February 3 Universal Monsters Collection Dracula (NR, 1931, 75 min) Relive the horror, the mystery, and the intrigue of the original 1931 vampire masterpiece starring Bela Lugosi and directed by Tod Browning. Enter Professor Van Helsing, Renfield, Mina, Lucy, Jonathan Harker and all the characters who have now become classics. If you’re a true horror aficionado, you owe it to yourself to experience Dracula in 35mm on the big screen.
See animated brick films and other LEGO-themed shorts during the First Annual BrickFlix Film Festival, at the Carolina Theatre, 309 W Morgan Street, Durham, North Carolina on Wednesday, May 5! Special guest David Pagano, an animator whose resume includes work for the LEGO Group (including Space Police and the LEGO Club Show) will be on hand to demonstrate how his films are made, and take questions after each screening!
First showing: 7:00pm for ALL AGES (one hour of films, followed by a 30-minute Q&A with animator David Pagano).
Local Film Premier of "Neurotypical": Chapel Hill TEACCH Fundraiser
CHAPEL HILL TEACCH CENTER Sponsors the Local Premiere of NEUROTYPICAL Directed by Adam Larsen
FEBRUARY 11th, 2012 AT 10:00AM and FEBRUARY 25th, 2012 AT 10:00AM at The Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC
Join us in a Chapel Hill TEACCH Fundraiser to benefit persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families while learning about the perspective of people on the Autism Spectrum through the new film, Neurotypical (www.neuro-typical.com).
Local Film Premier of "Neurotypical": Chapel Hill TEACCH Fundraiser
CHAPEL HILL TEACCH CENTER Sponsors the Local Premiere of NEUROTYPICAL Directed by Adam Larsen
FEBRUARY 11th, 2012 AT 10:00AM and FEBRUARY 25th, 2012 AT 10:00AM at The Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC
Join us in a Chapel Hill TEACCH Fundraiser to benefit persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families while learning about the perspective of people on the Autism Spectrum through the new film, Neurotypical (www.neuro-typical.com).
January 13 The Master of Gimmickry: William Castle, Part 2 House on Haunted Hill (NR, 1959, 75 min) William Castle's thril a funhouse come to life. Vincent Price stars as a silky millionaire married to a greedy gold digger who refuses to divorce him. When he offers $10,000 to whoever will spend the night in "the only truly haunted house in the world", it seems he may have found an alternative to divorce. Five strangers gather to test their stamina, and the spook show begins.
January 20 When You’re Strange Faces Come Out of the Rain The Shining (R, 1980, 142 min) The Shining is Stanley Kubrick's intense, epic, gothic horror film and haunted house masterpiece about a writer who relocates his family to a cavernous, abandoned hotel resort for the winter…and succumbs to madness. Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall reach new levels of hysteria in their performances, driven to extremes by the director's fanatical demands for take after take after take.
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, Margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster. Writer/director J.C.
Friday, December 2 When Movie Stars Were Worth a Damn CAPE FEAR (US, NR, 1962, 105 min) 7:00 p.m. (-ish) It's good vs. evil as Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum put their immense talents together for this classic spine-tingler with all the earmarks of a horror film. Max Cady has just been released from eight long years in prison and is hellbent on revenge against the straight-laced lawyer and family man who incarcerated him. THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER (US, PG, 1963, 99 min)
Friday, November 4 The Magic of Ray Harryhausen JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (US, G, 1963, 104 min) 7:00 p.m. (-ish) The legendary Greek hero leads a team of intrepid adventurers in a perilous quest for the legendary Golden Fleece. Recruiting the brave Argonauts to crew his ship, Jason embarks on an eventful journey, encountering the 100-foot bronze god Talos, the seven-headed reptilian Hydra, and an army of skeletons wielding sword and shield. THE 7th VOYAGE OF SINBAD (US, G, 1958, 88 min)