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heights theater
Minnesota's classic cinema experience.
Established 1926
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
2024 | D: JAMES MANGOLD
TIMOTHEE CHALAMET, ELLE FANNING, EDWARD NORTON, MONICA BARBARO
New York, 1961. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music. He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial performance that reverberates worldwide. Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold's A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history.
TUE 2/4 | 4:00pm, 7:10pmWED 2/5 | 4:00pm, 7:10pmTHUR 2/6 | 4:00pm
FRI 2/7 | 4:00pm, 7:10pm
SAT 2/8 | 4:00pm, 7:10pm
SUN 2/9 | 4:00pm, 7:10pm
MON 2/10 | 4:00pm, 7:10pm
TUE 2/11 | 4:00pm, 7:10pmWED 2/12 | 4:00pmTHUR 2/13 | 4:00pm
you only live once
1937 | D: FRITZ LANGHENRY FONDA, SYLVIA SIDNEY
ALL SEATS: $12.00 - in person $12.75 - online
ALL SEATS: $12.00 - in person $12.75 - online
Eddie (Henry Fonda) is an ex-con, trying to go straight. But when he is wrongfully framed and sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit, with his faithful wife Joan (Sylvia Sidney), he goes on the lam, and unleashes his pent-up, and justifiable, anger on an unsuspecting public. Fritz Lang’s YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE is a shocking indictment of American hypocrisy, as telling today as it was during the Depression, and was a favorite of James Baldwin.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
DCP - Shout Factory
BONUS SCREENING ADDED! WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12 | 7:30 PM (SOLD OUT) WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19 | 7:30 PM
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
1987 | D: ROB REINER
CARY ELWES, ROBIN WRIGHT, BILLY CRYSTAL
ALL SEATS:
$12.00 - in person$12.75 - online
Once upon a time, a beautiful maiden named Buttercup (Robin Wright) fell in love with a handsome man named Westley (Cary Elweys), who bid her farewell so that he could seek his fortune, return, and claim her hand in marriage. Enter pirates. Enter giants. Enter a masked man, enter an evil Price hell bent on marrying Buttercup against her will, and enter Peter Falk as a suburban grandad. What? Yes, gramps is reading this tale to his reluctant grandson and embellishing it to levels of hilarious grandiosity as he goes. The Princess Bride sends up every fairy tale cliche, and with its amazing cast of comedy stalwarts has since come to be known as a modern classic, the perfect treat for our (almost) Valentine's Day screening.
DCP - Walt Disney Pictures.
DETOUR
1945 | D: EDGAR G. ULMERTOM NEAL, ANNE SAVAGE
ALL SEATS: $12.00 - in person$12.75 - online
ALL SEATS: $12.00 - in person$12.75 - online
Hitchhiking across the country, Al (Tom Neal), hops a ride with a gambler. When the gambler croaks suddenly, Al’s paranoia is unleashed, and he knows he’s going to be the stooge. On the run in the dead guy’s car, he foolishly picks up Vera (Anne Savage), the most fatale of the femmes fatales in noir history. She knows whose car he’s driving, knows she can milk him for a load of money, and as he tries to navigate his way through this mess, Al knows that fate is against him, and the electric chair awaits.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
GUN CRAZY
1950 | D: JOSEPH H. LEWIS
JOHN DAHL, PEGGY CUMMINS
ALL SEATS:
$12.00- in person$12.75 - online
Bart (John Dahl) loves guns. Annie (Peggy Cummins) loves guns and money. Put them together and watch the violence unfold. From this simple plot, director Joseph H. Lewis concocted one of the most thrilling and emotional noirs, which includes an astonishing heist featuring a nearly 3-minute long take in a real town, by a real bank, among real people who didn’t know a movie was being made. Dall and Cummins are simply electric as the doomed pair, whose greed slowly gives way to a passionate love.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
DCP - Warner Bros.
