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2024-2025 Audience Top 15
Here are the highest rated films we screened in our 2024-2025 seasons at the film festival and club:
- The Marching Band - 93.06%
- Green Border - 92.11%
- This Is Going To Be Big - 91.82%
- The Monk And The Gun - 90.89%
- Radical - 90.07%
- All Your Faces - 89.71%
- Seed of the Sacred Fig - 87.28%
- Where Olive Trees Weep - 86.99%
- Kneecap - 86.82%
- The Teacher - 86.68%
- Stormskerry Maja - 86.67%
- Robot Dreams - 85.71%
- Flow - 84.6%
- The Outrun - 84.09%
- Rose - 84%
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News
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Summer comes to Keswick!
6 April 2025
It seems very appropriate that the weather is so lovely at the moment; we can all go outside and enjoy it while there are no club movies to see! We hope you have enjoyed the year; we feel that it was a good one with some great films, and certainly a fantastic 25th Film Festival last month.
Many of the films went on to win BAFTAs or even Oscars and many more appeared in the BFI's best films of the year list. It is also a good sign that so many club-type films are now winning awards worldwide.
Thanks to everyone who has helped keep the show running over the year, whether you were on the committee, running front of house, running the Festival or helping on it. An especial thanks to Ian Payne for directing all the great festivals we have had in his time and to Julia Vickers for stepping forward to run the next ones! A special thanks should go the Rennie family for all their years giving the club a home, and to Jonathan and Graham for taking on the responsibility for our future. Thanks all!
So that is it from us. The emails will be back in mid summer with a list of films for next season for members to choose from, and the Sunday night shows will start again in September. If you are looking for something to see meantime, keep your eye on the Alhambra website - they will keep showing films for you every week.
Have a great summer, everyone!
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The Room Next Door - Sunday 30th March 5pm
24 March 2025
For our final film before our summer break we have The Room Next Door. Pedro Almodóvar's first English language film and the Best Film winner at the Venice Film Festival. Tilda Swinton's Martha is dying of cancer. She asks her old friend Ingrid (Julianne Moore) to be in 'the room next door' when she stops the pain by self-euthanising - in the next room to prevent Ingrid from becoming a criminal."It’s an elegant film, reckoning empathetically with an extremely complex topic" - Little White Lies
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The Last Dance - Sunday 23rd March 5pm
17 March 2025
The Last Dance is another Members' Choice; Hong Kong wedding planner Dominic loses his business due to Covid and switches to running a funeral business. It is actually going quite well except that his business partner is an old-school Taoist priest Master Man, who has no time for his new commercially oriented youngster.“Starts out as an odd couple story but evolves into something more complex and satisfying: a film about tradition, gender roles and family tensions.” - Wendy Ide, Observer
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The Girl With The Needle - Sunday 16th March 5pm
11 March 2025
When we have got over the buzz from such a great weekend at the festival, Keswick Film Club continues this Sunday with The Girl with the Needle. Set in Denmark in the post-world war one 1920s, this is based on a true story and was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes."It is about a world in which women’s lives are disposable and in which the authorities are disapproving of and disgusted by their suffering – and set at a time in which the first world war had normalised the idea of mass murder" – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian.