Mount Pony celebrates Remembrance Days

Were you around in Culpeper 75 years ago?

If so, you might have watched “Dinner At Eight” (MGM, 1933) at the old Fairfax Theater on East Davis Street.

According to Rob Stone, curator of the moving images section at the Library of Congress National Audio Visual Center Packard Campus in Culpeper, the high-society comedy showed this very week in Culpeper.

It shows again Friday night at 7:30 in the Mount Pony Theater as part of the weekend’s Remembrance Day events.

Stone shares the history of film shows in Culpeper with a special slide show prior to “Dinner At Eight,” starring Maria Dressler, John Barrymore and Jean Harlow.

The Beatles are back Saturday afternoon with a 2 p.m. showing of “Let It Be” (United Artists, 1970). Watch the Fab Four rehearse, record and refine their new album. A documentary with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

Coming soon:
- May 1, 7:30 p.m. “Rear Window” (1954, Paramount)

- May 2, 2 p.m. “The Man Who Made the Movies: WKL Dickson” — special film program and lecture on early film

- May 2, 7:30 p.m. “A League of Their Own” (1992, Columbia)

—May 8, 7:30 p.m. “The Winning Team” (1952, Warner Bros.)

- May 9, 2 p.m. “Safety Last” (1923, Hal Roach Studios)

- May 9, 7:30 p.m. “3:10 From Yuma” (1957, Columbia Pictures)

- May 12, 7 p.m. “It Happens Every Spring” (1949, 20th Century Fox)

- May 15, 7:30 p.m. “Cinema Paradiso” (1990, Cristaldfilm) — Friday Night Foreign (in Italian with English subtitles)

- May 16, 2 p.m. “Since You Went Away” (1944, Vanguard Films)

- May 19, 7 p.m. “A Town Like Alice” (1956, Rank Organisation)

- Memorial Day Weekend: NO SHOWS

- May 26, 7 p.m. “The Man Who Would Be King” (1975, Allied Artists Pictures)

- May 29, 7:30 p.m. “Three Came Home” (1950, 20th Century Fox)

- May 30, 2 p.m. “The Sound of Music” (1965, Robert Wise Studios)

- May 31, 2 p.m. “Sparrows” (1926, Pickford Corporation)

Make your free reservations Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. up to one week in advance of each show by calling: (540) 827-1079 ext. 79994 or (202) 707-9994. Don’t have reservations? Show up early to get on stand-by.

— Allison Brophy Champion