Meet the Authors
A Celebration of Cinema and Noteworthy Authors
THE FILMS OF
SAM FULLER
A cigar-chomping storyteller who signaled "Action!" by shooting a gun, Samuel Fuller has been lionized as one of the most distinctive writer/directors ever to emerge from Hollywood. In such films as The Steel Helmet, Pickup on South Street, Shock Corridor, and The Big Red One, Fuller gleefully challenged classical and generic norms-and often standards of good taste -in an effort to shock and arouse audiences. Tackling war, crime, race, and sexuality with a candor rare
for any period, Fuller's maverick vision was tested by Hollywood's transition
from the studio system to independent filmmaking.
THE BIG RED ONE
SUNDAY SCHMOOZE - Sunday, February 14
Hot Bagel Brunch at 10am • Film at 11am
Followed by Discussion with CAC Co-Director Vic Skolnick
Members $9 • Public $12 • No Refunds
Includes Discussion, Reception & Book Signing
Tickets can also be purchased at the box office during theatre hours or
by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006. No refunds.
Also Screening February 15 at 7:30pm (Regular Admission)
RESTORED DIRECTOR'S CUT
Starring LEE MARVIN, MARK HAMILL, ROBERT CARRADINE
The Big Red One follows the First Infantry Division from Africa to Europe during the years 1942 through 1945. Lee Marvin portrays the division sergeant; he's tough and experienced, but he takes on his job with cool professionalism rather than Hollywood bravado. Based on Fuller's own war experiences, including an insane asylum under bombardment and a climactic vignette in which a young concentration camp internee dies while a soldier plays piggy-back. USA, 1980, 165 min.
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THE NAKED KISS
 
Thursday, February 18 at 7:30pm
Followed by Discussion, Reception and Book Signing
Guest Speaker: Author LISA DOMBROWSKI
The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I'll Kill You!
Members $9 • Public $12 • No Refunds
Includes Discussion, Reception & Book Signing
Tickets can also be purchased at the box office during theatre hours or
by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006. No refunds.
Kelly (Constance Towers), a prostitute who wants to transform her life, beats up her pimp, and leaves town. Winding up in the small town of Grantville, she turns a trick with Griff, the sheriff. After paying her for sex, Griff tells Kelly that Grantville is a clean town and orders her out. Instead, Kelly becomes a nurse's aide at the local children's hospital. There she meets Grant, who is a benefactor of the hospital. When Kelly tells Grant about her past, he seems to accept her without reservation; however, Kelly soon learns the perverse truth about her fiancée and takes matters into her own hands. USA, 1964, 90 min
Archival print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive
"In the strange universe of American cinema Sam Fuller is a certified bad-ass
- stylistically visceral, thematically contentious, but always brutally honest.
Lisa Dombrowski has written an invaluable and focused portrait of Fuller's work,
deftly placing it in the context of both a shifting studio system and the moral
instability of the world at large."
- Jim Jarmusch, director of Stranger than Paradise, Broken Flowers
Click HERE for the official website of LISA DOMBROWSKI
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Written, Produced & Directed by Sam Fuller
PARK ROW
SUNDAY SCHMOOZE - Sunday, February 28
Hot Bagel Brunch at 10am • Film at 11am
Followed by Discussion with CAC Co-Director Vic Skolnick
Members $9 • Public $12 • No Refunds
Includes Discussion, Reception & Book Signing
Tickets can also be purchased at the box office during theatre hours or
by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006. No refunds.
Also Screening March 1 at 7:30pm (Regular Admission)
RESTORED 35MM PRINT
Sam Fuller’s favorite film and perhaps his most personal, Park Row is set in New York's newspaper district during the 1880s, where a dedicated journalist sets up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts opposition from one of the bigger papers and the heiress who owns it. The newsman perseveres with the help of the first Linotype machine, invented on his premises, and while also giving a hand with getting the Statue of Liberty erected. Produced, written and directed by Sam Fuller, Park Row is a trailblazing film that defined independent cinema before it even had a name.
USA, 1952, 83 min.
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Starring ROBERT MITCHUM & LILLIAN GISH
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Thursday, March 11 at 7:30pm
Followed by Discussion, Reception and Book Signing
Guest Speaker: Author JEFFREY COUCHMAN
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER: A Biography of a Film
Members $9 • Public $12 • No Refunds
Includes Discussion, Reception & Book Signing
Tickets can also be purchased at the box office during theatre hours or
by calling Brown Paper Tickets toll free at 1-800-838-3006. No refunds.
"I see you're looking at my hands," says the black-suited preacher Harry Powell. -- played by cobra-lidded Robert Mitchum -- as he sits in an ice cream parlor in Depression-era West Virginia. His knuckles are tattooed with the words LOVE and HATE. No one ever forgets the Rev. Harry Powell's hands, or the switchblade that he carries in his pocket, or the haunting movie through which he slithers like a serpent: The Night of the Hunter.
The only film ever directed by the great character actor Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty), The Night of the Hunter has come to be recognized as one of American cinema's greatest masterpieces. Shot in glorious black and white by Stanley Cortez (Citizen Kane), this pastoral film noir set along the banks of the serene Ohio River is half-Gothic nightmare, half-morality play. Cahiers du Cinéma ranks it as the second most beautiful film of all time (after Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane and just above Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game). USA, 1955, 92 min.
Archival print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER: Preservation funded by The Film Foundation
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