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Screwball Comedies July 22 – September 29, 2011

It Happened One Night 1934 His Girl Friday 1940 Twentieth Century 1934 The Palm Beach Story 1942 The Awful Truth 1937 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Trouble in Paradise 1932 New 35mm print! The Philadelphia Story 1940 Ball of Fire 1941 My Man Godfrey 1936

Any screenwriting course will teach that without conflict, there is no film. Screw- elevating flirtation to an art form and creating one of ball comedies thrive on conflict, running a taut line of tension between the the most memorable facets of the genre. Another re- sexes, social classes, and even personality types. From rich/poor, sexy/dour, to markable trait, apparent in every film in the series, is educated/uneducated, dichotomies fuel these madcap tales. And despite their the strength of the female characters. Independent, zany and farcical nature, an embedded layer of social commentary often lurks headstrong, and sharp-tongued, they were dimen- underneath the light-hearted veneer. To watch some of the greatest screen leg- sional, funny and often ran the show. Some of Amer- ends—Grant, Stanwyck, Gable, Lombard, Hepburn—wittily dish and banter at ica’s greatest directors, including Capra, Hawks, and a thrilling, rapid-fire pace is to realize how dull and formulaic most contempo- Sturges, worked in the genre and made bona fide rary romantic comedies are. Most of the films in this series were made under stars of their leading actors, names still synonymous the strict Hays Code, film regulations concerned with morality. As a result, the with the Golden Age of cinema. film critic Andrew Sarris loosely defined a screwball comedy as a “sex comedy without the sex.” To skirt the restrictions, screenwriters wrote sharp, layered dialogue encoded with hidden meaning; double entendres and allusions abound, See reverse side for full calendar of films and dates. 2011 Local Filmmakers Showcase August 19 – 25, 2011 The Program (7 films, 100 minutes): Irma (Dir. Charles Fairbanks), Frontier Renaissance #8 (Dir. Joshua France), In Silence and Tears (Dir. Molly Zavitz), Tongue Is Scissor (Dir. Teal Gardner), My Dad’s Illness (Dir. Megan Plouzek), One Too Many (Dir. Ryle Smith), The Snake Show (Dir. Joel Sartore)

Now in its second year, Film Streams’ Local Filmmakers Showcase returns this Don’t miss this year’s showcase! Join us on Friday, August with a new program celebrating the wonderful creativity of area filmmak- August 19 at 7:30pm for a special opening night pre- ers. Another competitive process made things tough on this year’s jury, which miere and post-party with the filmmakers, or if you reviewed dozens of films (thank you to everyone who submitted!) on the way to can’t make it then, see the program in its entirety selecting seven films by artists from all over the state of Nebraska. Once again, any day the following week (August 20-25). For more the perspectives, subject matters, and filmmaking styles on display are amaz- information about each of the films and filmmakers ingly diverse. In a little less than two hours, you’ll see: an intimate portrait of in this year’s showcase, visit our Calendar page at the former world champion of women’s professional wrestling; a lovely music filmstreams.org. video for Omaha band Thunder Power; an experimental short challenging your assumptions about language and the meaning of words; a personal documentary Film Streams’ 2011 Local Filmmakers Showcase about one family’s struggle with mental illness; a photographic stop-motion short is curated by jurors Sara Adkisson-Joyner, Andrea chronicling a massive rattlesnake roundup in rural Oklahoma; a whimsical look at Dominguez, Roger duRand, Mark Hoeger, Peggy thirty-something romances; and a stirring drama about love and sacrifice. Jones, Simon Joyner, Bob Mundy, Maggie Mundy, Derek Pressnall, and Betiana Simon. Forever Young Family & Children’s Series Summer 2011

Mia and the Migoo 2011 Treasure Island 1950 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 Little Women 1994 A World of Animation from Abbott and Costello Meet Children’s Film Festival Frankenstein 1948 Seattle 2011

Breathtaking works of animation, outstanding adaptations of literary classics, and the most delightful comedy of horrors you’re likely to see—this summer, our ongoing Forever Young Family & Children’s Series covers a lot of ground! We’re SERIES MADE POSSIBLE thrilled to feature two new Omaha premieres, starting with the visually stunning, WITH SUPPORT FROM hand-painted feature MIA AND THE MIGOO (from the distributors of last year’s Oscar-nominated THE SECRET OF KELLS). Then in August, A WORLD OF ANI- MATION FROM CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL SEATTLE 2011 lands in Omaha courtesy of Seattle’s own nonprofit cinema, Northwest Film Forum. In just over an hour, the program takes viewers around the world with seven fantastic short October with the perfect pre-Halloween family out- films suitable for ages five and up. For slightly older audiences, this season brings ing, the 1948 genre-bending farce, ABBOTT AND three outstanding live-action films with novel origins: Robert Mulligan’s TO KILL COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN. A MOCKINGBIRD, Disney’s TREASURE ISLAND, and the Academy Award- nominated 1994 version of LITTLE WOMEN. Lastly, we round the corner into See reverse side for full calendar of films and dates.

