Castro Theatre 100th Birthday Celebration (Lion King + All 1940s Movies)

Happy 100th Birthday to the Castro Theatre! UPDATE – Thanks to SF Gate for reporting that all movies on June 22nd will be $1 (plus a 50 cent fee)

Wednesday, June 22nd (Actual Opening Date in 1922) Movies Filmed in San Francisco – All films $1

• 10:30am San Francisco (1936, 115 min) Director: W.S. Van Dyke. Stars: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy – $10 Screening
• 1:00pm Mrs. Doubtfire (1993, 125 min) Director: Chris Columbus. Stars: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein
• 3:30pm Dirty Harry (1971, 102 min) Director: Don Siegel. Stars: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino
• 6:00pm Sudden Fear (1952, 110 min) Director: David Miller. Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
• 8:15pm Bullitt (1968, 114 min) Director: Peter Yates. Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset

June 22, 2022 marks 100 years since San Francisco’s Nasser family opened the Castro Theatre: an event that came to define an era and a neighborhood. A century on, it is the longest continually family owned movie palace in the United States.

To mark the occasion, the Nasser Family in partnership with Another Planet Entertainment is scheduling 11 days of film screenings on June 3 – 12 featuring iconic movies from each decade of the Castro’s history, including some family and children’s programming .

Or join the Castro on June 22, 2022 for a “Happy Birthday” special event with movies filmed in San Francisco.

The Castro’s 100th Birthday Celebration

June 3-12, June 22, 2022
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Most shows will be preceded by a live performance by our own David Hegarty on the Castro’s organ.

Tickets
$16 – General Admission (Weekday)
$18 – General Admission (Weekend)
Special $10 Morning Screenings ($10 adults, $6 kids)
– Bright Eyes June 4th at 10:30am
– The Lion King (1994) June 5th at 10:30am
– San Francisco June 22nd at 10:30am

Friday, June 3: (Decade of the 1920s) – $16

• 2:45pm Oh, Doctor! (1925, 63 min) Director: Harry A. Pollard. Stars: Reginald Denny, Mary Astor
• 4:15pm The Mark of Zorro (1920, 79 min) Director: Fred Niblo. Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Marguerite De La Motte
• 6:00pm Across to Singapore (1928, 85 min) Director: William Nigh. Stars: Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro
• 7:45pm The Lodger (1927, 92 min) Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Stars: Ivor Novello, June Tripp, Marie Ault
• 9:45pm Sunrise (1927, 94 min) Director: F.W. Murnau. Stars: former Castro Theatre usher, Janet Gaynor, George O’Brien, Margaret Livingston

Saturday, June 4:(Decade of the 1930s) – $18 (except for Bright Eyes which is $10)

• 10:30am Bright Eyes (1934, 85 min) Director: David Butler. Stars: Shirley Temple, James Dunn – $10 Screening
• 1:00pm Pardon Us (1931, 56 min) Director: James Parrott. Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
• 2:45pm The Thin Man (1934, 91 min) Director: W.S. Van Dyke. Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan, Asta
• 4:45pm The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, 102 min) Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley. Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains
• 7:00pm The Women (1939, 133 min) Director: George Cukor. Stars: Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Norma Shearer, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard
• 9:30pm A Night at the Opera (1935, 96 min) Directors: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding. Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle

Sunday, June 5: (Decade of the 1940s & Special Family Feature) – $18 (except for Lion King which is $10)

• 10:30am Lion King (1994, 88 min) Directors: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff. Voices: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg, James Earl Jones Disney’s original animated feature – $10 Screening
• 2:30pm The Philadelphia Story (1940, 112 min) Director: George Cukor. Stars: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart
• 5:00pm The Lady from Shanghai (1947, 97 min) Director: Orson Welles. Stars: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth
• 7:00pm Mildred Pierce (1945, 111 min) Director: Michael Curtiz. Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Eve Arden, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth
• 9:30pm Casablanca (1942, 102 min) Director: Michael Curtiz. Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Paul Henreid

Monday, June 6 (Decade of the 1950s) – $16

• 4:00pm From Here to Eternity (1953, 118 min) Director: Fred Zinnemann. Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
• 6:30pm Some Like it Hot (6:30pm) Director: Billy Wilder. Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
• 9:15pm All About Eve (1950, 138 min) Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Marilyn Monroe, Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter

Tuesday, June 7 (Decade of the 1960s) – $16

• 2:00pm Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, 110 min) Director: George Roy Hill. Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
• 4:30pm The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, 123 min) Director: John Ford. Stars: John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Andy Devine, Vera Miles
• 7:00pm Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961, 115 min) Director: Blake Edwards. Stars: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam
• 9:30pm The Magnificent Seven (1960, 128 min) Director: John Sturges. Stars: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Eli Wallach, Charles Bronson

Wednesday, June 8 (Decade of the 1970s) – $16

• 4:00 pm Star Wars (1977, 121 min) Director: George Lucas. Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness
• 6:30pm Chinatown (1974, 130 min) Director: Roman Polanski. Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Diane Ladd
• 9:20pm The Godfather (1972, 175 min) Director: Francis Ford Coppola. Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Thursday, June 9 (Decade of the 1980s) – $16

• 4:00pm Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, 115 min) Director: Steven Spielberg. Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
• 6:30pm Amadeus (1984, 160 min) Director: Milos Forman. Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
• 9:30pm Blade Runner – The Final Cut (1982, 110 min) Director: Ridley Scott. Stars: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah

Friday, June 10 (Decade of the 1990s) – $16

• 1:00pm Casino (1995, 178 min) Director: Martin Scorsese. Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles
• 4:30pm Rush Hour (1998, 98 min) Director: Brett Ratner. Stars: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker
• 6:45pm American Beauty (1999, 122 min) Director: Sam Mendes. Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Mena Suvari, Allison Janney
• 9:30pm The Birdcage (1996, 117 min) Director: Mike Nichols. Stars: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest

Saturday, June 11 (Decade of the 2000s) – $18

• 1:00pm Iron Man (2008, 126 min) Director: Jon Favreau. Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow
• 4:00pm The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, 110 min) Director: Wes Anderson. Stars: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Luke Wilson, Ben Stiller, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray
• 7:00pm No Country for Old Men (2007, 122 min) Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin

Sunday, June 12 (Decade of 2010s) – $18

• 1:00pm Black Panther (2018, 134 min) Director: Ryan Coogler. Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Angela Bassett
• 3:50pm A Star is Born (2018, 136 min) Director: Bradley Cooper. Stars: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott
• 6:30pm Bohemian Rhapsody (2018, 134 min) Director: Bryan Singer. Stars: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Mike Myers
• 9:15pm Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019, 161 min) Director: Quentin Tarantino. Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch

Wednesday, June 22nd (Actual Opening Date in 1922) Movies Filmed in San Francisco – All films $1

• 10:30am San Francisco (1936, 115 min) Director: W.S. Van Dyke. Stars: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy – $10 Screening
• 1:00pm Mrs. Doubtfire (1993, 125 min) Director: Chris Columbus. Stars: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein
• 3:30pm Dirty Harry (1971, 102 min) Director: Don Siegel. Stars: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino
• 6:00pm Sudden Fear (1952, 110 min) Director: David Miller. Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
• 8:15pm Bullitt (1968, 114 min) Director: Peter Yates. Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset

 

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