The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • 12

More Continental ilms or 2: CoM'ntntll brilliant CAROLINE" I THE SINNER" production bi riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinirririniiitiiiiUHnfnniHiinfiMHiiiiiiinin Contractors to PARIS THEATRE HAS A RENCH ACCENT famil Selected ew Come Here 1953 In a LMI802 8 Hollywood It) Good and iti yoodta edfofiteK! Movies rom 12 Countries ms Cinema I al We or that immaculate look Perfume and Cosmetics the above crpvef Pour pi tint de rance £5 'o LADIES GRBRAKELL Cinema RGBROOKStSONS I5OIULIOIS 2: nstional production Greater Union started regular Theatre started pnlicv in Inly fimrd rradllimi clrlrd an and Caro Mars Anne Daniel Ge shown to ms ing for Michele Mor same director "1 he Moment Paris ki Rip ft tn th German Bi creamy Choo WWWlli of The Mil Bru 70 BATHURST STREET SYDNEY MA 4556 a "The I Jttle World of Don Camillo a rench Italian production star ring cmandel and Ginn Ceni and directed by Julien Duvivier from ROBERT XAPERER PRODUCTIONS PTY LTD 41 Daniel Street Leichhardt diitinouiihed Continental partonalitiei ernanda! and Gino Sarvi There is a curious chain cause and effect here Hollywood film industry has suffered a scries of crises in the last few years through de clining bos office receipts and lhe inroads of television In Perfume 39 66 156 256 Talc 36 ace Powder 26 and 5 The leading thaafra decorators contractors to Hoyts' Paris congratulate the nation's leading theatre circuit on the opening of Sydney's na Cinema in the Conttnentel MARTINE CAROL jfars in "Loverj of Verona" The ranco Halian Co production next in line for the Paris Qiulio 2rt and Enrico gvrmichi will be To sion from the actors and producers "The Moment of Truth" are added the bat wishes of the Australian d' tributors ilms of Nerona" AmnnU de 5 er a modem "Romeo and Marring Pierre Bravseur Martine Carol and Anouk HILDEGARDE NE CHAtltTY PHMIEHE A spectacular gala premiere of the rench film and Caro will open the Paris Cinema to night Proceeds will gn io the rench Widows and Or phans Indo China War Relief und which Vernon and tin will he night only and then he withheld until later in the season To morrow at its pub lic opening the Paris will present Moment of starring Jean Gabin Michele Morgan and Daniel Gelin for an extended run while) new stars icmakcs of old film favourite three dimensional screening and finally wide screen techniques combined wilh lavish spectacu lar effects to outbid the minia ture screen of television The end result of it all ha been a sharp drop in produc tion partly because of the Living Walt Disney's Teihni color nature film which won the 1953 Academy Award for lhe best full length documentary a drama from Germany starring Hildegarde Neff The sign of superlative entertainment in the Continental manner! or exclusive presentation at Hoyts Pans Cinema shortly NATAN SCHEINWALD pretext LOVERS of VERONA" jUrring Pierre Bretteur Marcel Delio Serge Rsggiani Louie Selou Anouk To be followed later by tUYVAKU end with Danini Gelin Anne Vernon end CSROtlSt" In lhe of IlnkirA XV Hr" Shine" hvl him ul I hr jur! thitsin't icnl ly a I i I he Munn nt vf 1 1 uh" thus making an oiKstan i success and iiihlisn a biilhant beginning (he Parts Cinema DANIEL GELIN and MICHELE MOR GAN the lover of The Moment of The film it in rench with English nub title BY CABLE ROM famoui Continental Hers and producers to and Caro line" et Caro Jacques Becker's domestic comedy star ring Daniel Gelin and Anne Vernon SYDNEY is going to hare more Continental films The opening this week of the Paris Cinema devoted to foreign language and specialised productions high lights a new trend in the tastes of Sydney moviegoers the pU Abo apecially aelecled AuMralian Vintages Anrtrallu agents for Dandle Dlnmont Scotch Whbky fifin' rich unueual entertainment play ing the in near future indication quality preprawone to be een and enfeyed in (fiia rendeiocuO joe yefne' amuse ment loving public MICHELE MORGAN or Britain and even of lhe routine product lhe Continent seems to rm adult approach a freedom from taboos and a realism that makes it more interesting than the corres ponding Hollywood fare In any case a sufficient number of Sydney filmgoers seem to think so And even those who do not come from Europe themselves have been looking al Continental films here in Svdncv for up to 15 years and longer Svdney began seeing Con tinental films ell before World War I when the Italians made spectacles like "Qu Vadis" and I ater the Germans led the field in Europe: filmgoers with longer memories may recall seeing and "The White Hell of Pit Palu" one of the last silent films DANIEL GEUN Now the Continental film industries in particular Italy arc beginning tn move in on Hollywood's world