Make your season bright with these six Holiday Favorites, recommended for kids from one to ninety-two.
🎁 IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) Dec 8-9th
🎁 LEZ BOMB (2018) Dec 14-18th
🎁 THE LION IN WINTER (1968) Dec 14-18th
🎁 NORTH POLE, NY (2018) Dec 14-15th
🎁 CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989) Dec 15th
🎁 A CHRISTMAS STORY (1983) Dec 16th
🎁 MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) Dec 17-18th
Prices vary depending on time of day.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
11:30am Sat & Sun, December 8th & 9th
“Buffalo gals, won’t you come out tonight, and dance by the light of the moon!” 🌙
It’s a North Buffalo tradition!
$5.00 tickets available at our box office or online HERE.
SAT December 8th at 11:30 AM
SUN December 9th at 11:30 AM
This Hertel Holiday weekend, round up your family and come see Frank Capra’s 1946 Christmas classic IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE on the BIG SCREEN!
Starring Jimmy Stewart and the lovely Donna Reed.
If you’ve seen it here before, you know how beautiful this Capra classic looks and sounds on the big screen. It’s pure magic!
LEZ BOMB
December 14th – 18th
“LEZ BOMB is the queer holiday comedy you’ve been waiting for.” – The Huffington Post
Jenna Laurenzo’s debut feature is a heartwarming, laugh-out-loud coming out tale for the whole family.
Featuring production design by Buffalo-local David Butler!
Starring Oscar® winner Cloris Leachman, Oscar® nominee Bruce Dern, Kevin Pollak and an ensemble cast that includes Steve Guttenberg, Elaine Hendrix, Caitlin Mehner, Deirdre O’Connell, Rob Moran, Brandon Micheal Hall and more.
FRI Dec. 14th at 4:30 PM
FRI Dec. 14th at 9:00 PM
SAT Dec. 15th at at 9:30 PM
SUN Dec. 16th at 9:30 PM
MON Dec. 17th at 9:30 PM
TUE Dec. 18th at 7:00 PM
“Delivers messages of love, tolerance and acceptance in a light-hearted, warm fashion.” — HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
“Its modern and hilarious take on coming out, during one of the most hectic and family-oriented holidays of the year, will allow it to become an instant and endearing classic for many holidays to come.” — FILM INQUIRY
From executive producer Bobby Farrelly (Dumb & Dumber, There’s Something About Mary), comes a new holiday comedy about a young woman who comes home for Thanksgiving with some life changing news.
THE LION IN WINTER
December 14th – 18th
Newly restored in 4K!
Katherine Hepburn and Peter O’Toole star in Anthony Harvey’s witty medieval classic, hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the most revered films of all time!”
Featuring the screen debuts of both Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton.
“One of the joys which movies provide too rarely is the opportunity to see a literate script handled intelligently. The Lion in Winter triumphs at that difficult task; not since A Man for All Seasons have we had such capable handling of a story about ideas. But The Lion in Winter also functions at an emotional level, and is the better film.”
— Roger Ebert
“[The Lion in Winter] has savage catfights, drippy suitors, a fruity Peter O’Toole, even a proto-Brokeback Mountain moment. What more could one ask for?”
— The Guardian
“As intellectually delicious as the stage play and surpassing it in depth of characterization, as well as in atmosphere and setting… Hepburn certainly crowns her career as Eleanor, triumphant in her creation of a complete and womanly queen, a vulture mother who sees her sons too clearly, an aging beauty who can look her image in the eye, a sophisticate whose shrewdness is matched only by her humor…and Mr. O’Toole is her match. His characterization is an extension of the one he created for Becket, a man delighting equally in the pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of power.”
— Judith Crist, New York Magazine
Tickets available at our box office or online HERE.
FRI December 14th at 1:30 PM
SAT December 15th at 3:30 PM
SUN December 16th at 1:30 PM
MON December 17th at 1:30 PM
TUE December 18th at 1:30 PM
The most royal of the cycle of ’60s films dealing with the history and palace intrigues of medieval England, Anthony Harvey’s The Lion in Winter returns in a new 4K restoration by Studiocanal.
At Christmas Court in 1183 King Henry II (Peter O’Toole) argues with his estranged wife, Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn) over whether Prince John (Nigel Terry) or Richard the Lionheart (Anthony Hopkins in his film debut) shall inherit the throne. Complicating matters is King Philip II of France (Timothy Dalton, also his debut) who seeks his own fortune by demanding his half-sister Alais (Jane Merrow), currently Henry’s mistress, be betrothed to Richard.
NORTH POLE, NY
December 14th-15th
The true story of a theme park and the town that still believes!
FRI Dec. 14th at 7:00 PM
SAT Dec. 15th at 1:35 PM
North Pole, NY is a feature-length documentary about Santa’s Workshop, one of the very first theme parks in the U.S. Battling against a changing economy, the digital world, and a con-man who tries to steal Christmas, the dreamers in one small town vow to keep the park open and the magic of Christmas alive all year.
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION
7:00 PM Saturday, December 15th
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
It’s the hap, hap, happiest Christmas movie since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny Kaye!
Put on an ugly sweater and join us for a special BIG SCREEN presentation of the funniest Christmas movie of ALL TIME!
The ugliest sweater gets a special prize…
Starring Chevy Chase, written by John Hughes (film director).
Tickets available at our box office or online HERE.
SAT December 15th at 7:00 PM
A CHRISTMAS STORY
Sunday Dec. 16th 4:30 PM & 7:00 PM
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!”
Come early to our 4:30 PM show for free official A CHRISTMAS STORY bunny ears! DO IT FOR THE GRAM! 🐰
Tickets available at our box office or online HERE.
SUN December 16th at 4:30 PM
SUN December 16th at 7:00 PM
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
December 17th-18th
“Have yourself a merry little Christmas…”
Judy Garland gives one of her most shimmering performances in this 1944 musical masterpiece.
Featuring the debut of the holiday standby “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, along with other memorable hits like “The Trolly Song” and “The Boy Next Door”, it’s no surprise that legendary MGM lyricist and producer Arthur Freed considers it his finest achievement.
Tickets available at our box office or online HERE.
MON December 17th at 4:30 PM
MON December 17th at 7:00 PM
TUE December 18th at 4:30 PM
Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis, leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (more commonly referred to as the World’s Fair) in the spring of 1904.
The movie was adapted by Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe from a series of short stories by Sally Benson, originally published in The New Yorker magazine under the title “5135 Kensington”, and later in novel form as Meet Me in St. Louis. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, who met Garland on the set and later married her.
