Roman (Matthias Schoenaerts), a convict in a rural Nevada prison who struggles to escape his violent past, is required to participate in an "outdoor maintenance" program as part of his state-mandated social rehabilitation. Spotted by a no-nonsense veteran trainer (Bruce Dern) and helped by an outgoing fellow inmate and trick rider (Jason Mitchell), Roman is accepted into the selective wild horse training section of the program, where he finds his own humanity in gentling an especially unbreakable mustang.
THE MEN WHO WEREN'T THERE: COEN BROTHERS' CLASSICS
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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.
It is 1961 and Rudolf Nureyev, not yet the imperious figure of legend, is a member of the world-renowned Kirov Ballet Company, travelling for the first time outside the Soviet Union.
Parisian life delights Nureyev and the young dancer is eager to consume all the culture, art and music the dazzling city has to offer. But the KGB officers who watch his every move become increasingly suspicious of his behavior.
When they finally confront Nureyev with a shocking demand, he is forced to make a heart-breaking decision, one that may change the course of his life forever and put his family and friends in terrible danger.
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.
HEIGHTS 2019 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA
ADDITIONAL SHOW ADDED AT 4:00PM! Our 1:00pm screening is sold out.
ALL NEW DIGITAL RESTORATIONS!
The enormously popular LAUREL & HARDY FESTIVAL returns with one of their greatest features and a long lost silent short, both looking better than ever!
This year, we open with the restored 1927 silent short THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY, with live accompaniment by Karl Eilers on the Heights' Mighty Wurlitzer, followed by the classic feature, SONS OF THE DESERT. Desperate to get to Chicago for a convention of their fraternal lodge, but knowing that their wives won't approve, Laurel & Hardy work every conceivable angle to sneak away, with hilariously disastrous results. Don't miss this day of silent and sound comedy from the greatest comedy duo in cinema history!
DCP courtesy Jeff Joesph
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Film producer Otto Kruse brags that he will produce a successful, new kind of revue film, but with escapist musical films being a political hot potato in East Germany, he can not get anyone to agree to work on it. With the project close to collapse, he orders his stage manager Claudia Gluck to "do what it takes" to get it done. Soon she finds herself holding a dramaturg, composer and set designer hostage in a villa-with orders to keep them there until they create a cheerful musical film. But will they be able to pull it off?
Easily the greatest of all Soviet bloc musicals - and politically the most daring, this 1962 East German DEFA musical spares no expense and is a colorful spectacle of midcentury modernism, and a tour de force of music and dance genres. Like Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges - who discovered that through comedy you could skirt the Hayes Code - Director Gottfried Kolditz uses humor to go places that no other East German filmmaker dared.
Now restored to its original AGFACOLOR - Wide-screen TOTALVISION - 4 channel Stereophonic sound glory, this film is not to be missed on the big screen!
In German with English subtitles
DCP courtesy The DEFA Film Library UMASS AMHERST
35MM PRESENTATION
Dr. No laid the groundwork for all future Bond films with the iconic opening theme, the shot of Bond seen through the gun barrel, the gadgets, and the girl, in this case Honey Ryder, played to perfection by Ursula Andress. Here, Bond heads to Jamaica, this time to investigate the murder of an MI6 agent at the hands of SPECTRE's evil henchmen. Mechanical dragons, poison, silencers, and a nefarious plot to thwart NASA all make this first Bond a thrill-a-minute ride.
35mm print courtesy Park Circus.
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Often regarded as the most serious of the Bond films (until Daniel Craig came along), From Russia with Love features a convoluted plot and some of the most intense villains in the whole series, including Robert Shaw's Irish henchman and Lotte Lenya's knife-in-the-boot villainess. This one not only features SPECTRE, an international association of very bad people, but SMERSH, a Soviety counterintelligence agency--and both are hell-bent on destroying Bond! Introducing Desmond Llewelyn as the gadget-meister Q, who would play the role for the next 36 years.
