Movie Museum DECEMBER 2005 COMING ATTRACTIONS THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY Woody Allen's Birthday Double Feature Jean-Luc Godard's Birthday Double Feature Preminger/Lang/Polonsky THE FRONT I CAN GET IT FOR YOU CONTEMPT I CAN GET IT FOR YOU Birthday Double Feature (1976) WHOLESALE (1951) (1963-French/Italian) WHOLESALE (1951) FALLEN ANGEL (1945) in widescreen with Susan Hayward. in French with English with Susan Hayward. with Dana Andrews, Alice Faye. with Woody Allen, Zero Written by Abraham Polonsky. subtitles & in widescreen Written by Abraham Polonsky. Directed by Otto Preminger. Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Plus with Brigitte Bardot, Fritz Lang, Plus Plus Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Michael Murphy, Lloyd FIVE CAME BACK (1939) FIVE CAME BACK (1939) Gough, Danny Aiello. Jean-Luc Godard. MINISTRY OF FEAR with Lucille Ball. with Lucille Ball. (1944) Directed by Martin Ritt. Script by Dalton Trumbo. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Script by Dalton Trumbo. with Ray Milland. Directed by Fritz Lang. 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 1 1, 4 & 7pm 2 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 34 1, 4 & 7pm 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm 5 ENCHANTED APRIL Dalton Trumbo's Birthday ENCHANTED APRIL Trintignant's Birthday Frank Sinatra's Birthday (1991-British) JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN (1991-British) FLIC STORY SUDDENLY (1954) (1971) (1975-French/Italian) with Frank Sinatra, with Josie Lawrence, Miranda in widescreen with Josie Lawrence, Miranda in French w/English subtitles Sterling Hayden. Richardson, Joan Plowright, with Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Richardson, Joan Plowright, with Jean-Louis Trintignant, Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Alfred Molina, Jim Broadbent. Alfred Molina, Jim Broadbent. Alain Delon. Plus Robards, Donald Sutherland. Plus CORNERED (1945) Directed by Mike (Harry Written and Directed Directed by Mike (Harry MINISTRY OF FEAR with Dick Powell. Potter and the Goblet of by Dalton Trumbo. Potter and the Goblet of (1944) Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Fire) Newell. Fire) Newell. Directed by Fritz Lang. 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 8 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 9 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 10 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm 11 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm 12 J. P. MacDonald's Birthday PANIC IN THE STREETS THE YOUNG LIONS Jules Dassin's Birthday NIGHT AND THE CITY THE YOUNG LIONS (1950) (1958) THIEVES' HIGHWAY (1949-British/US) (1958) with Richard Widmark, Paul in widescreen (1949) with Richard Widmark, Gene in widescreen Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, with Marlon Brando, with Richard Conte, Valentina Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh with Marlon Brando, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel. Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Montgomery Clift, Dean Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Written by Edward & Edna Anhalt. Herbert Lom. Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Maximilian Schell. Mitchell, Joesph Pevney. Rush, Maximilian Schell. Photography by J.P. MacDonald Script by A. I. Bezzerides. Photography by Max Greene. Directed by Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Directed by Elia Kazan. Edward Dmytryk. Directed by Jules Dassin. Directed by Jules Dassin. 1, 4 & 7pm 15 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 16 1, 4 & 7pm 17 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 18 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 19 Double Feature AN INSPECTOR CALLS Double Feature Elisha Cook Jr.'s Birthday THE PIED PIPER (1954-British) THE PIED PIPER HAMMETT (1942) From J. B. Priestley's Play. (1942) Merry (1983) with Monty Woolley, with Monty Woolley, with Frederic Forrest. Otto Preminger. with Alastair Sim, Otto Preminger. Christmas, Plus Plus Bryan Forbes, Arthur Young, Plus and Good Luck! THE KILLING CORNERED (1945) Olga Lindo, Eileen Moore. A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1956) with Dick Powell. (1951-British) with Sterling Hayden. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Directed by Guy Hamilton. with Alastair Sim. Closed Directed by Stanley Kubrick. 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm 22 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 23 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm 24 25 12:30, 4 & 7:30pm 26 THE SLEEPING TIGER Double Feature Double Feature SHORTCUT TO SHORTCUT TO (1954-British) THE FRONT HAMMETT NIRVANA NIRVANA with Dirk Bogarde, Alexis (1976) (1983) (2004) (2004) in widescreen Smith, Alexander Knox, Hugh w/ Woody Allen, Zero Mostel. with Frederic Forrest. in widescreen Griffith, Billie Whitelaw. Plus Plus An extraordinary doc about An extraordinary doc about FIVE CAME BACK THE KILLING Kumbh Mela, which takes Kumbh Mela, which takes Directed by (1939) (1956) place every 12 years at the place every 12 years at the Victor Hanbury with Lucille Ball. with Sterling Hayden. confluence of the Ganges and confluence of the Ganges and (Joseph Losey). Script by Dalton Trumbo. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Yamuna rivers. Yamuna rivers. 