When:
Friday, April 10, 2015
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM CT
Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Members, Students, Seniors, NU $4.00; General Public $6.00
Contact:
Joanna M Gueller
Group: Block Museum of Art
Category: Academic
(Buster Keaton and James W. Horne, 1927, US, 35mm, 65 min.)
The movie begins with high school valedictorian Ronald (Buster Keaton) giving a graduation speech on “The Curse of the Athlete.” But then, in the century-old practice of reinventing oneself at college, Ronald gives up books to try out for the baseball team. It’s all for the love of Mary (Anne Cornwall), and not for the love of baseball. The tryout ends disastrously. Next Ronald walks on to the track team, but no one runs quite like him. Will he ever have a chance to show Mary his devotion? Keaton’s virtuosic performance of failure reaches a feverish height in this lovely send up of middle-class values.