Wed Wed Wed Wed 1 Feb 1 Mar 5 Apr 3 May The Seventh Seal Death In Venice Proof Summer with Monika Sweden/subtitles -1957- 96 min Italy/some subtitles -1971 - 130 min. Australia -1991 - 86 min. multi award winning Sweden/subtitles -1952 - 91 min Made by Ingmar Bergman, this is the quintessential Luchino Visconti brings Thomas Mann’s novel to Martin (Hugo Weaving), a blind photographer, uses his Ingmar Bergman once again has shot Summer with art house film, the absolute antithesis of Hollywood the screen with Dirk Bogarde in the lead role as photographs to prove that people are not lying to him. Monika on Faro (off Gotland Island), the island on with its carefully composed black-and-white a composer who becomes obsessed with a young When he meets Andy (Russell Crowe), a young kitchen which he lived, filmed and produced many of his cinematography and themes that could hardly be more Polish boy and remains in Venice in the midst of hand who describes Martin’s photos in a way that films. It follows the relationship between Harry, a profound. Where is God? Why is he silent? Max von a cholera outbreak. The music of Gustav Mahler pleases him, his honesty and kindness allow Martin to 19 year old young man and Monika, a reckless 17 Sydow plays a knight who returns with his squire from and stunning photography beautifully capture the trust for the first time and the two develop a close bond. year old who escape from their menial jobs in the the Crusades to find the land stricken by plague. God essence of Venice at its fin de siecle. Bring your Sensing an underlying sexual attraction between the city by stealing Harry’s father’s boat to spend the may seem absent, but Death is ever present. In fact hankies along for this one! Visconti also made two, Martin’s jealous housekeeper (Genevieve Picot) summer together on an idyllic island. Things change the knight challenges the hooded figure to a game of The Damned and Conversation Piece and was sets out to destroy the relationship. Writer/director when Monika discovers she is pregnant. Once again chess; as long as he can avoid losing he will be spared. awarded a special 25th anniversay prize at Cannes Jocelyn Moorhouse (The Dressmaker) adeptly mixes Bergman’s skill in using black and white photography Meanwhile a range of other characters, at various for this film & his contribution to cinema as a whole. comedy and drama in this character-driven film, which beautifully contrasts the light and openess of the social levels, are shown grappling in their different explores the forces that draw people together and the islands with the dark claustrophobia of the city. ways with the fundamental human predicament, barriers that keep them apart. exacerbated by the dreadful circumstances of the time. Wed Wed 5 Jul 6 Sep Double The Kid Stakes & Measuring the World Wed Feature Orange Love Story Wed 2 Aug 7 Jun Germany/subtitles - 2012 - 118 min Lonely Hearts The Innocents Both Australian - 1927- 55 min & 2004 - 83 mins Set in the early 19th Century, this film dramatises the lives of two brilliant but very different scientists: Australia - 1981 - 95 min - Best Film - 1982 Two remarkably different creations combine: UK - 1961 - 96 min The Kid Stakes remastered music version presents Alexander von Humboldt and Car Friedrich Gauss. Peter (Norman Kaye), a fiftyish piano tuner with 55 rollicking minutes of ragged urchin comic strip Based on American, Henry James’s short novel These were real people but the film is based on a novel a whimsical streak meets shy, sheltered single characters by Syd Nicholls (Fatty Finn & co) romping The Turn of the Screw. Director Jack Clayton has by Daniel Kehlmann which re-imagines aspects of Patricia (Wendy Hughes), a woman 20 years his on the early streets of Woolloomooloo, Potts Point turned this mystery story of horror, intrigue and the their lives. Humboldt was a geographer and naturalist junior through a dating service. This unlikely couple (and Rockhampton where goat-racing was legal). supernatural into something even deeper of mental who travelled widely, providing the first properly hits it off right away, much to the disapproval of her Orange Love Story (2004) presents stories of love in torture and psychological vulnerability. Deborah scientific descriptions of Latin America and laying the smothering parents. Director Paul Cox teamed with a rural NSW town, based on tales told by locals during Kerr is the governess to orphans, Flora and Miles, foundations of biogeography. He belonged to the upper John Clarke in writing this complex and entertaining auditions held by filmmaker Tom Cowan. A high level who are delightful and loving pupils. Their home is echelons of society. In contrast, Gauss came from a screenplay whose themes are loneliness, of realism was attained by using non-professional an English estate of wealth and scenic charm run poor family but was a child prodigy who grew up to be vulnerability, weakness and the mundane battles of actors playing versions of themselves. This is a film by a competent staff. The owner wants to play no hailed as one of the greatest ever mathematicians. The the everyday. “Beautifully observed and beautifully about interconnecting lives and relationships rated part but to pay the bills. Governess and children film moves between the careers of the two and depicts acted, it’s a small gem”. (Time Out, London) are in harmony. What could go wrong? a meeting between them. “one of the best Australian films of the year”. Wed Wed members only 4 Oct 1 Nov program 2017 Don’t Come Knocking On the Beach Germany/US - 2005 - 118 min US/Australia - 1959 -129 min A curious film about a movie cowboy who walks off A post-apocalyptic novel written by British- the set, goes seeking his past, and finds something Australian author Nevil Shute after he emigrated that looks a lot more like a movie than the one he was to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a making. ‘There are scenes that don’t even pretend to mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the work. And others that have a sweetness and visual arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them beauty that stops time and simply invites you to share.’ from the Northern Hemisphere following a nuclear Written by Sam Shepard and directed by Wim Wenders, war a year previously. As the radiation approaches, who wrote and directed the great Paris, Texas (1984). each person deals with impending death differently. The Guardian commented that “fictions such as On the Beach played an important role in raising awareness about the threat of nuclear war.” and These screenings are for The Economist has called it “still incredibly moving members only. after nearly half a century.” For our regular fortnighly screenings for member and the general public, or to become a member, please visit Wed malenyfilmsociety.info 6 Dec screening exclusively for MFS members no entry charge - 7pm for 7.15pm a film discussion follows the screening The Edge of Heaven members are invited to bring a supper table contribution As a membership group we: all films are from the NATIONAL FILM & SOUND ARCHIVE • screen the best of world Turkey/Germany - 2007 - 120 min. cinema The literal translation of the original title is Bringing you the best of • promote social interaction On the Other Side. It is the story of six people by providing a pre-screening (German and Turkish) whose lives intertwine world cinema dining experience in Hamburg and Istanbul and who mature and transform after encountering death. The film • encourage film appreciation moves at a gentle pace, adopts a balladic • collaborate with community narrative and explores philosophical questions First Wednesday of each month. groups through film about death and culture. The film won the Best Masonic Hall, Tamarind St, Maleny Screenplay Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Maleny Film Society Festival and many other awards subsequently. www.malenyfilmsociety.info.