Readings on Cinema

6/4/04 to 6/25/04

  • Alice in Wonderland|June 25|

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  • One-Eyed Jacks

    Friday, June 4 7:30pm
    Introduction and Booksigning by Barry Gifford. Local novelist, critic, and screenwriter Gifford reconsiders Marlon Brando's first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. "Mean, moody, and magnificent."-Time Out
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  • Band of Outsiders

    Friday, June 18 7:30pm
    Introduction and Booksigning by Craig Seligman. Seligman, author of Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me, discusses the two great critics and their divergent approaches to Godard. With a screening of Band of Outsiders: "This Godard film is like a reverie of a gangster movie."-Pauline Kael
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  • Alice in Wonderland

    Friday, June 25 7:30pm
    Lecture and Booksigning by John Canemaker. Animator and animation historian Canemaker presents an illustrated lecture on the life and career of Mary Blair, the designer and colorist who gave Disney's Alice in Wonderland its distinctively delightful look. The complete Alice is shown following the lecture.
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