What I can say is thank you for this course, BWIU, teachers, building companies, Technics
College.
A breakthrough in adult migrant education.
Unions and employers sponsor English lessons during work time.
It's a cost that has been ignored for far too long in the Australian economy and even
though there is a short term expenditure, it's a long term gain.
Vox Populi, Sunday night SBS.
A cover up at the highest level, a determined policeman.
Corruption and intrigue in Parisian high society.
One man who cannot be bought.
And who will find out the truth.
A classic thriller from France, cover up, 9.30 Monday on SBS.
In the coming weeks on Cinema Classics, a chance to see a very young Jacques Taddy in
his first film appearance as a ghost in the French fantasy Sylvie and the Phantom.
The sensuous and enigmatic Marlena Dietrich stars as Lola, the sultry nightclub singer
in the Blue Angel.
It's Dietrich's first major film role and her most memorable.
And a film adaptation of one of Japan's most popular stories, the loyal 47 Ronan.
Coming soon to Cinema Classics.
Good evening, welcome to Cinema Classics, I'm David Stratton.
I have a first class program for you this evening.
Two films with memorable performances from great actresses.
Later on, Anna Magnani stars in Roberto Rossellini's famous war film, Rome Open City.
And first, Jean Moreau in Luis Buñuel's version of Diary of a Chambermaid.
There are a lot of ironies connected with this film.
It was the second film version of the book by Octave Mirbeau.
The first version had been made by one of the greatest French directors, Jean Renoir,
in Hollywood in 1946.
And I've often wondered how his film would have turned out had it been made in France
with a French cast.
The version you're seeing tonight was made in France by a Spaniard.
Buñuel had been in exile in Mexico for many years and there he'd made a number of fascinating
films.
But after the success of Viridiana in 1960 and The Exterminating Angel in 1962, he was
invited to make a film in France.
The result was Diary of a Chambermaid.
And for the rest of his life, Buñuel made French films, always with the same collaborator,
screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrier.
Buñuel being the old anarchist he was, attacks the bourgeoisie with even more relish than
Renoir.
His chambermaid, who's employed by a wealthy couple, is, as David Shipman has written,
a woman of limited imagination but unlimited experience.
And she's forced to cope with the amorous advances of her master, the foot fetish of
her master's old father, this is an especially Buñuelian touch, and the lovemaking of the
gamekeeper.
This character, as played by Georges Geret, is a particularly intriguing one.
So this is a very ironic film, rich in detail, beautifully acted, the cast includes Michel
Piccoli, and very typical of Louis Buñuel.
So here it is, Buñuel's 1964 film of Diary of a Chambermaid.
A remarkable film, Louis Buñuel's Diary of a Chambermaid, his first French film, if you
don't count his early experimental work from the 20s, and one of his best with a fine performance
from Jean Moreau as the chambermaid.
I'll be showing several more Buñuel films over the coming months, both on Cinema Classics
and on Movie of the Week.
And now a word about next week's programme, two Eastern European films about teenagers.
First from Poland, Andrzej Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers, written by Skolomowski, and a fascinating
insight into the world of young people in Warsaw at the end of the 50s, the beginning
of the 60s.
And then, by popular demand, a repeat of Milos Forman's exquisite Czech comedy Loves of a
Blonde, a film which the Australian film censors decimated back in the mid-60s.
So that's Wajda's Innocent Sorcerers and Forman's Loves of a Blonde, next week on Cinema Classics.
And now stay viewing for our second film of the evening.
Coming up in just a few moments, Anna Magnani, stars in Roberto Rossellini's famous film
about the occupation of Rome, Rome, Open City.
Next on Cinema Classics, one of Andrzej Wajda's early, more personal works, Innocent Sorcerers.
Andrzej is a doctor who takes jazz much more seriously than he takes either women or his
work, until he meets Magda.
They agree to a game of strip poker, but both get more than they bargained for.
A cynical but light-hearted romantic comedy, Innocent Sorcerers, 8.30 Saturday.
The essence of a quality current affairs program is the caliber of its reporting team and,
of course, the strength and breadth of its sources.
