Thursday Night Movie Club - Black Orpheus w/ Guest presenter Michael Rubbo

Join local film legend Michael Rubbo as he introduces Black Orpheus (1959).

Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.

About this weeks guest presenter;

Born in Australia, Michael Rubbo received his M.A. in Communication Arts at Stanford University in 1965 and then joined the National Film Board of Canada. He spent over 25 years at the Film Board, making many prizewinning films, including Sad song of yellow Skin which won the Flaherty award in 1971 and Waiting For Fidel, his most famous documentary. In the eighties and nineties, he wrote and directed four feature films, of which Vincent and Me won a daytime Emmy, a Parent's choice gold medal, as did Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveler. He returned to his native Australia in 1995 and continued making documentaries, notably, Much ado About Something (2000) which proposed that Christopher Marlowe was the real author of Shakespeare's plays. He also made in 2005, All about Olive, the story of Olive Riley going back to her native Broken hill where she was born in 1899.

Thursday night movie club is for movie nerds to come together for an informal screening, chat film and enjoy the cinema experience, each week a different member gets to choose a movie and, if they wish, present it as well. Free entry with discounted food prices.

Organic popcorn, Gourmet Sourdough Toasties and quailty booze free drinks and snacks available.