After a hiatus of almost two years, the Brock University Film Society returned to the Film House in the Winter of 2022.
April 7, 2022—The Souvenir, Part II (2021), dir. Joanna Hogg
We can't wait for next week's screening (Thursday, April 7, 7:00pm), the final showing of our highly abbreviated 2021-2022 season.* In case you forgot, the film we're so excited about is "The Souvenir: Part 2," Joanna Hogg's follow-up to her extraordinary "The Souvenir" (2019). Like the original, it stars Honor Swinton Byrne as "Julie," a young filmmaker based in part on Hogg, and co-stars Tilda Swinton, Byrne's real-life mother, as "Julie"'s mother "Rosalind." "How do you follow a film that seemed perfect in itself, a model of compression and self-containment about a ravaging love affair and the growing pains of a young artist at a pivot point in her life?," Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal asks. "The answer," according to Morgenstern, "turns out to be daringly intricate and beautifully simple. Ms. Hogg has outdone herself with an even stronger film about grief, self-discovery, the daunting uncertainties of the creative process and, before and after everything else, the mysterious power of the movie medium."
Let's hear it for "the mysterious power of the movie medium"!
Once again, our screening takes place at 7:00 pm on Thursday, April 7.
See you next week!
*Yes, sad but true. But we'll be back in September with what we hope will be a full slate of films for 2022-2023.
The Brock University Film Society is thrilled to announce that our next screening, on Thursday, April 7, will be "The Souvenir: Part 2," Joanna Hogg's follow-up to her extraordinary "The Souvenir" (2019). Like the original, it stars Honor Swinton Byrne as "Julie," a young filmmaker based in part on Hogg, and co-stars Tilda Swinton, Byrne's real-life mother, as "Julie"'s mother "Rosalind."
If you've never watched "The Souvenir," you have a month to try and catch it (looks like it's available to rent through a number of streaming services).
See you in April!
March 26, 2022—The Earth is Blue as an Orange (2020), dir. Iryna Tsilik
Friends of BUFS! Just a reminder that the Ukrainian director Iryna Tsalik's award-winning documentary "The Earth is Blue as an Orange" (2020) will be playing this Saturday, March 26 at 2:00 PM at The Film House. This is a Pay-What-You-Can event with 100% of proceeds going to the Ukrainian Canadian Congress - Niagara so they can assist with the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, as well as all those neighbouring countries who have taken in millions of refugees from Ukraine over the last few weeks. "How much power can art have in wartime?," the film's poster reads. This your chance to find out. STOP WAR!
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Benefit for Ukraine!
Iryna Tsilik's highly acclaimed documentary "The Earth is Blue as an Orange" (2020) won the top prize for World Cinema Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Tsilik is a Kyiv-based filmmaker and poet and her film deals with life on the front lines in Eastern Ukraine after 2014 in a way that attests to the power of art and the creative spirit in the face of tremendous adversity.
In his 2021 review of the film for The Guardian, Phil Hoad described the film this way: "A halo of kinship, love and the tenacious power of art is gathered around this film."
This is a Pay-What-You-Can screening with 100% of proceeds going to charity (details below).
March 3, 2022—Parallel Mothers (2021), dir. Pedro Almodóvar
I'm so happy to announce that after a hiatus of almost two years, the Brock University Film Society will be back in action on Thursday, March 3, 2022, hosting a screening of Pedro Almodóvar's "Parallel Mothers." To celebrate, we'll be holding a post-screening discussion so that all of us who love to talk about film can hang out for a bit, enjoy each other's company, and talk about THIS film. Hope to see you there!
Film at 7:00 pm. Discussion to follow.