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Fierce and Fabulous: Anne Bancroft
March 8-11

The Bronx-born leading lady shines! With in person appearances by Patty Duke, Mike Nichols and Marsha Norman.

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  Scene Photo Garbo Talks
Sidney Lumet, 1984, USA; 103m
16mm print

A hilariously dynamic Bancroft plays only-in-New-York character Estelle Rolfe—mother, activist, Garbo idolizer—whose son (Ron Silver) moves mountains to fulfill her dying wish to meet the reclusive star.



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Mon Mar 8: 1:00pm
Scene Photo 84 Charing Cross Road
David Jones, 1986, USA; 100m

In this memoir-based epistolary delight, a New York scriptwriter (Bancroft) corresponds with a British bookseller (Anthony Hopkins) over several years about books, food, the Dodgers, and more.



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Mon Mar 8: 3:15pm


Scene Photo The Miracle Worker
Arthur Penn, 1962, USA; 106m

In career-making Oscar-winning roles, Patty Duke and Bancroft shine as Helen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan, reprising roles from Penn’s Broadway production. With special appearance by Patty Duke!



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Mon Mar 8: 8:15pm*
*Patty Duke in person!

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$13 Senior/Student
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Scene Photo The Pumpkin Eater
Jack Clayton, 1964, UK; 118m

This magnificent British classic of hushed resignation and anguish stars Bancroft as a woman with six children and an unfaithful screenwriter husband (Peter Finch). Adapted by Harold Pinter; music by Georges Delerue.



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Tue Mar 9: 1:30pm
Wed Mar 10: 3:20pm

Scene Photo Fatso
Anne Bancroft, 1980, USA; 93m

The late Dom DeLuise stars in Bancroft’s funny, poignant look at a man with an uncontrollable appetite. Bancroft, who directed and also stars, drew on memories of her Italian-American upbringing. Phyllis Italiano Mallah (Anne Bancroft's younger sister) who worked as a consultant on ‘Fatso’ will introduce the 2pm screening on Thursday, March 11.



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Tue Mar 9: 4:00pm
Thu Mar 11: 2:00pm*
*Intro by Phyllis Italiano Mallah.


Scene Photo ’night, Mother
Tom Moore, 1986, USA; 96m

A mother (Bancroft) and daughter (Sissy Spacek) undertake a conversation like no other when the young woman announces her plans to die the next morning. Playwright and screenwriter Marsha Norman in person!



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Tue Mar 9: 6:00pm*
*Marsha Norman in person!
Scene Photo The Graduate
Mike Nichols, 1967, USA; 105m

The iconic classic about Benjamin’s very special suburban homecoming features Bancroft’s indelible Mrs. Robinson—a woman whose sadness, despite the comically awkward situations, runs deep. With special appearance by Mike Nichols!



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Tue Mar 9: 8:30pm*
*Mike Nichols in person!

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$15 General Public
$13 Senior/Student
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Scene Photo The Turning Point
Herbert Ross, 1977, USA; 119m

Letting loose, Bancroft garnered her fourth Oscar nomination as aging star ballerina Emma Jacklin, opposite Shirley MacLaine as her ex-dancer friend whose daughter’s ambitions open up old rivalries.



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Wed Mar 10: 1:00pm

Scene Photo The Last Frontier
Anthony Mann, USA, 1956; 98m

One of Mann’s most sheerly beautiful Westerns stars Victor Mature, James Whitmore, and Pat Hogan as Indian scouts at a fort, where Mature falls for the colonel’s wife (Anne Bancroft).



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Thu Mar 11: 4:00
Scene Photo The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Melvin Frank, 1975, USA; 98m

Manhattan marrieds Mel and Edna Edison (Jack Lemmon and Bancroft) have had it up to here—and there goes Mel’s job. An uproarious adapation of Neil Simon’s award-winning play.



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Thu Mar 11: 6:15

Scene PhotoThe Elephant Man
David Lynch, 1980, USA; 124m

Set in 19th-century London, this story of a misunderstood deformed man (Oscar-nominated John Hurt) was a compassionate triumph (kickstarted by Bancroft, who passed the script to the producer, husband Mel Brooks).






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Thu Mar 11: 8:45

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