Coming in August 2007

  Blairstown Theater Festival
at Roy's Hall
30 Main Street
Blairstown, New Jersey
(908) 362-1399

presents

an encore presentation of our festival of
international cinema classics
plus two American masterpieces.

See these classics as they were meant to be viewed -
projected on our big new movie screen

Buy your tickets at the door. 
All seats $10
Students with ID: $6.00


Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) (1946) The landmark cinematic fantasy in which film maker Jean Cocteau conjures spectacular visions of enchantment, desire and death that have never been equaled. French with English subtitles. (1 hour 33 minutes)

 

Sunday, August 5th at 7:30 pm

Black Orpheus

Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) (1959) This colorful 1960 Oscar® winner retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. Portuguese with English subtitles. (1 hour 47 minutes)

 

Sunday, August 12th at 4:00 pm

Casablanca

Casablanca  (1942) The script wasn't even finished when this Academy Award-winning classic went into production, and no one was quite sure who the leading lady (Ingrid Bergman) was going to end up with -- her husband, Victor (Paul Henreid), or the great love of her life, Rick (Humphrey Bogart).  Screen romances just don't get any better than this World War II era classic. (1 hour 43 minutes)

 

Sunday, August 5th at 2:00 pm

Saturday, August 15th at 8:30 pm

Gone With The Wind

Gone With the Wind (1939) One of the most successful and beloved films ever to come out of the Hollywood system, this epic four-hour cinema masterpiece starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh will be screened in all its full screen Technicolor® splendor.  (3 hours 58 minutes)

 

Saturday, August 4th at 4:00 pm

Saturday, August 11th at 6:30 pm

The Hidden Fortress

The Hidden Fortress (Kakushi-toride no san-akunin) (1958) Akira Kurosawa's spirited, wide-screen adventure about a princess and her protectors was George Lucas's primary inspiration for Star Wars. In Japanese with English subtitles. (2 hours 19 minutes)

 

Sunday, August 5th at 4:30 pm

 

La Strada

La Strada (1954) Giulietta Masina's performance is a highlight of this Oscar® winner for Best Foreign Film of 1956, directed by Federico Fellini.  Since both of the male stars, Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart, performed their roles in English and were dubbed by Italian actors, we will be showing the original English language version.  (1 hour 48 minutes)

 

Saturday, August 11th at 4:00 pm

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies (1963) Famed theater director Peter Brook’s daring translation of William Golding’s novel about 30 English schoolboys stranded on an uncharted island. In English. (1 hour 30 minutes)

 

Saturday, August 11th at 2:00 pm

Mon Oncle

My Uncle (Mon Oncle) (1958) Although in French with English subtitles, this laugh-out-loud comedy with the deadpan Jacques Tati as Monsieur Hulot about a boy and his eccentric uncle is almost all pantomime, so even kids will understand it. A perfect film for family audiences. (1 hour 56 minutes)

 

Saturday, August 18th at 2:00 pm

Pygmalion

Pygmalion (1938) Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller star in George Bernard Shaw's comic masterpiece about a Cockney flower seller who learns to speak like a lady, later adapted into the hit musical My Fair Lady by Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe. In English. (1 hour 35 minutes)

 

Sunday, August 12th at 2:00 pm

The Rules of the Game The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) (1939) A newly restored print of the original uncut version of Jean Renoir's cinema masterpiece about a group of wealthy Parisian aristocrats, a selection of society’s finest, who gather for a rural sojourn and shooting party.  Over the course of a weekend, they reveal themselves to be absurdly, almost primitively, cruel and vapid. (1 hour 46 minutes)
 

Saturday, August 4th at 9:00 pm

Seven Samurai

Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) (1954) One of the greatest action films ever made, this 3 hour 27 minute original version is full of character and visual detail and never bores. Remade as The Magnificent Seven, Akira Kurosawa's original masterpiece should be seen on a big screen. In Japanese with English subtitles. (3 hours 27 minutes)

 

Sunday, August 12th at 6:30 pm

The Wages of Fear

Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la peur) (1953)  A group of men (including Yves Montand) have to transport a shipment of nitroglycerine over a mountain pass in one of the greatest thrillers ever filmed, a white-knuckle ride from France’s legendary master of suspense, Henri-Georges Clouzot. In French with English subtitles. (2 hours 27minutes)

 

Saturday, August 18th at 5:30 pm

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