I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING
WHEN: November 5, 7:30 PM
WHERE: Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, 411 E. Clinton Ave., Tenafly
TICKETS: $3 JCC members/$5 general admission.
For further information, please call Inbal Israeli 201.408.1492.
Harold Chapler’s popular film discussion series, Top Films You Might Have Missed, will feature I Know Where I’m Going, the Michael Powell, Emil Pressburger classic, starring Wendy Hiller. It is a modern folktale-romance filmed in the mysterious Outer Hebrides. Mr. Chapler has designed this series for film buffs to explore the director’s craft and the critical details that create a masterpiece.
I know Where I’m Going is a contemporary myth, complete with hero, maiden, a curse and a difficult trial in which the threat of death hangs in the balance. The setting is 1945. The love story is daringly mixed with near-documentary footage, giving it the feeling of a timeless legend. Wendy Hiller plays a quick-witted and determined young woman of humble means who is about to marry an aristocratic older man. As they journey by train up the coast of Scotland, a series of mishaps occur. Hiller is thrown together with a young passenger who introduces her to a world full of astonishing local color and inexplicable moments of fantasy and discovery.
The series continues on November 26, with Ernst Lubitsch’s romantic comedy Trouble in Paradise about Parisian thieves who disguise themselves as nobility to rob a lovely female owner of a perfumery; on December 17, with Shakespeare in Love, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Dench and Ben Affleck and on January 7, with a Preston Sturges comedy, The Lady Eve, starring Barbara Stanwyk as a beguiling con artist and Henry Fonda as a very rich, lovable bachelor.
Mr. Chapler gives interesting background information before the screening and invites the audience for a short discussion afterward.
