The Heights

Mad scientist Prospero runs away with his blind daughter, Miranda, to Tromaville, hiding from evil pharmaceutical execs, including his sister Antoinette, who ruined his career.

In 1955, 60-year-old Marcel Pagnol is a well-known and acclaimed playwright and filmmaker. When the editor-in-chief of ELLE magazine commissions a weekly column about Pagnol’s childhood, he sees this as a great opportunity to go back to his artistic roots: writing. Realizing his memory is failing him and deeply affected by the disappointing results of his last two plays, Pagnol starts doubting his ability to pursue his work. That is until Little Marcel — the young boy he used to be — appears to him as if by magic. Together, they will explore Marcel Pagnol’s incredible life and bring back to life his most cherished encounters and memories...

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker.

Six guests are invited to a strange house and must cooperate with the staff to solve a murder mystery.

A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned… with someone or something new on-board.

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

One of the Heights’ most popular events returns for what is sure to be sold-out screenings! This year we’re bringing five classic short films in new digital restorations. “Berth Marks” (1929), “Men O’ War” (1929), “Perfect Day” (1929), “One Good Turn” (1931), and “Scram” (1932) will make for a riotous afternoon. Don’t miss it! DCPs courtesy of Jeff Joseph.

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

You will not want to miss this special Heights Thanksgiving Day event featuring one of Walt Disney's greatest films...MARY POPPINS! When Jane (Karen Dotrice) and Michael (Matthew Garber), the children of the wealthy and uptight Banks family, are faced with the prospect of a new nanny, they are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the magical Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews). Embarking on a series of fantastical adventures with Mary and her Cockney performer friend, Bert (Dick Van Dyke), the siblings try to pass on some of their nanny's sunny attitude to their preoccupied parents (David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns).

New York sophisticates David Smith and Ann Smith née Krausheimer have been lovingly and passionately married for three years, or so they believed. They are told individually that due to a technicality - an unresolved municipal and state jurisdictional issue at the time of their supposed marriage - their wedding was not legal, and as such they are not really married. Despite David saying earlier in the day that if he had to do his life all over again that he would not have married her (even though he loves her), it is Ann that decides not to marry David this second time around due to an action, or in reality inaction, by David in reaction to the news of their marriage being invalid. While Ann goes about her life as a supposedly single woman (which includes calling herself Ann Krausheimer), David does whatever he can to win Ann back. But winning Ann's hand may be difficult as part of Ann's new life is dating other men. One of those other men and the most serious is David's best friend.

One of our most popular features in a stunning new 70mm restoration. WHAT?!? That’s right, North by Northwest, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most triumphantly entertaining films, has had a mind-blowing 70mm restoration, and we’re bringing it to the Twin Cities. Charming ad man Roger O. Thornhill (or ROT, to his friends) must run for his life when he's mistaken for an American spy by a dastardly criminal organization. Hitchcock urged screenwriter Ernest Lehman to pull out all the stops, resulting in a breathtaking adventure whose insane plot twists work in spite of themselves. Cary Grant was never more charming, Eve Marie Saint never more alluring, and Hitchcock never more assured.

Palestine, 1936. The uprising that took on an Empire. As villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With rising numbers of Jewish immigrants escaping antisemitism in Europe, and the Palestinian population uniting in the largest and longest uprising against Britain's 30-year dominion, all sides spiral towards inevitable collision in a decisive moment for the British Empire and the future of the entire region.

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

In a small town by the sea lives five year old Sosuke, high on a cliff overlooking the Inland Sea. One morning while playing on the rocky beach below his house, he discovers a goldfish he names Ponyo, her head stuck in a jam jar. Sosuke rescues Ponyo and keeps her in a green plastic bucket. Both Ponyo and Sosuke are fascinated by each other and promise to stay firm friends until Ponyo’s father, a sorcerer who lives deep under the sea, forces her to return with him to the ocean depths. What follows is an amazing underwater adventure for all ages... PONYO is a substantially lighter and smaller in scope feature when compared to Miyazaki’s previous two works. The film was completed entirely using traditional hand-drawn animation, primarily in order to showcase the quality of the artwork by art director Noboru Yoshida as well as celebrating the innocence and cheerfulness of a child’s universe.

Marion Crane needs money to get married. Entrusted with $40K by her employer, she takes it on the lam. Paranoid and regretting her decision, she stops at the Bates Motel, where strange, young Norman Bates brings a jarring end to her troubles. Arguably the most influential of Hitchcock's movies, Psycho remains a disturbing, shocking film even to the most jaded modern audience.

Jeffries (James Stewart), a prize-winning photographer, has broken his leg and now sits sweating out his days spying on his fellow apartment dwellers. At first aghast at his pursuits, girlfriend Lisa (Grace Kelly) and nurse Stella (Thelma Ritter) eventually join him as he uncovers--or thinks he uncovers—a murder. This classic is at once sexy, thrilling, hilarious, and one of the most entertaining pictures Hitchcock ever gave us.

To prove their superiority by committing the perfect crime, precocious Brandon (John Dall) and nervous Philip (Farley Granger) strangle a college classmate, fold his body into a wooden chest, then hold a cocktail party around the corpse. Guests include the victim's parents, girlfriend, and the very curious, equally intellectual publisher Rupert (James Stewart). Loosely based on the Leopold-Loew case, and edited to appear as if it was shot in a single take, Rope is an almost unbearable study in tension.

The children of secret-agent parents must save them from danger.

In 1920, one brilliant movie jolted the postwar masses and catapulted the movement known as German Expressionism into film history. That movie was The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational world. Director Robert Wiene and a visionary team of designers crafted a nightmare realm in which light, shadow and substance are abstracted, a world in which a demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpetrate a series of ghastly murders in a small community. This authoritative edition of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 4K restoration scanned from the (mostly) preserved camera negative at the German Federal Film Archive.

In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.

Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization.

A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

SpongeBob SquarePants takes leave from the town of Bikini Bottom in order to track down King Neptune's stolen crown.

35MM TECHNICOLOR DYE-TRANSFER PRINT!! One of the greatest motion pictures of all-time is one of our most popular events and sells out year after year. As always, we’re screening the rare 35mm Technicolor Dye Transfer print, whose astounding colors must be seen to be believed. Has there ever been a more essential piece of movie magic than the journey of Dorothy and Toto? Never. And the lush Technicolor makes the colors so rich it's like seeing a painting.