Tuesday Nights at the Movies

On Tuesday nights, Woodmere’s main gallery is transformed into an intimate setting for screenings of rare and underseen films as well as classics. Tuesday Nights at the Movies is presented with the Chestnut Hill Film Group and sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Local. Donations suggested; 7-9PM (doors open at 6:30PM).

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

ONE WAY PASSAGE

September | October 2023

TROUBLE IN PARADISE (1932 / 83 minutes)

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s delightful, spicy, and cynical pre-Code comedy about a pair of con artists Miriam Hopkins and Herbert Marshall) and their romantic/criminal triangle with heiress Kay Francis. Costarring the ever-wonderful Edward Everett Horton and C. Aubrey Smith.

ONE WAY PASSAGE (1932 / 68 minutes)

Rueful and bittersweet, pre-Code shipboard romance on a Hong Kong to San Francisco sailing. Captured-scaped murderer William Powell is being returned to prison for his imminent execution, but finds 11th hour love with terminally ill beauty, Kay Francis having her one last cruise ship hurrah. Their passion smolders and they make the most of their monthlong final voyage. Powell and Francis’ 6th movie together, co-written by Wilson Mizner, and directed with expert finesse by Tay Garnet.

Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young star in this stirring pre-Code drama about the relationship between two homeless people and their struggle to survive in a shanty town. A visually evocative depiction of Depression-Era American life.

This wondrous and original film of a young girl’s trip to her mother’s childhood home, and a young girl she meets in the nearby woods. This charming and profound meditation on loss is directed by French director Celine Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire). In French with English subtitles.

The feature film debut for director Jean Negulesco (Humoresque, How to Marry a Millionaire), this moody noir stars the irresistibly watchable Peter Lorre as a Dutch mystery writer working to piece together clues on the life of deceased criminal Dimitrios Makropoulos (Zachary Scott).

A mordantly funny reimagining of the making of F.W. Murnau’s German expressionist classic Nosferatu that operates on the premise that Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian bargain and casts an actual vampire (Willem Dafoe) as his leading man. Dafoe won a well-deserved Oscar for his creepily compelling portrayal of Max Schreck, the vampire in question.

Celebrate Spooky Season with this Universal horror classic that unites some of its most iconic monsters–Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, the Hunchback, and the Mad Scientist—in a madcap yarn of mayhem and revenge.