Starring: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Teri Garr, Harrison Ford, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams

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Lonely wiretapping expert and devout Catholic Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to record a seemingly innocuous conversation in San Francisco’s Union Square between two lovers. Upon re-hearing the tapes, however, Caul believes he may be putting the couple in danger if he turns the material over to his client (Robert Duvall). But what one hears can ultimately turn out to be quite different from what was actually recorded.

Starring: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovena

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When Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn) to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband’s coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto (Richard Basehart), the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.

At the end of each Antarctic summer, the emperor penguins of the South Pole journey to their traditional breeding grounds in a fascinating mating ritual that is captured in this documentary by intrepid filmmaker Luc Jacquet. The journey across frozen tundra proves to be the simplest part of the ritual, as after the egg is hatched, the female must delicately transfer it to the male and make her way back to the distant sea to nourish herself and bring back food to her newborn chick.

Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daisuke Katô, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi

There will be a 15 minute intermission about halfway through the film

A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food. A giant battle occurs when 40 bandits attack the village.

Starring: Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits

Left with a baby sitter (Jeannie Elias), a bad boy (Sammy Snyders) with a teddy bear finds a pit with four hungry monsters.

Starring: William Hopper, Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Evelyn Varden

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark (William Hopper) and his wife, Christine (Nancy Kelly), dote on their pig-tailed daughter, Rhoda (Patty McCormack) — as does their lonely landlady, Monica Breedlove (Evelyn Varden). But self-centered Rhoda has a secret tendency for selfishness and loves to accumulate gifts, whether given or stolen, in her room. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter’s darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda’s dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

Starring: Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley, Linda Kozlowski, Michael Paré, Meredith Salenger, Mark Hamill

Ten months after the small California town of Midwich was struck by a mysterious event during which everyone in the village fell unconscious at once, 10 local women give birth on the same day. As the unsettlingly calm and unemotional children grow at an abnormally fast rate, it becomes clear that they can read adults’ minds and force people to harm themselves. Local doctor Alan Chaffee (Christopher Reeve) and federal agent Susan Verner (Kirstie Alley) must team up to battle the alien children.

Starring: Prince, Cat, Sheila E., Dr. Fink, Wally Safford, Greg Brooks, Sheena Easton

It’s time to party with The Deuce like it’s… 2025!!  As in: Two-Thousand Zero Twenty-Five!! In that, we could all die any day – ’tis nigh high time to open your eyes and ears and with witless wonder bear witness to – a SIGN “☮️” THE TIMES!  Writer/director/star/Maestro Prince’s 1987-era musical manifesto Concert Film (capital “C”, capital “F”) cavalcade of choreographed, costumed, consummate consummation of stage-strutting splendor! Searing! Steamy! Sexy! Sleazy! A harbinger for the year to come!! New Year! New U! New Deuce!! Same OLD Deuce-Dummies… ready to roar!!

A watershed of jaw-dropping show-stopping that Slate mag proclaims to be “the single-greatest concert film of all time” – a sentiment much echoed elsewhere – only ever (if ever) edged from top-slot by Demme and The Talking Heads’ STOP MAKING SENSE… equally behemoth and yet altogether different beast… SIGN “☮️” THE TIMES is His Royal Badness at his (arguably) Bestness!! And despite what the naysayers may naysay – to whit: it being “fake” as a “concert film” as per the bulk being shot on Prince’s personal concert-hall sized Paris soundstage due to The Purple One having pshaw’d parts of the previously filmed live Rotterdam footage as not being up to his particulars – the pulse-pounding PERFORMANCE (more than deserving of its all-capitalization) is pure preening High Priest Of Pop perfection… pitched at a pinnacle of all-outness on every level… “makes Michael Jackson look like he’s nailed to the floor…”!!

While opening to critical raves if not so boffo box-office returns in more haughty halls the likes of Broadway’s Warner or the Village’s Art Greenwich, it was when it hit the eponymous Times Square Theater when the party really started as though 1987 was instead the year of 1999 – where everybody, everybody said “PARTY’!!

(ed. Despite the preponderance of references/allusions to the Prince song “1999” peppered throughout these program notes, the aforementioned number – despite its having been part of the live stage show – is for some bizarre reason NOT performed in the aforementioned film… as per Prince’s perhaps perfunctory design of said film being a kind of “promo” for the also for some bizarre reason “under-performing” double album of the same name… oops! outta time! ✌️+💜)

Starring: Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross, Andrea Occhipinti

A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.

Starring: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck, Cinzia Monreale

A young woman inherits an old hotel only to find it sits atop a gateway to Hell and all manner of creatures lurk in the darkness.