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Archive: September 2018 (4 Posts)

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus (Sept. 28 – 29, 2018)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, September 27 (7:30 p.m.) Trouble in Paradise (Paramount, 1932) The “Lubitsch Touch”–an easy comedic elegance which characterized the films of director Ernst Lubitsch–is epitomized in this frothy gem starring Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins as professional thieves who fall in love …

Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (Sept. 20 – 22, 2018)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, September 20 (7:30 p.m.) Morocco (Paramount, 1930) When director Josef von Sternberg cast German actress Marlene Dietrich, in The Blue Angel (1930) opposite Emil Jannings, she became an international star overnight. Morocco soon followed and was the first American film of …

Posted in: Motion Pictures, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater

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At the Packard Campus Theater — October 2018

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The Packard Campus Theater is highlighting contemporary women directors through the end of the year with a series of films from the 1970s to the present. Throughout the 1970s training and mentorship programs for women directors were established, including Women Make Movies (1972), the Women in Film Foundation (1973), the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women …

Posted in: Jazz, Motion Pictures, Musical Theater, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Registry, Packard Campus Theater, Recorded Sound