Movies @ The Capitol

Rated PG | 90 mins | 1988 | Directed by John Waters An unpopular but optimistic high-school teen in early 1960s Baltimore gets onto a local dance program, which she eventually integrates, causing a scandal in the whole city. Copyright New Line Cinema.  This screening is co-hosted by SOKY Alliance!

Rated R | 117 mins | 1996 | Directed by Mike Nichols Robin Williams and Nathan Lane play long-time companions forced to play it straight in this remake of the farce “La Cage aux Folles.” Copyright Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. This screening is co-hosted by SOKY Alliance!

Rated G | 96 mins | 1998 | Directed by John Lasseter When a bumbling ant accidentally destroys his colony’s food supply, he recruits a band of insect circus performers to help fight off an army of greedy grasshoppers. Updated take on Aesop’s fable “The Ant and the Grasshopper.” Copyright Disney Pixar.  

Rated R | 100 mins | 1986 | Directed by David Croenenberg A scientist’s experiment goes awry, causing him to mutate into a giant insect. Starring Jeff Goldblum. Copyright Twentieth Century Fox. This screening is co-hosted by BG Horror Club!

Rated PG | 94 mins | 1977 | Directed by Mel Brooks A renowned Harvard psychiatrist (with a concealed fear of heights) takes over as director of the PsychoNeurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous after the last administrator dies under suspicious circumstances. Mel Brooks directed, co-wrote and plays the head shrink in this homage […]

Rated PG-13 | 105 mins | 1993 | Directed by Mel Brooks A veteran of the Crusades brings together a ragtag group to do battle against an evil king, and gets help from a surprising source inside the royal castle in this spoof of the Robin Hood legend. Copyright Twentieth Century Fox.

Rated R | 94 mins | 1974 | Directed by Mel Brooks A crooked politician hires a black sheriff for a small frontier town, with the hope that the people will panic and abandon the land so he and his cronies can run a railroad through it. Copyright Warner Bros.  

Rated PG | 105 mins | 1985 | Directed by Ted Berman A standard sword-and-sorcery yarn is elevated by peerless, detailed animation. The dark, supernatural tale of a young warrior battling an evil ruler was Disney’s first PG-rated cartoon. Adapted from the five novels in Lloyd Alexander’s “The Chronicles of Prydain” series, the film used […]

Not Rated | 99 mins | 1997 | Directed by Abbas Kiarostami Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran —searching for someone to […]