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WINNER OF 2 ACADEMY AWARDS!
JEFF BRIDGES - Best Actor.
BEST ORIGINAL SONG - "The Weary Kind".
Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal star in this poignant film about a faded country music musician who is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him. ... (More)
AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!
The Heights Theater is proud to be joining the Emerging Pictures network of cinemas. This partnership offers a rare opportunity to screen stunning HD presentations of operas from the world over, including the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy, the world’s most renowned opera house. The Opera in Cinema series features productions of operatic masterpieces such as Aida and La Traviata, starring internationally celebrated singers such as Plácido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Angela Gheorghiu, Juan Diego Flórez, René Pape, and Ben Heppner. We are launching this exciting series with a FREE presentation of LA TRAVIATA On Sunday March 28th. Watch this web page for our full upcoming schedule of exciting HD presentations!
ALL SEATS FREE!
The Heights Theater and Emerging Pictures presents
“LA TRAVIATA” Recorded at the Famed LA SCALA OPERA HOUSE in Milan, Italy. Starring ANGELA GHEORGHIU, RAMON VARGAS, ROBERTO FRONTALI. Based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, La Traviata, one of Verdi’s most celebrated works, had its premiere at the Teatro la Fenice in 1853. This production at La Scala sees Angela Gheorghiu in her celebrated debut as Violetta. Praised by Bloomberg for having “mastered the role” and “acting her socks off,” Gheorghiu leads an all-star cast which includes Ramón Vargas and Roberto Frontali. In this love story, courtesan Violetta Valery meets a new admirer, Alfredo Germont, who confesses his love. Trouble brews when Alfredo’s father demands that she renounce his son since the scandal of Alfredo’s affair has threatened his own daughter’s engagement. Violetta resists but eventually agrees, not wanting any harm to come to Alfredo or his family. Despite her undying love, she leaves word to Alfredo that she no longer loves him, in an effort to help him move on. Back in Paris, Alfredo denounces his former love cruelly, and months later, Violetta, deathly ill with tuberculosis, has only days to live. Alfredo and his father become contrite when they learn the truth about Violetta’s selfless love, but it may already be too late to ask her forgiveness.
**PLEASE NOTE THAT SINCE THIS IS A FREE SCREENING ALL SEATS ARE ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS. Our doors will be opening at 12:30pm**
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MIZNA PRESENTS THE SIXTH TWIN CITIES ARAB FILM FESTIVAL
THURSDAY MARCH 11 - SUNDAY MARCH 14, 2010. ALL SEATS $8.00. STUDENT/LOW INCOME $5.00. FESTIVAL PASS $40.00 IN ADVANCE. $55.00 AT THE DOOR.
Mizna presents
THE TWIN CITIES 6TH ARAB FILM FESTIVAL. MARCH 11-14, 2008.
Cost: $5 student/low income $8 general admission
Festival Passes available $40 advanced (online) $55 at door
As the only Arab film festival in the Upper Midwest, Mizna's Sixth Arab Film Festival is becoming a cultural feature of the region. Over 20 feature films, experimental shorts, and documentaries will be given public screening in morning, afternoon, and evening sessions.
FILM SCHEDULE:
Thursday 3/11
"GARBAGE DREAMS " 7:00pm.
Friday 3/12
"LESH SABREEN?", "MY HEART BEATS ONLY FOR HER" 1:30pm.
"7915 KM" 4:00pm.
"LES BARONS" 6:30pm.
"HEART HARARA" 9:00pm.
Saturday 3/13
"CHILDREN'S FILMS" 10:00am.
"WE WILL LIVE TO SEE THESE THINGS", "TEA ON THE AXIS OF EVIL" 12:00pm.
"REMNANTS OF A WAR", "SONS OF EILA BOUN" 3:00pm.
"HENNA", "ABSENCE THE GOOD OMEN" 5:30pm.
"POMEGRANATES AND MYRRH" 8:00pm.
Sunday 3/14
"GAZA ON THE AIR" 10:00am.
"SHORT FILMS' 12:00am.
"FOCUS ON FILMMAKER HISHAM BIZRI" 2:30pm.
