Double Feature: SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS, O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? March 24, 2013

Sunday, March 24 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS, 1941, Universal, 98 min. Director Preston Sturges’ most acclaimed comedy is something like a social-realist movie with a wicked sense of humor. Successful Hollywood director Joel McCrea grows weary of making "entertainment pictures" and decides to hit the road disguised as a hobo to research his first "serious" film. A roller coaster of mishaps and coincidences lands him on a chain gang, as well as in the arms of lovely Veronica Lake, before he learns what audiences crave the most. {35mm}
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, 2000, Buena Vista, 106 min. Dir. Joel Cohen. Taking its title from a Preston Sturges film (and much of its inspiration from Homer’s The Odyssey), this Coen brothers comedy stars George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson as escaped convicts in Depression-era Mississippi. On a wild goose chase for loot from a previous crime, the trio encounter bluesmen, bank robbers, Bible thumpers and politicos, and become unlikely hitmakers as the “Soggy Bottom Boys” (in real life, the film’s bluegrass-filled soundtrack topped charts and won three Grammys). With John Goodman. {35mm}
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1C2gCXo4Gs

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