Black Dog - Sunday 9th February 5pm

What looks like a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max setting, or maybe a Clint Eastwood loner western, is in fact set on the fringes of the Gobi Desert in China, the loner here is Lang – just released from long-term jail and returning to his hometown. But the town is being destroyed to make ready for the 2008 Beijing Olympics; the population is being relocated and the only job he can find is as a dogcatcher helping to round up the seemingly endless pack of feral dogs… One of these, the Black Dog of the title, becomes Lang's buddy of course.

"Black Dog registers as an existential fable about isolation, redemption, the possibility of making connections against the odds." - Jonathan Romney, Financial Times

The Universal Theory - Sunday 2nd February 5pm

 

The Universal Theory is set in 1962 where we join Johannes, a student, off to a conference in Switzerland with his amazingly grumpy tutor Dr Julius Strahten. They are joined by Professor Henry Blomberg, who helped the Nazis in the war. 

Before you think this is a German scientific documentary, Jessica Kiang's review in Variety is entitled "A sumptuous homage to Hitchcock packaged as a Metaphysical Noir"; all is not what it seems!

"It is entirely its own exotically original thing. Catch it while it is on the big screen, where its widescreen brilliance truly flourishes." - Jonathan Romney, Financial Times (£)

My Favourite Cake - Sunday 26th January 5pm

In My Favourite Cake we meet Marin a 70 years old who has lived alone for decades since her husband died and her children left home. Even her weekly meeting with her previously wild friends have slipped to monthly…and then yearly. Feeling isolated and lonely, she decides to take her future into her own hands and "sets out to revamp her love life. Before long, her eye is caught by taxi driver Faramaz. Throwing caution to the winds, she engineers a night to remember, filled with music, dance and brain-bruising quantities of wine. But plans have a way of going awry in this lovely, intimate, tragicomic tale of late-blooming love in the shadow of Iran's repressive regime" – Fatima Sheriff, Little White Lies.

Blitz - Sunday 19th January 5pm

Steve McQueen puts his genius to work in Blitz, a drama about the bombing of London in the war, whilst Saoirse Ronan acts her heart out as a mother whose son goes missing.

"A thrilling, moving, morally provoking odyssey through Britain at war, with a flock of vividly sketched supporting characters that buffet George from one adventure to the next." - Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph

Annual General Meeting - This Sunday at 4:30pm

The AGM of the Keswick Film Club will be held at the Alhambra on Sunday 12th January. We’ll start at 4.30 and be finished for the film which will start as usual at 5.00. 

All the documents are posted on the website - see AGM 2025.

Do come along and hear about what we’ve been doing, and it’s your chance to let the committee know what you think.

All the present officers are standing for re-election but we are always keen for new people to stand, so please get in touch if you are interested.

All We Imagine As Light - Sunday 12th January 5pm

The number one film in Sight & Sounds Films of 2024, All We Imagine As Light takes us to Mumbai, a bustling huge metropolis, never still, teeming with people and stories, where nothing seems permanent. The women all work at a hospital:Prabha is a senior nurse, Anu a trainee and Parvaty, a cook. Their stories are separate but interlocking.

"It's a marvel of a movie, with something of the humanist poetry of Satyajit Ray or Edward Yang. And it’s all the more remarkable given that this is Kapadia’s first fiction feature. What a talent." - Wendy Ide, Observer

 

Anora - Sunday 5th January 5pm

 

We hope you have saved some energy after the Christmas break as we start back on Sunday with Anora, the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes and the film voted Number two in the BFI best 50 films of 2024 - "a wild ride" and "absolutely breathless", "one of the films of the year" as Mark Kermode describes it on Kermode and Mayo's Take. If you don’t believe him, how about Deborah Ross in the Spectator – "I know you won’t believe it’s as good as everyone is saying it is until you hear it from me so here you are: yes, it’s as good as everyone is saying it is."