TRUMBO

Savoy Theater
“Peter Askin’s stirring documentary gives you reasons to cheer but also to weep. It makes you lament the decline of the kind of language brandished with Shakespearean eloquence by Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter, in his witty, impassioned letters excerpted in the movie. Some of those letters, collected in the 1999 volume Additional Dialogue, are delivered as forceful dramatic soliloquies by a battery of distinguished actors including Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane, Liam Neeson, David Straithairn, Josh Lucas and Donald Sutherland. Another cause for lament is the shortness of historical memory in today’s climate of infinite distraction. If the story of the Hollywood blacklist and the lives it destroyed has been told many times before, it still bears repeating, especially in the post-9/11 climate of fear mongering, of Guantánamo, of flag pins as gauges of patriotism.” (Stephen Holden, New York Times). Sponsored by Onion River Community Access. Community Partner: American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont. Post-film event: Kate Lardner, daughter of “Hollywood 10” screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr., will discuss the film. Kenneth Turan in LA Times

• Friday, March 27 4:00 pm
• Saturday, March 28 6:30 pm
• Sunday, March 29 11:30 am