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14 TIMES/GUIDE Weekend of February 5/6, 1977 times/guide entertainment

Specialized cinema: The old flicks come shining through

By NICK SPANOS Correspondent South Dade is fortunate in that it has three specialized cinemas willing to devote its schedules to repertory film programs. Each theater (the Cinematheque in Coral Gables, the Grove Cinema and the Grove Movie in Coconut Grove) are offering not only selective film fare, but regular commercial films for the mass film audience. In the case of The Cinematheque, it is offering a 36-film retrospective program of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. If you study film, take "cinema" seriously, or just love a good movie, you'll probably be at the Cinematheque for 30 of the films. The repertory presentation will last through May 19; the listing below is partial. With all theaters, it is recommended to telephone ahead to confirm print availability and schedule times. The Cinematheque The repertory program of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films will be shown three times a week. Each film will play for two or three consecutive days in one week (Friday and Saturday only; Sunday through Tuesday only; Wednesday and Thursday only). None of the films in the program will be repeated. Feb. 25 - "Grand Hotel" (1932) Academy Award as Best Pictmre; the first film with the "all-star" cast, and what a cast! Feb. 27 - "An American in Paris" (1951) Academy Award as Best Picture; landmark musical with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. March 2 - "A Tale of Two Cities" (1936) Ronald Coleman takes knitting lessons in Dickens' famous popular novel. March 4 - "Dinner at Eight" (1933) The second "all-star" film with Marie Dressler teaching Jean Harlow a few pointers. March 6 - "The Women" (1939) Another all-star cast of women adapted from the hit play; considered a cult classic. March 9 - "Madame Bovary" (1949) Jennifer Jones and James Mason in the classy melodrama. March 11 - "The Great Ziegfield" (1936) Academy Award as Best Picture; this 184-minute musical culminates the "great" stars that Ziegfield made; an outstanding cinematic musical biography not to be missed, with William Powell as Florenz; Best Actress Oscar to Luise Ranier. March 13 - "The Philadelphia Story" (1940) Best Actor Oscar to James Stewart; also starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. March 16 - "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) Lana Turner and John Garfield star in this cult classic mystery. March 18 - "Ninotchka" (1939) See Greta Garbo laugh! This actually is a comedy! And considered a classic one at that. March 20 - "Red Dust" (1932) Well, not all films are classics; but this is a classic lemon, with Jean Harlow showing you why. March 23 - "Random Harvest" (1942) Oscar nominated as Best Picture. March 25 - "Gaslight" (1944) Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer and a very, very young Angela Lansbury, in a psychological mystery; Oscar nominated as best picture. March 27 - "Woman of the Year" (1942) The trio of Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and director George Cukor; best screenplay Oscar. March 30 - "The Pride and the Prejudice" (1940) The sprawling popular melodrama. April 1 - "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944) Judy Garland teaches you how to sing in this highly successful musical. The Grove Movie Offering a consistently unusual mixture of film fare, The Grove Movie presents a quick threeweek "Salute to the Old South" and then brings in the granddaddy of all monster films. Check movie time clocks for any schedule changes. Feb. 6-(for five days "Raintree County" (1957) Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Eva Marie Saint, and Lee Marvin; plus the second feature. "Red Badge of Courage" (1951) with Audie Murphy, directed by John Huston. Feb. 11 - "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) Directed by David Wark Griffith; dedicedly the motion picture which changed the course of film history. Tinted and toned in its entirety, with a new music track. Uncut at 157-minutes "sound" running time. Feb. 18 - "Gone with the Wind" (1939) You know the cast, and the story. The epic of all American epics. Uncut at 219 minutes. Feb. 25 - "King Kong" (1933) You know this story, too. Also uncut, with original censored scenes reinstated. Hear Fay Wray scream! The Grove Cinema After a series of outstanding first-run "art" films and documentaries, the Grove Cinema returns to repertory with a mixture of whim and whimsy in a lively program full of surprises and several good, if not outright rare, double features. Feb. 9-12-John Schlesinger's "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" with Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson, plus Ken Russell's "The Music Lovers" about Tchaikovsky, with Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson. March 4-10-Ken Russell's "Women in Love" with Oscared best actress Glenda Jackson and Carl Reiner's "Where's Poppa?" This is a double feature? That's right. D.H. Lawrence meets Ruth Gordon. Judy teaches you how to sing in St. Louis Hear Fay Wray scream in the original "Kong" George Segal teams with Glenda in "Poppa"