Music Film Festival
Presenting films all about music from then and now!
Showtimes:
The Glenn Miller Story - 11:00 am
Song Without End - 2:00 pm
Birth of The Beatles - 4:40 pm
Sid & Nancy - 7:00 pm
The Doors - 9:00 pm
Ray - 11:30 pm
January 18th
Jersey Boys - 11:00 am
Amadeus - 2:00 pm
Control - 5:00 pm
Immortal Beloved - 7:00 pm
The Glenn Miller Story
Year: 1954
Running Time: 115 minutes
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Review: "Featuring a towering performance from Jimmy Stewart as America's most popular band leader, Anthony Mann's intelligent if also sentimental film is one of the most enjoyable Hollywood biopics."
-Emmanuel Levy (emmanuellevy.com)
Song Without End
Year: 1960
Running Time: 141 minutes
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Review: "The great music is THE thing in this musical biography."
-Steve Crum (reviewmaster.com)
Birth of the Beatles
Year: 1979
Running Time: 104 minutes
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Review: "An interesting dramatization of the formation and early days of the Beatles."
-Anthony Valletta
Sid & Nancy
Year: 1986
Running Time: 112 minutes
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Review: "[Cox] and his actors pull off the neat trick of creating a movie full of noise and fury, and telling a meticulous story right in the middle of it."
-Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun Times)
The Doors
Year: 1991
Running Time: 140 minutes
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Review: "Insidiously funny and remarkably truthful about the psychedelic rock scene in the late 1960."
-John Hartl (Seattle Times)
Ray
Year: 2004
Running Time: 152 minutes
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Review: "Vibrantly intelligent and tough-minded."
-David Denby (New Yorker)
Jersey Boys
Year: 2014
Running Time: 134 minutes
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Review: "What makes Jersey Boys work is its Rashomon device of letting each member of the group tell part of the story from his point of view. And it's all woven together by those familiar, catchy songs."
-Christine Dolen (Miami Herald)
Amadeus
Year: 1984
Running Time: 161 minutes
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Review: "The performance of Abraham, who won the Best Actor Oscar for it, is monumental, and so is Forman's direction."
-Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)
Control
Year: 2007
Running Time: 122 minutes
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Review: "The film nails both the malaise and creative vigor of Curtis' short, bruised and chillingly relatable life."
-John Wenzel (Denver Post)
Immortal Beloved
Year: 1994
Running Time: 121 minutes
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Review: Real coup is the perfect casting of consummate chameleon actor Gary Oldman as Beethoven.
-John A. Nesbit (Old School Reviews)