Man on Wire

With Q&A with Oscar Winning Producer, Simon Chinn
(UK/USA 2008, dir. James Marsh, 90 mins, English and French)

On the morning of 7th August 1974, after months of preparation and years of dreaming, a French daredevil named Philippe Petit stepped into the sky above Lower Manhattan. For almost 45 minutes he ambled back and forth on a metal cable strung between the towers of the World Trade Center. This film follows the ‘artistic crime of the century’.

We are delighted to be screening this dazzling documentary, followed by an exclusive Question and Answer session with Producer Simon Chinn. In 2009 the film won the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award, the BAFTA for Outstanding British Film and a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

JELLYFISH

With Q&A with Etgar Keret
(Israel, 2007, dir. Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret, 78 minutes, Hebrew with English subtitles)

We are delighted to host hit Israeli writer and film maker Etgar Keret, who will present his film Jellyfish and hold a Q&A after the screening.

In modern-day Tel Aviv three women’s lives intersect for a moment at a wedding. Jellyfish is a remarkable film that weaves these three stories together with visual poetry, magical moments and a humorous sense of melancholy. All of the characters in the film struggle with disappointments of varying degree in a universe that is random yet tantalisingly tinged with meaning and promises of human connection. This break-through collaboration by writer/directors Etgar Keret (author of The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God) and Shira Geffen is filled with memorable characters and stunning visual tableaux that linger in the memory long after the lights come up.

Winner of the Camera d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival

The screening time will allow you to attend the Jewish Book Week discussion ‘Extremely Bad and Incredibly Cruel’ with Etgar Keret and Jonathan Safran Foer at 7pm at Royal National Hotel, 38-51 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0DG (Ticket price: £10).

In partnership with Jewish Book Week and UK Jewish Film Festival.

ANNIE HALL

(1977, US, dir. Woody Allen, 93 mins)

Winner of four Academy Awards and a place in most people’s hearts as their favourite Woody Allen film, we are delighted to offer a chance to see the classic comedy on the big screen. Allen’s turning-point film from the purely zany comedies of earlier years, Annie Hall is a homage to New York, psychoanalysis and the perils of love.

“Life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.” Woody Allen.