The Dryden Theatre is not immune to the holiday spirit, and our offerings this year take a three-pronged approach. There are time-honored favorites: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, Miracle on 34th Street, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. But we’re also featuring a series of Nora Ephron films, as she often wrote scripts that take place around the holidays. For the more adventurous and worldly in our audience, take a trip to La Métropole with our series Joyeux Noel, featuring holiday films from France. Across five weeks and fifteen screenings, the Dryden celebrates the end of the year like no one else!
Dates and Titles:
November 27: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (John Hughes, US 1987, 93 min., DCP)
November 28 (2 p.m.): Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, US 1947, 96 min., 35mm)
November 28: Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, US 1947, 96 min., 35mm)
December 2: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, France 1964, 91 min., 35mm)
December 5: You’ve Got Mail (Nora Ephron, US 1998, 119 min., 35mm)
December 9: Who Killed Santa Claus? (L’assassinat du Père Noël, Christian-Jaque, France 1941, 105 min., DCP, French with English subtitles)
December 12 (2 p.m.): You’ve Got Mail (Nora Ephron, US 1998, 119 min., 35mm)
December 16: A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël, Arnaud Desplechin, 2008, 150 min., DCP, French with English subtitles)
December 18: The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, US 1993, 76 min., DCP)
December 19 (2 p.m.): The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, US 1993, 76 min., DCP)
December 19: Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, US 1993, 105 min., 35mm)
December 22: Mixed Nuts (Nora Ephron, US 1994, 97 min., 35mm)
December 23: Joyeux Noël (Christian Carion, France/Germany/UK/Belgium/Romania/Japan 2005, 116 min., DCP, French and German with English subtitles)
December 26 (2 p.m.): Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, US 1993, 105 min., 35mm)
December 31: When Harry Met Sally… (Rob Reiner, US 1989, 95 min., DCP)
Events in this Series
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (DCP)
Holidays As marketing executive Neal Page (Steve Martin) attempts to get home for Thanksgiving, his plans seems to be foiled at every turn by shower curtain–ring salesman Del Griffith (John Candy), who also happens to be traveling back to Chicago.
Matinee: Miracle on 34th Street (35mm) - Free for Members!
Holidays Released in the summer of 1947, Miracle on 34th Street has nonetheless grown into a perennial favorite, bridging the season from Thanksgiving to Christmas. When the Santa Clause hired for the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade turns up drunk, a jolly, bearded man named Kris (Edmund Gwenn) volunteers for the job.
Miracle on 34th Street (35mm)
Holidays Released in the summer of 1947, Miracle on 34th Street has nonetheless grown into a perennial favorite, bridging the season from Thanksgiving to Christmas. When the Santa Clause hired for the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade turns up drunk, a jolly, bearded man named Kris (Edmund Gwenn) volunteers for the job.