"Sullavan won the New York Film Critics prize for her role here, and it was deserved: if Ernst Lubitsch's THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER stands as her best movie, then this is certainly her best performance." - Dan Callahan, Slant Magazine
Sunday, November 2, 2:00 p.m. | This tribute screening for Bill Horrigan, a beloved and much lauded film curator and writer who died in May, is presented on the occasion of what would have been his 74th birthday. Over a career that embraced the breadth of the medium, a film like THREE COMRADES returns us to Horrigan’s early engagement with the melodrama, “where one found played out the individual’s private drama...faced with conflicts generated by the family, by sexual relations, by romantic impulses.” Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel and adapted to the screen by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the titled comrades are WWI veterans who become devoted to the same woman. (Bruce Jenkins) 35mm screenings generously supported by Mimi and Scott Manzler.
Awards & Nominations
Nominee - Best Actress (Margaret Sullavan), Academy Awards
Winner - Best Actress (Margaret Sullavan), New York Film Critics Circle Award
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu