Friday, April 19 - Towngate Cinema at 7 PM
Tuesday, April 23 - Ohio County Public Library at Noon
In
honor of the return of spring and a new baseball season, our final screening of
2012-2013 is the adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s modernist novel updating the
Fisher King legend to the world of mid-century baseball. Both novel and film are based in the 1949
scandal of a promising major league ballplayer whose career was altered when he
was shot and wounded in his team hotel room by a mystery woman. Levinson’s film was controversial upon its
release: the novel’s downbeat ending received a spectacular Hollywood
“makeover,” complete with Randy Newman’s greatest soundtrack score, climactic
slow-motion fireworks, and Robert Redford getting the girl.
All programs – screenings and
conversations – are free of admission charge.
Attend as many or as few
programs as your schedule allows.
All are welcome, and seating is
on a first-come, first-served basis.
Parental Guidance is recommended
for all screenings and conversations.
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