Keswick Film Club

We’ve become involved in helping SusKes to spread their message of sustainability and awareness of environmental issues by helping to screen two upcoming films at the Alhambra – the first, this Sunday (31st) at 2pm, is The Age of Stupid which is described on the IMDb as:"This ambitious...

KFC has joined in the Twitter craze, you can follow us @keswickfilmclub. We probably won't be saying much until closer to the autumn programme but if you do follow us you'll be kept up to date in 140 characters or fewer.The festival is also twittering as @keswickfilmfest.

A long season came to an end with a bang when Waltz With Bashir scored our second-best rating of all the spring films...

Waltz with Bashir will be with us on Sunday, having failed to arrive for 15th March. So it gives us a chance to extend the season by one week and end 2008-9 with a very highly regarded film.Please note that we are no longer showing The Iron Wall with Waltz but we do plan to show it at a later date.

The Club's 2009 AGM took place on Sunday March 22nd, you can find details of what was covered in the Chairman's Report.

You have another chance to see Jeremy Gilley's The Day After Peace if you missed it at the Festival. It's being screened at Mungrisdale Village Hall by the Mungrisdale Church Open Doors initiative on Tuesday 14th April, 7pm for 7.30pm, and it's free. Discussion and refreshments to follow...

Keswick Film Club is screening both parts of Che (The Argentine and Guerrilla) on Sunday 29th MarchWith Benicio del Toro on terrific form in the title role, this is the way in which Steven Soderbergh wanted his work to be appreciated...

We’ve rearranged the screening of Waltz With Bashir for Sunday 26th April at 5pm. This will be followed at about 6.40pm by The Iron Wall, a 50 minute documentary on the controversial Israeli security measure, but there is no obligation to watch both, of course...

We're glad to report that a date has been found for the screening of Gomorrah - which didn't happen in December because of non-arrival of the print...

The Club AGM will be held at 4pm on March 22nd - before the screening of The Silence of Lorna...

Many of you will have attended (and hopefully enjoyed) the 10th Keswick Film Festival at the weekend...

The Spring season starts on Sunday with OSS-117: Cairo, Nest of Spies...

The Spring 2009 Brochure should be making it's way to members and turning up in the usual places shortly. If you can't wait, you can check out all of the Spring films and download the brochure on the Spring 2009 Programme page.

It appears very unlikely now that the print of Gomorrah will arrive for tomorrow evening.It's extremely irritating, but beyond our control: we can but apologise...

The well attended BFFS Film Society of the Year Awards ceremony took place on Saturday 27th September amid the splendour of Cutlers Hall in Sheffield.President, Derek Malcolm, and special guest Jan Dunn - director of Gypo and Ruby Blue - gave witty speeches extolling the virtues of the BFFS and...

We hope most of you will be able to make it to Mongol on Sunday - not only because it's an exciting film to launch the new season, but it's always a great pleasure to see members again after their sunny summer break.We're starting with our customary free wine (or juice) at 4.15pm, but this year...

Over the summer break we've been busy working on a brand new website...

We'd like to thank everybody who has come the Alhambra to see our films throughout a 2007-8 season of which I think we can be proud. Films have been well attended, audience appreciation has been very positive, and friendships have been formed and cemented...

This years AGM was held on Sunday 30th March, at the Alhambra at 4.00p.m. - before The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.A copy of the Chariman's report is available by following this link

We were sorry to disappoint you over the non-arrival of Born and Bred on Sunday, so we have arranged a screening of the film this Thursday (6th March) at 6pm, at the Alhambra.This will be the proper 35mm version that should have been here on Sunday, so the sound should be as good as you are used to...