Sunday, June 8
Given that the first two feature films to come out of Saturday Night Live sketch characters were The Blues Brothers and Wayne’s World, both enormous successes, the next six or seven disasters (you’re okay, MacGruber)…
Summer Classics
The 34th annual Summer Classics movie series is presented by Bank of America, series sponsor since 2015. This year’s time-honored collection celebrates more than a century of extraordinary filmmaking.
Promotional support is provided by WEDU PBS and Axios Tampa Bay.
Sunday, June 15
Take a look at the runtime of this baby one more time and then, before you buy tickets, mentally budget for a bigger concessions purchase than normal. You’re going to get hungry. But having done…
Sunday, June 29
What is it about fin de siècle Paris that keeps us coming back? Moulin Rouge!, director Baz Luhrmann’s garish, bonkers jukebox-musical love story and follow-up to the garish, bonkers Romeo + Juliet, comes out in…
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Sunday, July 20
The phrase “cult classic” gets thrown around a lot these days, frequently at films that aren’t even a decade old. A new movie might be “cult” — which some shameless writers use instead of “not…
Sunday, July 27
The story goes that director Steven Spielberg was inspired to make E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial by memories that surfaced during the long and lonely Raiders of the Lost Ark shoot in Tunisia. Spielberg recalled an imaginary…
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Sunday, August 3
Sometimes the best way to examine the stories a culture tells about itself is to ask someone outside of the culture. In 1966, Americans had mostly had their fill of cowboys. The grandeur and romance…
Sunday, August 17
A European princess, aggravated by the overwhelming pressure of her public life and regimented schedule, slips her handlers and takes a sedative that causes her to wander alone in an intoxicated fog through the dark…
Sunday, August 31
Once again, our popular program of silent comedy shorts returns, scored LIVE on our Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ by the incomparable Steven Ball! Charlie Chaplin in: A DOG’S LIFE (1918) 33 min The first in…