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Sunday, September 13, 2009

The Great Dictator and Body Heat

Sunday 9/13

This week's Catapult house film screening:

8 p.m.- 10:05
Chaplin- The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplin plays dual roles in this prescient twist on the immortal prince-and-the-pauper tale: look-alikes Adenoid Hynkel -- Tomania's anti-Semitic ruler -- and an amnesiac Jewish barber. After 20 years in a hospital, the barber goes home, oblivious to the plight of Tomania's Jews. Soon Hynkel cracks down on them … but a case of mistaken identity gives the unassuming barber a chance to make an impassioned speech for a return to democracy.

10:05 p.m.-11:20 (as the night gets dark):
Lawrence Kandan- Body Heat

Still regarded as one of the steamiest movie's of all time, Body Heat is a fantastic exponent of how noir has developed. In a sizzling-hot Florida coastal town, attorney Ned Racine (William Hurt) becomes involved with the sultry Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) -- and schemes a way to get her wealthy, much-older husband (Richard Crenna) out of the picture. Ned's knowledge of legal matters may enable both conspirators to escape scot-free -- and Matty is craftier than anyone ever dreamed. Lawrence Kasdan directs this throwback to the early days of film noir. Ted Danson and Mickey Rourke co-star.