Paramount Movie Archive

Summer 2008 Series

Family Fun

The Wizard of Oz Saturday, June 21
4 & 7 pm

G, 1 hour 41 minutes
Starring Judy Garland, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan

The story of a little girl who finds out, by experiencing other places and people, that there’s no place like home and family! Nominated for six Academy Awards, winner of the 1939 Academy Award for Best Song ("Over the Rainbow") and Best Original Score (Herbert Stothart). Judy Garland was awarded a special prize for the best performance by a juvenile.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Sunday, June 22
1 & 4 pm

PG, 1 hour 55 minutes
Starring Drew Barrymore, Henry Thomas

The beloved Steven Spielberg movie about 10-year old Elliott (Thomas) who finds himself with a castaway alien on his hands. As the two learn to communicate and become friends, Henry must decide between doing what he wants (keeping his new friend with him) and what is best (getting ET home).

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Tickets on sale:
Presale -- Paramount Star Circle Members (and above) May 2
Presale -- All Paramount Members May 7
General Public May 13

Fall/Winter 2007-08

Viva Las Vegas (1964)

Saturday, September 29
4 and 7 pm
G, 1 hour 25 minutes

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

Saturday, October 27
4 and 7 pm
G, 2 hours 14 minutes

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Sunday, October 28
4 and 7 pm
Unrated, 1 hour 36 minutes

The 20th Annual Virginia Film Festival
Kin Flicks

For tickets and additional information, please visit www.vafilm.com.

Screenings at The Paramount:

Honeydripper
with director John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi
Thursday, November 1
7:00 PM
www.vafilm.com

Director John Sayles explores a time when juke joints were the place one could find release after a hard week in the cotton fields, all the while documenting that pulsating moment when the blues became rock 'n roll. Set in 1950 rural Alabama, Honeydripper tells the story of the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt and struggling to survive the competition of a rival joint, Tyrone hires famous electric guitar player "Guitar Sam" in a make-or-break plan to save the club. However, when the train comes in and Guitar Sam is nowhere to be found, Tyrone must think of another plan to protect his business. Honeydripper features a dynamic cast including Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Stacy Keach, Mary Steenburgen, and Sean Patrick Thomas, as well as such notable musicians as Keb' Mo' and Dr. Mable John.

Autism: The Musical
with Perrin Chiles and Tricia Regan
Friday, November 2
6:30 PM
www.vafilm.com

In 1980, autism was a relatively rare disorder, diagnosed in one in 10,000 children in the United States. Now it is closer to one in 150. Director Tricia Regan captures the struggles and triumphs of five autistic children who defy expectations by writing, rehearsing and performing their own full-length musical, under the instruction of a professional acting coach who is herself the mother of an autistic child. Over the course of the production, we get to know each child and their family, and learn how their own particular set of symptoms help shape their personality and how they relate to the outside world. As these children step out of their inner worlds, they learn to work together and help dispel myths about their condition.

The Savages
with writer/director Tamara Jenkins and David Edelstein
Friday, November 2
10:00 PM
www.vafilm.com

Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father’s domineering thumb, the two Savage siblings are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy (Laura Linney) is a struggling East Village playwright and Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage (Philip Bosco), is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Featuring nuanced performances from an extraordinary cast, The Savages marks the return of writer and director Tamara Jenkins who won acclaim for the humor and humanity of her previous film, The Slums of Beverly Hills.

Peter Pan
with Stewart Stern, Donald Sosin, Joanna Seaton, Paul Reisler, Terri Allard and the Charlottesville Children’s Chorus
Saturday, November 3
1:00 PM
www.vafilm.com

Of all the screen incarnations of J.M. Barrie’s beloved stage play, Herbert Brenon’s 1924 silent version may be the most faithful, despite occasional attempts to “Americanize” the little boy who won’t grow up. With atmospheric cinematography and magical special effects that still amaze audiences after more than eighty years, this Peter Pan is a delight for the entire family. Silent film buffs will recognize Asian American actress Anna May Wong in the role of princess Tiger Lily. Please note: Children 12 and under admitted to this screening for the special discount price of $1.

Romance & Cigarettes
with writer/director John Turturro
Saturday, November 3
6:30 PM
www.vafilm.com

John Turturro (star of Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Barton Fink, and many other great movies) goes behind the camera for his third outing as director in this startling re-imagination of kitchen-sink melodrama as musical. Set in contemporary America, Romance and Cigarettes is a picaresque comedy of infidelity and redemption. James Gandolfini (The Sopranos,) leads a stellar cast, playing Nick Murder, a steel-worker fatally obsessed with Kate Winslet’s flame-haired, foul-mouthed seductress. Turturro’s gritty, exhilarating and intense script is studded with vintage musical recordings from the 60s, lip-synched by the cast in often unsettling contexts. The incredible cast of actors all throw themselves into a series of spirited appearances with verve and gusto. Special mention must be made of Kate Winslett’s Tula -- she delivers a bravura performance of such exhilarating crudity that it redefines her career. Stephen Holden of The New York Times writes: “The cast is clearly having the time of its life ... and the excitement is contagious.”

Randy and the Mob
with Ray McKinnon and Lisa Blount
Saturday, November 3
10:00 PM
www.vafilm.com

Ray McKinnon’s South is not the gentile, courtly south with belles in hoop dresses, nor is it a hillbilly swamp where grown men are made to sqeal like pigs. Rather, the filmmaker’s (Chrystal, The Accountant) South is a complicated tangle of decent people who sometimes do bad things, and sometimes just get by, in a land of kudzu and truck stops. Randy is a wheeler-dealer who comes up against loan sharks and must turn to his gay twin brother to help him out (writer and director McKinnon plays both parts). Helping Randy, in her own way, is his chronically depressed wife (Lisa Blount), a baton instructor with carpal tunnel syndrome, and an unlikely ally: the mob enforcer Tino Armani (Walton Goggins). The three main actors are also the producers of the this gentle but aching comedy. Burt Reynolds also stars.

A Christmas Story (1983)

Saturday, December 8
4 and 7 pm
PG, 1 hour 34 minutes

White Christmas (1954)

Sunday, December 9
4 and 7 pm
G, 2 hours

Summer 2007