Movie Club in South Park begins this June

The South Park Neighborhood Association’s Second Sundays Movie Club begins Sunday, June 12, at 7:30 pm and will meet on the second Sunday of each month thereafter to view and discuss one of the movies recently chosen as the best of its year, beginning in 1932. 

The first movie will be Trouble in Paradise. Ernst Lubitsch directed this 1932 production, which is about two lowlifes who join forces to con the beautiful owner of a perfume company.

Romantic entanglements ensue. 

The Hollywood studios recruited many of Europe's top film directors during the years between the two World Wars. Ernst Lubitsch was one of the most illustrious of these European talents, and he enjoyed a successful career at Paramount, where he headed up the studio for a period during the 1930s. Known for light comedies, he became famous for "the Lubitsch touch," subtle allusions to racy material that went under the radar of the censors. Trouble in Paradise is one of Lubitsch's most celebrated productions, with a script by his favorite writer Samson Rafaelson. 

The running time of Trouble in Paradise is 1 hour 23 minutes.

The Second Sundays Movie Club will meet in the Media Room at 1050 South Grand (corner of 11th and Grand). Cost will be $10 each, payable in cash at the door. To be put on the attendee list email vwexman@uic.edu, and you will be added to the Punchbowl invitation. Attendance will be limited to 14 people, first come, first served.

By Virginia Wexman