Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) are employees at Matuschek and Company, a general store in Budapest. Klara and Alfred are constantly at odds, butting heads and disagreeing on almost everything. Both are enamored by their anonymous pen pals, who serve as welcome distractions in their lives, without realizing that they are actually falling in love with each other.
Film Series: Dear Little Friend
Inspired by the letters featured in the exhibition Dear Little Friend: Impressions of Galka Scheyer, enjoy a series of films that focus on relationships built on correspondence.
Free with Museum admission.
No reservations taken. The theater opens at 4:00 p.m. and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Saturday, March 7, 4:30–6:10 p.m.
84 Charing Cross Road (1987), PG
Directed by David Jones
Saturday, March 14, 4:30–6:10 p.m.
Based on the true story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books, a New York script reader (Anne Bancroft) answers an advertisement from a rare-book store in London and begins a two-decade romance via correspondence with a man (Anthony Hopkins) in the overseas department.
Il Postino (1994), PG
Directed by Michael Raford
Saturday, March 21, 4:30–6:20 p.m.
When Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) arrives on a tiny Italian isle, there’s so much new mail that Mario (Massimo Troisi), an uneducated layabout, is hired as a postman. Mario soon becomes a student of the poet. A firm friendship develops, and the postman turns into a changed man.
In Italian with English subtitles.
The Shop Around the Corner, MGM/Photofest, © MGM; 84 Charing Cross Road, Columbia Pictures/Photofest, © Columbia Pictures; Il Postino, Miramax/Photofest, © Miramax Films