Bijou Metro Presents Special Showings of M

As part of their Bijou Classic Series, the First National Taphouse presents M (1931) at the Bijou Metro in Eugene, Oregon, beginning Friday, Dec. 13, and ending Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013. But in addition to the evening showings of Peter Lorre’s first sound movie, the Bijou Metro will include two special presentations.

On Sunday, Dec. 15, syndicated film critic Doug Hennessy will host “How to Watch a Movie Like a Film Critic”. Hennessy will go scene by scene through the movie, discussing every sequence, analyzing how tension and suspense are built, and director Fritz Lang’s particular use of sound.

The movie will begin at 10:30 am, take a lunch break at noon, then continue until 2:30 pm.

On Monday, Dec. 16, Tom Blank will host a screening of M at the Bijou Metro. A retired Hollywood movie and television director, Tom Blank regularly conducts seminars on film at venues such as the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA) in Eugene, Oregon.

The program will begin with a showing of M at 5 pm, followed by a discussion of the movie with Tom Blank.

Regular showtimes for M during the week are listed on the Bijou Metro website.

Admission for Doug Hennessy’s program on Sunday, Dec. 16, is $5 for all seats. Admission for Tom Blank’s program on Monday, Dec. 17, is $5 for all seats. Admission for regular showings are also $5 for all seats.

Tickets may also be purchased through the Bijou Metro website. Select a date and a number of tickets. The Bijou Metro accepts Visa, MasterCard, and Discover. Tickets will be held at the cinema box-office. To collect the tickets, present either the 12-digit confirmation number or the credit card used to purchase them.

The Bijou Metro is located at 43 West Broadway, in Eugene, Oregon.

For more information, please contact the cinema at (541) 686-2458.

In his book The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen Youngkin discusses the making of M, including interviews with director Fritz Lang and Peter’s brother Andrew Lorre, who visited the set during filming.

The Lost One is available on the Kindle Nook, as well as hard-back and soft-bound editions.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at the George Eastman House

As part of their salute to the birth of the CinemaScope process 60 years ago, the Dryden Theatre presents a series of landmark CinemaScope movies. On Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013, the program continues with a showing in 35mm of the Walt Disney Productions film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), co-starring Peter Lorre with James Mason, Kirk Douglas and Paul Lukas.

The movie will begin at 8 pm.

Admission is $8 for adults and $6 for students and Dryden Theatre members. Tickets may be purchased at the theater box-office, which opens 45 minutes before a given screening.

Tickets may also be purchased online through the theater website. Click the “Tickets” tab on the theater website, then scroll to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and click the “Purchase” button. A $2 convenience fee to benefit the George Eastman House will be charged for each online ticket order.

The Dryden Theatre is located at 900 East Avenue, within the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York. The Dryden Theatre is served by public transportation. A map of the theater’s location, as well as PDF files for the bus routes, is available at the Dryden Theatre website.

Free parking is available at the George Eastman House. Visitors may enter the museum grounds by either the East Avenue entrance or the University Avenue entrance.

In conjunction with the CinemaScope movie program, the George Eastman House presents an exhibit on the groundbreaking process – “Bigger Than Life: CinemaScope at 60”, which will run from Nov. 2, 2013, until Jan. 12, 2014.

The exhibit includes original artifacts from the museum’s collection, as well as multimedia and interactive displays, enabling visitors to explore the history, technology, and promotion of CinemaScope.

The exhibit is located in the Brackett Clark Annex.

Admission to the George Eastman House is $12 for adults, $10 for seniors age 65 and older, and $5 for students with proper ID. Children age 12 and under, as well as members, may visit for free. More information on the George Eastman House, including hours, may be found on the museum’s website.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen Youngkin discussed the making of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with actors James Mason and Kirk Douglas, who recounted their experiences working with Peter on the film.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available in both soft-bound and hard-back editions, as well as the Kindle and Nook.

Casablanca Showing at William Monroe High This Friday

As part of their monthly classic movie series, the William Monroe High School Theater Department and the Academic Events committee has selected Casablanca (1942) for Friday, Nov. 22, 2013.

The program will begin at 7 pm in the Cinema at the WMHS Performing Arts Center.

Admission is free and open to the public, as well as WMHS students and faculty.

Snacks and beverages will be available for purchase. All concession stand purchases will benefit the performing arts department and the spring musical.

