Digital Cinema Joins Film at the Paramount! With Brand New Sound System and Screen! Last year, the Paramount Theatre celebrated its 100 th birthday, and now, as the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series marks its 41 st year, we are ushering in a new era thanks to the arrival of digital cinema (DCP) at the Paramount, along with an all- new, crystal-clear sound system and a shimmering new screen. Don’t worry, 35mm fans: we will continue to champion the preservation and exhibition of actual film by showing 35mm and 70mm prints whenever available. DCP simply allows us to expand the catalog of movies we bring to you every summer, so look forward to seeing dozens of movies this summer that have not been featured at the Paramount in quite a long time, if ever. From pristine film prints to all-new digital restorations, this year’s series will be a more enticing and inviting escape from the Austin heat than ever before! Films screening at the Paramount will be marked with a SUMMER CLASSIC FILM SERIES ( ), while films screening at Stateside will be marked with an ( ) Warm up for the Summer Film Series with the BRIDESMAIDS Talking Politics - Tues, June 7 – Sun, June 12 (Continued) PUB RUN PRESENTED BY WHOLE FOODS , starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Celebrate the end of primary season with these political classics Melissa McCarthy, and an audience full of tipsy joggers. We request the pleasure of your company at the Stateside Theatre, The Great Dictator Tuesday May 24 at 6:00pm! (1940, 126min/b&w, 35mm) Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, and Jack Oakie. Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin finally takes the plunge into talking pictures more than ten years after sound had taken over Hollywood, The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship – Thurs, May 26 – Sunday, June 5 and he makes the biggest splash possible with this dark satire aimed squarely at Glorious 35mm film prints paired with shimmering digital restorations Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. His ability to make serious political statements even in the midst of clowning around was another testament to his cinematic OPENING NIGHT FILM! 30TH ANNIVERSARY! genius. 5:05pm Sun 6/12. Casablanca Labyrinth (1942, 102min/b&w, 35mm) Humphrey Bogart, (1986, 102min/color, 35mm) David Bowie and Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Jennifer Connelly. Directed by Jim Henson. This Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. Directed stunning fantasy tale of a young girl trying to rescue Family Film Festival – Sun, June 12 by Michael Curtiz. You must remember this…since we her infant brother from the evil Goblin King fueled the See the back page for details on our Family Film Festival! play it every year! As always, this breathtakingly imaginations (and probably a few nightmares) of an romantic and riotously witty tale of two lovers torn entire generation. In some ways, the glam-wigged, TH apart by war will be screened on 35mm. Because tight-panted Goblin King is the most natural role 75 ANNIVERSARY! they’ll always have Paris, and we’ll always have film. Bowie ever played, and as usual, he turned the Dumbo Film Fan Members will be character into the stuff of legend. treated to an Opening Night 7pm Thurs 6/2. (1941, 64min/color, DCP) Edward Brophy, Verna Felton, Cliff Edwards, Party at 6pm before the Thurs and Sterling Holloway. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen. Released just one month 5/26 screening with free before the attack on Pearl Harbor, this sweet story of an adorable baby elephant beer/wine/popcorn and free Purple Rain with big ears represented perhaps the last sixty minutes of innocence the American admission. 7pm Thurs (1984, 111min/color, DCP) Prince, Apollonia Kotero, public were able to enjoy. While the real world was being torn apart by war, in Disney’s world, a mouse and an elephant were becoming the best of friends. 1pm Sun 6/12. 5/26, 9pm Fri 5/27. and Morris Day. Directed by Albert Magnoli. The late, great Prince Rogers Nelson 75 TH ANNIVERSARY! soared to another level of A Wild Week of Westerns - Mon, June 13 – Fri, June 17 The Maltese Falcon superstardom thanks to this semi-autobiographical story Saddle up for a week-long journey through the American frontier (1941, 100min/b&w, DCP) Humphrey Bogart, Mary of “The Kid,” a talented Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, and Sydney young frontman of a Minneapolis band who immerses The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Shane Greenstreet. Directed by John Huston. Thanks to the himself in his music. In addition to the film being an (1953, 118min/color, DCP) Alan Ladd, masterful writing and direction of John Huston, this instant cult classic, the album is still the sixth-best- (1962, 123min/b&w, 35mm) John Wayne, James Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, and Jack classic film noir has thrilled and captivated audiences selling soundtrack of all time. 9pm Thurs 6/2. Stewart, Vera Miles, and Lee Marvin. Directed by for 75 years. Bogey is Sam Spade, one of literature’s John Ford. You couldn’t find two more opposite men Palance. Directed by George most beloved private eyes, who gets tangled in a web Dr. Strangelove or: than Jimmy Stewart’s civilized, law-abiding lawyer Stevens. A quiet man with a of intrigue as he tries to solve the case of his How I Learned to Stop Worrying and John Wayne’s fearless gunslinger. Their paths mysterious past rides into an murdered partner. What’s at stake? Oh, just the stuff and Love the Bomb collide in one of John Ford’s most morally isolated town full of unsavory that dreams are made of. 9pm Thurs 5/26, 7pm complex films, with the two men disagreeing characters. The stranger’s name is Fri 5/27. (1964, 94min/b&w, DCP) Peter Sellers, George C. on how to handle Lee Marvin’s maniacally Shane, and he’s fast with a gun but Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, and Slim vicious hoodlum Liberty Valance (take a reluctant to use it. That’s the premise NEW DCP RESTORATION! Pickens. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Peter Sellers guess what happens to him.) behind one of the all-time great turns in not one but three incomparably hilarious 7pm Mon 6/13, 9:15pm Tues Westerns, which director George The Third Man performances, and director Stanley Kubrick delivers 6/14. Stevens and leading man Alan Ladd (1949, 104min/b&w, DCP) Joseph Cotten, Alida pitch-dark comedy in this riotous satire of Cold War turn into something iconic and quintessentially mythic. Valli, and Orson Welles. Directed by Carol Reed. paranoia that suggests we shouldn’t be as worried 60 TH ANNIVERSARY! 7pm Thurs 6/16. Where is Harry Lime? That’s the central question about the bomb as we are about the inept people The Searchers guiding this pulpy British noir, which follows Joseph with their fingers hovering over the button. Butch Cassidy and the Cotten as he searches for an old friend (played by 7pm Fri 6/3. (1956, 119min/color, 35mm) John Wayne, Jeffrey Cotten’s real-life old friend Orson Welles). All the Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, and Natalie Wood. Sundance Kid elements of a bona fide classic are here: a The Sh ining Directed by John (1969, 110min/color, DCP) Paul Newman, Robert remarkable cast, stunning cinematography, and a Ford. John Wayne is Redford, and Katharine Ross. Directed by George score so unforgettable that it sent the zither roaring to (1980, 144min/color, 35mm) Jack Nicholson, an aging Civil War Roy Hill. Two train robbers orchestrate a series of the top of the charts. 3pm Sat 5/28, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, and Scatman Crothers. veteran who sets out heists and then find themselves on the run from the 4:15pm Sun 5/29. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. to find his abducted law in this rollicking Western from director George What do you get when you niece, even if it takes Roy Hill. Paul Newman and Robert Redford proved to 75TH ANNIVERSARY! cross Stephen King, one of him years. Arguably be such a potent and uproarious pairing that they CITIZEN KANE the greatest horror authors of the most highly teamed up again with Hill to make The Sting four all time, with Stanley praised example of years later. 9:15pm Thurs 6/16. (1941, 119min/b&w, 35mm) Orson Welles, Joseph Kubrick, one of the most director John Ford’s Cotten, and Dorothy Comingore. Directed by Orson lauded directors in cinema mastery and Stagecoach Welles. The “favorite movie” of sheepish film school history? Arguably the scariest Wayne’s greatest freshmen for the past 75 years, this landmark film film ever made, that’s what. Anchored by a truly performance, this (1939, 96min/b&w, DCP) Claire Trevor, John undoubtedly deserves all the accolades it has terrifying performance from Jack Nicholson, this film was declared by Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, and Andy received. Orson Welles, as both star and director, chilling tale will make you rethink what a “bad AFI as the greatest American Western of all time. Devine. Directed by John Ford. John Ford was one of tells the story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper vacation” really is. 8:55pm Fri 6/3. 9:20pm Mon 6/13, 7pm Tues 6/14. the most magnate rather unsubtly based on William Randolph accomplished directors ever to take Hearst, with incisive writing and revolutionary FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL KICKOFF! 50 TH ANNIVERSARY! cinematography. 5pm Sat 5/28, 2pm Sun 5/29. on the Western 20TH ANNIVERSARY! The Good, the Bad, genre, and this was Space Jam and the Ugly arguably his greatest The Thin Man (1996, 88min/color, DCP) Michael Jordan, Bugs achievement.