Summer of Timeless Classics
June 22 @ 1:00 pm – September 17 @ 6:30 pm
The Lindsay is punctuating this blockbuster season with a lineup of Timeless Classics! We’re providing moviegoers with a wide selection of beloved films spanning decades of cinematic history.
Revisit one of Hollywood’s most epic romances with Casablanca. Get acquainted with Frank Capra’s directorial brilliance by checking out Arsenic and Old Lace and It Happened One Night. Participate in The Lindsay’s cherished summer tradition of Cinema Paradiso.
You can also celebrate 70 years of Rebel Without a Cause, 60 years of The Sound of Music, 40 years of The Goonies and (almost) 30 years of The Birdcage with us this summer.
Between these seven Timeless Classics and Hollywood’s latest fare, it’s going to be one heck of a summer at The Lindsay!
Casablanca
PG | 1h 42min | Drama, Romance
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
SUNDAY, JUNE 22, AT 1 P.M.
There has arguably never been a more epic romance committed to celluloid than the one between Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) in 1942’s Casablanca. Their grand courtship finished in first place on Variety’s ranking of the 50 greatest romantic movies ever made.
Director Michael Curtiz’s film is an “exceptionally well-directed and well-played picture,” raves The Los Angeles Times. More than 80 years later, Casablanca is still a “drama that lifts you right out of your seat,” writes The Hollywood Reporter.
“The picture has exceptional merits as absorbing entertainment, reflecting the fine craftsmanship of all who had hands in its making. Certainly a more accomplished cast of players cannot be imagined, and their direction by Michael Curtiz is inspired.”
The Birdcage
R | 1h 58min | Comedy
Director: Mike Nichols
Stars: Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman
TUESDAY, JUNE 24, AT 7 P.M.
The Birdcage remains a groundbreaking milestone in the history of LGBTQ+ cinema. This remake of the French farce La Cage Aux Folles stars Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a gay couple trying to literally play it straight while meeting their son’s future in-laws.
Director Mike Nichols’ film is an “enchantingly witty and humane entertainment” that “actually improves upon its source,” raves Entertainment Weekly. “In The Birdcage, we go beyond the stereotypes to see the characters’ depth and humanity,” praises the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.
Adds BBC: “What’s impressive is how relatively progressive The Birdcage still feels, within the context of mainstream cinema, in its treatment of queerness. Of the other Hollywood attempts at a ‘gay comedy’ in the 1990s, and since … few have reached the bar that Nichols set.”
Rebel Without a Cause
PG-13 | 1h 51min | Drama, Coming of Age
Director: Nicholas Ray
Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
SUNDAY, JUNE 29, AT 1 P.M.
Has anyone ever exuded pure, unfiltered coolness more than James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause? He plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town looking for a fresh start. Jim ends up making plenty of friends—along with a few enemies.
Rebel Without a Cause was released less than a month after the 24-year-old Dean’s tragic death. “As a ‘farewell’ performance he leaves behind, with this film, genuine artistic regret, for here was a talent which might have touched the heights,” writes Variety.
Expounds Slant Magazine: “Profoundly romantic and lacerating in its despair, Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause, a self-contained portrait of three isolated teenagers, is James Dean’s best film. … He’s emotionally direct, tenderly seductive, protective of others and blessed with courtly humor.”
Cinema Paradiso—Theatrical Cut
PG | 2h 4min | Drama, Coming of Age
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Stars: Salvatore Cascio, Philippe Noiret, Antonella Attili
In Italian, with English Subtitles
THURSDAY, JULY 10, AT 7 P.M.; THURSDAY, AUG. 14, AT 7 P.M.
It wouldn’t be summer at The Lindsay without Cinema Paradiso, the sumptuous coming-of-age drama with a beautiful Ennio Morricone score. This Academy Award-winner follows a young boy as he falls in love with film and must choose between home and pursuing his dreams.
Cinema Paradiso is an “impossibly well-crafted” film that’s full of cinematic “richness and density of observation,” lauds The Guardian. As The Washington Post succinctly summarizes: “It is, in a word, exquisite.”
