Summers in Austin aren’t getting any cooler. Now for the good news: the Paramount Summer Classic Film Series is returning for its 44th year, bringing more well-preserved film prints and dazzling digital restorations to our scorching hot town. This summer, we are screening more than 125 films — from romance and comedy to thrillers and chillers — and we hope you will join us for this annual three-month-long celebration of the SUMMER CLASSIC FILM SERIES movies! Films screening at the Paramount will be marked with a ( ), Presented by: while films screening at Stateside will be marked with an ( ). Crazy in Love – Thurs, May 23 – Sun, May 26 Epic Sunday Matinee – Sun, June 2 Everyone can see these characters are in love — except them Clear your schedule for one of cinema’s greatest (and longest) movies OPENING NIGHT FILM! 85TH ANNIVERSARY 65TH ANNIVERSARY! Casablanca It Happened One Night Seven Samurai (1942, 102min/b&w, 35mm) (1934, 105min/b&w, DCP) Clark Gable, Claudette (1954, 207min/b&w/Japanese w/ English subtitles, 35mm) Toshiro Mifune, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Colbert, and Walter Connolly. Directed by Frank Capra. Takashi Shimura, and Keiko Tsushima. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. One of the Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Of all the road-trip movies, this is easily the swooniest. most astonishing epics of all time, this masterpiece from legendary filmmaker Akira Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert come together like Kurosawa tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the titular warriors to protect Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre. fire and water, she an heiress who has eloped against them from invading bandits. This breathtaking classic seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human Directed by Michael Curtiz. You her father’s wishes and he a disgraced journalist who emotions and relentless action, into a rich, evocative, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope. 3pm Sun 6/2. must remember this…since we play it every year! As sees in her a career-saving scoop. Mutual benefit always, this breathtakingly romantic and riotously witty becomes romance in one of only three films to sweep tale of two lovers torn apart by war will be screened the Big Five Oscars (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, on 35mm. Because they’ll always have Paris, and we’ll They’re Doing Choreography – Tues, June 4 – Wed, June 5 Screenplay). 3:15pm Sat 5/25. Some of cinema’s most renowned choreographers do their best work always have film.Film Fan Members will be treated to an Opening Night Party at 6:30pm before the screening nd with free beer/wine/popcorn and free admission. 42 Street West Side Story 7:30pm Thurs 5/23. (1940, 92min/b&w, DCP) Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, (1933, 89min/b&w, DCP) Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, (1961, 151min/color, DCP) Natalie Wood, Rita George Brent, and Ruby Keeler. Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Moreno, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, and George 30TH ANNIVERSARY! and Ralph Bellamy. Directed by Howard Hawks. Cary Grant plays an editor who learns that his ex-wife, a The film that launched the Golden Age of Hollywood Chakiris. Directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. When Harry Met Sally former star reporter, is about to settle down and get musicals traces the creation of a Broadway show from Legendary choreographer Jerome Robbins earned a co-director credit for bringing his era-defining musical (1989, 96min/color, DCP) Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, married with a boring businessman. Determined to its first casting call through its blockbuster opening night. His Girl Friday smash to the screen, chronicling the growing animosity Carrie Fisher, and Bruno Kirby. Directed by Rob Reiner. prevent this from happening, he tries to convince her to Featuring career-making performances from Ginger between two rival New York City gangs. Leonard Nora Ephron penned this beloved romantic comedy cover one last big scoop. 5:15pm Sat 5/25. Rogers and Dick Powell and the inimitable choreography Bernstein about two college graduates who share a road trip to of Busby Berkley. 7pm Tues 6/4. TH and Stephen New York, engage in a series of heated debates about 55 ANNIVERSARY! 40TH ANNIVERSARY! Sondheim life and love, and unwittingly begin a star-crossed My Fair Lady provide the friendship that seems destined to become something (1964, 170min/color, DCP) Audrey Hepburn, Rex All That Jazz unforgettable more. Featuring career-topping performances by Billy Harrison, and Stanley Holloway. Directed by George (1979, 123min/color, DCP) Roy Scheider, Jessica music and Crystal and Meg Ryan. 7:00pm Fri 5/24. Cukor. Legendary director George Cukor adapts Lerner Lange, Ann Reinking, and Ben Vereen. Directed by Bob lyrics. and Loewe’s iconic musical into one of Hollywood’s most Fosse. Bob Fosse directs a warts-and-all, essentially 7:30pm MOONSTRUCK sumptuous stage-to-screen adaptations, thanks in large auto-biographical tale about an eerily familiar musical Wed 6/5. (1987, 103min/color, 35mm) Cher, Nicolas Cage, part to Audrey Hepburn and director and choreographer who pushes himself too hard. Danny Aiello, and Olympia Dukakis. Directed by Rex Harrison as a seemingly Self-indulgent? Sure, and you can’t take your eyes off of Norman Jewison. Cher deserved all the awards for this incompatible duo who — it. 8:45pm Tues 6/4. nuanced portrayal of a widow who hesitatingly accepts slowly but surely — become her boyfriend’s proposal of marriage. Hesitation turns accustomed to each other’s into full-blown indecision when she falls madly in love faces. Don’t miss this rare 1939: Hollywood’s Golden Year - Tues, June 11 – Thurs, June 13 with the boyfriend’s brother, played by the young, opportunity to see a beloved The 80th anniversary of the year that defined Hollywood’s Golden Age dreamy version of Nicolas Cage. Trust me: you’re going classic on the big screen! to want to buy a glass of wine before the movie starts. 2pm Sun 5/26. 80TH ANNIVERSARY! Arthur plays a traveling entertainer who gets more 8:55pm Fri 5/24. than she bargained for during a stopover in a South Mr. Smith Goes to American port town. There, she meets handsome and Washington aloof daredevil pilot Cary Grant, who runs an airmail Family Film Festival – Sat, May 25 company and stares down death while servicing towns $10 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under! (1939, 129min/b&w, DCP) James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, and Edward Arnold. Directed by Frank in treacherous mountain terrain. Thrills ensue. 8:55pm Capra. No one but Jimmy Stewart could have portrayed Wed 6/12. Jefferson Smith, a just, noble, and morally upright man 80TH ANNIVERSARY! (1939,The 102min/color/b&w, Wizard 35mm) of JudyOz Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray who finds himself stuck in the middle of political power Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, and Margaret Hamilton. Directed by Victor plays resulting from a U.S. senator’s death. One of the NINOTCHKA Fleming. Most of us have already fallen in love with this timeless film, thanks most inspirational movies of all time, featuring what is (1939, 110min/b&w, 35mm) Greta Garbo, Melvyn to countless television broadcasts and home video releases. But the Yellow easily cinema’s greatest filibuster. 7:30pm Tues 6/11. Douglas, Ina Claire, and Bela Lugosi. Directed Brick Road and those ruby slippers have never shimmered as brightly as they TH do on the Paramount screen in glorious 35mm. 1pm Sat 5/25. 80 ANNIVERSARY! by Ernst Lubitsch. Greta Garbo arrives in Paris on Stagecoach official Soviet business, My Man William (Powell) – Tues, May 28 – Wed, May 29 (1939, 96min/b&w, DCP) Claire Trevor, John Wayne, only to be sidetracked Four films starring everyone’s favorite tipsy detective Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine, and Andy Devine. by the charms of Melvyn Douglas and the most romantic Directed by John Ford. John Ford was one of the most city in the world. This delightful film was marketed with TH accomplished directors ever to take on the Western 85 ANNIVERSARY! the simple tagline, “Garbo Laughs!” and you’ll see why My Man Godfrey genre, and this was arguably his greatest achievement. A that’s all it took. 7pm Thurs 6/13. (1936, 94min/b&w, DCP) William Powell, Carole fascinating bunch of characters, led by pre-superstardom The Thin Man TH Lombard, and Alice Brady. Directed by Gregory La John Wayne, board a 80 ANNIVERSARY! (1934, 93min/b&w, 35mm) Cava. When a scavenger hunt brings drunken socialites stagecoach bound for William Powell, Myrna Loy, and to the city dump looking for forgotten men, Carole New Mexico. As you Destry Rides Again Maureen O’Sullivan. Directed by Lombard becomes so enamored with down-on-his-luck might have guessed, (1939, 94min/b&w, DCP) Marlene Dietrich, James W.S. Van Dyke. Powell and Loy William Powell that she hires him as the family butler things don’t go Stewart, and Brian Donlevy. Directed by George star as cinema’s most charming in this deliriously funny smoothly. 7pm Wed Marshall. If you remember Madeline Kahn’s parody couple Nick and Nora Charles, screwball comedy. 6/12. performance in Blazing Saddles, then you’ll know who also happen to be the finest detectives in New York. Powell is as dignified what to expect from Marlene And just imagine how good they’d be sober! In this and funny as ever, and 80TH ANNIVERSARY! Dietrich’s original dance hall first and best entry in the long-running series, these two Lombard shines as a queen as she encounters revelers, with their wire-haired fox terrier Asta by their seemingly flighty heiress Jimmy Stewart’s courageous side, attempt to solve the murder of an old friend without Only Angels Have Wings who knows exactly what lawman Tom Destry in this putting their martinis down.