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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD [ 1962, Dir: Robert Mulligan ] A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, this classic film retains a timeless quality that transcends its historically dated subject matter of racism in the Depression-era South, and remains powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity, and loving, responsible parenthood. As Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama lawyer and widower father of two, Gregory Peck gives one of the finest performances of his career with his impassioned defense of a black man wrongfully accused of the rape and assault of a young white woman. While his children, Scout and Jem, learn the realities of racial prejudice and irrational hatred, they also learn to overcome their fear of the unknown as personified by their mysterious, mostly unseen neighbor Boo Radley. What emerges from this evocative, exquisitely filmed drama is a pure distillation of the themes of the enduring novel, a showcase for some of the finest American acting ever assembled in one film, and a rare quality of humanitarian artistry in Horton Foote's splendid screenplay and Elmer Bernstein's outstanding score. Ranked 34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, it is quite simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. MORE HERE

SHOWTIMES JULY 23-29: 4:30p | 7:00p

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SEVEN SAMURAI [ 1954, Dir: Akira Kurosawa ] Hailed as the greatest film in the history of Japanese cinema, and arguably the greatest of all jidai-gecki (historical swordplay films), Akira Kurosawa's epic action drama seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action into a rich, evocative, and unforgettable tale of courage and hope in the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading bandits. While the climactic battle against raiding thieves remains one of the most breathtaking sequences ever filmed, the film is most triumphant as a peerless example of character development, illuminating every essential detail of villagers and samurai alike. Featuring legendary actors Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura, Kurosawa's undisputed masterpiece has never been surpassed in terms of sheer power of emotion, kinetic energy, and dynamic character development, and cannot be adequately summarized by even the most comprehensive synopsis; it must be seen to be fully appreciated. MORE HERE

SHOWTIMES JULY 30 - AUGUST 5: 7:15p - FRI 7/30 | 3:00p - SAT/SUN 7/31-8/1 | 7:15p - THU 8/5

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THE BIRDS [ 1963, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock ] A wealthy reformed party girl (Tippi Hedren) enjoys a brief flirtation with a lawyer (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco pet shop and follows him to his Bodega Bay home. She quickly strikes up a romance while contending with his possessive mother and boarding at his ex-girlfriend's house. One day, during a child's birthday party a flock of birds attacks the children in what seems to be a random incident. In fact, it signals the beginning of a massive avian assault that no one can explain...and from which no one may come out alive. Loosely based on a Daphne du Maurier story and a California newspaper account, "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes," THE BIRDS features groundbreaking special effects that, in 1963, surprised and delighted audiences. Beyond the superb effects, however, the film is also one of Hitchcock's most psychologically complicated scenarios, a tense study of the violence of nature, and of sexual power, loneliness, and complacency. The master of suspense couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. It is quintessential Hitchcock, and although it was treated with scant attention by serious critics in 1963, THE BIRDS has grown into a classic and regarded as one of his strangest and most terrifying films. MORE HERE

SHOWTIMES AUGUST 6-12: TBA

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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE [ 1971, Dir: Stanley Kubrick ] Stanley Kubrick's darkly satirical cinematic adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 futuristic novel of the same name, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is the story of Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and ultra-violence. The film follows the horrific crime spree of Alex and his gang of thugs, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via a controversial psychological conditioning technique, and features disturbing, violent images, to facilitate social commentary about psychiatry, youth gangs, and other contemporary social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian, future Britain. The highly stylized, luridly-colorful set and costume design, the fusion of classical music and synthesized electronic compositions in the score, the innovative cinematography, and the hybrid, jargonistic, pun-filled language of Burgess' novel known as Nadsat - an onomatopoetic, expressive combination of Slavic, English, and Cockney rhyming slang, produce a striking, unforgettable film. MORE HERE

SHOWTIMES AUGUST 13-19: TBA

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DAYS OF HEAVEN [ 1978, Dir: Terence Malick ] In 1916, America was changing, expanding, holding a promise of new prosperity. People heard the call and it made them restless. Empires were being built in the wide-open spaces, and so they came. Each one oddly, blindly searching for the days of heaven. The story of a man who had nothing, the woman who loved him, and the man who would give her everything for a share of that love -- three people whose destinies joined briefly in a dream -- but how long could it last? An exquisite, lyrical film of exceptional visual beauty from writer-director Terrence Malick, following his critically-acclaimed success with an equally-haunting and visually-striking Badlands (1973), DAYS OF HEAVEN was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning the Oscar for Best Cinematography, and has universally been acclaimed as a cinematographic masterpiece, with naturally-lit, sweeping, 70mm images of crystal clarity and scope, and artfully composed scenes reminiscent of Andrew Wyeth paintings. The film's tagline proclaimed: "Your eyes... Your ears... Your senses... will be overwhelmed." MORE HERE

SHOWTIMES JULY 16-22: 7:30p - FRI 7/16 | 5:45p - SAT-THU 7/17-22

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BABETTE'S FEAST [ 1987, Dir: Gabriel Axel ] A woman flees the French civil war and lands in a small seacoast village in Denmark, where she comes to work for two spinsters, devout daughters of a puritan minister. Both girls sacrifice youthful passion to faith and duty, and even many years after their father's death, they keep his austere teachings of salvation through self-denial alive among the townspeople. After many years, Babette unexpectedly wins a lottery, and decides to create a real French dinner--which leads the sisters to fear for their souls. The village elders all resolve not to enjoy the meal, but can their moral fiber resist the sensual pleasure of Babette's gourmet cooking? "The understated courage of the characters, the barren beauty of the landscape and, finally, the unexpected appearance of salvation are all effortlessly defined in images and language that reflect the writer's style - swift, clean, witty and elegant. " [nytimes] Written and directed by Gabriel Axel, from a short story by Out of Africa's Isak Dinesen, this delicious film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. MORE HERE

SHOWTIMES JULY 9-15: 7:30p - FRI 7/9 | 5:45p - SAT-MON & WED/THU (NO SHOW TUE 7/13)

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MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON [ 1939, Dir: Frank Capra ] Nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and winning for Best Original Story, this classic film stars James Stewart as a naive, idealist, patriotic young politician who, after being sent to Washington, D.C. as a junior senator from an un-named state, matures in wisdom, fights political corruption within his state's political machine, and guards American values as a moral hero, representing the powerful forces of American freedom, democracy and morality over oppression and evil. Also starring Jean Arthur, this wonderfully-acted, absorbing and human drama was popular at the box-office and a critical success, while also sparking some political controversy for appearing to paint an anti-democratic picture of the US government during WWII. But the film also provides an educational lesson in the inner workings of the legislative system, and ultimately calls for faith in the power of the people, and in the traditional American values of patriotism. MORE HERE

SHOWTIMES JULY 2-8: 7:00p - FRI 7/2 | 5:00p - SAT-THU 7/3-8

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