Marc Eliot's Art of Film: Cities Living in Cinema

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MARC ELIOT'S ART OF FILM: CITIES LIVING IN CINEMA

Films where setting meets story

Every Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. | April 11, 2024 - June 9, 2024

    

Join New York Times best-selling author, film scholar and historian, and resident film curator Marc Eliot for the Art of Film featuring the greatest films ever released, presented the way they were meant to be seen on the Giant Screen.

This Art of Film cycle, Marc Eliot takes you on location, as he discusses the importance of setting in film, from L.A. to New York. Join us for a virtual pre-film introduction and a full post-film discussion by Marc Eliot at every screening.

FULL FILM SCHEDULE

Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 The Birds

“Mr. Hitchcock and his associates have constructed a horror film that should raise the hackles of the most courageous and put goose-pimples
on the toughest hide.” - New York Times
Friday April 19, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, April 21, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

Olivia Newman's 2022 Where the Crawdads Sing

"Where the Crawdads Sing is at once a mystery, a romance, a back-to-nature reverie full of gnarled trees and hanging moss, and a parable of women’s power and independence in a world crushed under by masculine will.” - Variety
Friday, April 26, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, April 28, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

Federico Fellini's 1960 La Dolce Vita

“An awesome picture, licentious in content but moral and vastly sophisticated in its attitude and what it says.”
- New York Times
Friday, May 3, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, May 5, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

Bob Fosse's 1972 Cabaret

“Superbly choreographed by Fosse, the cabaret numbers evoke the Berlin of 1931 - city of gaiety and perversion, of champagne and Nazi propaganda so vividly that only an idiot could fail to perceive that something is rotten in the state of Weimar.” - New York Times
Friday, May 10, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, May 12, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

Hal Kanter's 1957 Loving You

“A rather entertaining pic [with Elvis Presley’s] touchingly naive, celluloid sexuality…for all his high-voltage on-stage erotica ... Presley plays the sullen country boy convincingly” - Downbeat
Friday, May 17, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, May 19, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

Richard Lester's 1965 Help!

“The boys themselves are exuberant and uninhibited in their own genial way.” - New York Times
Friday, May 24, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, May 26, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

Jonathan Demme's 1993 Philadelphia

“[An] extremely well-made message picture about tolerance, justice and discrimination is pitched at mainstream audiences, befitting its position as the first major Hollywood film to directly tackle the disease.” - Variety
Friday, May 31, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, June 2, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

Gavin O'Conner's 2011 Warrior

“The movie is so skillfully made, and the performances are so convincingly real (Hardy is sensational), that, as it reaches its cathartic, winning finish, it achieves a surprising compassion and honesty.” - New Yorker
Friday, June 7, 2024 | 6:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE
Sunday, June 9, 2024 | 2:30 p.m. | GET TICKETS HERE

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Sponsored by Kathy and Harry Puterbaugh, Drs. Darrel and Jane Gumm, Nancy Snowden, Film Society.