Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of
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André Bazin’s ciné-club was set up by him not simply as an opportunity for the screening and discussion of films, but as a tool for education. Bazin was as much a passionate advocate for the transformatory effects of community learning as he was for the significance of cinema and the ciné-club represented an opportunity for him to promote both. In following Bazin, the Cultureplex Ciné-Club shares these same goals. This is a film studies course that foregrounds the importance and the value of the collective film viewing experience, but which also is concerned to ensure that the films screened are curated, introduced and discussed with the rigour associated with the study of film at City Lit.
This will be the first of the three Cultureplex Ciné-Club courses this year (the others will run in Terms 2 and 3). Films screened will come from the list below and might include:
Seven Years Bad Luck (Max Linder 1921 France/US, 62 mins) J’accuse/I Accuse (Abel Gance 1938 France, 119 mins) La macchina ammazzacattivi/The Machine that Kills Bad People (Roberto Rossellini 1952, 81 mins) Un condamné à mort s'est échappé/A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson 1956 France, 101 mins) Mon oncle/My Uncle (Jacques Tati 1958 France, 116 mins) Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa 1961 Japan, 110 mins) Per un pugno di dollari/A Fistful of Dollars (Sergio Leone 1964 Italy, 99 mins) Dracula (John Badham 1979 US, 109 mins) Bound (Lana and Lilly Wachowski 1996 US, 109 mins) Le conseguenze dell'amore/The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino 2004 Italy, 100 mins)
Please note that films screened are subject to availability and may change.
What will we cover?
• The history of film as expressed through individual, indicative films • The historical development of film form • The development of cinematic self-expression through the articulation of a distinct visual style • Film spectatorship, understood in both personal, historical and theoretical terms.
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
• Subject a film to detailed critical analysis • Demonstrate familiarity with the key technical terms necessary for critical film analysis • Have a broad awareness of important moments in film history as expressed through individual indicative films • Be familiar with a range of theoretical perspectives in film studies • Feel confident in discussing films in a group setting.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
The course is suitable for all levels and you do not require any particular skills - just an enthusiasm for film and discussing film. The course will provide an introduction to aspects of the film subject area, in part through the collective viewing of films, but it will also be useful for those wishing to build on existing film knowledge.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
An introduction by the tutor, the screening of entire films, and large group discussions after the films have been shown. It might also be a good idea to see what you can find out about a given film in advance of the class but this is not essential.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
You will require a pen and paper (or laptop/device) but the tutor will provide all other materials such as handouts.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
The Cultureplex Ciné-Club courses HF324 and HF439 follow on from this one in Terms 2 and 3, but look also for other Film Studies courses under History Culture and Writing/Film Studies at www.citylit.ac.uk.
Dr. Paul Sutton is an independent film scholar who has taught Film Studies in UK higher education for over 25 years. His research covers psychoanalytic and film theory as well as Italian and French cinema and critical theory. He has published articles in journals such as Screen, French Studies and the Journal for Cultural Research. He has developed a psychoanalytic theory of film spectatorship, Afterwardsness in Film, and published work on television as a form of palliative care, as well as an assessment of the films of the Italian experimental filmmaker Ugo Nespolo. In 2025 he published the ‘comprehensive and highly readable’ In the Scene: Agnès Varda, a book on the celebrated and much-loved French film director Agnès Varda. Paul is a Film Studies tutor and the co-ordinator for Film, TV and Media Studies at City Lit.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
