National Film and Sound Archive Cinémathèque screenings (Unclassified 18+)
Electric Shadows Cinemas, City Walk, Canberra
The National Film and Sound Archive Cinémathèque screenings continue in March with the highlight of the "Stellar Stanwyck" season: the newly restored Baby Face (1933), notorious as the film that finally provoked the strict enforcement of the 'Hays Code' by Hollywood studios in mid-1933.
This is followed by a celebration of French cinema, starting with the Australian premiere screening of Jean Luc-Godard's new film, Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du Cinema. Later in the month is a rare 35mm screening of Robert Bresson's elegiac French Resistance drama A Man Escaped (imported print).
Then begins a new season which continues throughout April - "Max Ophuls: the Music of Time" - celebrating cinema's great master of European sophistication and irony.
This commences with his most bejewelled work, Madame De…
Baby Face (Unclassified 18+) screens 4 March, 2.00pm
Moments Choissis des Historie(s) du Cinema (Unclassified 18+) screens 11 March, 2.00pm
A Man Escapes (Unclassified 18+) screens 18 March, 2.00pm
Madame de… (Unclassified 18+) screens 25 March, 2.00pm
Further details are available from the NFSA at: www.nfsa.afc.gov.au, and Electric
Shadows at: www.electricshadows.com.au or by telephone on (02) 6247 5060. Unless noted, due to censorship regulations admission to all NFSA Cinémathèque films is to 18 years old + only.
Presented by the Australian Film Commission and the Electric Shadows Cinemas.
The National Film and Sound Archive Cinémathèque screenings continue in March with the highlight of the "Stellar Stanwyck" season: the newly restored Baby Face (1933), notorious as the film that finally provoked the strict enforcement of the 'Hays Code' by Hollywood studios in mid-1933.
This is followed by a celebration of French cinema, starting with the Australian premiere screening of Jean Luc-Godard's new film, Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du Cinema. Later in the month is a rare 35mm screening of Robert Bresson's elegiac French Resistance drama A Man Escaped (imported print).
Then begins a new season which continues throughout April - "Max Ophuls: the Music of Time" - celebrating cinema's great master of European sophistication and irony.
This commences with his most bejewelled work, Madame De…
Baby Face (Unclassified 18+) screens 4 March, 2.00pm
Moments Choissis des Historie(s) du Cinema (Unclassified 18+) screens 11 March, 2.00pm
A Man Escapes (Unclassified 18+) screens 18 March, 2.00pm
Madame de… (Unclassified 18+) screens 25 March, 2.00pm
Further details are available from the NFSA at: www.nfsa.afc.gov.au, and Electric
Shadows at: www.electricshadows.com.au or by telephone on (02) 6247 5060. Unless noted, due to censorship regulations admission to all NFSA Cinémathèque films is to 18 years old + only.
Presented by the Australian Film Commission and the Electric Shadows Cinemas.