WHEELER WEDNESDAYS
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
PRESENTED BY MICHAEL WHEELER
When: September 23RD AT 7:00
WHERE: Main auditorium
Our very own Michael Wheeler will be providing an introduction to the film before showtime and after will be leading a discussion about the film and contextualize its legacy.
When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns discovers that his ex-wife, investigative reporter Hildy Johnson, has gotten engaged to milquetoast insurance agent Bruce Baldwin, he unsuccessfully tries to lure her away from tame domestic life with a story about the impending execution of convicted murderer Earl Williams. But when Hildy discovers Williams may be innocent, her reporter instincts take over.
RUNNING TIME: 92 min.
RATING: NR
To purchase tickets, please select September 23rd on the ticketing page.
A SCANNER DARKLY
PRESENTED BY MICHAEL WHEELER
When: September 30th AT 7:00
WHERE: Main auditorium
Our very own Michael Wheeler will be providing an introduction to the film before showtime and after will be leading a discussion about the film and contextualize its legacy.
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
RUNNING TIME: 100 min.
RATING: R
To purchase tickets, please select September 30th on the ticketing page.
TOMMY
Wheeler wednesday presents
OCTOBER 14th at 7:00
DIRECTED BY: Ken Russell
RUNTIME: 111 Min. RATED: PG
After seeing his stepfather murder his father during an argument over his mother, young Tommy goes into shock, suddenly becoming psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind. As a teenager, Tommy stumbles upon a pinball machine and discovers he is a natural prodigy at the game. Fame and fortune follow for Tommy, as he becomes a pinball champion and later the messiah of a religious cult, which views his pinball skills as a miraculous sign of divine intervention.
Main Auditorium
KEN RUSSELL’S the DEVILS
THE DIRECTOR’S CUT. RESTORED. REMASTERED.
Opens OCTOBER 15th at 7:00
WHEELER “WEDNESDAY” PRESENTATIONS ON 10/15, 10/16, AND 10/21
DIRECTED BY: Ken Russell
RUNTIME: 114 Min. RATED: NC-17
In 17th-century France, Father Grandier (Oliver Reed) is a priest whose unorthodox views on sex and religion influence a passionate following of nuns, including the sexually obsessed Sister Jeanne (Vanessa Redgrave). When the power-hungry Cardinal Richelieu (Christopher Logue) realizes he must eliminate Grandier to gain control of France, Richelieu portrays Grandier as a satanist and spearheads a public outcry to destroy the once-loved priest's reputation.
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