This weekend (July 22nd-24th, 2022) night at the Carolina Theatre of Durham, it’s the RetroClassics weekend!
From epics (Metropolis, Seven Samurai) to arthouse (Badlands, Aguirre) to critically-acclaimed commercial pictures (Close Encounters, Slaughterhouse-Five), RetroClassics includes a decades-long scope of foreign language and English-speaking movies that stretches as far back as 1922’s HÄXAN and up to 1985’s Brazil. Whether it’s low-budget independent pictures or big-budget Hollywood blockbusters – drama, action, science fiction, musical, horror, comedy – prepare to shriek, gasp, giggle, and be inspired through this collection of some of the greatest films in motion picture history.
Films to be shown include:
Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1971)
Terrence Malick’s Badlands (1973)
Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985)
Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls (1962)
Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941)
Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (1922)
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: The Complete Version (1927)
Wim Wender’s Paris, Texas (1984)
Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950)
Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954)
George Roy Hill’s Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
Andrew L. Stone’s Stormy Weather (1943)
$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]
Carolina Theatre of Durham 309 W. Morgan St., Durham, NC http://www.carolinatheatre.org/
