Bringing Up Baby

Thursday, January 1 - Sunday, January 4, 2015

35mm print

“Though it’s almost impossible, try to sit back sometime and enjoy this 1938 Howard Hawks masterpiece not only for its gags, but for the grace of its construction, the assurance of its style, and the richness of its themes. Cary Grant’s adventures with Katharine Hepburn lead from day into night, tameness into wildness, order into chaos; needless to say, it’s a deeply pessimistic film, though it draws its grim conclusions in a searingly bright and chipper way. Amazingly, the film was a failure when first released (during Hepburn’s “box-office poison” period), but time has revealed its brilliance, as well as the apparent impossibility of its like ever being seen again (What’s Up, Doc? notwithstanding).

With May Robson, Charlie Ruggles, and Barry Fitzgerald.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

• Country USA
• Year 1938
• Running Time 101 minutes
• Director Howard Hawks

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