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BIG HOUSE FILM SOCIETY

 

Putting criminals where they belong - on the Silver Screen!

 

NEW! - Film Studies Resources - Now open to students and the public!

 

 

2006  PROGRAM

 

JANUARY 22 – Outdoor screening

Sherlock Jr. (1924) + surprise comedy shorts

 Comedy legend Buster Keaton invades the movies – literally!

 

 

Screening Date: FEBRUARY 26

Laura (1944) PLUS

The Locket (1946)

Portraits unlock secrets from the past in classic noir.

 

  

Screening Date: MARCH 26

Point of Order (1963) PLUS

Body and Soul (1947)

 Hollywood’s dark McCarthyist years – in fact and fiction.

 

  

Screening Date: APRIL 30

Leave Her To Heaven (1945) PLUS

The Dark Past (1948)

 Criminals on the couch – Hollywood discovers Freud!

 

  

Screening Date: MAY 28

Four Sons (1940) PLUS

The Seventh Victim (1943)

 Evil forces lurk in the shadows.

 

 

Screening Date: June 25 2006, JUNE

Scorsese and de Niro’s explosive tour de force.

Raging Bull (1980) PLUS

screening first: Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912 gangster silent)

 

 

Screening Date: July 23, 2006 - JULY

Cat and mouse games in underworld Marseilles

French Connection II (1975 - Gene Hackman) + surprise short

 

 

Screening Date: August 27, 2006AUGUST

Brooding 'last throw of the dice' thriller

Le Deuxieme Souffle (1966 - Jean-Pierre Melville) + surprise short

 

 

Screening Date: September 24 2006, SEPTEMBER

One last caper - what can go wrong?

The Killing (1956 - Stanley Kubrick) (screens 1st)   PLUS

Party Girl (1958 - Nicholas Ray)

 

 

Screening Date: October 29 2006, OCTOBER 

Town & country noir

On Dangerous Ground (1951 - Robert Ryan and Ida Lupino) (screens 1st)  PLUS 

Out of the Past (1947 - Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas)

 

 

Screening Date: November 26 2006, NOVEMBER 

Paranoia on the run

Saboteur (1942 - Hitchcock WWII espionage thriller) (screens 1st)  PLUS 

The Parallax View (1974 - Warren Beatty in a conspiracy theory classic)

 

 

Screening Date: December 17 2006, DECEMBER 

O Brother, get me offa this chain gang!

Hell's Highway (1932 Depression thriller) (screens 1st)  PLUS

Sullivan's Travels (1941 - Preston Sturges comedy)

 

 

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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.