Focus On Film Series

Film is one of the greatest art forms of our time—I don’t think a performing arts center program can be complete without it. The Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, with a state-of-the-art digital projector, is a wonderful and intimate viewing room. On six Mondays this season, the Studio Theatre will become a much-needed classic art film house for our region.

—Don Roth, Executive Director, Mondavi Center

All screenings:
Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, 6:00 pm
$10 Adults
$27 Your choice of any three films
$55 Season ticket for all 7 films
Pick 3 does not apply to Focus on Film screenings.

REPLAY THEME
The Focus on Film Replay Theme features films where oft-used material is truly reinvented rather than just recycled. This includes the two films of The Man Who Knew Too Much made 22 years apart by the same director, Alfred Hitchcock.

• Purple Noon
  Directed by René Clément (1960), rated PG-13, 112 min
  Mon, Nov 2, 2009
• Boudu Saved from Drowning
  Directed by Jean Renoir (1932), not rated, 85 min
  Mon, Nov 16, 2009
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1934), not rated, 75 min
  Mon, Jan 25, 2010
  
  Directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1956), not rated, 120 min
  Mon, Jan 25, 2010 | 8 pm | Regular $10 ($5 when purchased with 6 pm screening)

GRAPHIC NOVEL THEME
In the last 25 years, the graphic novel has come into its own as a respected art form, supplying the reader with the traditional beginning, middle, and end novel format juxtaposed against the raw visual aesthetic of classic comic books. In the second half of the 2009-10 season, Focus on Film looks at remakes of a different kind, featuring three films inspired by seminal graphic novels.

• American Splendor
  Directed by Robert Pulcini (2003), rated R, 101 min
  Mon, Mar 8, 2010
• Ghost World
  Directed by Terry Zwigoff (2001), rated R, 111 min
  Mon, Apr 5, 2010
• Persepolis
  Directed by Vincent Parannaud and Marjane Satrapi (2007), rated PG-13, 96 min
  Mon, Apr 19, 2010

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