Whitehall Tavern
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Located on the Emory University campus.
Film Socialisme screening
Tuesday April 19, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Emory Cinematheque French New Waves: Classics and Rediscoveries presents 2010 film Film Socialisme from director Jean-Luc Godard.
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Le Rayon Vert screening
Tuesday April 5, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
A secretary has to decide what to do on her summer vacation when her intended traveling companion goes off with a new boyfriend. Andrew Sarris of the Village Voice chose it as the Best Film of 1986.
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Je t'aime Je t'aime screening
Tuesday March 29, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
A would-be suicide becomes the subject of an experiment in time travel to this seldom seen film by a writer-director who built his career on memory's non-linear transformation of time.
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Umrika Screening
Sunday March 27, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Sundance Film Forward hosts a free screening of Umrika, followed by a discussion with the film's director Prashant Nair and producer Swati Shetty.
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Hiroshima Mon Amour screening
Tuesday March 22, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
An intimate conversation between a French-Japanese couple about how their brief relationship had arrived at its end. An experiment in cinematic non-linearity, Hiroshima mon amour represents a landmark film of the so called Left Bank Cinema
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Francophonie Festival: Conference Is French emerging as the language of business in Africa?
Wednesday March 16, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH A PANEL OF DISTINGUISHED EXPERTSMost countries – Europe, the United States, China - are focused on this tremendous source of economic growth, and neighboring African countries themselves are looking for trade opportunities and market shares in French-speaking regions.
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Cleo from 5 to 7 screening
Tuesday March 15, 2016 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
The hour and a half journey of a pop singer through the streets of Paris' Left Bank, as she awaits the results of her test for cancer.
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Metropolitan Screening
Wednesday March 2, 2016 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Emory University hosts a free screening of the 1990 film, Metropolitan. Whit Stillman, director and screenwriter of the movie, will be in attendance.
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Emory Cinematheque Presents: French New Wave: Classics and Rediscoveries
Tuesday March 1, 2016 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Explore the golden age of New Wave French cinema with this weekly film series.
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Weekend screening
Tuesday March 1, 2016 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
A couple with martial issues take to the French highways on a weekend getaway. Godardian hijinks ensue.
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Made in USA screening
Tuesday February 23, 2016 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Anna Karina plays Paula Nelson, who while investigating the death of her lover encounters a variety of crime narrative types with familiar names like Richard Nixon.
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Out 1, Episodes 5-8 screening
Saturday February 20, 2016 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Shot in 16mm in a mere six weeks, this legendary 13-hour, multi-plotted film evolves from different theatrical troupes rehearsing separate Aeschylus plays into an apparent conspiracy by a secret society to control Paris. This screening represents the rarest of chances to see projected one of cinema'...
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Out 1, Episodes 1-4 screening
Friday February 19, 2016 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Shot in 16mm in a mere six weeks, this legendary 13-hour, multi-plotted film evolves from different theatrical troupes rehearsing separate Aeschylus plays into an apparent conspiracy by a secret society to control Paris. This screening represents the rarest of chances to see projected one of cinema...
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Breathless screening
Tuesday February 16, 2016 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Jean-Paul Belmondo aims his pistol up at the sun in Breathless (À bout de souffle, 1960), the very embodiment of the New Wave’s anarchic spirit. After Michel Poiccard (Belmondo) steals a car and shoots a cop, he returns to Paris and meets up with his American girlfriend (Jean Seberg). Godard’s
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An Avant"??Garde Home Movie: Marriage and Family Films of Stan Brakhage
Thursday February 4, 2016 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Film Love presents a night of films produced and directed by Stan Brakhage, a well-known, experimental, non-narrative filmmaker. The films featured include: An Avantâ€Garde Home Movie, Wedlock House: An Intercourse, Thigh Line Lyre Triangular , and scenes from Under Childhood Part 4.
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Emory Cinematheque Film Series
Tuesday December 1, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
A weekly screening of Japanese anime.
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My Neighbors the Yamadas / Hohokekyo tonari no Yamada-kun
Tuesday November 17, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Miyazaki associate Isao Takahata applies his sensibility for realistic subject matter to the slice-of-life scenery of a celebrated Japanese newspaper comic strip. Unusual for a Studio Ghibli film, My Neighbors the Yamadas emulates the comic strip format by portraying its characters' everyday lives i...
