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21/05/2025

The final screening of the year: the greatest musical ever made. Tomorrow, Thursday 22 May, 7pm at the Club Room!

13/05/2025

A quintissential work of postwar film noir, Carol Reed's THE THIRD MAN (1949), with a script by Graham Greene, follows a pulp fiction novelist who finds himself in allied-occupied Vienna, piecing together the story behind the mysterious death of his friend, Harry Lime. Don't miss our third screening of the term this Thursday, 15 May, at the Club Room!

06/05/2025

Sergei Parajanov's SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS (1965), one of the most famous works of Ukranian cinema, tells an age-old tale of lovers divided by a deadly blood feud, filtered through a dazzling kaleidoscope of Ukranian folk culture. Don't miss this one-of-a-kind masterpiece when it screens at the Tizard Room, at 7pm this Thursday, 8 May!

29/04/2025

Tracing the calamitous rise of an America media mogul - Orson Welles' CITIZEN KANE (1941) remains both one of the most innovative films to emerge from classic Hollywood, and a thrilling reflection on the collective emotional costs, and surpluses, of the media. Screening in Seminar Room 7 (in the Wolfson Foyer), this Thursday, 01 May, at 7pm, after the Cinema Club's AGM!

11/03/2025

I wanna be loved by you... so don't ditch Casablancabridge for the final screening of the term: Billy Wilder's gender-bending classic SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)! Starring Marilyn Monroe in one of her most iconic roles, and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as two cross-dressing musicians on the run from a murderous gang, this all-time comedy classic is unmissable and infinitely rewatchable. Hope you'll join us this Thursday, 13 March, at 7pm, and if you don't... well, nobody's perfect.

04/03/2025

An ex-convict seeking to reform is framed for a robbery he did not commit, and forced to go on the run. By his side - his girlfriend, determined to stick with him to the very end. A stunningly bleak, romantic gangster film by Fritz Lang, the greatest of the German expressionists, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (1937) shows film noir in the making - and is one of Lang's crowning achievements in Hollywood. It's only screening once - this Thursday, 6 March, 7pm in the Club Room... so don't miss it!

25/02/2025

One of the greatest and most iconic of Hollywood melodramas, dripping with irony and eye-popping technicolour, Douglas Sirk's proto-soap opera WRITTEN ON THE WIND (1956) places the dysfunctional lives of a filthy-rich family in full view, blown open by a whirlwind of exquisite kitsch. Don't miss it when it screens this Thursday 27 Feb, 7pm at the Club Room!

18/02/2025

When the princess of a South Sea island is chosen as a sacred virgin, she and her lover must flee the wrath of the island's Chief, and the gods themselves. Shot on location in Tahiti and starring local actors, TABU (1931) the last film ever directed by F.W. Murnau (famous for his 1925 NOSFERATU) was a collaboration between the German director and Robert J. Flaherty, the American pioneer of documentary filmmaking. Don't miss this fascinating, beautifully tragic, and absolutely unique late silent masterpiece when it screens this Thursday, 20 Feb, 7pm in the Club Room!

12/02/2025

One of the strangest collaborations in Hollywood history, John Huston's FREUD (1962) was developed from a screenplay written by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Huston's was probably the first intellectual biopic ever put on film - and its unsettling, unclassifiable form pieces together a thrillingly lucid account of Sigmund Freud's early psychoanalytic ideas, many of which have still not lost their power to shock. Displace yourself from the library and transfer yourself to the Club Room this Thursday (tomorrow) 13 Feb, 7pm at the Club Room to catch one of the most unusual films of 1960s Hollywood!

04/02/2025

Think Pink! Audrey Hepburn dazzles as an aspiring-philosopher-turned-supermodel in this vulgarly sophisticated, Technicolor musical send-up of mid-century Parisian culture. Featuring Fred Astaire, music by George and Ira Gershwin, costumes by Hubert de Givenchy, gorgeous colour photography inspired by Richard Avedon, and cameo appearances from some of the most famous faces of 50s haute couture... is this unparalleled melange of talent nonetheless marred by crude misogyny and anti-intellectualism? Decide for yourself when FUNNY FACE (1957) screens at Casablancabridge this Thursday, 6 Feb, at the Club Room!

28/01/2025

The eternal Marlene Dietrich and director Josef von Sternberg reunite for one of the greatest spy movies ever made. The second of their six legendary collaborations at Paramount Studios - and the most underrated - DISHONOURED (1931) follows a pr******te recruited as a spy for the dying empire of Austria Hungary. Shot in shadows, veiled by perpetual night, she becomes increasingly entangled in the dark weft of political intrigue behind the ravages of the First World War. Few films so brilliantly knit together visual excess and pathological restraint, sophistication and degradation, eroticism and decay. This last great work of pure, morally agnostic aestheticism, a true gem of pre-Code Hollywood cinema, will be screening this Thursday, 7.30pm at the Club Room!

20/01/2025

When N**i troops march into Poland, a theatre troupe is forced to cancel a satirical production aimed at Hi**er. Stumbling into an espionage plot, they must use their wits and wigs to fool the occupiers, and save the Polish resistance itself. Shot at United Artists right in the middle of World War II, Ernst Lubitsch's all-time comedy classic TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942), a landmark anti-fascist satire, will be opening Casablancabridge's Lent Term season this Thursday, 23 Jan at the Club Room!

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