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La Strada (The Road) is a 1954 Italian drama directed by Federico Fellini from his own screenplay co-written with Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano. The film portrays a brutish strongman (Anthony Quinn) and the naïve young woman (Giulietta Masina) whom he buys from her mother and takes with him on the road; encounters with his rival the Fool (Richard Basehart) end with their destruction. Fellini has called La Strada "a complete catalogue of my entire mythological world, a dangerous representation…

This event has been cancelled due to weather. The Three Faces of Eve, both a best-selling book and a major motion picture, is the true story of a young housewife who suffered from multiple personality disorder (MPD). Her psychiatrists, Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley of the Medical College of Georgia (later Georgia Health Sciences University) in Augusta, published the book in 1957, and a film adaptation was released that same year. Produced and directed by Nunnally Johnson, a…

Known as the "Champagne Operetta", Die Fledermaus is the most brilliant and popular of any written by the Waltz King, Johann Strauss. Major opera companies around the world frequently use it as their holiday presentation, and symphony orchestras do likewise with its overture.

Based on the 1934 mystery best-seller by Agatha Christie, this stylish film stars Albert Finney (as Hercule Poirot,) Lauren Bacall, and the fabulous Orient Express itself, - the elegant train carrying passengers in luxury and comfort from Istanbul to Calais. Joining them aboard is "the greatest cast of suspicious characters ever involved in murder," including Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, and Michael York. En route to Calais, the fabled…

This event has been cancelled due to weather. Dunaway Center, 23 School Street In "Dead Poets Society," Director Peter Weir (and screenwriter Tom Schulman) offer a touching private-school requiem for free thinking. Robin Williams gives arguably his best performance as the English teacher -- who seeks to inspire individual creativity in his students, and to show them that "somewhere among the three Rs is an immensely pleasurable P for poetry." - The Washington Post Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent…

The Razor’s Edge is the first film version of W. Somerset Maugham’s 1944 novel. A Darryl F. Zanuck production, it was released in 1946 and stars Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall, supporting cast Lucile Watson, Frank Latimore and Elsa Lanchester.

The Concert, award-winning French comedy film, starring Aleksei Guskov and Mélanie Laurent. Free admission.

In Harm’s Way, starring John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal, and Henry Fonda. Free Admission.

Ogunquit Performing Arts presents 15th ANNUAL CLASSIC FILM SERIES November 2015 through May, 2016 Dunaway Center, 23 School Street, Ogunquit Our 15th season of Classic Films will be presented on the wall-size screen at the Dunaway Center, on the first Sunday of each month at 2 pm, November through May.   (The exception: December film to be shown on Saturday December 5th at 2pm.)   The Committee has chosen an interesting assortment of films: drama, comedy, suspense, mystery, war action, and a…

This 1962 drama starring Gregory Peck is considered by many to be the greatest film ever made.

Yul Brynner and Kay Kendall star in this hilarious and successful 1960 cinematic version of the stage comedy by Harry Kurnitz.

Marnie is a 1964 psychological thriller produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay by Jay Presson Allen was based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Winston Graham. The film stars Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery. One year after she appeared as Melanie Daniels in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, The Birds, actress Tippi Hedren took on another Hitchcock role in this unusual psychological drama. Marnie Edgars (Hedren) is a scheming young woman who repeatedly finds employment as a…

This 1963 black and white crime mystery features George C. Scott as a retired British intelligence officer as he, (together with an old friend, a World War II counterpart in the French Resistance), investigates a series of apparently unrelated deaths and the list that ties these crimes together. Set in the fog-enshrouded streets and estates of England, the atmospheric film was directed by John Huston from a screenplay by Anthony Veiller, based on the 1959 novel of the same title…

Starring Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, and Dean Jagger, this exciting 1949 American war film is about aircrews in the United States Army’s Eighth Air Division who flew daylight bombing missions over Germany and France.

