Winter/Spring Film Series

Bigger Than Life
Friday, January 7 | 8 pm
Museum Auditorium

Happy New Year! We begin our 11th Winter Film Series with the monthlong "shadow" portion of our "Norman Rockwell: Sunshine and Shadow" series. Bigger Than Life is a film once overlooked but now considered a masterpiece of 1950s angst. Like our concluding Fall Series film, Pleasantville, it uses color in an expressionistic way. Bigger's palette is dull brown and gray . . . but a red jacket, an edgy purple pill bottle, and a dangerously orange dress warn that the family unit can be the ultimate haven—or the ultimate peril.

Bigger Than Life
(1956) Directed by Nicholas Ray. James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau. (95 min.)

Emotional spasms wrack a suburban paradise when a schoolteacher is prescribed the miracle drug cortisone for pain. His wife witnesses “a handful of hope became a fistful of hell” (as the tagline put it). Rebel without a Cause director Ray imagines “Father Knows Best reconfigured as Greek tragedy” (Scott Foundas, Village Voice). New Cinemascope print from Fox.

Upcoming:
Friday, January 14: Leo McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow

Tickets
$3.50 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members
$5 All others

Winter/Spring Film Series Pass
Valid for 10 admissions
$35 ($25 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members)
Please note that film series passes must be exchanged for individual film tickets at the Box Office.

Tickets are available online, by phone at (919) 715-5923, and in person at the Museum Box Office.

See you at the movies!

Plan Your Rockwell Visit

American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell
November 7, 2010–January 30, 2011

The final weeks of American Chronicles are here! We recommend buying your timed tickets in advance to ensure you get a chance to see this captivating exhibition. Purchase tickets online, by phone at (919) 715-5923, or in person at the Museum Box Office in East Building.

Fridays at the Museum

Before the movie, visit the galleries or relax with a glass of wine from our Friday night wine bar in the West Building Lobby, open 5:30–8 pm on Fridays.

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