SESSION: Thursday 15th December at 7:30pm



The War of the Worlds

(1953, dir. Byron Haskin, w/ Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite)

H.G. Well's classic novel is brought to life in this tale of alien invasion. The residents of a small town in California are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. Their joy is tempered somewhat when they discover that it has passengers who are not very friendly. The movie itself is understood better when you consider that it was made at the height of the Cold War--just replace Martian with Russian.... (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.63.63.63.6(IMDB rating)

Barbarella

(1968, dir. Roger Vadim, w/ Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea)

Barbarella will start at approximately 9:21pm, and finish at approximately 11:05pm.

After an in-flight anti-gravity striptease (masked by the film's opening titles), Barbarella, a 41st century astronaut, lands on the planet Lythion and sets out to find the evil Durand Durand in the city of Sogo, where a new sin is invented every hour. There, she encounters such objects as the Exessive Machine, a genuine sex organ on which an accomplished artist of the keyboard, in this case, Durand Durand himself, can drive a victim to death by pleasure, a lesbian queen who, in her dream chamber, can make her fantasies take form, and a group of ladies smoking a giant hookah which, via a poor victim struggling in its glass globe, dispenses Essance of Man. You can't help but be impressed by the special effects crew and the various ways that were found to tear off what few clothes our heroine seemed to possess. Based on the popular French comic strip. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 2.952.952.95(IMDB rating)