SUNDAY CLASSICS at THE CHAUVEL
July 29th 2008 16:31
Curated by Sam Fielder.
4pm Sundays.
Tickets $11.
Every week on Sunday at the Chauvel Cinema in Paddington Sydney, the classics come back to life on the big screen. Over the month of August, some mind-blowing films will be screening including a Roman Polanski double this Sunday August 3 with CUL-DE-SAC and REPULSION, Polanski’s first English language film, followed next week by Oliver Reed as a 17th century priest in THE DEVILS and Linda Blair in her Oscar nominated performance in THE EXORCIST.
The second half of August crams in 3 Sundays worth of spectacular movies with Orson Welles, Vivian Leigh and Charlton Heston all together in the eerie cop thriller TOUCH OF EVIL together with Alec Guinness and a galaxy of stars in THE LADYKILLERS. Sunday August 24 sees WWII epic THE BIG RED ONE starring Lee Marvin and Hazel Court traveling down to earth to repopulate her planet in DEVIL GIRLS FROM MARS before we round off the month on August 31 with the always astounding Fritz Lang directed masterpiece METROPOLIS alongside Jean Luc Goddard’s CONTEMPT with Bridget Bardot and Jack Palance and yes you guessed it Fritz Lang.
So why not finish off your weekend with a bit of window shopping and lunch at the Paddington end of Oxford Street before strolling over to the Chauvel for your weekly classic intake!
Sunday 3 August
CUL-DE-SAC REPULSION
4.00pm
CUL-DE-SAC (M) UK/1966/111mins/35mm
Directed by Roman Polanski
Winner of the 1966 Berlin Film Festival. A mismatched married couple, who have withdrawn from the world to an isolated castle, are visited by gangsters on the run.
6.00pm
REPULSION (M) UK/1965/105mins/35mm
Directed by Roman Polanski
Polanski’s first English language film is perfectly realized – a stunning portrait of the disintegration, both mental and emotional, of a shy young Belgian girl (Catherine Deneuve) living in London.
Sunday 10 August
THE EXORCIST THEDEVILS
4.00pm
THE EXORCIST (R18 ) USA/1973/122mins/35mm
Director: William Friedkin
Unleashed on the unsuspecting public of 1973, The Exorcist quickly became a box-office sensation with its shock value and supernatural themes. Linda Blair was nominated for an Oscar for her portrait of Regan, a 12 year old girl possessed by The Devil.
6.10pm
THE DEVILS (R18 ) UK/1971/111mins/35mm
Director: Ken Russell
This controversial, once banned, masterpiece features a liberal priest (Reed) in 17th century France who is denounced for witchcraft.
Starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave.
Sunday 17 August
TOUCH OF EVIL THE LADY KILLERS
4.00pm
TOUCH OF EVIL
Directed by Orson Welles.
A classic south-of-the-border noir tale about newlyweds who incur the wrath of local police chief Hank Quinian (Welles) in a small border town. This has one of the best opening sequences in film history.
5.45pm
THE LADYKILLERS (PG) USA/1955/94mins/35mm
Directed by Mackendick
This classic farce features Alec Guinness as the superbly shifty leader of an eccentric gang of criminals who plot a major heist from a little old lady’s boarding house.
Sunday 24 August
THE BIG RED ONE DEVIL GIRLS FROM MARS
4.00PM
THE BIG RED ONE (M) USA/1980/158mins/35mm
Samuel Fuller’s WWII epic follows a sergeant in the 1st infantry (the legendary Lee Marvin) and four young men assigned to him. Few war films have ever achieved such eloquence.
6.50PM
DEVIL GIRLS FROM MARS (G) UK/1954/77mins/16mm
An evil female Martian travels to Earth in search of humans to help repopulate her desolate red planet. Uncooperative men will be destroyed. With Hazel Court as the Martian, who wouldn’t?
Sunday 31 August
METROPOLIS CONTEMPT
4.00PM
METROPOLIS (M) GER/1927/126mins/35mm
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Lang’s visionary and elaborate spectacle – an epic projection of a futuristic city divided into a working and an elite class – still has the power to dazzle 80 years on! The most influential sci-fi ever made.
6.15PM
CONTEMPT (M) FRA/11963/03min/35mm
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Godard’s cynical look at the art of filmmaking follows a screenwriter in his attempts to recount Homer’s The Odyssey. Stars Brigitte Bardot, Micel Piccoli, Jack Palance & Fritz Lang.
