The new programme for the HOME cinema is out and there’s some interesting films being shown, as ever. I’m particularly looking forward to the season of films about the class struggle, which includes a screening of Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin (1925) – a film I’ve never seen at the cinema – and Kuhle Wampe (To Whom Does The World Belong?) (1932) (Germany), and Salt of the Earth (1954). Interestingly, the playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote the script for Kuhle Wampe.
Other highlights are a season of medievalist films which includes screening the earliest animated feature The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) and The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988).
A re-release of The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) is also to look forward to. And I haven’t even started on the new releases……