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Preston Sturges’ THE PALM BEACH STORY
Frank Capra’s YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
This wild tale of wacky wedlock takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert play Tom and Gerry, a married New York couple on the skids, financially and romantically. With Tom hot on her trail, Gerry takes off for Florida on a mission to solve the pair’s money troubles, which she accomplishes in a highly unorthodox manner. Featuring hilarious supporting turns from Rudy Vallee and Mary Astor as a brother and a sister ensnared in Tom and Gerry’s high jinks.
James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, and Edward Arnold star in this classic screwball comedy. Arthur stars as Alice Sycamore, the stable family member of an offbeat clan of free spirits who falls for Tony Kirby (James Stewart), the down-to-earth son of a snooty, wealthy family. Amidst a backdrop of confusion, the two very different families rediscover the simple joys of life.
(G, 1938, 126 min)
MAY 12
(G, 1942, 88 min)
Billy Wilder’s SOME LIKE IT HOT
Billy Wilder’s THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) witness a gangland shooting, they quickly board a train to Florida, disguised as Josephine and Daphne, the two newest and homeliest members of an all-girl jazz band. Their cover is perfect... until a lovelorn singer (Marilyn Monroe) falls for Josephine, an ancient playboy falls for Daphne, and a mob boss refuses to fall for their hoax!
Like thousands of other Manhattanites, Tom Ewell annually packs his wife and children off to summer vacation, staying behind to work at the office. This particular summer, Tom begins fantasizing about the many women he'd foresworn upon getting married. He is jolted back to reality when he meets his new upstairs neighbor—luscious model Marilyn Monroe. Inviting her to dinner, Tom intends to sweep her off her feet and into the boudoir, but things don't quite work out that way.
JUN 9
MAR 24
RETROAMORE ROM-COMS, TEARJERKERS, AND INSPIRATIONAL MOVIES FROM 1920-1997
TOOTSIE (PG, 1982, 116 min)
(PG, 1959, 121 min)
Michael Dorsey is a talented actor, but his demanding nature and stubborn temperament have antagonized every producer in New York. But Michael needs money and to earn it, he's willing to play the role of a lifetime. Dustin Hoffman stars with Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Bill Murray and Geena Davis in director Sydney Pollack's heart-filled classic that heralded a new era of Hollywood wig-flipping and set a new standard for unpredictable laugh-out-loud comedy.
(NR, 1955, 105 min)
MY FAVORITE YEAR (PG, 1982, 92 min)
Directed by Richard Benjamin and inspired by incidents from comedy legend Mel Brooks’ early career, My Favorite Year is a Golden Age revisited, a zany, misty-eyed tribute to TV’s early days. Peter O’Toole plays Swann. Once a swashbuckling movie idol whose face was plastered on fan magazines, Swann is now mostly plastered. And it falls to Cavalcade’s rookie writer (Mark Linn-Baker) to keep him on the sober and narrow. Don’t touch that dial!
RETROEPICS
LONGER-RUNNING FILMS FROM 1920-1997
FRI-SUN / JAN 6–8, 2017
James Cameron’s ALIENS: Director’s Cut (R, 1986, 148 min)
Sigourney Weaver returns as Ripley, who awakens on Earth only to discover that she has been hibernating in space so long that everyone she knows is dead. She accompanies a squad of Marines to a planet under assault by the same aliens that nearly killed her. Once there, she finds a lost girl who triggers her maternal instincts and discovers that the company has once again double-crossed her, in hopes of capturing one of the aliens to study as a military weapon.
Terry Gilliam’s BRAZIL: Director’s Cut (R, 1985, 142 min)
Jonathan Pryce and Robert De Niro star in this chilling look at a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme and bureaucracy overrules love for the sake of efficiency. A government clerk finds his life destroyed when he tries to correct an administrative error that caused a massive chain reaction of mistaken identity. Despite his efforts, he finds himself an enemy of the state.
Martin Scorsese’s GOODFELLAS (R, 1990, 146 min)
From Nicholas Pileggi’s true-life bestseller, GoodFellas explores the criminal life like no other movie. Directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese, it was judged 1990’s Best Picture by the New York, Los Angeles and National Society of Film Critics. Electrifying performances abound and from a standout cast that includes Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino. Joe Pesci walked off with the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award.