“There are films as lovely, but none lovelier than Cinema Paradiso, a folkloric salute to the medium itself, flickering with yesterday’s innocence and lingering on the mind like bubbles in wine. Born of director Giuseppe Tornatore’s childhood memories, this is a magic lantern in a Sicilian boy’s hand.”
Arsenic and Old Lace
NR | 1h 58min | Comedy, Thriller
Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
THURSDAY, JULY 24, AT 7 P.M.
Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 comedic gem starring Cary Grant as a recently married writer who is horrified to learn that his beloved aunts (played by Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) have been harboring a bloody secret.
The first of two Frank Capra-directed films playing at The Lindsay this summer is a ” riotous farce” and “good macabre fun,” praises The New York Times. Arsenic and Old Lace remains “an example of ensemble scenery-gnawing that has yet to be surpassed,” declares Empire.
“Josephine Hull and Jean Adair are delightfully dotty as the lethal landladies. … But it’s Cary Grant who steals the show, as his double takes, deliberate delivery and pantomimic commotions allow just a whisper of sanity to seep into this gloriously eccentric scenario.”
The Goonies
PG | 1h 54min | Adventure, Comedy
Director: Richard Donner
Stars: Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman
SUNDAY, AUG. 10, AT 1 P.M.
Adventure awaits in The Goonies, the 1985 summer classic about a group of kids who bite off a bit more than they can chew while searching for a pirate’s hidden treasure. The film was directed by Richard Donner (Superman) and written by Steven Spielberg and Chris Columbus (of Home Alone fame).
The Goonies is a “deliciously dizzy adventure yarn” bursting with “crowd-pleasing perks,” applauds New York Daily News. This was the film that proved “Spielberg and his directors are absolute masters of how to excite and involve an audience,” proclaims RogerEbert.com.
“The Goonies is a smooth mixture of the usual ingredients from Steven Spielberg action movies, made special because of the high-energy performances of the kids who have the adventures. … There’s not just a thrill a minute; there’s a thrill, a laugh, a shock and a special effect.”
It Happened One Night
NR | 1h 45min | Romance, Comedy
Director: Frank Capra
Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
SUNDAY, SEPT. 7, AT 1 P.M.
It Happened One Night is a 1934 screwball comedy from It’s a Wonderful Life director Frank Capra. Clark Gable stars as newspaper reporter Peter Warne, who runs into heiress Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) and becomes her accidental travel partner. Hijinks ensue, and sparks fly.
The Los Angeles Times in 1934 was so confident that It Happened One Night would be a hit that it declared, “And if the public doesn’t go all the way in for this one, then there is not, nor should be, any joy in Cinemaland.” The New Republic agreed, calling the film “first-rate entertainment.”
“What the picture as a whole shows is that by changing such types as the usual pooh-bah father and city editor into people with some wit and feeling, by consistently preferring the light touch to the heavy, and by casting actors who are thoroughly up to the work of acting, you can make some rather comely and greenish grasses grow.”
The Sound of Music
G | 2h 59min | Musical, Drama, Romance
Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
SUNDAY, SEPT. 14, AT 1 P.M.; WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17, AT 6:30 P.M.
The Lindsay’s Summer of Timeless Classics concludes with a 60th-anniversary screening of The Sound of Music. Nobody can resist this gorgeous recounting of how a bubbly nun named Maria (Julie Andrews) entered Georg von Trapp’s (Christopher Plummer) home and brought love and music back into his family’s lives and hearts.
This Best Picture winner was “impeccably cast” and “offers enough sentiment to warm,” wrote the Associated Press in 1965. The Sound of Music remains “one of the most beloved family-friendly classics in cinema history,” proclaims IndieWire.
“Even as an adult, you’ll still find yourself singing along. That score is immortal … and the music has never sounded half as good as it does coming from Julie Andrews, whose spritely and luminous portrayal of nun-turned-governess Maria remains the gold standard for musical theater acting.”
