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Essential Art House |
An anthology of rare and classic short films, selected to amaze the young and inspire the young at ... read more |
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Introduced by local film historian Jay Duncan Sponsored by Philanthropy Theatre
Sunday, Aug 9 at 01:30 PM
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Essential Art House |
An anthology of rare and classic short films, selected to amaze the young and inspire the young at heart. ... read more |
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Introduced by local film historian Jay Duncan Sponsored by Philanthropy Theatre
Wednesday, Aug 12 at 01:30 PM
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Essential Art House |
An anthology of rare and classic short films, selected to amaze the young and inspire the young at heart. ... read more |
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Introduced by local film historian Jay Duncan Sponsored by Philanthropy Theatre
Friday, Aug 14 at 01:30 PM
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Essential Art House |
For anyone looking to experience the cinema’s full potential for poetry and lyricism, you would be hard pressed to find a greater example than Jean Cocteau’s 1946 masterpiece – La Belle et la Bête, or Beauty and The Beast.The story ... read more |
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1946 | Not Rated | Fantasy, Romance | d. Jean Cocteau Jean Marais, Josette Day Philanthropy Theatre
Wednesday, Aug 12 at 03:30 PM
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Essential Art House |
An acknowledged influence on Psycho, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s horror classic is the story of a sadistic headmaster who brutalizes his fragile wife and his headstrong mistress. The two women murder him and dump his body in a swimming pool; when the ... read more |
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1955 | Not Rated | Crime, Horror | d. Henri-Georges Clouzot Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse Philanthropy Theatre
Sunday, Aug 9 at 07:30 PM
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Essential Art House |
In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy’s challenge of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. ... read more |
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1989 | Not Rated | Documentary, History | d. Al Reinert Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins Philanthropy Theatre
Sunday, Aug 16 at 01:30 PM
Digital Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the first moon landing
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Essential Art House |
There has never been a face quite like that of Giulietta Masina. Her husband, the legendary Federico Fellini, directs her as Gelsomina in La strada, the film that launched them both to international stardom. Gelsomina is sold by her ... read more |
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1954 | Not Rated | Drama, Drama | d. Federico Fellini Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart Philanthropy Theatre
Wednesday, Aug 12 at 06:30 PM
Digital 55th Anniversary Screening
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Essential Art House |
Directed by famed Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle), Spirited Away won the second Oscar ever awarded for Best Animated Feature film and became the first anime film to win an Academy Award.
In the Japanese ... read more |
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Sponsored by 2001 | PG | Animation, Family | d. Hayao Miyazaki Rumi Hîragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Tuesday, Aug 11 at 02:30 PM
Archival 35mm Dubbed in English
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Essential Art House |
Join us for a special 50th Anniversary screening of one of the most popular French New Wave films. The 400 Blows, directed by François Truffaut, is the first in a series of five films chronicling the life of Antoine ... read more |
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1959 | Not Rated | Crime, Drama | d. François Truffaut Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy Philanthropy Theatre
Monday, Aug 10 at 06:30 PM
Digital 50th Anniversary Presentation
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Essential Art House |
A general and a princess must dodge enemy clans while smuggling the royal treasure out of hostile territory with two bumbling, conniving peasants at their sides; it’s a spirited adventure that only Akira Kurosawa could create. Acknowledged as ... read more |
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1958 | Not Rated | Action, Adventure | d. Akira Kurosawa Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara and Minoru Chiaki Philanthropy Theatre
Thursday, Aug 13 at 06:30 PM
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Essential Art House / (re)Discovery |
A “Sense of Wonder” and the innocence of childhood has seldom been more fully realized than in this dialog-free French short subject. Filmed entirely in the back streets and narrow alleys of Old Montmartre, it tells the adventures of a ... read more |
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Sponsored by Charles and Barbara Horak 1956 | Not Rated | Family, Fantasy | d. Albert Lamorisse Pascal Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Vladimir Popov Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Tuesday, Aug 11 at 12:30 PM
Restored 35mm Presented as part of PLAZA DAYS: Tours, Tunes and a Classic
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Essential Art House |
Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, ... read more |
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1957 | Not Rated | Adventure, Drama | d. Ingmar Bergman Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Max von Sydow Philanthropy Theatre
Tuesday, Aug 11 at 06:30 PM
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Essential Art House / (re)Discovery |
"The most beautiful film ever made...", said american film critic Pauline Kael.
In the south of France, in a vast plain region called the Camargue, lives White Mane, a magnificent stallion and the leader of a herd of ... read more |
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1953 | Not Rated | Drama, Family | d. Albert Lamorisse Alain Emery, Laurent Roche, Clan-Clan Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Friday, Aug 14 at 10:00 AM
Restored 35mm Presented as part of PLAZA DAYS: Tours, Tunes and a Classic
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