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A peek at the Paramount’s Summer Film Classics 2010
Thirty-five years strong, the Paramount Theatre’s annual Summer Film Classics is revving up the projector for some 80 films, running May 20 through Sept. 12. (Details and whatnot HERE.)
Some highlights:
Elia Kazan tribute with “Wild River,” “Splendor in the Grass,” “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “On the Waterfront.”
The terrible-great 1966 “Batman” movie, with Adam West in person.
The 1974 original “The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three.”
Double feature of “Goodfellas” and “Raging Bull.”
The 1927 Texas-shot Oscar winner “Wings.”
Double feature of “Shane” and “The Searchers.”
Double feature of ’30s creep-outs “Freaks” and “The Devil-Doll.”
Douglas Sirk soapers “All That Heaven Allows” and “Imitation of Life.”
Double feature of “Sunset Boulevard” and Nick Ray’s “In a Lonely Place.”
Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz.”
Terrence Malick’s “Badlands.”
Restored print of Powell and Pressburger’s “The Red Shoes.”
Plus: Kurosawa’s “Ran,” Godard’s “Breathless,” Murnau’s “Sunrise” and, OF COURSE, “Gone With the Wind.”
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