Michael Caine invites you to come celebrate the 1960s—the Decade that Changed the World. Freedom from tradition and convention was the hallmark of a social revolution. A pop culture awakening impacted everything from art, music, and clothing, to morality and religion. This documentary is a vivid and often times very funny narrative love letter  about the UK’s postwar outpouring of working-class  creativity and Caine’s own, very personal journey through 1960s Swinging London. Loaded with rare archival film footage from the era and with voiceover interviews with Paul McCartney, Twiggy, Marianne Faithfull, David Bailey, Roger Daltrey and Mary Quant. Also heard from are Lulu, Twiggy, Joan Collins, Sandie Shaw and David Putnam, all accompanied by a truly wondrous soundtrack of the times: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, The Who, The Animals, et al. Great fun. Not to be missed. 2018 (85 minutes) “Looking for Lennon” and “My Generation” introduced by Tony  Broadbent, author of the guidebook ‘”From Be-Bop-a-Lula’ to “Beatlemania’ – The  Beatles Early Years in Liverpool, Hamburg and London.”

To understand The Beatles—and what made John Lennon the man he was—you have to understand Liverpool, the city that gave birth to Lennon and The Fab Four. Director Roger Appleton’s documentary is a Liverpool focused retrospective on the early life and times—and traumatic events—that went to shape Lennon’s complex personality and influence his later songs and music. It reveals—with painful candor—how Lennon was an “outsider” from birth and how it impacted his schooldays and teenage years. And how it ultimately drove him to form his first group, The Quarrymen, then led to his early embrace of rock ‘n’ roll and his meeting with fellow rock ‘n’ roll mad Paul McCartney. Friends and contemporaries give new and very telling details about…the man we’ve known for all these years. Introduced by Tony Broadbent, author of the guidebook “’From Be-Bop-a-Lula’ to ‘Beatlemania’- The Beatles Early years in Liverpool. Hamburg and London

UK  2018 93 minutes

This engrossing coming-of-age thriller was shot in the little leafy town of Pemberton in Western Australia. Teenager Charlie Bucktin, shy and bookish, is drawn into the chaotic world of Jasper Jones, a mixed-race Aboriginal outcast who comes to him for help.  The twists and turns include a dead body, race and class divisions, puppy love and the power of doing the right thing. The young actors, Levi Miller and Aaron McGrath, are convincing and Toni Colette turns in a gutsy, gritty performance as Charlie’s unhappy mother.  Hugo Weaving looms large as the town’s outsider. Set in the late 1960s in the fictional town of Corrigan, the film reminds us of how social mores were rapidly changing, even in remote places. It was adapted from Craig Silvey’s acclaimed young adult novel that’s been called the Australian “To Kill a Mockingbird.’’

Australia, 2017 (101 minutes)

“Edie,” a coming of age story, skips past adolescence and adulthood and begins when title character Edie Moore is in her 80s. A dissatisfied wife and caretaker, soon to be widowed, she appears to be at loose ends. Her daughter, seeing only a frail, disgruntled old woman, wants to put her in a home.  But a postcard and a long-ago promise changes the story for Edie, played by Sheila Hancock with both great emotional range and enviable physical gifts. Fulfilling a lifelong dream, Edie runs away to the Scottish Highlands to climb Mount Suilven, the most enigmatic mountain in North West Scotland.  On the way she teams up with a brash young mountaineering guide. The scenery will make you swoon as will Hancock’s physical prowess (no stunt double was used). UK 2017 (102 minutes)

Sponsored by Bruce Lymburn

Directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet, this is a romantic comedy with a difference. No home comforts or soft lights, but a cramped London canal boat which offers a delightful visual backdrop and setting for the story. The central lesbian couple who live on the boat face a conflict which challenges their visions for the future. Eva, a salsa teacher, desperately wants to have a child, while Kat, her girlfriend, is not keen. Enter Roger, Kat’s dear Spanish friend, who is enlisted as the sperm donor and unexpectedly for a lothario, warms to the idea of fatherhood. What makes the film so charming is the lively, loving banter between the trio, enlivened by wine and laughter. But the underlying emotional turmoil threatens to end in heartbreak and unravel their free-spirited aspirations. Playing mother and daughter are Geraldine Chaplin and Oona Chaplin—Charlie Chaplin’s daughter and granddaughter.

UK 2017 (113 minutes)

This atmospheric drama set in a glittering Sydney is reminiscent of the Ethan Hawke-Julie Delpy “Before Sunrise” series in portraying two eminently likeable characters who are each willing to risk exploring where a chance encounter will lead them and the effects of fate. As Viv and Jasper, stars Emily Barclay (“The Light Between Oceans”) and Benedict Samuel (the TV series “Gotham”) literally collide in a busy intersection in Sydney, damaging Viv’s cellphone. The accident requires her to delay her return to her fiance in London while her phone is repaired. A contrite Jasper offers her use of his phone and company as the two share a series of adventures that lead them to shed their initial reserve. They happen upon numerous bizarre characters while roaming deeply into Sydney’s nightlife. Australia 2018 (85 minutes)

Directed by Rohena Gera, this gentle Indian drama focuses on Ratna, a young woman from a poor rural village who works as a live-in maid to a wealthy young man, Ashwin. Both seem lost with dreams that have been thwarted. But this is not a story about the docile, downtrodden Asian woman, although Ratna is quiet and guarded among the sophisticates of the Mumbai elite. Despite the careless disdain from Ashwin’s family and friends, she maintains her dignity and determination to make her own way in life. The film explores these two young people reaching through the stultifying barriers of caste or modern-day social class to the humanity and compassion they share. It is beautiful to watch.

India, France 2018 (96 mins)

This heartwarming documentary written and directed by Naina Sen tells the story of an unlikely cultural exchange that occurred when the newly revived Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Chorus left their home in the Outback and flew overseas for the first time to sing ancient German Lutheran hymns in their own language at Lutheran churches throughout the German state of Bavaria.   In personal interviews conducted throughout the planning of the tour and during their travels, we get to know and admire these strong and resilient women who speak about the effects of colonialism on their traditional culture, including their ancestors learning these songs from Lutheran missionaries and passing them down through generations. The chorus members also speak of the strong relationships that bind them as women. Their love of the music and their angelic voices won the hearts of the German people who remembered the old hymns that their parents would sing to them.  Australia 2017 (84 minutes)

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