Post by neurosturgeon on Jun 21, 2017 23:07:38 GMT
Coming Saturday June 24 at 11am
This is at the Art Theatre In Long Beach, California at the restored 1925 theatre. I saw this presentation about a dozen years ago at the Warner Grand in San Pedro. If you are in the area and something to do, you will probably enjoy it.
The Art Theatre
This Special Screening will be followed by a Q&A with Performing Arts writer, Paul Hodgins.
Performing arts writer Paul Hodgins has worked at The Orange County Register since 1993. He spent more than two decades as the Register’s theater critic, and for eight years he covered dance as well. In the Food section, he writes a column about wine, beer and spirits, and he occasionally reports on architecture, style and design for Coast and OC Home. Hodgins has also written for American Theatre, Backstage West, The SOMM Journal, The Sondheim Review, The Tasting Panel, Variety and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Hodgins was a performing arts professor at the University of California, Irvine and held similar positions at Eastern Michigan University and Simon Fraser University. He has taught journalism at California State University Fullerton since 2001. Hodgins earned a doctorate in music from the University of Southern California.
“One of Wilder’s finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood’s scab-scratching accounts of itself.” –Time Out
“What’s not recognized enough is the indelible, self-sickened performance of William Holden as Desmond’s boy-toy/hired hack.” -Village Voice
“While all the acting is memorable, one always thinks first and mostly of Miss Swanson, of her manifestation of consuming pride, her forlorn despair and a truly magnificent impersonation of Charlie Chaplin.” -New York Times
An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong. The screenwriters ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence, madness, and death.
Rated G, 1 hr, 41 mins
This is at the Art Theatre In Long Beach, California at the restored 1925 theatre. I saw this presentation about a dozen years ago at the Warner Grand in San Pedro. If you are in the area and something to do, you will probably enjoy it.
The Art Theatre
This Special Screening will be followed by a Q&A with Performing Arts writer, Paul Hodgins.
Performing arts writer Paul Hodgins has worked at The Orange County Register since 1993. He spent more than two decades as the Register’s theater critic, and for eight years he covered dance as well. In the Food section, he writes a column about wine, beer and spirits, and he occasionally reports on architecture, style and design for Coast and OC Home. Hodgins has also written for American Theatre, Backstage West, The SOMM Journal, The Sondheim Review, The Tasting Panel, Variety and the San Diego Union-Tribune. Hodgins was a performing arts professor at the University of California, Irvine and held similar positions at Eastern Michigan University and Simon Fraser University. He has taught journalism at California State University Fullerton since 2001. Hodgins earned a doctorate in music from the University of Southern California.
“One of Wilder’s finest, and certainly the blackest of all Hollywood’s scab-scratching accounts of itself.” –Time Out
“What’s not recognized enough is the indelible, self-sickened performance of William Holden as Desmond’s boy-toy/hired hack.” -Village Voice
“While all the acting is memorable, one always thinks first and mostly of Miss Swanson, of her manifestation of consuming pride, her forlorn despair and a truly magnificent impersonation of Charlie Chaplin.” -New York Times
An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong. The screenwriters ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence, madness, and death.
Rated G, 1 hr, 41 mins
