Pothole Pictures 2024-2025 Fall-Winter Film Season
October 5 7:30 PM Special Event with Live Music — STEAMBOAT BILL JR. ALL Tickets for This Special Event Are $10
A one-night-only presentation of Buster Keaton’s classic silent film as it was made to be seen – on the big screen with live improvised music by Jeff Rapsis on keyboard. After many years apart, Buster meets his estranged father and helps him save his beloved steamboat company in spectacular, hilarious fashion. Keaton directs and performs perhaps the most famous movie stunt of all time while a cyclone destroys an entire town around him. (1928) Dir: Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton Silent B/W 70 min NR
October 18-19 7:30 pm Elvis Has NOT Left the Building — BUBBA HO-TEP
An under-appreciated gem. The true [?] story of what happened to Elvis: he is still alive and living in a nursing home, down the hall from a black man who claims to be John F. Kennedy. When people in the home start dying mysteriously, Elvis and JFK need to do battle (of course) with an Egyptian mummy. Brilliant work by Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK. Roger Ebert wasn’t sure the movie worked, but it made him “grin at its harebrained audacity.” You will, too, just in time for Halloween. 2002 Dir: Don Coscarelli Color 92 min R
November 8-9 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? — ARIEL PHENOMENON
What happens when you experience something so extraordinary that no one believes you? Find out in this film, a locally made doc about the Ariel School extraterrestrial incident in Africa. The Director, Randall Nickerson, from Ashfield, and/or his colleague, Chris Seward, will speak each night. Rotten Tomatoes ratings: 100/94. (2022) Dir: Randall Nickerson Color 100 min
November 15-16 An Inspiring True Story — QUEEN OF KATWE
Based on chess prodigy Phiona Mutesi, who became the pride of Katwe, a Ugandan slum community. Director Mira Nair made a documentary about Phiona’s coach, Robert Mutende, and was so moved that she turned Phiona’s story into a feature film. You will be moved, and uplifted, also. Includes great performances by Lupita Nyongo and David Oyelowo. (2016) Color 124 min PG
December 6-7 We’re Not in Mayberry Anymore — A FACE IN THE CROWD
Andy Griffith does a brilliant star turn portraying the rise and fall of a charming, manipulative singer, con artist and political influencer. Directed by Elia Kazan, who named former communist colleagues before Sen. McCarthy’s infamous committee, the film is a riveting portrait of demagogue. Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau. (1957) B/W 126 min NR
December 13-14 It’saWonderfulFilm! IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
One of the most beloved films of all time. Perhaps Frank Capra’s masterpiece, and one of the rare movies that is satisfying and moving whether you have seen it once or a dozen times. This is a great chance to see it as it should be seen, on the big screen with a live audience. On AFI’s list of the 100 greatest American films, and listed as the most inspirational American film of all time. (1946) B/W Dir: Frank Capra 130 min Rated PG
January 10-11. A Sweeney Todd/Charlie Chaplin-style romance — DELICATESSEN
A circus clown (Dominique Pinon) finds a new job as handyman in a mad butcher’s apartment building and falls in love with his daughter. Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (“Amelie”) created one of the quirkiest and most visually remarkable films you will ever see. Inside the post-apocalyptic tenement, a sweet Chaplinesque musical romance drives the plot to a watery crescendo. In French with subtitles. (1991) Color 99 min R (for brief violence) (But G for Genius!)
January 24-25 It’s Not the Muppet Movie — It’s — THE MUPPETS
The SEVENTH Muppet movie (after “The Muppet Movie”) was written and produced by Jason Segel. The Muppets have split up, but must reunite to save the Muppet Theater — Just the way we must unite to save the Memorial Hall Theater! Academy Award winner for Best Song and a lot of fun. Jason Segel, Amy Adams, The Muppets 2011 Dir: James Bobin Color 103 min PG