This winter season will be magical, with The Capitol once again your downtown destination for free entertainment! From a lineup of movies with holiday favorites to amazing live music, there will be much to experience at Bowling Green’s most historic theater!
Movies are always free, and concessions will be available for purchase. While we can’t share the movie titles anywhere but in-house and on our website (capitolbg.org/movies) because of public performance license rules, here’s a rundown of descriptions of what’s to come this December:
Monday, December 1 at 2pm & 6:30pm – Subtitled Movie with Cher & Nic Cage (1987, Rated PG): A Brooklyn widow, engaged to a mama’s boy, falls in love with her fiancé’s brother.
Wednesday, December 3 at 6:30pm – A Billy Wilder Winter Classic (1960, Rated PG): In this Oscar-winning film (Best Picture and Director), an office worker loans his tiny New York City flat to his superiors for their secret romantic trysts.
Saturday, December 6 at 5pm – A Modern Day Quotable Classic with Will Ferrell (2003, Rated PG): After accidentally falling into Santa Claus’ gift sack, a human baby is raised at the North Pole, growing up to believe he is an elf. Due to his large size, the “elf” causes chaos in Santa’s workshop and beyond.
Saturday, December 6 at 7pm AND Friday, December 19 at 7pm – “Every Time a Bell Rings…” (1946, Rated PG): Frank Capra’s classic set in Bedford falls features George Bailey, a decent small-town banker who learns what life would have been like if he’d never been born.
Monday, December 15 at 6:30pm – Starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara (2015, Rated R): A female department-store employee in 1950s New York falls for a woman stuck in a loveless marriage.
Wednesday, December 17 at 6pm – Killer Santa (1984, Rated R): (co-hosted by the BG Horror Club) Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa. Now Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself.
Wednesday, December 17 at 8pm – “The Call is Coming From Inside the House!” (1974, Rated R): (co-hosted by the BG Horror Club) A homicidal psychopath hides in the attic of a Canadian sorority house on Christmas Eve.
Friday, December 19 at 5pm – Three Christmas Ghosts (1951, Rated G): A first-rate adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel about Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his selfish business partner, Jacob Marley, and then by three more spirits.
Two movie marathons take place the latter part of the month:
Saturday, December 20 – X-Mas Movie Marathon
● 12pm (1984, Rated PG): A boy receives an unusual pet that leads to incredible trouble when he fails to take care of it properly.
● 2pm (1989, Rated PG-13): This sequel to the two Lampoon Vacation flicks has the Griswold family staying home for the holidays and being invaded by bickering relatives.
● 4pm (1988, Rated R): NYC cop John McClane fights terrorists in an L.A. high-rise in a bid to rescue his estranged wife, who happens to be one of the hostages.
● 7 pm (1999, Rated R): In this Stanley Kubrick film, Dr. Bill Harford’s wife, Alice, admits to having fantasies about a man she met. Bill becomes obsessed, discovers an underground group, and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Friday, December 26 – Warming Movie Marathon
● 8am (1997, Rated G): Dazzling animation compensates for historical inaccuracies in this musical version of the tale of a waif who may or may not be the daughter of murdered Russian royalty.
● 10am (1982, Rated G): Animator Don Bluth directed the adventures of mice seeking new lodgings.
● 12:30pm (1982, Rated G): In this animated musical, the villainous King Haggard plots to destroy all the world’s unicorns. When a young unicorn learns that she’s in danger and that she may soon be the last of her kind, she leaves the safety of her protected forest.
● 2:30pm (1989, Rated G): After a German shepherd is murdered by his pal and goes to heaven, he heads back to earth to seek revenge and ends up befriending a little orphan girl who changes his mind.
We’re also excited to be finalizing details for February’s Winterfest, Bowling Green’s iconic winter musical series, formerly organized by the Downtown Redevelopment Authority. It will feature talented, familiar local bands and a few new voices! As Capitol Manager Magnolia Gramling says, “The Capitol is so excited to host Winterfest for its third consecutive year and to plan it for the first time! The series is everything we love about the intersection of the public library and The Capitol theater – it’s free, it’s local, it’s intergenerational, and it’s fun!”
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-by Ashley Fowlkes, Digital Content Manager
