Glenbrook Cinema will screen a Festival of Favourite Films from Wednesday, November 28 to celebrate its 50th year.
Owner Ron Curran has curated 19 classic films for the special screenings including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), North by Northwest (1959), The Lion in Winter (1968) and To Kill a Mockingbird (1962).
Other films have been chosen because they are among the most popular movies screened at Glenbrook in the cinema’s 50 years.
The Australian hit, Babe, was seen by more than 20,000 people in 1995, making it the cinema’s most popular movie ever. It will screen on Saturday, December 1 “but may not even draw an audience these days,” said Mr Curran.
Another big Glenbrook Cinema hit, Titanic, will also screen on December 1.
Other films have been chosen simply because they are personal favourites of Mr Curran’s. The critically lauded, but little seen, British classic The Red Shoes (1948), fits this bill.
“We’ve never shown The Red Shoes,” said Mr Curran. “It’s one of my top 10 films of all time... I remember seeing it at the Embassy Theatre in Sydney on a Friday night. I went back on Saturday morning to see it again. It’s a fantastic film.”
Musicals feature prominently in the festival with My Fair Lady (1964), Funny Girl (1968), Singin’ in the Rain (1952), The Sound of Music (1965), and An American In Paris (1951) all screening.
Films featuring Oscar-winning scores like The Sting (1973), Out of Africa (1985), and Doctor Zhivago (1965) will also be featured.
The festival will also give movie fans the chance to see Stanley Kubrick’s epic 1968 sci-fi masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, on the big screen.
Ticket to all movies are $10 each. For details visit www.glenbrookcinema.com.au.
