Monday, October 6, 2008
Magnolia Theatre’s classic film screenings for October
"All right, Mr. Turner, we're ready for our close ups."
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Once again the Magnolia Theatre will set aside four showtimes this month (Oct.) for Turner Classic Movie simulcasts on one of their big screens, utilizing their cutting edge digital projection technology. And they'll be showing the movies for free, so just go ahead and can the rolling eyes routine.
On Wed., Oct. 10 at 8:30, it's Little Women - George Cukor's 1933 version of the Louisa My Alcott novel, starring Katharine Hepburn and Joan Bennett. (Ms. Bennett was pregnant at the time the movie was filmed, it turns out. With another little woman. Just FYI.)
See Baghdad the way it used to be (in the imaginations of Western film producers, that is) - and spell it the way it used to be spelled, by leaving out the "h" and taking in a screening of The Thief of Bagdad (1940), directed by a veritable committee of auteurs including (most notably) Ludwig Berger and Michael Powell. This one screens on Thurs., Oct. 16 at 9 p.m.
Wow, The Hunchback of Notre Dame has been made more times than Inspector Clouseau going undercover with a guitar in a nudist colony, but this is the definitive 1939 version starring Charles Laughton as Quasimodo, the deformed yet kind-hearted bellringer. It plays on Wed., Oct. 22 at 7 p.m.
And finally - on Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. - Norma Desmond gives Cecil the high sign in Billy Wilder's 1950 noir classic, Sunset Boulevard. Starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson.
As usual, you must pick up your tickets on the day of the show at the Magnolia box office.
Fire up the projector, Max.
posted by JM
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