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Location, Hours & Parking Board of Directors Staff Film Streams’ Ruth Sokolof Theater is located at 1340 Scott Anderson Mike Fahey Street in downtown Omaha, within the Andy Holland Rachel Jacobson, Director Casey Logan, Communications Coord. Saddle Creek Records complex—west of Qwest Cen- David Jacobson, Chairman Hallie Sharkey, Membership Associate ter Omaha and one block south of Cuming Street. Rachel Jacobson, Founder/Director Maggie Wood, Office & Operations Manager Showtimes begin in the early evening Monday, Tues- Mark Javitch Robert E. (Bob) Mundy Amanda Fehlner, Associate Manager day, Wednesday, Friday, and early afternoon Thurs- Andrew Bouska, Shift Manager day, Saturday, Sunday. Alexander Payne Steven W. Seline Aaron Haug, Shift Manager Free parking is available in the lot behind our Betiana Simon Jim Foyt, Projectionist theater, accessible from 14th Street between Cum- Paul G. Smith Jeff Jenkins, Projectionist ing and Mike Fahey Streets. Street parking is also Katie Weitz White Caitie Caughey, Theater Staff available in the vicinity surrounding the cinema Robert Cook, Theater Staff Craig D, Theater Staff (free after 5pm weekdays and all day on weekends). Advisory Board Alex Elliott, Theater Staff Kurt Andersen Joe Knapp, Theater Staff Tickets Myriel Boes Chris Viner, Theater Staff Jason Kulbel Buy tickets in person at the box office (open 30 min- Alex Wodzinski, Theater Staff Danny Lee Ladely utes before the day’s first showtime) or online at Connie White, Balcony Booking Robb Nansel filmstreams.org. Unless otherwise noted, tick- Jimmy Helm, Intern ets are $9 general, $7 for seniors, students, teachers, Joel Schlessinger and military, and $4.50 for Members. See reverse Lyn Wallin Ziegenbein Michael B. Yanney, Director Emeritus Design Partner side for more about Film Streams Membership. Oxide Design Co.

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Film Streams Programming Calendar July – September 2011 Coming Soon . Omaha Premieres Starting July 1 Starting July 1 The Tree of Life Page One: A Year First-Run (PG-13) Inside the New York Directed by Terrence Malick. Times First-Run (R) The latest masterwork from visionary Directed by Andrew Rossi. director Terrence Malick (BADLANDS, “A riveting film [and] a spirited defense of DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED traditional print media in its year of great- LINE), featuring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and est crisis.” (Slate) USA; 88 min. Jessica Chastain. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. USA; 138 min. Starting July 15 Starting July 29 Submarine First-Run (R) Louder Than A Bomb First-Run (NR) Directed by Richard Ayoade. Directed by Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel. A charming new comedy, and outstand- An inspiring new documentary chronicling the world’s larg- ing debut from writer-director Richard est youth poetry slam, an extraordinary event that draws more Ayoade, about a 15-year-old with two big than 600 teenaged competitors in the Chicago area each ambitions: to save his parents’ marriage year. USA; 99 min. via carefully plotted intervention and to Director Screening! Join us opening night, Friday, July 29, at lose his virginity before his next birthday. 7pm, for a special screening and post-show Q&A with director UK/USA; 97 min. Greg Jacobs.

