CAROL 2015 118 minutes Based on novel The Price of Salt and set in 1952, when same-sex love stories were expected to end in shame and tragedy, Patricia Highsmith’s tale broke with convention in its depiction of two very different...
THE WINGS OF THE DOVE 1997 102 minutes This film could be described as one of the best “Merchant & Ivory” films––even if neither of them had anything to do with it. Based on the Henry James novel and with cinematography...
THE NAMESAKE 2006 122 minutes Based on the novel by Jhumpa Lahiri and directed by Mira Nair, this film tells the story of a Bengali couple (Irrfan Khan and Tubu) who emigrate to suburban New York. As they try to...
HONEYLAND 2019 87 minutes On first impression, this documentary would strike the viewer as an exceptionally realistic dramatic feature, as the filmmakers Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov shot 400 hours of footage over three years documenting Hatidže Muratova, the last of the wild...
BABETTE’S FEAST 1987 102 minutes In the spirit of the Film Club’s series “641.5 Food on Film,” we are now able to present this adaptation of Isak Dinesen’s short story about two sisters in a desolate 19th century Danish fishing...
THIS BEAUTIFUL FANTASTIC 2016 92 Minutes With some challenging films planned for the coming weeks, it seemed only right to start August with a confectionary fable starring Downtown Abbey alum Jessica Brown Findlay as an obsessive-compulsive librarian struggling to cope...
