Weekend Classics
Tennessee Williams on Film
Saturday, December 5 - Sunday, December 13, 2009
Co-presented with the Museum of the Moving Image, this series offers the chance to see big-screen adaptations of four of Williams’s most acclaimed plays. A related exhibition of Tennessee Williams movie posters will be on display in December in the Posteritati at IFC Center gallery, in our second floor lobby. To read more about the Museum of the Moving Image’s “Tennessee Williams on Screen and Stage” program in December, click here.
THE LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND, based on a forgotten Tennessee Williams screenplay, opens in theaters December 30.
The Glass Menagerie
Saturday, December 5, 2009An outstanding ensemble cast stars in the first screen adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play. The Glass Menagerie is generally regarded to be one of Williams’s masterpieces, and also one of... more...
Suddenly, Last Summer
Sunday, December 6, 2009Katharine Hepburn is an aristocratic Southern matriarch, Elizabeth Taylor her allegedly insane niece, and Montgomery Clift is the neurosurgeon caught in the middle, in one of Williams’s most gothic plays,... more...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Saturday, December 12, 2009Paul Newman had his first big screen success, and earned one of the film’s seven Oscar nominations, and Burl Ives gives an unforgettable performance as Big Daddy, the dying plantation owner whose anticipated... more...
The Fugitive Kind
Sunday, December 13, 2009Marlon Brando plays a dangerous drifter, Valentine "Snakeskin" Xavier who wanders into a Mississippi town whose inhabitants include an alcoholic played by Joanne Woodward, an unhappily married woman played... more...
