Active Retired Screenings

ALL ABOUT EVE
February 2nd Wednesday
Dir: Joseph L Mankiewicz, USA, 1950, 138 min
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Celeste Holm

Bette Davis is superb as Margo Channing in this jet-black 1950's comedy which won 6 Oscar's including best picture, best director and best writing. ALL ABOUT EVE is invariably listed as one of the best movies ever made and stars the legendary Bette Davis in one of her most memorable roles. Margo Channing, elegant leading lady of the theatre, has just turned 40 and discovers Eve, a beautiful, star-struck young ingenue who yearns to be Margo's assistant, or her understudy, or perhaps more!

ON THE WATERFRONT
March 9th Wednesday
Dir: Elia Kazan, USA, 1954, 108 min
Starring: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger

Brando at his brilliant, moving, moody best as an ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman who must stand up to corrupt union officials and mob bosses if he is to have any future. Winner of 8 Oscars including best picture, best director and a best actor gong for Brando, ON THE WATERFRONT is quite simply one of the best movies ever made. You cannot miss this on the big screen!

KEY LARGO
April 6th Wednesday
Dir: John Huston, USA, 1948, 100 min
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore

Bogart and Bacall team up in John Houston's Oscar Winning classic from 1948. A gangster holes up in a hotel with his henchmen, holding Bogie at gunpoint. Brilliant film with a whole slew of stars at the very top of their careers!

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
May 4th Wednesday
Dir: Charles Laughton, USA, 1955, 93 min
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters

Robert Mitchum stars in this film noir classic about a religious fanatic that marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid 10,000 dollars that he'd stolen in a robbery! Not only is it a brilliant film but, in 1992, it was deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in its National Film Registry. Now that's some compliment for a film!