Hosted by TED WALCH Sundays at 3PM in the Ahmanson Lecture Hall Harvard-Westlake School, Coldwater Campus Sponsored by the Kutler Center

Silent film star Harold Lloyd plays an everyman who challenges the world around him. He’ll take your breath away with his astonishing stunts, even as he keeps you laughing. OCT He’s a comic genius par excellence, and his granddaughter, SUZANNE LLOYD, SAFETY LAST! is a celebrated and riveting spokesperson for his films. She will be joined by pianist 01 MICHAEL D. MORTILLA who will accompany the film, live and in person, just as it might (1923) | 1h 7m have been back in the day. It’s a grand way to begin the season.

An instant masterpiece, Get Out is a mystery thriller that grabs you by the throat every OCT time you start to laugh – and vice-versa. Host TED WALCH and A GUEST TO BE GET OUT ANNOUNCED will lead an invigorating discussion of this film, which has staked out new 08 territory in the barren field that is sometimes Hollywood. (2017) | 1h 44m

JULIE COBB presents her father, Lee J. Cobb, in his larger-than-life portrayal of OCT ON THE a mob-corrupted union boss in Elia Kazan’s masterpiece, On the Waterfront. It’s an all-star cast, including Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, and Cobb. WATERFRONT Leonard Bernstein’s score is the icing on the cake. Julie Cobb will be in charge. It’s 22 a Sunday not to be missed. (1954) | 1h 48m

As a break-out experience for all of us, visual artist and magnetic presenter CRASH McCREERY will tell us the whole story behind the visual development and extraordinary FEB character design for the offbeat, richly entertaining animated Western Rango. Host Ted RANGO Walch admits that this is for him this season’s most exciting Sunday. Once you’ve met 25 Crash and experienced the evolution of his designs, you’ll understand why. (2011) | 1h 51m

Cinema Sundays continues its look at television with the deliciously racy Masters of Sex. Using the story of sex researchers Masters and Johnson as their springboard, MAR MASTERS show-runner MICHELLE ASHFORD and executive producer SARAH TIMBERMAN weave stories that leap from fact to fiction to get at the truth of our animal natures. It’s 11 OF SEX all wildly entertaining. Ashford and Timberman promise to bring an actor or two with (2013-16) | 1h 45m them. We’ll show the pilot and then a specially selected episode. Stay tuned.

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation won the Grand Prize at Cannes in 1974. Gene Hackman gives what many believe to be his finest performance as a MAR THE surveillance expert caught in a moral quandary with the highest possible stakes. This film not only gets under your skin, it burrows there. It asks hard questions. It 18 CONVERSATION fascinates at every turn. Alumna REBECCA VAN DUSEN, winner of Walch’s Cinema (1974) | 1h 53m Studies Award in 2013, leads the discussion.

Called “the finest pure trial movie ever made,” director Otto Preminger’s masterpiece APR both skewers and celebrates our judicial system. James Stewart is brilliant in his ANATOMY portrayal of a dogged defense attorney, as are Lee Remick and Ben Gazzara. Duke Ellington’s score and Sam Leavitt’s photography perfectly capture the bleak beauty of 22 OF A MURDER Michigan’s Upper Penisula. Author and Cinema Sundays favorite, SAM WASSON, is our (1959) | 2h 41m presenter. Because of the film’s length, the day will end at 6:30 pm.

Taken from a true account (1798) of “the wild child of Aveyron,” this nearly perfect APR film is a dispassionate, yet heartfelt look at education. François Truffaut directs and THE WILD CHILD stars, as Dr. Itard, the teacher/researcher who tames the wild child. We are riveted 29 (L’Enfant Sauvage) from start to finish in this finely focused meditation on what we do with “the other,” and how we think about “the normal” and “the teachable.” Your host, TED WALCH, (1970) | 1h 26m will hold forth with psychologist DR. SOPHIE WASSON.

Ranked #2 on AFI’s list of “Funniest American Movies of All Time,” Tootsie earns its MAY laughs by digging deeply into a question that burns even more keenly today – what TOOTSIE does gender really mean? It’s one of the funniest movies ever made. It’s also one of the 06 most heartfelt. Your host loves this film, and he cannot wait to share it with you. (1982) | 1h 59m

A dark and haunting romantic drama, exquisitely told with fiercely spare dialogue and MAY lush visual majesty, becomes a cinematic poem of rare beauty. Starring Richard Gere, DAYS Brooke Adams, and the late Sam Shepard, Days of Heaven is director Terrence Malick’s undisputed masterpiece. Alumnus and 2016 Cinema Studies Award Winner JAVI 13 OF HEAVEN ARANGO, who last year explicated BIUTIFUL so eloquently, will present the film and (1978) | 1h 35m take your questions. What better way to close the season than with the sunniest, funniest, most infectiously entertaining movie musical ever made, Singin’ in the Rain. The late Debbie Reynolds was MAY SINGIN’ just 19 when she was cast alongside dancing giants Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor. Together, they dazzle. Our season began with a silent movie. Enjoy season’s end in this 20 IN THE RAIN glorious movie musical set late in the silent era, when movies were beginning to find their voice and Hollywood was set on its ear in more ways than one. It just doesn’t get any (1952) | 1h 43m better than Singin’ in the Rain.

Admission is free. Open to any student, alumni, faculty, or friend of Harvard-Westlake. No RSVP. Doors open 30 minutes before. All guests subject to availability.