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Kurosawa’s SEVEN SAMURAI Screens October 19th at The Tivoli – ‘Classics in the Loop’

“Danger always strikes when everything seems fine. “

Akira Kurosawa’s SEVEN SAMURAI screens Wednesday October 19th at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in ‘The Loop’) as part of their new ‘Classics in the Loop’ film series. The movie starts at 7pm and admission is $7. It will be on The Tivoli’s big screen.

Akira Kurosawa is considered one of the finest filmmaker the world has ever seen. Certainly influenced by other masters like John Ford, Orson Welles, Jean Renoir and others Kurosawa found a way to take their impressive visual styles all his own. SEVEN SAMURAI is his best known film, at least to U.S. audiences and was remade (very well) six years later by Hollywood as THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN.

SEVEN SAMURAI is about a village victimized by a group of bandits. Their reign of terror has taken its toll on the farmers and their families so resort to hiring seven samurai masters to protect them. SEVEN SAMURAI is anchored by Bravura performances from Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchivo and Takeshi Shimura as Kambei. The supporting actors give commendable performances as well. Even though the visual effects are dated by today’s standards, most modern action films don’t even come close in terms of visually stimulating emotions like SEVEN SAMURAI can. Due to the fact that Kurosawa relies a lot on visuals during both the dramatic and action sequences, and backstories are related (which was not necessary in the 1960 American remakes due to its star power), the film may seem long-winded to some (it lasts 3 ½ hours), but it’s a stimulating and rewarding film experience and I highly recommend heading over to the Tivoli Wednesday night and seeing it there on the big screen.

Here’s the rest of the line-up for the ‘CLASSICS IN THE LOOP’ film series:

Oct. 26 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

WAMG Giveaway — Win THE LATE BLOOMER Poster signed by the Cast and Director

THE LATE BLOOMER is basked on author and E! News personality Ken Baker’s incredible life story and is directed by multi-hyphenate Kevin Pollak (Misery Loves Comedy, War Dogs, The Usual Suspects, A Few Good Men) and stars Johnny Simmons (The Phenom, The Perks of Being a Wallfower), Maria Bello (Prisoners, A History of Violence), Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect 1&2, Hairspray), Golden Globe and Emmy winner Jane Lynch (“Glee”, “Two and a Half Men”, Best in Show), Oscar and Golden Globe winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Up in the Air, Juno), Kumail Nanjiani (“Silicon Valley”), Beck Bennett (“SNL”), and Paul Wesley (“The Vampire Diaries”).

Check out the trailer for THE LATE BLOOMER:

Now you can win a THE LATE BLOOMER poster signed by cast members J.K. Simmons, Brittany Snow, Johnny Simmons, Maria Bello, director Kevin Pollak and author Ken Baker. We Are Movie Geeks has this amazing prize package to give away. The winner will also receive a copy of “The Late Bloomer: A Memoir of My Body” by Ken Baker. All you have to do is leave a comment below and answer this question: What previous movie co-starred J.K. Simmons and Maria Bello? It’s so easy!

We’ll pick the winner next week.

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A MAN CALLED OVE – Review

In the Swedish dark comedy A MAN CALLED OVE, director/scriptwriter Hannes Holm takes us on a roller-coaster trip through the life of old curmudgeon. Ove (Rolf Lassgard) is the kind of guy every neighborhood seems to have, the obsessively neat, angry rule-enforcer who checks up on things and sees that everyone follows the rules – all of them.

Ove cracks down on his neighbors during his daily rounds to check up on things, a habit left over from when he was the chair of the neighborhood committee. But Ove definitely is not a friendly neighbor. Basically, this crabby widower just wants to be left alone. Recently widowed, he visits his late wife Sonja’s (Ida Engvoll) grave every day, to bring flowers and complain. Suddenly without a job at age 59, he decides to join her. But people keep interrupting his suicide attempts, with friendly visits or requests for help. Particularly bothersome is his friendly new neighbor Parvaneh, an Iranian woman, and her Swedish husband Patrick (Tobias Almborg) and their their two cute little girls.

