THX 1138 (1971)

Monday, April 6, 7 pm

Duvall stars in the first feature from George Lucas, adapted from Lucas’ award-winning student film. Individuality and emotions are forbidden in the sterile underground city where a technician (Duvall) toils away. When his feelings are awakened by a drug mix-up, Duvall rebels against the android police, falls in love, and discovers the shocking truth of the only home he’s ever known. Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie, Don Pedro Colley, and Sid Haig co-star.

THE GREAT SANTINI (1979)

Monday, April 13, 7 pm

Duvall portrays a stern, hard-drinking fighter pilot whose rage and violence destroys his family. Finding peacetime to be stifling, Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur Meechum (Duvall) takes his aggression out on his wife (Blythe Danner) and children, notably his teen son Ben (Michael O’Keefe). Unable to withstand his father’s abuse anymore, Ben begins to defend his family against Meechum’s outbursts, transforming the two men into bitter enemies. Duvall and O’Keefe were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor at the 53rd Academy Awards.

THE APOSTLE (1997)

Monday, April 20, 7 pm

Sonny Dewey (Duvall) is a Pentecostal preacher who flees Texas after accidentally murdering a man. Operating under a new name, Sonny sets up a new church in the bayous of Louisiana, bringing comfort and hope to the downtrodden citizens. As the church grows in popularity, Sonny is forced to atone for his past sins. A passion project Duvall developed in 1984, The Apostle took thirteen years to reach the big screen. Duvall not only wrote, directed and starred in the film; he also spent a decade searching for financiers who would back the project. The work paid off. The Apostle’s grosses quadrupled the film’s meager $5 million budget. Duvall was nominated for Best Actor at the 70th Academy Awards, and won Best Film, Best Male Lead, and Best Director at the 13th Independent Spirit Awards. The picture is one of Duvall’s best; a Southern Gothic that explores faith and redemption without succumbing to the cliches of faith-based films.

TENDER MERCIES (1983)

Monday, April 27, 7 pm

Duvall won Best Actor at the 56th Academy Awards for his role as Mac Sledge, a broke, drunken country singer whose career has died. Finding himself down and out at a lonely motel in Texas, Sledge befriends the widowed owner (Tess Harper) and her son (Allan Hubbard), seeking the chance to clean up his act, make amends with his ex-wife and grown daughter, and rediscover the creativity he buried with alcohol. Warm and humane, Tender Mercies is both a moving love story and an unsentimental character study of a man desperate to not destroy himself.

GOLDFINGER (1964)

Monday, May 4, 7 pm

While investigating a gold magnate’s smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.

LICENCE TO KILL (1989)

Monday, May 11, 7 pm

A vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend’s new wife and left him near death.

ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE (1969)

Monday, May 18, 7 pm

British agent James Bond goes undercover to pursue the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who is planning to hold the world to ransom.

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977)

Monday, May 25, 7 pm

James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed.