| 21/05/12 19:00 | Harvey | I’ve chosen a film by my favourite Hollywood actor James Stewart. His film debut in 1935 was a Warner Bros. short, called "Important News" starring Chic Sales; his first feature film came later in 1935. In all, his film career spanned 55 years.
The film we are going to see is called Harvey, a 1950 film based on Mary Chase's play of the same name, directed by Henry Koster, and also starring Josephine Hull.
James Stewart plays Elwood P. Dowd a mild-mannered, pleasant man, who just happens (he says) to have an invisible friend resembling a 6-foot rabbit.
| David at Mary's house | |
| 16/04/12 19:00 | TBA - ? 'The Day The Earth Stood Still | TBA | Gerald & Liz. | |
| 19/03/12 19:00 | The Great Dictator | This Charlie Chaplin film has one of "the great speeches" in it. It was shot in black & white but colour footage has also been found. | David & Mary | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJOuoyoMhj8 |
| 20/02/12 19:00 | Jour de Fete | French film night. The main film is Jour de Fete (1949), the first of Jacques Tati's comedies. There will also be a short film, "White Mane: The Wild Horse" (1953), by Albert Lamorisse, director of The Red Balloon. If there is time, we will watch The Red Balloon (1956) as well. | June & Robin | http://http:/www.imdb.com/title/tt0040497/ |
| 16/01/12 19:00 | Metropolis | Fritz Lang's 1927 science fiction film. | Ian, hostiing at Mary's | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j8Ba9rWhUg |
| 21/11/11 19:00 | An Affair to Remember | Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr star! Handsome playboy Nicky Ferrante and beautiful night club singer Terry McKay have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Despite being engaged to other people, both agree to reunite at the top of the Empire State Building in six months. However, an unfortunate accident keeps Terry from the reunion, and Nicky fears that she has married or does not love him anymore. Will he discover the truth behind her absence and reunite with his one true love, or has fate and destiny passed them by? | John & Rita | |
| 17/10/11 19:00 | City of Ships (and others) | I am showing some documentary films about the port of London. It's interesting to see the various styles of reporting and the subject matter is interesting too. City of Ships was made in 1939 and Waters of Time shows the docks at work in the fifties. | Mary | |
| 19/09/11 19:00 | The Man Who Knew Too Much & The Glass Mountain | The proposal is a traditional B and A film evening with an interval - (maybe with some adverts?). The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934): running time 76mins.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025452/
Starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best & Peter Lorre;
directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Assassination plot, kidnapping, and shoot-out. The Glass Mountain (1949/50): running time 86 mins.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040605/
Starring Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Tito Gobbi & Valentina Cortese;
directed by Henry Cass.
The plot of the English Patient could have been inspired by this! | Diane | |
| 15/08/11 19:00 | Top Hat | One of the most iconic of the films made by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, with music by Irving Berlin. (1935) | Gerald and Liz | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L-yyZ5O0XY |
| 18/07/11 19:00 | Double Indemnity | Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife who wishes her husband were dead, and Edward G. Robinson as a claims adjuster whose job is to find phony claims. The term double indemnity refers to a clause in certain life insurance policies that doubles the payout in cases when death is caused by accidental means. | John & Rita | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7R0BpSAXB4 |
| 20/06/11 19:00 | The English Patient | From comedy to high drama. | June | |
| 16/05/11 19:00 | Carry on Teacher | Carry On Teacher is the third Carry on film, released in 1959. It features Ted Ray in his only Carry On role, alongside series regulars; Kenneth Conner, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques. Leslie Phillips and Joan Sims make their second appearances in the series. | David, hosted at Mary's house. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75GAvpT35aY |
| 18/04/11 19:00 | Brighton Rock | One of Richard Attenborough's best early roles (1947). Based on the Graham Greene novel. Directed by John Boulting. | Ian, hosted at Mary's. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_TYGRChCn4 |
| 21/03/11 19:00 | Blow Up | This film by Michelangio Antonioni was made in 1966, rather later than our normal range, but it is very much of its era and is an entertaining and intriguing film. It stars David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave. | June & Robin | |
| 21/02/11 19:00 | Kind Hearts and Coronets (also Georges Melies) | I had billed this as "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951 not 2008!) but this proved to be unavailable. So instead we saw the wonderful old Alec Guiness classic from 1949. (Sadly only 6 members present.) This was supported by a couple of short silent films from 1902, together with part of a documentary about their maker, Georges Melies. The fantastic 'A Trip to the Moon' is considered a classic of early silent cinema and probably the first 'sci-fi' film. | Gerald | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000417/ |
| 17/01/11 19:00 | Rawhide | We actually showed an episode from the Rawhide series, followed by "The man who shot Liberty Valance" with James Stewart and John Wayne. Rawhide Classic western from redoubtable old hand Henry Hathaway. Two stagecoach depot staff on the California to St Louis run plus Susan Hayward's spitfire mum and her baby find themselves sharing a carriage a with four outlaws. Tyrone Power plays the reluctant hero forced into a draw during a couple of nifty gunfights. Parents should look away when one gunman takes potshots at Hayward's wandering toddler. - Directors: Henry Hathaway
- Starring: Hugh Marlowe, Susan Hayward, Tyrone Power
| John & Rita | |
| 29/11/10 19:00 | Irma La Douce | An Academy Award-winning farce with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, directed by Billy Wilder; released 1963. Follow the link in Preview for more details.
