From the great Breakfast at Tiffany's to the giggle-worthy Hygiene Shorts from the 1950s to the gory The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to the God-knows-what-to-expect student shorts, Fridays and Saturdays will be movie nights in Old Pas starting 11 July.

This year will be a special celebration of Audrey Hepburn, including Charade, Sabrina and Roman Holiday. Other classic movies shown include Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and Mary Poppins. If you want an all-nighter, they will also be showing the Lord of the Rings from 8:30 p.m. to dawn.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE:

Friday, July 11

7:00 PM – EMERGING FILMMAKERS ArmoryCenterfor the Arts, 145 N. Raymond

Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.

8:30 PM – CLASSIC HEPBURN: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley

"I've got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can't go to Sing Sing with a green face." - So sighs Audrey Hepburn's girl-about-town Holly Golightly, breezing ever-so-gently through the real world with hardly a ripple. But when she meets sober, handsome, nice guy George Peppard, she begins to gradually re-think her “anything-goes,” high-living lifestyle.

10:00 PM – SCI FI: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) School House Parking structure rooftop, 33 E. Green Street.

Actress Ann Robinson will introduce the screening.

The quintessential 1950's science fiction film, in which scientists and the military join forces to conquer an alien invasion. Even today, few films can match this movie's triumphant blend of special effects and snappy romance (in the form of the relationship between astronomer Gene Barry and his spunky girlfriend Ann Robinson.)

Saturday, July 12

7:00 PM – EMERGING FILMMAKERS Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond

Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.

8:30 PM - CLASSIC HEPBURN: MY FAIR LADY One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley

This unforgettable musical adaptation is PYGMALION as reinvented by Lerner and Loewe as reinvented by master director George Cukor. Oscar winner Rex Harrison plays Henry Higgins, who teaches lower class, Cockney flower girl Audrey Hepburn to be a lady and falls in love with her in the process.

Friday, July 18

7:00 PM – EMERGING FILMMAKERS Armory Cente for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond

Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.

8:30 PM – CLASSIC HEPBURN: CHARADE One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley

Widow Audrey Hepburn finds herself thrust into adventure when her dead husband's war buddies come after her, thinking she has money they stole together during the war. Cary Grant is the stranger who is as mysterious as he is attractive--and whom Hepburn falls for as she runs for her life.

10:00 PM – HORROR FILM: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Basement of Schoolhouse Parking Garage, 33 E. Green Street.

Director Tobe Hooper will introduce the screening.

One of the best American horror films from the 1970s and certainly one of the scariest movies ever made. The unknown actors and real-life locations burn themselves into your memory, assuming a nightmarishly twisted reality that lingers long after you’ve seen the film. After hearing of a cemetery desecration, Marilyn Burns and friends go on a jaunt in the broiling Texas countryside to make sure her grandparents’ graves are okay, only to become stranded at the rural home of a family of inbred cannibals. Director Tobe Hooper expertly escalates the horror until you can’t stand it anymore…then goes one step further. With Gunnar Hansen, Ed Neal.

Saturday, July 19

10:00 AM - FAMILY MATINEE: MARY POPPINS Laemmle’s One Colorado Cinemas, 42 Miller Alley

Julie Andrews is God’s gift to nanny-dom as Mary Poppins in this classic musical comedy/fantasy. When Poppins comes to work for the Banks family in their turn-of-the-20th-century London household, she uplifts everyone’s spirits and brings magic to their lives. Dick Van Dyke is Bert, the good-natured chimney sweep and the great Jane Darwell, in her last screen appearance, plays the bird lady. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Andrews for Best Actress and Richard M. & Robert B. Sherman for Best Original Song and Best Original Music Score.

7:00 PM – EMERGING FILMMAKERS ArmoryCenterfor the Arts, 145 N. Raymond

Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.

8:30 PM – CLASSIC HEPBURN: SABRINA One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley

Chauffeur's daughter Audrey Hepburn blooms from ugly duckling to fashion queen as she tries to choose between wealthy, middle-aged Humphrey Bogart (at his sexy, smokey best) and cocky lover-boy William Holden (a Wilder favorite). Billy Wilder's classic romantic triangle.

10:00 PM – MENTAL HYGIENE SHORT FILMS Mercantile Alley (right behind Coffee Bean at 18 S. Fair Oaks)

Presented by Archivist and Historian Rick Prelinger.

For the quarter-century following World War II, a special kind of classroom film received wide circulation. These "mental hygiene" films thrived in a confused and nervous America. The rebellious behavior of young people challenging the social norms struck fear into the hearts of parents and educators, who saw dark futures for teens who broke the rules and refused to fit in with society. These concerned adults embraced the metal hygiene film as a new means of delivering social guidance. The creators of the films took their cues from the wildly successful training and propaganda films of the World War II era. They used the same shock and scare techniques to warn teenagers about substance abuse, venereal disease, juvenile delinquency and the awful fate of kids who drive too fast on prom night.

