Movie Category: Summer Classics

Dial M for Murder, director Alfred Hitchcock’s second color film, is sandwiched between the frankly forgettable I Confess and his first true masterpiece, Rear Window. Originally filmed for 3D (the viewer will notice some unusual…

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! There’s no time like Tampa Theatre’s Summer Classics movie series to watch a movie about maybe the most famous summer romance ever. There’s probably a lot to be said about…

It would be wrong to call All That Jazz psychedelic, but it certainly would be accurate to call it trippy. Percussive editing and an aggressive use of bizarre camera technique (it’s considered one of the…

The Wizard of Oz has permeated popular culture to such an extent that, even if they haven’t seen it themselves, most people know it almost by heart. It’s certainly true that they don’t make them…

With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era’s most iconic leading lady, thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations — at the…

In 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released guidelines confirming that sexual harassment was illegal in the workplace under Title VII protections. Later that year, the feminist cult-classic comedy 9 to 5 came out. Coincidence?…

Part of Shawshank Redemption’s lasting appeal must come down to its capacity to defy expectations — it’s a dark and grueling portrait of human cruelty, and a feel-good buddy picture where the good guys win,…

Tampa Theatre remains one of the only movie palaces in the world that can revive its original programming by presenting a silent film with live musical accompaniment on the theatre’s original 1926 Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre…

Casablanca lands so routinely in listings of the top two or three movies of all time, it’s become almost boring to call it great. It’s the definition of a Hollywood masterpiece. The scenes and the…