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The Decline of Western Civilization, Part II: The Metal Years
Friday November 13, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Director Penelope Spheeris’ Decline of Western Civilization trilogy documenting the exploits of Black Flag, the Germs, Ozzy Osbourne, et al changed the world’s perceptions of punk and metal forever.
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The Decline of Western Civilization, Part III
Friday November 13, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Director Penelope Spheeris’ Decline of Western Civilization trilogy documenting the exploits of Black Flag, the Germs, Ozzy Osbourne, et al changed the world’s perceptions of punk and metal forever.
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Decline of the Western Civilization, Part I
Thursday November 12, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Director Penelope Spheeris’ Decline of Western Civilization trilogy documenting the exploits of Black Flag, the Germs, Ozzy Osbourne, et al changed the world’s perceptions of punk and metal forever.
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Sky Crawlers / Sukai kurora
Tuesday November 10, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
A moody, contemplative vision of a world in which “Kildren,†childlike fighter pilots who do not age and who seem to be reincarnated upon death, are contracted to wage air battles among themselves that somehow sublimate the hostilities of the adult world and keep it at peace. The film will be in...
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K-ON! The Movie / Eiga Keion!
Tuesday November 10, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
K-ON! features comedic and musical elements, detailing the exploits of the five members of a high school girls’ music club who travel to London to celebrate their graduation. The film is an original story that elaborates on the activities of the club, following on the heels of a popular manga and ...
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1913: Seeds of Conflict AND The People & The Olive (Atlanta Palestine Film Festival)
Saturday October 17, 2015 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Both films & meal: $20 general admission, $15 students,
Two films & a Palestinian Meal. 1913: Seeds of Conflict – Explores Palestine during the Ottoman Empire, a time of relative harmony between Arabs and Jews, living side by side in the cosmopolitan city of Jerusalem. How did this land so diverse and rich in culture, become the site of bitter struggle...
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Lay My Burden Down
Thursday April 23, 2015 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: ,
The film maker Jack Willis introduces films made over fifty years ago during the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama and Mississippi.
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Get Low (2009), film screening
Tuesday April 14, 2015 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free,
A notorious and irascible backwoods hermit (Robert Duval) decides to throw himself a funeral in this Depression-era ‘true-life’ myth, re-imagined by first-time director Aaron Schneider. In this ‘little’ film with big time-talent, Duval is joined by Sissy Spacek (Badlands, Coal Miner’s Daug...
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Manhunter (1986), film screening
Tuesday March 31, 2015 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free,
Made five years before Silence of the Lambs, Michael Mann’s film is drawn from Thomas Harris’ earlier novel about serial killer Hannibal Lekter and his cat-and-mouse relationship with the FBI profiler that caught him. Largely unseen in its original release, this ‘police procedural’ has acqui...
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Drumline (2002) Film Screening
Tuesday March 31, 2015 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
The Emory Cinematheque series continues with another film made in Georgia. The movie is about a New York black teen played by Nick Cannon, that is admitted to a historically Atlanta black college as he attempts to joins the marching band. Things prove to be much more challenging than he first imagi...
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Drumline (2002) Film Screening
Tuesday March 31, 2015 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
The Emory Cinematheque series continues with another film made in Georgia. The movie is about a New York black teen played by Nick Cannon, that is admitted to a historically Atlanta black college as he attempts to joins the marching band. Things prove to be much more challenging than he first imagi...
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Drumline (2002), film screening
Tuesday March 24, 2015 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free,
Drumline (2002)A cocky New York City teen (Nick Cannon) joins an historically black Atlanta college’s marching band and finds their standards harder than he’d imagined and the girl of his dreams (Zoe Saldana) elusive . This surprise success (its sequel appeared last October) features a hot soun...
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Sherman's March (1985), film screening
Tuesday March 17, 2015 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free,
Charlotte-born Ross McElwee, dubbed by enthusiastic critics a “Southern Woody Allen,†films himself retracing General Sherman’s March to the Sea in this Sundance award-winning personal documentary / comedy landmark placed on the National Film Registry in 1998. The journey ends up being less a...
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The Longest Yard (1974), film screening
Tuesday March 3, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
No single person did more than Burt Reynolds to boost Georgia filmmaking in the 1970s, and in this combination prison film/ sports film, he plays a disgraced NFL quarterback leading a ragtag interracial team of inmates in a football grudge-match against their bigoted guards. Locations include Bruns...
