The Garden Theatre has announced two series, one focused on spooky films for the Halloween season, and the other a collaboration with the Princeton University Art Museum.
The spooky films begin October 1 at 7 p.m. with a new restoration of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry, featuring Shirley MacLaine in her debut role. Not So Silent Cinema returns to the Garden on October 7 at 7:30 p.m. to perform an original score for the obscure silent film The Cat and the Canary, considered to be the first feature-length horror-comedy. Another silent classic, F.W. Murnau’s gothic Faust, will screen with live musical accompaniment on October 10 at 12 p.m. as part of the theater’s international film festival Garden Goes Global.
John Carpenter’s radical sci-fi picture They Live will play on October 15 at 7 p.m. The Garden’s $5 Family Matinee series will present the 2019 animated take on The Addams Family, which is free for members of the nonprofit cinema, on October 17 at 10 a.m. The 1950s cult classic The Bad Seed will screen on October 18 at 1 p.m. as part of the Deep Focus Online Seminar series on Classic Hollywood, led by Hannah Jack, a writer for Turner Classic Movies.
Dr. Anthony Tobia will explore the psychiatric implications of Brian De Palma’s Carrie on October 22 at 7 p.m. for the theater’s Prof Picks series. Moviegoers can see M. Night Shyamalan’s modern classic The Sixth Sense on October 28 and catch the Universal monster film The Wolf Man on October 29, both at 7 p.m. On Halloween night at 9:30 p.m., the Garden enters the dream world with Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street.
The theater’s partnership with the Princeton University Art Museum is for three screenings this fall, two of which are in collaboration with the broader community series “Re-visioning America.”
In tandem with the nation’s 250th anniversary, “‘Re-visioning America’ is a community-based and collaborative initiative that invites contemplation of the past, present, and possible futures of the American nation through the lens of art,” according to the Princeton Humanities Initiative.
As part of this program, the Garden and Art Museum will screen The Joy Luck Club on September 30, and Mississippi Masala on October 11, each at 7 p.m. Both films will be introduced by Rachael Z. DeLue, director of the Princeton Humanities Initiative, and Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art in the Department of Art snf Archaeology and the Effron Center for the Study of America.
In conjunction with the Art Museum’s exhibition “Takeda Hideo’s Genpei: Defying Authority,” the Garden will present Throne of Blood, Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Macbeth, on November 4 at 7 p.m. Kit Brooks, curator of Asian Art at Princeton University Art Museum, will introduce the film.
Visit princetongardentheatre.org/specials for tickets and more information.