NAU-Yuma Classic Film Series: '39 Steps'

Orson Welles, James Dean, Gary Cooper and Francis Ford Coppola are coming to the AWC and NAU-Yuma campus and the public is invited.

The NAU Classic Film Series, titled "Identity, Alienation and Ethical Choice," begins this Sunday with a showing of the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film "The 39 Steps," and will continue through April.

The film series has been offered annual at NAU's main campus in Flagstaff, and this year for the first time, the university's College of Arts and Letters is making it available to the Yuma branch, said Ross Brooke Ettle, grants officer for NAU-Yuma.

"Understanding what is happening with modern film, you need to come back to the 20th century. (It) helps people develop a cinematic critical vocabulary of the past classics," Ettle said.

The films can be incorporated into course content at NAU-Yuma, she said, but "we want the public to engage in this kind of intellectual exchange" as well.

The films will be shown at the AWC Theatre at AWC and NAU-Yuma campus at 6500 E. County 10th St. The films are all free and all begin at 5 p.m.

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WHAT'S SHOWING

The NAU Classic Film Series films, presented with high definition equipment, will be shown on these dates:

-Feb. 3 - "The 39 Steps," a mystery starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll

-Feb. 24 - The 1941 drama "Citizen Cane," which stars and is directed by Orson Welles.

-March 2 - The 1972 mafia drama "The Godfather," which stars Marlon Brando and is directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

-March 9 - The 1952 Western "High Noon," starring Gary Cooper and directed by Fred Zinnemann.

-March 23 - The 1956 science fiction film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," which stars Kevin McCarthy and is directed by Don Siegel.

-April 6 - The 1955 drama "Rebel Without a Cause," starring James Dean and is directed by Nicholas Ray.

For more information, call Ettle at 317-7080 or e-mail her at brooke.ettle@nau.edu.

Jennifer Lovell can be reached at jlovell@yumasun.com or 539-6849.