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42 (2013), film screening
Tuesday February 24, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free,
Emory CinemathequeMovies Made in Georgia42 (2013)Chadwick Boseman turns in a winning performance as the iconic Jackie Robinson and his struggle to break major league baseball’s color barrier. With Harrison Ford as Brooklyn Dodgers executive Branch Rickey and John McGinley as game announcer Red Ba...
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The Visitor (1971), film screening
Tuesday February 17, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Emory CinemathequeMovies Made in GeorgiaThe Visitor (1979)This oddball cross between Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Damien: Omen II features extraterrestrial representatives of Heaven and Hell battling on earth using telekinetically endowed children and a lot of birds. The headscratchingly ...
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Glory (1990), film screening
Tuesday February 10, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Emory CinemathequeMovies Made in GeorgiaCol. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) leads the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the U.S.’s first all-black fighting unit, in this brutal, soaring ironic epic, the finest film made about the Civil War. The film won Oscars for Best Supporting Actor (Denzel ...
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Zombieland
Tuesday February 3, 2015 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Emory CinemathequeMovies Made in GeorgiaAn unlikely foursome (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin) join forces to battle zombies spawned by an outbreak of Mad Cow Disease as they search for, among other things, the last Twinkie on earth. Shot in Atlanta, Decatur, Buckhe...
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Someday (ÅŒSHIKAMURA SÅŒDÅŒKI), film screening
Thursday November 20, 2014 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free- no ticket required,
. An ensemble comedy that focuses on the mountain village of ÅŒshika in Nagano Prefecture. Inspired by a local kabuki tradition, passed down over 300 years, the film warmly portrays the joys and sorrows of the villagers. The project was the brainchild of lead actor Harada Yoshio, who passed away in ...
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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973), film screening
Tuesday November 18, 2014 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free- no ticket required,
. Wojciech Has employs a surreal visual style to translate the Jewish writer Bruno Schulz’s phantasmagorical stories of shtetl life onscreen. One of the great Polish writers of the 20th century, Schulz was killed by a Gestapo officer in 1942.
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Rebirth (YÅŒKAME NO SEMI), film screening
Thursday November 13, 2014 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free- no ticket required,
An adaptation of Naoki Prize-winning author Kakuta Mitsuyo's humanistic suspense novel. The film powerfully depicts the sorrows of a woman who has an affair with a married man and impulsively abducts his young daughter, as well as the later struggles of the grown girl as she tries to deal with her t...
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The Illumination (1972), film screening
Tuesday November 11, 2014 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free- no ticket required,
A young physicist comes to grips with the fundamental problems of life in this unique philosophical essay, a blend of documentary footage, experimental techniques and animation. Winner of multiple prizes, the film brought Krzysztof Zanussi recognition as a major figure in world cinema.
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The Saragossa Manuscript (1964), film screening
Thursday November 6, 2014 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free- no ticket required,
In eighteenth century Spain, a Walloon Guard (Zbigniew Cybulski) encounters—or imagines—a world of conspiracies and the supernatural. A frame story akin to The One Thousand and One Nights, this surreal film is adapted from an absolute masterpiece of Polish literature, the 1810 novel by Jan Potoc...
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The Wedding (1972) film screening
Tuesday November 4, 2014 07:00 PM EST
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Based on the classic 1901 play by Stanisław Wyspiański, the film depicts a cross-section of Polish society through the wedding between a young intellectual and a peasant woman. The festivities are interrupted by visits from ghosts of the past.
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The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones, film screening
Saturday November 1, 2014 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free- no ticket required,
This is a rousing drama set against the historical backdrop of modern nation building in Japan, and against the natural backdrop of Japanese Alps.
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Black Cross (1960), film screening
Thursday October 23, 2014 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free- no ticket required,
The most widely viewed Polish film at the time of its release, the medieval epic Black Cross depicts the heroic Polish campaign against the invading Order of the Teutonic Knights. For many years the film has been almost impossible to see in its original form until this restoration.
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Jump (1965), film screening
Tuesday October 21, 2014 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free- no ticket required,
A parable about a prophet-like stranger (Zbigniew Cybulski) who arrives by train in a small town and has various interactions with the townspeople, evoking the painful legacy of the German occupation.
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Abacus and Sword (Bushi No Kakeibo), film screening
Thursday October 16, 2014 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free- no ticket required,
A film adaptation of the book by Isoda Michifumi, which paints a picture of life in the final days of the Tokugawa shogunate, based on painstaking analysis of the household accounts left behind by a low ranking samurai.