DCP - Warner Bros.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 24 | 7:30 PM
BLUE VELVET
1986 | D: DAVID LYNCH
KYLE MacLACHLAN, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI, DENNIS HOPPER, LAURA DERN
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person
$13.75 - online
David Lynch has a special place in all of our hearts, and the Heights would like to honor America's most visionary director with our favorite of his: BLUE VELVET. After the financial and critical disaster of Dune, Lynch retreated to the Surrealist world he knew best, and with Blue Velvet established himself as a controversial and mesmerizing auteur. This is the story of Jeffrey (Kyle Machlachlan, Lynch's muse if ever there was one) who returns home to Lumberton, Oregon only to find a human ear in an abandoned lot. Enter Frank (Dennis Hopper), one of the nastiest villains ever to appear in a movie, who terrorizes Dorothy (Isabella Rosellini) and draws a very curious Jeffrey into this sticky web of lust and murder. Despite dividing the critics of its day, Blue Velvet earned Lynch an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, and has since been regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. We're going to miss you, David.
DCP - Park Circus.
DCP - Park Circus.
DUEL
1971 | D: STEVEN SPEILBERG
DENNIS WEAVER
ALL SEATS:
$12.00 - in person$12.75 - online
David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is a dull businessman on his way to LA through the Mojave Desert. When he cuts off a rusty semi-truck, it pisses off the driver, who begins a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse on this deserted highway. Steven Spielberg’s made-for-TV movie stunned audiences, so Universal tossed it into theaters, and it has since become a classic.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
DCP - Universal Pictures
DCP - Universal Pictures
THELMA & LOUISE
1991 | D: RIDLEY SCOTT
SUSAN SARANDON, GEENA DAVIS, BRAD PITT
ALL SEATS
$12.00 - in person$12.75 - online
Louise (Susan Sarandon) is a level-headed waitress; Thelma (Geena Davis) is a daffy housewife. Together, they head out in Louise’s turquoise ’66 Thunderbird for a girls’ weekend. But when Louise blows away Thelma’s would-be rapist at a honky-tonk, the pair hit the road, leaving the patriarchy in the dust. THELMA & LOUISE was an instant classic and a box-office smash when it was released, an old school Hollywood picture dropped into the 90s, a feminist masterpiece (written by Callie Khouri, who won an Oscar for the script), and one hell of a great ride.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
DCP - Park Circus.
DCP - Park Circus.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY MARCH 10 | 7:30 PM
SUNRISE
1927 | D: F.W. MURNAU
JANET GAYNOR, GEORGE O'BRIEN
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - on line
Bored with his wife (Janet Gaynor), their baby, and the dull routine of farm life, a rural man (George O'Brien) falls under the spell of a flirtatious city girl (Margaret Livingston). This vixen tries to convince the rube to drown his wife so that they can flee. What should be the stuff of the bleakest noir becomes a joyous celebration of love and forgiveness. Voted the 11th greatest film of all-time in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll.
SUNRISE will be presented with it's original 1927 Fox Movietone score.
THURSDAY MARCH 13 | 7:30 pm
STOP MAKING SENSE
1984 | D: JONATHAN DEMME
THE TALKING HEADS
ALL SEATS:
$13.00 - in person
$13.75 - online
When postmodernist rock band The Talking Heads met visionary filmmaker Jonathan Demme, the result was a concert film like no one had ever seen before. Opening with Heads lead singer David Byrne alone on a massive stage at L.A.'s Pantages Theater, the band grows with each song, one member at a time, culminating in a nine-person ensemble that brought the house down and changed cinema forever. Arguably the greatest concert film of all-time, the Heights is proud to present Stop Making Sense in its new 4K restoration from A24.
DCP - A24
THURSDAY MARCH 20 | 7:30 pm
ELVIS: THAT'S THE WAY IT IS - SPECIAL EDITION
1970 - 2001 | D: DENIS SANDERS
ELVIS PRESLEY
ALL SEATS:
$13.00 - in person
$13.75 - online
One of the greatest rock documentaries ever made, Elvis: That's the Way It Is captured the King of Rock and Roll in all of his 1970s Las Vegas glory. Documenting Elvis' Summer Festival at the International Hotel, his performances, with the Taking Care of Business Band behind him, will knock your socks off. The Heights presents the Special Edition, actually shorter than the original, removing much of the documentary footage in favor of more incredible concert footage. If you think you know Elvis, you'll be blown away to see him do his stuff in one of the most dynamic shows ever captured on film.
