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The Great Transition:
World Cinema in the 1950s

Lecturer: Jonathan Rosenbaum

From Sept. 5 through Dec. 12, we offer a series of fourteen programs entitled The Great Transition: World Cinema in the 1950s, with weekly lecture/discussions by Jonathan Rosenbaum, internationally renowned film critic for the Chicago Reader and author of numerous books including Discovering Orson Welles. The series is made possible in part through the sponsorship of American Airlines, the Film Center’s Educational Underwriter, and is presented in cooperation with the School of the Art Institute’s Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism. Please note that this year’s lectures are on Wednesday, rather than on Tuesday as in previous years. Additional screenings of the films on Friday do not include Jonathan Rosenbaum’s lecture. Admission to all Great Transition programs is $4 for Film Center members; usual admission prices apply for non-members.

The second part of the series, The Great Transition: World Cinema in the 1960s, will be presented in spring 2008.

Archival print!
CURSE OF THE DEMON
1958, Jacques Tourneur, Britain, 95 min.
With Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins

Jacques Tourneur, director of the 1940s classics CAT PEOPLE and I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, returned to the horror genre for a final masterpiece of atmospheric chills, in which a skeptical professor (Dana Andrews) and a dedicated occultist (patterned after Aleister Crowley) battle over an ancient parchment that reputedly can summon the dark forces. We are showing an archival print of the original British version, which contains twelve minutes cut from the American release. (MR)

Friday, December 7, 6:00 pm
Wednesday, December 12, 6:00 pm

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Upcoming films in The Great Transition:

December 7 and 12
CURSE OF THE DEMON
1957, Jacques Tourneur, Britain, 95 min.
With Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins