The Cinefamily (Venue Partner)
611 N Fairfax Avenue
323.655.2510
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Cinefamily
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Friday Apr 30, 2010 (8pm)
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$10
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It Happened One Night - 8:00pm
It Happened One Night is the saucy and sizzling pre-code classic that launched Capra to superstardom, a massive critical and commercial success, and winning the grand slam at the Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapated Screenplay). It's also the pinnacle of the the breezy, irresistable entertainments that Capra built his early career on before he became the "important" director we think of him now. Claudette Colbert is the glamorous heiress on the run from her family who needs the help of a macho rough-and-tumble working-class reporter (Clark Gable) to get cross-country, and together their Swept Away-like inter-class chemistry is alternatively hilarious, sweet and sexy as all get out. It Happened One Night is justifiably considered one of the greatest romantic comedies of all time, and the perfect way to end our series celebrating Capra's early period.
Dir. Frank Capra, 1934, 35mm, 105 min.
Platinum Blonde - 10:00pm
This tale of the inter-class marriage between a wise-cracking reporter and lusty society dame is a key work in bombshell icon Jean Harlow's short career. Originally titled Gallagher (the name of the down-to-earth reporter friend our hero is supposed to be with, played by ostensible lead Loretta Young), this saucy screwball comedy was retitled Platinum Blonde when Harlow's rising stardom, and sultry sexual charisma, turned the film's ostensible love triangle on its ear. By the time the film's over, there's no question that Harlow's horny "platinum blonde" is the thing Capra, and us, were most interested in the whole time. Robert Williams and Harlow's mutual seduction and lovey-dovey post-coital bliss have a sincerity and realism that leaps from the screen, and together with William's shaggy-dog lazy charm (sadly, he died shortly after the film would have made him a star) make Platinum Blonde a movie to win over any audience.
Dir. Frank Capra, 1931, 35mm, 90 min.
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