Sweet Bird of Youth—Page 100 Film Series

Name: Sweet Bird of Youth—Page 100 Film Series
Start: 2024-11-10T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT

Schedule

Sun Nov 10 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT | New Haven, CT

SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH (Richard Brooks, 1962, DCP, 120 mins)
A gigolo drifter (Paul Newman) and a fading film star (Geraldine Page) arrive at his southern hometown after misadventures in Hollywood, only to run afoul of the local kingpin (Ed Begley in an Oscar-winning performance). Page “portrays fallen grandeur with superb dash” (Janet Graves) and Newman’s in peak cad-era form.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
The “Page 100” series is a celebration of the centenary of actress Geraldine Page, presented by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Yale Film Archive.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.