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Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a cynical nightclub owner in Casablanca discovers that his ex-lover, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), who abandoned him years before, has arrived in Casablanca with her husband, Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Rick is forced to abandon his cynicism and decide which side he will be on. This film is a love story, it is a buddy movie, it is a war-time propaganda film and it is a triumph of the Hollywood shambles, gags and catastrophes. The visual studio system. So round up the usual ingenuity of this great film is up there with July 9 suspects and join us for the classic film Chaplin and Keaton. French with English THE PHILADELPHIA STORY experience. subtitles. (USA 1940) 112 min. DVD Director George Cukor Cast Katherine DVD courtesy of the National Reel McCoy AGM after screening Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart Film and Sound Archive of Australia come along and have your say!
A rich socialite family gathers for their DVD courtesy of the National daughter’s wedding and finds that all August 6 Film and Sound Archive of Australia manner of people, invited and uninvited, A TALE OF TWO CITIES welcome and unwelcome, turn up to (USA 1935) 128 min. DVD complicate matters. It’s the second marriage Director Jack Conway Cast Ronald for the wilful, high-spirited daughter Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May (Hepburn) and her ex-husband (Grant) is not Oliver prepared to let her go without a fight. Enter A JOINT SCREENING WITH THE James Stewart as a reporter doing a story on DICKENS SOCIETY how the rich live. One of the comedy An exciting, atmospheric adaptation of classics and on everyone’s list of favourite Dickens' classic tale of the French films. Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends émigré Charles Darnay
DVD courtesy of the National from charges of spying against England. Film and Sound Archive of Australia He becomes enamoured of Darnay's September 3 fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help SMITHY her save Darnay from the guillotine when (Australia 1946) 114 min. DVD he is captured by revolutionaries in Paris. Director Ken G. Hall Cast Ron Randell, Muriel Steinbeck, John Tate, Joy Nichols DVD courtesy of the National A JOINT SCREENING WITH THE Film and Sound Archive of Australia FRIENDS OF THE NFSA
Introduced by Ray Edmondson, President Smithy is a landmark Australian film August 20 biography of the legendary aviator Charles MR HULOT’S HOLIDAY Kingsford Smith. The Australian film studio (France 1953) 87 min. DVD Cinesound and director Ken G. Hall had a Director Jacques Tati Cast Jacques Tati, July 22 NOTE: TUESDAY history of producing popular, successful Nathalie Pascaud, Micheline Rolla, feature films and this is no exception. CASABLANCA Raymond Carl, Lucien Fregis Modelled on the style of the sumptuous (USA 1942) 102 min. DVD Hollywood biopic, Smithy follows the young Director Michael Curtiz Cast Humphrey It’s a quaint French seaside hotel and a aviator in his quest for perfection, Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, group of people turn up for their yearly culminating in his famous trans-Pacific Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt holiday. Into their midst stumbles the flight.
gangly, awkward, endearing Monsieur In the Library’s recent online survey, Hulot who has the capacity to turn DVD courtesy of the National Casablanca was voted the most popular everything upside down. What follows is Film and Sound Archive of Australia film, reflecting its status as a film classic. the most wonderful series of mishaps,
September 16 NOTE: TUESDAY October 14 NOTE: TUESDAY Described when released as sensational and CUL-DE-SAC THE LAST BRIDGE stylistically outrageous, Shock Corridor alienated many critics upon its release but (England 1966) 107 min. DVD (DIE LETZTE BRÜCKE) today the film has become one of Fuller's Director Roman Polanski Cast Donald (Germany 1954) 98 min. DVD Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Director Helmut Kautner Cast Maria most admired and frequently revived works. Stander, Jack MacGowran Schell, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rutting, Carl Mohner Film courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia In a crumbling English island castle live a timid Englishman (Pleasence) and his Winner of numerous international film French wife (Dorléac). A pair of criminals awards, this is a powerful German film arrive—nearly drowning when they plough about World War Two. Maria Schell is November 12 their car off the coast—and the couple must luminous as a young German doctor who THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE play unwilling hosts. Cul-de-sac is generally finds herself in the position of providing (Sweden 1921) 91 min. DVD regarded as the most successful of medical assistance to both sides of the Director Victor Sjöström Cast Victor Polanksi’s three English films—as much a conflict. Stationed at a field hospital in the Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore psychological thriller as the first Balkans, she is kidnapped by partisans. Svennberg, Astrid Holm (Repulsion), and as much a black comedy as When typhoid strikes the partisans’ camp, the third (Dance of the Vampires). The title she finds she is unable to simply turn away. Within a few years of its release in 1921, is due to one of the film’s producers, who Schell won a number of awards for her Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage thought the story was primarily about the moving performance. German with English was considered a masterpiece of silent two interlopers—a pair of gangsters who subtitles. cinema. Victor Sjöström plays a drunk, who, found themselves in a dead end. while drinking with friends, tells the legend DVD courtesy of the National of The Phantom Coach. The legend states DVD courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia that the last person to die in a year, if he is a Film and Sound Archive of Australia great sinner, will have to drive the phantom October 29 chariot for a year and pick up the souls of SHOCK CORRIDOR the dead. Then he dies in a brawl at the October 1 (USA 1963) 101 min. 16mm stroke of midnight and the coachman comes SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT Director Samuel Fuller Cast Peter Breck, for him. Sjöström is considered the greatest (Sweden 1955) 104 min. DVD Constance Towers, Paul Dubov Swedish film director before Bergman. This Director Ingmar Bergman Cast Gunnar is his most famous film and is generally Björnstrand, Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dalhbeck, A special screening in memory of our considered to be one of the central works of Harriet Andersson, Margit Carlquist dear colleague Brian Dunne. This was one Swedish cinema. Silent film with musical of his favourite films. soundtrack. Ingmar Bergman’s 16th film brought him an international reputation, but it’s not what Johnny Barrett (Breck) is a journalist DVD courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia anyone today would expect from determined to win the Pulitzer Prize at any
Bergman—it’s essentially a sex farce. The price. He attempts to feign mental illness in players include an attorney in his fifties order to become an inmate at a psychiatric November 26 (Björnstrand), entering into his second hospital and investigate an unsolved murder marriage with a young virgin (Jacobsson); case. However, as the investigation unfolds THE LOVE PARADE he has a mistress (Dalhbeck) who’s also Barrett finds himself losing his grip on his (USA 1929) 107 min. 16mm having an affair with a count, and a own sanity. Can he solve the case before he Director Ernst Lubitsch Cast Maurice shamelessly flirting maid (Andersson). Even loses his mind altogether? Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino in Bergman’s sunniest film, there’s a touch Lane of melancholy; these are smiles of a summer night. But this far north, summer nights are It’s Sylvania and Queen Louise's cabinet, short—just long enough to cloak one’s latest worried that she will become an old maid, is affair. Swedish with English subtitles. delighted when she marries the rogue Count Renard. Unfortunately, Renard finds his DVD courtesy of the National position as Queen's Consort decidedly Film and Sound Archive of Australia unsatisfying and without purpose. The marriage soon runs into difficulties. A master director and a stellar cast join forces
in this early Hollywood musical.
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