Nobody does twisty, dry, dark comedy as well as the Swedes. Both funny and touching, the film takes us through Ove’s up-and-down life through a series of flashbacks. Based on a best-selling novel, this film was a huge hit in Sweden, but this neighborhood curmudgeon character is a universal type. While we recognize Ove’s type, this dry and dark comedy turns him into a fully rounded, more complex person, and also goes off in completely unexpected story directions. This film will remind some viewers of another clever comedy about an old man with an unexpected past “THE 100 YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT A WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED.” This film is a bit more touching and Ove’s remembered life is not near as wild as that one, but it has its surprises too, a life filled with ups and downs, heartbreak and love, and unexpected twists.

Two of the joys of this film are its beautiful photography, particularly stunning in the flashbacks, and its fine acting. Lassgard is perfect as the older Ove, glowering and suppressing a snarl every time he encounters another human interruption. All he wants to do is join his wife in death. Every time Ove attempts suicide, he drifts off into reveries of his earlier life as he waits for death – a wait that is always interrupted by something or someone.

Lassgard is not the only gem in this cast, although his performance and the director’s deft touch in presenting the sometimes traumatic events of his life really lift the already-good story. Filip Berg is moving as young Ove, a decent young man coping with a challenging start in life, as is Ida Engvoll, who sparkles as lively Sonja in the flashbacks.

Bahar Pars is wonderful too as irrepressible Parvaneh, a lively, strong-willed pregnant woman who shrugs off her neighbor’s grouchy manner. The cracks in Ove’s armor begin to appear around her, as well as her two little girls and a stray cat, that Ove defends from another neighbor.

The film is funny, surprising, moving, and even romantic as it unspools Ove’s story. This gentle, delightful film touches on an unexpected range of contemporary issues. In other hands, sentiment could have gotten the better of this film but director Holm keeps enough comic edge to rescue it from that fate, keeping it funny but warm, a little gem that will have you leaving the theater with a smile.

A MAN CALLED OVE, in Swedish with English subtitles, opens in St. Louis on Friday, Oct. 14, at Landmark’s Plaza Frontenac Cinema.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

THE ACCOUNTANT – Review

Ben Affleck plays an accountant with some special skills and special challenges in the mystery/action thriller THE ACCOUNTANT. Directed by Gavin O’Connor, what makes THE ACCOUNTANT different from other high-body count thrillers is the protagonist at its center, an autistic math savant. Christian Wolff (Affleck) is brilliant with numbers but has trouble with social interactions. His social difficulties look like autism spectrum, possibly the high-functioning type that used to be called Asperger’s, but his unusual upbringing by his brutal military operative father, designed to help him ward off bullies, has equipped him with skills in martial arts and weapons.

On the surface, Wolff is an accountant with a small office in a strip mall outside Chicago but his real profession is as a forensic accountant auditing the books of big-time criminal organizations, to uncover who is skimming money within those organizations. Wolff’s work has drawn the attention of the Treasury Department’s Crime Enforcement Division and its department head Ray King (J.K. Simmons), who has brought in a promising young analyst, Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), to help track down this mysterious accountant.

Aware he is under scrutiny, Wolff decides to keep a low profile by taking a job for a legitimate company instead. Lamar Blackburn (John Lithgow) is CEO and founder of Living Robotics, a high-tech company making robotic prosthetics that is on the verge of an IPO. A low-level accountant, Dana Cummings (Anna Kendrick), has uncovered a multi-million dollar discrepancy in the books and Wolff has been called in to unravel that puzzle, before the company’s public offering.

Ben Affleck delivers a strong performance as Wolff, who has been shaped by his autism and by his odd and harsh upbringing. Affleck makes Wolff a touching character with dazzling math skills, and the film develops a bit of romance with Kendrick’s character. It is kind of fun to see math whizzes, two of whom are women – both Kendrick and Addai-Robinson play math girls – and an autistic character in lead roles but the film’s story doesn’t always make a lot of sense.

Early in the film, we meet Chris as a child, played by Seth Lee, who displays symptoms of autism and is only close to his younger brother (Jake Presley). Their father (Rob Treveiler) and mother (Mary Kraft) meet with a neurologist (Jason Davis) at his treatment facility, to talk about their difficult son. The scenes act as a sort of clinical description of autism spectrum, although the film is coy about Chris’ diagnosis and never uses those words, allowing the story some wiggle room in developing the fictional character.