Akira Kuosawa’s THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (NR, 1958, 139 min)
A grand-scale adventure as only Kurosawa could make one, The Hidden Fortress stars Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director’s most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas’s Star Wars. In Japanese with English Subtitles
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Hayao Miyazaki’s PRINCESS MONONOKE (PG-13, 1997, 134 min)
While defending his village from a demonic boar-god, the young warrior Ashitaka becomes afflicted with a curse that grants him super-human power in battle but will eventually take his life. Traveling west to find a cure, he journeys deep into sacred depths of the Great Forest where he meets San (Princess Mononoke), a girl raised by wolf-gods who is waging battle against the human outpost of Iron Town. In Japanese with English Subtitles
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1:00 pm The Hidden Fortress (ends at 3:19 pm) 4:00 pm Goodfellas (ends at 6:26 pm) 4:15 pm Brazil (ends at 6:37 pm) 7:00 pm Princess Mononoke (ends at 9:14 pm) 9:35 pm Aliens (ends at 12:03 pm)
1:00 pm Princess Mononoke (ends at 3:14 pm) 3:45 pm The Hidden Fortress (ends at 6:04 pm) 4:15 pm Brazil (ends at 6:34 pm) 6:45 pm Goodfellas (ends at 9:11 pm) 9:30 pm Aliens (ends at 11:58 pm)
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MAR 3
JAN 13
RETROCLASSICS DRAMAS, WAR, WESTERNS, AND MYSTERIES FROM 1920-1997
Brain De Palma’s BLOW OUT
Francis Ford Coppola’s THE CONVERSATION
In Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances, as Jack, a movie sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination. He enlists the help of Sally (Nancy Allen), a possible eyewitness to the crime who may be in danger herself, to uncover the truth. With its jolting stylistic flourishes, intricate plot, and gritty evocation of early1980s Philadelphia, Blow Out is an American paranoia thriller unlike any other.
Gene Hackman stars as Harry Caul, an expert surveillance man. A routine wiretapping job turns into a nightmare when Harry hears something disturbing in his recording of a young couple in a park. His investigation of the tape and how it might be used sends Harry spiraling into a web of secrecy, murder and paranoia. Set against the backdrop of San Francisco, The Conversation costars Frederic Forrest and Harrison Ford and symbolizes the uneasy line where technology and privacy cross.
(R, 1981, 108 min)
(PG, 1972, 113 min)
Carroll Ballard’s THE BLACK STALLION
Stephen King’s STAND BY ME
A young boy survives a shipwreck and is stranded on a deserted island with a graceful black stallion, with whom the boy develops an almost empathic friendship. After being rescued and returning home, the two make a winning team as jockey and lightning-fast racehorse under the tutelage of a passionate trainer, played by Mickey Rooney. From its serenely hypnotic island sequence to the breathtaking race scenes, The Black Stallion is a genuine masterpiece of family entertainment.
Based on Stephen King's novella and set in the 1950’s, Stand By Me is about four boys (Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell) who take an overnight hike through the woods near their Oregon town to find the body of a boy who's been missing for days. Their journey includes a variety of scary adventures, including a junkyard dog and a leap from a train trestle, but it's also a time for personal revelations, quiet interludes, and the raucous comradeship of best friends.
(G, 1979, 113 min)
(R, 1986, 89 min)
John Huston’s THE AFRICAN QUEEN
John Huston’s TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE
The African Queen tells the timeless tale of two mismatched strangers joining forces in a common cause and finding love along the way. The story chronicles the burgeoning romance between river rat Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) and missionary Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn), as they reluctantly join forces to torpedo a German gunboat in war-torn East Africa.
Two hard-luck drifters (Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) and a grizzled prospector (Walter Huston) discover gold. Then greed and paranoia set in. John Huston won Academy Awards for his direction and screenplay. And his dad took the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Without awards, but with enduring acclaim, is Bogart's performance, transforming from a likable hobo to a heartless thug simmering in greed.
(NR, 1951, 105 min)
(NR, 1948, 126 min)
ALL DOUBLE FEATURES START AT 7 PM
MAY 19
Alex Cox’s REPO MAN
JUN 16
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George Orwell’s 1984
Harry Dean Stanton stars as a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and Emilio Estevez as the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious—and otherworldly—Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack.
George Orwell's dystopian vision tells the story of one man's struggle under the surveillance of Big Brother. Winston Smith (John Hurt) rewrites the history books for the Ministry of Truth. Disillusioned by the state of affairs, his life takes a horrifying turn when he begins a forbidden love affair and commits the crime of independent thought. Sent to the Ministry of Love, he is placed at the mercy of O'Brien (Richard Burton), an imperious leader determined to not only control his thoughts but crush his soul.
Raymond Chandler’s THE BIG SLEEP
James M. Cain’s THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) takes on a blackmail case…and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich and more. Raymond Chandler’s legendary gumshoe solves it in hard-boiled style…and style is what The Big Sleep is all about. Director Howard Hawks serves up snappy character encounters (particularly those of Bogart and Lauren Bacall), brisk pace and atmosphere galore.
Lana Turner and John Garfield star in this adaptation of James M. Cain's pulp potboiler. Garfield is a drifter named Frank who wanders into the Twin Oaks, a bedraggled roadhouse owned by the curmudgeonly Nick and his smokin' hot wife Cora (Turner), a platinum bombshell with a penchant for white linen suits. It's lust at first site for Cora and Frank and, almost in spite of themselves, they start plotting to get rid of Nick; a scheme which ends up very badly.
(R, 1984, 92 min)
(NR, 1946, 114 min)
(R, 1984, 110 min)
(NR, 1946, 113 min)
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RETROFANTASMA HORROR, SCI-FI, AND ACTION-ADVENTURE FROM 1920-1997
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
THE BLOB
One by one, the residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves. As the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers, Matthew (Donald Sutherland) and Elizabeth (Brooke Adams), uncover the horrifying truth: Mysterious pods are cloning humans and destroying the originals! The unworldly invasion grows stronger with each passing minute, hurling Matthew and Elizabeth into a desperate race to save not only their own lives, but the future of the entire human race.
The Blob has returned in this horrific tale about a vile, malignant lifeform that crashes to earth in a cozy, rural American town. Untroubled by conscience or intellect, the Blob does only one thing-and does it well. It eats anything and everything that moves...men, women, and children. Now the oozing, gooey killer is back with a new high-tech 80's look.
(PG, 1978, 115 min)
(R, 1988, 94 min)
Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA
WARLOCK
Suspiria weaves a menacing tale of witchcraft as a fairy tale gone horribly awry. From the moment she arrives in Germany to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Banyon (Jessica Harper) senses that something horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old institution. Ill at ease as the result of her fellow student's peculiar behavior and increasingly terrified following a series of gruesome and spectacular murders, Suzy slowly begins to unravel the dark history of the academy.
In Boston of 1691, a warlock is sentenced to death, but escapes magically into the future (our present), followed doggedly by the witch hunter. There he is searching for the three parts of the Devil's Bible, trailed by the witch hunter and the woman whose house he landed in. They must stop him, as the book contains the true name of God, which he can use to destroy the world.
(R, 1977, 92 min)
(R, 1989, 103 min)
THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES
THE GORGON
Doctors are being murdered in a bizarre manner: bats, bees, and killer frog masks, which represents the nine Biblical plagues. The crimes are orchestrated by a demented organ player with the help of his mute assistant. Detectives are stumped to learn that all of the doctors assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of Dr Phibes (Vincent Price). But he couldn't be the culprit, could he? He was killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death.
In the early 20th century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone. When a professor is mysteriously killed in an Austrian town, it is up to his son Paul (Richard Pasco) and Professor Meister (Christopher Lee), to discover the cause of his death. While the local townsfolk refuse to talk, Paul struggles to discover the true identity of the deadly creature.
(PG, 1971, 94 min)
(PG, 1965, 83 min)
ALL DOUBLE FEATURES START AT 7 PM
APR 28
BRAINSTORM
MAY 26
CRITTERS
JUN 30
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OUTLAND
This sci-fi classic is notable for being filmed in the RTP area of NC as well as the film on which Natalie Wood was working when she died. A team of scientists (Christopher Walken and Louise Fletcher) create a machine that downloads one person’s thoughts and sensations to another individual. They can't help but continue following their curiosity, until one of the scientists suffers a fatal heart attack and records their own death. Who will get final control of Brainstorm?
Sean Connery stars as Federal District Marshal William T. O'Niel, assigned to a mining outpost on the Jovian moon. The highly productive titanium mine seems to be the backwater of the universe, but the miners are killing each other in strangely psychotic ways. Now, hired assassins are trying to kill O'Niel to bury the secret his investigation has revealed...and there's no one he can call for help in this far end of the solar system.
HOUSE
THE LEGACY
Horror novelist Roger Cobb is reeling from his recent divorce, haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his son, and struggling with his new book about his experiences in Vietnam. But when he moves into the strange house left to him by his late aunt, Roger's sanity comes under siege by nightmares of his dead war buddy, visits from a nosy neighbor, and an onslaught of hideous creatures from another dimension.
When Margaret (Katharine Ross) and Pete (Sam Elliot) have a car accident in the English countryside, the driver offers to take them to his lavish country estate to make amends. But once there, they are surprised to learn that all of the other houseguests are already expecting them! Now it’s clear, the true master of the house is a mysterious force that will stop at nothing to find the rightful heirs for an unimaginably legacy.