William Monroe High School is located at 254 Monroe Drive, in Standardsville, VA. The school may be contacted at (434) 985-5273.

The committee’s goal is to select movies that are culturally significant, as well as family-friendly, in order to educate the community about the history and importance of film.

Though originally released over Thanksgiving in 1942, Casablanca went into wide release in January 1943 and took the Oscar for “Best Picture of 1943”.

In The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen D. Youngkin details the making of Casablanca. It was a movie to which Peter attached little importance but remains one of his best-inown – even though his actual screen time is approximately 8 minutes and his character is dispatched within the first half hour.

The Lost One is available in both hard-back and soft-bound, as well as the Nook and Kindle.

Roger Corman Tribute Includes Lorre Film

On Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013, director Roger Corman will receive the George Eastman Award at the Dryden Theatre in Rochester, New York. On Saturday, Oct. 26, the Dryden Theatre will show The Raven (1963) as part of its two-month salute to Corman.

The Raven will begin at 8 pm.

Admission is $8 for adults and $6 for students and Dryden Theatre members. Tickets may be purchased at the theater box-office, which opens 45 minutes before a given screening.

Tickets may also be purchased online through the theater website. Click the “Tickets” tab on the theater website, then scroll to The Raven and click the “Purchase” button. A $2 convenience fee to benefit the George Eastman House will be charged for each online ticket order.

The Dryden Theatre is located at 900 East Avenue, within the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York. The Dryden Theatre is served by public transportation. A map of the theater’s location, as well as PDF files for the bus routes, is available at the Dryden Theatre website.

Free parking is available at the George Eastman House. Visitors may enter the museum grounds by either the East Avenue entrance or the University Avenue entrance.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen Youngkin discussed with Roger Corman his experiences working with Peter on two of the movies in AIP’s Edgar Allan Poe series – Tales of Terror (1962) and The Raven (1963).

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available in both soft-bound and hard-back editions, as well as the Kindle and Nook.

Lorre Horror-Comedies Scheduled for Washington D.C. Libraries

Peter Lorre fans in the Washington, D.C., area will be treated to free showings of You’ll Find Out (1940) and The Raven (1963) at regional libraries this week.

You’ll Find Out will be shown at the Bull Run Regional Library in Manassas, Virginia, on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, as a wrap-up of the 5-week “Pre-Halloween Scary Movie” series. Gary Crawford will host the program, which will include wartime movie previews, at 7 pm in the Bull Run Community Room A and B.

The Bull Run Regional Library is located at 8051 Ashton Avenue, in Manassas, Virginia. For more information, please call the library at (703) 792-4500.

The Raven will be shown at the Francis A. Gregory Library in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Oct. 25, as part of the library’s Friday matinee Vincent Price Film Series. The program will begin at 3 pm.

The Francis A. Gregory Library is located at 3660 Alabama Avenue, SE, in Washington, D.C. For more information, please call the library at (202) 645-4297.

Charlotte Library Includes 2 Lorre Films

Peter Lorre fans in Charlotte, North Carolina, will have the opportunity to catch free showings of Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and The Man Who Knew Too Much at several branches of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Arsenic and Old Lace will be shown at the Hickory Grove branch on Wednesday, Oct. 23, as part of the library’s “Movie Classics” series, presented on the fourth Wednesday of every month. The movie will begin at 1 pm in the Community Room.

Registration for Arsenic and Old Lace is required. To register online, complete the form on the event’s website. You may also register by contacting the Hickory Grove branch at (704) 416-4400.

The Hickory Grove branch is located at 5935 Hickory Grove Road in Charlotte, North Carolina. For more information, please call the library at (704) 416-4400.

The Man Who Knew Too Much will be shown at the library’s Main branch on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013. The movie will be presented by Sam Shapiro in the Francis Auditorium, beginning at 2 pm.

The Main branch of the library is located at 310 North Tryon Street, in Charlotte, North Carolina. For more information, please call (704) 416-0100.

The Man Who Knew Too Much will also be shown at the Beatties Ford Road Regional Library on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, as part of that branch’s series “It Happened One Year: Classic Movies from 1934”, which will run on the second Saturday of every month from Oct. 12, 2013, to May 10, 2014. The Man Who Knew Too Much will begin at 2 pm in Community Room B.

