Program of the cine-club

A Christmas Carol

Some Like it Hot

Last Thursday, we started a new (!) film : Jurassic Park, made in 1993 by Steven Spielberg.

We’ll continue its viewing next Thursday. We won’t have time to finish it, so I hope you’ll have enough strength to resist watching the end by yourself during the holidays :)

Click on the link below to listen to one of the most famous themes created by John Williams : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8zlUUrFK-M

The Gold Rush (La Ruée vers l’Or), a film by and with Charlie Chaplin. It was made in 1925 (silent at that time) ; the sound was added in 1942. Chaplin once said it was the film he wanted to be the most remembered for.

Click on the link to watch one the most famous scenes : Chaplin eating his shoe !

For the next three cine-club sessions, we are going to watch The Great Dictator, a film by and with Charlie Chaplin.

Here is a summary of this masterpiece:

In English (try at least!), source http://www.imdb.com

Twenty years after the end of WWI in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to power as the ruthless dictator of the country. He believes in a pure Aryan state, and the decimation of the Jews. This situation is unknown to a simple Jewish-Tomainian barber who has since been hospitalized the result of a WWI battle. Upon his release, the barber, who had been suffering from memory loss about the war, is shown the new persecuted life of the Jews by many living in the Jewish ghetto, including a washerwoman named Hannah, with whom he begins a relationship. The barber is ultimately spared such persecution by Commander Schultz, who he saved in that WWI battle. The lives of all Jews in Tomainia are eventually spared with a policy shift by Hynkel himself, who is doing so for ulterior motives. But those motives include a want for world domination, starting with the invasion of neighboring Osterlich, which may be threatened by Benzino Napaloni.

In French (a much shorter version for the less courageous ones!), source http://www.allocine.fr

Dans le ghetto juif vit un petit barbier qui ressemble énormément à Adenoid Hynkel, le dictateur de Tomania qui a décidé l'extermination du peuple juif. Au cours d'une rafle, le barbier est arrêté en compagnie de Schultz, un farouche adversaire d'Hynkel...

THE most hilarious moment taken from the film: Chaplin playing Hynkel, in other words imitating a notorious German dictator...