Retro Film Series Guide - January - June 2019

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FAN DAY

SUNDAY, MAY 26, 2019

Peter Lord & Nick Park’s CHICKEN RUN

Steven Spielberg’s SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

Featuring incredible animation and all-star voice talent, Chicken Run is a classic from the creators of Wallace & Gromit! While the chickens on evil Mrs. Tweedy's farm dream of a better life, a clever hen named Ginger is hatching plans to fly the coop! The only problem is chickens can't fly…or can they? Every escape attempt goes fowl until Rocky, a smooth-talking All-American rooster, crash-lands in the coop. It's poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her fine feathered friends to fly but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o' cluck, the fearless flock plots one last daring attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom!

Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) takes his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Surrounded by the brutal realties of war, while searching for Ryan, each man embarks upon a personal journey and discovers their own strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage. Of course it’s not so much an action movie as it is a moving tribute to the heroes of World War II, with superb direction by Steven Spielberg and one of Tom Hanks’ finest performances.

MAY 26

A P P R E C I AT I O N

(G, 2000, 84 min) 2 PM

FEB 3

Nevermore

FUNDRAISER

The Wachowskis' THE MATRIX (R, 1999, 136 min)

Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) works in a cubicle, manning a computer and doing a little hacking on the side. It's through this latter activity that Thomas meets Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), who has some interesting news—none of what's going on around him is real. The year is actually 2199, and Thomas is a victim of The Matrix, a massive artificial intelligence that has tapped into people's minds and created the illusion of a real world, while using their brains and bodies for energy. Morpheus, however, is convinced Thomas is "The One" who can crack open The Matrix and bring his people to both physical and psychological freedom.

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(R, 169 min, 1998) 4:30 PM

SUN, FEB 3, 2019 / 2:30 PM / $12

Mary Harron’s AMERICAN PSYCHO (R, 2000, 102 min)

Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), a young, well to do man working on wall street at his father's company kills for no reason at all, collects body parts and displays them in his home. Carrying himself with the poised confidence of a male model, he spends his days in a numbing world of status-symbol one-upmanship and soul-sapping small talk, but breaks out at night with smirking explosions of homicide, accomplished with the fastidious care of a hopeless obsessive.

As his life progresses his hatred for the world becomes more and more intense.

JAN 25

Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, one of the definitive science fiction films of all-time returns to Retro! In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, Deckard hunts for fugitive, murderous replicants and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul.

In this sci-fi cult classic, scientist Zac Hobson awakens to discover that he may be the last man on earth. Homes, highways and entire cities are deserted and empty planes have fallen from the sky. Every living thing has disappeared. He stands on a balcony and grandly addresses an "audience" of cardboard standups (from Queen Elizabeth to Bob Marley), declaring himself "president of this quiet Earth." But for Hobson the ultimate shock comes when he finds that he is not alone. With the addition of a young woman (Alison Routledge) and a Maori trucker (Pete Smith), the apocalypse suddenly becomes very personal.

MAR 1

Tobe Hooper’s LIFEFORCE (R, 1985, 116 min)

Harry Bromley Davenport’s XTRO (R, 1982, 84 min)

MAR 29

Retro FANTASMA HORROR, FANTASY, AND SCIENCE-FICTION FROM 1920-1999

David Cronenberg’s THE DEAD ZONE (R, 1983, 103 min)

Stephen King’s MISERY (R, 1990, 109 min)

(R, 1982, 117 min)

Naked space vampires return to Retro one more time! From the director of Poltergeist and the writer of Alien comes this batshit-crazy sci-fi horror-adventure. A mission to investigate Halley's Comet discovers an alien spacecraft! After a deadly confrontation, the aliens travel to Earth, where their seductive leader begins to drain the lifeforce of everyone she encounters. Her victims, in turn, continue the cycle, and soon the entire planet is in mortal danger. And when the mission’s sole survivor sets out to destroy her, he comes face to face with the most horrifying being he’s ever known. Starring Patrick Stewart and Steve Railsback.

Based on Stephen King's novel, this was Cronenberg's first foray into mainstream horror filmmaking! One fateful night, Johnny Smith (Christopher Walken) smashed head-on into an enormous truck and was plunged into a deep coma. When he awakens he discovers that all is lost, but he has gained psychic powers that allow him to see visions of the past present and future and is propelled into horrorfilled supernatural experiences.

Geoff Murphy’s THE QUIET EARTH (R, 1985, 91 min)

Not all extra-terrestrials are friendly! Years after a man is kidnapped by aliens, one of the slimy things returns to pay a visit to his wife, impregnating her in a truly disgusting fashion that we can't go into detail about here. But then she gives birth to her husband, a fullgrown man, in a manner as graphic and horrifying as you're imagining. Things then get really weird as the man imbues his son with psychic powers, which he uses to bring his toys to life and murder his classmates. Xtro touches on everything from slasher flicks to zombie movies to Carrie, punctuated by a jaw-dropping scene that makes Alien's chest-burster sequence look like a Disney movie.

After his car crashes in the mountains during a blinding snowstorm, famous novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is "rescued" from a car crash by Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates in an Academy Award-winning role), a fan obsessed with the main character in his series of novels.

But when Wilkes reads his latest book—and learns he has killed her favorite character—she teaches Sheldon the real meaning of Misery.

ALL DOUBLE FEATURES START AT 7 PM

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APR 26

THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION

MAY 31

John Irvin’s GHOST STORY

JUN 21

35TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Mike Marvin’s THE WRAITH

John Carpenter’s PRINCE OF DARKNESS

John Carpenter’s IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS

It is evil. It is awakening. A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church and inadvertently unleash an evil force on all humanity. As a strange liquid turns their co-workers into zombies, the remaining members realize they have released Satan himself! Starring Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Lisa Blount, rock icon Alice Cooper, and Victor Wong, this ingenious twist on classical occultism will scare you witless!

Carpenter draws his inspiration from Lovecraft's Cthulu mythology and then adds his own twists. John Trent (Sam Neill) is a detective hired to track down the missing horror author Sutter Cane and finds himself in the supposedly fictional town of Hobb's End. He watches the town collapse into madness, murder, and monstrous transformations: the fantastic horrors of Cane's novels played out in front of his eyes.

(PG-13, 1986, 93 min)

Brilliant brain surgeon Banzai (Peter Weller) just made scientific history. Shifting his Oscillation Overthruster into warp speed, he's the first man ever to travel to the Eighth Dimension and come back sane! But when the demented Dr. Lizardo (John Lithgow) devises a plot to steal the Overthruster, Buckaroo goes cranium to cranium with the madman in an extra-dimensional battle that could result in total annihilation of the universe!

The Wraith is an explosive action-packed thriller where vengeance dominates. A bizarre and brutal band of road pirates force innocent drivers into unofficial drag races claiming their cars as the prize. Then a mysterious stranger arrives with an unbeatable Dodge Turbo Interceptor...black, sleek and awesome. The stranger is The Wraith, a mysterious other-worldly figure who has a destiny to fulfill and a woman's love to reclaim. He's determined to wage a vendetta against the young punks who ruined his life. Starring Charlie Sheen, Sherilyn Fenn, and Randy Quaid.

Ken Russell’s GOTHIC

The time has come to tell the tale. The four elderly members of the Chowder Society (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and John Houseman), gather in each other's drawing rooms each winter to sip cognac and spin elaborate ghost stories. The four men also share a dark secret far more unsettling than fiction—a secret which has literally come back to haunt them, as well as their own adult offspring. Each man is visited by a hideous ghost of a young woman (Alice Krige) they murdered 50 years ago.

