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In 1964, The Beatles were on top of the world: sold-out world tours, record-breaking album sales, global TV audiences, unparalleled press coverage, and the devotion of thousands of screaming girls everywhere they went. Nobody—least of all the band itself—imagined they ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1964 | G | Comedy, Musical | d. Richard Lester John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr Arts Festival Plaza
Friday, Aug 7 at 09:00 PM
Digital 35th Anniversary Screening
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A second comedy-thriller from the team of A&C, was originally a vehicle planned as a Bob Hope comedy entitled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly evenly divided between Bud Abbott, as hotel house detective “Casey Edwards”, and Lou ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1949 | Not Rated | Comedy, Mystery | d. Charles Barton Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 8 at 10:00 AM
Archival 35mm 60th Anniversary Screening
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Signature Classic |
He is one of the few actors who has a word created for him in the dictionary. "Cantinflear," means to speak alot but to say nothing in the final analysis. Thus is the power of the comedy of Mario ... read more |
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A Classic from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema Sponsored by Televisa / Fundación Televisa 1940 | Not Rated | Comedy, Comedy | d. Juan Bustillo Oro Cantinflas, Joaquín Pardavé, Sara García Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Tuesday, Aug 11 at 06:00 PM
Archival 35mm Spanish with English Subtitles
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Written by Sam Rami and his brother Ivan, Army of Darkness is the third installment in their Evil Dead series.
Bruce Campbell stars as Ash Williams – an egotistical reject of the modern world, who finds himself trapped in ... read more |
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1992 | R | Comedy, Horror | d. Sam Raimi Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert Philanthropy Theatre
Friday, Aug 14 at 10:00 PM
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Blazing Saddles is indeed a comic gem, made in 1974 when Mel's brand of comedy was still in vogue. Cleavon Little plays Bart, a black railroad worker in 1874 whose act of rebellion against his abusive boss dooms him to ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1974 | | Comedy, Western | d. Mel Brooks Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman Arts Festival Plaza
Saturday, Aug 8 at 09:00 PM
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When we hear the name Audrey Hepburn, we automatically think of the most fashionable film ever made, Breakfast at Tiffany’s! As visual beings, most of us can conjure up an image of Hepburn’s Holly Golightly in a stunning Givenchy ... read more |
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1961 | Not Rated | Comedy, Romance | d. Blake Edwards Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Monday, Aug 10 at 10:00 AM
35mm
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The second filming of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s play “The Front Page” is a fast and furious gender-bender turning original male reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) into a cunning, bawdy, aggressive female journalist. Howard Hawks has produced and directed ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1940 | Not Rated | Comedy, Romance | d. Howard Hawks Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Gene Lockhart Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Sunday, Aug 9 at 01:00 PM
Archival 35mm
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Frank Capra helms this charming tale of a cynical reporter (Clark Gable) who helps a spoiled heiress (Claudette Colbert) run away from her father and an arranged marriage in what many consider to have set the standard for romantic comedies ... read more |
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Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress 1934 Sponsored by Modern Iron Works 1934 | Not Rated | Comedy, Romance | d. Frank Capra Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Sunday, Aug 16 at 01:00 PM
Archival 35mm 75th Anniversary Screening
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Signature Classic |
After witnessing the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, two down on their luck musicians, played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, flee from the mob by joining an all-girl band. Seems funny enough. But the writer-director Billy Wilder and his ... read more |
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Introduced by Nick Clooney Sponsored by Friend of Downtown 1959 | Not Rated | Comedy, Crime | d. Billy Wilder Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Friday, Aug 7 at 07:00 PM
Archival 35mm 50th Anniversary Screening / AFI Best Comedy
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Barbara Stanwyck is brilliant as the irresistible member of a father/daughter team of card sharps who set out to fleece an unsuspecting ophiologist (snake specialist) while on an ocean liner from South America to New York, in the fast-paced comedy, ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1941 | Not Rated | Comedy, Romance | d. Preston Sturges Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Monday, Aug 10 at 01:00 PM
Archival 35mm
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You’re lucky, he’s lucky, I’m lucky, we’re all lucky to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show on the big screen! The quintessential cult classic is a treat regardless of whether it’s your first or hundredth viewing.
Brad Majors (Barry ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1975 | R | Comedy, Musical | d. Jim Sharman Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Richard O'Brien Arts Festival Plaza
Friday, Aug 14 at 09:00 PM
Digital Dress the part!
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From RKO Radio Pictures comes one of the most delightful and entertaining song and dance extravaganzas among the many memorable film teamings of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Astaire plays Jerry Travers, a dancer who falls hard for Ginger’s ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1935 | Not Rated | Comedy, Musical | d. Mark Sandrich Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Sunday, Aug 9 at 03:00 PM
Archival 35mm Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers at their peak!
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In this slapstick comedy-mystery, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play would-be radio writers who find themselves involved in a real murder during the recording of a “whodunit” play. Trying to solve the crime, they are suspected by the police-and targeted ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1942 | Not Rated | Comedy, Mystery | d. Erle C. Kenton Bud Abbott, Lou Costello Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 8 at 01:00 PM
Archival 35mm An Abbott & Costello Classic
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