The Beatties Ford Road Regional library is located at 2412 Beatties Ford Road, in Charlotte, North Carolina. For more information, please call the library at (704) 416-3000.

Hitchcock Fest at Red Barn Includes Lorre Film

The Red Barn Theater’s series of movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock continues on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 in Saugatuck, Michigan, with Secret Agent (1936), the second Lorre-Hitchcock collaboration. The full schedule is available on the Red Barn website.

The program will begin at 6:30 pm upstairs in the Big House with a television show from the classic era of TV. Secret Agent will follow at 7 pm.

Tickets are available at the door. The suggested donation is $5.

Free popcorn will be available. Other concessions are $1.

The Red Barn Theater is located at 3657 63rd Street, in Saugatuck, Michigan. A Google map of directions to the theater is available on the Red Barn website. Parking is available at the theater.

For more information, please contact the theater at (269) 857-5300.

In The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen Youngkin discusses the making of Secret Agent through interviews with director Alfred Hitchcock. The Gaumont-British film was Peter’s second and final movie with Hitchcock. Peter would not work again on a Hitchcock production until the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he appeared in two episodes of the TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

The Lost One is available in hard-back and soft-bound, as well as the Kindle and Nook.

AFI Silver Noir Fest Includes The Chase

Peter Lorre fans in the Silver Spring, Maryland, area will have an opportunity to catch a restored print of The Chase (1946) at the Noir City DC film festival at the AFI Silver Theatre in downtown Silver Spring.

Based on the Cornell Woolrich novel The Black Path of Fear, The Chase (1946) co-stars Peter Lorre as Gino, personal bodyguard to gangster Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran). The 35mm restored print is courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

The Chase will be shown twice – on Sunday, Oct. 27, at 1:10 pm; and on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 7:20 pm. On Sunday, Oct. 27, noted film noir scholar Alan K. Rode will introduce the film.

Admission for both matinee and evening shows is $12 General Admission, $10 for seniors, $7 for children. AFI member passes will be accepted; admission for AFI members is $8.50.

Tickets may be reserved on-line through the AFI Silver website. Click the “Buy Tickets” button and select The Chase and a show date and time. No booking fee will be charged, but tickets reserved on-line must be claimed at the box office with the same credit card used to make the reservation. The AFI Silver accepts American Express, Visa, MasterCard, and Discover cards.

Tickets may also be purchased at the AFI Silver box office, which opens 30 minutes before the first film of the day.

A Big Combo card is also available. The Big Combo card is valid for six admissions to any screenings in the 2013 Noir City DC series. The Big Combo card may be purchased for $55 through the AFI Silver website.

Noir City DC will run from Saturday, Oct. 19 to Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. The full schedule for the film noir festival is available on the AFI Silver website.

The AFI Silver Theatre is located at 8633 Colesville Road, at the intersection of Colesville Road and Georgia Avenue, in Silver Spring, Maryland. Directions to the cinema may be found on the AFI Silver website.

Parking is available in several public parking decks close to the theater. Most convenient is the Wayne Avenue garage, located at 921 Wayne Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland. Parking at the Wayne Avenue garage is free on weekends and after 8 pm on weekdays. More information on parking can be found on the AFI Silver website, under Parking.

For The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, author Stephen D. Youngkin discussed the making of The Chase, including an interview with actor Robert Cummings.

The Lost One is now available on both the Kindle and the Nook, as well as paperback and hardbound.

Casablanca with Live Music in Nashville

Peter Lorre fans in Nashville, Tennessee, will have the opportunity to enjoy Casablanca (1942) with the musical score performed live by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, October 10, 2013.

The performance will begin at 7 pm at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

Tickets may be purchased on-line through the Nashville Symphony website. Ticket prices range from $25 to $61. Click the “Buy Ticket” button to select seats and purchase tickets.

The Schemerhorn Symphony Center is located at One Symphony Place in Nashville, Tennessee. Directions to the venue are available through the Nashville Symphony website.

Parking is available in Lot R at LP Field. Parking is free, and shuttles are available to and from the lot for just $3 a person, round-trip, cash only. For Nashville Symphony season ticket holders, the shuttle is free, too. Please contact the Patron Services Specialist to request shuttle passes.

A map to Lot R is available through the Nashville Symphony website. For assistance and more information, please call the Box Office at (615) 667-6400.

