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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Film A Mystery To Remember
Posted By Matt Brunson on Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 9:02 AM
The 2007 Summer Film Series at ImaginOn ends this weekend, so if you haven’t yet ventured out for any of the showcased titles, here’s your last chance.
This year’s theme was “All About Mank: Classic Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz,” and the program ends with 1972's Sleuth, the final picture the filmmaker helmed before his retirement (he died in 1993, six days before his 84th birthday). An adaptation of Anthony Shaffer’s acclaimed play (with a script written by Shaffer himself), the movie is a delightful mystery in which two men (Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine) engage in a possibly dangerous game of cat-and-mouse. The movie earned four Oscar nominations – Best Director, Best Actor (both Olivier and Caine) and Best Original Score (John Addison) – and a remake will be released this fall, directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Caine in the Olivier role and Jude Law in the Caine role.
Sleuth will be screened at 2 p.m. this Sunday. Admission is free.
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