 1987
Screenings
Sunday 2pm: Academy Cinema
Tuesday 7:30pm: Sociology Theatre, University
Films
BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. Italy 1964. 112m.
Director Bernardo Bertolucci. 18 year old, upper class boy tallies and
dallies with communism but is not stuff that revolutionaries are made of and
settles down to his destined place in society.
Sunday only February 22
THREE THREEPENNY OPERA. Germany 1933. 100m.
Director G W Pabst. London at the end of the nineteenth century. The bandit Mack
the Knife secretly marries the daughter of the 'king of the beggars' who
plots to be revenged on him. Based on Brecht's adaptation of Gay's 'The
Beggars' Opera".
Sunday March 1. (Also Saturday
February 28 at Ngaio Marsh theatre.)
BEFORE STONEWALL. USA 1984. 87m.
Directors Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg. With the music of Sinatra,
Garland, Jefferson Airplane, Tina Turner, many others. Archive footage, and
recent interviews with gays and lesbians
Sunday March 8 / Tuesday March
10
AFTER THE REHEARSAL. Sweden 1984.
Director Ingmar Bergman. Set on a stage after rehearsal the plot concerns a
theatre director and relationships with his two leading actresses. A
passionate and funny tour-de-force from the master.
Sunday March 15 / Tuesday March
17
Before the Revolution (repeat)
Sunday March 22 / Tuesday March
24
HOME AND THE WORLD. India 1984. 142m. GA certificate.
Director Satyajit Ray. In 1905 Lord Curzon proposed splitting Bengal into two
parts to separate Hindus and Muslims. This was opposed by middle-class
intelligentsia, giving rise to terrorist activities and boycott of British
goods by individuals such as Nikhil, a liberal.
Sunday March 29 I Tuesday March
31
THE TERENCE DAVIES TRILOGY. UK 1976/83. 100m.
The guilt-burdened life of a Merseyside homosexual from lower-middle class
home, but the film does not present him as a victim and offers less a social
critique than tragic stoical view of human courage.
Sunday April 5 / Tuesday April 7
QUEEN KELLY. USA 1931 (recut 1985).
Director Eric von Stroheim. One of the great unfinished films of all times.
With Gloria Swanson, who said of von Stroheirn "Our director is a
madman!"
Sunday April 12 / Tuesday April
14
A KERMESSE HEROIQUE. (Carnival in Flanders). France 1935. 110m. GY
certificate.
Director Jacques Feyder. Set in 16th Century Flanders during the rising against
Spanish domination, a rare comedy of manners,
Sunday April 19 / Tuesday April
21
ES PRINCES. France 1983. 100m. GA certificate.
Director Tony Gatlif. A comedy-melodrama film made by a Gypsy about the
plight of a hawk faced gypsy stomping long life's highway towing his little
daughter and led by his palm-reading 80-year-old mom.
Sunday April 20 / Tuesday April
22
SUGAR CANE ALLEY. Martinque/France 1983. 106m. GA cert'.
Director Buzhan Paky. The story of a boy who leaves the poverty or the sugar
cane plantations in the 1930s to make his way through the French educational
system.
Sunday May 3 / Tuesday May 5
RED MATILDAS. Australia 1985. 50m.
Directors Sharon Connolly and Trevor Graham. The story a young girl compelled
to leave school during the depression years and her attraction towards
communism and the experiments taking place in the Soviet Union.
Also ROCKING THE FOUNDATIONS. Australia 1985. GA.
Director Pat Fiske. A passionate documentary about the NSW Builders' Union,
which, for five years in the 70s saved much of Sydney from speculative
building.
Sunday May 10 / Tuesday May 1 2
IKURU (Living). Japan 1952. 143m.
Director Akira Kurosawa. A civil servant learns he is dying so devotes his
last months to fighting bureaucracy to convert a dump to a playground.
Sunday May 17 / Tuesday May 19
THRONE OF BLOOD (Kumonosu-Jo). Japan 1957. 105m.
Director Akira Kurosawa. The re-telling or 'Macbeth' in medieval Japan. There
is direct use of Noh techniques. Even better than 'Rashomon' and 'Seven
Samurai'.
Sunday May 24 / Tuesday May 26
THE LOWER DEPTHS. (Donzoko). Japan 1957. 137m.
Director Akira Kurosawa. An interpretation of Gorky's play set in a sordid
little flophouse in the slums of Tokyo.
Sunday May 31 / Tuesday June 2
DIABOLO MENTIIE. (Peppermint Soda). France 1977. 100m.
Director Diane K. What it's like to be a 13-year-old French schoolgirl with
skinny Legs, a bossy sister and a mother who doesn't understand her.
Sunday June 7 / Tuesday June 9
GERTRUD. Denmark 1964. 117m. certificate.
