Talbot Cinema Society
2011 - 2012 Season

 

Located on Maryland's Eastern Shore the Talbot Cinema Society is a club of film lovers who are dedicated to promoting and enriching our community's understanding and appreciation of  classic films

We’re following a new format this year, designed to combine variety with a chance to “drill down” into the careers of an A-list actor and an A-list director.  This year we’re spotlighting actress Katharine Hepburn and director Elia Kazan.  In addition, the 2011-2012 slate will include one foreign film, and one documentary.  We’ll kick off the season with the first movie ever (and one of only three to date) to win all five major Academy Awards.

SEASON SCHEDULE        

  Sept 11 It Happened One Night (Free Show!!!) 1934 105 min
  Oct 2 Stage Door 1937 92 min
  Nov 6 Woman of the Year 1942 114 min
  Dec 11 The African Queen 1951 105 min
  Jan 8 Empire of the Air:  The Men Who Made Radio (Documentary Night) 1991 100 min
  Feb 12 Boomerang 1947 88 min
  Mar 4 Pinky 1949 102 min
  Apr 1 A Face in the Crowd 1957 125 min
  May 6 The Tin Drum (Foreign Language Night) 1979 142 min

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SHOW FORMAT
  All movies are shown at the Avalon Theater in Easton, Maryland  
  5:15 PM - Doors open and food served  
  5:45 PM - Film introduction  
  6:00 PM - Film starts  
  Followed by questions, answers, and discussions  

MEMBERSHIP
  Talbot Cinema Society membership is by subscription only.  All memberships include season tickets and limited guest passes.  Tickets NOT sold at the door!
    Single - $45  
    Couple - $90  
       

CONTACT
  Phone: (410)-924-5752  
  Phone: (410)-822-0345 - Avalon Theater  
  Email piratepete@goeaston.net  
  Mail P.O. Box 222, Easton, MD  21601  
 

MOVIE DETAILS

  
  It Happened One Night.  1934.  Romantic Comedy.  A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story. But then he falls for her.  5 Oscars:  Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay.  Introduced by Bill Gordean.  This is our annual gift to the community:  everyone will be admitted free.  So bring your friends.  If you don’t like this movie, bring your enemies.  
       
   Stage Door.  1937.  Comedy-Drama.  Life and love in a boardinghouse full of aspiring actresses, each with her own ambitions, dreams and disappointments. Starring Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou and Eve Arden and Lucille Ball long before they became Our Miss Brooks and Lucy.  4 Oscar nominations.  Introduced by Lynne Horvath  
       
  Woman of the Year.  1942.  Romantic Comedy.  The first of nine movies that teamed Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.  Two rival reporters, sportswriter Sam Craig (Tracy) and feminist Tess Harding (Oscar nominee Hepburn) fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle.  Introduced by Steve Clyburn..  
       
  The African Queen.  1951.  Romantic Adventure.  In Africa during WW I, a gin-swilling riverboat captain (Oscar winner Humphrey Bogart) is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary (Oscar nominee Hepburn) to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.  Oscar nomination for director John Huston.  Introduced by Bill U’ren..  
       
 

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio.  1991.  Emmy-nominated documentary.  Like a juicy page-turner, Ken Burns's two-hour documentary on the history of radio is packed with tantalizing ingredients: power, greed, broken friendships, narcissistic heroes, and tragic players.  Introduced by Peter Howell.

  
       
  Boomerang!  1947.  Film Noir.  The true story of a prosecutor (Dana Andrews) who fights to prove the innocence of a man (Arthur Kennedy) accused of a notorious murder.  Directed by Elia Kazan.  Introduced by Tom Hughes  
       
  Pinky.  1949.  Drama.  Pinky (Jeanne Crain), a light-skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's (Ethel Waters) house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school, where she “passed” for white.  3 Oscar nominations.  Directed by Elia Kazan.  Introduced by Liz Koprowski  
       
  A Face in the Crowd.  1957.  An Arkansas hobo (Andy Griffith) becomes an overnight media sensation. But as he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?  Written by Budd Schulberg.  Directed by Elia Kazan.  
       
  The Tin Drum.  1979.  Wartime Drama.  Oskar Matzerath, growing up in Danzig, Poland, in the 1920s and ‘30s, is a most unusual boy.  Equipped with an adult intellect at birth, he decides on his third birthday not to grow up in the crazy world he sees around him. His tin drum symbolizes his protest.  Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Directed by Volker Schlondorff.   Introduced by Nina Wahl.  
       
   

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