Gothic tells the story of the night that Mary Shelley (Natasha Richardson) gave birth to the horror classic "Frankenstein."

Disturbed drug induced games are played and ghost stories are told one rainy night at the mad Lord Byron's (Gabriel Byrne) country estate. Personal horrors are revealed and the madness of the evening runs from sexual fantasy to fiercest nightmare. Mary finds herself drawn into the sick world of her lover Shelley (Julian Sands) as Byron leads them all down the dark paths of their souls.

(PG, 1984, 103 min)

(R, 1981, 111 min)

(R, 1987, 102 min)

(R, 1986, 87 min)

(R, 1995, 95 min)

MAR 15

FEB 1

Retro CLASSICS DRAMAS, WAR, WESTERNS, AND ACTION-ADVENTURE FROM 1920-1999

Paul Michael Glaser’s THE RUNNING MAN

Marco Brambilla’s DEMOLITION MAN

The year is 2019. Television is now ruling people’s lives. The most popular game show is “The Running Man”, where convicts can win pardons by defeating murderous henchmen known as stalkers. The stalkers haven’t had much of a challenge lately until Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger) comes along. Wrongly convicted of slaughtering 1500 innocent people, Richards is the next contestant to fight for his life and his freedom. When Running Man host Damon Killian (Richard Dawson) says, "Come on down!”, be prepared to pay with your life! But Ben Richards isn’t going down without a fight.

In 2032 arch-criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) awakens from a 35-year deep freeze in CryoPrison to find a serene, non-violent Los Angeles ready for the taking. Unable to deal with Phoenix’s brutal 1990s style, officials seek an old-fashioned cop to fight old-fashioned crime. They revive Sgt. John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), unjustly serving a CryoPrison sentence because of his last encounter with Phoenix. Sandra Bullock, Benjamin Bratt and Denis Leary also play rough and tough in this terrific mix of action and humor.

(R, 1987, 101 min)

(R, 1993, 115 min)

65TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

60TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW

Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST

When professional photographer J.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his neighbors play out across the courtyard. When he suspects a salesman may have murdered his nagging wife, Jeffries enlists the help of his glamorous socialite girlfriend (Grace Kelly) to investigate the highly suspicious chain of events… ultimately leading to one of the most memorable and gripping endings in all of film history.

Cary Grant is Roger O. Thornhill, an advertising executive who is mistaken by enemy spies for a U.S. undercover agent. Convinced these sinister fellows (James Mason and Martin Landau) are trying to kill him, Roger flees and meets a sexy stranger on a train (Eva Marie Saint). And, of course, there are the famous set pieces: the stabbing at the United Nations, the crop-duster plane attack in the cornfield and the cliffhanger finale atop the stone faces of Mount Rushmore.

(1954, 115 min)

(1959, 126 min)

MAY 3

35TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Brian De Palma’s BODY DOUBLE (R, 1984, 114 min)

Finally available after many years, this is classic DePalma at the top of his game! Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), an unemployed actor, is asked to house-sit at a luxurious hillside apartment in LA. The home offers Jake a telescopic peek into the bedroom of Gloria Revelle (Deborah Shelton), who performs an arousing striptease. When Jake discovers another man is also spying on Gloria, he begins an obsessive surveillance of her. Soon a grisly murder leads him into the world of X-rated film where he meets sexy porn queen Holly Body (Melanie Griffith), who is a key to the crime.

Brian De Palma’s SISTERS (R, 1973, 93 min)

Sisters is not Brian De Palma's first film, but in many ways it is the first to reveal his affinity with Hitchcock. Margo Kidder stars as an actress whose one-night stand leads to a homicidal morning-after. A reporter sees the killing from her window and when the police fail to turn up any evidence, the reporter uncovers the secret story of a pair of conjoined twins. It's a mystery simmering in a stew of voyeurism, guilt, sex and obsession.

Retro NOIR CRIME-THRILLERS, POTBOILERS, AND MELODRAMAS FROM 1920-1999

John Huston’s THE MALTESE FALCON

Billy Wilder’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY

A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why—and who'll take the fall for his partner's murder. An all-star cast (including Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) joins Bogart in this crackling mystery masterwork written for the screen (from Dashiell Hammett's novel) and directed by John Huston.

Here’s the wildly thrilling story of insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray), who schemes the perfect murder with the beautiful dame Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck): kill Dietrichson's husband and make off with the insurance money. But, of course, in these plots things never quite go as planned, and Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) is the wily insurance investigator who must sort things out.

(1944, 108 min)

85TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

80TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

APR 12

(1941, 100 min)

W.S. Van Dyke’s THE THIN MAN

W.S. Van Dyke’s ANOTHER THIN MAN

The best film in the series came first: The Thin Man, a marvelous adaptation of a Dashiell Hammet novel. The movie gods were in a generous mood when they paired William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles, the upper-class sophisticates whose sleuthing escapades somehow joined the classic form of the whodunit with the giddy-up of screwball comedy. Among the series' many attributes, one of its most radical notions was the idea that a married couple might find each other delightful and view life as a goofy adventure together.

The third film picks up when the Charles family arrives for a weekend with a Long Island industrialist who fears someone wants to kill him. Sure enough, his fears come true. Nick (William Powell) is among the suspects. Asta scrams with what may be the murder weapon. And Nora (Myrna Loy) has her own ideas about the case and sneaks off to a nightclub to ferret out a clue. "Madam, how long have you been leading this double life?" Nick asks. "Just since we've been married," she replies.

JUNE 7

FEB 8

75TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Quentin Tarantino’s RESERVOIR DOGS (R, 1992, 99 min)

(1934, 91 min)

Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled a motley crew to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them color-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White) to conceal their identities. But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco—and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly.

Starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn, and Tarantino himself.

(1939, 103 min)

The Wachowskis' BOUND (R, 1996, 108 min)

Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly nearly set the screen on fire in this clever, female-powered twist on the standard Mob caper film. Gershon is Corky, an ex-con renovating the apartment next door to where Tilly's Violet lives. Violet is the moll of psychotic gangster Caesar, who uses the apartment as an occasional location for meetings and beatings, and also uses Violet as an occasional plaything for his Mob cronies. Violet is attracted to the super-sexy Corky, and the two begin an intense affair. Corky hatches a plot to escape with $2 million that Caesar is planning to give to a Mob boss, and the mayhem escalates from there.

MAR 22

FEB 15

Retro TREASURES COMEDIES, MUSICALS, CULT, AND ANIMATION FROM 1920-1999

John Hughes’ PRETTY IN PINK (PG-13, 1986, 96 min)

Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is a teenager who lives in the dingy part of town with her terminally underemployed dad (Harry Dean Stanton).

She works at a record store with eccentric Ionia (Annie Potts) and is considered a misfit at her uppity high school, but somehow she rises above them all. Her oddball best friend, Duckie (Jon Cryer), is hopelessly in love with her, so he causes trouble for her romantic pursuits. When local rich kid Blaine (Andrew McCarthy) develops a fascination with her, they go out on a date together. The romance versus high school social politics finally culminates at the big night of the prom.

Martha Coolidge’s VALLEY GIRL (R, 1983, 99 min)

Valley Girl is, like—Omigod!—one of the most tubular teen romantic comedies of the 1980’s. This movie launched Nicolas Cage's career, and it's easy to see why: Cage is perfectly cast as a Hollywood punk who instantly falls for Julie (Deborah Foreman), a San Fernando Valley Girl who must choose between wild-boy Nic and her preening jock boyfriend. With sincere humor, a lively soundtrack of '80s hits, and a time-capsule cruise of Hollywood landmarks, Valley Girl is both timeless and nostalgic.

20TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

20TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Mike Judge’s OFFICE SPACE

Trey Parker’s SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT

(R, 1999, 89 min)

Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a computer programmer who suffers endless indignities and humiliations in his soulless workspace from his boss, Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole). One night, Peter visits a hypnotherapist to relieve work stress. While under hypnosis, the therapist keels over and dies. As he never snaps out of his hypnotic state, Peter now has a new outlook on life. If something annoys him, he just ignores it or walks away from it. Now, Peter convinces his friends to exact revenge on his office based upon an idea from Superman III.

(R, 1999, 81 min)

20 years later and this is still one of the greatest musical movies of all time. Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman sneak into an R-rated movie and it warps their fragile little minds. Soon their indignant parents declare war on Canada and our young heroes are America's last hope to stop Armageddon. Trey Parker and Matt Stone bring the colorful citizens of South Park to the big screen in a film that is animatedly hilarious and irreverent.

APR 19

35TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN

Susan Seidelman’s DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN

This special presentation honors the third anniversary of the death of Prince, who passed away on April 21, 2016. When Prince exploded onto the pop-culture scene in 1984, it seemed there was nothing the purple one couldn't do. The film is basically a feature-length music video, but no musician has ever had a better showcase for his talents. The plot (about the son of an abusive father struggling not to continue the pattern) is just a theme upon which to hang some of Prince's most dazzling songs.

Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) fills her days by reading the personals and following an ongoing romance between 'Jim' and 'Susan' (Madonna); mysterious drifters who appears to lead the kind of free-spirited lives she can only dream about. And dream she does, until the day she actually shows up at the couple's pre-arranged rendezvous in New York City...and after a bump on the head, a bout of amnesia turns her into Susan and opens the door to intrigue, laughter and love! A stellar supporting cast includes Aidan Quinn, Laurie Metcalf, Will Patton, Steven Wright, and John Turturro.

(R, 1984, 111 min)

(PG, 1985, 104 min)

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MAY 17

Robert Zemeckis’ WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT?

Joe Pytka’s SPACE JAM

It's 1947 Hollywood, and Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a down-onhis-luck detective, is hired to find proof that the owner of Toontown is playing hanky-panky with femme fatale Jessica Rabbit, wife of cartoon superstar Roger Rabbit. When Acme is found murdered, all fingers point to Roger who begs the Toon-hating Valiant to find the real evildoer! Starring the greatest cartoon stars in history: Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Woody Woodpecker, and more!

The owner of Moron Mountain amusement park is determined to turn the Looney Tunes gang into his latest attraction whether they like it or not! But he hadn’t counted on the clever antics of Bugs Bunny and company or the unbeatable basketball skills of NBA superstar Michael Jordan. Jokes and big laughs take the court in this action-packed film that pits the Tunes team against the Monstars. Lots of guest appearances from NBA greats, including Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsy Bogues, Shawn Bradley and Larry Johnson.

JUNE 14

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John Landis’ TRADING PLACES

John Landis’ THE BLUES BROTHERS

What happens when you combine the comic genius of a young Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, and Jamie Lee Curtis? You get a timeless comedy classic laced with sidesplitting, satiric humor. Murphy stars as a small-time con artist who gets a chance to switch lives with Aykroyd's big-time stock market maven. But their reversal of fortunes is just a cruel joke perpetrated by two bored mega-rich brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) as part of an idle bet. And when the truth comes out... the consequences are sheer comedy gold.

When Jake Blues (John Belushi) is released from prison, he and brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) discover their childhood orphanage is in danger of being closed. They decide to raise money by putting their band back together. They may be on a "mission from God" but they're making enemies everywhere. Featuring performances by some of blues finest, James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and co-starring John Candy and Carrie Fisher.

(PG-13, 1988, 104 min)

(R, 1983, 116 min)

(PG, 1996, 88 min)

(R, 1980, 124 min)

ANIME-MAGIC

FRI–SUN / JAN 18-20, 2019 Robin Harris’ BEBE’S KIDS (PG-13, 1992, 72 min)

They were born to be bad and they don't die, they multiply. They're not monsters... just Bebe's Kids, based on the popular characters of the late Robin Harris. When ladies' man Robin meets the beautiful Jamika, he feels he must have died and gone to heaven. But on their first date, she greets him with four small surprises: her son Leon and girlfriend Bebe's three trouble-seeking kids. Robin's dream date becomes a nightmare as the group goes to Fun World. There, Bebe's kids do everything they can to spite Robin's amorous intentions... and nearly destroy Fun World in the process. With an infectious hip-hop soundtrack and the voices of Nell Carter and Tone Loc, Bebe's Kids will delight children and every parent who ever tried to keep up with them.

Hiroyuki Morita’s THE CAT RETURNS (G, 2002, 75 min)

Walking with her friend after a dreary day at school, Haru eyes a cat with a small gift box in its mouth attempting to cross a busy street. The cat fumbles the package in the middle of the road as a truck is rapidly bearing down. Haru manages to scoop the cat away to safety. To her amazement, the cat then gets up on its hind legs, brushes itself off, and thanks her very politely. Strange behavior indeed, but this is nothing compared to what happens later that evening when the King of Cats shows up in a feline motorcade replete with vassals, maidens, and even Secret Service cats. In a show of gratitude for saving his son’s life, the king cat showers Haru with gifts, including a large supply of individually wrapped live mice—and decrees that she shall marry the cat prince and come to live as a princess in the secret Kingdom of Cats.

In Japanese with English subtitles

Isao Takahata’s HORUS, PRINCE OF THE SUN (NR, 1968, 82 min, Japan)

From the creator of Grave of the Fireflies comes this delicately beautiful motion picture where now-legendary animators Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata (later founders of Ghibli Studios) first worked together.

Horus, a young boy in the European Iron Age, recovers the Sword of the Sun from the rock giant Moog and learns from his dying father that he must return to his ancestral territory. In the process, he defends a village from the attacks of Grundewald, a warlord/ice demon and befriends the enigmatic Hilda, a lonely and beautiful girl who sings haunting songs to conceal her terrible secret.

In Japanese with English subtitles

15TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Hayao Miyazaki’s HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (PG, 2004, 114 minutes, Japan)

Sophie, an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl. But after this chance meeting, the young girl is turned into a 90-year old woman by the vain and conniving Witch of the Waste. Embarking on an incredible adventure to lift the curse, she finds refuge in Howl’s magical moving castle.

In Japanese with English Subtitles

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Masaaki Yuasa’s MIND GAME (2004, 103 min)

Buckle in and prepare to surrender yourself to an exhilarating and wildly entertaining ride. Cult classic Mind Game is an explosion of unconstrained expression—gloriously colorful mages ricochet in rapid fire associations, like Masaaki Yuasa’s brain splattered onto the screen in all its goopy glory. Audiences will begin to grasp what they are in for early on as loser Nishi, too wimpy to try to save his childhood sweetheart from gangsters, is shot in the butt by a soccer-playing psychopath, projecting Nishi into the afterlife. In this limbo, God (shown as a series of rapidly changing characters) tells him to walk toward the light. But Nishi runs like hell in the other direction and returns to Earth a changed man, driven to live each moment to the fullest.

In Japanese with English subtitles 20TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Isao Takahata’s MY NEIGHBORS THE YAMADAS (PG, 1999, 104 min)

Join in the adventures of the quirky Yamada family from the hilarious to the touching, brilliantly presented in a unique, visually striking comic strip style. Takashi Yamada and his wacky wife Matsuko, who has no talent for housework, navigate their way through the ups and downs of work, marriage, and family life with a sharp-tongued grandmother who lives with them, a teenage son who wishes he had cooler parents, and a pesky daughter whose loud voice is unusual for someone so small.

