Midnight Madness returns to the Ritz at the Bourse

Remember this summer's Midnight Madness? The witching hour movie series returns to the Ritz at the Bourse this Saturday with Beetlejuice. Here's the schedule:

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Midnight Madness returns to the Ritz at the Bourse

POSTED: Monday, October 19, 2009, 8:52 PM

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Remember this summer's Midnight Madness? The witching hour movie series returns to the Ritz at the Bourse this Saturday with Beetlejuice. Here's the schedule:

Saturday, October 24
BEETLEJUICE
(USA 1988) PG, 92 min
Sight gags and puns abound as the diabolically funny title character (played with gruesome wit by Michael Keaton) helps "newlydeads" Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis rid their home of obnoxious new owners Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones and Winona Ryder. From Tim Burton, director of Big Fish, Ed Wood, Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Edward Scissorhands.

Friday, October 30 & Saturday, October 31
DEAD ALIVE
(New Zealand1992) NR, 97 min
If you thought the '50s were all bobby-sox and innocence, you didn't live next door to Lionel. After his domineering mother is bitten by a vicious Sumatran Rat-Monkey, a deliriously funny gorefest ensues, featuring zombies, severed limbs, internal organs, buckets of blood and one mean lawnmower! From Peter Jackson, director of the King Kong remake, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Frighteners.

Saturday, November 7
THE BREAKFAST CLUB
(USA 1985) R, 97 min
A wrestler, a rebel, a brain, a beauty and a shy girl share Saturday detention in a Chicago high school.

Saturday, November 14
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT
(USA 1988) PG, 104 min
In a world where cartoons coexist with humans, a private eye tries to clear a long-eared fugitive of murder charges.
Saturday, November 21

ROSEMARY'S BABY
(USA 1968) 6, 136 min
Roman Polanski's adaptation of Ira Levin's chilling novel stars Mia Farrow as an innocent young bride who moves into a New York brownstone with her husband (John Cassavetes), only to be terrorized by a coven of witches. Will the elderly couple next door (Sidney Blackmer and Oscar-winner Ruth Gordon) be her salvation or damnation? Find out in one of the most frightening films ever made!

Saturday, November 28
PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE
(USA 1985) PG, 90 min
When his beloved bike is stolen, Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) sets out on a hilarious cross-country trek that leads him to the basement of the Alamo and the backlot at Warner Bros. Studios. Highlights include Large Marge (the truck-driving ghost) and Pee-wee's Big Shoe Dance ("Tequila!"). Co-written by Phil Hartman, Michael Varhol and Reubens. Original music score by Danny Elfman. Directed by Tim Burton (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Ed Wood).

Saturday, December 5
TAXI DRIVER
(USA 1976) R, 113 min
Robert De Niro is absolutely chilling in Martin Scorsese's classic film about a disturbed New York cabbie who befriends a teenage hooker (Jodie Foster) and tries to free her from her pimp (Harvey Keitel). He also begins stalking political worker Cybill Shepherd, just as work in the nighttime jungle gets the best of him. An atmospheric, violent urban nightmare, from the acclaimed director of The Departed, Gangs of New York and Raging Bull.

Saturday, December 12
THE NEVERENDING STORY
(Germany 1984) PG, 92 min
A New York schoolboy escapes into a book about a boy warrior and an empress.

I will so be at Pee Wee's Big Adventure on Nov. 28, which is still my favorite Tim Burton movie ("You don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel. So long, Dott.") although Beetlejuice is a classic for several reasons. Namely this one:

Don't worry if you forget this schedule. We'll always have it up at citypaper.net/repfilm.

Ritz at the Bourse, midnight, $9, 400 Ranstead St., 215-925-7500, LandmarkTheatres.com

Felicia D'Ambrosio

Posted 2009-10-19 19:01:04

I love that scene.  Catherine O'Hara is a great comic actress.  Can you imagine how hard it would be to dance well to choreography and lip-sync all while looking like you're doing it against your will?

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