Norfolk Plains Film Society
2016 Program (as confirmed December 2015)
Attached is the program of movies confirmed for screening in 2016. We have only included
those films for which we have screening rights approved and booked. Next year, we are
planning to obtain four films from the Screen Loans Collection of National Film and Sound
Archives (NFSA). While their policy is to hold older films of significance with an Australian
connection, they still have copies of a few other older classics, including “Casablanca”, our
January film. The NFSA lend us the DVD of the movie and we pay a fee to cover other costs.
We do not have our own copy of these DVDs and our screening will be the only chance for
members to see the movie.
We still have a few gaps in our program. Finding the DVDs and non-theatrical rights for
some older films can be a difficult and drawn out business. We had hoped to show
“Babette’s Feast”, “The Gods must be Crazy” and “The Girl in the Café”. One distributor is
hoping to pick up the rights for “Babette’s Feast” in the near future, but we cannot find a
rights holder for the other two.
The Australian Council of Film Societies (ACOFS) has negotiated a deal with most Australian
Rights holders for smaller member film societies to pay reduced rates for non-theatrical
screening rights. As time goes on, sales of DVDs drop off, they are no longer printed and
eventually the local rights holders either relinquish or lose the rights. Sometimes they pass
to smaller distributors along the way and these can take time to track down. Eventually,
they are only available from overseas rights holders for at least three or four times the local
rate. Australian films are often picked up by the NFSA at this stage.
Meeting Date: the second Friday of the month.
Venue: Supper Room of the Longford Town Hall.
Time: 7.20pm for 7.30pm movie, followed by supper.
Contact details:
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.norfolkplainsfilmsociety.org
Address: P O Box 217, Longford, Tasmania 7301
Phone: Tony and Sue Cullimore on 63911368 or 0419387556
Or Cathie Green on 0429115567
Norfolk Plains Film Society
PROGRAM 2016
January 8 – Casablanca (1942) Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid,
the film is set in Morocco during WW2, which is occupied by the Vichy. It has become a
classic. (NFSA)
February 12- The Theory of Everything (2014) Starring Eddie Redmayne as theoretical
physicist Steven Hawkings and Felicity Jones as his first wife, Jane Wilde, and based on
Jane’s memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen. Just as they meet, Hawkings is
diagnosed with motor neurone disease. While battling the disease, with Jane beside him, he
embarks on an ambitious study of time. The film received several awards, including an
Academy Award for Best actor.
March 11 – Kelly’s Heroes (1970) Starring Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll
O'Connor, and Donald Sutherland. This is a war comedy about a group of World War 2
American soldiers who go AWOL behind enemy lines to rob a bank.
April 8 – Schindler’s List (1993) Based on the novel, Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally and
directed by Steven Spielberg. The film won seven Academy Awards. The story is based on
the life of Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German businessman who saved the lives of more than
a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his
factories. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley. (NFSA)
May 13 – film to be advised
June 10 – True Grit (1969). This is a classic John Wayne Western for which John Wayne won
his only Academy Award for Best Actor.
July 8 – Chocolat (2000) A delicious film to warm up a cold mid-winter night. The film stars
Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench and Johnny Depp. The story is set in a small French village
where nothing has changed for 100 years, until Vianne Rocher and her daughter arrive and
set up a chocolaterie during Lent. To be followed by a chocolate supper.
August 12 – Cosi (1996). It is an Australian comedy-drama-musical film. An unemployed
young man is employed in a mental institution as a music teacher and sets about to put on a
performance of the Mozart opera Così fan tutte. Stars, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, Rachel
Griffiths, Jackie Weaver and David Wenham. (NFSA)
September 9 – Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) One weekend in June 1939, with war in Europe
threatening, President Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor host the King and Queen of Britain
for a weekend at Hyde Park on Hudson in upstate New York. International affairs must be
juggled with FDR’s complex relationships with the women in his life. Stars Bill Murray and
Laura Linney.
October 14 – The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) is directed by Peter Weir and based on
the novel by Tasmanian born author Christopher Koch. The story is a love affair set in
Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno. Starring Mel Gibson, Sigourney
Weaver and Linda Hunt. (NFSA)
November 11 – Catch 22 (1970) Described as an anti-war satire of epic proportions, whose
name has become part of our language. This is a tale of a small group of pilots in the
Mediterranean in 1944 and based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Heller and
directed by Mike Nichols.
December 9 – The Birdcage (1996) starring Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane
and Dianne West.