Meet ICP at Metrograph this fall for special screenings inspired by our exhibition Play the Part: Marlene Dietrich. Metrograph presents two iconic Dietrich performances that explore the actor’s multifaceted public persona—Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright and Josef Von Sternberg’s The Blue Angel.
Show your "Play the Part" x Metrograph movie ticket at ICP for reduced admission to visit the exhibition Marlene Dietrich: Play the Part, on view through January 8, 2024.
Showtimes
Friday, October 13 - 5:30 PM*
The Blue Angel
Friday, October 13 - 7:45 PM*
Stage Fright
Saturday, October 14 - 8:15 PM
The Blue Angel
*With an introduction to the film by Haley Kane, Collections and Exhibitions Coordinator at ICP and organizer of Play the Part: Marlene Dietrich.
Metrograph members receive access to Metrograph’s At Home platform which offers exclusive, live streaming films and premieres, special introductions and conversations with your favorite filmmakers.
About the Films
The Blue Angel
Mild-mannered, uptight schoolteacher Emil Jannings lives a faultlessly law-abiding, by-the-book existence, but it’s all over when he gets a glimpse of Dietrich’s nightclub chanteuse Lola Lola, and is immediately ready to ruin himself for her amusement. The first collaboration between Dietrich and von Sternberg made her an international star, and linked her forever to her seductive, world-weary delivery of the song Falling in Love Again.
Stage Fright
Hitchcock’s last film in his native England until 1972’s Frenzy is an audaciously structured thriller, making use of an extended flashback and a whiplash narrative about-face. Acting student Jane Wyman tries to save beau Robert Todd from taking the fall for a murder committed by stage star Dietrich, who shows her hypnotic charm in a show-stopper performance of The Laziest Gal in Town.
About Metrograph
Located two blocks from ICP, Metrograph is the ultimate destination for movie lovers. A special curated world of cinema inspired by the great New York movie theaters of the 1920s and the Commissaries of the Hollywood Studio backlots, Metrograph is a community inhabited by movie professionals screening their work, taking meetings, watching films, collaborating together — an audience built around our shared love of cinema.
