Sullivan's Travels + To Be or Not to Be
Double Feature!
SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941, Preston Sturges)
35mm print on Friday, April 11! Joel McCrea and sultry Veronica Lake star in this starkly realistic yet highly humorous satire from writer-director Preston Sturges. McCrea plays successful Hollywood director John L. Sullivan, an idealist who believes you can't accurately direct a screen tragedy unless you live it first. Disguising himself as a bum, Sullivan sets off to see America from the bottom up. Along the way he befriends a beautiful but cynical stray (Veronica Lake), and learns about the cruelty of life among the less fortunate. In the midst of the brutality and despair, the young director makes a valuable discovery - that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
followed by
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise) stars Jack Benny (The Jack Benny Program) and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey) as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
Sullivan's Travels will screen first, followed by a 15 minute intermission, then To Be or Not to Be.
Sullivan's Travels will screen on 35MM on Friday, April 11 and DCP on Monday, April 14; To Be or Not to Be will be screening on DCP for all screenings.
Double Feature!
SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941, Preston Sturges)
35mm print on Friday, April 11! Joel McCrea and sultry Veronica Lake star in this starkly realistic yet highly humorous satire from writer-director Preston Sturges. McCrea plays successful Hollywood director John L. Sullivan, an idealist who believes you can't accurately direct a screen tragedy unless you live it first. Disguising himself as a bum, Sullivan sets off to see America from the bottom up. Along the way he befriends a beautiful but cynical stray (Veronica Lake), and learns about the cruelty of life among the less fortunate. In the midst of the brutality and despair, the young director makes a valuable discovery - that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
followed by
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942, Ernst Lubitsch)
As nervy as it is hilarious, this screwball masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch (Trouble in Paradise) stars Jack Benny (The Jack Benny Program) and, in her final screen appearance, Carole Lombard (My Man Godfrey) as husband-and-wife thespians in Nazi-occupied Warsaw who become caught up in a dangerous spy plot. To Be or Not to Be is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.
Sullivan's Travels will screen first, followed by a 15 minute intermission, then To Be or Not to Be.
Sullivan's Travels will screen on 35MM on Friday, April 11 and DCP on Monday, April 14; To Be or Not to Be will be screening on DCP for all screenings.
