The Olive Tree - Sunday 17th September 5pm

The Olive Tree (El olivo) is a gentle and often humorous Spanish and German film about the olive heritage of southern Spain. I was talking to someone after seeing it who had just been in Spain and said that a two hour high speed train journey south from Madrid went past little else but olive trees and the occasional farmhouse for mile after mile. But this is a very special tree, 2000 years old and reluctantly sold by our hero Alma's grandfather in Valencia when he was desperate for cash to a German energy giant. A decade later he is suffering from dementia and Alma (Anna Castillo) thinks getting the tree back might help him. The story of how it is eventually returned to its home touches on corporate greed, what the French might call terroir and the power of social media. In Dusseldorf the tree looks a bit like we now see animals in a circus. How can anyone not like this film about the values that matter?

New Programme

Our Autumn programme starts on Sunday 10th September with A Man Called Ove, the third most watched swedish cinema-film in Sweden of all time. Other highlights include God's Own Country, which you'll no doubt hear a lot more about when it goes on general release next week. New films from acclaimed directors François Ozon and Kelly Reichardt, a celebration of 60s cinema with a 50th anniversary screening of The Graduate and a chance to find out how After The Storm ends. 15 great films from all around the world to take us through to the end of the year, take a look at the trailers below...

Summer Break

Just in case any of you have forgotten – the Film Club has now finished until September! Don't forget to keep your eye on the Alhambra programme; there are films, live theatre, opera or ballet there every night.

Relaxed Screening: My Fair Lady - Wednesday 17th May 1:30pm

In celebration of Dementia Awareness Week, Keswick Film Club presents the classical musical, My Fair Lady on Wednesday 17th May at 1.30pm. All are welcome to enjoy this easy-going screening at the Alhambra Cinema.

Free Entry

End Of Season

We hope you all managed to find a lot of films to enjoy over the year as a whole; for what it is worth, my 2 favourites were very different films – Burn Burn Burn and The Handmaiden. For those of you who are stats-minded, The highest rated film was A War, back in September, scoring 91.33%; the highest attended was Hunt for the Wilderpeople in January, with 196 of us turning up (and giving it 89.97% overall). The audiences over the whole year averaged just short of 100, with an average score of nearly 76%.

While the club is away, don't forget to keep your eye on the Alhambra programme; there are films, live theatre, opera or ballet there every night.

All that remains for me to say now is "have a great summer". We will be back later in the year with to let you know what alternative films from around the world you can see next season.

Vaughan