mar kets Italian films have made big inroads on American box office takings in European countries and are beginning1 Io nibble al the English speaking market as well Here in Sydney no one stays at home from the cinema to look at television because there is no television to look at We have (he result CincmaScope a film shortage a search for new material without having lhe cause But here too it is the foreign hlms lhe films some sav Hollywood should have copied to beat the crisis that are moving up Il must be remembered that we still see only a highly selected few of the Continental film product general financial nervousness and partly because lhe grand CincmaScope productions lake a long time to make igures of films in production in the leading Hollywood studios at the middle of this year suggest a drop of nearly 50 per cent in feature films compared with (he same period last year Critics outside Hollywood and some inside it have been maintaining patiently all this time that what the industry needed was not 3 and CinemaScope but better films tn particular newer ansi better stories that come doser iti 2: theatre of ontinrn screen master pic es LONDON ILMS extends warm congratula tions to Hoyts Theatres Ltd upon a further signal contribution to the Cosmopolitan colour of Sydney's entertainment world with ths advent Chateau bottled Bordeaux ine rench Burgundies Joseph Perrier Champagne Brossault Cognac Consolidated Neon Ltd Arundel Street Glebe MW28I4 Between 1947 and rance produced 715 feature films Eighteen of them have been brought to Svunev the case of Italian films lhe proportion would be even smaller rance and Italy have a routine film product just a much as Hollywood (repre sented in films like Artist With adies" and of but little of it comes our way None the less rance at least dive seem Io produce dis tinguished hlms in greater quantity than either Holly wood much from Smooth Nestle's Milk late makes every i interval of delight whether in the theatre or out Take a few blocks or tablets ot Milk Chocolate wherever you go They're passporti of friendships rPHE new cinema which 1 replaces the Park Thealre in Liverpool Street will cater to a fast growing audience which welcomes different stars and different production techniques Ji will he operated by Hoyts Theatres td as a distinct unit designed to preserve the colour and atmosphere of Continental movie houses The managing director of Hoyts Mr Ernest Turnbull are happv knon "I be Moment ot ihc film of which ire pioiiilest hern selected opening 'V hope and believe that elsewhere the IN EVERY WOMAN'S MARRIED LIE THERE COMES THE DAY WHEN SHE MUST ACE "THE MOMENT TRUTH Hoytj Pari Cinema presents a itudy in tai and aifie marital love of eicitmg fseina firm to bnfh fhe seres Starring MitMl Morgan Jean Gabin Daniel Gelm Hoyts Paris Directory advertisement programme details! Cinema I Cinema "lollies and chocs" at the in terval patrons will be offered cafe noire and Ercnch coulee lionery from the "boutique" lhe new decor follows through with the Parisian motif portraits of Continental stars and a large mural made irp of sketches of 75 interna tional film personalities decor ate the vestibules lhe theatre will introduce a sophisticated musical enter lainment between sessions sei cclcd by Mr Daniel Mas for merly tin orchestral director at the 1 ondon Savoy lhe mulu lingual Mr Mac will aKo be on hand as host and interpreter to iron out the language difficulties of patrons ol all nationalities JEAN GABIN iar figure in Continen tal films since prewar days stars in "The Moment Of Truth" at the Paris Cinema Til Paris Cinema Sydney's new intimate theatre aims to provide film presentation with a Continental accent as well as Continental films A SCENE from "The Moment Of Truth" Jean Delannoy's romantic drama about the love affair of a fashionable doctor's wife and a young painter which opens at the Paris Cinema Sydneys new Continental film theatre to morrow lhe players here ere MICHELE MORGAN DANIEL GELIN end JIM GERALD congratulating 5ejyta IteatrcA untied upon their ekcwaltlte enterprise in providing another jn theatre the neic 'Parii for the exhibition selected tine nt al ntertain DOI GLAS I AMB PTY LTD WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS PITT STREET SYDNEY Telephones: BL308I BL4II8 ydney there's a ra3t selective audience jer Jercin lanuatre enter tainment: accordingly 'ithing anti many happy hours ej relaxation Jei who enter its portale Verdi'o celebrated opera in Qerr aniacclor Marring Sophia £ernt 'Oayu eff £ucrac tCielfa CTMff cWfr0 Tebaldi £be vtig Hcre are the first six films chosen for screen ing at the Paris Cinema: Moment of Truth" Minute de Jean Delannoy's romantic drama starring Michele Morgan Jean Gabin and Daniel Gelin Wi