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BIG HOUSE FILM SOCIETY
Putting criminals where they belong - on the Silver Screen!
2008 PROGRAM
Screening Date: February 3, 2008 - JANUARY *
Moonlight Matinee - Outdoor screening
The Sting (1973 - takes up entire program)
Butch
and Sundance take on the gangsters!
Screening Date: February 24 - FEBRUARY
Desperate (1947 - Anthony Mann) +
The
Two
noir looks at innocents wrongfully accused.
Screening Date: March 30 - MARCH
Fury (1936 - Fritz Lang) +
Bad
Day at Black Rock
Spencer
Tracy fights for justice across the
Screening Date: April 20 - APRIL
The Blue Dahlia (1946 - Raymond Chandler's screenplay) +
The
Stranger (1946 - Orson vs Edward G.)
Postwar
weirdness in a new world.
Screening Date: May 25 - MAY
Key Largo (1948 - Bogey vs Edward G.) +
The Black Cat
(1934: Karloff meets Lugosi - for the first time!)
Old-line
titans duke it out in exotic environments.
Screening Date: June 29 - JUNE
The Godfather
1 (1972 - the legend begins)
First
of a 3-year trilogy commitment.
Screening Date: July 27 - JULY
Gaslight (1944)
(+ surprise short
Atmospheric, fog-shrouded Gothic thriller
Screening Date: August 31 - AUGUST
Experiment in Terror (1962)
(+ surprise short
Blake (Pink
Panther) Edwards’ only crime flick, starring Lee Remick
Screening Date: September 14 - SEPTEMBER
Only Angels Have Wings (1939) +
Brute Force (1947)
Men in isolated pressure-cooker situations
Screening Date: October 26 - OCTOBER
Went The Day Well (1942) +
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
The enemy is moving in - next door!
Screening Date: November 23 - NOVEMBER
You Only Live Once (1937) +
Gun Crazy (1950)
More ‘Bonnie and
Screening Date:December 14 - DECEMBER
I Married A Monster From Outer Space (1958) +
Christmas
Careful whom you propose to
Remember - next time, it's the Big House!
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* 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 our films.
Also screening Classic Cinema in Canberra: The Reel McCoy Film Group