Classic Movie Nights
Friday Night Movies are held upstairs in the Large Conference Room.
Gather with movie buffs, enjoy insights from a former professor, and settle in for a great movie.
During the summer season, we enjoy the wonderful Movie Theater on the Parade Grounds. Throughout the rest of the year, David Hoch (a retired professor who has taught multiple film courses), hosts Friday night movie screenings with a brief introduction and insights into each classic, well-loved film before the showing.
Movies start at 6:00pm, and basic concessions are available, including popcorn, water, and soda. Movie and concession prices are by donation.
What’s on:
Friday, Oct. 16- Hotel (1967)- drama, 124 min.
Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Melvyn Douglas, Karl Malden, Michael Rennie. Based on the novel by Arthur Hailey, the story concerns a grand hotel in New Orleans which is about to be sold, and how it affects the staff and guests.
Friday, Oct. 23- Erin Brockovich (2000)- legal drama, 130 min. Rated R.
Julia Roberts (Oscar), Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Peter Coyote. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. True story of Brockovich who initiated a legal case against Pacific Gas and Electric.
Friday, Oct. 30- Signs (2002)- thriller sci-fi, 106 min, Rated PG-13. Halloween Special.
Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Cherry Jones, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin. A minister who's lost his way after his wife dies finds strange crop signs outside his farm. Written, produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Themes of faith and fate in a creepy story.
Friday, Nov. 6- While the City Sleeps (1956)- film noir, 100 min.
Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price, Howard Duff, Thomas Mitchell, Sally Forest, John Barrymore, Jr., James Craig. Directed by Fritz Lang. Based on a newspaper drama, The Bloody Spur, by Charles Einstein, inspired by the true case of Chicago serial killer William Heirens (a.k.a. the "Lipstick Killer"). A news media mogul on his deathbed discusses who will inherit the top job when a sensational serial killer story breaks. A contest ensues on whoever catches the man gets the job.
Friday, Nov. 13- Sabrina (1954)- comedy/drama, 113 min.
Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, John Williams, Martha Hyer. Co-written and directed by Billy Wilder. Oscar nominations for Wilder, Hepburn, and the screenplay. The young daughter of the family chauffeur of a wealthy family falls in love with one of the family's sons, the 3-times married, non-working playboy. Hepburn is a delight and Bogart, cast against type, a good surprise.
Friday, Nov. 20- Will Penny (1968)- western, 110 min.
Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasance, Lee Majors, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickins. Heston often mentioned this as his favorite film that he has appeared in, about the life of a cowboy and lineman, ambushed by vagrants, who is taken in by a woman and her son, hiding out in the lineman's shack. Oscar nomination for script.
Friday, Nov. 27 - Thanksgiving weekend - No Movie
Friday, Dec. 4- Land of the Pharoahs (1955)- epic ancient drama, 106 min.
Joan Collins, Jack Hawkins, Dewey Martin, Alexis Minotis, James Robertson Justice. Directed by Howard Hawks, co-written by William Faulkner, Music by Dimitri Tiomkin. 5000 years ago in Egypt, the Pharoah made slaves of his prisoners, offering freedom to those who built and finished the Great Pyramid. Made with the largest location crew ever sent abroad, with 11,500 extras. Contains one of the great revenge sagas.
Friday, Dec. 11- The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)- mystery, 104 min.
Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Virginia Mckenna, Richard Harris. From the best seller, a large freighter is found adrift by a salvage team off the coast of England, except for one man and a dead body. The man refuses to reveal the mystery until there's a trial. A great opening scene. Cooper's last film.
Friday, Dec. 18- Singin' in the Rain (1952)- musical, 104 min.
Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Rita Moreno, Cyd Charisse. Directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen. One of the best musicals of all time is a holiday treat. The film depicts the three major stars trying to break into show business during the '20s when the transition from silent pictures to "talkies" was occuring.
No movies: Nov. 27, Dec. 25 or Jan. 1.
Movies Return January 8th!
