AUFS Programme
Term 1, 2008
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 (06/03):
Exotica
Week 2 (13/03):
The Clinic
Week 3 (20/03):
Hot Fuzz
Week 4 (27/03):
Aliens
Week 5 (03/04):
Liquid Sky
Week 6 (10/04):
Oz
To see past films shown, check out the programme archive.
WEEK 1, Thursday 6th March
Exotica (1994)
Drama
Directed by Atom Egoyan.
Starring: Elias Koteas, Mia Kirshner.
The 'Exotica' is a nightclub on the outskirts of Toronto, where Eric, DJ and MC, watches nightly as his ex-girlfriend Christina performs. Watches jealously, especially as far as the extra attentions regular customer Francis garners are concerned. Thomas, meanwhile and erstwhile, goes through a series of, um, interesting situations involving his pet shop, a gruff taxi-sharing stranger, unexpected tickets to the opera and smuggled eggs of a rare bird. Multiple story lines unfold in a splendid tangle of cutbacks, forward and backward references and recurring themes, all woven around the Exotica, its customers and employees. A calm roller-coaster ride of a movie, visually and intriguingly and emotionally moving. (USA, DVD, 103 mins)
WEEK 2, Thursday 13th March
The Clinic (1982)
Drama
Directed by David Stevens.
Starring: Chris Haywood, Simon Burke.
A series of humorous vignettes set in a clinic for venereal diseases. Although the film concentrates on relationships, it is also a source of instruction on safe sexual practices and STD (the script-writer worked at a clinic for three years!). (Australia, DVD, 93 mins)
WEEK 3, Thursday 20th March
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Action / Comedy / Crime / Mystery
Directed by Edgar Wright.
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost.
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman, who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is listed as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "acidents". (UK, DVD, 121 mins)
WEEK 4, Thursday 27th March
Aliens (1986)
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Directed by James Cameron.
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn.
The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ripley is discovered in deep sleep half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that a human colony was founded on the same planet where the aliens were first found. After contact with the colony is lost, she finds herself sent back to the planet along with a team of warriors bent on destroying the alien menace forever, and saving any survivors -- if any remain. (USA, 16mm, 137 mins)
With Short:
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
(USA, 16mm, 7 mins, animated)
WEEK 5, Thursday 3rd April
Liquid Sky (1982)
Sci-Fi
Directed by Slava Tsukerman.
Starring: Anne Carlisle, Paula E. Sheppard.
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human pheromones created in the brain during orgasm preferable to heroin, and the model's casual sex partners begin to disappear. This increasingly bizarre scenario is observed by a lonely woman in the building across the street, a German scientist who is following the aliens, and an equally androgynous, drug-addicted male model. (Both models are played by Anne Carlisle, in a dual role.) Darkly funny and thoroughly weird. (USA, 16mm, 112 mins)
WEEK 6, Thursday 10th April
Oz (1976)
Fantasy / Comedy / Musical
Directed by Chris Löfvén.
Starring: Joy Dunstan, Graham Matters.
Dorothy is a sixteen-year-old groupie riding with a rock band when, suddenly, the van is in a road accident, and she hits her head. She wakes up in a fantasy world as gritty and realistic as the one she came from and learns she killed a young thug in the process. A gay clothier called the Good Fairy gives her a pair of red shoes as a reward to help her see the last concert of the Wizard, an androgynous rock singer. She is pursed by the thug's brother who attempts to rape her on several occasions. She also meets a dumb surfer, a heartless mechanic, and a cowardly biker. (Australia, 16mm, 103 mins)
