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. together for some of the most extraordinary dance Louis Jourdan, classic contains some of Stone. A familiar Maurice Chevalier, the Marx Brothers’ best sequences ever filmed, thanks to the astonishing romantic plot sets the choreography of Michael Kidd and the athleticism of and Hermione Gingold. Directed by Vincente gags, including the stage for wondrous Minnelli . What do Singin’ in the Rain, An American legendary “Maurice the professional dancers cast in a majority of the performances from the roles. 7pm in Paris, and Annie Get Your Gun have in common? Chevalier” scene. most talented African- They were all produced by the legendary Arthur 7:00pm Tues 5/29. Wed 6/13, American entertainers to 9:15pm Freed, whose final, most Oscar-winning hit was this ever grace the screen. Thurs story of a young courtesan in turn-of-the-century Paris. The Bank Dick Thrill to the uncanny 6/14. Featuring the perfectly cast Leslie Caron in the title footwork of the role and the surprising return of 1930’s matinee idol (1940, 72min/b&w, 35mm) W.C. Fields, Cora Nicholas Brothers and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Maurice Chevalier. 9pm Wed 6/13, 7pm Thurs Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Franklin Pangborn, and marvel at the inimitable style of Fats Waller and Cab 6/14. Shemp Howard. Directed by Edward F. Cline. W.C. Calloway, and swoon as Lena Horne sings the Fields combined his incomparable one-liners with his heartbreaking title song. Truly, the most astonishing remarkable slapstick skills to create this all-time performances you will ever see in a movie theater . classic, which many believe to be Fields’ best film. 7:00pm Thurs 5/31. The irascible comic plays ne’er-do-well Egbert Souse Screen to Stage to Screen – Fri, June 15 who, despite his best efforts to never leave the local Beloved films that became Broadway musicals that became films of their own (phew!) bar, winds up with a job at the bank. 8:35pm Tues Ziegfeld Follies 5/29. (1946, 110min/color, 35mm) Fred Astaire, Lucille 30TH ANNIVERSARY! 55TH ANNIVERSARY! Ball, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Gene Hairspray 50TH ANNIVERSARY! Kelly, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, and William 8 ½ Powell. Directed by too many people to name! An all- (1988, 92min/color, DCP) Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, (1963, 138min/b&w/Italian w/English subtitles, Funny Girl star cast, not to mention a long list of directors, united Divine, Debbie Harry, Ricki Lake, and Jerry Stiller. Digital) Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, to create this extraordinary tribute to the days of Directed by John Waters. Set in 1960’s Baltimore (the Anouk Aimee, and Sandra Milo. Directed by (1968, 151min/color, DCP) Barbra Streisand, Omar beloved hometown of writer/director Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, and Walter vaudeville. The very Federico Fellini. A film director suffers an artistic structure of the film itself John Waters), this cult classic crisis that quickly turns into a life crisis in this Pidgeon. Directed by introduced Tracy Turnblad, the William Wyler. Despite recalls the follies of old, Federico Fellini masterpiece frequently named one with a “revue” of several intrepid young teenager who follows of the ten best films of all time. Ask any having never appeared her dancing dreams and speaks out on screen before, Barbra unrelated musical filmmaker and they’ll likely cite this numbers and sketches against racial segregation. You may movie as a major inspiration. Streisand’s blockbuster have seen the musical, but nothing can performances in the being directed from 8:45pm Fri 6/15. heaven by the late prepare you for the sheer delight of this original stage version of indie original. 7pm Fri 6/15. this Fanny Brice “bio- Ziegfeld himself (played, musical” made her a as all angels should be, shoo-in for the screen by William Powell). adaptation. The producers surely didn’t have any 8:35pm Thurs 5/31. regrets, as Streisand took home the Oscar for her Summer Reading – Sat, June 16 Two stunning adaptations of two literary favorites Sense and Sensibility Family Film Festival – Sun, June 3 Little Women Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under! (1994, 115min/color, DCP) Winona Ryder, Gabriel (1995, 136min/color, DCP) Emma Thompson, Alan Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Rickman, Kate Winslet, and Hugh Grant. Directed by Dunst, Claire Danes, Christian Bale, and Susan Ang Lee. As the sole screenwriter and top-billed Sarandon. Directed by Gillian Armstrong. The fifth (!) performer, Emma Thompson deserves a lion’s share of The Wizard of Oz big screen treatment of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved the credit for bringing Jane Austen’s classic novel to (1939, 102min/color/b&w, 35mm) Judy Garland, Frank novel distinguished itself as the first version to be life in this breathtaking adaptation directed by Ang Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, and Margaret written, directed and Lee. To our eternal delight, she is Hamilton. Directed by Victor Fleming. Most of us have produced by women, joined by Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, already fallen in love with this timeless film, thanks to combining their talents with a and the late, great Alan Rickman in countless television broadcasts and home video releases. But shimmering cast to convey the one of the greatest casts ever the Yellow Brick Road and those ruby slippers have never timeless charm of the March assembled. 4:10pm Sat 6/16. shimmered as brightly as they do on the Paramount screen in Sisters’ story. 2pm Sat glorious 35mm. 1pm Sun 6/3. 6/16. Family Film Festival – Sun, June 17 Happy Anniversary, Tom! – Fri, June 29 – Sat, June 30 Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under! This is a landmark year for three films starring one of the world’s favorite actors
