Pay-as-you-wish Friday Nights! CLASSIC PAID Non-Profit U.S. Postage U.S. Permit #1782 FILM SERIES White NY Plains, Fall 2017/Winter 2018 Pay-as-you-wish Friday Nights! Bernard and Irene Schwartz Classic Film Series Join us for the New-York Historical Society’s film series, featuring opening remarks by notable filmmakers, writers, legal scholars, and historians. Justice in Film Explore how film has tackled social strife, morality, and the perennial struggle between right and wrong—conflicts that manifest across cultures and history. Entrance to the film series is included with Museum Admission during New-York Historical’s Pay-as-you-wish Friday Nights (6–8 pm). No advance reservations. Tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 6 pm. New-York Historical Society Members receive priority. For more information on our featured films and speakers, please visit nyhistory.org/programs or call (212) 485-9205. Dale Gregory Vice President for Public Programs | Alex Kassl Manager of Public Programs | Hannah Donoghue Assistant Manager of Public Programs | Kate Yurkovsky Public Programs Assistant Classic Film Series Film Classic 170 Central Park170 West at Richard Gilder (77th Way Street) NY 10024New York, Publication Team: Publication Don Pollard Don Pollard Don Joan MarcusJoan Tony Rinaldo Tony NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lorella Zanetti Collection of the Nancy Crampton Nancy MUSEUM LIBRARY Supreme Court of the U.S. From top left: Philip C. Bobbitt, Amanda Foreman, Fredrik Logevall, Ron Simon, Dale Gregory, Sheila Griffin Annette Gordon-Reed, Michael Korda, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, Susan Lacy, Marissa Doran Marissa Justice in Film Gail Lumet Buckley, Bob Herbert, Antonio Monda, Linda Greenhouse, Robert Post, Kenji Yoshino Friday, October 27, 7 pm Goodbye, Mr. Chips | 1939 | 114 min. An elderly school teacher reflects on his extensive career at a boarding school in England, where he experienced love, loss, and war. Constitutional scholar and author Philip C. Bobbitt presents this romantic drama. Directed Friday, December 8, 7 pm Friday, February 9, 7 pm by Sam Wood. Starring Robert Donat, Greer Garson. A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | 120 min. Manhattan | 1979 | 96 min. Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Samuel Alito Antonio Monda, Artistic Director of the Rome Film Festival, Friday, November 3, 7 pm and Philip C. Bobbitt discuss the Academy Award-winning alongside Ron Simon and Dale Gregory, introduces Woody High Noon | 1952 | 85 min. biographical drama of Sir Thomas More, the 16th-century Lord Allen’s romantic comedy about a twice-divorced man trying to Amanda Foreman, daughter of High Noon screenwriter Carl Foreman, Chancellor of England who refused to annul King Henry VIII’s make sense of life and love. Directed by Woody Allen. Starring joins Philip C. Bobbitt onstage to introduce one of the greatest Western marriage. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Starring Paul Scofield, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Meryl Streep. dramas of all time featuring Gary Cooper as a brave, small-town lawman Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw. who prepares for the arrival of a deadly nemesis at high noon. Directed Friday, February 16, 7 pm by Fred Zinnemann. Starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly. Friday, January 26, 7 pm All the King’s Men | 1949 | 109 min. Coming Home | 1978 | 127 min. Legal experts Linda Greenhouse, Robert Post, and Kenji Friday, November 17, 7 pm This classic, produced by and starring Jane Fonda, tells the story Yoshino present the film noir that follows the rise of ambitious Red Dust | 1932 | 83 min. of a deployed Vietnam War captain’s wife who volunteers at a local politician Willie Stark, allegedly modeled after the real 1930s A rubber plantation owner in colonial French Indochina becomes veterans hospital where she befriends a bitter paraplegic. Opening Louisiana governor Huey Long. Directed by Robert Rossen. embroiled in a love triangle. Historian Fredrik Logevall, curator remarks by filmmakerSusan Lacy, the producer and director of Starring Broderick Crawford, John Ireland. Ron Simon, and Dale Gregory, New-York Historical’s Vice President an upcoming HBO documentary on Jane Fonda. Directed by for Public Programs, introduce this classic romantic drama. Directed Hal Ashby. Starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern. Friday, March 2, 7 pm by Victor Fleming. Starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Mary Astor. Presented in collaboration with the Center for Women’s History MASH | 1970 | 116 min. at New-York Historical Society Journalist Bob Herbert—who was stationed in Korea during Friday, December 1, 7 pm the Vietnam War—onstage with Ron Simon and Dale Gregory, Things to Come | 1936 | 97 min. Friday, February 2, 7 pm introduces the episodic and satirical black comedy set during After decades of fighting for a forgotten cause, a blighted Britain attempts Stormy Weather | 1943 | 78 min. the Korean War that follows a mismatched group of military to survive a new Dark Age. In conversation with Ron Simon and Dale Gail Lumet Buckley, daughter of Stormy Weather actress Lena personnel at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. Directed by Gregory, two distinguished historians present this epic science fiction Horne, in conversation with journalist Bob Herbert, introduces the Robert Altman. Starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, film: Annette Gordon-Reed on the film’s screenwriter, H. G. Wells—one musical loosely based on—and starring—dancer Bill “Bojangles” Tom Skerritt. of her favorite authors—and Michael Korda on his father and uncle—the Robinson and his rise to fame as a performer. Directed by film’s set designer and producer—as well as the film’s major impact on Andrew L. Stone. Starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson. England in preparation for WWII. Directed by William Cameron Menzies. Starring Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke. For more details and the latest information on our featured films, speakers, and related programs, please visit nyhistory.org/programs or call (212) 485-9205. Film Series Programmer: Dale Marsha Gregory, Presented at the Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024 Vice President for Public Programs.