Even the family dog has issues!

In Japanese with English Subtitles

Hayao Miyazaki’s MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (G, 1988, 86 minutes)

My Neighbor Totoro is a deceptively simple tale of two girls, Satsuki and Mei, who move with their father to a new house in the countryside.

They soon discover that the surrounding forests are home to a family of Totoros, gentle but powerful creatures who live in a huge and ancient camphor tree and are seen only by children. Based on Miyazaki’s own childhood imaginings, Totoros look like oversized pandas with bunny ears and they take the girls on spinning-top rides through the tree tops.

In Japanese with English Subtitles

Satoshi Kon’s PERFECT BLUE (NR, 1997, 81 min)

Rising pop star Mima has quit singing to pursue a career as an actress and model, but her fans aren’t ready to see her go. Encouraged by her managers, Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV show, when suddenly her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima’s reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

As her stalker closes in, in person and online, the threat he poses is more real than even Mima knows, in this iconic psychological thriller that has frequently been hailed as one of the most important animated films of all time.

In Japanese with English subtitles

ANIME-MAGIC

FRI–SUN / JAN 18-20, 2019

25TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Isao Takahata’s POM POKO (1994, 119 Minutes)

The forests are filled with groups of magical tanuki, mischievous raccoon-like animals that are capable of shape-shifting from their standard raccoon form to practically any object. The tanuki spend their days playing idly in the hillsides and squabbling over food—until the construction of a huge new Tokyo suburb clears the nearby forest and threatens their way of life. In an effort to defend their home, the tanuki learn to transform into humans and start playing tricks to make the workers think the construction site is haunted, ending in a spectacular night-time spirit parade, with thousands of ghosts, dragons and other magical creatures descending on the city.

In Japanese with English Subtitles

Hayao Miyazaki’s PORCO ROSSO (1992, 94 Minutes)

Set in a mid-war Italy swept by fascism, the film follows the life of Marco, a world-weary flying ace-turned bounty hunter who plies his trade above the waters of the Adriatic. Somewhere along the way a curse has transformed Marco’s head into the head of a pig, reflecting his loss of faith in humanity. Marco meets his polar opposite in the innocent and energetic 17-year-old Fio, an aspiring airplane designer, and the two are catapulted into an airborne adventure pursued by air pirates, the Italian army, and an egotistical American flying ace.

In Japanese with English Subtitles

Hayao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY (PG, 2002, 125 minutes)

Wandering through an abandoned carnival site, ten-year-old Chichiro is separated from her parents and stumbles into a dream-like spirit world where she is put to work in a bathhouse for the gods, a place where all kinds of nonhuman beings come to refresh, relax and recharge. Here she encounters a vast menagerie of impossibly inventive characters—shape-shifting phantoms and spirits, some friendly, some less so—and must find the inner strength to outsmart her captors and return to her family.

In Japanese with English Subtitles

Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s STEAMBOY (PG-13, 2004, 126 min)

From the director of Akira! Ten years in the making and with a $22 million budget, Steamboy is the most expensive Japanese animé production ever. A retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England, Steamboy features an inventor prodigy named Ray Steam, who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation, the Steam Ball. Young Ray Steam must use the Steam Ball to fight evil, redeem his family, and save London from destruction. With more than 180,000 drawings and 400 CG cuts, Steamboy is one of the most elaborate animated features ever created.

In Japanese with English Subtitles

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ANIME-MAGIC S C H E D U L E FRI–SUN / JAN 18-20, 2019 FRI, JAN 18 FLETCHER HALL

CINEMA ONE

2:20 pm

CINEMA TWO

My Neighbors the Yamadas

Ends at 4:04 pm

4:30 pm

7:00 pm Spirited Away

Ends at 6:24 pm

9:20 pm

Ends at 9:05 pm

Perfect Blue

Ends at 10:41 pm

SAT, JAN 19 FLETCHER HALL

CINEMA ONE

12:20 pm

Steam Boy

My Neighbors the Yamadas

Ends at 2:14 pm

12:40 pm

2:40 pm

2:50 pm

My Neighbor Totoro

Ends a 4:26 pm

4:50 pm

7:00 pm

9:00 pm

Howl’s Moving Castle

Ends at 6:44 pm

Perfect Blue Mind Game

Ends at 8:43 pm

Pom Poko

Ends at 10:59 pm

CINEMA ONE

2:00 pm

2:10 pm

My Neighbor Totoro

Ends a 3:46 pm

4:00 pm

Spirited Away

Steam Boy

Ends at 6:16 pm

5:20 pm

9:00 pm

Bebe’s Kids

Ends at 5:02 pm.

Ends at 6:05 pm

6:40 pm

Ends at 3:34 pm

Ends at 3:25 pm

CINEMA TWO

Porco Rosso

The Cat Returns

3:50 pm

4:10 pm

Bebe’s Kids

Ends at 5:52 pm

Ends at 6:21 pm

SUN, JAN 20 FLETCHER HALL

2:20 pm

Horus, Prince of the Sun

Ends at 4:12 pm

The Cat Returns

Porco Rosso

Ends at 2:14 pm

Ends at 4:26 pm

4:40 pm

5:00 pm

CINEMA TWO

Ends at 2:26 pm

12:30 pm

3:00 pm

Howl’s Moving Castle

Pom Poko

Ends at 8:39 pm

Mind Game

Ends at 10:43 pm

Horus, Prince of the Sun

Ends at 6:44 pm

Fantastic

FRI-SUN / FEB 22-24, 2019 Terry Gilliam’s FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (R, 1998, 118 min)

When a writing assignment lands journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and sidekick Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) in Las Vegas, they decide to make it the ultimate business trip. But before long, business is forgotten and trip has become the key word. Fueled by a suitcase full of mind-bending pharmaceuticals, Duke and Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of the craziest characters ever. But no matter where misadventure leads them, Duke and Gonzo discover that sometimes going too far is the only way to go.

20TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

David Fincher’s FIGHT CLUB (R, 1999, 139 min)

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac (Edward Norton) and a slippery soap salesman (Brad Pitt) channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until a sensuous eccentric (Helena Bonham Carter) gets in the way and ignites an out-of control spiral toward oblivion.

Sesame Street’s FOLLOW THAT BIRD (G, 1985, 88 min)

Follow that Big Bird for an imaginative, magical treat starring the cast of TVs Sesame Street in their first movie. Jim Henson's beloved characters Kermit, Oscar, Bert, Ernie and Cookie Monster plus other Sesame Street regulars join Big Bird in a big-hearted, cross-country adventure. A meddling social worker sends poor Big Bird off to live with a feathered foster family in Illinois. But try as he might, he doesn’t fit in and runs away to return to Sesame Street. Be on the lookout for guest stars Chevy Chase, John Candy, Sandra Bernhard, Waylon Jennings and more.

Robert Rodriguez’s FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (R, 1996, 108 min)

The Gecko brothers (George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino) are a dangerous pair. Richard has just broken his hot-headed brother Seth out of prison, and the two head for the road on a crime spree with a briefcase of cash. With the FBI hot on their tail, their plan is to head for Mexico and take for their hostages a vacationing father and his family.

But when they reach their destination, they find a seedy nightclub with an evil inside beyond anything they could have imagined. Now the Geckos and their hostages must come together to defeat this powerful ancient enemy. Also starring Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, and Salma Hayek.

20TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

GALAXY QUEST

(PG, 1999, 102 min)

A hilarious parody of science fiction films, particularly Star Trek and its fandom, the classic comedy stars Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, and Sam Rockwell as the cast of a defunct TV series called Galaxy Quest, in which the crew of a spaceship embarked on intergalactic adventures, who are suddenly visited by actual aliens who believe the series to be an accurate documentary, and become involved in a very real intergalactic conflict. With no script, no director or special effects, the actors must turn in the performance of their lives to save the universe!

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GHOSTBUSTERS

(PG, 1984, 105 min)

Suit up for classic comedy! When kooky, spooky college professors Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) lose their university jobs, they decide to go freelance, de-haunting houses in a new ghost removal service. As soon as they open their doors, their first order of business becomes saving beautiful cellist Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) and nerdy Louis Tully (Rick Moranis), who’ve inadvertently opened the gates of hell… right in their own apartment building!

Richard Donner’s THE GOONIES (PG, 1985, 115 min)

From the imagination of Steven Spielberg, The Goonies plunges a band of small heroes into a swashbuckling surprise-around-every corner quest beyond their wildest dreams! Following a mysterious treasure map into a spectacular underground realm of twisting passages, outrageous booby-traps and a long-lost pirate ship full of golden doubloons, the kids race to stay one step ahead of a family of bumbling bad guys…and a mild mannered monster with a face only a mother could love.

35TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (PG, 1984, 118 min)

Set in 1935, Indiana Jones is back in his newest adventure. This time he teams up with a night club singer named Willie Scott and a twelve-year-old boy named Short Round. They end up in a distressed village, where the people believe that evil spirits have taken all their children away after a sacred stone was stolen! Thuggee is beginning to rise once more, believing that with the power of the Sankara stones they can rule the world! Now, it's all up to Indiana to put an end to the Thuggee cult, rescue the lost children, win the girl, and conquer the Temple of Doom.

Ridley Scott’s LEGEND: DIRECTOR’S CUT (PG, 1985, 113 min)

Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story stars Tom Cruise as a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lily (Mia Sara) and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry), or the world will be plunged into a neverending ice age.

Frank Oz’s LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: DIRECTOR’S CUT (PG-13, 1986, 94 min)

Rick Moranis is the nebbish Seymour, who pines for flower-girl Audrey (Ellen Greene) while living in the basement of florist Mr. Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia). Things start turning around for Seymour, though, after he buys a little plant during a solar eclipse, christens it Audrey II, and discovers that it likes to drink blood. Before long, Seymour learns that Audrey II is in actuality a "mean green mother from outer space" that is hell-bent on world domination.

This Director’s Cut features a drastically different, and much darker, 20-minute alternate ending.

Fantastic

FRI-SUN / FEB 22-24, 2019

35TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Wolfgang Petersen’s THE NEVERENDING STORY (PG, 1984, 102 min)

An unhappy boy is bullied by older youths and seeks sanctuary in a bookstore. The owner gives him a magic book that can project the reader into its story! Now, a young boy becomes part of a wondrous adventure in a land of flying dragons, evil wolves, gnomes, and a warrior-child who must fight to save the empire of Fantasia from a nemesis called the Nothing.

Tim Burton’s PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE (PG, 1985, 90 min)

Pee-wee's bicycle, the keenest bike in the world, is missing. It's his most prized possession...and he's just got to get it back. Searching high, low and in between, Pee-wee hits the open road and encounters riotous adventures with bikers, bums, cowboys, cons, a phantom trucker and a waitress with wanderlust and even Warner Bros. Studios.

And beware of Large Marge!

Robert Altman’s POPEYE (PG, 1980, 113 min)

The legendary, beloved anvil-armed sailor of the seven seas comes magically to life in this delightful musical, starring Robin Williams as Popeye, who meets all challenges with the unshakable philosophy, 'I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam.' Shelley Duvall is Popeye's devoted long-limbed sweetie, Olive Oyl, one of the familiar and loveable characters who joins Popeye in his adventures in the harbor town of Sweethaven. Meet Wimpy and Bluto and all the other cartoon favorites in this happy, tuneful, fun-for-the-whole-family movie!

Mel Brook’s SPACEBALLS (PG, 1987, 96 min)

The fearless—and clueless—Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man/ half-dog sidekick (John Candy) race against time to free a princess (Daphne Zuniga) from the evil clutches of Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis). Along the way, they meet the wise Yogurt (Mel Brooks), who teaches them the mystical power of "the Schwartz" in order to bring peace—and merchandising rights—to the galaxy!

Bob Spiers’ SPICE WORLD (PG, 1997, 93 min)

Climb aboard the double-decker Spicebus and get ready for a madcap musical movie adventure with the sexy phenomenons of pops.

A humorous encounter with extra-terrestrials, a night in a haunted castle, and a moment of truth in a maternity ward are just a few of the funny escapades you'll enjoy as the girls gear up for their first live concert at London's Royal Albert Hall. Emma, Victoria, Mel B., Geri and Mel C. star with George Wendt, Richard E. Grant, Roger Moore and Meatloaf in this hip and sassy movie.

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Ken Kwapis’ VIBES (PG, 1988, 99 min)

Cyndi Lauper and Jeff Goldblum star as two hapless psychics who unwittingly aid a criminal in his quest to obtain a mystic relic in this comical adventure. Street smart beauty-school dropout Sylvia Pickel (Lauper) navigates life with the counsel of a spirit named Louise, while genteel Nick Deezy (Goldblum) has the ability to "read" an object's past just by holding it. Harry Buscafusco (Peter Falk) is the treasure hunter who brings them together for a trip to Ecuador to find his missing son.

Fantastic FRI, FEB 22 1:00 pm

FLETCHER HALL

SCHEDULE

Ghostbusters (ends at 2:45pm)

1:10 pm

CINEMA ONE

Galaxy Quest (ends at 2:52 pm)

1:20 pm 3:00 pm

3:20 pm

5:20 pm

Little Shop of Horrors (ends at 4:54 pm)

Legend (ends at 9:13 pm)

Fight Club (ends at 11:39 pm)

9:30 pm

SAT, FEB 23

FLETCHER HALL

From Dusk Till Dawn (ends at 11:18 pm)

CINEMA ONE

12:20 pm 12:30 pm Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (ends at 2:10 pm)

2:30 pm

Indiana Jones Temple of Doom (ends at 4:28 pm)

2:40 pm

Legend (ends at 6:33 pm)

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (ends at 6:48 pm)

7:00 pm

Spaceballs (ends at 8:36 pm)

Little Shop of Horrors (ends at 8:44 pm)

9:00 pm 9:10 pm

Fight Club (ends at 11:29 pm)

2:00 pm

Fight Club (ends at 4:19 pm)

SUN, FEB 24 FLETCHER HALL 2:10 pm

Ghostbuster (ends at 10:45 pm)

CINEMA ONE

4:20 pm The Goonies (ends at 6:35 pm)

7:00 pm

Legend (ends at 8:53 pm)

7:10 pm

From Dusk Till Dawn (ends at 9:08 pm)

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (ends at 11:18 pm)

9:30 pm

Vibes (ends at 3:59 pm)

Galaxy Quest (ends at 6:02 pm)

4:30 pm 4:40 pm

CINEMA TWO

The Neverending Story (ends at 3:52 pm)

2:20 pm

9:20 pm

Follow that Bird (ends at 4:18 pm)

The Neverending Story (ends at 6:12 pm)

4:40 pm

7:10 pm

Popeye (ends at 2:13 pm)

Spice World (ends at 4:13 pm)

2:50 pm 4:30 pm

CINEMA TWO

The Goonies (ends at 2:25 pm)

12:40 pm

4:50 pm

Popeye (ends at 7:03 pm)

Spaceballs (ends at 6:56 pm)

The Goonies (ends at 9:05 pm)

7:20 pm 9:20 pm

Vibes (ends at 4:49 pm)

Indiana Jones Temple of Doom (ends at 6:48 pm)

5:10 pm 7:10 pm

Follow that Bird (ends at 2:48 pm)

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (ends at 4:30 pm)

3:10 pm 4:50 pm

CINEMA TWO

Ghostbusters (ends at 11:15 pm)

Spice World (ends at 6:03 pm)

MOTHER'S DAY FILM SERIES

FRI–SUN / MAY 10-12, 2019

WHAT IS THE MOTHER’S DAY FILM SERIES?

