The Nicholas Ray Film Festival at Webster University Concludes Tonight With BIGGER THAN LIFE

” Childhood is a congenital disease – and the purpose of education is to cure it. We’re breeding a race of moral midgets.”

Webster University presents “The Other St. Nick”, a six-film Nicholas Ray Film Festival that ran December 27th-January 5th at the University’s Moore Auditorium(470 E Lockwood Ave). The series concludes Sunday, January 5h at 7pm with BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956)

Admission is:

$7 for the general public
$6 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$5 for Webster University staff and faculty

Free for Webster students with proper I.D.

BIGGER THAN LIFE (1956)  Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 7:00pmParagraph

A film critical of the patriarchy and the nuclear family, Nick Ray’s Bigger Than Life has James Mason playing Ed Avery, a well-liked father and teacher in a quaint suburban neighborhood. When Avery falls ill and is prescribed the experimental drug cortisone, he becomes addicted and his life spirals out of control. One of the most exceptional samples of CinemaScope framing in Ray’s oeuvre, Bigger Than Life feels at once of its time and timely.