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Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (R, 1982, 117 min) 7 PM In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, Deckard hunts for fugitive, murderous replicants and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul.
AKIRA (Japan, R, 1988, 124 min) One of the most influential examples of anime, Akira is based on the manga by Katsuhiro Otomo. The story is set in the post-apocalyptic community of Neo-Tokyo. Tetsuo is a fiercely individualistic member of a scroungy motorcycle gang. The despotic authorities, the robot-like police, and even the cycle gang pursue Tetsuo when he's bombarded with a new, insidious energy source that has rendered him telekinetic. In Japanese with English subtitles SPECIAL PRICE: $10 PER PERSON
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Jack Arnold's THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON in 3-D and 35mm! (1954, 79 min) 2 PM This may be your last chance to see this classic in its original 35mm format! Creature spawned two iconic images: the web-footed gill-man with a hankering for women and the leggy, luscious Julia Adams, the object of his desire, swimming the lagoon in a luminous white bathing suit. Not since King Kong has the "beauty and the beast" theme been portrayed in such sexually charged terms. A small expedition up a remote Amazon river captures a prehistoric amphibian man, who escapes to wreak havoc.
ON GOLDEN POND (PG, 1981, 109 min) 4 PM The legendary Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn star in one of the 1980’s most honored and cherished films. In his final role, Fonda masterfully plays Norman Thayer, a prickly retired professor who visits his Maine summer home with his loving wife, Ethel (Hepburn). Soon after they are joined by their daughter, Chelsea (Jane Fonda, in her only on-screen teaming with her father), her fiance Bill, and his son Billy. Norman develops an unlikely bond with young Billy, providing the framework for an emotional summer in which the Thayers’ strained familial relationships are finally allowed to heal and take wing.
John Carpenter's THE THING (R, 1982, 109 min) 7 PM Man is the warmest place to hide. Carpenter's harrowing remake of the '50s classic centers on a snowbound research team in Antarctica (including Kurt Russell) who dig up the remains of a spacecraft that has long been frozen in the ice. But the alien life unthaws and infects the living. Cut off from the rest of the world, paranoia and mistrust begin to set in as the men realize any one of them could be the creature.
E P I C S FILMS 2.5 HOURS OR LONGER FROM 1920-1996 Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (UK, G, 1968, 148 min)
A space mission that could reveal man's destiny is jeopardized by a malfunctioning shipboard computer. A daring experiment in unconventional narrative inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's short story The Sentinel, 2001 is a visual tone poem that charts a phenomenal history of human evolution. From the dawn-of-man discovery of crude but deadly tools to the journey of the spaceship Discovery and metaphysical birth of the "star child" at film's end, Kubrick's vision is meticulous and precise.
Milos Forman’s AMADEUS: DIRECTOR’S CUT (PG, 1984, 173 min)
From an insane asylum, aging royal composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) recalls the events of three decades earlier, when the young Mozart (Tom Hulce) first gained favor in the court of Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones). Salieri was incensed that God would bless so vulgar a young snipe as Mozart with divine genius. Why was Salieri—so disciplined—not touched by God? Unable to match Mozart's talent, Salieri uses his influence in court to sabotage the young upstart's career. Salieri commissions the backbreaking Requiem, which eventually costs Mozart his health, wealth, and life.
Michael Cimino’s THE DEER HUNTER (R, 1978, 184 min)
Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and one of AFI’s Top 100 Films of All Time, The Deer Hunter follows a group of Pennsylvania steelworkers from their blue-collar lives, hunting in the woods of the Alleghenies, to the hells of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Academy Award winners Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken star in this unforgettable saga of friendship and courage. Experience the brutality of war and the depths of emotional strain on the human spirit in this extraordinarily powerful film classic.
Richard Attenborough’s GANDHI
(PG, 1982, 191 min) Sir Ben Kingsley stars as Mohandas Gandhi in Lord Richard Attenborough's riveting biography of the man who rose from simple lawyer to worldwide symbol of peace and understanding. A critical masterpiece, Gandhi is an intriguing story about activism, politics, religious tolerance and freedom. But at the center of it all is an extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence, and set an entire nation free. Winner of 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Also includes Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Sir John Gielgud, Roshan Seth and Martin Sheen.