DCP - Warner Bros.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY MARCH 24 | 7:30 PM
SUNset boulevard IN 35MM
1950 | D: BILLY WILDER
GLORIA SWANSON, WILLIAM HOLDEN, ERICH VON STROHEIM
ALL SEATS
$16.00 - in person$16.75 - on line
75TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
Wilder's poison-pen letter to Hollywood is as cynical a comedy, and as funny a noir as was ever committed to celluloid. When down-on-his-luck screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) accidentally finds himself at the decrepit mansion of aging silent film queen Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson, in an iconic performance), he finds himself plunged into a world of despair and betrayal.
Presented with the 1928 silent short THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413 A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA, which will be accompanied by Ed Copeland on the Heights Mighty Wurlitzer!
35mm print - Paramount Pictures.
THE 2025 HITCHCOCK FILM FESTIVAL
THURSDAY MARCH 27 | 7:30 PM
SUSPICION IN 35MM
1941 | D: ALFRED HITCHCOCK
CARY GRANT, JOAN FONTAINE
ALL SEATS
$16.00 - in person$16.75 - online
Lina (Joan Fontaine) wonders if she'll ever be married. Johnnie (Cary Grant) meets her on a train and falls head-over-heels. Perfect, right? Except that maybe he’s a debt-ridden psychopath hungry for her fortune. Fontaine won the Oscar for Best Actress for her intense performance.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
35mm print - Park Circus.
35mm print - Park Circus.
MONDAY MARCH 31 | 7:30 PM
LICORICE PIZZA - IN 70MM
2021 | D: PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
COOPER HOFFMAN, ALANA HAIM
ALL SEATS:
$18.00 - in person
$18.75 - online
Paul Thomas Anderson’s nearly plotless paean to late 1970s Southern California is like a cinematic tone poem. A series of kind-of connected vignettes sees 15-year-old Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman, Philip Seymour’s son) as he bumbles along with numerous get-rich-quick schemes and tries to win the heart of 25-year-old Alana Kane (Alana Haim). Wait, what? Hey, it was the 70s. With director Paul Thomas Anderson’s usual incredible supporting cast, including Sean Penn doing an amazing turn as William Holden. This rare 70mm screening should not be missed!
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
70mm Print - Park Circus.
THE 2025 HITCHCOCK FILM FESTIVAL
THURSDAY APRIL 3 | 7:30 PM
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
1940 | D: ALFRED HITCHCOCK
JOEL McCREA, LARAINE DAY
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - online
John Jones (Joel McCrea) is an American reporter assigned to Britain to get the low-down on the impending war. What he uncovers is a dastardly plot to undermine the Allies in this white-knuckle spy caper, full of suspense, sex appeal and outright fun. Hitchcock dropped both of his first two American movies in 1940, this and Rebecca, and both were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY APRIL 7 | 7:30 PM
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
1954 | D: RICHARD FLEISCHER
KIRK DOUGLAS, JAMES MASON, PETER LORRE
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - on line
In the 19th Century, ships are being wrecked by a mysterious sea monster. When the U.S Navy decides to investigate, they call upon noted Professor Aronnax (Paul Lukas) to help them. Sure enough, the sea monster wrecks the ship, and Aronnax, his assistant Conseil (Peter Lorre), and sailor Ned Land (Kirk Douglas) survive, only to be picked up by the monster itself—the submarine Nautilus, perhaps the coolest ship in movie history this side of Star Wars. Run by the brilliant turtlenecked vegetarian Captain Nemo (James Mason), the Nautilus seeks out warships in order to stop international arms dealers. Disney’s visually stunning film is at once thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking, a children’s adventure with a terrorist hero and a decidedly anti-war stance.
