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MONDAY AUGUST 9
10:00 AM

Fasten your seatbelts for Bette Davis’s feisty portrayal of a celebrated stage actress whose reign over the New York theater is threatened by ingénue Anne Baxter, whose seeming innocence masks a sociopathic ambition and utter lack of ethics. Awarded six ... read more
All About Eve
1950 | Not Rated | Drama, Drama | d. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Marilyn Monroe

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Monday, Aug 9 at 10:00 AM
35mm

1:00 PM
(re)Discovery

The beautiful Gene Tierney, in an Oscar-nominated role, gives a bone-chilling performance as a woman so jealous of her novelist husband (Cornel Wilde) that she is willing to do anything to keep him solely to herself – including murder those ... read more
Leave Her to Heaven
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1945 | Not Rated | Drama, Thriller | d. John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Vincent Price

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Monday, Aug 9 at 1:00 PM
Restored 35mm

1:30 PM

Oscar nominated for its cinematography and directed by Carroll Ballard (whose resume includes The Black Stallion) Fly Away Home takes to the air with the greatest of ease. Young Amy has lost her mother in an auto accident, and ... read more
Fly Away Home
1996 | PG | Adventure, Drama | d. Carroll Ballard
Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany

Philanthropy Theatre
Monday, Aug 9 at 1:30 PM
Digital

3:30 PM

Successful, single Doris Day and pretty playboy Rock Hudson share a party line back in the day when most people didn’t have their own private connection. When his phone hogging gets to be too much, their spite for one ... read more
Pillow Talk
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1959 | Not Rated | Comedy, Romance | d. Michael Gordon
Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Monday, Aug 9 at 3:30 PM
Archival 35mm

4:00 PM

Voiced by talents including Billy Crystal, Christian Bale and Lauren Bacall, Howl’s Moving Castle is one of Japanese animation guru Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved films (and one of the most successful Japanese films ever made). Adapted from Diana Wynne Jones’ ... read more
Howl's Moving Castle
2004 | PG | Animation, Family | d. Hayao Miyazaki
Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa

Philanthropy Theatre
Monday, Aug 9 at 4:00 PM
Digital

English dubbed
6:00 PM
Film Talk
Film Talk: Charade
Oasis Lounge
Monday, Aug 9 at 6:00 PM
7:00 PM
Signature Classic

When Audrey Hepburn’s husband is murdered, attempts on her own life lead her to discover she’s suspected to be hiding a quarter of a million dollars stolen by her husband and his war buddies. Desperate for a way to find ... read more
Charade
Sponsored by Charlotte's Furniture
1963 | Not Rated | Comedy, Mystery | d. Stanley Donen
Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Monday, Aug 9 at 7:00 PM
Archival 35mm

7:30 PM
Plaza Art House

The film that catapulted Swedish director Ingmar Bergman to the forefront of world cinema is the director’s richest, most humane movie. Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg (masterfully played by the veteran Swedish director Victor Sjöström), is ... read more
Wild Strawberries
1957 | Not Rated | Drama, Drama | d. Ingmar Bergman
Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin

Philanthropy Theatre
Monday, Aug 9 at 7:30 PM
Digital

Swedish with English Subtitles