Screening Schedule
Please be aware that the Armer Theater follows the rules of etiquette endorsed by the Television Academy and the Motion Picture Academy screening facilities. For the optimum viewing experience and to maintain the pristine environment, we do not allow any food (including chewing gum) or drinks (including bottled water) into the venue. We require that all cell phones, computers, mp3 players, and text messaging devices be turned off and put away during events. We require that each guest be properly seated in order to remain in the venue and that they refrain from disturbing others guests by talking during the screenings.
SEATING IS ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SEATED BASIS. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE GENERAL ADMISSION SEATS HELD FOR GUESTS WHO ARE NOT READY TO BE SEATED. THIS MEANS THAT GUESTS MAY NOT HOLD SEATS FOR FRIENDS WHO WILL BE ARRIVING LATE OR WHO ARE FURTHER BACK IN THE QUEUE.
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1 April - Thursday - 4 PMWild River(1960 - 1 hr. 49 min. - novel William Bradford Huie, Borden Deal w Paul Osborn d Elia Kazan)In 1930's Tennessee, the native folk go to odds with a representative from the Tennesse Valley Authority who wants to buy up some land needed for the construction of the now famous dam. (movies.yahoo.com) |
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1 April - Thursday - 7 PM
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13 April - Tuesday - 7 PMThe Grissom Gang(1971 - 2 hr. 7 min. - novel James Hadley Chase w Leon Griffiths d Robert Aldrich)Miss Blandish (Kim Darby), a young well-to-do heiress suffering from the emotional strain of overprotective parents, is kidnapped by a group of money-hungry thugs and thrust into a world of slums and poverty. As the Grissom Gang holds her for ransom, Miss Blandish begins a torrid love affair with their murderous leader, Slim (Scott Wilson), throwing a wrench in the family's plans to free her. Darby gives a complex and sultry performance as the pouty riches-to-rags debutante whose attraction to Slim seems driven by a spiky mixture of love, sex, and masochism. Director Robert Aldrich, after a triad of war films (FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX, DIRTY DOZEN, TOO LATE THE HERO), offers a slight change of pace with THE GRISSOM GANG, a violent, dramatic, and darkly funny film. (movies.yahoo.com) |
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14 April - Wednesday - 4 PMClaire’s Knee(1970 - 1 hr. 45 min. - w d Eric Rohmer)A thirtyish diplomat, on the brink of marriage, takes a holiday at a French resort and soon finds himself infatuated with a young woman's knee. (movies.yahoo.com) |
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15 April - Thursday- 4 PMThe Search(1948 - 1 hr. 45 min. - w Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler, Paul Jarrico d Fred Zinnemann)An American G.I. discovers a nine-year-old boy hiding amid the burned-out rubble in postwar Berlin. While he cares for the boy, the boy's mother desperately searches all displaced person's camps for him. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Director, Best Actor--Montgomery Clift, Best Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Motion Picture Story. (movies.yahoo.com) |
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15 April - Thursday - 7 PM
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16 April - Friday - 7 PM
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20 April - Tuesday - 7 PMThe Burmese Harp(1956 - 1 hr. 56 min. - novel Michio Takeyama w Natto Wada d Kon Ichikawa)A Japanese soldier experiences a spiritual awakening during World War II and turns all his energies to burying the dead. (movies.yahoo.com) |
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22 April - Thursday - 4 PMCookie’s Fortune(1999 - 1 hr. 58 min. - w Anne Rapp d Robert Altman)When a small Mississippi town's wealthy dowager Jewel-Mae "Cookie" Orcutt tires of her widowed life, she decides to take one of her late husband Buck's pistols from the gun cabinet and kill herself. She is discovered by her pretentious playwright niece, Camille (Glenn Close), and Camille's eccentrically odd and adorably shy younger sister, Cora (played by Julianne Moore), who plot to set the suicide up as a murder to preserve the family's reputation and ensconce themselves in the family mansion. The family of eccentrics is rounded out by Cora's wayward outlaw of a daughter, Emma (Liv Tyler). Chris O'Donnell plays Emma's love interest and erstwile jailer, Jason. The key suspect is Willis (Charles S. Dutton), Cookie's handyman, who happens to have cleaned the guns the night before Cookie's death. What follows is a very interesting tale of how a shocking incident casts a ripple among a group of small-town oddballs. The ensemble cast includes Ned Beatty, Courtney B. Vance, and Lyle Lovett. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie%27s_Fortune) |
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22 April - Thursday - 7 PM
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23 April - Friday - 7 PM
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27 April - Tuesday - 7 PMA Royal Scandal(1945 - 1 hr. 34 min. - play Melchior Lengyel w Lajos Biró, Bruno Frank, Edwin Justus Mayer d Ernst Lubitsch/Otto Preminger)A Royal Scandal, also known as Czarina, is a 1945 film about the love life of Russian Czarina Catherine the Great. It stars Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, and William Eythe. The film was based on the play Die zarin (The Czarina) by Lajos Biró and Melchior Lengyel. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Royal_Scandal_%28film%29) Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her. (http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=88721) |
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28 April - Wednesday - 7 PMThe Hit(1984 - 1 hr. 45 min. - w Peter Prince d Steven Frears)Willie Parker (Terence Stamp) is a mobster-turned informant living in relative seclusion and philosophical exile in rural Spain, until he is kidnapped one day and delivered to Braddock (John Hurt), a calculating and maniacal hit man who has been hired to deliver Parker to Paris, where his execution will take place. Braddock's partner, Myron (Tim Roth) is a young punkish fellow with an impulsive and violent streak. As they set out for Paris they realize they are being followed and must stop in Madrid to pick up a new car. They also acquire another hostage, Maggie (Laura Del Sol), whose boyfriend was killed for the car. Tension and the threat of violence hovers over every scene of the movie, creating a claustrophobic atmosphere that mirrors the confines of the car as they drive through miles of beautifully shot desert. Fast paced flamenco music from Spanish great Paco De Lucia ignites the screen and creates a haunting and moody atmosphere.The fine ensemble work from the brilliant cast members helps to create this richly woven and darkly humorous ride. (movies.yahoo.com) |
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29 April - Thursday - 4 PMMoontide(1942 - 1 hr. 34 min. - novel Willard Robertson w John O’Hara d Archie Mayo)With a few skeletons in his closet, namely a possible murder that he seems to have committed in a drunken haze, guilty longshoreman Bobo takes an isolated bait barge gig only to find the roughest waters lie ahead. Bobo rescues the beautiful Anna from an attempted suicide and falls in love with her in short order. But when his clingy compadre Tiny feels threatened, Tiny decides to use Bobo's unsavory past as blackmail fodder to keep the new girl from getting the best of his mate. Charles G. Clarke's stark, Oscar-nominated cinematography heightens this tense poetic realist drama, which Austrian director Fritz Lang (METROPOLIS) had a hand in making before dropping out early in the production. French arthouse superstar makes his English-language debut and is joined by Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, and Claude Rains. (movies.yahoo.com) |
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29 April - Thursday - 7 PM
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30 April - Friday - 7 PM
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