REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | THE IRON LADY This week’s double feature begins with The Iron Lady, the 2011 biographical drama on the life of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, directed by Phyllida Lloyd. In her third Oscar-winning performance, Meryl Streep stars as Thatcher, one of the most polarizing figures of 20th ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | CASABLANCA This week’s double feature begins with perhaps the most beloved American film of all time: Casablanca (1942). The screenplay, principally by Howard Koch and the uncredited Casey Robinson, was based on an unproduced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick’s by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. Alfred ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | THE IMITATION GAME This week’s double feature begins with The Imitation Game, the 2014 biographical drama directed by Morten Tyldum. The Imitation Game offers a fictionalized account of Alan Turing, the British mathematician whose secret work to decipher the Nazi’s “Enigma” encryption machine proved to be instrumental ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING This week’s double feature begins with Girl with a Pearl Earring, a 2003 historical romantic drama directed by Peter Webber. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring time travels back to the Dutch city of ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | THE ARTIST This week’s double feature begins with The Artist, a 2011 silent film comedy-drama, written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius. Set in 1927, The Artist recounts a fable-like tale of the waning days of Hollywood’s silent era, produced in the style and with the technology of the period. With plot elements ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN This week’s double feature starts with Singin’ in the Rain, the beloved 1952 MGM musical spoof of Hollywood’s silent era, written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and co-directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Set in 1927 during the waning days of “the roaring ...
REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | ANCHORS AWEIGH This week’s double feature begins with Anchors Aweigh, the 1945 MGM musical directed by George Sidney, featuring special animation sequences by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra star as Joe Brady and Clarence “Brooklyn” Doolittle, a pair of World War II sailors ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | THE MISFITS This week’s classic is The Misfits, the 1961 drama directed by John Huston. With a screenplay by playwright Arthur Miller, written to provide a dramatic showcase role for his then-wife Marilyn Monroe, The Misfits unexpectedly marked the final completed film of both Monroe and her co-star Clark Gable—and further ...
REEL 13 CLASSIC | TENDER MERCIES Tonight’s classic is Tender Mercies, the 1983 drama from a screenplay by Horton Foote, and directed by Bruce Beresford. In his first Oscar-winning performance—after three prior nominations—Robert Duvall stars as Mac Sledge, a man who seems to be in the final stage of losing his battle ...
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