Come and join us at the French Film Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the rest of 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
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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 French Film 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.
Films screened will come from the list below and might include:
Pépé le moko (Julien Duvivier 1937 France, 94 mins)
Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
Muriel ou le temps d’un retour/ Muriel, or the Time of a Return (Alain Resnais 19 63 France, 115 mins)
Passe ton bac d’abord (Maurice Pialat, 1979)
Diva (Jean-Jacques Beinex France 1981, 117 mins)
Un coeur en hiver/ A Heart in Winter (Claude Sautet France 1992, 105 mins)
Caché/ Hidden (Michael Haneke France, 2005, 118 mins)
L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close/ House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello, 2011, 125 mins)
L'Événement/Happening (Audrey Diwan France 2021, 100 mins)
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas France 1996, 97 mins)
Please note that all titles are subject to availability.
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?
Look for other Film Studies courses under History Culture and Writing/Film Studies at www.citylit.ac.uk.
Dr Karine Chevalier is a lecturer in Film studies. She is also a filmmaker. Her main research interests lie in the field of Transnational Cinema, French and Francophone Cinema, Visual Arts and Aesthetics, Postcolonial Studies, Intermediality, as well as Screenwriting and Filmmaking, with a specific focus on Violence and Resilience, Creative Voices, Digital Storytelling and Multiscreens, Alterities and Minorities, Moving (auto)Portraits and Masks.
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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. 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><p>Please note that there will be no classes on Thursday 28th May (half-term) and Thursday 18th June.</p>002993489French Film ciné-club (Summer)259259https://www.citylit.ac.uk/media/catalog/category/cultureplex-2-1024.jpgInStockEveningThuKeeley StreetAvailable courses5-10 weeksWeekday2026-04-30T00:00:00+00:00Apr 2026Culture, history & humanitiesHF354259259French Film ciné-club (Summer)259168259Karine Chevalier, Chris Darkefrench-film-cine-club-summer/hf354-2526<p>Come and join us at the French Film Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the rest of 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.</p><p>Please note that there will be no classes on Thursday 28th May (half-term) and Thursday 18th June.</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 French Film 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>Films screened will come from the list below and might include:</p><ul><li><em>Pépé le moko</em> (Julien Duvivier 1937 France, 94 mins)</li><li><em>Pickpocket</em> (Robert Bresson, 1959)</li><li><em>Muriel ou le temps d’un retour</em>/ <em>Muriel, or the Time of a Return</em> (Alain Resnais 19 63 France, 115 mins)</li><li><em>Passe ton bac d’abord</em> (Maurice Pialat, 1979)</li><li><em>Diva</em> (Jean-Jacques Beinex France 1981, 117 mins)</li><li><em>Un coeur en hiver</em>/ <em>A Heart in Winter</em> (Claude Sautet France 1992, 105 mins)</li><li><em>Caché</em>/ <em>Hidden</em> (Michael Haneke France, 2005, 118 mins)</li><li><em>L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close</em>/ <em>House of Tolerance</em> (Bertrand Bonello, 2011, 125 mins)</li><li><em>L'Événement</em>/<em>Happening</em> (Audrey Diwan France 2021, 100 mins)</li><li><em>Irma Vep </em>(Olivier Assayas France 1996, 97 mins)</li></ul><p>Please note that all titles are subject to availability.</p><p>Come and join us at the French Film Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the rest of 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.</p><p>Please note that there will be no classes on Thursday 28th May (half-term) and Thursday 18th June.</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<br/> </li></ul><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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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>Look for other Film Studies courses under History Culture and Writing/Film Studies at www.citylit.ac.uk.</p>Film studiesCiné-clubvirtual259259168HF354NONEThu30/04/26 - 16/07/2618:00 - 21:0018:0021:0010 sessions (over 12 weeks)105-10 weeksEveningWeekdayKSKeeley StreetKarine Chevalier, Chris DarkeAvailable courses2026-04-30T00:00:00+00:00Apr 2026Culture, history & humanities259259French Film ciné-club (Summer)french-film-cine-club-summer/hf354-2526<p>Come and join us at the French Film Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the rest of 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.</p><p>Please note that there will be no classes on Thursday 28th May (half-term) and Thursday 18th June.</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 French Film 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>Films screened will come from the list below and might include:</p><ul><li><em>Pépé le moko</em> (Julien Duvivier 1937 France, 94 mins)</li><li><em>Pickpocket</em> (Robert Bresson, 1959)</li><li><em>Muriel ou le temps d’un retour</em>/ <em>Muriel, or the Time of a Return</em> (Alain Resnais 19 63 France, 115 mins)</li><li><em>Passe ton bac d’abord</em> (Maurice Pialat, 1979)</li><li><em>Diva</em> (Jean-Jacques Beinex France 1981, 117 mins)</li><li><em>Un coeur en hiver</em>/ <em>A Heart in Winter</em> (Claude Sautet France 1992, 105 mins)</li><li><em>Caché</em>/ <em>Hidden</em> (Michael Haneke France, 2005, 118 mins)</li><li><em>L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close</em>/ <em>House of Tolerance</em> (Bertrand Bonello, 2011, 125 mins)</li><li><em>L'Événement</em>/<em>Happening</em> (Audrey Diwan France 2021, 100 mins)</li><li><em>Irma Vep </em>(Olivier Assayas France 1996, 97 mins)</li></ul><p>Please note that all titles are subject to availability.</p><p>Come and join us at the French Film Ciné-Club, where once a week, for 10 weeks (and throughout the rest of 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><p>Please note that there will be no classes on Thursday 28th May (half-term) and Thursday 18th June.</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<br/> </li></ul><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>Look 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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