DCP courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures
THE 2025 HITCHCOCK FILM FESTIVAL
THURSDAY APRIL 10 | 7:30 PM
UNDER CAPRICORN
1949 | D: ALFRED HITCHCOCK
INGRID BERGMAN, JOSEPH COTTEN
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - online
Sam Flusky (Joseph Cotten) is a reformed convict in 19th Century Australia, a murderer turned landowner living in luxury with his high-strung, formerly aristocratic wife, Henrietta (Ingrid Bergman). Enter Charles (Michael Wilding), the Governor's greedy cousin, who eyes Sam's land and knows the Fluskys darkest secrets. Hitchcock's lush and lurid costume-drama was panned in its time and was a rare box office failure, but has since been championed as an underseen classic. This one has probably not screened in town since its release over 75 years ago.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
THE 2025 HITCHCOCK FILM FESTIVAL
THURSDAY APRIL 17 | 7:30 PM
THE BIRDS
1963 | D: ALFRED HITCHCOCK
TIPPI HEDREN, ROD TAYLOR
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - online
Melanie (Tippi Hedren) wants Mitch (Rod Taylor). Annie (Suzanne Pleshette) also wants Mitch. Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy) doesn't want either woman touching her darling boy. When Melanie comes for a visit to Mitch's small town, the suppressed anger, jealousy and betrayal erupts in an ornithological mania which drives birds to murder. With its insane special effects and stunning violence, for some, The Birds is laughably bizarre; for others, it is a masterly examination on Freudian sexual politics. You be the judge.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
DCP - Universal Pictures.
DCP - Universal Pictures.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY APRIL 21 | 7:30 PM
M*A*S*H
1970 | D: ROBERT ALTMAN
DONALD SUTHERLAND, ELLIOTT GOULD
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - on line
The ribald tale of Korean War combat surgeons "Hawkeye" Pierce (Donald Sutherland), "Duke" Forrest (Tom Skerrit), and “Trapper” John (Elliott Gould), who wreak havoc on their mobile surgical unit stationed right next to the front line, M*A*S*H veers between hilarious hi-jinks and barely contained fury at the utter futility of war. Robert Altman’s thumb in the eye to Army life was the perfect counterculture flick for the Vietnam generation, and has since been regarded as a classic, which spawned one of the most popular television shows of all time. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.
DCP courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures
THE 2025 HITCHCOCK FILM FESTIVAL
THURSDAY APRIL 24 | 7:30 PM
VERTIGO IN 70MM
NEW 70MM PRINT!
1958 | D: ALFRED HITCHCOCK
JAMES STEWART, KIM NOVAK
ALL SEATS
$19.00 - in person$19.75 - online
You have not seen Vertigo until you have seen it in this newly restored 70mm print! One of our most popular events makes a return engagement for the 2025 Hitchcock Film Festival. Former cop Scottie Ferguson (James Stewart) is hired by a college acquaintance to investigate his wife, Madeleine (Kim Novak). Madeline believes she’s Carlotta, a 19th century woman who committed suicide. Following her around San Francisco, Scottie soon becomes enraptured as identities merge and nothing is as it seems. Voted the greatest film of all-time in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll.
Presented by The Heights Theater and The Trylon Cinema.
70mm print - Universal Pictures.
70mm print - Universal Pictures.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY MAY 5 | 7:30 PM
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG - LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG
1964 | D: JACQUES DEMY
CATHERINE DENEUVE, NINO CASTELNUOVO
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - on line
NEW 4K RESTORATION!
One of the most beloved French musicals is at once a toe-tapping delight and a heartbreaking anti-war film. Geneviève (Catherine Deneuve, in a star-making role) is the daughter of an umbrella shop owner. Her lover is Guy (Nino Castelnuovo), a hunk of a garage mechanic. Life should be a joy for these young lovers, and is until he’s drafted to fight in the Algerian War. With music by Michael Legrand and an astonishing color palette from cinematographer Jean Rabier, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is an utter delight. Winner of the 1964 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival
In French with English subtitles.
