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Home  Movie Lineup The 2010 Apollo Theatre Movie Lineup
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The 2010 Apollo Theatre Movie Lineup |
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Written by Administrator
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Jan 08, 2008 at 03:39 PM |
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March
March 19 - Chinatown (1974)
On the heels of filmmaker Roman Polanski’s critically acclaimed thriller The Ghost Writer, out in wide release on March 7, downtown Peoria’s nonprofit Apollo theater is screening his 1974 classic Chinatown this Friday, March 19.
Chinatown – named to the American Film Institute’s Top 100 motion pictures – stars Jack Nicholson as Los Angeles private investigator Jake Gittes, who finds himself involved in a dangerous mystery of community and family corruption.
Set in 1937, the Oscar-winning screenplay by Robert Towne presents confusing maneuvers with southern California’s water, scandalous relationships among L.A.’s rich and powerful, and a persistent detective more comfortable probing unfaithful spouses than crooked industrial titans.
Co-starring Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Diane Ladd, Burt Young and John Hillerman, the modern, Technicolor film noir was nominated for another 10 Academy Awards, including music director Jerry Goldsmith’s haunting score.
March 12 - The Great Gatsby (1974)
Romance and mystery are timeless, but the clash between wealth and poverty seems as timely as today’s news about unemployment and executive bonuses, so F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 85-year-old novel The Great Gatsby is both timeless and timely.
The classic novel is the PeoriaReads! pick for this year, and besides various events at the Peoria Public Library and Common Place, the Apollo Theater on Friday, March 12 will screen one of Hollywood’s most memorable adaptations, 1974’s version with Robert Redford as the title character.
Paramount’s lush, colorful film version also stars Mia Farrow, Sam Waterston, Bruce Dern, Scott Wilson and Karen Black in her Golden Globe-winning performance. The Jazz Age story revolves around a mysterious millionaire who crashes Long Island’s upper-class society and hosts lavish parties for the rich while he pines for an impetuous and immature married woman.
Soon, the Roaring Twenties are exposed as a time of new wealth and old habits, as lust, jealousy and infidelity collide in a tragic climax.
With a script by filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and a score by Nelson Riddle, the film benefits from superb acting and able direction by Jack Clayton. The novel previously was filmed in a 1926 silent version starring Warner Baxter, in 1949 with Alan Ladd, and a made-for-TV movie on A&E in 2001.
Other PeoriaReads! activities are detailed online at bigreadpeoriareads.org
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February
February 13 - South Pacific (1958)
Valentine’s Day weekend will take on a tropical romance feel on Saturday, February 13, when downtown Peoria’s nonprofit Apollo Theater presents 20th Century Fox’s 1958 musical South Pacific – and a party.
Recently revived on Broadway, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s classic musical follows a nurse serving in the Navy and a Frenchman helping the Allies during World War II.
Based on James Michener’s book “Tales of the South Pacific,” the film version of the ‘50s Broadway hit stars Mitzi Gaynor and Rosanno Brazzi, with terrific supporting roles handled by John Kerr, Ray Walston and Juanita Hall.
The Oscar-winning movie’s familiar songs include “Some Enchanted Evening,” “Happy Talk,” “Bali Ha’i,” “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair” and “There Is Nothing Like A Dame.”
Before the 7 p.m. screening, Peoria impresario Edith Barnard will host a party. People are invited to drink "South Pacific Smoothies" and listen to music by the Academy of Fretted Instrument's guitarists Dave McDonald, Andy Hatfield, Wes Sedrel, Pat Connolly and Andrew Turney. Also, Perce Photography will take people’s photos with a "Beach Sunset Backdrop" available on the spot, and a prize for Best Tropically Dressed will be awarded by celebrity judges Stacy Peterson-Steiner, Steve Spain, Kate O’Hara, Ethan Johnson, Roger Dornaus, Nikki Vulgaris and Joseph Milton.
Barnard’s zany novel about life and love in the tropics, “Suddenly Single Island Style," will be available, too.
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January
January 16 - "Green for Danger" (1947)
It’s 2010, and downtown Peoria’s nonprofit Apollo Theater is starting off the year with an overlooked treasure: the 1947 whodunit “Green for Danger” on Saturday, January 16.
During World War II, a postman is apparently assassinated amid Nazi bombing raids on London, and hospital personnel overwhelmed with their jobs – and their love lives – turn to an eccentric Scotland Yard detective to solve the murder.
Alastair Sim (“A Christmas Carol”) and Trevor Howard (“Bridge on the River Kwai”) lead a British cast in the Sidney Gilliat gem, filled with the stiff-upper-lip resolve of wartime England – along with a bit of whimsy to keep it all in perspective.
Gilliat was a respected director, screenwriter and producer who also worked on “Jamaica Inn,” “Waterloo Road” and “A Yank at Oxford.”
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