The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, March 5 (7:30 p.m.) Saboteur (Universal, 1942) California aircraft factory worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) goes on the run across the country when he is wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, February 27 (7:30 p.m.) The Phenix City Story (Allied Artists Pictures, 1955) Film noir comes to Alabama in this ripped-from-the-headlines tale in a film based on notorious real-life 1954 events. Albert Patterson (John McIntire) is an attorney trying to clean up …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, February 20 (7:30 p.m.) Black Journal: A Salute to William Greaves (NET/PBS, 1968-1977) “lack Journal was the first national American public affairs television program that was broadcast on the NET Network (Pre-PBS). This program was developed during the turbulent 1960’s and …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, February 13 (7:30 p.m.) Hackers (MGM/UA, 1995) In 1988, Dade “Zero Cool” Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) is an 11-year-old computer hacker responsible for causing a 7-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange in a single day and is forbidden from …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, February 6 (7:30 p.m.) Bedlam (RKO, 1946) Set in London in 1761, Bedlam is a departure from previous Val Lewton productions in its focus on horrific social conditions instead of supernatural occurrences. In this atmospheric chiller, Nell Bowen (Anna Lee), the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
