A Weekend of Silver Screens
3pm *FREE*
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
(David Hand, US, 83 min., 35mm, 1937)
The first American feature length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves immediately enchanted audiences. Based on the Brothers Grimm tale, a beautiful princess flees from her wicked stepmother to find comfort with the seven dwarves and love with the Prince in this enduring and magical tale. “Snow White demonstrated how animation could release a movie from its trap of space and time; how gravity, dimension, physical limitations and the rules of movement itself could be transcended by the imaginations of the animators.” – Roger Ebert CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
5pm *FREE*
It (Clarence Badger, US, 72 min., 35mm, 1927)
It, a Jazz Age romantic comedy captures the quintessential flapper, Clara Bow at the height of her charm. In the spirit of the sexually-liberated youth of Prohibition-era America, a saucy lingerie salesgirl sets her sights on the handsome owner of the department store where she works. Leading him on a romantic chase from the Hotel Ritz to the whirling attractions of Coney Island, she then crashes a high-society yacht party in a last-ditch effort to get her man. Prone to playing the sexual aggressor, Bow daringly deviated from female passivity. In It, Bow's gregarious personality and striking beauty are brilliantly showcased.
7pm *FREE*
Gilda (Charles Vidor, US, 110 min., 35mm, 1946)
Classic, intricate noir in which sultry Rita Hayworth, as the titular femme fatale, is placed by her mobster husband in the care of a small-time hood and mobster's minion who also happens to be her ex-lover.
9h30pm *FREE*
Tears of the Black Tiger
(Wisit Sasanatieng, Thailand, in Thai w/ Eng. St., 110 min., 35mm, 2007)
This genre busting action film centers on Dum, a peasant separated from his beautiful and wealthy childhood sweetheart. Upon finding his father murdered, Dum becomes a gun slinging outlaw called Black Tiger who must avenge his family and get back his love before she is forced to marry another man. “ Director Wisit Sasanatieng uses every trick imaginable to create surreal postmodern nostalgia. Has he wound up with pure camp, or a cult classic? As he clearly understands, the best B-movies are both.” – Elizabeth Weitzman NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
