Summer Classic Film Series Kicks Off with a Major Milestone: the 75Th Anniversary of Our Beloved Annual Opener, CASABLANCA
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This year, the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series kicks off with a major milestone: the 75th anniversary of our beloved annual opener, CASABLANCA. By bringing this timeless film back to our big screen along with the many others you'll read about on this calendar, we hope to create new memories and new favorites for you and your family and friends. By bringing it back on 35mm film, we continue our mission to champion the preservation of film on film whenever possible. As always, we have over 100 movies for you this summer, so look forward to more well-preserved film prints and dazzling digital restorations, romance and laughs and thrills and more. We hope you'll join us in celebrating the glorious history of the SUMMER CLASSIC FILM SERIES movies once again! Films screening at the Paramount will be marked with a , while films screening at Stateside will be marked with a . Presented by: Get ready to parrr-taaayyyyy and warm up for the Summer Classic Film Series Real Cool Hands - Tues, June 13 – Sun, June 18 with the BRIDESMAIDS PUB RUN PRESENTED BY WHOLE FOODS MARKET, Here are a few of cinema’s most iconic characters starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, and an audience full of tipsy joggers. We request the pleasure of your company at the Stateside Theatre, Tuesday May 23 at 6:00pm! 50TH ANNIVERSARY! 60TH ANNIVERSARY! In the Heat of the Night Jailhouse Rock (1967, 110min/color, DCP) Sidney Poitier, Rod (1957, 96min/b&w, 35mm) Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Star-Crossed Lovers – Thurs, May 25 – Sun, May 28 Steiger, Warren Oates, and Lee Grant. Directed by Mickey Shaughnessy, and Dean Jones. Directed by Because film fans like their love affairs doomed Norman Jewison. As the brilliant detective Virgil Richard Thorpe. Though Elvis Presley starred in many Tibbs, Sidney Poitier finds himself stranded in a musicals, arguably none were as entertaining as this great care to establish a captivating romance before southern town overflowing with racial prejudice. As black-and-white riot. As recently paroled teenage OPENING NIGHT FILM! the local sheriff in over his head, Rod Steiger must 75th ANNIVERSARY! fate steps in. Live Irish music by The Here & Now crooner Vince Everett, Presley develops a rock-and-roll before the film! 7:30pm Fri 5/26. decide whether to accept Tibbs’ help or let a murder stage presence much like the one he thrilled Casablanca go unsolved. Needless to say, sparks fly. 7pm Tues audiences with in real life, leading to a hip-swiveling (1942, 102min/b&w, 35mm) Humphrey Bogart, 50th ANNIVERSARY! 6/13, 9pm Thurs 6/15. dance number that had the whole world talking. Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Jailhouse Elvis photo booth! 3:15pm Sat 6/17. Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. Directed Bonnie and Clyde The French Connection by Michael Curtiz. The world may have changed (1967, 111min/color, 35mm) Warren Beatty, Faye 40TH ANNIVERSARY! since 1942, but we’ve always had CASABLANCA. Dunaway, Michael (1971, 104min/color, DCP) Gene Hackman, Celebrating its 75 th anniversary this year, this J. Pollard, Gene Fernando Rey, and Roy Scheider. Directed by Saturday mesmerizing classic continues Hackman, Estelle William Friedkin . Gene Hackman stars as Detective to age well, thanks to Bogart Parsons, and Gene Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle, a hard-edged New York cop Night Fever and Bergman and Rains and Wilder. Directed by who snuffs out crime by any means necessary. This the list goes on, not to mention Arthur Penn. With gritty thriller was the first R-rated movie to win the (1977, 118min/color, DCP) John a screenplay that will never be its frank discussions Oscar for Best Picture, and its car chase sequence is Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry topped. If you’ve never teared of sexuality and the stuff of legend. 9:05pm Tues 6/13, 7pm Miller, and Donna Pescow. Directed up to La Marseillaise and famously violent Thurs 6/15. by John Badham. John Travolta applauded the beginning of a conclusion, Arthur Penn’s era-defining masterpiece used the role of dancing king Tony beautiful friendship with a suggested that, where Hollywood was going, strict 35TH ANNIVERSARY! Manero as a launchpad to the stars, huge audience in a grand movie palace before, this censorship could not follow. This thrilling film made turning the film into one of the most is the year to do it! Film Fan Members will be treated Faye Dunaway a star, announced the arrival of two Fast Times at treasured artifacts of the disco era in the process. Of to an Opening Night Party at 6pm before the Genes (Hackman and Wilder), and won Estelle course, it didn’t hurt to have some of the Bee Gees’ screening with free beer/wine/popcorn and free Parsons an Academy Award. 