Tuesdays 12 January - 23 March
excluding 16 February
10 Weeks 6-8pm
INTO FILM 1: INTRODUCTION
TO UNDERSTANDING FILM
Un Chien Andalou, La Jete, Twelve Monkeys , Billy Elliot, The Maltese Falcon, Psycho.

Join us for this informal and friendly evening course exploring editing patterns, avant garde practices, narrative techniques, and adaptation of literature into film.

Tutor: Trish Sheil
Course fee: £90 Members £85 (conc. £70) Includes
comprehensive study pack and two free screenings

Mondays 18 January, – 8 March 6.00pm – 8.00pm
INTRODUCTION TO MODERNISM
THROUGH DRAWING AND FILM


In partnership with Kettle’s Yard, this new CFC course will examine links between the images and ideas in the Modern Times exhibition and 20th-century cinema. There will be six taught sessions, two film screenings and one further film screening with a discussion.

Cost: £80 Members £75 Concessions £60 including comprehensive study pack and three films in the Modern Times film season at the Arts Picturehouse

Thursday 4 February, 10.00am – 3.30pm
HAMLET ON FILM STUDY DAY
plus screening of THE REVENGERS TRAGEDY (15)


Through presentations, illustrated with film clips, this CFC Shakespeare study day will explore screen adaptations of Hamlet.

Speakers: Professor Rowland Wymer: Anglia Ruskin University,
Abigail Rokison: Homerton College, Director of Studies for Education with English and Drama.
Film Education: Hamlet on Film Workshop exploring key scenes across four film adaptations,
including Olivier’s 1948 and Zeffirelli’s 1990 versions.

REVENGERS TRAGEDY (15)
Director: Alex Cox. Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Eddie Izzard, Derek Jacobi.
UK 2002. 109 mins.

A wronged man returns from self imposed exile to a Liverpool of the future to bring down those responsible for his wife’s murder. Timeless themes of moral corruption and revenge are played out on a stage of gritty punk futurism and anarchic violence. Contains strong language, violence and sex.

Cost: Students £7.00 Accompanying teachers free - includes Teachers Resource Pack

Friday 5 March, 9.00am - 3.00pm
MEXICAN CINEMA STUDY DAY


Presentations on Mexican cinema since 1990 in the wider context of Mexican culture, politics and the Mexican film industry.

Speakers: Stephanie Muir (WJEC Examiner), Dr Sarah Barrow (Anglia Ruskin University), Erica Segre (University of Cambridge, Centre for Latin American Studies), Paula Beegan (Cambridge Film Trust)

1.00pm Introduced Screening:
EL VIOLIN (15)
Director: Francisco Vargas. Starring: Angel Tavia, Gerado Taracena, Dagoberto Gama, Mario Garibaldi
2005. 98 mins

During the Mexican peasant revolts of the 1970s, Don Plutarco, an elderly farmer and violinist, fashions an ingenious way of smuggling ammunition to the rebels beneath the noses of government troops. Shot simply and starkly in black and white, a captivating tale of family ties, duty, conflict and innocence.

Suitable for A/AS Media/ WJEC Film Studies/ Spanish
Cost: Students £7.00 Accompanying teachers FREE
Thursday 25 February: Centre of Latin American Studies, 1-day symposium “Ghosts of the Mexican Revolution in Literature and Visual Culture” Trinity College, Cambridge.
FREE for teachers attending Mexican Cinema Study Day

Friday 12 March, 10.00am – 1.00pm
BLADE RUNNER : Science Fiction on Film (15)
Speakers: Prof. Rowland Wymer (Anglia Ruskin University) on the adaptation to film of
Philip K. Dick’s source novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Cambridge University Scientist: Science Fact or Fiction in Blade Runner?

BLADE RUNNER (15)

Director: Ridley Scott. Starring: Harrison Ford, Daryl Hannah.
117 mins. USA 1982.
Inspired by Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS, Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER is now a film classic of the sci-fi genre. In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth. Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop searching out six escaped replicants.

Suitable for: GCSE/A/AS Level Film/Media/Studies/EnglishScience
Cost: £3.50. Accompanying teachers free
A CFC Event for Cambridge Science Festival 2010

Thursday 18 March, 9.00am - 1.00pm
VERTIGO Study Day


Through presentations, illustrated with film clips, this CFC Vertigo study day will explore the social and production backgound to Vertigo, Hitchcock as auteur and women in Hitchcock films.

Speakers include: Dr Sarah Barrow: Anglia Ruskin University;
Mark Hansard (Saffron Walden County High School)
Philip Lloyd (Hinchinbrooke School)

Wednesday 21 April, 1.00 - 2.30pm
BOMBS AT TEATIME


These films document domestic life of war-time Britain under austerity seeking to retain its sanity in the shadow of war. ISLAND PEOPLE Dir: Paul Rotha & Philip Leacock is a portrait of Britain in which ‘High Tea’ isn’t often taken. But pubs, football and gardening are still fixtures of national life; FIVE-INCH BATHER directed by Richard Massingham instructs Britons in the importance of war-time water economy; THE COUNTRYWOMEN shows Women’s Institute contribution to the War effort; and CHRISTMAS UNDER FIRE shows how life goes on as usual, but in 1941 Christmas trees are cut short to fit in the shelters and the London Underground’s platforms are lined with people trying to sleep.

BFI Mediatheque
Central Library, Cambridge

Discover a wealth of film and television from the BFI National Archive
- free to watch at the click of a mouse.
The BFI Mediatheque at Central Library, Cambridge is a digital jukebox of film and TV feautring many of the best, the rarest and the ost extraordinary titles fro the BFI National Archive. Simply log on at one of our viewing stations, choose from over 1500 complete films and TV programmes and watch them free at the click of a mouse.
For a complete list of titles available, and for more information about the BFI Mediatheque
check here.