Director Carl Theodore Dreyer. Set in the early 19OOs, Gertrud is a
well-known singer married to a lawyer. With their marriage failing she
becomes involved in a disastrous affair.
Sunday June 14, / Tuesday June
16
28 UP. UK 1984. 136m.
Director Michael Apted. Within the, film you are able to follow the growth
and life of a group of children, from the age 7 to the age of 28 and see what
has happened to their ideas and aspirations as they have aged.
Sunday June 21 / Tuesday June 23
ANKUR. India 1974. 134m. RFS certificate
Director Shyam Denegal. A young man overseeing his father's property seduces
a workman's wife, but rejects her when his children arrive.
Sunday June 28 / Tuesday June 30
THE MURDERER HIDES HIS FACE Czechoslovakia. 1966. 95m GA cert.
Director Petr Schu Lhorr. A lively whodunit made for the Czech domestic
market with a fine twist to the ending.
Sunday July 5 / Tuesday July 7
THE WORLD OF TOMORROW. USA 1981, 82m. GA cert.
Directors Torn Johnson. Lance Bird. A graceful essay on the 1939 NY Worlds
Fair with clips from movies of the period. Significant to developments today.
Sunday July 12 / Tuesday July 14
DIARY OF A SHINJUKU THIEF. Japan 1969. 94m. RFS cert
Director Nagisa Oshima. A boy and a girl in search of rightful moment of
sexual ecstasy. The story during the student riots in Shinjuku.
Sunday July 19 / Tuesday July 21
L'ARMEE DES OMBRES. France 1969. 140m. RFS cert.
Director Jean-Pierre Melville. A thriller set in the tense milieu of the
French Resistance during WW2 based on Kessel's definitive book of the period.
Sunday July 26 / Tuesday July 28
AGATHA ET LES LECTURES ILLIMITEES (Agatha and the Unlimited Readings). France
1981. 90m.
Director Marguerite Duras. With Bulle Ogier. The re-constituted pleasure of
joy and pain, of feminine bodies and fraternal incest. Cinema is still fine
art.
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
FORTNIGHT IN CITY
Sunday August 16 / Tuesday
August 18
LES BAS-FONDS (The Lower Depths) France 1937. 90m.
Director Jean Renoir. Renoir's version of Gorky's play features Louis Jouvet
as the gambling baron who lives in the flophouse and Jean Gabin as the thief
who is trying to build a better life.
Sunday August 23 / Tuesday
August 25
LE PONT DU NORD. France 1981, 130m. GA cert.
Director Jacques Rivette. Marie (Bulle Ogier) meets daughter (Pascale Ogier)
in Paris on her release from prison where, for four days, they play for real
a kind of 'snakes and ladders' game.
Sunday August 30 / Tuesday
September 1
PEPPERMINT FREEDOM. West Germany 1983. 112m.
Director Marianne Rosenbaum. War, politics and history seen through the eyes
of children in the aftermath of WW2 in the American zone. W Peter Fonda.
Sunday September 6 / Tuesday
September 8
HALF LIFE. Australia 1985. 87m. GA cert.
Director Dennis 0'Rourke. The effects of the US tests on the people of the
Marshall Islands. Combines recently de-classified Defense Dept. footage with
contemporary film and interviews with islanders who received massive
fall-out.
Sunday September 13 / Tuesday
September 15
KADDISH. USA 1984. 92m.
Director Steve Brand. 'Kaddish' is the Jewish prayer for the dead, but also
an affirmation of life, a commitment to carry on. A chronicle about young
Jews confronting atrocities committed before they were born.
Sunday September 20 / Tuesday
September 22
CHILE: lLASTA CUANDO? (When Will it End?) Australia 1986 59m. GA certificate.
Director David Bradbury. A portrait of a brutal military' dictatorship which
traces years between 1973 and 1985.
Also WITNESS TO THE WAR. USA 1985. 29m. GA certificate
Director Deborah Scharrer. The dramatic story of Dr Clements' journey from
Vietnam pilot to doctor behind rebel lines in E1 Salvador.
Sunday September 27 / Tuesday
September 29
CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING. France 1974. 92m. R16 cert.
Director Jacques Rivette. A story of two girls whose adventures in a haunted
house eventually lead to the altering of a tragic conclusion, which is
relived, daily.
Sunday October 4 / Tuesday
October 6
THE LACEMAKER. France, Germany, Switzerland. 1977. 107m R16 cert.
Director Claude Goretta. Gentle, innocent Beatrice joins worldly-wise
Marylene at a holiday. Later, Beatrice breaks down after a serious affair
with the boy she met on holiday.
Sunday October 11 / Tuesday
October 13
THE BEST WAY TO WALK. France 1976. 86m.
Director Claude Miller. A study of two men working as monitors in a summer school
for boys and the conflicts between them. A wonderful observation of the
quirks of human behaviour.
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