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This Friday (May 3rd, 2024) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a retro film series double feature:

Irvin Kershner’s Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

George Miller’s The Road Warrior, aka Mad Max 2 (1982)

$12.00 [plus tax] to get in, movies start at 7(-ish).

“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]

This Friday (November 17th, 2023) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a retro film series double feature:

George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

Mel Brooks' Spaceballs (1987)

Note: Retro will be showing the 1997 "Special Edition" version of Star Wars, not the original 1977 theatrical cut. This is the closet version to the original cut of Star Wars permitted by LucasFilm for theatrical exhibition.

HOWEVER, this showing has already SOLD OUT! So...

This Saturday (November 18th, 2023) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a retro film series double feature encore:

Mel Brooks' Spaceballs (1987)

George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

Note: Retro will be showing the 1997 "Special Edition" version of Star Wars, not the original 1977 theatrical cut. This is the closet version to the original cut of Star Wars permitted by LucasFilm for theatrical exhibition.

$12.00 [plus tax] to get in, movies start at 7(-ish).

“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]

This Friday (November 10th, 2023) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a retro film series extraterrestrial double feature:

David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986)

Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs (1991)

$12.00 [plus tax] to get in, movies start at 7(-ish).

“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]

This Friday (October 20th, 2023) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a retro film series witchy double feature:

Kenny Ortega’s Hocus Pocus (1993)

Griffin Dunne’s Practical Magic (1998)

$12.00 [plus tax] to get in, movies start at 7(-ish).

“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]

This Friday (July 7th, 2023) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a retro film series double feature:

Stephen Spielbergs’s Jaws (1975)

Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea (1999)

$12.00 to get in, movies start at 7(-ish).

“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]

This Friday (June 16th, 2023) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a retro film series double feature:

John Badham’s WarGames (1983)

Guy Hamilton’s Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)

$10.00 to get in, movies start at 7(-ish).

“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]

This weekend (Friday, June 23rd to Sunday, June 25th, 2023) at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, it’s RetroNoir!

WHAT IS FILM NOIR?

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. The film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the early 1960s. The term film noir (French for “black film”) was unknown to most American film industry professionals of the classic era. Cinema historians and critics defined the noir canon in retrospect; before the notion was widely adopted in the 1970s, many of the classic film and crime noirs were referred to as melodramas. Latter-day works such as “LA Confidential” and “Seven” are often referred to as neo-noirs.  

Featuring

John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

John Farrow's The Big Clock (1948)

Rudolph Mate's D.O.A. (1949)

Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour (1945)

Louis Malle's Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

Akira Kurosawa's High and Low (1963)

Raoul Walsh's High Sierra (1941)

H. Bruce Humberstone's I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

Robert Siodmak's The Killers (1946)

Otto Preminger's Laura (1944)

Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear (1944)

Jules Dassin's The Naked City (1948)

Robert Siodmak's Phantom Lady (1944) 

Raoul Walsh's White Heat (1949)

Movie tickets are $10.00 each, or you can get a 10-pack for $80.  Check here for schedule.

“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]

This Friday (March 15th, 2024) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, a retro film series double feature:

William Friedkin's Sorcerer (1977)

Michael Cimino’s Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

$12.00 [plus tax] to get in, movies start at 7(-ish).

“Along with the City of Durham, we have made major investments in the Carolina Theatre for the comfort and safety of our guests during our closure,” says Randy McKay, the Carolina Theatre’s President & CEO. “That includes tens of thousands of dollars in new state of the art HVAC upgrades from Global Plasma Solutions (GPS) that remove biohazards, pollen, and other contaminants to make our air as pure — and sometimes purer — than outdoor air.”  The theater has also earned a Global Biorisk Advisory Council® (GBAC) STAR™ accreditation for its cleaning practices to ensure that guests have a safe and enjoyable experience.  “Together, these cleaning practices and advanced air filtration make the Carolina Theatre one of the safest spaces to attend a film or live event in the region,” says McKay.  [source]