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Friday, Saturday, 8 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main Street. John Osborne’s sharply funny, fiercely honest exploration of political disillusionment and basic human yearning. Directed by John Heckel. $15/$13 students and seniors. ferndale-rep.org. 800-838-3006.
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Wednesday, 6-8 p.m. Access Humboldt Community Media Center, Eureka High School, Eureka. Two-hour workshop offers insight on how to create different moods with light, including using backgrounds, understanding color temperature, and using different gear to create different effects. With cinematographer Landy Hardy. $20. www.accesshumboldt.net. 476-1798.
STAFF PICK / music
Thursday, 9 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Cosmic auditory scientist blows your mind. R/D and Noah D open. $15. arcatatheater.com. 822-1220.
STAFF PICK / events
Saturday, 7 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Annual shindig features Pom Pom Queens of Bat N’ Rouge fame, Rutabaga Queens, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Dell’Arte, Shea Freelove, the Eye Rockestra, live and silent auction and is hosted by Bob Ornelas. Bring a donation for Food for People. $15/$25 a pair. www.arcatatheater.com. 822-1220.
What:
The Man Who Knew Too Much(1934) screens Sunday, June 21, at 4 p.m. 6:05 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St in Arcata. Box office opens 15 minutes prior to screening. Matinees before 6 p.m. are $4 and movies starting after 6 p.m. cost $5.
Join us on Father’s Day for Alfred Hitchcock’s original Man Who Knew too Much, The critically acclaimed first version from Hitchcock’s British period. The Man Who Knew Too Much is a 1934 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and was one of the most successful and critically acclaimed films of Hitchcock’s British period. Hitchcock remade the film in 1956 for Paramount Pictures; it’s the only film he ever remade. The two films are, however, very different in tone, in setting, and in many plot details. Bob and Jill Lawrence, (Leslie Banks and Edna Best), a British couple on vacation in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and their daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam). The couple befriend a foreigner, Louis Bernard (Pierre Fresnay), who is staying in their hotel. One evening, as Jill dances with Louis, she witnesses his assassination as a French spy. Before dying, the spy passes on to them some vital information to be delivered to the British consul. In order to ensure their silence, the assassins, led by a charming and nefarious Abbott (Peter Lorre), kidnap their daughter. Unable to secure much meaningful help from the police, the couple return to England and, after following a series of leads, discover the group intends to assassinate a European ambassador during a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. Jill attends the concert and distracts the gunman with a scream. The assassins are killed by the police, Betty’s sharpshooting mother dispatching the assassin who formerly beat her in a sharpshooting contest. A single assassin (Peter Lorre) commits suicide rather than be captured. Betty is returned to her parents.
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| Time | various |
| Phone | 707-822-1220 |
| Venue | Arcata Theatre Lounge |
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STAFF PICK / events, theater, music, dance, art, Comedy, sports, spoken word, lecture, etc. / 9 p.m. Arcata Playhouse, 1251 Ninth St. Presenting a vaudevillian showcase of the county’s finest dancers, musicians, circus performers. Night ends with a dance party led by Arcata’s Small Axe Ensemble. Benefit for Six Rivers Planned Parenthood’s Spare Change. $7. E-mail humboldtvarietyville@yahoo.com. 408-515-2801.
