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Lassie Come Home
Sat, Jan 8 | 11am | TMT
This heartwarming boy-and-his-dog story, from the novel by Eric Knight, marked the first appearance of the beloved canine character on the big screen, with the role played by a male collie named Pal who would star in six more “Lassie” films for MGM. Roddy McDowall plays Lassie’s schoolboy companion, and the film stars 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor at the start of her MGM years. Leonard Smith supplied the Oscar-nominated Technicolor cinematography.
DIRECTOR: Fred M. Wilcox.
CAST: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty, Elizabeth Taylor.
1943. 90 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm.
Fly Away Home
Sat, Jan 15 | 11am | TMT
The true story of Bill Lishman, an inventor who used an ultra-light plane to lead a migration of Canadian geese, inspired this sensitive fictionalized drama from director Carroll Ballard ( The Black Stallion , 1979). Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin star as an estranged father and daughter who bond over the plight of a family of orphaned geese and team up to lead the geese to safety. Caleb Deschanel earned an Oscar nomination for his warm cinematography.
DIRECTOR: Carroll Ballard.
CAST: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney. 1996. 110 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm. Courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
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