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Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS: RESTORED VERSION (Germany, 1927, 148 min)
Metropolis takes place in the year 2026, when the populace is divided between workers, who must live in the dark underground, and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. The tense balance of these two societies is realized through images that are among the most famous of the 20th century, many of which presage such sci-fi landmarks as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner. Lavish and spectacular, with elaborate sets, heart-pounding action and modern science fiction style, Metropolis stands today as the crowning achievement of classic science fiction cinema.
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IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (G, 1967, 109 min)
A SOLDIER’S STORY (PG, 1984, 101 min)
MAR 4
DRAMAS, WESTERNS, AND MYSTERY-THRILLERS FROM 1920-1996
David Lynch’s WILD AT HEART (R, 1990, 125 min)
KALIFORNIA (R, 1993, 125 min)
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CLASSICS
Fritz Lang’s M (Germany, 1931, 111 min)
Alfred Hitchcock’s SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943, 108 min)
While traveling in the Deep South, Virgil Tibbs (Sydney Poitier), a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crime and then asked to solve it. Finding the killer proves to be difficult, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the bigoted town sheriff (Rod Steiger). But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside their differences and prejudices, they join forces in a desperate race against time to discover the shocking truth.
Sailor (Nicholas Cage) is a violent ex-con with an Elvis Presley fixation who falls in love with Lula (Laura Dern), the daughter of a rich, but mentally unstable, Southern belle (Diane Ladd). Just after Sailor is released from prison, he and Lula take off on a wild cross-country trip, pursued by his parole officer, her mother, bounty hunters, and detectives. Along the way, Sailor and Lula share their pasts, share their respective obsessions for Elvis and The Wizard of Oz, and meet a seedy ex-marine (Willem Dafoe) who persuades Sailor to participate in a bank robbery.
A simple, haunting musical phrase whistled off-screen tells us that a young girl will be killed. "Who is the Murderer?" pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert, played by Peter Lorre, closes in on little Elsie Beckmann. In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang (Metropolis) merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller. In German with English subtitles
Based on Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play (and featuring most of the play's original cast), A Soldier's Story is about a black Army lawyer (Howard E. Rollins) who is assigned to investigate the murder of an unpopular sergeant (Adolph Caesar) at a Southern military base during World War II. Caesar was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and the film received two additional Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
When urban intellectuals Brian (David Duchovny) and Carrie (Michelle Forbes) set out cross-country to research a book about serial killers, they share the ride with a couple they barely know named Early Grayce (Brad Pitt) and Adele (Juliette Lewis). Locked in a car hurtling westward, the four travelers struggle to find some common ground. But when they finally do connect, Early's violent nature abruptly emerges, and the terrified Brian and Carrie realize that they don't need to go very far to learn about ruthless killers...because they're already face to face with one!
Hitchcock considered Shadow his personal favorite among his own films. Joseph Cotton stars as Uncle Charlie, a calculating and charming killer who hides out in his relatives' small hometown. There, he befriends his favorite niece and namesake, Young Charlie. But when she begins to suspect he may be the famed Merry Widow murderer, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues as the psychopathic killer plots the death of his young niece to protect his secret.
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BULLITT (PG, 1968, 114 min)
HOOPER (PG, 1978, 99 min)
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THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1939, 80 min)
Alfred Hitchcock’s THE 39 STEPS (1935, 86 min)
Steve McQueen stars as tough-guy police detective Frank Bullitt who is assigned to protect mafia informant Johnny Ross. But when hitmen ambush their secret location, fatally wounding Ross, things don't add up for Bullitt, so he decides to investigate the case on his own. Unfortunately, ambitious senator Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) wants to shut his investigation down, hindering Bullitt's plan to not only bring the killers to justice but discover who leaked the location of the hideout.
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce star in this 1939 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel. Except for minor changes, the script is true to Doyle's enthralling mystery about a centuries-long curse against heirs to the Baskerville estate, situated within the haunting and deadly Dartmoor in the southwest of England. With the arrival of a new master, Canadian Henry Baskerville, Holmes and Dr. Watson are called upon to solve the strange case of the "gigantic hound" that may be readying to savage the poor fellow.
