Film
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Sun, May 15, 2016
- 4:30PM
- 9:15PM
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RUN TIME: 91min
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $14
MEMBERS: $7 (free for Level 4 and above)
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May 2016
Sunday May 15, 2016
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2016
series Labor of Love: 100 Years of Movie Dates
Directed by Howard Hawks | 1953
With Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
"You won't find a more elegant take on '50s va-va-voom vulgarity or a more joyous paean to the cheesecake self-empowerment of two little girls from Little Rock."
—Time Out New York
Dorothy (Russell) is sailing to Europe with her best friend Lorelei (Monroe), a showgirl whose fiancée promises her a line of credit in Paris—so long as she stays faithful en route. Though Monroe is a gold-digger and Russell yearns for a starving artist, the real spark in the movie is its “intense Sapphic appeal” (Melissa Anderson, Artforum). Maybe diamonds are a girl’s best friend; maybe a girl’s best friend is her lover. Either way, men count for little when Russell and Monroe share the screen.
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