The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, February 28 (7:30 p.m.) Shane (Paramount, 1953) George Stevens directed this adaptation of Jack Schaefer’s novel in which Shane, a former gunfighter fighter (Alan Ladd), comes to the defense of homesteaders who are being terrorized by a cattle baron who wants …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, February 21 (7:30 p.m.) Music and Lyrics (Warner Bros., 2007) Hugh Grant stars in this romantic comedy as Alex Fletcher, a washed-up eighties pop star who was part of the fictional band PoP! (inspired by Wham! and Duran Duran). He gets …
Packard Campus Theater Schedule for March, 2019 On March 15, the Packard Campus Theater will welcome special guest George Stevens, Jr., creator and producer of the Kennedy Center Honors, who will introduce a specially curated program of highlights from the prestigious awards show. Among the other features on the March schedule are five titles from …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, February 14 (7:30 p.m.) Shakespeare in Love (Miramax, 1998 – rated R*) This historical romantic comedy speculates about where the young William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes), who is short on cash and ideas, finds inspiration for one of his best-known works, “Romeo …
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 …
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 …
