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BIG HOUSE FILM SOCIETY
Putting criminals where they belong - on the Silver Screen!
2009 PROGRAM
JANUARY * SCREENING
Feb
8: Outdoor screening - Moonlight Matinee:
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952)
+
extras
Under
the stars and behind the scenes of Golden Age Hollywood!
FEBRUARY * SCREENING
March 1: MY NAME IS
JULIA ROSS (1945)
+ NO MAN OF HER OWN
(1949)
One
wife by accident, one by design.
MARCH SCREENING
March 22: ORDERS TO KILL
(1958)
+ MURDER BY CONTRACT
(1958)
What
if the killer has a conscience?
APRIL * SCREENING
May 3: CRIME WAVE
(1952)
+ BLOOD ON THE MOON
(1948)
Keeping
your friends closer...
MAY * SCREENING
May 31: SUMMERFIELD
(1977)
+ THE INNOCENTS
(1961)
Ethereal
mysteries – at home and abroad.
JUNE SCREENING
June
28: GODFATHER II (1974)
Second
installment of our 3-year trilogy commitment.
JULY SCREENING
July
26: NOISE (2007)
+
Aussie crime short
Brooding, atmospheric, nocturnal Australian
thriller
AUGUST SCREENING
August 30: MONSIEUR VERDOUX (1947 – Charlie Chaplin, Martha Raye)
+ Chaplin
short
Chaplin’s misunderstood late masterpiece of
black humour
SEPTEMBER SCREENING
September 20: PUBLIC ENEMY (1931 – James Cagney)
+ THE RISE AND FALL OF LEGS DIAMOND (1960 – Warren Oates)
Gangster archetype – and its long dark
shadow
OCTOBER SCREENING
October 18: THE 39 STEPS (1935 - Hitchcock)
+ THE ANGRY HILLS (1959 – Robert
Aldrich, Robert Mitchum)
The original spy-chase thriller and a rarely-seen updating.
NOVEMBER SCREENING
November 29: ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959 – James Stewart, Lee
Remick)
Jazz, jaundice and justice in courtroom drama par excellence
DECEMBER SCREENING
December 13: SON OF FRANKENSTEIN (1939 – Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone)
+ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974 – Mel Brooks,
Gene Hackman)
Karloff’s surreal last tango and its hilarious spoof.
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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 films.
Also screening Classic Cinema in Canberra: The Reel McCoy Film Group