Thank you all for your suggestions for this year’s Audience Poll!  We are keeping all those suggestions for possible films next year as there were so many good ones!!

After much consideration…here are the very diverse nominees!!!  You have until this Friday August 12th at 3pm to cast your votes.

Winners will be announced next Monday August 15th.

August 3rd 2016   “Finding Vivian Maier” 8:25pm

Directed by

John Maloof & Charlie Siskel

This documentary follows the story of the the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers of her time. Nominated for an 2015 Oscar for Best Documentary.

click below to view the trailer

“Zootopia”

directed by

Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush

Featuring the voices of Jason Bateman, Idres Elba, Bonnie Hunt, Tommy Chong, Octavia Spenser and Shakira.

The 2016 Disney animated feature about the city of Zootopia which is a mammal metropolis where all types of animals live and thrive. When Judy Hopps becomes the first rabbit to join the police force, she quickly learns how tough it is to enforce the law. Determined to prove herself, Judy jumps at the opportunity to solve a mysterious case. Unfortunately, that means working with Nick Wilde, a wily fox who makes her job even harder.

click below to view the trailer

CASABLANCA

Directed by

Michael Curtiz

The undisputed masterpiece from 1942 and in almost all critics’ top ten list of the Best Films of all time!  Perhaps Hollywood’s quintessential statement on love and romance, winning the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay Oscars for 1944, the film has only improved with age boasting career-defining performances from Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Most of us have never seen it on the big screen–this is your chance!

Click below to view the original trailer

Coming up NEXT!

Wednesday June 22nd

Bring a chair, Bring a friend

CREED

directed by Ryan Coogler

Starring:

Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad

Adonis Johnson, the son of the famous boxing champion Apollo Creed, is following in his fathers footsteps…instead this time he’s not fighting Rocky Balboa….Rocky Balboa is in his corner-as his mentor & friend.

RATED: PG-13

Watch the trailer!

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3155604249/imdb/embed?autoplay=false&width=480

Movie starts after sunset–8:40pm

FREE MOVIE & POPCORN

Remember–if it rains or is forecast to rain we may postpone to the following Wednesday. We will notify via social media so check here, on our Twitter feed @VVPAJC , or on our Facebook page:Van Vorst Park Association.

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It may have been a miserable afternoon…but the skies are clear and we are a go.

Fair warning….it may be a bit chilly so dress accordingly!

See you after sunset, 8;30 or later!!

” The Rocky Horror Picture Show”

Directed by Jim Sharman

rated R

( no unaccompanied minors will be permitted)

The 1975 Musical and cult classic, starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Meat Loaf and Barry Bostwick .  A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N Furter.

click below to view the original trailer

Selma

directed by

Ava Duvernay

 A chronicle of Martin Luther King’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. Starring David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tom Wilkinson and Tim Roth.

This year is the 50 anniversary of the march.

Click below to view the trailer