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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Presented by The Colonial Theatre at The Colonial Theatre

April 16, 2011

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“From the first moments, when the star-circled mountain in the Paramount Pictures logo fades into a similarly shaped, fog-shrouded Andean peak, where who knows what awful things are about to happen, Raiders of the Lost Ark is off and running at a breakneck pace that simply won’t stop until the final shot, an ironic epilogue that recalls nothing less than Citizen Kane.

That, however, is the only high-toned reference in a movie that otherwise devotes itself exclusively to the glorious days of the B-picture. To get to the point immediately, Raiders is one of the most deliriously funny, ingenious and stylish American adventure movies ever made. It is an homage to old-time movie serials and back-lot cheapies that transcends its inspirations to become, in effect, the movie we saw in our imaginations as we watched, say, Buster Crabbe in Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars or in Sam Katzman’s Jungle Jim movies." (Vincent Canby, The New York Times)

Directed by Steven Spielberg. US. 1981. 8+. Running time: 115 min.