Thanks so much for all your support in 2022 - our first full year of screenings since 2019 and our 10th anniversary year.
As is now customary we’ve spent the time between Christmas and New Year’s mulling over spreadsheets and looking back on the last 12 months to bring you the facts ‘n’ figures we know you all crave… the Tufnell Park Film Club annual report.
Do please add your reflections and favourites in the comments secton below…
Thank you everyone for your support in 2021. We’ve not been able to show as many films, to as many of you, as we’d have hoped but at least we finally got back to in-person screenings. And after a hiatus in 2020 we’re delighted to bring back our traditional end-of-year facts ‘n’ figures bonanza. We hope to see you for many more screenings in 2022!
Important info as we ease back into things post-lockdown
Nigel and Wayne conclude lockdown film club (hopefully) by watching the skies
True-believer (Wayne) and an agnostic (Nigel) discuss the Kubrick classic.
Imagining another 12 months of lockdown ahead of us, Nigel and Wayne discuss which directors' work they'd happily be stuck with.
Wayne and Nigel discuss Satyajit Ray’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play
Nigel introduces one of the 90s most acclaimed films. Does that mean Wayne will like it? Let’s find out…
All the details you need to join our third lockdown Zoom quiz.
Yep, it’s another Powell and Pressburger movie…
Nigel loves the nautical epic. But is it Wayne’s tot of rum?
Wayne enthuses about another Woody Allen film.
Nigel and Wayne start the year with Preston Sturges’ screwball classic
Nigel and Wayne join forces on Zoom to introduce their festive streaming picks.
Wayne introduces John Huston’s action-adventure yarn in tribute to Sean Connery.
Nigel introduces the cult movie about a Japanese woman’s search for the buried treasure from Fargo
“Allen has the uncanny knack of magnifying our most unguarded, embarrassing, selfish and just plain silly moments into a blossoming garden of neuroses and phobias. ”
Our Film Club at Home chain continues with a LOVE TRIANGLE! link from Francois Truffaut’s Last Metro to vintage “early funny” Woody Allen. Adapted from his hit Broadway play, Play It Again, Sam, stars Woody Allen as Allan Felix: a recently divorced film critic so obsessed with the movies that he turns to an imaginary Humphrey Bogart for relationship advice. As farcical date follows farcical date, Allan finds himself falling in love with the wife of his best friend - Diane Keaton and Tony Roberts, respectively, making the first of their numerous on-screen appearances with Allen. For sheer LAFFS! Play It Again, Sam is hard to beat sez we. For a bit more info and all that cal, watch Wayne’s introduction below - in which he misremembers the name of the last film he chose for the Film Club at Home (that difficult to remember title, Birdman), forgets to say what this week film is actually about and - perhaps most unforgivably - neglects to sign off with ‘viddy well’… Boy oh boy, are we missing the Lord Palmerston…
We’d love to hear what you think of Plat It Again, Sam once you’ve seen it. Leave a comment here, send us an email, Tweet us @tpfilmclub or post on our Facebook or Instagram pages.
Where can you stream Play It Again, Sam?
You can rent Play It Again, Sam from Amazon, Google Play, YouTube and iTunes.
Normally at this time of year we’d be inviting you to the Tufnell Park Film Club Autumn Film Quiz at The Lord Palmerston. Sadly, it looks like it’ll be a while before we’ll be doing that again, but! after the ROARING (ahem - Ed) success of our first Zoom quiz back in May we thought we’d give it another go.
Important stuff
The quiz will take place on Sunday 25 October at 7.30pm (UK time). It’s entirely FREE to join and anyone, anywhere in the world is welcome to take part - whether you’re a fully paid-up film club member or just an interested bod.
If you’d like to participate, please either reply to one of our newsletters or email us here by lunchtime on Friday 23 October. We will then send you a link and password to join the Zoom call. If you would like to take part remotely as a team with family/friends/casual acquaintances/ex-lovers/film nerd ringers/etc please also let us know who your teammates are so we put you together in a Zoom ‘breakout room’.
What was that about teams? Also: breakout rooms??!! What gives?
That’s right. We’re going to be using Zoom breakout rooms, so if you want to take part as team you’ll be able to chat away with your team mates in order to confer on those all important answers.
I see. But do I have to be in a team?
Of course not! Playing solo is absolutely fine. We’re also happy to create some ad hoc teams on the night if you want to play with others.
Will there be prizes?
Last time we managed to drop off a jar of Barry Norman’s Pickled Onions on the winners’ doorstep. If the victors live locally we’ll try to do the same again.
Call that a prize???
Listen, pal, this is C19 Brexit Britain 2020. Ya getcha kicks where ya can.
I see. One more question…
Nigel’s walking tours
Wayne’s lives in literature
Wayne’s book dedications Wayne’s greetings cards
