RETRO EPICS FILM SERIESSundays at 2pm in Cinema One | Tickets $12 per person
Sunday, July 6, 2025
John Guillermin’s THE TOWERING INFERNO
(PG, 1974, 165 min)
First ever screening at Retro!
Retro Epics proudly presents this ultra-rare theatrical screening from the Walt Disney/20th Century Fox library! From Irwin “Master of Disaster” Allen comes this monumental disaster epic that was nominated for 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture and ultimately won 3 Oscars including Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Song. When people talk about 70s star-studded disaster films, this is usually at the top of the list. Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Robert Wagner, Jennifer Jones, Fred Astaire, Robert Vaughn, Richard Chamberlain, and O.J. Simpson are trapped atop the world’s largest skyscraper, built in San Francisco, when a fire erupts several floors below. Now it’s a race against time as the fire department battles the blaze, elevators collapse, and the survivors must navigate the raging inferno, floor by floor, before the entire building is engulfed by hell!
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Sunday, August 3, 2025
George Cukor’s A STAR IS BORN
(1954, 154 min)
First ever screening at Retro!
Judy Garland stars as a nightclub singer who becomes a star but loses the man she loves -- who will not allow himself to hinder her rise to fame. Esther Blodgett (Garland) is launched by movie star Norman Maine (James Mason), and becomes leading lady Vicki Lester, but as Maine's career flounders, he sinks into an abyss of alcoholism. Esther chooses to sacrifice her stardom to care for her husband, but he will not allow Esther to abandon her dreams.
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Sunday, August 31, 2025
Brian De Palma’s SCARFACE
(R, 1983, 170 min)
First ever screening at Retro!
One of the most influential gangster epics of all time, “Scarface” is the rags-to-riches story of Cuban immigrant Tony “Scarface” Montana, who finds wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams…at a price he never imagined. With a script from Oscar-winning writer Oliver Stone, “Scarface” stars Academy Award winner Al Pacino in an unforgettable performance as one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film. The film co-stars Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Míriam Colón and F. Murray Abraham.
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Sunday, October 26, 2025
David Fincher’s SE7EN: 30th Anniversary
(R, 1995, 127 min)
Last screened at Retro in 2018!
Gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, lust — everyone has a sin. For detectives William Somerset and David Mills they live among these sins every day. But nothing can prepare the partners for the killings they are about to experience, all of which begins when they find a morbidly obese man who has died from the forced ingestion of spaghetti. What starts as one bizarre crime turns into a case of serial murders as a predator named John Doe begins to execute victims by paying homage to the "deadly sin" they represent. Directed by David Fincher and starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey.
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Sunday, November 23, 2025
James Cameron’s TITANIC
(PG-13, 1997, 195 min)
First ever screening at Retro!
James Cameron’s doomed love story/disaster epic is an ideal combination of teen romance and state-of-the-art action filmmaking. Awarded 11 Oscars, including for the best film, Leonardo DiCaprio and Oscar-nominated Kate Winslet enchant on the screen as the young lovers Jack and Rose, who meet on the maiden voyage of the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic. When the fateful luxury ship collides with an iceberg in the icy North Atlantic, her passionate love turns into a thrilling race against death. Award-winning filmmaker and repeated Oscar winner James Cameron staged “Titanic”, the masterful film epic about forbidden love and indescribable courage in the face of disaster.
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Sunday, December 14, 2025
David Lean’s DOCTOR ZHIVAGO: 60th Anniversary
(PG-13, 1965, 197 min)
First ever screening at Retro!
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar (Julie Christie), who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky (Rod Steiger), an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, however, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin). But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites.
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Event Venue
The Carolina Theatre of Durham, 309 W Morgan St,Durham, North Carolina, United States
