SERIES
July–September at the Trylon
Cinema’s greatest villains that we love to hate. This series features 15 films highlighting the ridiculing and punching of those fascist pigs.
(1940, 125m) dir Charles Chaplin w/Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie. Chaplin’s first all-sound picture is as biting a satire now as when it was originally released. Where certain Chaplin films may have been stunted by his left-leaning political preaching, The Great Dictator is a masterpiece because of it. SUN 7:00 MON/TUE 7:00 9:30
Screenings: July 6 7:00, July 7 7:00, 9:30, July 8 7:00, 9:30
(1981, 115m) dir Steven Spielberg w/Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, John Rhys-Davies. Occult theorists in the Nazi party seek the ultimate weapon in the biblical Ark of the Covenant. Dr. Indiana Jones (Ford) has been tasked by the US government to obtain the relic before the fascists do. Raiders set the standard for all adventure films…
Screenings: July 11 7:00, 9:30, July 12 7:00, 9:30, July 13 3:00, 5:30
(1989, 127m) dir Steven Spielberg w/Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody. Professor Henry Jones (Connery) has gone missing just as he was making gains in his search for the Holy Grail. His son (Ford) is tasked with rescuing his father and finding the grail. A great father-son pairing that fleshed out one of the best…
Screenings: July 13 8:00, July 14 7:00, 9:30, July 15 7:00, 9:30
(1965, 172m) dir Robert Wise w/Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker. Poor Maria (Andrews) is a nun who is just too free-spirited to do anything right in the convent. So, she’s placed as a governess to the stern Captain von Trapp (Plummer) and his seven children. Outside the house, the Third Reich has begun swallowing…
Screenings: July 20 1:00
(1942, 99m) dir Ernst Lubitsch w/Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack. Members of an acting troupe (Lombard, Benny) are out to thwart a German informant in Nazi-occupied Poland. Initially disparaged by critics for its slapstick portrayal of Hitler’s regime, To Be or Not to Be became a celebrated satire and is still one of the…
Screenings: July 20 8:00, July 21 7:00, 9:00, July 22 7:00, 9:00
(1977, 85m) dir Ken Wiederhorn w/John Carradine, Peter Cushing, Brooke Adams. A group of tourists are shipwrecked on a remote island and find themselves under siege by a group of necrotic zombie Nazis! SUN 6:30 MON/TUE 7:00 8:45
Screenings: July 27 6:30, July 28 7:00, 8:45, July 29 7:00, 8:45
(1968, 158m) dir Brian G. Hutton w/Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure. The Nazis have captured American Brigadier General George Carnaby (Robert Beatty), who has full knowledge of the upcoming D-Day operation. The Allies cannot allow him to divulge their plans—so they send in commandos led by Major Smith (Burton) to rescue, or eliminate, him.…
Screenings: August 3 6:30, August 4 7:00, August 5 7:00
(1991, 108m) dir Joe Johnston w/Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin. Ace pilot Cliff (Campbell) stumbles upon an experimental flying jetpack and becomes embroiled in an international scheme. Full of pulp comic sensibilities, daring stunts, and practical effects, The Rocketeer re-creates 1930s Hollywood, complete with gangsters, Nazi spies, and the birth of the Age of…
Screenings: August 10 8:00, August 11 7:00, 9:15, August 12 7:00, 9:15
(1942, 102m) dir Michael Curtiz w/Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid. Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, Ilsa (Bergman) walks into Rick’s (Bogart’s)—a haven for those seeking travel papers that will help them escape from Morocco to America. Still one of the great American films of the twentieth…
Screenings: August 17 7:00, August 18 7:00, 9:15, August 19 7:00, 9:15, August 21 7:00, August 20 9:00
(2011, 124m) dir Joe Johnston w/Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell. Steve Rogers (Evans) is a skinny kid from Brooklyn who can’t stand bullies and wants to get into the fight against Hitler. He’s deemed unfit for military service until a scientist chooses him for an experimental procedure. Director Johnston’s pulp sensibilities and the character…
Screenings: August 24 7:30, August 25 7:00, 9:30, August 26 7:00, 9:30
(1963, 172m) dir John Sturges w/Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson. A group of Allied officers, experts at escaping military prisons, are put in a German POW camp designed to keep them in. They plan an escape of hundreds of their men at once, hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations…
Screenings: August 31 6:30, September 1 7:00, September 2 7:00
(1942, 107m) dir Vincent Sherman w/Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Karen Verne. “Gloves” Donahue (Bogart) is pulled into a vast conspiracy after someone kills the baker of his favorite cheesecake. The patriotism of a bunch of hoods is called into question when they discover Nazis are planning something in their city. SUN 7:30 MON/TUE 7:00 9:15
Screenings: September 7 7:30, September 8 7:00, 9:15, September 9 7:00, 9:15
(1967, 150m) dir Robert Aldrich w/Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, John Cassavetes. On the eve of D-Day, a group of convicted criminals is conscripted to go behind enemy lines and take out Nazi officers. Director Aldrich crafts a complex character film that questions authority, revels in the punching of Nazis, and portrays the costs…
Screenings: September 14 7:00, September 15 7:00, September 16 7:00
(2008, 121m) dir Bryan Singer w/Tom Cruise, Carice van Houten, Kenneth Branagh. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Cruise), believing that Germany can be saved only if Adolf Hitler is killed, plans his assassination. The only Hollywood film to depict the German resistance, Valkyrie is a meticulous study in the craft of creating tension. SUN 6:30 MON/TUE…
Screenings: September 21 6:30, September 22 7:00, 9:30, September 23 7:00, 9:30
(1983, 96m) dir Michael Mann w/Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson. On the eve of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, an undisciplined, brutal, and rapacious unit is sent to capture a mysterious church fortress in a Romanian pass. A few of the soldiers attempt to loot the church, resulting in the release of…
Screenings: September 28 7:00, September 29 7:00, 9:00, September 30 7:00, 9:00