DCP - Janus Films.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY MAY 19 | 7:30 PM
ANCHORS AWEIGH
1945 | D: GEORGE SIDNEY
GENE KELLY, FRANK SINATRA, KATHRYN GRAYSON
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - on line
80TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
Two sailors, “Brooklyn” Doolittle (Frank Sinatra) and Joe Brady (Gene Kelly), fall in with a young woman, Susan (Kathryn Grayson), who’s raising her 9-year-old brother, Donald (Dean Stockwell). Donald keeps running away from school to join the Navy. When Susan asks the sailors to help convince her kid brother to say in school, Joe falls hard for her. A tremendous hit in its time, Anchors Aweigh is a fun romp through wartime Hollywood, and features a dynamite number with Kelly dancing along with an animated Jerry the Mouse.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY MAY 26 | 7:30 PM
NORTH BY NORTHWEST IN 70MM
NEW 70MM PRINT!
1959 | D: ALFRED HITCHCOCK
CARY GRANT, EVA MARIE SAINT, JAMES MASON
ALL SEATS
$19.00 - in person$19.75 - on line
One of our most popular features in a stunning new 70mm restoration. WHAT?!? That’s right, North by Northwest, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most triumphantly entertaining films, has had a mind-blowing 70mm restoration, and we’re bringing it to the Twin Cities. Charming ad man Roger O. Thornhill (or ROT, to his friends) must run for his life when he's mistaken for an American spy by a dastardly criminal organization. Hitchcock urged screenwriter Ernest Lehman to pull out all the stops, resulting in a breathtaking adventure whose insane plot twists work in spite of themselves. Cary Grant was never more charming, Eve Marie Saint never more alluring, and Hitchcock never more assured.
70mm print - Park Circus
70mm print - Park Circus
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
SUNDAY JUNE 1 | 1:00 PM
THE LAUREL AND HARDY FESTIVAL
1929 - 1934
STAN LAUREL & OLIVER HARDY
ALL SEATS
$15.00 - in person$15.75 - on line
NEW RESTORATIONS!
One of the Heights’ most popular events returns for what is sure to another sold-out screening. This year we’re bringing six classic short films in new digital restorations. “Another Fine Mess” (1930), “Men o’ War” (1929), “Going Bye-Bye” (1934), “Perfect Day” (1929), “Dirty Work” (1933), and “Hog Wild” (1930) round out the program. Don’t miss it!
DCPs - Jeff Joseph
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY JUNE 2 | 7:30 PM
THE GOONIES
1985 | D: RICHARD DONNER
SEAN ASTIN, JOSH BROLIN, COREY FELDMAN
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - on line
40TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
The kids of the Goon Dock section of a small Oregon town refer to themselves as Goonies. When their neighborhood is threatened with development, they get in their heads to try and find the treasure of “One-Eyed Willy”, in the hopes of saving their homes. One of the rare cases of a hit movie that is also a cult classic, The Goonies has thrilled audiences for four decades.
DCP - Warner Bros.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY JUNE 16 | 7:30 PM
THE WIZARD OF OZ IN 35MM TECHNICOLOR
35MM DYE TRANSFER TECHNICOLOR PRINT!
1939 | D: VICTOR FLEMING
JUDY GARLAND, RAY BOLGER, JACK HALEY, BERT LAHR, MARGARET HAMILTON
ALL SEATS
$16.00 - in person$16.75 - on line
The Heights is one of the few theaters in the entire country showing this rare Dye Transfer Technicolor print, which must be seen to be believed. The yellow brick road, Dorothy's ruby slippers, the emerald city of Oz—The Wizard of Oz bursts from the screen in all of its Technicolor glory. These shows sell out each year and audiences marvel at the brilliant color that fairly drips from the big screen.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
SUNDAY JUNE 22 | 7:30 PM
FOOTLOOSE WIDOWS IN 35MM
1926 | D: ROY DEL RUTH
LOUISE FAZENDA, JACQUELINE LOGAN
ALL SEATS
$20.00 - in person$20.75 - on line
Flo and Marian are a pair of young New York girls looking to nab rich husbands. “Borrowing” a fine set of clothes from their employer, they head straight for the Florida beaches, pretending to be widows. Del Ruth’s hilarious silent comedy likely inspired Some Like It Hot and comes to us in a restored 35mm print from the Library of Congress.
