Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Friday, September 16 | 8 pm
East Building, Museum Auditorium
The surrealists were among the first artists to realize the power of cinema. They believed that images from the unconscious, particularly dreams, could create insights and inspirations capable of transforming the world. Motion pictures, shown in the dark, can induce a dreamlike state, the perfect surrealist canvas. The director of Friday's film, Alfred Lewin, was a collector of surrealist paintings. With the superb cinematography of Jack Cardiff (The Red Shoes) and featuring one of the most beautiful women in film history, North Carolina's own Ava Gardner, Pandora is a tribute to the surrealist painters he loved.
The Ava Gardner Museum of Smithfield will display a selection of photos, lobby cards, and other artifacts before the screening.
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
(1951) Written and directed by Alfred Lewin. Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick. (122 min.)
New 35 mm restoration print.
A bored socialite experiences the redemptive power of love when she meets a doomed wanderer. On movie sets designed to look like a series of surrealist canvases, Pandora is played by the exquisite Ava Gardner.
Tickets
$3.50 Museum members, students, Cinema Inc. and Galaxy Cinema members
$5 All others
Fall Film Series Pass
Valid for 9 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 beginning September 13 online, by phone at (919) 715-5923, and in person at the Museum Box Office.
Upcoming:
Friday, September 23: Terry Gilliam's Brazil, introduced by Devin Orgeron, film studies professor at N.C. State University.
See you at the movies!
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