Get ready for an out of this world evening of entertainment!

The night starts with the Lunar Launch Party as we open The Rome Art Association's new "Lunar Exhibit" inside the Cinema Capitol lobby. This pre-movie reception will begin at 6:30. Villa Verona Vineyard will conduct a wine tasting, specialty coffee will be served along side hors d'oeuvres and more!

At 7:30 get ready for “A Trip To The Moon”, the 1902 silent film from the godfather of special effects, director Georges Méliès. Years ahead of its time, "A Trip to the Moon" film was an international success. Its unusual length (13 minutes), lavish production values, arresting special effects, and emphasis on storytelling were markedly influential on other film-makers and, ultimately, on the development of narrative film making as a whole.

Though “A Trip To The Moon” is of silent, it was not intended to be seen silently; exhibitors often used a bonimenteur, or narrator, to explain the story as it unfolded on the screen, accompanied by sound effects and live music. In a modern approach to the live sound effects and music, the group “Jack & The Jukebox” will accompany the film with their own original score live at Cinema Capitol.

Following the accompanied screening of “A Trip To The Moon,” a second feature, “Moonwalkers,” will be shown.

MOONWALKERS SYNOPSIS: After failing to locate the legendary Stanley Kubrick, an unstable CIA agent (Ron Perlman) must instead team up with a seedy rock band manager (Rupert Grint) to develop the biggest con of all time-staging the moon landing.

Please Note: Tickets for the "Lunar Launch Party" are limited with only 30 tickets available. The $20 ticket will include the wine tasting, specialty coffee, hors d'oeuvres and admission to the movies and performance.

If you would rather attend just the screenings of "A Trip to the Moon" and "Moonwalkers" tickets are available for $10.

Join us for Capitolfest 17, August 9, 10, 11, 2019.

Capitolfest is a celebration of classic films of the silent and early talkie eras. All movies are shown in the Capitol Theatre, a 1928 movie palace, and the silent films on the bill feature live accompaniment on the Capitol's original installation Moller theater organ.

The aim of Capitolfest is to re-create the experience of seeing these 80-110 year-old films when they were new for our audience members.

The program will be comprised of approximately 16 features and a similar number of short subjects which will be screened over the course of the three-day festival. Titles will be announced starting in December 2018.

Capitolfest 17 tribute stars will be Frances Dee and Joel McCrea.

Tickets to the entire festival passes, two day passes, single day passes, and single session passes (each session essentially comprised of two features plus short subjects), are available for purchase now at EARLY BIRD pricing!

IMPORTANT, PLEASE NOTE: Registrations should be made one at a time so we can collect all information for each person being registered. To register 2+ people please complete this process once for each registration, otherwise we will need to correspond with you to get the 2nd, 3rd, 4th registrant's information. While registering please use the name of the individual who you want a badge created for. It is not a problem if there is a difference between the name on the credit card being used and the name being registered. For your convenience, you can also call us 10:00am-5:00pm Monday through Friday for help with registration over the phone at no additional cost.

"Home Alone" is our pick from the 1990s for our "Family Favorites Series," made possible through the support of the Rome Community Foundation and its Stevens Kingsley Fund!

An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.

Runtime: 103 Minutes

Language: English

Format: Digital Print

"The Secret of NIMH is our pick from the 1980s for our "Family Favorites Series," made possible through the support of the Rome Community Foundation and its Stevens Kingsley Fund!

Mrs. Brisby (Elizabeth Hartman), a widowed mouse, must move her children out of their home in a field before the local farmer starts plowing. Unable to leave because her son is ill, Mrs. Brisby seeks the help of nearby rats, who have heightened intelligence after being the subjects of scientific experiments. She receives an unexpected gift from the elder rat, Nicodemus (Derek Jacobi). Soon Mrs. Brisby is caught in a conflict among the rats, jeopardizing her mission to save her family.

Children are free with the purchase of an adult ticket.

