Film Club
John Wischmeyer
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If you love cinema and want to know more about it, look no further than The Avenue Club. Here is a film course for all those who love watching and reading about films, and who want to understand more about the history of the cinema. Where it all began to where it is now, from Pinewood to Hollywood, from France to Japan: key films, genres and film movements such as German expressionism, Italian neorealism, French and British new waves as well as old and new Hollywood. All Film Clubs take place at 1.00pm at The Avenue Club in The Alexandra Hall.
AVENUE FILM CLUB: FILMS FOR THE YEAR 2026.
SUBTITLES for all films in June & July including British 60s films.
Tuesday 9th June – Saturday Night & Sunday Morning.
Tuesday 16th June – A Taste of Honey
THERE WIL BE NO FILM CLUB ON THE BELOW DATES:
Tuesday 23rd June, Tuesday 30th June & Tuesday 7th July
Tuesday 14th July – Kes
Tuesday 21st July – Billy Liar
NO FILM CLUB IN AUGUST
Film Club will resume on Tuesday 22nd September
John Wischmeyer teaches courses on cinema at City Literary Institute in Covent Garden and at the BFI South Bank. He ran his own cinema in West London, treating it as part of the community and showing new and independent work where possible. He has been teaching since 1999. His first course was about Hitchcock’s centenary year. He continues to teach on a wide variety of subjects including Southern Gothic, Contemporary and Current Cinema, Film Noir and Neorealism, Masters of Cinema (David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, the Coen Brothers) and French New Wave.
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