SPECIAL THANKS TO MARTY RUBIN (GENE SISKEL CENTER, CHICAGO), GREG FORD, RICK YANKOWSKI (CRITERION PICURES), SCHAWN BELSTON (20TH CENTURY FOX), PAUL GINSBURG, BOB O’NEIL (UNIVERSAL PICTURES), MICHAEL SCHLESINGER, SUSANNE JACOBSON, GROVER CRISP (SONY PICTURES), MELANIE VALERA, BARRY ALLEN (PARAMOUNT PICTURES), FRITZ HERZOG (AMPAS), MARK MCELHATTEN (SIKELIA PRODUCTIONS), LINDA HOPE, JIM HARDY (BOB HOPE ENTERPRISES), JONATHAN REICHMAN, MARTIN SCORSESE, JOE DANTE, AND NANCY MALONE.

SEPTEMBER 1/2 FRI/SAT

WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?

(1957) With top prize the key to the executive washroom, it’s a tough tradeoff for timid ad man Tony Randall: Hollywood sex bomb Jayne Mansfield will endorse “Stay-Put” lipstick if he’ll pose as her lover boy — but then he’s got to mollify understandably disgruntled fiancée Betsy Drake.
1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30

“Tashlin’s best and least compromised film, a definitive picture of Madison Avenue vulgarity.”
– Peter Bogdanovich

“[Tashlin] turned Mansfield into a living cartoon of postwar femininity, a kind of sexual hydrogen bomb capable of laying waste to entire male population.”
– Dave Kehr, The New York Times

SEPTEMBER 3 SUN
(2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION)

HOLLYWOOD OR BUST

(1956) In Martin & Lewis’s swan song, gambler Dean and movie nut Jerry win a car raffle, then hit the road for movieland to meet bombshell (and future La Dolce Vita icon) Anita Ekberg — the bust of the title.
1:30, 5:15, 9:00

“The best of the Martin and Lewis films and, if you listen to Jean-Luc Godard, a masterpiece. He may be right.”
– Dave Kehr

SON OF PALEFACE

(1952) Things are tough out West for eternally cowardly Bob Hope, what with having to battle for the blanket with his bedmate, Trigger the wonder horse, while singing cowboy Roy Rogers, confronted with choosing between the horse and voluptuous saloon singer Jane Russell, opts to think it over.
3:25, 7:10

“A cavalcade of sharp, imaginative visual gags…
One of the only Bob Hope comedies directed by somebody who qualifies as an auteur.”
– Time Out New York

“A Technicolor extravaganza that marked the full flowering of Tashlin’s style.”
– Dave Kehr, The New York Times

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SEPTEMBER 5 TUE
(2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION)

THE LIEUTENANT WORE SKIRTS

(1956) TV writer Tom Ewell has to go along for the househusband ride when Air Force wife Sheree North gets transferred to Hawaii, but he doesn’t have to like it, trying to convince shrink Ed Platt (Get Smart’s “Chief”) to transfer her back because she’s having a (nonexistent) nervous breakdown, while homaging his own Seven Year Itch role with Rita Moreno.
1:20, 5:10, 9:00

BACHELOR FLAT

(1962) While fiancée Celeste Holm is in Paris, Brit professor Terry-Thomas house-sits her Southern Cal apartment, but then his female students and those other ladies start dropping by — only trouble is, one is Holm’s (“I forgot to mention her”) daughter Tuesday Weld.
3:20, 7:10

“[Has] one of the most dynamic studies in montage this side of Sergei Eisenstein.”
– Dave Kehr, The New York Times

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SEPTEMBER 6 WED
(2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION)

ARTISTS AND MODELS

(1955) Roommate Jerry Lewis’s nightmares provide perfect material for blocked writer Dean Martin, even as Lewis daydreams about the Bat Lady in his favorite comic — actually written/ modeled by neighbors Dorothy Malone and Shirley MacLaine. But when Jerry dreams up a secret rocket fuel formula, it’s time for fun with Russian spies Anita Ekberg and Eva Gabor!
1:00, 5:10, 9:20

“Trust us, you'll want to double-dip on this Tashlin stuff and this manic Jerry Lewis-Dean Martin comedy is the one to do it with. DON'T MISS!”
– Time Out New York

“No film could be more devastating, more bitter in its humor.”
– Jean-Luc Godard

LOONEY TUNES À LA TASHLIN

Former newspaper cartoonist Tashlin (aka Tish Tash) began a 10-year career as a director of Warner Bros. cartoons in 1936, helping to define the studio’s wacky style and the personalities of its two earliest superstars, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck (and, later, Bugs Bunny). This program, selected by cartoon director and historian Greg Ford, includes some of Tash’s one-reel masterworks, including Porky’s Romance, Scrap Happy Daffy, Porky Pig’s Feat, and much more!
3:10, 7:20

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SEPTEMBER 7 THU
(2 FILMS FOR 1 ADMISSION)

THE DISORDERLY ORDERLY

(1964) Psycho clinic nurse Jerry Lewis battles stern-lipped supervisor Kathleen Freeman, ends up in the straitjacket when he tries to restrain legendary comic Jack E. Leonard, finds real snow in a TV set, actually does aid a suicidal patient, then steals an ambulance leading to a stretchers-gone-amok finale that rivals the climactic chase of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
3:15, 6:50, 10:25

“A riotous toy chest of Hitchcockian curios.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

IT’$ ONLY MONEY

(1962) Clumsy repairman Jerry Lewis knows all about TVs, except how to fix them, but what he really wants to be is Jesse White’s Pete Flint, Private Eye — but does Jerry need to solve his only missing heir case? With Tashlinian voracious vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers gone wild (“A literally mind-blowing scene . . . excellent Tashlin” – Bernard Eisenschitz).
1:30, 5:05, 8:40

“If Mr. Lewis ever sues Jim Carrey for stealing his act this picture will be Exhibit A.”
– Grady Hendrix, The New York Sun

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