Film Forum
209 W Houston St
212.727.8110
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Christmas in July
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Dec 24, 2008 – Jan 1, 2009
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$10
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Preston Sturges' career did its best St. Louis Arch imitation before the legendary writer/director shed his down-and-out bones at the Algonquin Hotel in 1959. At his acme, Sturges was deft enough to whisk the disparate (social satire, inspired sequences of gee-gosh slapstick, and witty, polyphonic dialogue) into one-of-a-kind comedies. Film Forum screens the seven classics he assembled for Paramount between 1940 and 1944, like the underrated Depression pick-me-up Christmas in July, and the apogee of screwball comedy, The Lady Eve. Rounding out the rollicking program are Sturges' late black comedy about a jealous, murder-ready maestro, Unfaithfully Yours, and two winsome screenplays for the unfortunately forgotten Mitchell Leisen.
