Slideshow
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
Monday, February 24
3:20
Tuesday, February
8:00
Based on the novella by Muriel Spark, first published in The New Yorker in 1961.
U.S., 1969
Directed by Ronald Neame
With Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Celia Johnson, Pamela Franklin, Gordon Jackson
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Actress, 1970
Approx. 116 min. DCP.
“Maggie Smith as Muriel Spark’s witty caricature of a romantic crackpot teacher in an Edinburgh school in the '30s. She wants to inspire the girls rather than teach them — she’s the kind of teacher little girls get crushes on… Maggie Smith, with her gift for mimicry and her talent for mannered comedy, makes Jean Brodie very funny — snobbish, full of affectations, and with a jumble shop of a mind. Celia Johnson has a genuine triumph as her adversary, Ms. MacKay, and Robert Stephens does a lot with the role of her lover.” – Pauline Kael
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film
Reviews
“Miss Smith’s performance is a staggering amalgam of counter-pointed moods, switches in voice levels and obliquely stated emotions, all of which are precisely right.”
– Vincent Canby, The New York Times