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Super Cinema, August 2026

Unusual Films with Great Casts

Friday, August 7 Tea with Mussolini 1999 /117 min / PG

A group of English and American ladies, known as the Scorpioni, have tea every afternoon, and cooperatively raise an orphaned Italian lad named Luca in 1935 Florence as Fascist Benito Mussolini considers his options. This is a lighthearted semi-autobiographical film by director Franco Zeffirelli, who is portrayed as young Luca in the film. It has an extraordinary cast including Maggie Smith, Cher, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, and Lily Tomlin.

Friday, August 14 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 / 107 min / R

A dark comedy about a hitman (John Cusack) who returns to his wealthy hometown of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, for his high school reunion. Also with Minnie Driver as the hitman’s abandoned girlfriend, Alan Arkin as his psychiatrist and Dan Aykroyd as another hitman who is stalking him. Several reviews call the film’s writing “smart.”

Friday, August 21 Burn After Reading 2008 / 95 min / R

A black comedy in which Katie (Tilda Swinton), the wife of former CIA analyst Osborne Cox (John Malkovich), directs her divorce lawyer’s assistant to put Cox’s financial records on a disc, but the assistant unwittingly includes a draft of his autobiography detailing CIA activities. Lost at the assistant’s gym, the disc is found by 2 ditzy gym employees (Frances McDormand & Brad Pitt), who try to cash in by selling the disc. Also starring George Clooney as a paranoid U.S. Marshall involved with Katie. Written and directed by Ethan and Joel Coen.

Friday, August 28 The Natural 1984 / 145 min / PG

Based on a novel by Bernard Malamud, this film is not what you’d expect. It has a spiritual dimension that challenges audiences. As a boy, Roy Hobbs learns everything about baseball from his dad. As a teen, he is an exceptionally good baseball player, but his desire to make a name for himself is derailed when he has a health crisis. With Robert Redford, Glenn Close and Robert Duvall.

Super Cinema, September 2026

Romance & Justice

Friday, September 4

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

2020 / 108 min. / R

A powerful movement (and this joyful, indispensable film) came from the collective thrust of disabled people, some of whom attended a summer camp for disabled kids in the 70s. We see some of them, energized, go on to sit in for weeks at the Washington DC Office of Health and Human Services until their demands are substantially met, resulting later in 1990’s adoption of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Don’t miss Crip Camp, which among other things heralds Berkeley’s important role in the disability rights movement. Netflix produced the film, along with the Obamas as executive producers.

Friday, September 11

Argo

2012 / 120 min. / R

Shortly after Iran detains American hostages during Jimmy Carter’s presidency, the CIA drafts a CIA operative (Ben Affleck) to head a ruse in which a supposedly Canadian film crew goes to Iran to shoot a science fiction film. The real plan is to free 6 diplomats being help separately from the other hostages. While faulted for historical inaccuracy, Argo is suspenseful and often rapid-fire funny. It won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director (Ben Affleck).

Friday, September 18

Sabrina

1954 / 113 min. / Approved Sabrina (Audrey Hepburn) is the young daughter of the chauffeur to the Larrabee industrialist family. Sabrina has been “in love” with David Larrabbee (William Holden) for years, so her father sends her to a Paris cooking school. Upon her return, both David and David’s stuffy brother, Linus (Humphrey Bogart), fall in line before her. It is too utterly charming. Directed by Billy Wilder

Friday, September 25

The Bridges of Madison County

1995/ 135 min. / PG-13 On assignment to take pictures of the covered bridges of Madison County, Iowa, a National Geographic photographer (Clint Eastwood) meets a married woman temporarily on her own (Meryl Streep). They fall in love. Eastwood directs.

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