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. A (1966, 179min/color, DCP) Clint fascinating bunch of (1934, 93min/b&w, 35mm) William Powell, Myrna Bunny, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, and Danny Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli characters, led by pre-superstardom John Wayne, Loy, and Maureen O’Sullivan. Directed by W.S. Van DeVito. Directed by Joe Pytka. When you’ve got the Wallach . Directed by Sergio board a stagecoach bound for New Mexico. As you Dyke. Powell and Loy star as cinema’s most charming greatest basketball player of all time teaming up with Leone. Director Sergio Leone pulls might have guessed, things don’t go smoothly. couple Nick and Nora Charles, who also happen to everyone’s favorite Looney Tunes against alien out all the stops in this epic 7pm Fri 6/17. be the finest detectives in New York. And just imagine challengers, what more could you want? A Spaghetti Western, featuring how good they’d be sober! In this first and best entry soundtrack that became Clint Eastwood, Lee Van HIGH NOON in the long-running series, these two revelers, with THE must-have CD for an Cleef, and Eli Wallach as their wire-haired fox terrier Asta by their side, attempt entire generation? This the titular trio caught up in (1952, 85min/b&w, DCP) Gary Cooper, Thomas to solve the murder of an old friend without putting epic sports comedy gives the greed and bloodshed Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly, and their martinis down. 7pm Tues 5/31. you all that and more. surrounding the American Lon Chaney, Jr. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. A long- See the back page for Civil War. Leone’s serving marshal of a New Mexico town gets married details on our Family Film Festival! 2pm Sun 6/5. riveting showdown and hopes to retire. But a violent criminal threatens Cabaret scenes and Ennio the town and forces the marshal to search in vain for (1972, 124min/color, DCP) 25TH ANNIVERSARY! Morricone’s iconic score help from the townspeople, all while the clock ticks in Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Teenage Mutant Ninja highlight one of the most real time. A landmark Western that replaces mindless Helmut Griem, and Joel Grey. thrilling Westerns ever made. 7pm Wed 6/15. violence with complicated moral dilemmas. Directed by Bob Fosse. Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze 8:55pm Fri 6/17. “Willkommen” to the Kit Kat (1991, 90min/color, 35mm) Paige Turco, David Klub, the seediest, most Warner, Ernie Reyes, Jr., and Vanilla Ice. Directed by decadent cabaret in 1930s Berlin, where Sally Michael Pressman. Don’t worry if you haven’t seen Bowles, the young American singer unforgettably the first one because this is the best one! The crime- Family Film Festival – Sat, June 18 portrayed by Liza Minnelli, sings and dances her fighting mutant-turtle brothers take on their See the back page for details on our Family Film Festival! heart out on a nightly basis. Featuring some of the archenemy, the Shredder, and still find time to dance finest songs in the American musical songbook and with Vanilla Ice. In other words, this is the 90s in all A Little Princess the Oscar-winning talents of director/choreographer its glory. Cowabunga! See the back page for details Bob Fosse. 8:50pm Tues 5/31. on our Family Film Festival! 3:45pm Sun 6/5. (1995, 97min/color, digital) Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, and Liesel Matthews. Directed by Alfonso Cuaron. In the midst of World War I, a young girl named Sara is sent to a New York City boarding school after news that her father, and only remaining parent, has been killed in battle. Talking Politics - Tues, June 7 – Sun, June 12 Although the headmistress is cruel and makes her life difficult, Sara slowly Celebrate the end of primary season with these political classics but surely befriends her schoolmates simply by being the kind and giving person her father raised her to be. 1pm Sat 6/18. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 40TH ANNIVERSARY! (1939, 129min/b&w, DCP) James Stewart, Jean All the President’s Men Arthur, Claude Rains, (1976, 139min/color, DCP) Robert Redford, Dustin The Wonders of the Human Mind – Sat, June 18-Sun, June 19 and Edward Arnold. Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Psychiatry was never more thrilling Directed by Frank Holbrook, and Jason Robards. Directed by Alan J. Capra. No one but Pakula. A landmark account of investigative TH Jimmy Stewart could 45 ANNIVERSARY! journalism at its finest, Hoffman and Redford play One Flew Over the have portrayed Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob A Clockwork Jefferson Smith, a just, Cuckoo’s Nest Woodward as they expose noble, and morally Orange the details of the (1975, 133min/color, DCP) Jack Nicholson, Louise upright man who finds himself stuck in the middle of Watergate scandal that Fletcher, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif, and Christopher (1971, 136min/color, DCP) Malcolm McDowell, political power plays resulting from a U.S. senator’s lead to Richard Nixon’s Lloyd. Directed by Milos Forman. Ken Kesey’s Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, and Miriam Karlin. death. One of the most inspirational movies of all resignation. Who knew counter-culture novel about a petty thief rattling the Directed by Stanley Kubrick. This unsettling glimpse time, featuring what is easily cinema’s greatest watching people do their establishment in a mental hospital caused a stir in into a not-so-unfathomable future follows Malcolm filibuster. 7pm Tues 6/7, 8:25pm Wed 6/8. jobs could be so 1962, but it would take more than a decade to hit McDowell’s sociopathic hoodlum and his gang of captivating! the screen. When it did, it ultimately became the top- “droogs” as they unleash Duck Soup 7pm Thurs 6/9. grossing film of that year and the first to sweep the violence and scandal all big five Oscars (Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor, (1933, 70min/b&w, 35mm) The Marx Brothers, over town. The story takes Actress) since 1934. 3:15pm Sat 6/18, 4:35pm Margaret Dumont, and Louis Calhern. Directed by Leo The Manchurian Candidate an interesting turn when Sun 6/19. McDowell is captured and McCarey . Fans of the Marx Bros. know there is no (1962, 126min/b&w, DCP) Frank Sinatra, Laurence forced into a terrifying topic too sacred for their particular brand of anarchic Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury. Directed rehabilitation procedure. comedy, including politics. In this nonsensical film, by John Frankenheimer. You’ll be hard-pressed to find As challenging now as it Groucho plays Rufus T. Firefly, who is somehow a thriller more riveting than this chilling story about was in the 70s. 7pm Sat elected president of the nearly-bankrupt country of Korean War vets who may be the victims of 6/18, 2pm Sun 6/19. Freedonia. And who should have the funds to save brainwashing. Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey the country but Groucho’s eternal flame/foil, turn in career-best work, but even they can’t prevent Margaret Dumont. 9:25pm Tues 6/7, Angela Lansbury from stealing the show as Harvey’s 7pm Wed 6/8. calculating mother. 2:45pm Sun 6/12. Continued on next column... Schemers and Dreamers – Tues, June 21-Thurs, June 23 Song and Dance – Tues, July 5-Sun, July 10 (Continued) You don’t have to tell these doomed characters about “best laid plans…” Because nothing beats leaving a movie theatre with a dance in your step and a song in your heart All About Eve Laura Gigi FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING! (1950, 138min/b&w, 35mm) Bette Davis, Anne (1944, 88min/b&w, DCP) Gene Tierney, Dana (1958, 115min/color, DCP) Leslie Caron, Louis The Sound of Music Baxter, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm. Directed Andrews, Clifton Webb, and Vincent Price. Directed Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, and Hermione Gingold. by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Bette Davis and Anne (1965, 174min/color, DCP) Julie Andrews, by Otto Preminger. As New York private eye Dana Directed by Vincente Minnelli. What do Singin’ in the Christopher Plummer, Baxter go head to head as an aging Broadway star Andrews attempts to solve the murder of Gene Rain , An American in Paris , and Annie Get Your Gun and the young ingénue scheming to take her place on Eleanor Parker, Richard Tierney’s title character, he finds that he is slowly have in common? They were all produced by the Haydn, and Peggy the throne of the Great White Way. This remarkable becoming obsessed with her. Join the club, which legendary Arthur Freed, whose final, most Oscar- Wood. Directed by drama shares the record for most Oscar nominations includes Clifton Webb’s egotistic newspaper winning hit was this story of a young courtesan in Robert Wise. This received by a single film (a staggering 14!) with a columnist, Vincent Price’s socialite playboy, and all turn-of-the-century Paris. Featuring the delightful Leslie beloved musical, full of movie about a certain “unsinkable” ship. 7pm Tues the fans this movie has made over the years. 7pm Caron in the title role and the surprising return of 30’s unforgettable songs and 6/21, 9:05pm Wed 6/22. Thurs 6/23. star Maurice Chevalier. 7pm Thurs 7/7. sumptuously filmed on location in Austria, has Double Indemnity 20TH ANNIVERSARY! 15 TH ANNIVERSARY! never looked better than it will at the Paramount on (1944, 107min/b&w, DCP) Fred MacMurray, Moulin Rouge! DCP. Even as World War II looms on the horizon, the Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson. Fargo film can’t help but be a joyous celebration of the Directed by Billy Wilder. Legendary director Billy (1996, 98min/color, DCP) Frances (2001, 127min/color, DCP) Nicole Kidman, Ewan healing power of music and the importance of family. Wilder brought his consummate skill to everything McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, and 3pm Sat 7/9. from romantic comedies to courtroom dramas. With Buscemi, Harve Presnell, and Peter Richard Roxburgh. Directed by this film, he made the film noir standard bearer and Stormare. Directed by Joel and Ethan Baz Luhrmann. This dazzling SPECIAL SING-ALONG EVENT! got career-topping performances from his cast, Coen. Winning a couple of Oscars representation of 20 th century featuring Fred MacMurray as for the Coen Brothers’ screenplay and Grease Frances McDormand’s memorable Paris pulls beloved songs from a smitten insurance salesman the contemporary pop music (1978, 110min/color, DCP) performance, this dark-as-noir and Barbara Stanwyck as the canon to give us a wholly John Travolta, Olivia comedy thriller propelled the Coens housewife doing the smiting. unique take on the movie Newton-John, Stockard to the next level of worldwide 9:35pm Tues 6/21, musical. When Ewan Channing, Eve Arden, Sid recognition and is often named among the top films 7pm Wed 6/22. McGregor, at the time known Caesar, and Joan Blondell. 8:45pm Thurs 6/23. of the 1990s. mostly as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel, Directed by Randal Kleiser. suddenly belts out a song from The Sound of Music , This deliriously entertaining you know you’re in for a special journey. 9:15pm musical representation of 1950s high school days is Thurs 7/7. chock full of summer lovin’, beauty school dropouts, and hand jive contests. This show is a special sing- A Pair of Parodies – Fri, June 24 along event, with song lyrics on-screen, benefitting the Two contemporary comedies that turned genres upside down Dirty Dancing AIDS Services of Austin. Special Engagement - No (1987, 100min/color, DCP) Patrick Passes or Flix-tix. 7pm Sat 7/9. Blazing Saddles Swayze, Jennifer Grey, and Jerry THIS IS SPINAL TAP Orbach. Directed by Emile Ardolino. (1974, 95min/color, DCP) Cleavon Little, Gene MARTINIS AND MANICURES! (1984, 82min/color, DCP) Christopher Guest, Nobody puts Baby in a corner, and Wilder, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Madeline Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Bruno nobody will want to miss this Magic Mike Kahn, Mel Brooks, and Dom DeLuise. Directed by Mel Kirby, and Fran Drescher. Directed by Rob Reiner . enduring favorite about a rich young (2012, 110min/color, DCP) Channing Tatum, Alex Brooks . More like “How the West Was Fun!” This Though by no means the first mockumentary (Woody girl on her way to college and the Pettyfer, Cody Horn, Matt Bomer, Olivia Munn, Joe laugh riot from spoof legend Mel Brooks leaves no Allen had already made two), Rob Reiner’s heavily im - resort dance instructor who distracts her with the Mangianiello, tumbleweed unturned in its hilarious dissection of the provised “document” of a mediocre heavy metal hobby referred to in the title. You’ll have the time of and Matthew American Western. From the band’s comeback tour sent your life watching this movie, but, please, no dance McConaughey. charismatic Cleavon Little the genre soaring to new lifts during the film! 7pm Fri 7/8. Directed by down to bit parts from Dom heights of popularity and laid Steven DeLuise and Brooks himself, the groundwork for future ef - Soderbergh. this stacked cast of comedy forts, many of them directed Flashdance Director Steven icons gets away with things by Nigel Tufnel himself, Soderbergh, no movie could now. 7pm (1983, 95min/color, 35mm) Jennifer Beals, Michael Christopher Guest. 