Broadcasting department hosts summer film series
Issue date: 6/10/09 Section: News
Next up is the only film to feature Peter Sellers, a Beatle and two members of Monty Python, in a wild comedy about an eccentric millionaire who sets out to prove people will do anything for money. With songs by Badfinger.
July 15 - "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" (Great Britain, 1972)
Alan Bates and Janet Suzman star as a couple who indulge in dark fantasies to cope with the reality of dealing with their severely mentally disabled child in director Peter Medak's adaptation of the acclaimed play by Peter Nichols. Also starring British television favorites Peter Bowles and Joan Hickson.
July 22 - "Sundays and Cybele" (France, 1962)
This Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film stars Hardy Kruger as a traumatized soldier who forms a special bond with an alienated young girl. In French with English subtitles, and presented in its widescreen format.
July 29 - "Robin and Marian" (Great Britain, 1976)
Richard Lester's revisionist take on the Robin Hood legend finds its aging, disillusioned hero rekindling his romance with Marian, while continuing his battle against the Sheriff of Nottingham. The excellent cast includes Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris, Nicol Williamson and Ian Holm.
Special Thursday Night Bonus Screening:
July 30 - "Gangway" (Great Britain, 1937)/"Spring Tonic" (1935)
The Summer Film Series ends with another double bill. First, a rare chance to see Britain's most popular musical comedy star of the 1930s, Jessie Matthews, in an entertaining tale of jewel thefts, gangsters and fast-talking reporters.
Then Zasu Pitts lends her comic talents to a goofy screwball farce based on a Ben Hecht play that finds a runaway bride involved with circus performers, moonshiners and an escaped tiger.- University Relations
July 15 - "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" (Great Britain, 1972)
Alan Bates and Janet Suzman star as a couple who indulge in dark fantasies to cope with the reality of dealing with their severely mentally disabled child in director Peter Medak's adaptation of the acclaimed play by Peter Nichols. Also starring British television favorites Peter Bowles and Joan Hickson.
July 22 - "Sundays and Cybele" (France, 1962)
This Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film stars Hardy Kruger as a traumatized soldier who forms a special bond with an alienated young girl. In French with English subtitles, and presented in its widescreen format.
July 29 - "Robin and Marian" (Great Britain, 1976)
Richard Lester's revisionist take on the Robin Hood legend finds its aging, disillusioned hero rekindling his romance with Marian, while continuing his battle against the Sheriff of Nottingham. The excellent cast includes Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris, Nicol Williamson and Ian Holm.
Special Thursday Night Bonus Screening:
July 30 - "Gangway" (Great Britain, 1937)/"Spring Tonic" (1935)
The Summer Film Series ends with another double bill. First, a rare chance to see Britain's most popular musical comedy star of the 1930s, Jessie Matthews, in an entertaining tale of jewel thefts, gangsters and fast-talking reporters.
Then Zasu Pitts lends her comic talents to a goofy screwball farce based on a Ben Hecht play that finds a runaway bride involved with circus performers, moonshiners and an escaped tiger.- University Relations
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