Three Course Cinema Club

Join us in an end of the year special where we discuss our favourite movies of 2020 along with the films we’re looking forward to in the New Year!

Dessert: The Dirties

Two high school friends set out to make a mockumentary about taking revenge on their bullies until their fantasy begins to morph into a violent reality. To finish our meal centred on the theme of people playing roles, we discuss Matt Johnson’s The Dirties for dessert.

Main Course: Through the Olive Trees

An illiterate stonemason proposes to a reluctant girl while the two are cast as a married couple in a film that's shooting in their village. For our Main Course, we continue on to discuss how people playing roles prepares them for their future and how this theme extends to director Abbas Kiarostami himself.

Starter: In the Mood for Love

A man and a woman form a close bond while trying to understand why their spouses began having an affair with each other. Settle in for a delectable meal as we begin a conversation on three films where people pretend to be someone else, starting with Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love.

Dessert: Fire in the Sky

A forester disappears for 5 days and returns to tell the tale of his alien abduction while dealing with the fallout of the friend who left him behind. We round out our meal of alien films by examining one which luxuriates in the explicit, showing us what happens when the aliens from Signs and The Vast of Night are successful.

Main Course: The Vast of Night

In 1950s New Mexico, a radio DJ and switchboard operator discover a bizarre audio frequency which unravels an alien conspiracy. Join us as we continue our extraterrestrial meal with The Vast of Night for the Main Course, jumping off of Signs to take a look at the first responders of an alien invasion.

Starter: Signs

An ex-priest grapples with his faith when his family is confronted with a frightening presence on their farm. This month we've got a full course meal of alien movies planned for you, and we begin by talking about M. Night Shyamalan's Signs as our Starter.

Starter: The Truman Show | Main Course: Goodbye, Lenin! | Dessert: The Game

Stuck in an idyllic town, a middle aged man has a crisis when he learns that he’s been the subject of a reality TV show his whole life. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a young man constructs a minuscule East Germany in his devout socialist mother’s bedroom after she wakes up from a coma. When he accepts an invitation for a mysterious game, a stuck-up investment banker’s life is turned upside down as he struggles to distinguish between what’s real and what’s fiction. In the first episode of the Three Course Cinema Club we take a look at films about constructing different realities: who’s building them, what are they trying to accomplish, and how the people at the centre escape them.

Every episode of the Three Course Cinema Club serves up a full course meal of 3 films: A popular Starter (something that everyone knows and loves), A Main Course (a new flavour that requires more work to dig into), and a delectable Dessert (something fun that goes down easy). Each film builds on the last in themes, genres, and styles with a format that’s built to introduce you to cinematic gems, both old and new. Join your hosts, Ammar Keshodia & Adam Cooper, as they endeavour to construct the most unorthodox triple bills possible.