Wednesday Evening Film Series
Past Offerings |
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| Year held | Title of series |
| 2007-2008 | The winter series, Genre Masters, offers a sampling of great directors and performers who have provided us with some of the best examples in a category of studio film production. The selections include an Astaire & Rogers musical, a celebrated Chaplin comedy, a moody film noir thriller, a landmark Western masterpiece, a brilliant romantic comedy, and an adaptation of a John Steinbeck novel that is still widely regarded as one of the great, inspirational movies of the American cinema. Parallel to the Classic Series is our Silent Series of four movie evenings, beginning with Battleship Potemkin. This series celebrates the mastery of legendary silent screen artists such as Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton from the fertile era when great directors like John Ford and Sergei Eisenstein were inventing the language and poetry of cinema. |
| 2006-2007 | The winter series,The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock, opened with Shadow
of a Doubt. Hitchcock's movies are especially
enjoyable when viewed in a series, where the development of his
themes becomes more evident. The Silent
Series featured Son of the Sheik. This series
celebrated the mastery of legendary silent screen stars such
as Lon Chaney, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, and Rudolph Valentino
from the era when the art and craft of movie comedy and drama
were being invented. The summer theme of classic programs was influenced by movies from the 1960s. The theme, in conjunction with other exhibitions and events during the summer at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art and the Salem Art Association’s Bush Art Gallery, coordinated as the Summer of Love 40th Anniversary Celebration. The fall series, the American Style, offerd a sampling of movies from the 1930's, 40's and 50's, when the American cinema specialized in star power, polished screenplays, and magical, stylized production design and cinematography. The selections included two brilliant romantic comedies, a great musical, a film noir masterpiece, and Bogart and Hepburn in an adventure-romance hit. The Silent series of four movies celebrated the mastery of legendary silent screen stars such as Mary Pickford, Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, and Harold Lloyd from the era when the art of cinema - the visual language of movie comedy and drama - was being invented. |
| 2005-2006 | Great
Hollywood Directors: Alfred
Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Fritz Lang, and Orson
Welles Restored Classics, Silent and Contempory films. Summer Classics for the Big Screen A Buster Keaton Retrospective |
| 2004-2005 | Restored Classics, Silent and Contempory films. Silent and Classic Movies , Series II |
| 2002-2003 | Trouble in Paradise: American Romantic Comedy Personal Visions: Fables and Eccentric Documentaries Recent Releases and Restored Classics |
| 2001-2002 | Pop Culture: Dark Comedies From Independent Filmmakers Early Hitchcock: Vintage Treasures from the Master of Suspense World Cinema: Movies from Asia and the Middle East |
| 2000-2001 | The Transcendent Path: Spiritual Journeys |
| 1999-2000 | Rediscovering British Cinema Part II Creative Stages Treasures from Archives: Restored films & Directors’ Cuts |
| 1998-1999 | Days and Nights in the American South: Tales of Rural Experience
from Independent Filmmakers Hollywood in the ‘50’s |
| 1997-1998 | Charlie Chaplin / Buster Keaton Part II Alfred Hitchcock in Retrospect Masterpieces of Foreign Film: By Antonioni, Truffaut, Kurosawa, Fellini, Bunuel, Wenders. |
| 1996-1997 | Rediscovering British Cinema Part I Charlie Chaplin / Buster Keaton Part I Underworld, USA: Contemporary Thrillers of Conspiracy, Mystery & Underworld Intrigue |
| 1995-1996 | The New World: Conquest and Colonization Paradise Lost: Orson Welles and John Ford Vintage Film Noir |
| 1993-1995 | No Film Series All Year |
| 1992-1993 | Dreamscapes: Fantasy, Fables, and Science Fiction Winter Light: Ingmar Bergman and Scandinavian Cinema American Romantic Comedy |
| 1991-1992 | American Masters Great Film Stylists Post-War Italian Cinema: From Austerity to Extravagance |
| 1990-1991 | Peter Weir & the New Australian Cinema The Adventure Films of John Huston and Akira Kurosawa House of Games: 45 Years of American Film Noir |
| 1989-1990 | Alfred Hitchcock in Retrospect The European New Wave: Truffaut, Godard, Bergman, Bertolucci, Antonioni American Romantic Comedy |
| 1988-1989 | Cinema Across the Pacific: Films from the Far East and The
Soviet Union Salem Premiers: Contemporary Cinema Festival of European Cinema |
| 1987-1988 | Woody Allen in Retrospect (with Film Influences) In Retrospect: Fritz Lang & Frank Capra Hollywood in the Fifties: Wilder, Kazan, Ray, Kubrick, Siegel, Preminger |
| 1986-1987 | British Cinema Chaplin & Fellini On Dangerous Ground: The American Film Noir |
| 1985-1986 | Classics of American Cinema Francois Truffaut & The French New Wave The Contemporary Cinema: Directors and Directions |
| 1984-1985 | Political Thrillers, Preston Sturges, Visconti The Films of Ingmar Bergman The Western: Four Directors – Ford, Mann, Boetticher, and Leone |
| 1983-1984 | Alfred Hitchcock The Cinema of Enchantment |
| 1982-1983 | Buster Keaton / Akira Kurosawa / John Huston Women: Their Image in Film |
| 1981-1982 | Visionary Cinema: Stanley Kubrick / Werner Herzog / Luis Bunuel Comedy |
| 1980-1981 | Chaplin/Fellini Film Noir |
| 1979-1980 | Ingman Bergman and Francois Truffaut Westerns |
| 1978-1979 | Great Film Stylists Great Directors: Josef von Sternberg, Frank Capra, Akira Kurosawa French Cinema |
| 1977-1978 | Film Styles Historical Survey Buster Keaton / Luis Bunuel / John Huston Movies and the American Dream |
| 1976-1977 | Film Styles Historical Survey Great Directors: Alfred Hitchcock and Jean Renoir Comedy |
| 1975-1976 | The Cinema of Howard Hawks Masterpieces of Film Noir |
For more information on current film series, please check News, Events and Dates. For information about classes that revolve around the film series check out the Film Studies page.
Updated January 2008 by the Marketing and Student Recruitment.