Saturday, October 7
2pm
Online Film Discussion
Presented as part of
Scarecrow Academy - Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film, Part 2Max Ophuls – Joan Fontaine
A quintessential "woman's picture" from one of the great film stylists, this melodrama tracks the way a working-class girl creates meaning in her life, despite being denied the attention of the man (Louis Jourdan) she worships.
Part Two of Scarecrow Academy's "Women in Trouble: Great Melodrama in Film," a free online discussion series, continues with another nine weeks of movies that explore the way imaginative filmmakers have put women at the center of their hothouse creative universes. From traditional "women's pictures" to radical zig-zags on the idea of melodrama, these titles blend female-forward dilemmas with articulate cinematic style.
Discussions are led by National Society of Film Critics member Robert Horton, author of the Seasoned Ticket column at the Scarecrow blog and Scarecrow's "Historian-Programmer in Residence."