ire pertkulerly happy 4o announce that emong forthcoming eHractioni at Hoytl Perle I London ilm' teirtul film etory baaed On fha book by Giovanni Guaraichi no In 1ft flhaanth edition with aalae totaling 1000000 When sound came the Ger mans still hied to hold on to their English speaking market by making Pnglrh versions of then films as in "The Blue Angel" and "In Old Vienna" or versions with English dialogue such as "Children in 1 'lhe first specialised Con tinental theatre the Savoy opened in April 1939 with lhe rench film "La Kertncsse Heioique" Ihc supplv dried up during lhe war but the Savoy relumed to foreign films again in 1947 wilh "Pas toral Symphonj" which had the same Mar gan and the Delannoy as of I ruth" rhe opening film 1 he Variety a Cnntincnla 194 with Carne's hildren of lhe Gods" nfants du Since the war we have seen films from Erance Ilalv Swit zerland Germany Sweden Denmark Austria Czechoslo vakia Hungary and Russia as well as one minor film from Japan Wtlh four predomin antly Continental theatres operating it is anticipated thall ihe flow of new forcicn filnisl in the most distinguished theatres 12 The Sydney Morning Herald Wrd Sept 29 954 ajlllllllinillllllllllllllllll studied lhe trend towards inti mate thcatics during a recent trip abroad The Curzon in Mas fair and lhe Normandie New York are the outstanding examples of these intimate theatres 'Ihc policy and amenities rf the Paris Cinema here will be pal terned on them or the benefit of lhe European newcomers who find that Sydney's night life 'blacks out mo early for their tastes there will be an II pm performance every riday A special motor service from lhe theatre at all hours aims to solve transport ptoblems for lhe late scssion patrons lhe niJ ill ka fryti I ICillllill H'Hb lil lM the flow of new foreign daily will approach two a week Instead of the conventional it In 1 1 drapingt and curtain manufacturers of the famoui Miracle Mirror Screen for CinemeScope sicoinfiarajbe in the Cantata! manner Michele Morsap Jean Gabin Dinic! Galin and ranco 1 ondon ilms A ihe prndiKns if Rrllrs de 's irt" Dcii'Hv Sins' and' he Moment of I rush desire tn exp'ess our heaiuesl good wishes to JW4 171GHT years ago we had! one (heatre wilh a Con (mental policy and foreign films were considered to have a strictly connoisseur appeal Now wc alreadv have two city theatres and one suburban theatre with a firm first release programme of Continental films as well as another suburban theatre specialising in Continental second releases Moreover foreign films arc beginning to trickle through the major cinema circuits The opening of lhe new Paris Cinema significantly marks the entry of one of the large exhibiting organisations Hojts Theatres into the field of city screening The biggest siep up in the release of oniincnial films has taken place in the last sear In that lime lhe lillle Satiety I hcsitre which hud a wavering policy has returned 10 lull time on incut a screening several foreign films including two in their original language have gone through lhe regular Hoyts iheaires and in the last few months the chain has weekly first releases of Con tinental films at its Double Bay Vogue Thealre Greater Union will soon send the celebrated rench film Wages of ear" through its regular circuit another for a foreign language film Exhibitors and distributors of Continental films all say that public interest in their products has risen sharply in the last year or so Why? The men whose busi ness it is to watch the public's theatre going habits agree that the influx of New1 Australians is the biggest single factor But there are two other im portant factors: lhe growing acceptance of foreign films among regular Australian audiences as a normal feature of tilmgoing and the general state of lhe film industry At least part of the reason for the increase in Continental films is the shortage in quan tity and quality of films from Hollywood and Britain Challenge To Audience By A STA CORRESPONDENT the Uniled Stales alone nearlvto life Thcj pointed to the 5(KM cinemas have closed sharper more original more Hoilvwood has tried a scries'advcntnrnus European films as of manoeuvres to heat thean example depression1 salesmanship But Hollywood held in the arc better than ev er" strait jacket of (he motion pic was a ubiquitous slogan for ahiire production code tpopu Ihiiv inc naves sniivc umss committed to big expenditure and mass appeal and warv of social criticism after some sensational investigations of alleged Communist activities among film personalities has become more rather than less conservative in its choice of siory malctial Wj IL 1 9 I EE I dp I 1 I AWO II I I S5 1 Xl mS v'wdf lv I if 1 I Ww A dre 1 mj! 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