Movies at Woodmere

When:
Tuesday, Oct 25, 2016 7:30p -
9:30p
Repeats weekly

Where:
Woodmere Art Museum
9201 Germantown Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19118

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Admission:
$5 suggested donation

Categories:
Date Idea, Film

Event website:
https://woodmereartmuseum.org/experience/programs/movies-at-woodmere

On Tuesday nights, Woodmere’s main gallery is transformed into an intimate setting for screenings of rare and underseen films as well as classics. Tuesday Nights at the Movies is presented with the Chestnut Hill Film Group and sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Local.


7:30–9:30 p.m., doors open at 7:00 p.m. $5 suggested donation


The Graduate (1967/106 minutes)
September 27


Enjoy a fiftieth-anniversary presentation of director Mike Nichols’s generation-defining comedy. Dustin Hoffman’s Ben Braddock is caught between Anne Bancroft’s older woman, Mrs. Robinson, and Katharine Ross’s young Elaine, complete with indelible songs by Simon and Garfunkel.


Topsy-Turvey (1999/154 minutes)
October 4


Writer/director Mike Leigh’s rich and rewarding behind-the-scenes biopic chronicles the creation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado in 1884. Victorian London is re-created with splendid costumes and detailed art direction while Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, and Timothy Spall inhabit historical figures with remarkable humanity.


The Lady from Shanghai (1947/87 minutes)
October 11


From its romantic opening in Central Park to its climactic shootout in a funhouse hall of mirrors, director/star Orson Welles’s weird and wonderful film noir, co-starring Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane, grips the viewer in a sticky web of crime and double crosses.


Manon of the Spring (1986/113 minutes)
October 18


Eighteen-year-old Manon (Emmanuelle Béart) seeks revenge for her father’s death in this smoldering Gallic family drama of love, secrets, and obsession. Director Claude Berri and cinematographer Bruno Nuytten present lush and epic visuals; Yves Montand and Daniel Auteuil co-star. In French with English subtitles

Schalcken the Painter (1979/68 minutes)
November 1


Based on Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1839 ghost story, director Leslie Megahey’s Gothic film pulls the audience into the shadowy fantasy world of real-life painters Gerrit Dou and Godfried Schalcken. Paintings by Schalcken, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and others offer visual inspiration and set the stage for tantalizing mystery, impossible love, strange attraction, and spectral art. Introduced by Nicole Cook, PhD, The Leiden Collection, New York


The Good Fairy (1935/98 minutes)
November 8


Screenwriter Preston Sturges brings a whimsical romantic farce by Ferenc Molnár to the screen, adding self-reflexive comedy about the then-new apparatus of cinema. Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, and Reginald Owen star as the four points of this embroiled romantic whirligig directed by the great William Wyler.


Footlight Parade (1933/104 minutes)
November 15


James Cagney appears as a down-onhis- luck director who doesn’t realize that his secretary, played by Joan Blondell, is madly in love with him. But the true stars of this scandalous pre-Code musical are the elaborately choreographed sequences staged by the incomparable Busby Berkeley. Musical numbers include Harry Warren and Al Dubin’s “Honeymoon Hotel” and “Shanghai Lil,” as well as Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal’s “By a Waterfall.” Co-stars include the great Ruby Keeler and the dashing Dick Powell.


Deadline, U.S.A. (1952/87 minutes)
November 22


Humphrey Bogart is the crusading managing editor of a large but crumbling metropolitan newspaper owned by the formidable Ethel Barrymore. As Bogart chases scoops in the name of boosting circulation, he stumbles upon the mysterious murder of a young woman with numerous underworld connections. Kim Hunter plays Bogart’s ex-wife.


The Hireling (1973/95 minutes)
November 29


After World War I, a recently widowed socialite regains her sanity as her temporary chauffeur descends into suicidal rage. Tour-de-force performances radiate from Robert Shaw and Sarah Miles in this scathing allegory of British society, ripped from the galvanizing novel by L.P. Hartley.


Wings (1927/144 minutes)
December 6


The winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture, Wings stars “it girl” Clara Bow as a volunteer ambulance driver in love with flyboy Charles “Buddy” Rogers. A spectacular tribute to the American flyers of World War I, featuring hundreds of extras and more than three hundred pilots, the film was born of director William A. Wellman’s own experiences with the Lafayette Flying Corps. Silent with musical accompaniment


Holiday (1938/95 minutes)
December 13


The forces of tradition and freedom clash in the moments before the great stock market crash of 1929. Cary Grant plays a self-made man caught between sisters Katharine Hepburn and Doris Nolan in director George Cukor’s cherished film adaptation of Philip Barry’s dramatic and comic masterpiece. Our fall 2016 finale

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