Thursday – Term 1
Film Society: 1.00 – 3.30 pm – Auditorium.
Co-ordinators: Rick Thompson and Aileen Harland
DATE | FILM |
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Feb 09 |
*THE ZOOKEEPER’S WIFE, USA, 2017, 126 mins. |
Feb 16 | THE SEARCHERS, USA, 1956, 113 mins. |
Feb 23 | *BATTLE OF OKINAWA, Japan, 1971, 139 mins. Directed by Kihachi Okamoto. Starring Tatsuya Nakadai and Shin Kishida. Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War11’s Battle of Okinawa– a massive amphibious assault by US troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead. Showcasing the horrors of war, specifically its effects on civilian morale, Okamoto balances powerful drama with touches of a cynical, dark sense of humour. |
Mar 02 | STORM BOY, Australia, 2019, 99 mins. Directed by Shaun Seet Starring Geoffrey Rush and Finn Little. A pro-ecological tale about a boy’s love for an orphaned pelican and his awakening to the importance of defending wildlife and protecting nature. The themes of family, friendship, love, loss and loneliness are universal and rounded out with a message of hope for a better future. |
Mar 09 | STORM OVER ASIA Soviet Union, 1928, 120 mins. Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. Starring Valery Inkijnoff. The last film in Pudovkin’s “crisis of conscience” trilogy {MOTHER and THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG – earlier Parts 1 & 2}, STORM OVER ASIA is an epic, at once heroic and ironic, of an exploited Mongolian hunter who eventually rises to rout out the occupying British force. Pudovkin skilfully employs fade-in and out techniques to subtly indicate a time lapse or location change. |
Mar 16 | BIG WEDNESDAY, USA, 1978, 120 mins. Directed by John Milius. Starring, Jan- Michael Vincent, William Katt and Garey Busey. The film depicts an American coming of age. Milius constantly revisits the ocean’s churning surf as a literal and metaphoric yardstick to underscore the movie’s themes of personal responsibility, loyalty, and the pressures of unpredictable social change. |
Mar 23 | *PIERROT LE FOU France, 1965, 110 minutes. Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, English subtitles. Leading French New Wave director. Ferdinand (Belmondo), bored with his social world, finds himself in the arms of Anna Karina (herself fleeing a dark past): they flee to the southern coast — and things do indeed change. |
Mar 30 | BORN YESTERDAY USA, 1950, 102 mins. Directed by George Cukor. Starring Judy Holiday and William Holden. A romantic comedy about a crooked businessman, Broderick Crawford, who hires a newspaper reporter, William Holden, to educate his brassy girlfriend, played by Judy Holliday in an academy award winning performance. |