Runtime: 82 Minutes

Language: English

Format: Digital Print

GHOST & TOAST TV SHOW PREMIER: @Rome Capitol Theatre on Saturday, October 20th; 6pm-?/Showing of 2 great investigative episodes, starts at 7pm. Tickets will go on sale soon & Will post when/how/where you can start to purchasing them w/link to do such. We couldn't be more excited about the premiere of our new show Ghost & Toast on the big screen. We will have a para-friendly meet and greet from 6-7pm for kids of all ages; with the Ghostbusters Mobile also at our spirited event, for a fun filled photogenic evening for all! Tickets will be $5 and you will see 2 episodes: The Brae Loch Inn and Rome Capitol Theatre investigations/episodes recorded a bit earlier this year. Look forward to packing the house, with those from this realm & beyond!

Runtime: ~90 Minutes

Language: English

Format: Digital Print / Live Presentation

Imagine is a cinematic collage of color, sound, dream and reality. Produced and directed by John and Yoko and including numerous friends and collaborators like George Harrison, Fred Astaire, Andy Warhol, Dick Cavett, Jack Palance and Jonas Mekas. The music film features a different visual treatment for every song, and follows John and Yoko during the recording sessions for the Imagine album in both the UK and New York, as they co-produced the record with Phil Spector. The 2018 re-released Imagine movie has been restored frame-by-frame, from the original reels with the audio remix by triple GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer, Paul Hicks. It is accompanied by 15 minutes of never-before-seen extras including studio footage of John and his band (including George Harrison, Nicky Hopkins from the Rolling Stones, Alan White from Yes and Klaus Voormann) performing "How Do You Sleep?" and "Oh My Love" in a specially created Dolby Atmos surround sound "raw studio" mix that would put you in the center of the recording studio while the band play live.

Runtime: 83 Minutes

Language: English

Format: Digital Print

The annual holiday tradition continues as we present Frank Capra's 1946 gem "It's a Wonderful Life" on a restored 35mm print direct from the Library of Congress! See the classic film on our giant 20x40 foot screen with the entire family.

After George Bailey (James Stewart) wishes he had never been born, an angel (Henry Travers) is sent to earth to make George's wish come true. George starts to realize how many lives he has changed, and how they would be different if he was never there.

Runtime: 130 Minutes | Languge: English

Join us for a week-long run of the sure-to-be-cult-classic starring Nicholas Cage, "Mandy".

"Mandy" is set in the primal wilderness of 1983 where Red Miller, a broken and haunted man (Nicholas Cage) hunts an unhinged religious sect who slaughtered the love of his life. It's a cocktail of Mad Max, a nightmare version of Jim Henson, and the darkest psychedelic films of the 1970s.

Runtime: 121 Minutes

Language: English

Format: Digital Print

The thrilling true story follows the 1960 covert mission of legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin as he infiltrates Argentina and captures Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that brought millions of innocent Jews to their deaths in concentration camps.

Runtime: 122 Minutes

Language: English

Format: Digital Print

Join us for the fan-curated “Retro Nightmares” Cinema Series as we bring campy fun classics back to the big screen as part of the “Bloody Disgusting Presents Retro Nightmares” Cinema Series this fall. First up is The House on Sorority Row (in theaters Thursday, September 27th), Amityville: The Evil Escapes & Amityville: It’s About Time – Double Feature Event (Thursday, October 4th), Sweet Sixteen & The Convent – Double Feature Event (Thursday, October 11th).

Many of these films haven’t been shown on the big screen in decades, so now is the opportunity for rabid horror fans to share the experience together!

SWEET SIXTEEN:

Big city girl Melissa Morgan (Aleisa Shirley) tries to make new friends in the small Texas town she just moved to. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with ends up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa turns out to be a suspect when it seems she's the last person who has seen her boyfriends alive.

THE CONVENT:

In 1960, a young woman commits a grisly massacre at St. Francis Boarding School, brutally murdering the clergy and nuns inside. Forty years later, college student Clarissa and her fickle friends break into the abandoned convent to tag it with their Greek letters before the Kappas beat them to it. Before long, the group discovers that it's inhabited by demons that are intent on possessing them. As the group dwindles in numbers and the bodies pile up, those who remain uncover the convent's long history with malevolent demonic forces and learn about the buried circumstances surrounding that fateful Sixties night.

Runtime: 179 Minutes

Language: English

Format: Digital Print

NOTE: The first class of the Winter Session will be held on Saturday, January 12 and final class of the session will be held on Saturday, March 16.

