FilmFest
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Come experience Hollywood’s greatest productions at Skidompha’s year-round film festival!
Every Monday at 5:00 PM – Porter Meeting Hall, Elm St. entrance. A $5 donation will benefit the library. For information regarding changes or cancellation, call 563-5513.
Mar. 22 … An old harridan, owner of a dockside dive, while fighting fiercely for the happiness of a young girl she has raised since an infant, is still caused constant problems by her boyfriend, the boozing captain of a fishing boat. But through violence & heartbreak, nothing can shake the true affection “Min And Bill” (1930) have for each other. A good representative of its era, this early talkie is sparked by the chemistry between stars Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery. Location filming in an actual harbor also helps the movie considerably.
Marie Dressler was a phenomenon, almost a force of nature. Described once as having a face like the back of a bus, she nonetheless was Hollywood’s greatest star the last three years of her life. She earned that position by her innate goodness, a quality that moviegoers could sense in all her roles. Here she gives her Best Actress Oscar winning performance, and she is simply wonderful. Also memorable is Wallace Beery, who had the part of the lovable rogue perfected and patented. Very popular with the fans, he and Dressler created one of the legendary screen couplings, also starring in the masterpiece Tugboat Annie.
Mar. 29 … 1960 Academy Award Winner and winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, Marcel Camus’ “Black Orpheus” (1959) retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its magnificent color photography and lively soundtrack, this film brought the infectious bossa nova beat to the United States. But the true brilliance of Black Orpheus lies in the people who live on the side of the cliffs overlooking the harbor at Rio. It is their energy that prevails. Then there is the color, the costumes, the pounding rhythms, the spectacular vitality of life that is depicted as a carnival of dance and song in which we are driven along as on a wave.
