SATURDAY, JANUARY 25*, SUNDAY, JANUARY 26 & WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29
Adventure! Comedy! Romance! (And oh, so quotable!) Dashing Westley (Cary Elwes) is intent onrescuing lovely Buttercup (Robin Wright) from an unhappy fate as the bride of Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon). Mandy Patinkin is a fencing master (“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”) and Billy Crystal is Miracle Max, a medicine man who treats the “mostly dead.” (“Have fun storming the castle!”)
1987
Rated PG
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2 & WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Epic love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War and winner of 10 Oscars® including Best Picture & Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel). Vivien Leigh won Best Actress for portraying Scarlett O’Hara, who goes from carefree southern belle (“Fiddle-dee-dee!”) to indomitable heroine (“Tomorrow…is another day!”). Clark Gable is Rhett Butler, the charming rogue who pursues her. (“Frankly, my dear…”)
1939
Rated PG
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 & FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 (VALENTINE’S DAY)*
World War II love story and Best Picture Oscar® winner starring Humphrey Bogart as a cynical cafe owner who is more of a romantic than he lets on (“Here’s looking at you, kid”). When long-lost love Ingrid Bergman shows up in Casablanca, sparks fly. Claude Rains is Captain Renault, whose approach to law enforcement is, well, flexible. (“I’m shocked, SHOCKED, to find that gambling is going on in here.”)
1942
Rated PG
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 & WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Gregory Peck won an Oscar® for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, a courageous lawyer defending a black man (Brock Peters) in a small southern town in the 1930’s. Atticus’s relationship with his young daughter Scout (Mary Badham) is the heart of this touching, powerful film based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize- winning novel. (“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...”)
1962
Unrated
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 & WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” Director Martin Scorsese’s classic chronicle of life in the mob, based on the true story of gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta). The killer cast includes Robert DeNiro, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino and Joe Pesci, who won an Oscar® for his performance as the volatile Tommy DeVito (“I’m funny how? Funny, like, I’m a clown? I amuse you?”)
1990
Rated R
MAY 22 & 25
Andie (Molly Ringwald) is a blue collar girl in love with rich kid Blane (Andrew McCarthy) in this high school romance written by John Hughes. Jon Cryer completes the triangle as Duckie, the lovable “best friend” who wishes he were more. Featuring a killer soundtrack with songs by The Psychedelic Furs and Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark, this film helped define 80’s teen angst. (“Blane?...that’s a major appliance, that’s not a name!”)
1986
Rated PG-13
SEPTEMBER 11 & 14
Directed by John Hughes, this comedy stars Molly Ringwald as a teenager with problems. She can’t shake an annoying geek (Anthony Michael Hall) while the cool senior she likes doesn’t seem to know she’s alive. As if that weren’t enough, her family has forgotten her 16th birthday. (“This is the single worst day of my entire life.”)
1984
Rated PG (the PG-13 rating didn’t exist when this film was released; today it would be rated PG-13 for brief nudity and language.)
MAY 15 & 18
This quintessential “buddy” movie stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford as real life outlaws and Katharine Ross as Redford’s love interest. One of the most popular films of the 60’s, it won four Academy Awards, including Best Original Song for “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The scene where Butch and Sundance are stranded on a cliff is a classic. (“The fall will probably kill you!”)
1969
Rated PG
FEBRUARY 12 & 15
The first—and for over 40 years the only—movie to win Oscars® in all 5 of the top categories: Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay. Frank Capra directed this quintessential romantic comedy about a wealthy socialite (Claudette Colbert) and a wise-cracking newspaperman (Clark Gable) who become unlikely travel companions. The hitchhiking scene, where Colbert schools Gable, is a classic. ("I’ll stop a car, and I won’t use my thumb!”)
1934
