BABY FACE

THE UNCENSORED
PRE-RELEASE VERSION

(Alfred E. Green) The Citizen Kane of Pre-Code, as Barbara Stanwyck turns tricks out of her dad’s dreary Erie, Pa. speakeasy, then sleeps her way up the corporate ladder. Plus Betty Boop as Snow White! Approx. 71 min. 35mm.
2:50, 6:00, 9:15

“The cut version is a shocker in itself; the uncensored version is even more cynical and deliciously sordid.”
– Dave Kehr

CHRISTOPHER STRONG

(Dorothy Arzner) Pants and “silver moth” gownwearing, very independent aviatrix Katharine Hepburn dallies with married MP Colin Clive. Arzner was the only female director active in Hollywood in the 30s. Approx. 78 min. 35mm.
1:15, 4:25, 7:35

“One of the rare movies told from a woman’s sexual point of view… It’s not one that independent-minded women can easily forget.”
– Pauline Kael

“[Hepburn] fascinates by her strange beauty and inescapable magnetism, by her verve, her harshness and her tenderness, with the enormous advantage of making every mood reflect a mental state of utter sincerity and conviction.”
– Herbert Lusk, The Los Angeles Times