Starting August 5 Starting August 12 Hey The Trip First-Run (NR) Tabloid First-Run (R) Students! Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Directed by Errol Morris. When Steve Coogan is asked by The By turns funny, strange, and disturbing, Don’t forget, the first Monday of every Observer to tour the country’s finest the latest from Oscar-winner Errol Morris month is Student Night at the Ruth restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect (GATES OF HEAVEN, FAST, CHEAP & Sokolof Theater. Free admission when you getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But OUT OF CONTROL, THE FOG OF WAR) show valid school ID. when she backs out, he has no one to tells the bizarre tale of former Miss Wyo- accompany him but his best friend and ming Joyce McKinney, whose romantic Visit our Education page at source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon. obsessions catapult her into scandal sheet filmstreams.org for more about our UK; 111 min. notoriety. USA; 81 min. student programs, including a new school year of Daytime Screenings for Visiting Classes. Supported by the Tom and Mary Jetton Charitable Fund through the Omaha Screwball Comedies Community Foundation. July 22 – September 29, 2011 . All 35mm Prints

July 22 – 28 July 29 – August 4 It Happened One Night 1934 Twentieth Century 1934 Directed by Frank Capra. Directed by Howard Hawks. Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable verbally spar and John Barrymore inhabits the role of a hotheaded the- playfully flirt their way into each other’s hearts in ater director who makes a star of an unknown played this pioneer of the genre. The first to win all five -ma by Carole Lombard. Based on the Broadway play by jor Academy Awards, the film contains some of the Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (who adapted it to most memorable scenes in cinematic history (Walls film). USA; 91 min. of Jericho, Hitchhiking). USA; 105 min.

August 5 – 11 August 12 – 18 The Awful Truth 1937 Trouble in Directed by Leo McCarey. Paradise 1932 Charisma is not easily defined, but it’s Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. impossible to take your eyes off Cary Two pickpockets in love fall into a love tri- Grant or Irene Dunne in this hilarious angle with their wealthy mark. Lubitsch’s comedy about a feuding couple. This film sly, sophisticated wit is evident in this propelled Grant’s career as a leading man, sexually charged farce—one of the few and it’s easy to see why. USA; 91 min. films in this series made before the Hays Code. USA; 83 min. August 19 – 25 August 26 – September 1 The Philadelphia My Man Godfrey 1936 Story 1940 Directed by Gregory La Cava. Directed by George Cukor. Carole Lombard displays both vulnerabil- ity and tenacity in the role of Irene, a loopy This classic rightfully placed Katharine but well-intentioned socialite from the Hepburn, playing a spoiled daughter hilariously dysfunctional Bullock family. who doesn’t know quite what (or who) It was the first film to receive nominations she wants, back into the spotlight after a in all four major acting categories. USA; two-year absence from the screen. Cary 94 min. Grant and James Stewart round out the excellent cast. USA; 112 min. September 2 – 8 September 9 – 15 His Girl Friday 1940 The Palm Beach Directed by Howard Hawks. Story 1942 An update of Broadway’s “The Front Page” (and its subsequent Directed by Preston Sturges. Howard Hughes-produced adaptation), Hawks’s classic comedy The dialogue comes at a breakneck pace HIS GIRL FRIDAY features Rosalind Russell in what had been a in this zany, social satire that play- male role. This gender reversal adds not only the romantic angle fully skewers the idle rich. Sturges also but a layer of smart social commentary as well. USA; 92 min. seemed to have another satirical target in mind: The original film title was IS MAR- RIAGE NECESSARY? USA; 88 min. September 18 & 21 September 23 – 29 Bringing Up Baby 1938 Ball of Fire 1941 New 35 mm print! Directed by Howard Hawks. Directed by Howard Hawks. Gary Cooper is a professor whose hermetic world is punctured by the arrival of a night- A battle of the sexes pushed to absurdist club performer called Sugarpuss (played by extremes, the misadventures pile up in Barbara Stanwyck) in this tale of opposites this film by screwball auteur Hawks. The attract. Billy Wilder wrote the screenplay, third film that Katharine Hepburn and delivered with expert comic timing by Cary Grant co-star in, their onscreen rap- Stanwyck and Cooper. USA; 111 min. port and banter is at the top of its game. USA; 102 min.

Forever Young Family & Children’s Series . Summer 2011 July 9-10, 14, 16-17 & 21 Mia and the Migoo 2011 (PG) Directed by Jacques-Rémy Girerd. A breathtaking adventure created from an astounding 500,000 hand-painted frames of animation, with backgrounds invoking Van Gogh, Monet, and Cezanne. Featuring the voices of John DiMaggio, Whoopi Goldberg, Matthew Modine, Wallace Shawn, and James Woods. France/Italy; 92 min. Common Sense Media Rating: Ages 6+.

July 23-24, 28, 30-31, Aug 4 Aug 6-7, 11, 13-14, 18 To Kill a Mockingbird 1962 A World of Animation Directed by Robert Mulligan. from Children’s Film Gregory Peck won a much-deserved Oscar as heroic Festival Seattle 2011 attorney Atticus Finch (and Robert Duvall made his Spread your wings and take off on a trip to see on-screen debut) in this landmark adaptation of the animated films from around the world, showcased Harper Lee novel. USA; 129 min. Common Sense in this one-of-a-kind program from Northwest Film Media Rating: Ages 12+. Forum and Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2011. Various countries; 68 min. Recommended for ages 5+.

