Next film club: 27 January. Babette's Feast

The next film club will be on Friday 27 January. Thanks to Pete and Inge for agreeing to host it at their place. We'll be showing Babette's Feast (Cert. U), Gabriel Axel's 2002 film about a a remote Danish religious community, a French maid, and (unsurprisingly) a big feast. It's a lovely tale of self-sacrifice, thwarted ambitions, and lost love, sensuous joy, and grace.

Please let me know if you want to come, so we can tell Pete and Inge how many people to expect.

Upcoming film club dates.

February: The proposed date for February's film club is 20 February. We've not had a cinema event for a while, so it would be good to go out! My proposal is that we see the new Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny, and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter. I've had some good feedback about this one already, so hopefully it should be a goer. The cinema and time will be confirmed nearer the time (but it will be early evening).

March: On 29 March Andrew is doing another lecture like the Taxi Driver one, this time it's the next film in the Martin Scorsese / Paul Schrader trilogy - Raging Bull. More on this film later, but it would be good to show the whole movie in film club. The proposed date is 17 March. I haven't got a venue for this one yet, so I'm looking for volunteers. It may need to be somewhere with a decent amount of space as the Taxi Driver film club was the biggest one we've had so far. Please let me know if you'd be happy to do this, or have any suggestions.