Flashback Cinema
TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE (20TH ANNIVERSARY)
2005 • Rated PG
Sunday, October 12, Wednesday, October 15
Tim Burton (The Nightmare Before Christmas) uses stop-motion animation to tell the tale of a young man who mistakenly weds a corpse and needs the help of his real-life bride-to-be to set things right. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson and Albert Finney lend their voices to this warmhearted musical fantasy, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. (“You may kiss the bride.”)
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
2004 • Rated PG-13
Sunday, October 19, Wednesday, October 22
“Let your soul take you where you long to be” with this big-screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster stage musical. With all the romance (“Love me…that’s all I ask of you”), the spectacle (“Masquerade! Paper faces on parade!”) and the unforgettable score that made this one of the grandest and most popular shows of our time. (“Help me make the music of the night…”)
HALLOWEEN
1978 • Rated R
Sunday, October 26, Wednesday, October 29
Director John Carpenter’s ORIGINAL horror classic. Escaped maniac Michael Myers returns home 15 years after committing a grisly murder…and just in time for Halloween. Jamie Lee Curtis, in her film debut, plays a babysitter who is stalked by Myers. A sleeper hit at the box office, this thriller inspired a whole series of “slasher movies” featuring teenagers in peril. (“You can’t kill the boogeyman.”)
BACK TO THE FUTURE (40TH ANNIVERSARY)
1985 • Rated PG
Sunday, November 2, Wednesday, November 5
Time-travel comedy adventure from Steven Spielberg & Robert Zemeckis. 80’s teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) teams up with mad scientist Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd). (“Doc, are you telling me you built a time machine … out of a DeLorean?”) Marty is transported to the year 1955 and must find a way to get “back to the future.” (“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!”)