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BIG HOUSE FILM SOCIETY

 

Film Noir and Classic Thrillers - screened monthly in Canberra's specialist film society

 

Putting criminals where they belong - on the Silver Screen!

 

2004  PROGRAM

 

 

(* Some monthly screenings fall over into the following calendar month)

 

 

Screening Date: February 1, 2004 - JANUARY *

Chaplin's A Burlesque On Carmen (1915 - screens 1st) PLUS

Duck Soup (1933)

Chaplin and Marx Bros Classics In A Summer Outdoor Screening

 

 

Screening Date: February 29, 2004 - FEBRUARY

Kiss Of Death (1947) - Richard Widmark  (screens 1st) PLUS

Railroaded (1947) - Anthony Mann

Hardboiled Noir 'Leap Year' Double

 

 

Screening Date: March 28, 2004 - MARCH

Pickup On South Street (1953)  - Richard Widmark (screens 1st)  PLUS

The Glass Wall - Gloria Grahame (1953)

The Cold War In New York

 

 

Screening Date: May 2, 2004 - APRIL *

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)  (screens 1st)  PLUS

Targets (1967 - Peter Bogdanovich)

Tribute to Boris Karloff

 

 

Screening Date: May 30, 2004 - MAY

Where Danger Lives   (1950) (screens 1st)  PLUS

Angel Face (1952) - directed by Otto Preminger 

Rare Robert Mitchum Double

 

 

Screening Date: June 27, 2004 - JUNE

Bonnie And Clyde (1967)

The Beatty/Dunaway classic that rewrote the book on thrillers

 

 

Screening Date: August 1, 2004 - JULY *

Black and Tan (1929) - Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra - live!   PLUS

The Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

New York nightlife - and its dark flipside

 

 

Screening Date: August 29, 2004 – AUGUST

London Can Take It (1940) - Notable 'Battle of Britain' newsreel made for the U.S.A.  (screens 1st)   PLUS

The Long Voyage Home (1940) - John Ford's dark prewar meditation  

Shadows of war lengthen

 

 

Screening Date: September 19 2004, SEPTEMBER

Bunny Lake Is Missing (GB - 1965) (screens 1st)  PLUS

Les Diaboliques (France - 1954)

European Psychological thrillers

 

 

Screening Date: October 31 2004, OCTOBER 

Cat People (1942 - Val Lewton) (screens 1st)  PLUS 

The Dark Mirror (1946 - Robert Siodmak)

One of these twins is murder!

 

 

Screening Date: November 28 2004, NOVEMBER 

Bicycle Thieves (1948 - Italy) (screens 1st)  PLUS

The Set-Up (1949 - Robert Ryan)

Raw, gritty urban dramas

 

 

Screening Date: December 12 2004, DECEMBER 

Five Graves To Cairo (1943 - Billy Wilder) (screens 1st)  PLUS

To Be Or Not To Be (1942 - Jack Benny in Lubitsch's original masterpiece)

Winning the war - by disguise!

 

 

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The Big House Film Society gratefully acknowledges the Australian Center for the Moving Image who administer the National Lending Collection from which we source our films.