PRAx and the Darkside Cinema Present: Free Film Fridays
Jan 3 Film: Hud. Screening and discussion with Tracy Daugherty, New York Times best-selling author of Larry McMurtry: A Life.
Adapted from a novel by Larry McMurtry (Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove) Hud stars Paul Newman, very much in his prime as a movie star, as “the man with a barbed-wire soul.” Newman’s anti-establishment anti-hero became a model counterculture hero years before Hollywood got hip to the counterculture with Easy Rider. Hud marked director Martin Ritt’s comeback after being Blacklisted and was nominated for seven Academy Awards in 1964, winning three -- Patricia Neal for Best Actress, Melvyn Douglas for Best Supporting Actor, and James Wong Howe for Best Black and White Cinematography.
Join Distinguished Professor of Film Jon Lewis and special guests for a free screening followed by an on-stage discussion of culturally and artistically provocative films. Cramped for time? Come for the brief introductory remarks and the screening alone, starting promptly at 7 p.m. Up for a more fulsome engagement with the power and relevance of cinema? Stay for a post-screening conversation.
PRAx gratefully acknowledges the support of the Darkside Cinema, celebrating twenty years as Corvallis’ independent film venue.