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RETRO EPICS FILM SERIESSundays at 2pm in Cinema One | Tickets $12 per person
WEBSITE: https://carolinatheatre.org/series/retro-epics-film-series/
July 7
Martin Scorsese’s GOODFELLAS
(R, 1990, 146 min)
Martin Scorsese exposes the fascinating, mysterious and violent underworld of New York's Mafia families through the life of insider Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he rises from smalltime thug to mobster under the guidance of Jimmy Conway (Robert De Niro) in this searing, epic crime drama based on the chilling true-life best seller by Nicholas Pileggi.
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July 21
George Roy Hill’s THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP
(R, 1982, 136 min)
A nurse during World War II, Jenny Fields (Oscar nominee Glenn Close) conceives with a dying pilot and bears a boy named T.S. Garp (Robin Williams) whom she raises alone. When Garp grows up, he has some success writing fiction, but not nearly so much as his mother has with feminist-themed nonfiction. Despite tragedy in his life, he draws ever closer to the world of his mother, which includes her friend, transsexual football player Roberta Muldoon (Oscar nominee John Lithgow).
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August 18
Stanley Kubrick’s EYES WIDE SHUT: 25th Anniversary!
(R, 1999, 159 min)
His first film in more than a decade and the last he would ever make, Kubrick’s chilling psycho-sexual thriller features exceptional performances from Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and the late, great Sydney Pollack. Cruise and Kidman star as a married couple entangled in an intricate web of jealousy and sexual obsession. At a Christmas party hosted by wealthy, unconventional Victor Ziegler (Sydney Pollack), provocative advances and innocent flirtations arouse suspicion as high-society physician Dr. William Harford (Cruise) and his sexy wife, Alice (Kidman) watch each other from a distance. Alone later, this seemingly perfect couple confront their intimate sexual fantasies--which don't include each other.
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September 29
Edward Zwick’s LEGENDS OF THE FALL: 30th Anniversary!
(R, 1994, 134 min)
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) lives in the wilderness with his sons, Tristan (Brad Pitt), Alfred (Aidan Quinn) and Samuel (Henry Thomas). Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family encounters tragedy when Samuel is killed in World War I. Tristan and Alfred survive their tours of duty, but soon after they return home, both men fall for Samuel's gorgeous fiancée, Susannah (Julia Ormond), and their intense rivalry begins to destroy the family.
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October 20
James Cameron’s THE ABYSS: DIRECTOR’S CUT
(PG-13, 1989, 171 min)
Writer/director James Cameron's dazzling underwater odyssey was shot entirely inside a flooded abandoned power plant. An undersea mining operation hosts a Navy rescue mission for a sunken nuclear sub, but the routine operation becomes a life-or-death struggle and leads to an otherworldly encounter. Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn star.
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November 3
Andrei Tarkovsky’s NOSTALGHIA
(Russia, 1983, 125 min)
Here is Tarkovsky's first feature made outside of Russia, the home to which he would never return. He explained that in Russian the word "nostalghia" conveys "the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away." This homesickness is embodied by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. He becomes obsessed with the beauty of his translator (Domiziana Giordano), as well as with the apocalyptic ramblings of a wanderer (Erland Josephson).
In Italian and Russian w/English subtitles
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November 24
Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER PART II: 50th Anniversary!
(R, 1974, 202 min)
The sequel shows us the world of Don Vito Corleone before and after the story in the original film. Al Pacino is his son Michael, who struggles to bring the family into the modern age. In the film's extended flashback sequences, Robert DeNiro is the young Vito as he gains power in the New York City Mafia.
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December 15
Anthony Harvey’s THE LION IN WINTER
(PG, 1968, 132 min)
It's Christmas 1183, and King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) is planning to announce his successor to the throne. The jockeying for the crown, though, is complex. Henry has three sons and wants his boy Prince John (Nigel Terry) to take over. Henry's wife, Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), has other ideas. She believes their son Prince Richard (Anthony Hopkins) should be king. As the family and various schemers gather for the holiday, each tries to make the indecisive king choose their option.
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The Carolina Theatre of Durham, 309 W Morgan St, Durham, NC 27701-2119, United States,Durham, North Carolina
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