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Casablanca
Sat, Dec 11 | 7:30pm | DGT
Everybody comes to Rick’s Café in Casablanca— for drinks, gambling, intrigue, Sam’s (Dooley Wilson) piano, and most importantly, exit visas. The romance of Hollywood’s classical era is central to this seminal film, full of iconic stars including Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, and Habsburg Empire émigrés Paul Henreid and Peter Lorre. Émigré Michael Curtiz’s Oscar-winning direction of this Best Picture winner is as elegant as the endlessly quotable dialogue is witty, and (another émigré) Max Steiner’s nominated score incorporates the unforgettable “As Time Goes By.”
DIRECTOR: Michael Curtiz.
CAST: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains. 1943. 103 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm nitrate. Nitrate print courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art.
Grand Hotel
Sun, Dec 12 | 2pm | TMT
“People come, people go. Nothing ever happens” laments the hotel’s bitter resident Dr. Otternschlag, but in this glamourous Best Picture-winning classic, the “people” include such cinema legends as Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, and a young and vibrant Joan Crawford, and the “nothing” includes burglary, murder, romance, and a dying man’s final wish. Austrian writer Vicki Baum penned the original, best-selling novel ( Menschen im Hotel ) before moving to Hollywood to launch a successful screenwriting career.
DIRECTOR: Edmund Goulding.
CAST: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery.
1932. 115 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm.
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