Saturday, 29 December 2012: The Sound of Music
Saturday, 29 December 2012, 18:30
Venue: Forest Row Village Hall (see Locations and Tickets for further details)
Programme category: Transition Forest Row
Director: Robert Wise, USA 1965, 145 mins, U
“Nazis! Julie Andrews! Singing nuns! Yes folks, it’s the greatest screen musical of them all… Boy meets nun, boy loses nun, boy marries nun, boy and nun go on the run.” Eye for Film
Our post-Christmas film is one that is both revered and ridiculed, but if you’ve never seen it on a big screen, you should. Dressing up is encouraged, and you may even want to sing.
Further Reading
- Eye for Film
- Slant magazine
- Empire
- An Unclaimed Country: The Austrian Image in American Film and the Sociopolitics of The Sound of Music: On cliche, culture, and locating national identity in Wise’s epic musical Bright Lights Film Journal