When it comes to life-threatening exploits, they don't get any better than those of professional stuntman Sonny Hooper (Burt Reynolds). Although Sonny's body is feeling the effects of his very long and successful career, the appearance of a charismatic rival on the scene causes him to attempt the most dangerous stunt of his life. This is Burt's salute to stuntmen (and women) and every stunt is real, no CGI. Broad, loud and boisterous, Hooper also stars Sally Field and Jan-Michael Vincent.
Hitchcock's first great romantic thriller is a prime example of the MacGuffin principle in action. Richard Hannay is a Canadian tourist in London who becomes embroiled in a deadly conspiracy when a mysterious spy winds up murdered in his flat and both the police and a secret organization wind up hot on his trail. With only a seemingly meaningless phrase ("the 39 steps"), a small Scottish town circled on a map, and a criminal mastermind identified by a missing finger as clues, quick-witted Hannay eludes police and spies as he works his way across the countryside to reveal the mystery and clear his name.
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Ralph Bakshi’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS (PG, 1978, 134 min)
THE LAST UNICORN (G, 1982, 92 min)
FEB 19
COMEDIES, MUSICALS, AND ANIMATION FROM 1920-1996
John Hughes’ UNCLE BUCK (PG, 1989, 100 min)
THE GREAT OUTDOORS (PG, 1988, 91 min)
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TREASURES
AFTER THE THIN MAN (1936, 113 min)
THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1939, 75 min)
Controversial animator Ralph Bakshi's literal adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic fantasy trilogy is brought to the screen. An evil sorcerer from a previous era created a magical ring which enables its users to call upon its tremendous powers to rule the world, but it inevitably warps them to evil. It was believed lost, but during a resurgence of magical evil in the world, Bilbo, a simple, plain-spoken hobbit, recovers it from its hiding place. The forces of good give his nephew Frodo the choice to bear the awful burden of the ring to a place where it may be destroyed.
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon charms his younger relatives Miles and Maizy with his hefty cooking and his new way of doing the laundry. With a little bit of luck and a lot of love, Uncle Buck manages to surprise everyone in this heartwarming family comedy.
This second of MGM's Thin Man films reteams William Powell and Myrna Loy as bibulous private detective Nick Charles and his socialite wife Nora, upper-class sophisticates whose sleuthing escapades joined the classic form of a whodunit with the giddyup of screwball comedy. The Charles’ are sucked into another murder case via Nick's lovely cousin Elissa Landi, whose husband Alan Marshall has vanished. Plus there’s a supporting part for rising player James Stewart.
Brought to life by the luminary voice talents of Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, and Angela Lansbury, this animated treasure is the story of a lonely unicorn who sets out on an extraordinary quest to find her lost brothers and sisters. Along the way she meets a colorful cast of characters, including a bumbling wizard who magically transforms her into a beautiful damsel. When a handsome prince falls in love with her, he challenges the evil foe who holds her captive. But the task proves harder than imagined, and the unicorn soon discovers that real magic comes from believing in the impossible. Featuring songs performed by America.
It's a vacationer's worst nightmare, as wheeler-dealer Dan Aykroyd, his sexually repressed wife and eerie twin daughters join the easygoing John Candy and his straight-laced clan for a season of "fun" in the sun. Unfortunately, the only thing these two in-laws have in common is their intense dislike for each other. Soon, it's brother-in-law against brother-in-law in an uproarious and hilarious fight to the finish to see which one really knows how to enjoy The Great Outdoors.
A decade after the death of an eccentric millionaire, his remaining relatives gather for the reading of the will at his abandoned mansion set deep in the Louisiana bayous. Tension builds after his niece Joyce (Paulette Goddard) is named the sole inheritor and it is revealed that one of the other relatives will get everything if the heiress goes insane within the next 30 days. The timid Wally (Bob Hope) vows to protect Joyce who must spend the night in the haunted mansion along with her jealous relatives, a creepy maid and a homicidal maniac who has just escaped from a nearby sanitarium.
