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THE SUNDAY MATINEE SERIES - The Sunday unprepared for the seamy underside of New adventure. The Most Dangerous Game uses Sunday, April 27, 3 p.m. (Double Feature) Matinee Series provides students, faculty, York City in this bittersweet tale. some of the sets they would employ on Harold Lloyd in Dr. Jack staff and the public with opportunities * Commemorating the birthday of Kong—and is just as exciting as Kong, only (1922), U.S., 59 minutes to screen classic American and foreign Dorothy Gish, March 11, 1895 more compact. Including a rousing score by films, with introductions by film historian Max Steiner and famous movie screamer, Fay Rupert of Hee Haw Roaring Rails and author Dr. Jan Wahl of Toledo, Ohio. Wray. Introduction by Dr. Jan Wahl. (1924), U.S., 20 minutes One film per term, featuring Lillian Gish (1924), U.S., 60 minutes, Silent With Harold Lloyd and Our Gang (Little Rascals) Sunday, April 20, 3 p.m. (1893-1993) and Dorothy Gish (1898-1968), With Hary Carey Director: Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor Director: Tom Forman commemorates their respective birthdays. Popeye the Sailor Meets Harold Lloyd was the most successful screen Introduction by Dr. Jan Wahl Sinbad the Sailor comedian of the 1920s. His featurette, Dr. Sunday, April 6, 3 p.m. (Double Feature) Piano accompaniment by Michael Peslikis (1936), U.S., 15 minutes Jack, will show you why, as this working-class Gretchen, The Greenhorn Sunday, April 13, 3 p.m. Technicolor cartoon by Max Fleischer physician is called for a special high-society (1916), U.S., 55 minutes, Silent Frankenstein The Jungle Book case. Stan Laurel had a fairly successful film With Dorothy Gish, Eugene Paulette (1910), U.S., 15 minutes (1942), U.S., 95 minutes career before teaming with Oliver Hardy, as and Elmo Lincoln With Charles Ogle With Sabu and Rosemary DeCamp we'll see in the parody Rupert of Hee Haw. Directors: Sidney and Chester Franklin Director: J. Searle Dawley Director: Zoltan Korda Both films include appearances by Our Gang Of the two Gish sisters, Lillian was the (Little Rascals). Multi-media artist Joel The Most Dangerous Game This film, inspired by Rudyard Kipling's more serious one—Dorothy preferred life's Sanderson has composed a music score for the (1932), U.S., 70 minutes stories, is the producer Alexander Korda's lighter side. However, Dorothy appeared in Stan Laurel film specifically for this screening. With Joel McCrea and Fay Wray celebration of a unique star. The film's music dramas as well as comedies. Most of her Directors: Ernest Schoedsack by Miklos Rozsa was the first score from a Hosted by Dr. Ben Urish, a graduate of BGSU's work during the silent period, after she left and Irving Pichel dramatic film to be recorded in its entirety. American Culture Studies Ph.D. program who American Biograph and D.W. Griffith, has The Technicolor camerawork by Lee Garmes now teaches Popular Culture in Media at Full been lost. Gretchen is one of the few films The company known as R-K-O is best known is unequaled. The Jungle Book delights both Sail University in Orlando, Florida. to have survived. Innocent Gretchen arrives for King Kong, made by Schoedsack and eye and ear. Introduction by Dr. Jan Wahl. from Holland with a pet duck in her arms, Cooper. For their fourth film they turned from the documentary to all-studio-made

GISH FILM THEATER AND GALLERY the NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Arts Co-chairs Eva Marie Saint THE GISH FILM THEATER AND GALLERY James Frasher 104 Hanna Hall (office) Mary Lea Bandy George Stevens Jr. Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0133 Cynthia Baron Linda Swaisgood 419-372-GISH Bonnie Blankenship Lily Tomlin Eileen Bowser Jane Wagner Visit the Gish Film Theater website: Dwight Burlingame Jan Wahl www.bgsu.edu/gish Julie Carle Susan N. Daniels In Memoriam Linda S. Dobb Phyllis Diller William Eells Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Robert Gitt Helen Hayes Jeffrey Hayden Michael Kanin Lauren Hutton James MacArthur Fay Kanin Roddy McDowall Mike Kaplan Colleen Moore Marcia Sloan Latta Maureen O’Sullivan Jeanne Moreau Charles “Buddy” Rogers Stuart Oderman Martha Scott Timothy Pogacar Herb Sterne Anthony Slide Esther Williams Irene Worth

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The DOROTHY and LILLIAN GISH FILM THEATER THEATRE & FILM THEATRE

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THE GISH FILM THEATER AND GALLERY, now in its 38th year, is located THE INTERNATIONAL FILM SERIES brings Thursday, March 20, 7:30 p.m. in Hanna Hall, and is named to commemorate the achievements of Ohio classic and recent foreign-language films— Suzhou River natives Dorothy and Lillian Gish. features and occasionally a documentary (Suzhou he) —to campus to acquaint university and The Gish sisters were film legends in their own time, actresses who off-campus communities with a selection (2000), China, 83 minutes changed the perception of what screen acting could be at a time when of world cinema. Sometimes sets of films Director: Ye Lou films were thought to be “low art” at best. Though the sisters achieved correspond to a theme or to a course topic, Recalling both Vertigo (1958), and global stardom on the silver screen, they were proud of their Ohio roots. in which case faculty members frequently Chungking Express (1994), Chinese director introduce them. Students of world languages Lou Ye spins this riveting tale of obsession Dedicated at BGSU on June 11, 1976, The Gish Film Theater and Gallery also enjoy seeing films in the original and love. Marda, a motorcycle courier, strives to keep the memory of the talented and legendary Gish sisters alive language on a large screen, but all films do becomes obsessed with a beautiful young so that future generations of film lovers can have the chance to witness carry English subtitles. girl named Moudan, whom he falls in love firsthand what made Dorothy and Lillian Gish such popular and enduring with only to lose her in a botched kidnap figures during the earliest years of motion picture history. Lillian Gishs' Thursday, February 6, 7:30 p.m. attempt to gain money from her wealthy career in film lasted for seventy-five years, 1912-1987. Nosferatu father. Moudan jumps into the murky waters (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens) of the Suzhou River and becomes lost forever. There are three film series at The Gish: Sunday Matinees, Tuesdays at Marda is sentenced to three years, but upon The Gish and the International Film Series. (1922), Germany, 84 minutes Director: F.W. Murnau his return he meets MeiMei, an identical look-alike whom he suspects is actually An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stocker’s Moudan, or is she? "Dracula," Nosferatu is the quintessential silent vampire film. Rather than depicting Thursday, March 27, 7:30 p.m. tuesdays at the gish Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or Monsieur Lazhar debonair gentleman, he is a nightmarish, (2011), Canada, 94 minutes spidery creature of bulbous head and Director: Philippe Falardeau talon-like claws. Nosferatu was an atypical ON TUESDAY NIGHTS the Gish Film Theater Tuesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m. Expressionist film in that much of it was shot In Montreal, an elementary school teacher is the place to be. With classics, cult The Killers on location. Although all of the sets were dies abruptly. Having learned of the incident favorites, quirky indie films and cutting-edge (1946), U.S., 103 minutes built and filmed in a studio, Murnau was still in the newspaper, Bachir Lazhar, a 55-year- documentaries, Tuesdays at The Gish is Director: Robert Siodmak able to capture the subtle tones of nature in old Algerian immigrant, goes to the school for fans and connoisseurs looking for film this work. to offer his services as a substitute teacher. treasures off the beaten track. Based on Ernest Hemingway’s short story of Quickly hired to replace the deceased, he the same name, Burt Lancaster plays “The Thursday, February 13, 7:30 p.m. finds himself in an establishment in crisis, Tuesday, February 4, 7:30 p.m. Swede,” an ex-fighter who gets killed by two Nollywood Babylon while going through his own personal Baby It’s You hit men at the beginning of the film. After his tragedy. The cultural gap between Bachir murder, insurance investigator Jim Reardon (2008), Canada, 75 minutes (1983), U.S., 105 minutes and his class is made immediately apparent (Edmund O’Brien) looks into the life of the Directors: Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal Director: John Sayles when he gives them a dictation exercise that “The Swede” and his involvement with the Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, known in Lagos as is beyond their reach. Little by little, Bachir A young Sayles thought his indie writing glamorous Kitty (Ava Gardner). Features Da Governor, is one of the most influential learns to better know this group of shaken and directing credits would give him some great performances by Burt Lancaster and men in Nollywood, a term coined in the early but endearing kids. clout in Hollywood. Guess again. Paramount Ava Gardner, and is a creative landmark for 1990s for the worlds fastest-growing national signed off on the teen movie idea, but Sayles’ film noir. cinema, surpassed only by its American and Thursday, April 3, 7:30 p.m. candid look at the complications created by Indian counterparts. This critically acclaimed In the Fog class difference made Paramount so nervous Tuesday, March 18, 7:30 p.m. documentary is peppered with outrageously (V tumane) it shelved the film and later opted for a limited juicy movie clips and buoyed by a rousing Little Shop of Horrors (2012), Russia, 127 minutes release. Watch this film to see what the score that fuses Afropop and traditional (1960), U.S., 72 minutes Director: Sergei Loznitsa studios didn’t want audiences to see. sounds. Nollywood Babylon celebrates the Director: Roger Corman distinctive power of Nigerian cinema as it In 1942, the western frontier of the USSR is Tuesday, February 11, 7:30 p.m. Seymour accidentally creates a carnivorous marvels in the magic of movies. under German occupation, and local partisans Juice talking plant and then attempts to use it to are fighting a brutal resistance campaign. Thursday, February 20, 7:30 p.m. A train is derailed not far from the village, (1992), U.S., 95 minutes increase business at the local flower shop. Young Törless where Sushenya, a rail worker, lives with Director: Ernest R. Dickerson He discovers that the best way to feed it is to simply kill people and feed the remains (Der junge Törless) his family. Innocent Sushenya is arrested Juice, power: who has it, who wants to have to the plant, named Audrey Jr. The film is (1966), Germany, 87 minutes with a group of saboteurs, but the German it; who