When the boys’ father refuses to let his older son go the home-like residential facility for treatment, their mother abandons the family. The boys’ father, who works as a shadowy, globe-trotting military psychologist, then takes the two young boys with him around the world, immersing them in a brutal training program of martial arts and weaponry, purportedly to help them deal with bullies but which looks more like cruelty.

The film then flashes forward to the adult Chris, living his secretive loner life while earning big money, which he mostly stashes away in his plan to stay mobile. Christian may be socially awkward but he makes a few emotional connections, particularly with a mob-connected prison cellmate Francis Silverberg (Jeffrey Tambor), who puts him in contact with the criminal underworld figures who might be interested in Wolff’s remarkable accounting skills. Meanwhile, an underworld enforcer (Jon Bernthal) seems to be trailing Wolff, or at least his employers.

Affleck’s performance is good, even lifting the movie at times, and the restrained interactions between him and Kendrick have a certain quirky romantic charm. The action is well-done, fast-paced and entertainingly good, but the underlying story tends to unravel, particularly at the end where a couple of surprise reveals make little sense.

THE ACCOUNTANT may has been intended as a kind of Bourne-like thriller, with an action hero character with a particular problem and a mystery at its heart. It does not reach that level but it does give the audience a pretty good action thrill ride, as long as you do not look too deep into its inner workings.

Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars

St. Louis Library Presents – DIRECTORS CUT: THE FILMS OF CHARLES BURNETT Beginning October 18th

The St. Louis Central Library downtown (1301 Olive Blvd) is teaming up with Cinema St. Louis and the St. Louis International Film Festival to present DIRECTORS CUT: THE FILMS OF CHARLES BURNETT.

Charles Burnett is a writer-director whose work has received extensive honors. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, his family soon moved to the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Burnett studied creative writing at UCLA before entering the University’s graduate film program. His thesis project, Killer of Sheep (1977), won accolades at film festivals and a critical devotion; in 1990, it was among the first titles named to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. European financing allowed Burnett to shoot his second feature, My Brother’s Wedding (1983), but a rushed debut prevented the filmmaker from completing his final cut until 2007. In 1988, Burnett was awarded the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur (“genius grant”) Fellowship. His first widely released film, To Sleep with Anger (1990), was also chosen for the National Film Registry, and Burnett became the first African American recipient of the National Society of Film Critics’ best screenplay award. Burnett made the highly acclaimed “Nightjohn” in 1996 for the Disney Channel; his subsequent television works include “Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding” (1998), “Selma, Lord, Selma” (1999), an episode of the seven-part series “Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues” (2003) and “Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property” (2003), which was shown on the PBS series “Independent Lens.” Burnett has been awarded grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the J. P. Getty Foundation. In 2011, the Museum of Modern Art showcased his work with a month-long retrospective.

DIRECTORS CUT: THE FILMS OF CHARLES BURNETT is a series of four films by director Charles Burnett. The fourth film, KILLER OF SHEEP, will feature a special appearance by Burnett and is part of the St. Louis International Film Festival. All films are free and are screened in the library’s Central Auditorium.

Here’s the line-up for DIRECTORS CUT: THE FILMS OF CHARLES BURNETT:

NAT TURNER: A TROUBLESOME PROPERTY October 18^th 6:30pm
2003 – 58 minutes

n 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families—as well Turner’s execution. At once an ambivalent cultural hero, a revolutionary figure and a subject of countless literary works, Turner has remained a “troublesome property” for those who have struggled to understand him and the meaning of his revolt, often resulting in controversy. As literary critic Henry Louis Gates explains: “There is no Nat Turner to recover… you have to create the man and his voice.”

The earliest source of information about Turner, The Confessions of Nat Turner, was not written by him at all, assembled instead out of a series of jail cell interviews by white Virginia lawyer Thomas R. Gray. The man portrayed in this first telling of the Nat Turner story clearly saw himself as a prophet, steeped in the traditions of apocalyptic Christianity. However, this “confession” raised the question of whether Turner was an inspired and brilliant religious leader in search of freedom for his people or a deluded lunatic leading slaves to their doom.

