Selected Works

Cinema Under the Stars: Robert Wise's The Sound of Music (1965)

Friday, August 21, 2009, 9 p.m.

Members/students $3, non-members $5

Unrated, 174 min.

Starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, and Eleanor Parker

When the dog bites, when the bee stings, we simply remember our favorite things, like The Sound of Music. Winner of the Oscar for Best Picture in 1965, the film features a timeless score by songwriting team Rodgers and Hammerstein in the pair's final collaboration. The aerial shot of Julie Andrews singing the title song in the Austrian Alps is one of the most spectacular film openings of all time, and with song lyric subtitles we can all sing along. Children will be encouraged to make their "favorite things" at nearby craft tables, to wave as they are mentioned by Maria and the Trapp family singers.

This summer Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host "Musicals and Mayhem," the fourth season of Cinema Under the Stars, a film series co-sponsored by the School of Filmmaking of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Films from different eras will be screened at 9 p.m. each Friday night in August and the first Friday in September. Weather permitting, the movies will be shown outside on the lawn. In case of rain, films will be shown in the Babcock Auditorium. Beer and wine will be available for purchase only. The gates open at 8 p.m. and filmgoers are encouraged to come early and picnic on the lawn.

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Cinema Under the Stars: Robert Wise's The Sound of Music (1965) Friday, August 21, 2009, 9 p.m.
Members/students $3, non-members $5
Unrated, 174 min. Starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, and Eleanor Parker When the dog bites, when the bee stings, we simply remember our favorite things, like The Sound of Music. Winner of the Oscar for Best Picture in 1965, the film features a timeless score by songwriting team Rodgers and Hammerstein in the pair's final collaboration. The aerial shot of Julie Andrews singing the title song in the Austrian Alps is one of the most spectacular film openings of all time, and with song lyric subtitles we can all sing along. Children will be encouraged to make their "favorite things" at nearby craft tables, to wave as they are mentioned by Maria and the Trapp family singers. This summer Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host "Musicals and Mayhem," the fourth season of Cinema Under the Stars, a film series co-sponsored by the School of Filmmaking of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Films from different eras will be screened at 9 p.m. each Friday night in August and the first Friday in September. Weather permitting, the movies will be shown outside on the lawn. In case of rain, films will be shown in the Babcock Auditorium. Beer and wine will be available for purchase only. The gates open at 8 p.m. and filmgoers are encouraged to come early and picnic on the lawn.

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