35mm print courtesy Park Circus.
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35MM PRESENTATION
Call her a square, but Doris Day was perhaps the most underrated comedienne in Hollywood history. And she was never more hilarious, nor charming, as she was in Pillow Talk, an enormous hit in its day. Sparks fly in this story of an arrogant Broadway composer and playboy (Rock Hudson) whose telephone party line keeps getting tangled with a proud interior decorator (Day). Pillow Talk was an enormous hit, was nominated for four Oscars (including one for Day and the great Thelma Ritter) and won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
35mm print courtesy Universal Pictures.
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The first big blockbuster in the series, earning more than the first two put together, and ratcheted up the gadgets and the weird, weird plot not to mention the insane Bond theme sung by Shirley Bassey. While on vacation in Florida, Bond is given the assignment of foiling the plot of the eponymous evildoer Goldfinger, who's intent on robbing Fort Knox. Famous for the death of Bond's girlfriend by gold paint, Goldfinger has some of the best supporting characters in all the movies: Honor Blackman's Pussy Galore and Harold Sakata's Oddjob, who can kill people with his hat.
35mm print courtesy Park Circus.
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Accompanied by KARL EILERS at the keyboard of the Heights Mighty Wurlitzer!
If you're a classic film fan you're probably familiar with Gloria Swanson in her brilliant turn in Sunset Blvd., as the off-her-rocker silent film star well past her prime. But few have seen the films that made her the perfect choice for that classic noir. Swanson captured audience imaginations like few before or since, and an even better secret is that she was a brilliant comic actress as well.
And Sunset Blvd. wasn't the only film to poke some fun at her career: behold STAGE STRUCK, which opens with a magnificent Technicolor sequence with Swanson in her most outrageously theatrical performances, as a diva actress pulling out all the stops. Suddenly we're back in black-and-white, to a small river town in West Virginia where Swanson's a weary waitress whose boyfriend can't help but fall in love with every riverboat actress who makes a stop. Hoping to get even, our waitress decides that she's good and ready for the stage... or not.
Rights clearance Paramount Pictures.
35MM PRESENTATION
SPECTRE is back, this time hijacking a pair of nuclear bombs and demanding 100 million pounds in diamonds (forget dollars, the British pound is what counts in the world.) Naturally, SPECTRE retreats with their booty to the Caribbean, meaning Bond and all the beautiful people get to romp in bathing suits. Lots of underwater action, shark attacks, jet packs, and more, as Connery struts his stuff in what is, adjusted for inflation, the biggest box office smash of the entire run.
35mm print courtesy Park Circus.
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35MM PRESENTATION
When small time con men Luther (Robert Earl Jones), Kelly Hooker (Robert Redford) and the Erie Kid (Jack Kehoe) unknowingly spoil a money drop of noted Chicago numbers-runner Doyle Lonnegan, the boys are in trouble. And when Luther is murdered, a whole underground team of cons seeks revenge, turning to Shaw Gondorff to pull the wool over the gangster's eyes and fleece him for millions.
With an army of the best character actors in the business, set designs that captured the Depression perfectly, intertitles that harkened back to the silent era (and the Saturday Evening Post of days gone by) and a score of Scott Joplin rags that was was number one on the charts, THE STING took America by surprise... and by storm.
35mm print courtesy Universal Pictures
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35MM PRESENTATION
Chauncey Gardiner tends to the greenhouses of a beloved and wealthy man in Washington, D.C. Never given any sort of education, and learning all he knows from TV, Chauncey lives a life free from chaos... until his benefactor dies, and he is on the street. Out for just a short while, he is injured by the limousine of Ben and Eve Rand, a Washington fixer and his trophy wife. Taking him in, both are struck by Chance the Gardner (as he is now named) and his pearls of wisdom, which are merely Chance's gardening tips and tidbits he learned from the boob tube. Soon, Chance is considered to be a rising star, and perhaps... the next president? You could do worse.
35mm print courtesy Warner Bros.
