WELCOME TO THE CINEMA INC’S
56TH SEASON
SEPTEMBER 2024-AUGUST 2025
After a pause for the pandemic followed by the rebirth of the Rialto and our own brief relaunch, we return for our 56th full year of screening great films! This season’s memberships are currently sold out. Message The Cinema, Inc through our contact page to be notified about next season.
The Cinema, Inc screens films at 7:00pm on the second Sunday of each month at the Rialto Theatre, 1629 Glenwood Ave (near Five Points) Raleigh. Please note the change in start time for Seven Samurai is 6:00pm.
SEASON 56 SCREENING SCHEDULE
SEPT. 8TH, ‘24
Oct. 13th, ‘24
NOV. 10th, ‘24
Dec. 8th, ‘24
JAN. 12th, ‘25
NEW DATE: Feb. 2nd, ‘25
March 9th, ‘25
April 13th, ‘25
EIGHT MEN OUT
USA, 1988, Color, PG, 119 min
Directed by John Sayles; starring John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, Jace Alexander
One of the greatest baseball teams in history and the odds-on favorite to win the 1919 World Series over the Cincinnati Reds, the Chicago White Sox appeared posed for victory. Undervalued and underpaid, eight team members were approached by a gambling syndicate to throw the series for more money than they would make winning.
Frankenstein
USA, 1931, B&W, Not Rated, 70 min
Directed by James Whale; starring Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Mae Clarke
In her novel, Mary Shelley simply referred to the creature Dr. Frankenstein fabricated from body parts as “the Monster.” This film, which has influenced every horror film in its wake, brought to life a monster so iconic that its name has become confuses with its creator and symbolic father.
THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE
Mexico/Spain, 2001, Color, R, 108 min
Directed by Guillermo del toro; starring Fernando Tielve, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi
The wold is full of monsters, full of ghosts. The scariest monsters are too often human. In this mournful ghost story set during the waning days of the Spanish Civil War, a boy whose father has been killed fighting for democracy is sent to haunted orphanage.
My Favorite Year
USA, 1982, Color, PG, 92 min
Directed by Richard Benjamin; starring Peter O’Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper
When drunken, washed-up, swashbuckling star, Alan Swann (a perfectly cast O’Toole) agrees to make an appearance on a live television program in 1950’s New York, a junior writer and lifelong fan (Linn-Baker) is taksed with babysitting his charming buy unruly charge. Mayhem, pratfalls, laughter and fun ensue.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
USA/GB, 1965, B&W, Not Rated, 112
Directed by Martin Ritt; starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner
At the height of the Cold War, a spy (Burton), undertakes one final perilous mission in East Germany to flush out a mole in MI-6, nicknamed the “Circus” by insiders. From the acclaimed best seller by John le Carré, director Ritt captures a world where nothing is black and white, only seemingly endless shades of grey.
Lost in Translation
USA, 2003, Color, R, 102 min
Directed by Sofia Coppola; starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi
Two lonely, lost Americans adrift in Tokyo meet and forge an unlikely friendship. He is older, an actor whose career is on the skids. She is younger, a wife who has accompanied her husband on a photo shoot. Somehow, miraculously, they see each other, hear each other, get each other in this valentine to the wonders of chance friendships and the city of Tokyo itself.
The Player
USA, 1992, Color, R 124 min
Directed by Robert Altman; starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
A self-admitted Hollywood player himself, Altman casts a satirical insider’s eye at the cutthroat corporate Hollywood world. From its audacious and renowned eight-minute opening tracking shot, through a constellation of stars in cameo roles to its upbeat Hollywood ending, his satire of the morally bereft studio exec remains funny, suspenseful and hugely entertaining.
Day for Night
France, 1973, Color, PG, 116 min
Directed by François Truffaut; starring Jacqueline Basset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, François Truffaut
Deriving its title from a term for shooting a nighttime scene in the daylight with a special filter, A Day for Night, follows a harried director (Truffaut) as ahe struggles to complete a flimsy melodrama. “A movie for people love movies,” promises a tagline form an original poster. The film delivers on that purpose.
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