Bam Flicks Celebrate the Circus for Release
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BAm BAM FLICKS CELEBRATE THE CIRCUS FILM FOR RELEASE: DECEMBER 13, 1976 NEWS BOX OFFICE INFOID4ATION ~ 636-4100 PRESS CONTACT: Kate Macintyre or BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC , Kay Green 30 LAFAYETTE AVE. BK L YN. NY 11217 PRESS OFFICE PHONE: (212) 636-4123 BM~'s Fabulous Flicks presents seven films about the circus in a mini-series entitled "Popcorn and Cotton Candy" January 3- 17 in the Helen Owen Carey Playhouse. All flicks are at 7: 30 P.N. TRAPEZE opens the series January 3. A European circus provides the backdrop for a moody love triangle in wh~ch aerialists Burt Lancaster and Tc~y Curtis vie in the air and on the ground for the attentions of Gina Lollobrigida. Carol Reed is the director. JUMBO on January 7 stars Doris Day; Stephen Boyd, Jimrrty Durante, and Martha Raye in a circus tale that is at its best during the Rodgers and Hart songs, all gloriously staged by Busby Berkeley. FREAKS on January 8 is a grisly story about revenge involving a beautiful trapeze artist, a circus dwarf, and a murder plot. Directed by Tod Browning, FREAI<S stars Hallace Ford and Lelia Hyams. LOLA MONTEZ, ~1ax Ophuls' last film, uses flashbacks to depict the life of the famous courtesan, recounted as part of a lavish circus act. Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook and Oskar Herner star in this fiLm January 10. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH on January 14 is a rousing Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey bundle of fun from Cecil B. de Mille; James Stewart dominates one ring as a hilarious clown. The Marx Brothers gobble sawdust and cotton candy in AT THE CIRCUS on January 15. Don't miss Margaret Dumont as a human projectile shot from a cannon or Groucho's salute to "Lydia, the Tattoed Lady." The last film in the series is r~N ON A TIGHTROPE January 17. Under Elia Kazan ' s direction, Fredric March, Gloria Grahame, Terry Moore, Cameron Mitchell and Adolphe Menjou star in this circus drama of a troupe planning to escape from behind the Iron Curtain. Tickets are $1~00 or $5.90 for ten discount coupons. -end- ----- BkM FABULOUS FLICKS PRESENT \ THE HOMOSEXUAL ON FILM FOR RELEASE: DECEMBER 23, 1976 PRESS CONTACT: KATE MACINTYRE OR KAY GREEN BOX OFFICE INFO: 636-4100 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC 30 LAFAYETTE AVE.. BK LYN. N.Y.11217 PRESS OFFICE PHONE: (212) 636-4123 The next eight films in BAM's Fabulous Flicks are grouped under the heading "A Certain Gaiety:: The Homosexual on Film." All films begin at 7:30 P.M. in the Helen Owen Carey Playhouse. Tickets are $1 or $5.90 for 10 discount coupons. Friday, January 21, the series begins with Sunday, Bloody Sunday, directed by John Schlesinger. Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch star in the literate script by Penelope Gilliatt concerning a romantic triangle in contemporary London. Robert Walker stars as a wealthy psychopath in Strangers on a Train, a Hitchcock thriller, on January 22. The most imaginative scene is an amusement park murder viewed through a pair of fallen spectacles. The Conformist--a disturbing, baroque story of a rising young Fascistic assassin in the 1930 9 s and his various loves--stars Jean Louis Trintignant on January 24. This tense, foreboding film is directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Friday, January 28, offers a double feature of Victim at 7:30P.M. and The Leather Boys at 9:00 P.M. In Victim, directed by Basil Dearden, a lawyer risks his reputation by confronting a gang of blackmailers who murdered his one-time male lover. Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Sims, Dennis Price, and Peter McEnery star. Leather Boys delves into a perverse triangle of lonely young people in the black-leather motor cycle set in London/ directed by Sidney J~ Furie. Robert Aldrich's film The Killing of Sister George will be shown January 29. Beryl Reid, Susannah York, and Coral Brown star in this story of an aging soap opera star~ written out of her series, who loses her roommate-lover to a network executive. In The Children's Hour, an absorbing version of Lillian Hellman's provocatlve play, two school teachers are accused of lesbianism: directed by William Wyler with Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter. The movie will be shown on April 25. Suddenly Last Summer closes the series May 2. Elizabeth Taylor, Katherine Hepburn and Montgomery Cliff star in this adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play. -end-.