Friday, July 25

7:00 PM – EMERGING FILMMAKERS Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond

Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.

8:30 PM – CLASSIC HEPBURN: ROMAN HOLIDAY One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley

A real-life princess (Audrey Hepburn), weary of her sheltered existence, takes off on her own to see the sights of Rome, only to encounter romance in the form of suave Gregory Peck. But unbeknownst to Hepburn, Peck is really a reporter out for a story, and this inevitably complicates things as the two grow more intimate. This sweet-natured romantic comedy won three Oscars, including Best Actress for Hepburn.

10:45 PM – CLASSIC FOREIGN FILM: SEVEN SAMURAI One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley

Director Akira Kurosawa's most famous film is certainly one of the finest movies ever made - a huge, sprawling but intimate, character-driven period epic about an aging swordsman (the great Takashi Shimura) who enlists six other warriors-for-hire (amongst them, Toshiro Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isao Kimura, Daisuke Kato, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Inaba) to safeguard a remote village plagued by bandits.

Saturday, July 26

7:00 PM – EMERGING FILMMAKERS ArmoryCenterfor the Arts, 145 N. Raymond

Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.

8:30 PM – GREASE with guest to be announced, 22 Mills Place

Pompadoured tough-guy John Travolta learns the meaning of true love, 1950's style, from summertime sweetheart Olivia Newton-John, with help from a fantastic supporting cast including Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Eve Arden and Frankie Avalon. A soundtrack of wall-to-wall hits ("You're The One That I Want," "Hopelessly Devoted To You," "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee") in director Randal Kleiser's irresistible teen-dream of a movie musical.

8:30 PM till Dawn – LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY, One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley, Middle Earth

J.R.R. Tolkien's literary masterpiece The Lord of the Rings has influenced generations of readers worldwide and continues to captivate new fans around the globe. Director Peter Jackson and a brilliantly talented cast and crew have brought to cinematic life the epic adventure of good against evil. The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. Fate has placed it in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), who inherits the Ring - and undertakes a heroic quest revealing how, through courage, commitment, and determination, even the smallest of us can change the world.

Screening concludes with sunrise Hobbit breakfast.

Recuerdo que, cuando ganó el Oscar por 'Las uvas de la ira', Jane Darwell dijo: "los premios son siempre muy agradables, pero preferiría tener trabajo".

Directed by John Ford (Stagecoach, Drums Along the Mohawk), 1940's The Grapes of Wrath is a film adaption of John Steinback's novel worked into a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson. The film stars Henry Fonda (12 Angry Men, The Tin Star) as Tom Joad, the amazing Jane Darwell as Ma Joad, John Carradine as Casy, and a host of others to round out the Joad family and supporting characters. The film would pick up two Oscars, one for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Darwell) and one for director John Ford. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Fonda), Best Film Editing, Best Sound Recording, Best Screenplay, and Best Picture. In 1963, The Grapes of Wrath won a Blue Ribbon Award for Best Foreign Language Picture. It also won the 1940 USA National Board of Review prize for Best Picture.

The Grapes of Wrath is John Ford's masterpiece, a film that captures in on the social protest themes of some of Ford's other films instead of the magic of the Westerns by which he was so well known. Ford, instead, tells a sweeping story of tragedy and epic struggle against "the man". He pulls it together in lush black and white cinema, moving characters and pulling in the audience like a master at work. The direction is truly something as the subtle touches pull on the heartstrings of the viewer while the grandeur of it all do the same.

Henry Fonda is tremendous as Tom Joad, bringing out the "good man" character to great levels. He really urges the audience through the picture, rising up to injustice and delivering classic lines with such intensity and grace that you almost forget you're watching a film.

Jane Darwell as Ma Joad deserved every accolade she received for this film. She is simply mesmerizing as the matriarch of the Joad family, struggling to keep her precious family together and supporting her son in all he does. Ma Joad is given tremendous grace by Steinback in the novel and Darwell pulls it off perfectly, playing Ma Joad to a tone that many would select to overdo. Her consistency and emotional range plays out through a subtlety that is rare in cinema.

The film is packed with moving dialogue that captures the plight of the Joad family through this historical event and moves the viewer through the time as if they were perched on the back of the family jalopy and skittering across country looking for work. It is the type of film that both creates anger against injustices and creates a feeling of joy for the uprising of the human spirit in the face of tragedy and hardship. The time is captured beautifully and the mood is stunningly dark and yet victorious.

The Grapes of Wrath is a true film classic in every sense of the word and perfectly captures the time in a sensibility that is owed to Ford's tremendous direction, the cast's tremendous work with the characters, and Steinback's legendary novel of the Joad family.

10/10