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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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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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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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Local Flavor |
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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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
Restored 35mm
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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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