SMSA (Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts)Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal
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A knight and his squire return from the Crusades to find their homeland ravaged by plague. The knight challenges Death to a game of chess with his life in the balance.
Event Tag: classic film night
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s ‘Wages of Fear’
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When a South American oil well catches fire, four men are hired to drive two trucks carrying nitroglycerine to extinguish the fire over rough dirt roads.
Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot
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Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star in Some Like it Hot. Regarded as one of Billy Wilder’s best films, it was the all-time highest-grossing comedy of its time.
Yojiro Takita’s Departures
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An out of work cellist answers a job ad for what he things is a travel agency, only to find that he is working with ‘the departed’, not ‘departures’.
Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
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Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore follows Alice, a widow, who has ambitions of a better life but whose plans often go awry.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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“It’s astounding. Time is fleeting. Madness takes it’s toll…” Do the time warp again with The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Not for the faint hearted.
Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner
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The Shop Around the Corner stars Margaret Sullavan and Jimmy Stewart as shop employees who hate each other, but are falling in love as anonymous pen pals.
Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River
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Three boyhood friends grow apart after a childhood tragedy. When Jimmy’s daughter is killed years later, Sean is the homicide detective on the case while Dave was the last person to see her alive.
Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka
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In Ninotchka, Greta Garbo stars as a stern Soviet official sent to reprimand three bumbling Comrades who have been seduced by the decadent Parisian lifestyle.
Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
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FREE screening of Oscar winning classic film Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Stars Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton.
Michael Winner’s Lawman (1971)
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Burt Lancaster stars in the 1971 film Lawman, a classic Western following a lawman who arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
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Join us for a FREE screening of the 1948 classic, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, starring Humphrey Bogart.
Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel (1962)
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In The Exterminating Angel, a surreal and macabre masterpiece of satire, a group of friends gather for dinner only to find that they cannot leave.
Mackendrick’s Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
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Starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Susan Harrison, Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is a tale of corruption rumoured to be based on the real life Walter Winchell, a slanderous and libellous gossip columnist with mob connections
Classic Film Night: Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
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Join us to watch this Japanese classic in 16mm film, with an introduction by SMSA member, Peter Rainey.
Classic Film Night: The Night of the Hunter (1955)
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Join us to watch this classic thriller in 16mm film, with an introduction by SMSA member, Peter Rainey.
Classic Film Night: The Round-Up (1965)
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Join us to watch this classic film in 16mm Cinemascope print, with an introduction by SMSA member, Peter Rainey.
Classic Film Night: The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
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Join us to watch film classic, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), with an introduction by Peter Rainey.
Classic Film Night: The Servant (1963)
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Join us to watch film classic, The Servant (1963), with an introduction by Peter Rainey.
Classic Film Night: To Be or Not to Be (1942)
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Join us to watch film classic, To Be or Not to Be (1942), with an introduction by Peter Rainey.