25TH ANNIVERSARY! versions of secret pen pals, falling in love via email and chatroom even as they clash in real life as owners The Princess Bride Philadelphia of opposing bookstores. This may sound familiar if (1987, 98min/color, 35mm) Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, (1993, 125min/color, DCP) Tom Hanks, Denzel you’ve seen The Shop Around the Corner or In the Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, and Andre the Giant. Directed by Rob Reiner. Just when Washington, Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen, Good Old Summertime , the earlier versions of this we thought we had already heard all the best stories, director Rob Reiner and screenwriter Joanne Woodward, and Antonio Banderas . Directed equally delightful remake. 2pm Sat 6/30. William Goldman introduced a lovable cast of characters and one of the most unforgettable by Jonathan Demme . Tom Hanks plays a rising star tales ever told. 1pm Sun 6/17. lawyer who is wrongfully terminated from his firm 25TH ANNIVERSARY! after contracting AIDS. A stark reminder of the cruelty and misinformation that defined the early years of the Sleepless in Seattle Father’s Day at the Paramount – Sun, June 17 AIDS crisis, and a poignant tribute to those who (1993, 105min/color, DCP) Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Treat Dad to a double feature on this special day! courageously fought for acceptance and truth. and Bill Pullman . Directed by Nora Ephron . When a 7:30pm Fri 6/29. boy calls into a radio show to find his widowed father a new girlfriend, he sets one of Goldfinger Field of Dreams 20TH ANNIVERSARY! the definitive modern romantic comedies into motion. (1964, 110min/color, DCP) Sean Connery, Gert (1989, 107min/color, 35mm) Kevin Costner, Amy You’ve Got Mail Somehow, Nora Ephron Frobe, Honor Blackman, Harold Sakata, and Bernard Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, and Burt persuasively conveys the Lee. Directed by Guy Hamilton. Generally considered Lancaster. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson . After (1998, 119min/color, Digital) Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey, and experience of two characters to be the greatest James Bond film of all time (starring experiencing a strange vision, a man builds a falling in love despite the fact the greatest James Bond portrayer baseball diamond in his corn field, leading Jean Stapleton . Directed by Nora Ephron . Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan portray the modern that they rarely share the of all time), this action-packed his family to think he might be crazy. That is, screen. 4:15pm Sat 6/30. entry introduces the super spy to until long dead pro ball players start holding Auric Goldfinger, a gold-mad pick-up games in their backyard. A tearjerker criminal with plans to attack Fort that gives dads everywhere a sudden case of Knox. 3:15pm Sun 6/17. “allergies.” 5:20pm Sun 6/17. Family Film Festival – Sun, July 1 Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under!
Fantastic Heroines – Mon, June 18 – Thurs, June 21 Mary Poppins Join these remarkable women on their strange — and often dangerous — journeys (1964, 140min/color, DCP) Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Elsa Lanchester, Reginald Owen, Ed Wynn, and 40TH ANNIVERSARY! Catherine Breillat puts her own unique spin on this Jane Darwell . Directed by Robert Stevenson . The beloved children’s novel classic French fairy tale about a frightening man received the very best Walt Disney treatment and provided one of the most Th e Wiz named Bluebeard whose wives mysteriously dazzling screen debuts of all time. Julie Andrews turned thousands of heads (1978, 134min/color, 35mm) Diana Ross, Michael disappear one by one. When Marie-Catherine when she arrived on the silver screen as the titular nanny, who uses magic Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross, Lena Horne, and becomes his newly betrothed, will she discover the and spoonfuls of sugar to bring the Banks family together. 1pm Sun 7/1. Richard Pryor. Directed by Sidney Lumet. This fates of Bluebeard’s past wives? 8:50pm Tues extraordinary reimagining of “The Wizard of Oz” 6/19. showcases a remarkable all-African-American cast and several songs that deserve a more exalted place 70TH ANNIVERSARY! Back to School – Sun, July 1 in our shared pop culture history. If you only know Today we honor the cinema’s finest young troublemakers “Ease on Down the Road,” here’s your chance to find The Red Shoes out what you’ve been missing. 7:30pm Mon 6/18. (1948, 135min/color, DCP) Moira Shearer, Anton 40TH ANNIVERSARY! Walbrook, and Marius Goring . Directed by Michael The Breakfast Club Powell and Emeric Pressburger . Of all the beautiful National Lampoon’s Orlando gifts Technicolor has given us, few can compare to this (1985, 97min/color, DCP) Emilio Estevez, Paul gorgeous story of a talented ballerina torn between a Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Animal House (1992, 94min/color, 35mm) Tilda Swinton, Billy perfectionist impresario and a brilliant composer. Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy. Directed by John Hughes . Zane, and Quentin Crisp . Directed by Sally Potter . The young actors behind the brain, beauty, jock, (1978, 109min/color, DCP) John Belushi, Tim Every frame is drenched with rich, deep colors, Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Tom Hulce, The Virginia Woolf carrying us through the tragic arc of this cinematic rebel, and recluse so captured the nation’s novel becomes a imagination that they were granted their very own and Donald Sutherland. Directed by John Landis . This interpretation of Hans Christian Anderson’s classic low-budget ($3 million) comedy came out of witty and fresh tale. 7:30pm Wed 6/20. collective nickname: The Brat cinematic story, Pack. As they serve time in nowhere to earn over $140 million at the box thanks to this brilliant detention, they begin to see office, making it the highest grossing comedy adaptation from each other as more than ever at the time. It also gave John Belushi the writer/director Sally Pan’s Labyrinth simple clichés and, in doing opportunity to create another iconic role in what Potter. Tilda Swinton (2006, 118min/color/ so, take the final step toward ultimately proved to be a tragically short career. plays Orlando, a Spanish w/English subtitles, adulthood. 3:55pm Sun 5:45pm Sun 7/1. young nobleman in DCP) Ivana Baquero, Sergi 7/1. 16th century England who receives a large tract of López, and Maribel Verdú. land from the dying Queen Elizabeth I under one Directed by Guillermo del condition: that he never grow old. So, Orlando lives Toro. Newly minted Oscar through the centuries and undergoes some remarkable winner Guillermo del Toro’s changes. Curious, aren’t you? 7:00pm Tues 6/19. modern masterpiece follows a young girl who O Coen Brothers, Where Art Thou? – Tues, July 3 – Thurs, July 5 desperately yearns to Two of the most popular films from two of the most consistently great filmmakers Bluebeard escape from her cruel new stepfather. Following a strange fairy-like insect to a nearby mill, she discovers (2009, 80min/color/French w/English subtitles, 20TH ANNIVERSARY! Digital) Dominique Thomas, Lola Creton, and Daphne a labyrinth that contains dangerous secrets, many of FARGO Baiwir . Directed by Catherine Breillat . Director which are conjured by remarkable makeup and physical effects work. 7:30pm Thurs 6/21. Th e Bi g Lebowski (1996, 103min/color, DCP) Frances McDormand, William H. (1998, 117min/color, DCP) Jeff Bridges, John Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, and Philip Presnell, and Peter Stormare. Dystopian Visions – Fri, June 22 – Sun, June 24 Seymour Hoffman . Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. In these staggering sci-fi classics, our future is anything but bright Coen . The stakes seemingly couldn’t be lower, yet this Winning a couple of Oscars for enduring cult classic is absolutely riveting from start to the Coen Brothers’ screenplay Miller . After several years spent working as a finish. Jeff Bridges turns in a career-defining and Frances McDormand’s Metropolis physician by day and shooting short films in his spare performance as The Dude, who abides over the memorable performance, this (1927, 148min/b&w/silent w/English intertitles, time, George Miller made his feature-length directing strangest cast of characters dark-as-noir comedy thriller DCP) Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frohlich, and debut with this bone-rattling action spectacular about ever assembled. Some may propelled the Coens to the next Rudolf Klein-Rogge. Directed by Fritz Lang . a cop taking on a savage biker gang in a post- call it a “stoner comedy,” but, level of worldwide recognition and is often named Combining the spectacle of D.W. Griffith with the apocalyptic version of Australia. 4:15pm Sat in the hands of the Coens, it’s among the top films of the 1990s. 9:10pm Tues visual symbolism of his global peers, director Fritz 6/23. so much more. 7pm Tues 7/3, 7pm Thurs 7/5. Lang created a masterpiece that continues to amaze. 7/3, 9pm Thurs 7/5. The kind son of the ruthless Master of Metropolis Blade Runner works to help the less fortunate in this harrowing view of a future where human laborers are worked to death (1982, 118min/color, DCP) Harrison Ford, Rutger like cogs in a machine. 7:30pm Fri 6/22. Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos . Directed by Ridley Scott . Adapted from a novel by Fright Nights – Fri, July 6 – Sun, July 8 Logan’s Run Philip K. Dick (the source of many a great sci-fi You haven’t seen these hair-raising favorites until you’ve seen them in a haunted movie palace movie), this dark and unsettling sci-fi noir takes us into (1976, 119min/color, DCP) Michael York, Richard a futuristic world where replicants, androids who are Jaws Jordan, Jenny Agutter, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah virtually indistinguishable from humans, blend in with A lien Fawcett, and Peter Ustinov. Directed by Michael the rest of us. That makes life more difficult for (1979, 117min/color, 35mm) Tom (1975, 124min/color, DCP) Roy Scheider, Robert Anderson . The Harrison Ford, who Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Shaw, and Richard original sci-fi box has been tasked Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Dreyfuss . Directed by office smash with hunting these Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Steven Spielberg . Once (released a year replicants down. Yaphet Kotto . Directed by Ridley you’ve experienced this before Star Wars 3pm Sun 6/24. Scott . The tagline reads “In space petrifying combination of took the genre to no one can hear you scream,” but masterful editing, clever another level), this just try not to while watching this camera set-ups, and John dystopian thriller awe-inspiring classic. The story never stops twisting Williams’ tension-building depicts a society in Brazil and turning, with thrills that continue to make jaws score, you’ll never want which people are (1985, 132min/color, 35mm) Jonathan Pryce, Robert drop to this day, and the H.R. Giger-designed alien to look at water again terminated at age 30 to control the population. When De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, creature is the stuff that nightmares are made of. much less go into it. If you can’t afford film school, one of the agents in charge of enforcing this policy and Michael Palin . Directed by Terry Gilliam . The 7pm Fri 7/6. just buy a ticket to this movie and learn from the best. begins to question it, he finds himself searching for a more this otherworldly classic veered from mainstream 2pm Sat 7/7, 3pm Sun 7/8. better place. 2pm Sat 6/23. potential to arthouse surrealism, the more director 50TH ANNIVERSARY! Terry Gilliam had to fight studio executives to keep it Psycho intact upon release. Despite whatever compromises he Night of the Living Dead Mad Max (1960, 109min/b&w, 35mm) Anthony Perkins, Vera had to make, Gilliam successfully retained the thought- (1968, 96min/b&w, DCP) Judith O’Dea, Duane Miles, John Gavin, and Janet Leigh . Directed by (1979, 93min/color, DCP) Mel Gibson, Joanne provoking essence of this visually astonishing film. Jones, and Marilyn Eastman. Directed by George A. Alfred Hitchcock . If you’ve never experienced this Samuel, and Hugh Keays-Byrne. Directed by George 5:10pm Sun 6/24. Romero. Today we are inundated with zombies in landmark thriller, and have somehow avoided film and television, but imagine seeing this low- spoilers until now, you might consider living under a budget, black-and-white vision of horror rock until tonight rolls around. There’s when it was released 50 years ago. nothing more exciting than uncovering Family Film Festival – Sun, June 24 Needless to say, the audiences of 1968 the secrets of the Bates Motel for the first Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under! were appalled, and yet they couldn’t look time. And remember – it is REQUIRED away from a film that seemed to reflect all that you see PSYCHO from the very the ugliness of late ‘60s America. 9:15pm beginning! 4:20pm Sat 7/7, Fri 7/6. The Little Mermaid 5:15pm Sun 7/8. (1989, 83min/color, DCP) Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois, Buddy Hackett, and Pat Carroll. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. The beloved Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is vividly updated with the unmistakable music and lyrics of Family Film Festival – Sun, July 8 Alan Menken and Howard Ashman and the inimitable talents of the Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under! Walt Disney Animation Studio. This is the movie that brought Disney back from the brink of irrelevance and established a new era of 70TH ANNIVERSARY! animated musicals. 1pm Sun 6/24. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein There’s Something Screwy Around Here – Tues, June 26 – Wed, June 27 (1948, 83min/b&w, DCP) Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., and Because who doesn’t love a good screwball comedy Bela Lugosi . Directed by Charles T. Barton . In the 1930s, Universal Pictures’ monster movies were hugely popular with American audiences, Some Like It Hot Directed by Howard Hawks . Few directors could but by 1948 the studio had squeezed every last drop of interest out of the make a screwball comedy as well as Howard Hawks, public. Bring in leading comedy team Abbott and Costello, who (1959, 121min/b&w, DCP) Marilyn Monroe, Tony who set a high bar for himself and everyone else with successfully send up all the outlandish details of the genre, and you have an unlikely crossover that ranks as one Curtis, and Jack Lemmon . Directed by Billy Wilder . this madcap comedy that gives Katharine Hepburn of the funniest movies ever made. 1pm Sun 7/8. Billy Wilder proved to be as skilled with comedies as and Cary Grant more than a few opportunities to he was with every other genre he attempted. It helps drive each other crazy. Can these two really fall in to have two all-time-great love? 7pm Wed 6/27. actors, Tony Curtis and Defiant Women – Tues, July 10 – Fri, July 13 Jack Lemmon, as hard- Celebrating some of the cinema’s most iconic heroines luck musicians who It Happened One Night witness the St. (1934, 105min/b&w, DCP) Clark Gable, Claudette Valentine’s Day Colbert, and Walter Connolly . Directed by Frank THELMA &LOUISE Massacre and are Capra . Of all the road-trip movies, this is easily the (1991, 129min/color, DCP) Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey forced into hiding swooniest. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert come Keitel, Michael Madsen, and Brad Pitt . Directed by Ridley Scott . as members of an all-girl band. Did I mention Marilyn together like fire and water, she an heiress who has Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis are unforgettable as two friends Monroe’s in the band too? 7:30pm Tues 6/26. eloped against her father’s wishes and he a whose weekend vacation takes a dark turn when they encounter an disgraced journalist who sees in her a career-saving abusive stranger. Their actions force them to go on the run and 80TH ANNIVERSARY! scoop. Mutual benefit becomes romance in one of ultimately empower them to live life on their own terms. 7:30pm Bringin g Up Baby only three films to sweep the Big Five Oscars (Picture, Tues 7/10. Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay). 9pm Wed (1938, 102min/b&w, 35mm) Katharine Hepburn, 6/27. (Continued on the next page...) Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, and May Robson . Defiant Women – Tues, July 10 – Fri, July 13 (Continued) Pioneers and Prodigies – Tues, July 24 – Sun, July 29 (Continued) Celebrating some of the cinema’s most iconic heroines Beloved icons of music as seen in biopics, concert films, and genre-bending blends of both
quiet terror of the Ridley Scott original with the kind the silence of the lambs of action-packed thrill ride James Cameron is known A Hard Day’s Night Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back (1991, 118min/color, DCP) Jodie Foster, Anthony for, this equally successful sequel brought Sigourney (1964, 87min/b&w, DCP) John Lennon, Paul (1967, 96min/b&w, DCP) Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Hopkins, and Ted Levine. Directed by Jonathan Weaver’s Ellen Ripley roaring back to the silver McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. and Donovan. Directed by D.A. Pennebaker. Master Demme . It’s rare for a thriller to win an Oscar, and it’s screen, this time to protect a young orphan from the Directed by Richard Lester. This rollicking film was documentarian D.A. Pennebaker follows Bob Dylan rarer still for any film to sweep the “Big Five” (Picture, alien queen and her murderous offspring. 9:15pm promoted as an all-access pass to a typical week in in England during his 1965 tour, which proved to be Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay). This chill- Wed 7/11, 7pm Thurs 7/12. the life of the Beatles. Considering that it was made at his last as an acoustic artist, as the folk hero is inducing story accomplished the height of “Beatlemania,” it’s safe to say that what surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated both, thanks to note-perfect 90 TH ANNIVERSARY! transpires is anything but typical. In order to play a philosophical jousts with journalists, and kicks back performances from Jodie show on live TV, the Fab Four must contend with fellow musicians Joan Baez, Foster as a cop breaking The Passion of Joan of Arc with hordes of ravenous fans, Donovan, and Alan Price. You’ll be treated to renditions of “Subterranean through the male-dominated (1928, 81min/b&w/silent w/English intertitles, DCP) Paul’s lascivious grandfather, Homesick Blues,” “The Times They Are ranks and Anthony Hopkins Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, and Andre Berley. and Ringo’s unfailing ability A-Changin’,” “It’s All Over Now, Baby as her very unusual advisor. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer . As the legendary to wander away. A delightful Blue,” and other Dylan hits. 5:40pm 7pm Wed 7/11, French heroine Joan of Arc, Maria Falconetti gives an memento of the band at the Sun 7/29. 9:35pm Thurs 7/12. equally legendary performance, largely through height of their powers. 4pm extreme close-ups that have made her face one of the Sun 7/29. ALIENS most unforgettable in the history of cinema. Facing trial for heresy, Joan withstands a series of cruelties to (1986, 137min/color, DCP) Sigourney Weaver, maintain her dignity and her faith. 7:30pm Fri Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, and Bill 7/13. Family Film Festival – Sun, July 29 Paxton. Directed by James Cameron . Replacing the Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under!
40 TH ANNIVERSARY! What’s My Line – Sun, July 15 Iconic actors. Unforgettable dialogue. The rest is history. Superman (1978, 143min/color, 35mm) Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Margot Kidder, and Gene Hackman. Directed by Richard Donner. The first, and perhaps Sunset Boulevard All About Eve still the finest, superhero blockbuster tells the origin story of the last survivor of (1950, 110min/b&w, DCP) William Holden, Gloria (1950, 138min/b&w, DCP) Bette Davis, Anne Krypton who is sent to earth and gains extraordinary powers. Christopher Reeve Swanson, and Erich von Stroheim. Directed by Billy Baxter, George Sanders, and Celeste Holm. Directed was born to play the role – no one has come close to matching his interpretation Wilder. Before the pictures “got small,” they were by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Bette Davis and Anne of Superman or alter ego Clark Kent. 1pm Sun 7/29. directed by legends like Billy Wilder and featured Baxter go head to head as an aging Broadway star towering performances from the likes of Gloria and the young ingénue scheming to take her place Swanson, who portrays a faded silent- on the throne of the Great White Way. film star in this pitch-dark film noir. This This remarkable drama shares the record People and Places – Mon, July 30 – Fri, August 3 famous California street and its sordid for most Oscar nominations received by Riveting films that take us deep into the heart of a specific time and place stories reflect the seamy desperation of a single film (a staggering 14!) with a Hollywood. Sunny L.A. never looked movie about a certain “unsinkable” ship. 40 TH ANNIVERSARY! grimmer. 1pm Sun 7/15. 3:05pm Sun 7/15. Daughters of the Dust Days of Heaven (1991, 112min/color, DCP) Alva Rogers, Bahni (1978, 94min/color, 35mm) Richard Gere, Brooke Turpin, Barbara-O, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, and Cora Lee Iron and Wine Presents – Mon, July 16 Adams, Sam Shepard, and Linda Manz. Directed by Day. Directed by Julie Dash. At the dawn of the 20th Hosted by Sam Beam (Iron and Wine) - Free small popcorn! Terrence Malick. You would struggle to find a more century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah elegant visualization of turn-of-the-century Texas than community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina Terrence Malick’s dreamy frontier love triangle set to struggle to maintain their cultural heritage while Sorcerer unforgettable music from Ennio Morricone and the contemplating a migration to the mainland. Julie astonishing natural light used by cinematographer Dash’s masterpiece was met with rapturous acclaim (1977, 121min/color, DCP) Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francesco Rabal, and Amidou. when it opened in 1991 and still resonates today, Directed by William Friedkin. This heart-stopping thriller tells the story of four men who Nestor Almendros. Praised by Roger Ebert as “one of the most beautiful films ever made.” 7pm Mon most recently as a major influence on Beyoncé’s end up in a South American town where an American oil company is seeking courageous video album “Lemonade.” 7pm Thurs 8/2. drivers willing to haul nitroglycerin through 200 miles of treacherous terrain. Not 7/30, 9:25pm Tues 7/31. recommended for those with high blood pressure. 7:30pm Mon 7/16. THE LAST PICTURE SHOW Monsoon Wedding (1971, 118min/b&w, DCP) Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Foreign Favorites – Tues, July 17 – Thurs, July 19 (2001, 114min/color, DCP) Naseeruddin Shah, Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Lillete Dubey, and Shefali Shetty. Directed by Mira A few of the finest films from around the world Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Nair. If there’s one thing that knows no and Eileen Brennan. language or cultural barriers, it’s the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon woman who feels duty-bound to care for her elderly, Directed by Peter chaos and tragedy of wedding planning. widowed father (and has grown comfortable doing Bogdanovich. Peter Nair’s exquisite comedy brings an Indian (2000, 120min/color/Mandarin w/ English subtitles, so) resists getting married herself despite Bogdanovich assembled family together to celebrate their only DCP) Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and encouragement from her family. One of Ozu’s many one of the most daughter’s marriage, with all the drama Chang Chen. Directed by Ang Lee. Directed with masterpieces of domestic life. 7pm Wed 7/18. extraordinary ensemble such events usually entail. 9:10pm typical grace and visual mastery by Ang Lee and casts ever to bring Larry McMurtry’s elegiac story of Thurs 8/2. supported by the dazzling fight choreography of a dying Texas town to life. From the memorable An Autumn Afternoon performances of its rising young stars to the shrewd Yuen Woo-ping ( The Matrix , 40 TH ANNIVERSARY! Kill Bill ), this breathtakingly (1962, 113min/color/Japanese w/ English subtitles, use of period-appropriate songs, Bogdanovich hit all filmed modern masterpiece DCP) Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, and Keiji Sada. the right notes. 8:50pm Mon 7/30, 7pm Tues Killer of Sheep brought the martial arts- Directed by Yasujiro Ozu. Ozu’s last film proved to be 7/31. focused wuxia genre to a a poignant and perfect sendoff for one of the (1978, 80min/b&w, DCP) Henry G. Sanders, wider American audience, cinema’s greatest masters. This moving story about a Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, and Angela Burnett. becoming the highest-grossing widower accepting and encouraging his grown Do the Right Thing Directed by Charles Burnett. Director Charles Burnett foreign language film in U.S. daughter’s marriage and departure from their home (1989, 120min/color, 35mm) Danny Aiello, Ossie examines the African-American community in 1970s history. 7pm Tues 7/17. recalls Ozu’s Late Spring , albeit with 13 years of Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Watts through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer added wisdom and experience. 9:05pm Wed Spike Lee, and Rosie Perez. Directed by Spike Lee. who is growing detached and numb from the psychic 7/18. Spike Lee announced his arrival as a major voice in toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Shot on location Dragon Inn American cinema with this landmark film set in in Watts over a series of weekends on a budget of (1967, 111min/color/Mandarin w/ English subtitles, 30 TH ANNIVERSARY! Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood, where racial less than $10,000, Burnett’s film is a triumph of DCP) Lingfeng Shangguan, Chun Shih, Ying Bai, and tensions boil over on the hottest day of the year. One independent filmmaking that has only recently Feng Hsu. Directed by King Hu. The wuxia genre was Cinema Paradiso of only five films to be selected for preservation in the received the attention it is due . 7pm Fri 8/3. never the same after this legendary film from director Library of Congress in their first year of eligibility. (1988, 123min/color/Italian with English subtitles, TH King Hu. The emperor’s minister of defense is framed DCP) Philippe Noiret, Enzo 7pm Wed 8/1. 70 ANNIVERSARY! by a powerful court eunuch and executed, and his Cannavale and Antonella TH family is pursued by secret police. In the ensuing Attili. Directed by Giuseppe 10 ANNIVERSARY! Bicycle Thieves chase, a mysterious band of strangers begins to Tornatore. A filmmaker recalls Fish Tank (1948, 93min/b&w/Italian w/ English subtitles, gather at the remote Dragon Gate Inn, where paths his childhood, when he fell in DCP) Lamberto (and swords) will cross. 9:15pm Tues 7/17. love with the movies at his (2008, 123min/color, 35mm) Katie Jarvis, Michael Maggiorani, Enzo village’s theater and formed Fassbender, and Kierston Wareing. Directed by Staiola, and Vittorio a deep friendship with the Andrea Arnold. Director Antonucci. Directed by Late Spring theater’s projectionist. One of the most beloved Andrea Arnold found lead Vittorio De Sica. One of (1949, 108min/b&w/Japanese w/ English subtitles, classics of the last 30 years. Original Theatrical Cut. actress Katie Jarvis on a metro the most treasured films DCP) Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, and Haruko 7:30pm Thurs 7/19. station platform yelling of all time, Vittorio De Sugimura. Directed by Yasujiro Ozu. A young obscenities at her deadbeat Sica’s masterpiece boyfriend. Arnold channels this follows a man trying to fiery energy into this story of a maintain his ethics and Spectacular Spoofs – Sat, July 21 – Sun, July 22 young girl, living in the same dignity while he searches with his son for his stolen The pinnacles of parody downtrodden east-of-London neighborhood as Jarvis bicycle in postwar Rome. Simple, powerful, and herself, who develops a crush on her cruel mother’s unforgettable. 8:35pm Fri 8/3. new boyfriend. 9:15pm Wed 8/1. Air plane! Blazing (1980, 87min/color, DCP) Robert Hays, Julie Saddles Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, and Robert (1974, 95min/color, DCP) Cleavon Little, Gene Family Film Festival – Sun, August 5 Stack. Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Wilder, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Madeline Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under! Jerry Zucker. The disaster genre produced a number Kahn, Mel Brooks, and Dom DeLuise. Directed by of memorable films filled with (unintentionally) funny Mel Brooks. More like “How the West Was Fun!” This TH moments, but perhaps its greatest gift to movie lovers hilarious romp through the frontier from spoof legend 25 ANNIVERSARY! was this spoof that actually aimed for hilarity and Mel Brooks leaves no tumbleweed unturned in its struck its target with hilarious dissection of the Western. From the The Nightmare Before Christmas remarkable charismatic Cleavon Little down to cameos (1993, 76min/color, 35mm) Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, and Catherine frequency. A non-stop from Dom DeLuise and Brooks himself, this O’Hara. Directed by Henry Selick. Though this family classic was technically laugh riot. 3pm Sat stacked cast of legends strikes comedy gold. directed by master of stop-motion animation Henry Selick, the name above the 7/21, 5:30pm 4:45pm Sat 7/21, 3:45pm Sun 7/22 . title is Tim Burton, whose dark yet whimsical approach elevates this musical tale Sun 7/22. of the king of Halloween Town and his efforts bring Christmas home to his citizens. In this film, we don’t simply get to hear songs by Danny Elfman...we get to hear them sung by Elfman himself, who provides our tormented hero with his singing voice. 1pm Sun 8/5. Family Film Festival – Sun, July 22 Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under! Jukebox Musicals – Sun, August 5 Annie Romantic classics that took existing songs and made them into something new (1982, 128min/color, DCP) Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, and Aileen Quinn. Directed by John Huston. As he moved closer to the end of an extraordinary directing career highlighted by films like The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of Singin’ in the Rain Moulin Rouge! the Sierra Madre , John Huston surprisingly took on this adaptation of the sentimental Broadway favorite, aided (1952, 103min/color, 35mm) Gene Kelly, Donald (2001, 130min/color, 35mm) Nicole Kidman, Ewan by a remarkably multi-talented cast of performers. 1pm Sun 7/22. O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, and Cyd McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, and Charisse. Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Richard Roxburgh. Directed by Baz Luhrmann. This Take a plot about the arrival of talking pictures, throw dazzling representation of 20 th -century Paris pulls Pioneers and Prodigies – Tues, July 24 – Sun, July 29 in Gene Kelly’s choreography and a hit parade of beloved songs from the contemporary pop music Beloved icons of music as seen in biopics, concert films, and genre-bending blends of both great songs, and you get a film buff’s dream musical. canon to give us a wholly unique take on the movie From Kelly twirling in the rain to Jean Hagen throwing musical. When Ewan McGregor, at the time known diction to the wind, is it any mostly as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Purple Rain Sel ena wonder this was declared the Star Wars prequel, suddenly belts (1984, 111min/color, DCP) Prince, Apollonia Kotero, greatest American musical of out a song from The Sound of (1997, 127min/color, 35mm) Jennifer Lopez, Jackie and Morris Day. Directed by all time? 3pm Sun 8/5. Music , you know you’re in for a Guerra, Jon Seda, and Edward James Olmos. Directed Albert Magnoli. The late, great treat. 5pm Sun 8/5. by Gregory Nava. Though her life was tragically cut Prince Rogers Nelson soared short at the age of 23, Tejano music sensation Selena left to another level of us a legacy defined by the pure joy of her stage presence superstardom thanks to this and musicianship. In this poignant film, Jennifer Lopez, semi-autobiographical story of Hard Boiled Cinema – Tues, August 7 – Fri, August 10 on the cusp of stardom herself, captures the generosity of “The Kid,” a talented young front man of a Crime doesn’t pay...unless you make it into a movie spirit and raw talent that defined Selena’s all-too-short Minneapolis band who immerses himself in his music. career. 7:30pm Thurs 7/26. In addition to the film being an instant cult classic, the album is still the sixth-best-selling soundtrack of all Rififi Diabolique time. 7:30pm Tues 7/24. Woodsto ck (1955, 118min/b&w/French w/ English subtitles, (1955, 115min/b&w/French w/ English subtitles, (1970, 224min/color, 35mm) Richie Havens, Joan Baez, DCP) Jean Servais, Carl Mohner, and Robert Manuel. 35mm) Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, and Paul Amadeus The Who, Joe Cocker, Crosby Stills & Nash, Santana, Directed by Jules Dassin. Jean Servais completes his Meurisse. Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. A (1984, 180min/color, DCP) F. Murray Abraham, Tom Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane. prison sentence for a husband is abusive to both his wife and his mistress, Hulce, and Elizabeth Berridge. Directed by Milos Forman. Directed by Michael Wadleigh . We could tell you that heist gone wrong and leading the two women to plot his murder. However, F. Murray Abraham seethes with jealous anger and this documentary captured one of the pivotal moments in immediately begins after the deed is done, righteous indignation as Antonio Salieri, a talented 18th- late 1960s America. We could tell you that the film’s plotting, you guessed there’s just one problem: the century composer who is constantly upstaged by the editors, including Martin Scorsese and his future editor it, another heist. A body has disappeared. irreverent prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. As the Thelma Schoonmaker, wisely included footage of festival worldwide smash hit, One of the very best self-proclaimed “patron saint of mediocrity,” Salieri attendees that spoke to the cultural moment. Or we could Rififi earned director psychological thrillers of all represents all those who have the gift of comprehending just point you to the above list of bands that perform in Jules Dassin the Best Director prize at Cannes and set time. 9:15pm Tues 8/7. genius but lack the ability to match it. 7:30pm Wed the film. Enough said. 2pm Sat 7/28. the standard for screen robberies for decades to come. 7pm Tues 8/7. (Continued on the next page...) 7/25. (Continued on the next column...) Hard Boiled Cinema – Tues, August 7 – Fri, August 10 (Continued) 70MM Week!! – Tues, August 21 - Sun, August 26 (Continued) Crime doesn’t pay...unless you make it into a movie Because the big screen deserves BIG films
classic film noir has thrilled and captivated audiences Double Indemnity for 75 years. Bogey is Sam Spade, one of literature’s Indiana Jones Lawrence of Arabia (1944, 107min/b&w, 35mm) Fred MacMurray, most beloved private eyes, who gets tangled in a web and the Last Crusade (1962, 216min/color, 70mm) Peter O’Toole, Alec Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson. of intrigue as he tries to solve the case of his Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, and Claude Directed by Billy Wilder. Legendary director Billy murdered partner. What’s at stake? Oh, just the stuff (1989, 127min/color, 70mm) Harrison Ford, Sean Rains. Directed by David Lean. Epic films often trip Wilder brought his consummate skill to everything that dreams are made of. 9pm Wed 8/8, 7pm Connery, Denholm Elliott, John Rhys-Davies, and River themselves up by focusing too much on the scope and from romantic comedies to courtroom dramas. With Thurs 8/9. Phoenix. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Many consider grandeur and not enough on the intimate character this film, he made the film noir standard bearer and this third Indiana Jones entry to be their favorite of the details. Not so with this legendary adventure, thanks got career-topping performances from his cast, series, and it’s hard to argue in large part to Peter O’Toole’s titanic featuring Fred MacMurray as a smitten insurance Pulp Fiction considering the brilliant addition performance as the hero of the title. salesman and Barbara Stanwyck as the housewife (1994, 154min/color, DCP) John Travolta, Samuel L. of Sean Connery as Indy’s dad. No matter how vast the scenery, we doing the smiting. 7pm Wed 8/8, 8:55pm Thurs Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, The chemistry between the never lose sight of the man. 3pm Sat 8/9. Christopher Walken, and Harvey Keitel. Directed by former James Bond and Harrison 8/25, 2pm Sun 8/26. Quentin Tarantino. With this trend-setting film, Ford’s heroic archaeologist Quentin Tarantino continued to define himself makes for one hilarious, and The Maltese Falcon by his razor-sharp dialogue and his ability to ultimately moving, adventure (1941, 100min/b&w, 35mm) resurrect careers, giving John Travolta and film. 7:30pm Fri 8/24. Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Bruce Willis their best roles in years. The Gladys George, Peter Lorre, and result: a groundbreaking American indie that Sydney Greenstreet. Directed by would be imitated by film school kids for John Huston . Thanks to the decades to come. 7:30pm Fri 8/10. Wild Westerns – Tues, August 28 - Thurs, August 30 masterful work of John Huston, this The frontier beckons
70 TH ANNIVERSARY! War veteran who sets out to find his abducted niece, even if it takes him years. Arguably the most highly Soundtrack Saturday – Sat, August 11 THE TREASURE OF THE praised example of director John Ford’s mastery and High school sounds so much better on the big screen Wayne’s greatest performance, this film was declared SIERRA MADRE by AFI as the greatest American Western of all time. 40 TH ANNIVERSARY! 45 TH ANNIVERSARY! (1948, 126min/b&w, 35mm) Humphrey Bogart, 7:30pm Wed 8/29. Walter Huston, and Tim Holt. Directed by John Grease American Graffiti Huston. Oscar winners Humphrey Bogart and Walter 50 TH ANNIVERSARY! Huston star in this (1978, 110min/color, DCP) John Travolta, Olivia (1973, 110min/color, 35mm) Richard Dreyfuss, Ron classic film directed by Once Upon a Time Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Eve Arden, Sid Howard, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Walter’s son, John. Caesar, and Joan Blondell. Directed by Randal Mackenzie Phillips, and Harrison Ford. Directed by in the West Three down and out Kleiser . This deliriously entertaining musical George Lucas. This nostalgic tribute to the hot rods, Americans in Tampico, (1968, 165min/color, DCP) Claudia Cardinale, representation of 1950s high school days is chock full drive-ins, and rock n’ roll of the 1960s features Ron Mexico, embark on a Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, and Charles Bronson. of summer lovin’, beauty school dropouts, and hand Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, and search for gold ore Directed by Sergio Leone. With each successive film jive contests. To say that people Harrison Ford in their breakout roles, rumored to be waiting in the “Dollars Trilogy,” which culminated in the love the soundtrack is an not to mention a memorable soundtrack somewhere in the Sierra Madre mountains. They start classic The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, director understatement – it has sold over filled with greats like Buddy Holly, their journey as friends, but what happens if they Sergio Leone seemed to be working his way up to 28 million copies. 3pm Sat Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys and Bill succeed? 7:30pm Tues 8/28. something truly masterful. That masterpiece turned out 8/11. Haley & His Comets. 5:10pm Sat to be this epic saga, starring one of the finest casts 8/11. ever assembled for a Leone film and featuring many The Searchers of the usual suspects, including composer Ennio (1956, 119min/color, 35mm) John Wayne, Jeffrey Morricone, at the peak of their talents. 7pm Thurs Martinis and Manicures – Sun, August 12 Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, and Natalie Wood. 8/30. Check our website for info on the wildly popular Martinis and Manicures events before both shows! Directed by John Ford. John Wayne is an aging Civil The Devil Breakfast at Tiffany’s The Last Weekend – Fri, August 31 - Sat, September 1 (1961, 115min/color, 35mm) Audrey Hepburn, Wears Prada The Summer Film Series draws to a close with two epic romances George Peppard, Patricia Neal, and Buddy Ebsen. Directed by Blake Edwards. Audrey Hepburn may not (2006, 109min/color, have had the chops to sing DCP) Meryl Streep, Anne GIANT GONE WITH THE her own songs in MY FAIR Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, LADY, but she hits all the right and Emily Blunt. Directed (1956, 198min/color, DCP) Elizabeth Taylor, Rock WIND Hudson, and James Dean. Directed by George notes in this career-topping by David Frankel. Anne (1939, 232min/color, 35mm) Clark Gable, Vivien performance, especially when Hathaway thinks she has landed a dream job at a Stevens. A marvelous cinematic epic made to the measurements of Texas’ grandeur, this film proved to Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, and Hattie she poignantly delivers her prestigious fashion magazine until she finds herself McDaniel. Directed by Victor Fleming. We say unforgettable rendition of fetching coffee for the nightmarish Miranda Priestly, be the last of James Dean’s short career. He certainly goes out with a bang as Jett goodbye to summer with the defining romantic epic, “Moon River.” 2pm Sun played to perfection by Meryl Streep. 6pm Sun featuring career-topping performances 8/12. 8/12. Rink, a constant thorn in the sides of Elizabeth Taylor and from Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, and Rock Hudson’s married pretty much everyone else involved. At ranchers. 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Of course, Hitchcock only ever needed than Cary Grant? 2pm Sat 8/18, 5:05pm Sun two dimensions to thrill us, and he proves that point 8/19. again here with a cracking yarn about a man who Ticket Information discovers his wife’s affair and cooks up a plan to have Tickets (available online, by phone, or at the Paramount Box Office) - $12.00 (includes a $1 preservation fee) her murdered. 8:55pm Tues 8/14, 7pm Wed Rear Window 8/15. (1954, 112min/color, 35mm) James Stewart, Grace Film Fan Admission (available online, by phone, or at the Paramount Box Office) - $7.00 Kelly, and Thelma Ritter. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. FLIX-TIX: Book of 10 admissions for $60 ($50 for Film Fans) In a way, no movie has more accurately reflected the – good in any combination; expires September 2, 2018 strangely perverse Shadow of a Doubt FLIX-TIX may be mail-ordered for an additional Secure covered parking is available to patrons at thrill of watching (1943, 108min/b&w, DCP) Teresa Wright, Joseph $2 by calling 512-474-1221. FLIX-TIX are also the 600 Congress parking garage. For additional Cotten, and Macdonald Carey. Directed by Alfred movies quite like this available online at www.austintheatre.org parking information, please visit hair-raising thriller. Hitchcock. As good as any film Hitchcock ever made, Available online at www.austintheatre.org. www.austintheatre.org/visit/directions-parking/ this unsettling masterpiece about a teenage girl who We are practically seated right next to Individual tickets are available at the Paramount This project is funded and supported in part by a suspects her beloved uncle may be a wanted serial Box Office beginning at noon Monday thru Friday grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and murderer is not seen nearly as often as some of his a recently injured Jimmy Stewart as he and one hour before the first feature on Saturday by the City of Austin through the Economic other work. It would be a shame to miss this master and Sunday. Tickets may be purchased with cash, Development Department/Cultural Arts Division class in dread, featuring a perfectly balanced voyeuristically observes the lives of neighbors in the adjacent apartment. When he sees something he personal checks with valid Texas driver’s license, believing an investment in the Arts in an performance from Joseph Cotten as Uncle Charlie. or MasterCard/Visa/Amex/Discover. ATM on site. investment in Austin’s future. Visit Austin at 7pm Thurs 8/16, 9:25pm Fri 8/17. shouldn’t have, things get really interesting. 4:35pm Sat 8/18, 3pm Sun 8/19. Complimentary Film Notes, written by Austin film NowPlayingAustin.com. This project is funded and buff Frank Campbell and Stephen Jannise, are supported in part by a grant from the Texas provided at each screening. Commission on the Arts, and is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Family Film Festival – Sun, August 19 The Paramount Theatre is located downtown at Arts. Tickets are $10 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under! 713 Congress Avenue, between 7th and 8th streets, and the Stateside Theatre is next door. Film Programmer: Stephen Jannise Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Programs may be subject to change. For up-to-date info, visit or call 512-474-1221. (1937, 83min/color, DCP) Adriana Caselotti, Lucille La Verne, and Pinto www.austintheatre.org/film Colvig. Directed by David Hand. When Walt Disney set out to make his first animated feature film, Hollywood mocked the project as “Disney’s Folly,” believing no one would want to sit through a “full-length cartoon.” Boy, were they wrong. Through their painstaking, breathtaking work, the animators concocted some of the most beautiful images captured on film and launched the enormously successful series of Disney animated features. 1pm Sun 8/19.
70MM Week!! – Tues, August 21 - Sun, August 26 Because the big screen deserves BIG films
50 TH ANNIVERSARY! 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, 164min/color, 70mm) Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, and William Sylvester. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. From its startling depiction of our origins to its extraordinary imagining of our final evolutionary stage, this mind-altering journey is perhaps Stanley Kubrick’s finest achievement. We are proud to present this new “unrestored” 70mm print, struck from new printing elements made from the original camera negative, that recreates the cinematic event audiences experienced 50 years ago. 7:30pm Tues 8/21. (Continued on the next column...)