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MARY POP P I NS
Saturday, May 7
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(1964) Cast: Julie Andrews,
Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson
The movie combines songs, color and
sequences of live action blended with
the movements of animated figures.
Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny
who flies in with her umbrella in re-
sponse to the request of the Banks chil-
dren and proceeds to put things right
with the aid of her rather extraordinary
magical powers.
T HE 33
Sunday, May 8
at 1:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
(2015) Cast: Antonio Banderas,
Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche
Based on the real-life event, when a
gold and copper mine collapses, it traps
33 miners underground for 69 days.
CASH McCA L L
Saturday, May 7 at 6:00 p.m.
& Sunday, May 8 at 6:30 p.m.
(1960) Cast: James Garner,
Natalie Wood, Nina Foch
In this routine business-story-cum-
romantic-comedy, Cash McCall is a
wheeling and dealing tycoon, and Lory
Austen is the daughter of failing busi-
nessman Grant Austen. McCall’s exper-
tise lies in acquiring businesses about to
go belly up, attaching them to success-
ful enterprises and then taking a large
tax deduction on the resultant equa-
tion. Those deals are enhanced when
the once-failing business is then sold
at a profit. This is a savvy gambit for
late ‘50s movie fare, but its proponent
begins to have second thoughts when
he comes up against the attractive Lory
-- who is not afraid of baring all for a
good cause.
V I CTOR V I CTOR I A
Saturday, May 14
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(1982) Cast: Julie Andrews,
James Garner, Robert Preston
Set in 1930s Paris, starving opera
singer Victoria is aided by gay cabaret
performer Toddy. When Victoria dons
Toddy’s ex’s clothes and then sends the
abusive ex flying with a booming shout
and an equally booming right hook,
Toddy is hit with inspiration: he’ll pass
her off as a female impersonator. A
woman pretending to be a man pretend-
ing to be a woman? It all goes well until
Chicago “businessman” King March-
and, starts to investigate, sure that a man
like himself could never fall for another
man! The revelation of Kings infatu-
ation brings his body guard ‘Squash’
Bernstein roaring out of the closet and
his spurned moll Norma Cassady off to
Chicago to plan revenge with King’s
other “business associates”.
S EAB I SCU I T
Sunday, May 15
at 1:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
(2003) Cast: Tobey Maguire,
Jeff Bridges, Elizabeth Banks
In an era when Americans were in great
need of heroic figures to help them for-
get their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes
to the rescue. The picture relates a mov-
ing story of friendship and devotion in
rehabilitating the main characters’ frac-
tured lives, as it interweaves the interac-
tions between horse, jockey, trainer and
owner and their adoring fans. The film
accurately portrays the real people and
events of those troubled times and how
Seabiscuit “fixed us, every one of us.”
AL I CE ADAMS
Saturday, May 14 at 6:00 p.m.
& Sunday, May 15 at 6:30 p.m.
(1935) Cast: Katherine Hepburn,
Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone
In the lower-middle-class Adams fam-
ily, father and son are happy to work in
a drugstore, but mother and daughter
Alice try every possible social-climb-
ing stratagem despite snubs and embar-
rassment. When Alice finally meets her
dream man Arthur, mother nags father
into a risky business venture and plans
to impress Alice’s beau with an “up-
scale” family dinner. Will the excruciat-
ing results drive Arthur away?
SU F F RAGE T T E
Saturday, May 21
at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
(2015) Cast: Carey Mulligan,
Anne-Marie Duff, Helena BonhamCarter
A drama that tracks the story of the foot
soldiers of the early feminist movement,
women who were forced underground
to pursue a dangerous game of cat and
mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
These women were not primarily from
the genteel educated classes, they were
working women who had seen peace-
ful protest achieve nothing. Radicalized
and turning to violence as the only route
to change, they were willing to lose ev-
erything in their fight for equality - their
jobs, their homes, their children and
their lives. Maud was one such foot sol-
dier. The story of her fight for dignity is
as gripping and visceral as any thriller,
it is also heart-breaking and inspira-
tional.
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