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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
February – June 2009
Feb 6th 2009
Feb 6th OPENING NIGHT PARTY followed by films on Australian art, poetry and music:
Feb 6th The Antipodean Painters: Seven Contemporary Australian Painters (Tim Burstall Aust 1969 b&w 29min)
The ‘Antipodeans’ were a group of painters who were opposed to non-figurative painting. They re-asserted the need for recognizable images and the importance of subject matter and feeling.
Feb 6th At “Edge” with Judith Wright (Dir: Solrun Hoass Aust 1981 21 min colour)
A documentary on the poet Judith Wright and her relationship to the environment in which she lives.
Feb 6th Australian Colour Diary, No.37: Country Jazz (Dir: Robert Kingsbury Aust 1971 12 mins colour)
A film on the 25th Australian Jazz Convention in Dubbo, N.S.W.
Feb 20th 2009
Feb 20th MARKED WOMAN (Dir: Lloyd Bacon USA 1937 97 min colour Warner Bros)
Made to capitalize on the sensational 1936 trial of Lucky Luciano, this is an unusual gangster melodrama in
that it is told from the heroine's point-of-view. Bette Davis stars with Humphrey Bogart as a crusading D.A.
Mar 6th 2009
Mar 6th LUCKY LUCIANO (Dir: Francesco Rosi Italy 1973 98 min colour)
To combat communism, the U.S. government collaborated with Mafiosi after the Sicily landings in 1943.
Exploring the truth behind the Luciano legend, Rosi suggests that legal and illegal power go hand-in-hand.
Mar 20th 2009
Mar 20th THE SIEGE OF PINCHGUT (Dir: Harry Watt UK 1959 104 min b&w Ealing Studios)
A man escapes from prison with the intention of proving his innocence. With three accomplices he lands at
Fort Denison (Pinchgut). The final Ealing production was filmed on location in Sydney, with Aldo Ray.
Apr 3rd 2009
Apr 3rd FOOTLIGHT PARADE (Dir: Lloyd Bacon, Busby Berkeley USA 1933 103 min Warner Bros)
A theatrical producer, finding his business affected by the advent of the movie musical, tries to revive his flagging fortunes. Surrealistic Busby Berkeley numbers enhance this embodiment of the New Deal spirit.
Apr 17th 2009
Apr 17th WILD STRAWBERRIES (Dir: Ingmar Bergman 1957 90 min b&w Svensk Filmindustri)
An aged professor makes a journey to collect a university award and en route relives his past. Hauntingly beautiful film which has been compared thematically with King Lear, and in structure with a Bach fugue.
May 1st 2009
May 1st SALESMAN (Dir: David and Albert Maysles USA 1968 91 min b&w Maysles Film Inc)
This cinema-verité study of door-to-door Bible salesmen raises important questions about the relationship
between fictional and actuality filmmaking. Landmark documentary by two masters of the genre.
May 15th 2009
May 15 YAABA (Dir: Idrissa Ouedraogo Burkina Faso 1989 90 min colour)
The friendship between two young children and an elderly woman - an outcast of the village, who is blamed for all of her community’s misfortunes. Simply observed drama with mythic overtones.
Jun 5th 2009
Jun 5th THE HORSE’S MOUTH (Dir: Ronald Neame UK 1958 95 min colour Knightsbridge Productions)
This portrayal of the modern artist as a self-destructive, disreputable genius is adapted from Joyce Cary's
novel, and based on his friend, Dylan Thomas. Starring Alec Guinness, who also wrote the screenplay.
Jun 19th 2009
Jun 19th Please Note: No screening during the Sydney Film Festival.
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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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