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Harold and Maude at Heights Theater

March 13, 2018 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Harold and Maude at Heights Theater

April 2 at 7:30 PM

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, MSP Tagged With: Hal Ashby, Harold and Maude, Heights Theater, MSP

Valentine’s Day screening of It Happened One Night at the Heights Theater

January 8, 2018 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Valentine’s Day screening of It Happened One Night at the Heights Theater

The screwball to end all screwballs, Frank Capra’s IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT is one of the most rip-roaring and gorgeous romantic comedies ever to grace the big screen. When wealthy socialite Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) runs away from her controlling father to her gold-digging fiancé, hiding in plain sight on the “low class” night bus […]

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, MSP Tagged With: Heights Theater, It Happened One Night, MSP, Romance

Twin Cities Arab Film Fest starts September 27

September 21, 2017 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Twin Cities Arab Film Fest starts September 27

Mizna is a leading Twin Cities Arab arts organization, and starting next week, they’re annual Arab Film Festival returns, in coordination with the Film Society of MSP. The festival is a great opportunity to see cinema from the Arab world, and explore the Arab American experience through the artistic vision of local, national and international […]

Filed Under: Movies, MSP Tagged With: Arab Film Fest, Minneapolis, MSP, MSP Film Society

Heights Theater’s Stanley Kubrick Experience starts September 28

August 30, 2017 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

Heights Theater’s Stanley Kubrick Experience starts September 28

On September 28, The Heights theater will be showing Dr. Strangelove, the first film in their fall program, The Stanley Kubrick Experience. Though never prolific–releasing only 16 films in a nearly fifty year career–Stanley Kubrick was nonetheless known as a meticulous filmmaker whose every picture–heck, every frame!–is a cinematic masterpiece. This obsessive filmmaker lived in near isolation […]

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, MSP Tagged With: Minneapolis, MSP, Stanley Kubrick, The Heights

First Thursday Films: Fences with Penumbra Theatre Founder Lou Bellamy

August 18, 2017 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

First Thursday Films: Fences with Penumbra Theatre Founder Lou Bellamy

September 7 at Capri Theater

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, MSP Tagged With: Capri Theater, Fences, MSP, MSP Film Society, Penumbra Theatre

Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant–with music by Poor Nobodys–at Trylon’s Grand Reopening

July 24, 2017 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant–with music by Poor Nobodys–at Trylon’s Grand Reopening

Minneapolis-based septet brings the silent era experience

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, MSP, Uncategorized Tagged With: Charlie Chaplin, Great Dictator, MSP, The Immigrant, The Poor Nobodys, Trylon Microcinema

LUMIÈRES FRANÇAISES FILM FESTIVAL July 20-27 schedule announced

July 11, 2017 by thestakemag 1 Comment

LUMIÈRES FRANÇAISES FILM FESTIVAL July 20-27 schedule announced

Get ready for MSP Film Society’s 2nd annual French Film Fest

Filed Under: Movies, MSP Tagged With: French Cinema, Lumières françaises, MSP, MSP Film Society

Heights Theater Program: Marlon Brando: Method Man starts August 10

July 10, 2017 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Heights Theater Program: Marlon Brando: Method Man starts August 10

A smash on Broadway, then a smash in Hollywood, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire features some of the most iconic acting in the history of both. Producer Charles K. Feldman gathered director Elia Kazan and actors Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden from the original stage production, and brought Vivien Leigh from the London production, […]

Filed Under: Movies, MSP Tagged With: Heights Theater, Marlon Brando, MSP

Heights Theater’s Craazy Mamas! series brings PSYCHO in 35MM

June 19, 2017 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Heights Theater’s Craazy Mamas! series brings PSYCHO in 35MM

Is there any more iconic CRAAAZY MAMA than the ghost tormenting poor Norman Bates? Though never appearing in the film, “Mother” is eternally present in the eyes and simpering mannerisms of poor Norman, and she wreaks havoc on unsuspecting women from the grave! The perfect film close our series. The Heights Theater unveils a festival […]

Filed Under: Movies, MSP Tagged With: Alfred Hitchock, Heights Theater, Minneapolis, MSP, Psycho

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