Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 9. May 21 1968

Screen Classics

Screen Classics

The next two weeks will be one of the most intensive periods of film showings at university this year. Tonight on the Film Society programme is the Bette Davis-Joan Crawford movie Whatever Happened to Baby Jane; Directed by Robert Aldrich-(his latest: The Dirty'Dozen) this is grand guignol in true Hollywood style.

This weekend will be devoted to that most American of all genres, the Western. The emphasis will not be on the perennial classics so much as those films which have contributed and expanded the frontiers of the genre. In Red River (starring John Wayne) made in 1948, Howard Hawks, one of the master American directors, gave the western film more realism than hitherto. The unpleasantness of the real West was brilliantly depicted in Henry King's film The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck in the title role.

The weekend will also feature a barbecue on Saturday night for those who register for the weekend. Inclusive fee is $1 for members and $1.50 for non-members.

Monday's film is the high camp Modesty Blaise and on Wednesday the drama Rapture.