For Valentine’s Day this year, we’re screening Casablanca (which has become an annual tradition for us) and a new addition to the romantic line-up, When Harry Met Sally… And we love that they’re connected in a couple of other ways:
Harry and Sally actually watch Casablanca and argue over various aspects and plotlines.
Both have lines about friendship: entirely different contexts of course, with Harry proclaiming that men and women can’t be friends while Rick delivers one of the most famous lines in movie history about friendship (it’s also the most famous last line of a movie!).
Which one will you watch?
Friday 14 February
Does sex make it impossible for men and women to be true friends? This is the dilemma Harry and Sally debate when they first meet in college. When they reconnect years later, they’re no closer to agreeing on an answer, but one fateful night is about to put their theories to the test…
8pm CASABLANCA
Casablanca, a timeless romance set against the backdrop of World War II, has been voted among the best War Movies of all time, and also among the best Romantic Movies. Starring Humphrey Bogart as nightclub-owner Rick Blaine, and Ingrid Berman as his star-crossed lover Ilsa Lund, the triangle is completed by Ilsa’s husband Victor Laszlo, portrayed by Paul Henreid. The film is based on an unproduced play which was titled Everybody Comes to Rick’s and is the most quotable movie according to the American Film Institute, with lines such as ‘Here’s looking at you kid’ and ‘I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.’
