Hygienic Art presents
SUMMER FLICKERS
Sponsored by CITIZENS BANK
Wednesday Nights at 8pm Refreshments and snacks available for
purchase
June 16: Sleeper (1973, 89 min): Woody Allen’s sci-fi
romantic farce. A love story about two people who hate each other.
200 years in the future.
June 23:
Bringing Up Baby (1938, 102 min): Cary Grant as David Huxley is
waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a
series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance (Katherine
Hepburn), and the duo have a series of misadventures which include
a leopard called Baby.
June 30:
City of God (2002, 130 min): Two boys growing up in a
violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one
becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
July 7:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, 91 min): King Arthur
and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail,
encountering many very silly obstacles. Makes Ben Hur look like an
Epic!
July 14:
Easy Rider (1969, 95 min): A landmark counterculture film
that explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the
USA during the ‘60s, including the rise and fall of the hippie
movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle.
July 21:
The Apartment (1960, 125 min): A man tries to rise in his
company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but
complications and a romance of his own ensue.
July 28:
Kinky Boots (2005, 107 min): A drag queen comes to the
rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory,
needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business
afloat.
August 4:
Dog Day Afternoon (1975, 125 min): A man robs a bank to pay
for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a
media circus. The robbery should have taken 10 minutes. 4 hours
later, the bank was like a circus sideshow. 8 hours later, it was
the hottest thing on live TV. 12 hours later, it was all history.
And it's all true!
August 11:
Throw Down Your Heart (2008, 97 min): A film crew follows
the American banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck on his journey to Africa,
where he learns about the instrument's origins.
August 18:
Up (2009, 96 min): By tying thousands of balloon to his
home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong
dream to see the wilds of South America.
August 25:
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985, 90 min): Pee Wee sets out on
an intensive search to recover his most prized possession: his
bicycle.
September 1:
Touch of Evil (1958, 95 min): The Overwhelming Drama of a
Strange Vengeance. Orson Welles' stark, perverse story of murder,
kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town featuring
Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh.
September 8:
Network (1976, 121 min): A TV network cynically exploits a
deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for
their own profit.
September 15:
The Big Lebowski (1998, 117 min): They figured he was a lazy
time wasting slacker. They were right.