The Workshop Film Group presents: The 38th Residential Film Weekend October 5 – October 7, 2013 Metropole Guest House, Katoomba.

Documentaries and shorts: BONZA Dir: David Swann, Australia 16MM 1988 30 mins, Col, Cast: Peter Green, Peter Rowsthorn, Maureen Edwards, Susie Dee. A vision of family life seen through the eyes of a dog.

NIGHT OWLS Dir: James Parrott, USA 16MM 1930 20 mins, b&w, Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, James Finlayson. Stan and Ollie are vagrants. A policeman blackmails them into burgling his chief’s house so that he can arrest them and take credit, as there had been 42 robberies on his watch.

QUIET PLEASE Dir William Hanna, USA, 16MM 1945 8 mins, Col. Animated Oscar winner.

THE MUSIC BOX Dir: James Parrott, USA, 16MM 1932 29 mins, b&w, Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert. In this Oscar winner Stan and Ollie set out to deliver a piano to a home at the top of a long stairway. Academy Award Best Short Subject Comedy, 1932.

HOLLYWOOD’S MUSICAL MOODS Dir: Christian Blackwood, USA 16MM 1970 52 mins, Col, Cast: Commentator Arthur Kleiner. Arthur Kleiner former director of music at the Museum of Modern Art, examines the art of film music. He demonstrates examples of music used to accompany such silent films as The Black Pirate and Sunrise, and interviews composers for sound films such as Miklos Rozsa and David Raksin. Film clips include from Spellbound, Laura and High Noon.

PEOPLE ON SUNDAY (Menschen Am Sontag) Dir: Robert Siodmak, Germany, DVD 1929 59 mins, b&w. Restored silent film. This pioneering low budget film made at the end of the silent era is part feature part documentary. It records the everyday Berlin street life on the interactions of five young Berliners, played by non professionals. This film launched the careers of the filmmakers involved including Fred Zinnemann.

EDITH HEAD Prod: Christian Blackwood, Charlotte Kerr, USA, 16MM, 1981 27 mins, Col. Interview with the costume designer in which she discusses her career and shows some of the costumes she has designed.

FORBIDDEN LIES Dir: Anna Broinowski, Australia, DVD, 2007 104mins, Col. Cast: Norma Khouri, Malcolm Knox, Caroline Overington, Jon Yates, Rana Husseini, Ed Torian. In July 2004, Norma Khouri, best-selling author of Forbidden Love was exposed as a fake. She had won fortune and fame as a Jordanian virgin on the run from Islamic extremists who’d put a Fatwah on her head for her campaign against honour killings. Spinning murder, politics, greed and literary scandal into a web that ensnares us all. This is a real life thriller about a brilliant con artist, the people she duped and why.

Films: DAY FOR NIGHT (Le Nuit Americaine) Dir: Francious Truffaut, France, DVD, 1973 120 mins, Col, English subtitles. Cast:Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Alexandra Stewart, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Leaud. Day For Night' won Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards (1974) and is an enduring comedy about the vagaries of the movie business. Ferrand (played by Francois Truffaut) is a director working on his latest project, a melodrama called 'Meet Pamela', with an international cast. His leading man is an insecure egoist conducting an obsessive affair with a free-spirited script-girl, given to irascible behaviour. The leading actress, recovering from a nervous breakdown, is American, and insecure about her talents. Additionally an aging actress, drinking heavily, continuously fluffs her lines, delaying a beleaguered production. Of greatest interest however is the behind-the-scenes romantic shenanigans that occur between the cast and crew, many of whom, despite the continuous frustrations, relay their love for the business of making movies. A light-hearted, whimsical and expertly executed work.

THE BATTLE FOR ALGIERS (La Bataille D’Alger) Dir:Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy, DVD, 1966, 115 mins, b&w, English subtitles. Cast: Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin,Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash, Ugo Paletti, Fusia El Kader. Focuses on a phase of the Algerian struggle for liberation from French colonial rule during 1954-1957 when the FLN’s success in Algiers after regrouping and the French counterattack. The director conceives this film as a homage to the people who struggle for independence in the third world.

THE BODY SNATCHER Dir: Robert Wise, USA, DVD, 1945, 78 mins, b&w, Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell. Atmospheric horror film set in Edinburgh in 1831. A gifted doctor who runs a medical school is haunted by a grave robber who once protected him from a prison term.

GRIVEOUS BODILY HARM Dir: Mark Joffe, Australia, DVD, 1990, 90 mins, Col, Cast: Colin Friels, John Waters, Bruno Lawrence, Joy Bell. Tom is an ambitious crime reporter - which means having to dig up facts that not everyone would like to see and others would kill for. One of these who wants what Tom has is Detective Sergeant Ray, an unethical policeman looking for information on a robbery. While investigating the robbery Tom meets Morris who is deeply mourning the accidental death of his young wife, Claudine, Morris becomes paranoid that his friends are keeping Claudine who he thinks is actually alive and being hidden from him. One by one he hunts them down and kills them.

JEDDA Dir: Charles Chauvel, Australia, DVD (digitally restored), 87 mins, Col, Cast: Ngaria Kunoth, Robert Tudawali, Betty Suttor, Paul Reynall, George Simpson-Little, Tas Fitzer. An Aboriginal girl Jedda, is adopted by a white woman on a Northern Territory cattle station. Brought up as a white child she feels the pull of strong spiritual ties with her people. She is attracted to an Aboriginal full blood and he takes her away from the station. Australia's first colour feature was filmed on location under difficult conditions in Central Australia.

PEPE LE MOKO Dir: Julien Duvivier, France, VHS, 1937, 90 mins, b&w, English subtitles. Cast:Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Lucas Gridoux. Pepe a criminal hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. The police inspector has an inkling into Pepe’s real motives. Pepe is corrupted by nostalgia for Paris and unfulfilled desire of the femme fatale.Pepe is imbued with fatalism and the pathos of lost dreams.

THREE FROM THE FILLING STATION (Die Drei Von Der Tankstelle) Dir: WilhelmThiele, Germany, DVD, 1930, 90 mins, b&w, English subtitles. Cast:Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Oskar Karlweis, Heinze Ruhmann, Fritz Kampers, Olga Tschechowa. This operetta of everyday life involves three friends, who, finding themselves bankrupt, open a petrol station. They are all attracted to the same woman in a roadster. This musical comedy is considered one of the finest example of the early German sound film, thanks to the innovative use of sound, the combination of music and images, and experiments with high-angle shots which later became famous in US musicals. The story starts with a bank that goes bankrupt and then continues with three men whose entire possessions have been seized by the bailiff, only their car being left to them. Musical highlights are provided by the popular singing group 'Comedian Harmonists'.

MR HULOTS HOLIDAY (Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot) Dir: Jacques Tati, France, DVD, 1952, 86 mins, b&w, English subtitles. Cast: Nathalie Pascaud, Michela Rolla, Raymond Carl,Lucien Fregis, Jacques Tati. In place of a plot, a series of disastrous coincidences, surreal sight gags and irascible indignations erupt around Mr. Hulot as he gallantly and obliviously strolls through his seaside vacation. Tati expertly crafts the visual bombast of traditional slapstick into a beautiful and intricate sequence of incidents, accompanied by an equally elegant and intriguing seaside soundtrack of lapping waves, laughing children and transistor radios, all merging into an absurd symphony of cinematic delight.

All films are screened courtesy of the Non-Theatrical Lending Collection, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra.

For bookings and further information, please contact: Joanne Jones. 94363103 (h) 92661528 (w)