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New Classics & Old Favorites Film Package:
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Monday, August 2, 11:30 pm
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A theater critic (Cary Grant) learns his two elderly aunts serve poisoned elderberry wine to lonely gentlemen callers. (CC) |
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Looking for Angelina
Friday, August 6, 8 pm & Monday, August 9, 11:30 pm
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Looking for Angelina tells the story of Angelina Napolitano, an Italian immigrant who murdered her abusive husband with an ax on Easter Sunday, 1911. |
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Meet John Doe
Friday, August 13, 8 pm & Monday, August 16, 11:30 pm
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As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it’s worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously...but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan. (from IMDB) (CC) |
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
Friday, August 20, 8 pm & Monday, August 23, 11:30 pm
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France, 1640: Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results. (from IMDB) (CC) |
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My Man Godfrey (1957)
Friday, August 27, 8 pm & Monday, August 30, 11:30 pm
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After exiling himself from polite society, erstwhile lawyer Godfrey Smith (David Niven) gets the chance to make good when an eccentric heiress (June Allyson) offers him a job as her household’s butler. Turns out, with his polish, panache and impeccable manners -- not to mention copious common sense -- Godfrey is a godsend to the chaotic clan. Niven earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in this remake of the 1936 comedy of the same name. (CC) |
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New Classics & Old Favorites Film Package:
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Friday, September 3, 8 pm & Monday, September 6, 11:30 pm
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An American (Jamie Lee Curtis) flirts with a crook, a barrister (John Cleese) and a mercenary (Kevin Kline) to find diamonds in London. (CC) (R: 9/6, 11:30 pm) |
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New Classics & Old Favorites Film Package:
A Mighty Wind (2003)
Monday, September 13, 11:30 pm
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In order to honor his late father, a man (Bob Balaban) reunites various musicians (Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins) to perform folk music at a tribute concert. |
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New Classics & Old Favorites Film Package:
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Monday, September 27, 11:30 pm
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A paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog whose heiress owner (Katharine Hepburn) also has a pet leopard, called Baby. (CC) |
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