LA RONDE (France 1950, directed by Max Ophuls) A. is in love with B., who is in love with C., who is in love with D., etc etc., in love with A. This roundabout, presided over by the knowing and cynical Anton Walbrook, makes for the wittiest and most romantic film in the French cinema, starring ... Read more
The History Group, Thursday 14th September 2017, at 2.0 p.m. JUDGE JEFFREYS’ JAUNT Everyone knows that in 1685, following the failed Monmouth Rebellion, Judge Jeffries, at the so-called Bloody Assizes, sentenced a number of persons connected with it in the most savage manner. Cruelty is the picture that people have of him. But there was ... Read more
Film List to Follow...
Dinner with Times Journalist Carol Midgley. Friday, 22nd September at 6:30 for 7:00pm. On Friday, 22nd September, the Times journalist, feature-writer and sometimes TV critic Carol Midgley will be joining us for dinner and instead of giving a formal talk afterwards she will be 'in conversation' with the President, Sir David Maddison. She ... Read more
Joint Afternoon Tea with the Bluecoat Display Centre. Tuesday, 26th September, at 1:00 for 1:30pm. £12.50 per person. Jessica creates a stunning range of wearable jewellery including cuffs, rings, earrings, men’s jewellery, neckpieces & brooches. She works primarily in silver, while also using gold leaf to bring colour, contrast and life to her collection. All ... Read more
‘‘Evelyn Waugh: Put Out More Flags’ by John Morgan’
'The Lady Killers' A customary Ealing comedy to start the season 'Five diverse oddball criminal types planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians'. We begin about 6.45pm with a one course supper and go into the 'cinema' by about quarter to ... Read more
‘Little Boy Blue’, Dinner with His Honour Judge Neil Flewitt Q.C. & Dr Paul Johnson. Friday, 13th October at 6:30-7:00pm. £25.00 per person. Many of you will have seen the recent highly-rated ITV series 'Little Boy Blue' about the terrible murder of the Croxteth youngster Rhys Jones. The leading prosecution barrister in the case ... Read more
I’M ALL RIGHT JACK (GB 1959) Dir. by John Boulting. After being demobbed the hero (Ian Carmichael) decides to go into Industry, little knowing that most of the workforce are strike-happy layabouts, and that the management are as bent as hair-pins. This wickedly cynical film marks Peter Sellers’ first great role as a bone-headed shop ... Read more
We are entering an new epoch, a time where technology, automation and machine intelligence has the potential to supplant human labour in all its forms. Not just physical labour and manufacturing, but also white collar industries such as banking and insurance, medicine, teaching, legal and professional services and even the creative arts. What is to ... Read more