Concert footage from 1972 of Aretha Franklin performing songs from the best-selling gospel album at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles.
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The Sound of Music
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Richard Haydn, Eleanor Parker, Peggy Wood
A tuneful, heartwarming story, it is based on the real life story of the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world’s best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II. Julie Andrews plays the role of Maria, the tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey who becomes a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
This is the newly “un-restored” 4K version with original audio, supervised by Christopher Nolan.
Stanley Kubrick’s dazzling, Academy Award-winning achievement is a compelling drama of man vs. machine, a stunning meld of music and motion. Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” Let an awesome journey unlike any other begin.
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Starring: The Monkees, Victor Mature, Annette Funicello
The Monkees — Mickey Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Davey Jones, and Peter Tork — didn’t really enjoy being labelled the pre-Fab Four. They expressed their displeasure in this non-sequitur masterpiece. This film literally has no plot; it is instead a patchwork of loopy sight gags, instant parodies, and musical numbers.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Frobe, Benny Hill
Adapted from the only children’s novel written by master spy author Ian Fleming. Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) is an eccentric inventor, widower and family man who invents a magical car that can float and fly in addition to the usual road travel. The evil Baron Bombast (Gert Frobe) tries to steal the car and the inventor, but he grabs Potts’ eccentric father (Lionel Jeffries) by mistake.
Soon the family and candy heir Totally Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes) are off to rescue grandpa, who still believes he is in the British Army fighting in India. They fly to a fantasy land where all children are jailed, and the adults must rescue the children to insure a safe family reunion. British comedy legend Benny Hill plays the role of the Toymaker.
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Starring: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno
A scientific expedition searching for fossils along the Amazon River discover a prehistoric Gill-Man in the legendary Black Lagoon. The explorers capture the mysterious creature, but it breaks free. The Gill-Man returns to kidnap the lovely Kay, fiancée of one of the expedition, with whom it has fallen in love.
Funny Girl
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
Release Date: September 19, 1968
FUNNY GIRL follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice, a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar for Best Actress.
As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break at Keeney’s Music Hall, her hilarious debut as a roller-skating chorus girl gets her hired as a comedienne. A year later Fanny is working for Florenz Ziegfeld in his famous Follies and brings the house down with an outrageous and unplanned number. Fanny becomes a star, falls in love and marries Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), a handsome gambler whose luck doesn’t hold up. The film’s many memorable songs include “Don’t Rain On My Parade” and the Streisand classic “People.”
The Devil Rides Out (aka The Devil’s Bride)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leone Greene
Release Date: July 20, 1968
The debonair Duc de Richleau has been trusted with the care of his deceased friend’s son, Simon Aron. The Duc discovers that the young man has been seduced into joining a Satanic cult headed by the diabolic Mocata, who is intent on making Simon one of the Devil’s disciples. Having rescued Simon from a bloodied ritual, de Richleau is pursued by Mocata, who will stop at nothing to destroy the Duc and his friends, even summoning the Angel of Death itself.
Starring horror legend Christopher Lee in one of his personal favorite roles and based on the celebrated novel by Dennis Wheatley, THE DEVIL RIDES OUT is one of Hammer’s most accomplished and thrilling mystery horrors.
The Odd Couple
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, David Sheiner, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley
Release Date: May 2, 1968
“Following the collapse of his marriage, TV newswriter Felix Ungar decides to commit suicide in a cheap hotel room near Times Square. He fails at even this, however, and dejectedly makes his way to the weekly poker game being held at the Riverside Drive apartment of his best friend, Oscar Madison, a divorced sportswriter. Felix accepts an invitation to share the 8-room apartment, but his hypochondria and his compulsion for order and cleanliness drive the slovenly Oscar to distraction, and the two men are soon quarreling.” – American Film Institute
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Starring: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum
This wild, imaginative adaptation of Roald Dahl’s essential novel remains a childhood classic to this day. Even with its beautiful design and unforgettable scenes, Mel Stuart’s feature length version belongs to Gene Wilder and his amazing performance as a half-mad candy man on the hunt for a successor to his empire (spoiler alert?). Come relive childhood wonderment (or nightmares, in some cases).