The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian-American rock group the Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Members of the Band included Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson. The Last Waltz was advertised as the Band's "farewell concert appearance," and the concert saw the Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ringo Starr, Ronnie…

Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 American madcap, but dark, comedy film directed by Frank Capra,  starring Cary Grant, and based on Joseph Kesselring's play Arsenic and Old Lace.   Set in the Brooklyn family home of the Brewsters, the plot concerns a drama critic, Mortimer Brewster, whose two beloved maiden aunts are caring for their benign but delusional brother Teddy, (a man who is living his life believing he is President Teddy Roosevelt.)   Mortimer learns on his Hallowe’en wedding…

"A Christmas Memory" is a short story by Truman Capote.   First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Capote's rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. This 1997 film version stars Patty Duke, Piper Laurie and Eric Lloyd.  As directed by Glenn Jordan, and adapted by Duane Poole, the gentle and lyrical holiday-themed drama begins with a seven-year-old boy, Buddy (Eric Lloyd) whose parents drop him off with distant relatives in an unfamiliar town one Christmas holiday.…

This 1977 Oscar-winning drama, based on the memoirs of playwright Lillian Hellman, depicts the relationship between two friends with unexpected consequences. Lillian, on her way to a writers’ meeting in 1930's Russia, plans to reunite with her life-long friend Julia, who in turn asks Lillian to smuggle funds into Germany to aid the anti-Nazi movement. Waiting in the wings is Lillian's lover and mentor, Dashiell Hammett, who is unaware of her dangerous assignment.

Filmed previously in 1929 and in 1936,  this third adaptation of Jerome Kern’s Show Boat was shot in Technicolor in the typical MGM lavish style in 1951, with a production spread out from the MGM back lot to the Mississippi itself.  Produced by Arthur Freed and directed by George Sidney, the film stars Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel,  with Joe E Brown,  Agnes Moorehead, and the sensational dancers Marge and  Gower Champion.  But arguably, the two biggest stars…

Jeff Daniels stars as George Washington in this historical drama about the Battle of Trenton and the crossing of the Delaware. Winner of the 2000 Peabody Award for Excellence.

Starring Steve Allen and Donna Reed, the musical biopic showcases the swing music of famed clarinetist Benny Goodman, who recorded the clarinet solos used in the film.

This 1980 remake of the 1927 film stars Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, and Lucie Arnaz, and feature’s Diamond’s award-winning soundtrack.

Set in Budapest, this 1940 classic holiday film stars James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan, in a sparkling, heart-warming production by Ernst Ljubitsch.

Benjamin Britten's grand opera masterpiece, with huge orchestra and chorus, and starring Jon Vickers as the eccentric fisherman persecuted by his village in London's Royal Opera, Covent Garden production.

Jean Harlow stars along with John Barrymore, Marie Dressler and an all-star cast in MGM's elegant ensemble comedy.

Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire and Anthony Perkins deliver warm, winning performances in William Wyler's beautifully made film about a Quaker family whose values are tested during the Civil War.

Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters star in this stunning landmark film, winner of six Academy Awards.

Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi are the stars of Rodgers and Hammerstein's award-winning musical and beautiful film about love and prejudice on an idyllic island toward the end of World War II.

The African Queen is the first film in Ogunquit Performing Arts 2018-19 Classic Film Series.

Legendary dancer Rudolph Nureyev stars in his own production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker with The Royal Ballet, London, co-starring Merle Park.

Legendary actor James Cagney gives a dazzling performance in this rapid-fire comedy satire, directed by Billy Wilder.

Frank Loesser's award-winning, hit musical stars Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine, with dance numbers by Michael Kidd.

One of Robert Mitchum's most frightening performances as a stalking killer taking revenge against attorney Gregory Peck and his family.

Award-winning film about three Australian lieutenants, court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers. Directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Edward Woodward.

Barbra Streisand produced, directed and stars in this romantic musical about a Jewish girl who masquerades as a boy to study Torah, but falls in love with her best friend.

Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart star in the delightful comedy, directed by George Cukor.