2pm Sun 5/28. Ridgemont High catchiest tunes adorning the soundtrack. Disco photo admission. 7pm Thurs 5/25. (1982, 90min/color, booth! 5:05pm Sat 6/17. DCP) Sean Penn, Jennifer 20TH ANNIVERSARY! Badlands Jason Leigh, Judge 50TH ANNIVERSARY! Reinhold, Robert Titanic (1973, 95min/color, DCP) Martin Sheen, Sissy Romanus, and Phoebe Cool Hand Luke Spacek, Ramon Bieri, and Warren Oates. Directed by Cates. Directed by Amy (1997, 195min/color, DCP) Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate (1967, 126min/color, 35mm) Paul Newman, George Terrence Malick. In 1973, this stunning film heralded Heckerling. Sean Penn Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Kennedy, Strother Martin, and Jo Van Fleet. Directed first-time director Terrence Malick as an unmatched launched his career into Gloria Stuart, and Bill Paxton. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. What we’ve got here is an conjurer of cinematic beauty. the stratosphere with his by James Cameron. Much like my absolute classic. Paul Newman gives a staggering Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek starring role here as heart, the legend of this blockbuster will performance as Luke, a man who refuses to star as young, disillusioned lovers lovable stoner Jeff Spicoli, go on and on. Thanks to the star- cooperate with a failed system, eats a whole bunch of who embark on a murderous not to mention that this making performances of the perfectly eggs, and recognizes that, sometimes, nothing can be journey based loosely on a real-life perfect teen comedy also marked the film debuts of cast Leonard DiCaprio and Kate a real cool hand. Treat Dad! Check out our Father's crime spree that rocked the country Nicolas Cage and Forest Whitaker, the screenwriting Winslet and the measured direction of Day packages online! 2pm Sun 6/18. in the late 1950s. 4:10pm Sun debut of Cameron Crowe, and the feature-length James Cameron, this disaster film takes 5/28. debut of Amy Heckerling, whose CLUELESS screens 55TH ANNIVERSARY! later this summer. 7pm Fri 6/16. Dr. No From the Archives of the Harry Ransom Center The Big (1962, 110min/color, 35mm) Sean Connery, Ursula – Tues, May 30 – Thurs, June 1 Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, and Bernard Celebrating Austin’s world-renowned research library and museum Lebowski Lee. Directed by Terence Young. James Bond roared onto the screen and never looked back in this thrilling (1998, 117min/color, DCP) Jeff Bridges, John York City of riff raff. Though a certain quote steals debut, thanks in large part to Sean Connery’s NEW DCP RESTORATION! Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, and Philip most of the press, the film has much more going for it, charismatic and captivating portrayal. Bond journeys Seymour Hoffman. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan including gorgeous cinematography and a typically deep underground to thwart the evil schemes of the Coen. The stakes seemingly couldn’t be lower, yet this The Lion in Winter masterful score from Bernard Herrmann. 7pm Wed villainous Dr. No, a founding member of the criminal (1968, 134min/color, DCP) Peter O’Toole, Katharine 5/31, 9:20pm Thurs 6/1. enduring cult classic is absolutely riveting from start to group SPECTRE that Hepburn, Jane Merrow, John Castle, Timothy Dalton, finish. Jeff Bridges turns in a career-defining continues to plague 007 and Anthony Hopkins. Directed by Anthony Harvey. performance as The Dude, who abides over the to this very day. Treat If you’ve always wanted a WHO’S AFRAID OF A Streetcar strangest cast of characters ever assembled. Some Dad! Check out our VIRGINIA WOOLF set in Medieval times, have I got a may call it a “stoner comedy,” but, in the hands of the Father's Day packages movie for you! Cinematic titans Peter O’Toole (as King Named Desire Coens, it’s so much more. Wear your bathrobe for a online! 4:25pm Sun Henry II) and Katherine Hepburn (as his estranged chance to win a gift certificate to Dart Bowl! 6/18. wife Eleanor of Aquitane) engage in deliciously (1951, 122min/b&w, 35mm) Marlon Brando, Vivien 8:45pm Fri 6/16. written verbal warfare while their three sons each plot Leigh, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden. Directed by Elia to assume the throne. This remarkable cast was Kazan. As far as first impressions go, you could do worse than Brando does here in his first major movie playing a game of thrones before HBO was even role, screaming his wife’s name so loudly that it still Family Film Festival – Sat, June 17 born. O’Toole’s archives were recently acquired by echoes today. Finally, moviegoers around the world See the back page for details on our Family Film Festival! the Ransom Center. 7:30pm Tues 5/30. could see what all the fuss was about on Broadway, with Kazan’s assured direction and Alex North’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Taxi Driver weary, sweat-drenched score elevating the Tennessee Williams play to new heights.