30 JULY 2022
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11:30 AM SESSION
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) with soundtrack, 105 minutes.
Tickets: $17/$15
“Australians, Errol Flynn and multi-Oscar winning costume designer, Orry-Kelly, lend their considerable talents, with Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland, to this lavish production of the ill-fated love between the ageing Elizabeth I and the dashing Earl of Essex. Thoroughly unglamorous here, eyes and hairline shaved, face painted chalky white... Davis exudes such intelligence, energy and ardour that her romance with the decades younger Essex (Flynn at the peak of his remarkable good looks and athletic verve) is completely believable. Bette Davis was born to play Elizabeth I and like the legendary queen she rules the screen.”
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) with soundtrack, 105 minutes.
Tickets: $17/$15
“Australians, Errol Flynn and multi-Oscar winning costume designer, Orry-Kelly, lend their considerable talents, with Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland, to this lavish production of the ill-fated love between the ageing Elizabeth I and the dashing Earl of Essex. Thoroughly unglamorous here, eyes and hairline shaved, face painted chalky white... Davis exudes such intelligence, energy and ardour that her romance with the decades younger Essex (Flynn at the peak of his remarkable good looks and athletic verve) is completely believable. Bette Davis was born to play Elizabeth I and like the legendary queen she rules the screen.”
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2 PM SESSION
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) with live music (Graeme Costin), 110 minutes.
Tickets: $25/$20
The first film to fully capitalise on Lon Chaney's unorthodox appeal, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a sumptuous dramatisation of Victor Hugo's classic at the then-phenomenal cost of $1.25 million. This was an extraordinary gamble, since the film boldly deviated from established Hollywood formula and made its central character not a charming romantic ideal, but a gruesomely disfigured 'monster' who is incapable of arousing in the beautiful leading lady anything more than pity.
Hunchback is a huge production: the sets depicting 15th century Paris included a façade of Notre Dame Cathedral. Filming took six months and the climactic sequence employed two thousand extras but it is Lon Chaney’s performance that makes the character unforgettable. As Quasimodo, the deaf bell-ringer of the Notre Dame cathedral, Chaney is a marvel of makeup and nonverbal expression, shuffling through the streets of medieval Paris, communing with the gargoyles of the cathedral's towers, dutifully suffering the lashes and humiliation for a crime committed by another.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) with live music (Graeme Costin), 110 minutes.
Tickets: $25/$20
The first film to fully capitalise on Lon Chaney's unorthodox appeal, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a sumptuous dramatisation of Victor Hugo's classic at the then-phenomenal cost of $1.25 million. This was an extraordinary gamble, since the film boldly deviated from established Hollywood formula and made its central character not a charming romantic ideal, but a gruesomely disfigured 'monster' who is incapable of arousing in the beautiful leading lady anything more than pity.
Hunchback is a huge production: the sets depicting 15th century Paris included a façade of Notre Dame Cathedral. Filming took six months and the climactic sequence employed two thousand extras but it is Lon Chaney’s performance that makes the character unforgettable. As Quasimodo, the deaf bell-ringer of the Notre Dame cathedral, Chaney is a marvel of makeup and nonverbal expression, shuffling through the streets of medieval Paris, communing with the gargoyles of the cathedral's towers, dutifully suffering the lashes and humiliation for a crime committed by another.
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4:30 PM SESSION
Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) with soundtrack, 95 minutes.
Tickets: $17/$15
Elvis Presley performs before a sold-out audience at the International Hotel Showroom in Las Vegas. This 1970 documentary (reissued in a revised form in 2001) includes extensive rehearsal footage as well as the concert. He was a legend unlike any other. After years of making movies, Elvis made a triumphant return to the stage, including a stint of celebrity packed shows at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in 1970. Now, see the backstage footage from rehearsals to relaxing at the hotel and the performances in one of the most intimate looks at Elvis captured on film. Included are the songs, the fans, the love and most of all... the King himself.
Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) with soundtrack, 95 minutes.
Tickets: $17/$15
Elvis Presley performs before a sold-out audience at the International Hotel Showroom in Las Vegas. This 1970 documentary (reissued in a revised form in 2001) includes extensive rehearsal footage as well as the concert. He was a legend unlike any other. After years of making movies, Elvis made a triumphant return to the stage, including a stint of celebrity packed shows at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in 1970. Now, see the backstage footage from rehearsals to relaxing at the hotel and the performances in one of the most intimate looks at Elvis captured on film. Included are the songs, the fans, the love and most of all... the King himself.
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Contact Details
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Location
St Matthew's Church
1 Darley Road, Manly NSW 2095