Schedule
From USYD Filmsoc
Week 1: Dancer in the Dark (2000) - Directed by Lars Von Trier
- It won the Palm D'or and got standing ovations around the world. Here's your chance to watch it with a bunch of avid film lovers on a huge screen with 7.1 surround sound.
Week 2: Les Diaboliques (1954) - Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
- A French Psycho-Thriller to rival Hitchcocks best. Incredibly influential, and promises to be incredibly entertaining. I don't want to ruin anything, but the film contains SUSPENSE. and AWESOME.
Week 3: Midnight Cowboy (1969) - Directed by Jon Schlesinger
- The first X-rated film to win an Oscar (coming away with Best Picture and Best Director), we see Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight flex their acting chops in a film that was what Brokeback Mountain wished it could be.
Week 4: TRIPLE FEATURE - One Week (1920) - directed by Buster Keaton, Duck Soup (1933) - The Marx Brothers and City Lights (1931) - Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Combined runtime - 174 minutes.
- We present to you, some of the most important directors of all time. One of the most outrageously funny films of all time in Duck Soup, written by the irrepressible Marx Brothers. A stunning artistic achievement in City Lights, and the first film by Buster Keaton, a brilliant short. Not to be missed.
Week 5: JSA (2000) - Directed by Park Chan Wook.
- How did a film about the demilitarized zone between the Two Koreas become the highest grossing film in Korean history? Equal parts drama, suspense and an exploration of identity, this is one of Korea's finest filmmakers cutting awfully close to incredibly sensitive topics.
Week 6: Gates of Heaven (1978) - Directed by Errol Morris
- This is a documentary film about the Pet Cemetery business. Sound like a strange subject? Werner Herzog did too. He said that he would eat his shoe if this improbable film was ever made and shown. Not only was it made, but Roger Ebert rates it as one of the Top 10 movies ever made. (Also: We hope to screen the short film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe before the film. I'm completely serious)
Week 7: Fitzcarraldo (1982) - Directed by Werner Herzog.
- Herzog is a crazy, crazy man. Based on a true story about a rubber baron who pulled a 30 ton steamboat over a mountain, Herzog enlists Klaus Kinski to play Fitzcarraldo, an ambitious rubber baron who pulls a 3 story, 320-ton steamboat over a mountain. Of course, Herzog makes his cast ACTUALLY PULL A 320 TON STEAMBOAT OVER A MOUNTAIN. A film unlike any other.
Week 8: All About Eve (1950) - Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Bette Davis is Margo Channing in the film that swept the Academy Awards, winning Best Director, Best Picture and Best Screenplay, a feat made more impressive when considering that Sunset Boulevard was also released that year. One of the great golden age films and hilarious to boot.
Week 9: Earth and Ashes (2004) - Directed by Atiq Rahimi
- An Afghan film, post 9/11, is a remarkable event in it self. This methodical film offers a snapshot of life from a perspective that we would never encounter. A grandfather and his grandchild walk through the desert. This is not an action movie.
MIDSEMESTER BREAK
Week 10: El Topo (1970) - Directed by Alejando Jodorowski
- A cult mystical western about a gunslingers search for enlightenment. Bizarre characters, scenes and the use of dwarven actors. A Heady Mix of Christian Symbolism and Eastern Philosophy. John Lennon's favourite film. Pick the description that appeals to you most.
Week 11: Audience Choice
Week 12: Persona (1966) - Directed by Ingmar Bergman
- An all time great director, with one of his great masterpieces. Exploring an encounter between a mute actress and her nurse, this film has been described as one of this century's great works of art.
Week13: HALLOWEEN PARTY! - Film TBA, but it'll be Halloween-y
