Essential Cinema: Nope to Nazis
CASABLANCA
Directed by Michael Curtiz
USA, 1942, 1h 42min, 35mm
AFS Cinema
6406 N I-35 Suite 3100 Austin, TX 78752
Pricing
$13.50 evening / $11 matinee (available M-F for shows before 6 PM)
$4 discounts for AFS MAKE & WATCH members. Free for LOVE & Impact Circle members.
Discounts for AISD educators and local high school & college students are available at the box office with a valid school ID.
Accessibility
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“In the entire history of American cinema, only a few other movies have been loved as much and as well as CASABLANCA … The most familiar movie in the world is still fresh … The universal adoration has been produced by an unrepeatable combination of impudent wit and doomed romanticism, all of it held together by voluptuously emotional anti-fascist sentiment.”
—The New Yorker
It really is a perfect film. In the French colonial outpost of Casablanca, miles away from the guns of WWII but subject to Hitler’s command, an American nightclub owner (Humphrey Bogart) sees an old flame (Ingrid Bergman) again, but the Nazi-led forces that are driving the world apart threaten to extinguish the fire. In 35mm.
