Double Feature: 40th Anniversary! PAPER MOON, THE STERILE CUCKOO Discussion between films with screenwriter Alvin Sargent. Free to American Cinematheque Members. January 6, 2013

Sunday, January 6 – 7:30 PM
Writer Alvin Sargent’s long career includes some of the most inventive films of the last 40 years and two Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Awards.
Double Feature: 40th Anniversary! PAPER MOON, 1973, Paramount, 102 min. Director Peter Bogdanovich’s Depression-era tale of confidence man Ryan O’Neal and his young daughter (Tatum O’Neal, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar) fleecing naive citizens from town to town in the American Midwest is rendered in glistening and appropriately gritty black, gray and white tones by cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs. Co-starring Madeline Kahn and John Hillerman.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORTv3jORX-I
THE STERILE CUCKOO, 1969, Paramount, 107 min. Director Alan J. Pakula adapts John Nichols’ novel into this bittersweet story of awkward first love in the college world of upstate New York. In her first Oscar-nominated role, Liza Minnelli is Pookie, a needy, neurotic young girl who attaches herself to retiring bookworm Jerry (Wendell Burton). Gradually, she seduces him with her offbeat, abrasive humor, her sweetness and tireless pursuit. But Jerry proves only a fuzzy symbol of what Pookie needs and is not ready or able to supply the love-starved girl with constant validation.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwZ9yy-jFzk
Discussion between films with screenwriter Alvin Sargent. Free to American Cinematheque Members.

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