Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
SUNRISE CINEMA 4/5 - Sunrise Cinema joins The Onyx Downtown in celebration of movie musicals with the timeless classic MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS. Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien star in this heartwarming tale of the emotional turmoil the colorful members of an early 20th-century St. Louis family experience when they learn their father has been transferred--and they will have to move to New York.
The Great Dictator
SUNRISE CINEMA 4/19 - Sunrise Cinema welcomes the immortal Charlie Chaplin to its screen for the very first time! In his controversial masterpiece, Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. In his first pure talkie, Chaplin brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, THE GREAT DICTATOR, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned speech.
Charade
SUNRISE CINEMA 5/17 - The on-screen chemistry between Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant sparks with pure electricity, in the stylish romantic thriller CHARADE! Reggie Lambert (Hepburn) returns home after a skiing trip to discover that her husband has died. At the funeral she finds out from CIA agent Hamilton Bartholomew (Walter Matthau) that her husband was involved in the theft of a quarter of a million dollars during World War Two. The charming Peter Joshua (Grant) offers his help, but as the number of dead bodies increases so do Peter's aliases, and Reggie becomes uncertain whether or not she can trust him.
Rebel Without a Cause
SUNRISE CINEMA 5/31 - Join Sunrise Cinema as we screen the film that made James Dean an eternal icon: REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. Dean stars in a movie that shocked the United States, with a performance that still electrifies the screen 70 years after his untimely death prior to the film's release. In this archetypal drama of teenage angst and rebellion, three high school students who should lead idyllic lives in their stable, comfortable suburban families explode with a violence and sexuality that their parents cannot understand. This film--which ripped the façade from the post-war American dream to expose the rage of the country's youth--resonates with an energy that has made it a modern classic and a powerful coming-of-age story.
Duck Soup (1933)
SUNRISE CINEMA 6/14 - The Marx Brothers invade Sunrise Cinema with their riotously funny musical DUCK SOUP! When the tiny nation of Freedonia goes bankrupt, its wealthy benefactor, Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont), insists that the wacky Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx) become the country's president. Sensing a weakness in leadership, the bordering nation of Sylvania sends in the spies Pinky (Harpo Marx) and Chicolini (Chico Marx) to set the stage for a revolution. As Firefly clashes with the Sylvanian ambassador (Louis Calhern), plenty of mayhem ensues, and the countries verge on all-out war.
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
SUNRISE CINEMA 6/28 - Sunrise Cinema ushers in summer with CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Academy Award winners Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman star in the classic screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play. After Brick Pollitt (Newman) injures himself while drunkenly revisiting his high school sports-star days, he and his tempestuous wife, Maggie (Taylor), visit his family's Mississippi plantation for the 65th birthday of his hot-tempered father, Big Daddy (Burl Ives). Cantankerous even with declining health, Big Daddy demands to know why Brick and Maggie haven't yet given him a grandchild, unlike Brick's brother Gooper (Jack Carson) and his fecund wife, Mae (Madeleine Sherwood).
