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A New Leaf

Directed by Elaine May

What’s Up Doc?

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Screening on Film

These two comic gems from the 1970s offer hilarious renderings of mismatched romance. In A New Leaf, Walter Matthau plays a wealthy spendthrift who faces bankruptcy after spending down his trust fund. He plots to marry and murder a rich botanist (May) but love gets in the way. May originally planned a much longer, darker satire before the film was reedited at the behest of producer Robert Evans. Arguably Barbra Streisand’s finest hour, What’s Up Doc? stars the famed songstress as a college drop-out who turns the life of a staid musicologist (O’Neal) upside-down. Director Bogdanovich pulls out all the stops in the film’s hilarious climactic chase through the streets of San Francisco.

PROGRAM

  • A New Leaf

    Directed by Elaine May.
    With Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston.
    US, 1971, 35mm, color, 102 min.
  • What’s Up Doc?

    Directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
    With Ryan O’Neal, Barbra Streisand, Madeline Kahn.
    US, 1973, 35mm, color, 94 min.

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