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Signature Classic

A nice summer trip to the beaches of Amity Island goes bad fast as a giant white shark begins munching on errant swimmers. Local police chief Roy Scheider works with a slightly crazed fisherman and a wealthy, self-funded oceanographer ... read more
Jaws
1975 | PG | Thriller, Adventure | d. Steven Spielberg
Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Thursday, Aug 12 at 07:00 PM
Archival 35mm

35th Anniversary
(re)Discovery

The beautiful Gene Tierney, in an Oscar-nominated role, gives a bone-chilling performance as a woman so jealous of her novelist husband (Cornel Wilde) that she is willing to do anything to keep him solely to herself – including murder those ... read more
Leave Her to Heaven
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1945 | Not Rated | Drama, Thriller | d. John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Vincent Price

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Monday, Aug 9 at 01:00 PM
Restored 35mm

Signature Classic

Original cast member Nancy Olson will be on hand to talk about her experience working with legendary director Billy Wilder and leading man William Holden in this definitive film noir about an aging, forgotten and delusional silent film star (Gloria ... read more
Sunset Blvd.
With Special Guests Nancy Olson and Nick Clooney
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1950 | Not Rated | Drama, Thriller | d. Billy Wilder
William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Thursday, Aug 5 at 07:00 PM
Archival 35mm

60th Anniversary

Jack Nicholson is riveting as an alcoholic writer who takes a job as off-season caretaker at an isolated Colorado resort in order to stay sober, reconnect with his wife and son, and finally write that novel. But as the snow ... read more
The Shining
1980 | R | Horror, Thriller | d. Stanley Kubrick
Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Friday, Aug 13 at 10:00 PM
Archival 35mm

No one under 13 admitted

Orson Welles' baroque border drama which, along with Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, is often cited as the terminus of Hollywood's "film noir" cycle. Appropriately, the picture has more than a little darkness in it as it straddles a lazy stretch ... read more
Touch of Evil
Introduced by Special Guest Peter Bogdanovich
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1958 | Not Rated | Crime, Thriller | d. Orson Welles
Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles

Kendle Kidd Performance Hall
Friday, Aug 13 at 03:30 PM
Archival 35mm