UPCOMING SHOWS
The Movies Begin!
130th Birthday Anniversary Tribute: 1895 - 2025.
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STATE LIBRARY NSW
Please click here for State Library NSW Conditions of Entry.
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Save these 2025 dates: March 9, 15 and 23. Two Sundays and a Saturday!
Three glorious Film Heritage sessions are coming, silent (one with live music) and sound era classics. Two restored films are Australian premieres. Legendary works from iconic figures such as James Cagney; William Wellman; a silent Frankenstein; Charlie Chaplin; Damien Parer; Richard Barthelmess; May McAvoy; and John S. Robertson. The assistance of the following is greatly appreciated: Cinesound Movietone Productions and Glenn Eley; Edward Lorusso; Grapevine Video; and the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. Click here for more details.
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ROSEVILLE
Roseville Uniting Church, 7 Lord Street, ROSEVILLE NSW 2069. Short walk from Roseville Station - eastern side.
March 29 Saturday at 2pm
As part of Cinema’s 130th Anniversary Tribute, two wonderful achievements of film’s rich heritage.
Australia’s first Oscar winner, Damien Parer’s 1942 sound era Kokoda Front Line.
With soundtrack, 10 minutes.
Presented with the assistance of Cinesound Movietone Productions and Glenn Eley.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1924)
Restored Buster Keaton classic silent comedy.
With live music, 71 minutes.
More details and buy tickets at the following red link: click here!
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EPPING
Epping Baptist Church, 1-5 Ray Road, EPPING NSW 2121.
Short walk from Epping Station (western side) - near Coles Supermarket.
April 5 Saturday at 2pm
The King of Kings (1927)
With live Christie Theatre Organ accompaniment (Graeme Costin), 155 minutes.
Please note that the venue has general seating - not reserved or numbered. There will be a short 15 minute intermission.
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Oscar winning Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent. The accomplished NSW born May Robson, the first Australian actor to be nominated for an Oscar, plays a minor role (https://www.ozsilentfilmfestival.com.au/may-robson/).
More details and buy tickets at the following red link: click here!
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SUTHERLAND
Sutherland Uniting Church, 9 Merton Street, SUTHERLAND NSW 2232
Corner Flora and Merton Streets, short walk from Sutherland station, eastern side, behind the Pavilion Entertainment Centre.
May 24 Saturday at 2pm
The Flickers: a Treasure Chest of Early Cinema 1915 - 1926
Kings of Comedy: Chaplin and Lloyd
With live music accompaniment (Graeme Costin), 85 minutes.
The Tramp (1915) - 25 minutes
2025 is the 111th Anniversary of Charlie’s start in film and coincides with the 136th Anniversary of his birth. Two wonderful milestones to celebrate! This short folds pathos neatly into the slapstick with our hero playing a kind-hearted drifter down on his luck who finds welcome and work at a farm. There is plenty of rowdy fun with pitchforks and ladders but by the 1915 film's touching conclusion Charlie’s development as a filmmaker is on full display.
For Heaven’s Sake (1926) - 58 minutes
This feature was one of Lloyd’s greatest successes. Here he is a spoilt wealthy young man whose life trajectory changes abruptly when he is smitten by a young woman running a church mission for the homeless. They become engaged but then things happen (as they do)....!
More details and buy tickets at the following red link: click here!
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Restoring the audience with classic silent and sound films!
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Australia and the Silver Screen, an Australian treasure trove of items including a tribute to Felix the Cat and fascinating websites from Mark St Leon, Rod Blackmore OAM, Kev Franzi and Nick Murphy. Click here.
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Reclaim the movies and the audience! The not for profit and registered charity presents restored silent and sound film classics. A number of the sessions are accompanied with live music. Since 2007 it has continued to promote the artistic, cultural and historic value of cinema.
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Please stay in touch.
E: info@ozsilentfilmfestival.com.au
T: 0419 267 318
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