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Screenings on first and third Fridays at 8.00pm
Yearly Membership $50 single, $75.00 double
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Screening Programme
July – December 2009
Jul 3rd 2009 TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN (Dir: Woody Allen USA 1969 85 min colour)
The criminal career of Virgil Starkwell (Woody Allen) is presented in mock-documentary style. Hilarious parody of TV and film genres, social attitudes and psychological stereotypes in Allen’s directorial debut.
Jul 17 2009 THE SEVENTH SEAL = Det Sjunde Inseglet (Dir: Ingmar Bergman Sweden 1956 96 min b&w)
On his way home from the crusades, a world-weary knight plays a game of chess with Death. Bergman’s strikingly photographed evocation of a plague-ravaged Sweden is one of his most enduring works.
Aug 7 2009 IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME (Dir: Robert Z. Leonard USA 1949 103 min colour MGM)
Musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner with Judy Garland as a shop assistant in a music store who detests her bossy work colleague, unaware he’s the pen pal with whom she’s been exchanging love letters. Buster Keaton also features, as does an 18-month-old Liza Minnelli making her screen debut.
Aug 21 2009 THE ADVERSARY (Dir: Satyajit Ray India 1970 112 min b&w)
A sensitive young man is trapped by feelings of family obligation in Ray’s perceptive portrait of India’s educated middle classes. A funny, sad and bitter tale set in contemporary Calcutta.
Sep 4 2009 GONE TO THE DOGS (Dir: Ken G. Hall Australia 1939 64 min b&w Cinesound Features)
George Wallace stars as a disaster prone zoo attendant who accidentally discovers a substance that accelerates motion which he proceeds to test on his pet greyhound. Plus Cinesound Review, No463.
Sep 18 2009 THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (Dir: Vincente Minnelli USA 1952 118 min MGM)
The rise and fall of a charmingly authoritarian Hollywood producer, viewed in flashback from differing perspectives. Minnelli's stylish and ironic look at the Dream Factory stars Lana Turner and Kirk Douglas.
October 3rd – 5th 2009 34th RESIDENTIAL FILM WEEKEND
Metropole Guest House, Katoomba
Oct 16 2009 BEYOND THE FOREST (Dir: King Vidor USA 1949 93 min b&w Warner Brothers)
Classic melodrama with a Madame Bovary theme, in which Bette Davis stars as ‘a twelve o'clock girl in a nine o'clock town’: a woman of unrepressed sexuality grasping vainly at romance. With Joseph Cotton.
Nov 6 2009 TILAI (Dir: Idrissa Ouedraogo Burkina Faso 1990 81 min colour)
After a two year absence, a young man returns to his village to find that his father has taken his fiancée as his second wife. A complex story involving the conflict between individual desire and patriarchal law within a community in transition between tradition and modernity. Soundtrack by Abdullah Ibrahim.
Nov 20 2009 A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (Dir: Sam Wood USA 1935 91 min b&w MGM)
The move of the Marx Brothers from Paramount to Metro and the supervision of Irving Thalberg resulted in bigger budgets, more lavish production numbers and a script by satirists Kaufman and Ryskind which provided the brothers with some of their best comic material.
Dec 4 2009 CHRISTMAS PARTY and SURPRISE FILM SCREENING
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Classic Films screened on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month at 8.00pm.
Complimentary coffee, tea and biscuits served after the screening.
We're at 33 Laurel St., Willoughby in Sydney NSW, on the corner of Hollywood Cres.
All films are from the
managed by the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra
Yearly Membership $50 single, $75 double.
Your first screening is free!
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