Movie Night at OU

2/6:  6:30-8:30pm:  Lupton Auditorium.  German Movie Night: The Film "The Marriage Circle."  This 1924 silent comedy was the second movie that German director Ernst Lubitsch made while in exile in the U.S. Lubitsch’s favorite film takes an ironic twist on love, marriage, and everything in between. Lubitsch, one of the most renowned German directors of the 1920s and 1930s, remade The Marriage Circle into the 1932 Hollywood talkie, "An Hour With You."

2/13:  7-9pm:  Lupton Auditorium.  "Savage Acts."  Fifty-minute documentary on the Spanish American War and American Imperialism beginning in the nineteenth century.

2/20:  6:30-8:30pm:  Earl Dolive Theater.  German Movie Night: The Film "Fury."  The 1936 film noir by German émigré director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M – Eine Stadt sucht ihren Moerder, etc.) explores the mechanisms and manifestations of mass hysteria. Released by the Metro Goldwyn Mayer, the film is a compelling example of the encounter of two filmic traditions: German expressionism and the Hollywood studio system. Fury stars renowned American actors Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney and received an Academy Award nomination in 1936.

2/20:  7-10pm.  Lupton Auditorium.  "Battle of Algiers."  The French occupation of Algeria. Shown in conjunction with reading Franz Fanon's "Wretched of the Earth" in COR302.

NO MOVIE FEBRUARY 27.

3/5:  6:30-8:30pm.  Earl Dolive Theatre.  German Movie Night: The Film "One, Two, Three." An executive in West Berlin is struggling to sell Coca-Cola to the Russians while trying to prevent his boss from discovering that his daughter has married a communist.

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