Parking is also available across the street from the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in the Pinnacle at Symphony Place. The fee at the Pinnacle is $15 to $20, but a discounted rate is available by purchasing parking through the Nashville Symphony. A pre-paid voucher may be required to park at the Pinnacle. For more information, please call (615) 687-6400.

Valet parking in front of the Schemerhorn Symphony Center is also available for most events. The price for valet parking is $20.

More information about parking options may be found on the Nashville Symphony website.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, author Stephen Youngkin discusses the making of Casablanca through the recollections of such participants as screenwriter Julius J. Epstein and actor Dan Seymour (who played Abdul, the doorman at Rick’s private gambling room).

In the small but pivotal role of Ugarte, Peter Lorre gets the action going in the movie by leaving with lead character Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) a pair of letters of transit he planned to sell to escaping freedom fighter Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) and his lady Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman).

It was a role to which Peter attached little importance. In fact, he told others he made more money playing roulette on the “gambling room” set than he did working before the cameras. Peter did, however, have the opportunity to work on a third movie with Bogart, his off-screen buddy.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available through on the Kindle and Nook, as well as soft-bound and hard-bound editions.

Brattle Theatre Bogart Fest Includes 3 Lorre Films

The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, celebrates its 60th anniversary this month with a Humphrey Bogart Fest that will include three films featuring Peter Lorre – The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), and Beat the Devil (1954).

The festival will begin on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, and end on Wednesday, Oct. 16.

Showtimes for the Lorre films include:

Sunday, Oct. 6:

• Casablanca – 2:30 pm and 7 pm
• The Maltese Falcon – 4:45 pm and 9:15 pm

Sunday, Oct. 13:

• Beat the Devil – 9:30 pm

Monday, Oct. 14:

• Casablanca – 2:30 pm and 7 pm
• The Maltese Falcon – 4:45 pm and 9:15 pm

The full schedule may be found on the Brattle website.

Admission to the Brattle is $10 for evening films and $8 for matinees before 5 pm. For students with a valid student ID, admission is $8 for all films. Seniors and children under 12 will be admitted for $7. Double Features are $12 for general admission, $10 for students, seniors, and children. Brattle Member passes will also be accepted.

Double Feature tickets are available only at the box office on the day of the double feature. Advance tickets may be purchased through the Brattle website. From the “Best of Bogart” webpage, click on a film title. On that film’s page, click the “Buy Tickets” button. Tickets will be at the Will-Call window for pick-up.

In addition to the film festival, the annual Brattle Film Foundation Gala will include a special tribute to Casablanca. The Gala will take place from 6 to 9 pm on Sunday, Oct. 6, at Regattabar at the Charles Hotel.

This Casablanca-inspired event will include a signature cocktail, a light supper, a silent auction, casino tables, and surprise entertainment. Tickets are $150 for a single, $250 for two. Tickets may be purchased through the Brattle website.

The Charles Hotel is located on Harvard Square at 1 Bennett Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A map and directions to the hotel are available on the Charles Hotel website.

The Brattle Theatre is located at 40 Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one block from Harvard Square. Sharing the building are the Algiers Café, Casablanca Restaurant, and Harvard Square Optical. The cinema’s entrance is on the left side of the building, marked by a sidewalk poster case and marquee.

Parking is available at meters on the streets around the cinema. The Brattle Theatre will validate parking tickets at these participating garages – the Charles Square Garage, located at 5 Bennett Street in Cambridge; and the University Place Garage, located at 124 Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge. The Brattle Theatre is also served by public transportation. More information about parking is available on the cinema’s website.

For more information, please contact the cinema at (617) 876-6837.

In the pages of The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre, Stephen Youngkin discusses the friendship between Peter Lorre and Humphrey Bogart through the recollections of the people who knew both men, including directors John Huston and Vincent Sherman. Peter counted his pal Bogie as one of his two closest friends – the other being the German playwright Bertolt Brecht.

During the years Peter worked at Warner Brothers, the two actors made a total of four movies together – The Maltese Falcon, All Through the Night, Casablanca, and Passage to Marseille. Their fifth and last movie, Beat the Devil, came 10 years after Passage to Marseille in 1954.

They were also well-known for their practical jokes and hell-raising off-screen.

The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre is available on the Kindle and Nook, as well as hard-back and soft-bound editions.