Come along to our weekly film screenings of independent, international and classic films.
| Nov | |
| Sun 8 Nov | The man who had his hair cut short |
| Sun 15 Nov | Celine and Julie Go Boating |
| Sun 22 Nov | The Crowd |
| Sun 29 Nov | Mandingo |
| Dec | |
| Sun 6 Dec | Diary Of A Country Priest |
| Sun 13 Dec | Queensland films 1930-60: from the talkies to television |
| Sun 13 Dec | The Navigator |
| Jan | |
| Sun 10 Jan | Dad and Dave Come To Town |
| Sun 17 Jan | Modern Times |
| Sun 24 Jan | Mon Oncle |
| Sun 31 Jan | The Devil is a Woman |
| Feb | |
| Sun 7 Feb | That Obscure Object of Desire |
| Sun 14 Feb | An insider's view |
| Sun 21 Feb | Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession |
| Sun 28 Feb | Flausfilm |
* Print source: National Film and Sound Archives [new window]
Sunday free films
Second Take
Films we should have screened during the first twenty years of Sunday Films.
The man who had his hair cut short
(Belgium 1966 95 min) U15
"Moving and remarkably original...a mixture of psychological thriller and noir love story". Tony Ryans Time Out
This study in isolation was adapted from a novel written in the form of an uninterrupted confession by Govert, a teacher who is obsessed with one of his students. In the film the viewer is drawn into Govert's subjectivity, the horror and beauty he finds in everyday experience. An acknowledged influence was Hitchcock's Vertigo.
Director Andre Delvaux
Cast Senne Rouffaer, Beata Tyszkiewicz
When Sun 8 Nov, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
Source: NFSA
Celine and Julie Go Boating
(France 1974 185 min) U15
"One of the great films about cinema...by turns very funny and chilling" David Thomson, The Guardian
Two young women - a librarian and a magician - meet during a Parisian summer and find themselves drawn into a house which seems haunted by two phantom ladies, a man and a child. Although ejected on their first visit the two women keep returning to the melodrama (or tragedy?) unfolding in the house.
Director Jacques Rivette
Cast Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder
When Sun 15 Nov, 1.30pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
Note: earlier start time
The Crowd
(USA 1927 100 min, silent with music) U15
One of the last great silent films to emerge from Hollywood before the arrival of sound is unusual in the mordant view taken of the American dream as it follows the fortunes of a young man who arrives in the city full of optimisim about his destiny in life. Location filming in New York is combined with stylised settings showing expressionist influence.
Director King Vidor
Cast James Murray, Eleanor Boardman
When Sun 22 Nov, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
Source: NFSA
Mandingo
(USA 1975 125 min) R18
"Mandingo is the greatest Hollywood film about race." Robin Wood, Sexual Politics and narrative Film
"Trashy pot-boiler will appeal only to the s&m crowd - BOMB" Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide
An anti-"Gone with the Wind" film that treats the pre-Civil War South as a swamp of degradation for white masters and black slaves alike...More than a portrait of social decadence (Mandingo) is (a) great crime film, in which the role of the faceless killer is played by an entire social system." Dave Kehr, The New York Times.
Director Richard Fleischer
Cast James Mason, Perry King, Susan George, Ken Norton
When Sun 29 Nov, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
(France 1950 86 mins) U15
“A film of great purity and, at the end, Bach-like intensity.” Pauline Kael Bresson broke new ground in the way he adapted George Bernanos’s novel that tells of the crisis of a young priest who is neither understood nor accepted by his parishioners. This is a film about faith and grace for the believer and non-believer alike.
Director Robert Bresson
Cast Claude Laydu
When Sun 6 Dec, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
(USA 1924 58 mins. Silent with music) U15
Following the screening of Queensland Films 1930-60, see below.
A young millionaire – ‘living proof that every family tree must have its sap’- is inadvertently set adrift on an ocean liner alone with the woman who has already turned him down. The Liner is a suitable prop for some of Keaton’s best and most elaborate encounters with a malevolently mechanistic universe.
Directors Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp
Cast Buster Keaton and Kathryn McGuire
When Sun 13 Dec, 3.15pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
Source: NFSA
Queensland films 1930-60: from the talkies to television
Film historians Pat Laughren and Kev Franzi will trace the achievements of Queensland filmmakers during the first three decades of the ‘talkies’. They will be showcasing a variety of films –ranging from documentaries to animations and commercials. The presentation was first made at the BIFF in August.
This is a Q150 supported event presented with the assistance of Griffith University.
Followed by a screening of The Navigator at 3.15, see above.
When Sun 13 Dec, 1.30pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
Modern Times
A filmic postscript to the Modern Times exhibition.
Dad and Dave Come to Town
(Australia 1938 97 mins) G
“An intriguing… comedy classic…which wades directly into the controversies surrounding modernity”. Modern Times exhibition catalogue Dad unexpectedly inherits a women’s fashion store and the family moves to the city.
Director Ken G. Hall
Cast Bert Bailey, Shirley Ann Richards, Fred MacDonald, Peter Finch
Plus Bolero (1967 15 mins) Albie Thoms’ experiment in perception to Ravel (screens first)
When Sun 10 Jan, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
Source: NFSA
Modern Times
(USA 1936 85 mins) G
In facing the perils of modernity and the Great Depression, the little tramp made his last appearance before morphing into Hynkel and a Jewish barber (in The Great Dictator) and a bluebeard character (in Monsieur Verdoux).
Director Charles Chaplin
Cast Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard
Plus Say Bow Wow (Gil Brealey 1964 13 mins) one of Australia’s earliest experimental films to screen publicly (screens first).
When Sun 17 Jan, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
Source: NFSA
Mon Oncle
(France 1958 116 mins) G
Clumsily confident in M. Hulot’s Holiday, Hulot in Mon Oncle, is increasingly confused by the encroachment of modernity and consumerism on postwar suburban living.
Director Jacques Tati
Cast Jacques Tati
When Sun 24 Jan, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
The Devil is a Woman
(USA 1935 83 mins) U15
The final collaboration between von Sternberg and Dietrich was set nominally in Spain but this is a world of von Sternberg’s creation. It has been described as ”one of the most coldly beautiful films ever made…a realm of textures, shadows and surfaces which merge and separate in an exotic dance. The director’s distant, serene gaze on the melodramatic action represents the closest cinematic approach to James Joyce’s ideal of ‘aesthetic stasis’.”. Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Director Josef Von Sternberg
Cast Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwell, Cesar Romero
Plus Zygosis (1991 28 mins) – film about the radical photo montagist John Heartfield (screens first).
When Sun 31 Jan, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
That Obscure Object of Desire
(France/Spain 1977 103 mins) M
“It would take Buñuel, four decades later, to show what Sternberg could only suggest.” Gary Morris, Bright Lights.
Employing a subversive displacement of a universal narrative convention, Buñuel, imbued with the spirit of surrealism, transformed Pierre Louys’ The Woman and the Puppet, the novel upon which The Devil is a Woman is also based, into a wickedly black comedy of frustrated desire.
Director Luis Buñuel
Cast Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina
When Sun 7 Feb, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium 2, level 2
FREE No booking required
Source: NFSA
The Torres Strait on film
An insider’s view
In this presentation, complementing the Treasures Wall exhibition, Torres Strait Islander Tony Ghee will provide a linking commentary placing in perspective a selection of images spanning nearly a century. Included will be the world’s first ethnographic footage (1898) filmed on Mer by the Haddon expedition, an extract from Frank Hurley’s 1925 feature Pearl of the South Seas, segments from a 1937 Cinesound Newsreel and a 1957 film sponsored by the Board of Missions, Big Country on Thursday Island (1970) and Kam Yan produced by the ABC’s Indigenous Unit (1997). The presentation (approx 150 mins) will conclude with an episode from the miniseries Remote Area Nurse (2006).
See the Recollections from the Torres Strait exhibition, the Talbot Family Treasures Wall, outside the John Oxley Library on level 4 until 28 Feb.
When Sun 14 Feb, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium2, level 2
FREE No bookings required
Sources: NFSA and SLQ
Obsessed with film
Two portraits
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
(USA 2004 120 mins) MA15+
The story of Jerry Harvey, film buff extraordinaire and maverick programmer, who pioneered the delivery of world cinema into American homes, uncut and without commercials, via one of the first pay cable channels. In revolutionizing what movies Americans could watch, Z Channel soared to new heights. But the other side of the story is Harvey’s very dark personal journey. The film delivers testimonies from the likes of Robert Altman, John Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino, Paul Verhoeven, Jacqueline Bisset, Alexander Payne, James Woods and others.Director Xan Cassevetes
When Sun 21 Feb, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium2, level 2
FREE No bookings required
Flausfilm
(Australia 2009 99 mins) U15
A portrait of actor, teacher of film and legendary cinephile John Flaus in a unique film mosaic structured with cryptic crossword clues suggesting the content of each of the fourteen chapters. Extracts from some of his many film and stage performances are intercut with a selection of scenes from chosen movies and a variety of scenes from the life of Flaus.
Director Peter Tammer
Cast Peter Tammer
When Sun 28 Feb, 2pm
Where slq Auditorium2, level 2
FREE No bookings required
Presented by State Library of Queensland Film Australia (FA) and Australian Film commission (AFC)
*Prints courtesy of the National Film & Sound Archive, Canberra. Other prints from the State Library of Queensland
Ratings |
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| G | General exhibition |
| PG | Parental guidance recommended |
| M | 15+ Recommended for mature audiences |
| U15 | Unrestricted entry |
| Both MA 15+ and 15+ entry restricted to persons 15 years and over unless accompanied by an adult | |
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Both R 18+ and 18+ entry restricted to adults 18 years and over |
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More information
- Email: publicprograms@slq.qld.gov.au
- Phone: +61 7 3840 7768
Last updated: 4th November 2009
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