RETRO BIG SCREEN ROUND UP JULY 4TH EDITION

It’s the long weekend in the States and after cinema closures in 2020, the repertory film houses are going at it again super hard with all your favorite holiday classics and much more on the big screen! Don’t forget to check out our THEATERS page to see what other film houses are up to, as well as VIDEO STORES page, to see what’s happening at these havens for physical media!

Fri 7/2 & Sat 7/3 Midnight: Will Smith, President Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum save the world in a very American way in INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) screening at midnight at THE COOLIDGE CORNER THEATER. More info HERE.

Fri 7/2 8:30pm: A visual effects blockbuster that still holds up super well thanks to some great work from ILM, TWISTER (1996) screens at HOLLYWOOD LEGION THEATER DRIVE IN. More info HERE.

Fri 7/2 & Sat 7/3 7:15pm: The mind bending darkly comic cult fave that became an indie hit, DONNIE DARKO (2001) screens at THE ROXIE CINEMA San Francisco. Giant rabbit suits optional. More info HERE.

Fri 7/2 & 7/3: Cobra Kai never dies! See the entire original KARATE KID TRILOGY in a 35mm Triple Feature at THE MAHONING DRIVE-IN Pennsylvania. More info HERE.

Fri 7/2 8:45pm: STAND BY ME (1986), Stephen King’s teary coming of age adventure full of junkyard dogs, leeches, and Kiefer Sutherland screens at MUSIC BOX THEATER outdoors. More info HERE.

Sat 7/3 & Sun 7/4: Feel the need for speed with the original top TOP GUN (1986) screens with a new 4K Restoration at THE TEXAS THEATRE. More info HERE. Also at The NORTH PARK THEATRE in Buffalo NY.

All Weekend: Brian De Palma’s brilliant Hitchcock-esque suspense classic BLOW OUT (1981) screens at THE FRIDA CINEMA in Santa Ana. More info HERE.

All Weekend: New 4K Restoration of SMOOTH TALK (1981) featuring Laura Dern in her first lead role giving one of her most stirring, layered performances. Screens at FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER NYC. More info HERE.

Portland’s HOLLYWOOD THEATRE reopens this weekend with Questlove’s stunning new concert film SUMMER OF SOUL. Also don’t forget to drop into MOVIE MADNESS VIDEO, the cities iconic rental store and screening room. More info HERE.

Sat 7/3 Various Times: MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969) screens with a New 4K Restoration of this grimy-as-gets NYC movie as part of THE QUAD CINEMA NYC’s ‘Down and Dirty NYC’ retrospective. More info HERE

Sat 7/3 7pm: Brooklyn NY’s FILM NOIR CINEMA & VIDEO keeps dishing the obscure classics this weekend with the Italian sci-fi horror film PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES (1965). More info HERE. Also support their Go Fund Me to keep them open!

Sat 7/3 9pm: Winona Ryder teams up with a darkly sociopath Christian Slater in a plot to kill the cool kids in one of the defining cult classics of 1980s cinema. HEATHERS (1988) screens at PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA London. More info HERE.

Sat 7/3 8:30pm: Humphrey Bogart at his most iconic in the timeless CASABLANCA (1942) at AFI SILVER THEATER Maryland. More info HERE.

Say 7/3 7:30pm: Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY (1991), the action sci-fi classic that still reigns supreme thanks to good storytelling over flashy vfx, screens in 4K at Melbourne’s ASTOR THEATRE. More info HERE.

Sun 7/4 6pm gates: A rare 35mm screening of THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) with Noah Hathaway who played Atreyu in the beloved film appearing for autographs and photos before the session! More info HERE.

Sun 7/4 1:30pm Matinee: ‘A movie that allows its kids to be kids, that shows them in the insular world of imagination and dreaming that children create entirely apart from adult domains and values’ wrote Roger Ebert about THE SANDLOT (1993), screening at THE MICHIGAN THEATER. More info HERE.

Sun 7/4 3pm & 7:30pm: JAWS (1975 / 35mm Print), hailed as the first summer blockbuster, defied a generation of film goers to ‘go back into the water’. Screens at the newly reopened AERO THEATER x AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE. More info HERE.

Sun 7/4 4pm: THE RIGHT STUFF (1984 / 35mm Print), Phillip Kaufman’s mammoth adaptation of the bestseller about the selection and lift-off of NASA’s first astronauts, known as the Mercury Seven, screens at MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE NYC. More info HERE.

Sun 7/4 7:15pm: Have the time of your life with DIRTY DANCING (1987) + July 4th Fireworks at the HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY outdoor theater. More info HERE.

Sun 7/4 8pm: INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) in 35mm at PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA London. More info HERE.

Sun 7/4 8pm: Then band with the legendary guitar solo's, THE GRATEFUL DEAD (1977) screens at Miami’s NITEOWL DRIVE-IN. More info HERE.

Sun 7/4 12pm: Good news film fans in Massachusetts: THE BRATTLE THEATER reopens this weekend! BEAUTY & THE BEAST (1946), the classic fairy tale gorgeously and hauntingly adapted for the cinema by renowned artistic polymath Jean Cocteau screens for its’ 75th Anniversary. More info HERE.