Looking for movies with great female characters and inspirational stories that have crossgenerational appeal? These engaging picks with strong leading ladies are ideal for moms and daughters to share over a bag of popcorn. Girl power, indeed! From Oscar-winning classics to emotional dramas and sweet comedies, Retro presents a dozen great flicks for moms, daughters (as well as dad and the kids of any age) to watch together. It's sometimes hard to communicate with each other, but what can you do? Here's the solution: It's so simple, so obvious, so painless—the movies!

Jon Avnet’s FRIED GREEN TOMATOES (PG-13, 1991, 137 min)

Strength through inspiration, plus a murder mystery! Academy Award winners Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy star with Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker in this inspiring drama adapted from Fannie Flagg’s best-selling novel. When an unhappy housewife befriends a lady in a nursing home, she hears a remarkable tale of laughter, devotion and a special friendship that defies all obstacles in this heartwarming film.

Wayne Wang’s THE JOY LUCK CLUB (R, 1993, 139 min)

Based on Amy Tan's best-selling novel of the same name, this film tells the story of four women who were born in China but made their way to America. As they adapt to their new home, they inevitably make some tough decisions—and some mistakes—as they raise daughters also caught between two cultures. The narrator is June (Ming-Na Wen), who heads to China after her mother's death. As she and her friends look back at their mothers' lives, the difference between their worlds becomes more and more clear.

25TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Gillian Armstrong’s LITTLE WOMEN (PG, 1994, 118 min)

It's a classic story of four young women growing up in civil-war era New England with a strong and independent mother. Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon star in this family favorite. With her husband off at war, Marmee (Sarandon) is left alone to raise their four daughters.

There is the spirited Jo (Ryder); conservative Meg (Trini Alvarado); fragile Beth (Claire Danes); and romantic Amy (Kristen Dunst). As the years pass, the sisters share some of the most cherished and painful memories of self-discovery. Gabriel Byrne, Eric Stoltz, and Christian Bale co-star in this handcrafted valentine of a film.

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Lesli Linka Glatter’s NOW AND THEN (PG-13, 1995, 100 min)

Flashing between the 70s and the 90s, this crazy fun and empowering movie reminds girls and women that it's okay to be different, and testifies to the true power of female friendships. This wistful drama is set in the summer of 1970 and follows the adventures of four 12-year-old girls as they attempt to solve a murder. When not involved with that, the girls have fun, play pranks on the town boys, and talk about their rapidly changing lives and bodies. Starring Christina Ricci, Thora Birch, Gaby Hoffmann, Ashleigh Aston Moore, Melanie Griffith, Demi Moore, Rosie O'Donnell and Rita Wilson.

Mike Nichols’ POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE (R, 1990, 101 min)

Meryl Streep stars as Suzanne Vale, an up-and-coming star whose career has ground to a halt due to drug addiction. After a stint in rehab, Suzanne ends up with an appointed caretaker: her mother, Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine). The film was adapted by Carrie Fisher from her own novel, and wrestles with the complicated but loving relationship between an actress and her movie star mother. And because this is a semi-autobiographical portrait of the mother-daughter life of Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, you MUST SEE IT.

Emile Ardolino’s SISTER ACT (PG, 1992, 100 min)

Whoopi Goldberg's vegas showgirl turned nun was the greatest thing to happen to church choirs since organs. Academy Award winner Goldberg stars as a sassy lounge singer forced to hide from the mob in the last place anyone would ever look for her—a convent—where her fun-loving attitude turns the nuns' tone-deaf choir into a soulful chorus of swingin' singin' sisters.

George Tillman Jr.’s SOUL FOOD (R, 1997, 115 min)

Soul Food follows the diverse and divergent lives of the Josephs, a large African-American family living in Chicago, who gather on Sundays for matriarch Big Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) huge meals. When Big Mama gets sick, a feud between two sisters (Vivica A. Fox and Vanessa Williams) begins to unravel the family's bonds. Luckily, Mama's young grandson Ahmad (Brandon Hammond) has a plan to bring the family back together.

MOTHER'S DAY FILM SERIES 30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

FRI–SUN / MAY 10-12, 2019 Herbert Ross’ STEEL MAGNOLIAS

(PG, 1989, 118 min) Lady bonds of steel, and some of the world's most epic one-liners make this tale of female friendships both hilarious and a tearjerker.

Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, Shirley Maclaine, Daryl Hannah and Olympia Dukakis play a group of friends living in Louisiana. The relationship between M’Lynn (Sally Field) and her daughter Shelby (Julia Roberts) is at the center. Shelby, who has always rebelled against her mother’s advice, gets married and has a child despite having serious health issues. These Southern Belles spend most of their time gossiping in the town beauty parlor in a movie that will make you laugh almost as much as it will make you cry.

James Brooks’ TERMS OF ENDEARMENT

(PG, 1983, 132 min) Grab the tissues before you see this classic tearjerker. Terms of Endearment dazzled critics and audiences alike with its believable, insightful story of two captivating people, mother and daughter, unforgettably played by Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. Jack Nicholson turns in a great comic performance as MacLaine's neighbor, a boozy, womanizing former astronaut. Winner of five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress (MacLaine), Best Supporting Actor (Nicholson), Best Director and Best Screenplay Adaptation.

Ridley Scott’s THELMA AND LOUISE

(R, 1991, 127 min) Thelma & Louise is an exhilarating adventure hailed as one of the best road movies of all time! Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis star as accidental outlaws on a desperate flight across the Southwest after a tragic incident at a roadside bar. With a determined detective (Harvey Keitel) on their trail, a sweet-talking hitchhiker (Brad Pitt) in their path and a string of crimes in their wake, their journey alternates between hilarious, high-speed thrill ride and empowering personal odyssey even as the law closes in.

Danny DeVito’s THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN

(PG-13, 1987, 88 min) Billy Crystal and Danny Devito star in this classic comedy about one man, his mean mother and his best friend. We’ve all entertained the thought, but DeVito’s black-comedic twist on Strangers on a Train’s “I’ll-kill-yours-if-you-kill-mine” plot gives hilarious form to our matricidal urges. As Crystal’s parent from hell with a target on her back, Oscar nominee Anne Ramsey is the perfect mix of spittle-inflected rancor and leery-eyed maliciousness.

30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Jeff Kanew’s TROOP BEVERLY HILLS

(PG, 1989, 105 min) Shelly Long plays a down-and-out Beverly Hills mom who steps up to the plate when her daughter's Wilderness Girl troop finds itself without a leader. When a Beverly Hills socialite realizes that her daughter (Jenny Lewis) is slipping away from her, she does the only thing she can think of—takes over her Wilderness Girls troop. Phyllis Nefler (Long) may not be the traditional scout leader, but she proves that determination, gumption, and a firm belief that good tailoring cannot be underestimated can take a girl from Rodeo Drive to the camp jamboree in style.

