Friday, November 3, 2023 - Sunday, November 5, 2023
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.
Enjoy a special in-person weekend with resident film curator for the Peoria Riverfront Museum, Marc Eliot. Marc will be there for a virtual pre-film introduction and a full post-film discussion both Saturday and Sunday. A digital essay will be played before and after the Friday screening of Elaine May's 1972 The Heartbreak Kid.
Film Schedule:
Friday, November 3, 2023- Marc Eliot Digital Essay
Elaine May's 1972 The Heartbreak Kid | 6:30 p.m.
“Nothing is as rare in American movies now as comedy with a director’s style and personality. Elaine May finds her comic tone in The Heartbreak Kid.”
-New Yorker
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Saturday, November 4, 2023- Marc Eliot In-Person
François Truffaut’s 1968 The Bride Wore Black | 2:30 p.m.
“Truffaut is such a poetic filmmaker that the film turns around and becomes…a gentle comedy and one of the few plausible and strange love stories in a long time.”
-New York Times
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Sunday, November 5, 2023 - Marc Eliot In-Person
Elaine May's 1972 The Heartbreak Kid | 2:30 p.m.
“Nothing is as rare in American movies now as comedy with a director’s style and personality. Elaine May finds her comic tone in The Heartbreak Kid.”
-New Yorker
Get tickets HERE
Alice Winocour's 2022 Paris Memories | 6:30 p.m.
"It’s powerful film-making, grounded by Efira’s enormous, often silent, central performance."
- Times of London
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Sponsored by Kathy and Harry Puterbaugh, Drs. Darrel and Jane Gumm, Nancy Snowden, Film Society.
