Screen Sect

A film society night devoted to rarely seen, obsessively loved and criminally neglected cult classics of cinema. Revisit old favourites, uncover hidden celluloid gems, indulge guilty pleasures, or just get yourself an education.

Entry by membership, membership is $5/quarter.

Every Monday from 7pm.

THEY LIVE (John Carpenter, 1988)
- Monday 6 February
Plenty of B-grade sci-fi fun as “Rowdy” Roddy Piper (yes, he of WWF fame) discovers - courtesy of a pair of very special sunglasses - a sinister alien plot to enslave humanity. One highlight of Carpenter’s consumerist satire is the absurdly long mid-film fistfight that threatens to completely derail the story. Fun.

PRETTY POISON (Noel Black, 1968)
- Monday 13 February
Anthony Perkins’ Walter Mitty-esque misfit crosses paths with innocent-on-the-outside teenage drum majorette Tuesday Weld, and impresses her with his secret agent fantasies. But when their plans take a violent turn, she proves more than a match for him in the crazy stakes. Hysterical, impassioned and bizarrely sexy.

MASCULIN, FEMININ (Jean Luc Godard, 1966)
- Monday 20 February
Combining cinema vérité and surrealism, Godard's non-linear portrait of mid-60s French youth ("the children of Marx and Coca Cola") is one of his coolest, most energetic films. Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud (of The 400 Blows fame) and real-life pop chanteuse Chantal Goya.

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (James Foley, 1992)
- Monday 27 February
Adapted by David Mamet from his Pulitzer and Tony award winning play, this excoriating, cynical, profane tale of desperate real estate salesmen boasts an all-star cast, including Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin (in protean Jack Donaghy mode), Ed Harris, Alan Arkin and Kevin Spacey.