Largs Film Society

Season 2024 – 2025 programme

Screenings at 7 pm in the Valhalladrome in the Vikingar, Largs.

2024   

13  September; A Serious Man (US) Directors:  Joel Coen & Ethan Coen                    2009                   Comedy/Drama

Stars: Michael Stuhlburg;  Richard Kind; Sari Lennick                                          106 mins          IMDB 7.0

Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.

 

4 October;          Return to Seoul (Europe), Director Davy Chou.                                       2022                Drama

Stars Park Ji-Min; Oh Gwan-Rok; Guka Han                                                             119 mins       IMDB 7.0

A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.

25 October;        Sunset Boulevard (US)  Director. Billy Wilder                                         1950                Drama

Stars.    William Holden; Gloria Swanson; Erich Von Stroheim                         110 mins       IMDB 8.4

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

DISCUSSION SESSION IN BARRFIELDS AFTER FILM SHOWING

15 November;  One Life (GB):  Director James Hawes                                                         2023                Bio/Drama

Stars Anthony Hopkins; Lena Olin;  Johnny Flynn                                                 109 mins       IMDB 7.5

Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

6 December       Belleville Rendezvous, (French) Director Sylvain Chomet                  2003                Animation/Comedy

Stars Michelle Caucheteux;  Jean-Claude Donda;  Michel Robin                     80 mins         IMDB 7.7

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters–an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire–to rescue him.

 

2025

10 January          Nae Pasaran (UK/Chilli)  Director:  Felipe Bustos Sierra                      2018                Documentary

Stars.    Bob Fulton;  Stuart Barrie;  John Keenan                                                   96 mins         IMDB 7.9

The incredible story of the Scots who managed to ground half of Chile’s Air Force, from the other side of the world, in the longest single act of solidarity against Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship.

 

31 January          It Happened One Night (US) : Director Frank Capra                              1934                Comedy

Stars.    Clark Cable;  Claudette Colberg;  Walter Connolly                                                         105 mins IMDB 8.1

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.

 

21 February       Perfect Days, (Japan)  Director:  Wim Wenders                                     2023                Drama

Stars.    Koji Yakusho;  Tokio Emoto;  Arisa Nakano                                              124 mins       IMDB 7.9

Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquillity.  Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.

 

14 March             Still Alice, (UK) Director: Richard Glatzer; Wash Westmoreland     2014                Drama

                                Stars : Julianne Moore;  Alex Baldwin; Kirstin Stewart                        101 mins       IMDB 7.5

                A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.

DISCUSSION SESSION IN BARRFIELDS AFTER FILM SHOWING

 

4 April                  The Banshees of Inisherin, (Irish) Director Martin McDonagh.         2022                Comedy/Drama

Stars Colin Farrell;  Brendan Gleeson; Kerry Condon                                           115 mins       IMDB 7.7

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

 

25 April                The Birdcage, (US) Director Mike Nichols                                                 1996                Comedy

Stars:  Robin Williams; Nathane Lane;  Gene Hackman                                      117 mins       IMDB 7.2

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée’s right-wing moralistic parents.

 

16 May                 AGM   Loving Vincent (UK) Director DK Welshman; Hugh Welshman                    2017                                Animation/Drama

Stars      Douglas Booth;  Jerome Flynn;  Robert Galaczyk                                   94 mins         IMDB 7.8

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.