WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Jan. 30, the Clark Art Institute screens the latest installment in its Hollywood Auteurs film series, "Young Frankenstein" (1974), at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. 

 

According to a press release:

 

Presented in partnership with Images Cinema, this series captures the explosion of creativity, critical acclaim, and box office success that Hollywood directors found after the fall of the studio system. This film is shown in the Manton Research Center auditorium.

 

As the serious side of New Hollywood took its inspiration from the French New Wave, the comic side embraced burlesque. Writer and director Mel Brooks's pioneering vulgarity looks both tame and edgy from today's perspective—cheap and risky in a way that reflects America back to itself, then and now. Young Frankenstein is a disciplined farce, run amok. A parody of the mad scientist, Dr. Frankenstein's grandson, played by Gene Wilder, stares at the world with nearsighted, pale-blue-eyed wonder. (Run time: 1 hour, 46 minutes)

 

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.