Rare 35mm Film Screening of:

The Birds
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1963, 119 min, USA, in English, Color, 35mm)

-- Introduced by Prof. Markos Hadjioannou (Literature)!

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.The film's technical wizardry is extraordinary, especially in the film's closing scene (a complex, trick composite shot) - the special visual effects of Ub Iwerks were nominated for an Academy Award.

Adapted a story by Daphne Du Maurier, the main inspiration for the film's bird attacks came from mysterious, real-life avian deaths occurring in the summer of 1961. Thousands of disoriented seagulls suicidally flew into houses along the Monterey Bay coast line, south of San Francisco.

"This masterpiece is one of Hitchcock's purest forays into cinema."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), with support from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation