The Letter (1940)
March 20, 2010 at 7:30 pm (Series II)
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator (Bette Davis) shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense; a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Saturday, March 13 – 7:30 pm
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village’s theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater’s projectionist.
Iron Giant
The Iron Giant is a 1999 animated science fiction film produced by Warner Bros. Animation, based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Brad Bird directed the film, which stars a voice cast of Eli Marienthal as Hogarth Hughes, as well as Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick, Jr., Vin Diesel, Christopher McDonald and John Mahoney. The film tells the story of a lonely boy raised by his widowed mother, discovering a giant iron man which fell from space. Hogarth, with the help of a beatnik named Dean, has to stop the U.S. military and a federal agent from finding and destroying the Giant. The Iron Giant takes place during the height of the Cold War (1957). [wikipedia]
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
March 6, 2010 at 7:30 pm (Series I)
In 1927, Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont are a famous on-screen romantic pair. When Don and Lina’s latest film is transformed into a musical, Don has the perfect voice for the songs. But Lina – well… Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds) an aspiring actress, is brought in. Will Kathy continue to “aspire”, or will she get the break she deserves ?
The Quiet Man (1952)
March 27, 2010 at 7:30 pm (Saturday Night Walk-in Movie)
John Wayne stars as Sean Thornton, who has returned from America to reclaim his homestead and escape his past. Sean’s eye is caught by Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O’Hara), a beautiful but poor maiden, and younger sister of ill-tempered “Red” Will Danaher (Victor McLaglen). The riotous relationship that forms between Sean and Mary Kate, punctuated by Will’s pugnacious attempts to keep them apart, form the main plot, with Sean’s past as the dark undercurrent.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Saturday April 10 - 3pm
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Dee Wallace. It tells the story of Elliott (played by Thomas), a lonely boy who befriends a friendly extraterrestrial, dubbed “E.T.”, who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help the extraterrestrial return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.
Stagecoach (1939)
April 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm (Series I)
The John Ford classic. A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a a drunken doctor, two women, a bank manager who has taken off with his client’s money, and the famous Ringo Kid, played by none other than John Wayne.
Shadow of a Doubt (1941)
Jan 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM (Series I)
Hitchcock’s personal favorite, starring Joseph Cotton as a charmer with a chilling soul. Teresa Wright is his doting namesake; Henry Travers and Hume Cronyn sparkle as two sweeties plotting (theoretical) murder.
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
January 23, 2010 at 7:30 PM (Series II)
Gloria Swanson as a silent star readying for her comeback, with William Holden as her cynically reluctant, yet mesmerized co-writer and housemate. From the opening voiceover by a dead body floating in the swimming pool, nothing is wasted in this tightly plotted gem.
Lillies of the Field (1963)
February 6, 2010 at 7:30 pm (Series I)
Sidney Poitier stars as an unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west swho tops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior (Mother Maria), who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.