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Private Property

Private Property
Cinema
November
19

Event Details

Date & Time:

Thu November 19, 2015

Location:

The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

Audience:

Open to the public

Details:

(Leslie Stevens, 1960, US, 35mm, 79 min.)

An early forbearer of the “New Hollywood” movement, Private Property concerns a young woman who becomes victim to a pair of drifters, Boots and Duke (played by cult favorites Warren Oates and Corey Allen, respectively). While the film’s frank presentation of sexual desire resulted in denial of MPAA approval and a limited release in the US, it was a hit in Europe. Private Property is a scruffy underdog of a movie and deserving of a reappraisal.

35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Preservation funding provided by The Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu