Film Notes:
Julia
Saturday, July 28 & Sunday, July 29, 2012 | More info & showtimes JANE FONDA (from My Life So Far): JULIA takes place in the 1930s during the rise of Nazism in Europe and is the story of the relationship between [author Lillian Hellman] and her childhood friend Julia. Julia goes off to Vienna and [...]
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
Starts Friday, July 27, 2012 | More info & showtimes DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT: Someone’s ability to bake doughnuts or laugh loud is just as good a reason to make them a dolly grip as their ability to push a dolly. I want to fill my life and my films with wild, brave, good-hearted people. Whatever amount [...]
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Sullivan’s Travels
July 27, 30, 31, August 1, 2, 2012 | More info & showtimes Preston Sturges once said that his motivation for writing SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS was that he felt his contemporary filmmakers were getting too preachy for their own good. To take the air out, he invented the character of John L. Sullivan, a comedic director yearning to make a serious [...]
Nine to Five:
Good looks
Since we opened the Ruth Sokolof Theater five years ago, some key people have been working behind the scenes to make us look pretty dang good. Early on, the brilliant gentlemen at Oxide Design committed themselves to helping Film Streams get off the ground visually. Over the past several years, they contributed their many talents [...]
Film Notes:
Klute
Friday, July 20 – Thursday, July 26, 2012 | More info & showtimes JANE FONDA (from My Life So Far): Even now, when I watch KLUTE I admire everything about it. In these times of mega-special effects, when we’ve grown almost numb to what we used to find terrifying, Michael Small’s ominous music track is [...]
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12 Angry Men
Saturday, July 21 – Sunday, July 22, 2012 | More info & showtimes JANE FONDA (on 12 Angry Men and The Grapes of Wrath): “They instilled in me my father’s values and made me care about the underdogs of the world and showed me that films can make a difference.”
Nine to Five:
Our Feature Presentation(s)
It’s a stroke of serendipity that our fifth anniversary comes within a week of Feature IV, this Sunday’s celebration supporting the Ruth Sokolof Theater. As we get ready to welcome Jane Fonda to Omaha this weekend(!!), we also take a look back at our three previous Feature events. Before we do, a very, very special thanks to [...]
Film Notes:
Union Pacific
Friday, July 13 – Thursday, July 19, 2012 | More info & showtimes From Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille by Scott Eyman: For UNION PACIFIC, DeMille felt he needed someone new and unusual to illuminate the dramatics, so on September 13, 1938, he offered the female lead to a young [...]
Film Notes:
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Friday, July 13 – Thursday, July 19, 2012 | More info & showtimes ROGER EBERT (from They Shot Horses, Didn’t They) Erase the forced smiles from the desperate faces, and what the dance marathons of the 1930s came down to was fairly simple. A roomful of human beings went around and around within four walls [...]
Kurt Andersen Presents Dr. No
We’re incredibly pleased to announce a special event next month (Friday, August 17, 7pm) celebrating the publication of True Believers, the acclaimed new novel by best-selling author, Studio 360 host, and brilliant Film Streams board member Kurt Andersen. Hailed by Vanity Fair as “a great American novel” and on sale starting today, True Believers is a [...]
