VOC Silent Film Harmonic and Playhouse Cinema present two films by Buster Keaton!
Sherlock Jr. (45min, 1924) A kindly movie projectionist (Buster Keaton) longs to be a detective. When his fiancée (Kathryn McGuire) is robbed by a local thief (Ward Crane), the poor projectionist is framed for the crime. Using his amateur detective skills, the projectionist follows the thief to the train station -- only to find himself locked in a train car.
Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.
A woman travels to Portugal in an attempt to orchestrate a reconciliation between her parents.
Successful author, Jonathan Stack has been so obsessed with trying to pen his magnum opus. He's let his marriage to Samantha, who is also his agent and editor, break down to the point where she announces she's leaving him for her business partner Luke, a hapless OCD control freak who has loved Sam forever.
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.
Inspired by real-life killers Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate, this tale of crime and love begins in a dead-end town. Teenage girl Holly (Sissy Spacek) angers her father (Warren Oates) when she begins dating an older and rebellious boy (Martin Sheen). After a conflict between Holly and her father erupts in murder, the young lovers are forced to flee.
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
Celebrate Batman Day with Christopher Nolan's 2008 masterpiece.
Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
“West Side Story is a beautifully-mounted, impressive, emotion-ridden and violent musical. Screen takes on a new dimension in this powerful and sometimes fascinating translation of the Broadway musical to the greater scope of motion pictures.
With this frigid anti-western, Altman depicts the closure of the frontier and the ascendance of cutthroat business in the American West.
Charismatic gambler John McCabe (Warren Beatty) arrives in a mining community and decides to open a brothel. The local residents are impressed by his confident demeanor and fast talk, but crafty prostitute Constance Miller (Julie Christie) sees through McCabe's words and realizes he isn't as sharp as he seems. For a share in his profits, Mrs.
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