WDCB Encore Film Series
Sweet Smell of Success with Q&A featuring Howard Reich

In the swift, cynical Sweet Smell of Success, directed by Alexander Mackendrick, Burt Lancaster stars as the vicious Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent Hunsecker ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician romancing his beloved sister. Featuring deliciously unsavory dialogue, in an acid, brilliantly structured script by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and noirish neon cityscapes from Oscar-winning cinematographer James Wong Howe, Sweet Smell of Success is a cracklingly cruel dispatch from the kill-or-be-killed wilds of 1950s Manhattan.

The screening will be followed by a Q & A with Howard Reich.

*** NOTE: This event is free for current Encore Club donors, as well as current WDCB contributors, as long as you reserve your tickets in advance. To reserve your pair of tickets, please follow the instructions that were mailed and/or emailed to you. If you are unsure of your current WDCB contribution status, give us a call or send an email to membership@WDCB.org.

FAQs

What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?

The film will be shown at the College of DuPage, in the Student Resource Center (SRC), Room 2000 (in the Jack H. Turner Conference Center - located on the north side of the SRC). Use parking lot FAWELL B or D (Lot C will be closed and under construction), and enter through doors marked SRC1.  The Conference Center is located up the stairs to the right.  There is also an elevator at the entrance.

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

If you need more information, please call (630) 942-4200 during regular business hours.