Aug 27-28, Sep 1, 3-4, 8 Sep 10-11, 15, 17-18, 22 Sep 24-25, 29, Oct 1-2, 6 Treasure Island 1950 (PG) Little Women 1994 Abbott and Directed by Byron Haskin. Directed by Gillian Armstrong. Costello Meet Best movie pirate ever? There’s no argh- A terrific adaptation of Louisa May Al- Frankenstein 1948 ument. Robert Newton still shivers a mean cott’s book, with a star-packed cast that Directed by Charles Barton. timber as quintessential buccaneer Long includes Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, John Silver in this classic adaptation of the Gabriel Byrne, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Classic slapstick meets classic horror in Robert Louis Stevenson yarn—and Disney’s Danes, Christian Bale, and Eric Stoltz. this incredible Hollywood hybrid, with first-ever live-action film! USA/UK; 96 min. USA/Canada; 115 min. Common Sense Bela Lugosi (Dracula) and Lon Chaney Common Sense Media Rating: Ages 7+. Media Rating: Ages 11+. Jr. (The Wolf Man) reprising the roles that made them famous. USA; 83 min. Common Sense Media Rating: Ages 7+. Collaborations Wednesday, July 6, 7pm Girls Rock! The Movie 2007 Directed by Arne Johnson & Shane King. A documentary about Portland’s trailblazing Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp, where girls age 8-18 are mentored by such musicians as Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein. USA; 90 min. Pre- sented with Omaha Girls Rock just days before the first Omaha Rock Camp for Girls (July 11-16). A panel discussion will follow the film, featuring Omaha Girls Rock founder Stefanie Drootin (The Good Life, Big Harp).

Tuesday, Aug 9, 7pm Thursday, Sep 15, 6:30pm (FREE) When We Stop Counting 2010 In Person POV Executive Directed by Brent Meier & Elisabeth Reinkordt. Producer Simon Kilmurry A documentary exploring the issues of education and immi- Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at some of America’s best gration through the experiences of six Hispanic high school documentaries, with Simon Kilmurry, Executive Producer of POV, students in Crete, Nebraska. USA; 68 min. Presented with the PBS’ award-winning showcase for independent non-fiction films. Latino Academic Achievement Council – Omaha Public Featuring select clips from POV documentaries. Presented with Schools, Nebraska Appleseed, and Plains States Region NET Television. Anti-Defamation League. With a post-show discussion moder- ated by director Elisabeth Reinkordt. This Fall Silents! Tuesday, Sep 20, 7pm (FREE) On October 4, the Alloy Orchestra returns to the Ruth Sokolof Theater for the first Reel Injun 2009 time since their sold-out performance to Directed by Neil Diamond (Cree). METROPOLIS last year, kicking off a series of silent-film screenings with scores by live An entertaining and insightful look at the portrayal of North American Natives musicians. through the history of cinema. Canada; 85 min. Presented in partnership with NAPT’s fourth biennial VisionMaker Film Festival, to be held Sep 30 – Oc- tober 6 in Lincoln. Sponsored by the Native American Studies Program at the Prints in Landscape University of Nebraska at Omaha. A panel discussion, “The Portrayal of Native Also on the way, a 3-film series (November Americans in Media,” will follow the film. 1, 8, 15) presented with Joslyn Art Museum, in conjunction with their upcoming exhibit American Landscape: Contemporary Pho- Tuesday, Aug 30, 7pm tographs of the West. Featuring post-show discussions with Joslyn Chief Curator Toby Forks Over Knives 2010 (PG) Jurovics, artist Steve Fitch, and others. Directed by Lee Fulkerson. “A provocative new documentary examining the profound claim that most, if not all, Blanket Statement degenerative diseases can be controlled or reversed by rejecting our present menu A special collaborative screening of THE of animal-based and processed foods. USA; 90 min. Presented with Whole Foods QUILTED CONSCIENCE (October 6), a Market, which will be providing complimentary food before the screening. documentary about 16 Sudanese girls transplanted to Grand Island, Nebraska, presented with UNO’s Grace Abbott School Film Streams’ Community Development Committee is accepting proposals from of Social Work. community groups interested in partnering on film-related events. For more information, email [email protected].

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