8:50pm who made a Fri 6/24. Nouri, Sunny Johnson, and Lee Ving. Directed by Fri 6/24. Adrian Lyne. You won’t want to miss this 80’s- career out of turning genres on their heads and drenched gem about a young girl who works at the creating new ones, tried his hand at a “buddy steel mill by day but by night she’s a maniac, maniac, stripper” movie with this electrifying hit that shattered on the floor. And she’s dancing like she’s never box office expectations and became an instant An Epic Weekend – Sat, June 25-Sun, June 26 danced before. You get the idea. Director Adrian Lyne classic. Check our website for information on the Better clear your schedule invests this fairly outrageous story with a great deal of wildly popular Martinis and Manicures events before cinematic panache and musical energy. both shows. 2pm, 6pm Sun 7/10. 8:55pm Fri 7/8. The Godfather chance to make a name for himself in this impressive sequel that jumps back and forth between the parallel (1972, 177min/color, DCP) Marlon Brando, Al stories of Pacino’s Michael Corleone and De Niro’s Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, portrayal, via flashbacks, of a younger Vito (the role and Diane Keaton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola . originated by Marlon Brando). 7pm Sat 6/25. Are You for Real? – Tues. July 12-Thurs, July 14 Marlon Brando roared back into In these sci-fi classics, it’s hard to tell the spotlight as mafia boss Vito BEN-HUR Corleone in this gangster classic METROPOLIS determine who, or what, is responsible for the bizarre that also made a big star of Al (1959, 212min/color, DCP) Charlton Heston, Jack events happening there. This film is much more than Pacino, Brando’s onscreen son Hawkins, Haya Haraseet, and Stephen Boyd. (1927, 148min/b&w/silent w/English intertitles, just a whodunit, as the staff members in the station who tries to avoid becoming Directed by William Wyler. This rousing, epic drama DCP) Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frohlich, can’t even be sure who’s human. 7pm Wed 7/13, part of the family business. about the heroic Judah Ben-Hur and his childhood Rudolf Klein-Rogge. Directed by Fritz Lang. 9:15pm Thurs 7/14. Credit to director Francis Ford friend-turned-enemy Messala makes 212 minutes feel Combining the spectacle of Coppola, who transformed more like 10. Sure, D.W. Griffith with the visual Mario Puzo’s pulpy, often trashy there’s the thrilling symbolism of his global Blade Runner novel into a cinematic chariot race peers, director Fritz Lang (1982, 118min/color, DCP) Harrison Ford, Rutger masterpiece. 3pm Sat 6/25. sequence and the created a masterpiece that Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. infamous galley slave hasn’t lost its ability to Directed by Ridley Scott. Adapted from a novel by The Godfather scene, but more amaze. The kind son of the Philip K. Dick (the source of many a great sci-fi importantly, there’s ruthless Master of movie), this dark and unsettling sci-fi noir takes us into Part ll Charlton Heston Metropolis works to help a futuristic world where replicants, androids who are lending a wealth of the less fortunate in this virtually indistinguishable from humans, blend in with (1974, 200min/color, DCP) Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, humanity and dystopian view of the future the rest of us. That makes life more difficult for Diane Keaton, John Cazale, and Robert De Niro. inspiring heroism to where human laborers are Harrison Ford, who has been tasked with hunting Directed by Francis Ford Coppola . Now it was Al William Wyler’s worked to death like cogs in a machine. 7pm Tues these replicants down. 9:05pm Wed 7/13, 7pm Pacino’s turn to take the lead and Robert De Niro’s majestic classic. 3:30pm Sun 6/26. 7/12. Thurs 7/14. The Thing (1982, 109min/color, 35mm) Kurt Russell, A. Wilford Family Film Festival – Sun, June 26 Brimley, and Keith David. Directed by John Carpenter. See the back page for details on our Family Film Festival! In John Carpenter’s terrifying remake of the 50s sci-fi classic, Kurt Russell plays a grizzled helicopter pilot who is sent to a far-flung Antarctic research station to The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, 102min/color, 35mm) Errol Flynn, Olivia de Haviland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains. Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. One of the finest Errol Flynn swashbucklers ever The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – Fri, July 15-Sun, July 17 made, this gorgeous Technicolor adventure is based on the beloved Travel from the Shire to Mount Doom with the Extended Editions of Peter Jackson’s masterpiece English folktale that has appeared in countless forms over the years. But none compare to this thrilling adaptation, which features a 15 TH ANNIVERSARY! Jackson. The battle between the Fellowship and the towering cast filled out by Olivia de Haviland and the dastardly duo THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE evil forces of Sauron intensifies, culminating in a truly of Basil Rathbone and Claude Rains. 1pm Sun 6/26. breathtaking battle sequence. But before that, we are RING treated to one of the all-time-great motion-capture performances, as (2001, 228min/color, DCP) Andy Serkis fully inhabits the pitiful Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv and traitorous Gollum and Silent Anniversaries – Tues, June 28-Thurs, June 30 Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean singlehandedly adds “My The oldest classics of cinema in one of the oldest movie palaces in the world Astin, Christopher Lee, and Sean precious…” to the lexicon. Bean. Directed by Peter Jackson. 2pm Sat 7/16. 100 TH ANNIVERSARY! inadvertently and uproariously points out the The fellowship comes together in indignities inflicted upon people by modernity and its this astonishing kickoff, with dwarves, elves, humans, THE RETURN OF THE KING Intolerance so-called improvements. Talking pictures may have and hobbits coming together to begin the perilous (1916, 170min/b&w/silent w/English intertitles, been all the rage in 1936, but Chaplin’s silent journey to Mount Doom. Somehow, director Peter (2003, 263min/color, DCP) Elijah Wood, Ian DCP) Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge, and Lillian masterpiece spoke volumes to Great Depression Jackson and team take a novel dense with characters McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Gish. Directed by D.W. Griffith. After The Birth of a audiences. 7pm Wed 6/29. and places and make an all-time great adventure that Christopher Lee, and Andy Serkis. Directed by Peter Nation generated considerable outrage over the film’s anyone can enjoy. 