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Weekend Classics at the Belcourt Theatre: November features Elia Kazan

Presented by Belcourt Theatre at Belcourt Theatre

November 7-November 30, 2009

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Weekend Classics is a continuing weekly series of classic film projected in 35mm as they were intended to be seen. Showtimes are usually Saturday-Sunday at noon and Monday at 7:00pm, though sometimes screenings are added, altered or removed pending first-run schedule.

As legendary for the movies he directed as for his role in the real-life drama of the communist witch-hunts, Elia Kazan earned a storied place in Hollywood history. Born in 1909 in Istanbul, Kazan began his career in the 1940s on the New York stage, where he directed the stage version of "A Streetcar Named Desire”. He would go on to direct 21 feature films, winning three Oscars, five Tonys, four Golden Globes and numerous awards along the way.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, November 7-9
After losing the family plantation to creditors, aging Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) travels to New Orleans seeking solace in her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter). Instead, she goes toe-to-toe with Stella's brute of a husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando). Leigh, Hunter and Karl Malden all took home Oscars for their work in this sizzling adaptation of Tennessee Williams's classic rumination on carnal attraction and faded gentility. Dir. Elia Kazan, USA, 1951, 125 min, 35mm

PANIC IN THE STREETS, November 14-16
A medical official races against time to stop a deadly epidemic from spreading across the United States in this taut drama. Lt. Cmdr. Dr. Clinton Reed (Richard Widmark) frantically scours New Orleans to locate two murderers (Jack Palance and Zero Mostel) infected with a deadly plague. Reed must inoculate the criminals and anyone with whom they've come into contact, without causing widespread pandemonium. Dir. Elia Kazan, USA, 1950, 96 min, 35mm

ON THE WATERFRONT, November 21-23
Winner of eight Oscars Kazan's classic morality tale stars Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, a has-been boxer who experiences a crisis of conscience while working for mobbed-up union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb). Terry turns a blind eye when Friendly's thugs kill a fellow dockworker to keep him from testifying in a corruption case, but he has second thoughts when the victim's sister (Eva Marie Saint) urges him to take a stand. Dir. Elia Kazan, USA, 1955, 108 min, 35mm

EAST OF EDEN, November 21-23
Set in California's Salinas Valley, Elia Kazan's adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel centers on Cal Trask (James Dean), the black sheep son of a stern farmer (Raymond Massey). Tired of being compared to his perfect brother, troublemaker Cal tries in vain to please his father. The two finally face off when Cal confronts his dad with the truth about his allegedly dead mother. Julie Harris, Jo Van Fleet and Burl Ives co-star.
Dir. Elia Kazan, USA, 1955, 108 min, 35mm