Harold Lloyd can't avoid the crowds on their way to Film Forum for classic-comedy series
Film Forum
209 West Houston St.
December 11 – January 5
212-727-8110
www.filmforum.org
Film Forum has just the cure for the madness that takes over Manhattan during the holiday season – more than three weeks of classic New York-set comedies that will have you laughing out loud as you make your way through the very same but ridiculously crowded streets and mind-numbing department stores you’ve just seen on film. The series gets going December 11-12 with a Cary Grant double feature, THE AWFUL TRUTH (Leo McCarey, 1937) and HOLIDAY (George Cukor, 1938), and includes such other twofers as Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in ADAM’S RIB (George Cukor, 1949) and WOMAN OF THE YEAR (George Stevens, 1942), William Powell starring as THE THIN MAN (W. S. Van Dyke, 1934) and MY MAN GODFREY (Gregory La Cava, 1936), and the holiday duo of MIRACLE ON 34th STREET (George Seaton, 1947) and CHRISTMAS IN JULY (Preston Sturges, 1940). If you like your humor with a little more edge, you can try THE KING OF COMEDY (Martin Scorsese, 1983), the inspired pairing of THE PRODUCERS (Mel Brooks, 1968) and BROADWAY DANNY ROSE (Woody Allen, 1984), a New year’s Eve party with THE APARTMENT (Billy Wilder, 1960) and BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (Blake Edwards, 1961), or the underrated LITTLE MURDERS (Alan Arkin, 1971) screening with the overrated WHERE’S POPPA? (Carl Reiner, 1970). Other films feature Buster Keaton, Marilyn Monroe, Joel McCrea, Barbara Stanwyck, Jimmy Stewart, Jean Arthur, and Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Be ready to laugh your ass off – you know you need it.