Austin shows its affection for classic cinema and the lovely NINOTCHKA (1939)
Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Alamo Ritz, 01/31/10, 6:30pm
Congratulations are due to the Alamo Drafthouse and my co-editor pal Daniel Metz for the wildly successful first installment of their new series Cinema Club. I’m not writing to talk about the discussion led by Daniel, Alamo owner Tim League, and University of Texas professor Charles Ramirez- Berg, other [...]
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Hey everybody,
I blogged on Alamo site today about how last’s nights film The Apartment is related to Ninotchka, the first film in our new series, Cinema Club. I am pretty excited that in less than a month, I’ll be up on stage introducing Charles Ramirez Berg as he introduces the great Lubitsch classic written [...]
Introduction to THE APARTMENT (1960)
It’s New Year’s Eve, and I have been asked to introduce The Apartment at the Alamo Drafthouse special NYE celebration. Here is what I am aiming to say. Am I nervous? Eek!
Wilder was born in 1906 in Austria. He started his career as a journalist and moved to Berlin, where he [...]
