Welman St Film Society

Welman Street Film Society

With the coming of larger home TV screens and the increasing availability of films on DVD, Stan & Rebecca and Max & Gael thought it would be nice to share some classic cinema with each other – old favourites as well as films that we knew only by reputation. So the Welman Street Film Society was born as we alternated choices of films and enjoyed them over nibbles and a few drinks.

Soon we decided that a sort of occasional mini “film festival” would be fun, with the alternating hosts choosing the day’s theme, the films and creating appropriate meals.

So far, we've screened 74 films, and our most recent "Film Festival" saw us looking at looking at International Caper/Heist Films of the 1950s.

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List of Films

Title	Director	Country
1. The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	USA
2. In the Heat of the Night	Norman Jewison	USA
3. Padre Padrone	Taviani Bros.	Italy
4.Lawrence of Arabia	David Lean	UK/USA
5. La Strada	Federico Fellini	Italy
6. La Regle Du Jeu	Jean Renoir	France
7. Amarcord	Federico Fellini	Italy
8. Psycho	Alfred Hitchcock	USA
9. The Passenger	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
10. The Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
11. My Man Godfrey	Gregory LaCava	USA
12. Room at the Top	Jack Clayton	UK
13. Blazing Saddles	Mel Brooks	USA
14. Wings of Desire	Wim Wenders	Germany/France
15. Nashville	Robert Altman	USA
16. Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	USA
17. The Conformist	Bernardo Bertolucci	Italy
18. King of Hearts	Philippe de Broca	France
19.M. Hulot’s Holiday	Jacques Tati	France
20. Grande Illusion	Jean Renoir	France
21.All About Eve	Joseph Mankiewicz	USA
22.Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick	USA
23.Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
24.The Trial	Orson Welles	France
25.Network	Sidney Lumet	USA

*First Welman St Film Festival*	*Director Theme - France*
26. Le Corbeau	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
27. Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
28. Les Diaboliques	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France

29. Eye of the Needle	Richard Marquand	UK
30.Breathless	Jean Luc Goddard	France
31.The Bedford Incident	James B. Harris	USA
32.Tabu	Miguel Gomes	Portugal
33. Through a Glass Darkly	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden


*Second Welman St Film Festival*	*National Theme - Italy*
34. Journey in Italy	Roberto Rosselini	Italy
35. Il Divo	Paolo Sorrentino	Italy
36. Marriage Italian Style	Vittorio de Sica	Italy

37. North By Northwest	Alfred Hitchcock	USA

*Third Welman St Film Festival*	*Genre Theme- International Heist/Caper Films of the 1950s*
38. The Killing	Stanley Kubrick	USA
39. The Lavender Hill Mob	Charles Crichton	UK
40. Rififi	Jules Dassin	France
41. Big Deal on Madonna Street	Mario Monicelli	Italy

42. Death in Venice	Luchino Visconti	Italy
43. Don't Look Now	Nicholas Roeg	UK/Italy
44. The Roundup	Miklos Janczo	Hungary
45. Bringing Up Baby	Howard Hawks	USA
46. Tender Mercies	Bruce Beresford	USA
47. Lilies of the Field	Ralph Nelson	USA
48. A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson	France
49. Shane	George Stevens	USA
50. The Angels' Share	Ken Loach	UK
51. A Touch of Evil	Orson Welles	USA
52. Ivan's Childhood	Andrei Tarkovsky	Russia
53. Room	Lenny Abrahamson	Canada
54. Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu	Japan
55. Witness for the Prosecution	Billy Wilder	USA
56. Andrei Rublev	Andrei Tarkovsky	Russia
57. Broken Circle Breakdown	Felix Van Groeningen	Belgium
58. Locke	Steven Knight	UK
59. Silent Wedding	Horatiu Malaele	Romania
60. Annie Hall	Woody Allen	USA
61. Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger	USA
62. The Olive Tree	Iciar Bollain	Spain
63. Places in the Heart	Robert Benton	USA
64. Walkabout	Nicolas Roeg	Australia
65. The Hustler	Robert Rossen	USA
66. Elektra	Michael Cacoyannis	Greece
67. Gaslight	George Cukor	USA
68. The Power of the Dog	Jane Campion	New Zealand
69. Sunset Boulevard	Billy Wilder	USA
70. Burn	Gillo Pontecorvo	Italy
71. Dean Spanley	Toa Fraser	UK/NZ
72. In a Lonely Place	Nicholas Ray	USA
73. Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick	USA
74. Cinema Paradiso	Giuseppe Tornatore	Italy

Film	Director	Date-Country
38. The Killing	Stanley Kubrick	1956 - USA
39. The Lavender Hill Mob	Charles Crichton	1951 - UK
40. Rififi	Jules Dassin	1955 - France
41. Big Deal on Madonna Street	Mario Monicelli	1958 - Italy

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