June 2022 repertory movie roundup

But I'm a Cheerleader
Thursday, June 2, 7:30pm
Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Tuesday, June 21, 2pm and 7pm
Ritz Five, 214 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Years before Russian Doll, Natasha Lyonne starred in this 2000 satirical comedy about a teenage girl sent to a gay conversion camp. Starring everyone from Cathy Moriarty to Clea Duvall to RuPaul, Jamie Babbit's film has become a queer cult classic. The Film Center showing is part of the Quizzo & Movie series.

Dr. No
Thursday, June 2, 7pm
Ambler Theater, 108 East Butler Avenue, Ambler

You've probably seen Dr. No, the very first James Bond movie with Sean Connery, on TV over the years. On June 2, you'll have a chance to see it on the big screen, as part of the Ambler's Hollywood Summer Nights series.

Guns of the Trees
Friday, June 3, 7pm
Lightbox Film Center, 401 South Broad Street, Philadelphia

The Lightbox is showing the 35mm restoration of Jonas Mekas's first film from 1962, described as "a time capsule of cultural upheaval and of the burgeoning independent film movement of the early 1960s."

Poltergeist
Saturday, June 4, 9:45pm
Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville

In honor of its 40th anniversary, Tobe Hooper's famed horror movie gets a 35mm showing. The film starred Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, and Heather O'Rourke.

Goldfinger
Sunday, June 5, 1:30pm
Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville

The man with the Midas touch is also heading to Phoenixville with a local showing of the 1964 007 adventure in the White Rabbit Theater. Once again, it's Sean Connery as James Bond with Gert Frobe as the villain Auric Goldfinger.

Brokeback Mountain
Tuesday, June 7, 2pm and 7pm
Ritz Five, 214 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Ang Lee's 2005 film about a pair of gay cowboys (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal) combined gorgeous scenery with a groundbreaking story. Larry McMurtry adapted E. Annie Proulx's short story, and the film won three Oscars for directing, screenplay, and for Gustavo Santaolalla's score.

Purple Rain
Wednesdays, June 8 and 30, 7pm
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr

Prince's legend was cemented in 1984 with the release of the Purple Rain movie, featuring the song of the same name, as well as the story of a Prince-like musician making his way in early-1980s Minneapolis. A lot of people probably watched the movie again after Prince's death in 2016, but this month you'll have two chances to see it on the big screen. It's part of BMFI's Purple Reign: Prince on Screen series.

Kamikaze Hearts
Thursday, June 9, 7pm
Lightbox Film Center, 401 South Broad Street, Philadelphia

Juliet Bashore’s 1986 "quasi-documentary" took a look at the porn industry in San Francisco in the 1980s, and now it's coming back to Philly in a new 4K restoration.

High Noon
Friday, June 10, 7pm
Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

The Film Center is running a series called Philly’s Grace, featuring the films of area native Grace Kelly. It starts June 10 with the classic 1952 Western High Noon, starring Kelly and Gary Cooper.

Polyester
Friday, June 10, 11:59pm
Saturday, June 11, 11:59pm
Ritz Five, 214 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

This month's midnight movie in Old City is John Waters's 1981 trash classic, starring Divine and Tab Hunter. The showing will include Waters's trademark Odorama.

Big Fish
Sunday, June 12, 1:30pm
Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville

Tim Burton's 2003 tearjerker starring Billy Crudup as a son who can never believe the tall tales from his dying father (Albert Finney, and played as a younger man by Ewan McGregor). It's a film that takes many of Burton's directorial quirks and channels them into a moving and human story, with one of the best movie endings of all time.

The Godfather
Tuesday, June 14, 7pm
Saturday, June 18, 12pm
Sunday, June 19, 1pm
Thursday, June 23, 7pm
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr

Thursday, June 16, 7pm
Ambler Theater, 108 East Butler Avenue, Ambler

Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 mob masterpiece had a theatrical re-release earlier this year for its 50th anniversary, and it returns to the big screen, in two different theaters. The June 18 showing in Bryn Mawr is a Cinema Classics Seminar with Cabrini University's Paul Wright, PhD. And if you've been watching The Offer on Paramount+, the real thing is much better.

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar
Tuesday, June 14, 2pm and 7pm
Ritz Five, 214 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

This 1995 film starred Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo as a trio of drag queens traveling cross-country. Directed by a member of the British House of Lords, Beeban Kidron, the film has often been compared to the previous year's Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Sign o' the Times
Wednesday, June 15, 7pm
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr

The BMFI Purple Reign series continues with Prince's 1987 concert film coming in a restored edition for its 35th anniversary. Also directed by Purple Rain director Albert Magnoli, the film showed last month outdoors and will have another BMFI screening in July.

The Birdcage
Friday, June 17, 7pm
Colonial Theater, 227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville

Another one for Pride Month is director Mike Nichols's 1996 comedy, based on the play and musical La Cage aux Folles. The film starred Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a gay couple having to conceal their lifestyle from their soon-to-be-in-laws: a conservative senator and his wife (Gene Hackman and Dianne Wiest).

To Catch a Thief
Friday, June 17, 7pm
Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

The Grace Kelly series continues with this romantic adventure from 1955 directed by Alfred Hitchcock and co-starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. The film also starred Jessie Royce Landis and John Williams.

The Maltese Falcon
Wednesday, June 22, time TBA
Ambler Theater, 108 East Butler Avenue, Ambler

The Hollywood Summer Nights series continues with John Huston's 1941 film based on the work of Dashiell Hammett, co-starring Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre.

Easy Rider
Thursday, June 23, 7pm
Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

The counterculture classic from 1969, directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, gets a 4K showing in Center City. Watch Hopper and Fonda ride their motorcycles to New Orleans while speaking in the sort of hippie dialect you may not even recognize if you're below a certain age.

High Society
Friday, June 24, 7pm
Philadelphia Film Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Another in the Philly's Grace series, High Society came out in 1956 and starred Kelly as a Rhode Island socialite who gets caught among three suitors, played by Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and John Lund. High Society was the last film Kelly made before she retired from Hollywood that year to marry Prince Rainier III.

Bullitt
Sunday, June 26, 1:30pm
Colonial Theater, 227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville

The Colonial Theater has long been associated with Steve McQueen thanks to The Blob and Blobfest. Before this year's edition of Blobfest, the same theater will present another McQueen classic, 1968's Bullitt, which starred the actor as a San Francisco cop. The film is best known for one specific chase scene.

Battle Royale
Tuesday, June 28, 7pm
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, 824 Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr

The former Viva Video crew travels a couple of miles down Lancaster Avenue to present a showing of Battle Royale, King Fukasaku's extremely gory 2000 thriller about a group of middle schoolers doing battle on a remote island.

The Music Man
Wednesday, June 29, 7pm
Ambler Theater, 108 East Butler Avenue, Ambler

The month ends with the 1962 movie adaptation of Meredith Wilson's popular stage musical, about Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a conman who attempts to bilk a small Iowa town out of money in the guise of establishing a children's marching band.