Marx Brothers Double Feature at the Guild Cinema for New Year’s!
Monday & Tuesday, December 31 & January 1
A Day at the Races 1:00 & 5;45 pm
Directed by Sam Wood – 1937 – 111m.
Directed by Sam Wood – 1935 – 96m – No Matinees
A DOUBLE FEATURE (2 MOVIES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!) FOR OUR MARX BROTHERS NEW YEARS CELEBRATION!
BONUS! ALBUQUERQUE FILM CLUB FRANK CULLEN TO INTRODUCE THE 1:00 PM “A DAY AT THE RACES” SCREENING ON NEW YEAR’S DAY!
A DAY AT THE RACES: The Marx Brothers at their commercial and popular peak, working with a top Hollywood director (Sam Wood of The Pride of the Yankees), supported with a healthy screen budget paying for such extras as a blue-tinted ballet sequence, love songs from crooner Allan Jones, and decorative sets! But the brothers are also at the top of their game in terms of their own comic material and timing. The story finds Groucho, Chico, and Harpo helping out at a sanatorium, where their longtime foil in the movies, Margaret Dumont, is the leading patient. The film has some of the trio’s funniest and most memorable bits and a dazzling horserace at the climax.
“It places the Marx Brothers clearly among the few fine comedians of our day.” – Mark Van Doren, The Nation
“Vintage Groucho, Harpo and Chico.” – Dan Lybarger, Nitrate Online
“A classic Marx Brothers comedy, often argued as one of their three or four best works.” – Tim Dirks, Tim Dirks’ The Greatest Films
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA: Absolutely one of the most hilarious movies ever made, this classic farce featuring the outrageous genius of the Marx Brothers is a chance to see some of their best bits woven together seamlessly in a story of high society, matchmaking, and chaos. In order to bring two young lovers together, brothers Groucho, Chico, and Harpo must sabotage an opera performance even as they try to pass themselves off as stuffed shirts. Featuring the classic sequence where Groucho piles as many people as possible into a ship’s stateroom, A Night at the Opera is a deliciously zany romp worth watching again and again!“The loudest and funniest screen comedy of the Winter season.” – Andre Sennwald, New York Times
“It is exciting and perfect; a sign that they have at last learned how to use every resource which Hollywood can offer them; and the simplest reason I can find for calling them funny beyond the power of words to spoil the fun.” – Doren, The Nation
“Marx Brothers masterpiece is still hilarious.” – Nell Minow, Common Sense Media
“Classic, classy Marxist mayhem.” – Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Guild Cinema is located at 3450 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: GuildCinema.com