Film Series: Apocalyptic Comedy

Mondays, July 8 – August 19 2013
7:00 pm (no admission after 7:15 pm)
Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Bulding
FREE

Our free film series focuses on the comic potential in even the most desperate of situations. Stanford faculty and SST company members introduce our screenings of Big Business (Laurel and Hardy) and Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick), One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder), Duck Soup (Marx Brothers), Catch-22 (Mike Nichols), The Great Dictator (Charlie Chaplin), In Bruges (Martin McDonagh), and Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmuller). As in past summers, patrons will receive a brief filmography, prepared by SST expert Roselyn Hallett.

July 8 Big Business (Laurel and Hardy) and Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)

Discussant: Scott Bukatmen, Professor of Film Studies, Stanford

July 15 One, Two, Three (Wilder)

Discussant: Adrian Daub, Professor of German Studies

July 22 Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)

Discussant: Ken Fields, Professor of English

July 29 Catch-22 (Nichols)

Discussant: Rush Rehm, Artistic Director, SST

August 5 The Great Dictator (Chaplin)

Discussant: Adrian Daub, Professor of German Studies

August 12 In Bruges (McDonagh)

Discussant: Tobias Wolff, Professor of English

August 19 Seven Beauties (Wertmuller)

Discussant: Inga Pierson, Ph.D. Candidate, French and Italian