(PG, 1983, 106 min)
(R, 1981, 112 min)
Fred Dekker’s NIGHT OF THE CREEPS
This horror comedy is the story of a family menaced by eight basketball sized creatures from outer space who arrive at their Kansas farm in search of food. Helen (Dee Wallace Stone) and Brad (Scott Grimes) find themselves held hostage as the creatures roll, jump and bounce around during the night. They are pursued by a pair of intergalactic bounty hunters who can shape-shift at will and are packing weapons capable of taking care of any creature they encounter.
In 1959 an alien experiment containing vile, slug-like organisms that possess their hosts crashes to Earth, where one of the slugs takes over a young Lover's Lane couple; flash-forward to 1986, when hapless nerds Jason Lively and Steve Marshall discover the corpse, cryogenically frozen in their college lab, and accidentally free it as part of a prank. The body unleashes its extraterrestrial passenger, which proceeds to infect the student population at a breakneck pace.
(PG-13, 1986, 86 min)
(R, 1986, 93 min)
(R, 1986, 90 min)
(R, 1978, 100 min)
JAN 20
THE IN-LAWS
FEB 10
DIRTY DANCING
MAR 10
RETROTREASURES COMEDIES, MUSICALS, FANTASY, AND ANIMATION FROM 1920-1997
WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE?
Dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) is a respectable man. His daughter is about to marry the son of Vince Ricardo (Peter Falk). Sheldon despises Vince as if he were already a well-known relative. Nontheless, Vince calls on Sheldon and convinces him to go with him on a series of wild and hilarious adventures, claiming that he is a CIA agent, and that what he is doing is in the national interest.
George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Morley star in this food-and fun-filled mystery! Segal plays a fast-food tycoon and Bisset is his ex-wife, a pastry chef who may become the last course in a killer's banquet of death. Morley is an acerbic gourmet magazine publisher whose doctors have ordered him to give up his favorite dishes—and one by one the chefs who create those dishes are slain in the manner of their specialties.
Don Bluth’s THE SECRET OF NIMH
BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM
Mrs. Brisby is a mild-mannered mother mouse with a plan to move Heaven and Earth to save her family from Farmer Fitzgibbon's plow. Unfortunately, Mrs. Brisby will need an engineering miracle to hoist her home, and for that she must face a mysterious rat, fend off a ferocious cat and claim a magic amulet! But when Mrs. Brisby discovers the astounding secret of NIMH...it could change her life forever!
Unmasking the Phantasm is just one of the twists in this dazzling animated feature based on the 90s TV series. Unlike the campy 60s version of Batman, this Caped Crusader’s unusual sense of ethics are the only thing keeping him from becoming a full-blown psychotic. Prowling the streets of Gotham City is a shadowy new villain, the Phantasm, a sinister figure with some link to Batman’s past. There's also a spectacular fight with the Joker (Mark Hamill) at the abandoned Gotham World's Fair grounds.
(PG, 1979, 103 min)
(PG, 1978, 112 min)
John Water’s HAIRSPRAY
The summer of 1963 innocent 17-year-old Baby (Jennifer Grey) vacations with her parents at an idyllic Catskill's resort. One evening she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring rock-n-roll music. There she meets Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love.
It's Baltimore, 1962, and a rebellious teenager with the biggest bouffant on the block, Tracy (Ricki Lake) attempts to be one of the featured stars on a popular dance show and win the coveted "Miss Auto Show" crown as she fights against racial discrimination in in an ode to the dance craze of the 60's. Featuring Divine in his/her last gender-bending role as Tracy's mother. Also starring Sonny Bono, Jerry Stiller, and Deborah Harry.
(US, PG-13, 1987, 100 min)
(G, 1982, 82 min)
(PG, 1988, 92 min)
(PG, 76 min, 1993)
ALL DOUBLE FEATURES START AT 7 PM
JUN 2
MAY 5
APR 21
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Terry Gilliam’s ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
Monty Python’s AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
Director Terry Gilliam (Brazil) and an all-star cast including John Neville, Eric Idle, Oliver Reed and Uma Thurman deliver this tale of the enchanting adventures of Baron von Munchausen on his journey to save a town from defeat. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable adventures.
Now if there's one thing you definitely can't do, it's turn a sketch show into a full-length movie. And if there's one thing the Monty Python crew was good at, it was proving that you actually can do things everyone knows you can't do. This film is a collection of re-filmed sketches from the first and second series of the cult TV comedy show, Monty Python's Flying Circus. Includes such classics as "Nudge, Nudge", "Killer Cars", "Dead Parrot", and "Upper Class Twit of the Year".
(PG-13, 1989, 126 min)
(PG, 1972, 88 min)
Mel Brooks’ HIGH ANXIETY
Carl Reiner’s DEAD MEN DON’T WEAR PLAID
This is Mel Brooks' spoof of over ten Alfred Hitchcock classics, including Psycho, Vertigo, and The Birds. Brooks plays Dr. Richard H. Thorndyke, a renowned Harvard psychiatrist with a concealed fear of heights, or High Anxiety. Thorndyke takes over as the newest director of the PsychoNeurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous after the last director dies under suspicious circumstances. He soon finds himself to be in the company of some very strange colleagues.
This is one of the best parodies of the '40s hardboiled detective genre, with a very clever conceit: weaving the plot and production design around memorable movie clips (The Killers, The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, White Heat, Notorious). Steve Martin plays the cool Rigby Reardon, who tries solving an incomprehensible mystery with the assistance of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Burt Lancaster, Fred MacMurray, Ingrid Bergman, and Ray Milland, among others.
(PG, 1977, 94 min)
Howard Hawks’ HIS GIRL FRIDAY (NR, 1940, 92 min)
For decades considered the fastest comedy ever made, Howard Hawks’ remake of The Front Page switches ace newsman Hildy Johnson to a woman (Rosalind Russell), while Cary Grant shines as a cynical editor who bamboozles her into carrying out one last assignment: a death-row interview with a little nebbish convicted of killing a policeman. Soon, the Criminal Courts Building has become ground zero for a jailbreak, a shooting, and the most Machiavellian "hero" the American cinema can supply.
(PG, 1981, 89 min)
STAGE DOOR (NR, 1937, 91 min)
Here is a fast, witty story of aspiring actresses living at a theatrical boarding house. Ginger Rogers and Ann Miller tap in time and rat-a-tat lines. Lucille Ball braves a date with an obnoxious lumber baron. Eve Arden can’t recall Hamlet but one meets so many people in the big city. And Katharine Hepburn becomes Broadway’s biggest star in a play wherein she notes, “the calla lilies are in bloom again.” Stars galore shine in this nominee for 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
RETROARTHOUSE
FRI-SUN / JUN 23–25, 2017
WHAT IS AN ARTHOUSE MOVIE?
Art house is a film genre which encompasses movies where the content and style adhere with as little compromise as possible to the filmmakers’ personal artistic vision. The narrative is often in the social realism style with a focus on the characters’ contemplation of their existence or immediate concerns. An art house film is typically independently-produced, and filmmakers commonly use a mix of lesserknown and amateur actors. This contrasts sharply with mainstream "blockbuster" films, which are geared more towards escapism and pure entertainment.
Guillermo del Toro‘s CRONOS (R, 1993, 92 min)
Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, Pan’s Labyrinth) made an audacious feature debut with Cronos, a highly unorthodox tale about immortality. A kindly antiques dealer happens upon an ancient golden device in the shape of a scarab, and soon finds himself possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious, crude American named Angel (Ron Perlman). Featuring marvelous special makeup effects and the unforgettably haunting imagery for which del Toro has become world-renowned.
Charlie Chaplin’s CITY LIGHTS (G, 1931, 86 min)
City Lights, the most cherished film by Charlie Chaplin, is also his ultimate Little Tramp chronicle. The writer-director-star achieved new levels of grace with this silent tale of a lovable vagrant falling for a young blind woman who sells flowers on the street and mistakes him for a millionaire. Though this Depression-era smash was made after the advent of sound, Chaplin remained steadfast in his love for the expressive beauty of the pre-talkie form.
David Lynch’s ERASERHEAD (R, 1977, 89 min)
David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty. With its mesmerizing black-and-white photography by Frederick Elmes and Herbert Cardwell, evocative sound design, and unforgettably enigmatic performance by Jack Nance, this visionary nocturnal odyssey continues to haunt American cinema like no other film.
Peter Weir’s GALLIPOLI (PG, 1981, 110 min)
Mel Gibson delivers an electrifying performance in director Peter Weir’s compelling story of friendship and adventure between two Australian soldiers in 1915. They cross continents and great oceans, climb the pyramids and walk through the ancient sands of Egypt to join their regiment at the fateful battle of Gallipoli. The echoes of history blend with the friends’ compelling destiny as they become part of a legendary World War I confrontation between Australia and the German allied Turks.
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Edouard Molinaro’s LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (R, 1978, 96 min)
Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault) are a middle-aged gay couple who manage a glitzy drag club in St. Tropez. They agree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato’s son’s fiancée come for a visit. This was a modest French comedy that became a breakout arthouse smash in America and inspired the remake, The Birdcage. In French with English subtitles
Peter Brooks’ THE LORD OF THE FLIES (NR, 1963, 90 min)
In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding’s legendary novel about the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of the Flies with an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of its characters’ ids. The result is a rattling masterpiece, as provocative as its source material.
