Vintage Film Festival 2024

Marie Dressler Foundation

Orson Welles in Citizen Kane (1941). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Vintage Film Festival: Great Directors

October 18 – 20, 2024
The Capitol Theatre, Port Hope
www.vintagefilmfestival.ca

The 2024 Vintage Film Festival celebrates the “Great Directors” with a weekend-long program of 13 films—one each by 13 of the greatest behind-the-camera talents of all time, representing the best of their work!

Visit the Capitol Theatre’s events page, and click “On Screen”. Festival passes—which include all 13 of this year’s movies plus the Sunday lunchtime film talk—are still only $89, which represents a saving of nearly 50% over the cost of individual tickets! But single tickets to any of these great motion pictures are still just $12.50.

Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot (1959). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

You’ll enjoy all-time favourites like West Side Story (the original, from Robert Wise) and Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, great comedies from Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot) and Preston Sturges (The Palm Beach Story), and two of the most highly acclaimed movies ever made: Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, and Tokyo Story by Japanese “golden age” master Yasujirō Ozu. Plus more great movies from the likes of Hitchcock and Kubrick, John Huston and John Ford.

Experience live piano accompaniment for our silent films, Buster Keaton’s remarkable Sherlock Jr., and The Blot (by Lois Weber, who may have been cinema’s first auteur). And the Festival also includes the Sunday lunchtime film talk, free admission for young people 25 and under, and free popcorn all weekend!

Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama in Tokyo Story (1953). Source: Wikimedia Commons.

About the Vintage Film Festival

Our Mission: To connect the public to the magic of early filmmaking, and to support novice filmmakers of the future.

Our Vision: To be the destination for celebrating vintage films, and to become a premiere resource for information and artifacts related to vintage film.

The Vintage Film Festival, now celebrating its 31st season, is presented by the Marie Dressler Foundation as its principal fundraising event.

Vintage Film Festival
www.vintagefilmfestival.ca
vintagefilmfestival@gmail.com
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About the Capitol Theatre

The Great Directors program is being presented at Port Hope, Ontario’s beautiful Capitol Theatre, an “atmospheric” Art Deco movie theatre built in 1930.

The Capitol Theatre
20 Queen Street
Port Hope, ON L1A 2Y7
capitoltheatre.com/events

Accessibility:
The Capitol Theatre is fully accessible. For more information, visit capitoltheatre.com/accessibility.