SCREENING LOCATIONS

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Sun 21 Aug 13:15 – Pic Palace Fri 26 Aug 13:00 – Studio

RABBIT-PROOF FENCE

In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape from their ‘school’ – after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff – and set off on a journey across the Outback. Special detention centres were set up across the continent to keep the mixed-race children from “contaminating” the rest of Australian society. Having been forcibly separated from their mothers, three girls – Molly, Daisy and Gracie – escape from the settlement. As the girls flee across the vast landscape, they are pursued by the authorities and an aboriginal tracker named Moodoo (David Gulpilil). Noyce’s sensitive dramatization swaps angry politics for emotional sympathy, concentrating on the plight of the children instead of ranting against the authorities. ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ stands as a powerful, worthy testimony to the suffering of the stolen generations. Music by Peter Gabriel. AUSTRALIA/UK 2002 PHILLIP NOYCE 93M

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PETER BOGDANOVICH (1939-2022)

REMEMBERED

Mon 22 Aug 13:30 – Studio

“BUT WHAT I REALLY WANT TO DO IS DIRECT” –PETERBOGDANOVICH

Illustrated talk by Julian Richards British film-maker Julian Richards, who recently directed the late Peter Bogdanovich in ‘Reborn’, will present an illustrated talk on the iconic American director, actor and cinephile. The talk charts his meteoric rise from aspiring theatre actor and film curator at the Museum of Modern Art, to becoming a key player in the American new wave of the 1970’s. Supported with carefully chosen film clips, Richards’ presentation will cast a spotlight on the unique talents and opportunities that enabled this“Wellesian Wunderkind” to create multi-Oscar nominated‘The Last Picture Show’starring Jeff Bridges, Oscar winner‘Paper Moon’starring Ryan O’Neil, box office sensation‘What’s Up, Doc?’starring Barbara Streisand and late return to form‘Noises Off’starring Michael Caine. The talk will also cover the director’s less successful productions‘At Long Last Love’starring Cybil Shepherd, ‘Texasville’ starring Jeff Bridges as well as the murder of his girlfriend Dorothy Stratten after the completion of ‘They All Laughed’, a personal tragedy from which Bogdanovich struggled to recover. NB. Following this talk, Bogdanovich’s debut film ‘Targets’ will be screened separately in the Studio at 16:00.

Mon 22 Aug 16:00 – Studio Tue 23 Aug 18:15 – Pic Palace

TARGETS

In one of the most powerful films of 1968, an aging horror star questions his place in modern Hollywood while a psychotic Vietnam War veteran commits mass murders. After unhinged Vietnam vet Bobby Thompson (Tim O’Kelly) kills his wife and mother, he goes on a brutal shooting spree. Starting at an oil refinery, he evades the police and continues his murderous outing at a drive-in movie theatre, where Byron Orlock (Boris Karloff), a retiring horror film icon, is making a promotional appearance. Before long, Orlock, a symbol of fantastical old-fashioned scares, faces off against Thompson, a remorseless psychopath rooted in a harsh modern reality. Maximum suspense that scores an unerring bullseye and one of the greatest directorial debuts of all time. USA 1968 PETER BOGDANOVICH 90M

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Wed 24 Aug 10:30 – Auditorium

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Wed 24 Aug 18:30 – Studio Thu 25 Aug 13:00 – Pic Palace

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Thu 25 Aug 10:00 – Auditorium A sublime study of sexually charged ennui in 1950s Texas. A group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically. Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane (Jeff Bridges) are best friends. The handsome Duane is dating local beauty, Jacy (Cybill Shepherd), while Sonny is having an affair with the coach’s wife, Ruth (Cloris Leachman). While Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business, each boy struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else. An American classic in every sense. USA 1971 PETER BOGDANOVICH 118M

WHAT’S UP, DOC?

Barbra Streisand was never more likable than in this energetic, often hilarious screwball farce from director Peter Bogdanovich. Bogdanovich pays tribute to Howard Hawks’s ‘Bringing Up Baby’ and to the freewheeling catastrophe comedy of silent films, with their elaborate and terrifying stunts. Howard (Ryan O’Neal) is engaged to Eunice (Madeline Kahn) but then he meets Judy (Streisand), a flyaway force of nature, who falls in love with him at first sight and plugs herself instantly into his life, endangering his engagement as well as his career. One of the great, if semiforgotten comedy masterpieces of the 1970s. USA 1972 PETER BOGDANOVICH 94M

PAPER MOON

During the Great Depression, a conman finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership. It’s everything a road picture is supposed to be: a life-changing personal journey, a quest, a bit old-fashioned and a hoot. Real-life father and daughter Ryan and Tatum O’Neal team up as slick con-artists Moses Pray and Addie Loggins in 1930s Kansas. When “Moze” is unexpectedly saddled with getting the 9-year-old Addie to relatives in Missouri after the death of her mother, his attempt to dupe her out of her money backfires, and he’s forced to take her on as a partner. Swindling their way through farm country, the pair are nearly rumbled by a burlesque dancer (Madeline Kahn) and an angry bootlegger. USA 1973 PETER BOGDANOVICH 102M

PETER BOGDANOVICH (1939-2022) – REMEMBERED

Thu 25 Aug 20:30 – Studio Fri 26 Aug 13:15 – Pic Palace

NOISES OFF

Bogdanovich’s frenetic transplant of Michael Frayn’s classic farce supplies a feast of belly laughs. Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes (Michael Caine) does his best to control an eccentric group of stage actors. During practice sessions, things run smoothly. However, when Lloyd and his actors begin a series of performances leading up to a Broadway premiere, chaos ensues. Star actress Dotty (Carol Burnett) is quickly passing her prime, male lead Frederick (Christopher Reeve) has no confidence, and bit actor Selsdon (Denholm Elliott) is rarely sober. USA 1992 PETER BOGDANOVICH 101M

Fri 26 Aug 15:30 – Studio

Fri 26 Aug 18:45 – Pic Palace Sat 27 Aug 20:30 – Studio

DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD

Peter Bogdanovich’s affectionate tribute documentary on the life and films of director John Ford. In 1971, Bogdanovich was America’s most promising young filmmaker, having directed the remarkable ‘Targets’ (1968) and ‘The Last Picture Show’ (1971), earning an Academy Award nomination for the latter. Atthis point, he chose to make a documentary about legendary film director John Ford. In 2006 he went back and revamped the documentary with new interviews (Scorsese, Eastwood and Spielberg) and incorporated a rare audio recording of Ford and his rumoured ‘significant other’ Katharine Hepburn. This film reminds the viewer that Bogdanovich is one of our most prominent and respected film historians to whom we all owe a great deal of gratitude. Narrated by Orson Welles. USA 1971/2006 PETER BOGDANOVICH 100M

NICKELODEON

A heartfelt valentine to the early days of movie making – Bogdanovich’s affection for cinema’s embryonic beginnings informs every frame. In the silent-film era, attorney Leo Harrigan (Ryan O’Neal) and gunslinger Buck Greenway (Burt Reynolds) are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, Leo and Buck soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck’s cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status – but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke (Jane Hitchcock), leading to a heated personal rivalry. USA 1976 PETER BOGDANOVICH 121M