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Dudley House Classic Movies - Fall 2009

“There is really no such things as an “old” movie – just wonderful pictures you may not have discovered yet.” -- Peter Bogdanovich

Friday Evenings On the big-screen TV in the Graduate Student Lounge – all welcome! Contact Susan Zawalich (zawalich@fas.harvard.edu) for more information.

Fly Me to the Moon…And Beyond

In honor of the 40th anniversary this year of human beings first setting foot on our moon we will visit the stars together in September and explore through classic films the challenges human beings might face in confronting the unknown. Popcorn and soft drinks will help us along in our journeys.

September 11 - 6 p.m. The Dish (2000), 101 min. A wonderful film set in a small Australian town where a radio observatory dish is part of NASA's coverage of the first Moon Landing. As it turns out, the work of the staff of the observatory will be the only possible source for TV pictures of the historic event. Will it work? How does the momentous space trip affect everyone who lives near The Dish? A lovely human study and a very entertaining story.
8 p.m. Forbidden Planet (1956), 98 min. An absolutely classic Sci-Fi film of the 1950s. Astronauts find survivors and many mysteries on a distant planet. The first sci-fi film to use an electronic music score…the debut of screen icon Robby the Robot…a reworking of the Shakespeare play, The Tempest….and a rampaging id….this film has it all!

September 25 - 6 p.m. Midnight (2008), 45 min. A classic episode of the new version of the British Sci-Fi Series, Doctor Who. The Doctor is in need of a rest and joins a tour group to visit a vacation planet….then something goes terribly wrong…and an encounter with an alien life force brings forth disturbing facets of human nature.
7 p.m. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 141 min. Stanley Kubrick's amazing version of the Arthur C. Clarke sci-fi classic story. A mysterious black monolith appears on earth, on the moon, and on Jupiter. What does it all mean? And what is wrong with HAL, the super computer?? Things could get very strange….. A must see film for everyone.

Dudley Family Classics

October 2 - 6 p.m. The Wizard of Oz (1939), 101 min. Somewhere Over the Rainbow Dorothy, Toto, The Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion search for the Wizard…and run into witches and other adventures along the way. A beautiful print and no commercials(!) will help to make this a memorable evening for children of all ages.

American Musicals in Paris

October 16 - 6 p.m. Love Me Tonight (1932), 96 min. An early film musical with Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette McDonald…music by Rodgers and Hart…absolutely wonderful..witty, charming, inventive and loads of fun.
7:45 p.m. Funny Face (1957), 103 min. Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Paris settings and fashions, and music by the Gershwins. S'Wonderful.

Spooky Classics

October 30 - 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.Outside of the 3rd Floor Office we'll be running Universal Studio Classics… The Mummy, Dracula, The Wolfman…. all day. Come up and relax with the great monsters of the past and prepare for Halloween tomorrow.

Classic American Genres of the 1950s

November 13 - 6 p.m. Sci-Fi: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), 81 min. An atomic radiation cloud has a strange effect on a young man…he keeps getting smaller and smaller and the cat and spider keep getting larger…a really stunning movie treat.
7:45 p.m. Melodrama: Written on the Wind (1956), 99 min. Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, and Robert Stack play out their story in lurid Technicolor, with fervid music and flaming nostrils….the rhumba of death scene is one of the classics in this powerful portrayal of 1950s social and sexual angst.

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