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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 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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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 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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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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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 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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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 |
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 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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