You Must Remember This

The Mount Pony Theater pays homage to actors who passed away in 2008 with a cornucopia of free films in January featuring the likes of Paul Newman, Heath Ledger and Charlton Heston.

A committee of local Library of Congress staffers collaborated on the New Year schedule, said Rob Stone, curator and film program coordinator with the Moving Images Section at the National Audio Visual Conservation Cen-ter on Mount Pony.

“We are trying to mix it up a little bit, show some movies that get that middle ground,” he said of the inclusion of Ledger’s 1999 film, “Ten Things I Hate About You,” the Jan. 3 matinee.

“As far as teen movies of the ’90s, I think that’s the best one,” said Stone, former associate curator at the UCLA Film and Television Archive in California.

It was never the intention to just show movies from the influential National Film Registry, he added, although, “We will continue to skew quite heavy toward classic Hollywood.”

Here’s a classic British movie news flash: in February, on a date not yet announced, the Mount Pony Theater will screen its first silent movie with live musical accompaniment. Acclaimed silent film accompanist and pianist Stephen Horne of London will provide the music to 1929’s Brit film, “A Cottage on Dartmoor.”

Each month following will feature one silent movie with live music, Stone said.

Looking back on the past three months since the Mount Pony Theater opened, he said, “We couldn’t be happier.”
Most of the thrice-weekly free shows reached 80 percent capacity in the 200-seat theater, Stone said, which “Most theaters in the country would die for.’

Well, don’t do that.

But do check out these in-memoriam films coming in January to Mount Pony:

*Friday, January 2
Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

*Saturday, January 3
Heath Ledger in Ten Things I Hate About You (1999)

*Tuesday, January 6
Richard Widmark in Pick Up on South Street (1953)

*Friday, January 9
Roy Scheider in All that Jazz (1979)

*Saturday, January 10
Suzanne Pleshette in The Adventures of Bullwhip Grif-fin (1967)

*Tuesday, January 13
Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes (1968)

*Friday, January 16
Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon (1953)

*Saturday, January 17
Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

*Tuesday, January 20
Ann Sothern Centenary Dou-ble Feature — Let’s Fall in Love (1933) and Smartest Girl in Town (1936)

*Friday, January 23
$5 Per Carload: The Best & Worst of Drive-In Movies — Faster Pussycat! Kill Kill! (1965)

*Saturday, January 24
Culturally, historically or aes-thetically significant: films from the National Film Registry — Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

*Tuesday, January 27
Book of the Month Club: A Tale of Two Cities (1935)

*Friday, January 30
Dana Andrews Centenary: Laura (1944)

*Saturday, January 31
Saturday Silents Warm Up: The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)

Showtimes: Tuesday 7 p.m., Friday 7:30 pm., Saturday 2 p.m.
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Christmas schedule:
Tonight at 7:30 p.m. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Saturday at 2 p.m. Home Alone (1990)
Tuesday, Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. Scrooge (1970)
Friday, Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Holiday Affair (1949)
Saturday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. The Santa Clause (1994)
Tuesday, Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. Home for the Holidays: Christmas on Television
Friday, Dec. 19 at 7:30 p.m. A Christmas Story (1983)