Summer 2004 Film Schedule
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| Sylvia | |
Date: |
May 11 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Silver Spring, MD |
| Guest Speaker: | Norman Rosenthal, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown Medical School, Washington D.C.; and Medical Director, Capital Clinical Research Associates, Rockville, Maryland |
| Medical Theme: | Depression, Suicide |
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| Renowned American poet and novelist, Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow), and her tempestuous relationship with English poet, Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig), are the focus of this romantic drama. Plath met Hughes while on a Fullbright scholarship at Cambridge. Their marriage was rocky, and they eventually separated in 1963 when Hughes broke her heart by taking another lover. Crushed, Plath committed suicide. |
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| Starring: | Gwyneth Paltrow, Daniel Craig, Jared Harris, Blythe Danner, Michael Gambon, Andrew Havill, Lucy Davenport, Liddy Holloway, David Birkin, Alison Bruce, Julian Firth, Jeremy Fowlds, Michael Mears, and Anthony Strachan |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Run Time: | 1 hour, 40 minutes |
| Rating: | Rated R for sexuality/nudity and language |
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| Dark Victory | |
Date: |
June 8 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Silver Spring, MD |
| Guest Speaker: | Cheryl Royce, MS, RNP, Adult Nurse Practitioner, Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, NIH |
| Medical Theme: | Brain Cancer |
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| Studio head Jack Warner did not want to make Dark Victory, predicting that no audience would want to see "astory of a girl who dies." But Bette Davis changed his mind, and won her third Oscar nomination! As Judy Trahene, the fast-moving Long Island socialite whose world skids to a stop when she discovers she has less than a year to live, Davis is thoroughly captivating. She flirts with suicide as she progresses from belligerent drunken despair to exhilaration-determined to live her remaining months, in the words of her doctor/lover (George Brent), "beautifully and finely." Geraldine Fitzgerald is her friend and sanctuary, Humphrey Bogart speaks with a brogue accent as her Irish horse trainer, and Ronald Reagan plays her high-living, heavy-drinking suitor. But it is Davis' beautifully compelling performance that drives the film. |
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| Starring: | Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, Cora Witherspoon, Dorothy Peterson, Virginia Brissac, Charles Richman, Herbert Rawlinson, Leonard Mudie, Fay Helm, and Lottie Williams |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1939 |
| Run Time: | 1 hour, 6 minutes |
| Rating: | Not rated |
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| Miss Evers' Boys | |
Date: |
July 13 |
| Time: | 7:00 - 9:30 p.m. |
| Location: | AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Silver Spring, MD |
| Guest Speaker: | Vanessa Northington Gamble, M.D., Ph.D., Deputy Director for Education and Training, Morgan-Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions,Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
(former Chair of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee) |
| Medical Theme: | Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, Human Subjects Research, History of Medicine |
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| Based on the shocking true story. Miss Evers' Boys exposes a 40 year government-backed medical research effort on humans which led to tragic consequences. It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers (Alfre Woodard) is invited to work with Dr. Brodus (Joe Morton) and Dr. Douglas (Craig Sheffer) on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, including Caleb Humphries(Laurence Fishburne) and Willie Johnson (Obba Babatunde). But when the government withdraws its support, money is offered for what will become known as "The Tuskegee Experiment"; a study of the effects of syphilis on patients who don't receive treatment. Now the men must be led to believe they are being cared for, when in fact they are being denied the medicine that could cure them. Miss Evers is faced with a terrible dilemma - to abandon the experiment and tell her patients or to remain silent and offer only comfort. It is a life or death decision that will dictate the course not only of her life, but the lives of all of Miss Evers' boys. |
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| Starring: | Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Joe Morton, Obba Babatundé, Von Coulter, Thom Gossom Jr., Ossie Davis, E.G. Marshall |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Run Time: | 1 hour, 58 minutes |
| Rating: | PG |
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