Friday, 16th February 20:00 sharp – Optional fancy-dress
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott.
When drag queen Anthony (Hugo Weaving) agrees to take his act on the road, he invites fellow cross-dresser Adam (Guy Pearce) and transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to come along. In their colorful bus, named Priscilla, the three performers travel across the Australian desert performing for enthusiastic crowds and homophobic locals. But when the other two performers learn the truth about why Anthony took the job, it threatens their act and their friendship.
Join us for a comedy that will change the way you think, the way you feel, and most importantly, the way you dress. Friday, 16th February… Drag is the Drug!
The Force will be with us all, for one night only. This month’s Film Club , we will be featuring Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
The Star Wars film series created by George Lucas has become one of the most successful franchises in the history of cinema.
The first film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing and Alec Guinness was released in America in May 1977, but was not shown in the UK until Christmas time that year.
The Imperial Forces — under orders from cruel Darth Vader – hold Princess Leia hostage, in their efforts to quell the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon, work together with the companionable droid duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess, help the Rebel Alliance, and restore freedom and justice to the Galaxy.
Dressing-up is optional – dress up you will!
We would like to thank all who have made regular attendances for past features and have helped us to make Carry On Screening so successful. We hope to see you on Friday.
Friday, 20th October 20:00 sharp – Optional fancy-dress
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 epic Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach in their respective title roles.
In the Southwest during the Civil War, a mysterious stranger, Joe (Clint Eastwood), and a Mexican outlaw, Tuco (Eli Wallach), form an uneasy partnership – Joe turns in the bandit for the reward money, then rescues him just as he is being hanged. When Joe’s shot at the noose goes awry during one escapade, a furious Tuco tries to have him murdered. The men re-team abruptly, however, to beat out a sadistic criminal and the Union army and find $20,000 that a soldier has buried in the desert.
The term ‘Spaghetti Western’ was used by American critics and other countries, because most Westerns were produced and directed by Italians. According to veteran Spaghetti Western actor Aldo Sambrell, the phrase 'Spaghetti Western' was coined by Spanish journalist Alfonso Sánchez.
Join us on a journey to the vast Western landscapes, that are not as empty as what they seem, on Friday, 20th October… bring a Poncho!
Film Club is back! Join us for this 1930 floor show classic,
staring Marlene Dietrich.
Her name was Lola.
Prim educator Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is driven mad with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry his beloved. However, married life with a woman whose job is to make men desire her proves more difficult than Rath imagined.
Dressing-up is optional – dig out your top hats!
Thank you to all who have made regular attendances for past features and have helped us to make Carry On Screening so successful. We hope to see you on Friday.
Continuing with a comical theme, we present to you this 2008 French
comedy film, which broke every box office record in France.
A French postman’s assignment is in the north instead of the coveted Cote d’Azur. When he hears that ‘north’ does not mean Lyons or even Paris, he despairs. Colleagues tell him of a freezing dark place where it rains all year, people live in red-brick terrace houses and dunk Maroilles cheese in their coffee (just look at the reaction of BBC employees moving from London to Manchester a while back).
We guarantee that this movie will have our audience laughing out loud again, so please try not miss this one. Dressing-up is optional, if you happen to have a spare postman’s uniform lying around. We will aim for one interval so that you can all get up for another plate of food and a drink.
Friday February 13th, we began the New Year of film club with a triple-bill of short films and it was a huge success, with giggles, bubbly wine and loud laughing throughout. If you missed them, then shame on you, but you can of course catch them on YouTube.
The Red Balloon (35mins) is a 1956 fantasy featurette directed by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse. A red balloon with a life of its own follows a boy around Paris.
Harvie Krumpet (23mins) is an Australian clay-animation comedy-drama, by the same writer/director and animator of the film ‘Mary & Max’ – Despite a life filled with bad luck, the ever-optimistic Harvie lives his own way and enjoys the small things life has to offer.
Dinner for One (18 mins) also known as ‘The 90th Birthday’, or by its corresponding German alternative title, Der 90. Geburtstag, is a two-hander comedy sketch written by British author Lauri Wylie for the theatre. James, Miss Sophie’s butler, has to fill in for her friends on her 90th birthday.