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MOTHER'S DAY Film Series Schedule FRI, MAY 10 FLETCHER HALL

CINEMA ONE

1:00 pm

1:10 pm

3:40 pm

Postcards from the Edge

Ends at 3:01 pm

Troop Beverly Hills

Ends at 5:25 pm

3:50 pm

9:00 pm

Little Women Sister Act

Ends at 8:40 pm

Thelma and Louise

Ends at 11:07 pm

12:30 pm

CINEMA ONE

Terms of Endearment

2:50 pm

3:00 pm

Soul Food

Sister Act

Ends at 6:50 pm

Steel Magnolias

Ends at 9:08 pm

Thelma and Louise

Ends at 11:37 pm

SUN, MAY 12 FLETCHER HALL 2:00 pm

The Joy Luck Club

CINEMA ONE

Fried Green Tomatoes

Ends at 4:27 pm

2:20 pm

4:40 pm

Steel Magnolias

Ends at 6:48 pm

5:00 pm

7:00 pm

9:00 pm

CINEMA TWO

Ends at 4:19 pm

2:10 pm

4:50 pm

Throw Momma from the Train

Ends at 6:28 pm

Ends at 6:55 pm

5:10 pm

9:30 pm

Now and Then

Ends at 4:30 pm

Postcards from the Edge

Troop Beverly Hills

Ends at 2:25 pm

Ends a 4:41 pm

4:50 pm

7:10 pm

CINEMA TWO

Ends at 2:42 pm

12:40 pm

Terms of Endearment

Ends at 6:02 pm

Ends at 5:58 pm

SAT, MAY 11 FLETCHER HALL

5:00 pm

Ends at 3:19 pm

Fried Green Tomatoes

CINEMA TWO

The Joy Luck Club

Ends at 3:27 pm

1:20 pm

4:00 pm

7:00 pm

FRIDAY–SUNDAY MAY 10-12, 2019

Throw Momma from the Train

Ends at 8:28 pm

Sister Act

Ends at 10:40 pm

Soul Food

Ends at 6:55 pm

Little Women

Ends a 4:18 pm

Now and Then

Ends at 6:20 pm.

ActionFlix

FRI-SUN / JUN 28–JUN 30, 2019

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Action! To some it just means violence, but the greats of action cinema give us something more, turning shootings and explosions into something artful and often spectacular. From the taciturn classics of the ’70s, through the cartoonish ’80s and on to the super-heroic 90s, ActionFlix offers that elusive combination of a great story, unforgettable characters, and an unmatched technical mastery of stunts 'n' squibs necessary to transcend genre thrills and achieve great cinema.

Luc Besson’s THE FIFTH ELEMENT (PG-13, 1997, 126 min)

Luc Besson's high-octane film incorporates presidents, rock stars, and cab drivers into its peculiar plot, traversing worlds and encountering some pretty wild aliens. Bruce Willis stars as a down-and-out cabbie who must win the love of Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) to save Earth from destruction by Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) and a dark, unearthly force that makes Darth Vader look like an Ewok.

Stanley Kubrick’s FULL METAL JACKET (R, 1987, 116 min)

Marine recruits endure basic training then plunge into the hell of Vietnam. Lee Ermey made film history as the Marine drill instructor whose ritualized debasement of men in the name of tribal uniformity creates its darkest angel in a murderous half-wit (Vincent D'Onofrio). Matthew Modine is Private Joker, the clowning, military journalist who yearns to get away from the propaganda machine and join the front line.

55TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

Guy Hamilton’s GOLDFINGER (PG, 1964, 112 min)

Of all the Bonds, Goldfinger is the best, and can stand as a surrogate for the others. It is a great entertainment, and contains all the elements of the Bond formula that would work again and again. Special agent 007 (Sean Connery) comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world's economy.

Iain Softley’s HACKERS (1995, 105 min)

Teenage hackers Zero Cool (Johnny Lee Miller) and Acid Burns (Angelina Jolie) may be young, but they're already in trouble with the authorities. Both have been banned from using computers until they turn eighteen. However, the situation turns from adolescent hijinks to deadly industrial espionage when they are framed by nefarious hacker “The Plague” and are soon fighting for their lives!

carolinatheatre.org/retro 30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

KICKBOXER

(R, 1989, 97 min)

Kurt Sloan (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is the corner-man for his brother, U.S. kickboxing champion Eric Sloan. When Kurt witnesses his brother become maliciously paralyzed in the ring by Thailand champion Tong Po, Kurt vows revenge. With the help of Xian, a kickboxing trainer who lives in a remote area of Thailand, Kurt trains for the fight of his life.

John Huston’s THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (PG, 1975, 129 min)

Based on a Rudyard Kipling story and packed with spectacle, humor, excitement and bold twists of fate, John Huston’s film of The Man Who Would Be King earns its crown as an epic like no other; one of the screen’s great adventure yarns. Sean Connery and Michael Caine star as British sergeants Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan. The Empire was built by men like these two. Now they’re out to build their own empire, venturing into remote Kafiristan to become rich as kings.

Bruce Malmuth’s NIGHTHAWKS (R, 1981, 99 min)

Sylvester Stallone, Billy Dee Williams, and Rutger Hauer star in this riveting story of suspense and intrigue that starts in London, continues in Paris and reaches its chilling conclusion on the streets of New York. When Europe’s most feared terrorist explosively announces his presence in Manhattan, two elite undercover cops (Stallone and Williams) are assigned to stop him before he strikes again. But the ruthless terrorist has other plans for the city and the detectives. This edge-of-your-seat thriller also stars Lindsay Wagner, Persis Khambatta, and Joe Spinell.

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Quentin Tarantino’s PULP FICTION (R, 1994, 153 min)

A pair of low-rent hit men, Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), are sent out to collect a stolen briefcase for their mob boss employer, Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames).

Having proven himself worthy, Wallace then entrusts Vincent to entertain his wife, Mia (Uma Thurman), while he is out of town.

Meanwhile, Wallace has paid off aging boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) to throw his next fight. The lives of these wildly entertaining characters intertwine with unexpected and violent consequences.

Andrey Konchalovskiy’s RUNAWAY TRAIN (R, 1985, 111 min)

Based on a script by Akira Kurosawa, this riveting thriller also boasts Oscar-nominated performances from Jon Voight and Eric Roberts.

Two convicts break out of Stonehaven Prison in the dead of winter, boarding a freight train before their notoriously sadistic warden finds out. But the brakes fail and the driver has a heart attack, sending hundreds of tons of metal hurtling through the snowy Alaskan wastes at terrifying and unstoppable speed. Runaway Train is one of cinema's great thrill-rides.

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FRI-SUN / JUN 28–JUN 30, 2019 Steve Barron’s TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG, 1990, 93 min)

This is the film that started it all! We learn how a foursome of small turtles were mutated by green radioactive goo and turned into humansized turtle crime fighters. Their large rodent mentor, Splinter, teaches them to master the martial arts. They're also gifted pop musicians, so they can rock the house while they're cracking a crime wave with the help of their cute friend and television reporter April O'Neil. The Turtles keep ordering pizza and dispensing their wisecracking brand of justice.

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FLETCHER HALL

Pulp Fiction Ends at 9:33 pm

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12:30 pm

12:40 pm

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Nighthawks Ends at 2:09 pm

The Man Who Would Be King Ends at 4:39 pm

Hackers Ends at 4:45 pm Runaway Train Ends at 6:51 pm

The Fifth Element Ends at 7:06 pm

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Full Metal Jacket Ends at 4:44 pm

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Goldfinger Ends at 6:28 pm

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ends at 2:23 pm

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The Man Who Would Be King Ends at 4:09 pm

Goldfinger Ends at 2:32 pm

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Pulp Fiction Ends at 9:53 pm

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Kickboxer Ends at 6:47 pm

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Ends at 3:53 pm

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Kickboxer Ends at 5:57 pm

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Full Metal Jacket Ends at 8:56 pm

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Goldfinger Ends at 11:12 pm

Runaway Train Ends at 3:51 pm

The Fifth Element Ends at 4:16 pm

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Hackers Ends at 6:25 pm

Nighthawks Ends at 6:09 pm

Cinema OVERDRIVE

WEDNESDAYS / ONCE A MONTH / $7 Curated by:

ADAM HULIN

WHAT IS CINEMA OVERDRIVE?