2, 4, 6 & 8pm 29 1, 4 & 7pm 30 12:30 & 4pm only 31 2, 4, 6 & 8pm Jan 1 2, 4, 6 & 8pm Jan 2 $5 General Admission / $4 Members All films will be presented Reservations Recommended. Call 735-8771. with digital sound. MOVIE MUSEUM December 2005 $5 General Admission / $4 Members COMING ATTRACTIONS Reservations Recommended. Call 735-8771. Birthdays and the Blacklist THE FRONT (1976) 94m **** D: Martin Ritt. JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN (1971) 111m *** D: Dalton NIGHT AND THE CITY (1949-British/US) 101m *** D: Jules Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Trumbo. Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Dassin. Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci, Joshua Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Charles McGraw. A Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom. This fascinating Shelley, Lloyd Gough. Allen is a schnook enlisted young American soldier in WWI is wounded by a landmine film noir portrait of assorted characters in the wrestling by blacklisted writers to put his name on their on the last day of the war. He loses his arms, legs and eyes netherworld of London focuses on a young American hustler scripts during the 1950s witch-hunts, leading to as well as his ability to hear, speak or smell. Lying in a (Widmark) who’s desperate to succeed. Sullivan is marvelous various humorous complications. This bull’s eye hospital, he is not able to distinguish if he is awake or if he as an oily nightclub owner. This film is the final Hollywood film comedy with a serious theme is scripted by black- is dreaming. He relives his story in strange dreams and by Dassin before he was blacklisted by the HUAC. Music by listed Walter Bernstein. Director Ritt and actors memories. One day he finds a way to communicate with the Franz Waxman (born 12/24/1906). Mostel, Bernardi, Shelley and Gough were also doctors… Writer/Director Dalton Trumbo (born 12/09/1905), blacklisted. Woody Allen was born 12/01/35. who adapted his 1939 novel, won the Grand Jury prize at THE PIED PIPER (1942) 86m *** D: Irving Pichel. Monty Cannes for this film. Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Otto Preminger, Anne Baxter, Peggy CONTEMPT (1963-French/Italian) 103m *** ½ Ann Garner. Cantankerous Englishman Woolley is on a fishing D: Jean-Luc Godard. Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, FLIC STORY (1975-French/Italian) 107m *** D: Jacques holiday in France when the Nazis invade. Though he’s not Michel Piccoli (born 12/27/25), Giorgia Moll, Fritz Deray. Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato fond of children, he is persuaded to escape with two of them, Lang. A perversely funny and beautifully lensed Salvatori, Claudine Auger. When Emile Buisson but his adopted family continues to grow as he attempts to (by Raoul Coutard) look at international (Trintignant), post-liberation France’s most notorious crimi- outwit the Nazis and return to England. This witty and fast- moviemaking, with Piccoli as a dramatist of integ- nal, escapes from a mental asylum, his crime spree has poli- paced entertainment was Oscar-nominated for best picture and rity who gets mixed up with vulgar producer ticians, the press and the police all pointing fingers. Liberal actor (Woolley). It features a notable breakthrough performance Palance and dedicated director Lang (playing him- Paris cop Roger Borniche (Delon) has the thankless job of by Preminger (Margin for Error, Stalag 17) as a Nazi officer self), as they remake The Odyssey. Godard, who tracking Buisson down. Based on the memoir of real life playing cat and mouse with Woolley. A great (and rare) Christ- plays Lang’s assistant, was born 12/03/30. detective Borniche, this pacy 1948-set French thriller is mas offering. Historical Note: Preminger, a Jew, was the son of powered by taut direction and terrific performances. the former Attorney General of the Austro-Hungarian empire. FIVE CAME BACK (1939) 75m *** D: John Far- Trintignant was born 12/11/30. row. Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, AN INSPECTOR CALLS (1954-British) 80m *** D: Guy John Carradine, Allen Jenkins. Twelve boarded SUDDENLY (1954) 77m *** ½ D: Lewis Allen. Frank Sinatra Hamilton. Alastair Sim, Bryan Forbes, Arthur Young, Olga the plane…but only “five came back”. Who will (The Manchurian Candidate), Sterling Hayden, James Lindo, Eileen Moore. This superb filmization of J. B. Priestley’s survive the headhunter-infested Amazon jungle? Gleason, Nancy Gates. Sinatra (born 12/12/15) leads a trio play details police detective Sim’s investigation of a girl’s sui- This thriller will keep you guessing all the way. of paid assassins who take over a house in a small town cide. All the members of a wealthy Yorkshire family had con- Famous film with well-crafted characters and a where the US President will pass on his way to a fishing nections to the girl, and each will have to face the truth. Sim’s powerful climax. Story co-scripted by blacklisted trip. Sinatra is brilliant in a thoroughly detestable role in nuanced performance will haunt you. Good for the yuletide Dalton Trumbo. Trumbo, one of the Hollywood this white knuckle thriller perfectly capturing the paranoia season. Ten, won a scriptwriting Oscar in 1956 for The of the ‘50s. Brave One under the pseudonym Robert Rich but A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951-British) 86m **** D: Brian could not collect it for fear of being “outed”.