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FEBRUARY 13, 2021 | DISCOVER!
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Films
RYLAN HOWE | STAFF WRITER
This Weekend!
DON’T
MISS
OUT!
At a Glance:
WHAT: Classics at the Riviera —
“Swing Time”
WHERE: Riviera Theatre, 2209
Main St., Emmetsburg, IA
WHEN: 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14
COST: Free admission
CONTACT: 712-852-2660
ONLINE: www.emmetsburgmovies.com/classics-at-the-riviera/
More Classics:
“National Velvet” (1944) — 4:30
p.m. Sunday, March 14
“In the Heat of the Night” (1967)
— 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 11
The audience loves
it. It’s pretty fun.
They really get
into the movies —
clapping for the
heroes. It can get
rowdy sometimes!
Lou Ann Huberty
KEEPING IT
Film
series
highlights
oldies but
goodies
CLASSIC
Some films are simply meant to classic “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and
be seen on the silver screen. 1967’s “Guess Who’s Coming to
And some classics from decades
long ago are making their way Hepburn an Academy Award for Best
Dinner,” which earned Katherine
back there thanks to the Palo Alto Art Actress.
Council.
According to Lou Ann Huberty,
The organization has joined forces president of the Palo Alto Arts
with the Riviera Theatre in downtown
Emmetsburg for the past three attended some of the films.
Council, as many as 70 people have
years to present “Classics at the Riviera.”
bit.
And they’ve enjoyed them quite a
On the second Sunday of each “The audience loves it,” Huberty
month at 4:30 p.m. the Riviera said. “It’s pretty fun. They really get
opens its doors to anyone with an into the movies — clapping for the
interest in watching movies from a heroes. It can get rowdy sometimes!”
bygone era.
Huberty said they usually get a mix
Admission is free and the concessions
are open. Socially distanced and love the opportunity to watch
of folks who’ve seen the films before
seating is followed.
them once again on the big screen,
Features of the past few months as well as those interested in seeing
have included the 1936 film “My them for the first time.
Man Godfrey,” the 1946 holiday Next up is a Valentine’s Day screening
on Sunday, Feb. 14, of “Swing
Time,” a 1936 film featuring Fred
Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
In a 1998 review by the late movie
critic Roger Ebert, “Swing Time” is
the best of several films featuring the
spectacular dancing duo.
“The plot, with its sly drolleries, is
based like ‘Top Hat;’ on mistaken
identities, but it’s wittier and more
cleverly written; it could have been
devised by P.G. Wodehouse,” Ebert
says in the review on www.rogerebert.
com. “It serves to link the great dance
sequences, built around Jerome Kern
songs, including the climactic ‘Never
Going to Dance’ number that may be
the high point of the Astaire-Rogers
partnership.”
There are a couple more films on
the schedule for this run of classics.
Soon Huberty says they’ll gather
their committee to pick out another
dozen for the year to come.
“The theater lets us bring in our
own movies so one of the biggest
factors in choosing them is whether
or not we can get them on Blu-ray,”
Huberty said. “Then at the end of the
series we give all the movies to the
local library.”
So check them out on the big
screen them check them out from
the library.
There are great opportunities to
view great cinema with “Classics at
the Riviera.” F
Emmetsburg | Iowa