Cinema Overdrive is a monthly film series dedicated to bringing you the very best in cult, exploitation and gonzo action cinema. Specializing in the audacious, the ludicrous and the flat out ridiculous, each Cinema Overdrive screening will bring you some of the rarest and most entertaining features and trailers you’ll ever see!

JAN 23 Sergio Martino’s TORSO (R, 1973, 93 min)

A towering terror from the end of the ‘70s giallo boom, Torso finds director Sergio Martino (Case of the Scorpion’s Tail) reveling in the genre’s time-honored traditions while also laying groundwork for the modern slasher. It delivers copious violence, sleaze and one of the tensest cat-and-mouse games ever committed to celluloid. A maniac prowls the streets of Perugia, targeting picturesque university students. Alarmed at the plummeting life expectancy of the student body, Jane (Suzy Kendall) and her friends elope to a secluded country villa to discover that, far from having left the terror behind, they've brought it with them!

FEB 20 J. Lee Thompson’s 10 TO MIDNIGHT (R, 1983, 101 min)

Charles Bronson is a rogue cop pursuing a deranged killer in this action-packed suspense thriller. Serving up vigilante justice as only he can, Bronson delivers one of his most riveting performances. Bronson plays Leo Kessler, a cynical Los Angeles cop on the trail of Warren Stacey (Gene Davis), a homicidal maniac who turns rejection from beautiful women into the ultimate revenge. When the legal system sets Stacey free, Kessler plants evidence to put him behind bars for good. But Kessler’s plan backfires, leaving him with only one option: to hunt down Stacey on his own before the crazed killer strikes again!

MAR 20 Menahem Golan’s THE APPLE (PG, 1980, 90 min)

Take a trip back to a time when rock ruled the world, with this mindblowing, magical musical that's a camp lover's delight! Deliciously decadent and exploding with glitter and glam, The Apple is a psychedelic sci-fi feast for the senses! When folk singers Alphie and Bibi enter the World Vision song contest, their wholesome appeal catches the evil eye of music mogul Mr. Boogalow, a Faustian fiend who promises the pair fame and fortune. Seduced by Boogalow's devilish denizens, Bibi surrenders her soul and soon becomes a superstar and a pawn in Boogalow's plot to take over the planet with the power of pop music! Now, Alphie must free Bibi from Boogalow and save the world from rock-and-roll ruin!

APR 17 Walter Hill’s THE DRIVER (PG, 1978, 91 min)

In this haunting action thriller, a man known only as "The Driver" (Ryan O'Neal) gloms a V-8 sedan and proceeds to whip through claustrophobic parking garages, and narrow alleyways, as he demonstrates why he's known as the best getaway driver in the business. He receives word of his jobs from "The Connection" (Ronee Blakely) and gets his alibis from "The Gambler" (Isabelle Adjani). He is followed by a high-strung police detective (Bruce Dern), who wants to nail him. Many spectacular car chases are one of the highlights of this movie, which paradoxically has a quiet, reflective tone. This is Isabelle Adjani's first American film.

Cinema OVERDRIVE

WEDNESDAYS / ONCE A MONTH MAY 15 Sergio Corbucci’s THE GREAT SILENCE (1968, 105 min)

On an unforgiving, snow-swept frontier, a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters, led by the vicious Loco (Klaus Kinski) prey on a band of persecuted outlaws who have taken to the hills. As the price on each head is collected one-by-one, only a mute gunslinger named Silence (Jean-Louis Trintignant) stands between the innocent refugees and the greed and corruption that the bounty hunters represent. But, in this harsh, brutal world, the lines between right and wrong aren't always clear and good doesn't always triumph. Featuring superb photography and a haunting score from Ennio Morricone, Corbucci's bleak, brilliant and violent vision of an immoral West is widely considered to be among the very best and most influential Euro-Westerns ever made.

JUN 12 David Durston’s I DRINK YOUR BLOOD (R, 1971, 83 min)

One of the first motion pictures to be rated X for violence, I Drink Your Blood still holds up as one of the most entertaining and wildly demented movies of its kind. Between the bad-taste instincts of exploitation legend Gross and Durston's twisted imagination (rabies, meat pies, LSD, hippie maniacs, construction workers foaming at the mouth!), Blood plays like a double-barreled shotgun blast, a sugar fix for gore freaks. Just when you think Durston can't push the delirium any further, somebody drags a dead goat across the screen...or an old man in long underwear pukes up his dentures while being strangled...or an electric carving knife strays from a side of ham with disastrous results or well, you get the picture.

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BABY FACE

Feb 13

KING KONG

Feb 27

SHANGHAI EXPRESS

Mar 13 I’M NO ANGEL Mar 27 NIGHT NURSE Apr 24

LOVE IS A RACKET

May 01 RED DUST May 22 FEMALE

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WOMEN

WEDNESDAYS

JAN-JUN 2019 RETRO SCHEDULE JAN

18-20 ANIME-MAGIC FILM SERIES 23 Sergio Martino’s TORSO 25 Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER & Geoff Murphy's THE QUIET EARTH

FEB

1 Paul Michael Glaser’s THE RUNNING MAN & Marco Brambilla’s DEMOLITION MAN 3 NEVERMORE FUNDRAISER The Wachowskis' THE MATRIX & Mary Harron’s AMERICAN PSYCHO 8 John Huston’s THE MALTESE FALCON & Billy Wilder’s DOUBLE INDEMNITY

15 John Hughes’ PRETTY IN PINK & Martha Coolidge’s VALLEY GIRL 20 J. Lee Thompson’s 10 TO MIDNIGHT 22-24 FANTASTICREALM FILM SERIES

APR

12

W.S. Van Dyke’s THE THIN MAN & W.S. Van Dyke’s ANOTHER THIN MAN

17

Walter Hill’s THE DRIVER

19

Albert Magnoli’s PURPLE RAIN & Susan Seidelman’s DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN

26

THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI & ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION Mike Marvin's THE WRAITH

MAY

3

10-12

15 Alfred Hitchcock’s REAR WINDOW & Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST 20 Menahem Golan’s THE APPLE 22 Mike Judge’s OFFICE SPACE & Trey Parker’s SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT 29 David Cronenberg's THE DEAD ZONE & Stephen King's MISERY

MOTHER'S DAY FILM SERIES

15

Sergio Corbucci’s THE GREAT SILENCE

17

Robert Zemeckis’ WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? & Joe Pytka’s SPACE JAM

26

FAN APPRECIATION DAY: FREE Peter Lord & Nick Park’s CHICKEN RUN & Steven Spielberg’s SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

31

John Irvin's GHOST STORY & Ken Russell's GOTHIC

MAR

1 Tobe Hooper's LIFEFORCE & Harry Bromley Davenport's XTRO

Brian De Palma’s BODY DOUBLE & Brian De Palma’s SISTERS

JUN 7

Quentin Tarantino’s RESERVOIR DOGS & The Wachowskis' BOUND

12

David Durston’s I DRINK YOUR BLOOD

14

John Landis’ TRADING PLACES & John Landis’ THE BLUES BROTHERS

21

John Carpenter's PRINCE OF DARKNESS & John Carpenter's IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS

28-30

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