Screening of the 1945 film Mildred Pierce, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, presented in 35mm as part of the Big Screen Classics series.
AFS Cinema is screening Mildred Pierce (1945) on Friday, August 28, at 7 PM, and again on Sunday, August 30, at 1:30 PM. Both showings are part of the Big Screen Classics series and run on 35mm, so you're getting the film on the format it was made for.
Joan Crawford stars in the title role, and it's widely considered a career milestone that came just as her screen presence seemed to be fading. She plays a devoted mother who stands by her daughter through everything, including murder—the kind of high-stakes family drama that earns the label "peak Hollywood melodrama." It's a story about a woman who builds a life for herself and the daughter who takes it in a direction she never expected.
Behind the camera is Michael Curtiz, the director of Casablanca, and critics have called Mildred Pierce his darkest and saddest film. They describe it as an acute, unsparing study of relationships poisoned by class and money, and utterly gripping. If you're into old-school noir and family drama that doesn't pull its punches, this is right in that wheelhouse.
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Tickets are $15 for the evening show and $12 for the matinee, with the matinee price available Monday through Friday for shows before 5 PM. AFS MAKE & WATCH members get $4 off, and LOVE & Impact Circle members get in free. There are also discounts for AISD educators and local high school and college students at the box office with a valid school ID. The cinema is at 6406 N I-35 Suite 3100, Austin, TX 78752.
