Film Series
Arizona Opera sets sail for adventure with its sixth annual Summer Film Series presented in partnership with Phoenix Art Museum’s Movies at the Museum. Gilbert and Sullivan’s comedy The Pirates of Penzance opens the 2010-11 Season and inspired this year’s series – High C’s on the High Seas – celebrating the dashing and dangerous swashbucklers of the silver screen.
Films are free with museum admission and are shown in the Whiteman Auditorium at the Phoenix Art Museum. Screenings begin at 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 18, 2010 1:00 p.m.
Albert Parker, 1926
This silent era masterpiece filmed in early Technicolor introduced the world to the original suave and swarthy swashbuckler, Douglas Fairbanks. With his daring athleticism and devilish good looks he created the mold for all future big screen buccaneers. As a young nobleman intent on revenge he infiltrates a pirate band to become the fearless and feared Black Pirate performing one of cinema’s greatest feats of derring-do, sliding down and slicing the ship’s sails with his dagger.
Silent with English subtitles.
88 minutes.
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Sunday, August 15, 2010 1:00 p.m.
Michael Curtiz, 1935
The dashing Errol Flynn stars as Dr. Peter Blood an Englishman falsely accused of treason sentenced to slavery in the West Indies. Through bravado and a cunning wit he escapes to become the feared pirate Captain Blood and sets sail on a rousing adventure with a fearsome crew of runaway slaves. Gorgeous dames in peril, thrilling sea battles and an appropriately heart pounding score by Erich Wolfgang Kornhold this is the ultimate high seas adventure.
In English.
119 minutes.
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Sunday, September 26, 2010 1:00 p.m.
Victor Fleming, 1934
The Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale fired the imagination of generations of children with visions of treasure maps marked with an “X”, buried plunder, peg-legged pirates named Long John Silver and salty wisecracking parrots. Jackie Cooper stars as the young Jim Hawkins who discovers the pirate Billy Bones’ treasure map and unknowingly sets sail with a motley crew of cut throats on an adventure of a lifetime.
In English.
103 minutes.
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