Heritage House Arts & Civic Center announces June films:
Monday, June 17 at 7 p.m. - Stonewall Uprising: The Year That Changed America (2010)
Review:
“(At Stonewall) we became a people.” — Danny Garvin, participant
When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world.
Directed by Kate David & David Heilbroner, this acclaimed documentary was the winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Outflix Film Festival in 2010 as well as being nominated for the Dorian Award as the LGBT-Themed Documentary of the Year by the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association in 2011.
Admission is free courtesy of the Chattanooga Department of Youth & Family Development and the Heritage House Arts & Civic Center. (Running time: 1 hour, 20 minutes)
Thursday, June 27 at 2 p.m. 7 p.m. - Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Review:
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
Aside from being eminently quotable, Oscar Wilde's legacy is vital both in terms of his rapier wit as well as his martyrdom.
In this premiere film adaptation of Wilde's comic masterpiece of mistaken identity, MichaelI Redgrave plays Jack and Michael Denison is Algernon.
When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to “escape dull country life,” Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion . . .
Also starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Prism and written/directed/produced by famed British director Anthony Asquith, this 1952 release is regarded as the definitive version of Oscar Wilde’s play and the greatest of all drawing room comedies.
The film was nominated for the Golden Lion (Leone d’Oro) at the 1952 Venice Film Festival —the award usually being given to the best film screened in competition at the festival.
(Running time: 1 hour, 35 minutes)
Admission is free courtesy of the Chattanooga Department of Youth & Family Development & the Heritage House Arts & Civic Center.
Thursday, June 20 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. - A Hercules double-feature, featuring Steve ReevesandReg Park
Review:
“We could take in an old Steve Reeves movie . . . “ — Dr. Frank-N-Furter — The Rocky Horrow Picture Show (1975)
Or two! We’re going to take Dr. Furter’s bit of advice when Heritage House presents a special Hercules double-feature featuring two of the most popular films of the long-running sword ’n’ sandal/‘peplum’ series:
In Hercules (1958), Steve Reeves makes his big-screen, muscle-bound debut, performing his many and dangerous Labors (The film’s original Italian title was The Labors of Hercules) and earns the love of the fair Iole, played by Sylva Koscina, finally sailing with the Argonauts to recover the Golden Fleece. (Running time: 1 hour, 47 minutes)
In Hercules in the Haunted World (1961), directed by legendary Italian horror director Mario Bava (Black Sunday), Hercules (Reg Park) must journey to the very bowels of Hades itself to match wits with Re Lico (Christopher Lee) in order to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love, Princess Deianira (Leonara Ruffo), from the powers of darkness.
(Running time: 1 hour, 31 minutes)
Admission is free courtesy of the Chattanooga Department of Youth & Family Development & the Heritage House Arts & Civic Center.