Tallgrass Sponsors
2010 Cinema Alfresco Schedule
Films on the Fringe
Thursdays, May 27-July 29
FREE movies at The Brickyard in Old Town • 129 N. Rock Island
Covered outdoor venue so movies will show RAIN OR SHINE
Each film will be preceded by a Tallgrass Film Festival short film.
Screenings begin at 8 p.m.
Doors and Kitchen open at 7 p.m. Bring your ID.
Enter at east and west doors (west side has better parking).
Cinema Alfresco Specials
$3 Tallgrass Brewing Company Beers
$3.50 Stella Artois
$5 Quesadilla
Drawing for pair of Tallgrass All Access Passes
$300 Value - Must Be Present to Win
May 27 - 8 p.m.
Chicago (2002)
Director: Rob Marshall, 113 minutes, PG-13
Cast: Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah
Plot: Murderesses Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) are on death row. With help from greasy lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) and Matron Mama Morton (Queen Latifah) they fight for fame to keep from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Awards: Won six Oscars for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Art/Set Direction, Costume, Editing, Sound
June 3 - 8 p.m.
Splendor In The Grass (1961)
Director: Elia Kazan, 124 minutes, NR
Cast: Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty
Plot: Two Kansas high school sweethearts (Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty) growing up in the late 1920s. The pressures of sex and society ruin their relationship.
Awards: William Inge won Oscar for Best Screenplay. Natalie Wood nominated for Best Actress. Nominated for Golden Globes for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress
June 10 - 8 p.m.
Cabaret (1972)
Director: Bob Fosse, 124 minutes, PG-13
Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey
Plot: Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) a cabaret dancer works at the downtown Berlin Kit-Kat club, where anything goes. The young dancer is seduced by the culture, luxury and Max.
Awards: Won eight Oscars for Best Director, Actor, Actress, Art/Set Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Music, Sound
June 17 - 8 p.m.
Johnny Dangerously (1984)
Director: Amy Heckering, 90 minutes, PG-13
Cast: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Dom DeLuise, Danny DeVito
Plot: An honest, goodhearted Johnny Kelly (Michael Keaton) is forced to turn to a life of crime and become a gangster in order to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
June 24 - 8 p.m.
Idlewild (2006)
Director: Bryan Barber, 121 minutes, R
Cast: Andre Benjamin, Big Boi, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Cicely Tyson, Malinda Williams
Appearances: Macy Grey, Ben Vereen, Patti LaBelle, Norwood Fisher
Plot: In Prohibition-era South, a speakeasy club manager Rooster contends with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his partner Percival must choose between his love or his obligations to his father.
Awards: Nominated for five Black Reel Awards.
July 1 - 8 p.m.
Scarface (1932)
Director: Howard Hawks and Richard Rossen, 93 minutes, NR
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Boris Karloff, George Raft
Plot: The precursor to Brian DePalma's Al Pacino Scarface, this must-see classic film chronicles the rise and fall of the insanely violent Tony Camonte (Paul Muni), an ambitious, ugly and stupid gangster.
July 8 - 8 p.m.
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Director: George Roy Hill, 138 minutes, G
Cast: Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing
Plot: Millie Dillmount, (Julie Andrews) a fearless young lady from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, goes to New York to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties.
Awards: Won Oscar for Best Music and nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Art/Set Direction, Costume, Original Song and Sound; Carol Channing won a Golden Globe for best supporting actress, and the film was nominated for four more Globes
July 15 - 8 p.m.
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Director: Billy Wilder, 110 minutes, NR
Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
Plot: A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Awards: Won three Oscars — Best Art Direction-Set Decoration; Best Music; and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay — and was nominated for eight others, including Best Picture.
July 22 - 8 p.m.
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Director: Billy Wilder, 120 minutes, NR
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
Plot:Two struggling musicians (Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis) witness a hit and flee disguised as women in an all female band.
Awards: Won Oscar for Best Costume, also nominated for Best Director, Screenplay, Actor, Art/Set Direction, Cinematography. Won Golden Globes for Best Picture with Jack Lemmon picking up Best Actor and Marilyn Monroe Best Actress
July 29 - 8 p.m.
The Sting (1973)
Director: George Roy Hill, 129 minutes, PG
Cast: Robert Redford, Paul Newman
Plot: In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.
Awards: Seven Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Writing, with three more nominations, including Best Actor for Redford.