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 third of the three Cultureplex Ciné-Club courses this year (the others ran in Terms 1 and 2).
Films screened will come from the list below and might include:
La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer 1928 France)
Otona no miru ehon – umarete wa mita keredo/I was Born, But… (Yasujirō Ozu 1932 Japan)
La bataille du rail/The Battle of the Rails (René Clément 1946 France)
Umberto D (Vittorio de Sica 1952 Italy)
Saikaku ichidai onna/The Life of Oharu (Kenzo Mizoguchi 1952 Japan)
Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot 1955 France)
Billy Liar (John Schlesinger 1963 UK)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola 1974 US)
Delicatessen (Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1991 France)
Io non ho Paura/I’m not Scared (Gabriele Salvatores 2003 Italy)
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...
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?
Please look for other Film Studies courses under History Culture and Writing/Film Studies at https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/history-culture-and-writing/film-studies.
Dr Chris Darke is an author and film critic who has written extensively on film and the moving image for over thirty years for publications including Sight and Sound, Film Comment, Cahiers du cinéma, Frieze, mute and The Independent, among others. He has also published five books on film including Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts (Wallflower Press, 2000); Alphaville (on Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 film. IB Tauris, 2005); Cannes: Inside the World’s Premier Film Festival (with Kieron Corless. Faber, 2007); Chris Marker: A Grin without a Cat (Whitechapel Gallery, 2016); La Jetée (on Chris Marker’s 1963 film. BFI Film Classics, 2006 & 2026). He has taught Film Studies at British universities for over thirty years and his particular research interests are in French Cinema, Artists’ Moving Image, the Essay Film, and the work of Chris Marker.
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. 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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. </p><p>This will be the third of the three Cultureplex Ciné-Club courses this year (the others ran in Terms 1 and 2).</p><p>Films screened will come from the list below and might include:</p><ul><li><em>La passion de Jeanne d’Arc</em> (Carl Theodor Dreyer 1928 France)</li><li><em>Otona no miru ehon – umarete wa mita keredo</em>/<em>I was Born, But…</em> (Yasujirō Ozu 1932 Japan)</li><li><em>La bataille du rail</em>/<em>The Battle of the Rails</em> (René Clément 1946 France)</li><li><em>Umberto D</em> (Vittorio de Sica 1952 Italy)</li><li><em>Saikaku ichidai onna</em>/<em>The Life of Oharu</em> (Kenzo Mizoguchi 1952 Japan)</li><li><em>Les Diaboliques</em> (Henri-Georges Clouzot 1955 France)</li><li><em>Billy Liar</em> (John Schlesinger 1963 UK)</li><li><em>The Conversation</em> (Francis Ford Coppola 1974 US)</li><li><em>Delicatessen</em> (Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1991 France)</li><li><em>Io non ho Paura</em>/<em>I’m not Scared</em> (Gabriele Salvatores 2003 Italy)</li><li><em>Amour</em> (Michael Haneke 2012 France)</li><li><em>Doubles vies</em>/<em>Non Fiction</em> (Olivier Assayas 2018 France)</li></ul><p>Please note that films screened are subject to availability and may change.</p><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.</p><ul><li>The history of film as expressed through individual, indicative films</li><li>The historical development of film form</li><li>The development of cinematic self-expression through the articulation of a distinct visual style</li><li>Film spectatorship, understood in both personal, historical and theoretical terms</li></ul><p>By the end of this course, you should be able to:</p><ul><li>Subject a film to detailed critical analysis</li><li>Demonstrate familiarity with the key technical terms necessary for critical film analysis</li><li>Have a broad awareness of important moments in film history as expressed through individual indicative films</li><li>Be familiar with a range of theoretical perspectives in film studies</li><li>Feel confident in discussing films in a group setting<br/> </li></ul><p>The course is suitable for all levels and you do not require any particular skills - just an enthusiasm for film and discussing film. 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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.</p>0000-Available|2026-04-30 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. </p><p>This will be the third of the three Cultureplex Ciné-Club courses this year (the others ran in Terms 1 and 2).</p><p>Films screened will come from the list below and might include:</p><ul><li><em>La passion de Jeanne d’Arc</em> (Carl Theodor Dreyer 1928 France)</li><li><em>Otona no miru ehon – umarete wa mita keredo</em>/<em>I was Born, But…</em> (Yasujirō Ozu 1932 Japan)</li><li><em>La bataille du rail</em>/<em>The Battle of the Rails</em> (René Clément 1946 France)</li><li><em>Umberto D</em> (Vittorio de Sica 1952 Italy)</li><li><em>Saikaku ichidai onna</em>/<em>The Life of Oharu</em> (Kenzo Mizoguchi 1952 Japan)</li><li><em>Les Diaboliques</em> (Henri-Georges Clouzot 1955 France)</li><li><em>Billy Liar</em> (John Schlesinger 1963 UK)</li><li><em>The Conversation</em> (Francis Ford Coppola 1974 US)</li><li><em>Delicatessen</em> (Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet 1991 France)</li><li><em>Io non ho Paura</em>/<em>I’m not Scared</em> (Gabriele Salvatores 2003 Italy)</li><li><em>Amour</em> (Michael Haneke 2012 France)</li><li><em>Doubles vies</em>/<em>Non Fiction</em> (Olivier Assayas 2018 France)</li></ul><p>Please note that films screened are subject to availability and may change.</p><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.</p><ul><li>The history of film as expressed through individual, indicative films</li><li>The historical development of film form</li><li>The development of cinematic self-expression through the articulation of a distinct visual style</li><li>Film spectatorship, understood in both personal, historical and theoretical terms</li></ul><p>By the end of this course, you should be able to:</p><ul><li>Subject a film to detailed critical analysis</li><li>Demonstrate familiarity with the key technical terms necessary for critical film analysis</li><li>Have a broad awareness of important moments in film history as expressed through individual indicative films</li><li>Be familiar with a range of theoretical perspectives in film studies</li><li>Feel confident in discussing films in a group setting<br/> </li></ul><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>You will require a pen and paper (or laptop/device) but the tutor will provide all other materials such as handouts.</p><p>Please look for other Film Studies courses under History Culture and Writing/Film Studies at https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/history-culture-and-writing/film-studies.</p>Film studiesCiné-clubconfigurable
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