroat developer who wants to … Continue reading Dough
Felix and Meira
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomUnfolding on snowy sidewalks and beneath overcast skies, “Felix and Meira” watches ever so closely as a young Hasidic wife and mother is tempted by the quirky charms of a wayward older man. Yet this tenderly observed love story isn’t about religion — or its lack — but about the attraction of difference and … Continue reading Felix and Meira
Denial
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomIn 1996, the historian Deborah Lipstadt was pursued in the UK courts by the notorious Holocaust denier David Irving, for calling him a falsifier of history in her book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. This movie version of those events, stars Rachel Weisz as Lipstadt and Timothy Spall as Irving. … Continue reading Denial
The Zookeepers Wife
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomAdapted from Diane Ackerman’s 2007 non-fiction book, the film follows Warsaw zookeepers Jan (Heldenbergh) and Antonina (Chastain) as they risk their lives to save Jewish townspeople from the Nazis by concealing them in their zoo home-turned-pig farm. From the opening scene of almost fairy-tale idyll, life is transformed by the arrival of the Nazis. The … Continue reading The Zookeepers Wife
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr story
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomThere can hardly be any more extraordinary story from the Hollywood golden age than that of Hedy Lamarr; an assimilated Austrian Jew, a very beautiful star with a moderate acting talent but an untutored brilliance in science and engineering.. Her tragedy was that she was in the wrong business, precisely that business that promotes beauty … Continue reading Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr story
Menashe
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom“Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, Menashe follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his son Rieven after his wife, Lea, passes away. Since they live in a tradition-bound culture that requires a mother present in every home, Rieven is supposed to be adopted … Continue reading Menashe
1945
Scott Cinema, Bristol Northumbria Drive, Henleaze, Bristol, Avon, United KingdomThe arrival of two orthodox Jews upsets the wedding day of a rural town clerk’s son in Hungary in 1945. This drama filmed in elegant black and white is from Hungarian director Ferenc Török. It captures the collective guilt of the community who have moved into the homes and taken possession of the property of … Continue reading 1945
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