The screening will be followed by a Q&A with local female filmmakers.

“Visceral, mesmerising, and emotionally draining. It is shellshock in a bottle.” *****
The Times

“The best and most insightful anti-war film about Iraq.” *****
The Guardian

Watch the trailer

Kathryn Bigelow / USA 2009 / 126 min / cert: 15

Link to the Peckham and Nunhead Free Film Festivals

Link to Gallery Film

Kathryn Bigelow directing The Hurt Locker - but where are the trailers?

We are pleased to announce some of the highlights of the 2010-11 programme at the Brockley Jack Film Club. We will also be screening more short films and inviting local film-makers and experts to come and talk about their work.

You can become a member for only £20. Membership fees help to pay for the licences and insurance costs and ensure that the film club survives and thrives. Apart from a warm glow, members get many benefits:

• discounted tickets – only £3
• one free ticket for any of the film club screenings
• participation in the film selection
• advance notice of all screenings

The application form can be downloaded here. Thank you for supporting your local cinema!

Now you concentrate on having a good summer, knowing that it’s going to be a great autumn and winter with all these delights coming to the Brockley Jack Film Club…

“A deliciously funny, beautifully acted, bone-dry comedy.”
Time Out

The screening will be preceded by the screening of the award-winning short film Green Pages by Sasha Damjanovski (download the director’s statement here) and our very own free film quiz with some goodies to be won! Plus, enjoy a free glass of wine on us! With the support of the Brockley Jack Pub, Jay’s Budgens and Soda Pictures.

Juan Pablo Rebella; Pablo Stoll / Argentina 2005 /95 min / cert: 15

Our stall dominated the City

Film buffs came from far afield to take part in our unique film quiz

It was often a team effort.

And, yes, someone got it all right! We have also drawn two other participants who won a DVD each. Thank you all for taking part and, if you enjoyed taking part, don’t forget our infamous film quiz preceding our July screening!

Answers to the Blythe Hill Fields Festival film quiz: Ben Hur, Raging Bull, Oceans Eleven, Chinatown, Kes, L.A. Confidential, Easy Rider, Yentl, Jean de Florette, African Queen, Citizen Kane, Killing Fields, Fantasia, I’ve Loved You So Long, Lost in Translation, Memento, City of Men, Love Actually, Usual Suspects, Breathless.

The screening will be introduced by Su-Anne Yeo. A PhD student at Goldsmiths, Su-Anne has taught World Cinema and Chinese Cinemas at Goldsmiths, Royal Holloway, and Simon Fraser University. An advocate of political film and art film, she has a particular interest in the work of Jia Zhangke, Fruit Chan  and the films of the Chinese Urban Generation. She is currently researching the emergence of transnational networks of independent film and video in Canada and East Asia, particularly Hong Kong.

“Beautifully observed… a fascinating, understated masterpiece.”
The Times

Jia Zhangke / China 2006 /107 min / Mandarin with subtitles / cert: 15

Thank you to all our members and interested newcomers who came along to our small but sweet screen stall at the Brockley Max festival on June 5^th.  It was a gloriously hot, sultry afternoon to be talking film, on a grassy hill, with like-minded local culture-vultures.  The eponymous “Brockley Jack Film Club Name-That-Film Quiz” proved very popular across the course of the afternoon. Thank you to everyone for your valiant efforts to plumb the depths of your own mental film archives – lots of fun (coupled with some mild irritation and frustration) was had!

We saw some 40 highly respectable entries, many of which were very close to gaining a full alphabetic house of 26 classic and arthouse films. Congratulations are in order for the three Olympian film buffs who were our clear winners – Gold, Silver and Bronze – you know who you are by now hopefully and some highly coveted film club prizes are on their way to you.  We also had three brilliantly inventive, booby prize winners, who chose to ignore our pictorial prompts and went away to create their own full alphabet of films – B is for Batman…. Z is for Zoolander, etc.! Some free tickets to our next screenings are on their way to you too!

The Brockley Jack Film club will be setting out its wares again on Saturday July 3^rd at the Blythe Hill Fields Festival with another cinematic challenge for your delight.  We look forward to seeing you there!

The answers were: Apocalypse Now, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Casablanca, Dolce Vita (La), East of Eden, Frankenstein, Gone with the Wind, Harold and Maude, Italian Job (The), Jaws, Kid (The), Last Year at Marienbad, Metropolis, North by Northwest, On the Waterfront, Paris, Texas, Quiet American (The), Reservoir Dogs, Shining (The), Timecode, Unforgiven, Vertigo, Wizard of Oz (The), X-Men, You Only Live Twice, Zulu.

On Friday 4 June from 8pm in Hilly Fields, our colleague and short film aficionado Declan will present Brockleywood Nights:

Always innovators of the fresh, the new and unexpected, Brockley Max brings you our take on the drive-in movie, as we host an outdoor evening of contemporary dance, short films and a set by a VJ to round the night off amongst the stones of Hilly Fields. All this, plus a bar and food. Note: this event is weather-dependent.

On Saturday 5 June from midday, why not come and find us at our stall on Hilly Fields? There will be a special Brockley Max film quiz with a free annual membership to be won, plus other goodies!

The Brockley Jack Theatre will also hold a number of other fun events, including a samba workshop, a Congolese masterclass and a dance production.

Brockley Max 2010 website

How many people would you kill just to pay your mortgage? Nick Naylor admits cheerfully that he killed half a million last year in his role as PR guru for Big Tobacco, yet even cancer victims find themselves liking him.  But will he change his amoral ways when his own son comes to watch him at work? This sharply scripted tale about American corporations, politicians and media is one of the funniest and most intelligent satires of the millennium so far.

“Quite brilliant, dangerously clever, exhilaratingly witty.”
The Telegraph

Watch the trailer

Jason Reitman / USA 2005 / 88 min / cert: 15