Up the down staircase, dvd, manufactured on demand, mono sound, dramaclassics, 888574409821. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules theres an up and and a down staircase. Watch up the down staircase online stream full movie directv. Up the down staircase 1967 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. So in honour of this generous effort and in the true spirit of this month and its unusual number of days i give you 28 classic film scenes featuring stairs. Warners dvd of up the down staircase shines in a sparkling widescreen presentation with clear sound to highlight fred karlins eccentric music score. Up the down staircase, bel kaufmans classic 1965 novel about a new. In 1964, bel kaufman, a middleaged, berlinborn new york city schoolteacher, published her first novel, up the down staircase. In 1967 it was released as a film starring sandy dennis, patrick bedford, ruth. Up the down staircase dvd, 2007 for sale online ebay. We need more films that might be concerned, even remotely, with real experiences that might once have happened to real people. The book tells the story of a young, idealistic teacher named sylvia barrett played by sandy dennis in the film. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prizewinning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the united states. Extracurricular a model high school student whos steeped in a world of serious crime finds his double life upended when a classmate takes an interest in his secret.
Up the down staircase 1967 directed by robert mulligan. Haynes and syma solovitch is the story of bruces family. On her first day at calvin coolidge high, fledgling teacher sylvia barrett sandy dennis encounters an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. Both to sir, with love and up the down staircase were mainstream reboots of the somewhat dormant high school juvenile delinquency film which, during the early 60s, had largely been supplanted by the motorcycle gangbeach party genre, their nearsimultaneous release in the summer of 1967 coinciding with hollywoods reawakened interest in the boxoffice clout of the young.
On december 9th, 2001, michael peterson called 911 to report that his wife kathleen had fallen down the staircase in their elegant home in durham, north carolina. A serious social drama film of the type that flourished in the 1960s, up the down staircase seems somewhat dated and preachy when viewed by modern audiences. Up the down staircase was a perfect show for a year when we were needing to rebuild our drama department. Bel kaufmans autobiographical 1965 novel up the down staircase spent 64 weeks on the new york times bestseller list five months of that at number one and when published in paperback sold 1. A product of an overcrowded urban high school in the 50 and a teacher in yet another overcrowded urban high school from 19661996, i can attest to the authenticity of the characters and scenarios of up the down staircase. And we need more actresses like sandy dennis, who looks as if she may be alive and not a plastic robot turned out by the little elves who constructed doris day and sandra dee.
Jun 12, 2014 both to sir, with love and up the down staircase were mainstream reboots of the somewhat dormant high school juvenile delinquency film which, during the early 60s, had largely been supplanted by the motorcycle gangbeach party genre, their nearsimultaneous release in the summer of 1967 coinciding with hollywoods reawakened interest in the boxoffice clout of the young. Arguably the best fiction film ever made about american public education, it scarcely strikes a single false emotional note, with locations on a now demolished block of east 100th st. Up the down staircase film by mulligan 1967 britannica. Watch up the down staircase starring sandy dennis in this drama on directv. Up the down staircase 1967 official trailer patrick bedford. Up the down staircase wasnt the first inspirationalteacher movie, but along with to sir, with love also released in 1967, it seemed to set a pattern that gets brushed off every few years. Haynes and syma solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentie. This adaptation of bel kaufmans revelatory novel about the joys and frustrations of a publicschool vocation has a beautifully articulated screenplay by tad mosel and lead performance by sandy dennis, as the teacher we follow through a charactertesting year at an innercity high school. It was the storytold innovatively in notes, memos, essays, fragments, suggestionbox insults, and jottingsof sylvia barrett, an idealistic young woman getting her first taste of the realities of working in a. Bel kaufmans up the down staircase is one of the bestloved novels of our time. Although this film was shot before the release of whos afraid of virginia woolf, sandy dennis was cast in this, her first starring role, based in large part on industry wordofmouth about her performance in that film a performance that would win dennis a best supporting actress oscar before up the down staircase was released. In 1967 it was released as a film starring sandy dennis, patrick bedford, ruth white, jean stapleton and eileen heckart. New york film locations from the movie up the down staircase starring sandy dennis. Up the down staircase by bel kaufman and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at.
Metrograph is a new manhattan movie theater devoted to screening archive quality 35mm prints and new films in stateoftheart digital projection. Up the down staircase sandy dennis patrick bedford eileen heckart 1967 a novice teacher sandy dennis finds hostile students and staff apathy at a tough new york high school. Ellen omara is heartbreaking as student alice blake. The text under analysis is a fragment from the novel up the down staircase.
The plot concerns the first, trying assignment for a young, idealistic teacher. Based on a novel by bel kaufman, this is the story of a new teacher in the new york public school system who wants to make a difference in her students lives. Up the down staircase the text under analysis is a fragment from the novel up the down staircase, written by bel kaufman, an outstanding american writer. We need more american films like up the down staircase. Hot on the heels of to sir, with love, literally released days later, comes the american answer to that films look at how a teacher can influence and be influenced by their students. Up the down staircase official trailer depicting a naive teacher in an integrated school, this film seemingly inspired tvs welcome back, kotter and several other movies that used the same. The film i watched this morning was part of tcms salute to schoolteachers on the eve of the new school year. And there were, indeed, staircases so labeled in order to prevent traffic jams during passing. Jul 19, 2017 in 1964, bel kaufman, a middleaged, berlinborn new york city schoolteacher, published her first novel, up the down staircase.
Fresh out of school, sylvia begins her first job as an english teacher at a nyc innercity high school. The films setting is calvin coolidge high school, one of those vast blocks of stone and brick in which our cities educate 3,000 students at a shot. His grandfather was george edmund haynes, who i had read about in francille rusan wilsons segregated scholars was an early social. Up the down staircase is a novel written by bel kaufman, published in 1964, which spent 64 weeks on the new york times best seller list.
Up the down staircase is a 1967 american drama film directed by robert mulligan and starring sandy dennis, patrick bedford, eileen heckart, and jean stapleton. Up the down staircase has been ranked 1489 times, wins 47. Up the down staircase is a 1967 film about the experiences of a young female english teacher in an innercity new york high school. In this new singing contest, players face off on some of the biggest hits, and the jackpot of up to 30,000 euros grows every time they hit the right note. Probably, the best film about a teacher struggling to earn respect among its students and get them to like and to live the subject she teaches. And this one still holds up, thanks to the sensitive direction of robert mulligan and the central performance. Up the down staircase 1967 sylvia barrett sandy dennis is a rookie teacher at new yorks innercity calvin coolidge high. Written by tad mosel, based on the novel by bel kaufman. It was later adapted into a 1967 film and later on a play. In 1968 mulligan reunited with peck on the stalking moon, a suspenseful western that. Down the up staircase tells the story of one harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed harlem over the past century. Up the down staircase manufactured on demand, mono sound on. Its available to watch on tv, online, tablets, phone.
Sylvia barrett is a rookie teacher at new yorks innercity calvin coolidge high. Up the down staircase is screening as part of metrograph a to z, a collection of films we think everybody should see. Based on the novel of the same title by bel kaufman, up the down staircase concerns troubles of a beginning teacher in a tough city high school. Up the down staircase 1967 official trailer patrick bedford, sandy dennis movie hd the experiences of a young female english teacher in. Up the down staircase is a 1967 american drama film directed by robert mulligan and starring sandy dennis, patrick bedford, eileen heckart, and jean. The only extra is a trailer with many alternate takes, especially coverage and closeups mulligan didnt use.