The best movie ever, my favorite movie in the whole world is going to be on the big screen this weekend!!! I have never seen it on the big screen before.
Harold and Maude Dir. Hal Ashby US 1971 + Plays Friday through Monday, July 25 through 28 Fri.: 7:15 and 9:15 p.m.Sat. & Sun: 2:00*, 4:00, 7:15 and 9:15 p.m.Mon.: 7:15 and 9:15 p.m.
The "Dishes" contest entries will be screened at the 7:15 p.m. screening on Friday. Come celebrate the Red Vic’s 28th birthday with one of our most popular films ever. Director Hal Ashby (Being There, Shampoo) takes jabs at motherhood, the military, psychiatry, computer dating, patriotic fever and funerals in probably the most charming movie about death ever made. Much of this modern love story takes place in the Bay Area, and settings include the Sutro Baths, the Marin Headlands and the Emeryville mudflats. Morbid 19-year-old Harold drives a Jaguar converted into a hearse, stages one suicide after another and frequents cemeteries. Ruth Gordon steals the show as the exuberant 79-year-old Maude who teaches him to appreciate life. Playfully grim, this is black comedy at its finest. Starring Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon and Vivian Pickles, and featuring the music of Cat Stevens. (92 min). Did you know Tom Skerritt plays the traffic cop in the movie? (In the credits he is listed as M. Borman.) Also, learn in which scenes you can spot the director and singer Cat Stevens at the imdb trivia page for the movie at: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/trivia . Wikipedia says: “The film is number 45 on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 Funniest Movies of all time, and number 42 on Bravo’s 100 Funniest Movies. In 1997, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".” (Note: it also made the list of the AFI’s Top 10 Romantic Comedies: http://www.afi.com/10top10/romanticcomedy.html .) Also: “The film was a commercial failure when it was released and the critical reception was extremely mixed. It now has a large cult following.” You can read the rest at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_Maude What is “Maudism”? Read about it at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/madhayes/maude.html . The Harold and Maude unofficial homepage, where you can check out the film’s Bay Area Filming Locations, is at: http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/5862/harold.htm . The film is justifiably regarded as a classic today. How was it received back in 1971? You can read Roger Ebert’s original review (he panned it) at: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19720101/REVIEWS/201010313/1023 .
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