ACT REEL CLASSICS AT CMAG MUSEUMS CLASSIC FILM SCREENINGS - SPRING 2015 + GALLERIES CANBERRA MUSEUM + GALLERY | Ground floor, North building, cnr London Cct and Civic Square, ACT ACT Museums + Galleries members are entitled to a discounted Reel McCoy annual membership price of $20 (usually $50), which allows entry to all Reel McCoy screenings For further information, visit www.reelmccoy.org.au For ACT Museums + Galleries membership enquiries, email [email protected]

13 SEPTEMBER 27 SEPTEMBER 11 OCTOBER

THE LIVES OF BELLE DE JOUR (1967) MY DARLING CLEMENTINE OTHERS (2006) FRANCE (1946) GERMANY FROM 1PM, 95 MIN USA; FROM 1PM, 97 MIN FROM 1PM, 138 MIN DIRECTOR: LUIS BUÑUEL DIRECTOR: JOHN FORD Severine (Deneuve) is a respectable, upper-middle- DIRECTOR: FLORIAN HENCKEL VON John Ford’s first film after his war service, considered class housewife whose husband (Sorel) who admires by many to be his greatest work. Marshall Wyatt DONNERSMARCK her moral purity and whose husband’s friend Earp (Henry Fonda) and consumptive Doc Holliday (Piccoli) is intrigued by her icy standoffishness. It’s 1984 in East Germany—in two senses, for (Victor Mature) take on the evil Pa Clanton (Walter She also works as prostitute for a couple of days everyone really is being watched by the Stasi, the Brennan) and his sons in the infamous Gunfight at each week. Spanish-born surrealist director Buñuel most pervasive secret police network in history. the OK Corral. The title comes from an old miner’s returned permanently to Europe with this film, which Officer Wiesler (Mühe) suspecting that a writer song. While the film builds up to the legendary is perhaps the glossiest of his career. Typically, (Koch) and his actress lover (Gedeck) can’t be as gunfight at the OK Corral, life in Tombstone is there are sequences of fantasy hard to tell from real ideologically pure as they seem, is assigned to study vividly conveyed in scenes that are among Ford’s events—which Buñuel use to explore both his own them day and night. He becomes an intimate part most beautiful. They include a traveling actor fetishes and some of Severine’s that he simply made of their lives without them realising—and without attempts to introduce Shakespeare or the arrival up. Yet the eroticism is inexplicit, and so elegant it’s him realising how he’s being drawn in, either. A film of Clementine (Cathy Downs) and of Wyatt awkwardly almost chaste. about a few embers of warmth in the chilliest state in escorting her to an open air dance. Europe that won seven German Film Awards and an Oscar for best foreign film. CAST: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Jean CAST: Henry Fonda, Victor Mature, Walter Brennan, Sorel, Geneviève Page Linda Darnell, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs. CAST: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch SHE WORE A YELLOW

RIBBON (1949) USA, 104 MIN

DIRECTOR: JOHN FORD The second of Ford’s “Cavalry trilogy “, between FORT APACHE and RIO GRANDE, and the only one in colour. A delicately understated performance from John Wayne as Nathan Brittles, the Captain of CMAG Screenings are held on the second a frontier Cavalry Troop, given one last assignment Sunday and the last Sunday of the month against the Indians on the eve of his retirement. He is to take his troop and deal with a breakout from the at 1pm in the theatre. reservation. Brittles takes it upon himself to try to Join us for tea, coffee, biscuits and film make peace with Chief Pony That Walks (Chief John Big Tree). When Nathan says “Old men should stop discussion after each screening wars’ the chief replies “too late”. The title comes [email protected] from a Cavalry marching song. www.reelmccoy.org.au CAST: John Wayne, Joanne Dru, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jnr., Victor McClaglen, Mildred Natwick. ACT REEL CLASSICS AT CMAG MUSEUMS CLASSIC FILM SCREENINGS - SPRING 2015 + GALLERIES CANBERRA MUSEUM + GALLERY | Ground floor, North building, cnr London Cct and Civic Square, ACT ACT Museums + Galleries members are entitled to a discounted Reel McCoy annual membership price of $20 (usually $50), which allows entry to all Reel McCoy screenings For further information, visit www.reelmccoy.org.au For ACT Museums + Galleries membership enquiries, email [email protected]

