June 20, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Magnolia at the Modern Presents
Still Moving: Classic Films from MoMA
August 14–17 and 21–24

Schedules and ticket information are available at www.themodern.org. Tickets are $8.50; $6.50 for Modern members. Advance sales begin two hours prior to each show. Guest speakers and special events will be announced at a later date. For more information contact: auditoriumprograms@themodern.org.

The Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art in New York was founded in 1935 with the simple, yet broad mandate to acquire and exhibit motion pictures, “the only great art form,” according to MoMA founder Alfred Barr, “peculiar to the twentieth century.” This program is drawn from MoMA’s permanent film collections, now numbering more than 21,000 titles, and is based on its own ongoing series, Still Moving, presented weekly in the Museum's theaters. The series is organized by Steven Higgins, Curator of Film at MoMA and author of the recently published survey Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art. All films are 35/mm restored/preserved prints. Guest speakers and special events to be announced at later date.

Special thanks to Steven Higgins and Mary Keene.

Film Schedule

Thursday, August 14; 7 pm
Street Angel
1928; USA; 102 minutes
Directed by Frank Borzage. Screenplay by Marion Orth. With Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston. Restored with funding from the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, from original material in MoMA’s Fox Collection.

Janet Gaynor won the 1929 Academy Award for her portrayal of the “good girl forced to go bad” in this beautifully photographed late-silent melodrama.

Friday, August 15; 6 pm
The Iron Mask
1929; USA; 96 minutes
Directed by Allan Dwan. Screenplay by Elton Thomas (pseud. of Douglas Fairbanks), Based on the fiction of Alexandre Dumas. With Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite de la Motte, Nigel de Brulier, Belle Bennett. Preserved with funds from Celeste Bartos, from original materials donated to MoMA by Douglas Fairbanks.

Douglas Fairbanks stars as the swashbuckling Musketeer, D’Artagnon, in this exciting silent film adaptation of the Alexander Dumas classic novel.

Friday, August 15; 8 pm
The Big Trail (widescreen Grandeur version)
1930; USA; 122 minutes
Directed by Raoul Walsh. Screenplay by Jack Peabody, Marie Boyle, Florence Postal. With John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall. Restored with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Fund, and The Film Foundation, from original materials in MoMA’s Fox Collection.

A 23-year-old John Wayne delivers his first starring performance as a wagon train scout leading pioneers through perilous territory to Oregon; but the real star of this early classic, all shot on location in Grandeur widescreen, is the stunning landscape of the American West.

Saturday, August 16; 4 pm
Moana
1926; USA; 63 minutes
Produced and directed by Robert Flaherty. Screenplay by Robert Flaherty and Julian Johnson. Restored with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation/National Endowment for the Arts Millenium Grant, with additional funds from The Film Foundation/Hollywood Foreign Press Association, from the filmmaker’s personal print.

Attempting to repeat the success of his earlier project, Nanook of the North, Paramount Pictures sent Robert Flaherty to Samoa to capture the traditional life of the Pacific islanders. While lush and exotically beautiful, this virtual paradise didn’t provide much in the way of dramatic tension and the resulting film, the first “docufiction” was an artistic milestone but a commercial failure.

Saturday, August 16; 5:30 pm
The Love Parade
1932; USA; 109 minutes
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Screenplay by Ernest Vajda and Guy Bolton. With Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth. Preserved with funds from Celeste Bartos, from original materials acquired from Paramount Pictures.

Jeanette MacDonald made her screen debut in this charming and sophisticated musical comedy (Ernst Lubitsch’s first “talkie”) about the antics of a newly wedded royal couple.

Sunday, August 17; 2 pm
His Girl Friday
1940; USA; 92 minutes
Directed by Howard Hawks. Screenplay by Charles Lederer, based on The Front Page, the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. With Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy. Restored by Sony Pictures Entertainment and donated to MoMA’s permanent film collection in honor of Mary Lea Bandy, Chief Curator Emerita of Film.

Based on the Broadway play, The Front Page, Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell star in Howard Hawk’s wacky satire about a newspaper editor who uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

Sunday, August 17; 4 pm
Brute Force
1947; USA; 98 minutes
Directed by Jules Dassin. Screenplay by Richard Brooks, based on a story by Robert Patterson. With Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford. Restored with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, from original materials in MoMA’s Turner Collection.

Starring Burt Lancaster, this brutally violent prison movie was directed by Jules Dassin (Riffi) famous for his visually innovative “noirs”—black and white movies that reflected the cynicism of an idealistic America disillusioned by the cruel realities of World War II.

Thursday, August 21; 7 pm
The Boy with Green Hair
1948; USA; 82 minutes
Directed by Joseph Losey. Screenplay by Ben Barzman and Alfred Lewis Levitt, from the short story by Betsy Beaton. With Dean Stockwell, Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale. Restored with funding from The Film Foundation/Hollywood Foreign Press Association, from original materials in MoMA’s Turner Collection.

When his parents die in the London Blitz, an orphaned boy’s hair suddenly turns green in this parable about bigotry, fascism and the innocent victims of war.

Friday, August 22; 6 pm
Alice in Wonderland
1948; Great Britain/France; 96 minutes
Directed by Lou Bunin and Dallas Bower. Screenplay by Henry Myers, Albert Lewin, Edward Eliscu. With Carol Marsh, Stephen Murray, Pamela Brown. Restored with funding from the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Fund, from original materials donated to MoMA by Lou Bunin.

Friday, August 22; 8 pm
The Set-Up
1949; USA; 73 minutes
Directed by Robert Wise. Screenplay by Art Cohn. With Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Wallace Ford. Preserved with funds from the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Fund, from original elements in MoMA’s Turner Collection.

Shot in what appears to be “real time,” director Robert Wise’s powerful film-noir exposes the corruption of the boxing underworld and vilifies the mobsters who control it.

Saturday, August 23; 2 pm
The Steel Helmet
1951; USA; 84 minutes

Written and directed by Samuel Fuller. With Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards. Preserved with funds from Celeste Bartos.

Enjoying his first box-office success, writer and director Samuel Fuller drew from his own first hand experiences to create this gritty and powerful war film, the first film to focus on combat during the Korean War.

Saturday, August 23; 5 pm
On the Waterfront
1954; USA; 108 minutes
Directed by Elia Kazan. Screenplay by Budd Schulberg. With Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden. Restored through the Sony Pictures Entertainment/Columbia Pictures preservation program. Winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director this American classic film focuses on the corruption among the longshoremen and is a “contendah” for greatest American film of all time.

Sunday, August 24; 2 pm
Salt of the Earth
1954; USA; 92 minutes
Directed by Herbert J. Biberman. Screenplay by Michael Wilson. With Juan Chacon, Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer. Restored with funding from the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation fund, from original materials donated to MoMA by the film’s producer, Paul Jarrico.

Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico, this powerful film explores the prejudice against the Mexican-American workers, who struck to attain wage parity with Anglo workers. Salt of the Earth was written, directed and produced by members of the original “Hollywood Ten,” who were blacklisted for refusing to answer Congressional inquiries on First Amendment grounds.

Sunday, August 24; 4 pm
It Should Happen to You
1954; USA; 87 minutes
Directed by George Cukor. Screenplay by Garson Kanin. With Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford. Restored through the Sony Pictures Entertainment/Columbia Pictures preservation program. Judy Holliday stars as a “girdle model” who dreams of fame and fortune and Jack Lemmon co-stars (in his first film role) as the documentary filmmaker who woos her.

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