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Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.153058777Cultureplex ciné-club (Autumn)279279https://www.citylit.ac.uk/media/catalog/product/c/u/cultureplex-cine-club-autumn-hf211-1080_2.jpgInStockDaytimeTueKeeley StreetNo longer available5-10 weeksWeekday2026-09-22T00:00:00+00:00Some experienceSep 2026Culture, history & humanitiesHF211279279Cultureplex ciné-club (Autumn)223181279Paul Suttoncultureplex-cine-club-autumn/hf211-2627Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. 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After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.0015-FullStillOpen|2026-09-22 00:00:00<p>André Bazin’s ciné-club was set up by him not simply as an opportunity for the screening and discussion of films, but as a tool for education. Bazin was as much a passionate advocate for the transformatory effects of community learning as he was for the significance of cinema and the ciné-club represented an opportunity for him to promote both. In following Bazin, the Cultureplex Ciné-Club shares these same goals. This is a film studies course that foregrounds the importance and the value of the collective film viewing experience, but which also is concerned to ensure that the films screened are curated, introduced and discussed with the rigour associated with the study of film at City Lit.<br><br>This will be the first of the three Cultureplex Ciné-Club courses this year (the others will run in Terms 2 and 3). Films screened will come from the list below and might include:<br><br><em>Seven Years Bad Luck</em> (Max Linder 1921 France/US, 62 mins)<br><em>J’accuse</em>/<em>I Accuse</em> (Abel Gance 1938 France, 119 mins)<br><em>La macchina ammazzacattivi</em>/<em>The Machine that Kills Bad People</em> (Roberto Rossellini 1952, 81 mins)<br><em>Un condamné à mort s'est échappé</em>/<em>A Man Escaped</em> (Robert Bresson 1956 France, 101 mins)<br><em>Mon oncle</em>/<em>My Uncle</em> (Jacques Tati 1958 France, 116 mins)<br><em>Yojimbo</em> (Akira Kurosawa 1961 Japan, 110 mins)<br><em>Per un pugno di dollari</em>/<em>A Fistful of Dollars</em> (Sergio Leone 1964 Italy, 99 mins)<br><em>Dracula</em> (John Badham 1979 US, 109 mins)<br><em>Bound</em> (Lana and Lilly Wachowski 1996 US, 109 mins)<br><em>Le conseguenze dell'amore</em>/<em>The Consequences of Love</em> (Paolo Sorrentino 2004 Italy, 100 mins)<br><br>Please note that films screened are subject to availability and may change.</p>Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.• The history of film as expressed through individual, indicative films<br>• The historical development of film form<br>• The development of cinematic self-expression through the articulation of a distinct visual style<br>• Film spectatorship, understood in both personal, historical and theoretical terms.• Subject a film to detailed critical analysis<br>• Demonstrate familiarity with the key technical terms necessary for critical film analysis<br>• Have a broad awareness of important moments in film history as expressed through individual indicative films<br>• Be familiar with a range of theoretical perspectives in film studies<br>• Feel confident in discussing films in a group setting.The course is suitable for all levels and you do not require any particular skills - just an enthusiasm for film and discussing film. The course will provide an introduction to aspects of the film subject area, in part through the collective viewing of films, but it will also be useful for those wishing to build on existing film knowledge.An introduction by the tutor, the screening of entire films, and large group discussions after the films have been shown. It might also be a good idea to see what you can find out about a given film in advance of the class but this is not essential.You will require a pen and paper (or laptop/device) but the tutor will provide all other materials such as handouts.<p>The Cultureplex Ciné-Club courses HF324 and HF439 follow on from this one in Terms 2 and 3, but look also for other Film Studies courses under History Culture and Writing/Film Studies at www.citylit.ac.uk.