Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck go for a spin in William Wyler classic ROMAN HOLIDAY
ROMAN HOLIDAY (William Wyler, 1953)
BAMcinématek, BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Pl. & St. Felix St.
Thursday, February 14, 6:15 & 8:45
718-636-4100
www.bam.org
Audrey Hepburn won an Oscar for her delightful performance in William Wyler’s romantic charmer about a foreign princess who gets to spend a day of anonymity in the city of Rome with a good-looking American newsman (Gregory Peck) who knows at least some of her secrets. The film was nominated for a total of seven Oscars, also capturing the prize for Dalton Trumbo’s script and Edith Head’s costume design. Roman Holiday is screening at 6:15 and 8:45 on Valentine’s Day at BAM, with an optional $67 prix-fixe menu that includes a glass of champagne, an amuse bouche of green-pea flan with poached shrimp, a choice of baby arugula salad, lobster bisque, or spaetzle with Brussels sprout leaves and duck confit for appetizers, and an entrée choice of red-wine braised short ribs, spice-crusted salmon, roasted French-cut chicken breast gnocchi, or crispy wild mushroom risotto cake, followed by a shared lovers dessert of warm chocolate cake with fresh raspberries and vanilla ice cream.