Film Al Fresco: 'Harold and Maude' on UC Berkeley Crescent

A free outdoor screening of the 1971 cult favorite Harold and Maude will be shown Friday night on the Crescent at the west entrance to UC Berkeley.

The 7:30 program begins with a well-known animated short, Quasi at the Quackadero.

The screening is sponsored by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, whose calendar offers this description of the Harold and Maude program:

"This cult favorite, a dark comedy from the counter-culture with music by Cat Stevens, follows death-obsessed Bud Cort, a twenty-year-old who falls for the ageless charms of seventy-nine-year-old Ruth Gordon, a quirky anarchist who has thrown inhibition to the wind. Preceded by Quasi at the Quackadero, Sally Cruikshank’s award-winning psychedelic hand-drawn animation about a slightly demented duck who visits a zany amusement park."

The Crescent is located on west side of Oxford Street at Addison Street.

It's the second free screening in the series. Last Friday's showing of the 1978 remake of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers featured a surprise guest appearance by the film's director, Philip Kaufman, and drew about 250-300 people, said Peter Cavagnaro, spokesman for the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.