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THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER MOVIE (G, 1979, 98 min)
THE WIZARD (PG, 1989, 100 min)
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Howard Hawke’s BRINGING UP BABY (1938, 102 min)
The Marx Brothers’ DUCK SOUP (1933, 69 min)
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Terry Gilliam’s TIME BANDITS (PG, 1981, 111 min)
Monty Python’s THE MEANING OF LIFE (R, 1983, 108 min)
Chuck Jones directed some of the funniest cartoon shorts in the history of filmmaking, and this compilation includes several of his best. Among the 11 shorts shown in their entirety are the classics Robin Hood Daffy, What's Opera, Doc?, Bully for Bugs, and Duck Amuck, which remain as hilarious as they were when first released almost 70 years ago. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie provides a showcase not only for Jones's razor-sharp timing, but for the work of his exceptional crew, which included composers Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn and voice actor Mel Blanc.
Paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) has to make a good impression on society matron Mrs. Random, who is considering donating one million dollars to his museum. On the day before his wedding, Huxley meets Mrs. Random's high-spirited young niece, Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), a madcap adventuress who immediately falls for the straitlaced scientist. The evergrowing chaos – including a missing dinosaur bone and a pet leopard – threatens to swallow him whole.
Young Kevin’s daydreams burst into astonishing and hilarious life when a band of time-traveling little men come crashing through his bedroom wardrobe and carry him off on an unbelievable crime spree, weaving through the greatest and strangest moments of history. The pint-sized plunderers filch from a neurotic Napoleon (Ian Holm), a dim-witted Robin Hood (John Cleese) and a heroic King Agamemnon (Sean Connery), leading to a showdown with the dark forces of Evil (David Warner)...all while keeping just one precarious step ahead of the wrath of The Supreme Being himself!
Fred Savage stars in this warm-hearted family adventure that features the excitement and thrills of video game competition. Corey refuses to let his emotionally disturbed younger brother Jimmy be institutionalized, and the two run away together. They join forces with a resourceful girl (Jenny Lewis), who notices that Jimmy has a special talent: he is a "wizard" at video games and gets the high score on absolutely everything he plays. Evading their parents and a sinister bounty hunter, the trio head for a climactic showdown at the video game championships in California.
After being appointed dictator of Freedonia, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) proceeds to bring the mythical nation to a halt by showing up late and insulting everyone at his inauguration. Hoping to oust the unfit new leader, two spies (Harpo and Chico) are sent from the neighboring Sylvania. Soon enough, war is declared between the two nations with outrageous results. This comedy classic features some of the most hilarious sequences every filmed including the famous mirror sequence.
Those six pandemonium-mad Pythons are back with their craziest adventure ever! John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin have returned to explain The Meaning of Life. These naughty Brits offer the usual tasteful sketches involving favorite body parts and bodily functions, the wonders of war, the miracle of birth and a special preview of what's waiting for us in Heaven. Nothing is too sacred for the probing Python crew. You'll never look at life in quite the same way again.
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John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE (R, 1987, 93 min)
David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME (R, 89 min, 1983)
FEB 26
HORROR, SCI-FI, AND ACTION-ADVENTURE FROM 1920-1996
Barry Sonnenfeld's THE ADDAMS FAMILY (PG-13, 99 min, 1991)
BATMAN: THE MOVIE (PG, 105 min, 1966)
The macabre television family comes to the big screen. Director Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) brings his distinctly cartoonish sensibility to this feature film version of the old Charles Addams comic strip. Anjelica Huston was born to play Morticia Addams, matriarch of the ghoulish Addams clan, while the late Raul Julia is a very agreeable, lusty Gomez. But it's Christina Ricci who arguably steals the show as their stone-faced daughter, Wednesday.
When the four greatest arch super-criminals ever to plague Gotham City join forces, their only objective can only be the entire world! Armed with a Penguin-personalized pre-atomic submarine, exploding sharks and an arsenal of missiles, the Penguin, the Joker, the Riddler and Catwoman have set their sights on the United World Security Council! Can the dynamic duo stop the United Underworld before its too late? Can they possibly save the free world from the four most powerful villains it has ever seen?
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Sam Raimi's ARMY OF DARKNESS (R, 1993, 81 min)
Wes Craven’s NEW NIGHTMARE (R, 1994, 112 min)
Horror master John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) directs this heart-pounding thriller. Aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission. Humanity’s last chance lies with a lone drifter who stumbles upon a harrowing discovery: a unique pair of sunglasses that reveals the terrifying and deadly truth. But worst of all, with these glasses you see which of us are really hideous, bug-eyed aliens.
Bruce Campbell returns as Ash (hero of the first two Evil Dead flicks), a hardware-store clerk who is magically transported— along with his beat-up Oldsmobile and a chainsaw attachment for his severed left forearm—to the brutal battlefields of the 14th century. He quickly assumes power and unites his band of medieval knights against the dreaded Army of the Dead.
Max Renn (James Woods) is a television executive searching for an intense new program for his sex-oriented network. He ultimately discovers an underground program called "Videodrome," which appears to broadcast pornographic snuff films of actual murders. Horrified but perversely intrigued, Renn sets out to find the truth. Things become even more disturbing for Renn as his addiction grows, and the program begins to infect the outside world or perhaps merely destroy own his sanity.
Freddy Krueger is back from the grave in another thriller from famed horror director Wes Craven. Freddy was supposed to have died in the last film, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. But while the character's body died, the evil that drives him did not, and so returns in Freddy's form to haunt Craven into producing another film. Unfortunately the lead actress of the original Nightmare, Heather Langenkamp, refuses to do another "Freddy" film. Freddy then comes after her, first killing her husband, and then taking grisly aim upon her son Dylan.
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THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION (PG, 1984, 103 min)
BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (PG, 1989, 105 min)
Brilliant brain surgeon Banzai (Peter Weller) just made scientific history. Shifting his Oscillation Overthruster into warp speed, he's the first man ever to travel to the Eighth Dimension and come back sane! But when the demented Dr. Lizardo (John Lithgow) devises a plot to steal the Overthruster, Buckaroo goes cranium to cranium with the madman in an extra-dimensional battle that could result in total annihilation of the universe!
With only a few days before high-school graduation, rock star wannabes Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are doomed to flunk their finals. But if they can ace a presentation on how a famous historical personality might react to modern times, they will be allowed to pass. Bill and Ted receive aid from an unexpected source: Rufus (George Carlin), an Emissary from the Future. Thus, Bill and Ted are whisked off in a time machine to retrieve Joan of Arc, Abe Lincoln, Napoleon and Beethoven for their crucial oral exam.
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James Whale’s THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932, 71 min)
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920, 79 min)
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Steven Spielberg’s JAWS (US, PG, 1975, 125 min)
Ridley Scott’s LEGEND: DIRECTOR’S CUT (US, PG, 1985, 113 min)
Weary travelers find shelter in a mysterious Welsh manor in this definitive "old dark house" thriller. Greeted by the mansion's hideously scarred butler (Boris Karloff), three disoriented voyagers (Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Massey, and Gloria Stuart) find themselves in the unwelcoming company of the psychotic Femm family, whose members include a religious fanatic obesessed with mortality (Eva Moore), her browbeaten brother (Ernest Thesiger), and a homicidal pyromaniac (Brember Wills), all watched over by their androgynous, 102-year-old father.
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town’s chief of police (Roy Scheider), a young marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again. Jaws remains one of the most influential and gripping adventures in motion picture history.
Considered by many to be the first great American horror film, John S. Robertson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde allowed stage legend John Barrymore to deliver his first virtuoso performance on film. Blending historic charm with grim naturalism, this version is one of the more faithful of the many screen adaptations of Stevenson's story (though greatly influenced by T.R. Sullivan's popular stage treatment), recounting a visionary scientist's ill-fated attempts to unleash the human mysteries that dwell beneath the shell of the civilized self.
Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story stars Tom Cruise as a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lily (Mia Sara) and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry), or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.
MAR 18
Rob Reiner’s THE PRINCESS BRIDE (PG, 1987, 98 min)
LADYHAWKE (PG-13, 1985, 121 min)
APR 22
ROMAN HOLIDAY (G, 1953, 118 min)
Billy Wilder’s SABRINA (G, 1954, 113 min)
M AY 1 3
A M O R E ROMANCE, TEARJERKERS, AND LOVE STORIES FROM 1920-1996
BEACHES (PG-13, 1988, 123 min)
STEEL MAGNOLIAS (PG, 1989, 118 min)
A lowly stable boy named Westley pledges his love to the beautiful Buttercup, only to be abducted and reportedly killed by pirates while Buttercup is betrothed to the evil Prince Humperdinck. Buttercup is kidnapped by a giant, a scheming criminal mastermind, and a master Spanish swordsman, but a mysterious masked pirate—could it be Westley?—follows in pursuit as they race towards the Cliffs of Insanity.
Audrey Hepburn plays a reigning European princess visiting Rome who would like an escape from her daily regime of official duties. Gregory Peck plays an American newspaper reporter living in the Eternal City. We first see him playing poker with his cronies, and losing. His relative "poverty" and Princess Ann's fabulous wealth and station present a formidable barrier to their ever finding true love and marital happiness. This is one of Hollywood's most sweetly romantic films—a frothy, modern telling of the Cinderella story, in reverse.
Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey are two best friends who met as young girls and have stuck together through decades of laughter, drama and friendship. Dubbed one of the best tearjerkers of all time, Beaches follows a turbulent friendship of a rich debutante and a struggling singer that must endure the good times and the bad times.
In medieval France, a Knight (Rutger Hauer) and Fair Lady (Michelle Pfeiffer) run afoul of an evil bishop and are placed under a curse. During the night, Hauer takes the form of a wolf, while Pfeiffer assumes the form of a hawk by day. The two lovers can only meet as humans at dawn and dusk. The only mortal in a position to rescue them from their fate is pickpocket Matthew Broderick, who acts as liaison between the lovers. With the help of a solar eclipse, Broderick endeavors to set things right.
Humphrey Bogart, William Holden and Audrey Hepburn star in a Cinderella story directed by renowned filmmaker Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot). Bogie and Holden are the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island. Bogie's all work, Holden's all playboy. But when Sabrina, daughter of the family's chauffeur, returns from Paris, all grown up and glamorous, the stage is set for some family fireworks as the brothers fall under the spell of Hepburn's delightful charms.
This classic stars a powerful pack of leading ladies including Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley Maclaine, Daryl Hannah and Olympia Dukakis, who play a group of friends living in Louisiana. The Southern Belles spend most of their time gossiping in the town beauty parlor in a movie that will make you laugh almost as much as it will make you cry.
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RETRO FILM SERIES PRESENTS: THE MOVIE MUSICALS 42nd Street
(1933, 89 min) "You're going out there a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" The film that launched the Golden Age of Hollywood musicals, 42nd Street traces the creation of a Broadway show from its first casting call through its blockbuster opening night—when the leading lady twists her ankle and a young chorus girl (Ruby Keeler) takes her place and becomes a star. Also starring Dick Powell.
Bob Fosse’s CABARET (PG, 1972, 124 min) Michael York plays a British writer who comes to Berlin in the early 1930s in hopes of becoming a teacher. He makes the acquaintance of flamboyant American entertainer Sally Bowles, played by Liza Minnelli. Sally works at the Kit Kat Klub, a George Grosz-like Berlin cabaret where each night the smirking, androgynous Master of Ceremonies (Joel Grey) introduces a jazz-driven "girlie show" to his debauched audience. Virtually all the film's musical numbers are staged within the confines of the Kit Kat Klub, and each song comments on the plot and on Germany's "progression" from hedonism to Hitlerism. Most of the Broadway score by John Kander and Fred Ebb is retained, with the welcome addition of "The Money Song." JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
(G, 1973, 107 min) Jesus Christ Superstar, the bold interpretation of the hit rock opera and Broadway smash from Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, tells the story of Christ’s (Ted Neeley) final weeks told entirely in a series of dazzling songs, images and music. Nominated for the Best Music Adaptation Academy Award, producer-director Norman Jewison (Fiddler on the Roof) creates a brilliant example of groundbreaking vision and unforgettable songs shot entirely on location in Israel.
THE KING AND I (G, 1956, 133 min)
Deborah Kerr plays English widow Anna Leonowens, who comes to Siam in the 1860s to tutor the many wives and children of the country's progressive King (Yul Brynner, recreating his Broadway role-and winning an Oscar in the process). The culture clash between Anna and the King is but one aspect of their multilayered relationship. Through Anna, the King learns the manners and responsibilities of "modern" western civilization; Anna meanwhile comes to realize how important it is for an Oriental ruler to maintain his pride and to uphold the customs of his people. Despite the many rifts between them, Anna and the monarch come to respect and (to a degree) love one another.
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: Director’s Cut
(PG-13, 1986, 94 min) Rick Moranis is the nebbish Seymour, who pines for flower-girl Audrey (Ellen Greene) while living in the basement of florist Mr. Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia). Things start turning around for Seymour, though, after he buys a little plant during a solar eclipse, christens it Audrey II, and discovers that it likes to drink blood. Before long, Seymour learns that Audrey II is in actuality a "mean green mother from outer space" that is hell-bent on world domination. This Director’s Cut features a drastically different, and much darker, 20-minute alternate ending.
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Vincente Minnelli’s MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (G, 1944, 113 min) The story hinges on the possibility that Alonzo Smith (Leon Ames), the family's banker father, might uproot the Smiths to New York, scuttling his daughter Esther's (Judy Garland) romance with boy-next-door John Truett (Tom Drake) and causing similar emotional trauma for the rest of the household. 6-year-old Margaret O'Brien steals the movie as kid sister Tootie, who’s morbidly obsessed with death and murder, burying her dolls, "killing" a neighbor at Halloween, and maniacally bludgeoning her snowmen. The songs are a heady combination of period tunes and newly minted numbers by Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin, the best of which are “The Boy Next Door”, “The Trolley Song”, and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”.
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952, 102 min) Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor star in one of the greatest musicals ever filmed. Set during the advent of "talkies," Don Lockwood has risen to stardom during Hollywood's silent-movie era—paired with the beautiful, jealous and dumb Lina Lamont. But with the introduction of talking pictures, Lockwood finds his career in jeopardy after audiences laugh when they hear Lamont speak in her shrill voice for the first time...and the studio decides to use someone else to dub her voice.
YANKEE DOODLE DANDY (1942, 126 min) James Cagney stars in the role for which he won an Academy Award—the life of singer, dancer and songwriter George M. Cohan, a true Yankee Doodle Dandy. This non-stop musical tour de force sings, dances and celebrates the life and career of a music man who lifted a nation, the first entertainer awarded the United States Congressional Medal of Honor for his contribution to morale. From his early days as a vaudeville performer to his stardom on Broadway, Cohan composed the songs that defined his generation.
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INDIVIDUAL RETROMUSICAL TICKETS ARE $9 FRI, JUN 17 F LE TCH E R H A LL C I N E MA O N E 1:45 pm Yankee Doodle Dandy (ends at 3:51 pm) 2:00 pm 42nd Street (ends at 3:29pm) 4:15 pm Jesus Christ Superstar (ends at 6:02 pm) The King and I (ends at 6:43 pm) 4:30 pm 7:00 pm Meet Me in St. Louis (ends at 8:53 pm) Cabaret (ends at 9:14 pm) 7:10 pm 9:15 pm Singin' in the Rain (ends at 10:57 pm) Little Shop of Horrors (ends at 11:04 pm) 9:30 pm F LE TCH E R H A LL C I N E MA O N E SAT, JUN 18 12:00 pm Meet Me in St. Louis (ends at 1:53 pm) 12:15 pm 42nd Street (ends at 1:44 pm) 2:00 pm Yankee Doodle Dandy (ends at 4:06 pm) Jesus Christ Superstar (ends at 4:02 pm) 2:15 pm The King and I (ends at 6:43 pm) 4:30 pm 4:45 pm Little Shop of Horrors (ends at 6:19 pm) 7:00 pm Meet Me in St. Louis (ends at 8:53 pm) Singin' in the Rain (ends at 8:57 pm) 7:15 pm 9:15 pm Jesus Christ Superstar (ends at 11:02 pm) Cabaret (ends at 11:34 pm) 9:30 pm F LE TCH E R H A LL C I N E MA O N E SUN, JUN 19 3:00 pm Cabaret (ends at 5:04 pm) 3:15 pm Little Shop of Horrors (ends at 4:49 pm) 5:15 pm The King and I (ends at 7:28 pm) Singin' in the Rain (ends at 7:12 pm) 5:30 pm Jesus Christ Superstar (ends at 9:32 pm) 7:45 pm 8:00 pm Yankee Doodle Dandy (ends at 10:06 pm)
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