Dr Don Shirley is a world-class African-American pianist, who is about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South in 1962. In need of a driver and protection, Shirley recruits Tony Lip, a tough-talking bouncer from an Italian-American neighbourhood in the Bronx. Despite their differences, the two men soon develop an unexpected bond while confronting racism and danger in an era of segregation.
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Less a sequel to Cat People, and more a paranormal children's noir that is unlike virtually anything Hollywood has ever made, Curse of the Cat People is at once thrilling, chilling and heartbreaking. Amy is a troubled child, prone to daydreaming, who begins a friendship with her father's deceased former wife, appearing in their snow-covered backyard. Psychologically complex, at times painful, gorgeous to behold, this underrated noir deserves to be appreciated on the Heights' silver screen.
35mm print courtesy LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema
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Though it's named for its eponymous heroine, Mildred Pierce is driven by insidious Veda, Mildred's daughter, and one of the most greedy young women in noir history. Seemingly driven to wealth and its trappings since birth, Veda manipulates her hard-working mother to give her everything, without a drop of compassion in her black soul. Mildred Pierce won Joan Crawford a well-deserved Oscar, but Ann Blyth is captivating as the poisonous daughter.
35mm print courtesy Warner Bros.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema
35MM PRESENTATION
Hitchcock claimed that this was his favorite of his many classics, and we would be hard pressed to disagree. Simultaneously sweet and poisonous, Shadow of Doubt is the story the urbane Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten, never more bitter) who returns to his small hometown to visit his sister and especially young Charlie, (Teresa Wright, perfect as the bored teen) the niece who idolizes him. That is, until she discovers some terrible secrets lurking behind the dapper Uncle who seems to harbor a seething hatred of rich women. Wright and Cotten are in perfect synch with one another, creating a strange chemistry that will not soon be forgotten.
35mm print courtesy Universal Pictures
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon cinema
A FLASK OF FIELDS: W.C. FIELDS' GREATEST COMEDIES
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When small town grocer Harold Bissonette inherits some money, he buys an orange grove in California, packs up his henpecking wife and annoying kids and heads west, only to find outrageous misfortune. One of Fields' greatest expressions of his beleaguered everyman, It's A Gift showcases several comic routines he perfected in vaudeville.
35mm print courtesy Universal Pictures.
A FLASK OF FIELDS: W.C. FIELDS' GREATEST COMEDIES
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Poor Sam Bisbee: this good-hearted inventor/optometrist just wants to live his life in peace and be himself. But his wife is embarrassed by him, and his loving daughter is engaged to a man whose family loathes the uncouth Busbees, and when his business fails, it takes a surprise princess to set things right. As in every Fields' film, the sarcastic but lovable everyman endures despite life throwing monkey wrenches into his works.
35mm print courtesy Universal Pictures.
A FLASK OF FIELDS: W.C. FIELDS' GREATEST COMEDIES
35MM PRESENTATION
Fields' Ambrose Wolfinger has the job of a lifetime: as a "memory expert" tasked with remembering details about everyone his boss meets with and help keep the business afloat. Freeloading onto Wolfinger are his henpecking wife, mother-and brother-in-law, though he lives to support his loving daughter. Simply trying to take an afternoon off to see a wrestling match, he spins an outrageous web of deception, setting off a chain of events that almost kill Ambrose, end his marriage and destroy the company, until his daughter prevails in this gut-busting comedy. One of Field's greatest films!
35mm print courtesy Universal Pictures.
A FLASK OF FIELDS: W.C. FIELDS' GREATEST COMEDIES
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Larsen E. Whipsnade is the owner of a failing circus, struggling week-after-week to pay the bills. His daughter is in love Edgar Bergen, on hand with his smart aleck dummy Charlie McCarthy, but sets aside her feelings to woo a dopey millionaire to keep her father solvent. Fields' Whipsnade is a growling, grumbling drunk whose whose run ins with poison tongued Charlie McCarthy are the highlight of this uproarious film filled with jokes, gags, and slapstick.
35mm print courtesy Universal Pictures.
70MM PRESENTATION
You have not seen VERTIGO until you have seen it in 70mm!
Soon after his early retirement, Scottie Ferguson (Stewart) is hired by a former college acquaintance to investigate the strange behavior of his wife, Madeleine (Novak). Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, this masterpiece of identity and obsession is even more engrossing in a lush 70mm presentation.
Presented by the Trylon Cinema and The Heights Theater.
70mm print courtesy Universal Pictures.
35MM PRESENTATION
This mad suspense thriller, with its famed dream sequence designed by Salvador Dali, pairs an amnesia patient (Peck) wrongly accused of killing a doctor with a psychiatrist (Bergman), who falls for him and tries to clear his name.
Presented by The Trylon Cinema and The Heights Theater
35mm print courtesy Swank Motion Pictures
DIGITAL CINEMA PRESENTATION
Now a Heights yearly tradition, Hal Ashby's poignant black comedy about anti social Harold and his geriatric girlfriend Maude has to be one of the classic misfit love stories of all time. Harold and Maude was a true cult film phenomena in it's day running a record 2 years at the (now closed) Westgate Theater in Minneapolis, and it is not to be missed on the big screen.
DCP courtesy Paramount Pictures.
THE MEN WHO WEREN'T THERE: COEN BROTHERS' CLASSICS
DIGITAL CINEMA PRESENTATION
Fargo's outrageous story of a kidnapping gone very wrong is grounded by Frances McDormand's Oscar-winning role as Marge Gunderson, the very pregnant police chief of Brainerd, whose persistence and wisdom wins the day. Fargo is at once an intensely violent and painful look at loneliness and greed, and a hilarious send up of hot dish Minnesota nice.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema
DCP courtesy Park Circus.
THE MEN WHO WEREN'T THERE: COEN BROTHERS' CLASSICS
DIGITAL CINEMA PRESENTATION
Nicholas Cage is ex-con H.I., and Holly Hunter is police officer Edwina (or Ed), who fall in love, marry, and then fail to conceive a child. Enter the "Arizona Quints", five babies born to furniture salesman Nathan Arizona. A kidnapped baby, prison breaks, bank robberies, chases on foot and in broken down vehicles and... yodeling make this perhaps their best, and most emotional, film.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema
DCP courtesy Twentieth Century Fox.
THE MEN WHO WEREN'T THERE: COEN BROTHERS' CLASSICS
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Three convicts escape the chain gang into rural, Depression-era Mississippi in this vibrant comedy whose period score is now regarded as a classic. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey (which the Coens claim never to have read), O Brother Where Art Thou? is a hilarious romp in the Preston Sturges tradition.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema
35mm print courtesy Swank Motion Pictures.
THE MEN WHO WEREN'T THERE: COEN BROTHERS' CLASSICS
DIGITAL CINEMA PRESENTATION
Jeff Bridges is "The Dude", or the Little Lebowski, who discovers that an assault on him was intended for the Big Lebowksi, a wealthy man whose wife has been kidnapped... or not. A cult classic, The Big Lebowski is a crazy take on Raymond Chandler noir, Busby Berkeley, 60s counterculture, nihilists and bowling.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema
DCP courtesy Universal Pictures.
THE MEN WHO WEREN'T THERE: COEN BROTHERS' CLASSICS
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While out hunting, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers two million dollars and a pile of bodies. He goes on the run, but the forces of evil have been unleashed in the form of Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), whose single-minded pursuit of Moss results in collateral damage that can only be described as apocalyptic. Brooding and violent, No Country for Old Men walked away with Oscars for Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor for Bardem.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema
35mm print courtesy Park Circus.
