For Immediate Release: February 2, 2011
Media Contact: Marketing and Communication Department
Hollywood Modern: Film Design of the 1930s
National Building Museum and American Film Institute to co-present classic film series
WHO/WHAT
The National Building Museum is proud to partner with the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center (AFI) in presenting a film series associated with the Museum’s exhibition Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s. The film series, Hollywood Modern: Film Design of the 1930s,
is a month-long festival highlighting the eclectic—and occasionally
over the top—modernist set designs seen in ten classic films of the era.
Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday and National Building Museum curator Deborah Sorensen will introduce the Hollywood Modern series before the screening of Grand Hotel
on February 5. This kick-off discussion will focus on how, at a time of
great economic difficulty, Hollywood provided moviegoers with glamorous
fantasies of modern living filled with fashion, urban decadence, and
nights on the town.
WHERE
AFI Silver Theatre
8633 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
(Silver Spring Metro, Red Line)
$8.50 AFI and NBM members | $11 General Admission | $9 Seniors (65 and over), students with valid ID, and military personnel | $7 Children (12 and under) | $8.50 Matinee tickets, weekdays before 6:00 p.m. (holidays excluded) | Tickets may be purchased at the box office (opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day) or online at www.afi.com/silver.
WHEN
FILM SERIES:
February 5–March 9, 2011
FILM SCHEDULE:
Saturday, February 5, 12:45 pm
Introduction by Ann Hornaday and Deborah Sorensen
Grand Hotel
(MGM, 1932), 112 minutes
Sunday, February 6, 12:45 pm
Female
(Warner Bros., 1933), 60 minutes
Monday, February 7, 7:20 pm
The Gay Divorcee*
(RKO, 1934), 107 minutes
(additional screening: Wednesday, February 9, 9:00 pm)
Saturday, February 12, 12:45 pm
Trouble in Paradise
(Paramount, 1932), 83 minutes
(additional screening: Thursday, February 17, 7:30 pm)
Sunday, February 13, 1:00 pm
Design for Living
(Paramount, 1933), 91 minutes
(additional screening: Monday, February 14, 9:20 pm)
Saturday, February 19, 2:45 pm
The Women
(MGM, 1939), 133 minutes
Saturday, February 26, 12:30 pm
A Star is Born
(United Artists, 1937), 133 minutes
Saturday, February 26, 5:10 pm
Swing Time*
(RKO, 1936), 103 minutes
(additional
screenings: Friday, February 25, 4:45 pm; Monday, February 28, 4:45 pm;
Tuesday, March 1, 4:45 pm; Wednesday, March 2, 4:45 pm; Thursday, March
3, 4:45 pm)
Sunday, February 27, 1:00 pm
Star of Midnight*
(RKO, 1935), 90 minutes
(additional screening: Monday, February 28, 7:00 pm)
Saturday, March 5, 5:00 pm
Shall We Dance*
(RKO, 1937), 109 minutes
(additional
screenings: Friday, March 4, 4:45 pm; Wednesday, March 9, 6:30 pm,
Wednesday’s screening will be accompanied by an intro and post-screening
discussion by Montgomery College Professor Jon Eig)
*Also part of AFI's Backwards and In High Heels: Ginger Rogers Centennial Retrospective series
CONTACT
Stacy Adamson, sadamson@nbm.org, 202.272.2448, ext. 3458
AFI: Susan Bluttman, sbluttman@afi.com, 240.672.1854
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