Egyptian Theatre (Venue Partner)
6712 Hollywood Blvd
323.466.3456
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On the Waterfront
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- When
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Friday Feb 19, 2010 (7:30–10:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: The Egyptian Theatre is just east of Highland Avenue between Las Palmas Avenue and McCadden Place. Metro Stop: Hollywood & Highland
- Price
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$11 general admission, $9 student/senior, $7 Cinematheque Member
- Links
MAN ON A TIGHTROPE, 1953, 20th Century Fox, 105 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. Frederic March, Adolphe Menjou, Terry Moore and the underused noir darling Gloria Grahame star in Kazan’s film about an Eastern Bloc circus troupe trying to escape Communist domination during the Cold War. A subtle and sparse anti-Communist work that got lost amid the more gung-ho films of the 1950s McCarthy era. "The whole point of the circus is that these are the least uniform, the most individualistic, the oddest, the most eccentric, the most widely ‘deviationist’ of any people. This is an ode to individualism!" –Elia Kazan ON THE WATERFRONT, 1954, Sony Repertory, 108 min. Dir. Elia Kazan. "I coulda been somebody … I coulda been a contender …" Director Elia Kazan adapts Budd Schulberg’s grueling account of Hoboken dock-worker life. The film features a purely iconic Marlon Brando as a washed-up prize fighter who falls in love with the sister (Eva Marie Saint) of the "stool pigeon" he set up for a corrupt union organizer (Lee J. Cobb, in one of the screen’s most convincing portrayals of everyday human evil). Rod Steiger delivers a wrenching performance as the older brother who helped destroy Brando’s chances as a boxer, and Karl Malden is the tough-minded priest who serves as Brando’s conscience. Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Actor (Brando) and Director. "One of the most powerful movies of the 50s." – Pauline Kael Discussion in between films with actress Terry Moore, moderated by film historian Foster Hirsch.
