Superman: The Movie Cabaret Cinema
Friday April 3, 2009 @ 9:30 PM
Paul Levitz introduces Superman: The Movie
Richard Donner, U.S., 1978 (143 min)
Christopher Reeves, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando.
President and Publisher of DC Comics Paul Levitz introduces a film about the world's most famous superhero, an alien orphan sent from his dying planet to Earth.
Paul Levitz is the President and Publisher of DC Comics, with which he has been associated for more than three decades. As a writer, he is best known for his run on The Legion of Superheroes. Beginning as a freelance writer of text features, he went on to write most of the classic DC characters, including Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Superman newspaper strip. Born in Brooklyn, Levitz entered the comics industry in 1971 as the editor/publisher of The Comic Reader (TCR), the first mass-circulation fanzine devoted to comic news. He continued to publish TCR for three years, winning two consecutive annual Comic Art Fan Awards for Best Fanzine.
The Green Tara series presents the traditional eight fears of Buddhism on the silver screen, in this case, the fear of bandits. For more information on this series, visit www.rmanyc.org/cabaretcinema.
Upcoming films in the Green Tara series include:
April 10 – MIDNIGHT EXPRESS introduced by JESSICA BLANK and ERIK JENSEN
April 17 - ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD introduced by HERSCHEL GARFEIN
April 24 - LIFEBOAT introduced by KURT ANDERSEN
