Weekend Matinees at 11:30am

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In the Heat of the Night February 4, 5

Norman Jewison, 1967, 109m

Part of the Hot Films to Warm Up Your Winter! collection

The Southern swelter underscores the tension between black city detective Sidney Poitier and the Mississippi town where he’s stuck, first as a suspect and then as an unlikely detective in a murder investigation. Rod Steiger won an Oscar for Best Actor playing the white local sheriff that comes to an uneasy alliance with Poitier.

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12 Angry Men February 12

Sidney Lumet, 1957, 96m

Part of the Hot Films to Warm Up Your Winter! collection

In his directorial debut, Lumet highlights all the petty impediments to justice. Knowing full well that a guilty verdict means death, a jury of 12 men must decide the fate of an 18-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing his father. But only one juror (Henry Fonda) wants to take the time during a sweltering heatwave to coolly (hah!) deliberate the case.

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Dog Day Afternoon February 18

Sidney Lumet, 1975, 125m

Part of the Hot Films to Warm Up Your Winter! collection

Based on an actual event, Al Pacino plays Sonny, a man desperate to get money for his gay lover’s sex-change operation He teams up with Sal (John Cazale in an exquisite performance) to rob a New York bank on a scorching-hot summer day. The stickup goes awry when the press gets wind of the circus sideshow story.

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Do the Right Thing February 25, 26

Spike Lee, 1989, 120m

Part of the Hot Films to Warm Up Your Winter! collection

It’s the hottest day of the year on a street in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, and the heat’s putting everyone on edge. Long simmering racial tensions come to head at Sal’s Pizza, forcing deliveryman Mookie to make a choice. Will he join in the violence, or will he…