The Bank of America Cinema’s July-December 2010 schedule features some adventurous picks alongside the usual helping of classic Hollywood.We’re getting with the spirit of several holiday weekends, including our opening film for Fourth of July weekend, Henry Koster’s Stars and Stripes Forever (1952), featuring Clifton Webb as John Phillip Sousa; the blacklisted film Salt of the Earth (1954) for Labor Day weekend; a double dose of Peter Lorre for Halloween, with Mad Love (1935) and The Face Behind the Mask (1941); a warmhearted Thanksgiving comedy in Norman Taurog’s Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934); and the Laurel and Hardy operetta Babes in Toyland (1934) to close the season. There’s even a time-travel film for Daylight Savings Time.
We’re branching out a little from our modus operandi with our first ripped-from-the-headlines film in decades: as oil continues to pump into the Gulf of Mexico, the perils of oil exploration and putting too much trust in huge companies are on everyone's mind, so it's the perfect time to show Robert Flaherty’s Standard Oil-sponsored documentary Louisiana Story (1948). And although the French New Wave is light years away from our usual fare, Francois Truffaut named Morris Engel’s Little Fugitive (1953), screening in July, as one of the films that made it possible; on the other end of that little revolution is Arthur Penn’s New Wave-influenced Mickey One (1965), screening in December.
The latter two films would be not available without the addition of a second 35mm projector, which has opened the vaults for us: UCLA is loaning Frank Borzage’s Moonrise (1948) in August, and Sony Repertory is letting us borrow a half-dozen heretofore-off-limits archival prints.
The full schedule is as follows:
July 3: Stars and Stripes Forever (Henry Koster, 1952) 16mm
July 10: Louisiana Story (Robert Flaherty, 1948) 16mm
July 17: The Little Fugitive (Morris Engel, 1953) 35mm
July 24: Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955) 16mm
July 31: None Shall Escape (Andre de Toth, 1944) 35mm
August 7: The Sleeping Tiger (Joseph Losey, 1954) 35mm
August 14: Shirley Temple Double Feature
Poor Little Rich Girl (Irving Cummings, 1937) 35mm
The Littlest Rebel (David Butler, 1936) 35mm
August 21: The Baron of Arizona (Samuel Fuller, 1951) 16mm
August 28: Moonrise (Frank Borzage, 1948) 35mm
September 4: Salt of the Earth (Herbert Biberman, 1954) 16mm
September 11: Peter Pan (Herbert Brenon, 1924) 35mm with organ accompaniment
September 18: The Southerner (Jean Renoir, 1945) 16mm
September 25: Meet Me at the Fair (Douglas Sirk, 1953) 16mm
October 2: Little Big Horn (Charles Marquis Warren, 1951) 16mm
October 9: Lady on a Train (Charles David, 1945) 16mm
October 16: Washington Merry-Go-Round (James Cruze, 1932) 35mm
October 23: Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) 16mm
October 30: Halloween Horror Show: Crazy Peter Lorre Double Feature
Mad Love (Karl Freund, 1935) 16mm
The Face Behind the Mask (Robert Florey, 1941) 35mm
November 6: Ali Baba Goes to Town (David Butler, 1937) 16mm
November 13: A Raisin in the Sun (Daniel Petrie, 1961) 35mm
November 20: The King Steps Out (Josef von Sternberg, 1936) 35mm
November 27: Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (Norman Taurog, 1934) 16mm
December 4: The Snake Pit (Anatole Litvak, 1948) 35mm
December 11: Mickey One (Arthur Penn, 1965) 35mm
December 18: Babes in Toyland (Gus Meins, Charley Rogers, 1934) 35mm
This April we'll be celebrating the 40-year radio career of the guy who founded this cinema back in 1972--Chuck Schaden. Chuck will appear live at the April 3 showing of