Free Matinees
Tickets Available At Box Office Friday Before Screening
Rialto Big Screen Classics
Casablanca
Thursday, February 6 1pm
Rated PG
102 mins
FREE
Drama, Romance, War
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) owns a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, frequented by refugees desperate to escape German domination. Despite the ever-present human misery, Rick manages to remain uninvolved in World War II now raging across Europe and Northern Africa. But all that changes when Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) walks through the front door of Rick’s club–Rick must now choose between a life with the woman he loves and becoming the hero that both she and the world need.
Free Tickets available at theatre box office January 31
Rialto Big Screen Classics
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Thursday, March 6 1pm
Rated R
108 mins
FREE
Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend, Clementine (Kate Winslet), has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), to get the same treatment. But as his memories of Clementine begin to fade, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her.
Free Tickets available at theatre box office February 28
Rialto Big Screen Classics
Lawrence of Arabia
Thursday, April 10 1pm
Rated PG
227 mins
FREE
Drama, Adventure, War
David Lean’s splendid biography of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence paints a complex portrait of the desert-loving Englishman who united Arab tribes in a battle against the Ottoman Turks during World War I.
Free Tickets available at theatre box office April 3
Rialto Big Screen Classics
The Graduate
Thursday, May 8 1pm
Rated PG
106 mins
FREE
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Benjamin Braddock (Hoffman) has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with a friend of his parents’, the indomitable Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), before turning his attention to her college-age daughter (Katharine Ross).
Free Tickets available at theatre box office May 2
Rialto Big Screen Classics
Do The Right Thing
Thursday, June 12 1pm
Rated R
120 mins
FREE
Comedy, Drama
This powerful visual feast combines humor and drama with memorable characters while tracing the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It’s the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever. Danny Aiello co-stars in this absorbing tale of inner-city life that heats up with vivid images and unforgettable performances.
Free Tickets available at theatre box office June 6
Rialto Big Screen Classics
Arsenic and Old Lace
Thursday, July 10 1pm
Not Rated
118 mins
FREE
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
When Mortimer Brewster (Grant) brings his new bride to meet his two kindly aunts, he discovers that, among many other acts of charity, the two genteel ladies help lonely old men die happy…by feeding them a wonderful meal before poisoning them. Now, Mortimer desperately wants to protect the two serial murderers he loves, stop them from killing anyone else and keep his bride from discovering how deranged his family really is.
Free Tickets available at theatre box office July 4
Rialto Big Screen Classics
The Untouchables
Thursday, August 7 1pm
Rated R
119 mins
FREE
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of the mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago… and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. This classic confrontation between good and evil and stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness, Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery as Malone, the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first.
Free Tickets available at theatre box office August 1
Rialto Big Screen Classics
Amadeus
Thursday, September 11 1pm
Rated PG
160 mins
FREE
Drama, Music, Biography
Amadeus is not only a gripping human drama and sumptuous period epic that celebrated the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but it is also a box-office hit that managed to garner eight Academy Awards (out of an astounding 11 nominations). This marvelous film portrays the rivalry between the genius Mozart (Tom Hulce) and the jealous court composer (F.Murray Abraham in his Oscar-winning role) who may have ruined Mozart’s career and shortened his life.
Free Tickets available at theatre box office September 5
Rialto Big Screen Classics
North By Northwest
Thursday, October 9 1pm
Not Rated
136 mins
FREE
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cary Grant stars as an innocent man mistaken for a spy in one of director Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers. While leaving New York’s Plaza Hotel, advertising executive Roger Thornhill (Grant) has the misfortune of standing just as the name “George Kaplan” is paged–starting a lethal case of mistaken identity and a nonstop game of cat and mouse as he is pursued across North America by espionage agents trying to kill him–and by police who suspect him of murder.
Free Tickets available at theatre box office October 3
Rialto Big Screen Classics
It’s A Wonderful Life
Thursday, December 11 1pm
Rated PG
130 mins
FREE
Drama, Family, Fantasy
George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all – and it’s Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn’t been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?
Free Tickets available at theatre box office December 5