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.

A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building -but will it happen?

The very definition of screwball, Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby throws loony socialite Susan Vance (Katherine Hepburn) at uptight paleontologist Dr. David Huxley (Cary Grant), who's engaged to be married to someone else. There's a leopard, there's an 'intercostal clavicle', there's Cary in a house dress, Katherine in a torn, bottomless evening gown, and more laughs per frame than just about any movie in Hollywood history. Don't miss this rare 35mm screening

After Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) falls for the dashing Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex (James Coburn), Scobie (George Kennedy) and Gideon (Ned Glass), who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?

When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners.

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.

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

In an effort to avoid spending time with her father and his creepy new lover, young Gorgeous (Kimiko Ikegami) resolves to visit her aunt's remote mansion. With six of her closest friends in tow, including the musically inclined Melody (Eriko Tanaka) and the geeky Prof (Ai Matsubara), Gorgeous arrives at the estate, where supernatural events occur almost immediately. A severed head takes flight, household appliances come to life and a portrait of a cat seems to contain an evil spirit.

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

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).

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.

Geoff Carter (Grant) runs Barranca Airways, an airmail company in the early days of flight. Leaping their planes over difficult terrain in the Andes Mountains, these brave pilots risk life and limb to get the mail through. From this simple premise comes perhaps Howard Hawks’ most sublime examination of men and women working together to achieve common goals. Cary Grant is spectacular as the funny and wise leader of this ragtag band, and Jean Arthur and Rita Hayworth are on hand to make this one of the most thoroughly entertaining films in Grant’s career. Rarely screened in the Twin Cities, ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS should not be missed.

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.

Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.

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.

After an acrimonious break up, the Mystery Inc. gang are individually brought to an island resort to investigate strange goings on.

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.

The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be "discovered" and sold after his death.

Johnny is a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored of him and decides to seduce Johnny's best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again.

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

Labor activist Leopold Dilg (Grant) is fighting hard to change working conditions at the local mill. When the plant burns down and kills a foreman, the town, under the thumb of the mill owner, fingers Dilg as the killer. So he hides out in the attic of former high school chum, Nora Shelley (Jean Arthur). Problem is, she’s rented the house to law professor Michael Lightcap (Ronald Colman), who is about to be nominated to the Supreme Court! One of the rare comedies that also rouses populist sentiment, THE TALK OF THE TOWN features a trifecta of comic acting in Grant, Arthur and Colman.

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.