YORK FILM SOCIETY - Film List January - December 2019
Screening on second Tuesday of each month at 7.30pm (Except Feb)
The Community Resource Centre Avon Terrace
July 9th Kangaroo 1986 Australian Drama
A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trade unions and fascist groups.
August 13th Grave Decisions 2006 German Comedy Drama
One day, Sebastian learns that his mother died on his birthday, which makes him believe he was to blame for her death. Dreaming of purgatory, Sebastian sees only two ways to avoid this divine punishment: becoming an immortal rock star or find a new wife for his father.
September 10th Excuse My Dust 1951 USA Comedy Musical
Joe, an inventor, in an American small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car, driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", only his girlfriend believes in him.
October 8th Jindabyne 2006 Australian Drama Crime Mystery
After four men on a fishing trip discover a dead body in the water, they choose to delay reporting it and continue fishing. This is an intriguing, evocative and multi-layered film superbly acted and wonderfully filmed.
November 12th Phoenix 2014 German Drama
In the aftermath of WWII, Nelly, a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, horribly disfigured from a bullet wound in her face, undergoes a series of facial reconstruction surgeries and decides to find her husband Johnny who works at the Phoenix club in Berlin.
December 10th To be decided