Screening:
Friday, April 28, 2:15 PM, Charles 4

Director: Stuart Cooper
Country, Year, Length, Format: U.S., 1958, 117 min., 35mm
Presented by: Joyce Scott
Print Source: Criterion Pictures, 8238-40 Lehigh, Morton Grove, IL, 60053, ph: 847.470.8164, fax: 847.470.8194

Synopsis:
This 1958 movie is adapted from two William Faulkner short stories and a novel. It is a classic, stereotyped view of a pre-Civil Rights small southern town. It tells the gothic tale of a handyman (Paul Newman) taking on a domineering small-town patriarch (Orson Welles) in order to win the hand of his daughter (Joanne Woodward). Directed by blacklisted director Martin Ritt, it was shot on location in Clinton, Louisiana. This is the first movie Newman and Woodward made together. Paul Newman won the Best Actor Award at Cannes in 1958 . The film also featured a collection of other wonderful actors, most notably Lee Remnick, and Angela Lansbury. -Jed Dietz

Tidbit:
" I admire his manners and I admire the speeches he makes and I admire the big house he lives in. But if you're saving it all for him honey, you've got your account in the wrong bank!"

Bio:
Artist Joyce Scott is a Baltimore native, whose work is currently showing through May 21 at the highly praised joint Maryland Institute College of Art/Baltimore Museum of Art solo exhibit entitled Kickin' it With the Old Masters. She has been featured in over 60 solo or joint exhibitions, and her work is in the collections of such prestigious institutions as the Detroit Museum of Art, the Montreal Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum, The National Museum of American Art, and The Smithsonian. She has received numerous national grants and works in storytelling and music, as well as visual art. Scott is a descendant of African-Americans, Native Americans, and Scots, and she is interested in stereotyping.