School may start this month, but you can still hang onto a slice of summer in the air-conditioned cool of the Fox Theatre, popcorn in hand, watching a flick on the really big screen.
With four August features and one Saturday morning session of classic cartoons, the 2013 edition of the Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival at the Fox Theatre will call it a season.
Three of the four features begin at 7:30 p.m.; Breakfast at Tiffany’s screens as a 4 p.m. Sunday matinee. Cartoons on Aug. 17 begin at 10 a.m. Doors open an hour before show time and the usual pre-movie activities — the sing-along with the Mighty Mo organ, cartoons and newsreels — begin about 40 minutes later.
Single tickets are $10 ($5 Saturday cartoons) on the Fox website, at the box office on Peachtree Street or at 1.855.ATL.TIXX. Here’s what’s left to catch:
16: Iron Man 3 (PG-13, 130 mins). Marvel’s brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr., left) fights an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. With Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce. FUN FACT: The ring on the Mandarin’s right pinkie is the same one Raza wears in the first “Iron Man” film.
17: The Heat (R, 117 mins). Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy team unhappily as a pair of law enforcers rying to bring down a ruthless drug lord. Bullock’s character is an uptight FBI Special Agent, McCarthy’s is a foul-mouthed Boston cop. Also in the cast: Marlon Wayans and Jane Curtin. FUN FACT: The yearbook that Bullock’s character uses is her actual 1982 yearbook from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va. The film’s art department digitally manipulated her picture to include glasses and braces, neither of which she had in her senior portrait.
18: (4 p.m.): Breakfast at Tiffany’s (G, 115 min). If 1953’s Roman Holiday established Audrey Hepburn’s star status, this 1961 Truman Capote story cemented it. Blake Edwards directed her turn as young New York socialite Holly Golightly, who has a strange secret and even stranger neighbors. FUN FACT: Holly’s couch is really an old-fashioned bathtub split in half. In some scenes, you can still see the gold handles at one end and the legs on the bottom.
29: Zombieland (R, 88 mins). From 2009. A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. With Woody Harelson (right), Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone. FUN FACT: The amusement park scenes were filmed at Wild Adventures Theme Park in Valdosta.
