NCMA Film Series Resumes Tonight

January, 07, 2011 , by Acree

From the NCMA's website:

Bigger Than Life

Friday, January 7 | 8 pm
East Building, Museum Auditorium
$5 ($3.50 Students, NCMA members, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members)

(1956) Directed by Nicholas Ray. James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau. (95 min.)

Emotional spasms wrack a suburban paradise when a schoolteacher is prescribed the miracle drug cortisone for pain. His wife witnesses “a handful of hope became a fistful of hell” (as the tagline put it). Rebel without a Cause director Ray imagines “Father Knows Best reconfigured as Greek tragedy” (Scott Foundas, Village Voice). New Cinemascope print from Fox.

You can buy tickets here.

Check out the rest of the schedule, and mark your calendars for Blue Velvet on January 28th!