The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 25 (7:30 p.m.) Homicidal (Columbia, 1961) The horror films produced and directed by William Castle were often more famous for their promotional gimmicks than their effectiveness as movies. This one was typical of Castle’s carnival barker approach with its tagline …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 18 (7:30 p.m.) An Evening of Folk, Blues, Soul and Rock Highlights from ‘Soundstage (1974-1982) Soundstage is a live concert television series produced by WTTW Chicago and distributed by PBS. The original series aired between 1974 and 1985; it was …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 11 (7:30 p.m.) The Wiz (Universal, 1978) Charlie Smalls’s jazzy, updated version of The Wizard of Oz won seven Tony Awards on Broadway in 1975, and was brought to the screen three years later with Diana Ross taking the lead …
On Monday, November 5 at 7:30 pm, American songwriter, composer and singer Jimmy Webb will be joined by multiple Grammy Award-winning country music singer-songwriter Marty Stuart in a live performance as part of the ongoing “Marty Stuart Sessions” concert series at the Packard Campus Theater. Since his first platinum hit “The Worst That Could Happen,” …
In November, the Packard Campus Theater will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One with three feature films that take place during the conflict: Howard Hawk’s original version of The Dawn Patrol, released in 1930 and starring Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Wings (1927), directed by William A. Wellman and …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson at the Packard Campus. Thursday, October 4 (7:30 p.m.) Tod Browning Double Feature Freaks (MGM, 1932) Master horror film director Tod Browning assembled a cast of genuine sideshow oddities for this chilling tale of camaraderie, persecution and revenge, with Olga Baclanova as the cruelly manipulative trapeze …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, September 27 (7:30 p.m.) Trouble in Paradise (Paramount, 1932) The “Lubitsch Touch”–an easy comedic elegance which characterized the films of director Ernst Lubitsch–is epitomized in this frothy gem starring Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins as professional thieves who fall in love …
The following is a guest post by Jenny Paxson of the Packard Campus. Thursday, September 20 (7:30 p.m.) Morocco (Paramount, 1930) When director Josef von Sternberg cast German actress Marlene Dietrich, in The Blue Angel (1930) opposite Emil Jannings, she became an international star overnight. Morocco soon followed and was the first American film of …
The Packard Campus Theater is highlighting contemporary women directors through the end of the year with a series of films from the 1970s to the present. Throughout the 1970s training and mentorship programs for women directors were established, including Women Make Movies (1972), the Women in Film Foundation (1973), the AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women …
