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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE CLOSURE: UPDATES, RESOURCES, AND CONTEXT
Cinematique of Wilmington is a series of classic, foreign and notable films sponsored by WHQR and Historic Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets to all screenings are available at the Thalian Hall Website or at the Thalian Hall Box office (Monday-Friday from 12-5pm and one hour before showtime). Admission is $9.63 ($7+ tax and $2.14 ticketing fee)Showtime for Cinematique Films is 7:00pm, plus 4pm matinees on Wednesdays (unless otherwise noted) at Historic Thalian Hall, 310 Chestnut Street. For more details about the series or individual features, call the Thalian Box Office at 910.632.2285 or click here.

Cinematique Presents "The Third Man" In a Stunning New 4K Restoration

Carol Reed’s classic masterpiece film noir based on the novel of the same name by Graham Greene has been beautifully re-released in a complete 4K ultra HD version for theaters (cut) in honor of the 100th birthday of iconic film icon Orson Welles. Aside from Citizen Kane, the The Third Man is considered to be Welles' best and most well-known films. This re-mastered version stars Welles as a black market trader playing his part in an increasingly tangled and confused maze of deception, betrayal and murder in the mysterious atmosphere of Vienna, Austria right after the Allied occupation at the end of World War II. (Unrated, 144 minutes)

Monday-Wednesday, August 10-12, 7 pm

and Wednesday, August 12, 4 pm

Thalian Hall Main Stage

"Like many, I have loved this thriller of conscience and betrayal most of my moviegoing life."- Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

"A lot funnier than you remember it, Carol Reed's immortal 1949 film noir seems to exist in the space between two worlds: an earlier time when thrillers were mostly serious affairs, and a future one, when such supremely witty entertainment felt passé."- Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out