THE WIZARD OF OZ / LABYRINTH Double Feature! July 29, 2011

Friday, July 29 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: THE WIZARD OF OZ, 1939, Warner Bros., 101 min. Dir. Victor Fleming. Judy Garland is Dorothy in this sublime, candy-colored adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s children’s favorite, one of the most beloved film classics of all time. Take a surreal stroll down the yellow brick road with Dorothy as she encounters the Tin Man (Jack Haley), the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), Glinda the Good Witch (Billie Burke) and the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton). [35mm]
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25th Anniversary! Brand New Print! LABYRINTH, 1986, Sony Repertory, 101 min. Dir. Jim Henson. David Bowie and a young Jennifer Connelly star in this tour de force of live-action puppetry. Fifteen-year-old Sarah (Connelly), angry with her little brother, wishes him away to the imaginary land of the Goblin King from her favorite book. Her musings take physical form and she is granted 13 hours to rescue him from the phantasmagoric realm of her own creation, lest the boy become a goblin forever. [35mm]
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