This screening will be presented with a live accompaniment by Ed Copeland on the Heights Mighty Wurlitzer!
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY JUNE 30 | 7:30 PM
ALL ABOUT EVE IN 35MM
1950 | D: JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ
BETTE DAVIS, ANNE BAXTER, GARY MERRILL
ALL SEATS
$16.00 - in person$16.75 - on line
75TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
Widely regarded as the greatest film about Broadway, All About Eve unleashed Bette Davis at her most witty and eviscerating, here going toe-to-toe with Anne Baxter, who plays the title character. This story of a young actress who claws her way to stardom, and the wreckage she leaves behind, was nominated for a then-record 14 Academy Awards, winning Best Picture and Director (among others) and remains a classic.
35mm print - Walt Disney Pictures
35mm print - Walt Disney Pictures
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY JULY 14 | 7:00 PM
CHILDREN OF PARADISE - LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS
1945 | D: MARCEL CARNE
ARLETTY, JEAN-LOUIS BARRAULT
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - on line
80TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
Set in Paris’ theatrical society in the early 19th Century, Children of Paradise is the story of a mysterious courtesan who is beloved by four men: an actor, a thief, a count, and a mime. Director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert create a lush world in stunning contrast to the Nazi-controlled France in which they were filmmaking. One of the most beloved French films of all-time, director François Truffaut famously said that he would give up all of his films to have made Children of Paradise, and in a 1995 survey, French film critics called it the best film ever made.
In French with English subtitles.
DCP - Janus Films.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
SUNDAY JULY 20 | 1:00 PM
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
1965 | D: ROBERT WISE
JULIE ANDREWS, CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
ALL SEATS
$15.00 - in person$15.75 - on line
One of the most popular films of all-time arrives at the Heights Theater! Poor Maria (Julie Andrews) is a nun who is just too free-spirited to do anything right in the convent. So, she’s placed as a governess to the stern Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) and his seven children, who are models of discipline. Thank goodness Maria is there to help them become happy kids again! Director Robert Wise pulled out all the stops making this blockbuster, whose music people have adored for generations. Winner of five Academy Awards.
DCP - Walt Disney Pictures
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY JULY 28 | 7:30 PM
9 TO 5
1980 | D: COLIN HIGGINS
JANE FONDA, LILY TOMLIN, DOLLY PARTON
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - on line
45TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
Judy (Jane Fonda) is newly divorced and needs a job, and she lands one as a secretary at Consolidated. Violet (Lily Tomlin) has worked there for a dozen years, trained her stupid boss, Franklin M. Hart (the wonderfully odious Dabney Coleman), and is stuck without promotion. Doralee (Dolly Parton) is Frank’s secretary, whom he belittles. Well, put those three women together, and in no time, they’ll have their sweet revenge… and start running the company! Produced and conceived by Jane Fonda, 9 to 5 launched Parton’s cinematic career and was a massive hit, even though President Ronald Reagan hated that the characters smoked pot in once scene. Don’t miss it!
DCP courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY AUGUST 11 | 7:30 PM
WAITING FOR GUFFMAN IN 35MM
1996 | D: CHRISTOPHER GUEST
CHRISTOPHER GUEST, EUGENE LEVY, CATHERINE O'HARA, PARKER POSEY
ALL SEATS
$16.00 - in person$16.75 - on line
Blaine, Missouri is small town whose local amateur theater, led by the indomitable Corky St. Clair (Guest), plans to put on a show to commemorate the town’s 150th anniversary. Pulling together all the citizens, who battle for choice roles, Corky’s Red, White and Blaine might just be their undoing! Guest’s star-studded mockumentary is hilarious, and features brilliant comic performances from Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, Fred Willard and Guest himself.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY AUGUST 25 | 7:30 PM
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? IN 35MM
2000 | D: JOEL COEN & ETHAN COEN
GEORGE CLOONEY, JOHN TURTURRO, TIM BLAKE NELSON
ALL SEATS
$16.00 - in person$16.75 - on line
25TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
Pete, Delmar and Ulysses (Tim Blake Nelson, John Turturro and George Clooney) escape a chain gang in 1930s Mississippi in the Coen Brothers’ riotous take on Homer’s Ulysses. Featuring some of the best folk musicians of the turn of the century, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a modest hit in its day, has since gone on to be one of the Coen’s most revered classics.