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70MM PRESENTATION
One of the greatest motion picture epics of all time returns to The Heights in the glory and magnificence of 70MM making this a must see film event!
Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, brilliant and flamboyant British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness) and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks.
70mm print courtesy Sony Pictures.
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Charming ad man Roger O. Thornhill (or ROT, to his friends) must run for his life when he's mistaken for an American spy by a dastardly criminal organization. Avoiding death by drunk driving; by gun and knife and gravity; and, most famously, by a crop-dusting, gun-toting plane in the middle of Illinois, poor Thornhill must eventually not only save himself, but the beautiful Eve.
Hitchcock urged screenwriter Ernest Lehman to pull out all the stops, resulting in a breathtaking adventure whose insane plot twists somehow work in spite of themselves. Cary Grant was never more charming, Eve Marie Saint never more alluring, and Hitchcock never more assured. The only way to witness such suspenseful majesty is on the Heights' silver screen.
DCP courtesy Warner Bros.
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35MM TECHNICOLOR DYE-TRANSFER PRINT!!
Like Singin' In The Rain, The Wizard of Oz is one of our most popular events and sells out year after year, which is no surprise because you may never see OZ look so amazing on the big screen than in this rare 35mm TECHNICOLOR DYE TRANSFER presentation!! Has there ever been a more essential piece of movie magic than the journey of Dorothy and Toto? Probably not.
Want to know more about the Technicolor Dye-Transfer process Click here.
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35MM PRESENTATION
When desperate musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, they've got to get out of town, and fast. But without any money, what can they do except, well, dress like women and join an all-girls band bound for sunny Florida? The cross-dressing duo find themselves in the same resort as the gangster who order the murders, but that's not the least of their troubles: Joe/Josephine is in love with Marilyn Monroe's "Sugar" and Jerry/Daphne's got a suitor in Osgood Fielding III, a man who won't take no for an answer. This groundbreaking comedy feels ahead of its time even in the 21st Century.
35mm print courtesy Park Circus.
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DIGITAL CINEMA PRESENTATION
When television anchor Howard Beale (Peter Finch) is told he is going to be replaced in two weeks, he gets drunk and announces, on air, that he will commit suicide live in two weeks, for which he's fired. Max Schumacher (William Holden), a downbeaten drunk himself, intervenes and allows Beale to have a final farewell with dignity. But Beale gets angry, and during his show proclaims "I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!" When this proves to be a ratings bonanza, the station keeps him around... until he's no longer useful. Don't miss this rare screening!
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Who would have thought that Roger Corman's ultra-low budget shlock horror film from the 60s would turn into an off-Broadway musical, itself turned into one of the most underrated musicals in cinema history! Believe it! When timid Seymour (Rick Moranis) tries to help his bullying flower-shop boss Mr. Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia) by displaying Audrey II, a strange flower Seymour bought in Chinatown, little did they know they were unleashing a creature from outer space that just loves to devour flesh.
DCP courtesy Warner Bros.
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Like Murder by Death before it, Clue (loosely based on the board game) is a spot-on parody of classic murder mysteries, with a star-studded cast of the 80s best comic actors, and featuring not one but three endings (each included at our screening!) Six strangers appear at an old mansion, are given pseudonyms (Col. Mustard, Mrs. White, etc., from the game), and soon, chaos and hilarity ensue! Tim Curry cements the whole thing as the crazed butler, while Martin Mull, Madeline Kahn, Leslie Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd and even the Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin make appearances. A flop in its day, Clue has since gone on to be a hilarious cult classic!
DCP courtesy Paramount Pictures.
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Singin' In the Rain is one of our most popular events and sells out year after year! Considered by many to be one of the greatest screen musicals of all time, Singin' in the Rain is also a hilarious look at the chaos and turmoil that the switch from silents to talkies cast upon Hollywood in the late 1920's. Plus all that glorious TECHNICOLOR!
DCP courtesy Warner Bros.
