Mill Valley Cultural Arts Umbrella

By Mark Sober,

Just a friendly last-minute reminder about the first of our election year “specials” (The Candidate” shows in October):

(Hopefully, there’ll be a good discussion after; in response to my Facebook invtation I received a note from a local writer who plans to come because he wants to see if he still hates Mr. Smith…!!)

FILMTALK, Wheeler Auditorium, Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St.

• June 14   10AM - - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

In their second collaboration (after 1938’s You Can?t Take It With You), director Frank Capra and star James Stewart create the character of Jefferson Smith, an altruistic, naïve small-town newspaperman who becomes an erstwhile Senator forced to deal with corruption in politics. The film received an Academy Award (Best Original Story), a New York Film Critics Circle Award (Best Actor), and was placed on the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry in 1989. (USA, 1939, 130 min., b&w)

Links:

• Movie Review Query Engine: http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?Mr.+Smith+Goes+to+Washington
• Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031679/
• Pacific Film Archives: http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cine_film_detail.pl/cine_img?24225
• TCM/AFI Movie Database:http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=3771

Coffee, tea, and sweets provided.

I’ve compiled a list of summer films in the Baltimore area.  To access the list, go to my blog: terminalflicker.blogspot.com

I hope putting all this in one place is helpful. If you have any additions or corrections, please e-mail me, and/or add a comment on my blog.

Please feel free to pass this info along.  Thanks!

For more information, contact: Marc Sober, Humanities Department, The Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St. Baltimore, MD 21201 ph: (410)396-5487, fax: (410)396-1410, e-mail: msober@epfl.net