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HILLSBOROUGH CLASSIC FILM SOCIETY

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​Hillsborough Classic Film Society
​Presents



Sunday, March 8, 2026
​2PM


PASSMORE CENTER

The Conformist

The Guardian Review: “ A
repressed upper-class intellectual is hired by Mussolini's fascist goons to go to Paris and kill a leading dissident who was once his philosophy tutor. Such is the premise for one of the most poetic and influential films ever made. Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg all cite this adaptation of Alberto Moravia's novel as a profound influence on their films. Coppola even lured Bertolucci's director of photography, Vittorio Storaro, to the Philippines to bring his talents to bear on Apocalypse Now.”


Our Speaker: Gary Hawkins… more soon!

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The 2025-2026 Schedule

​Sept. 14 Tarkovsky's Mirror, speaker Gustavo Furtado
​Oct. 5 Night of the Hunter, speaker Rose Steptoe
Nov. 2 M, speaker Jeffrey Stern
Dec. 7 City Lights, speaker Francesca Talenti
(The December movie will be shown in the
Orange County Public Library in Hillsborough.)
Jan. 25 …. POSTPONED SEE BELOW
Feb 8 – Orson Welles’ Macbeth, Diana Newton
March 8 – Bertolucci, The Conformist, Gary Hawkins
April 19 – Scorsese, Taxi Driver, Rose Steptoe
May 3 – Pasolini, Gospel According to St. Matthew, Henry Veggian
June 7 – Bresson, Au Hazard Balthazar, Tom Whitesid

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We are partnering with the Passmore Center. We are indebted to their staff for their gracious and professional help.


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CLASSIC, FOREIGN AND INDEPENDENT FILMS
GREAT FILMS ABOUT 50 YEARS OLD
NOT THE USUAL SUSPECTS


MORE ABOUT THE SOCIETY…



HILLSBOROUGH CLASSIC FILM SOCIETY
PREVIOUS SEASONS


2018-2019
9/30: ​On the Waterfront
10/21:​Paths of Glory
11/25:​Cranes are Flying
1/20: ​Double Indemnity
2/9: ​In the Heat of the Night
2/24: ​Vertigo
3/24: ​Bicycle Thieves
4/16: ​The Third Man
5/26:​The Battle of Algiers

2019-2020
9/15:​Young Frankenstein
10/6: ​The Train
11/10:​Rashomon
12/8: ​Charlie Chaplin films for Christmas
1/12: ​Black Orpheus
2/9: ​Grand Illusion
3/8: ​High Noon
4/5: ​Pather Panchali
5/10: Nights of Cabiria

2020-2021

2021-2022
3/27: ​High Noon
4/24: ​Pather Panchali
5/27: ​Umberto D

2022-2023
9
/25:​Casablanca
10/23:​The Big Sleep
11/6:​The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
12/18:​Breathless
1/22:​Nights of Cabiria
2/26:​Top Hat
3/26:​The Conversation
4/23:​Lacombe, Lucien
5/21:​The Lavender Hill Mob

2023-2024
9/10. The Closing of a School: The History and Legacy of Central High School
10/15. Grapes of Wrath
11/2. The Searchers
​12/10 The Quiet Man
1/28/2024. Tampopo
​2/18 Young Frankenstein
3/18. Ugetsu
4/18 Au Revoir les Enfants
5/18 Salvatore Giuliano

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2024-2025
​September
8 Battle of Algiers
October 13 West Side Story
November 2 Dr. Strangelove
December 15 Mon Oncle Antoine
January 5 Le Samourai
February 2 Wooden Crosses
March 2 The Prowler
April 13 Sansho the Bailiff
May 18th Rebecca
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For more about past seasons, go to the film information page!
MEDIA ....
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WHUP: 3D News -- 11/21


FOUNDING MEMBERS AND CONTINUING MUSCLE
Michael and Gail Corrado, John Beerman, and Stacy Gamble

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Watch "From Orson Welles to Michael Fassbender: A Study of Macbeth's Soliloquy" on YouTube

​https://youtu.be/i3p2HnNicug
REVIEWS

​A 2024 review of the film in Slant included this evaluation: “Identifying and magnifying the skeletal nastiness of the text, Welles lays out the blueprint for future revisionist takes on Shakespeare’s works. Both Roman Polanski’s nihilistic rendition and Justin Kurzel’s arty 2015 update pull much from what Welles does here. Olivier may have brought out the fulsome color and hard-won optimism of his adaptations during wartime, but Welles plunges into darkness to reckon with an uncertain postwar world. Shot in less than four weeks, the film has a rugged, spartan nature to it, and though it may be one of the director’s minor achievements, that its enduring unpleasantness lends it a modernity that has yet to



​Review of Welles’ “Macbeth” from The Boulder Weekly, 2024, Michael Casey
https://boulderweekly.com/entertainment/screen/orson-welles-macbeth-colorado-shakespeare-festival/

Slant Magazine review, 2024, Cole and Wilkins:
https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/macbeth-blu-ray-review-orson-welles/

(This is the review that comes with the Olive (not Criterion)-re-release of the film
Jonathan Rosenbaum’s review:
https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2025/07/orson-welless-macbeths-tk/

The New Yorker, Richard Brody, 2015ç
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/macbeth-10

Online discussion of the movie:
https://youtube.com/shorts/AhCeDebFt0M?si=RIdzpLwlqHT3cUGo





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