KOMMUNIQUÉS

[October 2017] Red Oktober

Komedy in the Komintern October 5 Hydrozagadka aka Water-Puzzle Poland 1971 d. Andrzej Kondratiuk with Józef Nowak, Wiesław Michnikowski Roman Kłosowski, Zdzisław Maklakiewicz and Franciszek Pieczka. Black and white. In Polish with English subtitles. 70m…
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September 28: Being There

September 28 @ 9PM: Being There USA 1979 d. Hal Ashby with Peter Sellers, Shirley McLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Jack Warden, and Richard Basehart. Colour. 130m Links:  AFI  IMDB…
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September 7: Harold and Maude

September 7 @ 9PM: Harold and Maude USA 1971 d. Hal Ashby with Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Ellen Greer and Cyril Cusack. Colour. 92m Links:  AFI  IMDB  Wikipedia Full Hal Ashby…
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[September 2017] Hal Ashby: Super Seventies

The films Hal Ashby made over the course of the 1970s are in many ways a pocket history of America in that decade. The generation gap, race relations, the retreat…
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August 31: Monika’s Summer Rom-Com

Thursday August 31 @ 9PM: Funny Face USA 1957 d. Stanley Donen with Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair and Robert Flemyng. Songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Colour.…
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August 24: EspressoKino Kartoons

Thursday August 24 @9PM: Les Frères Boutdebois France 1908 d. Emil Cohl 2m Monsieur de Crac France 1910 d. Emil Cohl 5m Two Bagatelles Canada 1952 d. Norman McLaren 2m…
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August 17: American Avant-Garde 1945-1950

Thursday August 17 @ 9PM: The Petrified Dog USA 1949 d. Sidney Peterson 18m The Potted Psalm USA 1948 d. Sidney Peterson 18m Christmas USA 1949 USA 1949 d. Gregory…
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August 10: Dealer’s Choice Shorts

A wildly various programme of favourites, recent acquisitions, refugees from previous programmes that were cut for time or availability, suggestions and at least one encore. A Suffragette In Spite Of…
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