The BSR December 2024 repertory movie roundup

The highlights

RockyFest
Rocky
Friday, December 6, 7pm
Saturday, December 7, 10am

Rocky II
Friday, December 6, 9:30pm
Saturday, December 7, 1:30pm

Rocky III
Saturday, December 7, 3pm

Rocky IV (Ultimate Directors Cut)
Saturday, December 7, 5:15pm
Sunday, December 8, 3pm

Rocky V
Saturday, December 7, 7:30pm
Sunday, December 8, 5:15pm

Rocky Balboa
Saturday, December 7, 9:45pm
Sunday, December 8, 7:30pm

Film Society Center, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia

Through December 7, the Philadelphia Visitor Center is celebrating the first-ever RockyFest with events throughout the city, from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the Philadelphia Zoo to a conversation with Dr. Paul Farber, the Monuments Project director who hosted a podcast last year about the Rocky statue.

But naturally, there are also showings of the first six Rocky movies, including a marathon of all six, which will take place at the Film Society Center from December 6-8. The original Rocky shows in 4K on Friday, December 6, and the version of Rocky IV is the Ultimate Director’s Cut that Sylvester Stallone debuted in Philly back in 2021.

The Muppet Christmas Carol
Wednesday, December 18, 7pm
Thursday, December 19, 7pm

Marian Anderson Hall, 300 South Broad Street, Philadelphia

Saturday, December 7, 1:15pm
Sunday, December 8, 4pm
Wednesday, December 11, 4:30pm
Thursday, December 12, 7:15pm
Friday, December 13, 7:30pm
Saturday, December 14, 2:45pm
Wednesday, December 18, 4:30pm
Thursday, December 19, 3:30pm

Colonial Theater, 227 Bridge Street, Phoenixville

The 1992 movie, the first Muppet film that followed the passing of Jim Henson, is both a first-rate musical and one of the best adaptations of the Dickens classic. It also originated that trope about imagining a movie remake in which all of the characters except for one are played by Muppets.

The Philadelphia Orchestra will play along with the movie for the two nights at Marian Anderson Hall, but if you’re looking to pay a bit less and listen to the original score instead, it’s playing throughout the month in Phoenixville.

Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights
Thursday, December 19, 7pm
Khyber Pass Pub, 56 South 2nd Street, Philadelphia

Hollywood has made countless Christmas movies over the last century, but only one major Hanukkah film, and that’s Sandler’s 2002 animated musical adventure which takes its inspiration from his more famous The Hanukkah Song.

Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media, along with the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, are presenting Eight Crazy Nights to mark the Festival of Lights, as part of its annual Latkes & Vodkas Movie Night.

The event is for those aged 21 and over only.

More screenings

Bound
Tuesday, December 3
Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Don’t Look Back
Wednesday, December 4
Colonial Theater

Narcisa Hirsch, In Memoriam (1928-2024)
Wednesday, December 4
Lightbox Film Center at Moore College Art & Design

All About Eve
Thursday, December 5
Friday, December 6
Sunday, December 15
Thursday, December 19
Film Society Center

Die Hard
Friday, December 6
Ambler Theater

Friday, December 13
County Theater

Pulp Fiction in 4K
Saturday, December 7
Thursday, December 12
Saturday, December 14
Film Society Center

Fall of the House of Usher
Sunday, December 8
PhilaMOCA

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Wednesday, December 11
Friday, December 20
Film Society Center

Home Alone
Wednesday, December 11
Monday, December 23
County Theater

In Cold Blood (Cinema Classics Seminar)
Wednesday, December 11
Bryn Mawr Film Institute

Let’s Get Lost
Wednesday, December 11
Lightbox Film Center at Bok Building

Silent Night, Deadly Night
Friday, December 13
Colonial Theater

Lethal Weapon
Friday, December 13
Saturday, December 14
Ritz Five

Alien and Aliens
Friday, December 13
Friday, December 27
Saturday, December 28
Film Society Center

Love Actually
Thursday, December 12
Ambler Theater

Rocky Horror Picture Show
Friday, December 13
Ritz Five

Lawrence of Arabia in 4K
Saturday, December 14
Saturday, December 28
Sunday, December 29
Film Society Center

Murdering the Devil
Wednesday, December 18
Lightbox Film Center

The Passions of Carol
Friday, December 20
Lightbox Film Center

Star Wars in 4K
Friday, December 20
Saturday, December 21
Sunday, December 22
Philadelphia Film Center

Licorice Pizza
Sunday, December 22
Film Society Center

It’s a Wonderful Life
Sunday, December 22
Colonial Theater