AUFS Programme
Term 2, 2010
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 ($0). (Or pay $3 at the door for one film only.)
Programme
Week 6 (22/04):
Jason and the Argonauts
Week 7 (29/04):
Buckaroo Banzai
Week 8 (06/05):
Top Hat
Week 9 (13/05):
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Week 10 (20/05):
Spione
Week 11 (27/05):
Gone with the Wind
Week 12 (03/06):
Brazil
To see past films shown, check out the programme archive.
WEEK 6, Thursday 22nd April
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Action | Family | Fantasy | Adventure
Directed by Don Chaffey.
Starring: Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack.
The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece. (USA/UK, 104 mins)
WEEK 7, Thursday 29th April
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Adventure | Romance | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Directed by W.D. Richter.
Starring: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum.
Buckaroo Banzai is a rock-star/brain-surgeon/comic-book-hero/samurai/etc. who along with his group, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil creatures from the 8th dimension (all named John) who are trying to conquer our dimension. He is helped by Penny Pretty, who is a dead ringer for his late wife, and some good extra-dimensional beings who look and talk like they are from Jamaica. (USA, 103 mins)
WEEK 8, Thursday 6th May
Top Hat (1935)
Comedy | Musical | Romance
Directed by Mark Sandrich.
Starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film: showman Jerry Travers (Fred) is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont (Ginger) below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace. (USA, 101 mins, B&W, 16mm)
WEEK 9, Thursday 13th May
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
Horror | Musical | Sci-Fi
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman.
Starring: Alexa Vega, Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head, Paris Hilton.
A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however… (USA, 98 mins)
WEEK 10, Thursday 20th May
Spione (1928)
Thriller
Directed by Fritz Lang.
Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus.
A Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M) film: Haghi is a criminal mastermind whose ubiquitous spy operation is always several steps ahead of the police and the government's secret service. Enter Agent 326, the daring and dashing young man, who thinks his disguise as a dirty, bearded vagrant is fooling the unknown mastermind and his minions. But Haghi is well aware of 326's existence and what he looks like. Enter Sonya, a Russian lady in Haghi's employ. Haghi wants Sonya to subvert the efforts of the government agent, but doesn't count on her falling in love with him. Meanwhile, Haghi is anxious to get his hands on a Japanese peace treaty in the possession of the cunning Doctor Masimoto, whose mistress is also in his employ. (Germany, ??? mins, B&W, 16mm)
WEEK 11, Thursday 27th May
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Drama | Romance | War
Directed by Victor Fleming.
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh.
This classic film narrates the love between Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler during the American civil war. It's the history of a selfish woman who doesn't want to admit her feelings about the man she loves. (USA, 238 mins)
WEEK 12, Thursday 3rd June
Brazil (1985)
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Directed by Terry Gilliam.
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist.
Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger. (UK, 132 mins)
