The Dryden will screen Hold Me While I'm Naked (George Kuchar, U.S. 1966, 15 min, 16mm) followed by A Star is Born (George Cukor, U.S. 1954, 154 min., 35mm). On the former:

"This film could cheer an arthritic gorilla, and audiences, apparently sensitized by its blithely accurate representation of feelings few among them can have escaped, rise from their general stupor to cheer it back." — James Stoller (The Village Voice)

On the latter:

Judy Garland offers her finest performance as a resplendent ingenue and aspiring actress who marries a hard-drinking leading man (James Mason). As her career takes off, his plummets to the ground. Filled with songs of joy and yearning penned by Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin, the movie is the most brilliant of all of George Cukor's films about theater and show business. Amid the glamour, Cukor's piercing comments on Hollywood hit their targets with the bang of Judy's high notes.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Feb-15]