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TUESDAY AUGUST 10, 7:15PM. SUNDAY AUGUST 15, 1:30PM. ALL SEATS $20.00
“OTELLO” Recorded at the Salzburg Festival.
142 minutes. Opera in 4 acts. 1 intermission. English subtitles. Starring ALEKSANDRS ANTONENKO, MARIANA POPLAVSKAYA, CARLOS ALVAREZ, BARBARA DI CASTRI. Music by GIUSEPPE VERDI. Libretto by ARRIGO BOITO. Directed by STEPHEN LANGRIDGE. Conducted by RICCARDO MUTI.
About OTELLO. Verdi’s last tragic opera “Otello,” like Shakespeare’s play, is a shattering psychological drama. The new production for the Salzburg Festival is directed by Stephen Langridge, who in 2006 attracted attention with his production of Offenbach’s “Bluebeard” in Bregenz. Riccardo Muti, one of the best Verdi conductors of our time, is returning to Salzburg. Alongside to the Spanish baritone Carlos Álvarez as Jago, two rising international singers of the younger generation can be heard as Otello and Desdemona: the Latvian spinto tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko and the Russian soprano Marina Poplavskaya.
Otello Synopsis
Otello, the haunting Shakespearian tale of revenge and jealousy, has captivated audiences for centuries. The wicked Iago convinves Otello that Desdemona, Otello’s new wife, is unfaithful. Iago insinuates that she is having an affair with Cassio, who just received a promotion that Iago wanted for himself. Otello is driven mad with jealousy, despite the scant evidence of his wife’s alleged infidelity. The frightened and innocent Desdemona tries in vain to defend herself, but Iago’s treachery takes its final toll: Otello strangles his wife in her bedchamber. Horrified, Iago’s wife (and Desdemona’s handmaiden) Emilia reveals Iago’s scheme. Iago escapes, but Otello, devastated by his own actions, kills himself, while his lips kiss the pure Desdemona one final time.
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TUESDAY AUGUST 24, 7:15PM. SUNDAY AUGUST 29, 1:30PM. ALL SEATS $20.00.
“DAS RHEINGOLD” Recorded at La Scala.
130 minutes. No intermission. English subtitles. Starring RENE PAPE, STEPHAN RUGAMER, JOHANNES MARTIN KRAENZLE, WOLFGANG ABLINGER-SPERRACKE. Muisc and Libretto by RICHARD WAGNER. Conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM.
Synopsis
Das Rheingold begins Wagner’s four-opera epic, Der Ring, or “The Ring Cycle,” as it commonly called in the United States. The Nibelung dwarf Alberich attempts to woo the lovely Rheinmaidens, but they only mock him. Out of bitterness, he steals their magical Rheingold and forges the Ring out of it. He enlists his brother, Mime, to forge a magical helmet out of the gold as well. Wotan, the king of the Gods, along with Loge, the god of fire, descend upon the underground realm of the Nibelungs and trick the dwarves into capitivity. Wotan ransoms Alberich in exchange for his gold. Wotan uses the gold, including the ring and magic helmet, to pay the ransom on his sister-in-law, Freia, whom the giants Fasolt and Fafner seized as payment upon the completion of Wotan’s new castle in the sky. The angry and humiliated Alberich curses the ring, saying that whoever does not possess will desire it, and whoever possess it will only find unhappiness and death. Soon after, Fafner and Fasolt right over the ring, and Fafner kills his brother in order to keep it—the Ring’s curse has already begun to manifest.
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"TOPPER" (1937) NEW RESTORED 35MM PRINT!!
MONDAY AUGUST 2, 2010. ONE SHOW ONLY. 7:30PM. ALL SEATS $8.00 Advance tickets available
The Heights Theater and Take-Up Productions presents EVERYONE WANTS TO BE CARY GRANT.
NEW RESTORED 35MM PRINT!
“TOPPER” (1937) Starring CARY GRANT, CONSTANCE BENNETT, ROLAND YOUNG, BILLIE BURKE. Directed by NORMAN Z. McLEOD. The fun loving Kirby’s, stockholders in the bank of which henpecked, stuffy Cosmo Topper is president, drive recklessly once too often and become ghosts. In limbo because they've never done either good or bad deeds, they decide to try a good one now: rehabilitating Topper. 35mm print courtesy of The UCLA Film and Television Archive and RHI Entertainment.
"HOLIDAY" (1938)
MONDAY AUGUST 9, 2010. ONE SHOW ONLY. 7:30PM. ALL SEATS $8.00 Advance tickets available
The Heights Theater and Take-Up Productions presents EVERYONE WANTS TO BE CARY GRANT.
“HOLIDAY” (1938) Starring CARY GRANT, KATHERINE HEPBURN, LEW AYRES Directed by GEORGE CUKOR. Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, with the exception of black-sheep Linda and drunken Ned, want Johnny to settle down to big business, he rebels, wishing instead to spend the early years of his life on "holiday." 35mm print courtesy Columbia Pictures.
"HIS GIRL FRIDAY" (1940)
MONDAY AUGUST 16, 2010. ONE SHOW ONLY. 7:30PM. ALL SEATS $8.00 Advance tickets available
The Heights Theater and Take-Up Productions presents EVERYONE WANTS TO BE CARY GRANT.
