SESSION: Sunday 30th August at 7pm


The Red Shoes

(1948, dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, w/ Marius Goring, Jean Short, Gordon Littmann, Julia Lang)

Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his near-obsessive guidance, young ballerina Victoria Page is poised for superstardom, but earns Lermontov's scorn when she falls in love with Julian Craster, composer of "The Red Shoes," the ballet Lermontov is staging to showcase her talents. Vicky leaves the company and marries Craster, but still finds herself torn between Lermontov's demands and those of her heart. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 55555(Astor rating)

Black Narcissus

(1947, dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, w/ Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jenny Laird, Judith Furse)

Black Narcissus will start at approximately 9:40pm, and finish at approximately 11:26pm.

Sister Clodah is dispatched with four other nuns to establish a new convent far in the Himalayas. It's a difficult journey and their new house is a ramshackle old building on the edge of a cliff that had been abandoned by a religious Brotherhood many years before. They soon establish a school and an infirmary though the local General's agent, Mr. Dean, warns them against treating the deathly ill as they would no doubt be blamed if the patient doesn't recover. The location, the culture and the mountain air all begin to have a strange effect on the Sisters. Sister Clodagh, who is also on her first assignment as Sister Superior, begins to remember a romance she had as a young woman before entering the sisterhood. Another however, becomes obsessed with Mr. Dean, which leads to tragedy. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 55555(Astor rating)