The Paramount Theater in partnership with the Virginia Film Festival is proud to announce our July and August line-up! Family fun in July and iconic rock films in August. All movies will begin at 7 pm unless otherwise noted. Tickets are $4 youth/$6 adult. Click Here to Buy Tickets!
- 7/19 – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
In the early 20th century England, eccentric Caractacus Potts works as an inventor, a job which barely supports himself, his equally eccentric father, and his two adolescent children, Jeremy and Jemima. But they’re all happy. When the children beg their father to buy for them their favorite plaything – a broken down jalopy of a car sitting at a local junk yard – Caractacus does whatever he can to make some money to buy it.
- 7/26 – Superman
- 7/27 – 1776 (re-scheduled from June)
1776 is the film version of the Broadway musical comedy of the same name. The film focuses on the representatives of the thirteen original colonies who participated in the Second Continental Congress in the days leading up to July 4, 1776. Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single “nay” vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants.
- 8/9 – Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Detroit, Michigan, 1959. Berry Gordy gathers the best musicians from the city’s thriving jazz and blues scene for his new record company: Motown. For the next fourteen years these players are the heartbeat on every hit from Motown’s Detroit era. By the end of their phenomenal run, the unheralded group of musicians has become the greatest hit machine in the history of popular music. They call themselves the Funk Brothers. But no one knows their names…this is their story.
- 8/16 – This is Spinal Tap
Rob Reiner’s cult classic follows a has-been heavy metal group Spinal Tap as they navigate the joys (amps that go to 11) and pitfalls (having too much meat for too little bread) of touring to promote their latest album, Smell the Glove.
- 8/23 – Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison examines the most important day in the career of one of America’s foremost popular artists. It was January 1968, a year that would be saturated in violence and historical change. Cash’s 1968 concert at Folsom State Prison in California and the ensuing album became a symbol of the late 1960s and transformed his career. Drawing from rock photographer Jim Marshall’s stark images of that day, rare archival footage, as well as exclusive interviews with participants and observers, the film traces Cash’s rocky road that led to the concert and the torrent of stardom and political debate that came after it.
- 8/30 – Don’t Look Back
Enjoy concessions, including cold beer and wine, popcorn, and candy, in the theater during the movie!