WORKSHOP FILM GROUP
Screens Classic Movies at Workshop Arts Centre 33 Laurel Street Willoughby NSW 2068.
First and third Fridays at 8.00pm Yearly membership $50 single, $75 double. Enquiries: Joanne 02 45678274, Jenny 02 99499585 www.workshopfilmgroup.net
A Member of the Australian Film Societies Federation
5 February 2016 Opening night Pizza Party with 18 March 2016 Aya film - Accident Australia 1990 DVD 95 min Col Dir: Solrun Hoaas. Cast:
Hong Kong 2009 DVD 84 min Col Dir: Pou-Soi-Cheang. Ed Ishida, Nicholas Eadie, Chris Haywood. Cast: Louis Koo, Ritchie Ren, Michelle Ye. Migration Trilogy - Drama Paranoia Double - Crime Drama Aya, a young Japanese war bride, arrives “The Brain” kills his victims by trapping in a small Australian town during the them in well crafted accidents that look like 1950s. She and her husband are very unfortunate mishaps but are in fact much in love. However she feels more perfectly staged acts of crime. A troubled comfortable with a Japanese-speaking assassin suspects that an accident that close friend of her husband. Nominated happens to his team is not an accident at for 6 AFI Awards - best actress, all. Won best screenplay, supporting actress - Hong Kong supporting actor, cinematography, music score, production Film Awards. design, costume design.
19 February 2016 The Parallax View 1 April 2016 They’re A Weird Mob USA 1974 DVD 99 min Col Dir: Alan J Pakula. Cast: Australia 1966 DVD 107 min Col Dir: Michael Powell. Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels. Cast: Walter Chiari, Clare Dunne, Chips Rafferty, Ed Devereaux, John Meillion, Tony Bonner, Jeanie Drynan. Paranoia Double - Thriller Migration Trilogy - Comedy A determined reporter after the assassination of a prominent U.S. senator Nino an Italian immigrant arrived in begins to notice that reporters present Australia with the promise of a job as a during the assassination are dying journalist on his cousin's magazine, only mysteriously. He begins to realise that the to find that when he gets there the assassination was part of a conspiracy magazine's folded, the cousins done a involving the Parallax Corporation. He runner & the money his cousin sent for decides to enrol for the training himself to discover the the fare was borrowed from the daughter truth. Won best cinematography - National Society Of of the boss of a local construction firm. Nino tries to get a Film Critics Awards. job & finishes up as a brick-layer.
4 March 2016 Hail The Conquering Hero 15 April 2016 Lucky Miles USA 1944 16MM (excellent print) 101 min b/w Dir: Preston Australia 2007 DVD 105 min Col Dir: Michael James Sturges. Cast: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines. Rowland. Cast: Deborah Mailman, Gerard Kennedy, Rodney Afif, Kenneth Moraleda, Don Hany. Comedy Migration Trilogy - Drama Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a An Indonesian fishing boat abandons a heroic honourable discharge before group of Iraqi and Cambodian men on a returning home. Nominated academy remote part of the WA coast. Told there is a award - best original screenplay. bus over the dunes, the men are WORKSHOP FILM GROUP
Screens Classic Movies at Workshop Arts Centre 33 Laurel Street Willoughby NSW 2068.
First and third Fridays at 8.00pm Yearly membership $50 single, $75 double. Enquiries: Joanne 02 45678274, Jenny 02 99499585 www.workshopfilmgroup.net
A Member of the Australian Film Societies Federation abandoned to a desert the size of Poland. Three men with and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle- little in common elude capture and begin an epic but class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and confused journey. Nominated 2 AFI awards - best film, philandering husband. 2 European Film Awards - best screenplay. actress, best supporting actress, nominated best film.
6 May 2016 House Of Bamboo 17 June 2016 Kiss Of Death USA 1955 DVD102 min Col Dir: Samuel Fuller. Cast: USA 1947 DVD 99 min b&w Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Cameron Mitchell. Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Colleen More, Richard Widmark. Crime Drama Film Noir - Crime Drama
An American military policeman Nick gets caught in a jewel heist and despite urgings from infiltrates a Japanese-based crime a well-meaning district attorney , refuses to rat on his organisation which is responsible for the partners and goes to jail, assured that his wife and robbery of a munitions train outside children will be taken care of. Nick informs on his ex-pals Tokyo. The policeman assumes the and is paroled. Nick remarries, gets a job identity of a gangster while the gang is a and begins leading a happy life when he para-military organisation recruiting learns one of the men he informed on, a only ex-GIs. psychopathic killer has been released from custody and is out for revenge. 20 May 2016 The Bandwagon Nominated 2 academy awards – best USA 1953 DVD 112 min Col Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: supporting actor, best writing. Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant.
Musical Comedy All Films are screened courtesy of The National Film & Sound Archives, Canberra excepting Lucky Miles, An ageing Hollywood song and dance courtesy of Roadshow Films. man returns to Broadway when his film career hits a dead end. Finding the production in chaos he raises money, takes over and turns it into a Broadway smash hit. Nominated 3 Academy awards, writing, music score, costume design.
3 June 2016 High Hopes UK 1988 DVD 105 min Col Dir: Mike Leigh. Cast: Philip Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Dore.
Drama
Slice-of-life look at a sweet working- class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly