— Steve Seid <seidtrak@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Pacific Film Archive presents:
> GAMES PEOPLE PLAY: a film/video series that looks
> at games
> as cultural activity with a special emphasis on
> videogames.
> running January through April
>
>
> WED JAN 19 2005
> 7:30 The Most Dangerous Game
> Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel (1932)
>
> The lush and foreboding jungle in The Most Dangerous
> Game might seem
> strangely familiar. This film was made
> simultaneously with King Kong,
> and the two share more than a common set, for here
> too is hirsute
> libido on the loose. Richard Connell's oft-filmed
> story of the
> self-exiled Russian Count Zaroff, who tires of big
> game hunting and
> goes instead for human quarry on his private island,
> is a tale of
> Sadean camp. Collecting castaways, Zaroff, played
> with restrained
> randyness by Leslie Banks, gives his prey a few
> hours' lead, then off
> he goes to bag his booty. When a no-nonsense nimrod
> (Joel McCrea)
> washes ashore, things start to get a bit gamey.
> Throw in trophy
> wife-to-be Fay Wray, and you have the makings of a
> great hunting
> party.
> Preceded by short: Chess Fever (Vsevolod Pudovkin,
> Nikolai
> Shpikovsky, U.S.S.R., 1925). Asked to direct a comic
> ditty at the
> international chess tournament held in Moscow,
> Pudovkin did one
> better, incorporating the unwitting chess champions,
> including Jose
> Raoul Capablanca, into this story about an obsessive
> player and his
> incensed wife. (Silent with Russian intertitles and
> live English
> translation)
> Special performance by febrile pianist Greg
> Goodman.
>
> The Pacific Film Archive Theater is located at 2575
> Bancroft Way, one
> block east of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. For
> info: 510.642.1412.



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