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January 15, 2010
Lensic Presents A Valentine’s Day Big Screen Classic Harold and Maude, February 14, 7PM

Lensic Presents

A Valentine’s Day Big Screen Classic
Harold and Maude

February 14 at 7 p.m. at The Lensic

Santa Fe – The Lensic Performing Arts Center is pleased to present the quirky and unconventional romantic comedy, Harold and Maude, as its annual Valentine’s Day Big Screen Classic. In keeping with tradition, ticket prices are $5, making a night at The Lensic on Valentine’s Day a romantic and affordable evening out.

A commercial flop when released in 1971, Harold and Maude became a cult classic. Now, the film is recognized as a popular favorite. The movie is listed in the American Film Institute’s top ten romantic comedies, along side City Lights, It Happened One Night and When Harry Met Sally.

Harold and Maude was directed by Hal Ashby and stars Bud Cort as the existentially adrift 20-year-old Harold. In an attempt to get attention from his socialite mother, Harold repeatedly fakes his own suicide, to no avail. Having discovered “he likes being dead,” he drives a hearse and attends the funerals of strangers. Ruth Gordon stars as Maude, the free spirit septuagenarian who befriends Harold at a funeral. Through his relationship with Maude, with whom he falls in love, Harold begins to see beyond his obsession with death to the possibilities of life.

The soundtrack of the film, by Cat Stevens, captures the mood and the feeling of the time and the location of the film, the San Francisco Bay Area.

Big Screen Classics are sponsored by Morgan Stanley.

Event Details:
The Lensic presents the Valentine’s Day Big Screen Classic, Harold and Maude, February 14 at 7 p.m. at The Lensic Performing Arts Center. The film will be shown on DVD.

Ticket info: $5 at Tickets Santa Fe at The Lensic at 505-988-1234, 211 W. San Francisco St. or www.TicketsSantaFe.org.

Press Information: Please contact Emily Crawford, Director of PR at 505-988-7050 ext. 211 or ecrawford@lensic.com.

About The Lensic Artistic Presentations
Since 2001, the nonprofit Lensic Performing Arts Center has had great success in presenting and producing artistic performances. The Lensic’s year-round programming is integral to fulfilling the organizational mission to present local, national and international artists in diversified, cross-cultural performances. Since its opening, The Lensic has increased its independent production and presentation schedule, which includes the Lensic Presents Series, a year-round effort to present diverse programming that showcases national talent.