Screenings

The story goes that ace MGM producer Alan Freed approached Ira Gershwin seeking permission to use his late brother’s concert piece An American in Paris in a movie. When he came away, he had permission to…

This is an Australian thriller/drama, and is director Robert Connolly’s first film. The story starts in the 1970s and moves to the late ’90s and early 2000s. Set in Victoria, some scenes were filmed in the…

Jacques Tati was born a little too late for the era of silent films, but he reinvented a version of them when he created the iconic character of Monsieur Hulot in the mid-1950s. There is room…

In 17th century Japan a destitute samurai arrives at the estate of a powerful clan requesting permission to commit ritual suicide. Expecting a bluff, the clan elders recount a recent case intended as a warning. As…

A beautifully acted and moving World War 2 film based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Nevil Shute, who was born in England but based in Australia after the war. The film tells…

Dawson City, in the Yukon Territory, was a remote but flourishing gold mining town in the early years of the 20th century. As the entertainment hub for the region it also had several cinemas showing silent…

After a quarrel within the brass band in Brederwiede, Holland, the village finds itself with two brass bands. Each is determined to win an upcoming musical tournament; each is even more determined that the other should…