August 24 Saturday at 2pm
Sherlock Jr. (1924) and Easy Street (1917)
Anniversary Tributes to the great Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.
Restored silent comedies with live music (Graeme Costin), 75 minutes.
Buster’s film of perpetual motion is laden with jaw dropping stunts. Acclaimed then and now by critics and audiences around the world, his skills excel with this short feature. The humour is more character driven, the storyline more complex and the complications aided by dream sequences build to a breathtaking climax. The second film showcases Charlie, the reformed tramp, becoming a police officer to tame a villainous giant and his criminal world. And in so doing wins the fair damsel’s heart, and that of his audience.
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September 21 Saturday at 2pm
Sparrows (1926)
Restored silent classic drama with the legendary Mary Pickford.
With live music (Graeme Costin), 90 minutes.
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October 12 Saturday at 2pm
Kings of Comedy
With live music (Graeme Costin), 90 minutes.
Live music and the wonder, pathos and laughter. One of Charlie Chaplin’s best comic shorts from 1915 in tribute to his 110th Anniversary Year; and a 1926 feature from the astonishing Harold Lloyd.
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October 26 Saturday at 2pm
The Battle of the Somme (1916)
Digitally remastered iconic documentary from the Imperial War Museums with orchestral score soundtrack and live music pre-film tribute to the Great War (Graeme Costin), 74 minutes.
This year marks the 110th Anniversary of the start of World War 1.
The restored Battle of the Somme, an historic and iconic silent documentary film made in 1916 on the battlefield, was seen by huge audiences at the time in the UK when it was released in August 1916 barely a month after it was made. The film depicts allied preparations for and the early stages of the battle. It was released in August 1916 while the battle continued in France. The film was a massive success, selling some 20 million tickets in its first six weeks, it was screened in Australia in 1916 to huge audiences. Although it shows no real fighting beyond shellfire, no serious injuries, no pain, little hatred, audiences at the time were captured by the point of loss and recognised the film for what it was able to show, not for what it left out. It is a profoundly memorably expression of the hopes and fears of its age.
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