Join us on Monday nights at 6:00 in July and August as we revisit films from the Bicentennial year!
Monday, July 6: Rocky
Rated PG; 119 minutes. Directed by John G. Avildsen; starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith.
A club fighter from Philadelphia who moonlights as a collector for a local mobster gets a shot at the big time when the heavyweight champion of the world gives him chance to fight for the belt on America’s bicentennial.
Monday, July 13: All the President’s Men
Rated PG; 138 minutes. Directed by Alan J. Pakula; starring Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam.
Academy Award winners Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in this true story as Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation of a seemingly minor hotel room break-in uncovers the greatest political scandal in United States history and leads to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.
Monday, July 20: Marathon Man
Rated R; 125 minutes. Directed by John Schlesinger; starring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller.
A graduate student is thrust into a violent encounter with a Nazi war criminal in NYC. In an effort to locate a cache of missing gems, the former Nazi dentist tries to extract information from the student by performing sadistic “oral surgery” on him.
Monday, July 27: Murder by Death
Rated PG; 94 minutes. Directed by Robert Moore; starring Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, David Niven, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness.
Neil Simon wrote this spoof of murder mysteries in which famous detectives are challenged to solve a crime that has yet to be committed
Monday, August 3: Network
Rated R; 121 minutes. Directed by Sidney Lumet; starring Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy.
Best Picture nominee about a mentally unstable news anchor who, after being told he’s to be fired, becomes a media superstar when he begins delivering nightly rants and threatens an on-air suicide for his final broadcast. Paddy Chayevsky’s script won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay; Peter Firth received a posthumous Best Actor award as the unhinged newsman; and Faye Dunaway won Best Actress as a scheming network exec.
Monday, August 10: Taxi Driver
Rated R; 112 minutes. Directed by Martin Scorcese; starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris.
A mentally unstable Vietnam veteran makes his living as a cabbie in New York, attempts to date a campaign worker, and befriends an underage hooker who he tries to get out of the life.