UP NEXT: THE WHEELING FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
The Wheeling Film Society,
a partnership among the Ohio County Public Library, Oglebay Institute’s Towngate
Cinema, and Wheeling Jesuit University’s Fine and Performing Arts Department
will continue its second annual season of screening-discussions of
classic Hollywood films with a screening of the Marx Brothers’ A Night atthe Opera (1935-96 minutes) at Towngate Cinema on Friday, January 24 at 7PM. The Wheeling Film Society’s Conversation about the film will take place atLunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library on the following Tuesday,January 28 at noon. John Whitehead, professor of film studies at Wheeling
Jesuit University and author of Appraising
The Graduate: The Mike Nichols
Classic and Its Impact in Hollywood, will serve as host for both the
screening and conversation. The Marx Brothers made one of their greatest
comedies – about immigration and employment and class-consciousness – during
the depths of the Great Depression. In
one of their most deliriously absurd set-pieces, Groucho and Chico gleefully
deconstruct the legalese of performance contracts. Harpo gleefully deconstructs just about everything else, using a
large mallet (and other blunt instruments).
Kitty Carlisle and Alan Jones play the talented young singers kept apart
by the towering ego of a small-minded tenor.
Naturally, all of them are upstaged by Chico’s piano and Harpo’s, well,
harp. Somehow, opera is both trashed
and celebrated in the same film, while baseball is purely celebrated. A sparkling time of music and comedy will be
had by all. 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. Lunch With
Books programs are free and open to the public. Patrons are invited to bring a
bag lunch and free beverages are served. Please visit ohiocountylibrary.org,call 304-232-0244, or visit facebook.com/lunchwithbooks for more information.
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