On The Waterfront

The "Imagining the Method" classic film series continues Fri 4/26 with Marlon Brandon in 1954's "On the Waterfront." Tickets $10 each. Copies of the "Imagining the Method" book will be on sale at each show. The series concludes Fri 5/3 with James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause." Click back to coming soon for those tickets.

Join us at Circle Cinema for an exciting journey into the realm of method acting with the launch of the new book "Imagining the Method" by author Justin Owen Rawlins in partnership with Magic City Books. Presented with the generous sponsorship of the University of Tulsa Department of Media Studies, this series celebrates the artistry of three iconic method actors across three consecutive weeks.

Friday 4/26 @ 7pm:
"On the Waterfront," starring Marlon Brando.
Justin will be joined by Barry Friedman (Tulsa comedian and author) to talk about the New York acting scene and Barry’s years-long study under acting legend Uta Hagen.

- ABOUT THE BOOK & AUTHOR -

Justin Owen Rawlins is Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Film Studies at the University of Tulsa. His new book “Imagining the Method” traces the primordial conditions under which “Method” acting was interpreted, and how that received idea has taken on outsized importance in US popular culture. The book shines a light on the cultural politics of method acting and assumptions about race, gender, and screen actors that inform the ways we think/talk about performers and performances.

- ABOUT THE FILM -
Dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) persuaded him to throw a fight. When a longshoreman is murdered before he can testify about Friendly's control of the Hoboken waterfront, Terry teams up with the dead man's sister Edie (Eva Marie Saint) and the streetwise priest Father Barry (Karl Malden) to testify himself, against the advice of Friendly's lawyer, Terry's older brother Charley (Rod Steiger).