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Screening Programme
January 2007 - June 2007
Feb 2nd 2007
A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN SURF (Dir: Michael Blakemore 1982 52 min col Adams Packer Film Productions)
Poignant, funny and beautifully crafted essay film in which Michael Blakemore recreates his childhood and adolescence in Sydney during the 1930s and 40s - a time of surf, sex, theatre, and much paternal conflict!
Feb 16th 2007
THE TAILOR FROM TORSZHOK (Musical Soundtrack) (Dir: Yakov Protazanov USSR 1925 b&w 62 mins )
Production Co: Mezhrabpom-Russ
Script: V. Turkin; Photography: P. Yermolov. Cast: L. Deikun, I. Ilyinsky.
A simple tailor from a rural village unexpectedly strikes it rich in Leningrad in this fast paced satirical comedy which was commissioned to publicise the state lottery.
STALIN: MAN AND IMAGE (Dir: Don Thompson 1978 24 mins b&w)
Executive producers: Pat Ferns, Sam Summer; Producer: Don Thompson; Script: Harrison Salisbury; Editor: Christopher Castelyn; Narrator: Henry Fonda.
Documentary examining the image Stalin created by exploring the man, his rise to power and his place in history. Historical perspective is provided by use of classic film footage showing the 1917 Russian Revolution, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin.
Mar 2nd 2007
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Dir: Frank Capra USA 1934 105 min Columbia Pictures)
Classic screwball comedy in which a spoiled heiress on the run encounters a down at heel journalist in need of a story. Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable bicker magnificently in Capra's multi Academy Award winner.
Mar 16th 2007
BILLY BUDD (Dir: Peter Ustinov GB 1962 123 min b&w Anglo-Allied Pictures CINEMASCOPE)
The clash between 'a Good too perfect to admit Evil and an Evil too complete to tolerate the existence of Good' becomes a tense melodrama of innocence betrayed with a superb debut performance by Terence Stamp
Apr 6th 2007
No screening on Good Friday.
Apr 20th 2007
HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Dir: Victor Sjöström USA 1924 72 min silent b&w MGM)
Brilliant scientist tries to bury his personal demons under the mask of a circus clown. Lon Chaney stars in Pagliacci-style story - this experimental silent masterpiece will be screened with musical accompaniment.
May 4th 2007
WHEREVER SHE GOES (Dir: Michael Gordon GB 1950 79 min b&w Faun Film Productions)
Biopic of Australian concert pianist, Eileen Joyce, concentrating on her childhood struggles in the Tasmanian bush and the Kalgoorlie goldfields (with Joyce herself filmed in concert as an introduction and coda).
May 18th 2007
MY UNIVERSITIES (Dir: Mark Donskoy USSR 1940 104 min b&w Soyezdetfilm)
Gorky undergoes a political awakening after witnessing the exploitation of the workers. The third installment of Donskoy's masterful trilogy ends on a symbolically optimistic note with its vision of a better future.
Jun 1st 2007
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (Dir: Vincente Minnelli USA 1951 113 min col Metro-Goldwin-Mayer)
Gene Kelly choreographs and stars as an expatriate American painter involved in a romantic triangle (with Leslie Caron and Nina Foch). With a ballet based on the paintings of Dufy, Renoir, Utrillo & Van Gogh, and a classy Gershwin score, this was one of the most ambitious of MGM's landmark musicals.
Jun 15th 2007
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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