FREE Screenings Continuous From 8 PM
on the Second THURSDAY of Every Month!
This program is made possible through the generous support of the Cinema Studies Program and The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania.
****VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.****
AUGUST 14
Chicago (1927 / 118 minutes) Cecil B. DeMille brings Maurine Dallas Watkins’ iconic play to the big screen. Based on the true story of Beulah Annan, it tells the story of married jazz baby Roxie Hart and the murder of her lover. The inspiration for Ginger Roger’s 1942 movie as well as the classic 1975 Fosse/Kander & Ebb musical.
Don’t Gamble with Strangers (1946 / 68 minutes) A pair of crooked gamblers pose as brother and sister to lure in suckers until the charade wears thin and ends in murder.
SEPTEMBER 11
Martyrs of the Alamo (1915 / 71 minutes) Playing fast and loose with the facts of history, the founding of Texas is presented in Christy Cabanne’s expansive movie produced by D.W. Griffith.
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson (1976 / 123 minutes) “Truth is whatever gets the loudest applause.” Robert Altman debunks classic western archetypes and explores the difference between western history and western legend in show biz-obsessed America. With Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Joel Grey and Kevin McCarthy.
OCTOBER 9
The Goose Woman (1925 / 80 minutes) Ripped from the headlines of the “Hall-Miller” case—a disgraced opera singer with an illegitimate child sees a chance to reclaim the spotlight by insinuating herself as a material witness in a high profile trial.
Penn and Teller Get Killed (1989 / 89 minutes) Gleefully morbid comedy from Penn and Teller where, on live TV, Penn Jillette publically asks someone to threaten his life, and the candidates pour in. Co-starring Caitlin Clarke and the great David Patrick Kelly.
NOVEMBER 13
Arsenal (1929 / 70 minutes) In Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s drama, a Ukrainian solider returns home after the trauma of The Great War and seeks political reform in his village.
The Virgin Soldiers (1969 / 95 minutes) Legendary stage impresario John Dexter’s first film features a bunch of randy soldiers in 1950s south-east Asia as a commentary on then current Vietnam anxieties.
DECEMBER 11
Traffic in Souls (1913 / 88 minutes) The dark side of the American experience is illuminated in this examination of two immigrants seduced into prostitution by nefarious pimps and flesh traffickers.
Wild Oranges (1924 / 88 minutes) An escaped prisoner terrorizes a political exile and his granddaughter in director King Vidor’s Florida-shot thriller.
FREE Screenings Continuous From 8 PM
on the Second THURSDAY of Every Month!
This program is made possible through the generous support of the Cinema Studies Program and The Rotunda at the University of Pennsylvania.
****VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.****