Big Screen Classics

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From classic Hollywood hits to foreign films, from action-adventure movies to cult classics, we'll be showing some of our favorite movies the way they were meant to be seen: larger-than-life on the glorious big screen.

From the films of the silent era to modern classics, Big Screen Classics titles are often shown on 35mm or are new restorations expertly projected in our biggest theaters.

Big Screen Classics

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Gillo Pontecorvo's vivid recreation of the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s.

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Among the most important documentaries ever made, The Thin Blue Line, by Errol Morris, erases the border between art and activism.

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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Sun 3/22
Sun 4/5

Peter Jackson brings J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings from page to screen in this epic, Academy-Award winning trilogy.

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All that work. All that glitter. All that pain. All that love. All that crazy rhythm. All that jazz.

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La Strada

Mon 4/6

Federico Fellini's poetic fable of love and cruelty, the first-ever Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film.

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A Blast of DRAMATIC Dynamite exploded right before your eyes!

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Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era. 

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Jurassic Park

Mon 5/25

An adventure 65 million years in the making.

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Rififi

Mon 6/1

A worldwide smash hit, Rififi earned director Jules Dassin the Best Director prize at Cannes and set the standard for screen robberies for decades to come.

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Orlando

Thu 6/11

A film, by Sally Porter, based on the book by Vurginia Woolf. 

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Paper Moon

Mon 6/15

As P.T. Barnum put it, "There's a sucker born every minute."

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The Wiz

Mon 6/29

Ease on down the road!

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