Weekend Classics

At the turn of the 20th century, a small group of students from an all-female college vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Peter Weir’s landmark of Australian cinema is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day. New 4K DCP Restoration

Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a Victorian-era Englishman who suffered from a disfiguring congenital disease and the surgeon who saved him from a tormented life in a freak show, David Lynch's 1980 film returns via a new 4K DCP restoration overseen by the director himself, and is only available to screen theatrically for a few brief months this spring.

Charles Burnett’s lyrical debut feature unfolds as a mosaic of Black life in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Largely unseen for decades following its completion in 1977, the film is now recognized as a touchstone of the groundbreaking L.A. Rebellion movement — and a masterpiece that brought Black American lives to the screen with an aching intimacy like no film before. 2x Charles Burnett – New 4K DCP Restorations

In Charles Burnett’s long-awaited 1999 comedy, an aging Jamaican widower (James Earl Jones) has spent decades wrestling an invisible demon named Hank. De-institutionalized, he takes a bus to Los Angeles and meets fellow lodger (Lynn Redgrave) who is fleeing her spurned long-dead fiancé, composer Giacomo Puccini. 2x Charles Burnett – New 4K DCP Restorations

Burned-out B-movie actress Maria (Tuesday Weld), depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with movie producer B.Z. (Anthony Perkins) offers a semblance of solace. Based on the novel by Joan Didion, directed by Frank Perry. New 4K DCP Restoration

Boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 film, his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles — the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him.

Elia Kazan’s prescient 1957 film traces the connections between TV stardom and politics via drunken drifter Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith). Plucked from prison to sing on the radio, he lands his own TV show. Working his way up to national syndication, Rhodes’ use of mass media and his lust for power gain him influence in a presidential campaign where his disdain for his audience threatens to awaken the voting populace.

When her Mother Superior sends her to serve as governess for the Von Trapp family, Maria’s love of life, music and dance binds her to the naval officer and his seven children. Their delicate happiness is threatened, however, by a burgeoning romance between Maria and the soon-to-be married captain — and the rise of the Third Reich in Austria.

Steven Spielberg pioneered the “summer blockbuster” with this white-knuckle tale of an insatiable great white shark that terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island. Memorial Day Weekend – 50th Anniversary Screenings