Home How It Works Previews Writings Reviews Students Programs e-mail us!
BIG HOUSE FILM SOCIETY
Putting criminals where they belong - on the Silver Screen!
2010 PROGRAM
NEWS FLASH - EXTRA SCREENING!
Due to building maintenance, the May 2010 program will now be screened on
AUGUST 8: from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
BORDER INCIDENT (1949 - Anthony Mann)
+
NO WAY OUT (1950 - Richard Widmark)
Racism - or the wrong side of the law?
JANUARY
January 31: Moonlight Matinee: Outdoor screening
FOOTLIGHT PARADE (1933 - Busby Berkeley, James Cagney)
+
classic comedy short
Busby Berkeley outdoes even himself in Hollywood's ultimate backstage extravaganza!
FEBRUARY
February 28:
MYSTERY STREET (1950 - noir cinematography by John Alton)
+
CRISS CROSS (1949 - Burt Lancaster, Yvonne de Carlo)
More sucker punches from noir's alluring femmes fatales!
MARCH
March 28:
THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1945 - Robert Siodmak)
+
HOUSE BY THE RIVER (1950 - Fritz Lang)
Gothic suspense thrillers, laced with black humour.
APRIL
May 2:
FIVE STAR FINAL (1931 - Edward G.Robinson, Boris Karloff)
+
DEADLINE USA (1952 - Bogart)
Tough guy journos in tabloid crime-busting scoop!
MAY
May 30:
BORDER INCIDENT (1949 - Anthony Mann)
+
NO WAY OUT (1950 - Richard Widmark)
Racism - or the wrong side of the law?
JUNE
June 27: GODFATHER III (1990)
Underrated reprise closes out Coppola's classic trilogy
JULY
July 25:
THE TRIALS OF ALGER HISS (1980 documentary of 1950s Red Scare)
+
Aussie cold war propaganda short
The fog of Cold War
AUGUST
August 29:
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (1947 - Otto Preminger)
+
TRIPE (1985 Australian black comedy short starring John Meillon)
Sins of the father
SEPTEMBER
September 19:
HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955 - Sam Fuller)
+
HOGS AND WARSHIPS (1961 - Japanese with English subtitles)
America versus Yakuza
OCTOBER
October 31:
I MARRIED A COMMUNIST (1949 - Robert Ryan)
+
SILVER LODE (1954 - Allan Dwan)
McCarthyist witch hunts revisited
NOVEMBER
November 28:
THE YOUNG ONE (1960 - Bunuel's English language drama)
+
WISE BLOOD (1979 - John Huston)
We don't take to strangers round here
DECEMBER
December 12:
T-MEN (1948 - Anthony Mann)
+
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN (1969 - Woody Allen)
Just the facts, ma'am
Remember - next time, it's the Big House!
If you'd like to receive a monthly program update click here
* Monthly screenings sometimes fall into the following calendar month.
The Big House Film Society gratefully acknowledges the National Film and Sound Archive and the National Lending Collection from which we source films.
Also screening Classic Cinema in Canberra: The Reel McCoy Film Group