Monday, July 2, 2018, 1:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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Carrie (1952)
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(William Wyler, US 1952, 121 min., 35mm)
Senior Matinee—Free to 55+. One of director William Wyler’s most neglected films is a masterful adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s fatalistic novel Sister Carrie. Jennifer Jones plays a poor girl from the slums of Chicago who is befriended by a kind, but married, restaurant manager Laurence Olivier. When the two become illicit lovers, they each undergo a reversal of fortunes: hers triumphant, his tragic. Wyler’s meticulous direction is matched by Olivier’s peerless portrayal, perhaps his finest on-screen performance.
Also showing: Wednesday, June 27, 7:30 p.m.