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Nostalgia Film Series, Or: Going Back to (John Hughes) High School

Harvard Exit and the Triple Door will screen some of the most quotable films of the past 30 years.

By Laura Dannen July 3, 2013

We feel no need to relive high school...now, John Hughes's idea of high school, that's a whole other story. (See also: Cameron Crowe, Richard Linklater.) It's hard to resist a screening of The Breakfast Club or a chance to see John Cusack hoist his boombox on the big screen in Say Anything. And what was that thing Matthew McConaughey said about high school girls in Dazed and Confused? Oh yeah...

Landmark Theatres and the Triple Door both seem to have the right idea this summer. They're screening a mix of classic and ridiculously quotable movies from the late '70s to today. Unironically.

Landmark's Harvard Exit Theatre
Tickets are $8–$11.
July 9 Say Anything
July 16 Dazed and Confused
July 23 Almost Famous
July 30 The Breakfast Club

The Triple Door (Mainstage)
Tickets are $3; buy them online and get a drink voucher good for a draft beer, house wine or soft drink.
July 8 High Fidelity
July 15 Searching for Sugar Man
July 22 Sound City (Dave Grohl's documentary about the LA recording studio)
July 29 Almost Famous
Aug 5 This Is Spinal Tap
Aug 12 The Blues Brothers
Aug 19 Rock 'n' Roll High School (featuring the Ramones!)

Consider yourself properly warned.

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