SUN Cinema Feb 11: Paul Newman in "Our Town"

The play [filmed live on-stage] is ''Our Town,'' Thornton Wilder's quintessentially American meditation on mortality from 1938. And in the Westport Country Playhouse's rickety production, this is the galvanizing moment for the audience. For the actor who delivers the speech as Wilder's narrator, the avuncular character known as the Stage Manager, is Paul Newman.* And it is lost on no one that this American film icon and emblem of virility is a silver-haired grandfather." Bruce Weber, New York Times

Thursday, Feb. 11, 8:00 at the Sun Cinema. For info, see Biller's Bikes Events.

*Newman nominated for Tony Award (politely declined)

Filmed at the Westport Country Playhouse. SUN Cinema exhibition rights provided by PBS Pictures.

SUN Cinema Jan 28: Alfred Hitchcock's Finest Work "North by Northwest" starring Cary Grant (1959)

NORTH BY  NORTHWEST

Alfred Hitchcock (1959)
 

North by Northwest is a 1959 American suspense film
directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant,
Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring
Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau.

The screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman,  who
wanted to write "the Hitchcock picture to end all
Hitchcock pictures". Presented in vivid Vistavision.


See Biller's Bikes Events for more info. Show starts at 8:00; doors open 7:30.