WHERE WERE YOU IN 1976?: A STAR IS BORN

Where Were You in 1976? A Look Back at Bicentennial Cinema: A Star Is Born, 6 pm Bicentennial Pre-show by Deserted Films/6:30 pm Feature.

Thursday, June 11

A Star Is Born (1976) Frank Pierson

"You can trash your life but you're not going to trash mine.”

It’s a story Hollywood loves to tell.  And this version is, in spite of what IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes tells you, an absolute 1970s masterpiece. Honestly, a revelation 50 years later! And to appreciate its mastery, you need to see it on the Camelot’s GIANT screen. It is about the exaggeration of pop-stardom, and it’s plain as day when Barbra is bigger than life in front of your eyes (but then, when isn’t she?).  It’s also the only way you can see that the film’s very simple, nearly operatic narrative hangs on the way Kris Kristofferson and Barbra look at each other. “Are you watching me now?” The music talent alone is staggering: Streisand, Kristofferson, Paul Williams, Leon Russell! - “Evergreen” won an academy award! 

ABOUT THE SERIES

Where Were You in 1976?

A look back at bicentennial cinema…

The USA turns 250 years old this year. It’s a BIG birthday! So we’ve put together a series that looks back at our last big birthday…the bicentennial of 1976. Four “prime time” movies in the evenings and one VERY SPECIAL all-ages, FREE, family friendly matinee brought to you by the Palm Springs Public Library. It’s our birthday gift toPalm Springs and we can’t wait to see you!

Deserted Films, the Palm Springs Public Library, and the Palm Springs Cultural Center have teamed up to bring you 5 key films to get us thinking about where we were when we hit 200.

Deserted Films will present a special pre-show (6-6:30) before each feature… and we’ve got some spectacular bicentennial-era home movies and other goodies to share!

Enjoy the PSCC AC! Meet interesting people! See things you can’t see on TV or anywhere else! And support a couple of filmy nonprofits that need your help in the Summer!

Come make the Palm Springs Cultural Center your third place to relax into a look back at 1976 and help Deserted Films continue their mission to digitize home movies shot in and around our valley!