NAT TURNER: A TROUBLESOME PROPERTY examines how the story of Turner and his revolt have been continuously re-told since 1831. Historians Eugene Genovese and Herbert Aptheker discuss how the figure of Turner became a metaphor for racial tension. Religious scholar Vincent Harding and legal scholar Martha Minow reflect on America’s attitudes towards violence. Professor of psychiatry and race relations expert Dr. Alvin Poussaint and actor Ossie Davis recall how Nat Turner became a hero in the black community. And when William Styron published his 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner—inventing a sexually charged relationship between Turner and a white teenaged girl he later killed—it unleashed one of the most bitter intellectual battles of the 1960s. Turner’s rebellion continues to raise new questions about the nature of terrorism and other forms of violent resistance to oppression.

A unique collaboration between MacArthur Genius Award feature director Charles Burnett, acclaimed historian of slavery Kenneth S. Greenberg and Academy Award-nominated documentary producer Frank Christopher, NAT TURNER adopts an innovative structure by interspersing documentary footage and interviews with dramatizations of different versions of the story, using a new actor to represent Turner in each. The filmmakers have interviewed a broad range of contemporary African American and white descendants of those involved in the revolt, historians, writers and artists, and weave these interviews with dramatic recreations based on folklore, novels and plays—reflecting the multifaceted legacy of Nat Turner in America today.

MY BROTHER’S WEDDING October 25^th 6:3pm
1983 115 minutes

When we first see Pierce Mundy (Everette Silas) in director Charles Burnett’s feature follow-up to Killer of Sheep (1977) he’s on the move. Making his way on a summer afternoon down a cracked sidewalk in South Central Los Angeles, he’s heading to see the mother of his best friend about to return from prison. A voice from behind catches him up short: “Hey, Pierce!” In the long shot that introduces him, Pierce turns mid-stride, looks to the woman calling him and in a single fluid move, looks away, exasperated, back toward his intended destination. “Come see my sister’s baby!” Though he’s tall and lean, we feel the petulant weight in his every step as he retreats in the direction he’s just come.

This sequence, though brief, deftly establishes the major themes of My Brother’s Wedding, and the power of Burnett’s unadorned style. Pulled in opposing directions by loyalty to family and friends, Pierce feels suspended in place. Recently laid off from his factory job, he marks time working at his family’s dry cleaning store under the watchful eye of his mother (Jessie Holmes) and swapping loaded jabs with his brother’s upper-middle-class fiancée (Gaye Shannon-Burnett). In the face of a diminished future, the return of Pierce’s best friend, Soldier (Ronald E. Bell), holds out a nostalgic escape to childhood, albeit one burdened by the decimation of his generation through violence and incarceration. “Where is everyone?” Soldier asks of the old crew. “It’s you and me,” Pierce replies.

While the contour of Pierce’s situation is familiar, Burnett fleshes it out with richly observed detail. Shooting on location, Burnett doesn’t simply capture locales; he reveals, through incidents and episodes both humorous and poignant, the network of relationships that pull and tug at the lives on screen. The revelation of character becomes seamlessly bound to the revelation of community. When, in the film’s finale, Pierce once again faces a choice of which direction to turn, both literally and metaphorically, his decision resonates well beyond his personal history.

THE GLASS SHIELD October 29^th 1pm
1994 119 minutes

Charles Burnett followed up To Sleep with Anger with this sorely underrated L.A. crime drama. Michael Boatman stars as rookie cop J.J., the first black deputy within his department; he quickly experiences firsthand a deep-seated culture of racism within the LAPD, and in an effort to fit in he participates in the questionable arrest of Teddy Woods (Ice Cube). But when J.J. discovers that he has unconsciously made himself complicit in a far-reaching frame-up, he and fellow ostracized cop Barbara (Victoria Dillard) set out to bring a clandestine and racist power structure within the LAPD to its knees. Also featuring strong turns by Bernie Casey and Elliott Gould and released around the time of the O.J. Simpson trial, this gripping thriller is Burnett’s most stylized and explicitly political film to date.

KILLER OF SHEEP November 6^th 1:30pm
1978 83 minutes

The St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) honors legendary filmmaker Charles Burnett with a Lifetime Achievement Award and screens KILLER OF SHEEP at the library. Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep” focuses on everyday life in black communities in a manner unseen in American cinema, combining lyrical elements with a starkly neo-realist, documentary-style approach that chronicles the unfolding story with depth and riveting simplicity. This 1978 classic examines the black Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. He suffers from the emotional side effects of his bloody occupation to such a degree that his entire life unhinges. One of the first 50 films to be selected for the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, “Killer of Sheep” was cited by the National Society of Film Critics as one of the 100 Essential Films. New York Times critic Manohla Dargis calls the film “an American masterpiece, independent to the bone.”

SLIFF will also be screening Burnett’s TO SLEEP WITH ANGER Sunday, Nov. 6 at 8:00pm at The Tivoli Theater as part of The St. Louis International Film Festival

WAMG Giveaway – Win THE NEON DEMON Poster Signed by Five Cast Members and the Director

“You know what my mother used to call me? Dangerous. “You’re a dangerous girl”. She was right. I am dangerous.”

Amazon Studio’s The Neon Demon directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, is a sumptuous horror-thriller, set in the highly competitive and often vicious world of fashion modeling, where the term “eat their own” takes on a decidedly new meaning. When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has. The film is co-written by Refn (Bronson, Drive, Only God Forgives, Valhalla Rising), Mary Laws (”Preacher”) and Polly Stenham; and stars Elle Fanning (Maleficent,Super 8), Karl Glusman (Love, Stonewall), Jena Malone (Inherent Vice,The Hunger Games series), Bella Heathcote (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Dark Shadows), Abbey Lee (Gods of Egypt, Max Max: Fury Road), with Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men,” Drive), and Keanu Reeves (John Wick, The Matrix series).

Now you can own a NEON DEMON poster signed by stars Elle Fanning, Abbey Lee, Jenna Malone, Bella Heathcote, Keanu Reeves, and director Nicholas Winding Refn. We Are Movie Geeks has one to give away. All you have to do is leave a message below and answer this question: In the bathroom scene in NEON DEMON, Ruby says the shade of lipstick being applied is called…..what?

We’ll pick the winner next week.

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2. WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN FROM ALL QUALIFYING ENTRIES.

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Vestron Classics WAXWORK and WAXWORK II: LOST IN TIME on Blu-ray Oct. 18th

The Vestron Video Collector’s Series unleashes the tongue-in-cheek horror classics WAXWORK and WAXWORK II: LOST IN TIME for the first time on limited-edition Blu-ray™ on October 18 from Lionsgate. In Waxwork, a private midnight showing at a local wax museum turns to mayhem when its soul-sucking wax exhibits come to life! In Waxwork II: Lost in Time, Mark and Sarah, who survived the killer wax museum, must travel to another dimension to combat the still-present evil figure responsible for murdering Sarah’s stepfather. The Waxwork and Waxwork II: Lost in Time Blu-ray double feature includes all-new special features and will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.99.

WAXWORK OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS
Inside the wax museum a group of teenagers are aghast at the hauntingly lifelike wax displays of Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and other character members of the Horror Hall of Fame. Each display is perfectly grotesque, yet each is missing one thing . . . a victim! Admission to the WAXWORK was free but now they may pay with their lives! One by one, the students are drawn into the settings as objects of the blood thirsty creatures. They are now part of the permanent collection.

WAXWORK II: LOST IN TIME OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS
Having escaped the fiery destruction of the original Waxwork, Marl (Zach Galligan, Gremlins) and Sarah (Monika Schnarre, TV’s “Beverly Hills, 90210”) face another grueling ordeal in WAXWORK II, when Sarah is accused of murdering her stepfather. Fleeing through the doors of time in a desperate search for proof of her innocence, the two lovers find themselves caught in the eternally recurring battle between good and evil. Together they must stop one of the most powerful and demonic figures of all time — Lord Scarabus.

