Our Next Presentation: Paterson
THE CRAMPHORN THEATRE, CHELMSFORD – Wednesday 13th December @ 8PM
A film about a man called Paterson, played admirably by Adam Driver, who works as a bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey, and who writes poetry. Therefore there are associations with the epic poem ‘Paterson’ by the American ‘imagist’ poet William Carlos Williams. Just as wife Laura finally persuades him to publish his poems, disaster and disappointment occur, alleviated only when a mysterious Japanese man accosts him. A movie worthy of Jarmusch at his best. (Read more…)
Adam King Short Films
As “Starless Dreams” is only 76 minutes long, Chelmsford Film Club are taking the opportunity to show 2 films by a young local film maker, Adam King. Both films are only 2-3 minutes long and we hope Adam will be here to introduce both films. Though short, both films are very imaginative and we hope you will enjoy!
Our last presentation ‘I Am Not Your Negro’
Once again, our sincere apologies for not being able to show the intended film “Starless Dreams” (which has yet to get a formal UK release, though it was shown at last year’s London Film Festival). The international distributors would not grant us a license to screen it. There were 32 response slips returned after the showing of this film the breakdown from these slips were as follows:
- ‘Excellent’: 25 votes
- ‘Very Good’: 3 votes
- ‘Good’: 4 votes
- ‘Satisfactory’: 0 vote
- ‘Poor’: 0 vote
Feedback comments for “I Am Not Your Negro”.
If you want to add further comments on this film, you are welcome to do so by joining in on our “I Am Not Your Negro” discussion forum.
Response slips
We a trialling a redesigned version of the Response Slips which can be simply torn to indicate your opinion rather than requiring a pen or pencil to tick a box. As much as we enjoy reading people’s comments, the rating provides an indication of how our audience rate out film selection. Even if you have no comment to make, we urge people to return the slips on the way out. Thank you.
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In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, “Remember This House.” The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.