Art Deco Weekend 2010-FIlm Series
Friday, January 15th
All films screened in the Ocean Auditorium
1001 Ocean Drive
Admission is free
5:00 p.m. Road to Rio-
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, 1947, 100 mins
The maddest merriest Bob Hope “road” picture of them all.
Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton (Bing Crosby and Bob Hope), two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They befriend Lucia (Dorothy Lamour) and the antics begin. Though she unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain, the boys help her to extricate herself from an impending marriage of convenience. When the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony in order to stop the wedding and to help catch the crooks.
7:00 p.m. O Brother, Where Art Thou
Directed by Joel Coen, 2000, 1hr 43 mins.
Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie follows with the adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill (George Clooney) and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930's Mississippi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everett's home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George 'Babyface' Nelson, scheming politicians, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find."
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Sunday, January 17th
All films screened in the Ocean Auditorium
1001 Ocean Drive
Admission is free
2:00 p.m. Paper Moon
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich, 1973, 1hr 54 min
Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) is a happy-go-lucky con man traveling throughout the Midwest during the Great Depression, conning widows into buying Bibles. Stopping in a small town for a friend's funeral, he is persuaded to deliver the deceased's precocious 10-year-old daughter, Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal), to her aunt's home. The resemblance between Moses and Addie--who never knew her father--is uncanny, and the two are soon acting like father and daughter as they travel the back roads of heartland America. Moses is delighted to find that Addie is a boon to business, catching on quickly and adding her own twists to his favorite cons. Madeline Kahn stars as Trixie Delight, a lady friend Moses meets along the way. Bogdanovich convincingly recreates the feel and look of the 1930s with his nostalgic look at life on the open road. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Screenplay; both Kahn and the 11-year-old O'Neal were nominated for Best Supporting Actress, which O'Neal won.
4:30 p.m. It Happened One Night
Directed by Frank Capra, 1934, 3 hrs 35 mins.
The escapist theme of the film, appropriate during the Depression Era, is the unlikely romantic pairing of a mis-matched couple - a gruff and indifferent, newspaper man (Clark Gable) and a snobbish heiress (Claudette Colbert) - a runaway on the lam. It is a tale with light-hearted sex appeal in which courtship and love triumph over class conflicts, socio-economic differences, and verbal battles of wit. Considered one of the pioneering "screwball" romantic comedies of its time, the madcap film from Columbia Studios was an unexpected runaway hit, winning all five of its nominated categories: Best Picture, Best Actor (Clark Gable), Best Actress (Claudette Colbert), Best Director (Frank Capra), and Best Adaptation (Robert Riskin).
