Thursday night is film night! Come and enjoy the premiere of the “CENSORED” Screening Series presented by Film Society! Prof. Selina Lai-Henderson will be introducing our first movie!
Back in 1950s, America was moving past WWII but still struggling about how old ways and new lives fit together. Director Elia Kazan shows this conflict by turning Tennessee Williams’ famous play into the film A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). The film was highly controversial and greatly censored during that time due to its bold depiction of family abuse, rape and metaphors about homosexuality. With career-defining performances: Vivien Leigh as the tragic, delusional Blanche DuBois, whose grip on reality frays with every lie, and Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski, the primal, magnetic force that tears her world apart, the film lays bare the ugliness beneath Southern charm with unapologetic intensity and haunting emotional weight. Seven decades later, its unflinching look at human vulnerability, class conflict, and the cost of denying truth still feels shockingly, powerfully alive.
Thursday 10/23, 5:45pm
CCTE Theatre
Free Boba!!!
