Members’ Choice – Page 3 – Wimbledon Film Club

Funny Cow

Watch one our top screen talents in action, supported by cast of household-name actors in this Loach-influenced gritty Brit film.

Free Solo

Outstanding Oscar-winning documentary of climber Alex Honnold’s solo, ropeless ascent of sheer 3000 feet El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

Faces Places

Unlikely couple 88 year-old director Agnes Varda and photographer and muralist JR (33) create a visual essay on the French in this quirkiest of road movies.

Rod Steiger (On the Waterfront, Dr Zhivago, In the Heat of the Night) launched a stellar career as a serious actor with his Oscar-nominated performance as an embittered concentration camp survivor running a pawnshop in 1960s Harlem.

Booksmart

Director Olivia Wilde’s debut feature film is a charming comedy that’s winning critical praise from top reviewers.

Closely Watched Trains

Oscar-winning comedy-drama from Czech New Wave director and actor Jirí Menzel (Larks on a String, I served the King of England).

Transit

Transit is based on a 1944 novel by German-Jewish writer Anna Seghers, who draws on her own experience as a refugee.

The Farewell

In 2013, Chinese-American director Lulu Wang was told that her grandmother (‘Nai Nai’ in Chinese) had Stage 4 lung cancer with three months to live.

Bait

Named by critic Mark Kermode as the best film of the last decade and holder of the record of most ever votes received in a WFC Members’ Choice vote, this quirky drama wowed critics who hailed it as an instant masterpiece.

Honeyland

This surprise Sundance triple winner accompanies Hatidze Muratova, the last in a long line of wild beekeepers in northern Macedonia.