BARWON HEADS

FILM SOCIETY

INC.

 Committee meeting the Thursday prior to the film at 7.30pm in the supper room. Members welcome.
Showing at the Barwon Heads   Community Hall Cnr. Hitchcock Ave. & Ozone Rd.
On the last Thursday of every month except December at 7.30pm or 8pm during daylight saving. 

Films are shown
on the last Thursday

February to November (incl)
in the Barwon Heads Community Hall Hitchcock Avenue.
Screening starts at 7.30 pm and at 8.pm during daylight savings
Films are supplied by
ScreenSound and ACMI

Contacts
Alex Kuebler 5254 1139
Rosie Gorman 52542074
Membership is by annual subscription
$65.00     concession $40.00
Or 
$20.00 for 3 months Concession $12

Contacts: Aan Riggs   52542948
                Alex Kuebler  52541139
                     

What is a Film Society?

A film society is a community organisation formed by a group of enthusiastic film viewers who like to choose the films they wish to see.

It is a voluntary body, non-political, non-sectarian and non-profit making, consisting of members who pay a membership fee. It has a committee of management, elected by and from the members.

Film Society programs are designed to open the mind to the wider horizons of the Cinema. It is not expected that every member will enjoy each film but it is assumes that members will view the films intelligently. The Australian Council of Film Societies Film Screening Handbook

Guests of members are admitted free but must not exceed 3 per member per calendar year. Casual visitors are welcome however after a second attendance, a casual visitor must become a member. Visitors and guests are asked to make a donation to cover the cost of maintaining and operating the equipment.

March 26: THE BLACK BALLOON

2008 97mins Australia Rated M

Dir: Elissa Down. All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend Jackie, accept his brother?

Cast: Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford, Toni Collette, Erik Thomson, Gemma Ward, Lloyd Allison-Young.

April 30: HIS GIRL FRIDAY

1940 92mins b&w USA. Rated PG

Dir: Howard Hawks. Walter Burns, editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife Hildy to insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin, but not without a fight! The comedy snowballs as more people become involved in Burns’ web.

Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex.

May 28: THE COUNTERFEITERS

2006 98mins Germany Rated MA+

Dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky. The film centres on a Jewish counterfeiter who is coerced into assisting the Nazi operation to flood the UK with forged Bank of England notes. Based on the memoir of Adolf Burger.

2008 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film

Cast: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, David Striesow.

June 25: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

2002 97mins UK Rated G

Dir: Oliver Parker. Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym (Ernest) things get complicated when they both fall in love with women who could only love a man called Ernest.

Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O’Connor, Reese Witherspoon, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Anna Massey.

July 30: FUNNY GIRL

1968 151mins USA. Rated G

Dir: William Wyler. The semi-biographical plot is based on the life and career of Fanny Brice and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nicky Arnstein

Cast: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon, Kay Medford.

August 27: IN BRUGES

2008 107mins UK/Belgium Rated MA+

Dir: Martin McDonagh. Two Irish hit-men are lying low in Bruges after the less-than-successful results of Ray’s first assignment. Ken, the more experienced assassin, must keep his exuberant charge sane and calm.

Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jordan Prentice, Clemence Poesy, Eric Godon, Ciaran Hinds, Zeijko Ivanek.

September 24: THE SERVANT

1963 112mins b/w UK. Rated M

Dir: Joseph Losey. The film takes a sharp look at British class relations via a dramatic turning of the tables between an Oxbridge bachelor and his contemptuous manservant, as the servant exploits his expanding powers over his master.

Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox.

October 29: WOMAN OF THE DUNES

1964 123mins Japan Rated M

Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara described the film as “.. a story of a woman who lives with the sand surrounding her, finding her purpose of life there and a man who discovers water, sees hope in it and desperately tries to escape…”

1964 Cannes Special Jury Prize Winner

Cast: Kyoko Kishida, Hiroko Ito, Eiji Okada.

November 26: JOYEAUX NOEL

2005 116mins France Rated M

Dir: Christian Carion. On the Christmas Eve of 1914, on the Western Front in France in World War 1, the Scottish, German and French troops call an informal and unauthorised truce and share moments of peace and friendship before resuming hostilities.

Cast: Diane Kruger, Natalie Dessay, Benno Furmann, Rolanado Villazon, Guillame Canet, Gary Lewis.