The Muppet Movie will be shown at 7 PM on January 12, and at 11:30 AM on January 13 through 16. Our apologies for any inconvenience we caused.

To kick off the new year with a special teat, there is a one-time only showing of two Cerrito Classics in January.  To keep your holiday mood going, the delightful “Muppet Movie” from 1979 will have five showings, from Thursday, January 12 through Monday, January 16 — all showings at 7 p.m.  at 7 PM on January 12, and at 11:30 AM on January 13 through 16. Tickets are $8.00

Then, for something completely different, we have the acclaimed Bogart-Bacall noir hit, “The Big Sleep,” from 1946.  “The Big Sleep” shows only once, on Thursday, January 19, at 7 p.m.  Don’t miss it!  Buying tickets in advance at the box office or online is strongly advised. Tickets are $8.00

The Muppet Movie (1979)

Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear have embarked on a quest for stardom. They take a trip to Hollywood, beginning their journey on a bicycle pedalled by Kermit, but friends accumulate along the way. There is also the challenge of fending off the entreaties of the heartless Doc Hopper (Charles Durning), who wants Kermit to make some advertisements promoting fried frog legs. Kermit must also cope with his amorous feelings for Miss Piggy, and hers for him. This appealing children’s adventure movie has numerous scenes which do homage to classic films, and features a huge cast of Hollywood greats, from Edgar Bergen to Orson Welles, in cameo roles. A great box-office success, this movie paved the way for a number of sequels. Source: Yahoo! Movie Info. Rialto website information.

The Big Sleep (1946)

The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler’s cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General’s sensuous, thumb-sucking daughter Carmen (Martha Vickers). This earns Marlowe the displeasure of Carmen’s sloe-eyed, seemingly straight-laced older sister Vivian (Bacall), who is fiercely protective of her somewhat addled sibling. As he pursues the case at hand, Marlowe gets mixed up in the murder of Arthur Geiger (Theodore von Eltz), a dealer in pornography. He also runs afoul of gambling-house proprietor Eddie Mars (John Ridgely), who has some sort of hold over the enigmatic Vivian.  Source: Yahoo! Movie Info. Rialto website information.

An error appeared in our last mailing on the date of the showing of this film. Our apologies for the confusion.

CORRECTION: The film showing is on Dec 8, not 7th. The magic of “Miracle on 34th St.” (1947) is bound to touch your heart. Natalie Wood plays a little girl who has lost her faith in Santa Claus. Her mother, played by Maureen O’Hara, takes her to Macy’s department store in Manhattan. There the little girl encounters a kindly but perhaps slightly demented old man who has taken a job playing Santa Claus–but there are complications. Edmund Gwenn won the Oscar for his role. “Miracle on 34th St.” is a priceless and unforgettable movie–what Christmas is all about.

Film starts at 7 pm Thursday,  December 8 . All seats are $8. Getting to the theater early is always a good idea–for a choice of seating and to order freshly-made food and drinks. You are strongly advised to buy tickets in advance at the box office or online.

Hollywood’s legendary “woman’s director,” George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. Star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs as “On the Street Where You Live” and “I Could Have Danced All Night.” Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza’s determined suitor. Source: Yahoo Movie Information

“My Fair Lady” will be very popular. You are strongly advised to buy tickets in advance at the box office or online.

Film starts at 7 pm Thursday, November 10. All seats are $8. Getting to the theater early is always a good idea–for a choice of seating and to order freshly-made food and drinks.

Demand to see this film is so great that Rialto has added one more showing of this film on Oct 27, at 9:30 p.m.. All seats are still $8.00. Buy your tickets now at the box office or online to avoid being shut out!

Due to sold out showing on Oct 13th, the Cerrito Theater will be playing again “Young Frankenstein” on Thursday, October 27 at 7 p.m. If you missed the last show, here’s your chance to see it!  All seats are $8.00. Buy your tickets now at the box office or online to avoid being shut out! See last post for movie details.

Spoofing classic horror in the way that Mel Brooks’s previous film Blazing Saddles sent up classic Westerns, Young Frankenstein is both a loving tribute and a raucous, rreverent parody. Filming in glorious black and white, Brooks re-created the Frankenstein laboratory using the same equipment from the original Frankenstein (courtesy of designer Kenneth Strickfaden), and this loving attention to physical and stylistic detail creates a solid foundation for nonstop comedy. The story, of course, involves Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) and his effort to resume experiments in re-animation pioneered by his late father. (He’s got some help, since dad left behind a book titled How I Did It.) Assisting him is the hapless hunchback Igor (Marty Feldman) and the buxom but none-too-bright maiden Inga (Teri Garr), and when Frankenstein succeeds in creating his monster (Peter Boyle), the stage is set for an outrageous revision of the Frankenstein legend. With comedy highlights too numerous to mention, Brooks guides his brilliant cast (also including Cloris Leachman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, and Gene Hackman in a classic cameo role) through scene after scene of inspired hilarity. Indeed, Young Frankenstein is a charmed film, nothing less than a comedy classic, representing the finest work from everyone involved. Not one joke has lost its payoff, and none of the countless gags have lost their zany appeal. From a career that includes some of the best comedies ever made, this is the film for which Mel Brooks will be most fondly remembered. Source: Yahoo! Movie.  

Film starts at 7 pm Thursday, October 13. All seats are $8. Get to the Classics early as they are popular — or buy tickets in advance at the box office or online (see right column on the Rialto website).  Getting to the theater early is always a good idea–for a choice of seating and to order freshly-made food and drinks.

British tennis pro Ray Milland suspects that his wealthy wife Grace Kelly is fooling around with handsome American Robert Cummings. Milland blackmails a disgraced former army comrade (Anthony Dawson) into murdering Kelly and making it look like the work of a burglar. But Milland’s carefully mapped-out scheme does not take into account the notion that Kelly might fight back and kill her assailant. When the police (represented by John Williams) investigate, Milland improvises quickly, subtly planting the suggestion that his wife has committed first-degree murder. He almost gets away with it; to tell you more would spoil the fun of the film’s final thirty minutes. Based on the popular mystery play by Federick Knott, Hitchcock perversely refused to throw in the standard in-your-face gimmickry of most stereoscopic films of the era. Source: Rialto Cerrito

Film starts at 7 pm Thursday, September 8. All seats are $8. Get to the Classics early as they are popular — or buy tickets in advance (see right column on the Rialto website). The Thursday evening Classics are very popular, so you may want to buy your ticket in advance at the box office or online. Getting to the theater early is always a good idea–for a choice of seating and to order freshly-made food and drinks.

Director Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven” (1978) is a visually stunning evocation of love and murder, set timelessly on a screen as big and beautiful as America’s plains.

Richard Gere plays a steelworker who flees from the law to the Texas plains, where he, his girlfriend (played by Brooke Adams), and his young sister Linda find refuge as laborers on what seems like an earthly paradise, working for the owner, played by Sam Shepard.

However, primal emotions and forces of nature arrive with a vengeance.

Malick’s cinematic storytelling  in “Days of Heaven” took home the Oscar  for cinematography.

Audiences who are thrilled by Malick’s current masterpiece “The Tree of Life” will see a similar scope and ambition in this earlier movie, “Days of Heaven.”

Film starts at 7:00 pm Thursday, August 11. All seats are $8. Get to the Classics early as they are popular — or buy tickets in advance (see right column on the Rialto website). The Thursday evening Classics are very popular, so you may want to buy your ticket in advance at the box office or online. Getting to the theater early is always a good idea–for a choice of seating and to order food and drinks.