Summer is Upon Us & Cinema Alfresco is Back!

Join us for ‘Films on the Fringe’ every Thursday night under the stars at the Brickayrd Oldtown, 129 N. Rock Island.

Screenings begin at 8 PM (Rain or Shine) and are prededed by a Tallgrass Film Festival short film. Doors and Kitchen open at 7 PM. Bring your ID. Enter at east and West doors (West side has better parking).

Cinema Alfresco Food & Drink Specials:
$3 Tallgrass Brewing Company Beers * $3.50 Stella Artois * $5 Quesadilla * $5 Brickyard Burger and Fries Special

Each screening will feature a drawing for pair of Tallgrass All Access Passes ($300 Value – Must Be Present to Win)

June 3 – 8 p.m.

Splendor In The Grass (1961)

Director: Elia Kazan, 124 minutes, NR

Cast: Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty

Plot: Two Kansas high school sweethearts (Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty) growing up in the late 1920s. The pressures of sex and society ruin their relationship.

Awards: William Inge won Oscar for Best Screenplay. Natalie Wood nominated for Best Actress. Nominated for Golden Globes for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress

June 10 – 8 p.m.

Cabaret (1972)

Director: Bob Fosse, 124 minutes, PG-13

Cast: Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Joel Grey

Plot: Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) a cabaret dancer works at the downtown Berlin Kit-Kat club, where anything goes. The young dancer is seduced by the culture, luxury and Max.

Awards: Won eight Oscars for Best Director, Actor, Actress, Art/Set Direction, Cinematography, Editing, Music, Sound

June 17 – 8 p.m.

Johnny Dangerously (1984)

Director: Amy Heckering, 90 minutes, PG-13

Cast: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Dom DeLuise, Danny DeVito

Plot: An honest, goodhearted Johnny Kelly (Michael Keaton) is forced to turn to a life of crime and become a gangster in order to finance his neurotic mother’s skyrocketing medical bills.

June 24 – 8 p.m.

Idlewild (2006)

Director: Bryan Barber, 121 minutes, R

Cast: Andre Benjamin, Big Boi, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Faizon Love, Cicely Tyson, Malinda Williams

Appearances: Macy Grey, Ben Vereen, Patti LaBelle, Norwood Fisher

Plot: In Prohibition-era South, a speakeasy club manager Rooster contends with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his partner Percival must choose between his love or his obligations to his father.

TFA Presents the Midwest premiere of Lee Whitman’s WAR STORIES, June 26th at the Orpheum!

Buy your tickets now!

The Tallgrass Film Association and Uncheckable Films will present the Midwest premiere of Wichita-native Lee Whitman’s feature film debut WAR STORIES. The film will screen 7 p.m., Saturday, June 26, at the Wichita Orpheum Theater. Tickets are $10 (or $8 for students, seniors and military) and filmmaker Lee Whitman will be in attendance, along with cast and crew members, for a question and answer session following the screening.

“After screening the film at various locales across the country, we are very excited to finally be screening WAR STORIES in Wichita,” said writer/director/producer Whitman. “The Wichita community was so instrumental in helping us to produce this film, we’re extremely excited to have the Midwest premiere here!” Shot on-location in Wichita, Oklahoma City and Washington, D.C. during the summer of 2006, WAR STORIES features 30 actors, 200 extras, and more than 35 locations.

The film tells the story of Tim Curtright (played by Wichita-based theater veteran Michael Brenton Gordon), a teen who discovers after living his entire life believing that his father died in the Gulf War, that he may still be alive. With the help of his gay best-friend, Austin (Mark Ayesh), and girlfriend, Laura (Sara Hammond), Tim seeks to break through a generation of lies and secrets and discover what really happened to his dad.