"EIN SHAMS" 5:00pm.
"LAILA'S BIRTHDAY" 7:30pm.
For more information or advance tickets please go to www.mizna.org
"ANGEL FACE" (1952) SPECIAL JEAN SIMMONS TRIBUTE SCREENING!
THURSDAY MARCH 25, 2010. 7:30PM. ALL SEATS $8.00 Advance tickets available
“Why thank you my dear, you can be so sweet at times…”
Starring JEAN SIMMONS, ROBERT MITCHUM. Directed by OTTO PREMINGER.
This fantastically over the top Noir has got to be one of the best films to come out of HOWARD HUGHES’ bizarre and destructive ownership of RKO, and ranks right up there with LAURA as one of Otto Preminger’s best. JEAN SIMMONS is spot on as a beautiful and calculating ice cold heiress who lures ROBERT MITCHUM into a web of murder and deception. The classic and haunting score is by the great DIMITRI TIOMKIN.
"This intense Freudian melodrama by Otto Preminger (1952) is one of the forgotten masterworks of film noir... The film is a disturbingly cool, rational investigation of the terrors of sexuality...The sets, characters, and actions are extremely stylized, yet Preminger's moving camera gives them a frightening unity and fluidity, tracing a straight, clean line to a cliff top for one of the most audacious endings in film history." – Dave Kehr, The Chicago Reader.
35MM print courtesy Warner Bros.
"GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933"
SATURDAY MARCH 27, 2010. 2:00PM. ALL SEATS $6.00 Advance tickets available
The Barton Player Piano Company presents
"GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933"
Saturday March 27, 2010. 2:00pm. All seats $6.00
* A special fundraiser for the continued restoration of the Piano action of the Heights Theater organ!
* PLUS A silent short subject accompanied by EDWARD COPELAND at the keyboard of the Heights Mighty Wurlitzer!
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 is pre-code cinema at it's best, with lots of sexy dialogue and plenty of innuendo. Throw in BUSBY BERKELEY'S kaleidoscope choreography, a great Warren and Dubin score, and a socially realist plot that is as contemporary today as it was in 1933 and you get one great movie!
Gold Diggers of 1933 was filmed during the lowest economic point in American history, and was a film that reflected Depression reality. These gold diggers care less about jewelry than where their next meal was coming from. "Remember My Forgotten Man" evokes general despair, but also specifically the Bonus Army. These were WWI Veterans who came to Washington to ask for the veterans' bonuses they were owed, and when Congress voted down the request they were forcibly dispersed by the troops ordered out by President Hoover, an action that doomed his presidency. Gold Diggers of 1933 embraces newly elected FDR's New Deal, and in the pairing of innocents Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler looks forward to economic and spiritual rebirth.
35mm print courtesy Warner Bros.
"LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME" (1955) DORIS DAY BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!
SATURDAY APRIL 3, 2010. ONE SHOW ONLY. 1:30PM. ALL SEATS $10.00 Advance tickets available
Come and join us as we celebrate the wonderful DORIS DAY'S birthday with a rare screening of M-G-M's LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME!
This special screening will also feature:
LIVE ON OUR STAGE!
* MAUD HIXSON singing some of Doris Day's greatest hits in a tribute concert before the film!
* Rare film footage of Doris provided by BOB DeFLORES!
* Pre-show organ concert!
Doris Day portrays singing great Ruth Etting in "Love Me or Leave Me," which costars the great James Cagney. The film tells the story of Etting's rise to fame in the 1920s and her association and marriage to Marty "The Gimp" Snyder, a Chicago gangster. This CINEMASCOPE and EASTMANCOLOR classic features Doris singing 18 great roaring 20's standards, including MEAN OT ME, TEN CENTS A DANCE and of course LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME.
35mm print courtesy Warner Bros.
Please note that unlike chain or multiplex theaters we DO NOT run any advertisements or multiple previews before our features. The feature usually starts no later than 5 - 10 minutes after the posted start times.
ALSO, for the comfort of our patrons enjoying the show we DO NOT sell tickets or seats for any performance 20 minutes after the posted start time. So please plan accordingly. Thank you!
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