Theater Throwback

You can't get it anywhere else, movies from the 70's and 80's showing every Thursday for eight weeks! Dancing, movie trivia, or themed food - it's a unique experience at each throwback movie! See it where it's meant to be seen - on the GIANT Screen!

Later shows will have the biggest crowds, so get your tickets now!
Thursday, September 13: Footloose, 6 & 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 20: American Graffiti, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 27: Field of Dreams, 6 & 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 4: Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 6 and 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 11: Grease, 6 and 8:30 p.m.*
*The 8:30 p.m. show will be a sing-a-long format.
Thursday, October 18: The Breakfast Club, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 25: Top Gun, 6 and 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 1: Raiders of the Lost Ark, 6 and 8:30 p.m.

 

Get the series package of all 8 movies for $56! Individual tickets are available for purchase, $8.50/adults; $7.50/seniors/students/military; $6.50/youth. Members receive $1 off individual prices.

You can stop in the Museum to buy the series package or call 563-324-1054 ext. 256. Alcohol will be available for purchase during this series. One type of selected candy will be $1 each week during the series!

 

2012 Classic Film Series

The Putnam's Classic Film Series presents a great opportunity for movie-goers to revisit some of the greatest Hollywood films of all time! One classic movie will show one Tuesday a month, showing two times that day.

Tuesday, September 25: Gone with the Wind, 1 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 23: To Kill a Mockingbird*, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m.
Tuesday, November 27: The Bridge on the River Kwai, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m.
Tuesday, December 11: It's a Wonderful Life*, 3 p.m. & 7 p.m.

 

$8.50/Adults; $7.50/Seniors/Students/Military; $6.50/Youth. Members receive $1 off these prices.

*Special short documentaries available in between shows with purchase of tickets at no additional charge. 

 

2012-2013 World Adventure Series

The World Adventure Series is held September through April each year in the National Geographic Giant Screen Theater - you can travel the globe via the six-story screen, where filmmakers personally present their films. This film series has been held for more than 40 years at the Putnam, making it one of the most popular programs each year!

Individual film tickets may be purchased for $7. Putnam members pay $5/film or $25/series. First-come, first-served. Subject to availability.

Presentations starting at 1, 4, and 7 p.m.
October 9, 2012: Hawaii, America's Paradise - Don VanPolen
November 6, 2012: Prague to Paris & a Cruise Too - Clint Denn
February 19, 2013: Mongolia - Land of Ghengis Kahn - Buddy Hatton
March 5, 2013: Inside Ireland - Clint Denn
April 9, 2013: The Silk Road - Marlin Darrah

 

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Come on out to the Whistle Stop Java Shop on Saturday, Sept. 29th for the 2nd Annual Milan Old Time Bluegrass Music Fest featuring several local bands.  Bring your lawn chairs and settle in from 4pm until 8pm for some good times and good music!

Before Jason, Freddy & Other Genre Staples,
Producer Relied on 'Theater of the Mind'

Why do we pay to watch scary movies?

Irwin Yablans, creator of the "Halloween" films that forever changed the genre, says the answer's easy.

"When done right, a horror movie evokes an involuntary response involving fear, excitement, repulsion and fascination," says Yablans, (www.irwinyablans.com),
author of the new memoir, The Man Who Created Halloween. In it, he details his rise as a successful independent producer, sales chief for Paramount Pictures and head of Orion Pictures. His masked creepster Michael Myers, who debuted in 1978, spawned a wave of iconic horror characters, and a new way to do business in Hollywood.

"Too many commentators focus on the cost of making a film, and how much the lead actors were paid," he says. "But, from a producer's point of view, the most important money question is: Is our movie worth the $10 ticket price?"

Yablans shares his views on why we love to be horrified:

• Universal appeal: Horror will always tantalize the masses because it touches a visceral emotional response within everyone - unlike other genres. Not everyone finds the same things funny, for example, but just about everyone finds the same things scary, he says. "Horror connects on that most fundamental level. A truly frightening boogieman, a likeable protagonist and sympathetic victims puts audiences right in the shoes of the characters being chased," he says.

• The difference between horror and horrible, and fan loyalty: As a boy, Yablans grew up in a poor tenement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, listening to radio shows that relied on "theater of the mind" narratives, which captured the imaginations of listeners. He used this approach with the Halloween film series. "Too many of today's horror films rely on blood and guts to coax gross-out responses from audiences," Yablans says." 'Halloween' was successful, in large part, because it played more on the mind, where fear lives." Horror fans tend to give new movies the benefit of the doubt, and if the first one is good, then they'll return for parts 2 and 3, he says.

• Cost-effective: Most of the greatest horror film franchises began with modest budgets, including "Night of the Living Dead," $114,000; the first "Halloween," $320,000; "The Blair Witch Project," $35,000. Each of those movies were wildly successful, grossing millions. The "Friday the 13th" series, inspired from the success of "Halloween," has earned a worldwide total of $465 million. "There have been many failures, but the genre is one of the best bets in the film industry," he says.

• Great marketing: Yablans' legendary horror series appropriated a children's holiday, Halloween, and made it exciting for adults. "Everyone wants to be young again - at least sometimes," he says. Other successful horror franchises - "Nightmare on Elm Street," "Friday the 13th" and "Scary Movie" copied Yablans' branded approach: recognizable titles, costumes or makeup and theme music.

About Irwin Yablans

Irwin Yablans is the executive producer and creator of the "Halloween" film series, which forever changed the horror genre and the old studio system. His new autobiography, "The Man Who Created Halloween," details a true rags-to-riches tale of a boy who grew up in a roach-invested tenement in Brooklyn to become the man who transformed society's view of a children's holiday. Yablans' influence in Hollywood includes setting the standard for a new breed of independent producers and filmmakers, the discovery of famed director John Carpenter and advocating for studio support of one of the most acclaimed films in history, Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now."

Le Claire Park in Davenport, Iowa

Free admission!

This year:

High Praise Unlimited brings to us worship from the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, led by Justin Rizzo, Matt Gillman, and Anna Blanc.

International House of Prayer in Kansas City has established continuous 24/7 prayer with worship... Since September 19, 1999 from dawn to dusk, and through the watches of the night, prayer and worship continues - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week...

Festival of Praise... since 1997...

Festival of Praise is a night of worship and a time for the community to come together to pray for the city leaders businesses and families and to give thanks and acknowledge God for all He has done.

See more information here:

http://www.qcfestivalofpraise.com/