The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, November 21 (7:30 p.m.) Funeral in Berlin (Paramount, 1966) British Intelligence agent Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) is sent to Germany to arrange the defection of Colonel Stok (Oskar Homolka), a Russian intelligence officer posted to East Berlin, despite Harry’s suspicions of …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 24 (7:30 p.m.) The Monster Squad (TriStar Pictures, 1987) The Monster Squad, a secret club of five pre-teen, old-horror-movie loving boys, find their obsession with the genre useful when their town in suddenly invaded by the Wolfman, Frankenstein, the Mummy …
Packard Campus Theater Schedule for August, 2019 The 50th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock Music Festival will be celebrated with two programs on Saturday, August 10 – a 2 p.m. matinee of rare outtakes that didn’t make it into the 1970 documentary and at 7:30, the original release of Woodstock which was added to the …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Friday, July 5 (7:30 p.m.) Footloose (Paramount, 1984) Kevin Bacon, in the role that made him a star, plays Chicago teenager Ren McCormack who is transplanted to an ultra-conservative small town in Utah where dancing is outlawed. Recruiting his best pal, the …
Allee Willis today in her home For the past 25 years, the Library of Congress has celebrated the nation’s heritage sound recordings and has highlighted the importance of their long-term preservation by nominating 25 aesthetically, culturally or historically significant recordings to the National Recording Registry. The National Recording Registry includes recordings ranging from rap to …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, April 4 (7:30 p.m.) Pre-Code Double Feature Finishing School (RKO, 1934) The scandalous goings-on in an upper-crust private school for young women is the setting for this pre-Code school girl dramedy, co-directed (with George Nichols Jr.) by screenwriter Wanda Tuchock (Hallelujah!, …
This morning, the Library of Congress announced the newest 25 additions to its National Recorded Sound Registry. Marking its 17th year this year, the National Recording Registry which honors all types of recorded sound–from music to spoken word to radio broadcasts—as long as the recordings have been historically, culturally or aesthetically significant. The latest 25 takes the …
The Joe Smith Collection is a fascinating one—it’s made up of interviews recorded in the late 1980s by retired record company executive Joe Smith with over two hundred musicians and fellow industry execs for an oral history of the recording industry and of pop music as told by its creators and promoters. Smith’s long career …
The National Recording Registry is well-known for its selections of music of all genres, but did you know about all of the historic radio and spoken word recordings that have also been inducted to the Registry? The Registry ensures that recordings that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” get preserved for future generations, and many …
