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January movies

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Saturday, February 4 at 9:33 pm
Sunday, Febraury 5 at 11:30 am
In Milos Forman's Academy Award-winning 1975 film, adapted from a novel by Ken Kesey, mental patients rise up and follow social-misfit hero Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) against an oppressive nurse (Louise Fletcher) and her rules. Forman, Nicholson and Fletcher each won Oscars. (2:13)

 

Local Hero

Saturday, February 11 at 9:33 pm
Sunday, February 12 at 11:30 am
In Bill Forsyth's 1983 comic drama, an oilman (Peter Riegert) goes native in a quirky Scottish town his Texas boss (Burt Lancaster) expects him to buy for the construction of a refinery. (1:51)

 

Witness for the Prosecution

Saturday, February 18 at 9:33 pm
Sunday, February 19 at 11:00 am
Billy Wilder's 1957 adaptation of an Agatha Christie play features Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton in the story of a sensational murder and subsequent trial full of surprises in which the defendant's wife agrees to appear as a prosecution witness. (1:54)

 

Fun Silent, Run Deep

Saturday, February 25 at 9:33 pm
Sunday, February 16 at 11:30 am
The 1958 war drama stars Clark Gable as a World War II submarine commander obsessively hunting for the Japanese destroyer that sank his last sub. Burt Lancaster and Jack Warden co-star. (1:33)

 

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