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BIG HOUSE FILM SOCIETY

 

2005  PROGRAM

 

 

Screening Date: January 30 2005, JANUARY - from 8.00 pm

Gypsy Rose Lee original in summer outdoor screening

Lady of Burlesque (1943 - Barbara Stanwyck)

PLUS - Surprise short film

 

 

Screening Date: February 27 2005, FEBRUARY

Guilt or Deception?

I Confess (1953) Hitchcock’s rarely seen Montreal-set drama of conscience PLUS

Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (1956) Fritz Lang’s big city newspaper thriller.

 

 

Screening Date: March 20 2005, MARCH

Black American thrillers – a unique double!

Miracle in Harlem (1948)  - The crime genre from the Black perspective (screens 1st)  PLUS

Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop (1982) – Spike Lee’s pre-stardom inner city gangster drama.

 

 

Screening Date: April 17 2005, APRIL

Our first documentary feature!

Tunnel of Horrors – ‘The Untouchables’ (1961)   Classic TV episode (screens 1st)  PLUS

Canada’s Sweetheart (1985) Noir–style doco exposé of gangsters’ attempted union takeover.

 

 

Screening Date: May 29 2005, MAY

Cold War paranoia and the Communist ‘other’

It Came From Outer Space (1953) Classic ‘aliens are among us’ 50s sci-fi (screens 1st)  PLUS

Iron Curtain (1948) Rarely seen, based-on-a-true-story, spy thriller.

 

 

Screening Date: June 26 2005, JUNE

The one and only

Citizen Kane (1941)

 

 

Screening Date: July 31, 2005 - JULY

Modern gangster classic

Miller’s Crossing (1981 - the Coen brothers)

 

 

Screening Date: August 28, 2005 – AUGUST

French for noir

Lift to the Scaffold (1957), French thriller with music by Miles Davis (screens 1st)   PLUS

Detour (1946), the legendary film noir classic

 

 

Screening Date: September 18 2005, SEPTEMBER

In the shadows of Sydney Harbour

The Last Wave (1981 - Peter Weir) (screens 1st)   PLUS

Siege of Pinchgut (1959 - Ealing production shot on location in Sydney)

 

 

Screening Date: October 23 2005, OCTOBER 

Enigmatic dramas in black and white

The Letter (1940 - starring Betty Davis) (screens 1st)  PLUS 

Persona (1966), directed by Ingmar Bergman

 

 

Screening Date: November 27 2005, NOVEMBER 

Steamy Southern states double

A Lion is in the Streets (1953 - starring James Cagney) (screens 1st)  PLUS

Intruder in the Dust (1949), from Faulkner’s novel

 

 

Screening Date: December 18 2005, DECEMBER 

The kids are alright?

The Fallen Idol (1948 - Graham Greene) (screens 1st)  PLUS

Hue and Cry (1946 - Ealing comedy)

 

 

Remember - next time, it's the Big House!

 

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The Big House Film Society gratefully acknowledges the Australian Film Commission which administers the National Lending Collection from which we source our films.