FILM MOSAIC RETURNS
After a 3-year absence from your screens, FILM MOSAIC returns to its new home on Stanmore Hill.
For those of you who are new to FILM MOSAIC, it was an idea that started over 10 years ago at our old home in Bessborough Road. I have always love films and was amazed at the sheer number and variations of movies, old and new, that had, in one way or another, a Jewish connection. So, I started showing any manner of movies at Bessborough Road, which were already in my collection, or I could acquire.
They ranged from, Documentaries like “Imaginary Witness” and “Paper Clips”, to Comedies like “Mel Brooks – To be or Not to be”, to Dramas like “Gentlemens Agreement” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”. They included foreign films like the Israeli Sumo movie “Size Matters” and “Ushpizim”. Any movie that has a Jewish connection is up for consideration, as long as the foreign ones had subtitles!
The idea is that anyone who is interested, can come along, meet other like-minded fans, discuss the movie, and even have a biscuit or two with a drink.
There is no entrance fee, but if anyone, enjoys the film and cares to make a donation afterwards (no matter the size), to our nominated charity, then that is appreciated. Up until we stopped because of the Pandemic, we raised about £3,000 for various causes.
FILM MOSAIC will be held mid-monthly, on Mondays, from May onwards. I will be showing some new movies as well re-showing some of the golden oldies first shown a few years ago.
Details of forthcoming attractions can be found below.
Upcoming films:
Film Mosaic – “The Odessa File”
Monday, 13th January @ 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Mosaic Culture Hub is thrilled to invite you to the film evening at Mosaic Jewish Community
For a viewing of “The Odessa File”
Click “more” below for details of the film.
Film MOSAIC is open to anyone, why not bring a friend.
There will be time for an informal discussion or a chat with friends, with tea, coffee and biscuits after the screening.
Donations for our chosen charity would be appreciated if you care to give.
Just occasionally, the Projectionist, likes to show a movie that is, well, let’s just say, fun, or edge of seat stuff.
The Odessa File is one of those. Adapted from the Frederick Forsyth Novel, taking place in 1963, it is the suspenseful story of journalist Peter Miller’s (Jon Voight), journey to uncover the truth behind the apparent suicide of an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor. He comes across the highly secret ODESSA organisation, where he finds an SS Captain and head of a concentration camp at Riga, Eduard Roschmann (Maximillian Schell). Miller discovers that Roschmann is now the leader of an international weapons complex of strategic consequence.
(with subtitles)
Film Mosaic – “Serial Bad Weddings”
Monday, 10th February @ 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Mosaic Culture Hub is thrilled to invite you to the film evening at Mosaic Jewish Community
For a viewing of “Serial Bad Weddings”
Click “more” below for details of the film.
Film MOSAIC is open to anyone, why not bring a friend.
There will be time for an informal discussion or a chat with friends, with tea, coffee and biscuits after the screening.
Donations for our chosen charity would be appreciated if you care to give.
This very funny French Film was released in 2014 and shown at the London Jewish Film Festival to rave reviews.
It tells of the Verneuils, a well-off, well-educated, well-intentioned, and well-thought-of Catholic couple and their ever expanding family. Everything would be perfect if three of their four daughters had not married young men of different nationalities and religions. So the day their fourth daughter tells them that she is marrying a Catholic fellow, they are on cloud nine.
This is a very warm and very funny movie, which is guaranteed to raise more than a smile.
(In French avec subtitles)
Film Mosaic – “Imaginary Witness”
Monday, 10th March @ 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Mosaic Culture Hub is thrilled to invite you to the film evening at Mosaic Jewish Community
For a viewing of “Imaginary Witness”
Click “more” below for details of the film.
Film MOSAIC is open to anyone, why not bring a friend.
There will be time for an informal discussion or a chat with friends, with tea, coffee and biscuits after the screening.
Donations for our chosen charity would be appreciated if you care to give.
Hollywood was for many years effectively controlled by the major studios which were themselves run by Jews emigres from Europe and antisemitism, yet when faced with the emergence and rise of Hitler in the 20s and 30s, they did everything they could to maintain international “Box Office” by ignoring what was in front of them. They simply couldn’t afford to upset their German market. It was not until much later that some brave producers and film makers were willing to risk their careers by making movies that showed the covert Antisemitism on their own doorstep in America as well as that which existed throughout the ages in Europe and in particular in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Brave film makers like Charlie Chaplin, Elia ...
Film Mosaic – “Wakolda”
Tuesday, 8th April @ 8:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Mosaic Culture Hub is thrilled to invite you to the film evening at Mosaic Jewish Community
For a viewing of “Wakolda”
Click “more” below for details of the film.
Film MOSAIC is open to anyone, why not bring a friend.
There will be time for an informal discussion or a chat with friends, with tea, coffee and biscuits after the screening.
Donations for our chosen charity would be appreciated if you care to give.
This Argentinian, Spanish, French, Norwegian co-production was released in 2014, and was also known
as “The German Doctor” and is based on a true event.
A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town
where the family will be starting a new life. Eva, Enzo and their three children welcome the doctor into
their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith, to his care, not knowing that they are harbouring
one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately
looking to bring THE GERMAN DOCTOR to justice.
This is a taught, well made thriller
(Spanish and Hebrew with English subtitles)
