| WEDNESDAY MOVIE MATINEE: The Golden Age's Glamour Girls |
Why not enjoy lunch at Daytona State College's Café 101 and follow up with a comfortable seat in the Southeast Museum of Photography's Madorsky Theater for this interesting and entertaining film and discussion series on Wednesdays at 2:00 pm.
Movie and meal at Café 101 available separately. Phone 386-506-3859 for Café 101 reservations. |
Admission by donation.
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February 10, 2010 2:00 pm
The Blue Angel
Dir: von Sternberg, (USA, 1931) 107 min.
The Blue Angel is one of the first German sound films. It was directed by Josef von Sternberg and is based on a novel Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann. It introduced the world to one of the great screen figures, Marlene Dietrich. Even though she had been in other films and on stage, her work was mostly in Europe. The Blue Angel was a stepping stone to her international success. It also introduced the world to her song, Falling in Love Again. |
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February 17, 2010 2:00 pm
Grand Hotel
Dir: Golding, (USA, 1932) 112 min.
In this great screen drama, the glitz and glitter of Berlin's opulent Grand Hotel comes alive with its star-studded guests and employees: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore. Garbo is luminous as Grusinskaya, the neurotic and famous-but-slipping dancer and, yes, she "vonts to be alone." Minor plots swirl around the edges of the film, suggesting that we've only seen a small chapter of the hotel's story. Grand Hotel is a great deal of fun and an excellent chance to see some famous faces in their prime.
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February 24, 2010 2:00 pm
Three on a Match
Dir: Zanuck/Leroym, (USA, 1932) 63 min.
If three people light cigarettes from the same match, one will die soon, or at least that's how the old superstition had it.
Childhood friends Mary Keaton, Ruth Wescott and Vivian Deverse reunite ten years after high school. Mary is now a chorus girl, level-headed Ruth has a job as a secretary, and sexy Vivian is on the verge of deserting her wealthy husband Henry Kirkwood and their baby in favor of a glamorous gangster.Three childhood friends (Joan Blondell, Bette Davis, Ann Dvorak) laugh it off as they all light up from the same match.
Preview Trailer Here
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March 10, 2010 2:00 pm
The Thin Man
Dir: Van Dyke, (USA 1934) 91 min.
Adapted from the novel by Dashiell Hammett, his jaunty whodunit made oft-teamed William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles into America's favorite detectives. The title to the mysteriously missing scientist Nick and Nora set out to find. Bantering in the boudoir, enjoying walks with beloved dog Asta or matching each other highball for highball and clue for clue, they combined screwball romance with mystery.
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March 24, 2010 2:00 pm
The Women
Dir: Cukor, (USA, 1939) 133 min.
Be careful what you say in private. It could become a movie. Some gossip overheard in a nightclub powder room inspired her Broadway hit that's wittily adapted for the screen in The Women. George Cukor directs Clare Boothe Luce’s Broadway hit with an all-star female cast in this catty tale of battling and bonding that paints its claws Jungle Red and shreds the excesses of pampered Park Avenue princesses. Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine, Mary Boland and Paulette Goddard are among the array of husband snatchers, snitches and lovelorn ladies. |
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March 31, 2010 2:00 pm
Suspicion
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock (USA, 1941) 99 min.
Repeated viewings can't dispel the shock of the final scene in this classic 1941 romantic mystery--a brief but disorienting confrontation that suddenly inverts the heroine's mounting conviction that she's married a murderer, forcing us to reconsider virtually every scene and line of dialogue that's preceded it. It's a masterful coup de grace for director Alfred Hitchcock, who has built a puzzle around the corrosive power of suspicion, threaded with deft ambiguities that toy with dramatic conventions and character archetypes in nearly every frame. Cary Grant is irresistible and sinister, capable of deceit and petty theft, as well as grander designs on his bride's impending fortune.
Click here for view a local blog review of the film |
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April 7, 2010 2:00 pm
The Heiress
Dir: Wyler (USA, 1949) 115 min.
Academy Award winner Olivia De Havilland and Montgomery Clift light up the screen in this spellbinding, landmark drama. De Havilland is Catherine Sloper, an aristocratic young woman living under the scrutiny of her malevolent father. When a handsome but penniless suitor proposes, her father believes he could only be after her vast estate and threatens disinheritance. Can she be rich in love and money? Based on the stage version of Henry James' renowned novel Washington Square. A masterpiece of love, deception and betrayal, The Heiress remains a shining example of a true cinematic achievement. |
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April 14, 2010 2:00 pm
A Letter to Three Wives
Dir: Mankiewicz (USA, 1949) 103 min.
Before he made the classic All About Eve, writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz made this clever story about three wives who spend an afternoon at a children's picnic mulling over a letter all three had just received, from a woman who says she's just run off with one of their husbands. As the wives--a former farm girl (Jeanne Crain), a radio soap opera writer (Ann Sothern), and a social climber from the wrong side of the tracks (Linda Darnell)--mull over the troubles of their marriages, each begins to think that she's the one left behind. |
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April 21, 2010 2:00 pm
All About Eve
Dir: Mankiewicz/Zanuck (USA, 1950) 138 min.
Showered with Oscars, this wonderfully and witty comedy written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz concerns an aging theater star (Bette Davis) whose life is being supplanted by a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing ingénue (Anne Baxter) whom she helped. This is a classic from Mankiewicz, the legendary screenwriter and the brilliant director of A Letter to Three Wives, The Barefoot Contessa, and Sleuth. |
