Repertory at the Pageant! New Restorations of Classic Films

The Pageant Theatre

MEAN STREETS

Martin Scorsese

  • 112 minutes
  • 1973
  • English

      Friday December 8
    • 4:30pm
    • Saturday December 9
    • 6:30pm
    • Sunday December 10
    • 4:30pm
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    Martin Scorsese emerged as a generation-defining filmmaker with this gritty portrait of 1970s New York City, one of the most influential works of American independent cinema. Set in the insular Little Italy neighborhood of Scorsese’s youth, MEAN STREETS follows guilt-ridden small-time ringleader Charlie (Harvey Keitel) as he deals with the debts owed by his dangerously volatile best pal, Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro), and pressure from his headstrong girlfriend, Teresa (Amy Robinson). As their intertwined lives spiral out of control, Scorsese showcases his precocious mastery of film style—evident in everything from his propulsive editing rhythms to the lovingly curated soundtrack—to create an electrifying vision of sin and redemption.

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA

Sam Wood

  • 91 minutes
  • 1935
  • English

      Friday December 8
    • 7pm
    • Saturday December 9
    • 4:15pm
    • Sunday December 10
    • 2:15pm
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    The madcap Marx Bros take aim at stuffy opera lovers and the nouveau riche with equal aplomb. Otis B. Driftwood, a theatrical agent of dubious morals (Groucho Marx), is hired by social climber Mrs. Claypool (Margaret Dumont) to help her break into high society. He suggests she invest in an opera company, the success of which is contingent on his signing the famous Italian tenor Lassparri (Walter Woolf King). But when Driftwood sails back to New York he is unexpectedly joined by stowaways; the unemployed singer Baroni (Allan Jones), his manager (Chico Marx) and Lassaparri’s former dresser (Harpo Marx) and the charming young opera singer Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Groucho, Chico, and Harpo cram the ship with wall-to-wall gags, one-liners, musical riffs and two hard-boiled eggs. Arriving in the city to save the opera, our heroes must first destroy it. They must also pull the wool (if not the beards) over the eyes of city hall, shred legal mumbo-jumbo down to a sanity clause, pester dowager Claypool and unleash so much anarchistic glee that many say this is the best Marx Brothers movie. Seeing is believing.

    Friday December 8 --- 7pm

    Saturday December 9 --- 4:15pm

    Sunday December 10 --- 2:15pm

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PAN'S LABYRINTH

Guillermo del Toro

  • 119 minutes
  • 2006
  • English

      Saturday December 9
    • 9pm
    • Sunday December 10
    • 7pm
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    An Academy Award–winning dark fable set five years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, PAN'S LABYRINTH encapsulates the rich visual style and genre-defying craft of Guillermo del Toro. Eleven-year-old Ofelia (Ivana Baquero, in a mature and tender performance) comes face to face with the horrors of fascism when she and her pregnant mother are uprooted to the countryside, where her new stepfather (Sergi López), a sadistic captain in General Francisco Franco’s army, hunts down Republican guerrillas refusing to give up the fight. The violent reality in which Ofelia lives merges seamlessly with her fantastical interior world when she meets a faun in a decaying labyrinth and is set on a strange, mythic journey that is at once terrifying and beautiful. In his revisiting of this bloody period in Spanish history, del Toro creates a vivid depiction of the monstrosities of war infiltrating a child’s imagination and threatening the innocence of youth.