CLASSIC Film Series - SPRING 2013

 

Central Library - Browning Room B   THURSDAYS – 6 pm

Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL)                         HOST:  Kelley Coures 

21 March 2013 Thurs:  The Women -  1939.  A study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women.    

STARS:  Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford.   Writer:  Clair Boothe Luce

18 APRIL 2013 Thurs:  Carmen Jones -  1954.  Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast. 

STARS:  Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey  

16 May 2013 Thurs:  Young At Heart -  1954.  A musical family’s 3 sister’s romantic lives.  A charming composer and a cynical arranger complicate their lifes.  

STARS:  Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young 

BONUS Series:  TEMPLE Adath B’Nai Isreal   Sundays – 7PM

24 March 2013 Sun:  Cabaret -  1972.  A  girlie club entertainer in Berlin’s Weimar Republic era romances 2 men - while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

STARS:  Liza Minnelli, Michael York.  Director:  Bob Fosse      

21 April 2013 Sun:  Voyage Of The Damned -  1976.  In 1939, the             SS St. Louis makes a tragic voyage carrying hundreds of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.  Seemingly no nation is willing to save them from certain doom.   

STARS:  Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant 

19 May 2013 Sun:  Crossfire -  1946.  A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army.  But why & by who? 

STARS:  Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan