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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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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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In hindsight, they were destined to be together – the horror equivalent of Astaire and Rogers.
H.R. Giger’s skeletal alien design and Sigourney Weaver’s lean jaw structure was a match made in the cinema’s heavens. In ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1979 | R | Sci-Fi, Horror | d. Ridley Scott Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 15 at 10:00 PM
35mm 30th Anniversary Screening
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Dubbed by NASA a “successful failure,” Apollo 13 was intended to be the third manned mission to the moon. An Oxygen tank rupture mid-flight forced the crew to abort the mission and begin a tricky, dramatically difficult return ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1995 | PG | Adventure, History | d. Ron Howard Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise Philanthropy Theatre
Sunday, Aug 16 at 04:00 PM
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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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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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Eddie Corazón (Julian Alcaraz), a 16-year-old juvenile delinquent and secret reader, who attends an alternative high school in rural New Mexico, now walks the thin line between tragedy and glory as he searches for his place in the world. ... read more |
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2009 | | Drama, Independent | d. Rod McCall Elizabeth Peña, A Martinez, Seth Adkins Philanthropy Theatre
Saturday, Aug 15 at 01:30 PM
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Bart Weiss, founder and director of the Dallas Video Festival, will present a selection of short films by Texas filmmakers and discuss the latest developments in independent cinema. A great opportunity to see some of the diverse work being ... read more |
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Special Guest Presenter Bart Weiss Sponsored by Philanthropy Theatre
Friday, Aug 14 at 07:30 PM
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(re)Discovery |
Swift, brutal, and black-hearted, Allen Baron’s New York City noir Blast of Silence is a sensational surprise. This low-budget, carefully crafted portrait of a hit man on assignment in Manhattan during Christmastime follows its stripped-down narrative with mechanical precision, yet ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1961 | Not Rated | Thriller, Drama | d. Allen Baron Allen Baron, Molly McCarthy, Larry Tucker Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
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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Bracero Stories is a bi-lingual video documentary exploring the personal experiences of five former “guest workers” who participated in the controversial U.S./Mexican government program granting temporary work contracts to several million Mexican laborers between 1942 and 1964.
Reminiscences by ... read more |
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2009 | Not Rated | Documentary, Independent | d. Patrick Mullins Philanthropy Theatre
Sunday, Aug 9 at 04:00 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
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The monster speaks! And now he wants a mate! This Universal Studios sequel to 1931’s classic, Frankenstein, re-teamed Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein and Boris Karloff as the creature, with director James Whale, who resisted doing the film ... read more |
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1935 | Not Rated | Horror, Sci-Fi | d. James Whale Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Wednesday, Aug 12 at 03:00 PM
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“Willkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome!”…to 1930’s Berlin, a time of political unrest and economic hardship. However, amidst the chaos and distress, there is one place people can go to forget their problems - the Kit Kat Club.
It is ... read more |
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With Special Guest Michael York Sponsored by 1972 | PG | Musical, Romance | d. Bob Fosse Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 15 at 07:00 PM
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On the surface, this splendid evocation of 1940s film noir is a detective picture set in 1930s Los Angeles. But in actuality, it is a multi-faceted story of political corruption, degeneracy, psychology, double-cross, deception and multiple twists and turns—each ... read more |
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Best Original Screenplay 1974 Sponsored by 1974 | R | Thriller, Mystery | d. Roman Polanski Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Sunday, Aug 16 at 07:00 PM
Archival 35mm 35th Anniversary Screening
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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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One of Billy Wilder's early films as a director in America, Double Indemnity would anchor the start of a long and successful career for this writer-turned-director.
Wilder was already an accomplished screenwriter in Europe when he immigrated to ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1944 | G | Crime, Thriller | d. Billy Wilder Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Thursday, Aug 13 at 03:00 PM
Archival 35mm 65th Anniversary Screening
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(re)Discovery |
Deep in the jungles of Peru in close proximity to a large radioactive deposit, Dr. Thorkel, “the world’s greatest authority on organic molecular structure”, is experimenting with the atomic makeup of living cellular tissue. Brought to the screen by the ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1940 | Not Rated | Sci-Fi, Horror | d. Ernest B. Schoedsack Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 15 at 10:00 AM
35mm First Sci-Fi feature in TECHNICOLOR!
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A secret government organization drafts five medical specialists who are miniaturized and injected into the human body of an injured foreign scientist to perform a delicate operation from the inside. They must travel through the bloodstream to ... read more |
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Best Art Direction, Best Visual Effects 1966 Sponsored by 1966 | PG | Adventure, Sci-Fi | d. Richard Fleischer Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien, Donald Pleasence Philanthropy Theatre
Thursday, Aug 13 at 03:30 PM
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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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The third—and in many opinions, the best in the James Bond series of films—features a hit title theme song, outstanding action sequences, the customary “Bond girls”, the introduction of the gimmick-laden Aston Martin Silver Birch DB5 and not one, but ... read more |
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Sponsored by Friend of Downtown 1964 | PG | Action, Adventure | d. Guy Hamilton Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Harold Sakata Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Friday, Aug 7 at 10:00 PM
HD Cinema 45th Anniversary Screening
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Special 70th ANNIVERSARY presentation of one of the most popular films of all time. If not the greatest movie ever made (whom some would swear by!), it is certainly among the greatest examples of filmmaking – years in production, costing ... read more |
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Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actress, Screenplay 1939 1939 | G | Romance, Drama | d. Victor Fleming Vivien Leigh, George Reeves and Clark Gable Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Thursday, Aug 13 at 06:00 PM
Archival 35mm 70th Anniversary Screening
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Dr. Michael Vidal is in his final year of residency and has just been named senior chief resident of the heart surgery program at his hospital. After his father's death, he slowly begins to lose touch with reality and ... read more |
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Sponsored by Charlotte and Eric Pearson 2009 | Not Rated | Drama, Independent | d. Carlos Corral Manny Rubio, Jim Daross, Marco Naylor Philanthropy Theatre
Thursday, Aug 13 at 09:00 PM
Digital Second screening added on Sat. Aug. 15 at 10pm
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Dr. Michael Vidal is in his final year of residency and has just been named senior chief resident of the heart surgery program at his hospital. After his father's death, he slowly begins to lose touch with reality and ... read more |
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2009 | Not Rated | Drama, Independent | d. Carlos Corral Manny Rubio, Jim Daross, Marco Naylor Philanthropy Theatre
Saturday, Aug 15 at 10:00 PM
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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
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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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Special GOLDEN (50TH) ANNIVERSARY presentation of what was the equivalent of Raiders of the Lost Ark to audiences of 1959!
After the critical and public acclaim of Walt Disney’s second live-action production in 1954 of 20,000 Leagues Under the ... read more |
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1959 | Not Rated | Adventure, Family | d. Henry Levin Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl Philanthropy Theatre
Friday, Aug 14 at 03:30 PM
Digital 50th Anniversary Screening
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(re)Discovery |
John Steinbeck adapted his novel The Pearl for the screen prior to its publication in the United States. He knew that Emilio Fernández and Gabriel Figueroa were the only team that could convey the emotional power hidden between the lines ... read more |
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A Classic from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema Sponsored by Televisa / Fundación Televisa 1947 | Not Rated | Adventure, Drama | d. Emilio Fernández Pedro Armendáriz, María Elena Marqués, Fernando Wagner Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Tuesday, Aug 11 at 09:00 PM
Archival 35mm Spanish with English Subtitles
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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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Signature Classic |
“The English have a great hunger for desolate places. I fear they hunger for Arabia.” – Alec Guinness as Prince Feisal in Lawrence of Arabia.
Ranked by the American Film Institute as the #1 cinema epic of all ... read more |
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1962 | PG | Adventure, Drama | d. David Lean Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Sunday, Aug 9 at 06:00 PM
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A flying British nanny changes the lives of two children, largely ignored by their disciplinarian banker father and loving but distracted suffragette mother. Aloof but charming, Mary Poppins, with or without jack of all trades Bert, takes the Banks kids ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1964 | G | Family, Musical | d. Robert Stevenson Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 8 at 03:30 PM
Archival 35mm 45th Anniversary Screening
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A flying British nanny changes the lives of two children, largely ignored by their disciplinarian banker father and loving but distracted suffragette mother. Aloof but charming, Mary Poppins, with or without jack of all trades Bert, takes the Banks kids ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1964 | G | Family, Musical | d. Robert Stevenson Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 15 at 03:30 PM
Archival 35mm 45th Anniversary Screening
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As a teenager, Lee fled his hometown in the American Midwest. Six years later he returns, a strange kind of ghost seeking haunt in his mother’s basement, seeking the other who resides there - Ready, his brother.
Ready’s plans ... read more |
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With special guests Zach Passero and Justin Stone Sponsored by 2009 | Not Rated | Drama, Drama | d. Zach Passero, Justin Stone Justin Stone, Zach Passero, Lindsay Stone Philanthropy Theatre
Saturday, Aug 8 at 10:00 PM
Digital World Premiere Screening
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In "Reservoir Dogs," a character gets shot in the stomach and spends the rest of the movie bleeding. During this excruciating ebb and flow, you'll also witness the most appalling acts of violence but you'll see nervy brilliance too. If ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1992 | R | Crime, Drama | d. Quentin Tarantino Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi Philanthropy Theatre
Friday, Aug 7 at 10:00 PM
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The term masterpiece often frightens viewers away from important works of the cinema. No need to worry about Rio Bravo. Howard Hawks not only created a late masterpiece, but produced a film that gathered together many of the ... read more |
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Sponsor Appreciation Event / 50th Anniversary Screening Sponsored by Hunt Family Foundation 1959 | Not Rated | Western, Romance | d. Howard Hawks John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Thursday, Aug 6 at 07:00 PM
Archival 35mm Pass Holders / Invitation Only
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Superior science fiction which was under-promoted and generally overlooked when originally released, is cleverly and faithfully adapted from Daniel Defoe’s novel of 1719—Robinson Crusoe.
An American astronaut is marooned on Mars and encounters a stranger from another planet. They ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1964 | Not Rated | Sci-Fi, Fantasy | d. Byron Haskin Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West Philanthropy Theatre
Thursday, Aug 13 at 01:00 PM
Digital 45th Anniversary Screening
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Take a quick trip to Italy in Roman Holiday, another Plaza Classic favorite starring Audrey Hepburn. This delightful film features Hepburn as a Princess who decides to take a break from her royal duties. While experiencing Rome on ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1953 | Not Rated | Romance, Drama | d. William Wyler Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn and Eddie Albert Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Monday, Aug 10 at 03:00 PM
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Adapted from the 1949 novel by Jack Schaefer, producer-director George Stevens has created a timeless classic -- certainly one of the five finest Western films ever created. A mysterious gunman rides into a Wyoming valley and helps the homesteaders in ... read more |
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#3 in the “Top 10 Westerns of all time” by the AFI (2008) Sponsored by 1953 | Not Rated | Western, Drama | d. George Stevens Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Jack Palance Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Friday, Aug 14 at 03:00 PM
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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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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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After being turned down by several major studios, the project was taken by newcomer director George Lucas to Alan Ladd Jr. at Fox who green-lighted it and put it on their production schedule.
With a small budget for a ... read more |
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Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Film Editing, Costume Design 1977 1977 | PG | Sci-Fi, Adventure | d. George Lucas Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Wednesday, Aug 12 at 06:00 PM
35mm aka Episode IV: A New Hope (Special Edition)
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After being turned down by several major studios, the project was taken by newcomer director George Lucas to Alan Ladd Jr. at Fox who green-lighted it and put it on their production schedule.
With a small budget for a ... read more |
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Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Film Editing, Costume Design 1977 1977 | PG | Sci-Fi, Adventure | d. George Lucas Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Wednesday, Aug 12 at 09:00 PM
35mm Second Screening
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Based on the DC comic book hero, Superman the movie portrays the familiar history of the Man of Steel. When the scientist Jor-El (Marlon Brando) realizes the planet Krypton is doomed, he sends his infant son Kal-El on a ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1978 | PG-13 | Action, Adventure | d. Richard Donner Marlon Brando, Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman Philanthropy Theatre
Monday, Aug 10 at 03:30 PM
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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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Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider became household names after their portrayals of Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle and Det. Buddy Russo (based on the real-life NYPD narcotics detectives, Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso) in the groundbreaking early seventies thriller, The French Connection. ... read more |
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Best Picture 1971 1971 | R | Action, Thriller | d. William Friedkin Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Tony Lo Bianco Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Friday, Aug 14 at 07:00 PM
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All roads lead to El Paso, Texas in this early seventies classic, directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen at the height of his fame and counter-cultural cache. McQueen plays a just-released convict, “Doc” McCoy, who is pressured ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1972 | PG | Action, Crime | d. Sam Peckinpah Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson Philanthropy Theatre
Saturday, Aug 8 at 01:30 PM
Digital Filmed in El Paso, Texas
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For many moviegoers, The Goonies epitomizes the '80s family action-adventure. Steven Spielberg assumes the reins as producer in this big-budget effort, enlisting seasoned action-director Richard Donner (Superman) to direct and blossoming screenwriter Chris Columbus (Gremlins) to pen the script. This ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1985 | G | Adventure, Family | d. Richard Donner Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Jeff Cohen Philanthropy Theatre
Monday, Aug 10 at 01:00 PM
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With its Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack, southern California locations, and counter-cultural message, Mike Nichol’s The Graduate both defines the rebellious mood of the late 1960s and endures as an American classic. Dustin Hoffman plays Ben Braddock, a recent college ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1967 | PG | Drama, Romance | d. Mike Nichols Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross Philanthropy Theatre
Friday, Aug 7 at 07:30 PM
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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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Paul Newman earned a Best Actor nomination for his gritty performance as Fast Eddie Felson, a brash young California pool shark trying to find redemption on the green felt in an epic game with “Minnesota Fats” in Robert Rossen’s stark ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1961 | Not Rated | Drama, Romance | d. Robert Rossen Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Sunday, Aug 16 at 03:30 PM
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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
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“The stuff dreams are made of” – this Shakespearian line, famously inserted into the script and spoken by Humphrey Bogart as gumshoe Sam Spade, describes the rare jeweled bird that a host of shadowy characters pursue – and for which ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1941 | Not Rated | Crime, Mystery | d. John Huston Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Thursday, Aug 13 at 01:00 PM
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A bonafide classic from the Golden Age starring Boris Karloff as Im-Ho-Tep, high priest of Egypt. Buried alive for stealing a sacred scroll, he is accidentally reanimated and emerges after 3,700 years to offer eternal life to the reincarnation ... read more |
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1932 | Not Rated | Fantasy, Horror | d. Karl Freund Boris Karloff, Zita Johann Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Wednesday, Aug 12 at 01:00 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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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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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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(re)Discovery |
The plot of The Tall T is as clear and pure as a mountain stream. While in town on an errand, affable rancher Pat Brennan (Randolph Scott) loses his horse in an unwise bet and resigns himself to a long ... read more |
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Sponsored by Charles & Ann Horak 1957 | Not Rated | Western, Action | d. Budd Boetticher Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Friday, Aug 14 at 01:00 PM
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The sleeper box office hit celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year and, along with Conan the Barbarian two years earlier, firmly established a former “Mr. Universe” and multi-awarded bodybuilding champ and present California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger the cinema’s premiere action ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1984 | R | Sci-Fi, Action | d. James Cameron Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 8 at 10:00 PM
Archival 35mm 25th Anniversary Screening
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“I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is” - Richard Masur as “Clark”
Returning from the 26th World Science Fiction Convention on a flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles ... read more |
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1982 | R | Horror, Sci-Fi | d. John Carpenter Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter Philanthropy Theatre
Wednesday, Aug 12 at 09:30 PM
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Seven time Academy Award-winning producer George Pal’s first foray into the works of British author H.G. Wells was updated to the present and relocated from England to southern California. Based on the 1898 novel, the story is of a ... read more |
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Best Special Visual Effects 1953 Sponsored by 1953 | Not Rated | Sci-Fi, Horror | d. Byron Haskin Gene Barry, Ann Robinson Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 15 at 12:45 PM
Archival 35mm
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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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Signature Classic |
James Stewart comes by his fear of heights honestly. At the beginning of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, he’s a cop hanging by his fingertips from a building ledge. Stewart spends the rest of the film hanging by even less.
After ... read more |
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With Special Guest C.O. “Doc” Erickson Sponsored by 1958 | Not Rated | Mystery, Thriller | d. Alfred Hitchcock James Stewart, Kim Novak Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Saturday, Aug 8 at 07:00 PM
Archival 35mm
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Signature Classic |
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet gets an urban retelling in this stylish film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical about two lovers caught between rival street gangs on Manhattan’s west side in the 1950s. Natalie Wood plays Maria, the young ... read more |
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Sponsored by 1961 | Not Rated | Musical, Romance | d. Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Monday, Aug 10 at 07:00 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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(re)Discovery |
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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After director Mel Stuart’s 10-year-old daughter read the Roald Dahl novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), she begged her dad to make it into a movie. Thus was born Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Dahl wrote ... read more |
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Sponsored by Patricia and J.L. Jay 1971 | G | Family, Musical | d. Mel Stuart Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum Philanthropy Theatre
Tuesday, Aug 11 at 01:30 PM
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Local Flavor |
While women are still startlingly underrepresented in the film industry at large, there's a strong body of female filmmakers working hard in the border region. From documentary to drama to experimental self-portraiture, these talented directors are using the expanse of ... read more |
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with introductions by Lisa Garibay Philanthropy Theatre
Saturday, Aug 15 at 07:30 PM
A Collection of Short Films by Local Women Filmmakers
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(re)Discovery |
Sometimes it’s the case with cinema, that the less you know about a film, the more you are open to its advances. That should be doubly true when you don’t even know what you’re going to watch! So ... read more |
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With Guest Presenter Zach Passero Sponsored by 1971 | | Drama, Action | d. Philanthropy Theatre
Saturday, Aug 8 at 07:30 PM
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