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    Party Girl (1958)

    Party Girl (1958)

    Presented by Belcourt Theatre at Belcourt Theatre

    December 3-December 4, 2011

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    As the fall turns to winter, we bring the films of the great director and Wisconsin native Nicholas Ray (1911-1979) with a particular focus on his work in the 1950s, his most productive decade. Fearlessly crossing genres from picture to picture, Ray’s work of this period expressed a common theme of humankind’s malcontent with his surroundings (particularly that of teenagers) emboldened by expressionist photography and often a tumultuous rise to a crashing resolve. A maverick long before the cheapening of the word, Nicolas Ray’s defiant (some say narcissistic) work ethic often pitted him against his studio heads yet produced some of the most electric work of the time.

     

    PARTY GIRL (1958)

    Ray’s Technicolor noir set in Prohibition-era Chicago features a limping Robert Taylor, a crooked lawyer who falls for self-loathing “party girl” Cyd Charisse. Critic and one-time Belcourt guest Jonathan Rosenbaum really puts it best when he calls PARTY GIRL “one of (Ray’s) most affecting love stories. A flamboyant poem in delirious color and 'Scope that is treated with a mixture of violence and lyricism unique to Ray. Taylor and Charisse have never been better, and rarely has Ray's theme of two flawed individuals trying to strike a symmetrical balance achieved a more beautiful and convulsive expression.” 1958, NR, 99min, 35mm

     


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        Belcourt Theatre

        2102 Belcourt Avenue
        Nashville, TN 37212

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        Tickets:

        Adult - $8.75
        Adult Matinee - $7.25


        Student - $7.25
        Student Matinee - $6.75


        Military - $7.25
        Military Matinee - $6.75


        Senior - $6.25
        Child - $7.25

        Info Phone: (615) 383-9140

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        December 3-December 4, 2011

        Times:

        Saturday 12:00pm


        Sunday 7:30pm

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