See you at the Chauvel this Sunday!
4pm Sundays.
Tickets $11.
Every week on Sunday at the Chauvel Cinema in Paddington Sydney, the classics come back to life on the big screen. Over the month of August, some mind-blowing films will be screening including a Roman Polanski double this Sunday August 3 with CUL-DE-SAC and REPULSION, Polanski’s first English language film, followed next week by Oliver Reed as a 17th century priest in THE DEVILS and Linda Blair in her Oscar nominated performance in THE EXORCIST.
The second half of August crams in 3 Sundays worth of spectacular movies with Orson Welles, Vivian Leigh and Charlton Heston all together in the eerie cop thriller TOUCH OF EVIL together with Alec Guinness and a galaxy of stars in THE LADYKILLERS. Sunday August 24 sees WWII epic THE BIG RED ONE starring Lee Marvin and Hazel Court traveling down to earth to repopulate her planet in DEVIL GIRLS FROM MARS before we round off the month on August 31 with the always astounding Fritz Lang directed masterpiece METROPOLIS alongside Jean Luc Goddard’s CONTEMPT with Bridget Bardot and Jack Palance and yes you guessed it Fritz Lang.
Sunday 3 August
CUL-DE-SAC REPULSION
4.00pm
CUL-DE-SAC (M) UK/1966/111mins/35mm
Directed by Roman Polanski
Winner of the 1966 Berlin Film Festival. A mismatched married couple, who have withdrawn from the world to an isolated castle, are visited by gangsters on the run.
REPULSION (M) UK/1965/105mins/35mm
Directed by Roman Polanski
Polanski’s first English language film is perfectly realized – a stunning portrait of the disintegration, both mental and emotional, of a shy young Belgian girl (Catherine Deneuve) living in London.
Sunday 10 August
THE EXORCIST THEDEVILS
4.00pm
THE EXORCIST (R18 ) USA/1973/122mins/35mm
Director: William Friedkin
Unleashed on the unsuspecting public of 1973, The Exorcist quickly became a box-office sensation with its shock value and supernatural themes. Linda Blair was nominated for an Oscar for her portrait of Regan, a 12 year old girl possessed by The Devil.
6.10pm
THE DEVILS (R18 ) UK/1971/111mins/35mm
Director: Ken Russell
This controversial, once banned, masterpiece features a liberal priest (Reed) in 17th century France who is denounced for witchcraft.
Starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave.
Sunday 17 August
TOUCH OF EVIL THE LADY KILLERS
4.00pm
TOUCH OF EVIL
Directed by Orson Welles.
A classic south-of-the-border noir tale about newlyweds who incur the wrath of local police chief Hank Quinian (Welles) in a small border town. This has one of the best opening sequences in film history.
5.45pm
THE LADYKILLERS (PG) USA/1955/94mins/35mm
Directed by Mackendick
This classic farce features Alec Guinness as the superbly shifty leader of an eccentric gang of criminals who plot a major heist from a little old lady’s boarding house.
Sunday 24 August
THE BIG RED ONE DEVIL GIRLS FROM MARS
4.00PM
THE BIG RED ONE (M) USA/1980/158mins/35mm
Samuel Fuller’s WWII epic follows a sergeant in the 1st infantry (the legendary Lee Marvin) and four young men assigned to him. Few war films have ever achieved such eloquence.
6.50PM
DEVIL GIRLS FROM MARS (G) UK/1954/77mins/16mm
An evil female Martian travels to Earth in search of humans to help repopulate her desolate red planet. Uncooperative men will be destroyed. With Hazel Court as the Martian, who wouldn’t?
Sunday 31 August
METROPOLIS CONTEMPT
4.00PM
METROPOLIS (M) GER/1927/126mins/35mm
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Lang’s visionary and elaborate spectacle – an epic projection of a futuristic city divided into a working and an elite class – still has the power to dazzle 80 years on! The most influential sci-fi ever made.
6.15PM
CONTEMPT (M) FRA/11963/03min/35mm
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Godard’s cynical look at the art of filmmaking follows a screenwriter in his attempts to recount Homer’s The Odyssey. Stars Brigitte Bardot, Micel Piccoli, Jack Palance & Fritz Lang.
See you at the Chauvel this Sunday!
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PS - Sam Fuller's War masterpiece is called The Big RED One