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,
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amidst the futility of war. A 35mm
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restoration from the UCLA Film and
will be sorely missed.
Television Archive will be shown.