eeg         SHOWING at the CRYSTAL THEATRE  The Beatles: Eight Days a Week Fri-Thur Sept 29-Oct 6 7:30 (not rated) 2 hr 15 min A compilation of found footage featuring music, interviews, and stories of The Beatles' 250 concerts from 1963 to 1966. Director Ron Howard takes a look back at the first part of the Beatles career (1962-1966) when they were still a touring band, from their early performances in Europe in 1963 to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966. Using rare, exclusive and archival footage, as well as interviews, it explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this phenomenon; their inner workings, how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together. In theatres only - An exclusive 30-minute concert film of The Beatles’ legendary 1965 performance at Shea Stadium, with digitally remastered sound, has been added AFTER THE CREDITS https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_beatles_eight_days_a_week_the_touring_years  Saturday Oct 1 5pm (PG-13) 1 hr 50 min
Comedy-drama
based on the real-life socialite and heiress Florence Foster Jenkins
who, despite her horrible singing voice, is certain she can become an opera star in 1940's New York. Cast includes Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant. Directed By Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena).  Cafe Society Sunday Oct 2 5:30 (PG-13) 90 min Set
in the 1930s, this romantic comedy follows a Bronx-born man to
Hollywood, where he falls in love, and back to New York, where he is
swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life. Centering on events in the lives of his colorful Bronx family, the film
is a glittering valentine to the movie stars, socialites, playboys,
debutantes, politicians, and gangsters who epitomized the excitement and
glamour of the age.  |