The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, February 7 (7:30 p.m.) Bright Road (MGM, 1953) A year before Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte made the Cinemascope color musical Carmen Jones, they starred together in this low-budget but sincere drama about a rural teacher in a southern school trying …
Tuesday, February 12th, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. Every month, films from the Library’s collection are shown at the Mary Pickford Theater in the James Madison building, ranging from titles newly preserved by the National Audio Visual Conservation Center film lab, classics from the National Film Registry, and lesser known titles worthy of discovery. This month, …
Here are some of the titles preserved by our film laboratory that we’re loaning for exhibition this month. As always, we can’t guarantee that schedules won’t change or links get broken, but this is our best information at the time of publication. February 1 -11 , 2019 “Night Nurse” (1931) “Baby Face” (1931) “Strange Loves …