Casablanca

“Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine…” Director Michael Curtiz’s iconic and adulated wartime romantic epic — in which American tough-guy Rick (Humphrey Bogart), proprietor of a classy nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, re-encounters ex-flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), now married to a heroic Czech resistance leader (Paul Henreid) wanted by the Nazis — is the most famous high-point of Hollywood’s Golden Age and studio system. Casablanca has, over the decades, become so much part of the pop culture vernacular that any synopsis of the film seems redundant. It certainly represents, in the public imagination, the epitome of the legendary Bogart screen persona — cynical, solitary, sardonic, self-reliant, world-weary, anti-heroic, but ultimately redeemable by love. The film won Oscars for Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay. The rogue’s-gallery supporting cast is superb. Ronald Reagan and Ann Sheridan were originally announced, in a 1941 Warner Brothers press release, as the leads. B&W, 35mm. 102 mins.

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ADDITIONAL SCREENING! Casablanca also screens at 1pm on Tuesday, June 15, as a Silver Screen matinée.
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