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Event Tag: classic film night

Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal

Thursday, 11 July 2013 6:00pm – 8:30pm
The Seventh Seal
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night, ingmar bergmann, max von sydow, screening, seventh seal
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.

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s ‘Wages of Fear’

Thursday, 10 October 2013 6:00pm – 8:20pm
Wages of Fear
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night
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

Thursday, 14 November 2013 6:00pm – 8:20pm
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: billy wilder, classic film night, free screening, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, some like it hot, Tony Curtis
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

Thursday, 14 August 2014 6:00pm – 8:15pm
screening departures
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night
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

Thursday, 9 October 2014 6:00pm – 8:15pm
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night, free events, screening, smsa
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

Thursday, 13 November 2014 6:00pm – 8:15pm
rocky-horror-picture-show
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night, film, rocky horror, screening
“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

Thursday, 12 November 2015 6:00pm – 8:30pm
the shop around the corner
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night, james stewart, jimmy stewart, margaret sullavan, the shop around the corner
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

Thursday, 11 February 2016 6:00pm – 8:15pm
clint eastwood mystic river
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night, clint eastwood, Kevin Bacon, Laura Linney., Laurence Fishburne, Marcia Gay Harden, mystic river, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
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

Thursday, 10 November 2016 6:00pm – 8:15pm
Greta Garbo in Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939)
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night, greta garbo
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)

Thursday, 11 May 2017 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf Screening 2017
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night
FREE screening of Oscar winning classic film Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Stars Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton.

Michael Winner’s Lawman (1971)

Thursday, 13 July 2017 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Classic Film Lawman 1971
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night
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

Thursday, 8 February 2018 6:00pm – 8:00pm
The Treasures of Sierra Madre
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film, classic film night, film screening
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)

Thursday, 8 August 2019 6:00pm – 8:15pm
the exterminating angel
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: Bunuel, classic film night, Mexican cinema
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)

Thursday, 12 September 2019 6:00pm – 8:15pm
sweet smell of success
  • Venue: Mitchell Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night
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)

Thursday, 18 March 2021 6:00pm – 8:45pm
Sansho the Bailiff
  • Venue: Henry Carmichael Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film, classic film night
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)

Thursday, 13 May 2021 6:00pm – 8:30pm
  • Venue: Henry Carmichael Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night, film, film screening
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)

Thursday, 10 March 2022 6:00pm – 8:30pm
  • Venue: Henry Carmichael Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: 16mm, classic film night
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)

Thursday, 19 May 2022 6:00pm – 9:00pm
  • Venue: Henry Carmichael Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film, classic film night
Join us to watch film classic, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), with an introduction by Peter Rainey.

Classic Film Night: The Servant (1963)

Thursday, 14 July 2022 6:00pm – 8:30pm
  • Venue: Henry Carmichael Theatre
  • Categories: Public Events at SMSA
  • Tags: classic film night
Join us to watch film classic, The Servant (1963), with an introduction by Peter Rainey.

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