It's A Wonderful Life (Capra, 1946): Everyman Screen on the Green, 7pm
The 35mm presentation, part of the Christmas season at the Screen on the Green, is also being shown on December 7th, 13th and 21st and you can find all the details here.
Chicago Reader review:
The
film Frank Capra was born to make. This 1946 release marked his return
to features after four years of turning out propaganda films for the
government, and Capra poured his heart and soul into it. James Stewart
stars as a small-town nobody, on the brink of suicide, who believes his
life is worthless. Guardian angel Henry Travers shows him how wrong he
is by letting Stewart see what would have happened had he never been
born. Wonderfully drawn and acted by a superb cast (Donna Reed, Beulah
Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Lionel Barrymore, Gloria Grahame) and told with a
sense of image and metaphor (the use of water is especially elegant)
that appears in no other Capra film. The epiphany of movie sentiment and
a transcendent experience.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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