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The Wild Party
Location
Main screening room
Date
July 17th, 2022
Duration
77 min
Cycle
The essentials

Making lists is an activity moviegoers are fond of. Every year, the same ritual: compilation of the ten best films, with comparative analyses, debates, heated discussions. But what about the ultimate list of the most outstanding films in the history of cinema? That is to say, those films that must be seen, those that have forever transformed the art of cinema, but also our way of seeing a culture, of understanding the world as well as our own lives? This program aims to tackle this challenge with nearly eighty films, produced between 1916 and 1960, while waiting for your lists!

35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive

The Wild Party
Directed by
Dorothy Arzner
Language
English version
Actors
Clara Bow, Fredric March
Origins
USA
Year
1929
Duration
77 min
Genre
Drama
Format
35 mm
Synopsis

The unruly girls at a middle school pay more attention to partying than to their classes. But when one of them, Stella Ames, goes too far at a bar and gets into serious trouble, her teacher must rescue her. The gossip between the two escalates until Stella proves she is respectable by protecting an innocent girl and earning the teacher's respect.

The Wild Party

Dorothy Arzner

Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s. From 1927 until her retirement from feature directing in 1943, Arzner was the only female director working in Hollywood. Additionally, she was one of a very few women able to establish a successful and long career in Hollywood as a film director until the 1970s. Arzner made a total of twenty films between 1927 and 1943 and launched the careers of a number of Hollywood actresses, including Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell, and Lucille Ball. Additionally, Arzner was the first woman to join the Directors Guild of America and the first woman to direct a sound film.

(Wikipedia)

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