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Summer Classics

The Princess Bride

Sunday, Aug. 4

Once upon a time, a grandfather is reading his favorite book to his largely disinterested grandson (played a young Fred Savage). The story, he promises, has everything – “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Revenge. Giants. Monsters. Chases.

Sunday, August 04

3:00pm
Summer Classics

The Silent Clowns

Sunday, Aug. 25

Come experience time travel at Tampa Theatre as Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ underscores an afternoon of silent comedy classics from the genre’s all-time masters with all-new original musical accompaniment written and performed live by the

Sunday, August 25

3:00pm
Summer Classics

Chinatown

Sunday, Aug. 11

Set in 1930s Los Angeles, Roman Polanski’s 1974 neo-noir Chinatown follows private investigator J.J. “Jake” Gittes (Jack Nicholson) as he delves into a web of corruption, deceit, and murder surrounding the water rights of the

Sunday, August 11

3:00pm
Summer Classics

Do The Right Thing

Sunday, July 28

Mookie (Spike Lee) delivers pizzas for Sal Fragione (Danny Aiello) in the predominantly Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. He and Sal’s younger son, Vito (Richard Edson), are friends, despite the racist reaction

Sunday, July 28

3:00pm
Star Wars Day Celebration

One year after Han Solo’s capture, C-3PO and R2-D2 are sent to Jabba the Hutt’s palace on Tatooine in a bogus hostage-trade scheme made by Luke Skywalker. The plan is, unfortunately, too complicated for its

Star Wars Day Celebration

Star Wars: A New Hope

Saturday, May 4

We at Tampa Theatre had been trying to get permission to screen Star Wars (now known as Star Wars: A New Hope) since Grand Admiral Thrawn was still just a twinkle in Timothy Zahn’s typewriter

Star Wars Day Celebration

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was the second Star Wars movie ever made, which makes it the first Star Wars movie that was made by people who knew what “a Star Wars movie” meant.

Over its 97-year history, Tampa Theatre has starred in the love stories of many Bay-area romantics: from first dates under the starry sky to stolen kisses in the balcony; from “meet cutes” under the historic

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