Here’s a sneak preview of the Vintage Film Festival’s 2025 program!
Family Dynamics
- You Can't Take It With You (Frank Capra, 1938) – Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur
- Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964) – Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson
- Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932) – Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova
- Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955) – Subir Banerjee, Kanu Banerjee, Karuna Banerjee
- Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton & J.G. Blystone, 1923) – Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge
- White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949) – James Cagney, Edmond O'Brien, Virginia Mayo
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Stanley Kramer, 1967) – Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949) – Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson
- The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) – Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
- Bell, Book and Candle (Richard Quine, 1958) – James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon
- I Was Born, But… (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932) – Tatsuo Saito, Tomio Aoki
- The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) – Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katherine Ross
- Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) – Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor
Program for the Thirty-First Annual Vintage Film Festival
Below is a list of the films to be shown. If you click the title of any film you will go to a page of information including a short description, director, cast and a trailer.
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Theme - Great Directors
Note program is subject to change.
| Date | Time | Title | Year | Min. | Director | Cast |
| Fri Oct 18 | 2:50 PM | Announcements | 10 | |||
| 3:00 PM | West Side Story | 1961 | 153 | Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise | Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno | |
| 5:35 PM | Dinner | 85 | ||||
| 7:00 PM | Some Like It Hot | 1959 | 119 | Billy Wilder | Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe | |
| 9:00 PM | Break | 20 | ||||
| 9:20 PM | The 39 Steps | 1935 | 87 | Alfred Hitchcock | Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll | |
| 10:47 PM | Finish |
| Date | Time | Title | Year | Min. | Director | Cast |
| Sat Oct 19 | 8:50 AM | Announcements | 10 | |||
| 9:00 AM | Sherlock Jr. * | 1924 | 45 | Buster Keaton | Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Ward Crane | |
| 9:45 AM | Break | 15 | ||||
| 10:00 AM | Tokyo Story | 1953 | 136 | Yasujiro Ozu | Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama | |
| 12:15 PM | Lunch | 75 | ||||
| 1:30 PM | Citizen Kane | 1941 | 119 | Orson Welles | Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane | |
| 3:30 PM | Break | 15 | ||||
| 3:45 PM | Chinatown | 1974 | 131 | Roman Polanski | Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston | |
| 5:55 PM | Dinner | 90 | ||||
| 7:25 PM | Dr. Strangelove | 1964 | 93 | Stanley Kubrick | Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden | |
| 9:00 PM | Break | 20 | ||||
| 9:20 PM | Cléo de 5 à 7 | 1962 | 90 | Agnès Varda | Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller | |
| 10:50 PM | Finish |
| Date | Time | Title | Year | Min. | Director | Cast |
| Sun Oct 20 | 8:50 AM | Announcements | 10 | |||
| 9:00 AM | The Blot * | 1921 | 91 | Lois Weber | Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern | |
| 10:30 AM | Break | 20 | ||||
| 10:50 AM | Key Largo | 1948 | 101 | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Edward G Robinson | |
| 12:30 PM | Sunday lunchtime Film Talk | 75 | ||||
| 1:45 PM | The Searchers | 1956 | 119 | John Ford | John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles | |
| 3:45 PM | Break | 15 | ||||
| 4:00 PM | The Palm Beach Story | 1942 | 88 | Preston Sturges | Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Rudy Vallee |
Program finishes at approximately 5:30 pm
* Silent with live accompaniment
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Although we try to avoid changes, the program is subject to change without notice
Films shown in earlier years.