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Paramount Summer Classic Film Series PresentsBeing John Malkovich + Persona
Double Feature!
State Theatre
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Doors: 6:00pm
Being John Malkovich: 7:00pm
Persona: 9:10pm
Being John Malkovich
(1999, 112min/color, DCP) John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and John Malkovich. Directed by Spike Jonze.
Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is a struggling street puppeteer. In order to make some money, Craig takes a job as a filing clerk. One day he accidentally discovers a door… a portal into the mind of John Malkovich (played by John Malkovich). With his office mate Maxine (Catherine Keener) and his pet-obsessed wife (Cameron Diaz), they hatch a plan to let others into John's brain for just $200 a trip.
Persona
60th Anniversary!
(1966, 83min/b&w/Swedish w/ English subtitles, DCP) Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson. Directed by Ingmar Bergman.
By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema’s most influential creations. Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist, Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.
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Stateside at the Paramount, 713 Congress Ave,Austin, Texas, United States
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