April 2 at 7:30 PM
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
First Thursday Films: Fences with Penumbra Theatre Founder Lou Bellamy
September 7 at Capri Theater
Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant–with music by Poor Nobodys–at Trylon’s Grand Reopening
Minneapolis-based septet brings the silent era experience
LUMIÈRES FRANÇAISES FILM FESTIVAL July 20-27 schedule announced
Get ready for MSP Film Society’s 2nd annual French Film Fest
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, […]
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 […]