7pm Fri 7/15. Jackson. The climactic finale brings the saga to a grotesque racism, director D.W. Griffith set out to 95 TH ANNIVERSARY! moving and thoroughly satisfying conclusion, as the make another epic so grand that astonishment could THE TWO TOWERS forces of good and evil finally meet face-to-face (or, The Kid more like face-to-eye). By the end of this thrill ride, be the only response . In this depiction of intolerance (2002, 235min/color, DCP) Elijah Wood, Ian through the ages, Griffith leaves no era unexplored (1921, 53min/b&w/silent w/English intertitles, DCP) you can’t help but wonder if we’ll ever see anything McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, like it again. 2pm Sun 7/17. and uses 3,000 extras and spectacular sets for a final Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, and Edna Purviance. Christopher Lee, and Andy Serkis. Directed by Peter product that still amazes today. 7pm Tues 6/28. Directed by Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin’s feature-length directorial debut 80 TH ANNIVERSARY! follows the Little Tramp as he informally adopts a street urchin, Trois Auteurs – Tues, July 19-Sun, July 24 Modern Times played to perfection by young Three filmmakers whose style and unique approach are unmistakable (1936, 87min/b&w/silent Jackie Coogan. Chaplin’s w/English intertitles, 35mm) signature combination of comedy 30 TH ANNIVERSARY! THE GRADUATE Charlie Chaplin and and pathos, responsible for so HANNAH AND HER SISTERS Paulette Goddard. Directed many of his future successes, (1967, 106min/color, DCP) Anne Bancroft, Dustin by Charlie Chaplin. With takes form in front of your eyes, (1986, 106min/color, 35mm) Woody Allen, Michael Hoffman, and Katharine Ross. Directed by Mike the charming and intrepid none of which will be dry when Caine, Mia Farrow, Carrie Fisher, Barbara Hershey, Nichols. After his critically acclaimed film debut with Paulette Goddard by his the final credits roll. 8:45pm Max von Sydow, and Dianne Wiest. Directed by Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? , Mike Nichols did side, the Little Tramp Wed 6/29. Woody Allen. Mia Farrow is Hannah and Barbara much more than simply avoid the sophomore slump Hershey and Dianne Wiest are the sisters in this with this poignant and hilarious glimpse inside one New York 1960s family’s life. Woody Allen is known for writing great touchstone. Song and Dance – Tues, July 5-Sun, July 10 screenplays, but this was easily one of his best, He created, Because nothing beats leaving a movie theatre with a dance in your step and a song in your heart winning him his second Oscar in the category. 7pm along with Tues 7/19, 8:50pm Wed 7/20. screenwriters Calder 60 TH ANNIVERSARY! Annie Hall Willingham and Buck Henry, one of the most iconic and culturally relevant films ever made, sending The King and I (1977, 93min/color, 35mm) Woody Allen, Diane Dustin Hoffman soaring to super-stardom in the (1956, 133min/color, DCP) Deborah Kerr, Yul Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon, process. 7pm Thurs 7/21. Brynner, and Rita Moreno. Directed by Walter Lang. Shelley Duvall, and The memoir-turned-novel-turned-film-turned-musical Christopher 50 TH ANNIVERSARY! became a musical film (arguably the most well-known Walken. Directed version of the story) in this gorgeous rendition of the by Woody Allen. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Rodgers and Woody Allen and (1966, 131min/b&w, 35mm) Elizabeth Taylor, Oklahoma! Hammerstein hit. Diane Keaton Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis. create unparalleled (1955, 145min/color, DCP) Gordon MacRae, Shirley Deborah Kerr plays a Directed by Mike Nichols. Edward Albee’s venomous chemistry in this Jones, Gloria Grahame, and Rod Steiger. Directed by Welsh schoolteacher who stage play is brought to pulsating life on screen, romantic comedy Fred Zinnemann . The musical that changed Broadway travels to Siam to teach thanks to the toxic pairing of actual married couple that transformed Allen from gag man to universally forever roared onto movie screens as the first film shot the king’s children, a Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. The black and renowned director. Come for Allen’s wisecracks, stay in the Todd-AO 70mm widescreen process. But story that should sound white cinematography is starkly beautiful, the for Keaton’s transfixing performance, which reveals formats aside, what really makes the movie sing are familiar to fans of R&H’s dialogue is booze-soaked, and the censors were out new layers with each viewing. 9:05pm Tues 7/19, the music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hammerstein and The Sound of Music. fishing, resulting in one of the most controversial films 7pm Wed 7/20. the charming leads Gordon MacRae and Shirley 7pm Wed 7/6. ever released. 9:05pm Thurs 7/21. Jones, who gets to dance Agnes de Mille’s groundbreaking “dream ballet.” 7pm Tues 7/5. Continued on next column... Continued on next page... Trois Auteurs – Tues, July 19-Sun, July 24 (Continued) Summer School – Tues, July 26-Sun, August 7 (Continued) Three filmmakers whose style and unique approach are unmistakable We’ll try to make it as fun as possible
FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING! ups, and John Williams’ tension-building score, you’ll M*A*S*H Nashville never want to look at water again much less go into (1970, 116min/color, DCP) Donald Sutherland, (1975, 159min/color, DCP) Ned Beatty, Ronee Aladdin it. If you can’t afford film school, just buy a ticket to Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, and Blakley, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin, Henry (1992, 91min/color, DCP) this movie and learn from the best. 3:15pm Sat Robert Duvall. Directed by Robert Gibson, Michael Murphy, and Lily Tomlin. Directed by Scott Weinger, Robin 8/6, 4:30pm Sun 8/7. Altman. Robert Altman burst onto Robert Altman. Perhaps the defining example of a Williams, Linda Larkin, Frank Welker, and Gilbert Gottfried. the filmmaking scene and turned Robert Altman film, this sprawling tale of music and Jurassic Park the war movie on its head with politics contains Directed by Ron Clements and this pitch-black comedy about the 24 main John Musker. This family (1993, 127min/color, DCP) Sam Neill, Laura Dern, members of a Mobile Army characters and classic reinvigorates the Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough. Directed Surgical Hospital. Though the film several centuries-old Arabian Nights by Steven Spielberg. In the early days of silent is set in 1951 during the Korean interconnected stories for a modern audience, centering on petty movies, a French film about a locomotive pulling into War, it was pretty clear that storylines. Altman thief Aladdin as he discovers a lamp containing a a station had audiences thinking it was real and Altman had his metaphorical keeps the whole genie who will grant him three wishes. Luckily for us, screaming for their lives. 100 years later, Steven sights set on Vietnam and the thing together that genie is voiced by the late, great Robin Spielberg’s dinosaur adventure once again sent defining mood of late 60s while utilizing one of his greatest skills: directing a Williams, set free by the wonders of animation to do audiences America. 2pm Sun 7/24. cast of talented actors who each give career-defining his best comedic work. 1pm Sat 8/6. running for performances. 4:15pm Sun 7/24. the exits, ZOOLOGY 101: NOT A PETTING thanks to ZOO the most life-like JAWS special Iron and Wine Presents – Fri, July 22 (1975, 124min/color, DCP) Roy Scheider, Robert effects seen Hosted by Sam Beam (Iron and Wine) – Free small popcorn! Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss. Directed by Steven up to that point. Do not feed the animals. 5:30pm Spielberg. Once you’ve experienced this petrifying Sat 8/6, 2pm Sun 8/7. Computer Chess combination of masterful editing, clever camera set- (2013, 93min/b&w, DCP) Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry, Robin Schwartz, Gerald Peary, Wiley Wiggins, Gordon Kindlmann, Jonny Mars, and Chris Doubek. Directed Foreign Films Week– Tues, August 9-Sun, August 14 by Andrew Bujalski. Austin-based filmmaker Andrew Bujalski The finest works of cinema from around the globe turns this 80s-set story about a man-vs.-computer chess tournament into a captivating and slyly hilarious film. The retro technology and pitch-perfect period details combine 50 TH ANNIVERSARY! The Red Shoes with excellent performances to give us a movie unlike (1948, 133min/color, 35mm) Moira Shearer, Anton anything we’ve ever seen before. 7pm Fri 7/22. PERSONA (1966, 84min/b&w Walbrook, and Marius Goring. Directed by Michael /Swedish w/ English Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Of all the beautiful subtitles, 35mm) Bibi gifts Technicolor has given us, few can compare to Summer School – Tues, July 26-Sun, August 7 Andersson and Liv this gorgeous story of a talented ballerina torn We’ll try to make it as fun as possible Ullmann. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Bibi Andersson is assigned to between a perfectionist Goodfellas nurse Liv Ullmann’s ailing stage actress back to impresario and a brilliant SCREENWRITING 101: SUFFERING health. The job proves more difficult than it sounds, composer. Every frame is FOR YOUR ART (1990, 145min/color, DCP) Robert De Niro, Ray as the two slowly drive each other toward insanity. drenched with rich, deep Adaptation Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, and Paul Sorvino. Thanks to director Ingmar Bergman’s cinematic risk- colors, carrying us Directed by Martin Scorsese. taking, you will feel like an active participant on this through the tragic arc of (2002, 115min/color, 35mm) Nicholas Cage, Meryl Martin Scorsese has crafted journey to the brink of madness. 7pm Tues 8/9. this cinematic Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, and Brian Cox. many masterpieces but interpretation of Hans Directed by Spike arguably none as viscerally TH Christian Anderson’s classic tale. Jonze. After his 50 ANNIVERSARY! entertaining as this mobster 8:50pm Wed 8/10, 7pm Thurs 8/11. dazzling debut BLOW-UP classic about a young man Being John who grows up in an Italian- (1966, 110min/color, DCP) David Hemmings, NEW DCP RESTORATION! Malkovich , American neighborhood and dreams of joining the Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, and Jane Birkin. RAN screenwriter Mafia. The cast is stacked, from the ever-reliable Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Few films have Charlie Kaufman returned with this uniquely clever Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci to fresher faces Ray better served as a pop culture focal point than this (1985, 162min/color/Japanese w/English subtitles, “sort-of autobiography.” In the film, Charlie Kaufman Liotta and Lorraine Bracco. 3:30pm Sat 7/30, iconic document of the swingin’ 60s filled with DCP) Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, (Nicolas Cage) struggles to adapt real-life book The 6:55pm Sun 7/31. breathtaking color photography and the music of and Daisuke Ryu. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Orchid Thief and must deal with the book’s real-life Herbie Hancock. David Hemmings plays a fashion Legendary director Akira Kurosawa puts his own spin author (Meryl Streep) and his twin brother Donald photographer (a profession spoofed quite memorably on King Lear in this breathtaking stunner, combining (also Nicolas Cage, not a real-life person). Just trust Reservoir Dogs in the Austin Powers movies) who fears he may have intimate drama with epic action (this was the most me, you have to be there. 7pm Tues 7/26. (1992, 99min/color, DCP) Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, accidentally filmed a murder. 8:40pm Tues 8/9. expensive Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, and Japanese 25 TH ANNIVERSARY! film in Quentin Tarantino. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. 70 TH ANNIVERSARY – NEW 35MM Barton Fink The slick style and clever writing. The perfectly history at the curated soundtrack. The dirty mouths and blood- RESTORATION! time). (1991, 116min/color, 35mm) John Turturro, John covered sets. All the elements that would eventually Tatsuya Goodman, Tony Shalhoub, and Steve Buscemi. make Quentin Tarantino a superstar director were Beauty and the Beast Nakadai is Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. In this early Coen there right from the start in this riveting account of a (1946, 93min/b&w/French w/ English subtitles, the King Lear Bros. gem set in 1941, John Turturro plays the title heist gone horribly wrong. 6:10pm Sat 7/30, 35mm) Jean Marais, Josette Day, and Michel equivalent, a character, an acclaimed New York City playwright 5pm Sun 7/31. Auclair. Directed by Jean Cocteau. The movie that warlord who bequeaths his domain to his eldest son, whose talent sends him across the country to inspired the imaginations of countless audiences and which enrages the two younger sons. Hollywood, where he struggles mightily and future filmmakers alike. Yes, it’s a live-action film from 3:45pm Sun 8/14. seemingly LITERATURE 101: TAKE A LOOK, IT’S the 1940s, but I dare you to find an animated fairy begins to lose IN A BOOK tale from any era filled with as much visual splendor touch with The Age of Innocence and romantic wonder as this dazzling French reality. The adaptation of the beloved story. Hint: you can’t. strange Hotel (1993, 139min/color, DCP) Daniel Day-Lewis, 7pm Wed 8/10, 9:30pm Thurs 8/11. Earle provides Michelle Pfeiffer, and Winona Ryder. Directed by one of the most Martin Scorsese. Daniel Day-Lewis plays a memorable respectable member of settings in movie history. New York’s high 9:10pm Tues 7/26. society who is looking Family Film Festival – Sun, August 14 forward to his See the back page for details on our Family Film Festival! marriage to Winona HISTORY 101: MOSTLY ACCURATE Ryder. That is, until Annie Monty Python and the Ryder’s cousin, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, shows up. The source material may not be typical Scorsese, but (1982, 128min/color, DCP) Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Holy Grail the breathtaking attention to detail and awe-inspiring Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, and Aileen Quinn. Directed by John talent on display certainly is. 7pm Tues 8/2. Huston. As he moved closer to the end of an extraordinary directing (1975, 91min/color, DCP) Graham Chapman, John career highlighted by films like The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of Cleese, Terry Gilliam, 20 TH ANNIVERSARY! the Sierra Madre , John Huston surprisingly took on this adaptation of the Eric Idle, Terry Jones, sentimental Broadway favorite, aided by a remarkably multi-talented cast and Michael Palin. Romeo + Juliet of performers. 1pm Sun 8/14. Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry (1996, 120min/color, DCP) Leonardo DiCaprio, Jones . The legendary Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Pete British sketch comedy Postlethwaite, and Paul Sorvino. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. It took a visionary Australian director to troupe took a break Hitchcock Week – Tues, August 16-Sun, August 21 from their smash-hit TV show to offer their version of figure out how to get high-schoolers to pay attention The master is back for another round the events surrounding King Arthur and the Knights of to Shakespeare. Step 1: Cast heartthrob Leonardo the Round Table. Of course, when they tell it, it’s one DiCaprio and TV star Claire Danes in the title roles. of the funniest movies ever made. 7pm Wed Step 2: Throw in a classic soundtrack that sounds like The 39 Steps 65 TH ANNIVERSARY! 7/27, 8:45pm Thurs 7/28. a perfect 90s mixtape. Step 3: Edit it all together like an MTV video. 7pm Wed 8/3. (1935, 86min/b&w, DCP) Robert Donat, Madeleine Strangers on a Train Carroll, and Lucie Mannheim. Directed by Alfred (1951, 101min/b&w, 35mm) Farley Granger, Ruth Bill and Ted’s OrlandO Hitchcock. Hitchcock made a career Roman, and Robert Walker. Directed by out of the stylistic staples found in Alfred Hitchcock. Two strangers meet on a Excellent Adventure (1992, 94min/color, 35mm) Tilda Swinton, Billy this early spy caper. For example, train, each of whom has a person in his life (1989, 90min/color, DCP) Keanu Reeves, Alex Zane, and Quentin Crisp. Directed by Sally Potter. Robert Donat is a classic Hitchcock he’d like to “disappear.” When one suggests Winter, and George Carlin. Directed by Stephen The Virginia Woolf novel becomes a witty and fresh “innocent” who gets pulled, quite that they “exchange murders,” with both men Herek. Bill and Ted are not the best students, but, if cinematic story, thanks accidentally, into the treacherous killing the other’s intended victim to avoid any they don’t pass their history class, the future will be to this brilliant world of espionage. His identity is links to motive, things start to go downhill in irrevocably altered in a bad way. At least, that’s adaptation from also mistaken by Madeleine Carroll, this quintessential Hitchcock thriller. what a time-traveling George Carlin tells them when writer/director Sally resulting in the suggestive romantic 7pm Thurs 8/18, 9:00pm Fri 8/19. he steps out of his telephone booth/time machine. Potter. Tilda Swinton banter that would find its way into many Hitchcock Using the booth, Bill and Ted travel into the past to plays Orlando, a young classics. 7pm Tues 8/16, 9:15pm Wed 8/17. 75 TH ANNIVERSARY! do some binge-studying and save the world. As you nobleman in 16 th do. 8:50pm Wed 7/27, 7pm Thurs 7/28. century England who receives a large tract of land 60 TH ANNIVERSARY! Suspicion from the dying Queen Elizabeth I under one The Man Who Knew Too Much (1941, 99min/b&w, 35mm) Cary Grant, Joan PHYSICAL EDUCATION 101: condition: that he never grow old. So, Orlando lives Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, and WORKING ON A DREAM through the centuries. Curious, aren’t you? 9:15pm (1956, 120min/color, 35mm) James Stewart, Doris Dame May Whitty. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Wed 8/3. Day, Brenda De Banzie, and Bernard Miles. Directed Those of us who adore classic movies only think the HOOP DREAMS by Alfred Hitchcock. Another pair of innocents, this best of Cary Grant, who was the debonair gentleman (1994, 172min/color, DCP) William Gates and KLEPTOMANIA 101: HOW TO GET time played by James Stewart and Doris Day, get in so many films. But tell that to Joan Fontaine, who is Arthur Agee. Directed by AWAY WITH IT wrapped up in the spy game when Stewart hears certain Grant is trying to kill her in this Hitchcock Steve James. This The Italian Job something he shouldn’t have. The famous Albert Hall classic. In fact, the Academy acknowledged how poignant and absolutely sequence has served as the standard bearer of hard it is to be suspicious of Cary Grant by giving riveting documentary (1969, 99min/color, DCP) Michael Caine, Noel cinematic tension, while Day scored another chart hit Fontaine an Oscar for her efforts. 9:00pm Thurs follows William Gates Coward, and Benny Hill. Directed by Peter Collinson. with the memorable song “Que Sera, Sera.” 8/18, 7pm Fri 8/19. and Arthur Agee, two Some movies have gold heists. 8:45pm Tues 8/16, 7pm Wed 8/17. talented high-school Others have death-defying car basketball players with chases. A few have Michael 70 TH ANNIVERSARY! Re ar Window hopes of making it to the NBA. Far more than just a Caine. This one has it all. The (1954, 112min/color, 35mm) James Stewart, Grace sports documentary, this remarkable movie delves cockney legend gets out of jail Notorious Kelly, and Thelma Ritter. Directed by Alfred into the two boys’ family lives, social and economic and eyes a $4 million score, (1946, 101min/b&w, digital) Cary Grant, Ingrid Hitchcock. In a way, no movie has more accurately divides, and the many obstacles that stand between masterminded by imprisoned Bergman, and Claude reflected the strangely perverse thrill of watching the boys and the American dream. 7pm Fri 7/29. crime lord Noel Coward. Sure, Rains. Directed by movies quite like this hair-raising thriller. We are Caine was already the epitome Alfred Hitchcock. practically seated right next to a recently injured CRIMINAL JUSTICE 101: HOLY COPS of British swagger thanks to hits like Alfie , but Italian Easily one of Hitch’s Jimmy Stewart as he voyeuristically observes the lives of neighbors in the adjacent apartment. When he AND ROBBERS, BATMAN! fashion and British sports cars certainly didn’t hurt. greatest works, thanks 7pm Thurs 8/4, 9:20pm Fri 8/5. to the stunningly sees something he shouldn’t have, things get really 50 TH ANNIVERSARY FAMILY FILM talented trio of Cary interesting. 4pm Sat 8/20, 4pm Sun 8/21. SCREENING! 50 TH ANNIVERSARY! Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains. Bergman agrees to Batman: The Movie How to Steal a Million marry the villainous Rains in order to provide inside Psycho (1966, 105min/color, 35mm) Adam West, Burt (1966, 123min/color, DCP) Audrey Hepburn, Peter information to government agent Grant. There’s just (1960, 109min/b&w, 35mm) Ward, Lee Meriwether, Cesar Romero, Burgess O’Toole, and Eli Wallach. Directed by William one problem: Grant has fallen for Bergman and Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meredith, and Frank Gorshin. Directed by Leslie H. Wyler. If you were Audrey Hepburn and your father, doesn’t want to send her into harm’s way. John Gavin, and Janet Leigh. Martinson. After its first successful season on an art forger posing 7:15pm Tues 8/16, 9:10pm Wed 8/17. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. If television, this deliriously fun take on the Caped as an art collector, you’ve never experienced this Crusader made its way to was at risk of The Lady Vanishes landmark thriller, and have cinemas with crazy gadgets getting caught, what somehow avoided spoilers until now, you might and larger-than-life villains would you do? If (1938, 97min/b&w, DCP) Margaret Lockwood, consider living under a rock until tonight rolls around. in tow. If you yearn for a you answered, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, and Dame May There’s nothing more exciting than uncovering the time when Batman wasn’t “woo Peter O’Toole into helping you steal a forged Whitty. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This classic of secrets of the Bates Motel for the first time. And so moody, grab your Bat sculpture before it can be examined,” you’re correct! Hitchcock’s “British period” stars Margaret Lockwood remember – it is REQUIRED that you see Psycho from Shark Repellant and head Watching two people fall in love while plotting a as a rich young tourist who discovers that the old the very beginning! 6:05pm Sat 8/20, down to the theatre where crime has never been more fun. 8:55pm Thurs lady she was sharing a train car with has vanished 2pm Sun 8/21 . this zany movie was introduced to the world. 8/4, 7pm Fri 8/5. under mysterious circumstances. You won’t see the 1pm Sat 7/30. twists and turns coming in this mesmerizing thriller! Continued on next page... 9:15pm Tues 8/16, 7:15pm Wed 8/17. Family Film Festival – Sat, August 20 Family Film Festival – Sat, September 3 See the back page for details on our Family Film Festival! See the back page for details on our Family Film Festival!
Mary Poppins King Kong (1964, 140min/color, DCP) Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David (1933, 104min/b&w, DCP) Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and Bruce Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Owen, Ed Wynn, and Cabot. Directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedstack. Jane Darwell. Directed by Robert Stevenson. The beloved children’s novel Known for its remarkable effects work and a scream that has received the very best Walt Disney treatment and provided one of the reverberated throughout cinema history, this unforgettable sci-fi fantasy most dazzling screen debuts of all time. Julie Andrews turned thousands follows a film crew that journeys to an exotic island to shoot an animal of heads when she arrived on the silver screen as the titular nanny, who picture. They get more than they bargained for, culminating in the uses magic and spoonfuls of sugar to bring the Banks family together. legendary final sequence on the Empire State Building. 1pm Sat 9/3. 1pm Sat 8/20.
70MM Week!! – Tues, August 23-Sun, August 28 Because the big screen deserves BIG films Where Shall I Go? What Shall I Do? – Sun, September 4 The Summer Film Series draws to a close with everyone’s favorite romance 2001: A Space Odyssey consider this third Indiana Jones entry to be their favorite of the series, and it’s hard to argue (1968, 149min/color, 70mm) Keir Dullea, Gary considering the brilliant addition of Sean Connery as GONE Lockwood, and William Sylvester. Directed by Indy’s dad. The chemistry between the former James Stanley Kubrick. From Bond and Harrison Ford’s heroic archaeologist makes WITH THE WIND its startling depiction of for one hilarious, and ultimately moving, adventure (1939, 238min/color, 35mm) Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, our origins to its film. 7pm Thurs 8/25, 7pm Fri 8/26. Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, and Hattie McDaniel. extraordinary Directed by Victor Fleming. We say goodbye to summer imagining of our final with the defining romantic epic that has become a beloved evolutionary stage, this Lawrence of Arabia Paramount tradition. If you’ve never seen it before, join us mind-altering journey (1962, 216min/color, 70mm) Peter O’Toole, Alec and discover why everyone else in the room sees it every proves to be more than Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, and Claude year. At 5pm, Film Fan Members will be treated to a just mutinous computers Rains. Directed by David Lean. Epic films often trip Closing Night Party with free beer/wine/popcorn and free and balletic themselves up admission to the movie! 6pm Sun 9/4. spaceships. It’s Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. by focusing too Clarke’s best guess at what makes us tick and where much on the we might be headed. If you’ve only seen it at home, scope and you haven’t seen it yet. 7pm Tues 8/23, 7pm grandeur and Wed 8/24. not enough on the intimate Indiana Jones and the character Last Crusade details. Not so with this legendary adventure, thanks DOUBLE in large part to Peter O’Toole’s titanic performance as (1989, 127min/color, 70mm) Harrison Ford, Sean the hero of the title. No matter how vast the scenery, Connery, Denholm Elliott, John Rhys-Davies, and we never lose sight of the man. 3pm Sat 8/27, River Phoenix. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Many 2pm Sun 8/28. FEATURES! When two movies that are screening in the same theatre Icons of the Cinema – Tues, August 30-Sat, September 3 are grouped under the same Two legendary movie stars who grace big screens and gift shop T-shirts everywhere thematic heading, one ticket is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Rebel Without a Cause good for both features when (1953, 91min/color, DCP) Jane Russell, Marilyn (1955, 111min/color, DCP) James Dean, Natalie viewed back-to-back on the Monroe, and Charles Coburn. Directed by Howard Wood, and Sal Mineo. Directed by Nicholas Ray. Hawks. This immensely entertaining movie features While all three same day (except as noted). two of the most beautiful leading ladies in Hollywood James Dean films are history. Jane Russell, who skyrocketed to fame in considered classics The Paramount Film Institute is the Howard Hawks’ The Outlaw , reteams with Hawks in and irrefutable this film about two showgirls on the prowl for the evidence of his division of the Paramount and right man. But it was the second showgirl, Marilyn acting prowess, this Monroe, who really made a splash with “Diamonds Nicholas Ray film is Stateside Theatres that works to Are a Girl’s Best Friend.” 7pm Tues 8/30, most often support the art, craft, and 9:20pm Wed 8/31. associated with the movie legend who died too JOIN THE young. Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo (all preservation of film as an art Some Like It Hot marvelous here) painted the perfect portrait of the form. From extensive repertory angst and confusion that teenagers face, in a way FILM FANS (1959, 121min/b&w, that had rarely been done on screen before. screening series on 35mm and DCP) Marilyn Monroe, 9:10pm Thurs 9/1, 7pm Fri 9/2. Tony Curtis, and Jack 70mm film to new digital Lemmon. Directed by TH CLUB! Billy Wilder. Billy Wilder 60 ANNIVERSARY! restorations on state-of-the-art DCP, Members get free admission to proved to be as skilled GIANT we work to make all movies come with comedies as he was two member parties, reserved (1956, 201min/color, DCP) Elizabeth Taylor, Rock with every other genre he alive and speak to our audience. Hudson, and James Dean. Directed by George seating, discounted tickets and attempted. It helps to Stevens. A marvelous cinematic epic made to the From guest presenters to study have two all-time-great actors, Tony Curtis and Jack measurements of Texas’ grandeur, this film proved to FLIX-TIX, free popcorn, plus new Lemmon, as hard-luck musicians who witness the St. be the last of James Dean’s short career. He certainly guides for kids, the Paramount Valentine’s Day Massacre and are forced into hiding added benefits. goes out with a bang as Jett Rink, a constant thorn in as members of an all-girl band. Did I mention Film Institute aims to be an the sides of Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson’s Full details available online at Marilyn Monroe’s in the band too? 8:50pm Tues married ranchers. If you ever plan on making a 200 intelligent, engaging, and fun 8/30, 7pm Wed 8/31. www.austintheatre.org/filmfan minute movie, take note: this is how you do it right. resource for all of Austin’s 3:30pm Sat 9/3 or by calling East of Eden film buffs. (512) 692-05 30 (1955, 115min/color, DCP) Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, and Jo Van Fleet. Directed by Elia Kazan. With author John Steinbeck providing the story and director Elia Kazan guiding the cinematic adaptation, this film about two brothers fighting for their father’s approval was already guaranteed to be an emotionally devastating work of art. Throw the incendiary screen debut of James Dean into the mix, and you’ve got a movie legend. FLIX TIX 7pm Thurs 9/1, 9:10pm Fri 9/2. The Best Summer Movie Bargain. FLIX-TIX gives you a book of 10 admissions, good in any combination to the Paramount’s Summer Classic Film Series for only $60. And because $6 of the purchase price goes to the Paramount’s Preservation Fund, you’ll also be supporting the Family Film Festival ongoing preservation and restoration of Austin’s only landmarked historic theatre. FLIX-TIX also make great gifts! (All FLIX-TIX will expire September 4, 2016) We are excited to host this series for families that will spark the imagination and inspire a new generation of classic movie lovers. Our Family Film Festival will consist of 11 weekend matinee screenings beginning June 5 that will further our mission to support film education and bring our treasured film history to audiences of all ages. All of the screenings below will offer special discounted pricing for adults ($10) and their kids aged 12 and under ($6), so don’t miss Ticket Information this opportunity to make unforgettable cinematic memories with your whole Tickets (available online, by phone, or at the Paramount Box Office) - $12.00 (includes a $1 preservation fee) Film Fan Admission (available online, by phone, or at the Paramount Box Office) - $7.00 family! FLIX-TIX: Book of 10 admissions for $60 ($50 for Film Fans) – good in any combination; expires September 4, 2016 Space Jam/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II Double Feature - Sun, June 5, 2pm FLIX-TIX may be mail-ordered for an Thanks to One American Center, secure additional $2 by calling 512-474-1221. covered parking is available to patrons at the Dumbo – Sun, June 12 – 1pm FLIX-TIX are also available online at One American Center parking garage. For www.austintheatre.org additional parking information, please visit A Little Princess – Sat, June 18, 1pm Available online at http://www.austintheatre.org/visit/directions- www.austintheatre.org. Individual tickets parking/ The Adventures of Robin Hood – Sun, June 26, 1pm are available at the Paramount Box Office This project is funded and supported in part by beginning at noon Monday thru Friday and one a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts The Sound of Music (This year at the Paramount!) hour before the first feature on Saturday and and by the City of Austin through the Economic Sunday. Tickets may be purchased with cash, Development Department/Cultural Arts Division – Sat, July 9, 3pm personal checks with valid Texas driver’s believing an investment in the Arts in an license, or MasterCard/Visa/Amex/Discover. investment in Austin’s future. Visit Austin at Batman: The Movie – Sat, July 30, 1pm ATM on site. NowPlayingAustin.com. This project is funded Complimentary Film Notes, written by Austin and supported in part by a grant from the Aladdin – Sat, August 6, 1pm film buff Frank Campbell and Stephen Jannise, Texas Commission on the Arts, and is are provided at each screening. supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Annie – Sun, August 14, 1pm The Paramount Theatre is located downtown at 713 Congress Avenue, between 7th and 8th Film Programmer: Stephen Jannise Mary Poppins – Sat, August 20, 1pm streets, and the Stateside Theatre is next door. King Kong – Sat, September 3, 1pm Programs may be subject to change. For up-to-date info, visit www.austintheatre.org/film or call 512-474-1221.
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