The Clark partners with Images Cinema to present a film series that captures the explosion of creativity, critical acclaim, and box office success that Hollywood directors found after the fall of the studio system.
The second film in in the series is A New Leaf (1971). Elaine May’s antic and macabre comedy reveals the essence of marital love more brutally than many melodramas. Walter Matthau plays Henry Graham, a lazy Manhattan heir who is stopped cold by the news—delivered in riotous euphemisms by his lawyer—that he’s broke. After a terrifying vision of having to buy ready-to-wear, he must marry rich, …