Ayn Rand Film Festival at Witchita Art Museum

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Ayn Rand film festival at Art Museum

Ayn Rand was both a novelist and a screenwriter in 1940s Hollywood, and her work as both will be explored in a series of four Saturday matinees at the Wichita Art Museum. The mini-film festival -- 2 p.m. Saturdays throughout September -- is another in a series of joint projects between the museum and Wichita Film Festivals.

Local film and literary experts will speak about the themes and philosophies in Rand's work during introductions each week. "Parallels will be drawn between her career as a screenwriter and as an innovative novelist and philosopher," said Randy Ringgenberg of Wichita Film Festivals.

All films will be in the museum's auditorium. Tickets are $5 for adults and $4 for students, seniors and WAM members. Here's the schedule:

• Saturday -- "You Came Along" (1945) Robert Cummings and Lizabeth Scott in a sophisticated romantic drama about a skirt-chasing war hero finally confronted with Miss Right. Rand's screenplay.

• Sept. 16 -- "Love Letters" (1945) Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten in a romantic drama about a man who writes love letters for another man to send to his fiancee, then ends up falling for her himself. Rand's screenplay.

• Sept. 23 -- "The Fountainhead" (1949) Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal in a drama about a brilliant but unconventional architect who must confront whether to compromise his ideals to be commercially successful. Rand's screenplay of her own novel.

• Sept. 30 -- "We the Living" (1953) Re-edited version of 1942 Italian film of Rand's novel, which she considered the best film adaptation of her writings. Alida Valli plays a young Russian woman in love with the son (Rossano Brazzi) of an aristocrat just as Communists take over.

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Bob Curtright - The Wichita Eagle