Films in Van Vorst

“Mamma Mia”

directed by Phyllida Lloyd

Mamma Mia!  is a 2008 stage-to-film adaptation of the 1999 West End musical of the same name, based on the songs of successful pop group ABBA, with additional music composed by ABBA member Benny Andersson.  It is the highest-grossing film musical of all time. The title originates from ABBA’s 1975 chart-topper “Mamma Mia“.

Meryl Streep heads the cast, playing the role of single mother Donna Sheridan. Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgård play the three possible fathers to Donna’s daughter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried).

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Tonight’s presentation of The Visitor has been postponed due to …..rain.  Shocking, right?

We will try again next Wednesday -July 1st–same time, same place.

Thanks!

The 5th Annual Outdoor Summer film Series will again take place in Van Vorst Park on Wednesday nights. Screenings in June and July will begin at about 8:30 or later depending on sunset. August and September screenings will begin at 8:00 pm. The rain date for each film will be the following Wednesday.

The following dates are the scheduled for this summer.

Check back with us, the film titles will be posted soon.

June 10th, 24th

July 8th, 22nd

August 5th, 19th

September 2nd, 16th

Michae Clayton

Written and Directed by Tony Gilroy

Starring George Clooney, Tom Wilkenson, Sidney Pollack, and Tilda Swinton in her 2008 Best Supporting Actress performance. It chronicles the attempts of attorney Michael Clayton to cope with a colleague’s apparent mental breakdown and the corruption and murderous intrigue within a major client of his law firm that was sued in a class-action case involving toxic agrichemicals.

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 Rear Window

directed by Alfred Hitchcock

The Classic Thriller from 1954

Considered by many film-goers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock’s best and most thrilling pictures. The movie stars James Stewart as photojournalist L. B. Jeffries, Grace Kelly as his fashion-model girlfriend, Lisa Carol Fremont, and Raymond Burr as the suspected killer, Lars Thorwald. The film combines its main theme, a murder mystery, with a critical examination of the ethics of marriage and voyeurism.

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“Ratatouille” directed by Brad Bird

with the voices of

Patton Oswalt
Brian Dennehy
Brad Garrett
Janeane Garofalo
Ian Holm

A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau.

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