Location: via Zoom

Members & guests: free.

Available to rent for $3.89 or buy for $12.99 on Amaon Prime. 

If Ninotchka or Captain Blood or Random Harvest are among your favorite films, you’ll be right at home! In addition to discussing the films, we will also talk about the scores and the wonderful composers of the era.

On The Waterfront (1954) dramatizes union corruption and violence among longshoremen working on the docks of Hoboken, New Jersey. Directed by Elia Kazan, with a score by Leonard Bernstein, the film was nominated for 12 Oscars and won eight, including Best Actor for Marlon Brando. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a score of 99%. The website’s critical consensus reads, “With his electrifying performance in Elia Kazan’s thought-provoking, expertly constructed melodrama, Marlon Brando redefined the possibilities of acting for film and helped permanently alter the cinematic landscape”. Martin Scorsese has written: “Everything that we know about the power of great screen acting relates back to him: when you watch his work in On the Waterfront … you’re watching the purest poetry imaginable, in dynamic motion”.