Death, Romance and Food, Glorious Food: Summer Classic Film Series Continues
There are a million ways to be, you know that there are. Some people look at the world through dark, cloudy glass, and some through rose-colored; amazingly love can still be seen and had through both. With that in mind, the Paramount will be putting a little black into their red this week as they continue their 33rd annual Summer Classic Film Series with two sets of amorous flicks, one pair with its sights on Park Avenue and the other buried six feet under. And remember, films are only $7, and if you go to the first film in the double feature, you get the second one for free!
Harold & Maude
Tuesday, June 17th @ 7pm
Thursday, June 19th @ 9:30pm
Harold (Bud Cort) was emo before emo was, well, not so cool. A privileged 20-year-old who turns his brand new Jaguar into a hearse, Harold delights in faux hara–kiri, feeling most alive when he is thought to be most dead. Maude (Ruth Gordon) on the other hand is a sprite of a septuagenarian, happy to just live and be and enjoy anything that comes her way.
When Harold continually sees Maude at funerals, which he attends for amusement, they strike up an unlikely friendship, followed by an even more unlikely romance, one which opens up our eyes to the beauty of love when it ignores the squawking of society's busy-bodies.
The Loved One
Tuesday, June 17th @ 9pm
Thursday, June 19th @ 7pm
We've never seen this film, but it sounds excellent. Based loosely on an Evelyn Waugh novel that pokes fun at the wacky world of undertakers, the story follows a boy who loves a girl, and that girl just happens to be a restorative artist for a posh mortuary called Whispering Glades. Sounds peaceful, right?
Taking an even more pointed approach than the source material, The Loved One is set in Hollywood, so as to highlight the excess of not only life, but death in Tinsel Town. Rod Steiger apparently plays a mad capped embalmer, which is worth the price of admission alone.
Friday, June 20th @ 7pm
Saturday, June 21st @ 5:10pm and 9:45pm
Sunday, June 22nd @ 7:30pm
Yes, we know that it plays all the time in theaters all over Austin, but there is a reason for that: Breakfast at Tiffany's is the perfect concoction of silliness, l'amour and cat, all rolled into one beautiful robin's-egg-blue box. Audrey Hepburn's Holly Golightly is the most interesting girl in the world, or at least in NYC, even if she has to go to her own parties dressed in a bed sheet.
Moonstruck Friday, June 20th @ 9:30pm Saturday, June 21st @ 7:40pm Sunday, June 22nd @ 5:10pm
"When you love them, they drive you crazy, 'cause they know they can," says Rose (Olympia Dukakis - love her!) to Loretta (Cher!), an Italian widow who has decided to get remarried in this late 80's romantic comedy. Loretta has chosen a stable, boring man to settle down with when her world is turned upside down by his younger, fiery brother, Ronny (Nicolas Cage). As you can imagine, all hell breaks loose, but not without hilarity and highjinks! You know you love Cher, just admit it.
Oliver! Saturday, June 21st @ 1:30pm Sunday, June 22nd @ 1:30pm
Yes, we realize that Oliver! has absolutely nothing to do with any of the other films showing this week at the Paramount, but who can pass up a musical about a runaway orphan (the unbearably adorable Mark Lester) who joins a roving band of pickpockets? Based on the timeless Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, this barrel of fun won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1968. Just watch your back pocket on your way out of the theater.
