Screening of Preston Sturges' screwball comedy The Palm Beach Story, part of the Essential Cinema series at AFS Cinema.
AFS Cinema is screening The Palm Beach Story on Saturday, August 1, at 1:30 PM. It's part of Essential Cinema: Four by Preston Sturges, a series focusing on the director's comedy masterworks. The film is a 1942 screwball comedy, 88 minutes long, and it's being shown on 35mm.
The Palm Beach Story is a comedy of remarriage in Sturges' signature style, starring Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea as a couple unhappy with their lot in life. While tentatively venturing into other romantic situations, they each contrive to make the other jealous. The Criterion Collection called it "the diamond bracelet of romantic comedies: glittering, extravagant in feeling and in laughs," and the Austin Chronicle noted Sturges' focus "on the importance of money, sex, and guns — not necessarily in that order."
The Essential Cinema series describes Sturges' comedies as smart and literary without being highbrow, reveling in physical comedy without descending into slapstick. The cinema itself is run by the Austin Film Society, a 501(c)(3) founded in 1985 by filmmaker Richard Linklater to empower the community to make, watch and love film.
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Tickets are $14 for evening shows and $11.50 for matinees, with the matinee price available Monday through Friday for shows before 5 PM. AFS MAKE and WATCH members get $4 off, and LOVE and Impact Circle members see it for free. AISD educators and local high school and college students get discounts at the box office with a valid school ID. The screening is at AFS Cinema, 6406 N I-35 Suite 3100, Austin, TX 78752.
