Essential Cinema: The Epic Kink of Cecil B. DeMille
CLEOPATRA
Directed by Cecile B. DeMille
USA, 1934, 1h 40min, DCP
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752
Pricing
$13.50 evening / $11 matinee (available M-F for shows before 6 PM)
$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.
Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.
Accessibility
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“A spectacle designed to make chins hang…”
—The New Republic
“The result is nutty, inimitable, and…irresistible.”
—The New York Times
Claudette Colbert stars as the Queen of Egypt, and stolid, iron-jawed Henry Wilcoxon is Antony in Cecil B. DeMille’s art deco history pageant. This was state-of-the-art epic filmmaking in 1934, and it still entertains and delights. Colbert and Wilcoxon have good chemistry and both seem in on the joke, which makes everything a lot more fun.
