The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, June 27 (7:30 p.m.) The Billy Taylor Show (WNJU, 1965) Well-known jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator Dr. Billy Taylor hosted two long-running programs on NPR: the pioneering Jazz Alive!, (1977- 1983) and Jazz at the Kennedy Center (1995-2001), and served …
Our summer-long film series “Kids These Days,” which explores the age-old opinion by adults that the younger generation is going to hell in a handbasket, continues with four films from the 1970s and 1980s: Footloose, Carrie, River’s Edge, and The Bad News Bears. Two silent comedies starring Clara Bow, Kid Boots (1926) and Hula …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, June 20 (7:30 p.m.) The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features, 2010 – rated R*) Annette Bening and Julianne Moore star as Nic and Jules, an upper middle class, same-sex couple raising two teenaged children, Joni (Mia Wasikowska) and Laser (Josh …
Thursday, June 20, 2019 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. THE …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, June 6 (7:30 p.m.) The Big Red One (United Artists, 1980) Sam Fuller wrote and directed this epic war film, based on his own World War II experiences as a member of 1st Infantry Division, whose nickname was The Big Red …
Here are some of the titles from the Library’s motion picture collections–many preserved by the NAVCC 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. Stanford Theater: Palo Alto, California YOU CAN’T TAKE IT …
