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Swing Time | More… |
| George Stevens, USA 1936, 35mm (G cert) | ||
“One of the best of the Astaire-Rogers musicals… Fred Astaire is a Depression dandy hopping a freight train, and Ginger Rogers gets serenaded with soapsuds in her hair. Arlene Croce has called it a movie about the myth of Astaire and Rogers and the world they lived in, and that’s about as good a description as any.” – Chicago Reader |
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To Have and Have Not |
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| Howard Hawks, USA 1945, 16mm (G cert) | ||
“You know how to whistle, don’t you…” Bogart and Bacall together for the first time in a war movie that plays like a romantic comedy.“An unassuming masterpiece.” – Time Out |
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Some Like It Hot | More… |
| Billy Wilder,
USA 1959, 35mm (PG sexual references) Presented by MGM Channel NZ |
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| “Billy Wilder thumbs his nose at all the rules, mixing slapstick and screwball, gangster film and musical into a racy cross-dressing farce. Starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe. “Wilder's greatest comedy.” - Village Voice | ||
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Early Cinema: Asta Nielsen | More… |
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Abyss, Afgrunden, Urban Gad, Denmark 1910 |
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| Asta Nielsen made only a few films in her native Denmark before finding international fame in Germany, where she starred in over 70 films between 1911 and 1932. Titles include her first film, the taboo-breaking Abyss, with its erotically-charged dance sequence restored. | ||