Film Club program

Film Club: Blue Jean (Balmain Library) - 28 Feb - England, 1988 Margaret Thatcher rules and a closeted teacher is pushed to the brink when a new student threatens to expose her sexuality.
Film Club: Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (Leichhardt Library) - 12 Mar - What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
Film Club: Call Jane (Marickville Library) - 14 Mar - Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are poised on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy (Elizabeth Banks) leads an ordinary life with her husband and daughter. When Joy’s pregnancy leads to a life-threatening heart condition, she must navigate an all-male medical establishment unwilling to terminate her pregnancy in order to save her life.
Film Club: Suzi Q (Ashfield Library) - 20 Mar - Before Suzi Quatro burst on the music world in 1973, there were almost no women in rock, and absolutely none who played bass and sang lead vocals and led the band and rocked out and reached millions of people around the world, re-writing the rule book for the expected image of women in rock & roll.
Film Club: Women of Mystery (Balmain LIbrary) - 28 Mar - First we read Nancy Drew, girl detective. Then what? Women of Mystery explores the writing lives of three authors (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton & Marcia Muller) who started a literary revolution and, in the process, captured readers' imaginations around the world.