Film series
2016 Fall Arts Preview122 E. Chatham St., Cary. $5.
919-462-2051, www.thecarytheater.com
▪ Art House Theater Day, a celebration of film, film makers and art house theaters, Sept. 24, 2 p.m. Local film presentation, 7 p.m. showing of “Danny Says” and a live stream Q&A, 9 p.m., showing of “Time Bandits.”
▪ Science on Screen, 7 p.m., Oct. 14, screening of “Shaun of the Dead,” followed by lecture “Is there a scientific basis for the zombie virus craze?”
Carolina Theater
309 W. Morgan St., Durham.
919-560-3030, www.carolinatheatre.org
▪ The nonprofit has a retro film series where it shows films from 1920-1996 in various genres: horror and action adventure, war, westerns, mysteries, comedies, musicals, animation and tearjerkers). A retro pass is $75 and good for all films, tickets for double features are $9.
▪ Splatterflix, Sept. 30-Oct. 2 features 13 films, including “An American Werewolf in London,” Exorcist II: The Heretic,” “The Prowler,” “Humanoids from the Deep,” “Wolfen” and John Carpenter’s “Halloween.” 10 passes are $75, individual tickets are $9.
▪ Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen, features “Measure for Measure,” Sept. 11 and Sept. 14, “The Merchant of Venice,” Oct. 16 and Oct. 19 and “Richard II,” Nov. 6 and Nov. 9. Sundays at 2 p.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $14 each.
Cinema Inc.
Nonprofit film society showing classic features. Films shown at 7 p.m. on the second Sunday of each month, Rialto Theatre, 1620 Glenwood Ave., Raleigh. www.cinema-inc.org
▪ The 12 films for the 2016-17 season include “High Noon” (Sept. 11), “Spoorloos” (Oct. 9), “All That Jazz” (Nov. 13) and “Rififi” (Dec. 11). Season tickets are $20.
Film Shorts in the Park
John Chavis Memorial Park, 505 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Raleigh.
Picnics welcome. No alcohol permitted. Lawn chairs or blankets recommended
▪ Outdoor movies by Triangle film makers: Patrick Shanahan’s “The No Hand King,” a documentary about Rodney Hines who has been riding no-hand wheelies in Raleigh for more than 10 years as he tries to set the world record for the longest no-hand wheelie: 16 miles. Kimberly Best’s “That Deputy Sheriff Might Surprise You,” the story of Lucy Zastrow, who in 1979 became the first female deputy in the Durham County Sheriff’s Office. 7:30 p.m., Sept. 8. Free.
Stone Center
150 South Road, Chapel Hill. Free.
919-962-9001
www.stonecenter.unc.edu
▪ Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film: Theme is “Stolen Moments … Imagining the Black Subject,” with films from across the diaspora including the US, Niger, Haiti, Jamaica, Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, France, Angola, and Cuba. Oct. 11-Oct. 15. Free.
This story was originally published August 26, 2016 at 6:00 PM with the headline "Film series."