We have an excellent reporting team on Dateline and we have the best access to independent,
traditional and non-traditional sources from throughout the world.
Dateline has provided incisive and quality current affairs and will continue to do so,
but from this year, six nights a week.
Complete current affairs coverage, Dateline, six nights a week on SBS.
Entre nous, between us, a bond.
A bond that was something more than friendship, a rapport that meant love and support.
Shared decisions, shared indecisions, parallel lives without passion.
And escape into each other's souls.
Miu Miu and Isabelle Huppert in a film by Diane Couris.
Entre nous, 9.30 Wednesday on SBS.
Welcome back to Cinema Classics and to our second film of the evening, another film which
features a superb performance from an actress.
Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City was the film that created an international sensation
when it was released in 1945.
Rossellini had made a few films during the war but became instantly famous with this
one.
He filmed in the streets of Rome only days after the war came to an end, recreating events
that were still all too fresh in everyone's memory.
The film actually started out as a documentary, the story of the death of a Roman priest who
had worked with the resistance.
But Rossellini met up with two writers, Sergio Amadei and a young journalist called Federico
Fellini.
Together they wrote a screenplay about the bravery of the citizens of Rome during the
occupation of their city with the story of the priest at the centre of the drama.
It was very hard to raise money for the film.
Rossellini used any scraps of leftover film he could lay his hands on to shoot the movie.
Almost all of it was shot on the locations where the events depicted actually took place.
And that's what gives the film its immediacy and its authenticity.
Maria Magnani, who was already an established actress, gives an unforgettable performance
as a courageous woman who's stand against the Germans maybe typifies the stand made
by other brave women during the war years.
While there's an equally strong portrayal from Aldo Fabrizzi as the priest who stubbornly
does what he can to help his people.
Rome Open City revolutionised the cinema.
In Italy it started the so-called near realist movement, a series of films shot on location,
not in studio sets, about real people and their lives.
Even in America filmmakers saw Rome Open City and decided to try and work on locations themselves
rather than in studios.
The post-war movie move to documentary style cinema can in part be attributed to the enormous
influence of this great film.
So here it is, Roberto Rossellini's Rome Open City.
Are the television programmers giving us the TV we want to see?
And just how much are there surveys finding out about you?
I don't know whether they influence programming or not.
TV in Australia I've found is very poor anyway.
You don't get much choice really and a lot of it's imported.
What about all the repeats when it's off season?
During the non-ratings periods they get more videos out.
That's People Eaters and Television Ratings this Sunday on Hotline.
On Monday, you're a bum, you're a punk, you're an old whore and junk.
The amazing richness of talent that has come out of Ireland to dominate the world of rock
music.
They're all a celebration of how good it is to be alive apart from the ones which are
a lament about how bad it is being dead.
The phenomenon of Irish rock music examined in the clear, cool crystal streams.
8.30 Monday on Masterpiece.
In 1987, a number of children in foster care all from the same extended family began to
tell a horrific ritualised abuse they had suffered.
She told us about groups of people dancing around in witches' costumes, abusing her.
Although a High Court judge believed the children, police refused to acknowledge the satanic
ceremonies.
This was one of the parties where bad things happened and obviously the teddy bear was
a baby that was going to be killed.
So why are we so reluctant to listen to the children?
Next on the Cutting Edge, 8.30 Tuesday.
What I can say is thank you for this course, BWIU, teachers, building companies, Technics
College.
A breakthrough in adult migrant education.
Unions and employers sponsor English lessons during work time.
It's a cost that has been ignored for far too long in the Australian economy and even
though there is a short term expenditure, it's a long term gain.
Vox Populi, Sunday night SBS.
Entre nous, between us, a bond.
A bond that was something more than friendship.
A rapport that meant love and support.
Shared decisions, shared indecisions, parallel lives without passion.
An escape into each other's souls.
Miu Miu and Isabelle Huppert in a film by Diane Couris.
Entre nous, 9.30 Wednesday on SBS.
Miu Miu and Isabelle Huppert in a film by Diane Couris.
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