Meet the Authors
The Cinema Arts Centre presents a new film series
celebrating the work of Authors, Biographers and Film Historians
Directed by ORSON WELLES
Starring RITA HAYWORTH & ORSON WELLES
Friday, December 4 @ 7:30pm
In Person: CHRIS WELLES FEDER
Author and Daughter of ORSON WELLES
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.
After saving beautiful Elsa (Rita Hayworth), rogue seaman Michael O'Hara (Orson Welles) is offered to serve on the yacht owned by Elsa's husband, an older man who needs crutches to walk. A fiery passion burns beneath their relationship (in fact, Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles were married at the time) . Enter George Grisby, a man with an offer that lures O’Hara into a web of lies and murder. The Lady From Shanghai is a film noir classic that draws the viewer in and never lets go. The characters are rich and fascinating, and the tension runs high and hot as the truth is painfully revealed. USA, 1948, 87min.
About the author: Chris Welles Feder is a renowned educator and author. Her memoir, In My Father’s Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles is an intimate and revealing portrait of her father, the celebrated actor and film director behind Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil, told with affection and the wide-eyed wonder of a loving daughter.
 
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BONNIE & CLYDE
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards
Including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress & Best Director
Thursday, December 10 @ 7:30pm
Guest Speaker: PAUL SCHNEIDER, author of
Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend
Starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman & Gene Wilder
It’s the Great Depression and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) is bored and wants a change. She gets her chance when she meets a charming young drifter by the name of Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty). The two fall in love and begin a crime spree that extends from Oklahoma to Texas, robbing banks with such skill and panache that they become minor celebrities. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Also starring Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons and Gene Wilder. Directed by Arthur Penn. USA, 1967, 112 min.
About the author: Based on declassified FBI documents, extensive archival research, and interviews, Paul Schneider’s Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend tells the flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across Depression-era America. Mr. Schneider’s other books include Brutal Journey and The Adirondacks, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book.
Click HERE for the author Paul Schneider's official website.
Click HERE to listen to an interview with author Paul Schneider on NPR.
Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend will be available for purchase at the event.
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SPECIAL MATINEE!
Sunday, December 13 @ 2pm
Guest Speaker: JOHN ORTVED, author of
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History
The Simpsons is one of the most successful shows to ever run on television. From its first moment on air, the series’ rich characters, subversive themes, and layered humor resounded deeply with audiences both young and old. After 18 seasons, creators Matt Groening, James L. Brooks, and Co. brought the Emmy award winning show to the big screen, packed with even more of what we have all come to love and admire about the longest- running prime-time show on television. USA, 2007, 87 min.
About the author: John Ortved's The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History is the first-ever look behind the scenes at the creation and day-to-day running of The Simpsons, as told by the writers, animators, producers, and network executives themselves. Like the family it depicts, the story is full of humor, ambition, betrayal, love and dysfunction.
Click HERE for the publisher's website.
The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History will be available for purchase at the event.
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Elizabeth Taylor Paul Newman
CAT ON A
HOT TIN ROOF
Nominated for 6 Academy Awards
Including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress & Best Director 
Tuesday, December 15 @ 7:30pm
Guest Speaker: Best-selling author WILLIAM J. MANN
How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
The definitive film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's breathtaking play about a crazed southern family torn apart by greed. Larger-than-life patriarch Big Daddy lays dying, and the members of his brood clamor for the inheritance. Paul Newman is Brick, the alcoholic son struggling in the shadow of his powerful father, and Elizabeth Taylor is Maggie, Brick's lingerie-clad temptress of a wife who will do anything for the love of her cold husband. Tensions mount as the family is forced together under one roof, where secrets are revealed and relationships are lost and found. Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman's performances are iconic; the heat and hatred between them ignites the screen, fueled by Tennessee Williams's insightful and brilliant dialogue. USA, 1958, 108 min.
About the author: William J. Mann’s best-selling biography of Katharine Hepburn, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, received extraordinary acclaim when it was published in 2006. Historian David Thomson, writing for the New York Observer, said the book “set new standards in movie biography” and The New York Times named Kate one of the 100 Notable Books of 2006. His first biography, Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, told the story of the early Hollywood icon and interior decorator to the stars, and won the Lambda Literary Award for 1999. It has recently been optioned as a feature film.
Praise for How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
“Mann, who wrote the provocative bio Kate (as in Hepburn), pulls back the curtain on another glamorous big-screen legend.” ?Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today
“Reading this life is like gorging on a chocolate sundae.”
—Publishers Weekly
"A dazzling and sagacious red-carpet Technicolor guide book to the lost art of
Stardom... essential reading for aspiring love goddesses and mere mortals alike"
—Lee Server, author of the bestselling Ava Gardener: Love is Nothing
"William J. Mann's portrait is meticulous and delicious, capturing the essence of a great movie star, a woman who epitomized the old Hollywood glamour even as she was buckingthe system—every system! Through shrewd and intriguing detail, this lively book brings fresh insight into why and how Elizabeth Taylor mesmerized the world she was helping to change." —Julie Salamon, author of The Devil's Candy and Hospital
How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood will be available for purchase at the event.
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THE WIZARD OF OZ
In Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Timeless Classic
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SPECIAL MATINEE!
Sunday, January 10 @ 2pm
Special Guests:
JANE LAHR, Daughter of actor BURT LAHR (Cowardly Lion);
Author and 'OZ' Expert, JOHN FRICKE
The Wizard of Oz: An Illustrated Companion
to the Timeless Movie Classic
Hosted by KATHLEEN CARROLL
former Chief Film Critic for The New York Daily News
Farmgirl Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) lives on a Kansas farm with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, but dreams of a better place "somewhere over the rainbow." After being struck unconscious during a tornado, Dorothy finds that she, her dog Toto and the farmhouse are transported to the magical Land of Oz. There, the Good Witch of the North, Glinda, advises Dorothy to follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and meet the Wizard of Oz. During her journey, she meets a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), a Tin Man (Jack Haley) and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), who join her, hoping to receive what they lack themselves (a brain, a heart and courage). All of this is done while also trying to avoid the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) and her attempt to get her sister's ruby slippers from Dorothy.
USA, 1958, 108 min.
Authors John Fricke and Jonathan Shirshekan, renowned authorities on all things Oz, have gathered a wealth of rare materials and revealing anecdotes to weave a compelling and comprehensive narrative. The Wizard of Oz: An Illustrated Companion to the Timeless Movie Classic features more than 400 images, including cast and set reference photos, movie stills, behind-the-scenes shots, and such memorabilia as publicity art, production memos, promotional posters, and original illustrations. Mr. Fricke has won two Emmys for his work on Judy Garland: By Myself and the A&E Biography special, Judy: Beyond the Rainbow.
The Wizard of Oz: An Illustrated Companion to the Timeless Movie Classic
will be available for purchase at the event.
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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
In Person: 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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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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