Saturday, October 14
2pm
Online Film Discussion
Presented as part of Scarecrow Academy - Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film, Part 2
Elaine May
The outline could work in straight film noir: A once-wealthy cad (Walter Matthau in sublime deadpan form) plots to marry and murder a rich eccentric (Elaine May). But this is played with humor, in May's unique manner, and thus finds its own dark-comic groove.
Part Two of Scarecrow Academy's "Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film," a free online discussion series, continues with another nine weeks of movies that explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. From traditional "women's pictures" to radical zig-zags on the idea of melodrama, these titles blend female-forward dilemmas with articulate cinematic style.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow's "Historian-Programmer in Residence."
