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BIG HOUSE FILM SOCIETY
2003 PROGRAM
(* Some monthly screenings fall over into the following calendar month)
Outdoor Screening Now Rescheduled!!
[after bushfire cancellation]
NEW DATE - (Sunday) March 9 BUT Still the Same program:
My Man Godfrey (1936 – sparkling screwball comedy starring Carole Lombard)
PLUS
Surprise comedy short
FEBRUARY - Screening Date: 23/02/03
A Bout De Souffle - "Breathless" (France - 1959)
PLUS
The Enforcer (1951, starring Humphrey Bogart)
French homage to the Hollywood ‘tough guy’ plus a great Bogey original!
MARCH - Screening Date: 30/03/03
He Walked By Night (1948, starring Richard Basehart)
PLUS
Border Incident (1949, starring Ricardo Montalban!)
Tribute to ‘shadows and mist’ cinematographer John Alton
APRIL* - Screening Date: 04/05/03
M Squad (1959 color TV episode, starring Lee Marvin)
PLUS
Night Moves (1975, starring Gene Hackman)
Watching the detectives – as they shoot from the 1950s to the 70s.
MAY* - Screening Date: 01/06/03
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950, starring Lee J.Cobb)
PLUS
Concrete Jungle (UK – 1960, starring Stanley Baker)
A superb British example of film noir contrasted with a rarely seen U.S. mystery.
JUNE - Screening Date: 29/06/03
Extra! - short film N.Y., NY.: a day in New York (1958 - color)
PLUS
On The Waterfront (1954, starring Marlon Brando)
Landmark multiple-Oscar winner of explosive power – seldom seen on the big screen.
JULY – Screening date: 27/7/03
Homesdale – early Weir (1st)
PLUS
Kiss or Kill – Bill Bennett’s 1997 road thriller starring Frances O’Connor
Aussie double – Little known early Peter Weir + modern ‘desert noir’
AUGUST – Screening date: 31/8/03
Johnny Staccato - TV episode (1st)
PLUS
True story of a corrupt town – and bonus short film interviewing its actual citizens!
SEPTEMBER – Screening date: 21/9/03
Scarlet Street – Fritz Lang (1st)
PLUS
Woman on the Beach - Renoir
Tribute to Joan Bennett, forgotten ‘femme fatale’
OCTOBER – Screening date: 19/10/03
‘M’ - Joseph Losey remake (1st)
PLUS
Are monsters made – or just born? Rare 50s noir double
NOVEMBER – Screening date: 23/11/03
Edge of the City - rare Cassavettes noir (1st)
PLUS
The Day the Earth Stood Still (50s sci-fi classic)
What happens when a stranger arrives among us to take on evil?
DECEMBER – Screening date:14/12/03
The Glass Key (Dashiel Hammett)
PLUS
The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
Hardboiled and screwball comedy tales of quiet power brokers and their pawns