</p>Film studiesCiné-clubvirtual223279181HF211NONETue22/09/26 - 01/12/2614:00 - 17:0014:0017:0010 sessions (over 11 weeks)105-10 weeksDaytimeWeekdayKSKeeley StreetPaul SuttonSome experienceNo longer available2026-09-22T00:00:00+00:00Sep 2026Culture, history & humanities279279Cultureplex ciné-club (Autumn)cultureplex-cine-club-autumn/hf211-2627Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.0015-FullStillOpen|2026-09-22 00:00:00<p>André Bazin’s ciné-club was set up by him not simply as an opportunity for the screening and discussion of films, but as a tool for education. Bazin was as much a passionate advocate for the transformatory effects of community learning as he was for the significance of cinema and the ciné-club represented an opportunity for him to promote both. In following Bazin, the Cultureplex Ciné-Club shares these same goals. This is a film studies course that foregrounds the importance and the value of the collective film viewing experience, but which also is concerned to ensure that the films screened are curated, introduced and discussed with the rigour associated with the study of film at City Lit.<br><br>This will be the first of the three Cultureplex Ciné-Club courses this year (the others will run in Terms 2 and 3). Films screened will come from the list below and might include:<br><br><em>Seven Years Bad Luck</em> (Max Linder 1921 France/US, 62 mins)<br><em>J’accuse</em>/<em>I Accuse</em> (Abel Gance 1938 France, 119 mins)<br><em>La macchina ammazzacattivi</em>/<em>The Machine that Kills Bad People</em> (Roberto Rossellini 1952, 81 mins)<br><em>Un condamné à mort s'est échappé</em>/<em>A Man Escaped</em> (Robert Bresson 1956 France, 101 mins)<br><em>Mon oncle</em>/<em>My Uncle</em> (Jacques Tati 1958 France, 116 mins)<br><em>Yojimbo</em> (Akira Kurosawa 1961 Japan, 110 mins)<br><em>Per un pugno di dollari</em>/<em>A Fistful of Dollars</em> (Sergio Leone 1964 Italy, 99 mins)<br><em>Dracula</em> (John Badham 1979 US, 109 mins)<br><em>Bound</em> (Lana and Lilly Wachowski 1996 US, 109 mins)<br><em>Le conseguenze dell'amore</em>/<em>The Consequences of Love</em> (Paolo Sorrentino 2004 Italy, 100 mins)<br><br>Please note that films screened are subject to availability and may change.</p>Come and join us at the Cultureplex Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the academic year), we will watch and discuss film. Taking its cue from the famous Parisian ciné-club set up by the celebrated critic and writer, André Bazin, ‘the single thinker most responsible for bestowing on cinema the prestige both of an artform and of an object of knowledge’, and the man who foresaw the emergence of film studies as a legitimate discipline of academic study, our contemporary incarnation of the film club will offer a curated series of films for detailed study, discussion and debate. Each film will be introduced, placed in both its cinematic, cultural and historic context. In sharing our viewing in City Lit’s premier screening room, the Cultureplex, we will approximate the experience of watching film in the cinema, one that is intense and fully focussed in a way that other modes of viewing often are not. After the screening we will devote the rest of the class to a collective exploration of the film, led by the tutor, but involving everyone in a participatory discussion that will allow all to express their responses, their views, their thoughts on the film screened.• The history of film as expressed through individual, indicative films<br>• The historical development of film form<br>• The development of cinematic self-expression through the articulation of a distinct visual style<br>• Film spectatorship, understood in both personal, historical and theoretical terms.• Subject a film to detailed critical analysis<br>• Demonstrate familiarity with the key technical terms necessary for critical film analysis<br>• Have a broad awareness of important moments in film history as expressed through individual indicative films<br>• Be familiar with a range of theoretical perspectives in film studies<br>• Feel confident in discussing films in a group setting.The course is suitable for all levels and you do not require any particular skills - just an enthusiasm for film and discussing film. The course will provide an introduction to aspects of the film subject area, in part through the collective viewing of films, but it will also be useful for those wishing to build on existing film knowledge.An introduction by the tutor, the screening of entire films, and large group discussions after the films have been shown. It might also be a good idea to see what you can find out about a given film in advance of the class but this is not essential.You will require a pen and paper (or laptop/device) but the tutor will provide all other materials such as handouts.<p>The Cultureplex Ciné-Club courses HF324 and HF439 follow on from this one in Terms 2 and 3, but look also for other Film Studies courses under History Culture and Writing/Film Studies at www.citylit.ac.uk.</p>Film studiesCiné-clubconfigurable
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