Stephen Frears’ MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (R, 1985, 97 min)
Laundrette is a love story that takes place between a young South London Pakistani man, who decides to open an upscale laundromat to make his family proud, and his childhood friend, a skinhead (Daniel Day-Lewis), who volunteers to help make his dream a reality. This culture-clash comedy is a subversive work which dares to address racism and homophobia in Margaret Thatcher’s England.
Louis Malle’s MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (PG, 1981, 111 min)
In this captivating film, actor and playwright Wallace Shawn sits down with his friend André Gregory at a restaurant on New York’s Upper West Side, and the pair proceed through an alternately whimsical and despairing confessional about love, death, money, and all the superstition in between. A fascinating freeze-frame of cosmopolitan culture, My Dinner with André remains a unique work in cinema history.
Akira Kurosawa’s RASHOMON (NR, 1950, 88 min)
A riveting psychological thriller, Rashomon is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people give different accounts of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife, which director Akira Kurosawa presents with striking imagery and an ingenious use of flashbacks. This eloquent masterwork revolutionized film language and introduced Japanese cinema to the Western world. In Japanese with English subtitles
RETROARTHOUSE
FRI-SUN / JUN 23–25, 2017 Ingmar Bergman’s THE SEVENTH SEAL (NR, 1957, 96 min)
Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman’s stunning allegory of man’s search for meaning, The Seventh Seal was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America’s 1950s art-house heyday. In Swedish with English subtitles
Orson Welles’ TOUCH OF EVIL (NR, 1958, 111 min)
As the corpulent cop who may be involved in a border-town murder, Welles butts heads with a narcotics officer (Charlton Heston) whose wife (Janet Leigh) is being held as the pawn in a struggle between truth and carefully hidden secrets. The twisting plot is wildly entertaining but even greater pleasure is found in the pulpy dialogue and the sheer exuberance of Welles’ dazzling directorial style.
Alexander Korda’s THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (NR, 1940, 106 min)
Thief is one of the most spectacular fantasy films ever made, an eyepopping effects pioneer brimming with imagination and technical wizardry. When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess. With its visual wonders, Bagdad has charmed viewers for decades.
Wim Wenders’ WINGS OF DESIRE (PG-13, 1987, 127 min)
Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can hear the thoughts—fears, hopes, dreams—of all the people living below. But when he falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist, he is willing to give up his immortality and come back to earth to be with her. Made not long before the fall of the Berlin wall, Wings is movie poetry. In German with English subtitles
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RETROARTHOUSE S C H E D U L E FRI, JUN 23
FLETCHER HALL
1:00 pm
My Dinner with Andre (ends at 2:51 pm)
Individual Tickets Are $9
CINEMA ONE
1:10 pm
The Seventh Seal (ends at 2:46 pm)
3:10 pm
The Thief of Baghdad (ends at 4:56 pm)
3:20 pm
City Lights (ends at 4:46 pm)
5:10 pm
Rashomon (ends at 6:38 pm)
5:20 pm 7:00 pm
Cronos (ends at 8:32 pm)
7:10 pm 9:00 pm
The Lord of the Flies (ends at 6:50 pm) La Cage Aux Folles (ends at 8:46 pm)
Eraserhead (ends at 10:29 pm)
9:10 pm
My Beautiful Laundrette (ends at 10:47 pm)
SAT, JUN 24
CINEMA ONE 1:00 pm
FLETCHER HALL
1:00 pm 1:10 pm
The Thief of Baghdad (ends at 2:56 pm)
3:10 pm 3:20 pm
The Seventh Seal (ends at 4:46 pm)
Rashomon (ends at 4:48 pm)
5:10 pm 5:20 pm
Gallipoli (ends at 2:50 pm)
The Lord of the Flies (ends at 6:40 pm)
La Cage Aux Folles (ends at 6:56 pm)
7:00 pm 7:15 pm
Touch of Evil (ends at 9:06 pm)
9:30 pm
Eraserhead (ends at 10:59 pm)
Wings of Desire (ends at 9:07 pm)
9:35 pm
My Beautiful Laundrette (ends at 11:07 pm)
SUN, JUN 25
CINEMA ONE
FLETCHER HALL
2:00 pm 2:10 pm
Cronos (ends at 3:42 pm)
4:00 pm 4:20 pm
The Seventh Seal (ends at 3:36 pm) My Dinner with Andre (ends at 5:51pm)
Eraserhead (ends at 5:49 pm)
6:10 pm 6:20 pm
City Lights (ends at 7:46pm)
8:10 pm
Wings of Desire (ends at 10:17 pm)
8:20 pm
Touch of Evil (ends at 8:01 pm)
Gallipoli (ends at 10:10 pm)
RETRO PRESENTS
FRI-SUN / MAR 17-19 2017
For decades, anime was produced by and for Japan—a local product, with a distinct look-and-feel to not just the artwork but the storytelling, the themes, and the concepts. Over the last fifty years, though, it's become an international phenomenon, attracting millions of fans and being translated into many languages. A whole generation in the United States has grown up with anime films and is now passing them on to their own children. In addition to traditional anime movies, we have broadened the scope of this series to include animated classics from around the globe.