“HIS GIRL FRIDAY” (1940) Starring CARY GRANT, ROSALIND RUSSELL, RALPH BELLAMY. Directed by HOWARD HAWKS. Walter Burns, editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy Johnson, to insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin, but not without a fight! 35mm print courtesy Columbia Pictures.
"FORBIDDEN PLANET" (1956)
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2010. ONE SHOW ONLY. 7:30PM. ALL SEATS $8.00 Advance tickets available
“FORBIDDEN PLANET” (1956) Starring WALTER PIDGEON, ANNE FRANCIS, LESLIE NIELSEN. Directed by FRED M. WILCOX.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Tempest, Forbidden Planet is as much a psychological thriller as it is a sci-fi adventure. An invisible monster threatens the lives of a crew sent to the distant planet Altair IV. Is it real…or the result of one man’s fevered imagination? 35mm print courtesy Warner Bros.
"GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES" (1953) NEW DIGITALLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT IN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR!!
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2010. ONE SHOW ONLY. 7:30PM. ALL TICKETS $8.00. Advance tickets available
NEW DIGITALLY RESTORED 35MM PRINT IN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR!!!
“GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES” (1953) Starring MARILYN MONROE, JANE RUSSELL. Directed by HOWARD HAWKS. Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell are at their zenith in this truly exceptional musical comedy camp fest. Directed by Howard Hawks at A lightening pace, and featuring the classic DIAMONDS ARE A GIRLS BEST FRIEND musical number, this film is a classic of its genre. And all of it will be presented in a beautiful new digitally restored 35mm print!! Two singers, best friends Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris pursued by a private detective hired by Lorelei's fiancé's disapproving father to keep an eye on her, a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers. 35mm print courtesy Criterion Pictures and Twentieth Century-Fox.
"A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS" (1937)
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2010. ONE SHOW ONLY. 7:30PM. ALL SEATS $8.00 Advance tickets available
The Heights Theater presents a special GEORGE GERSHWIN birthday screening!
“A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS” (1937) Starring FRED ASTAIRE, JOAN FONTAINE, GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN, RAY NOBLE AND HIS ORCHESTRA. Directed by GEORGE STEVENS. Fred Astaire’s first film with out Ginger Rogers was less than a hit when it came out in 1937, but today is appreciated by modern audiences for what it is, a stylish and sophisticated musical classic. Joan Fontaine is enchanting as the object of Fred’s affection, and this film features some of the Gershwin’s greatest songs, including A FOGGY DAY, NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT and THINGS ARE LOOKING UP. Plus the great comedy of GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN adds up to one great musical! 35mm print courtesy Warner Bros.
"WAR OF THE WORLDS" (1953) "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS" (1956)
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 27, 2010. 7:30 7 9:15PM. ALL SEATS $8.00 Advance tickets available
SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE!!
AT 7:30PM…
“WAR OF THE WORLDS” (1953) Starring GENE BARRY, ANN ROBINSON. Directed by BYRON HASKIN. Amazing visual-and sound-effects dominate this sci-fi classic. The Martians’ space ships featured a cobra-eye weapon that shoot disintegrating rays and whose freaky noise will haunt you in the night. Not even Steven Spielberg could improve on the original. 35mm print courtesy Paramount Pictures.
AT 9:15PM….
“INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS” (1956) Starring KEVIN McCARTHY, DANA WYNTER. Directed by DON SIEGEL. Rakish country doctor Miles Bennell has a nagging suspicion that the wave of hysteria sweeping sleepy Santa Mira, CA might be something more sinister than paranoia. What if he’s right? What if he’s the only one who is right? 35mm print courtesy Paramount Pictures.
"THE INVISIBLE MAN" (1933)
MONDAY OCTOBER 4, 2010. ONE SHOW ONLY. 7:30PM. ALL SEATS $8.00. Advance tickets available
“THE INVISIBLE MAN” (1933) Starring CLAUDE RAINES, GLORIA STUART. Directed by JAMES WHALE. With a bag of tricks that predate modern FX by at least fifty years, monster virtuoso James Whale crafts one of the most pleasurably anarchic romps of all time. Adapted from the HG Welles’ parable about a scientist driven mad by invisibility. 35mm print courtesy Universal Pictures.
"THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN" (1957)
MONDAY OCTOBER 11, 2010. ONE SHOW ONLY. 7:30PM. ALL SEATS $8.00. Advance tickets available
“THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN” (1957) starring GRANT WILLIAMS. Directed by JACK ARNOLD. Exposed to a radioactive cloud, Scott Carey (Grant Williams) begins to shrink rapidly. Battling spiders, cats, and mice – not to mention his own sense of inferiority – our hero must find a cure before he vanishes altogether. 35mm print courtesy Universal Pictures.
"KING KONG" (1933)
MONDAY OCTOBER 18, 2010. ONE SHOW ONLY. 7:30PM. ALL SEATS $8.00. Advance tickets available
“KING KONG’ (1933) Starring FAY WRAY, ROBERT ARMSTRONG. Directed by MERIAN C. COOPER & ERNEST B. SCHOEDESACK. The first great special effects film, and still unrivaled for thrills, King Kong deserves to be witnessed on the big screen. You’ll marvel at the great ape’s agility and expressiveness, and maybe even shed a tear at his terrible fate. A masterpiece. 35mm print courtesy Warner Bros.
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