Welcome to our Summer 2026 Season for Film Club 

Constantine Alexander Payne (born February 10, 1961)

is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his satirical depictions of contemporary American society. Payne has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.

After directing several short films, Payne made his feature film debut with the black comedy Citizen Ruth (1996). His career progressed with the political satire Election (1999), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the comedy-drama About Schmidt (2002). Payne twice won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing his directorials Sideways (2004) and The Descendants (2011). He was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for these two films and for the road film Nebraska (2013).

He has since directed the comedy-dramas Downsizing (2017), and The Holdovers (2023). As of January 2026, Payne is directing a Danish-language comedy-drama, Somewhere Out There.

June 24^th10.30am

Humphrey Bogart 

Humphrey DeForest Bogart 1899 –1957, is a classic Hollywood icon.  

In 1999, the American Film Institute selected Bogart as the greatest male star of classic American cinema.

Bogart began acting in Broadway shows. Debuting in film in The Dancing Town (1928  His breakthrough came in High Sierra (1941), and he catapulted to stardom as the lead in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941), considered one of the first great noir films. Bogart's private detectives, Sam Spade (in The Maltese Falcon) and Philip Marlowe (in 1946's The Big Sleep), became the models for detectives in other noir films.

His first romantic lead role was a memorable one, as Rick Blaine, paired with Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942). During the filming of To Have and Have Not (1944), 44-year-old Bogart fell in love with his costar, 19-year-old Lauren Bacall. In 1945, a few months after principal photography for The Big Sleep, their second film together, he divorced his third wife and married Bacall. After their marriage, they played each other's love interest in the mystery thrillers Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948).

Bogart's performances in Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place (1950) are considered among his best,

Other notable roles include portraying a cantankerous river steam launch skipper opposite Katharine Hepburn's missionary in the World War I African adventure The African Queen (1951). Co starring with Ava Gardner in The Barefoot Contessa (1954) and his on-screen competition with William Holden for Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954).

Terence Henry Stamp (1938 –2025) was a British actor. His filmography included a mix of cult and mainstream performances, particularly sophisticated villain roles.

He received various accolades including a Golden Globe Award,a Cannes Film Festival Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards.

He made his American film debut playing the title role in the film Billy Budd (1962). He starred in the psychological horror film The Collector (1965) and went on to appear in films such as Modesty Blaise (1966), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Poor Cow (1967), Teorema (1968), Spirits of the Dead (1968), and The Mind of Mr. Soames (1969).

Stamp gained wider fame for his role as archvillain General Zod in the superhero films Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980). For his leading role in the Australian road comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994). He then starred in The Limey (1999), He also acted in films such as  The Haunted Mansion (2003), Elektra (2005), Wanted (2008), Get Smart (2008), Yes Man (2008), Valkyrie (2008), Song for Marion (2012), and Big Eyes (2014).

July 22nd  10.30am

Terence Stamp 

August 26th    10.30am

Geraldine Chaplin 

Geraldine Leigh Chaplin (born July 31, 1944) is an English actress whose long career has included multilingual roles in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German films.

Geraldine is a daughter of Charlie Chaplin, the first of his eight children with his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill, and thus a granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill.

She made her English-language acting debut as Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965). Chaplin received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).

Chaplin has appeared in a wide variety of critically recognized Spanish and French films. She starred in The Ones and the Others (Les Uns et les Autres) (1981), Life Is a Bed of Roses (La vie est un roman) (1983) and the Jacques Rivette experimental films No King (Revenge) (Noroît (Une vengeance)) (1976) and Love on the Ground (L'Amour par terre) (1984). She was the partner of director Carlos Saura for 12 years until 1979, starring in many of his films such as Ana and the Wolves (Ana y los lobos) (1973