The Capitol arts complex is happy to offer the popular Rising Stars Program for Children and Teens! Rising Stars is a fun experience that teaches basic stage skills through games, individual coaching, and actual performances. The program focuses on developing the students' own creativity, building self-confidence, improving reading comprehension and speaking ability, accepting responsibility, and teamwork.

Students will learn stage movement, character development, how to audition, and a whole lot more! Skills developed will better prepare students to compete for roles in school plays, the Capitol Theatre's SummerStage, and other local stage productions, as well as interacting with confidence during pageants, in college, in job interviews, and in everyday dealings with teachers and peers.

All age levels will have the opportunity to learn age-appropriate technical arts (props, costumes, stage management), in addition to acting skills.

The program is designed for students grades 2 - 12.

Regular Classes are on Saturdays:

Grades 7-9: 10:00-11:00 AM

Grades 10-12: 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Grades 4-6: 1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Grades 2-3 2:30 PM-3:30 PM

A musical history of the settling of the old west! Fun for the whole family.

From time to time four old friends, all extraordinary actresses, meet up in the English countryside to gossip, to remember and to laugh. For once they let the cameras in…

TEA WITH THE DAMES is a unique celebration of the lives and careers of four of our most iconic actresses; Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joan Plowright and Dame Maggie Smith. All four have gone from being fledgling actresses in the 1950s to acting royalty. They’ve watched each other’s careers grow and bloom and have celebrated life’s ups and downs together. TEA WITH THE DAMES invites you to spend time with these acting legends as they talk about their lives and their professional experiences across theatre, television and film. Directed by Roger Michell (My Cousin Rachel, Notting Hill), the film also includes a range of astonishing archive material. Candid, funny, caustic, irreverent, poignant and utterly engrossing, this unmissable release is proof that there is truly nothing like a Dame.

Runtime: 84 Minutes

Language: English

Format: Digital Print

Join us at Cinema Capitol for our annual interactive presentation of a the all-singing (and singing and singing) all-dancing classic, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

As an installment of Out After Midnight admission is $10.00 and includes free pizza (while supply lasts) a free small soda and a free small popcorn.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is renowned for its audience participation at different points during the film. There will be cinema-appropriate prop kits available for purchase each night for $6.00. To encourage the safety and enjoyment of the film by all in attendance, any bags brought to the theater may be subjected to a search for hazardous or non-allowable items.

Save yourself a dollar and get the best possible deal when you buy your ticket and kit as a combo for $15.00!

For the uninitiated: In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a mad scientist of sorts. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O'Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named "Rocky."

Runtime: 100 Minutes | Language: English

For more information please give us a call Monday through Friday from 10:00-5:00 by dialing (315)337-6453

Vincent Price stars in the horror-thriller THE TINGLER, as a coroner who discovers a parasitical creature that feeds on fear and grows on people's spines; the creature can only be subdued by screaming. Also in the cast is Judith Evelyn, Darryl Hickman, Philip Coolidge, and Patricia Cutts. Directed by "schlock artist" William Castle, the movie was originally shown in a process called "Percepto," which, during a scene in which the Tingler escapes in a movie theater, audiences experienced the tingler's presence. The Capitol Theatre screening will include the "Percepto" effect; those audience members who wish to avoid intensity of Percepto are urged to not sit in the center section of the Capitol Theatre orchestra seats! The feature will be preceded by short subject(s) tba.

Runtime: 82 Miunutes

Language: English

Format: Digital Print

Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) is a highly intelligent and still-striking beauty – the perfect devoted wife. Forty years spent sacrificing her own talent, dreams and ambitions to fan the flames of her charismatic husband Joe (Jonathan Pryce) and his skyrocketing literary career. Ignoring his infidelities and excuses because of his "art" with grace and humor. Their fateful pact has built a marriage upon uneven compromises and Joan's reached her breaking point. On the eve of Joe's Nobel Prize for Literature, the crown jewel in a spectacular body of work, Joan's coup de grace is to confront the biggest sacrifice of her life and secret of his career. THE WIFE is a poignant, funny and emotional journey; a celebration of womanhood, self-discovery and liberation.

Runtime: 100 Minutes

Language: English

Format: Digital Print