Chazen Calendar December 2016–January 2017 | Page 7

1 Thursday 12:30 p.m. Docent Gerry Matthews leads a 40-minute tour in the permanent collection. leads a 40-minute tour in the 15 Thursday 22 Thursday permanent collection. 12:30 p.m. Docent Kim Vergeront 12:30 p.m. A docent leads a leads a 40-minute tour in the 40-minute tour in the permanent permanent collection. collection. 12:30 p.m. Docent Ann Sauthoff 7 p.m. Wisconsin poets read new work inspired by First Folio! The 4 Sunday Book that Gave Us Shakespeare and Presenting Shakespeare: Posters 17 Saturday 23 Friday 12:30 p.m. Sunday Afternoon from Around the World as part of 1 p.m. Seasonal music with UW Daumier Lithographs: Characters Live at the Chazen with Pro Arte the Bridge Poetry Series. Chazen Horn Choir, Daniel Grabois, and Caricatures opens to the Quartet. Auditorium. director. Mead Witter Lobby. public. 2 p.m. Docents Gigi Holland and Gerry Matthews lead a 40-minute 11 Sunday 18 Sunday 24 Saturday tour, docent’s choice. Last day to view First Folio! The 2 p.m. A docent leads a 40-minute The museum is closed. 2 p.m. Sunday Cinematheque: Book that Gave us Shakepeare tour, docent’s choice. 2 p.m. Sunday Cinematheque: De 25 Sunday Havilland. Captain Blood, USA, The museum is closed. Educator Anne Lambert to Retire 29 Thursday After forty-one years at the De Havilland. The Snake Pit, and Presenting Shakespeare: USA, 1948, 35mm, 108 min., Posters from Around the World. directed by Anatole Litvak, cast: 2 p.m. A docent leads a 40-minute 1935, 35mm, 119 min., directed Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, tour, docent’s choice. by Michael Curtiz, cast: Errol 2 p.m. Sunday Cinematheque: Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Celeste Holm. Director Litvak’s still-harrowing drama about mental illness features de Havilland as a young woman suffering from delusions and extreme anxiety. Her conditions are exacerbated when she enters a corrupt mental institution. A significant feather in the cap of socially conscious Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, The Snake Pit was based on a book by Mary Jane Ward. Ward’s own experiences following a nervous breakdown inspired her writing. 8 Thursday Douglas. Paths of Glory, USA , 1957, 35mm, 86 min., directed by Stanley Kubrick, cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready. In perhaps the greatest of all antiwar films, Douglas plays Col. Dax, the benevolent leader of a platoon of WWI French soldiers who attempts to impede the actions of a maniacal general (Macready), willing to sacrifice the lives of his men for the sake of praise and promotion. Kubrick’s poetic compositions and rich character development add immeasurably to this study of men Rathbone. In his first swashbuckling adventure, Flynn is seventeenthcentury Irish doctor Peter Flood, 12:30 p.m. A docent leads a helm of the Chazen’s education 40-minute tour in the permanent program, Anne Lambert will collection. King James II’s court for tending 31 Saturday to an injured rebel. He escapes Last day to view FACADES: and becomes captain of a pirate Photographs by Markus Brunetti. who is sentenced to death by ship, only to come to England’s aid against the French navy. The action highlight is the dazzling swordfight between Flynn and retire in January 2017. The Chazen’s longest-serving staff member, Lambert joined the Elvehjem Art Center as curator of education in 1975. Over the years, she’s worked tirelessly to introduce generations of school children to the museum through fieldtrips and materials produced Rathbone. This was the first of for their teachers. She developed de Havilland’s many pairings with the docent program and Flynn and the rousing score is trained hundreds of volunteers by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. who extend the museum’s outreach. Lambert’s knowledge, Chazen Ambassadors special who maintain true honor and dignity event; check Free Chazen Events amidst the futility of war. A 35mm experience, and Southern charm on Facebook for details. restoration from the UCLA Film and will be sorely missed. Television Archive will be shown.