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heights theater
Minnesota's classic cinema experience.
Established 1926
SHOWTIMES:
Fri, December 6 | 3:15pm.
Mon, December 9 | 4:20pm.
Tue, December 10 | 4:20pm.
Tue, December 10 | 7:10pm.
Wed, December 11 | 4:20pm.
Thur, December 12 | 4:20pm.
conclave
CONCLAVE follows one of the world's most secretive and ancient events -- selecting the new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church's most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a trail of deep secrets left in the dead Pope's wake, secrets which could shake the foundations of the Church.
ALL SCREENINGS ARE SOLD OUT!
SHOWTIMES:
Fri, December 6 | 7 p.m.Sat, December 7 | 2 p.m.Sat, December 7 | 7 p.m.Sun, December 8 | 2 p.m.Sun, December 8 | 7 p.m.
"WHITE CHRISTMAS" - HEIGHTS HOLIDAY SHOW
70TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING!
A Heights Theater tradition! One of our most popular events! An event that sells out year after year. You will not want to miss the perennial TECHNICOLOR favorite, WHITE CHRISTMAS, on the big screen!
Plus.....ON OUR STAGE! The big show starts with a special 20 minute concert by the wonderful MAUD HIXSON, singing a stocking full of your favorite holiday classics! Accompanied by Rick Carlson on the piano.
Also... A fantastic pre show concert by ED COPELAND and LOU HURVITZ at the Heights Mighty Wurlitzer!
CLICK HERE FOR WHITE CHRISTMAS TICKET FAQS
A Heights Theater tradition! One of our most popular events! An event that sells out year after year. You will not want to miss the perennial TECHNICOLOR favorite, WHITE CHRISTMAS, on the big screen!
Plus.....ON OUR STAGE! The big show starts with a special 20 minute concert by the wonderful MAUD HIXSON, singing a stocking full of your favorite holiday classics! Accompanied by Rick Carlson on the piano.
Also... A fantastic pre show concert by ED COPELAND and LOU HURVITZ at the Heights Mighty Wurlitzer!
CLICK HERE FOR WHITE CHRISTMAS TICKET FAQS
MONDAY DECEMBER 9| 7:30 pm
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
1947 | ALL SEATS $12.00 THIS SCREENING IS SOLD OUT!
A flop in its day, and one that destroyed Capra's production company, It's a Wonderful Life began to interest audiences again in the 1980s, and has since become a standard for holiday family viewing. George Bailey considers himself a failure: his Savings and Loan has lost a tremendous amount of money, and he has never achieved any "measurable" success, and so killing himself seems to be the only remaining option. From this grim premise comes one of the most evocative pictures about small town life, friendship and humility ever to grace the screen. Jimmy Stewart put in an outstanding performance that ranges from happy-go-lucky to serious to outright fury, a tour-de-force that would portend his work with Alfred Hitchock. If you haven't seen this on the big screen, be prepared: It's A Wonderful Life will leave you a grateful, tearful mess.
DCP - Paramount Pictures.
DCP - Paramount Pictures.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 12 | 7:30 pm
MOMMIE DEAREST
1981 | D: FRANK PERRYFAYE DUNAWAY, DIANA SCARWID
ALL SEATS $12.00
ALL SEATS $12.00
Director Frank Perry's over-the-top biopic of Joan Crawford kinda ruined Faye Dunaway's career, but the film lives on as a camp classic, its many wacko lines and strange, overlit candy-colored set pieces the stuff of nightmares. And its awkward-to-the-max Christmas scene makes this a perfect choice for our Coal or Candy series.
DCP - Paramount Pictures.
DCP - Paramount Pictures.
SUNDAY December 15 | 4:30PM, 7:30 pm
BONUS SCREENING ADDED @4:30pm, our 7:30pm screening is sold out!
Live on stage comedy with VHS!!
Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show) have over 13,000 VHS tapes in their collection and have been taking viewers on a guided tour through their latest and greatest finds since 2004. To celebrate two decades of this VHS nonsense, Joe & Nick will serve up their all time greatest finds including the dumbest exercise videos, the craziest public access shows and updates with the most wonderful weirdos they've met along the way.
Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Late Show) have over 13,000 VHS tapes in their collection and have been taking viewers on a guided tour through their latest and greatest finds since 2004. To celebrate two decades of this VHS nonsense, Joe & Nick will serve up their all time greatest finds including the dumbest exercise videos, the craziest public access shows and updates with the most wonderful weirdos they've met along the way.
FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL: 20TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW!
ALL SEATS $20.00
MONDAY December 16 | 7 pm
FANNY & ALEXANDER
1982 | D: INGMAR BERGMAN
BERTIL GUVE, PERNILLA ALLWIN
ALL SEATS $12.00
In Swedish with English subtitles.
The Ekdahls are a large, boisterous family who run a local theater, full of love, imagination, and admiration for one another. But when father dies suddenly from a stroke, mother remarries a local widower, the Bishop Vergrus, whose only goal in life seems to be to instill a brutal, harsh discipline on this family. Bergman's raw and intense film is also a lush celebration of family life and triumph over adversity and is one of the most unheralded holiday films ever made. Nominated for six Oscars, it won four, a rarity at the time for a foreign language film.
DCP - Janus Films.
DCP - Janus Films.
