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News (14-February)

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Our Next Presentation:  LOVELESS

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An estranged Russian couple going through a brutal divorce both have new partners and want to start over, until their 12-year-old son disappears after witnessing one of their fights. Another masterpiece from the great Russian director, hypnotically intense and gripping to the very end, deeply compassionate, formally like a procedural crime drama, and a satirical comment on contemporary Russian, and Western, life. (read more…)

Our last presentation ‘THE BEGUILED’

There were 23 Audience Reaction slips returned after the showing of this film.  The breakdown from these slips were as follows:

  • ‘Excellent’: 2 votes
  • ‘Very Good’: 13 votes
  • ‘Good’: 5 votes
  • ‘Satisfactory’: 3 votes
  • ‘Poor’: 0 votes

Feedback comments

If you want to add further comments on this film, you are welcome to do so by joining in on our “The Beguiled” discussion forum.

Half-Season Membership

As we have reached the half way stage in the season, the price of membership for the remainder of the season has dropped to £32.50.

Your opinion counts

As well as filling in the Response Slips following the showing of each film, you can leave comments for any of the films we have shown via the Discussion page.

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See what Chelmsford Film Club is showing this season on the 2018/19 season page.

News (6 February)

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Our Next Presentation:  THE BEGUILED

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Thomas Cullinan’s 1966 novel A Painted Devil was first brought to the screen by Don Siegel in 1971, with Clint Eastwood as a wounded Union soldier taken into a southern girls’ academy during the US civil war.  In Coppola’s version, with Colin Farrell as Corporal McBurney, for which she won Best Director at Cannes, the focus is all on the story from the women and girls point of view – Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst are superb (read more)

Our last presentation ‘L’Amant Double’

There were 19 Audience Reaction slips returned after the showing of this film.  The breakdown from these slips were as follows:

  • ‘Excellent’: 0 votes
  • ‘Very Good’: 7 votes
  • ‘Good’: 8 votes
  • ‘Satisfactory’: 2 votes
  • ‘Poor’: 2 votes

Feedback comments

If you want to add further comments on this film, you are welcome to do so by joining in on our “L’Amant Double” discussion forum.

Your opinion counts

As well as filling in the Response Slips following the showing of each film, you can leave comments for any of the films we have shown via the Discussion page.

CFC on Twitter and Facebook

To receive regular, automatic notification of our films, why not follow us on either Twitter or Facebook.  Both can be accessed via the side panel on the left.

See what Chelmsford Film Club is showing this season on the 2018/19 season page.

News Update (22-December)

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Our Next Presentation:  L’AMANT DOUBLE

The Cramphorn Theatre, CHELMSFORD – Tuesday 29th January @ 8PM

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Marine Vacth and Jérémie Renier


Receiving treatment from a psychologist, Paul, for psychosomatic aches and pains, Chloé falls for him.  Living together, she discovers that Paul has an identical twin, Louis, also a therapist, the ‘double’ in the title.  An inevitable affair develops.  Dualities run  through the film, with allusions to Hitchcock – the score and a Vertigo-style spiral staircase, and a debt to Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers.  A skin-tingling erotic thriller as only Ozon could construct.  (Read more…) 

Our last presentation ‘The Square’


There were 10 Audience Reaction slips returned after the showing of this film.  The breakdown from these slips were as follows:

  • ‘Excellent’: 6 votes
  • ‘Very Good’: 6 votes
  • ‘Good’: 0 votes
  • ‘Satisfactory’: 0 votes
  • ‘Poor’: 3 votes

Feedback comments

If you want to add further comments on this film, you are welcome to do so by joining in on our “The Square” discussion forum.

Loving Vincent

The issue regarding the non-screening of ‘Loving Vincent’ on 27 November, as shown in our published programme, has now been resolved.

The distributor has admitted that the film had not been logged properly or correctly in its systems and has offered an apology. Efforts are being made to seek some compensation, with a possibility that a future screening of the film might be arranged. This very much depends on the offer from the distributor and whether an extra date at the Cramphorn Theatre can be booked. Once again, apologies for the inconvenience caused and we look forward to the rest of the season in 2019

Your opinion counts

As well as filling in the Response Slips following the showing of each film, you can leave comments for any of the films we have shown via the Discussion page.

CFC on Twitter and Facebook

To receive regular, automatic notification of our films, why not follow us on either Twitter or Facebook.  Both can be accessed via the side panel on the left.

See what Chelmsford Film Club is showing this season on the 2018/19 season page,