35mm print - Walt Disney Pictures
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15 | 7:30 PM
THE GREAT DICTATOR
1940 | D: CHARLES CHAPLIN
CHARLIE CHAPLIN, PAULETTE GODDARD, JACK OAKIE
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - on line
85TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
This brave and biting comedy by Charlie Chaplin was his first sound film, and most successful picture. Released at a time when the U.S. was still in a tenuous truce with Germany, The Great Dictator not only satirized the Fuhrer, but accurately revealed Hitler's hunger for world domination and his dangerous policies against the Jews. The Great Dictator is not only one of the greatest movies of all-time, but perhaps the most important comedy ever made.
DCP - Janus Films.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21 | 1:00 PM
SEVEN SAMURAI
1954 | D: AKIRA KUROSAWA
TOSHIRO MIFUNE, TAKASHI SHIMURA
ALL SEATS
$13.00 - in person$13.75 - on line
In the sixteenth century, bandits have been invading a small mountain village, depleting it of its rice harvest and leaving its inhabitants in a state of perpetual near-hunger. A group of three brave villagers goes to the nearest town, hoping to entice down-on-their-heels samurai to help defend the village with the promise of rice. What ensues is one of the most thrilling, and emotionally moving, action epics ever made. The Seven Samurai has always been high on list of the greatest films ever made, and is an absolutely entertaining film that leaves its viewers enthralled and devastated. The Heights presents the gorgeous new digital 4K restoration from Janus.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
DCP courtesy of Janus
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28 | 7:30 PM
FORGOTTEN FACES
1928 | D: VICTOR SCHERTZINGER
OLGA BACLANOVA, WILLIAM POWELL, CLIVE BROOK
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$20.00 - in person$20.75 - on line
When stick-up artist “Heliotrope” Harry comes home after escaping the cops, he finds his devious wife, Lilly, in the arms of another. Enraged, Harry shoots his rival, and before he’s caught, leaves his baby girl on the doorstep of a rich, childless couple. While in the big house, he’s kept abreast of daughter Alice’s progress by his former associate, Froggy. But when Lilly finds the girl and seeks revenge, Harry is able to get free and tries to set a trap to keep his daughter safe. One of the earliest productions from David O. Selznick, Forgotten Faces is a newly restored masterpiece of silent melodrama, not available for streaming anywhere!
This screening will be presented with a live accompaniment by Andy McCormick on the Heights Mighty Wurlitzer!
DCP courtesy of the Library of Congress
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29 | 7:30 PM
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN IN 35MM
1935 | D: JAMES WHALE
KARLOFF, ELSA LANCCHESTER, COLIN CLIVE, UNA O'CONNOR
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$16.00 - in person$16.75 - on line
90TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
Boris Karloff met his match with Elsa Lanchester, who plays the Bride of Frankenstein and sports perhaps the greatest hairdo in Hollywood's long history of great hairdos. Her performance was years ahead of its time, the kind of thing that wins Oscars today and was the perfect foil to Karloff. James Whale attempted to camp up this sequel, but the result is a film that many consider superior to the first, more emotional and less stagy, and perhaps the greatest of Universal's celebrated horror films.
35mm print - Universal Pictures
35mm print - Universal Pictures
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY OCTOBER 13 | 7:30 PM
YOU'LL LIKE MY MOTHER
1972 | D: LAMONT JOHNSON
PATTY DUKE, RICHARD THOMAS, ROSEMARY MURPHY
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To Glensheen devotees and local cinema buffs, this Gothic old dark house suspense film is an absolute must-see! Shot completely on location in Duluth in the winter of 1971, You'll Like My Mother stars Patty Duke, a very sinister Richard Thomas (John Boy from The Waltons), and an utterly chilling Rosemary Murphy as the mother you'll love to cringe from. However, the real star of this film is the glorious Glensheen Mansion, which you'll explore (with a terrified Patty) from the cellar to the attic!