THURSDAY December 19 | 7:30 pm
BRAZIL (director's cut)
1985 | D: TERRY GILLIAM
JONATHAN PRYCE, ROBERT DeNIRO, KIM GREIST
ALL SEATS $12.00
Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a low-level bureaucrat who dreams of soaring in the clouds above the futuristic, polluted, hyper-consumerist England in which he lives. When he gets caught up in a glitch that results in the state-sponsored death of an innocent man during the Christmas season, Lowry finds himself tumbling down a dystopian rabbit-hole from which he cannot emerge. From the mind of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam comes one of the most imaginative science-fiction films ever, at once a sweeping indictment of big government and foolhardy capitulation and a brilliant tale of innocence.
DCP - Universal Pictures.
DCP - Universal Pictures.
SUNDAY December 22 | 1:00 pm
Laurel & Hardy are mousetrap salesmen who travel to Switzerland for the simple reason that because the country has tons of cheese, it stands to reason there must be tons of mice. Ergo, mousetrap fortune. Spectacularly, they fail. Hilariously, they fail. With the classic Christmas silent short "Big Business", this screening will be sure to delight audiences from 9 to 90, and sure to sell out.
BIG BUSINESS will feature a live musical accompaniment on The Heights Mighty Wurlitzer by ED COPELAND.
35mm prints - The Library of Congress.
LAUREL AND HARDY CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL - "SWISS MISS" & "BIG BUSINESS" - in 35MM
1929 | D: JAMES W. HORNE. 1938 | D: JOHN G. BLYSTONE
LAUREL & HARDY, JAMES FINLAYSON
ALL SEATS $18.00
MONDAY December 23 | 7:30 pm
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
1947 | D: GEORGE SEATONMAUREEN O'HARA, JOHN PAYNE, EDMUND GWENN, NATALIE WOOD
ALL SEATS $12.00
ALL SEATS $12.00
A single mom, a depressed child, a drunken Santa and a city full of cynical souls, this should be the stuff of one bleak motion picture. But Miracle on 34th Street is as sweet a holiday confection as Hollywood ever produced, as a group of harried but good-hearted New Yorkers run headlong into a very real Santa Claus, who offers them hope and affection. Touching on themes of divorce, faith and even capitalism, Miracle is both candy and coal in abundance. Winner of 3 Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor for Edmund Gwenn's Kris Kringle.
DCP - Walt Disney Pictures.
DCP - Walt Disney Pictures.
THURSDAY December 26 | 7:30 pm
LA LA LAND
2016 | D: DAMIEN CHAZELLERYAN GOSLING, EMMA STONE
ALL SEATS $12.00
ALL SEATS $12.00
On the day after Christmas, Mia (Emma Stone), a struggling actress, meets Seb (Ryan Gosling), a struggling jazz pianist, and the pair fall in and out and in and out of love, all the while navigating their perilous careers in modern day Los Angeles. La La Land charmed audiences worldwide and is a modern musical classic. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Director, Best Actress and Best Picture (for about five minutes).
DCP courtesy of Lionsgate
WEDNESDAY January 1, 2025 | 1 pm
HOLIDAY INN - in 35MM
1942 | D: MARK SANDRICH
BING CROSBY, FRED ASTAIRE, MARJORIE REYNOLDS
ALL SEATS $15.00
HOLIDAY INN has become a Heights New Year's Day tradition, and sells out every year! IRVING BERLIN wrote the evergreen score, which includes Easter Parade, Lets Start the New Year Right, Lazy and of course, White Christmas.
We will be screening the original "unedited" 1942 theatrical release version of HOLIDAY INN.
This special screening will also feature EDWARD COPELAND at the Heights Mighty Wurlitzer!
35mm print - Universal Pictures
We will be screening the original "unedited" 1942 theatrical release version of HOLIDAY INN.
This special screening will also feature EDWARD COPELAND at the Heights Mighty Wurlitzer!
35mm print - Universal Pictures
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6 | 7:30 pm
you only live once
1937 | D: FRITZ LANGHENRY FONDA, SYLVIA SIDNEY
ALL SEATS $12.00
ALL SEATS $12.00
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
HEIGHTS (ALMOST) VALENTINE'S DAY EVENT! WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 12 | 7:30 PM
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
1987 | D: ROB REINER
CARY ELWES, ROBIN WRIGHT, BILLY CRYSTAL
ALL SEATS $12.00
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.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 13 | 7:30 pm
DETOUR
1945 | D: EDGAR G. ULMERTOM NEAL, ANNE SAVAGE
ALL SEATS $12.00
ALL SEATS $12.00
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.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20 | 7:30 PM
GUN CRAZY
1950 | D: JOSEPH H. LEWIS
JOHN DAHL, PEGGY CUMMINS
ALL SEATS $12.00
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.
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27 | 7:30 PM
DUEL
1971 | D: STEVEN SPEILBERG
DENNIS WEAVER, JACQUELINE SCOTT
ALL SEATS $12.00
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
THURSDAY MARCH 6 | 7:30 PM
THELMA & LOUISE
1991 | D: RIDLEY SCOTT
SUSAN SARANDON, GEENA DAVIS, BRAD PITT
ALL SEATS $12.00
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.
MONDAY MARCH 31 | 7:30 PM
LICORICE PIZZA - IN 70MM
2021 | D: PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON
COOPER HOFFMAN, ALANA HAIM
ALL SEATS $18.00
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.