20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Based on the acclaimed novel by Jules Verne, this Oscar-winning film from 1954 follows a ship that is sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings. They encounter the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo. Starring Kirk Douglas (Ned Land), James Mason (Captain Nemo), Paul Lukas (Professor Aronnax), and Peter Lorre (Conseil). This film is screening on 35mm from a print housed at the UNCSA Moving Image Archive. This film is only screening
From Russia With Love
In this stunning Technicolor film, James Bond (Sean Connery) willingly inserts himself into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the evil SPECTRE organization.
Niagara
Our Film Noir Friday screening this year is the wonderful 1953 Technicolor thriller starring Marilyn Monroe as Rose Loomis, a femme fatale plotting to murder her older, jealous husband, George, while vacationing at Niagara Falls. The plot intensifies when another couple becomes entangled in the couple’s dangerous, deceitful, and turbulent relationship.
Raising Arizona
This classic comedy from the Coen brothers duo features Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter in brilliant performances as a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—whose lives become way more complicated than they anticipate when they decide to help themselves to one of another family’s quintuplets.