The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Directed by Vincente Minnelli Saturday - March 2 - 3:00 p.m. Lana Turner and Kirk Douglas star in Vincente Minnelli’s classic take on the movie industry. Shameless producer Jonathan Shields (Douglas) enlists glamorous actress Georgia Lorrison (Turner), ambitious director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan) and Pulitzer-winning screenwriter James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell) to collaborate on a movie. But as they recall their sordid histories with Shields, they each divulge the challenges of achieving success in Hollywood—and their misgivings about working with the town’s most successful producer. Unfolding in the three characters’ flashbacks, Minnelli’s film offers both a warm tribute to and sharp criticism of the nuts and bolts of Hollywood’s magic. (35mm. 118 min. Not rated.) High and Low (1963) Directed by Akira Kurosawa Saturday - March 23 - 3:00 p.m. When his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped, business executive Kingo Gondo (in a commanding performance by Kurosawa favorite Toshirô Mifune) must decide if he will sacrifice his fortune and control of his company to pay the ransom. Transporting Ed McBain’s 1950s novel King’s Ransom to 1960s Japan, Kurosawa makes both Gondo’s moral struggle and the sprawling hunt for the kidnapper feel vivid and compellingly unpredictable. Shifting between the worlds of the executive and the criminal, the film reveals the deep divide separating the powerful and peripheral, culminating in an unforgettable final scene where these worlds forcefully collide. (35mm. 143 min. Not rated.) 15 cinema.indiana.edu Tickets: (812) 855-1103 15 City Lights