Throng

MGM - Friday 20 August, 8.30pm

The original version of this sexy and suspenseful classic, about a handsome, super-cool millionaire businessman, Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen), who is also a high-stakes thief. His latest caper is an elaborate heist at a Boston bank. Why does he do it? For the same reason he flies gliders, bets on golf strokes and races dune buggies: he likes the thrill. A beautiful insurance investigator is sent to investigate him (Faye Dunaway).

Edited and co-produced by Hal Ashby (who went on to direct classics Harold And Maude, Shampoo, Being There).

Director/producer Norman Jewison (Fiddler On The Roof, In The Heat Of The Night, Moonstruck, The Hurricane) sites the French New Wave as an influence on the style he chose for this film. The multi-screen displays are one element of the film that gives it a particularly unique style. Featuring Oscar and Golden Globe winning original music.

MGM - Thursday 19 August, 8.30pm

80s comedy classic about a snobbish wealthy investor and an impoverished street con artist that find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two fabulously wealthy but morally bankrupt millionaires.

Winner of two BAFTAs (Supporting Actor: Denholm Elliott, Supporting Actress: Jamie Lee Curtis), as well as receiving a nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Trading Places also received nominations for an Oscar and two Golden Globes.

Director: John Landis (The Blues Brothers).

Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche.

"This is one of the best comedies of the 1980s, featuring a cast at the height of their powers." - BBC

"An immensely appealing social satire..." - Rotten Tomatoes

MGM - Wednesday 18 August, 8.30pm

A nerdy Catholic schoolgirl dreams of being famous and sees the opportunity to make her dreams come true in a talent contest to be an extra in a movie with positive moral values.

Starring: Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell, Elaine Hendrix, Harland Williams, Tom Green.

"The funniest SNL movie since Wayne's World." - New York Post

MGM - Tuesday 17 August, 8.30pm

Kate and fianc� Charlie seem set for a predictable future life together in Canada - until Charlie attends a seminar in Paris and falls for heavenly Juliette.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill, Body Heat, Silverado).

Starring: Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline, Jean Reno, Timothy Hutton.

"Ryan's comic timing continues to delight, while Kline is touchingly heartfelt as a man doing what is evidently all too easy to do -- fall in love with Meg Ryan." - San Francisco Gate

MGM - Monday 16 August, 8.30pm

Based on Christina Crawford's best selling memoir, this film depicts her abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing at the hands of her mother, screen-queen Joan Crawford.

Disliked by critics upon its release, Mommie Dearest was nevertheless a huge commercial success. The film was in the top 30 grossing films of 1981, and is now a bonda fide cult classic, with DVD sales surpassing the US$5million mark. Director: Frank Perry (The Swimmer, Doc, Rancho Deluxe).

Starring: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Priscilla Pointer, Mara Hobel, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva.

MGM - Sunday 15 August, 8.30pm

One night, a happily married man makes the mistake of engaging in a one-night stand while his wife and child are out of town... but the woman refuses to end the affair and becomes dangerously obsessed with him.

Winner of a BAFTA, nominated for six Oscars (including Best Picture), four Golden Globes.

Director: Adrian Lyne (Unfaithful, 9 � Weeks, Indecent Proposal, Foxes).

Starring: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer.

"Two absolutely riveting performances and a smart reversal of the usual male-female stalker scenario leave behind a nasty taste and an unforgettable cinema experience." - Empire Magazine

"Fatal Attraction has an inescapable pull to it; it's suffocatingly exciting." - Washington Post

MGM - Saturday 14 August, 8.30pm

Based on the 1959 television series, this movie follows FBI Agent Eliot Ness's autobiographical account of his boundless efforts to bring gangster Al Capone to justice during the Prohibition era.

A prequel, The Untouchables: Capone Rising, is in pre-production as of early 2010. Directed also by Brian De Palma, the new film's plot details the story of Al Capone's rise to power.

Screenplay adapted by David Mamet.

Winner of an Oscar (Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery), a BAFTA (Best Score - Ennio Morricone), and a Golden Globe (Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery), as well as a slew of other award nominations.

Director: Brian De Palma (Snake Eyes, Mission: Impossible, Carlito's Way, Casualties Of War, Body Double, Scarface).

Starring: Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Sean Connery, Andy Garcia, Patricia Clarkson, Billy Drago.

MGM - Friday 13 August, 8.30pm

Considered one of the greatest horrors of all time, a happy newlywed becomes pregnant... but soon becomes fixated by the idea that she has been impregnated by Satan and is now carrying his unholy child.

When Mia Farrow accepted the lead role, her then-husband Frank Sinatra - who had demanded she forego her career when they wed - was furious and served her divorce papers via a corporate lawyer, in front of the cast and crew midway through filming. In an effort to salvage her relationship, Farrow asked Evans to release her from her contract, but he persuaded her to remain with the project after showing her an hour-long rough cut and assuring her she would nab an Oscar nomination for her performance (a prediction that failed to come true).

Based on the novel by Ira Levin.