Hayao Miyazaki’s CASTLE IN THE SKY (PG, 1986, 124 Minutes)
A young girl with a mysterious crystal pendant falls out of the sky and into the arms and life of young Pazu. Together they search for a floating island in the sky, site of a long-dead civilization promising enormous wealth and power to those who can unlock its secrets. Castle in the Sky is an early masterpiece of storytelling and filmmaking whose imaginative and ornately detailed vision presaged later films like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. In Japanese with English Subtitles
Shinichirô Watanabe’s COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE (R, 2001, 115 min)
Days before Halloween, villains blow up a tanker truck, releasing a deadly virus that kills hundreds. Fearing a bigger biochemical attack, an astronomical reward is offered for the arrest and capture of the person behind the destruction. On the spaceship "Bebop," Spike Spiegel and his crew of bounty hunters are short of cash. But with the news of the reward everything changes. Featuring stunning, state-of-the-art animation, this action-packed sci-fi adventure is guaranteed to keep you hanging on the edge of your seat. In Japanese with English Subtitles
René Laloux’s FANTASTIC PLANET
(PG, 1973, 72 min) Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants. After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radicals who are resisting oppression and violence. In French with English Subtitles
Isao Takahata’s GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (NR, 1988, 89 min)
As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies. This is the story of Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, two children now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to shelter them. Forced to fend for themselves in the aftermath, their struggle is both a tribute to the human spirit and the stuff of nightmares. Beautiful, yet at times brutal and horrifying. In Japanese with English Subtitles
Hayao Miyazaki’s HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (PG, 2004, 114 minutes)
Sophie, an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. But after this chance meeting, the young girl is turned into a 90-year old woman by the vain and conniving Witch of the Waste. Embarking on an incredible adventure to lift the curse, she finds refuge in Howl’s magical moving castle. In Japanese with English Subtitles
Akira Daikuhara & Taiji Yabushita’s MAGIC BOY (G, 1959, 83 min)
This was the first anime feature ever to be released in the US. In an idyllic mountain village a young boy named Sasuke lives happily with his sister ... until an evil witch and her army of bandits pillage and burn their way through the country. Now, vowing to defend his land, Sasuke apprentices himself to a hermit and studies the art of sorcery--learning to hurl thunderbolts, defy gravity and control both fire and water. But it will take all his power to defeat the witch and her minions as he becomes Magic Boy. Dubbed in English
Hayao Miyazaki’s MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (G, 1988, 86 minutes)
My Neighbor Totoro is a deceptively simple tale of two girls, Satsuki and Mei, who move with their father to a new house in the countryside. They soon discover that the surrounding forests are home to a family of Totoros, gentle but powerful creatures who live in a huge and ancient camphor tree and are seen only by children. Based on Miyazaki’s own childhood imaginings, Totoros look like oversized pandas with bunny ears and they take the girls on spinning-top rides through the tree tops. In Japanese with English Subtitles
Hayao Miyazaki’s NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (PG, 1984, 116 minutes)
The debut film from Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaa is considered by many to be his masterwork — and there are few films, animated or otherwise, of such sweeping scope and grandeur. Set in a devastated future world decimated by atmospheric poisons and swarming with gigantic insects, Nausicaa is the story of a young princess, whose love for all living things and passionate determination to understand the processes of nature lead her into terrible danger, sacrifice, and eventual triumph. In Japanese with English Subtitles
Hayao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY (PG, 2002, 125 minutes)
Wandering through an abandoned carnival site, ten-year-old Chichiro is separated from her parents and stumbles into a dream-like spirit world where she is put to work in a bathhouse for the gods, a place where all kinds of nonhuman beings come to refresh, relax and recharge. Here she encounters a vast menagerie of impossibly inventive characters—shape-shifting phantoms and spirits, some friendly, some less so—and must find the inner strength to outsmart her captors and return to her family. In Japanese with English Subtitles
Satoshi Kon & Shôgo Furuya’s TOKYO GODFATHERS (PG-13, 2003, 92 min)
Tokyo Godfathers centers on three homeless people: Hana, a flamboyant ex-drag entertainer; Gin, an alcoholic former bicycle racer; and Miyuki, a sullen teenage runaway. Their tenuous existence becomes more chaotic when they set out to find the parents of an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. All three care passionately about the abandoned infant, and they love each other, although they're loath to admit it. Tokyo Godfathers shows that battling the inner demons that led these three characters to skid row can be a more daunting challenge than fighting aliens and cyborgs. In Japanese with English Subtitles
Richard Adams’ WATERSHIP DOWN (PG, 1978, 92 min)
A faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat. With its naturalistic handdrawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors (John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott), Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.
