Summer Classics
The Summer Classics Movie Series is presented by Bank of America.
Additional support is provided by the University of Tampa and WEDU-PBS.
Tampa Theatre Film Programming is sponsored in part by Publix Super Markets Charities; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida Council on Arts and Culture; the Arts Council of Hillsborough County; and the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners.
June 20 and 24
Celebrating 30 Years of Summer Classics on the Big Screen! Upon its release in 1925, most reviews of The Gold Rush circled around two main points: for a comedy, it sure does have a whole…
June 27 and July 1
Celebrating 30 Years of Summer Classics on the Big Screen! America did not invent motion pictures, but we realized early that there was no better way to tell American stories, and there may be no…
July 11 and 15
Celebrating 30 Years of Summer Classics on the Big Screen! Albert Hitchcock directed some of the most famous set pieces in film history, and at least two of them are in North by Northwest —…
July 18 and 22
Celebrating 30 Years of Summer Classics on the Big Screen! When the Coen brothers made their early homages to hardboiled detective fiction (Blood Simple as James M. Cain homage and Miller’s Crossing as Dashiell Hammett…
July 25 and 29
Celebrating 30 Years of Summer Classics on the Big Screen! The interesting thing about seeing Jaws (Steven Spielberg’s other best film about big-toothed animals devouring people in an otherwise idyllic vacation-land) so many years after…
August 1 and 5
Celebrating 30 Years of Summer Classics on the Big Screen! Near the middle of Some Like It Hot, Marilyn Monroe stands in front of an all-woman orchestra (well, all-woman except for Jack Lemmon and Tony…
August 8 and 12
Celebrating 30 Years of Summer Classics on the Big Screen! When Debbie Reynolds passed away in 2016, how many of us thought first of her spritely, sassy performance of “Good Morning”? Her breakout role, Singin’…
August 15 and 19
Celebrating 30 Years of Summer Classics on the Big Screen! In 1974, Mel Brooks got together a bunch of his funniest friends and made a send-up of a film genre that he loved as a…
August 22 and 26
Celebrating 30 Years of Summer Classics on the Big Screen! 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…
August 29 and September 2
Celebrating 30 Years of Summer Classics on the Big Screen! Douglas Fairbanks was the finest and most famous action movie star of the silent film era. Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad, The Mark of…