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

2 February 2018 Join us for the opening night party 16 March 2018 Hunt For The Wilder People and the screening of – The Edge Of The World New Zealand 2016 DVD 101 min Col Dir: Taika Waititi Australia 1998 DVD 55 min Col Dir: Geoff Bennett. Cast: Cast: Sam Neil, Julian Dennison. , (narrator). Adventure comedy drama Documentary short film A national manhunt is ordered for a The film gives a unique insight into the intriguing rebellious kid and his foster uncle work of Tim Winton, one of Australia's finest and who go missing in the wild NZ bush. Miles Franklin award winning authors. Winton talks NZ Film & Television Awards: Best film, about his work, his influences and what drives director, actor, supporting actor, actress. him. The director and or producer have been invited to present the film, depends on their 6 April 2018 Blow Up commitments. UK 1966 DVD 111 min Col Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings. 16 February 2018 Pawno Australia 2016 DVD 89 min Col Dir: Paul Ireland. Cast: Drama mystery thriller John Brumpton, Kerry Armstrong, Damian Hill. A mod photographer finds Romantic comedy drama something very suspicious in the shots he has taken of a mysterious Set in an ageing Pawnbrokers, lives beauty in a desolate park. Cannes Film intersect and motives are examined. A Festival: Won Palme D’Or. Academy multi-layered story that celebrates the Award nominations best director, writing. rawness of humanity. A brilliant soundtrack comprising Tom Waits, 20 April 2018 The Dispossessed Astronomy Class and Vance Joy Australia 1959 DVD 85 min Col Dir: Yves Allegret Cast: amongst others. Nominated AACTA Awards: best Edmond O’Brien, Richard Basehart actor and actress, supporting actor and actress, best screenplay. Drama

2 March 2018 Barbara Dominque will do anything to achieve Germany 2012 DVD 105 min Col Dir: Christian Petzold. wealth, much to the chagrin of her Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock. ever unhappy husband and their

business partner. As the femme fatale Drama – English sub-titles dominates her husband, the two men,

realise they are in a web of deceit and Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to make some decisions that will spell doom. Set and a country medical clinic for applying filmed in Tahiti. for an exit visa. Unhappy with her

reassignment and fearful of her co- 4 May 2018 Night And The City workers as possible Stasi informants, UK 1950 16mm 94 min B&W Dir: . Cast: Barbara stays aloof. Berlin Critics , , Googie Withers, Hugh Awards: Won best film & best editing. Marlowe, Herbert Lom.

Crime, film-noir, mystery 15 June 2018 Australia 1987 DVD 102 min Col Dir: John Duigan. One day a London hustler Cast: Noah Taylor, , , encounters a wrestler at a London Graeme Blundell, , . wrestling arena, he dreams up a scheme that he thinks will finally be Romantic drama his ticket to financial independence. He attempts to con everyone around A prepubescent boy watches him to get his scheme to work, but painfully as his best friend and only ends up conning himself. older first love, blossoms into womanhood and falls for the town 18 May 2018 Roma Fantastica (plus short below) tearaway, setting off a chain of Italy 2011 DVD 60 min Col Dir: Luigi Cozzi: events that changes the lives of everyone involved. Won AFI Historical documentary – English sub-titles Awards: Best film, best director, best screenplay, best supporting actor, best lead actress. Covers the history of fantasy horror B-movies of the 70s in Italian historic sites - Catacombs, Pantheon, Piazza 17 August 2018 Hell And High Water – special 50th Navona and the Cinecitta. year anniversary presentation with monster party USA 1954 DVD 103 min Col Dir: Samuel Fuller Cast: Our Art Is Our Passion – Women Artists Of Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen. Australia No 3 Australia 1981 16mm 23 mins Col Dir: Scott Hicks Action adventure drama

Documentary short A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy Australian women artists are interviewed including painter officer to conduct an Alaskan and sculptor Rosalie Gascoigne (100 years since her submarine expedition in order to birth). Early work of director Scott Hicks of Shine fame. prevent a Red Chinese anti- American plot that may lead to 1 June 2018 Ugetsu Monogatari World War III. Academy Award Japan 1953 DVD 96 min b&w Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi Cast: nomination: best special effects. Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo. A repeat of the first film screened by our Group 50 years ago. A special guest presenter has been invited. Please Drama fantasy war – English sub-titles make a note in your diary we would like a big role up.

A tale of ambition, family, love, and All Films are screened courtesy of The National Film & war set in the midst of the Japanese Sound Archives, Canberra excepting Hunt For The Wilder Civil Wars of the sixteenth century. A People courtesy of Amalgamated Films, Pawno courtesy of film of stunning beauty and Roadshow Films and Ugetsu Monogatari courtesy of emotional depth. Academy Award Umbrella Entertainment. Rights were waived for The Edge nomination: best costume design. Of The World thanks to the producer and director.