Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 9: Tue Jan 9

Sullivan's Travels (Sturges, 1941): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.20pm



This 35mm screening, which is also being shown on January 6th and 24th, is part of the Big Screen Classics season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.

Chicago Reader review:
'Preston Sturges's remarkable autobiographical fantasy (1941) about a famous comedy director (Joel McCrea) who, after years of turning out things like Ants in Your Pants of 1940, yearns to create a great social statement. The lesson he learns—on a research trip through America's seamy underside—is that the downtrodden masses need Mickey Mouse more than Marx. A dubious proposition, but in Sturges's hands a charming one, filled out by his unparalleled sense of eccentric character.' 
Dave Kehr


Here (and above) is the trailer.

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