2017-18
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
La Famille Bélier
Film Score = 4.84
LEAST POPULAR FILM
Certain Women
Film Score = 2.69
Programme PDF File
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Programme PDFFilms this Season
Biopic of Brian Wilson as young (Paul Dano) and older (John Cusack). In the 1960's, he struggles wit…
A portrait of independent women, this film drops us into a handful of intersecting lives across Mont…
Another Koreeda film in which quiet family drama unfolds in contemporary Japan. This is a story that…
Two crooks, with a fondness for old Hollywood B-movies, convince a language student to help them com…
This film offers two bittersweet stories interwining, about a refugee in a strange and hostile land …
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German grieving the death of her fiancé meets a mysterious F…
Pacific Northwest, 1955. Two young sisters wind up living with their eccentric, free-spirited Aunt S…
Could be considered Fellini's first masterpiece with a story of hope in the poverty of post-war Ital…
A 13-year-old nomadic Mongolian girl fights to become the first female eagle hunter in twelve genera…
The Béliers are ordinary people - a loving family with two children. However dad, mum and the…
It's 5 years since GFS screened "A Separation", so time for another Farhadi film! An Irani…
A smash hit in Sweden. Wallander star Rolf Lassgård stars as Ove, the quintessential grumpy ol…
Two Estonian immigrants get caught up in the conflict between Georgian and Chechen forces. A touchin…
Film noir starring Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Marlene Dietrich and Orson Welles directing and sta…
After losing his mother, a young boy (nicknamed Courgette) is sent to a foster home with other orpha…
M is about a terrorized city, and a plump little man with wide eyes who is a pathological child-kill…
A modern-day, Western morality tale about two brothers who resort to a desperate scheme to raid bank…
Clara (Sonia Braga in a career-defining role) is the last resident of the Aquarius, a 1940's buildin…
Classic '70s thriller to start the season! Armed men hijack a subway car in NYC and demand a ransom …
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.