2007-08
Season Summary
According to the scores received on the feedback forms from our members, these are the most and least popular films of the season, scored out of a maximum 5 points. You can see how we calculate the score here. Click on a film to read the details, notes and responses for that film.
MOST POPULAR FILM
The Lives of Others
Film Score = 4.93
LEAST POPULAR FILM
The Tempest
Film Score = 3.07
Programme PDF File
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Programme PDFFilms this Season
Marilyn Monroe plays it straight in this wild, gender-bending comedy about two idiotic jazz musician…
A powerfully directed excursion into Aboriginal mythmaking and storytelling. Shot in monochrome inte…
The story of two young women who are in some mysterious way the same woman leading two different yet…
A local British ruler threatens to double the tax on hard-pressed villagers in late 19th century Ind…
Set in 1930s gangland Shanghai, this is a humorous parody and a homage to the wuxia genre, …
Jarman uses an astonishingly broad stylistic range – from Baroque painting to Gothic melodrama…
A moving and witty take on filial love as a young man tries to protect his mother from the political…
A moving story of two young boys’ search for their missing father and their attempt to make se…
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-cou…
Drama about the Stasi investigating the political affiliations of a playwright and his lover. With a…
Set in Austalia’s outback, Jindabyne is a powerful drama about how people live together, male …
A quirky look at relationships in the digital age that offers an unsettling, often hilarious, view o…
An impassioned, politically charged story of Ireland’s fight for independence. Two brothers fi…
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, …
A subtle, stylish and suspenseful psychodrama. A young pianist plans revenge on the family who thoug…
Screened before the GFS came into existence as a trial to gauge the level of interest in Godalm…
What is F-Rated?
The F-Rating is applied to all films which are:
- Directed by women
- Written by women
- Has one or more significant women on screen
If it qualifies with one of the above it gets the Bronze rating.
If it qualifies with two of the above it gets the Silver rating.
If it qualifies with all three of the above it gets the Gold rating.