Classic Thursdays is running every Thursday through August at the Tull Family Theater. All showings are at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
June 16 – Set against the backdrop of World War II, “Casablanca” remains “one of the most popular films ever made. It is about a man and a woman who are in love, and who sacrifice love for a higher purpose,” Roger Ebert said.
June 19 (Father’s Day), 11 a.m. – “The Goonies,” notes The Guardian, “has a rich and indomitable air of all-American innocence. It’s a straight-ahead romp-slash-fantasy adventure” about a gang of kids trying to save their homes from demolition with the help of a surprising treasure.
July 7 – Time Out praises “Do the Right Thing” for its “super-saturated colors and indelible, oddball characters.” Following an ensemble cast through the hottest day in a Brooklyn neighborhood in 1989, the film is a “remarkably even-handed and nuanced portrait of the way that violence can flare, and how bigotry can build to something much worse.”
July 14 – “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” is “a comedy which delighted in subverting the epic tradition, parodied contemporary society and delivered numerous timeless scenes and characters of laugh-out-loud silliness,” said Empire. The film reinvigorated a crumbling Monty Python and solidified its place on the international stage.
July 28 – TV Guide calls “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” “romantic to the nth degree, one of the great New York films, swathing the city in layers of dewy love and glossy chic.” Based on Truman Capote’s novel of the same name, the film features Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in a charming and romantic love story.
Aug. 11 – Cinema Paradiso “spins a remarkable yarn about love, life and the magic of cinema. It is less about the impact of any one particular film or cinematic movement, but rather a love letter to the medium,” according to Cinevue. Taking place in Italy, we watch Salvatore as he grows from a young boy, mesmerized by the wonder of cinema, to a man, returning to a long-lost home.
For tickets or more information, visit thetullfamilytheater.org.