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Eroica (1957), film screening
Tuesday October 14, 2014 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free- no ticket required,
Emory Cinematheque Series: Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema. Eroica (1957). Directed by Andrzej Munk, 85 minutes, DCP. One of the leading directors of the Polish Film School in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Andrzej Munk suggests the futility of heroism through two ironic sto...
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Mama and Papa Lala: 30 Years of Billops-Hatch Films
Thursday October 2, 2014 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Film screenings, 10 a.m.: “Take Your Bags (1998, 11 min.) and “The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks†(1994, 60 min.). Comment by Louis Massiah, Scribe Film and Video Center.1:15 p.m.: Screening of “Suzanne, Suzanne†(1982, 30 min.) and “Finding Christa†(1991, 55 min.)4 p.m.: Billops...
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Conversation with Animator Floyd Norman at Emory University
Wednesday October 23, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Enjoy a conversation with Mr. Floyd Norman at Emory University’s 205 White Hall. The session will be facilitated by Mr. Eddy Von Muller and is in partnership with the Emory Film Department. Both events are free and open to the public and both events will make time and space for the audience to par...
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Special Screening: Paul Schrader's -?Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters"?? (1985), music by Philip Glass
Tuesday September 24, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free, no ticket required,
Philip Glass will be present to introduce the film and its score, which is notable as his first composition for electric guitar. This visually extraordinary labor of love interweaves elements from the famous Japanese author's life with several of his stories. Structured around the ultra-nationalist ...
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-?The Gold Rush"?? (1925) film screening, with live accompaniment by Donald Sosin, piano
Tuesday September 17, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: free, no ticket required,
Presented as part of Emory Cinematheque’s comedy series. It is difficult to exaggerate the worldwide enthusiasm with which The Gold Rush" was received
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A Dangerous Method (2012)
Thursday April 25, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Early in his career, psychiatrist Carl Jung takes on the challenge of a seemingly impossible case: a deeply disturbed, beautiful young woman named Sabina Spielrein. However, the relationships become increasingly intertwined and complicated as boundaries are crossed between patient and analyst, and a...
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Cinematheque
Tuesday April 23, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: ,
Emory Cinematheque, a collaboration between Emory College and the Department of Film and Media Studies, is one of the few film series bringing 35 mm repertory programming to the Southeast. Some of the films include, Pillow Talk" (1959)
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
Tuesday April 23, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Judd Apatow makes his directorial debut. Co-written by Apatow and Steve Carell, the film approaches Andy's situation as a closeted virgin with insight and empathy, as well as humor. This screening is a part of Emory Cinematheque's Spring series, 35mm Universal Pictures: Celebrating 100 Years" presen...
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Apollo 13 (1995)
Tuesday April 16, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Nominated for nine Academy Awards, director Ron Howard's collaboration with NASA and veterans of the mission produced a film with vivid detail and authenticity. Starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise and Ed Harris. This screening is a part of Emory Cinematheque's Spring series, 35...
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The Birds (1963)
Tuesday April 2, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
In one of the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock's, last great films, a seaside community in northern California is terrorized when seemingly normal birds turn suddenly and inexplicably malevolent. With an innovative score by Bernard Hermann and state of the art special effects at the time. This s...
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Winchester 73 (1950)
Tuesday March 26, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
Cowboy Lin McAdam wins a prized Winchester rifle in a contest, only to have it stolen by a rival in this classic western. The film revived Stewart's career and also initiated the practice of giving major stars profit participation in their films. This screening is a part of Emory Cinematheque's Spri...
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The President's Analyst
Thursday March 21, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
A foray into the comic side of life, this 1967 film depicts what happens when Dr. Sidney Schaefer is offered the job of the President's Analyst. At first, he feels honored and thrilled. Then the initial joy deteriorates as the stress of the job, and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive gov...
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The President's Analyst (1967)
Thursday March 21, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
A foray into the comic side of life, this film depicts what happens when Dr. Sidney Schaefer is offered the job of the President's Analyst. Then the initial joy of the job deteriorates as the stress of the job, and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position, send him literally...
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Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) and Cobra Woman (1944)
Tuesday March 19, 2013 08:00 PM EDT
Whitehall Tavern
Cost: Free,
A double bill of W.C. Field's last starring role in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, (run time: 70 min.) followed by Cobra Woman, (run time: 70 min.) a lush, fanciful campy Technicolor romp. This screening is a part of Emory Cinematheque's Spring series, 35mm Universal Pictures: Celebrating 100 Ye...
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