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Plaza Theatre movie series will make your summer campy


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/16/2008

The Plaza Theatre suggests it's time to get your camp on.

The theater's tongue-in-cheek, three-film Summer Camp starts at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday with the 1968 Jane Fonda classic "Barbarella."

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'Horton Hears a Who': June 8 at the Fox Theatre's Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival.
 
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Other films will be 1959's "Some Like It Hot" (9:30 p.m. June 17) with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis; and 1980's disco-laden "Xanadu" (9:30 p.m. July 22) with Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly.

All shows are $8 and will be hosted by emcee Ruby Redd.

www.plazaatlanta.com

JAVIER BARDEM

The High Museum of Art's film series focusing on Oscar-winner Javier Bardem ("No Country for Old Men") continues at the Rich Theatre.

Next up: "Live Flesh" (1997; 8 p.m. Thursday). Bardem plays a cop turned wheelchair basketball player in Pedro Almodóvar's drama. In Spanish with subtitles.

Coming up: "The Sea Inside" (2004; 8 p.m. June 19). In one of the best movies of 2004 (it also won the foreign language film Oscar), Bardem plays quadriplegic Ramon Sampedro. In Spanish, Catalan and Galician with subtitles.

And "Mondays in the Sun" (2002; 8 p.m. June 26). Follows the lives of shipyard workers who are now jobless and idle. In Spanish with subtitles.

Tickets: www.high.org

INDIA FEST

The High Museum of Art's Film Festival of India continues through May 31 at the Woodruff Arts Center's Rich Theatre. All screenings are at 8 p.m.

Next up: "The Eclipse" (2004; in Telugu with subtitles; Friday night) and "Outsourced" (2006; in English and Hindi with subtitles; Saturday.)

The final film: "Amal" (2007; in English and Hindi with subtitles; May 31).

Tickets: www.high.org.

COMING SOON

The lineup for Peachtree TV's free Screen on the Green at Centennial Olympic Park: "Jaws," May 29; "Big Momma's House," June 5; "Chicago," June 12; "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," June 19; and "Footloose," June 26. www.peachtreetv.com/specials/screenonthegreen. ... The first seven films have been announced for this year's Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival at the Fox Theatre: the Rolling Stones' "Shine a Light" — 7:30 p.m. June 5; "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" — 2 p.m. June 8; "Atonement" — 7 p.m. June 8; "Casablanca" — 7:30 p.m. June 17; "No Country for Old Men" — 7:30 p.m. June 18; "Enchanted" — 2 p.m. July 13; and "Ben-Hur" — 7 p.m. July 13. Tickets go on sale May 19. www.foxtheatre.org. ... The Starlight Six Drive-in Theatres' annual Rock 'n' Roll Monster Bash has been set for June 1. www.starlightdrivein.com. ... The High will spotlight films of Don Cheadle June 7-28. First up will be "Talk To Me" (2007). www.high.org.

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