Thank you to all for making Carry On Screening a success by your regular attendances each month. We hope to see you for this one.
We begin the New Year of film club,
Carry on Screening, with a triple-bill of short films.
The Red Balloon (35mins) is a 1956 fantasy featurette directed by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse. A red balloon with a life of its own follows a boy around Paris.
Harvie Krumpet (23mins) is an Australian clay-animation comedy-drama, by the same writer/director and animator of the film ‘Mary & Max’ – Despite a life filled with bad luck, the ever-optimistic Harvie lives his own way and enjoys the small things life has to offer.
Dinner for One (18 mins) also known as ‘The 90th Birthday’, or by its corresponding German alternative title, Der 90. Geburtstag, is a two-hander comedy sketch written by British author Lauri Wylie for the theatre. James, Miss Sophie’s butler, has to fill in for her friends on her 90th birthday.
Without taking any peeks online, we guarantee that these three films are so entertaining with enough variety for all. Dressing-up is optional and we will make time for some intervals between films, so that you can all get up for another plate of food and a drink.
Join us to celebrate a year-run of the film club, Carry on Screening
with a viewing of the 1968 comedy classic, The Party.
The Party was directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet. After getting fired from General Federal Studios, Actor Hrundi V. Bakshi, accidentally gets invited to a swanky Hollywood party, thrown by the wealthy Clutterbuck family and “makes terrible mistakes based upon ignorance of Western ways”.
Enjoy the party! This film has a very loose structure, and essentially serves as a series of set pieces for Sellers’s improvisational comedy talents. Dress for the occasion if you like 🙂
[Editor’s and hosts: Tabitha (Jo) Raincloud & Uli]
The Night of the Hunter was adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb (1953). The book was a national bestseller and was voted a finalist for the 1955 National Book Award. The movie was directed by Charles Laughton in 1955 giving the viewers a brilliant good-and-evil folktale, represented by good: a couple of farm children, a devout old lady and evil: in the hands of a psychopathic phony preacher.
Imprisoned with thief Ben Harper (Peter Graves), Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) learns that Ben has hidden the spoils of his armed robbery somewhere near his home.
When released, the murderously misogynistic Powell gains the confidence of Ben’s widow Willa (Shelley Winters), eventually marrying her.
Without any spoilers, let us appreciate the cinematography of this very brilliant movie and soak up the music by Walter Schumann for this creepy classic.
[Editor’s and hosts: Tabitha (Jo) Raincloud & Uli]
Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 German tragic/comedy film directed by Wolfgang Becker,
who delivers the shock of the new and the shock of the old. Most scenes were shot in
and around Berlin in the old German Democratic Republic with reconstructions of the
Alexanderplatz’s tatty architecture.
October 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany – this is
precisely what happened to Alex’s (Daniel Brühl) proudly socialist mother (Katrin Saß). Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly awakens eight months later.
Her heart is so weak that any shock might kill her. What could be more shocking than the fall of the Berlin Wall and the triumph of capitalism in her beloved East Germany?
To save his mother, Alex transforms the family apartment into an island of the past, a kind of socialist-era museum where his mother is lovingly duped into believing that nothing has changed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam as Alex’s sister and selected neighbours are recruited to maintain the elaborate ruse and keep her believing that Lenin really did win after all!
We present this movie in association with the upcoming
Oktoberfest – Die DDR lebt weiter — auf 79 qm!
(The German Democratic Republic lives on — in 79 square meters!)
Carmen is a 1983 Spanish musical film written and directed by Carlos Saura and the second part of Saura Flamenco trilogy.
Art imitates art in this Bafta-winning film, which stars Antonio Gades as Antonio,
a choreographer looking for someone to play the lead in his new dance work,
based on George Bizet‘s opera of Prosper Merimee’s story.
He spots a young dancer named Carmen whose skills are unrefined, but her wildcard spirit is just right for the operatic gypsy heroine who inspires lust and jealousy in a soldier.
As Carmen is put through the paces of rehearsal, Antonio falls in love with her.
But their affair begins to crack as Carmen’s true character is slowly discovered and Antonio questions her loyalty.
A feast for the senses: beautiful cinematography, great music and great dancing. You will not have seen anything like it.
Carry On Screening 