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| From Here to Eternity returns February 14 to the Michigan, where it first played September 24, 1953. |
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The acclaimed 2011 Iranian film A Separation screens at the DFT on February 24-26 and March 4. |
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Billy Wilder directs the Oscar-winning The Apartment at the Redford on February 17-18. Video courtesy of Turner Classic Movies |
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Looking Back
July 1981
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in July 1981. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters, see Cinema Treasures or Water Winter Wonderland.
The
Detroit Film Theatre continued its summer vacation. It gave way to the
Afternoon Film Theatre, which presented a series of "Hollywood whodunits"
that screened at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays through Sundays in the Lecture/Recital
Hall or the Holley Room of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Films in the
series included Phantom
Lady (1944), Murder,
My Sweet (1944), Mildred
Pierce (1945) and The
Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
At
the Michigan, the Michigan Community Theatre Foundation presented an Independence
Day Vaudeville show on Friday, July 3. It included organist Don Haller,
the Galliard Brass Ensemble and the film Sergeant
York (1941).
The
Classic Film Theatre continued picking most of the Michigan movies, including
the foreign language films Cousin,
Cousine (1975), Autumn
Sonata (1978), and Small
Change (1976). Also shown was a rock'n'roll double bill of Monterey
Pop (1968) and Gimme
Shelter (1970).
Two
famous duos appeared at the Redford. On July 10 and 11, Spencer Tracy
and Katharine Hepburn starred in Adam's
Rib (1949). Two weeks later, the Laurel and Hardy Festival included
Sons of
the Desert (1933), Brats
(1930) and Saps
at Sea (1940).