ANIME-MAGIC S C H E D U L E FRI, MAR 17
CINEMA ONE
1:00 pm 1:10 pm Howl's Moving Castle (ends at 3:04 pm) 3:15 pm 3:25 pm Tokyo Godfathers (ends at 4:57 pm) 5:00 pm 5:20 pm My Neighbor Totoro (ends at 6:46 pm) 7:10 pm Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
(ends at 9:06 pm)
9:30 pm
Castle in the Sky (ends at 11:34 pm)
1:00 pm
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
SAT, MAR 18
CINEMA ONE
CINEMA TWO
Cowboy Bebop (ends at 2:55 pm)
Individual Tickets Are $9
FLETCHER HALL
Fantastic Planet (ends at 4:27 pm) Watership Down (ends at 6:32 pm)
CINEMA TWO
FLETCHER HALL
(ends at 2:56 pm)
1:10 pm 1:20 pm Grave of the Fireflies (ends at 2:49 pm) 3:00 pm 3:10 pm Magic Boy (ends at 4:33 pm) 3:20 pm Tokyo Godfathers (ends at 4:52 pm) 5:00 pm Grave of the Fireflies (ends at 6:39 pm) 5:15 pm Watership Down (ends at 6:47 pm) 5:30 pm 7:10 pm 7:20 pm Howl's Moving Castle (ends at 9:14 pm) 9:30 pm Spirited Away (ends at 11:35 pm) 9:35 pm
SUN, MAR 19 CINEMA ONE
2:00 pm 2:10 pm Tokyo Godfathers (ends at 3:42 pm) 4:00 pm Magic Boy (ends at 5:23 pm) 4:15 pm 5:45 pm Fantastic Planet (ends at 6:57 pm) 7:20 pm Grave of the Fireflies (ends at 8:49 pm) 9:15 pm Nausicaa (ends at 11:11 pm)
CINEMA TWO
Howl's Moving Castle (ends at 3:54 pm)
Spirited Away (ends at 6:20 pm)
My Neighbor Totoro (ends at 2:38 pm) Spirited Away (ends at 5:05 pm)
Fantastic Planet (ends at 6:42 pm) Castle in the Sky (ends at 9:14 pm)
Cowboy Bebop (ends at 11:30 pm)
FLETCHER HALL
FEB 3
Nevermore
MAR 12
FRI, FEB 3, 2017 / $10
Sam Raimi's THE EVIL DEAD
Sam Raimi's EVIL DEAD II (R, 1987, 84 min)
The Evil Dead tells the tale of a group of friends who go to a cabin in the woods, where they find an unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Book Of The Dead and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining (Bruce Campbell), it is up to him to survive the night and battle The Evil Dead.
Ash (Bruce Campbell), the sole survivor of The Evil Dead, returns to the same cabin in the woods and again unleashes the forces of the dead. With his girlfriend possessed by the demons and his body parts running amok, Ash is forced to single-handedly battle the legions of the damned as the most lethal---and groovy---hero in horror movie history! Welcome to Evil Dead II, director Sam Raimi’s outrageous prequel to Army of Darkness!
(R, 1982, 85 min) 7 PM
FREE FAN DAY
MAY 30
FUNDRAISER
Free Movies & Regular Size Popcorn!
KING KONG VS GODZILLA (G, 1963, 91 min) 2:30 PM
Starts 15 minutes after the end of Evil Dead
SUN, MAR 12, 2017
SUPERMAN II: THE RICHARD DONNER CUT
When a pharmaceutical company steals King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village. Meanwhile, a submarine crew unleashes reptilian terror when they melt a block of ice and release the ferocious Godzilla. When both monsters descend on Tokyo, it's a fight that holds the future of mankind in the balance.
(PG, 1981, 129 min) 4:30 PM It's the version you've never seen. Finally released as visionary director Richard Donner originally conceived and intended, this is a reedited rendering of the legendary superhero film that closely follows the original script and restores the lost footage originally shot by Donner in 1977 before he was taken off the project. Among the fascinating new elements in the director's cut are the original opening and ending, alternate takes and camera angles and deleted scenes featuring Marlon Brando.
, 2017 /
$23.50
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