At the Bijou Theatre
All films are featured on the BIG screen at 11:00 AM
Admission is just $2. You’ll have plenty of money for popcorn!
Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) PG
Monday, March 26 – 11 am
An American drama film directed by Paul Newman, it stars Newman as well as Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, and Michael Sarrazin. The screenplay is based on the 1964 novel by Ken Kesey, the first of his books to be adapted for the screen. Filmed in various locations in Lincoln County, Oregon along the Oregon Coast, the locations include Kernville and other locations along the Siletz River, as well as Yaquina Bay, the Yaquina River, and the city of Newport, where several scenes were filmed in Mo’s Shanty Fish House.
Kindergarten Cop (1990) PG-13
Tuesday, March 27 – 11 am
A comedy thriller film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as John Kimble, a tough police detective, who must go undercover as a kindergarten teacher to catch a drug dealer before to save his ex-wife and son, while along the way he discovers his passion for teaching. Exterior scenes were filmed in Astoria, Oregon. Most of the filming was completed after school was out in June 1990; therefore many of the students and staff were able to be in the movie as extras.
The Goonies (1985) PG
Wednesday, March 28 – 11 am
An adventure-comedy film. The screenplay was written from a story by executive producer Steven Spielberg. The premise surrounds a band of pre-teens who live in the “Goon Docks” neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon hoping to save their homes from demolition. After discovering an old Spanish map, they head off on an adventure to find the long-lost fortune of One-Eyed Willie, a 17th-century pirate.
Rooster Cogburn (1975) PG
Thursday, March 29 – 11 am
The film sequel to the 1969 western True Grit. The film stars John Wayne, who reprises his role as U.S. Marshal Reuben J. “Rooster” Cogburn. Katharine Hepburn co-stars Eula Goodnight, who teams up with Rooster to recover a stolen shipment of nitroglycerin and find her father’s killer. The film was shot in Oregon west of Bend, on the Deschutes River, and on the Rogue River west of Grants Pass. This marks the only time John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn would appear together in a film.
The General (1929)
Friday, March 30 – 11 am
A silent comedy film inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, which happened in 1862. Buster Keaton starred in the film and co-directed it. Keaton considered it to be the best of all his movies; it is now deemed a major classic of the silent era. The climax of the film includes a spectacular moment where a sabotaged bridge collapses as a railroad train crosses it. Keaton filmed the collapse in the conifer forest around the town of Cottage Grove, using 500 extras from the Oregon National Guard. They dressed in Union uniforms and were filmed going left-to-right before changing into Confederate uniforms and being filmed going right-to-left. The production company left the wreckage in the river bed after the scene was filmed. The wrecked locomotive became a minor tourist attraction for nearly twenty years. The metal of the train was salvaged for scrap during World War II.
The Shining (1980) R
Saturday, March 31 – 11 am
A psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick; starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. A writer takes a job as an off-season caretaker at an isolated hotel. His son possesses psychic abilities and sees things from the past and future, such as the ghosts who inhabit the hotel. The family is trapped in the hotel by a snowstorm during which the father gradually descends into madness and attempts to murder his wife and son. Film director Martin Scorsese ranked it as one of the 11 scariest horror movies of all time. The exterior shots were done at Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon. Timberline Lodge requested Kubrick change the number of the sinister Room 217 of King’s novel to 237, so customers would not avoid the real Room 217.