Disguised: Three Movie Masterpieces Not What They Seem

The Mill, A Place for Writers, and the Neenah Public Library present: “Disguised: Three Movie Masterpieces Not What They Seem.” The series will present screenings of three movie masterpieces: Fred Zinnemann’s 1952 “High Noon” with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly; Akira Kurisawa;s 1950 “Rashomon” with Toshiro Minfune; and Don Siegel’s 1957 “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” with Kevin McCarthy.

All three are, by consensus, among the finest films ever made. What is not widely known is that each of these three movies work surreptitiously, in disguise, in service to a powerful, and risky, “political” motive.

Friday, August 3, 7:00 p.m. High Noon

Friday, August 10, 7:00 p.m.: Rashomon

Friday, August 17, 7:00 p.m.: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Steve Polansky was born in Queens, educated at Wesleyan, Hollins, and Princeton. He’s taught at Princeton, St. Olaf College, Macalester, and the University of Minnesota. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and Best American Stories. His collection of short stories, Dating Miss Universe, won the Sandstone Prize for Fiction and the 2000 Minnesota Book Award. His novel, The Bradbury Report, was published in 2010. His story, “Obsequies,” appears in the 2017 Spring/Summer Edition of Glimmer Train and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.