- John Garfield in Body and Soul (1947), screening Saturday at 2 PM
This weekend Block Cinema at Northwestern University concludes two series of studio-era American movies, each one programmed in conjunction with a different art exhibit at the Block Museum (and both presented entirely from 35-millimeter). The first of these, Moving Pictures, corresponds to an exhibit of photos by Edward Steichen and Andy Warhol. Steichen’s is the dominant personality here—his bold lighting schemes, which often emphasize the vertical dimension of the frame, make all his human figures look like movie stars and all his location shots look like movie settings. His images provide a useful context for the Warhol photos on display (which were shot in the 1970s and ’80s), as they epitomize the glamorous sensibility that Warhol simultaneously revered and satirized.