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PARKING SUGGESTION: As parking is very limited and manoeuvring in the dark is difficult, may I suggest that you park opposite in Scantabout, such as in Alexandra Road. The road runs parallel to Winchester Road for a short way.
You can of course, check-out St Edwards Church Car Park but if they have a function they do not like it!
| Diane | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057187/ |
| 18/10/10 19:00 | The Naked Truth | A film from the heyday of British comedy film-making. This is the film that brought Peter Sellers to prominence as a comedy character actor. Director & producer: Mario Zampi (an Italian!) | David (To be held at Mary's) | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBa7HzcLEbU |
| 20/09/10 19:00 | Citizen Kane | The film by Orson Welles. IMDb: Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance | June & Robin | |
| 19/07/10 19:00 | Charlie Chaplin & Hi-jack! | Mary will show her home-produced movie, Hi Jack, a comedy adventure, which stars Ian, David & Mary among others!!! She will also give a presentation about Charlie Chaplin's life and show some short Chaplin films. | Mary | |
| 21/06/10 19:00 | Singing in the Rain | Singing in the Rain | Gerald & Liz | |
| 17/05/10 19:00 | The Birds, Hitchcock | A classic Hitchcock suspense where a town is taken over by birds who seem to be trying to drive out all the inhabitants. | Judy | |
| 19/04/10 19:00 | Cancelled | This evening's showing has been cancelled. | Cancelled | |
| 15/03/10 19:00 | The Seventh Seal | The Seventh Seal is a 1957Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, about the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) across a plague-ridden landscape, and a monumental game of chess between himself and the personification of Death, who has come to take his life. The title refers to a passage from the Book of Revelation, used both at the very start of the film, and again towards the end, beginning with the words "And when the Lamb had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour" (Revelation 8:1). Here the motif of silence refers to the "silence of God" which is a major theme of the film. The Knight takes a squire, a troupe of travelling players and a deaf and dumb girl under his protection as the game is played out. One by one Death exacts his toll, and it is up to Block to stall his opponent for as long as possible if he is to save the lives of those he is trying to protect. The film is considered a major classic of world cinema. It helped Bergman to establish himself as a world-renowned director and contains scenes which have become iconic through parodies and homages. | John & Rita | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anvRFJFUnRE |
| 15/02/10 19:00 | Battleship Potemkin | Sergei Eisenstein's masterpiece | Ian (to be held at John and Rita's) | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euG1y0KtP_Q |
| 18/01/10 19:00 | Tokyo Story | Tokyo Story was released in 1953 and tells the story of an elderly couple’s journey from their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling postwar Tokyo. The film explores the generational conflict in a way that is quintessentially Japanese and yet universal in its appeal. The film is in black and white with sub-titles so make sure you have your glasses (only if you need them of course). | David (To be held at Marys) | http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=225885 |
| 21/12/09 09:45 | Next film in January | No film this month due to proximity to Christmas | Cancelled | |
| 16/11/09 19:00 | The General | Buster Keaton's silent comic masterpiece. | Gerald (but held at Mary's) | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xh108cLbo |
| 19/10/09 19:00 | SORRY - cancelled due to illness | See Nov. meeting | Cancelled | |
| 25/09/09 19:00 | Dr. Strangelove | "How I came to love the bomb" | June | |
| 16/08/09 19:00 | Glen Miller Story | Tells the story of Glen's life and music from 1920s until just before the end of the war. Particularly it relates how he eventually found his own "sound" for his band. | John & Rita | |
| 20/07/09 19:00 | Casablanca | Humphrey Bogart (Rick) & Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa) star in this fast paced movie which is at times moving and at times dryly humorous. Set in Morrocco in World War 2 where people are seeking transit papers to escape the country. Director Michael Curtiz | Mary | |