Flashback Cinema
SPIDER-MAN 2
2004 • Rated PG-13
Sunday March 1, Wednesday March 4
Highly-regarded second chapter in director Sam Raimi’s original Spider-Man trilogy finds Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) struggling to balance his personal life with his crime-fighting persona. Co-starring Alfred Molina as mad scientist-turned-mechanical octopus “Doc Ock,” maybe the most entertaining villain in the Spidey franchise, brought to life with Academy Award®-winning special effects. ("Put your arms up…all of them!”)Highly-regarded second chapter in director Sam Raimi’s original Spider-Man trilogy finds Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) struggling to balance his personal life with his crime-fighting persona. Co-starring Alfred Molina as mad scientist-turned-mechanical octopus “Doc Ock,” maybe the most entertaining villain in the Spidey franchise, brought to life with Academy Award®-winning special effects. ("Put your arms up…all of them!”)
LA LA LAND
2016 • Not Rated
Sunday March 8, Wednesday March 11
Emma Stone plays an aspiring actress and Ryan Gosling is a struggling jazz pianist in this musical romance that celebrates Hollywood (“It’s another day of sun!”) and the determined young dreamers who inhabit it. Winner of six Academy Awards® including Best Actress (Stone) and Best Director (Damien Chazelle). The Oscar®-winning score is full of magical tunes. ("Someone in the crowd could be the one you need to know…")
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
1959 • Not Rated
Sunday March 15, Wednesday March 18
Stylish thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the Master of Suspense. Cary Grant plays an advertising executive who is being pursued by villains and doesn’t know why. Filmed in wide-screen Vista-Vision, the scene where Grant, alone on a rural highway, is chased by a crop-dusting plane is a classic. Eva Marie Saint co-stars as a mysterious woman who Grant encounters on a train. (“How does a girl like you get to be a girl like you?”)
MATILDA
1996 • Rated PG
Satruday March 21, Sunday March 22, Wednesday March 25
Comical fantasy based on the beloved children’s book by Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Matilda (Mara Wilson) is a resourceful 6-year-old who loves to read and must rely on her psychic powers to overcome the challenge of living with her neglectful parents (Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman.) (“Why would you want to read when you have a television set sitting right in front of you?”)
THE MUMMY RETURNS (25TH ANNIVERSARY)
2001 • Rated PG-13
Saturday March 28, Sunday March 29, Wednesday April 1
Rousing sequel to the 1999 blockbuster finds adventurers Rick & Evelyn O’Connell (Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz) once again exploring ancient Egyptian ruins and digging up trouble, this time with their 8- year-old son. Featuring Dwayne (“The Rock”) Johnson in his movie debut as the Scorpion King and full of action, humor and, of course, scores of menacing mummies (“Not these guys again!”)
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
1942 • Rated PG
Sunday April 5 (Easter), Wednesday April 8
Much-loved adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel. In an era of arranged marriages, Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) is determined to marry for love. To her amazement she finds the one person she cannot stand is the one man she may not be able to resist. With Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn, Judi Dench and Matthew Macfadyen as the proud and equally amazed Mr. Darcy. (“You have bewitched me, body and soul.”)