DCP - Universal Pictures
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY october 27 | 7:30 PM
hocus pocus
1993 | D: KENNY ORTEGA
BETTE MIDLER, SARAH JESSICA PARKER, KATHY NAJIMY
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We’ve been asked to screen Hocus Pocus for years, and it’s finally here! When Salem, Massachusetts teenager Max accidentally resurrects three witches from the seventeenth century, and those witches happen to be comedians Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, the results is one of the most hilarious (and beloved) pictures from the 1990s!
DCP courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures
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thursday october 30 | 7:30 PM
THE SHINING
1980 | D: STANLEY KUBRICK
JACK NICHOLSON, SHELLEY DUVALL, DANNY LLOYD
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45TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
We love showing this movie and you love coming to this movie. Arguably Kubrick's best, and perhaps most personal film, The Shining thrills Heights audiences year-after-year and people come wearing incredible Shining t-shirts or dressed as Jack or as the ghostly twins (no one has yet shown up as Lloyd the bartender, so please help us here). So bizarre it has spawned countless conspiracy theories, including explaining the moon landing, The Shining can be watched, interpreted and reinterpreted numerous times. As people do.
DCP courtesy of Warner Bros.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY NOVEMBER 3 | 7:30 PM
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
1952 | D: GENE KELLY & STANLEY DONEN
GENE KELLY, DONALD O'CONNOR, DEBBIE REYNOLDS, JEAN HAGEN
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Singin' in the Rain is one of our most popular events and sells out year after year! Considered by many to be the greatest screen musicals of all time, Singin’ is also a hilarious look at the chaos and turmoil that the switch from silents to talkies cast upon Hollywood in the late 1920's. This film is on everyone’s top ten lists and was named the 10th greatest film of all-time in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll. Dig all that glorious TECHNICOLOR!
DCP - Warner Bros.
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6 | 7:00 PM
INGLORIOUS BASTARDS IN 35MM
2008 | D: QUENTIN TARANTINO
BRAD PITT, ELI ROTH, CHRISTOPHER WALTZ
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Lieutenant Aldo Raine is a battle-tested solider in the U.S. Army during World War II. His goal: recruit a commando group of Jewish-American soldiers to do “one thing, and one thing only: kill Nazis!” This is Quentin Tarantino’s World War II, full of blood, brilliant dialogue, great actors, all the while referencing spaghetti Westerns and Italian action films. Inglourious Basterds was a tremendous hit and introduced the world to the amazing Christoph Waltz, who won an Oscar for his slimy performance.
35mm print - Lionsgate
35mm print - Lionsgate
HEIGHTS 2025 CELEBRATION OF CINEMA!
MONDAY NOVEMBER 10 | 7:30 PM
MARRIAGE IN THE SHADOWS - EHE IM SCHATTEN
1947 | D: KURT MAETZIG
PAUL KLINGER, ILSE STEPPAT
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$15.00 - in person$15.75 - on line
Hans Wieland is a brilliant actor, a leading figure in German cinema. When the Nazis pressure him to divorce his Jewish wife, Elisabeth, he refuses. Finally, political pressure becomes too much, and, realizing that he will be arrested, his wife to be sent to a concentration camp, he faces the ultimate test of his love. Based on the real-life story of actor Joachim Gottschalk, Kurt Maetzig’s Marriage in the Shadows was the first movie (produced under Soviet auspices) to confront Germans about their treatment of Jews, and the only postwar film to be released simultaneously in both the East and West Germany. A brilliant and heartbreaking film, shot like a noir but filled with the rarefied emotions of a melodrama, this rare screening should not be missed.
In German with English subtitles.
DCP courtesy of the DEFA Film Library