doesn’t care if they have it? These one of the most recognizable features Roger Director: Volker Schlöndorff officer makes a decision not to hang him existential and material questions drive Corman has directed. His film inspired a An adaptation of Robert Musil’s novel, with the others and sets him free. Rumours this beautifully photographed film directed popular musical of the same name and from written in 1906, about schoolboy sadism of Sushenya’s treason spread quickly, and and co-authored by Ernest Dickerson, the there a film based on that musical. in turn-of-the-century Germany, notable partisans Burov and Voitik arrive from the cinematographer known for creating many for its stylish period evocation. As young forest to get revenge. As the partisans aspects of Spike Lee’s signature approach. Tuesday, March 25, 7:30 p.m. Törless arrives at school, a new senior pupil lead their victim through the forest, they This often overlooked coming-of-age twist are ambushed, and Sushenya finds himself Piranha shepherded by a fond mamma, he looks a on the gangster conventions of New Jack likely candidate for persecution. As it turns one-to-one with his wounded enemy. Deep cinema features young Tupac Shakur and (1978), U.S., 94 minutes out, another boy—a Jew, as it happens— in an ancient forest, where there are neither Omar Epps. See it. Director: Joe Dante becomes the victim after being caught friends nor enemies, and where the line After a teenage couple decides to skinny stealing; and Törless watches with clinical between treason and heroism disappears, Tuesday, February 18, 7:30 p.m. dip at an abandoned military base, they interest as the hapless boy is driven to Sushenya is forced to make a moral choice Meet John Doe accidentally release a swarm of piranhas despair by fiendish tortures and humiliations. under immoral circumstances. (1934), U.S., 122 minutes into the nearby streams, thus ruining the Thursday, February 27, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, 7:30 p.m. Director: Frank Capra summer vacation for many people. This B-movie, inspired by the success of Jaws, Shall We Dance? Pan’s Labyrinth Whoa! A studio-distributed feature film from directed by Joe Dante, and produced by (Shall we dansu?) (El laberinto del fauno) the 1930s that is more political than the Roger Corman, provides a bunch of gory fun. (1996), Japan, 136 minutes (2006), Mexico, 119 minutes most independent documentaries produced Its cultural commentary emerges from the Director: Masayuki Suo Director: Guillermo del Toro today. Meet John Doe, written by Robert John Sayles script. Riskin and directed by Frank Capra, stars Before Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez This chilling fairytale is set against the the very handsome Gary Cooper and the ever put on their dancing shoes, there was backdrop of the fascist regime in 1944 Spain. Tuesday, April 1, 7:30 p.m. the original Shall We Dance? the award- very feisty Barbara Stanwyck. The film is A girl named Ofelia and her pregnant mother, winning Japanese comedy that inspired the Carmen, travel to a rural garrison under the a not-to-be missed semi-indie classic with The Lady in Red American remake. On the surface, Sugiyama iron command of Carmen’s second husband, cinematography by the great George Barnes. (1979), U.S., 93 minutes Director: Lewis Teague Shohei seems to have it all: a supportive Capt. Vidal. Repelled by her brutal stepfather, Tuesday, February 25, 7:30 p.m. wife, a beautiful child, a nice house and a Ofelia takes refuge in an eldritch but Shot for less than $1M, this is a behind-the- well-paying job. During his commute home, beautiful fairyland ruled by the nature god Scarlet Street scenes story about the “lady in red” who Sugiyama notices a beautiful woman staring Pan. Sinister and charismatic by turns, the (1945), U.S., 103 minutes was with John Dillinger the night he was out the window of a dance studio. One night gigantic faun tells Ofelia that she’s a princess Director: Fritz Lang gunned down by government agents outside he decides to get off the train and seek out of the underworld, but gives her three a movie theater. As the country kid whose Edward G. Robinson plays a man this mystery woman, a decision that soon terrifying magical tasks to complete before life unexpectedly intersects with the world appropriately named Christopher Cross, an plunges him headlong into the competitive she can claim her throne. Labyrinth sets a of Chicago mobsters, Pamela Sue Martin amateur painter stuck in a loveless marriage. world of ballroom dancing. new standard for the emotionally satisfying (in a pre-TV series role) stars in this strange He falls in love with Kitty (Joan Bennett), application of digital effects. exploitation-political cinema film, scripted and subsequently does everything he can to by John Sayles, that gives a whole new support her, even crime! He does not know At the request of Lillian Gish, who endowed meaning to the word "exposé." that he is actually being manipulated by Kitty the Gish Film Theater and Gallery, all films and her fiancé for their personal gain. that are part of film series presented in the theater are free and open to the public. Persons requesting accommodations in accordance with ADA should contact the Office of Disability Services. Event accommodations require 72 hours prior notice. Disability Services, 38 College Park; VOICE 419.372.8495; FAX 419.372.8496; TTY 419.372.7930; EMAIL [email protected]