AUFS Programme
Term 1, 2009
Unless otherwise specified, all weekly films are screened in the Union Cinema, Level 5 of the Union Building (see the map). Film starts playing at at 7 p.m. on Thursday evenings during term; admission is FREE for members; membership is available for $10 at the door.
From time to time we have door prize draws after the film - to be eligible for such draws you must arrive prior to the film start. There are usually people on the door from 6:45pm.
Adelaide University Film Society membership is $10 and all films are FREE for members, for the entire year! Non-Adelaide Uni students are required to join the Adelaide Uni Clubs' Association for insurance purposes ($5).
Programme
Week 1 (05/03): GreaseWeek 2 (12/03): Iron Man
Week 3 (19/03): Gremlins
Week 4 (26/03): Cool Hand Luke
Week 5 (02/04): Xanadu
Week 6 (09/04): The Dirty Dozen
To see past films shown, check out the programme archive.
WEEK 1, Thursday 5th March
Grease (1978)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
Directed by Randal Kleiser.
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John.
When wholesome good girl Sandy and greaser renegade Danny fall in love over the summer, they never expect to see each other again. But when they both discover that they're now attending the same high school, social differences challenge their romance. (USA, 110 mins)
WEEK 2, Thursday 12th March
Iron Man (2008)
Action | Adventure | Crime
Directed by Jon Favreau.
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard.
Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he's captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He thus becomes Iron Man. (USA, 126 mins)
WEEK 3, Thursday 19th March
Gremlins (1984)
Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Directed by Joe Dante.
Starring: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates.
When Billy Peltzer is given a small creature called a Mogwai by his father, he is unaware of the carnage he is about to encounter. There is a huge responsibility in looking after Gizmo as there are certain rules which must be followed. The Mogwai must be kept away from bright light, never made wet and never, ever be fed after midnight. When an accident occurs involving Gizmo and water, the next evolutionary stage of the Mogwai appears, and it isn't nice at all. (USA, 106 mins)
WEEK 4, Thursday 26th March
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Drama
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg.
Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy.
Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks. (USA, 126 mins)
WEEK 5, Thursday 2nd April
Xanadu (1980)
Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Directed by Robert Greenwald.
Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly.
The Greek muses incarnate themselves on Earth to inspire men to achieve. One of them, incarnated as a girl named Kira, encounters an artist named Sonny Malone. With the help of Danny McGuire, a man Kira had inspired forty years earlier, Sonny builds a huge disco roller rink. May contain traaces of rollerskates. (USA, 93 mins)
WEEK 6, Thursday 9th April
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Action | Drama | War
Directed by Robert Aldrich.
Starring: Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Ernest Borgnine.
An Army Major who likes to butt heads with his superiors, is being "given" a new assignment, to train 12 men who are either sentenced to death or life imprisonment, to go behind enemy lines raid a chateau that the Germans are using as an R&R center and kill as enemy officers as they can and disrupt the German chain of command. Now he not only has to train them; he has to get them to start acting like a unit. (USA, 150 mins)
