Awesome movies - some well-known, others less so -from silent classics to new releases shown every Thursday at 2:30 in the 3rd floor Community Meeting Room at Central. We have something for everyone!
Super Cinema, March 2025
Women as Heroes
Thursday, March 6 Alien 1979 / 117 min. / R
When a commercial starship investigates a distress call from an alien, unknown ship, inside it they discover a nest of eggs, from which an organism attaches itself to one of the investigating crew members. Back on its own ship, the crew experiences stark terror as the alien stalks them. Sigourney Weaver plays Ripley, the heroic character who gets what’s going on, and acts. Roger Ebert says ‘Alien’ has been called the most influential of modern action pictures, and so it is.”
Thursday, March 13 His Girl Friday 1940 / 92 min. / Approved
Howard Hawks directs this one, perhaps the greatest of all screwball comedies. Cary Grant is at the peak of his acting career playing Walter Burns, the swaggering, unprincipled editor of the Chicago Morning Post. Walter desperately wants to win back Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), his ex-wife and former ace reporter. She is a most formidable, fast-talking, wisecracking woman who’s planning to leave town with her fiance, a very dull guy (Ralph Bellamy). What??? The rest of the plot is fun but not important. It goes by quickly, which is just what Hawks wanted it to do.
Thursday, March 20 Miracle Worker 1962 / 106 min. / NR
When a childhood disease leaves Helen Keller (Patty Duke) deaf, blind and mute, her parents seek out a teacher to help her. They find Anne Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), a graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind, and bring her to their home. Skilled and forceful, funny and loving, Sullivan matches Helen’s willfulness. Bancroft and Patty Duke each won an Academy Award for her performance.
Thursday, March 27 Erin Brockovich 2000 / 131 min. / R
Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts) demands a job at the law office of Ed Masry (Albert Finney), who has lost a personal injury suit on Brockovich’s behalf because of her outrageous behavior in court. Ed fires her but takes her back to work on a case against PG&E for knowingly allowing a deadly chemical, hexavalent chromium, to poison the groundwater in Hinkley, CA, resulting in dozens of cancer diagnoses. Due mainly to Brockovich’s work and the rapport she builds with a few hundred plaintiffs, Masry brings a huge law suit against PG&E. Watch Brockovitch go!
Super Cinema, April 2025
Celebrating Aspects of Arabic & Islamic Cultures
Thursday, April 3 Theeb
2014 / 100 min. / NR
During World War I, in the Ottoman Empire, a young Bedouin boy named Theeb joins men guiding a British officer through the desert. An ambush leaves some of them dead, including Theeb’s brother, whom Theeb must now avenge.
Thursday, April 10 Battle of Algiers
1966 / 121 min. / NR
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the mostly Arab people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government. Writer and director Gillo Pontecorvo used hundreds of non-professional actors to show volatility in street confrontations. The film received praise for its realism, in the manner of neo-realist Roberto Rossellini.
Thursday, April 17 Kite Runner
2007 / 128 min. / PG-13
When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, young Amir and his father fled the country for America. Now an adult and an author, Amir (Khalid Abdullah) returns to Afghanistan hoping to find and help old friends.
Thursday, April 24 The Visitor
2007 / 103 min. / PG-13
After being at a conference out of town, Professor Walter Vale returns to his New York City apartment to find a couple in residence who’d been installed there by a swindler. The young couple are Syrian / Palestinian and Senegalese. Walter decides to let them stay, and the three lives begin to intertwine. For his role as Walter, Richard Jenkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Movies, Music & Performance |
