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Film Classics in 35mm!
Unfinished Business / Parting Glances
Phil Skerry introduces
USA, 1947, Preston Sturges
Opening with an extended clip from Lloyd’s 1925 classic The Freshman and climaxing in a thrill sequence that evokes his 1925 Safety Last, the film focuses on a bored bookkeeper 20 years removed from his go-getting college days. When he loses his dead-end job and has his first-ever drink, he goes blotto—waking from his stupor to discover that he’s not only rich and a flamboyant dresser but also the owner of a bankrupt circus! A flop when first released (and also when reissued four years later as Mad Wednesday, shorn of 15 minutes and saddled with a re-shot ending), the movie will be shown here in Sturges’ original cut. Philip J. Skerry, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at Lakeland Community College and author of numerous film books (and a big fan of the film), will introduce it. 35mm. 89 min. Special admission $14; members, CIA/CSU I.D. holders, age 25 & under $11; no passes. 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. (Source: ohio.org)
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Unfinished Business / Parting Glances
Phil Skerry introduces
USA, 1947, Preston Sturges
Opening with an extended clip from Lloyd’s 1925 classic The Freshman and climaxing in a thrill sequence that evokes his 1925 Safety Last, the film focuses on a bored bookkeeper 20 years removed from his go-getting college days. When he loses his dead-end job and has his first-ever drink, he goes blotto—waking from his stupor to discover that he’s not only rich and a flamboyant dresser but also the owner of a bankrupt circus! A flop when first released (and also when reissued four years later as Mad Wednesday, shorn of 15 minutes and saddled with a re-shot ending), the movie will be shown here in Sturges’ original cut. Philip J. Skerry, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at Lakeland Community College and author of numerous film books (and a big fan of the film), will introduce it. 35mm. 89 min. Special admission $14; members, CIA/CSU I.D. holders, age 25 & under $11; no passes. 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. (Source: ohio.org)