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  HOLIDAY & MUSICAL CLASSICS  

NOVEMBER 25TH, 2007 - FEBRUARY 17TH, 2008

MOST SUNDAYS AT 3:00PM

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Holiday Classics

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The Muppet Christmas Carol

Sunday, November 25 at 3pm

Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie and the entire cast of the Muppet universe come together in this bright, playful adaptation of the Charles Dicken's immortal classic "A Christmas Carol". Features the omnipresent Michael Caine as a crotchety Scrooge just itching to reveal his truly benevolent nature.

Rated G/1992/1:25/35mm

Christmas in Connecticut

Sunday, December 2 at 3pm

Barbara Stanwyck gives a brilliant performance as Elizabeth Lane, a columnist for Smart Housekeeping magazine, whose enticing descriptions of the exquisite meals she prepares for her husband and baby on their bucolic Connecticut farm earns her fame as "America's Best Cook." A writer, she is; a cook, however, she is not. Upon finding out that she will be hosting “America’s Ultimate Christmas”, all Lane has to do is come up with a farm. And a husband. And let's not forget the baby. Classic screwball entertainment of the best kind.

Not Rated /1945/1:42/DVD

Miracle on 34th Street

Sunday, December 9 at 3pm

Follow the misadventures of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) as he gets a job playing Santa Claus at Macy's department store in New York City. Natalie Wood is the little girl who tells him she doesn't believe in Santa, and Maureen O'Hara and John Payne are the couple who help Kris through a trial in which he must prove he really is the jolly fellow from the North Pole.

Rated G/1947/1:36/DVD

White Christmas

Sunday, December 16 at 3pm

This remake of Holiday Inn features all the best for the holidays:  Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, an all-Irving Berlin song score, classy direction by Hollywood vet Michael Curtiz (ahem, Casablanca), VistaVision (the very first feature ever shot in that widescreen format), and ultrafestive Technicolor! Yeah! Get your holiday on!

Rated PG/1954/2:00/35mm

It’s A Wonderful Life

Sunday, December 23 at 3pm

There’s really nothing like this film for the holidays. Get caught up in the special magic woven by Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed and Henry Travers as an angel named Clarence who ends up teaching us all what Christmas—heck, even life itself—is all about. Be sure to pack your hankies, you’re gonna need ‘em.

Rated G/1946/2:10/35mm

The Chronicles of Narnia:

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

Sunday, December 30th at 3pm

During WWII, the four Pevensie children are sent out of London to take shelter at the country home of an eccentric professor, who happens to be the owner of a curious wardrobe. Peering into this wardrobe one day, Lucy finds herself in the snowy land of Narnia, which is mired in never-ending winter thanks to the magic of the evil White Witch, who has proclaimed that it will be always winter but never Christmas in the mystical land. Eventually the other Pevensies find themselves in Narnia, and the four children learn that they alone are the key to breaking the Witch's eternal winter.

Rated PG for battle sequences and frightening moments/2005/2:23/35mm

Great American Musicals

West Side Story

Sunday, January 6 at 3pm

The winner of 10 Academy Awards, this 1961 musical by choreographer Jerome Robbins and director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) remains irresistible. Based on a smash Broadway play updating Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the 1950s era of juvenile delinquency, the film stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from different neighborhoods--and ethnicities.

Rated PG/1961/2:32/35mm

Singin’ In The Rain

Sunday, January 13 at 3pm

No one even bothers to argue about it any more--by any standard and international consensus, this is the best movie musical of them all. The setting is Hollywood’s transition from silent pictures to “talkies”—except the leading lady’s all out of tune! Brilliant script, songs and choreography bolster the ebullient performances of Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Conner. “Make ‘Em Laugh!”

Rated G/1952/1:43/35mm

Cabaret

Sunday, January 20 at 3pm

Winner of eight Academy Awards this remarkable musical turns the pre-war Berlin of 1931 into a sexually charged haven of decadence. Legendary director-choreographer Bob Fosse achieves a finely tuned combination of devastating drama and ebullient entertainment, and the result is one of the most substantial screen musicals ever made. Life is a Cabaret!

Rated PG/1972/2:04/35mm

My Fair Lady

Sunday, January 27 at 3pm

Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins who draws street urchin Eliza Doolittle (incandescent Audrey Hepburn) into a social experiment that works almost too well. The Lerner & Loewe soundtrack features the classics “I Could Have Danced All Night”, On The Street Where You Live” and “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?”

Rated G/1964/2:50/35mm

An American in Paris

Sunday, February 17 at 3pm

The story of American GI Jerry Mulligan and his compromised love life in the City of Lights is a rapturous musical not quite like anything else in cinema. The final section of this Vincent Minnelli/Gene Kelly collaboration is a breathtaking 17-minute dance sequence that took a month to film. Memorable songs include "'S Wonderful," "I Got Rhythm," and "Love Is Here to Stay."

Rated PG/1951/1:53/35mm

Silent Film Special Event

2 Laughs for the Price of One!

Sunday, February 10 at 3pm

Buster Keaton in Sherlock, Jr. and Cops

Sherlock, Jr. 

"One of Keaton's best works. Its plot development, drawing of comedy characters and imaginative comic incidents place it among the great screen comedies of all time." -Donald W. McCaffrey, American Film Institute.

Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo is a delight, but Buster Keaton did it first. He plays a movie projectionist who daydreams himself into the movies he is showing and merges with the figures and the backgrounds on the screen. While dreaming he is Conan Doyle's master detective, he snoops out brilliant discoveries.  1924/45 mins./35mm

Cops  

A wonderful example of Buster Keaton's film artistry, a carefully orchestrated series of gags in which he plays an innocent who tries to impress his girl by becoming more than he is, and winds up inextricably caught in a police parade that breaks up to pursue him. 

1922/20 mins./35mm

Featuring Live Musical Cccompaniment by Theater Organ Legend

ROSA RIO at the Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ

ROSA RIO's career began in the silent film era in spectacular movie palaces in New York and New Orleans. In the 1930s and 40s she was dubbed "Queen of the Soaps" having provided organ accompaniment for several classic radio shows including "The Shadow" and "The Bob and Ray Show." She worked with many Hollywood legends including Lucille Ball, Orson Welles, and Art Carney. She created and recorded scores for over 365 silent films for the Video Yesteryears collection.  Click here to learn more about this amazing artist.