Metro Cinema Society: Classic Films from Universal

Classic Films from Universal

After August's screenings of Jaws, Metro continues to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Universal Films with three more classic and celebrated films, two of which are newly - restored 35mm prints

Universal: The Birds

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

USA 1963, 120 min, 35mm

Sep 14 & 17 (2012) @ 9pm
Sep 16 (2012) @ 2pm
Sep 16 & 19 (2012) @ 7pm

...Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary doomsday fantasia is cinema’s greatest disaster movie, and one of the director’s finest works. Tippi Hedren, in her screen debut, plays Melanie, a smitten San Francisco socialite who pursues bachelor lawyer Mitch (Rod Taylor) back to his... view more

Universal: Frankenstein

Director: James Whale

USA 1931, 71 min, 35mm

Sep 21 & 25 (2012) @ 7pm
Sep 22 (2012) @ 2pm
Sep 23 (2012) @ 4pm
Sep 23 (2012) @ 9pm

“It’s alive! It’s alive!” Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic tale had been brought to the screen before, and would be many times again, but Universal’s creepy 1931 adaptation is without doubt the enduring cinematic version. Colin Clive plays the titular mad... view more

Universal: The Incredible Shrinking Man

Director: Jack Arnold

USA 1957, 81 min, 35mm

Sep 28 (2012) @ 9:15pm
Sep 29 (2012) @ 4:30pm
Sep 30 (2012) @ 3:15pm
Oct 1 (2012) @ 7pm
Oct 11 (2012) @ 1pm

Not merely the best of Jack Arnold’s classic science fiction films of the 1950s, but one of the finest films ever made in that genre. After being contaminated by what may or may not be nuclear waste, Grant Williams finds... view more