25 OCTOBER 8 NOVEMBER 29 NOVEMBER

HAIL THE CONQUERING MON ONCLE (1958) FIRES WERE STARTED HERO (1944) FRANCE; FROM 1PM, 120 MIN (1943) USA; FROM 1PM, 101 MIN DIRECTOR: JACQUES TATI UK; FROM 1PM, 65 MIN; 16MM DIRECTOR: PRESTON STURGES If you enjoyed “M. Hulot’s Holiday” which we DIRECTOR: HUMPHREY JENNINGS showed last year, you’ll love “Mon Oncle”, Tati’s Sturges’ satirical comedy/drama centres on third feature film, the second to feature his socially One day and night with the Auxilary Fire Service Woodrow Lafayette, who wants to join the Marines and physically awkward comic character Monsieur in London during the Fire Blitz of Winter/Spring but can’t due to chronic hayfever. However, he Hulot, and his first in colour. It is also the most 1940/41. A dramatised reenactment of real events doesn’t want to disappoint his mother, so he award-wining of Tati’s six feature films. As usual with using the actual AFS servicemen and women. The fabricates an overseas mission during Wolrd War Tati, there is little plot, and less dialogue, the film fiery finale, in which a blaze is controlled before it 2, whilst actually working in a San Diego shipyard. being almost a mime, with conversation relegated to sets light to ammunition ship, delivers action and Widely regarded as one of Sturges’ best (he was background sound effect. Tati plays uncle to 9-year suspense. However, Jennings seems acting more nominated for a screenplay Oscar), this satire on old Gérard, and the film gently mocks Gérard’s interested in a portrait of London during the Blitz heroism and it’s political value in wartime is a career parents (and France) for their post-war obsession and depicts his working class characters in a notably highlight for Bracken. There are hilarious insights with consumerism, modernism and mechanisation. unpatronising and realistic fashion. Jennings was into family values, politics and ethics, and yet it A delightful visual comedy that transcends culture credited with catching the mood of the British in still packs an emotional wallop not found in other in its appeal for a more human and humane crisis and Fires Were Started is generally considered Sturges movies. civilisation. Amusez-vous bien! Humphrey Jennings’s masterpiece.

CAST: Eddie Bracken, William Demarest CAST: Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne CAST: George Gravett, Phillip Wilson-Dickson, Fred Servantie, Alain Bécourt. Griffiths, Loris Rey, Johnny Houghton

I WAS A MALE WAR THE LAVENDER HILL MOB BRIDE (1949) (1951) USA, 101 MINS BRITAIN, 81 MIN, 16MM DIRECTOR: HOWARD HAWKS DIRECTOR: CHARLES CRICHTON A classic comedy from World War Two. Ann Sheridan One of the best of the delightful post-war Ealing plays Catherine Gates, a Lieutenant in the American comedies. Alec Guinness plays a mild-mannered Army who finds herself working in Europe. Against bank clerk who conceives the perfect bank robbery, her will, she is sent on assignment with French with foundry manager Stanley Holloway. “It’s just Captain, Henri Rochard, played by Cary Grant. as well we are both honest men!” exclaims Stanley. Their initial antagonism turns to sudden love and With the dubious help of Sid James and Alfie Bass, they secretly marry. When Ann is ordered back they manage to steal the gold from a delivery van, to America, Henri has to find a clandestine way and melt it down into Eiffel Tower statuettes. That’s to accompany her. He stows away on a military when it all goes wrong. The witty script by T.E.B. transport ship, disguised as a war bride. The director, Clarke won an Academy Award. Director Charles Howard Hawks, and the two lead actors are all in Crichton had a comeback in his later years, directing top-notch form in this fast-paced, screwball comedy. A FISH CALLED WANDA.

CAST: Ann Sheridan, Cary Grant CAST: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James, Alfie Bass.