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1. How does it work?
The State Film Library maintains a huge stock of films which can be got
ten for the cost of return postage. We’re ordering 35 of them and hope to get
them all (if a previous booking precludes our getting it, we’ll secure a substitute
and try to get the other on another date.)
Admission to the films will be on two plans: membership and you guessed
it - non membership.
A membership for the whole season costs only $2.00 and gets you in free
to all the movies. You can buy memberships from the people who’ll be at
the table outside the cafeteria over the next few days at meals. Or you can sign
up by seeing Stuart Swain, who lives in 122 Granville, or Lin Thompson,
who lives in 121 Granville.
If you don’t want to run that route, you can pay as you go - ten cents a
film, or $3.50 for the series. 2 Are there extras?
You know it. The more of you that buy in, the more money we’ll have to
get other films that cost more. And, as a subscriber, you’ll get into those free,
3. When will they be shown? too.
Just about every Friday and Saturday night of spring term, and early
enough not to mterfere with your other plans. By the way, they’ll be on this ^ What Will I see ^
side of the campus, too.
At least 35 great films of every sort - comedy, drama, musicals, documen
taries - something for everybody, unless you’re into whips. Our research staff
has the following information for you to peruse at your leisure:
11 February: ADAM’S RIB: Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepbum. Sexual
mythology in America. She’s Ae defense; he’s the prosecution in a crime of passion trial
that chaDenged women’s roles years ahead of die times.
12 February: BRINGING UP BABY: Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn.
Howard Hawks, director. Playing paleontologist, Grant stumbles over something he didn t
expect to find.
19 February: THE BIG HOUSE: Wallace Beery. The vigors of gangstensm,
succinctly explained.
2 March: ARTHUR RUBENSTEIN: HOMAGE TO CHOPIN: Two
geniuses, one playing the music of the other.
4 March: INTERREGNUM/DECEMBER 7, 1941: Two flashbacks to the
worU of our fathers; “Interregnum” is a German satirist s view of Germany between the
wars; “December 7” examines the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
5 March: BLOOD AND SAND/MOVIES LEARN TO TALK: (I)
Valentino fights the bull. (2) Walter Cronkite tells us how.
6 March: LIFEBOAT: TaluBah Bankhead et al. (1944): Alfred Hitchcock,
director. Existential follies on the open sea.
12 March: CARL SANDBURG/DYLAN THOMAS: Two case studies m
llTMarch: MARK TWAIN'S AMERICA/MARK TWAIN GIVES AN
INTERVIEW: (I) The real Mark Twain. (2) The subKmely unreal Hal Holbrodi.
19-20-21 March: GARBO FESTIVAL
-GRAND HOTEL: Gaibo die inscmtable; John Banymore tfie baron. Pure
upper-crust romance.
-ANNA KARENINA: Tolstoy gets his. With Fiedric March, Maureen O Sul
livan
-CAMILLE: Garbo gives, in her best - known film, perhaps “the single most
beautiful performance in sound film.”
-NINOTCHKA: Garbo can, apparently, be funny. The New Yorker calls her
“omniscient... the world’s parent” The New Yako' can also be funny.
25 March: WUTHERING HEIGHTS: William Wyler, director. With Laurence
Olivier, Male Oberon, David Niven. Olivier says this one taught him how to act in films.
8 AprI: THE THIN MAN: HaK comedy and half crime, this film h^its friends.
9 AprH: REBECCA: Alfred Hitchcock, director. With Laurence Olivier and Joan
Fontaine. By aQ accounts, unsurpassed Gothic. . , ^ rj,, □. ■
10 AprI: DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE: Claik Gable “Puttin On The Ritz m
his only muacal (1931) - a pure curiosity. i
IS-IS April; H.Y1N6 DOWN TO mO/THE GAY DIVORCCfc F„d
Astaire and Ginger Rogers show Gable what he shouU have done
22 AprH: THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS: Oison Welles, director. With
Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Gotten. “A textbook of advanced cinematic technique” -
Francois Tmffaut ,
29 Apr3: ALL ABOUT EVE: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sandeis - “A
bitch a day ...” - behind the scenes on Broadway.
30 AprH: MAN OF ARAN: A very early, very fine documentary - nominally about
some islands north of Ireland - essentially about the near edge of human subsistence.
(What’s a near edge?)
6 May: RUNNER/OLYMPIA I: (I) W. H. Auden nanates a film on long distance
runners. (2) Hitler’s 1936 OlympKS filmed as a human art fomi by famed photographer
Leni Riefenstahl.
7 May: ORPHANS OF THE STORM: D. W. Griffith, director. Griffith
invented too much of the modem movie to be ignored on any account. This film takes
Lillian Gish through the French Revolution.
5-12 MAY: EXAM WEEK DIVERSIONS
—PAT AND MIKE: Hepbum dons a jock, you might say. The battle of the sexes
moves to the playing fiekis.
—CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS; Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney; “beefy and
rousing and good fun for all” - swash your buckle (buckle your swash?)
-BRAVERMAN'S BEATLES: Braverman’s chronicle of the I960’s was the
best d Bushoven’s Attic Cheap Film Series this fall, and the Beatles were the best
part. They ahvays are.
-THE RED BALLOON: A red balloon.
THE SIX AND A HALF CENT FILM SERES •
STUART SWAIN AND LIN THOMPSON, DIRECTORS
ALL FILMS SUBJECT TO UNFORSEEN
SCHEDULING PROBLEMS AND MAY BE
CHANGED WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE •