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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
Archival 35mm
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(re)Discovery |
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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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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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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Signature Classic |
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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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
Digital
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Local Flavor |
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 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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