Ultra Cinematheque 70 Fest at Aero Theatre

4:00 PM - HOWARD THE DUCK in 70mm

The titular sarcastic, cigar-chomping, 27-year-old hero of this ahead-of-its-time fan favorite hails from the planet Duckworld, from which he’s suddenly beamed away via an Earth-based scientific experiment gone awry. Landing in Cleveland, Howard must contend with this new and strange place, and, of course, prevent the very destruction of the universe by a villain who also gets accidentally beamed down to Earth. Visually inventive and engaging, HOWARD THE DUCK is an amazing oddity: a comic book film squarely aimed at adults with humor way above the heads of the young audience it drew.

FORMAT: 70mm

COUNTRY: USA

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal

Tickets: $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)

7:30 PM - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in 70mm

With 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, director Stanley Kubrick redefined the limits of filmmaking in this classic science fiction masterpiece. To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman into unchartered realms of space, perhaps even into immortality.

FORMAT: 70mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Park Circus

COUNTRY: UK/US

Tickets: $12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission)