Event Details
SBMA Free Film Series
Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 5:30pm
Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:30pm
Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:30pm
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara
Event Description
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents their free film series.
The schedule is as follows:
Thursdays, August 7, 14, and 28, 5:30 pm
Chuck Wolfe, UCSB Film and Media Studies Professor, provides the introduction and explores the notion of Hollywood as idea and ideal through these films. All films take place in the Mary Craig Auditorium. Seating is limited. First come, first seated.
Thursday, August 7, 5:30 pm
Mabel's Dramatic Career - Popular silent screen comedienne Mabel Normand is featured in this early slapstick short about a rural kitchen maid who journeys to the city to become a movie star at the Keystone Studios in Edendale, the first movie-making center in Los Angeles. (Sennett, 1913) 14 min.
Sherlock Jr. - Buster Keaton directs and stars in this technically ingenious comedy about a small-town movie projectionist who dreams himself into a Hollywood movie where his fantasies of heroism can temporarily be realized. (Keaton, 1924) 45 min.
Thursday, August 14, 5:30 pm
Sunset Boulevard - In an effort to revive her faded career, movie star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) strikes a misbegotten pact with a young, unemployed screenwriter (William Holden) in this caustic tale of Hollywood ambition by writer-director Billy Wilder, blending sharp, comic dialogue with the dark motifs of film noir. (Wilder, 1950) 110 min.
Thursday, August 28, 5:30 pm
Rebel Without a Cause - James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo star in this landmark film of teenage alienation, directed by Nicholas Ray, showcasing the skills of a new generation of Hollywood actors who came into prominence in the 1950s. (Ray, 1955) 111 min.
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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Phone: 805.963.4364
Web site: http://www.sbma.net
