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Archive: January 2020 (8 Posts)

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (January 30-31 and February 1, 2020)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, January 30 (7:30 p.m.) Waterloo Bridge (MGM, 1940) Star-crossed lovers ballerina Myra Lester (Vivien Leigh) and soldier Capt. Roy Cronin (Robert Taylor) meet on the eve of World War I but are separated before romance can fully flower. Told mainly in …

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At the Packard Campus Theater — February 2020

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

Packard Campus Theater Schedule for February 2020 Each year, the National Film Preservation Board selects 25 films that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant to the National Film Registry for preservation in the Library of Congress. Three films added last December are on the schedule this month: Old Yeller (1957), Clerks (1994, rated R) and …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (January 23 – 25, 2020)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, January 23 (7:30 p.m.) The Roaring Twenties (Warner Bros., 1939) Prohibition became the law of the land at the stroke of midnight on January 17, 1920, and lasted until December 1933. This period of failed social experimentation provided the inspiration for …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater (January 16 – 18, 2020)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, January 16 (7:30 p.m.) “Never Let Me Go” (MGM, 1953) Clark Gable and Gene Tierney star in this Cold War curio in which a Moscow correspondent (Gable) is kicked out of the Soviet Union for writing some anti-Communist articles while his …

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Film Night at the Pickford Theater – Thursday, January 16

Posted by: Karen Fishman

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. Thursday, January 16th at 7:00 p.m. THE MAD MISS …

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At the Packard Campus Theater — January 2020

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

  Though the original January schedule posted here on December 10 stated that the theater would be closed the last three weeks of the month for the installation of a new screen, the work has been postponed, so we’re adding more shows. Thursday, January 16 (7:30 p.m.) Never Let Me Go (MGM, 1953) Clark Gable …

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Now Playing at the Packard Campus Theater — January 9 -11, 2020

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, January 9 (7:30 p.m.) Crime and Punishment (Columbia, 1935) Hungarian actor Peter Lorre, who became internationally known for playing a serial killer in Fritz Lang’s German thriller M (1931), left Europe when Adolf Hitler came to power. In only his second …

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Film Loans from the Library of Congress — January 2020

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

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. Billy Wilder Theater; Los Angeles, California https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/billy-wilder-theater SAFE IN HELL (1931) January 3 …