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Win 10 free movie tickets!

Posted by Danny On September - 6 - 2008

September: American Classics

Where: Paresky Theatre (Lower level L02, Paresky Center)

When: 7:30pm every Friday

September Raffle: Just go to any of our screenings this month and, for only $1, you’ll stand a chance to win 10 free movie ticket at the Images Cinema. Join the raffle and support indie film-making on campus. At the end of September, we’ll announce the winner!

Schedule

9/5 No screening
9/12 Animal Crackers
Groucho Marx plays African explorer Capt. Spaulding, who’s just returned to the states to inflict comic carnage on the highfalutin party of society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont). Groucho regales the partygoers with tales of his adventures in the wild (”I shot an elephant in my pajamas; how he got there I’ll never know” and so on). Meanwhile, Harpo chases blondes, and Chico connives.
9/19 Raging Bull
Robert De Niro won the Oscar for his portrayal of self-destructive boxer Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese’s widely acclaimed biopic. De Niro’s powerful performance, combined with Scorsese’s black-and-white realism, paints a raw portrait of a tormented soul unable to control his violent outbursts. Cathy Moriarty and Joe Pesci also star.
9/26 Bringing Up Baby
Love blooms for a hapless scientist and an unstoppable heiress in Howard Hawks’s classic screwball comedy. Out to win the heart of paleontologist David (Cary Grant), heiress Susan (Katharine Hepburn) lures him to her home. The hilarity begins when Susan’s dog steals David’s prize dinosaur bone and her pet leopard, Baby, is mistaken for a zoo escapee. One madcap adventure follows another as they try to save Baby — and ultimately fall in love.