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Summer Classic Film Series, Now in Its 43Rd Year Austin has changed a lot over the past decade, but one tradition you can always count on is the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series, now in its 43rd year. We are presenting more than 110 films this summer, so look forward to more well-preserved film prints and dazzling digital restorations, romance and laughs and thrills and more. Escape the unbearable heat (another Austin tradition that isn’t going anywhere) and join us for a three-month-long celebration of the movies! Films screening at SUMMER CLASSIC FILM SERIES the Paramount will be marked with a , while films screening at Stateside will be marked with an . Presented by: A Weekend to Remember – Thurs, May 24 – Sun, May 27 We’re DEFINITELY Not in Kansas Anymore – Sun, June 3 We get the summer started with a weekend of characters and performers you’ll never forget These characters are stepping very far outside their comfort zones OPENING NIGHT FILM! Peter Sellers turns in not one but three incomparably Back to the Future 50TH ANNIVERSARY! hilarious performances, and director Stanley Kubrick Casablanca delivers pitch-dark comedy in this riotous satire of (1985, 116min/color, 35mm) Michael J. Fox, Planet of the Apes (1942, 102min/b&w, 35mm) Humphrey Bogart, Cold War paranoia that suggests we shouldn’t be as Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Crispin (1968, 112min/color, 35mm) Charlton Heston, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad worried about the bomb as we are about the inept Glover . Directed by Robert Zemeckis . Time travel- Roddy McDowell, and Kim Hunter. Directed by Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. Directed people with their fingers hovering over the button. obsessed filmmakers have tried and failed for years Franklin J. Schaffner. This iconic sci-fi classic strands by Michael Curtiz. You must remember this…since we 1:55pm Sat 5/26. to top this Charlton Heston on a strange planet where play it every year! As always, this breathtakingly ingenious civilization is run by romantic and riotously witty comedy about a intelligent apes and tale of two lovers torn apart Doc tor Zh ivag o teenager who humans are treated stumbles into the by war will be screened on (1965, 193min/color, DCP) Omar Sharif, Julie as a primitive past and 35mm. Because they’ll Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, and Alec species. If you’ve accidentally always have Paris, and we’ll Guinness. Directed by David Lean. Set against the been looking for a prevents his parents from falling in love, threatening always have film. Film Fan backdrop of both World War I and the Russian Civil feature-length his very existence. The cast is note-perfect from top to Members will be treated to an War, this beloved cinematic romance showcases episode of “The bottom, and the script never fails to impress no matter Opening Night Party at director David Lean’s unique ability to balance epic Twilight Zone” with a brain-melting plot twist, have we how many times you’ve seen it. 3:15pm Sun 6/3. 6:30pm before the screening with free scope with intimate human details and features got a movie for you! 5:25pm Sun 6/3. beer/wine/popcorn and free admission. 7:30pm unforgettable performances from Omar Sharif, who Thurs 5/24 . starred three years earlier in Lean’s LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, and legend-in-the-making Julie Christie, who, Starman – Mon, June 4 – Tues, June 5 in the same year, won an Oscar for her performance Proof that David Bowie was as mesmerizing onscreen as he was onstage Apocalypse Now Redux in mod movie classic DARLING. 4pm Sat 5/26. (1979/2001, 202min/color, DCP) Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, and trying to rescue her infant brother from the evil Goblin Dennis Hopper. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The Man Who Fell to Earth King fueled the imaginations (and probably a few Director Francis Ford Coppola ventures into the heart (1976, 140min/color, DCP) David Bowie, Rip Torn, nightmares) of an entire generation. The glam- of darkness, re-imagining Joseph Conrad’s 1899 Candy Clark, and Buck Henry. Directed by Nicolas wigged, tight-panted Goblin King couldn’t have been novella for the Vietnam War era and guiding Marlon Roeg. This appropriately surreal film stars Bowie as played by anyone but Bowie, and as usual, he turned Brando to another legendary performance. In 2001, an alien visitor to Earth on a mission to save his home the character into the stuff of legend. 7pm Tues Coppola and renowned editor Walter Murch added planet. As often happens on our planet, he is 6/5. nearly 50 minutes of footage that had been removed eventually overcome by greed, addiction and sexual from the film’s original release, resulting in one of the urges. Needless to say, he gets sidetracked. Of the 35TH ANNIVERSARY! most highly acclaimed director’s cuts of all time. many unique characters Bowie portrayed, this is Please note: this film has been moved from its original perhaps the one he was born to play. 7:30pm Mon The Hunger date, Friday 5/25, to its new date, Saturday 6/2. The Bridge 6/4. (1983, 97min/color, DCP) Catherine Deneuve, David 7:30pm Sat 6/2. on the River Kwai Bowie, and Susan Sarandon. Directed by Tony Scott. Labyrinth Bowie stars as a man whose love for a vampire, 100th ANNIVERSARY! (1957, 161min/color, DCP) William Holden, Alec played by Catherine Deneuve, led to being turned Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa. (1986, 101min/color, into a vampire himself. When he discovers that Shoulder Arms Directed by David Lean. Director David Lean once DCP) David Bowie and Deneuve’s promise of eternal love comes with a few (1918, 37min/color, 35mm) Charlie Chaplin, Edna again displays his epic approach to filmmaking in this Jennifer Connelly. caveats, he seeks the help of a gerontologist played Purviance, and Sydney Chaplin. Directed by Charlie story about a group of British POWs forced to build a Directed by Jim Henson. by Susan Sarandon, who gets sucked into a Chaplin. Though only 37 minutes in length, this railway bridge by their captors. Fair warning: you’ll This stunning fantasy supernatural love triangle. 9pm Tues 6/5. wartime comedy is considered to be Charlie be whistling for the rest of the weekend. 1pm Sun tale of a young girl Chaplin’s feature-length directorial debut. Bringing 5/27. some much-needed levity to weary audiences around the world, this story of a bumbling soldier became, at 55th ANNIVERSARY! Stage to Screen - Mon, June 11 – Tues, June 12 the time, Chaplin’s most popular movie. Don’t miss Broadway smashes that became Hollywood hits this rare opportunity to see a 100-year-old classic on The Great Escape glorious 35mm film! 1pm Sat 5/26. (1963, 172min/color, DCP) Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, CABARET Guys and Dolls Donald Pleasence, and James Coburn. Directed by Dr. Strangelove or: (1955, 150min/color, DCP) Marlon Brando, Jean John Sturges. After recapturing an intrepid group of (1972, 124min/color, 35mm) Liza Minnelli, Michael Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine. Directed How I Learned to escaped POWs, among whom are Steve McQueen, York, Helmut Griem, and Joel Grey . Directed by Bob by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The hit Broadway show James Garner, and Charles Bronson, the Fosse . “Willkommen” to the Kit Kat Klub, the seediest, Stop Worrying and gets the big screen treatment thanks to major stars like Nazis lock them up in a remote, “escape- most decadent cabaret in 1930s Berlin, where Sally Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, and Frank Sinatra Love the Bomb proof” prison camp. If you think that’ll hold Bowles, the young American singer unforgettably portrayed by Liza Minnelli, along with Vivian Blaine, who (1964, 95min/b&w, DCP) Peter ‘em, you may want to reread the title. sings and dances her heart out originated the role of Adelaide on Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Based, believe it or not, on a true story. on a nightly basis. Featuring stage. Damon Runyon’s short Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim 4pm Sun 5/27. some of the finest songs in the stories about crooks and gamblers Pickens, and James Earl Jones. American musical songbook translate perfectly to the screen Directed by Stanley Kubrick. and the Oscar-winning talents thanks to Frank Loesser’s music. of director/choreographer Bob 7:30pm Tues 6/12. Fosse. 7:30pm Mon 6/11. Vaudeville! – Tues, May 29 – Thurs, May 31 Celebrating the talented performers featured in the Harry Ransom Center’s Vaudeville! exhibition Monkey Business debut role and introduced several iconic songs to Screen to Stage - Wed, June 13 – Thurs, June 14 movie-going audiences around the world. 7:30pm Hollywood hits that went to Broadway and...flopped (1931, 77min/b&w, 35mm) Groucho Marx, Harpo Wed 5/30. Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, and Thelma Todd. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. The Marx Brothers 75TH ANNIVERSARY! Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 60TH didn’t miss a beat in the transition from vaudeville to ANNIVERSARY! the silver screen. This time, they bring their unique Stormy Weather (1954, 102min/color, 35mm) Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards, Russ Tamblyn, and Tommy Rall. brand of anarchy aboard a transatlantic cruise ship, (1943, 78min/b&w, DCP) Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Gigi hassling the poor Directed by Stanley Donen. One of the defining big- Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Dooley Wilson, and the screen Technicolor musicals, this barn-burning classic (1958, 115min/color, voyagers from shore to Nicholas Brothers. 35mm) Leslie Caron, shore. This hysterical brings the seven brides and seven brothers of the title Directed by Andrew L.
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