ALL SEATS $12.00īanned by the German government in its day, GREAT FREEDOM NO. HEIGHTS 2023 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA GROSSE FREIHEIT NR. A star beyond compare, she would act for only 12 more years before retiring to France. Durbin's emotional range is remarkable - only 16 at the time, she carries the picture with her wit and charm, her anger and frustration, her tears and her incredible voice. When Patsy finds out the truth, she's far from disappointed - instead, she cooks up a plan to land work for these 100 musicians and is determined to convince Stokowski to take them on. John lies to Patsy that he's got a job with top conductor Leopold Stokowski (who plays himself). Durbin plays Patsy, the daughter of the down-and-out trombone player, John Cardwell (Adolphe Menjou). 100 MEN AND A GIRL, unavailable until now, is a delightful, charming and moving film that should be at the top of your moviegoing list for the year. This is a crying shame, because Heights' audiences have been utterly charmed whenever we've screened her movies. ALL SEATS $12.00ĭeanna Durbin was once America's sweetheart, the girl who literally saved Universal Pictures from bankruptcy, and whose movies are now all but forgotten. HEIGHTS 2023 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA 100 MEN AND A GIRL Nov. Condon is a pianist, percussionist, teacher, and composer based in Minneapolis, whose score for 'The Fire Brigade' stunned Heights audiences in 2022. The Heights is proud to screen DANS LA NUIT'S Midwest premiere.įeaturing live accompaniment by Katie Condon.

Released to incredible acclaim in France, its timing was awful - it came out a year after sound films were launched, and it vanished from public view, remaining Vanel's only directing credit. Charles Vanel, who was famous as a French actor (Diabolique, The Wages of Fear), wrote, directed and starred in this wondrous masterpiece, lost to time. This simple summary can only fail to capture the utter majesty of this gorgeous production, which was hailed as a masterpiece by French filmmakers Jean Cocteau and Jean Renoir. But when a mining accident leaves the husband with a grotesque facial deformity (hidden under a silver mask), he rejects her, and the lonely woman falls in love with another.

They are deeply in love, and set up house, barely able to separate from one another to work. In a small, French mining town, a young couple is married, to the delight of friends and family. HEIGHTS 2023 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA Dans la nuit (IN THE NIGHT) Sept.

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