‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’
Rated PG-13 — Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly return as Caqpt. Jack Sparrow searches for a trident that gives him power over the seas, but an old enemy (Javier Bardem) is determined to kill Sparrow.
Throughout Cinevent, many viewers might find themselves muttering to themselves, “They don’t make ’em like that anymore.”
In the case of “Winning Your Wings,” the notion is true.
The 18-minute short, filmed in 1942 and featuring actor/real-life Army Air Force pilot Jimmy Stewart, was screened in theaters as a recruitment tool for the Army Air Force during World War II.
“All of the studios were doing their bit for the war effort,” said Matzen, author of “Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe."
Jack Warner, the head of Warner Bros. at the time, was solidly behind the war effort and offered the company’s resources to create recruiting and training films. “Winning Your Wings” was one of the first such films made by Warner.
“He pushes the fact of
Most film fans can sing along with “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” from “Oklahoma!” or “Maria” from “West Side Story.”
How about singing a song from “Where’s Charley?” Somebody? Anybody? Not a problem: Uncovering hidden gems is the point of Cinevent.
“If I had requested to introduce a rare film, that would have been the one I had chosen,” said Barrios, a fan of musicals who was given the assignment
Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall gained fame as members of the Dead End Kids in “Dead End,” a 1935 Broadway drama filmed in 1937 as a noir thriller of the same name.
The gang stuck together, making 89 movies as the Dead End Kids, then the East Side Kids, before turning to the clownish capers of the Bowery Boys.
Brandy Gorcey Ziesemer, Leo’s daughter, will make her first appearance to introduce a film during a screening of “Clancy Street Boys,” starring the East Side Kids.
The 1943 movie has elements of comedy and drama, said Ziesemer, of Mount Dora, Florida.
“It was representative of one of their better films, in my opinion, and it was pertinent to the times,” she said. “But it kind of showed a little bit more of a story. It had the comedic scenes, but it was a really good example of some of the movies that were a little less pure comedy.”
Ziesemer wants fans to appreciate the longevity of the actors.
“I want them to not only enjoy the movie," she said, "but to realize that it’s impressive that ... a core
group of actors could stay together during a 20-year period after starting on Broadway together."
Saturday 4:10 p.m.
James D’Arc
Western movies have long been a Hollywood staple, but the singing cowboy was a subgenre that offered relief to audiences during the Depression.
"The escape provided by the long-popular Western film combined with hit tunes that spoke of the simple life of the prairie and
the love of a woman resonated with the millions of Americans out of work and their lives disrupted by the economic chaos resulting from the stock market crash of 1929," said D'Arc, curator of the Brigham Young University Motion Picture Archives in Provo, Utah.
“The Old Corral” (1936) stars Gene Autry and his longtime sidekick, Smiley Burnette. Adding star power are Lon Chaney Jr., five years before he became famous in “The Wolf Man,” and Irene Manning, who would star with James Cagney in “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and
with Humphrey Bogart in “The Big Shot.”
D'Arc, a resident of Orem, Utah, who has attended Cinevent "for at least the past five years," hopes people can enjoy Autry's talent while appreciating his business acumen.
“'The Old Corral,'" he said in an email interview, "showcased the tremendous success of one of America’s great singers and recordingindustry businessmen in a niche of the Western film genre that became enormously popular."
Sunday 10:25 a.m.