Anniversary Films Up
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
10 TH ANNIVERSARY 96 MINUTES / PG / 2009
30 TH ANNIVERSARY 127 MINUTES / PG-13 / 1989
Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Director: Steven Spielberg
Family-Friendly
Action/Thriller
Determined to save his home and keep the promise he made to his wife, widower Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) embarks on a journey to the mysterious Paradise Falls by tying thousands of balloons to his house. Along the way he meets his childhood hero, forms a bond with a boy who has an absent father, and realizes the preciousness of the life he lived, as well as the one he finds himself living.
35MM FILM
The intrepid explorer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) sets out to rescue his father (Sean Connery), a medievalist who has vanished while searching for the Holy Grail. Following clues in the old man’s notebook, Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic (Alison Doody), but they are not the only ones who are on the trail, and some sinister old enemies soon come out of the woodwork.
The Set-Up
Some Like it Hot
70 TH ANNIVERSARY 73 MINUTES / PG / 1949
60 TH ANNIVERSARY 121 MINUTES / PG / 1959
Director: Robert Wise
Director: Billy Wilder
Drama, Sports
Comedy After witnessing a mob murder, musicians Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Disguising themselves as women, they join an all-female jazz band and hop a train bound for Florida. While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win the band’s stunningly beautiful singer, Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), Jerry’s female alter ego is pursued by a real millionaire (Joe E. Brown) as things heat up and the mobsters close in. With the cast’s sizzling chemistry and a quickwitted script, “Some Like it Hot” is still as fresh and funny today as it was 60 years ago.
A favorite of Martin Scorsese and his inspiration for “Raging Bull” (1980), “The Set-Up” centers around Bill “Stoker” Thompson (Robert Ryan), an aging boxer who insists he is “one punch away” from a big break. He’s lost more matches than he’s won, but he is determined to have shot at the title even as his wife, Julie (Audrey Totter), doesn’t want to watch him take another beating. Unbeknownst to Stoker, his manager has sold him out to a local gangster to throw his next fight and neglects to tell him about the set-up, resulting in conflict both in and out of the ring. Winchester, Indiana native Robert Wise (“The Sound of Music,” “West Side Story”) directs this essential noir that unfolds in real time.
Bachelor Mother
The Wizard of Oz
80 ANNIVERSARY 82 MINUTES / G / 1939
80 TH ANNIVERSARY 102 MINUTES / G / 1939
Director: Garson Kanin
Director: Victor Fleming
Comedy, Romance
Family-Friendly
TH
“Bachelor Mother” was Ginger Rogers’ first film after parting ways with screen partner Fred Astaire, and she proves she was just fine on her own. Rogers plays department store worker Polly Parrish, who accidentally stumbles into motherhood after discovering an abandoned baby on the steps of an orphanage. The department store owner’s well-meaning but foolish playboy son, David Merlin (David Niven), takes an interest in Polly and the baby and all seems well until their increasingly romantic relationship raises suspicions about the child’s paternity. Rogers and Niven give their best comic performances alongside a scene-stealing infant in this funny, heartwarming, and tender romantic comedy.
When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. Wishing to return home, she begins her journey to the Emerald City to meet the Wizard (Frank Morgan) everyone says can help her. Along the way, she meets a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) who needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) who needs a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. They all hope the Wizard can grant their requests before the Wicked Witch of the West catches up to them. With its groundbreaking practical effects and masterful storytelling, this timeless classic is a must-see for the young and young at heart.
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