The Cobweb

Minnelli's greatest work, in which a bevy of stars (Richard Widmark, Charles Boyer, Lillian Gish, Gloria Grahame) find their respective worlds coming apart because they can’t agree on the right kind of drapes for a mental institution’s common space. Leave it to this virtuoso entertainer to find the soul-baring possibilities in competing swatches of fabric. Critic Elliott Stein and photo archivist Howard Mandelbaum will speak after the screening.