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From Slapstick to Stoners: A Comedy Marathon
May 28 to 31

Memorial Day Weekend Special 25% discount on tickets!
$9 General Public/ $6 Seniors & Students/ $5 Members

Surrender your funny bone to a marathon of Hollywood comedy classics, with several rarely screened gems. Whether your taste is highbrow or low, stoner or slapstick, we’ve got you covered, from (duck) soup to just plain nuts!


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$49 General Public/ $39 Seniors & Students/ $29 Members
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  Scene Photo Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Frank Tashlin, 1957, USA; 94m
Tony Randall’s mild-mannered ad man poses as the main squeeze of a Hollywood glamour queen (Jayne Mansfield) to win her endorsement in this eye-popping satire.



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Fri May 28: 3:15
Scene Photo Arsenic and Old Lace
Frank Capra, 1944, USA; 118m

Madness doesn’t run in the Brewster family, it practically gallops! Cary Grant stars in this black comedy about two kindly killer aunties.



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Fri May 28: 5:15


Scene Photo The Party
Blake Edwards, 1968, USA; 99m
Banned from a movie set, bit player Hrundi V. Bakshi (the incomparable Peter Sellers) crashes a Hollywood shindig in this slapstick masterpiece.


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Fri May 28: 7:45

Scene Photo The Jerk
Carl Reiner, 1979, USA; 104m
Sharecropper Steve Martin strikes it rich and loses it all again in this absurdist classic. And yes, there will be cat juggling.



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Fri May 28: 9:45

Scene Photo Ninotchka
Ernst Lubitsch, 1939, USA; 110m
Greta Garbo’s stern-faced apparatchik learns to laugh when her ideology is shaken by the twin assaults of capitalist frivolity and Melvyn Douglas’s aristocratic suitor.



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Sat May 29: 3:00
Scene Photo Silver Streak
Arthur Hiller, 1976, USA; 113m
Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor team up for the first time as two men trying to catch a murderer aboard a cross-country train.



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Sat May 29: 5:15
Scene Photo Car Wash
Michael Schultz, 1976, USA; 97m
Disco hits, classic cars, and guest stars at a nutty Los Angeles car wash. With George Carlin, Garrett Morris, and Richard Pryor.



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Sat May 29: 7:30
Scene Photo Up In Smoke
Lou Adler, 1978, USA; 87m
Cheech and Chong’s pioneering stoner comedy features a West Coast road trip with a border crossing in a car made entirely of pot.



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Sat May 29: 9:45
Scene Photo Girl Shy
Sam Taylor & Fred C. Newmeyer, 1924, USA; 82m
A tailor’s apprentice (Harold Lloyd) falls for a socialite, leading to a mad dash to the chapel—by car, motorcycle, trolley, and horseback. Live piano accompaniment by Carolyn Swartz.



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Sun May 30: 2:00
Scene Photo What’s Up, Doc?
Peter Bogdanovich, 1972, USA; 94m
Blustery Babs brings chaos to the carefully ordered universe of a buttoned-up musicologist (Ryan O’Neal) in this latter-day screwball classic.



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Sun May 30: 4:00
Scene Photo Duck Soup
Leo McCarey, 1933, USA; 68m
The Marx Brothers’ finest hour—and the sole movie included by literary critic Harold Bloom in his canon of “the twentieth-century American Sublime.”



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Sun May 30: 6:00
Scene Photo The Ladies Man
Jerry Lewis, 1961, USA; 95m
Jerry’s jilted Herbert H. Hebert takes a job as a handyman at an all-girl boarding house. “Hey, laaaady” indeed!



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Sun May 30: 7:45
Scene Photo Female Trouble
John Waters, 1974, USA; 92m
A John Waters special: Denied cha-cha heels for Christmas, a teenage delinquent (the inimitable, unspeakable Divine) runs away from home, gets pregnant...and becomes a model.



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Sun May 30: 9:45
Scene Photo Ball of Fire
Howard Hawks, 1941, USA; 111m
The first lady of screwball, Barbara Stanwyck, inflames Gary Cooper’s staid English professor in this linguistically minded farce co-written by Billy Wilder.



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Mon May 31: 1:45
Scene Photo Sleeper
Woody Allen, 1973, USA; 88m
The future is now: Village health-food storeowner (Woody) wakes up in a world of robot butlers, giant veggies, Orgasmatrons, and Diane Keaton.



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Mon May 31: 4:00

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