• Jan 10, 2011 from 14:00 to 15:00
  • Location: The Preservation Foundation
  • Latest Activity: Sep 23, 2020

On Monday, January 10th at 6pm at the Preservation Foundation’s offices the film Hands Over The City (1963) will be presented.

 

The Foundation’s Co-Director Alexander C. Ives will, as with the previous Film Nights, present a short introduction to the film.

 

The film showing is FREE to all, though seating is limited. To make reservations call 561.832.0731 or respond to this email.

 

The showing will be held in Rosenthal Lecture Room at the Preservation Foundation’s offices located at 311 Peruvian Avenue in Palm Beach.

 

Drinks, sodas, wine, and food snacks will be provided.  As well, the special Palm Beach Martinis, made famous from past Film Nights, will be available for all.

 

Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation that has devastated a civilian landscape moves breathlessly from a cataclysmic building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying bare the inner workings of corruption with passion and outrage.

The film is in Italian with English subtitles.

Runtime: approximately 100 minutes

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