Dec 2021 – Jan 2022 Film Calendar

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Forbidden Planet

Thu, Dec 9 | 7:30pm | TMT

Bebe Barron and her husband Louis were pioneers in electronic music who were hired to create sound effects for MGM’s lavish sci-fi adventure Forbidden Planet . While Forbidden Planet proved to be the only feature they would ever score, their music is a bold contribution to this thoughtful and ambitious thriller. Filmed in color and CinemaScope with Oscar-nominated special effects, the film uses elements of Shakespeare’s The Tempest to tell the story of a starship crew and its en- counter with a troubled scientist, his beautiful daughter, and the iconic Robby the Robot.

DIRECTOR: Fred McLeod Wilcox.

CAST: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens.

1956. 98 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm.

Licensed to Kill

Tue, Dec 14 | 7:30pm | TMT

Arthur Dong won Best Director (Documentary) at Sundance for his uncompromising look at men who’ve committed heinous acts of ho- mophobic violence. Dong sits down with seven incarcerated men to ask them why they killed, in an attempt to get at the root of society’s anti-gay violence. The doc was scored by Miriam Cutler, whose compositions have been featured in numerous award-winning docu- mentaries such as The Hunting Ground (2015); Love, Gilda (2018); and RBG (2018).

DIRECTOR: Arthur Dong.

1997. 80 min. USA. Color. English. Digital.

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