One of the best times to go to the Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival at the Fox Theatre is when the schedule calls for a true film classic that benefits from being shown on a big, big screen.
Charlton Heston's "Ben-Hur" (1959), the winner of a record-tying 11 Oscars, is the feature set for 7 p.m. Sunday. Moviegoers should brace themselves for the iconic chariot race, one of the greatest action sequences in film history.
The event will be preceeded by a 2 p.m. showing of Disney's "Enchanted."
Both films are perfect companions for the Fox's Mighty Mo organ performance by Larry Douglas Embury and sing-along.
Some of the films set for August include "Sex and the City" (7:30 p.m. Aug. 7), "Iron Man" (7:30 p.m. Aug. 8), "Kung Fu Panda" (2 p.m. Aug. 10) and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (7:30 p.m. Aug. 30).
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UNDER THE STARS
Star 94's annual free
Movies Under the Stars
is under way with outdoor screenings in various parts of metro Atlanta. Movies begin at sundown (around 8:30 p.m.). Next up:
"Spider-Man 3"
on Saturday at Suwanee Town Center Park.
Among future films: "The Princess Bride" on July 19 at Duluth's Town Green; "Nim's Island" on July 26 at Powder Springs' Taylor Farm Park; "Horton Hears a Who!" on Aug. 2 at Kennesaw's Swift-Cantrell Park; and "Juno" on Sept. 13 at Oglethorpe University's Academic Quad.
Films will be named later for Aug. 23 and Sept. 20.
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COMING SOON
The
Pan African Film Festival
will run July 18-27 at the Woodruff Arts Center's Rich Theatre during the
National Black Arts Festival
. Among the films will be
Charles Burnett's "Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation."
www.nbaf.org. ... The Plaza's next Summer Camp film is
"Xanadu"
with
Olivia Newton-John
and
Gene Kelly
, 9:30 p.m. July 22. www.plazaatlanta.com. ... Peachtree City's free
Golf Cart Drive-in Movie
series continues July 26 with a screening of
"Horton Hears a Who!"
on a 20-foot screen 10 minutes after sunset (around 9:05 p.m.) in the parking lot of Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center, 2443 Ga. 54 West. Future films:
"The Spiderwick Chronicles"
on Aug. 9,
"Casablanca"
on Aug. 16 and
"A Night at the Museum"
on Aug. 30. www.wyndhampeachtreeconferencecenter.com. ... The
Starlight Six Drive-In Theaters'
annual
Drive-Invasion
with bands, hot rods and classic cult movies will be Aug. 30-31. www.starlightdrivein.com. ... Under the banner
"The Trick of Disaster,"
Eyedrum's
Film Love
series will screen
Buster Keaton's "One Week"
(1920) and
Peter Fischli
and
David Weiss' "The Way Things Go"
(1987) at 8 p.m. July 25. www.eyedrum.org. ...
Key Sunday Cinema Club's
fall season will begin Sept. 28 at Landmark's Midtown Art Cinema with six more screenings on Oct. 12 and 26, Nov. 9 and 23, Dec. 14 and Jan. 4. www.keysundaycinema club.com/atlanta. ... The High Museum of Art's annual
Iranian Film Today
series will run Sept. 5-26 at the Woodruff Arts Center's Rich Theatre. www.high.org.
