St. Stephens Film Society Summary of Movies Discussed

Film Group Rating Capsule Review Category Recommended in Category

A Man Escaped A man transcends his Transcendental • Pather physical and spiritual Style in Film Panchani prison. Mysterious and • Day of Wrath miraculous film. • Lourdes (all challenging movies) Story A family disperses, time Transcendental • Late Spring passes imperceptibly, Style in Film • tragically Cleo from 5 to 7 A woman grows on the French New • Le Rayon Vert threshold of fame, Wave/Female • Jeanne cancer and war Director Dielman Chinatown What evil lies under the Film Noir/70s • Out of the Past sunny Los Angeles? American • Point Blank Andrei Rublev Portrait of an artist as a Russian • Hamlet suffering monk in (Kozintsev) medieval Russia Journey to Marriage disintegrates, Italian • Bicycle Thieves miraculously recovers • Il Posto (1961) The Battle of The logic, ruthlessness of Political Mock • Z (Costa Algiers oppression and Documentary Gavras) insurgency Leon Morin, Suffering widow and Early French New • Army of Priest young priest in WWII Wave Shadows France, in love and in • Bob Le faith Flambeur Ida Teen novitiate discovers New Polish • Cold War her past, and Poland’s Cinema (Amazon Prime) • The Double Life of Veronique Kind Hearts and Ambition and cruelty Ealing Comedy • The Lady Coronets overcome social Killers hierarchy, death to the • The Lavender 1%! Hill Mob Notorious The manipulations and Hitchcock • Rear Window cruelties of glamorous • Vertigo lovers I Confess Thriller about a Catholic Hitchcock • Rope priest accused of • Shadow of murder, man vs. seal of Doubt confession Wild Strawberries Movie about aging, Bergman • Fanny and regrets and redemption Alexander Ashes and Origins and traumas of Polish Cinema • Knife in the Diamonds Polish nation, seen Water through a Polish James • Man of Marble Dean Myth of the archetypal Western • My Darling cowboy and Clementine frontiersman, debunked The Lady Eve A woman transcends… Screwball • His Girl Friday through her brains and Comedy • Bringing Up resolve Baby Comanche A man transcends… B-Western • High Noon Station through his dignity and • One-Eyed resolve Jacks Alphaville Sci fi without special French New • Contempt effects, slavery by Wave/ Sci Fi • Blade Runner technology Other Films Discussed The Sound of Still grossly underrated, Musical • Umbrellas of Music a movie for all seasons Cherbourg and all audiences, except • Singing in the for Joan Didion Rain • The Young Girls of Rochefort When Harry Met Underneath the cutesy Rom-com • Sally face of the modern rom- • Groundhog com lie uneasy truths Day about male/female friendship A Room with a Suffused with soul-lifting Merchant-Ivory • Howard’s End View Italian sunshine, stuffy • The Remains Victorians fall in love! of the Day