WAXWORK SPECIAL FEATURES
· Audio Commentary with Anthony Hickox & Zach Galligan

· Featurettes:

o “The Waxwork Chronicles” (Parts 1–6)

o Vintage “Making of” Featurette

· Isolated Score & Audio Interview with Composer Roger Bellon

· Theatrical Trailer

· Still Gallery

WAXWORK II: LOST IN TIME SPECIAL FEATURES
· Audio Commentary with Anthony Hickox & Zach Galligan

· Theatrical Trailer

· Still Gallery

New Psychological Thriller BROKEN VOWS Now Out on DVD, Digital HD and On Demand

The intense psychological thriller BROKEN VOWS is now out on DVD (plus Digital), Digital HD and On Demand from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Here’s a clip:

Wow! That was intense!…Here’s another clip:

Experience the intensity of the psychological thriller Broken Vows when it arrives on DVD (plus Digital), Digital HD and On Demand October 11 from Lionsgate. Jaimie Alexander stars as a woman who must find the strength to escape the grasp of a psychotic stalker before he destroys everything and everyone she loves. Featuring a hot young cast including Wes Bentley, Cam Gigandet, and Alexandra Breckenridge, the Broken Vows DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $19.98.

In this chilling, sexy thriller, Tara (Jaimie Alexander, TV’s “Blindspot”) finds her life unraveling after hooking up with bartender Patrick (Wes Bentley, The Hunger Games) during her bachelorette party in New Orleans. Patrick becomes obsessed with Tara, not knowing she’s about to marry Michael (Cam Gigandet, The Twilight Saga franchise), and tracks her down to her quiet California home. As Patrick’s obsession turns violent, Tara stands to not only lose her marriage and her loved ones, but also her life.

CAST

Wes Bentley TV’s “American Horror Story: Hotel,” The Hunger Games

Jaimie Alexander TV’s “Blindspot,” Thor

Cam Gigandet Easy A, The Twilight Saga Franchise

Astrid Bryan TV’s “The Bold and the Beautiful”

Alexandra Breckenridge TV’s “The Walking Dead”

and Alex Ladove Life of Crime

Check Out the Newest Featurette for Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE

Marvel’s DOCTOR STRANGE opens November 4th and this new 2-minute featurette they’ve just released looks at some crazy, trippy visuals in the film and some hints about the main character’s back story. DOCTOR STRANGE is about a surgeon, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who becomes a mystical superhero following a car accident and a spiritual sojourn to Nepal.

In celebration of today’s global IMAX 3D Sneak Peek of Marvel Studio’s “Doctor Strange,” we’d like to share this special look at the “Universes Within.”

DOCTOR STRANGE which Scott Derrickson co-wrote with frequent collaborator C. Robert Cargill (Sinister), co-stars Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Mordo, Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One, Michael Stuhlbarg as Nicodemus West, Benedict Wong as Wong, and Mads Mikkelsen plays the story’s villain Kaecililius.

GONE WITH THE WIND Screens October 12th at The Tivoli – ‘Classics in the Loop’

“As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again.”

GONE WITH THE WIND screens Wednesday October 12th at The Tivoli Theater (6350 Delmar in ‘The Loop’) as part of their new ‘Classics in the Loop’ film series. The movie starts at 7pm and admission is $7. It will be on The Tivoli’s big screen.

Watching Scarlett O’Hara transition from a very pampered, spoiled, whiny, self-centered plantation belle to a woman of great spirit and strength in GONE WITH THE WIND is remarkable. GONE WITH THE WIND is a soaper set against the most splendid of backdrops; the civil war. Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable are still the most memorable couple in cinematic history and their romantic scenes are still wonderful to watch. David O. Selznick’s crowning achievement as a producer and Victor Fleming’s best film as a director. The technicolor is still some of the richest and most powerful of film history. This blew audiences and critics away in 1939 and it does not fail to enthrall even today. it actually only improves with age. Unfortunately, many of the post-baby boom generation visiting this site have not had a chance to see, or be impressed by the 1939 classic GONE WITH THE WIND. The Tivoli is offering this chance to see it on the big screen and I hope everyone take advantage of this opportunity.

Here’s the rest of the line-up for the ‘CLASSICS IN THE LOOP’ film series:

Oct. 19 SEVEN SAMURAI

Oct. 26 DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

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