The Wheeling Film Society is a partnership among Oglebay Institute’s Towngate
Cinema, Wheeling Jesuit University’s Fine and Performing Arts Department &
Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library. See a classic film for free
on a Friday on the big screen at Towngate, then join in a discussion of the
film the following Tuesday at the library!
Woody
Allen originally wrote his relationship-comedy fantasia on Humphrey Bogart’s
persona in Casablanca and other films
as a stage play, adapted here for the cinema exactly three decades after the
Bogart-Bergman classic as the first of many screen-pairings of Allen and Diane
Keaton. Allen’s character, pushed
around by his ex-wife and hapless in a series of blind dates, becomes so
obsessed with trying to “be like Bogart” that he conjures a Bogie avatar by his
side to advise him on his romantic moves and missteps. Allen’s legendary love of cinema was first
introduced on screen in this early film, which pointed the way to Annie Hall and Manhattan later in the 70s.All programs – screenings and conversations – are FREE. Attend as many as your schedule allows. All are welcome, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Parental Guidance is recommended for all programs.
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